random pictures of my boys

They love smiling for the camera and they are such happy boys most of the time. And they play together well too--most of the time.
Quinn has a mouthful of teeth--6 with two more on the way. He is so close to walking. Right now it seems he just gets too tired to try and that crawling is so much easier. Yesterday he did his first sign--milk. He's getting so big, but sadly those chubby cheeks are fading away.
Sam is getting better and better everyday with obeying me. He'll help clean up his toys and he'll say sorry to Quinn when I tell him to. He's become very affectionate lately too. He say "love you" all the time and he's very generous with his hugs and kisses. Quinny gives kisses to if you ask him--they're nice big open-mouthers.
I sure love these guys!

11,750 ft

Back in September me and my sister and our husbands climbed Mt Timpanogus. We started hiking at 2am so we could be on the top by sunrise. We made it with perfect timing too, as you can see in the pictures. I couldn't get the top two pictures to rotate but I had to include them because of the beautiful background!
Well, it was a very hard hike--a lot harder that I remember from the two other times I've done it. And it took us 12 hours to hike the 18 miles. BUT, the view from the top was so worth it. Then the next morning we looked out at the mountain we had climbed the day before and there was snow on it--talk about perfect timing there too.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAMMY!!!

I can't believe it, my oldest is 3 YRS OLD!!! He turned 3 last week, but we had a party for him when my parents visited on the weekend.
We opened presents...
played with our new toys...(thank you so much everyone for the gifts!!)
then we needed a nap. Here is sammy with his new quilt from grandma sleeping in his new big boy bed from Mimi.
Then it was party time!! Me and my mom spent most of the morning making these cupcakes...
but they were a big hit. They tuened out so cute and it was fun making them too.

Here we are singing Happy Birthday to Sammy. When we all started singing he got this HUGE smile on his sweet little face. I think he knew this party was for him!
WOW, what a great day!

1 year old!!

My baby is 1 year old today!!! He's not a baby anymore.

Over the weekend we had a birthday party for him at my parent's house. My sisters and their families were there, my Aunt Karen, as well as my uncle and aunt, some cousins and their families.

Here I am presenting Quinny with his birthday cupcake.
There were so many people there and we were all watching his every move, and he got really shy. He never got to dig into that yummy cupcake because he got stage fright--I had to rescue him from his highchair.
He did pretty good with opening his presents though.
PJs from Aunt Mandi...
shoes and cars from grandma and grandpa and Aunt Marci. He didn't mind all the help from his cousins.
I think he had a fun day. And he did get a little cake...see there is some left over on his chin.

Around town

Here are some old shots from about 2 months ago. I just had to include this one of Quinny eating his sock.
We visited the temple grounds...

And the Dinosaur Museum in town. Sammy loved the museum and we loved hearing him go hoarse from "roar'-ing the whole time.
We we just love looking at this sweet face all day-every day!

Flaming Gorge

Here are my boys at Flaming Gorge.
It was sooooo BEAUTIFUL! I can easily say that it was breathtakingly beautiful!!!





We finally took a drive a few weeks ago out to Flaming Gorge. AND WOW....we had a great day. We were in awe at the beauty of this place. And we just scratched the surface of everything there was to see. We will be going back to see more of this amazing place--who wants to come with us?!?

Birthday present

For my birthday I traded in my old sewing machine and got a NEW one. Well, it's used but it's new to me AND it works 10 times better than my old one. I love it and I have been using it a lot. If I had a little girl I would probably be sewing fluffy dresses and skirts, but I have been trying my hand at quilting. The table cloth was my first attempt and it is very flawed. But the messed up parts are against the wall so you can't seem them.
But, I LOVE how my pinwheel pillow turned out! My next project is going to be a quilt for our bed, YIKES! It's going to match this pillow and another pillow I am almost done with. I hope the quilt turns out as nice as my pillow.
The quilt in the middle picture is one my mom made for Jared for his birthday. She made it out of some of Jared's favorite T-shirts that I stole from him. I love how the quilt turned out and this is a way for Jared to keep using his precious T-shirts!