Playing at the Hospital

No need to panic.  This is a play area at the mall that was donated by Mon General hospital so the toy area has a medical theme.  There is a hospital and ambulance and so forth.  The boys love it and it's kid friendly even for them!  Elise loves it too.

General Cuteness

A Game

I will try the long and short versions of this little game they were playing.  We'll see which one works!  Enjoy :)

Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium

We decided to go to the Zoo in Pittsburgh yesterday.  We didn't leave until after Elise got home from school so it was a last minute decision and perhaps a bit ill timed but we did it anyway.  Despite two periods of pouring rain we managed to have a good time though we'll need another trip to finish seeing all the animals. 
We had our trusty umbrella to keep the boys dry but Elise and Dad were pretty drenched.  Then when we got back to the parking lot to leave, daddy got to go wading.  Thankfully our car was not flooded but we helped a couple other people whose cars were flooded and non-functioning. 
After an hour of helping we finally piled in the car to get lost trying to get out of Pittsburgh.  It only takes one wrong turn.  We ended up in the Giant Eagle parking lot to feed the boys and grab some dinner from the deli.  The kids were troopers and pretty much happy and pleasant throughout the entire experience.  What an adventure!

Giggling

Giggling and Skyping with Oma and Lolo - it is quite the combination.

William Clapping

He is not normally this wobbly but he was so intent on clapping he didn't take time to gain his balance.  He's still really cute though. :)

Mom, Elise likes your song!

I only got this far with recording before the card on the camera was full but she likes it!

Lost Treasure

I stumbled across this old clip of Elise today and just had to share! I love the 'eye' she gives the camera at the beginning - it's hilarious!!  We had no idea what drama would follow. :)

Mother's Day

I have very sweet children.  This morning before church I put dinner in the crockpot and they were all together in the kitchen helping me out.  Elise peeled all the carrots I had in the fridge and the boys...found the potatoes for me.  What a blessed mommy I am!  Hope all you wonderful moms had a great day too!

Low Crawl

Brent calls this Allen's 'low crawl'.  Rather military :)  Allen is everywhere now!

Happy Easter!

Just Cute..and there was chattering whenever I wasn't recording

William's toe push ups

Oops!

I'm certain I will have more than one post with this title as time goes on.

Homemade Pizza

So this was our first attempt at homemade pizza.  It looks interesting but tasted great!  We have since learned a few things about the crust and now our pizza looks and tastes great.

First Feeding

This was the boys first feeding.  They are doing very well with 'solid' foods.

An Artist

This ensemble was entirely her own doing from top to bottom.

My birthday

Sweet ones helping celebrate my birthday.  I know I'm behind it was more than a month ago.

Reading with Allen

What a great big sister!  She loves her brothers so much :)

Elise and Will

Here we have an introduction to the great classic Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang in Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving.  It's one of Elise's favorites!

Tickling!

Dr. Seuss

Well, Dr. Seuss had a birthday this week so Elise has been reading his books and doing activities related to them this week at school.  Today she came home with this great hat and we wanted to share.  It was also the first time she had worn this dress so mommy wanted a picture of that too. :)

Ice Skating

Elise went ice skating last week for a field trip with her preschool class.  Daddy was able to go along and took some pictures of everyone having a great time.

Go Utes!

I refuse to publicly declare my allegiance for any one team but these two have incredible powers of persuasion!

Tummy Time

This tummy time was especially adorable!

 Allen

Will

The Master and her Protegé

So Elise sometimes likes to do my hair and on this night she did it and then was taking pictures of me.  So we decided we should share her masterpiece.  Allen seems to approve :)

Pictures

Thought we would share a few pictures we took of the kids in the month of February. 

 The kids

 The boys

 Allen

William

Elise

We love the hat - don't you?

Will

And here is Will's debut.

Allen

Here's a brief debut of Allen on film.  The boys are very social with their smiles now.  Excuse the messy background - housework will wait because babies don't keep!

2008

Wow it's been an entire year since I last updated here! I'll have to remedy that this year. We are back together again as a family. Brent finished his contract with the Marine Corps at the end of June and came home. Elise and I moved back here to South Ogden in May but left California in March so we'd been apart for a few months.

Our little monkey is growing like crazy. She had a wonderful second birthday and a very fun time with Christmas. Brent has just made a job change and is enjoying the new things he's learning.

Snow in the Mojave!

So I'm quite behind since our last update but I just had to tell you we had snow today!! Here in 29 Palms! Not just little flurries but fluffy snow flakes that actually stuck to the ground for a little while. Elise wasn't quite sure she wanted to go outside at first. But she and daddy had a great time trying to catch a few!

First Official Haircut

Today Elise had her first 'official' haircut! Her first was given by daddy but we don't talk about that much.

She did a great job, mostly holding still even though she didn't like the cape.

We had her bangs cut to get them out of her eyes and the back trimmed to give it all a chance to grow to the same length. She had another 'first' today - a strawberry dum-dum sucker which she thoroughly enjoyed!