Goodbye Smedleys. We miss you!

For the triplet's birthday, we took one last trip with Smedleys (and Gotschalls) to Build a Bear at the mall. We also got ice cream and rode the Merry Go Round. The Smedleys have now officially moved, but since they moved near my family we will still get to see them when we go to Utah to visit or when they come back to visit their Grandma and Grandpa.

Joshua Can Walk!!!!

Yeah!! Joshua is starting to walk more and more. He still gets tired easily and will then take a few tumbles, but it is so neat to see him walking on his own. Here is a great video of him doing just that.

Happy Birthday----Jaxen Joshua and Gracie!!!

Jaxen, Joshua and Gracie had a great birthday. They all got wonderful toys and we had fun with family and friends when they came over for cake and icecream. Here are pictures of the kids opening their gifts. Thanks to all.


Jaxen with his baseball glove and ball.


Jaxen opening his toy truck. It took us a while to get him to open this gift. He kept throwing it on the floor because he wanted to play with his baseball glove. Now he loves it as it is big enough to sit in the back and watch TV.


Joshua opening his toy truck.




Gracie opening her Trinkerbell Outfit.

Dress-Ups

One thing my kids love to do is: Playing Dressup. Even the boys love to change their clothes and pretend to be someone else. So, for their birthday, they all got costumes to play in. Even the boys got their own outfits: Superman and Woody from Toys Story. Here they are in all their glory:


Gracie as Tinkerbell. This was her favorite costume and one she does not let anyone else wear.




Joshua as Superman. Look at those muscles.


Joshua with the Smedley's

Gracie with Sheri and Brittney


Jaxen as a clown. (Ryan was not fond of the pink outfit).



Gracie in her Asian outfit.


Jaxen, MaKayla and Gracie

Got Cake?

Here are the triplets eating their birthday cake.

Baby Rachel

Rachel now goes from creeping to sitting and loves it. She is such a happy baby and follows me from room to room playing at my feet.


Here is Rachel creeping to see what daddy is doing.


Here she is in the Kitchen playing while mommy cooks dinner.

Monkey Business

Ryan got this mask when he went to see "The Dark Night" at 11:30 at night. Morgan loved it and wore it around the house all day. She was just so darn cute I had to take pictures. Ryan thought it was funny that she smiled for the camera and didn't realize we could only tell by her eyes.