Just Like His Grandpa!

Grady has taken on the name Gordon in a few different ways so far. As you can tell in this picture that they happen to resemble each other just a little bit! They are so alike! I love it! Also just recently we have discovered Grady's love for BBQ, just like his grandpa! Gordon likes his BBQ so much that in May they  are traveling to Kentucky to visit Natalie and Rob (Jed's sister and brother-in-law) and while they are there they plan on going to the Jack Daniel's BBQ Competition Championship! Yeah he doesn't turn down good BBQ very often... or ever!!! So when we let Grady try some BBQ a few weeks ago this is how he reacted...

Here is Grady wanting to just have the bottle of BBQ sauce 

because he loved his dinner so much.

This is what happened when we didn't let him have the bottle 

and he wanted more dinner as well!

Then we gave into the crying and let him play with the bottle for a 

little bit and then lick his fingers clean!!!

Nothin' like some good BBQ!

Adventures, More Popsicles, & Books!

So recently I have learned that kids need to go on their own little adventures! As you can see from the pictures below that on those days that my house gets torn apart and basically destroyed, I need to know that my kids are using their imaginations and that they too have been cooped up all winter and need something to do. ( I just have to make them help me pick it all up when they are finished!) I also am so grateful that my kids love to read books. We went to my friends book party and the kids loved to books that they were able to bring home that they fell asleep with them. I love my kids and I love that they are creative and that they love to learn about new things, I just need to be more open and not so concerned about the mess all the time!

Yes, more popsicles! It makes him and I happy, 

so why not?!?!

I just love this picture of Gavin. I laugh every time that I see it

because when I moved the book I had to peel it off of his cheek!

Tired?

So apparently Gavin had a long day, what do you think? Gavin was extra tired today after school and playing with some friends. Gavin wanted a snack and so he went and found this bag of chip crumbs and then I found him on the couch like this...

It is pretty tough to be a kid somedays! 

Loving the Walker!!!

At eleven months Grady started to stand on his own, but the thought of taking a step was a little scary for him. One day he decided to try out this walker that he was given almost two months ago at Christmas. I was putting the laundry away in his room and when I turned

to see where he had gone he had stood up to the walker and took off! He was so impressed with himself that ever since that moment he has been trying to walk. However he is not good enough yet to turn on his own, whenever he runs into something that stops him he gets a little frustrated that he is no longer able to move forward!

Here is Grady just loving the fact that he is more mobile than his mother would like him to be and that he can get around a little bit faster than before!!!

I am officially in trouble now!

Lost and Then Found!!!

OK so Funny! So after our snowman went MIA, four days later I was driving carpool for Gavin and I go down a street in our ward that I don't go down very often. Well what to my wondering eyes should appear? OUR SNOWMAN!!! Our snowman had found a new home two blocks away at one of my Young Women's house! I was driving down the street and was noticing that someone else had built a snowman and then I noticed that it had the same hat and scarf that ours had on, what a coincidence! Then I was laughing all by myself in the car because I didn't want to tell my kids that I had found our snowman because then they would want me to get it and bring it back to our house! (Eventually I did tell them and all they wanted to do was drive by the house so that they could see Frosty!) Anyway so then that night I had Young Women's and so I thought that I would find out there who was pulling a prank and stole Frosty. Well, I saved myself some embarrassment by asking one of my fellow leaders about the snowman I saw in her front yard earlier that day and she said, " yeah this really cute boy asked my daughter to a dance with that snowman," So I didn't get up in front of everyone, like I had planed, and ask who knew about my snowman going missing! I  started to laugh again because this was just so funny to me, over a snowman! So in the end our Frosty was found and my kids were satisfied to know that he was safe and being taken care of! The best part was that we received our snowman kit back so that next year, (or snow storm) we can make another Frosty!!!

There Must Have Been Some Magic!

So......We all know the tale of Frosty the Snowman right? 

(if not, you have some reading to do!)

Well one Saturday morning as I went into my baby's room

and opened the blinds I noticed this...

If you saw my post a little while ago about our snowman

that we made you will notice that in this picture the snowman is 

well....GONE!

You can see the tracks of footprints in the snow up to

where the snowman was and then around the hole 

where good ol' Frosty stood!

Either that hat really was magic...

Or we have a case on our hands!