Addy's walking

Addy's 1st Birthday

It's hard to believe that our miss Addy has been with us for an entire year.  We have been blessed by her laid back, sweet, and happy personality, and don't know what we'd do without her. 

 The birthday girls party decorations!

 I found a picture of a fabulous Minnie Mouse cake and did my best to copy it.  I think it turned out pretty cute, and it didn't take me too long to recreate.  I did have black/pink hands for about 3 days however from trying to color the fondant.  YIKES!!!  

 I made this fun subway art to put out at the food table.

And this is the birthday girls dinner.

 The birthday girl had some cheese and ham and roll with the rest of us!

 I made her a fun shirt to match her birthday decor!

 She's your typical girl.  She liked playing with the clothes better than she like playing with the toys! :)

 Big brother was happy to help her open her presents!

 She loved that her new kitchen played music, and did a cute little dance.

 You can her dance efforts here!

 This is her cute little learning kitchen.  Ethan has played with it much more than she has, so hopefully she'll start enjoying it more.

And of course, our little birthday girl LOVED the cake and ice cream!!!

Addy is ALMOST walking!

I originally bought this stroller for Addy for her birthday, but she's so CLOSE to walking that I thought it might benefit her now!  She LOVES to push it around the house!

Mom's putt for cash!

Mom had the great opportunity to Putt for Cash with Rod Zundel from KSL the other day.  We went out to Thanksgiving point to see her.

She sunk this 50 foot practice putt just a few minutes before her real putt.  It must have been her little good luck charm Ethan who was standing by her!

This is her actual putt.  She did a great job, and it was a super good shot.  In fact, I was pretty certain that thing was going in.  

 Here she is with Rod.  I have to say that she may not have made the putt, but she looks FABULOUS doesn't she?  Good job mom!

To see her actual video on KSL, go to the following website, and scroll through the videos for Barbara Trane!

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=377&sid=14996722

My mischievous little man

 

Our little Ethan is ALWAYS into something!  Here are two recent acts of messiness from little man.  This first . . . he found the jar of peanut butter and had it spread all over the place in my living room, and was clapping his peanut buttery hands laughing at how it made the peanut butter fly all over the room.  That was a FUN cleanup huh?

This is more hard to determine, but this is our outside shed, where we have stored our TREX for our new deck, and we've had the door opened as we've been working on finishing our back yard.  Little man found a can of black spray paint and went to town. Boy oh boy.

New Day Care

The kids started at their new day care center on August 1st, which was my first day back to work.  Ethan was SUPER excited to go to school, but hasn't been too excited to go back!  We'll work on it though.  When they arrive, the first thing they do is have breakfast, so here they are on their first day eating their cocoa puffs!

This is what happened on the morning of day 2 of pre-school!

My ONE month of Summer

This is my third year working at the district office, and I'm still not quite adjusted to this one month of summer business, but oh well.  Here is an attempt to cover some of the fun things that we were able to do this summer . . . 

Pretended to be a superhero!

Played in the new play house

Went to planet play and spent A LOT of money to get a stupid sword

Hosting teddy bear picnics

Spent time up in Heber at Grandma & Grandpa T's trailor

Had fun at boondocks shooting the guns, and especially playing LASER TAG!  Ethan played twice, and would have played 15 more times if he could have!

Went to the zoo a few different times

Spent time at Grandpa & Grandma T's house playing in his "web"!

We had a fabulous few weeks together.  I LOVED being at home with my babies!

Addy's latest & greatest

Addy is a pretty laid back little lady.  This picture pretty much says it all . . .


We just love her to pieces.  She is pleasant, loves to smile, laughs a ton, and loves to play.  She gabs a ton, and is starting to say real words.  She says uh-oh constantly, and is starting to say mama and dada.  I think she even said dog the other day, but hasn't repeated it at all, so who knows.  Andy taught her how to do head butt, and she loves to give wet-slobbery kisses. If she wants to kiss you, there is no getting away, she'll pull your face right over to her.

She is also starting to get pretty independent.  She doesn't like to be fed anymore, so she's eating a lot of finger foods lately that she can feed to herself.  She loves mac 'n' cheese, hot dogs, and any type of fruit.

She is standing up all on her own these days, and seems to want to take a step or two, but no walking yet.  I'm sure it'll be any day now.

We couldn't love her more.

Bobbins 'n' Beads

To my dear friends who actually read my blog . . . I have started a little business and would love for you all to check it out.  You can find me at www.bobbinsnbeads.blogspot.com, or check out my bobbins 'n ' beads facebook page.

basketball babe

Costume Kid

Ethan LOVES to dress up!  Usually it's either Spiderman or Superman, but he has other costumes as well, a cowboy, a pirate, batman, etc.  Yesterday, he came shopping with me to Hobby Lobby, and decided that he needed to add a new eye patch and cool foam sword to his costume.  On the way out, he let me know that he needed me to take his picture with his pirate gear on.

On Sunday, I let him know that he couldn't wear his costume to church.  He told me "but mom, people want to take pictures of me as spiderman."  This kid comes up with the craziest ideas.  So, he decided that he wanted to wear a spiderman t-shirt, AND a batman t-shirt underneath his church clothes.

Fourth of July

For the fourth of July this year, we went to Andy's parents house for an afternoon BBQ, and a little splash in the pool.  Then we came home, put Miss Addy to bed, and did a few sparklers and fireworks with Ethan.  Miss Addy doesn't like the loud boom from the fireworks, so had a terrible time sleeping last night since our neighborhood sounded like a war zone until quite late.

Our Addy

Miss Addy is growing like a weed, and getting around really well.  She started crawling at 8 months, and has been on the go ever since.  She loves to play with her big brother Ethan.  Whatever he is into, Addy wants to be into as well.  She is a super happy little girl, and usually has a smile on her face.  She likes to interact and play.  She stops whatever she's doing when you say "so big" and raises her arms up in the air, and she also gives very wet kisses to us all the time.  She waves, and says something that sort of sounds like mama, and is even pulling herself up on the furniture.  Daddy even taught her to do a head butt!

We love to see all the new things our little lady is up to.

Best purchase EVER!

After visiting my brother in Arizona, and seeing his new yard, we decided we wanted to do some major renovation of our back yard, and Andy had the fantastic idea to build a corner for a playhouse for Ethan.  Last night we made a trip to toys-r-us and found a great little playhouse for our little man, and for our little lady (once she starts walking).  We also bought Ethan a little BBQ with fake food, plates, forks, etc.  Andy and Ethan went home and put it all together, and Ethan played in it until bedtime.   I even had to make a deal with him that he could play with his BBQ and food until I was finished reading him a bed time story, and then he'd have to put it away until morning.  When he woke up this morning, he immediately asked if he could get dressed and go play outside.  I think he's in heaven!

Addy's shoes

I am no experienced sewer, so these puppies took me quite a bit longer than they should have, what with all the unpicking, but they did turn out pretty stinkin' cute, and they fit her perfectly.  

The Mighty Fisherman

Fishing has always been a passion of Andy's, but a forgotten passion until recently.  He's been on a fishing kick lately, and takes off to go whenever he possibly can.  This is his most recent outing on the lake with the boys, and this picture of him ranks as one of my favorites . . . why you ask?  Andy RARELY smiles for pictures. . . even at disneyland one of his most favorite places in the world, we can't get him to crack a smile for a snapshot.  This picture doesn't have a fabulous "i'm totally happy and thrilled I caught this fish smile," but the smirk on his face, just summarizes his entire personality.  He posted this picture on facebook with the following caption . . . "Break out the big frying pan Les, I'm bringing home dinner."

So happy that 5 years ago I made one of the best decisions of my life and married the man of my dreams.  Love you babe!

catch of the day

My parents were camping up at Wasatch State Park this weekend, so we spent the day with them on Saturday.  Andy was thrilled he was able to do some fishing, and Ethan was of course SUPER excited that they caught a fish.  He is happy to play and goof around while dad holds and casts the pole, and really only wants to be part of fishing when it's time to reel in a fish.  Here are the boys with their catch of the day!

Ring of Fire

Ethan pulled the guitar hero guitars out tonight and asked to play.  So, I got things going and was choosing a song.  Ethan informed me that he wanted to play "rock of fire."  So, I turned on Ring of Fire, and he sung along and strummed his guitar (he pronounces it goo-tar).  Too cute.

Story Time

I love to read Ethan stories each night before bed time, and he loves it too, because he can manipulate me into reading him more and more stories, which means he gets to go to bed later!  :)  This picture isn't the greatest quality, but it captures this special time just perfectly.

Missin' Mom

Andy is so great about sending me cute video clips and pictures of the kids when he's at home with them and I'm at work.  Just got this little gem that needs to be shared.