Goings-on as of Late.

I finally got to meet my new niece Holland! She's over 2 months old already! My sister and her family are out here from Las Vegas, and little miss Holland had her blessing on Sunday. She is adorable!

Gray has loved all the time he's had to play with his favorite cousin Rowan

Thatcher has loved playing with his favorite cousin Holland :)

There's been lots of playin in the play house

Lots of swinging on the swings

Big news! JD and Kenna are getting MARRIED!!! :D We all love Kenna, and are so excited to add her to the family!

Gray and Rowan playing with Hudson and Finn at our Lowe/Tribe/Speechly BBQ on Labor Day

Cute Gray playing in the play house after his first day of preschool :) 

Dinosaur Park fun!

Steve, Gray and I just went to the Dinosaur Park with Sarah, Rowan, my mom, and my dad! Grayson was so excited, and loved every minute! Here are some (okay, a LOT) of pictures:

Wow, that's a big "elephant dinosaur" -- as Gray called it  :)

Mommy and Grayson enjoying the stroll

These boys were SO excited and ran down the trails most of the time. It was good we had five adults there to keep track of them :)

Aww -- sweet baby Row.  And a dinosaur head.

Row kept saying "WOW!" at this one.

Big Triceratops



This is Grayson saying "RAHR!" in his dinosaur voice! Hehe :)



My silly momma :)

Cute Poppa and Rowan

Strollin' through the trees

More strollin'

Row is sticking his tongue out like the big dinosaur was doing!

And he made his mommy stick her tongue out, too!

Gray was a little wary of the big ones with teeth. He kept saying they were "hungry"!

Row and all the pumpkins

Nana and Poppa with the big dino

"Turtuuuuul"

Going down the slide

Gray usually HATES going down slides, but this tiny one was just his size, and he loved it!!

Perfect fit for two little boys

They were so cute encouraging each other as they went down.

Fun on the swings

AH! I LOVE THE SMILE!! It's so rare to capture a real smile from Gray on camera!!!

Sarah and my mom pestered Steve and me until we sat on the crocodile for this pic. Lovely, isn't it?!

The boys loved 'hiding' in this skull.

Thanks, Mom and Dad for the fun trip to the Dinosaur Park! Gray is already asking to go back again! :D

Pumpkins!!

Last night, we went out to the Hansen Farm and got some pumpkins!! My mom, sister Sarah, and nephew Rowan came, too! The little boys LOVED all the pumpkins, and were running and screaming and dancing -- so cute! For some reason, Grayson kept saying "Punkins! Chickens!" -- and I have NO idea where the 'chickens' part came from. There was one tiny bird feather he found on a pumpkin, so maybe that's it. Here are some pictures from our adventure:



With all the pumpkins



"Look at dis, Rowan!"



Love this one -- a rare picture where we actually captured a smile!



This was the pumpkin with the tiny feather on it

Rowan is very good at saying "CHEESE!" when there's a camera pointed at him :)

Look at all the pumpkins! There were so many!

Running and dancing

Rowan joining in on the running and dancing

 

Row just climbed right in to the middle of the patch and parked himself down on a pumpkin :)

This is my favorite picture! It's really hard to get to excited toddlers to look at the camera at the same time!!!

Here are the pumpkins we brought home with us -- the big one is Gray's, and the little one is for Baby!!

Thanks, Katie, for hooking us up! We had so much fun! Gray is still talking about it!!

It's Finally SUMMER!

We are loving the semi-hotness that is early summer in Utah. Gray and I have been spending most of our time outside, exploring and getting messy! I'm just glad it's not 100 degrees outside yet! We're enjoying temps in the 70's/80's! :)

I made a few new little crafts for summer. I bought these "Spring" blocks last year, and I love them, so I decided to give them a dual purpose!

I put "Summer" on the back! (they didn't have any "M"s at the craft store, so I made due with "W"s. I'm past it bugging me, though -- I think it's kind of cute!!

I also made this felt flower wreath! Bright, happy, summery colors!


Gray thinks we need to go to Nana and Pop's house every day -- he LOVES it there! They have a fun little sandbox and a water/train table there that he just thinks is the best thing in the world. They also live a block away from the "park" (the elementary school's playground), that he drags us all to numerous times when we're there. My parents are such good sports to humor him! :)

My sister and her little boy Rowan were just here visiting from Las Vegas -- we had so much fun with them! It's so weird to see Gray as the "big boy", and see Row try to copy everything he does! Such cute little guys!

Hm. Well, that seems to be all the pictures I have taken lately. I'll need to fix that...