Rowley Day (and a half)

The Pendleton gang made a quick Utah trip and we were able to see them for a day and a half.  It is always fun when we all get together and this quick trip was no different!

 The girls wanted to make an Easter craft and the best my spur of the moment craftyness could come up with was pipe cleaner bunny ears...pathetic I know, but the kids liked them!

We weren't together for very long but we probably set a hide and seek record.  It was the kids favorite.  My Mom had a pretty good spot!

Joshua loved "the baby".  Elise is going to have her hands full!

Here's "Tony Chestnut"

...and Ilene!!!  (you had to be there)

We celebrated Tyler's and Joshua's birthdays.  More aprons.

We love stories with Grandma! 

It was a fun couple of days.  We can't wait to see you again in June!

A little Imagination!

McKay has always had quite the imagination but lately he has taken it to a new level- imaginary friends.  Numy, Soapa-Soapa Tupa, and Noma-Noma are his favorites.  All day long he runs around playing talking to these guys.  The other day he turned to me all excited, "Mommy come!  Hurry!  Numy's here!"  He takes my hand and pulls me to the front door.  I open the door and we hear kids playing at the neighbors and McKay starts laughing and calls "NUMY!"  I start to close the door and he tells me to "Stop.  Not yet."  We stand there for literally a minute looking out and then he yells "Numy!" and obviously lets this person in.  Then McKay starts to folllow "Numy" downstairs.  I asked permission if I could close the door now and he says yes, Numy is downstairs now.  And then he runs down and plays with Numy.  It is hilarious to watch and see him come up with all this on his own.   Let's just hope he grows out of it at a healthy age!

McKay and Matt are always coming up with box creations.  Here are some of the latest.



 McKay and his house

 McKay the prisoner

McKay and his fort

Crawling!

Well, I meant to do a 6 month post for Logan, but that didn't happen...he is now 7 months and 1 week but at least I'm getting it done!  At 6 months Logan was 16 pounds and trying so hard to move.   And then the week before he was 7 months, Logan discovered he could pull himself where we wanted to go = army crawl.  He is now the Army Crawl King.  He can get wherever he wants to go and he is getting pretty fast at it too- especially if you set him on the bed!  He moves so fast to race to the edge of the bed before you stop him and then he just laughs...one of these days I'm not going to catch him in time.  He gets up on his hands and knees, rocks, takes a few crawls, and then falls and army crawls- it is just easier and faster than the real crawl!

Look at me go!



February Fun

Lately it seems I have been putting off updating until I have a lot to post, so sorry if all my posts are a mesh of everything...

We started off the month with my nephew Daniel's birthday.  McKay wasn't at all social (of course) but Logan wasn't shy at all.  He was smiling and talking to whoever would look at him!  McKay and Logan have opposite personalities already!

 So turn your head sideways- I don't know how to rotate after I have the picture uploaded sorry.  Every year I post the first crocus of the year which is usually the end of February or the beginning of March.  Well we are a tad bit early this year- I took this picture February 8!  We've had a weird winter but there is 4 inches of snow out there now so this crocus may be long gone.

No snow, just puddle stomping!

Logan enjoying the warm weather.

Here is Matt shoveling water...we had snow melting and then it rained so much that the water was pooling up and Matt had to shovel it out so it didn't cause problems.

Heart attack!  Happy Valentines Day!!

  

 Hat boys- McKay loves hats!  Here he went and pulled his hats out and came out with one on each foot, one on his head, and one in his mouth...

 and he brought Logan the furry Elmo hat to wear!

 And the envelope finally came...it's off to Piura, Peru!!  We're excited!