Santa Pics

Here are the santa pics from the Festival of Trees on December 2.

ARGH LUKE!!

Luke decided that him and michael needed to switch hair colors the other day. I walked in and he was cutting his own hair - and had already cut michaels. He said that he wanted to put his hair on michael. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!! Their hair had to be cut a little shorter than I like it to be and luckily from the front you can hardly tell - it's the top that isn't looking so hot! Here's a couple of "before" pictures. Good thing they are boys - their hair is kept short anyway. Now if this had been my baby girl with beautiful long locks I think I would have had a nervous breakdown! Oh - and did I mention that Luke got in the medicine cabinet about a week before that and washed my contacts down the drain? All before I had a chance to get out of bed! That kid.. what are we going to do with him!!!

NEW PHOTOS!

Here is Michael's VERY FIRST school photo! What a big cheese! We just finally got school pictures back. The first time around, the teacher did not find his order form in the back pack, so although he got them taken, there was no order - therefore no pictures sent home!! So we made sure on retake day that he was able to get them taken this time! Such a cutie! He's doing really well in school and just loves his teacher and all the kids.

Here are some photos from Brynley's 7 month pictures - which was last month. It's been a crazy month - all of the family has been sick at one time or another. Brynley has been sick nearly the entire month. At a doctor visit around the time she turned 7 months, she weighed 15 lbs even and was 24 1/2 inches long. Still just a little tiny thing! She had just cut her second tooth 2 days before these pictures. (Pictures are from kiddie kandids). Now today she is 8 months old, and weighs 15 lbs 2 oz - with all of the sickness and not eating well she hasn't gained hardly any weight. The doc decided she isn't getting enough milk so he wants us to switch her to formula - hopefully this will help! poor thing! Now at 8 months she is finally starting to TRY and go for things just out of reach. She can sit up well, but hasn't figured out how to crawl yet. (FINE WITH ME!!! :o) She loves to eat cereal and any table foods that she sees us eating. I think she just likes to "chew"! So cute. She is still a pretty big mama's girl - but she is getting better. She loves her brothers and they can be as abnoxious as they want and she will still flash them the biggest smile, or even manage to giggle. She has finally figured out the jumperoo - but jumps very carefully. She definately doesn't like to play rough. I will try to get a picture of her today - she's still not feeling well and is pretty cranky, but we'll see how it goes!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Here's some fun pictures of the kids all dressed up, and with pumpkins.

It's raining LEAVES!!!

The big tree outside of our house has been losing its leaves like crazy, so we thought we'd set up a little photo shoot of the kids! It's still way hard to get all 3 happy and smiling in the picture at the same time! They boys had a lot of fun jumping in the huge pile, and burying each other. Here's a few of the many (ok.. about 70) pictures I took a few hours ago. It's nice to have digital because I know instantly if my photos have turned out, and if not - I just keep taking more!

OH! Brynley got her first tooth on friday! HOORAY! Her second one won't be too far behind, as she's still pretty grumpy! Hopefully it will break through and we can get this over with!

Michael's soccer season has come to an end so I thought I would share a couple of cute photos of him. Michael is SOO funny when he gets a goal. He gets SO excited, jumps up and down and gives us the big thumbs up! It is so cute! The picture of him with the huge grin is from right after scoring a goal, and the one of him jumping is just after that. My cousin said if there was a penalty for "excessive celebration" he'd definatley get it! He is pretty fast and extremely energetic. He is finally old enough to start grasping the concept of defense. Even luke will yell from the sidelines "Get in there michael" or "GO MICHAEL" it is SO cute!

HAPPY 1/2 BIRTHDAY BRYNLEY!!!

Brynley is 6 months today! It has been hard trying to teach the boys how old she is - when she's not even a year! So today when we got up I told them that Brynley was 1/2 today! Michael thought it was pretty funny!! She was weighed and measured wednesday and she was 14 lbs 4 oz, and 24 1/4 inches long. That puts her in the 5th percentile for height and 10th for weight! Such a little shorty! She is getting to be tons of fun, with lots and lots of personality. She has been trying out different sounds lately. A couple weeks ago it was a really deep low voice, and this week it has been a scream! The boys can always make her giggle - especially Michael! She's still as lazy as ever. She knows how to roll in both directions, but just doesn't care to do so! We have a jumperoo for her, but she hasn't quite figured that one out yet. She loves to be upright and held facing AWAY from you so she can see what all is going on. She is still a huge mama's girl, but we're working on that! She is still a great sleeper as well. She taked 3-4 naps a day and her bedtime is usually 7-7. She does still wake up twice within that time to eat - but over all I can't complain because she sleeps quite a bit!

Lil' Daredevil!

About a month ago we took Luke's training wheels off. He is amazing on that little Bike, his little bike - with those little legs going as fast as they can!! At only 3 1/2 - and he's only been riding a bike since may or june of this year. He is such a little dare devil too - before we took off the training wheels he was trying to pop wheelies! We told luke that once he got "good" at riding his old bike, we'd buy him his own NEW bike! He's so proud of his bike!

I"m still getting used to this new camera - Michael loves posing for me. he is SO photogenic! I was just messing around and was luck to catch such a cute picture! I love his smile in this picture!

Brynley has been a good sport about me snapping photos of her all the time. These are definately not the best quality of photos - since I was playing with different settings, but they definately show her personality. She is finally getting the hang of eating.. but only if I add some flavor! no plain cereal for her! So far she's had applesauce, squash and tonight we tried bananas - and she HATED them! Maybe she'll like the real ones better. Last night I gave her a piece of watermelon to suck on and she absolutely loved it - i think it also felt good on her gums to have something so cold!

Check back later this week and we'll post some soccer pictures of Michael!!

Welcome to our new Blog! I'm hoping this will be something fun and easy once we get the hang of it. We just moved to Baker City Oregon on September 1st. Steven finally finished with Law School and we anticipated getting a job here, so we moved and waited.. and waited some more. The first thing we waited for was the passing of the bar - and well... HE PASSED!!! WHOOO HOOOO! The second thing we waited for was the job. And STEVEN GOT THE JOB! He is now a Deputy District Attorney for Baker County. He starts on Oct. 2nd. The boys love our new house (it's a rental.. but to them it's NEW!) and we love being in Baker.

Right after labor day school started for the boys. Michael is in Kindergarten this year and Lukey is in Preschool. Michael goes to South Baker Elem. which is just 2 blocks from our house. He loves to be able to walk to school with mom or dad and lately has been asking to go EARLIER so he has more recess time with his friends before school. Luke attends "Jumpin Jacks" preschool and his teacher is Mrs. Hawkins.. but according to Luke she is Mrs. HONKIN's! It's the cutest thing ever to hear him say! He absolutely LOVES school and is feeling so grown up!

Brynley is also growing up way too fast. She is 5 1/2 months -and just as cute as can be! This is a picture of her from last night. For my birthday I got a NEW CAMERA.. so we were playing with it last night during michael's soccer practice. I'm sure I will be taking WAY too many pictures now that I need to test out the new camera! (I got a Canon Powershot S3 IS - It is SOOO awesome!) Oh.. and Steven finally got himself a playstation 2. That was his birthday present. Now that law school is over, I guess it's ok to spend some down time playing video games!

Check back often - lots more to come as I take more pictures and get used to this new blog!!