Austin and Carter

Thought I would post of picture of Austin and his friend Carter - who happens to live right across the street from us.  They are great friends and love to play together...it is so fun to have a friend live so close.  Wish my friends lived closer :(

Aiden's 1st Birthday!!

 

 

 

Today my baby turned one! This year has flown by...it seems like only yesterday that he was born and now he is almost walking.  He can say mama, dada, and uh-oh.  He loves playing trucks with his big bro and being outside - especially swinging on the swings.  Oh and he happens to LOVE red velvet cake...a man after my own heart!

We had a fun party in our back yard with a few of our nearest and dearest.  Both Grandmas and Grandpas, the Harrisons, Heidi and Naomi, Dallas and Lisa and baby Cache, my sweet coworker Enji, Uncles Jordan and Spencer, and Aiden's adorable babysitter Alejandra and her two kids Samantha and Liandro.  It was a super hot Saturday afternoon (90ish) and we grilled hamburgers and Cam did dutch oven potatoes (totally his calling in life).  We made a porcupine out of a watermelon (which I failed to get a picture of! dang it...but if you search on pinterest you will find it), and had a three tiered red velvet Dr. Suess cake made by a baker in Clearfield.  It was a great day to celebrate one of the sweetest people in my life. 

Overalls

 

 

 

 

Here are some shots of Aiden exploring the front yard and playing with the rose bush...I promise he didn't swallow any flowers during the making of these pics!  Oh and I titled this post due to my obsession with overalls.  Aiden has 5 pair...I probably shouldn't admit this but I also have a pair that I can't bear to throw away that I bought in high school...eek!  

My Boys

 

 

Austin has been a good big brother and helper with Aiden.  Aiden totally focuses on what Austin is doing and will try and imitate him already.  Austin is pretty obsessed with Grandpa Scott's red dodge truck and Lee's Marketplace in Smithfield just happened to have a mini replica that Uncle Spencer found for Austin.  Well Aiden - at age 9 months - was already starting to fight with Austin for it, so Grandma and Grandpa found another one for Aiden for his birthday (shown in the picture).  I hope as they grow up together that Austin will recognize what an influence he has on his little bro...words of wisdom I didn't listen to when I was his age. :(  Sorry Uncle Jord!

Tip Toes

Rainbow Snows!

 July 4th was Livi's birthday, so to celebrate, we all went to get rainbow snows in Smithfield from Grandma Trudy's personal rainbow snow chef.  Grandma Trudy is quite the connessoir when it comes to rainbow snows and this lady is the BEST.  Then we went back to gma's house and had got the pool and slip n slide out again!  Grandma and Grandpa have an ORIGINAL slip n slide in the box!  It is much more high quality than the one we bought last week...our's busted in a matter of 10 minutes.  Livi had a pirate themed party with a yummy ice cream cake.  Austin and Livi are the two fireworks babies in the family - 4th of July and New Year's Eve.  Always a party with them!

Sleepover!

After the water day, Livi and Austin had a sleep over.  She didn't have any pj's so she borrowed Austin's Lightning McQueen jammies.  They got in the tub and watched the late neighborhood fireworks show from the open windows, then we read a story and it was bed time.  Seriously it was like midnight though.  So fun to have her stay!

Marsh Day

The Seamons, Carbajal, and Harrison folks ventured down to our neck of the woods for a day of fun in the sun.  The kids had the water going from seriously 1pm to 8:30.  Our lawn was pretty much a marsh by the time they were done and Pine View dam had probably dropped a foot or so; but they had tons of fun and no sunburns!  We love it when the Carbajal's come to play because they bring the party with them..and there are some very photogenic kiddos in the family as well.  They all stayed to see if there would be a big fireworks show at our house, but alas, the neighbors let us down and did not light off the big ones until after the 4th.   So we did sparklers and smoke balls instead.  Our neighborhood seriously goes crazy with fireworks.

Boose

I know everyone has their weird nicknames for their babies and Aiden's is Boose.  I know, I know, it is weird, but he seems to like it and we all think it is funny.  Not sure how it came about but Cam started saying it months ago and it has kind of stuck.  I have my weird names like muffin and honey boy but Cam says those sissy names....boose is much better, ha..whatever.  :P