ABC's, Berry Picking, and Sunday Pics

Yeah! We actually finished something we started! Grant and I started a "Letter a Day" Page. Each day we would write the letter and then look for words in magazines that start with the letter. We had a lot of fun and now we are done and have something really fun to look at!

Great job Grant!

We went Blackberry picking yesterday- so much fun and so free! In Washington there are blackberry bushes EVERYWHERE! So we are finding different yummy ways to use them.

Grandma stealing Jeff's hat, which was really Grant's hat.

Yummy! Blackberry cobbler!

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Blackberry-Cobbler-II/Detail.aspx

(I baked it in an 8x8 and added 1tsp cinnamon and vanilla to the topping and 1tsp Cinn. and vanilla to the berries)

Now on to our Sunday pics! I feel like we should take pics every Sunday when we dress up for church because it is the rare time when I don't have food or drool on me and the kids don't have food, drool, or snot on them. :)

twins

Not a Sunday pic, but still delicious!

Maddie absolutely loves Grant! She follows him around and laughs at everything he does. Grant is starting to warm up to Maddie too. When he didn't know that I was looking, he told Maddie that he loved her and then hugged her. Love those little cutie pies!

Kitchen Crawler and Our Dirty Little Backyardigan

Little Madelynn is now 9 months old and still crawling everywhere, but she has also started cruising on furniture. It is funny how her crawl has evolved. It started with an army scoot; one legged crawl; traditional two legged crawl;now the palms and soles crawl (as seen below). She has also started saying dadadaddadadadada and her first tooth just came in.

Grant is loving the backyard this summer. He loves to turn over rocks to look for "sick" bugs and dig in the dirt to look for dinosaur bones.

Dirty little Grant at 2 years old

Dirty little Grant at 3 years old- he looks so much older!