August Pics

One of our favorite family hiking places is Franklin Falls. Grant loves tossing rocks into the water!

Maddie all ready to get wet in her rain coat.

Grant demonstrating the benefits of buying in bulk.

We went to the Woodland park zoo two weeks ago- here are some pics below.

Maddie finally got out of the stroller and cruised along the fence! She is now 10 months old and has two bottom teeth.

Rare cutie snow leopards.

I LOVE this baby!

We spent some time in the super stinky bird house.

Grant really enjoyed feeding the birds. Out of all the beautiful birds Grant chose to feed the ugliest bird known to man. It was missing most of the feathers on its head. Maybe I'm just being an insensitive jerk, it probably had a nice personality.

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!

Family in Town for the Wedding!

Last week Chris' youngest brother Jeff was sealed to his sweetheart Kayla in the Seattle Temple. It was a really nice weekend to enjoy family and welcome a new family member.

Our little family in front of the Seattle Temple.

My little sweetie!

Everytime Grant sees family statues he has to hug them.

Maddie is 8.5 months. She is now crawling, clapping, and pulling herself to standing.

Grant is talking so much and is enjoying his "back-a-yard". He loves to dig in the dirt, find yucky bugs under rocks and water the garden with me.

The happy couple! Aren't they sweet!