::phone photos::

I have some fun photos I took on my phone over the last couple of weeks. I thought if I posted them and told a bit about them it would remind me of what we've been up to while I've been too busy to post anything.

This is a familiar sight--Sandy in his bouncer. In this particular shot he's at work with me (which the poor guy has to do ALL the time.) He's being cool and enjoying himself. He never gets to stay in the bouncer long though, somebody always wants to hold him or see him, so it almost makes the bouncer useless.
Kelly & Lechelle came to visit for a bit in the beginning of May. We had a fun little BBQ in our courtyard and I took some phone pics to send to Kris's mom. We were enjoying ourselves even though it was a bit windy.

(Note the dog bowl water cooler thing in the bottom right of the picture. Best purchase ever for a huge dog.)

So nice to have an enclosed courtyard while there are little goofballs toddling and riding around in it.


This is Max reading (and reading and reading) Calvin and Hobbes while we were on our way to Phoenix this last weekend. A friend was saying on facebook how her boy who's close to Max's age loves reading Calvin and Hobbes and how it keeps him practicing reading. I thought it was brilliant and went and bought some Calvin right away. Max loved it of course. In fact he drove us crazy reading the same strips to us over and over during the drive.

Sandy just barely started officially and consistently eating real food. In this picture we're all out to dinner for family home evening (my favorite FHE activity.) He had just finished a big pack of squash and was feeling like a legit guy, sitting in a chair with the rest of the family. He did great and we were so proud of him sitting up big in the bumbo.


While in Phoenix we had dinner at BeniHana (or however you spell that.) It was great. The boys were both entertained by the chef and Max ate an unusually large amount of legitimate food. He also persisted with the chopsticks for quite a while. (He also said he liked the miso soup and ate a bunch of it which I think is SO weird.)

I love this picture because of Max's hat and chopsticks and because of the way Sand is reaching for him in such a proprietary manner. Like, "This is my brother and he's MINE. And all his stuff is mine too." I can just see Max's future of trying to keep Sand from grabbing everything he owns. So funny.

Last one:

Sand at work, and evidently, working.
He's sitting in the lap of one of our front desk ladies, Judy. She adores him and he adores her. He insisted on typing, there was nothing we could do to stop him. I love his little concentrated face.

So that's your grab bag for today. I like grab bags. Sometimes you get the best stuff that way.

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It's March 2nd! My goodness, February went fast because we were traveling for most of it. And that's a good thing for me. Though there are really fun things to do during the month of Feb, and happy days to celebrate, it's not one of my favorite months to get through.
Max and I have been back home for a week now, but I'm still trying to get back into the swing of things. And I'm trying to do a GOOD job of that, like making sure that things actually get done around here. So I've been running around planning meals, grocery shopping, doing laundry, cleaning up. You know, all that stuff that just has to get done no matter what--and stuff that's always waiting to be done whether you're home or not.

So I haven't been playing around and taking pictures at all. Bummer. Part of that is because it's been so gloomy here. In fact the sun came out this afternoon for a couple of hours and it was amazing. It felt like the first time I'd seen it in MONTHS. So I took Sultan on a walk out to our little beach while Max was at school. Sultan was more than happy to hit the trail. The water looked amazing with the sunlight glinting off of it. I wished I'd brought my camera with me.

By the time Max was done with school (remember it's not that long--half day Kindergarten!) the sun was back behind the clouds and it was too cold to go back and let him play at the playground by the beach. Bummer. Hopefully sometime in the next week it'll be warm enough to go back.

I have some UT stuff left over still to post and hopefully we'll be having some fun once we get ourselves rolling again. Maybe if I could catch up on my sleep I could do more.....It always takes Max one day to deal with travel time changes. I feel like I'm suffering for at least a week.

Just for fun:
Today 6 years ago (MAN!! Could it really be SIX?)

Kris home from school at BYU making lunch for us. He has brand new baby Max in the carrier. Max wasn't even a month old yet and he never wanted to be put down. They're so cute. I wish Kris was home to make me lunch more often these days. What an awesome husband!

::two questions::

Question number 1:
Is there anything tastier than a piece of bread, warm from the breadmaker with honey on it?
I think the answer is no, but if anybody disagrees, let me know.

Number 2:
Where the heck did the top of the milk go when Kris dropped it the other night? How is it possible for something like that to completely disappear. We looked under everything.
That is so dang weird to me.


Yay for October!