New Family Pictures

We recently had some new family pictures taken by a very talented photographer. It was really fun and I love the pictures we got. Here are just a few....

Click HERE to view Aidee Jae Photography. Amberly is wonderful to work with and her pictures are beautiful.

Catch up

I've been meaning to write about several things for a while now... so I'm going sum up some of the ones I've been thinking about...

Pat and I decided to be very productive this summer so we've had some fun projects going on.
First, Pat built us a nice little deck area for our backyard, which is all rock... It's nice to have a little area to put some chairs and enjoy the weather that has been steadily cooling off...


















Then we decided to make an old wood door into a headboard for our King size bed... that has sadly been without one since we bought it about 2 yrs ago. It turned out so great! I love it so much, and we painted our two nightstands to match. Now we are on the lookout for a low 6 drawer dresser.


























We made (and I mean Pat) this cute magnetic chalk board for Brooks. Now he has a nice little area in our dining room for his puzzles, coloring books, and now a chalk board where we can work on numbers and colors.

















Future projects.... We are trying to sell the current furniture we have in Brooks' room and buy a twin bed for him so he'll have a little more room for toys and such. Pat is currently working on a toy box, that he started when Brooks was a year old. I am planning on refinishing my cedar chest so we can put it at the end of our bed. I'll post some pictures as we complete these ones.

School Pictures by Aidee Jae Photography

Recent photos taken of Brooks. Love them all, Amberly you did such a good job!

Water Park

Ever since we went to Lagoon with the Bennetts, Brooks calls anything to do with a pool or water a water park. So that is what we have dubed the Washington City Community Center. Which I just have to breifly praise, if you live in So. Utah and have not been, that place is awesome!

The first few time we went, Brooks wanted nothing to do with the slides. We mosly just swam around with him or he'd belly crawl in the shallow water where these slided are. But the last time we went he was really brave and went down by himself, and then we couldn't get him to stop! He would totally live here if it were possible. We always have a great time when we go, and it's been so nice to be able to get out of the heat.

Family Pictures

We took some family pictures on Sunday. We tried to get out and do it early to avoid the heat... but it was so HOT even by 9:30. So we didn't get as many as I wanted... and none of Brooks by himself. He wasn't feelin picture day. So here are a few that we did get... neither my sister's little girl or Brooks would really smile at all. We'll have to give it another try when it starts to cool down again.

The Movies

Saturday we took Brooks to see Toy Story 3. We were a little nervous because it's pretty spendy these days to go to a movie and we were afraid he might not watch the whole movie. But he loves the other two and watches them pretty much all the way through at home, so we took our chances...

Brooks was so excited the minute we got there, I think all the people and getting pop corn and candy was such a big thing for him. When we got in the theater he was a little antsy at first, but it was really cute to see him sit in those big theater chairs. His feet didn't even reach the end.

When the movie started he was in awe... a few times he tried to get up so that he could go sit somewhere closer. I think he wanted to go and lay on the floor on his belly, that is usually how he watches movies at home... but I just told him that he had to stay in his seat, or we would have to leave and he stayed put for the rest of the movie.

He was such a good boy, and is getting so big. We had so much fun going to a movie with him. Our first family movie was a big success!!

These are a few of our favorite things.....

Do you have that song in your head now? I do...

Patrick -

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why this is one of his favorite things....

Pat really takes such good care of both of our cars, my car is a 98 and we always get comments about how nice it is. Once, at Jiffy Lube, the mechanic actually asked Pat if he would sell it to him. I am so ready for a new car, but it's nice that I have such a good guy to keep the one I have now in such good shape. If you can't tell, this is a picture of him cleaning my engine... I have a hard time cleaning it period. Which Pat likes to tell me I don't do enough of. But the way I see it... If I let it get dirty enough, he does it for me :).

editors note: I took these pictures yesterday... this morning Pat washed both of our cars... see he just does it for me, I don't need to ;)

Kimi-

(Brooks had to pose while I was taking these... we call that his mean cheezer face)

These have become my babies! Pat built me these fabulous flower boxes for mother's day this year. Aren't they cute? I told him he should build more and sell them... We did a veggie garden in one of the big ones. The tomato plants are going CRAZY! We tried some strawberry plants, but I think I'm going to move them out and plant some peppers... the strawberries that do start to grow, just get eat in by bugs. I am so proud of my green thumb this year, I use to have a hard time keeping house plants alive, but all of my plants (even my indoor ones) are really thriving. It has become one of my most favorite times of the day... to water and check on them. We are gonna have more tomatoes then we know what to do with soon!

Brooks -

What can I say, he gets a 99 cent car when ever we go to Walmart... by the looks of things, we go to Walmart WAY too much!

Then there are his Disney cars, which I'm afraid to say is the result of his mother's collector itch. I always look for a character we don't have when we are in the toy section... He loves his cars, he has to have them to sleep, to take a bath, to take with us when ever we go anywhere... I always find them in my purse and in the diaper bag. He puts them there, not me. I think it's because if we forget to bring them, mom always has some on hand. This is his major "sharing issue" the one thing I cannot get him to share. Hopefully he grows out of that!