The Boys

I love when they give each other hugs. Zeke hugs Gabe's tummy and Gabe rubs his head.

I'm so lucky!

Labor-ous Day

During the week of the reunion we got most of Brigham's brothers to come help us with the retaining wall in our back yard. It was a ton of work, and 100 degrees. They were great and we sure appreciated the help.

First they had to move the railroad ties that were scattered across the yard and stack them. That was a task in itself.

Here is a before picture, just a rocky hill.

Here's a picture after the first few hours. I didn't get very good pictures. Jeff's kids came out to help for a little bit and the neices and nephews sat and watched them work, it was cute.

Here they are hard at work. Had already been working 8 hours in the heat at this point.

Zeke watched out the window, loved the tractor and watching his dad.

Here is the finished wall. Well as finished as we got, it still needs a little work, which is a lot of work.

It wouldn't fit in one picture and the trailier is in the way, but here is the other half, straight up and down, the other half has two levels.

Thanks so much everyone, we couldn't have done it without you!

Andrew Reunion

Brigham's family had a family reunion the week of July 24th. One of the days we spent at Canyon View park. Zeke had a good time, here are some of his adventures. Gabriel stayed in the shade getting spoiled by various family members.

Of course he loves to play with balls.

And anything with wheels. Sound affects included with the ride.

Wheee! That tickles my tummy. He wanted to keep going, I thought he was going to be sick.

There was a big thousand water balloon fight. Zeke loves the water. He wanted to be right there in the middle of it. He thought the idea was to get wet! But some of the adults joined in and they were throwing really hard.

I pulled him aside and let him have a few 'balls' of his own to play with. This picture shows how wet he got, I think from running through the hose.

Here he is launching some water balloons at people (family) clear across the field.

Handy Family?

For the reunion we HAD to do a talent. So we put on our best attire and eloquently came out and danced to 'I'm too sexy'

We had pillows in the kids too but they wouldn't hold still/or keep it on long enough for a picture.
Big bootie ho!

Sad :( you can't even tell I have a pillow in the back, it looks the same. Dang brownies!

Gabriel playing

Both boys love bath time. Here is Gabriel playing right after he got out of the tub.

Here he is playing with his little 'zoo toy' He turned himself the other direction. It was easier to turn the toys on that way.

He was playing with aunt Taffy one night, totally laughing at her. It was really cute. I never caught a good expression of it though.

She lifted him in the air and he wasn't too sure about that one. I was lucky to catch this expression. It went from chuckle to.....

Zeke learning

Zeke has been learning so many new things. It's amazing the things that he knows already. This is good and bad. Good that he's learning, bad that he explores things he shouldn't. Sometimes it gets frustrating because he gets into things, makes messes, and scares me to death. But then there are times that are just too cute not to get the camera!

I tried for a while to keep him out of the swing, 'it's for the baby' but I gave up on it. He sits in it, turns it on and rocks himself. One day he sat in it and less than 5 minutes later this is how we found him.
This is one of the frustrating ones. I thought I finally broke him of it but today he took the vents off again. He takes the vent covers off and throws things down the vent. Then he started climbing in it. There are so many different ways he can get hurt with that, I'm pretty strict but like I said had to stop once for the picture.

This walker has been put away because Zeke is too big for it. Josh got it down for him and you can't see his legs are crunched but he still quite enjoyed himself.

Crazy

Man things have been crazy the last few months. Hence I'm way behind on my posts. We were super busy trying to get the basement ready for family that came in July, then we were playing with family for a couple of weeks. Now I'm just plain exhausted and haven't been able to recooperate very well. The basement looks the same as it did a month ago except for a few small things. Obviously these posts are late, especially the Gabe is 3 months (tomorrow he will be 5 months). But I will try and get everything caught up.