Uh, Oh!

Holden is eighteen months old now.  He is such a character!  I call this post "Uh, Oh" because that is his favorite phrase.  He says it whenever he drops something, throws something (and he throws everything) and he even says it BEFORE he throws things-so funny!  He also says Mom, Dad, Go, Ball and Binky.  He is constantly jabbering.  We think he'll be talking sentences soon.  He has even picked up a little sign language. He loves to play with balls, give high fives and go outside.  He has a fit whenever anyone goes outside.  He stands by the door and screams!  It's so hard being the little one. 

He gets to go to nursury now.  It will be so nice to be able to listen in Sunday School and Relief Society!  If he stays in nursery, that is.  None of my kids have been fond of nursery.  I personally think it will be hard for him to be confined in such a small room for almost two hours!  This kid loves to move!

Texting already?

Nope.  Just playing games!

His Eighteen Month "Bear" picture.

Spring Break

The first day of spring break (Friday) we visited our friends the Kotters in West Jordan.  Gwen treated us like royalty.  Yummy food including warm brownies with ice cream-my favorite!  We even ditched a couple of kids and did a little shopping.  I wish I would have gotten a picture of Katelyn and Ally in their matching outfits.  They sure love to be with each other!

The second day (Saturday), we went to EarthFest in Brigham City.  The kids enjoyed planting seeds and visiting the USU play park.  Then we came home and worked on moving all the junk from our house garage to the new garage.  I'll have to post some pics of the new garage another day.  It's SOOO nice to have nothing but our vehicles in our house garage.  Josh can even fit his pickup in it now!

Sunday was Stake Conference.  I sang with a combined choir and it was an uplifting meeting.  Josh decided not to go though.  He was too scared to give four-kids-alone a try, I guess! 

Monday was my day.  I dragged the kids shopping in Ogden.  Ha Ha!  I did treat them to luch at Chick-fil-a, so it wasn't all bad for them.

Tuesday was for the kids.  We went to the Dinosaur Park (after they cleaned up the house-mwuaahaha).  These are our fun pictures:

When I say "look scared kids", this is what I get.  Dramatic Ally, sorta-scared Logan and bored Jensen.  Silly kids!

Jensen's favorite dinosaur-the Troodon.  He loves the show Dinosaur Train and learns all kinds of things about dinosaurs.

Ally's favorite-the Allosaurus.  Wonder why?

Logan the climber.

I finally let him out of the stroller-sweet freedom!

We love to dig!

Holden, too!

Logan's Baptism

Logan was baptized on April 10, 2010.  Josh baptized him and Grandpa Naylor confirmed him.  Ally gave the talk on Baptism and she did a great job!  She talked about the steps for being able to return to Heavenly Father and how Baptism and Confirmation were two of them.  Grandpa Lynn and Uncle Kerry McBride were the witnesses.  Grandma Carilee gave the talk on the Holy Ghost.  She told about some examples of when people listened and didn't listen to the Holy Ghost.  Our new Bishop gave Logan a journal and he already wrote in it about how he felt so warm from the Holy Ghost. 

We had a barbeque at our house afterwards and it was a really enjoyable afternoon spent with friends and family.  I hope Logan can remember his baptism day for the rest of his life.  It was such a special day!

Our Newest Family Members

     After Lucky Peep, Jacksie, and Quacker disappeared last summer, we promised the kids some new pet ducks.  They saved up their money and were able to buy them on April 2.  They are all Peking Ducks and a little hard to tell apart, but the kids are excited to have pets again.

The kids named them Baldy, Sammy, Daisy and Ducky.  They have already grown so much!  It will soon be time to send them outside (yay-no more smelly garage!).  Hopefully they will have as much fun with them as last time.

Easter/Candyfest 2010

We spent Saturday morning at the annual Braegger Easter Breakfast.  It was at Grandma's shop as usual and the food was great.  Holden didn't know what to think of his bucket.  He kept throwing it on the ground and kicking it.  He loves to play with balls so I guess he thought that's what you were suppposed to do with it.  This picture was taken right before he tossed it!

Two of Jensen's favorite things-being outside (even though it was FREEZING) and candy.  He had all of his candy eaten within two days.  And then he started on eveyone else's!

I love this picture!  We have sweet Ally, happy Logan, silly Jensen and hungry Holden.  Holden loves candy, too!

After the Braegger Breakfast, we went to the Hartley Lunch/Candy Hunt in North Ogden.  The kids love going there and they always get a ton of candy there, too.  Sunday night we ended up coloring Easter eggs.  It's amazing how something so simple can be so entertaining!  We all love to eat them, too!

The Easter Bunny was very kind to my kids.  Besides the usual Peeps, Quax and trinkets, the older three all got a new Webkinz.  Ally got a super cute bunny, Logan a moose, and Jensen a new dog.  Holden got his favorite movie-Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.  He always giggles when things start falling out of the sky.  It was a fun weekend for all of us.