Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Catching up, part 2

Miss Hadley has discovered that she can climb up on the step and stand by the tv.  This is currently her favorite spot to climb.  And just this week has figured out how to climb back down on her own, up to this point she would stand and scream when she was ready to get down.
Quite proud of herself.
Gavin & Audra spent some time painting.  My little artist, hard at work.

Audra would much rather paint herself!  She always can manage to make a mess.
"Cheese!"
Audra discovered Mommy's makeup and decided to help herself.
Gavin got a fun evening out with Daddy & Uncle Nate to a Dbacks game.  I think its safe to say he enjoyed himself.  And I was told the first thing he asked for upon arrival was cotton candy!  Of course.
Gotta love after nap hair!
Hadley loves herself some apple! 

And Hadley discovered Audra's cuboard of tupperware.
We made books for some of their friends and packaged them up and sent them out in the mail.  They were quite excited to send them off.
And how could we forget to bring the chips with us!  However on the way home she tripped and dropped the chips and they spilled all over the ground.  I told her she couldn't pick them up, but to leave them.  Audra then enjoyed watching all the birds come and eat her chips.  Anytime she saw a bird the rest of the day we heard about the birds eating her chips.
Sweet Hadley.
Audra takes very good care of her babies.  She has been practicing how to hold her babies.

Our country bumpkin.  She was just excited about the pockets!
Audra brought her cup over to me and was yelling "Pops!"  I couldn't figure out what her cup had to do with Pops and then she started pointing to her cup.  If you notice on the top left corner of the cup there are wind turbines.  I was quite impressed, she was making the connection between Pops and the wind turbine!  She's one smart cookie! 
Daddy got home early enough that we headed over to the playground for a little fun in the park before it go too dark.  This girl was quite excited to crawl around on the playground.

Not often that you see these two hugging each other and smiling!
A fun night at the playground.
Another morning we met our friends from MOPS at the train park.
The kiddos had a lot of fun playing with their friends and riding the train.  And they especially enjoyed pushing the Axton's stroller, and its big enough that Gavin & Audra & Orland could all push it together.
Flu shots=ice cream!
My artist hard at work.  We were working on the letters of his name.

"Hi"
She's been caught red handed. 
Hadley got to jump on the trampoline for the first time!  She was quite excited.

And Audra got a big girl bed.  No more crib for her!
The kids each picked out a pumpkin that we let them paint.

And Hadley discovered Gavin's plate left behind.  And was quite excited.
I was talking pictures of crazy Hadley and this one was feeling left out.
Gavin's plate had bbq sauce left behind.  I think she quite enjoyed it!

Audra had apparently found a marker before bed time.  When I found her after nap, she had brown marker all over her arm and hands.  She was quite upset!  Apparently I need to check before bedtime what she is taking to bed with her.  There was also a very brown wall next to her bed.

Enjoying the big girl bed.  Miss Hadley is waving hi.
They look so happy.
Gavin came down stairs one night with this on!  He preferred the backwards look.  It was his new super hero cape, Kevin's old Sparky vest!

Lunch with Daddy!

Audra all set for a date night with Auntie Mandy
Woohoo, we're making progress!

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Catching up!

Well its been a month, sorry, its been so long.  We have been struggling with computer issues over here, but I think we finally got my computer back.  So here we go again, a crazy catch up.  Are you ready?
 
Audra and her crazy messy face.  She ran errands with mommy and got a berry smoothie at Costco and this is what happened.
Big girl helping us get ready for the market.
The men outside building for Junk in the Trunk.
Miss Hadley has been very busy pushing everything around the house, so she can walk.
We went to a birthday party and Hadley was too impatient with the small pieces of pizza I had cut up for her, and grabbed the entire slice!
Headed to Uncle Nates for an afternoon swim!

Watermelonhead!
If daddy does it, then the kids must try it too!
After a full day of fun, we had to stop and grab some pieces of wood to bring home.  Even though they were both falling asleep, they managed to help hold on to the wood.
A little Sesame Street and sandwiches made by Gav to start the morning.
She has a bow!
On our way to our first day of MOPS.

Grammy & Pops & Uncle Cam came in for a quick trip so we could visit with Cam before he heads off to Sweden for the year!  The girls got busy helping Grammy load the dishwasher.
And of course they brought treats! Blue ones, how fun!
We had a yummy meal at Smashburger!


And helped Uncle Cam look for a camera.
And Audra helped Grammy mop the floors. 
Gavin and Pops built an Iron Man.  Can you see it?  The box is the body and he did have arms that you can't see.
Hadley enjoyed some snuggles with the men.
Audra was practicing her picture taking skills.
Let's just say she has some work to do.

Then she was fixing Auntie Mandy's hair for her pictures.  Double duty: hairstylist & photographer.

Working on projects getting ready for the Vintage Market. 

Someone was very excited she found Gavin left his blueberries unattended and within her reach!
Being silly.
Gavin was lining up all his guys for war!
On Thursday night before the market, we went out to WestWorld to chalk out all the lines.  And thanks to our amazing husbands, the hard part was already done.  We also has many little helpers too!

It was a beautiful night and we were done quickly and headed to a family dinner at Chick'fil'a.
Saturday while cleaning up, I found this beautiful girl!
Someone left behind this cart, and Hadley was quite enjoying riding, while Audra was pushing her.  And as usual she was smiling and waving as Audra was pushing her.
What a day!  We had an amazing day.  Over 1100 people came through the gate in the first 3 hours!  It was quite crazy, but all the vendors sold amazingly and were very happy, and over 1700 people paid to get in!  So thankful for these girls.  If you want to see more pictures of the market and the photo booth!  Thanks to Jake for taking our amazing pictures and Hannah for running the photo booth.  And of course Mandy for running our booth and Nate for taking money and tickets!  We really couldn't put on a a great market without all the AMAZING help of our families.
 
Alright well that is a start to catching up, check back tomorrow for more.