Yay! I finally got the pics from our family photo shoot! You already saw the awesome one of Josh, here are a few others for your looking enjoyment...but sorry, none of our little family...those are going on the Christmas cards...ha! But you get the idea, right?

Young Women

So, James is busy with his Young Men calling...but guess what, I'm busy with my Young Women calling too... And actually, James can't ever go to the Wednesday night activities, and he's not home to watch the kids either, so I get to take both of them along to every activity... The girls are so helpful, and the boys tease and chase Kaylie and she loves it! It's so fun to get to hang out with teenagers...I swear I still am one...(except for ya know, the fact that I have a husband, and 2 kids!!!)
Oh, and another girl in YW has to bring her kiddos sometimes too, this last pic is Kaylie and Porter, her favorite Wednesday night pal (she likes him other days too...)

Oh my goodness, I love this boy!!!

So, this is a little sneak-peek at the new family pics we just got done with my whole family...It was a little chaotic 2 hours, but Melissa (melissasuephotography.blogspot.com) pulled off some great shots...but I'm not posting more til I have all the ones I want, which are still being put on a cd...

The reason I post this one, of Josh, and no one else, is because I don't have video, but he has started laughing! Yep! I can't remember when Kaylie started laughing, or what's "normal," and I don't care, because he is now, and it is FABULOUS! He's such a fun little guy, and it was extra fun watching him laugh for the first time...

I was playing with his hands and he was smiling and cooing, and then all of the sudden, it totally caught him off guard, he was gurgly laughing, and then it turned into a full on laugh, and it was soooo cute! AND, the cool part about it, was James was right there to see it too...which, is a rarity...the man is never home (with school and work, and work and school, and his calling (which takes him away most of Sunday and some weekends for campouts, etc...), So, even though he's not around a lot, he WAS home for a majorly fun milestone! And then he got him to laugh too... I just love my boys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eight is Great!

I titled this picture "uno mas." Yup. Thursday night, after I got home from work, I went outside and heard a cat meowing...yep, from my garage! Bye bye to another little guy. At least now he's not lonely...

Kitten Day

Disclaimer: I love animals...but this doesn't have a great ending...but crazy enough that it's worth reading the whole novel...don't peek at the pics!

Yeah, not so much a "dog day" but a cat day. It started this morning, as I went to get the stroller out of the car...in my driveway I was greeted by a sweet little gray kitten. He was just sitting there, looking at me, like "hello, welcome to your driveway...can I help you?"
I called Animal Control, because he started acting a little weird. He was kinda shaky, and would randomly just spaz and start chasing his tail. When Animal Control came, they wouldn't catch him for me...they said I had to rent a trap, and catch him myself. So, long story short (cause it was a little tricky), I caught the little guy, and let him munch on the whole can of tuna on the way to Animal Services. When there, they said they would probably put him to sleep because he apparently had neural problems (the spazziness...)
So, I'm driving home, telling James about how sad I am, and how cute he was, and how I would already miss his face staring at me in the driveway...when I pull into the driveway, to another little gray cat running into my garage...YEP!
So then, James comes home, and checks in the garage...he finds 1 more cat... then 1 more white cat, YEAH, 3 kittens chillin in my garage... So, I call Animal Control again, to come pick some more kittens up (apparently they'll only pic em up if they are already caught...)
The guy gets here, and I still hadn't caught any more of them, so he gets his net, and braves the garage to get them.
He comes back out and says "oh, there's probably 5 or 6 of em in there!" YEAH, 6, I said 6 (for a grand total of 7, remember, I already took one down there myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
VERY LONG story short...he caught them all. They were all very cute, but you could tell they were about 6-8 weeks, and they were all sick...SO SAD! So, he said he'd let me know if any of them would be okay, but he really didn't think they would! Can you believe it!!!
Here's the kicker to the story... The YM in the ward came and did a service project at our house on Saturday...in the garage...(cleaning it out and such, you can tell they didn't get very far, it's still completely a mess, full of stuff from the previous owner...(side note:who is my mom))...and they didn't see any kittens then...So where did they all come from?????????? That is the question of the kitten day...

1 kitten, no 2

now 6:

Hoo rah Jim and Pam!

(Okay, so I apparently don't know how to upload pics very well, but you get the idea!)
Wahoo! Yeah for Jim and Pam being engaged!!!!!!! I am so stoked! I thought they (writers) did a great job...and I for sure thought that Pam was gonna start liking the guy at school...and then there would be drama, because she was sick of waiting for Jim to propose...but no! They just threw it in there, and it was SUPER sweet! I loved it! Great season premiere...don't ya think?

Totally 2...

So, recently, Kaylie has been getting so grown up lately...and really getting into the "terrific 2" mode. The first pic: We're having a playgroup with Eliza and the kids she nanny's for... We're both downstairs (Lize and I), and taking care of the 2 month olds, (I'm feeding, she's bouncing to sleep,) and we're talking about how it would be hard to have 3 kids, because the older two can get into who knows what while you're busy with the baby... we then realize Andrew and Kaylie are being very quiet upstairs, a little too quiet...This is what we found... it's strawberry toothpaste, don't worry, Kaylie had pink and Andrew had blue...all over themselves and the entire bathroom, and Andrew was sitting on the sink with the water running! FUN FUN FUN!!! Ha!

Then, I don't have a pic for this, but we had the tub guy over fixing the bathtub a couple days ago, it was early, and I was feeding Josh, we hadn't even gotten breakfast yet...once again, I can't see Kaylie, and it's a little too quiet... I come into the kitchen to find Kaylie at the counter, with all the cupcakes (that had been leftover from family dinner the night before), she had eaten all the frosting off, and when I asked her what she was doing she said "I want cake for dinner." Well, I guess she had already had frosting for breakfast, so why not the rest of the cupcake for dinner! Ha!

And this last pic is just a fun, cute one, showing how grown up she is getting! We are so lucky, and we get lots of hand-me-downs from family and our neighbor even, and this was when we were trying some of them on, the ballet shoes and hat were apparently her favorite! She is growing sooo fast, I can't believe some of the stuff she is fitting into now, and ballet shoes! Yay, I can't wait til she takes dance classes!!! And at the same time, I can't stand that she's almost old enough to do stuff like that already...