Friday, July 29, 2011

Happy Birthday Grandma!

We were in GJ for my mom's birthday this year. We made her feel like a big girl and she got numbers on her cake so we can remember how old she turned. I'm sure she was so thrilled.



One day we went swimming at the new Fruita Rec Center. It totally cracks me up that Fruita has a rec center and not GJ. Anyway, it was a beautiful facility and the boys LOVED swimming. I love how it looks like Tiernan's shirt says DANG.





LOVE this pic of Cameron and Grandpa-they are buddies

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Hiking

We spent Tuesday up in the mountains going on our first hike of the season. We didn't realize until we got up there that it was the grand opening of the nature/park area at the bottom of the hiking trails. So we showed up to a party and they would not let us enter w/out putting on name tags. Weird. We were incredibly outsdoorsy looking with our name tags and diaper bag.

Anyway, our first part of the trip the boys got to climb in the nature area-I'm wondering how long the tunnel made of twigs will last after little people try to climb all over it. Nobody asked my opinion though...


Peeking through the "tunnel"



Wait a minute! There's mountains over there!


He is still not quite sure if other kids at the park are scary or fun


Look mom! I climbed on the big log!


Here is the beginning of our adventure-Tiernan loved, loved, loved, climbing. I thought it would take us FOREVER to get to the top since I figured he'd be so distracted by all the rocks and pine cones and flowers and dirt....but he did pretty good (trying to keep up with Daddy helps!)




Cameron loved riding in the hiking backpack-he would giggle and giggle everytime he'd get hit with leaves along the trail




It started to rain, so we had to hurry down the mountain. Tiernan kept asking over and over if we could climb up another mountain.




Who is that big boy? What happened to my tiny little baby?

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Hanging with Daddy

The boys love their daddy! (I'm pretty sure their daddy loves them too) Here are the latest pictures of our boys:


Reading before bed



The boys love playing in the blow up pool





What is with "too cool" face from Tiernan?


Cameron is even wearing his Moon shirt


This pic cracks me up


Let's go for a ride!

15 months old!



Okay, so this post is a month overdue. But when we took Cameron in for his 15 month appt., he was 31 3/4 in. long (71%) and 21 lbs. 8 oz. (14%.) I'm trying to get used to this boney-maroni baby business since Tiernan was always so heavy for his age. Here are some embarrassing naked pictures- the top photo is Tiernan at 15 months:




Thursday, May 19, 2011

Playing and Wrestling with Dad

Our favorite nightly ritual lately is wrestling Daddy-especially on rainy days like we've been having (too much pent-up energy!!) Cameron has just started to figure out that this is pretty fun, and of course Tiernan thinks it's great to jump as high as he can right on Ethan's back. I tell the boys that daddies are much better at wrestling and then go pour myself a cup of hot cocoa. :) (Yeah, right, like I pour myself a cup of cocoa-I'm smarter than that-I wait until the kids are in bed so I actually get to drink some of it!)



Cameron is really starting to show his personality. He's started to push his brother when Tiernan is trying to get a toy that Cameron has, and will say NO! NO! to him. I think I have many years of fighting ahead of me....




They love playing on the little slide we have outside. Tiernan is WAY too big for it but will still knock Cameron over to try to get to the top first. Cameron has figured out how to climb up and then slide back down on his belly. Hilarious, apparently.

Yeah, but you shoulda seen the other guy...



So one more reason why I am not Mother of the Year. I was re-planting some flowers outside and left the door into our garage open while I was lugging a big bag of potting soil. In the literally two minutes that I was bringing the bag outside, Cameron managed to ride his dump truck down the two stairs into the garage and fall off into Ethan's Mustang and some cabinets. This picture is the day after and believe it or not, it looks better! I promise I'm not negligent-although you wouldn't guess it by all the bruises and snotty nose.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Tiernan's 3rd Bday

Oh what a difference a year makes! The first two pictures are April last year, and the second two I took just a few days ago. I can't believe how much Tiernan especially looks so much more like a little boy and not a toddler.


The next few pics are of Tiernan's birthday which we celebrated this past weekend. I can't believe my BABY is already three years old.

How many hundreds of toys do we have in our house and they fight over one at a time...


Tiernan is so excited about his track tractor from Daddy


Opening his car transporter


We had spaghetti the other night. It had been a while (I know, can you believe it? I was mildly traumatized by my mom who made it every other day growing up and so now I can hardly stand it-another day for that story...) Anyway-Cameron was SOOOO excited about it. I couldn't cut it up fast enough for him to eat. He took fistfuls of it and shoveled it in his mouth. After dinner I had to give both him and the high chair a hose down.




The boys were actually playing pretty well together in the sandbox. I think they made it 15 minutes before Tiernan dumped sand all over Cameron's head. I think that's a record.