7 Months

Wow...Brielle is 7 months old!!! Time really flies! Here are a few stats and facts on the baby girl.

This is how she comforts herself. No binkies for this girl...she won't keep them in her mouth. So you will see her like this if she is upset or bored in any way :)

She is getting to be very curious. Always reaching for anything she can get her hands on.

Why let mommy take pictures when she can watch her bros...she loves to watch her brothers play. They are very entertaining!

They both still love her to death. Again I couldn't get a pic with Dallen because that boy just won't hold still for two seconds.

She is a very good eater. Her favorite is peaches, but she still spits up all the time. Her Dr. calls her a happy spitter :) I guess thats better than a mad spitter :) Either way we always smell like baby spit up!

(Sorry for the graphic picture!)


Oh she finally held still long enough for me to do this!!! I was pretty excited about it. I've been wanting to braid her mohawk for quite some time ;)

She is pretty happy most of the time and she can sit up all by herself for the past month.

She has two teeth and her favorite sound to make is the motor sound with her tongue :)

At her 6 month checkup she weighed in at 16 lb 1oz. Her length was 25 1/2 inches and she is perfectly healthy and we are so grateful for that!

~The Toothfairy Comes Tonight~

A few days after his birthday Grandma Nicole saw that Ashton had a loose tooth. He had known about it for a while, but didn't tell anyone because he was trying to put it back in :) I guess he thought he was going to be in trouble. This is what it looked like an hour before his dad got home today! This is what it looked like 5 seconds after his dad got home today!
I took a billion pictures of Ashton because he wouldn't hold still so of course the other little ones wanted pictures too. Ashton and Brielle are going to have the exact opposite amount of teeth...but you can't get a picture of hers without her tongue or fingers covering them up :)

Dallen was trying to get in every picture, but of course when I try to get a pic of him he won't hold still for 2 seconds! But when he does its a good one!

And then I tried to get all 3! Gotta love em'!!!

hE's FiVe

I wouldn't believe that Jeff and I had a 5 year old if he wasn't right in front of my face ;). Seriously though 5 just seems soooo old. He is going to be in preschool this year....I can't even comprehend the fact that we could have put him in kindergarten this year. Anyway moving on :)



I asked Ashton what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday. Most kids would say chocolate or vanilla maybe....but I was prepared for something else. He has asked for a basketball cake every year since he was 2! This year he said he wanted an Optimus Prime cake. He meant it too! He wanted the cake to look like Optimus...who does he think I am.....we don't have an ace of cakes out here! So I did the best that I could being the amateur that I am. This is what I came up with. I'm not gonna lie...He was a little disappointed, but after I explained to him the Ace of Cakes thing he understood and was happy. (I was proud of myself)

He was very specific about what he wanted for his birthday this year. My mom and I looked all over the store for Battle Strikers....I didn't even know what they were. He loved all of his presents.

When we went to cut the cake Ashton said he wanted the autobot part. So I was telling Jeff that Ashton wanted part of the face thing. Ashton quickly corrected me and said no the whole thing! It was his birthday afterall :) He didn't end up eating that whole piece.....he gave his all though.

I had to throw this one in. I have a pic like this of Dallen at every birthday party he has ever been to.






Here are the other guests at the party....well the cute ones anyway ;)

Play in the Pool Lessons

This year Ashton took "Play in the pool lessons" the second week of July. Don't get me wrong I'm cool with the little ones playing in the pool, but when I saw all the stuff they were supposed to be doing to pass off the preschool level....I was left wondering when they taught all that stuff because I didn't see it once. He loved it though. Dallen unfortunately wasn't old enough :(

He was a good little rule follower! He never got into the pool with out his teachers permission.

He is the one on the end turning his head back so his face wouldn't get wet.

He would not dunk his head. He informed his teacher that he would do it when he was 5. In his defense he kept to his word. We went swimming last week and he dunked his head 4 times :) He is a silly kid!

Our Favorite Fireworks Tradition

For the past couple of years Jeff has set off fireworks in front of our house. I love doing it! We just buy the packs you can get from Walmart and the boys love them just the same as the big ones. We sit on our little trampoline and get out some lawn chairs if more people come. It's just a good time!
The boys get really excited about it. (The little sweetie was already in bed and she stayed asleep the whole time.)

We let Ashton do a sparkler this year. Dallen wouldn't go near the things :)