Half Marathon

After we dropped Ryan off at the Marathon, I found a front row parking spot. So we ended up staying the whole time. Since we already had our car packed up. The kids watched half of the Dinosaur Ice Age movie in the car. Then we decided to get out and go cheer on the runners. They had two heats going, the women started an hour before the men and there was a 5K. So we got to see a lot of runners finish and the first place finish. The kids loved playing on the bleachers.


Ryan's parents were down in St. George also. They came to the race to watch him finish. Cameron had fun with Grandpa and really liked playing with his glasses and ears.


The race started 15 minutes earlier than we thought and when Ryan's parents got there Ryan finished about 2 minutes later. We are lucky that Ron saw him so I could get a picture. Wahoo! Go RY!


There is my cheeser! Brooklynn found a friend that she was playing with for awhile. It was cute, everytime people clapped and cheered she would turn around and clap. Then get back to her ponies.


Because it started earlier and the 5K and women runners, I really didn't know where Ryan finished and what time. Of course he did great! He finished one minute longer than his goal time at 1 hour 22 minutes. And he was 2nd place in his age and 8th place overall. I am very proud of Ryan and his accomplishments.

Even though it was a very short trip we had a lot of fun. Thanks to my cousin Sara and her hubby Eric who let us stay with them.

I ♥ Faces - Balloons

Just an old picture I took of Brooklynn last about a year and a half ago. To see more I ♥ Faces go HERE.

Halloween Happenings

Sorry the pictures are so grainy. The real pictures aren't I don't know what the heck happened once I loaded them to the post. Enjoy anyways.


"Lions, Tigers, Bears. Oh my." My cute little munchkins.


Dennis cousins, some of the Oldroyd Cousins and our family. I couldn't decide whether to be a good witch or a bad witch. I am really pink.


Brooklynn went to a fun Halloween party with her friends. They were so cute. I love her friends Thing 1.


When the hubbies were gone hunting my sis-in-law and I took the kids to Gardener Village to go on a witch hunt. They had fun and we found all the witchy poos.


My neices and nephews Katie, Abbie, Tyler and Chase. Or as Brooklynn says it "AbbieTylerChase" (one word)


Another cute picture of the kids at Gardener Village.


After Gardener Village we went to my mother-in-laws house and the kids decorated trick or treat bags. We let them color one side and then my talented neice Katie drew a picture on the other. Berkie's has a cat making her sassy face and Cam's is Superman.


A few weeks ago we went to the Thanksgiving Point Cornmaze. It was so much fun. It started out cold and I was worried about the two babies, but we all had fun. Cameron loved playing the the cornbox.

I ♥ Faces

I ♥ Faces challenge this week is Halloween Dress up. Well this is obviously last years picture. But I just love my cute little characters. Cam wasn't due until November 5th and I so wanted a Halloween baby. I asked my doc to enduce me just a few days early and he said "NO WAY!" But he was meant to come early. I guess be careful what you wish for, I had toxemia and they enduced me 3 weeks early. Thanks to Grandma Ann who knows I LOVE Halloween she bought the cute Tigger costume. So here are my cute Halloween kids. See more I ♥ Faces click HERE

Muffin Tin Monday- Halloween

Muffin Tin Monday the theme was Harvest/Halloween. First Brooklynn colored some paper and made a cute little ghost out of scrap paper. She loves crafts and would do it all day long.


So we read this book we got from the library and made a monster face. The eyes are made of sandwiches, the nose an apple. The mouth out of carrots and fangs from cashews. The curly hair is made from chocolate covered pretzels. And the ears are ranch to dip the carrots in and applesauce. YUM YUM!


She really enjoys her lunch. Especially her "Pink" Sandwiches. (Since she was little she would call her jam sandwiches pink sandwiches.)


She can be a little cooky sometimes. But I love my girl.

Cameron's Birthday Party and Stats

It's a little late, but I am finally posting pictures from Cameron's birthday. On his actual birthday we just stayed home with the family opened some gifts and had some icecream. He also got his birthday dinner Spagetti. I am not sure if it's his favorite but he sure loves to make a mess with it. That Saturday we went to Grandpa Oldroyd's church to have a party. He opened gifts and attempted to play in his cake, but really wanted nothing to do with it. We had cake and icecream and then we just went outside in the parking lot and let the kids ride bikes, scooters and wiggle cars and played. It was a fun day. Thanks for those who came and played with us.

Today Cam went to his 12 month apointment. He is just like his daddy tall and skinny.
Weight- 21.1 pounds 25%
Height- 30.8 inches 75%
Head- 18.2 inches 50%

He also got his 3 vaccines and Cameron and Brooklynn were not happy. Brooklynn held his hand as tears filled her eyes. Just to let you know it is getting easier for me and I didn't cry again. I am getting use to it, I guess. It is so hard to watch them in pain. Also they say that my one year old SHOULD be saying at least 3 words plus mamma and dadda. Well he says daddaaa, daad, da and DUH. So do you think that counts? ha ha. So different from Berkie, she was saying at least 10 things at this age. Sometimes he will say Nigh, night when he is tired. And if he has a phone or remote he says Hi. But he uses most of his brain power on moving around, falling, jumping and playing. He has figured out how to climb on the couch and try to jump over the back of the couch. I have a very active boy. He sure is fun though.

Joy

"Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our love with friends and family. One day each of us will run out of tomorrows."

--Thomas S. Monson, "Finding Joy in the Journey"

MTM- Circles

For MTM there was no theme today. So we did circles. It was after we decided to make bagel pizza's. My pizza looked must yummier and had toppings and mozzerella cheese. She wanted yellow cheese. So Brooklynn had bagel pizza, grapes, cherrios, string cheese cut into circles and left over baseball cupcake (from Cam's birthday party).

As you can tell it was a lazy day yesterday and Brooklynn was a little tired from the previous day's activities. But at least she enjoyed her lunch.

YUM! Save the best for last. They were quite yummy if I do say so myself. I made the frosting from the recipe that Sprinkles cupcakes uses.

P.S. Thanks to whoever left us some yummy pumpkin cookies yesterday.

To see more Tins go HERE.

One year old

It's my baby's birthday. It is very bitter/sweet. I can't believe one year ago right now I was at my doctor's office for my appointment and he told me we had to go to the hospital. What a hard, wonderful, special, painful and perfect day it was. I am so thankful that my little boy is one. So far he has made it through a lot of bumps and bruises already in his short life. I know there will be plently more to come. I am very thankful for this little blessing I was given. I can't even express all the love I have for my two little ones. They both mean everything to Ryan and I. If you want you can read the post from his birth and see lots of pictures HERE.


One of my favorite pictures of him that Ryan took just minutes after he was born. What a sweet baby, who knew he'd be my little trouble maker. I sure love him.



~Cameron is very silly and always making us laugh.
~He loves Hide and Seek especially when it is time to change his diaper or get clothes on him.
~He does not like books and will not sit for me to get two words out.
~Cam love his golf clubs and hitting balls around the house, acctually he likes to hit anything with his golf clubs.
~He has the best and biggest smile I have ever seen.
~My little guy is a big time Mamma's boy, at least for now. I soak it up, cause soon enough he will be following his daddy around.
~He learned how to climb on the couch and jump off. (We will become good friends with the E.R.)
~Cameron definately is not scheduled like me, and every day is different if he wants one nap or two or none at all.
~He loves his shirt off and walks around like a muscle man.
~We have a lot of little nicknames for Cam, Crash and Bruiser are two that come up with every incident. Buddy, Cam, Bubba,Brother (Berkie calls him that.) and little bugger (usually when he is bugging his sis.)


This year has gone by way too fast and I am sure days will continue to fly by. I really try to soak everything in and need to do better at this. Well my little baby is a big boy now. I will post more pics later showing his fun gifts and party.

Cute Baby

A few weeks ago I took pictures of this cute little baby. She was so cute. Such a little wiggle worm, but her mom finally got her to sleep and we could get some with out her wiggling around.


She is so pretty with lots of dark hair.


I Love love love the tongue. Reminds me of the days Cameron always had his tongue hanging out.


We almost got a smile.


Isn't she precious?


What a cute little family they have.