Happy Valentine's Day! {2010}

I just took these sweet pictures of my little men. I'm the luckiest girl in the world! I have 3 sweet boys to be MY VALENTINE! I LOVE THEM ALL!

See... Gavin's shirt even says "MOMMY'S MY VALENTINE" :)

My 2 boys! (I always say something along the lines of "my 2 sweet boys". So now whenever Brody and Gavin are cuddling with me Brody says "2 boys?!!!" I Love it!!)

I was trying to get a picture of Brody's shirt, "#1 MOM" This was the best I could get- he's a little cheeser lately!!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO EVERYONE! LOVE YOU!

BROTHERS!

I love that they love eachother!

Boys in the bath!

Word number TWO?! Already!

I think so!

After realizing IT IS possible for an almost 7-month old to be saying "mama" Bobby decided to "teach" him to say "dada".

Bobby is amazing at teaching the boys'. He taught Brody a ton of words (one of the first being, "no mom" and one of the most recent being "first down!") I love that he has an interest in helping the kids learn and grow... and has a sense of humor about most of it!

Well, last night Bobby was sitting in Gavin's room next to him. I walked in and hear Bobby saying over and over... "dada, dada, daaadaaa..." After a few minutes, if Bobby would look away from him or start talking to me, Gavin would lean to him and say "dadadada". It was so cute!

Now, I realized it stuck this morning because as I was upstairs checking my e-mail, I heard a cute little conversation (the first of many) between our sweet boys! It went like this:

Gavin: dada dada
Brody: dada!!?
Gavin: dadaaa dada
Brody: dada!! dada!

on and on...

See? Brody even understood what Gavin was saying! How cute is that!?

The boys

Brody feeding Gavin some Oatmeal (Gav's FAVORITE!)

YUMMY!

Sweet Brothers!

Speaking of Brothers... mine came into town this week!

Uncle Evan and the boys!

Evan walking out from orientation - he's moving here in a month, ladies!!

Brody waiting for Uncle Evan- he waived and said "hi" to everyone that walked by!

My little racers!

how cute are they? and those jammies?? ADORABLE!

BOOOOOOO!!!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Here are some pictures from Halloween. This year, we went to my parent's house for dinner- chili and cornbread, a family tradition for as long as I can remember! Then, we went trick-or-treating around their neighborhood with bobby's sister, Natalie, our brother-in-law, Jeff, and our nephew, McCoy, who was a spider. After getting candy in that neighborhood, we went back to our house and I took Brody around again. He got used to the whole idea of trick-or-treating. He didn't like it at first, and hated anyone in a mask or big costume. He saw a little boy who was dressed as buzz lightyear and he thought that was pretty cool! When we went home, Bobby handed out candy to the kids in our neighborhood- we bought tons and by the time brody and I walked in the door most of it was gone. Bobby said he was giving "handfuls"- I'm sure the kids loved that! Brody enjoyed dumping out his candy and eating a few starbursts... Brody and Bobby both love the fruit candies- I love the chocolate! More for me!Bobby pretending to throw Gavin- the football!

Cutest football I've ever seen!! (my mom made the outfit! thanks mommy!)

Gav looking at Brody's BYU helmet!

Brody (BYU football player), Gavin (football), Jayden (horse), Braxton (cowboy)

Jayden, Brody, Braxton (I love how B is holding his helmet- looks like he just won a big game! probably beat UTAH!)

Brody and Braxton

Brody's favorite find from his candy stash. Thanks to whoever handed out the eyeballs. Brody's been playing golf with this thing all day!

Checking out his treasures!

WOW!

Brody got a wart burned off of his thumb. It's just an open wound now. he has to have a band-aid on it at all times- his orders!

We stopped by one of my friends homes and Brody peeked his head in her house. He stood still looking at something for a while and when I noticed what he was doing I said "do you have sports on tv?" she laughed and said yes. The world series was on and he was hooked!

Attempting to take pictures of the football, football player, and the spider.

Take 2

Take 3

playing football

yeah yeah!

Gavin started eating solids this week. He likes prunes, and we tried giving him avocado's- he didn't like them very much which made me sad (seriously) but, it wasn't the best "cado" I've had so we'll try again later! I told him he has to like "cado's" to be in our family! :) KIDDING! We love him, and we also love avocados!

A guy bobby works with- he won BEST COSTUME. How awesome does this look?!

Our family at Bobby's work trick-or-treat! Everyone loved Gavin's costume, but Brody... well, let's just say Bobby's office is a little too close to the U. OOPS! :) They still thought he was cute though! (one girl said Gavin was her favorite costume of all. How sweet!) and... look at that amazing view! hope everyone had a great Halloween!

What's new?

Here are some pictures of what we've been up to!

Gavin in his Jumperoo!

one day, while I was cleaning downstairs, I heard Brody say "I'm taking a bath". I went in the bathroom to find this! He had filled the sink and got undressed on his own! Stinker!!

Brody's "rock-star" grandpa took him on stage at one of his gigs! Brody LOVED every minute of it!

Emily and me! (we've been friend's since 5th grade!)

Karli - my BFF since 7th grade.

Brody got a package from the UPS man! He made me open it right away!

His "Halloween costume"- and his BYU football uniform. He's going to be a BYU football player for Halloween. He has been wearing it almost every day since we got it- one of my smartest purchases!

Opening his jersey

McGuire 14!! (that was always Bobby's number when he played sports... plus, it's Brody's birthDAY) :)

"NO WAY!!" (one of Brody's favorite sayings!)

Me, Brody, Karli, Gavin

Take 2

Me and Kar

Brody and Gavin waiting for Nana and Grandpa to pick up Brody for a day at Lagoon!

Ready to go! (He keeps saying "I wanna do again!") Braxton's in the truck, too.

Early present from Santa. I bought this Christmas Present early because it was on sale and I also had a coupon. I hid it in the garage for one day and that night Bobby said "let's just give it to him now!". I said "it's your call"... guess what ended up happening? He got it! And he loves it!

opening his new motorcycle!

first ride!

Daddy putting on the stickers, er, I mean, headlights!

Brothers sharing- how nice!

Brody taking Gavin for a ride :) he didn't like it, but now he does!

Brody's favorite thing to do... kick a football. He usually has someone hold it for him, but he figured out how to twist it into the grass so it would stay. Notice his uniform!

Getting ready to run

here it goes!

We had a fun summer and are loving the fall... not so much the cold weather, but it's a nice change.

Brody loves his baby brother and always goes into his room while he's asleep, ends up waking him up, then yells "baby brother waked up!".

Brody has been playing his sports non-stop. When my friend Karli came into town she looked at my living room and said "there's nothing but balls in here"... it's the truth! I guess that's what happens when you have 2 little boys and 1 big boy! Brody kicks his ball anywhere he can... he even has you hold it if your at a store! He LOVES it! And, he's darn good at it!

Brody talks all the time- some of his favorite words right now are:

"no way!!"

"I not!" (when he's mad)

"PERFECT!"

He is officially potty-trained (for real this time)

He still doesn't sleep well... he ends up in our bed at night. His feet still bother him quite often, he wears orthotics but we just have to wait this out... I guess.

GAVIN: turned 5 months old and:

Can sit up!

Loves to play with Brody

Rolls over from his front to back and back to front.

Scoots around in circles on his belly.

got his FIRST cold :( (pretty mild!)

LOVES his daddy- he LIGHTS up as soon as Bobby walks in the door.

LOVES when Bobby sings to him. If he stops, Gavin looks up at him and fusses until he starts singing again!

When he's hungry, he puts his face in my chest or shoulder and fake coughs. :)

He likes to move his lips like a fish and say "ba ba ba ba"

Our boys are a blast- we love them!!