SWEET CAMI

I will make a much larger post about our recent trip to Seattle and Spokane but as I was looking through the pictures, I just kept stopping on these. I think these are the sweetest pictures of Cami. The last one is my favorite!

Father & Son Campout

I (Ben) have decided to catch up on a few events. And rightly so, since Diane wasn't at this event.

Dallin is taking a break from running around with some of the other boys.

We went out on a night stroll and took a look at the pond.

Dallin decided to eat his breakfast in the tent.

Who doesn't like to play in the sand, right?

Summer Fun

WARNING: This is a post made by Ben.....the captions are a bit boring!
Mia and a little ice cream treat
Dallin had a batman treat
Cami playing in the pool
Diane, Mia and Grandma Engstrom out on the Tombigbee Waterway
Diane riding the wakeboard

Ben jumping across the wake
Cami enjoying her time on the boat
Captain Dallin driving the boat

SNIFF.....SNIFF.....THEY'RE GONE

This is the second post I have done about my children's curly hair. The first post was not as positive as I would have liked. I LOVE my kids' curly hair and that all 3 have it. I especially love Dallin's hair. It is not too thick or too thin. It is a pretty shade of brown......and oh, how I love the curls. I think we can all agree that is is definitely curly! Take a look......

I took this picture one day because his curls were really defined.


This is a picture form our recent trip to Disneyworld. His hair gets even more curly when he is hot and it had been really humid that day too.


I LOVE the sweet little curl hanging down on his forehead in this one.


But then his hair always comes to the point that it gets too long and unruly. Ben had been hounding me for weeks to cut it. I didn't want to but I knew I needed to. I would ask Dallin about every other day if I could cut it and he would say, "no thank you". But, yesterday I asked him again and he agreed. This was right before the cut. Unruly....dontcha think?


This was the pile of curls....so sad.


This was him after a bath to wash all the hair off.....much better. Still as cute as ever even without the curls.


A good side view.


You can't see really well but right in the front on the sides his curls are already starting to peek through. If he would have let me take a picture this morning you can clearly see one already. There is hope.....we'll see them again very soon ;-)

CAMI Had A Birthday.....Shout Hooray!

I can not believe that my little 4 pound preemie had a birthday yesterday (the 6th) and now she is a chubby, yet cute, 2 YEAR OLD!

She enjoyed her orange cake with cream cheese frosting.


She got a baby doll from her nearest Aunt, Uncle and cousins.....she loves it because now Mia can't take it away from her. She played with it a lot today.


Her big gift, that was a collective purchas from both grandmas and mommy and daddy, was a set of Toy Story toys. She loves the movie and she was delighted to get these.


Here she is playing with Hamm.....he's also a flashlight and he talks.



This was taken right before she got her jammies on and went to bed. She looks like she had a great birthday, don't ya think?

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

I had a great Mother's Day. It started with Ben and the kids waking me up with breakfast in bed, flowers, a card and a movie. Then Ben's early morning church meetings were cancelled so I happily let Ben get the kids ready and we had a good time at church. Then I got in a nap and a great steak dinner made by Ben and the kids. Mia wiped and set the table, wrapped the potatoes in foil and grated parmesan cheese into the ceasar salad. Dallin made the corn. Cami napped......which is helpful too. I'm so blessed to have these beautiful, sweet children as my own!

I know that this picture is rediculously outdated but it is still one of my favorite pictures of all 3 of my sweet children.

Cami's nursery leader made these little cards for all the mothers that have children in the nursery. I thought it was so cute and took a lot of forthought considering she had to get the pictures taken the week before. We loved ours.

 

I'M BAAAAACK!!

Sorry for the huge lapse in posts. I have no excuse besides pure laziness. I thought I would start my re-blogging with a gem from our trip to the zoo this last week.

This is a classic adolescent mullet. I felt badly for him........he must have no clue.

 

UGGGGH......MIA'S HAIR!!

Mia's curly hair is such a good thing and such a bad thing. I think it is super cute but she hates getting it brushed. She asks me almost everyday, "mommy, why did I have to get curly hair?" The pictures below will illustrate what it looks like every morning when she wakes up for school. I wonder what she does with that head in her sleep.



We have little time to get it all brushed and fixed and looking acceptable. She whines, she complains, and there is lot of, "Mia hold still and be quiet.....the bus is coming!" The first time I told her that her hair looked like a rat's nest, she was horrified that rats had gotten in her hair. A discussion about figures of speech ensued.



In the end we get this. She picked out the bows.



Happy girl now that it's over. No more untangling.



She is ejoying fixing her own hair now. With accessories to boot. I have to still help most days with the really messy parts.


GREAT NEWS!! All 3 of my kids have curly hair. Oh happy day!

SNNOOOOOOOOOOWW!!

For all the people who have ever asked me the silly question, "does it ever snow in the south?", the answer is a resounding YES! I think it has snowed all 3 winters we have been here so far and as I grew up in the south it snowed many times. No, it doesn't snow every day for weeks. But who needs that anyway? Here's the proof.

Cami after we were done saying, "I need help getting my hat off PEOPLE!"


The finished pittiful snowman.....the kids loved it though


Sliding down the hill!


Everyone hard at work


SNOWANGELS!


This would have been a good picture if it weren't for the car


Cute Cami!


Dallin catching snow on his tongue....LOVE IT!

I JUST COULDN'T RESIST

I caught Cami doing this the other night. I just had to take a few pictures. A close up for you!