Fun Time with Cousins

While in Utah Tori and James had a blast with all of their cousins. James was a big hit and everyone was really sweet to him and loved to hold him. Above are a bunch of cousins holding James - starting from the top and going left to right: Colby, Jace, Jordan, Samantha, Tori, Casey, Olivia, Jane, Chance.

Above from left to right: Tess, Olivia, Tori, and Katie. Interesting side note - So Tess, Katie and Jane are John's sister's kids and Olivia is my sister's kid, but Katie, Tess and Jane are also Olivia's cousins, since John's sister and my sister both married brothers (small world).

Tori was really happy that we made it to Utah just in time for Tess's birthday party (she was turning 5). Below they are dancing in their special dancing room in the basement (you can't see in the picture the awesome disco ball and light machine that the kids loved).

Above: Tori, James and my sister, Danielle's little girl, Olivia. It was so nice to see Danielle, but of course I didn't get any pictures of her.

These are some pictures of Tori and Jane at the Dinosaur museum - such a fun place. Tori even remembered the sand area from last year when we visited and asked to go there as soon as we started walking around.

Above is volleyball at Steve and Tiffany's house and below are their five boys playing some music for us - they are really talented boys and keep getting even better each time we hear them play! (Wish we lived closer so we could hear them more often.)

A couple fun random pictures

Here are just a few pictures that I wanted to hurry and blog before I forgot. Above is a picture of Andrew, Megan, Luke, Tori, Anne, Claire and Riggs at the Par-T-Zone where they all went on Andrew's and Jessica's birthdays. The kids had a blast in all the tunnels and slides. They were having so much fun running all over the place that it was almost impossible to get them all in the same tube for this picture.

Above is a picture of Tori at Hannah's Pinkalicious party (they had the day off preschool so Hannah invited all the girls over for a pink party). Such a fun idea and all the girls had a blast. Tori talked about it for days - before and after. From left to right: Libby, Laila, Hannah, Tori and Abigail. Tori really has made some fun new friends from preschool.

These are just a couple of pictures in Tori in some of her favorite outfits. She is really into what she wears recently and many times wants me to take pictures of her in her outfits.

James's Blessing

While we were out in Utah visiting family, we decided to bless James at John's mom's house. It was wonderful to be able to have so much family there for our special little guy's blessing. We were also blessed with a beautiful day.

Our happy little boy is very glad to be getting blessed.

A few pictures of John holding James after he was blessed.

On the left, John's oldest brother, Steve, is holding James.

What a sweet boy!

3 months old

Our little boy is 3 months old already!! I don't know how long or how much he weighs since we didn't have a doctor's appointment, but he is a big boy (he's been wearing 3-6 months clothes for a month now).

Despite the sad face they still love each other after 3 months. Little pouting faces on babies always melt my heart.

Daddy with his big boy.

He sure is a smiley kid. I'm one lucky mom.

Actual 4th Birthday

Here are a few pictures of Tori on her actual 4th birthday which we just celebrated with mom, dad and James. She's blowing out her special number 4 candle she picked out on one of the cupcakes she got to take to school. She was so happy that her real birthday fell on a preschool day so she could take cupcakes to school and they did lots of cute things for her, too. They made her a crown, she got to lead the walk and pick people to help with snack. She had a pretty fun birthday.

These are just a few pictures of her opening some of her presents - above she is holding the new ballet shoes that James got for her because he loves watching her dance.