Love Spring Break!

So this is going back to a few days after the last post so a little bit more than just our break!

I feel so blessed to have to funny and cute kids! They sure do keep life interesting!

Kimber is the happiest little girl! She has been starting to scoot around on her bum recently. If she gets really angry she pushes herself backwards on her stomach and today she rolled from her tummy to her back. In short, she is a lot less active than Bens was at this age but we are so ok with that!!!

This is one of Kimber's first times eating in the big high chair. We had an unfortunate accident with the portable one and moved her into this one promptly! You can see the bruise on her right cheek from landing face first on the floor while strapped into the other seat. She rebounded quickly and has loved the new high chair!

She doesn't quite understand the concept of the sippy cup yet but sure does love playing with it! Plus how can you now love looking at all those rolls she has!

I love this picture! I don't even remember what Bens was eating but I sure can bet he enjoyed it!

Two Sunday's ago was not my favorite day but with these two cuties it couldn't be all that bad right? Daniel was in the midst of writing his board exams and had finished his exams... 19 exams in one week only day off was Friday. Sunday left me at church with both kids, Bens not wanting to stay in Nursery and Kimber fell apart at the end of Relief Society. I would have just gone home if I hadn't given a ride to somebody and I was playing the piano in RS. A friend (Thank you Emali!) Took Kimber out in the hall and Bens stood on the piano bench behind me and hugged me while I played and told me (quite loudly) I was playing too loud. I was elated when Daniel walked in the door at 5!!

But really with Bens looking so handsome and Kimber looking like Alice in Wonderland it was too unmanageable! I don't look forward to the rest of the boards to come though!

Kimber went on the swings for the first time and she loved it!!

Daniel has had a lot of fun playing with the kids over his break! This was the day we tried to go to the zoo but realized to late that is was spring break for all the kids around here and the last nice day of the week. After a valiant try we had a picnic at a park! We made it to the zoo on Thursday though and the kids loved that! We also went swimming last week. Bens had been asking for weeks to go. He loves the waterslide! Other than that we had enjoyed being home and relaxing!


Here is a silly picture to leave you with! Bens scraped his head last night so I tied a cold wheat bag to his head... He enjoyed that!!

Happy Easter everybody! I am sure we will have a lot more fun pictures to post asap!

So here are a few videos from this week. The kids are growing up way too fast! Bens has been more independent which is kinda difficult for me. It is all a part of growing up I guess!



Kimber likes eating a lot more! She does a great job of opening her mouth as you can see!

Kimber has become a bit of a spoon biter though! She is so silly!

Bens has been playing with his play-doh a lot which also means he has eaten it. He didn't enjoy that so much! He is really good at putting it away before he gets a new color or going to play with something else.

I think Bens enjoyed his breakfast!

Enjoy your day!

As of Late!

Here is a quick... ok not so quick... over view of the past 2-ish months since we got back here. Daniel is in his last week of classes for this term. Not this Sunday but the next Daniel will be officially finished his first half of Chiropractic school! Yay! Until then though we will be getting through a week of school and a week of 13 finals and 6 board exams. Unfortunately he was scheduled to write some boards on Sunday so by the end of that day both of us will be happy to spend the next two weeks doing nothing together!

We started Kimber on rice cereal when we got back from Christmas... umm, she didn't like it too much!

Bens also graduated his baby to solids! Some may remember him nursing his baby. It is scary how much kids learn just by watching! I am slowly learning what things I need to stop doing.

Bens got this apron and chef hat from his Grandma for Christmas. He looks so cute wearing it! He got it out himself and wanted me to put it on him!


I went to get Bens up from his nap one day and he was sleeping against the wall. Unfortunately it was dinner time so he had to get up!


Kimber's hair is getting long enough that I can start using her bows now (sadly enough I lost all but one of them!) and her bald spot is filling in. She is growing up too fast!


Bens' rule I guess is if Kimber gets a picture taken he does too. He is such a good brother and is always trying to help out!

Kimber loves to play peek-a-boo. Earlier in day she had been lifting up her shirt to hide her face!

Bens did this all on his own. I just found him after he got the diaper. He ended up saying that this one was dirty. I hid it from him but he found it and threw a good diaper away, yikes!!

Coming Home

So I promise I am almost caught up now. Here is the events of our car ride back to Portland.

First here are a few pictures of New Year's at my parents place!

Bens and Kimber chillin' with my Grandpa.

My Grandpa lives just behind my parents so he came over and got to visit with all of us and joined us for our Tacky Party!

We all dressed up tacky (Daniel and I had taken off most of our outfits by this point) and had a white elephant gift exchange.

We then made our way upstairs for dinner of hot dogs and chocolate milk and anything else that was laying around the house. Our beautiful table cloth was made of newspaper and duct tape.

Here is Bens on the way home. I think he was a little bored so he got creative with what to do. He couldn't even see Kimber on the way home as she was behind me and there was a box in between them. Our van was a little full!

So a few years ago when one of my cousins was a little older than Bens my brother taught him to say 'Don't you ever die!' I tried to teach Bens but as usual he was more interested in seeing himself on the camera. You can also see a big ol' wad of gum in his mouth. We were in a gas station doing a potty break and Bens saw a gum ball machine, one of the ones where you watch the gum ball twirl down to the opening at the bottom. He wouldn't move from it so I bought him his first gum ball. Luckily it was white! I didn't think about the fact that it was huge and would make a mess! He had fun and I had my eyes glued on him until I got the gum away from him so he wouldn't choke on it or fall asleep with it in his mouth!

We have been blessed with kids that travel well. They really have now choice though. We have always lived far away from family so going to visit means going on long car rides!

Christmas Break

So I am sitting here realizing that it is really sad that it takes my tv dying on me for me to sit down and continue my Christmas blog update. I was sitting down after dinner with Kimber and the tv slowly turned off. Now we will be forgoing a trip out to the coast with some friends to stay in a beach house so we can get a new tv. Our Wii isn't worth much without one!



I found Bens eating like this and thought it was pretty funny. I don't know what made him decide to eat like that!

Christmas at my parents was kinda crazy this year. Everybody was there which meant three toddlers and three babies. It was great! Bens loved his presents from Nana and Papa. He frequently goes to the fridge and gets the play-doh out to play with it!

As soon as Bens opened this present he was in heaven. We set up to the side and he played there until we were done opening presents. We would pull him back over to open more presents and then he would go right back over to the mat!

Some may remember my post a few months ago about The Dress. My Mom was given a present from her dear friend and we were asked to tape it for them. So here it is!

Well, that's it for tonight. Have a great night!

Free food! Score!

IHOP and Jack in the Box here we come! I am all about the free, or nearly free, food!

I think I know what we will be doing tomorrow! The nice thing about IHOP is that it is all day long (7am-10pm)!

Maybe I will bump into you there!

Sorry to all my Canadian friends that are reading this... you will just have to remember you are getting real coverage of the Olympics while we aren't. I guess that is a good trade off!

Blogging Hiatus...

I realized today as I was downloading everything off of our cameras why I have taken such a long break... there were 67 items on the video camera alone! Yikes. I think I now have everything organized. So especially for my mom... Happy Valentine's Day! This is my little gift to you!

We will start off with Christmas! I will warn you there are a lot of videos!!!

This was Bens opening his present on Christmas Eve. I just love his helmet... he wore that around all the time while we were at Daniel's parents!! He usually would have it on backwards.

This was so cute... I hope Jared doesn't mind me sharing this with everybody. It was great to see him over the break and seeing how much he loves his niece and nephew.

Is it ridiculous that I was awake before my kids on Christmas morning? We woke Bens up and brought him up to take in all of the Christmas magic!

This next one is Bens showing off some of his Christmas gifts... He is so cute in his Chef hat!

She was such a happy girl!

Kimber opening her presents.

I may have been excited for this gift!

My happy little girl with her Auntie Rachel.

Well that is all for now. I will post more soon!