Wow it seems like our lives are flying by way too quickly right now.  Today Ben and I have been married for 7 years! It's been a great 7!

  A lot has changed just in the past month with Griffin. He is 8 1/2 months right now. He has four teeth! Two on top, with a huge gap in between, and two on bottom! They are so cute when he smiles! He is all over the place. He started crawling a couple months ago and he is walking around on couches and has a little toy that he likes to stand up on and push around.  I can't believe he's old enough to be doing that already.  He loves his brothers. Any attention he gets from them is the highlight of his day! He is such a good eater! Kayson and Cade would never eat vegetables or hardly any baby food but Griffin eats great!!! Obviously!! 

Kayson is playing t-ball and he loves it. He gets to play shortstop! He does really well. He will stay in ready position the whole time he's out there! It's so funny. If the ball isn't hit toward him he doesnt stand up straight or anything, even when runners are running past him. He just stays still! It's pretty funny! He is doing great in school but so excited for summer time so he can swim everyday. He gave his very first talk in primary and he did great! He read the whole thing himself!   

Poor Cade seems to get lost in the mix lately. There's not really anyone out here for him to play with. And Griffin is super high maintance so most of the day he's on his own til brother gets home from school. He is so   sweet though.  He is my little helper all day long and is so sweet towards Griff. He loves playing with him.  He can't wait to go to preschool next year and he also can't wait til we go to Utah for the summer. Both the boys are pretty excited about that! So am I!!

I'm so excited Ben only has 2 tests left in med school! He will be done by the end of June!!! We both cant wait!  He will graduate next May!! Sorry  some of these pics are old but I'm finally getting around to posting them!

 Griff thinks it's funny when we put sunglasses on him!

 Cade and his blue slushy mouth!

 There's the giraffe tongue Mom!!

 He stays like this the whole time!!!

 Griff likes to crawl under his high chair. He always gets stuck though and cant get back out!

 This is the boys decorating their easter eggs!

 Hunting easter eggs!

 Cade still gets tuckered out! So sweet!

 Little Griff is a stinker. He likes to rearrage the cupboards!

 I took this picture to show how big he is in his car seat now. Its crazy how fast they get so big!

 Griffin thinks hes pretty cool stuff walking around on his toy!

 The boys were making a mud pie with grass

 I was feeding Griff one morning in the living room and I walked away for a min and he started fussing. I turned around and he was crawling with his chair strapped onto him! It was pretty funny. Cade and I laughed for awhile!

 So we went to the park with a little lake yesterday for about 4 hours. The kids had so much fun but this was the end result. Griff is so stubborn that he wouldn't lay back so this is how he fell asleep!

It has taken me long enough but I am finally posting Griffin's 6 month old pictures! I couldn't decide which ones to post so I just posted a bunch! Enjoy!

Well the blog is finally working again! I know its been awhile since I've posted so here's an update! Ben had rotations so we stayed in Tennessee for the holidays! It was our very first Christmas with just our family. We missed our families very much but we also enjoyed having our own Christmas and starting our own traditions with our kids! Kayson and Cade got TONS of legos and this is one of Kayson's many creations! He has a huge imagination when it comes to building legos. He builds some pretty cool stuff! Kayson is reading really well and doing great in school! Cade is loving spending time with Griffin all day every day. He does anything I need and takes such sweet care of Griff. He is always singing to him and kissing his hands. He is a funny kid. He comes up with some pretty funny stuff! He talks like a southerner! He says aint all the time! Griff is SUPER hyper and wild. He is all over the place and he can't even crawl yet. He never holds still, will not cuddle or snuggle at all, and he cries all the time if I'm not holding him! However if I'm holding him he's super happy! It makes Ben so mad. Hell be crying with Ben and as soon as I take him he stops crying and turns and looks at Ben with a big grin on his face! Ben hates it! I can't leave him at all with a baby sitter or even with Ben. I've left him twice with Ben and both times he was screaming so hard by the time I got home he was hyperventilating. But I love that kid to death! To me he is the sweetest little guy. He is a tease. He loves to be tickled and teased! He is almost crawling. Any day now. He gets up on all fours and rocks back and forth but hasnt quite figured it out yet! He finally cut his first tooth last week! He is 6 months old now and weighs 21 lbs. 27 inches long! He has slowed down on the weight gain thank goodness! My arms can't carry that much weight all day every day! He's killing me! Ben is doing great in school! We are so excited we are finally on the home streatch it seems like. Just a little over a year left. It seemed like we would never get to this point. Anyway life is great here in Tennessee! We miss everyone and wish we could see ya sooner but we will see ya this summer!




He looks so handsome in his sunday clothes!

Everyone thinks Daddy is the best DS player. They all like to sit and watch him play, even Griff!

Cade sure is sweet with Griffin. He loves holding him.

This is Griff's attempt to crawl! He doesn't like to use the knees. Pretty tough little baby!

I think he can hold the plank longer than Ben!

Sorry I have tried to post pictures on the blog for the last month or so and it hasnt been working. So I will create a new blog and let ya know the address! Sorry Grandma! I love ya!

Halloween!

Wow we have been so busy lately! Sorry it's taken so long to post but here it is Han! Kayson was practicing his picture taking abilities! He always wants to use the camera!

Yesterday we were just hanging out at home and the boys made a big bed to snuggle with Griff!

Cade is so funny! We caught him doing this last week. He is tickling his armpit with one hand and I asked him what he was doing? He said playing the guitar! He plays an awesome armpit guitar!

They love to pretend to play their guitars!

My sweet baby found his thumb! I don't want to break him of the habit later on but it sure is pretty dang cute for the time being!

Here is my cute little Giraffe for Halloween!

Here is Cade as Thor!

And Kayson as Captain America!

Fierce!

I am so proud of Kayson and how he's doing in school! He was the top AR Reader in his entire grade, and he was 23rd in the whole school from K-8th grade! I'm so proud of him. He is reading pretty well! Here is his name on the board at school! He also got student of the month for November for preK- 2nd grade! Way to go Kays!

We carved pumpkins with Grandma and Grandpa Boyle when they were here but they went bad before Halloween so second time around we decided to paint! Much better!

This picture has a sweet story. I was kinda being a mean mom one day, and Kays was being a mean brother. Cade was totally left out and crying all day. I felt so bad for him. Well we went to the store and came home and I was once again yelling at him and made him sad so he went and laid by Griffin and was holding his hand. I went out to get the groceries and came back in and poor Cade was crying to Griff telling him that "nobody loves me." He said, "nobody wants to play with me." It broke my heart. Poor guy. But I had to take a picture cause I thought it was so sweet that he was confiding in his little brother!