8 months down, 4 to go!

He's getting taller everyday, but the shirt is still fitting.

He wears a smile that will light up the room and bring joy to everyone in it!

He's already trying to figure out everything works,

but he still loves to sleep in mom's arms (and mom doesn't mind it one bit).

Babysitting made yummy

It all started out with some simple sugar cookie decorating while mom was at class one Friday afternoon. To keep Kordale happy the girls put him in his highchair and proceeded to entertain him with whatever method worked.

They offered him a cookie, smothered with frosting...a babies delight!

He was doing a good job at not wearing to much of the sugary yumminess!

That is until the girls decided to help him out.

Almost there

Kordale has been trying hard to master the skill of crawling.

He gets up on all 4 but just can't seem to make the hands move when the feet are going.

Finally, exhaustion and frustration set in.

But hey, look at these teeth!

Sunday at Temple Square

Morgan really wanted to see the temple when we drove by on Friday night, so we decided it was a great Sunday afternoon activity. She doesn't remember at all the times we would go at Christmas and see the lights, in fact Tori vaguely recalls it.

Jordan loves the waterfall at the conference center. She likes waterfalls and one day wants to go see the tallest one in Africa!

View of the waterfall from the top. Doesn't look as cool that way. We learned that it circulates 6,000 gallons of water a minute.

The view of all the church buildings from atop the conference center is pretty neat. You stand straight across from the rooftop of the temple,

a great shot of the church office building (one day we will go back and take the kids to the top to see the whole valley)

the tabernacle building and visitors center,

and the Joseph Smith Memorial building, which used to be the Hotel Utah.

Peek-A-Boo! We see you!!

These pyramids are the tops of the skylights that shine down on the podium inside the conference center, the fountain sits directly over top the podium.

Inside the conference center, we got to go down almost to the very front this time and the girls learned about the podium being made of the oak tree that used to be in front of Pres. Hinckley's childhood home.
All the while Kordale was fast asleep and has no idea where his travels took him today.

Reunited

We got to see the Haymore's this past week, which we haven't seen since they left St. Kitts more then 2 years ago. Both families have some new additions so it was fun to get together.


All the kiddos: Josie, Morgan, Kordale, Jordan, Tori and Brooklyn.

Deja-Vu! Haley and I have a picture like this only we weren't at McDonald's, we were in my front yard in St. Kitts.
Thanks to McDonald's for putting up with us for 3 hours and letting the kids run and play. The girls even earned a gift card from another person there who was just happy to have some older girls to chase her grandkids.
We got to see the Strupp's also which we haven't seen since leaving St. Kitts and I took pictures only to discover there was no memory card in the camera! Lisa, you will have to bring Miss Nyah back to my house to play again!

Cell Phone Dump

Figured it was about time to get some of these pictures off my phone. Look how much Kordale has grown up in just a short time (about 6 weeks).

Beginning to roll over and the result of Jordan getting ahold of my phone.

His 1st french fry!!

My late night partner, he is getting to big to sit on my lap while I type though, he's sent some interesting messages to people with his feet banging the keyboard.

Ice storm that hit Christmas Eve day. This was taken out my bedroom window, the ice would hit the windows and just stick.

Showing off his big boy skills of sitting in the grocery cart and wearing dad's hat!

Remember me talking about my view from Oklahoma to Utah? Well here it finally is in living color.

Another attack of Jordan and the camera. Apparently she got bored on that 3 day trip across the country and found some entertainment in her brother and the camera :)

At least she didn't wake him up!

A cold morning at Lake Powell, Morgan can't wait to go back and play in the water.

View of mountains from our front window. Beautiful on a clear day!
Trying out sleds to see which one to buy.

Sheep Shearing Day!

Morgan went with me today to the sheep barn to help with shearing. She doesn't remember doing this with dad when he took the class.

Don't mind the sideways picture :)
Self Portrait! Looks like she's having a blast to me!
Helping to stomp down the wool. It went well until she jumped up and knocked her nose on the bar and got a bloody nose.

That's it folks! Cell phone is emptied out and ready for more action packed on the run fun!!!

Sunday Photo Shoot

Make a Smilebox collage

We finally got a nice sunny day and everyone agreed to have their picture taken. Tori wanted to be serious, but couldn't quite wipe the smile from her face.
Kordale didn't always want to look at the camera, so the girls decided to help him.
It was cold, but they all did great at humoring their mom and letting her take more and more pictures. We took pictures until Kordale was just worn out!