Photo Dump

No time to write. Plenty of time to take a plethora of pictures though.

Photos I found on my phone the kids took.

 chubby cheeks!

Afternoon walk to the park

The Random
There's a super hero in the house

 Enjoying a favorite past time together!

Picking Apples for pie filling and canning salsa

Me with two hours of sleep

These boys hard at work on something kinda neat! (more on that another time)

And that's what we've been up to the last few weeks!

Fire Truck

Nate's preschool had a special visit from our Lehi Firemen. Everything was hands on for the kids.

 Abby was nervous, so Nathan held her hand. Cute boy!

Ms. Tecia got to ride up on the big 100 ft. ladder.

We love our firemen!

Hannah's week at school

Hannah broke her arm. She is our first broken bone. (knock on wood). Apparently, jumping off a bunk bed with your friend isn't such a good idea. She was super excited about a pink cast, but the novelty lasted only a day or two and now there are lots of tears over bad hand writing, and an itchy arm.

She hasn't let it dampen her spirit too much though. She thoroughly enjoyed the few days at school this week.

Crazy Hair Day

Pajama Day

And lastly, red day to represent drug free

She's such a cutie pa-tootie!

Roly Poly, Chunky Monkey, and The Boss

My new names for Joseph.

His latest doctor appointment he is weighing in at 14# 2oz. He's healthy as a horse! That said, you'd think he'd like to sleep a little. He is my worst sleeper. We are up together every hour to two hours a night. I am of the philosophy to let my babies cry it out. This little guy can scream top notch for 2 -1/2 hours straight. We haven't buckled down yet to let him cry it out until he eventually gives up. I'm almost there though. My functioning mode is at an all time low, so it can't come soon enough.

He's just so darn cute, I go weak every time he cries out for me. Therefore, I also call him "boss".

Some of his favs and not so favs:
- loves to grab my hair, fingers, clothes, you name it.
- loves to smile and does it frequently.
- loves attention and demands it most of the time
- loves to snort and sounds like a pig
- going for walks in his stroller

- hates to be alone
- hates to sleep alone

Abby-isms

She is full of funny things. Funny sayings, funny looks, and funny laughs. While, I'm not thrilled when she says certain things, I can't help but smile or laugh most of the time.

Just yesterday she said the following:

- "mom, fish fart". Excuse me? I corrected her and said toot, as I really don't like the "f" word. Nope, Nathan told her they fart. Great!
- While looking at a "Where's Waldo" book together I kept finding Waldo before her and she'd say, "Oh dang, how did I miss that".
- After going poop in the toilet, we needed to change her underwear, but there weren't any in her drawer and she said, "I pooped in all of 'em".
- When she was upset about something, she proceeded to scream at the top of her lungs in frustration. Meanwhile, I was in the other room trying to put Joseph down for a nap. She came in to where I was and I gave her a look like, "what is wrong with you" and she said to me, with all the attitude in the world, "what"?

This last picture I took of her the other night. Nathan got his blankie taken away for bed that night and was screaming and keeping the girls up. When I came into check on them before I went to bed, this is how I found her.

Oh I love her! She is either super sweet or super naughty, but either way she's super! And guaranteed to make me smile.

Happy Birthday

Yesterday was my father-in-laws birthday. We've never celebrated his birthday, but when I told the kids it was Grandpa Lombardo's birthday coming up, first thing they wanted to know is if we were going to have cake. We took this opportunity to celebrate this great man and honor him on his birthday. (lets see how many times I can say the word, "birthday" in a paragraph).  Aaron told the kids some favorite stories of his dad and we each wrote him a note on a balloon to send him up to heaven. Hannah wrote him a novel on her balloon. So cute!

Happy Birthday Dad Lombardo! Hope you're proud of your posterity.

Dutch Oven Cookin'

All I can say is, it's about time!

Joe at 4 months

Rolling Over

And that's how we get 'er done!