Our life in pictures

I haven't updated in a really long time so I decided to just do a post of pictures from the past 3 months.  I know I take a lot of pictures, I narrowed these down from over a thousand pictures so I'm not even going to apologize for them all.  What can I say, I like pictures and I have a sometimes willing subject with me 24/7.

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

Visitors

This past week was a lot of fun.  Josh's sister Heather and her family came up to Denver for a few days so Graham and I hung out with them each day and had lots of fun.  Also, Josh's mom came up to visit and Graham quickly learned that if he wanted good food he should go to grandma, not mom. Graham loved all the visitors and we are sad they all left.

 The kids with their great grandparents. Not the easiest picture to take in hot weather at the park...

15 months

I haven't been very good at blogging lately.  Life is just busy.

Graham is now 15 months old. He walks everywhere.  He screams really loud.  He throws tantrums.  He loves to eat grapes.  He likes the way his new top tooth feels.  He still takes 2 wonderful naps a day.  He is growing. He loves reading books, especially a pop-out type book titled Heads.  Minus the tantrum throwing that occurs way too many times a day he is still a great kid. It is so fun to see him growing and learning.  He is the cutest little walker around.

 There was nothing exciting he was looking at, just grass. 

 After 2 longs months of teething I'm sad/ excited to see this hill billy grin go away. 

This kid makes faces all day.  Love it. 

almost 14 months

Here are some cute pictures of Graham I've taken the past couple of days.  I was trying to capture his silly hill billy grin but it proved harder than I thought.  He has one top tooth which is cute but makes for a silly smile.

 This is a recently new face he has given us a lot.  It looks angry but it is his cheesy grin face.

This is the only one you can see his top tooth. Still waiting for those other teeth to come- they are having a hard time poking through the gums.

What we've been up to

Graham:

Graham has been busy crawling everywhere, eating lots of food, making messes everywhere he goes, and crying/ angry squealing anytime someone leaves the room or he is unhappy for some reason.  He seems to have no desire to walk on his own yet but he gets around plenty fast with crawling.  He likes to babble a lot. Anytime we start laughing he will laugh as well.  We have found this to be a great way to get him to stop crying.  He cries, we start to laugh and then he looks around confused wondering why we are laughing and then he starts fake laughing. He has finally gotten a new tooth, and I think that is the reason he has been so fussy.   he is also currently working on 3 more teeth. so fun.

Getting ready for the carousel.  He held on so tight. When the horse would get to the top his legs would tremble then he would relax again as the horse went down.  So funny.

Every once in a while he'll decide he can stand on his own.  He doesn't do it for long and he doesn't take any steps yet, but maybe someday he will.

Our picture with Mickey after a great day at Disneyland.

Hanging out at Universal Studios with aunt Mckay and aunt Maddy.

A favorite activity of ours- playing in the tub with water!  the soap bubbles was not a favorite part of this activity.

We had to go to the doctor for a weight check and they wanted to do some tests to make sure everything is okay since he is small. We were there for 2 1/2 hours waiting for him to pee and he didn't, so I had to take the bag home and wait for him there and then bring the sample back to the office to have it tested. While waiting the nurse let him play with blocks in the water.  He made a mess.

He likes to pretend he is big and use a spoon himself.

Josh:

Josh has been busy with work and church.  He works so hard and yet anytime I go somewhere and leave him home with Graham I come home to a clean house. He is awesome.  He organized our small pantry and cupboards because it was frustrating me.  Love him. He was able to take sometime off work so we could head to California for a few days.  We had a lot of fun spending time at Disneyland, Universal Studios, the park and the beach.

Josh looks a little too happy in this situation.

We like going to the park.

Alana:

I love staying home with Graham.  It has been a little more difficult these past couple of weeks since Graham has been not as happy, but I wouldn't change it for anything. I have been trying to work out more and strengthen my heart but I get bored working out at home by myself.  I feel pretty bad about that.  I studied exercise for 3 1/2 years and I can't even motivate myself to do it now.  Hopefully when it stops snowing I'll be able to get out more.

Graham helped me paint this frame.