A Lot of . . .

You know when you have so much stuff you need to post about that you don't post at all, because you don't know where to start. Well, that's me for the past 3 weeks. Here are a few glimpses:

On September 5th and 8th Brett and I turned 27! Yea, woa. More canning. Last week it was 138 jars of pears! I am so grateful to my neighbor who invited me to join her. It's nice to let the kids play together and be productive. There's a family in our ward that is kind of our twin family. They have two girls almost the exact same age as our boys! We thought we'd invite them over for dinner and family night to get to know them better. It was really fun watching the kids interact. The babies tended to gravitate toward each other, but they wouldn't face each other, it was so funny. Hyrum: He is the sweetest boy in the world. I love him to bits. He's my super helper around the house with sweeping, wiping down 'messes', cleaning windows, and vacuuming. Hyrum loves giving hugs, butterfly and eskimo kisses, and tickling. Lately he loves picking up Noah (which is really scary, but sweet too). I'm saying all of these things, because this is what I see everyday. Sadly, he has a hard time with big groups and socializing with other kids. Part of the problem is his size. He struggles in nursery because he can knock kids over easily. They divided the nursery into junior and senior groups and he's taller than most of the senior kids, but he's one of the younger ones in junior. I think his aggresion is because he isn't able to communicate what he wants sometimes. He had chronic ear infections his first year of life and it may be effecting his speech now. He is always progressing, and says the cutest things, but it's a slow process. I just wish everyone else could see how sweet he is and that he's not a maniac.

Noah: Speaking of sweet. Noah is one adorable little man! He's getting so grown up. He's now 7 months old; crawling everywhere, pulling himself up on everything, and eating anything he can find. He is just getting over another ear infection, and this one left him with a horrible diaper rash from the drugs. We saw an ENT today and scheduled a surgery next week to put in tubes. I only wish that we did this with Hyrum. I'm really nervouse about the whole thing, but I know it's the best thing for him.

Things Learned

When your Mom's a hairdresser you learn a few things. . fix your hair and then fix someone else's hair.He did this without any instruction while I was doing my makeup this morning.
I left to get dressed in our closet and when I came back in I found the boys like this. I guess Noah is officially Hyrum's first customer. . . let's just hope Hyrum never finds my scissors.

Pretend and Reel

So, a lot has been happening when it comes to developmental stages of my boys, and I wanted to record their doings.

It has begun! Noah wants to get into everything! He also can now pull himself up into standing position and has been attempting the stairs. AHHHHH! That's so scary to see him getting older so fast.
Brett and Hyrum were wrestling so Noah of course wanted to get in on the action. So, I let him be king of the mountain. Hyrum thought it was so funny he kept saying 'Gen! Gen! Gen! (again)"Hyrum is now embracing make-believe. These are a few of his favorite activities. In the first picture I asked Hyrum what he was doing and he said."Monkey. Sleep. Shhhh." followed by snoring noices. He asked me to put the blanket on him. Then below that is the monkey walking the dog. And this is why we don't have a dog right now:)

As for me this has been a fun-full week of canning. I learned how and canned over 100 cans of peaches with my neighbor. It's a much longer process than I thought it would be, but SOO worth it. I'm excited to do it again next year, and maybe even branch out to different things.

Neighborhood Bash

Ok, I'm falling a little behind on blogging. Well two weekends ago we had a big neighborhood block party. It was crazy fun for everyone. Hyrum had a blast in the ball room, bounce house, and water toys, and Brett and I had a blast on the HUGE blow-up slide. Noah really liked going down the slide too! Here are some pics:

Bills and Cheese

So, I realize the title of this post is a bit strange. But, I really just wanted to post a few pictures.These are a few of Hyrum's faces. He was being so cute the other day that I grabbed the camera and told him to say cheese, and this is what he came up with.

Noah decided to eat our mail the other day. . . if only he could do that with all our bills:) And lastly I just had to have documentation of my lack of personal space. I layed down and not 2 minutes later Hyrum had to be ontop of me and Noah crawled all the way over just to slobber all over my face. Oh how I love my little leaches.

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Noah is 6 months old! Time has flown by. He's such a cute, happy little man. At 6 months he's sitting up, making babbling noises, and has started crawling! I can't believe how fast he's gotten moving. . . I'm pretty sure its his survival instinct. He's not full on knee crawling, but it's somewhere between that and an army crawl. He's all over though! We love you Noah!!!!

Golfing + Bathing = Happiness

There have been quite a few pictures of Noah lately, but don't you worry Hyrum is still alive and very well. In fact he's usually just too busy to say cheese. So here are some of our activities over the weekend that I wanted to show you all.

Chasing a grasshopper that got up on our deck. Now he's saying "Are you?"
His version of 'where are you'.
We had a little family golfing activity. I was not excited about going at first,
but it ended up being really fun! Brett taught Hyrum how to swing and he caught on really well. . .hitting balls with a long stick can never loose with a boy:)Noah didn't want to miss out on the action, so he army crawled
his way over to Brett's clubs. Yummm.

We had a fun bath night tonight. Usually for the safety and sanity of us all we have separate bath times, but we thought we'd try it out. Hyrum liked cleaning (aka splashing) Noah and Noah just loves the water. He was sitting in the tub, but with all of Hyrums jumping around and splashing we made do with sticking him in the Bumbo so he didn't sink.