One year ago today

I was cuddling this little cutie

NOW, I get to cuddle, laugh with, chase, tickle, play with, squeeze, and adore this little cutie

Oh, what a difference a year makes (and how fast it goes!)

GRANT :
*is so super chunky, we can hardly believe, it--uhh... 27 + lbs chunky-- although with all his moving around, he's starting to thin out :)
*is the happiest baby ever!
*is cruising along all the furniture, walls, etc., and has even taken a few steps on his own!
*knows how to sign "more"-- which we're so glad about. It used to be "YELLLLLL!!!!" when he wanted more food. Now we get a nice, quiet, calm "clap, clap, clap" :)
*loves to tease and make us laugh. He puts things in his mouth, and just leaves them hanging out there forever-- until one of us notices and laughs about it :) Already a little performer!
*is a cuddly little guy. I love it! He'll just lay his head on my shoulder and snuggle with me for a minute multiple times a day. Ahhhh, melts my heart!
*loves his big brother, and his brother loves him!

We Love our little Grant! We are so grateful to have him here as a part of our little family! He makes us smile, brings out the super sweetness in Drew, makes us laugh, loves to play, and brings such joy to us! We are so blessed!

"Happy Birthday to YOU!"

"singing" to his cake :)

more cake please!

playing peek-a-boo around the corner.... love that sweet little smile!

Little Teeth and Love

Love these kids :) (and their teeth too!)



We loved hanging out together as a family all weekend, lounging on the couch listening to conference via the internet


Oh Conference! How wonderful it was and how I love it! As usual, I'm anxiously awaiting my copy of the November Ensign so that I can read all the talks and again feel the spirit that comes from hearing the word of God!

Love this video, and especially love the message! It touches my heart each time I see it!

Check out those Sausages :)

-- okay, am I the only one who didn't know about the world famous sausage races at Milwaukee Brewers games?? --

Can I just say that my husband is awesome?!? For many reasons, of course, but for the purposes of this blog post I will name just two :)

1. He does amazing service in the community just because he wants to give and help, but it just so happens that some of that service scored us a free hotel stay in downtown Milwaukee
2. He is so sweet, and planned out an entire night away with no kid(s). -- we took Grant since he is still nursing at night, but he was so good! --

I was completely surprised when he came home early yesterday afternoon, and said we needed to pack to go somewhere over night!!!! Thanks to our good friends, the Stewarts, for watching Drew for us :) He loves it there, and I'm sure didn't even miss us!

Waiting in the car while daddy checks into the hotel-- he was so happy to 'drive'!


Can't go to Milwaukee, WI without seeing a Brewers game! (plus, I think the only other thing people do there is drink-- we're obviously out of that activity :)

It was wierd to see all the tailgaters-- we'd never seen so many at a baseball game. Literally every row in the parking lot had at least one tailgate party going on-- I think this proves my point about the two most popular things to do in Milwaukee :)

We sat in the very, very, very top row-- I was feeling the 'acrophobe' (is that even a word?? :) coming out in me


Walking along Lake Michigan this morning


All tuckered out :) On the way home today Grant was doing the "little indian thing", and fell asleep right in the middle of it. So cute!

Fresh OJ and Tractors

Mmmm, mmm, good! He went to town on these for a while!!

Drew loves anything that moves (i.e. tractors, planes, cars, trucks, etc) So, he was in heaven seeing this old time tractor at the Lincoln museum.


The things my boys love.... makes me love them too!!! :)

Well, that works :)

I found Grant like this the other morning.....

It's not good enough to just pull out all the tupperware... then you have to sit in the cupboard and go to town on the top shelf :)

What a curious little kid!!!!

All about Alligators

...and Crocodiles.



Last week Drew and I went to his first ever story time at the library... if you can believe that. Anyway, he loved it!!! When he was sitting with all the kids, he kept looking over at me (I was sitting in the back w/ the moms), smiling, and giving me a big 'thumbs up'! It was so cute-- melted my heart!

He made this cool alligator cap, and has worn it just about every day since. Tomorrow we go and learn about pigs. I'm trying to get better at making time to do this for Drew-- he's so good and comes along with me patiently (for the most part) for everything I have to do for Relief Society--he definitely deserves some fun stuff like this :)

What a sweet kid!!!