they're so big!

I don't know how it worked out so nicely but this fall when we went to get family pictures it worked out perfectly because Cason is just about 3 years old and Myra is right on 6 months, how awesome. We decided since our children are more beautiful and interesting than us to just get it to the kids and boy am I glad that I did. They turned out amazing! I wanted to post them all but knew it'd take too long so here's some of my favorites and I think I'll post the rest on Facebook. Enjoy!

 The best one of both of them-

 What a stud-

 Melts your heart, right?

 If that one didn't turn you into mush the next few will-

 Absolutely love and adore my beautiful children!



Lately-

Why is it so hard to blog? I have no idea! I always have good intentions to empty off the SD card onto the computer and then blog about stuff but it just never happens. "Blog" stays ono the to-do list for days at a time. *sigh*

Here's what we've been up to lately and some pictures that I've been dying to show off-

Can I just tell you how much Cason and Myra love each other? When it's time for Myra to wake up Cason comes in with me to get her every time and then after a diaper change he asks to hold her, every time. And Myra's sweet face lights up with a huge smile every time she sees Cason. And whenever he's being crazy and loud she watches him to see what he's up to. It's so fun. Here's an awesome shot I got of Cason reading to Myra. I love it because Myra is actually looking at the pictures (oh, and the little "lamp", as Cason calls it, in front of the book is on)-

 One day it was raining and Cason asked if he could get out the umbrella. By the time I went in a found one it had pretty much stopped raining but he still had fun walking around with an umbrella. Hopefully next time I'll be a little quicker...or the rain will last a little longer-

 Why do pictures do this?! It's always the best ones too so even though it's sideways I still had to include it because the picture is so adorable-

 Can you believe Myra is 6 months old now? She seems so big. Tummy time is no big these days and she's sitting up like a pro!

 As of right now she loves to eat. She makes a huge mess every day and most of her adorable outfits now have green and orange stains on them but as long as she's eating I guess, right? We've been adventurous and have given her watermelon, carrots, and also soft things. Here Trav decided to try a peach. She loved it! And practically sucked the thing dry-

 Like I said, sitting up like a pro-

 Cason started preschool. Here's the best shot I could get of him before we headed to the car for his first big day-

 Myra loves feeding herself. Here she's eating a Mum-Mum which she totally just loves. Every time I give her one I think 'This'll give me a good 15 minutes to clean up' but no, she finishes these things in just a couple of minutes-

 I started out having a hard time figuring out where to feed her at since she wasn't sitting up very good on her own. I tried a couple different places and by the time I was done figuring out the best place for her she was throwing a fit. I couldn't it help it though, I had to take the shot-

She was not happy with me and I even felt a little guilty about it but don't worry, I gave her lots of love as soon as I put the camera down. Instead of Cason taking a nap during Sacrament meeting on Sundays he now does it after church, which we've decided we're more than okay with- 

 While cooking dinner Cason makes 'towers' out of the cups and bowls from the cupboard and then he waits by the small window for Trav to come home while repeating, 'I see Daddy come home from work'. It is adorable-



Her smile has turned green-

My aboslute least favorite stage of all the baby stages is solid foods! I don't know why but I have been dreading it ever since Myra was born and at her four month check out when the pediatrican saw she wasn't gaining a whole lot of wait he said those awful words: "you should probably get her started on cereal and veggie's pretty soon". Noooooo!! Anything but solids. But I did it. I started Miss Myra on baby cereal and veggie's and yes, I still hate it. But Myra seems to be enjoying it-

 Green beans are not her favorite but she is definitely enjoying the peas-

 See what I mean, loves them-

 Green beans are a fight but I've also given her sweet potatoes and squash and believe it or not, she's not into the squash. I thought she would have since they're kinda sweet but I guess not. Maybe she'll like them after a couple more tries-

 So even though she's adorable with her green smile and slobbery face-

 I still hate solids!

Camping trip #2

As soon as we came home from Lava we unpacked, washed everything, and then packed it all back up again to head out the very next weekend. We headed out to the Unitah Mountains and had a lot of fun. There wasn't quite as much to do but the river helped keep us busy. Cason loved climbing in, getting wet, and throwing rocks around. Not to mention it was the first time he got to swim without a shirt on (he usually wears a swim shirt). When we got home he kept asking to "go swimming in my belly", yes it's adorable!

 There was plenty of dust and dirt to crawl and play in-

 We did lots of hanging out together-

 And more hanging out by the fire-

 We also took bikes and scooters and did lots of riding on the road, Cason was in heaven-

 The very last morning we were there I was about to go back into the tent to feed Myra and leave Cason out by the picnic table to play when I saw this right next to our tents-

How grateful I was that I saw this ginormous moose (there were two actually) before I left him alone with them because he kept wanting to "go say hi". They were pretty cool though. We watched them until they ate enough and walked away. Fun camping trip! But we were definitely ready to be home though. While we were packing up Cason kept saying "I'm ready to go home". It was pretty funny and we were more than happy to oblige.

Camping trip #1

Yep that's right, we went camping more than once this summer. Infact after this camping trip we got home, unpacked, washed everything, and then packed everything back up again for another adventure. But for this post we'll stick with the first trip-Lava Hot Springs with my family. So much fun! The kids did, awesome! Cason loved his sleeping bag or aka-"little bed". And thanks to it being so warm no one even came close to freezing-

 The KOA camp ground had a playground and sandbox and that's where Cason and his cousin spent most of their time-

 Here they're catching bugs with Papa. Which mostly meant Papa was running around trying to catch bugs that the boys would just release after they got their hands on it and the boys running around swinging their nets at each other. It was a lot of fun to watch :)

 Swimming! Yes, we went swimming. Seriously, best camp ground here. Cason had so much fun with Travis playing in the water-

 Myra got in the water a couple times but didn't love it as much as I was hoping she would. But she enjoyed being in the sun-

 While everyone stayed in the water Cason decided to take a nap with his towels as blankets and pillows. Here's how he started out. So cute!- 

 My sister helped me get this awesome shot of Myra! Miss Myra just loves to play and being held up in the air-

 Every evening we went out for a walk into town to get ice cream cones and every night Trav carried Myra for me-

 We'd watch the people going down the river on their tubes as we went over the bridge (love that Cason's on his tippy toes in this shot and that my Dad has a bottle of water shoved in back pocket)-

 One night Cason opted out of ice cream and wanted ths humungous sucker instead (and no, he hasn't finished it yet)-

 Myra hanging out after her breakfast-

 The boys spent a lot of time collecting rocks in their buckets and then throwing them into the river, they had so much fun doing this-

 Collecting rocks-

 Papa caught a couple of grasshoppers for Cason and put them in this little bug thing for him. Cason would show it to all of us and stare at it for about 30 seconds and then let it go so Papa could put in a new one-

Trying so hard to wait patiently while we took everything down and packed it all up-

I highly recommend Lava as a camping spot. We had so much fun and there was tons to do that worked out great for our young kids (no big hikes or anything). Thanks again family! Can't wait for next year!

Our girly girl-

I've always wanted to get my little girl's ears pierced so when I had Myra I knew it was something I wanted to do. After talking to the pediatrician we finally had a chance to get it done. I unforutnately don't have shots of her ears getting pierced right now (hopefully soon) so I thought I'd share pictures of how adorable she looks with them done-

 Adorable right? They're kinda tough to see since they are so small. They're just little round pearls that Travis ended up picking out for her. I thought they were perfect! She really was so good when she got them done too, just one loud cry for each ear and then she was totally fine.

And there haven't been any problems since either. I mean seriously! So cute!

 Here's one other shot I had of her playing in a towel. It was so big for her that it would get wrapped around her arms and then the towel would fall over her face and she'd wig out. But I guess that's what happens when you grow out of stuff and have to move onto the next big thing-

Love you baby girl!