Monday night Baseball

Last Monday I had my brothers kids over because they are spending the next month in Indiana. (I know, Indiana for a month??) First we watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the old version) and they loved it! I admit I kept falling asleep, since it was on my DVR they would wake me up every time the comercials came on to fast forward it. After that they were a little restless so we went outside to play baseball. These kids were hilarious!

Lily pulled the best faces.

Bella takes a swing


And look at cute little ALEX!

Lily and Zack waiting their turn. Lily is the babysitter of the bunch.
She is always watching out for Zack.


Look at Kevin acting all pro.



And trying to not get hit with the ball.....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KEVIN!

First of all, this picture was taken on Kevin's b-day so i'm going to talk about it really quick. We found a really great "time out"! The bottom of the stairs. Zack doesn't climb stairs, they just don't intrest him. He can't walk either. I sat him on the bottom step the other morning and he just sat there. His feet touch the ground but he is too chicken to try and move. He sat there for 20 minutes whining at times. I would hold my hand out for him to grab and walk over to me but he wouldn't. Funny boy!
On to Kevin's birthday... The night before we had some cool people over to swim and I made his favorite, spaghetti! It was a fun night. So the next day we had nothing planned. Which was really nice because we've been sooo busy! We lazed and let Kevin open presents. Later on he decided he wanted to go mini golfing and after that we met some other cool people and went to Tepanyaki for dinner.

Some pict's from mini golf............


The birthday boy

And the reigning CHAMPS
That's right! We wasted him, on his birthday!

Proudly displaying my average score (2) per hole!

After a lovely dinner we stopped at Thanksgiving Point to get ice cream. I ordered sherbet on a cone and was nicely sharing with Zack across the table. On his 3rd bite the sherbet fell and landed in Zack's lap and rolled to the floor. SO FUNNY! He thought it was a little strange. So I gave Zack my cone, he thought that was pretty cool. If you've ever wondered how to enjoy an ice cream cone, THIS is how. Look how serious he is.

A & B's wedding!

Our friend Brett and our NEW friend Aurie got married yesterday. Brett was my "bridesman" at our wedding and Aurie lives in my brothers ward. Last October we set them up and here we are!
It was a beautiful, chaotic, perfect day for a wedding! Sorry, they aren't great pictures.

Brett a few years ago

Now... a married man, he cleans up nice!

Most of the rugrats

Siblings

Tanner& Juli ~ Dustin & Christine



They were trying to do a fake tug of war, only the little girls were really pulling!


Alex was not amused.


Alex feeding Zack m&m's. I told him not to give him the swedish fish
and after a while he asked "Zacky lergic for fishies?".

My little bird, waiting for more candy!

My camera died shortly after this.

What a beautiful day, beautiful couple and beautiful reception!!!!

We love you guys!

Adventures with People food

This kid is a WATERMELON FREAK!



What? I just love watermelon?


I like to take really big bites, my mom doesn't care...


Have you ever tried to chew watermelon with your
6 front teeth? It's serious business!

Um, I didn't say I was done yet..........

Ok, some birthday pictures!

So much has happened this last week. I'll try to keep this brief but we took about 400 pictures from Zack's birthday.

First off, Zack's cousin Bella's b-day party: they let him share the cake with her. I wish I had a good one of the two of them together. It was so funny! As you can see Bella got him good on his head.


Birthday morning: Zack's new car


Birthday party this past Saturday


The Family



Zack loved us singing "Happy Birthday" to him


"Mom, I think I need to be done..."


Zack and Baylee


It's a HAT!


Cute cousins! I can't believe Bella was 2 pounds bigger than Zack when they were born.
Look at them now!



Doing raspberries with Aunt Le'a

1 year, HOLY COW!

One year ago, can you believe it?

Zack's stats at birth:
6 lbs 2 oz
19 in. long


Zack's stats one year later:
22 lbs 3 oz
30 1/4 in tall

And because I know everyone is wondering...
Kevin was 21 lbs 7 oz and 31 in at a year.

I probably weighed a little less (I was a chunk) but not nearly so tall.

Hopefully Zack will end up somewhere in the middle height wise!

First Birthday Card!

Zack's Grandma sent him a card in the mail for his birthday. We got it Monday night and HAD to open it. Here is a play-by-play.

"Oh look, some mail with my name on it."

"Oh my gosh! It's from Grandma and Grandpa West!"

"Let's see, a card and a check."

"Gross, it's money. I'll give that to my mom, she'll know what to do with it"

(Toss the check)
The check actually was tossed and crinkled several times. I was trying to convince
him that it was GOOD but he didn't want to listen.

"This is what I was lookin' for."




"Gotta make sure there aren't anymore stupid CHECKS in there!"




"Ok, now I can read it. Grandma always writes the best stuff in these things."




"Still reading, this one is kinda long, I wish I could understand what it says."





Thanks for the card Grandma & Grandpa! I LOVED playing with it!!!

Next time though, just give my mom your money, she is better at spending it than I am.