My silly musicians

Garrett and Makayla both LOVE music. Whenever any tune comes on they immediately start grooving with the beat. It is really cute.
They also both love to play the piano, well bang on the piano is more correct but you get the point.

One day they were both in the living room delighting me with this talent, so I wandered in to take a picture of them and started to laugh out loud and as you look at the pic you will understand why

Where did their pants go?


I sure do love these kids!

Garrett and his breakfast

I am not exactly sure where Garrett got his love for breakfast and all foods that go with breakfast but the boy can't get enough. He regularly asks me for bacon meat and one morning when we had no bacon meat in the house crying ensued for half an hour.

One morning he asked for bacon meat, pancakes and eggs. Yes he is that particular, he even prefers his eggs over medium...ya opinionated 2 year old for sure.
Anyway he was eating and said mom picture? You want me to take a picture of you I asked. He responded my breakfast.


So I took a picture of him eating his breakfast. Yes he has already devoured his bacon meat by the time I took the pic.
He is a silly silly goof ball.

Makayla Turns 1!

Can you believe it, my baby is already one!
She had a really fun day filled with the whole family from both sides.
We had soup and salad for dinner with cake and ice cream for dessert. A friend of mine (Leslie Smith) made her a cute little caterpillar cake.
Makayla wasn't quite sure what to think of the cake but she sure knew what to do with it once it had been served.


She wasted no time eating it up and making a huge mess.


Before we dug into the cake we opened presents. Yes that is me with brown hair.


She got a very large sum of new clothes which she needed as she is quickly outgrowing all of the things I had previously bought for her.
She also got some cute toys and her favorite a baby doll from Uncle Randy,Aunt Becah and Riley.
We have given it the name dolly.

We really appreciated all who came to celebrate our little Kayla - she is a little sweetheart and we love her so much.

Ogden Family Reunion

We had a fun time with my family this summer doing a variety of things and one of those things was the family reunion.
Luckily everyone was able to make it except for my brother in law Brandon who was working and couldn't get away.

We went to the zoo, it was a lot of fun and all of the cousins had a great time playing with each other.
They went on the carousel,

watched all of the animals


and took pictures in front of the Rhino statue.


Makayla even measured up to the infant gorilla, it was way cute.


Great Grandpa Spencer and Makayla had a fun time giving each other looks. She kept looking over at him when she thought he wasn't looking and then getting surprised when she saw that he was looking at her...super cute.


Somehow McKenzie was elusive for all of our pictures at the zoo but she wasn't able to escape the family pictures.
Everyone looked their best that day and for the most part everyone was happy and well behaved.


I hope that everyone had a great time cause we sure did.

Cookie Monster

Makayla loves loves loves Oreos. She just has this one horrible thing when it comes to eating them, they get EVERYWHERE!
Most of the time I completely strip her down and immediately put her in the bath afterward.

This one particular day she was way out of control so I just shoved her in her high chair and gave her the cookie.
I came back and she naturally was covered

but the color of her blue shirt just made her eyes look amazingly beautiful and despite the cookie covered face I just had to take lots and lots of pictures.

I don't know what you think but I think she looks gorgeous even with the cookie coating

Fishing!

I know that it is a complete shock that I am FINALLY updating the blog but give me a break I have been doing a ton of homework.

Anyway we had a great summer filled with with really fun things.

One thing that we did was to go fishing with my parents and siblings. The plan was that we would all catch a bunch of fish and then have them for dinner the next day. Granted went to a place that is stocked with fish regularly so we were sure we would be fine.

Well we waited and waited...got really muddy, and one fish was caught. Jordan was the first to get one and it was a little under whelming.


After that Jordan and Garrett sat down and played with a snake that they had found. Garrett was a little weary about it and kept practically jumping out of Jordans arms to try to get away.

Makayla mostly hung out with Grandpa Ogden. She had lots of fun just sitting on his lap and wandering around the 3 different ponds in the area.

After about an hour and a half we had about 6 really small fish and then all of a sudden a HUGE fish jumped out of the water.
Guess who had it on his pole...Garrett. (okay it was actually the girl running the place who caught it but she immediately gave the pole to Gman and he with my help reeled it in)
He was so thrilled. He really didn't want to touch it but we made him so we could take a picture with the catch of the day.

It was enough to feed us all so we packed up and headed home.
It really was a great day and I look forward to doing it again next year.

Oregon Coast

In July we had a wonderful Fitzgerald Family Reunion in Seaside, OR.
It was an absolute blast and we had a lot of fun hanging with the fam and such...unfortuantely we didn't document the trip very well. We did manage to have a cute pic taken of Jordan & I on the beach though.
Jordan also took some beautiful shots of the coast.

It was a great vacation and I can't wait for the next one :)