18-Months-Old

So Adam is now 18-months-old.  It is hard to believe that he is so old.  He had his doctor's check up and he is now 27 pounds.  The doctor said he has a big head (which would explain how hard it is to get some of his shirts on) and that he walks a little funny (but I think that is just his weird walk that he likes to do).  But all in all he is healthy and happy.

Adam has been liking stuffed animals more lately.  Here he was giving the dog a kiss,  It was really cute.

We had a family day at the park.  There is a nice walking path for people.  Adam didn't want to sit in his stroller but wanted to walk like a big boy.

Playing in the swings (He likes his legs like this; it isn't my fault).

Adam is a mama's boy.  But he also really loves his dad.  Will can always get him to laugh.

Look at that smile.

This is probably my favorite recent picture of Adam.  Whitney was trying to make a hat but pretty much gave up.  Rachel wanted to keep working on the hat but accidentally took it off the ring.  After Adam's diaper change it became his hula skirt.  We all laughed and Adam was happy to be the center of attention.

We love our 18-month-old baby.  He brings such joy to our lives.

A Trip to Utah

We went to Utah last weekend to be part of a graduation and baby blessing.  The drive was long, but the kids did really well.  And we had a lot of fun being together with so much family around.  (The only bummer was that Will had to stay home and work).

We stayed at Erin and David's house in Lehi for the trip.  Here the girls get to paint their fingernails.

Whitney and all the kids really spent a lot of time in the playroom.  This is what I need when we buy a house so the toys can all stay upstairs.

Before Michael's graduation we had a little picnic.

At the graduation, Michael shaking hands with professors.

I like this picture of Michael and Allison and little baby Annabelle.

On Saturday we went with Kylee and Chas to look at some tiny houses they are considering buying.  The houses were less than 300 square feet but they had all the essentials.  Kind of interesting to look at them but there is no way our family could live in one right now.

This was after Annabelle's baby blessing.  There was a big dinner of Hawaiian haystacks that my mom and Allison's mom prepared.  It was yummy.

We took cousin pictures.  These are all of my parents' grandkids under one roof.

It wouldn't be a complete trip to Utah without visiting Grandma and Grandpa Keeler.  Here grandpa shows the kids a little science experiment with a balloon, a bottle cap, and a c.d. Adam was a little afraid of this for some reason.

We have such wonderful family.  I am so glad that we were able to make our Utah trip.  I wish we could have hung out with everyone even longer.

the rest of Easter

For some reason, Easter is a long ordeal for us, so here are some more pictures.  We did one of our Easter traditions of resurrection rolls, they are croissant rolls and you wrap a marshmallow inside and bake, and the marshmallow disappears!

Another part of shoe drama for Adam. Adam has not liked wearing shoes at all, and here is photographic evidence of him throwing his shoe away.  This time it was recovered, but since this time, one of said shoes has gone missing, and now Adam cannot wear them, very fishy.  

I think the kids attended 76 Easter hunts this year, here are some pictures from hunt number 45.  This was at our old ward in Umatilla.  

Here is Megan collecting some eggs

Hunt number 52 was at our friend's house the with two other girls in our current ward.  

This hunt only took about 25 seconds to find most of the eggs, so there was also some time looking for the last few tricky eggs.

the other thing that spring means is bubbles!  Will made a big bucket of big bubble juice and let kids pop them.  

Adam likes the juice and just wants to spill the bucket.  

Pictures from hunt number 63, at grandma's house, Adam is ready to go.

 Megan on the hunt

 Adam trying the treats, note that he did not bother to unwrap the candy.

 After all the hunts, the girls decided to do a "play" on grandma's trampoline.

That's it for Easter this year.  We will see if we can break our record of Easter egg hunts next year.  

Easter Part 1

I realized that I haven't updated in awhile.  We did a lot of fun Easter things in April.

We were in Pasco for general conference and we decided to dye Easter eggs while we were there.  Rachel wanted to show off her half glasses.

There was a big pile of eggs ready for dying.

We managed to not spill too much dye.  Maybe next year we won't even need to take off shirts.  But fingers remained very colorful for a couple of days.

Adam took a turn too.  He was fascinated by his egg once he saw it all pretty and orange.

The following Saturday we went back to the Tri-Cities for a big Easter celebration.  Unfortunately it was a really cold morning so there was extra complaining from the short people (and maybe some of the big people too).

The highlight of the event was we got to ride a train with the Easter bunny (and apparently his wife).  I thought that was pretty cool.

It warmed up a little bit so we went to the park after the Easter activity and played for about an hour.

There was a zipline that the kids took turns riding down.

And Grandma Keeler sent us a little Easter package.  Adam is wearing his new Easter bracelet and playing with his little egg finger puppet thing.  Thanks Grandma Keeler for the surprise.

Stay tuned for more Easter pictures in a few days.

In Rexburg

We spent a couple of days in Rexburg a couple of weeks ago.  It was a fun trip.

My sister Kylee and her husband Chas had their first child on Valentine's Day.  So we went to see the baby blessing.  Little Raine was so adorable.

And here is everyone after the blessing before people started going their separate ways.  I think everyone is looking at the camera too so that is pretty amazing.

We met in a park in Idaho Falls and had a picnic together on Saturday.

Adam loved going down the slide with Whitney.

If this looks like a baby in a toy store, you would be correct.  We went to an awesome toy store in Idaho Falls.  There were so many toys out that the kids could play with and enjoy while parents shopped.

The girls got into playing some music.  They made a cute band.

Then some of us went to a kids art museum.  There was a power outage right when we arrived but we stuck around and the lights came back on like twenty minutes later.

Here the kids all put on costumes and made videos using a green screen.  They played with this for a really long time.

I don't know how a big slide is really art, but the kids loved it.

And a lot of time was spent hanging out at Kylee and Chas' clubhouse.

You can see that Megan and her cousin Tessa had so much fun together.  They chased each other all over.  If Zach and Conner look too comfortable back there, never worry they were about to be jumped on and "trapped" by Whitney and Rachel.

So it was a really fun couple of days.  I think my kids did pretty good in the long car drives.  Thanks mom and dad for driving us and paying for the motel.  Now we are back at home and relaxing.