Saturday, October 3, 2009

GRANTS BABY BLESSING and THE DUSTINS!

Grant, this was your special blessing day! August 2, 2009. At our church when a baby is a couple months old, the babies are given a special blessing, or prayer. Daddy blessed you to grow up strong and big, to know of your Heavenly Father's love for you, and among other things-to know how much we love you! You had so many visitors and family members and friends that came for your special day! Grandma and Grandpa Dustin, and Aunt Megan and Uncle Josh flew here from Utah and Grandma and Grandpa Ingram, the Brewers, Dyers, Petersens, Jones', Kelly's and so many others made the special trip from Indy. So many people love you!

You were pretty tired by the end of the day......Aunt Heather let us borrow this blessing outfit that your Knowlton cousins were blessed in.

Dustins! We had so much fun with you!!!!!!!!! It is always way too short! We loved going to the lake and cooking out, to going miniture golfing (and not cooking you a nice dinner because we played instead :).......watching that crazy, funny movie-permanantly ingrade in each of our heads....anyways-lots of fun. We miss you so much!


My family was seeing fireflys for the very first time.....the girls were showing them how you catch them.....


Crazy, that they will both be gone on missions....such awesome missionaries they will be!




Where's Grant? Oh, he is just getting smoooshed....





At Megs request, we made banana boats -so yummy! and fun to eat! and fun to make!-this the after picture of Megan eating hers!






Sweet baby boy-2 months old!







"the kids" ";) with Grant's "Blessing cake" decorated by the girls!








Myself, Greg and Julie.....the milking maids as Bill (Greg's dad) referred to us as.....Greg-SCARY!









How beautiful is this picture?! I love it!










Megs, we miss you!...The next time you will see him he will be almost 2....CRAZY!











Miss mermaid Halle...












Miss mermaid Tay













The cuties out of the sand....I was so surprised they sat still for so long!














The mermaid beauties! My Dad buried the girls and started to make the shapes and Meg, Josh and my dad turned them into awesome sand mermaids. heehee.















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One of the things on the girl's "summer list of things to do..." was to learn how to blow bubble gum bubbles...well, we bought a big bag of bubble gum-the sugary kind-yikes!!!!-and we all had fun practicing! the girls still dont quite have a grasp on it but ohwell. Fun memory none-the-less.

















Greg's master bubble. hahaha. The dentist is out of practice with the sugar-gum. I thought about using this picture as blackmail somehow............


















My bubble, thankyou very much!



















hahahaha. I miss you Dad. I still hear the weird, scary song from that movie when I look at this picture for some reason......oooowie, oooowie, ooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha



















Oh, mom....He was crying so hard and grandmas calming touch completely melted him! Sweet. Miss you so much.





















CUTE!






















RUNNING IN THE RAIN....something Dustin's have always loved to do!

































Now the little Ingram's do too! I have often wondered what our neighbors think, when we are out there running around in the rain (with no lightning of course).......ohwell. Happy memories. I have already programmed the girls that we run around in the rain, get dried off and have hot chocolate....haha. Fun times Josh and Meg!
























Bike-riding fun! (end of july...)

A Lot of days this summer were spent riding bikes....















Wednesday, September 16, 2009

July randomness

Silliness....haha

Yeah, they recieved the certificate for the summer reading program at the library for reading more than 15 hours......they were excited. I love our library.

Look, he is just a tiny bit bigger than my running shoe. haha






A sweet view from behind!



Camping July 11th

Taylor is letting us know that she is done....Malia looks like she is loving it..haha

We had so much fun seeing Heath and Amy Bland and their family when they were in town!
It had been raining all day but we decided to go anyway and we are so glad we did. It didn't rain on us at all that night.


Like father, like son.



Halle totally surprised us! She was eating her hot dog and it kept on slipping out of her bun so she put down her plate and bun and just picked up her hot dog with Ketchup on it. Her hands got dirty and everything!!!!? What?!










Hiding in the net from all of the mosquitos!!! We think he enjoyed his first camping trip!






Monday, September 14, 2009

Richmond 4th of July


Happy 1st Fourth of July Grant!!


Richmond had their fireworks on sunday night so it was perfect, we just walked over to the middle school and sat on the grass.










4th of July

Sad, just sad. haha



Jake, we never knew!!!! Master hula hoopin skills right there!


My little hula dancer



The crazy dancin never stopped.




Love it!





Miss Molly! She was so cute! She had to work pretty hard to get some candy at the parade!






It was the coldest, rainiest, 4th of july in a long, long time.....







Aahhhh, so pretty, just so pretty. Back off ladies, he's mine. :) (Greg, I knew you'de appreciate this picture!)








Little Grant and Em.









Some fun random pictures

7/7- See the green blanket he is laying on, well, Halle bought him this blanket with her own money, Cute huh!



6/30....that passy looks like it is as big as his head!






6/30-tummy time-obviously we cant get enough pictures of him like this.....I guess he loves it too.




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June 30th- cute huh!






June 27th- touching the temple...







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Our primary at the temple June 27th









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June 27th, 2009 TAYLOR IS SIX!

Dear Taylor,
I am so proud of you! For six years I have been able to enjoy being your mom! You bring so much energy and life and joy to our family. You are silly, funny, and so curious and even a little mischeivious sometim es! Ha, Ha. More often than not I am laughing about something you said or did. I love how much you like school and meeting new friends. It is something that you are very good at. You are quite the gymnast these days and I haven't decided yet if doing gymnastics on the couch is really something I should fret about. Sometimes, your Dad and I just look at each other and wonder how a little person has so much energy! It is amazing. We must funnel that energy! haha! The other day when you got home from school you had ten pages of homework and that was not the norm so I asked you why you had so much work and you said, "Mommy I just love to talk and then I don't have time to finish my work..." We addressed the issue by pretending that I was a friend sitting beside you, trying to distract you and you had to concentrate on your work, I even had a cute baby for you to look at and you stayed focused...amazing! You are doing much better at getting your work done at school now. You are so silly! hahah... I love you Tay! I hope you know because knowing is everything.
Here are some more pics from your Birthday!





















For Tay's Birthday she wanted to go and eat breakfast with Daddy and ride horses. We went to Whitewater State Park about 20 min from our house and they have horses that you can "rent" and go on a trail ride. She loved it! Greg and Tay rode their own horses-she even controlled the reigns on her own! Grant and I watched Halle have a pony ride. It was a really fun family day. The next Day, Aunt Emy was in town and we went to the fair, it was awesome to have her here to share Tay's special day.






The lighting of the cupcake....ooooooooo...







SWEET BABY TAY, TURNING ONE YEAR OLD!





























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Thursday, June 25, 2009

"I wish I had treasured the doin a little more and the getting it done a little less"

I want to stop saying this each night when I go to bed! That tomarrow will be different-that I will take advantage of TIME tomarrow.

How many tomarrows do I think I have? How many tomarrows do I think my daughters are going to be there-waiting for me to take advantage of the time I have with them on the next day? It always seems so clear in the evening when they are all asleep- The things I should have done different, the things that should have been on my priority list, the laughs I should have had with them if I would have let myself laugh. Greg always says,"You are always saying "no" to something, every time you make a choice. How many times am I going to tell my girls "no" before they are done waiting? Today-its a beautiful word.

Yep, she's still gone

Uh, I am ready for you to come home now Bridget!