Swiming Pool

We bought a small swimming pool at Target. Holli loves playing in it!

We lathered on the SPF 40 and played. By the way, use swim diapers! Love the big butt!
Holli pushing over Uriah. She loves having him over, but they do act like siblings! I guess God just forgot to give her one. :)

Pure Joy!

Colored Pudding, Peaunt Butter, Honey, and Holli!

Evenings are very rough around our house. Holli is done rough housing but still demands mom's full attention. Today, we decided to give her something messy to do and see how that affected the mood. We dyed vanilla pudding blue, green and red. Then we plopped peanut butter and honey onto her plate. This kept her happy and entertained for 30 minuets!!! Then there was the bath to clean her up, 10 minuets. Afterwards, her and Uriah rand like wild banshees around the house for another 40 minuets. Lets just say she begged to go to bed and Mom is sleeping while writing this, BUT THERE WAS NO CRYING HERE TONIGHT!

Bedtime story

Once upon a time, there was a chocolate pudding snack pack. He was just sitting in the pantry, minding his own business when, RIP. his top was pulled opened. He started to panic as he was carried away from his warm and dark home. His fears were calmed when he saw that there was a responsible adult feeding a one year old. He sat back to enjoy the ride. BUT something happened that he never thought he would see...The responsible mother turned her back!!!The HUNGRY one-year was determined to finish her snack and took control over the feeding. The Snack Pack once again relaxed seeing that the child was going to be nice and easy on him. Then the responsible mother turned back around to see the mess that her daughter had started. She said, "Ah, what the heck" and put the child into a booster seat. The child ate, and ate, and ate. THEN SHE...

Played, and played and played...

Smeared, and smeared, and smeared...
resulting in one of the biggest messes seen by the Snack Pack EVER!
The moral of the story is that the messier the child is, the happier she is, and that just makes life fun!

Turkey's! Holli! Turkey's!

Holli is standing and walking now! She is still pretty stiff legged, but it is so cute to watch her walk! She is standing up with out help from couches or chairs. How fun! She wanted to know what I was doing behind the camera! So innocent.

Colton and Holli down in Sanford over General Conference weekend.

Papa playing ball with Holli. Balls are her favortie things!

Holli in nursery. She loves going in there. Family photos! Jessica's Turkey. Beautiful. Holli even petted the bird. We thought she would be kind of freaked out. She's a hunter in a making.

KJ's turkey. He called this turkey in and BANG! He was so excited. You should ask him the story sometime. It is a good one! We are so proud of him and all he does.

Holli loves to read. She will hide away in her room, pull off all the books, and read for 30 mins. It is so cute.

We go to the park often. On this trip she learned to slid down the slid, all by herself. I don't think that she really enjoyed it, but she kept doing it. Freedom is a wonderful thing!