After much encouragement from Melissa, I've finally made some time to update the blog. The kids are doing great. They are growing like crazy. Lily is potty trained and I am enjoying the first half of our diaper raise. She does a good job of letting us know when she needs to visit the potty. Once she is on the potty, she does a good job of letting us know when she is actually taking care of business. She is very forthcoming with any and all information.

Griffin has really been into baseball this year. He loves going to softball games and playing baseball in Grandma and Grandpa's backyard. We took him to a Bees game and he really seemed to enjoy that as well.

Things for us are moving along like normal. We're having a fun summer and looking forward to some cooler weather in fall.

A nice day at the Draper Temple open house.

Griffin and daddy enjoying a round together.

Lily's cute haircut.

The kids have had a lot of fun at family reunions this year.

We took the kids to the Hill Air Force Base Museum. It was a lot of fun. They do a great job up there. Griffin loved it. He is a plane freak. It was a really good time.

Once there was a snowman, snowman, snowman. Once there was a snowman tall, tall, tall.

Lily wearing her dress from China.

What a cute pair of kids. They are the best.

The sleepy, happy faces shown below didn't last long. Christmas morning: the setting of the first of many battles over the Little People bus.

Happy 30th!!!

Happy Birthday Jako! I am so glad to be married to you! You are the best. Hope you have a great day. You are a great husband and Daddy and I'm so lucky to have you. I'm glad you're older than me, (even though you say you're more "mature"). I love you!

Cute!

I am going to try to start blogging a few of the funny things my kids say. It's hard to do it justice since they don't have a very big vocabulary yet, and a lot of the funniness (is that a word?) comes from the way they pronounce things, but anyway here goes. To give a little background Griffin is like most other kids and has to blow on food if he thinks it is even a little bit hot. Let's face it though he usually just spits on his food instead of blowing on it, anyway, Jake was filling up the bath tub for the kids the other day and was trying to get the temperature right before he put the kids in so he said, "don't touch the water Griff, it's really hot," to which Griffin said, "blow on it?" It was pretty cute.

The other cute/frightening thing this week was from Lily. We were just hanging out on the stairs, for some reason, and Lily looks at me totally serious and says, "you will listen to me!" She didn't say it loud or anything, it was like she was trying to play a Jedi mind trick on me. The funny thing is right after she said it she got this smirk on her face like, "you're going to love this Mom." It was funny and a little terrifying if that's any indication of things to come. A lot of times the things my kids say are an embarrassing reminder of how I sound talking to them, but I promise I do not say, "you will listen to me!"

-Melissa

Stone Cold Lily. Bret and Haley really mess up this picture by smiling. It was supposed to be tough guy faces.

Lily was much more relaxed for Santa this year. Griffy wasn't too interested. He just wanted to get down and run.

CHEEEEESE!!!

Thanksgiving 2008. As you can see above, Griff was pretty into playing in the leaves. Lily liked it, too.