Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Our last week in Banks

We spent our last week at my parents playing and having fun. We are going to miss it. (especially claire) 

We went shopping with amanda....


I wonder what people think when they see this crazy kid in the shopping cart squealing and causing all kind of trouble!


Scott tasted rice cereal for the first time, and loved it!!! He ate 3 bowl full.  


 We drove to eugene and found an apartment to move into. I can't wait to move in! While we were there we also got to visit the Doman's who were nice enough to let us use there internet. Here is scott and Emma. Isn't she cute! She just had a cornea transplant. These kids are AMAZING!


My friend Sara also came to visit. Im so sad we didn't get a picture of mayli, vince and claire together but scott was having a hard day so we had to leave. Here is claire locking Vince in the dog kennel. 


My dad cut his hand on the table saw this last week! Its healing great but Claire wanted to be like grandpa. It was so cute that she was so worried about him! 


Scott played with daddy...


And Claire is starting to play with scott more. It is so cute!


We had a great week and now we are heading to Idaho! Yay!

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Just another fun Week and loads of cuteness

Its been another week of fun. I was going to be very busy with work this week and then some projects got canceled. This meant time for more fun with my adorable babies. :) 



Claire LOVES, LOVES, LOVES shoes. She will wear anyones and everyones shoes and she is very good at walking in huge shoes. I don't think i could even walk in theses heels but she found them and had so much fun.



Even gloves become shoes.


Claire has been pretty interested in the potty lately and she REALLY hates diapers. So she has been going naked a lot lately and she makes it to her potty every once in a while. I am not actively trying to potty train her but she is kinda figuring it out some. If she has an accident on the floor she cleans it up all by herself without even telling me. So cute to watch. I can't believe how fast this little girl is growing up. 


Scott looked too cute after church last week. I love dressing my little man, and i LOVE GARAGE SALES!


This week i entered this photo of scott in the children's eye foundation photo contest. It helps educate people about children with special eye needs. I love this smile. Scott's eye is doing pretty good. At his appointment this week we took out his contact, cleaned it and put it back in. He did pretty well! We also met the new doctor this week. He seems really nice! His vision is doing pretty well, his left eye still isn't as strong as the right but we are patching and it is improving. 



Claire is becoming really good friends with the neighbor girl who is 2 and a half. Most of the day they sit and talk through the fence. 


We played with the BLOB this last week wile we baby sat emma. The girls had a blast. i think i will have to take stuff for the blob to idaho so we can play with all the cousins on it! 






Rich is done with his internship on thursday and then we are headed to idaho to play with everyone. We are so excited and look forward to the family fun. Rich is looking forward to having a break before school starts back up in august. 

This week we applied for an apartment and hopefully will have a place to move into when we get back. We will miss my family a lot but are looking forward to being back in eugene with friends.  

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Naughty Book

I have a friend who has a bunch of kids including 2 sets of twins. Her kids are always getting into trouble. The 2 year old set of twins and her 3 year old are CRAZY! She was telling me the other day about a naughty book. Where she takes pictures of the kids "activities" and puts them into a naughty book for the kids to look at when they are older and see what they had done. I LOVE THIS. I wish I would have started one when claire was about 5 months old because she has had quite a few naughty book worthy activities. I just might have to start now. 

Tuesday was just one of those days! I was making dinner and claire was running around my feet grumpy and tired. I started to smell poop and figured I would change her diaper in a minute when I was done with what I was doing. Claire got quiet (not a good sign). I turned around to find claire with her pants and diaper off and she was drawing pictures on the floor with her POOP!


I wish i would have gotten a picture of the drawing but I got a little distracted with getting everything clean! 

The 4th of July!

We had a great chill 4th of july this year. We had a big trip planned for the beach and everything but then decided to stay home instead and I am so glad we did! 


Growing up we used to always have meals on holidays that went with the color scheme of the day. This 4th of july we did just that. We had a red, white and blue party. Which included pasta salad (I had a lot of fun dying the noodles), A bowl of punch, rice crispy treats, cherry cheese cake, a brownie cake with strawberries and blueberries and lots more...




Claire had a lot of fun playing with gwen... 


Scott enjoyed the company... 


We set off a couple fireworks ourselves... 



Then walked across the street to the park and watch the big fireworks there. Surprisingly it was a pretty good show for such a small town.




It was a great 4th of july. We had a lot of fun with family!

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Grandma Butler

Today was Grandma Butler's funeral. We will miss grandma and all the visits to her house after church.   We were sad that we weren't able to make it to Idaho with everyone.