For Mel

Benjamin on the first day of school- My dear friend Melanie pointed out the poor BT has been neglected on the blog. This ones for you Mel. Benjamin is an amazing kid. He loves music, is an amazing speller, and is extremely persistant. He hates going to bed alone or upstairs for that matter. He and Bry Bry share the bottom bunk bed. He loves to be tucked in and to have me say, "I'll love you for ever I'll love you for always as long as I'm living my baby you will be" while I'm hugging him good night. I don't win the mother of the year award when it comes to sweet bed time rituals. (He also loves a story and a song). I get up at 4:46am to run or go to the gym so it's night night for mommy around 9pm. I get pretty grumpy when it's almost 10 pm and he and Bry keep running into our room or fighting because Bryant wont be quiet or he is kicking Benjamin. The big threat is that one of them will be all alone in the top bunk if they don't quit fighting and go to sleep.

Bryant makes Saturday breakfast

Bryant made pancakes for us on Saturday. Bryant will be four on Sept 27th. He spends most of his day playing with Gobby (Kaden is his real name). I think those two are connected at the hip.

Chase Samuel!

Chase is so adored by everyone in our family. Matthew commented, "when I see other babies I think that kid is pretty cute, but when I see Chase I think he is the cutest baby in the whole world!"Funny how that is. Chase loves eating cheerios, rolling around on the floor, playing in his activity chair, tearing up paper, putting his fingers in the outlet-we just got plug covers-, taking baths, and playing pat a cake. He will be 9 months old on September 14th. People say he has reddish hair. It does have some red in it but it's brown compared to the other red heads in my family. Chase was born with a plugged tear duct that causes his eye to look infected all the time. It always looked goopy and irritated until 2 weeks ago. It just cleared up! I am so grateful we did not have to do surgery like we did for Bryant. It's so fun to see a picture of Chase with healthy eyes!

The funniest kid in Utah

Matthew tried out in the Funniest Kid in Utah contest at the state fair. His acting was impromptu. I was impressed by his courage to get up in front of an audience. He shared some funny lines he has memorized from the movie Napoleon Dynamite. The contest as you can see was sponsored by The Greatest Show on Earth. Matthew was the BEST- even though the judges didn't agree. We love Matthew!

Markus day dreaming

Markus tried out an electric guitar after his piano recital at the music store. Markus is taking non-electric guitar lessons in junior high. He thought it would be fun and cool until he had to practice. His fingers hurt and he can't play like a rock star yet. Markus seems to like junior high!

Markus Turns 12

NOW I KNOW WHY I NEVER BLOG! My kids are falling apart... the neighbor kids are tatteling, markus and matthew are fighting ove the pizza, Bryant and his friend supposedly colored on the club house table0-now they want to cross the street to Tylans house, Markus is angry because all I do is blog and nobody ever gets in trouble..... and I'm such a computer handicap !!!!!!!!!!!!! I have written this blog 3 times and it still hasn't posted. At first it was cute and sweet.. Now I'll get to the point Markus is going in to 7th grade. He had a birthday complete with a home made breakfast, no chores, lunch at JCW's, school clothes shopping, apple sauce cake, the video of the day he was born, and a family basketball game at the Legacy Center.

Bry Bry and Benjamin

WE LOVE BENJAMIN AND BRYANT! Benjamin is turning 7 in July and has already planned his birthday party. He wants to have an ipod party. He plans to play freeze dance, have the kids write their own song and mom give them awards for their song writing talents, and other games with music as the theme. He also wants chocolate cake and of course- an ipod! Benjamin loves poke'mon, his running club at school, and his favorite animal is a penguin.

Bryant likes playing with Lincoln Logs he builds barns, fences, and bridges for hours. He spends most of his days running bank and forth between his two best friends homes Gobby (Kaden) and Tylan. Today he is looking forward to hosting play group at our house. Bryant goes to Kid Fit at the Legacy Center twice a week. He likes playing on the scooters there and he just learned to bump a volley ball. Bryant also loves to create art projects such as homemade kites, piggy banks, people, spider webs, etc. We go through lots of paper plates, dental floss and tape with his projects.