Cute Nora Jane...my little Disney Princess

Daniel's cousin on the Pace side recently got married, and Anne Marie hosted the bridal shower.  Grandmother Pace chose a Beauty and the Beast theme for the shower, because the bride's middle name is Beauty.  So when Anne Marie and Annalisa found this at the party store they couldn't resist.  Nora Jane of course loves it!

Graydon's 4 Months!

Graydon's 4 month check up

13.5 lbs

25"

He checked out great, still sleeping all the time, and all through the night.

Doctor's waiting till 6 months to start him on food...fine by me, less work! :)

Still just loving this little guy!!

Just cute kids!

More Zoo

Since the kids and I get a little bored of one another at the zoo...I decided to switch it up a little this week, and take two of my cute Young Women, Katie and Sarah.  We had an awesome time, it was nice to have other people there to entertain my kids, while I took care of Graydon.

Girl's Camp

There are many reasons that I love my little Graydon...but getting out of going to Girls Camp this summer is now at the top of the list! :)  Three other leaders, two of which just had babies in June, all drove up together for Visitors night.  This is how the car situation turned out; Melissa and myself in the front seats. The three babies, Annalise, Graydon and Quinton, took up the middle seat, and then the two other mom's, Megan and Esther in the back seat.  It was sort of comical...but all three babies slept soundly going and coming.

As soon as we arrived at the camp the Young Women ran and literally climbed on my car and began fighting over who got to hold which baby.

The girls were more than excited to strap on the baby bjorns and hike over to the Stake devotional.

We had a very yummy dutch oven dinner, followed by the Stake nightly devotional and then ward testimony meeting.  By the end of the evening, after a beautiful testimony meeting with all the girls, leaders and the bishopric, it reminded me of why Girls Camp is so wonderful and I'd be happy to go again without the kids sometime.  It will still be an adjustment to stay in tents and cook all our own food, from my Girls Camp experiences in Ohio.  Cabins with full bathrooms in them, cafeteria for all meals, and a pool...but 4 days away from the kids....it may be worth it! :)

Graydon's rolling over!

A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that people who had babies about the same age as Graydon were talking about how their babies were rolling over.  I thought, Wow, I don't think Graydon's even close to that, but I guess that's just because when he's not eating, he's in his bed sleeping.  I was happy to just keep enjoying all the sleep.

But in the last couple of weeks, I have laid him on his play mat while I make dinner, and he really can move around quite a bit, and in the last week and half or so, has started working really hard to roll over.

On Sunday, at Grandma and Grandpa's, this was as far as he got, and then he fell sound asleep.

Today, its about all he wants to do is roll all the way over to his tummy and hang out for awhile.

Love you Graydon Monkey....and all your sleeping! :)

This Aint Our First Rodeo....

...Well okay, it was Graydon's first rodeo. :)  Daniel and I were invited to go to the Oakley Rodeo, by a friend who's company was a sponsor.  We went to the Thursday night rodeo, and had VIP parking, and entrance to the Hospitality room, with lots of food.  We left the kids home with a sitter.  It was such a fun date night!!  We found out on Tuesday night, that Daniel's good friend (and mine now too) Jessie Clissold was singing at the Rodeo Friday night.  We know that the Oakley rodeo is a very popular one and typically sold out months in advance.  On our way home Thursday night, we decided we'd really like the take the kids and go Friday night to hear Jessie sing.  So the next morning I got online to try and find tickets on KSL Classifieds...and found out they weren't sold out yet.  So we bought tickets and went up again.  We all had so much fun!!  And we were all excited to hear Jessie sing.  It honestly brought tears to my eyes to hear her sing our National Anthem, and it was a great way to celebrate the 4th!

We're all ready to buy our tickets for next year!!

Olympus High Basketball Camp

Tucker has had the awesome opportunity this summer to go to 3 weeks of Basketball Camp at Olympus High School (Daniel's Alma Mater).  The really neat part has been that Tucker's Uncle Stuart is going to be a Senior there, and has been helping run the camp.  So every day, Stu comes by and picks up Tucker to take him to the camp.  It has been then neatest experience for Tucker to have an Uncle around that he can be so close with.  Tucker honestly thinks of Stu (and all of Stu's friends) as his friends.  A friend from our old neighborhood, has been sending her boys to the same camp, and when I talked to her the other day, she said that her son came home and told her all about this boy that is Tucker's twin, just bigger.  When she explained it was his Uncle, he thought it was so cool!

Plus Tucker has met some of the other neighborhood boys, who have invited him over to play after camp.  I knew they were a little older than him, but later found out they are 6th graders, and the parents couldn't believe how well Tucker keeps up with them.  He's such a social animal! 

Now that he's riding his bike so well, he's got this new found freedom, and we find him at different houses in the neighborhood everyday.

The other exciting part is that Tucker got his first very own Olympus T-shirt (If you saw Daniel's collection of them, you'd understand the significance of this)  Today, he came home from his last day of camp, and Coach Barnes (Daniel's HS coach, who's still there) gave Tucker an extra T-shirt!!  

So sad it over....what am I going to do with this kid all day now!??!

The Zoo!

We got a Zoo membership this year.  So when I'm tired of being at home...we can head out and only have to stay for an hour or two.  We've already gone twice! The first time we went, Nora Jane kept asking, "Why are their giraffes here?"  "Why is there a tiger here?" "Why are there monkeys here?"  I think she's caught on to it....maybe. 

The great thing about it is:

Sweet Graydon!

 I'm not very good at consistent posts about Graydon, but I thought I'd share some photos of him, now that he's 3 months old.  He is the sweetest baby!  He sleeps, eats, sucks his thumb and smiles...a lot!  We all love him so much...as you'll see:

April 12, 2011

April 25, 2011 Nora Jane kept putting that pink mask on his head and laughing hysterically.  It was pretty cute!

June 1, 2011

June 3, 2011

June 3, 2011

June 4, 2011

June 9, 2011

June 9, 2011