we LOVE chocolate milk!!

at our house we are big fans of ovaltine. took this cute picture a couple days ago after he took a big swig and just loved it. so this entry isn't a big eventful post, just loved the pic and thought id share it with my fellow bloggers :) hope u enjoy

welcome to the family MAX!

after several months of my cat Mace being missing in action i decided to tell joe that i wanted a new kitty. honestly i expected him to say absolutely no that we dont need another pet. we already have two dogs. he said he was suprised that i had waited this long to ask for one in the first place. i decided to check the prices of the local spca as well as the animal shelter. the spca was kinda pricey at $55 for a kitty but i was suprised to find out that the shelter was promoting "cat adoption month" and the price was only $15! the kitty comes with its first set of shots, spayed or neutered, a voucher for a free vet exam, a bag of kitten food and its first dose of flea treatment. i guess joe figured $15 was worth the gamble of getting a new kitty so that same day we went down to the shelter and let landen pick himself out a kitten. our only rules was it had to be male, and still a kitten rather than an adult cat. he picked one out that was scheduled to be neutered the next day, so we had to wait a couple days to pick him up. over the few days of waiting landen decided to name the kitty Max and couldn't stop talking about him. every time we would walk to the front door or mention we were going somewhere he would ask if we were going to get his favorite friend kitty max yet. we have had max for nearly a week now and landen is soo in love with him! he carries him around the house all day long and runs to play with him as soon as we get home from anywhere! here's a few pics of the new best friends together

landen just loves to sit on the couch with max on his lap watching movies
the kitty cannot do anything without landens supervision including getting a drink of water
he is so proud of his favorite friend kitty max
and the kitty is soo tolerant to just let landen drag him around and take him everywhere

taylors first photoshoot

one of my bet friends Brooke has started up her own photography business. she had a baby girl back in january and i helped watch her older daughter Alaura quite a bit. so in return she offered to do a little photo shoot of taylor for me. ive already posted these pics on my facebook and myspace but im on a hick to do some blog updates so here ya go:i can't believe she is strong enough to hold herself up like this already!

who doesn't love a little baby naked bum!?!?
shortly after this shot she decided to kick her legs out and literally jumped out of the camera shot
i think this one is my favorite. she just looks so innocent and perfect
showing off her pretty blessing dress :)

I HATE PLUBMERS!!!

its not the occupation of being a plumber that i hate, or the dirty work they sometimes have to do. its the fact that i am awake at 7am for the second day in a row waiting for the plumber to arrive to fix the awful pipe hammering in my walls and he's still not here. apparently yesterday he had a family emergency (yeah right!) but the company failed to call and let me know he wouldn't be stopping by. i had to sit there and wait for 45 minutes until i finally picked up the phone to see what was going on. so they apologized and rescheduled for today at 7am. it is now exactly 7:41am and still no plumber. joe is out of town at week in seattle for a work meeting and im home with the two kiddos. i have to schedule these plumbing appts early cause dominic (my day care kiddo) sleeps downstairs for his naps and i dont want the workers waking him up.
**UPDATE** the plumber just called and will be here in about half an hour. what the heck is so hard about being on a job site ON TIME!?!? seriously i woke up at 630 this morning to be up and ready for him and he's not gunna be here until after 8am. i soo could have slept in and really need my sleep these days. i think im gunna call the company and speak with the manager and make a complaint cause this is ridiculous! i guess one good thing did come of it though, im up and awake and both kids are asleep so im updating my blog. but grrrr i much rather would have liked to sleep til after 8 since both my kids are sleeping!

when the boys are away.........the girls will play :)

well joe and landen went camping for a church activity friday night, so that left just me and taylor home alone. so of course i felt we needed to get outta the house and do something. a friend of mine from church who also lives down the street had her three older children gone for the night as well, so we decided to go out with just us and the babies (she has twin boys).
so we got ourselves all glammed up (i put on makeup for maybe the third time this year) and went out to dinner with my friend and her boys. we always joke around that taylor is going to grow up and date the boys so of course she had to look her best too. we ended up just going to que pasa at the marketplace for a yummy dinner then walked around and laughed at all the teeny boppers wearing some crazy outfits. my friends bro-in-law was also dj
i swear she knows how to do the biggest smile, but she refuses to do it on camera. she will just be sitting there smiling like crazy and making the cutest cooing sounds and i bring out the camera and she gives me the stone face! but of course the boys still thought she looked great. but she needs our opinion, she just cant seem to decide which one to go for first. they are both adorable (they are twins remember) and are both in love with her, and of course are both great at making her laugh. so what do you think?
should she go for him:
or him:

enjoying the warm weather!

so when landen isnt feeling under the weather we have been trying to spend alot of time outside enjoying the warm, but not too hot, weather while we can. its been soo much fun having lots of young kids on our block to be able to come over and play. landen got a cute little slip and slide for his birthday from his friend avery that we have been using nearly every day. then my friend carianne gave me a great idea to put the slip and slide underneath the slide and have them go down the slide ONTO the slip and slide. what a great idea!!! obviously the kids loved it and now landen wants to do this every single day as soon as he wakes up. i have a hard time getting him to even eat breakfast before he's wanting to go outside and "slip slide". and he prefers not to do this alone but requests to have his friends alaura, isaac, alyssa and alexis all come over and play with him.
im not quite brave enough to watch ALL the kids at the same time, but a couple of them at a time seems to work out great. luckily everyone plays well together and they are soo cute to listen to them talk to each other like little adults! we are soo grateful for living in this new ward and this new great neighborhood. there are so many wonderful young couples that we have become friends with and landen loves all his new friends.

grandbaby pictures

so we figured since there are four grandkids now on my side of the family, that it was due time to get em all together and get their pictures taken. little did we know just how hard it would be to get two newborns and two toddler boys all to cooperate for pictures at the same time! landen was a little bit too helpful trying to help get the other kids attention by tickling them or talking to them or whatever the photographer was trying to do, he copied her. it was quite a challenge to say the least. but we managed to get at least one good pose of all four kids not crying and at least sorta looking in the direction of the camera. so to celebrate we let the big boys ride on a couple rides at the mall while we waited for the pictures to process. landen and bradyn did so good taking turns driving the rides even!
so we go back to pick out the pictures and leave the dads in charge of the kids while monica and i pick out which pictures to order. poor bradyn had been at JCPennys for long enough and almost fell asleep watching the movie. he was a tired little boy! but he sure looked cute with his little mohawk hair even with his fussy face!!
And this is cute little AJ being such a good tropper waiting for pictures to process. both babies were soo good while we moved them around in all the different poses. we even managed to get pictures of the babies with both of their brothers together plus the two families managed to get little family pics too. not bad for a day's work huh. now we just cant wait to get the pictures back in a couple more days!! (sorry the pic is crooked, i couldnt figure out how to rotate it)