Grace 11 months...AHH she's almost 1!!

What a change in just one month...she loves to pull up onto things and stand...always standing!  Her balance is awesome, she can stand on her own but doesn't trust herself yet.  She started walking with a toy 'bin' at her Gran and Granddad's house a few weeks ago and will now walk with anything that slides.  She is starting to use her walker now too, so we shall see if she beats her brother on walking...he took his first steps 2 weeks before he turned one.  (comparing is bad i know:)  anyways Grace can also crawl up our 6 stairs from living room to kitchen...she's fine as long as she doesn't try to sit or look back, she has fallen from the top twice now, and hardly puts up a fuss.  I'm still nursing.  I plan to stop sometime this month.  It's just time for both of us.  Her newest sign that is so cute is 'bird' and she'll say the b sound.   Also the d sound for Ammo:)  She sleeps all night now!! no more waking up and sitting up.  Usually asleep by 7pm and up at 6:30am (wish I could change the wake up time, but really I shouldn't complain).  Besides being happy all the time, she is an awesome girl. 

Showing me where baby's eyes are...

I'm pretty sure she will eat anything that is put infront of her (or atleast try it). Her fav is cheese strings, veggies, strawberries, any bread/buns.

All prettied up for church

Finally starting to like the walker:)

Happy Easter!

I am so grateful for Easter and the true meaning of it.  This year Parks is old enough to learn about Our Savior's Resurrection.  He loves watching the animated movie that we have, and it really helps him understand who Jesus is and what he has done for us all.  I get such a warm feeling during this special holiday and I am so grateful for my family and the time we get to spend with each other.  I cherish every second.  I know that Heavenly Father exists and is watching over us, he sent his only Begotten Son to earth so that we could all learn from Jesus, and more importantly, have The Atonement in our lives.  Hope everyone had a great Easter like we did:)
Matt was off work for the Easter long weekend so we did a lot of fun family time stuff...decorated Easter cookies together, Parks did a little Easter egg hunt and got lots of goody's in his basket from the Easter bunny (ie Nana and Papa).  The weather was beautiful, so we went to the park and had a picnic...and on Sunday we had a family dinner at Gran and Granddad's followed by an outdoor Easter egg hunt for all the kids.  Here are a few pics...

Easter morning...checking out their baskets...so cute!

definitely not edible with the amount of icing and sprinkles Parks puts on

He is just growing up way too fast! His size 3 pjs are way too small now, its like he grew overnight or something...I cant handle this!

Picnics are the best!

Parks loves big slides now! and Gracie does too:)

Parks favorite thing to do these days is pretend to be a gopher running around...than Daddy shoots it and well yeah...Parks is the gopher:) Its awful I know. but Grace thinks its so fun when Parks plays dead.

Grace hates her walker, but if you give her a box of some sort she is happy to walk!

I just think Parks is the cutest most sweetest little boy ever! He was watching a show with Matt and I just had to take a picture of his perfect little face:)

Ready for church wearing her Easter dress from Nana:) This was the first time I put on her bracelet from Christina...She loved looking at it and watching it sparkle...than she just ignored it and it looks so cute on!

Ballerina Girl!

Auntie Kristi this picture is for you! She's been practicing hard for you:)

April update!

It was SPRING a few days ago! and for us that meant we could finally start doing things outside without freezing!  Our family LOVES being outside:)  It helps the kids burn off energy and they sleep wonderfully at night.  At the beginning of this month we lived at Matt's parents house for a week to watch our two nephews that are living there for a bit.  Grant and Sue went to Hawaii for a muchly needed break.  It was really fun spending time with the boys and getting to live in a much larger house.  Grant and Sue live on just over 300 acres of farm land so it is wide open spaces...perfect for kids and dogs!  When we got our last big dump of snow here it was snowmobiling heaven for the kids...it melted quickly though and it really was starting to feel like spring weather, I even got a bit of a tan on my face:)  Unfortunately for the past 2 days it is winter again!  We woke up the other morning to a good 10-15cm of snow:(  Gotta take the good with the bad I guess...we did get 1 good week of Spring.  Yesterday Matt and I splurged and bought a Schwinn double seat bike trailer/stroller.  The kids and I are so pumped! I cant wait to get some exercise whenever I want with two kids...usually I have to wait until Matt gets home or when they nap.  it sucks because that's usually when I'm too tired to do anything.  The life of a mom right.  Biking, rollerblading and running here I come!:)

at Grant and Sue's

This little girl is so happy to be outside

and of course Parks too...especially when there are tons of puddles to jump in!

Grace and I have been going for some bumpy walks on the dirt road by Grant and Sue's, she loves it though...drinks her bottle and than passes out:)

Using Seth's board

Here is my sexy husband changing the oil in the car..lol

Matt taught the boys how to make a harness with his fire rope...in case they needed to save someone, so the next few pics are us spending quality time:)

She prefers to crawl!

This is where Grace spent most of her time...she loves Gran's piano

and this pic is my favorite, they were being so cute that morning...Parks was teaching Grace how to play, wish I would have had my video camera