Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope you all had a Happy Valentine's Day, I know we did. If you are anything like us then you know what it's like when you have little kids at home and you probably didn't do a whole lot because it's too hard to get a babysitter. It was still nice though. My birthday was on the 12th so we naturally just kind of combine the two. For Valentine's we decided not to waste money on flowers or something stupid and we wanted a Wii so that was our gift to each other plus for my birthday. We actually got it last Sunday and have been playing it all week and I have to tell you that it is quite a workout. On my birthday Bradyn did suprise me with another gift and a card and brought home crab legs and we just had a nice dinner at home. And on Valentines I made a big breakfast which included heart shaped pancakes, we just hung out around the house all day and ate homeade chili verde for dinner. I think when you have kids, Valentine's becomes just as much their holiday as does it yours especially with all the presents my kids received between use and their grandparents.

A Day With My Grandma's

A couple months ago I invited both of my Grandma's to go to the Draper Temple open house with me. I was excited to see this Temple because I work for Draper City and wanted to see the finished product that I was involved in. The open house started on January 15th and goes until March 14th. We attended the open house just this last Wednesday, February 11th. The Temple was very beautiful and had such a peaceful presence about it. After we visited the Temple we went and had a nice lunch. I had a lot of fun and it was really nice to just spend the day with both of my Grandma's. Thanks ReNae for watching my kids. It made it a lot easier to enjoy the day.

What Houston's Been Up To

I feel like I am always posting about Peyton and my mom pointed out that I have only posted a couple of pictures of Houston since Christmas. So I decided that this post would be about Houston and a little bit about Peyton (I can't help myself).

Well Houston just keeps getting bigger and bigger everyday. He will be 8 months on the 15th of this month. When I took him in for his 6 month appointment a week before Christmas he weighed 22 lbs 3 oz and was 29 inches tall. I suppose by now he is probably at least 24 or 25 lbs and another 1 or 2 inches taller. Last night I finally put away the infant carseat and broke out the toddler one. I just finally got sick of packing him around because between him and the carseat it is quite a load. Plus I was noticing for the first time last night that the infant carseat is for babies that weigh 20 lbs or less and are 26 inches or less tall. Oops!

Houston has been such a good baby so far. He has been sleeping through night for several months now and still loves his 2 long naps during the day. He is very content just playing on the floor, in his walker or in his jumperoo and he is constantly laughing at his big sister. She can just walk by him and he starts cracking up. He sits up real well now, rolls all over the place and gets around pretty good by scooting with his arms and legs but he has yet to crawl. I know it is still early but it just seems that because he is so big he should be crawling by now. Soon I suppose. He is quite the eater. Tonight he had a jar of carrots, 1/2 jar of pears, a hand full of sweet potato puffs and a whole banana cream pudding all to himself. Plus he'll have his bottle before he goes to bed. But he might be up late tonight with a little sugar in him. Here are some recent pictures of him. The ones of him sitting up on the floor were from a couple days ago and the ones of Peyton feeding him pudding were from tonight.