Late post...

4th of July firworks. We had a bunch of glow sticks and got Collin pose with them.

Our ward did a 24th parade. Collin rode his bike and I pushed Landon in the stroller. Landon got a toosie roll and decided to eat it, paper and all.

Chase's work had their summer party at Thanksgiving Point this year and we got passes to the petting zoo. Collin loved the pony ride.

I'm not sure why I didn't get any pictures of Landon. He was doing a great job with the animal nosies.

Collin has had this bike since his 3rd birthday but never showed much interest in it until last week. He just hopped on and started going. He rides it every where now (with his helmet, he still falls some...)

Trying to make my bed...

Cute picture of Landon :)

Teddy bear

Confession- I take pictures of the boys thinking "This picture will be so cute at their reception." I'm a dork.

Here are a few updates on the boys-
Landon:
-is learning animal noises right now and loving it. He will do a monkey noise in the car all the time. I'm still trying to figure out why.
-is also learning body parts. He knows the face and loves sticking out his tongue, especially during church when he is supposed to be quite.
-is getting 4 teeth in right now, 2 on top and 2 on bottom (one is a molar). He has been very fussy and tired from not sleeping well at night.

Collin:
-is a goof ball. I told him the other day "Collin, I have the song from peep stuck in my head." A second later he stood on the couch by me and looking at the top of my head said, "Can I see it?"
-likes to play I Spy and will often say something like "I spy with my little eyes something that is glad and orange. Its Tigger!" or "I spy with my little eyes something tree-y. Its a tree!!"
-Chase taught him knock knock jokes, and his favorite one that he made up is "knock knock. Whose there? Lightning McQueen. Lightning McQueen who? VRRRROOMMMM." Its great.
-IS POTTY TRAINED!!! We've been doing really good except for going poopy. I told him a long time ago that if he started doing it he could get a new Geo Trax train. About 3 weeks ago he started and I found a good set on KSL. He is in heaven.

Kim's in-laws bought Jacob and Ben one of the 4 foot (or so) teddy bears from Costco. I stole it and her kids and took pictures of all the boys.

Whoa. Didn't notice Collin's face until now. I don't think he's looking at Jacob...

Stadium of Fire!

Went to Stadium of Fire last night with Chase and my mom. It was really fun- we had a crazy David Archuleta fan next to us who was freaking out. It was really funny. Brad Pasley was really fun as well. Now we just have to make it through tomorrow with the fair, parade, family dinner and firework show!! Love the 4th!!

I'll never be a pilot!!

We went to see the first Frontier airplane land at the Provo airport on Monday night. It was supposed to land at 9:15 but it was delayed at the Denver airport so it came in at 9:40. Stu and Suzannes kids came as well, so that kept Collin busy and Landon mostly busy.
On the way home Collin started to cry saying "I want to take the airplane home!!" Me, "Its too big. It won't fit in our house." Collin, "I'll never be a pilot!!!" He was really tired.

The rest of the post is all the stuff we've been up to lately.

Collin and Landon love to sit in these blue chairs.

We went to the Orem Summerfest and Collin got to ride the Ferris Wheel. I had to ride on it with him. I'm not a fan of the Ferris Wheel. We won't be riding another one anytime soon.

I put gel in Landon's hair one day. It got a little.... puffy.

There was a reading fair at BYU a few weeks ago and Collin was SOOO excited to see the "robots". He was a little scared of Darth Vader cause of how he sounded but by the end he was his favorite.

I made these cupcake a few months ago but just never got around to posting this picture. They are supposed to be cookie monster.

Collin LOVES maps. He is our navigator.

This picture is to show Landon's poor little face. Within two days he had taken two falls right on his face. First he got the scrap under his eye (landing just wrong on some brick...) and then he fell out of one of the little blue chairs and conked his head on the cement. Poor kid.

Toys toys toys

So last night I decided to go through our toys. We have 6 boxes of toys under our TV that are just a mess. The boys hardly ever play with them because they are all full of junk. Its hard the find the good toys among all the knick knacks. I emptied two boxes and put Collins toys in one box, baby toys in another (just to have around, not that we are expecting.), Landon's toys in one, and one for balls. Seemed easy enough for me. Didn't think through what would happy when Landon's box and Collin's box come out at the same time. Toy mix #1.
Then I had a bag of toys to give to DI. As soon as the boys woke up this morning they saw the bag, emptied it, and would only play with those toys. Toy mix #2.

Sometimes I forget that Landon is only 15 months, not 3 like Collin. If he were older this would have worked much better. I guess I'll try again in a few years... :)

Love/dislike relationship

I have a love/dislike relationship with Collin getting in bed with Chase and I, usually around 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning. He doesn't do it very often, but when he does he sleeps in much later then when he's in his own bed. I love the fact that its about the only time that Collin sits still long enough for me to snuggle with him. And he's so quite. And calm. And I remember how cute he is. :)
The dislike part comes from the fact that even though he is small he feels like he needs a lot of room. He usually ends up with his head on my legs/back/stomach which means I can't move and I get one or two kicks to the side/head sometimes. But I can handle that cause he's so cute.

Arrrr pirates!!

So we had Collins 3rd birthday part today with two of his friends from our ward. We decided on Tuesday to do a pirate themed party so I had just a few days to do all the things I wanted to. But I think it went really well.

Chase drew our treasure map- my mom had some fabric left over from a project that I cut up and burned the edges.

Here they are at the beginning of the hunt. I made the costumes for the boys- the hats are made out of felt, the vests are just black fabric and the white shirts have a pirate ship that we used freezer paper to paint on.


Still working on the hunt...

Here is the treasure chest. It was supposed to be a pinata but I forgot to put a hole on top so we could hang it from something. So Chase just helped the boys rip the top off. Its a Styrofoam cooler that I got from Walmart and just covered with butcher paper. We already had the "lock" from a chest from IKEA.

Here they are right after opening the chest.

And here are all the goodies.

Then we did "walk the plank"

That's the best picture of the costume that I got.

Singing happy birthday and blowing out the candles.

Got some Cars toys. Super excited.

And some beach toys. He wanted to play with them in the water right then.

And we told Kim that since it was a dress up party that Jacob had to wear his Superman outfit.

So we put Landon in his turtle outfit. It was actually really funny to see them walking around all dressed up.

So all in all it was a fun party and I think Collin had lots of fun.

Collin- he knows all about that

Collin will tell me all the time, "I know all about that mom." Like volcanoes- "I know all about volcanoes mom. The volcanoes shake (and he will shake his whole body) and then the HOT lava comes out. Then it will burn the monkeys." (thanks to an episode of Little Einsteins about a volcano that was about to erupt and a monkeys tail was stuck he has put volcanoes and monkeys together. I'm a little worried about when he starts school and says stuff like THE VOLCANO IS GOING TO BURN THE MONKEY when they talk about volcanos....)

Or when he finds a paper that I have written a shopping list on he'll bring it to me and say "MOM, its a message. It says, "if you want to ride the train you need to find the train tracks."

We bought Collin some new shoes back in March and when he saw them at the store he said, "Those are robot shoes. I like those robot shoes." So we bought them and let him wear them in the store. He went up to another little boy in the store and said, "Look at my robot shoes!" To which the little boy then told his mom that he was also wearing robot shoes.

We will be riding in the car and Collin will all the sudden say "Mom, whats your favorite animal?" and I'll say something like, "Umm, a horse." Collin: "No mom. Your favorite animal makes the sound like MOOOOO." Me: "Oh, a cow. Sure"

What I did this weekend

This weekend was busy busy. Saturday was great weather so we spent the whole day outside.

Landon's pretty good with this little car. Sometimes he has a hard time figuring out how to get in, and he falls out a lot when he is trying to get out.

These are my mom's new garden boxes that Chase made and put in this week.

Collin and I mowed the lawn. We mow the lawn together every week (or so...) and he likes to get right up next to me and push his mower around.

And the biggest project this week. We have had this area behind the car port open since we moved in a year ago and my mom has wanted it closed off to give her a little more privacy. I painted the panels and then Chase put them up. It looks great.

I think he looks like he's wearing a fuzzy Darth Vader mask in this picture. I walked outside to check on him and he was riding his bike around with the hat pulled down like this.

SLC trip

We took some new family pictures tonight. These two boys are hard to take pictures of, but Kim was able to get a few good ones. This is my favorite.

On Saturday night we needed to pick my mom up at the airport so we decided to drive up a little early and just hang around. First we went to the Capital building and walked around. I had never been there before. It was amazing!

This is a statue of Brigham Young. Collin was having lots of fun running around, so it was really hard to get him to stand still.

I just realized this was kind of a boring post... sorry.