Crawling

He looks like he is crawling but once he puts his first arm down he falls right on his face. He just continues to army crawl. But I thought this picture was really cute.

Ben's 3rd Birthday Party!!

Here are some pictures from Ben's 3rd Birthday Party. He loves motorcycles and I found a Mickey Motorcycle pack at Albertson's that they were wanting to get rid of. So the whole cake and the decorations only cost me around $20. I thought that was pretty good, and the whole cake was gone except 3 pieces. We had a combined birthday party for Ben and Lief. Lief and Ben have the same birthday and his mom and I work together. We thought it would be nice to have it combined because of inviting the same people from work. We had about 70 people there. It was one big party.

The Mickey Mouse Motorcycle Cake!!

Samuel and Ben

Ben, Nic, and Bennett meet in the NICU due to all of them being born premature. They all have done really good and are all 3 years old. It was hard to get them to look at the camera at the same time. Ben just wanted to kiss Nic all of the time.

Ben, Nic, and Bennett

The three amigos. We have called them that ever since they were born. We all work at Albertsons and have done play groups with the kids since they were infants. The play groups when they were infants was so that the parents could get out of the house and eat. It is harder to get together because we all have another child around the same age again.

Ben born Jan. 18

Cameron born Jan. 22

Sophia born April 4 ?

The siblings

Samuel born Mar 29, 2009

Melanie born Aug. 2009

Sienna born Oct 2009

We will have a lot of fun with all of the kids being able to grow up together.

Bath time!!

Bath time usually means that we have both kids in the bath. Benjamin never really got tub baths until he was over 1 year old. Sink baths or putting him the the shower was the easy way to get him clean. So Sam is really lucky that he has been getting baths for awhile. He really likes to splash around with Ben.

Benjamin trying to be funny.

Ben and Sam

I really think this picture is cute. He is so happy.

Ben's beard

Sam's beard.

Mom and Dad, AKA Grandma Kathy and Papa

Before my mom and dad left for there mission I was able to get a picture of my kids with them. I have gotten 2 professional pictures with James parents. Since mom and dad have always been in town we have taken pictures when we go over there but nothing professional. I love my parents and are glad that they can be a great example to my children. The kids also love them so much.

Mom and Dad

The kids with mom and dad.

I think the pictures turned out good. It is hard to get a 3 year old to sit still for there pictures to be taken.

HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY BENJAMIN ANDREW

Our little boy had a hard start with being born premature at 29 weeks. It was really scary for us when they told us that Benjamin was going to be born today three years ago. My water had broke and they weren't going to be able to stop labor. My mom, dad, and James were there for me. We had a lot of prayers for me and little Benjamin that we would be taken care of during labor and that Benjamin would be as healthy as could be. He was born at 3lbs 3ozs. He was little but doing really well. After 42 days in the NICU we were able to take our little boy home. It was a great day for James and I. We love you so much little Benjamin and wish you a Happy Birthday.

His bed at 2 weeks old.

Here he is at 3 weeks old.

Mommy visiting Ben at the hospital. It was so very hard to leave him at the hospital.

Ben's hospital picture when he went home from the hospital at 42 days old. He was a little over 5lbs

Benjamin's First Birthday Picture.

He was around 23lbs at 1 year old.

Here he is a little over 2 years old.

Benjamin at 2 1/2 years old

Our little boy at 3 years old.

Zhu Zhu pets are both of my kids favorite toys!!

I found Sam playing or shall I say eating a Zhu Zhu Pet. I thought he knew that we had to look high and low to get one for christmas. At least he is still in one piece.

It really good.

I promise I will leave him alone.

Look at that smile, do you think I would lie.

He is a really good chew toy.

I love Ben's Zhu Zhu pet.

Samuel's 9 Month Old Pictures

Samuel is a big boy now.. He is 23lbs 7oz at 9 months old. He is 28 7/8 inches long. He is in the 87 Percentile for weight, and 67 Percentile for height.