May

 This is Brook just after having a bath. Her hair is so curly. I love it.

 Every year my work (Unified Police Crossing Guards) has an end of the year party. So in May just as school is getting out we go to the Zoo and then have hot dogs and other police things we can let our kids see like the SWAT trucks and K-9 unit and a bunch of other things. This is Camrie just as we were getting to the Zoo. Her and Brooky had there sunglasses and sunscreen on and were all ready for a sunny day.

 

 Brook spent most of her time in the stroller so she wouldn't run off.

 We get to go into the Zoo before it opens to the public and it seems like we always get there just as the Tigers have been let out and feed because they go running all over the place and are really active which is fun to see. By the end of the day when we are going home (at like noon) the tigers are mostly just laying around.

 Brook loved watching the elephants. I'm not sure if it was just the elephants or if it was that she got to be out of her stroller for a good amount of time. She would have stayed there if we would have let her.

 Here the girls are looking at the apes or whatever they are.

 It's crazy how big they are. This one keep looking at Camrie out of the corner of his eye.

 When we were ready to leave the zoo we had already missed the hot dog and other part of the party but we didn't mind so much. We decided that we would go to This is the Place across the street because we had just gotten a year pass for there and hadn't been there yet. Camrie LOVES horses and wanted to just keep riding horses the whole time we were there. This girl would love to have a pet horse.

 Brook loved to run around in the pasture with the small animals but wanted nothing to do with riding the pony.

 This picture was like two seconds before she grabbed that poor little lambs nose. The lamb went running away from her as soon as she did that.

 We road on a big "train" around to the different spots around the whole place.

 Camrie really loved running around the maypole.

 We got this map to show us were all the spots were and Camrie took this everywhere with her for about a week or so. She liked to show everyone where we went and where the ponies were. Camrie took this picture of the map on our way home just before they both crashed from having an event filled day. I think that they were asleep before we even go out of the parking lot.

 My Brother LeRoy got home form his mission in England. We were super excited. We decorated the house and had balloons all over the lawn. Alison printed some cute stickers for the girls to wear and she got some Amereican flags for them to hold.

 This was the first time that he got to see Brooklyn because she was born like 3 months after he left.

 Camrie made a card for him. She was a little shy when she saw him. She is like that most of the time when we get to a new place or see new people. Camrie was the age that Brook is now when LeRoy left on his mission so she remembers things from pictures which we would show her while he was gone. We have lots of fun pictures and videos of the two of them before he left.

 Hanging out at the house after the airport.

 We went to the baby and kids Expo and they had this thing where you could float on the water in these balls. Camrie wanted to do it but wasn't so sure once they started filling the ball up with air.

 She stayed in it for a little bit but them wanted to get out.

 We tried to put Norah in also but she didn't like the air being put in either so she got out.

Same thing with Myla she wanted to get out right away. We couldn't even get Brook to sit in the ball so we didn't even try to blow it up with her.

 Camrie loved playing in the bounce area. It was hard to get her to leave.

 Norah just sat in the corner and didn't really move and when we put Brook in next to her Brook just screamed so we took her out.

 Alison taking Norah on one of the bigger climbing blow ups. Norah really liked that. We took Brook on this one also and she liked it because we stayed with her. I didn't get pictures because my Camera died.

April

Brook was so proud of herself when she found that she could take the stool from the bathroom and put it next to things to get closer. She also loves wearing her church shoes all the time.

 Camrie playing at the park.

 The girls favorite hiding place at my parents house is in this empty cabinet in my dad's hunting room. 

 Brooky doing a headstand.

 We went to the Aquarium with my cousin and her kids. They liked watching the sting rays but they didn't want to touch them. My cousin's boy Noah liked to touch the sting rays.

 We spent a lot of time just hanging out at the tanks in the sting ray room. The girls liked being able to see in them better because they were on the ground. You could also see in on several sides.

 One day after lunch I hadn't cleaned up yet and brooky decided to sit up to the table and eat some more. This was the first time she had sat at the table like a big girl and she thought it was pretty neat.

 At Cam's parents house the girls climbed up in the stools to look out the window. Brooky and Myla thought that they were pretty big and Camrie decided to join in on the fun.

 Brooky playing with my parents dogs outside.

I think that I say this all the time but Brooky is a good eater. Here she is eating Chili and loving it.

 Brooky finding her Easter Eggs at our house the Saturday before Easter.

 Camrie getting into her Easter basket Saturday morning.

 Brooky with her Easter basket.

 Camrie with her BIG chocolate bunny.

 We went to an Easter Egg hunt at my Aunts house Saturday and she had a bunny in her yard. The girls liked getting in the cage with the bunny.

 Camrie finding her eggs at the egg hunt.

March

Who needs toys when you have a box full of packing peanuts?

Well maybe toys inside the box can be fun also. 
We went to this place called "The Chocolate" that sells cakes, cookies, brownies, and other pastries. The girls loved looking at the mini cupcakes in the glass case. My mom let them each pick out a mini cupcake to have.

My brother Jake bought a house back in February and we would go over to help him redo some things before he moved in. We maybe created more work then we did help out but it was fun to see the changes made. One of the times it was just me and the girls over there and I was putting together some new bar stools. The girls had found a quiet way to entertain themselves. It took me a while to realize that it was too quiet. I went to find them and it had snowed in Jake's house or at least that is what it looked like.

They had gotten the foam that the bar stools were packed in and broken it up in to teeny tiny pieces. It was EVERYWHERE. I was so mad. It was sticking to everything.



  I made Camrie vacuum it up but that only lasted like two seconds till she decided that it wasn't fun anymore. So I made her sit in the corner while I finished cleaning it all up or at least getting what I could up. I'm sure that Jake was vacuuming foam from his new carpet for a couple of weeks.

Holidays are so much more fun when you have kids to really get into it. This is the girls when they first got up on St Patrick's Day. They (Camrie) made sure that we all wore something green to bed so that we wouldn't get pinched in the morning.When they got up there was a trail of gold coins that went from their bedroom, down the hall to the living room, then into the kitchen and up on to the table.

This is what they found on the table at the end of the trail. Lucky Charms cereal to eat for breakfast, the rest of the gold coins and a note from the Leprechaun that had left everything. It took them about half the day to realize that the gold coins were chocolate.

For some reason that I don't know Camrie loves to were my mom's cloths. Here she is on St. Patrick's Day wearing my mom's PJ's

Here are some funny pictures of the girls. They set up their folding chairs to watch the TV together.

Brooky wearing my bunny slippers.


I found Camrie watching TV like this one time. It looked like she was going to fall off the railing and down the stairs. I don't know why she thought that was a good way to set but she was practically asleep like that.  Brooky having her first popsical I believe.

Cam's parents took all of us to St. George again this year and it was a much needed break from everyday life. The condo that we stayed in was on the ground level and it had a playground right out side it's back door which was great for all the kids. We spent a lot of time just hanging around the condo and playground. The boys went golfing the girls went shopping and we spent some time at the indoor pool.

Brooky loved swing and once she started it was hard to get her away from the swings.


Don't let this picture fool you. I'm sure that she was just so tired from swinging and the long drive down that she could barely hold on but she wouldn't let us take her off the swing. 
This is what she looked like most of the time that she was on the swing.

At this point I think that Myla was so drugged and tired that she was having a hard time showing how excited she was. She had gotten sick just before the trip and so they had a "fun" drive down with a sick child.

Nana J got all the kids matching PJ's for down there.

Brooky dosen't have a hard time eating even if it is not her food. Brooky chowed down her food and decided that she would finish off Myla's also.

This is Camrie eating her dinner at Ponch and Lefty's. I think that we go there every time we are in St. George. It is a favorite.

Myla may be younger then Brooky but she shows her who is boss.

We played so much that one night that we went out to eat Camrie wouldn't wake up from her nap in the car. She fell asleep on our way to dinner and so I stayed in the parking lot with her until our table was ready and our food was there. I took her in and she just laid down on the bench next to Leisa and went back to sleep. We ended up just taking her food home with us because she slept the whole time we were there.

Brooky took all of their books off the bookshelf one day and tried to climb up onto it.