Our Smiley Little Drool Machine

Lizzy is almost 6 months old and I can't believe it! The past couple of weeks her cute little personality has really started to come out. She is becoming a very smiley and happy little girl. Mom and Dad's fingers are her favorite chew toys right now. Karen put this on Facebook, but she got her two front teeth for Christmas... literally. They're kinda hard to see, but you can definitely feel them when she's gnawing away at your fingers--OUCH!! If you see me and I'm missing a finger, you'll know why.

Here are a couple of photos I took of our little drool machine the other day. A bib you ask? ...we put a bib on her even when she's not eating so that she doesn't completely soak her clothes with her slobber. She also is a master of spitting up, so I guess it's kind of dual-purpose.

Here is a video of her. She can sit up all by herself... well, as long as she has the Boppy behind her. She loves playing with toys and can actually entertain herself, which makes her Mommy VERY happy.

Tyler's Second Birthday

We celebrated Tyler's second birthday today, which was of course... a Sponge Bob party!!! It's hard to believe that our little boy is already two years old! Karen made the cake, which turned out awesome!!

4th of July 2009

For the 4th of July a buddy and I went to go and talk pictures of the hot air baloons in Provo. Here are a few shots:

After I took baloon festival, Tyler and I walked down to the parade... actually I walked and Tyler got to ride in his stroller (he actually stayed in it, that NEVER happens):

Tyler got his picture with Captin America... I seem to remember Captin America being in a little better shape...

Later on in the day Tyler had OtterPops with Mom and his cousins:

Colorado Trip

We visited Karen's family out in Colorado last week. Jeannette and Steve were kind enough to let us stay with them. We had a lot of great adventures with all the family. Tyler really enjoyed the bubbles with his cousins. He ran around all afternoon exclaiming, "bubbles, bubbles, bubbles".

Uncle Dan created the master bubble maker out of a hanger and the boys created some huge bubbles, kyle had a really good one!

Tyler had a ton of fun playing with his cousin Alex, they both had fun running after the bubbles.

The grandparents and Aunt Christine chilled on the patio while the boys played...

Uncle Steve was the grill master for the day...

The boys eventually ended up downstairs to play Fourza on Justin's XBox 360 on the big screen.

It was fun to get together with Tyler's cousins Alex and Corey, who are just 6 months older...

Alex was so good at sharing with Tyler, he would ask for 2 chips, one for himself and one for Tyler...they sure did like Uncle Nate :)

Kyle's "got the whole [bubble] in his hands..." heh heh

So we got Grandma to participate in a little innocent game of craps, the funny thing is how good she was at it. :)

Tyler liked playing over at Uncle Dan and Aunt Christine's, they had a table just his size...

Here comes Dan and Christine's big ol' boxer, Tucker. No worries though, Tyler had him eating out of the palm of his hand :)

I was happy that we got a chance to visit an old friend of mine, Jenn, while we were in CO, good times!

The Zoo

Last week we went to the zoo. It was a dream come true for Tyler... there was room to run around, water fountains shaped like lions, lots of animals, and most importantly there were lots and lots of monkeys (his favorite animal).

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