First attempt at Rice Cereal....

Yeah I am excited to try something besides milk? What mom isn't? This next phase, the whole baby food phase, kinda excites me I am not going to lie. I think that it is really entertaining....the whole shove gobs of weird tasting stuff into your babys mouth to see there reaction.

Included are some pictures of Orvil's first attempt at baby food (Rice Cereal) ... I think it is extremely funny and very cute as well.

Orvil Check-up.

Orvil had a doctors appointment today. Here are the details, he is now four and a half months old. He weighs in at 16 pounds 14 ounces and almost 26 inches long. This puts him about the 70% percentile.... so yeah he is not as fat as he once was. He is now starting to thin out a bit as he grows taller.

Introducing......

Our brand new little nephew....

Ian David Herd

Born September 23, 2009 and weighing in at 8lbs 3 oz and 21 inches long. Yeah we are so excited that Tj's sister Bree and Husband Shawn had there baby boy! He is so stinkin cute. We are so excited that Orvil will have a boy cousin that will be this close to his age!!! In a year these two are going to be trouble!!!

Rodeo Parade.....

So when I was a kid Rodeo weekend was the best. We usually were in the childrens parade, then we went to the Rodeo Parade the next day, and then that night we went to Grandma Hafens for tacos and then we went to the Rodeo. This was always a weekend that I looked forward to as a kid. This was my first experience this year with a kid and it was fun. Orvil was so good first he rode in the childrens parade with some of his cousins on a float. He was a little cowboy and he rode on a little brown rocking horse and we found him a little brown cowboy hat, he looked adorable and he did so good. Then I also took Orvil to the parade and loved it and then we all went to the Rodeo and loved it. He was such a good boy the whole weekend. We sure enjoyed the rodeo this year as always...thanks Grandma and Grandpa Hafen for getting us tickets!!!! Picture overload....sorry he was just so stinkin cute!!!

Colorado River Rafting Trip

This week Tj had a fun opportunity to go on a river rafting trip on the Colorado River. He went for three days and rode in a raft down the Colorado River. It was a pretty awesome invitation because the guys who organized the trip had been waiting for a permit to do this part of the river for a really long time. ( I think like almost 20 years?) Anyways he was gone for a couple of days.. but he was able to take his friend Randy Paul with him and they had alot of fun. Included I have a short video clip and a picture. Tj said the bottom of the Colorado River is just amazing and incredibly beautiful!!!

Orvil 4 Months Old !

These pictures I took just happen to land exactly on Orvil's four month mark. The first few pictures are of Orvil enjoying one of the new features of our new house. Mom's jacuzzi tube Orvil love's it, I just put a few inches of water in there and he has the time of his life, screaming, scooting, and kickin his legs.

Some of the things I want to remember about Orvil at this stage:

Tj's nickname for him right now is Monkey Head.
My nickname for him right now is Sweet Boy.
He plays so hard he falls asleep while in the bouncer or under his swingin toys.
He loves to have your full attention and if he doesn't get it he screams.
How his head is to heavy so he has a bobble head look when he is sitting or standing.
He loves to scream hence I think for Halloween I think he is going to be Tarzan, a lion, a tiger, or some other such animal that screams.
He loves the Bath.
He has big beautiful Blue Eyes...hence the picture in the towel..(above)
He loves his Dad.
He gives awesome dead fish kisses.
He also loves any kind of music like the radio, the hymns at church, any toy that makes music, etc.
When ever he is sad or having a "moment" all I have to do is sing him a song.
One of our favorite songs is an Ang Original its called "Orvil Wade Stout on the Apricot Tree." He totally loves it when I sing this to him.

Happy Labor Day Weekend to Us.....

So Labor Day this year was fun.... well not really I got home from work on Sunday Sept 6th to find Tj, and his brother Devin and girlfriend Emily mopping and sucking water out of our basement. That's right mopping up alot of water out of the basement of our brand new house. The shop vac was in full suck mode and there was water everywhere.

Some of you may know that about a year ago our old house completely flooded..... So yeah to come home from work to find another flood was really discouraging. Our insurance ended up covering most of it.... but it was still not very fun.
Needless to say Tj and I are the flood experts, every year of our marriage so far we have had a major flood. Hopefully we have met our quota and we will not have anymore for awhile.

To sum it up a sprinkler line broke above our window well and water filled the window well, came through the window and flooded two bedrooms and Tj's office. Don't worry for insurnace purposes we had to take pictures... so yes pictures are included with this lovely little story. p.s. neither one of us was home all day so the water continued to flow all day long..(: