Children's Museum and Camping!

The kiddos are on fall break so we have been enjoying the time off. We headed to the children's museum and the kids happily played for hours.

Their favorite room is always the grocery store room. It was fun to see them all pretend play together. They shopped for the food and brought it to the kitchen to cook a delicious meal.

Easton was very serious giving instructions out of his "recipe book"

William even helped wash all of the vegetables.

 Then we had a fun long weekend with Grandma and Grandpa Miller and Toodles of course. Grandpa brought his boat and the kids LOVED riding in it.

They all took turns steering the boat. We discovered they all like to drive in circles. William had to get into the action too.

We enjoyed spending time with Grandma and Grandpa and camping in our trailers (which I forgot to take a picture of). William thoroughly enjoyed playing outside too!

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for the fun adventure!

William is 9 Months

The Hawk is growing up so fast it is just crazy. He is a very busy boy crawling, climbing, walking along walls and getting into everything.

 

He still adores his siblings and wants to do everything they do. He is content to sit in their rooms and just play with them.

 

He is still my chill kid who is content to go whereever and is always happy.

 He loves playing peek-a-boo and reading books. And he starts crawling as fast as possible when the fridge opens, the dishwasher opens, or the bathroom door opens. He has started babbling a lot more now too.

 We love our William!

Family Time

A few weeks ago we went to the Air and Space Museum for kids night. Grandma and Grandpa Clayton were there volunteering at one of the activities. The kids had so much fun completing all the activities and seeing all the planes.

Easton wants to be a astronaut when he grows up and thought it was cool to take a picture "in space."

They were all tired at the end they played so hard, but luckily our double stroller can turn into a quadruple in a pinch.

Football season has started and we are excited to watch Boise State! So far they are doing good!

Tuesday was Chad's birthday! Easton helped me make him a cake and we had a little family party. I didn't get a picture but we also got him a camping stove which we get to use this weekend.

William 8 Months Old

The Hawk is now 8 months old!

He is one seriously busy boy!

He is crawling all over and is so funny how quick he is moving on to new things. He doesn't master things before he moves on. This month he finally started sitting up but before he perfected that he began to crawl and before he perfected that he started pulling himself up and then letting go with one hand. And then Climbing!

He is still a very happy boy!

He also still enjoys all the attention from his siblings. He had fun riding in a little cart at the store!

And he very much loves food.

Happy 8 months William!

Grumpa Miller's 90th Birthday

My Grandpa Miller (affectionately called Grumpa) turned 90 years old yesterday. To celebrate Scott and Rachel had a surprise birthday party for him in California. Mike, Rowley, Sarah, Gavin, Jackson, William, and I all piled in Sarah's van and drove to California. We went to the beach in Santa Cruz.

William was fascinated by the sand and was crawling all over in it and grabbing at it.

Then we took the kids to the boardwalk and Rowley and Jackson rode a few rides.

And most importantly we enjoyed garlic fries....yum.

The next day was the party at a yummy Italian restaurant. We had a whole room to ourselves and Grumpa was completely surprised.

My Grumpa is so good about sending birthday cards to everyone so Becca got everyone together to have a goal to get him 90 birthday cards for his birthday. Between family, friends and people he worked with while volunteering at the hospital for many years he received 128 cards! (not including a big box that arrived before the party that the mailman handed him)

We had fun hanging out and hearing his stories and jokes. I even got to play some card games with him. I haven't done that since I was a kid.

 It was a fun trip and we all loved celebrating with Grumpa!