Week of Scrapbooking!

So I decided to bring Liam along to Yerington this week for a sort of scrapbooking getaway. Whenever my mom comes to Reno, it seems like we spend more time browsing and running around than actually scrapbooking, so Liam and I came out where there isn't much running around to do. We've had success, too! Here are four of the layouts we got done today. I'm really happy with them. The point of this post was actually to send them to my sister, grandma, and Aunt, but my mom's internest is too slow for attachments so this was faster. I *think* if you click on the pictures, they will get bigger, but I'm not always certain on that.

This is one of my favorite layouts of Liam. This is a layout my mom has been planning for quite a while. It's hard to see the adorable "Heidi Grace" pattern on there, but it's cute, if it'll enlarge.
This layout is one of my favorites, ever of Izzy. The flowers have lots of glitter on them and the words "sweet" and "girl are made of sugar glitter paper. Doesn't help to have a cute model, does it?

Happy Birthday, My Sweet Boy!

I can't believe my baby is TWO!! He had a wonderful birthday today. It started off great--with church and his fun new 'busy book' from the Finlays. He then went to nursery and played and played with his little friends and also learned about the temple. After church he told me he wanted to go to the temple, so we did, after his nap of course.

After his nap, he was reminded he had his own 'park' in his backyard and wanted to play for a bit, in his new birthday clothes from Aunt Pam. Here he is trying out the swings that daddy got set up for him while he was sleeping.
Then we headed up to the temple where he loved singing "sunbeam!"
And playing with daddy.
Showing mom his new trick of 'staying stiff' while daddy lifts him to the sky.
When we got home, we let Liam pick his dinner. We also made him Chocolate Milk for a first time birthday treat. Boy did he love it(who wouldn't, right?)Eating his homemade pizza and drinking his chocolate milk. A very healthy birthday dinner, right?After bath, he decided he needed to play on his park even more, so he played for a bit in his jammies.

Now he's peacefully sleeping after a nice second birthday. :) Hopefully I'll get the party pics a bit more organized and be able to post them within the week or so. Thank you to everyone who made Liam's second birthday so special.

Some Party Photos

Here are some random pics from the party today, just for Grandma. I'll sort through them more when I am not INSANELY wiped out. But, for now, these are good.
PS- We had an AMAZING and FUN time today!
Here is Liam with the Octopus masterpiece, in his matching octopus shirt.
More of the amazing cake.
Opening gifts. He's pretty good already. ahah.
He and his buddy Owen. :)They did this for hours. The kids had a blast with the pool, new slide set, water balloons, and bubble machine. Blowing out his candles. He tried, but I had to help a bit.
He with his buddies Alli and Ethan.
And finally he and Izzy in their Under the Sea shirts.

Fun Little Quizvey

A friend tagged me to do this little quizzy and I've got a bit of time to kill while Liam's SECOND birthday cake is baking. Can you believe that???!!!
Anyway, you answer the questions with a picture from photobucket. You type in your answer to the photobucket search engine and post one of the pictures as your response. Fun, eh?
1. Your age on your next birthday.

2. Place I'd Like to Travel- Ireland

3. Favorite Place-

4. Favorite Things:

5. Favorite Food
It's supposed to be "The Melting Pot" but this is what came up. Funny.

6. Favorite Animal:

7. Favorite Color


8. Town where I was born.

9. Town where I live:

Sparks--get it?
10:Name of past pet.

11. Name of Past Love

12. First Name:

13. Bad Habit

14. College Degree

Soon Anyway!
15. Religious Belief


I tag Heather, Kayci, Erica, and Sara. :)

Where is Matt?

You have to see this video. It's amazing. Definitely shows that we are one people, even if we are across a number of nations.
This is the original 'matt' video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNF_P281Uu4&feature=user
And this is the most recent one--with more people joining him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&feature=user

There is even parts of Nevada!
Enjoy!

Happy Independence Day!

Happy Independence Day, everyone!! We hope you had a great day! We had a good one. :) This morning we stayed home and got ready for our big yard sale tomorrow and took some cute photos of our boy. Our Firecracker. Then this afternoon we went to our friend Joshua's birthday party! We had a blast with BBQ food, an awesome play place and swimming pool fun!
First, the cute pictures!

This was just too funny. Caught the sneeze at just the right moment.
At the party: bubble heaven. I thought that this was kind of a cool shot with the giant bubbles.
Playing with Caleb on the swing.
Pool fun!
He really enjoyed 'helping' Joshua. Here he's showing Joshie his cars. haha. Everytime Amy told Josh to say Thank You, Liam would yell, "Thank you, Grandma!"
Liam's own personal Heaven. They just landscaped their backyard and had all of this beautiful work down for the grandkids, with an awesome veggie garden as well. We had to pull Liam off this thing!We hope everyone had a great day!

All American Cuties

Aren't these little ones some of the cutest blonde haired, blue eyed, American kidlets you've ever seen? Heather brought Izzy over the other day and both kids were dressed in their Patriotic best. Cute, eh?

Wes calls this next one "Izzy giving the stink eye." It just cracked me up too much not to post it.