Where is Brodie?

He was right here.....right at the left side of the sofa...standing up by the red, green, yellow and blue play station......I went in the laundry room for maybe 40 seconds...maybe.....so where did he go? He doesn't crawl yet you know............

OH!! He "walked" his way along the sofa to the other end...where there are apparently more interesting toys!!!

Journey to find the blue sippy cup.

There it is....my nemesis...right at the end of the sofa......

or...the other end of the sofa.......

or wait.....it fell......

got it! I really was at this end!

Yummmm!

Love my sippy cup!

Now it's out of my way again.....I gotta get it! Almost there!

Come on Mom...I know it was here!

Seriously! Mom!! I KNOW it was right here!

Yeah baby!!! I gotcha now!

Pillow

Nice pillow Cheyenne! Tanner doesn't seem to mind....although about 10 minutes into this....Tanner left the scene!

Fun Autumn day at the play ground.

We spent a beautiful afternoon at our nearby neighborhood playground soaking up some Autumn sun. What a great time we had......it really is the little things in life!

Friends and Fargo

A few weekends ago we got to meet our friends Rhonda and Dustin Krueger and Bob and Sherri Engkvist for the weekend. We had all of our kiddos in tow and stayed at a motel with a cool pool and enjoyed one anther's company immensely! Other than a few glitches with hotel hospitality, we truly had a lovely time! G'ma and G'pa Strang even came to babysit ALL the kids so we could have an adult dinner! (Brave...brave souls they are!) We had a WONDERFUL time and hope to do it again soon!

Daddy & Brodie by the fireplace.

All the kiddos by the fireplace! Macy, Gannon, Brodie and Abby~

Myself and all the kiddos....we didn't plan this...it's just a "kid's love babies "snapshot!

B had a cold and was frightened of the COLD water, but by the hot tub he had a nice steam bath and I TREASURE when he cuddles me!!!!!

Daddy and B....checkin' out the cool pool!

Another cuddle bug picture!

The gang and I! I love my Sherri and Rhonda!!!!!!!!

Shake your Booty!

Rainy day window video

TV

This is precisely why Baby Einstein DVD's don't get used very often at our house. This happened to be 2 hours before our open house. I needed a half hour of distraction for B. I feel tremendously guilty about ANY TV time that he has. And as you can see.......he is VERY in to it! It doesn't happen often! I think there may be a puddle of drool beneath him!

Teeth!

Just look at those teeth! He has 6 now~ 4 on top and 2 below~

Rainy day horseplay continued!

Woohoo! Ride 'em cowboy! Brodie was lovin' his little rocking horse~

Not so much lovin' practicing "bull riding"! (See Daddy.....he doesn't need to do EVERYTHING you do/did!) Heehee!

Rainy Day Window

Ok......we were sooooooo laughing till we peed ourselves! Brodie must have liked the cool glass on his gums on this rainy day! Cody was outside in the rain to get these shots!

Aarrghhh! Maybe Igor is the costume choice for Halloween?

Piglet?

Lickin' that cool glass is awesome!

Hee hee....hee hee.........

MMMmmmmm this feels so good!

Whew...gotta take a break and play with the drool all over the window glass now!

Eyes

Cody had LASIK surgery for his eyes a couple of weeks ago. He loves it and is doing VERY well. His vision is 20/15 in both eyes. Mine is still good, 20/20!

The Great 8!

Here are all 8 babies again! It was quite a dilemma last week, trying to get them all together now! Everyone is mobile with the exception of Brodie and Elizabeth. Lily just learned to crawl 3 days before our get together! It was a blast!

Kate is trying to keep 'em all in line! Ty is cruising out of the lens' eye!

Ty escaped this one! They are all looking up because the rest of us were chirping like loons to get all the babes attention!