What my kids love/why I love my kids

Addison Loves.....

 

 to help me bake. While wearing cute aprons. She especially loves licking the bowel or spoon.

I love that she has something that she enjoys doing with me. I also love that she enables me to bake :)

Twirling

 

If there's music, she's twirling and dancing. Yes, even in the middle of Hobby Lobby. She starts dance classes this fall. Pretty sure she's going to love it.

I love that she can just be in her own little girl world no matter where we are and not care who's watching.

Putting on random items of clothing...

like pajamas paired with my snow boots and her mittens that are way too small. It IS August, but I guess she missed that memo that it's 97 degrees out. Whatever, she works it out ;)

I love that when she puts something of mine on she says, "Look, I'm mommy!" then laughs hysterically

Eating ice cream. Especially in the company of her Daddy.

Hello Farr's....do you think that's a titch big for a single scoop? Ah well. 

I love that something simple like and ice cream cone is a whole adventure that makes her day.

Pretending to sleep in random places 

Like her brothers baby tub in my living room....

Or in the middle of Hobby Lobby (do I go there too often? nah.)

I love that she will sometimes let me pretend too and let me lay on the couch as she covers me with blankets. Ahhh...if only it lasted more than a couple of minutes ;)

 Playing on the beach

This may be her all time favorite activity...who can blame her. It's beautiful, not another person in site, cheetos and capri suns are around, and her papa who will pull her on the tube behind the boat. Lucky girl.

I absolutely love spending this kind of time with her. Away from everything, just soaking up the sun, breathing fresh air and watching her play. It's the best I tell you, the best.

Playing silly games with her brother

Like "this is our tent mom. We are camping and I'm asleep" She's under than purple blanket lol. Look at Dalton. What a freaking sweet happy baby. He just rolls with it and giggles at her. 

I LOVE that they already "play" together.

Dalton loves....

Being almost too pretty to be a boy ;)

Okay, well that's a lie. He could care less. I love it though. He's handsome :)

 Eating! Real food!

We started rice cereal last week. He embraced it as well as I'd assumed he would. He watches me whenever I put something in my mouth and licks his lips like he wants it. It's so cute. It makes me want to share, but I don't since he doesn't even have teeth yet. 

I love that he loves food as much as I do. That's my boy!

We tried squash yesterday. Win. He's a fan. 

I'm a fan of making baby food. It couldn't be easier. Awesome.

Dressing in random cute onesies

 Okay, well again I think just I love this. He tolerates it though :)

Swimming at Grammy's house

Nice warm water and some shade make it the perfect spot for him to kick his little feet and relax in the pool.

I love that he is good in the water. We're a water family and Addie is a serious fan of anything to do with water. Get used to it kid, this family swims and boats until it's too cold outside to do so! 

I should mention he's rolling ALL over the place and totally trying to crawl! Ah! Stop growing, baby boy....

Addie and Dalton LOVE....

Each other!!

I LOVE that they love each other! 

Nothing makes my heart happier than watching Dalton squeal and giggle as Addie sings him a song, plays with him or gives him loves. Then other day, she was playing hide n seek with him. He stayed in his jumper then entire time. She would leave and count and come back and find him. SO random. But hey, they both laughed and thought it was great. These two are my favorites.

 One last thing before I end this love-filled post. We celebrated my mom's birthday Sunday. Go me. Look, I took HER picture instead of one of the cupcakes I made! Unprecedented ;)

Happy Birthday, Mom!

To not disappoint and shock anyone, here's a picture of cupcakes from last week. Drool on.

 

Hope you're all enjoying the end of Summer.....we are!

London Elizabeth

August 15th I got to welcome my newest sweet niece into the world :)

London Elizabeth Workman

6 lbs 11 oz 19 inches long 

and so pretty

 I got to sneak in with Bryan and do the "daddy" part. Um, that rocks BTW. Us moms are totally missing out hangin out in our rooms while the dads get to bathe a brand new, straight from Heaven newborn. LOVE

All pretty and clean and ready for cuddles 

Proud mom and dad couldn't look take their eyes off of her for longer than one picture ;) who can blame them? She's a love little bundle, that baby girl.

Cousins London and Skylee

Up till this point Skylee always has looked so little (compared to Dalton) She looks big now!

Congrats, Bryan and Whitney! Love that sweet little one already!

August rush....

Summer is almost over, but we're not slowing down yet! It seems like August hasn't been any less busy than July. Who thought that would be possible? We're squeezing in all of our summer activities and outside fun while it's still warm (or HOT) out. I'm honestly getting a little bit burned out the past week or so of Summer. Mostly, it's just because it's exhausting, and really hot. I have to soak it all up though, because before we know it the snow will fly again and we'll all be quarantined indoors surviving cold and flu season...bleck. On that depressing note, here's what our August has consisted of so far....how is it possible this was all in two weeks' time?

 Birthday Celebrating.....but I only took one picture: my Banana pie with Vanilla Bean custard filling

In my defense, Jed couldn't make it to the party, so I had my hands more full than usual.

I know, we all know that I would have taken that photo regardless...if you could taste the pie via the interenets you'd understand.

 Weller/Keller Wedding

It's just too fun to say Kelsey Keller Weller....that's the bride of Jed's cousin, Brian. I didn't get a good enough picture of them to post, but she looked gorgeous and it was a great day!

The Logan Temple is so pretty....

Addie loves Tristan

Jed's aunt Tami, cousin Jenny and her cute daughter Mia

They had their luncheon at Cafe Sabor, which was delicious. I'm always up for fajitas, fruity frozen drinks and decadent chocolate cake. My children even behaved rather well. Awesome

 We had a few hours to kill between the luncheon and reception, but didn't want to make the drive twice, so we went to the Willow Park Zoo and playground. It was HOT, but thankfully there was a lot of shady places to sit and for Dalton to roll around. Speaking of, look at these eyes....

No wonder I'm madly in love with this boy.

Oh, and look at those chubby legs!

I have to seriously force myself to not eat those rolls every day. He was so good that day. Gosh, what a sweetie. It was a 13-hour day and he was content and sweet and good. 

 The reception was at the American Heritage Center in Wellsville. What a fun place. Addie loved that we got to ride in a "carriage" pulled by horses back to the place it was held.....she also loved this aspect:

Super cute candy station. Lexi, Kelsey's little sister filled like 3 bags of candy for Addie before the night was  over. We also enjoyed some Coldstone ice cream. Good job guys; your reception was a kid's dream (who am I kidding, I was loving it too! Four words, Salted caramel ice cream)

Addie and Mia danced the night away

Ah, Wellsville is pretty isn't it?

The next morning, I helped my mom throw Whitney a baby shower.

Once again, I took a picture of the treat I made and then didn't pick my camera back up.

In my defense...um, I was talking a lot? 

Stay tuned though, because I have better pictures than a baby shower...the actual baby!

London arrived last night and I've got a whole bunch of cuteness waiting to be blogged.

 Lagoon!

We had a last minute Lagoon day last week when my friend scored some seriously discounted tickets. 

Addie loved it! It was HOT (have I typed that like 5 times now?) We had a blast though. Ash and Ian live like 10 minutes away and they met up with us and played and helped with the kids. Addie's favorite ride was the "roller coaster" aka puff. Brave kid. I was a whimp when I was little and wouldn't go near it. Don't worry, I overcame my fear and went with her ;)

Dalton, was once again, a trooper. He decided to take a little cat nap on the train. Jealous.

Addie and Ian on Odyssey. Cool ride. LONG line.

 Later that night (yes the same day) I hosted our annual SYTYCD Finale party.

I borrowed my mom and Danny's basement and giant TV. We kinda watched, but mostly talked, ate, talked, ate more then talked more. 

Bless Danny's heart lol....he joked that he could hear Megan from down the street.....

Some full moonlit boating

There are no words. It's perfection.

Emmett turned 1! I can't believe it's been a year since our cute nephew was born.

Isn't he adorable?!

Happy Birthday, Emmett!

That about wraps up the past two weeks! Goodness, I'm kind of tired just reliving it :) One more thing and then I'll end this post before it gets even longer. Addie steals my camera daily and takes pictures with it. Here's what she took this morning while I was upstairs....

Impressive, no? Lol, she's funny. I literally deleted 29 photos off my camera last week that she took.