Happy Birthday, Claire!!!

1) Darling Claire born February 27, 2008 8lb 7oz 21 1/2in

2) Heading home from the hospital

3) Blessed April 13, 2008, all dressed in white

4) June 2008, Minnesota Summer, our darling-baby-buggy-bumper-boo.

5) September in Texas, six months old.

6) This is how I open my presents! My name is Sunny! I have four very sharp teeth!

7) Look at me in this frilly dress! Next stop, Prom!

Shout Hooray!
Clapping is fun! I'm Happy!

Happy birthday Claire! We love you!

Field Trip!!

We went to the Mayborn Museum! It's a great place with tons of interactive, hands-on things for the kids to see and do. We had a lot of fun, and here are some pictures to prove it.

Joshua, Caleb, and Claire climbed into a replica of a Texas cavern:


We looked through a telescope at the people downstairs:

Claire was jamming out on the keyboard:

Caleb found a great sombrero:

and Claire tried it on, too:

Claire sat high in a saddle:

Joshua working at the switch board:

Joshua checking out a turtle:

Claire taking some first steps:

Caleb and Claire going for a drive:

Claire driving a fire truck:

Joshua driving a school bus:

Joshua showing off a VW Beetle:

Caleb driving the fire truck:

And last, but not least, I give you a few words from Claire:

Family Photo, what??

Here is some of the hilarious aftermath of dressing up 3 young children and asking them to sit still and smile.

Sorry........

We've let the days get away from us. Two months since our last post, I'm so ashamed. Here are some things we've been up to:

1) We fed the horses at the HOT Fair.


2) We visited the Suspension Bridge

and chased a duck.


3) After seeing some TeePees at the zoo, we built one.



5) We decorated for Halloween.


4) We carved a pumpkin. (And won 1st prize at the ward social.)


5) We've been spending a lot of time outside. It's still jacket weather. (NICE!)
Joshua loves riding his bike. (And telling me not to take pictures of him.)

Caleb loves to tell me about everything he hears.

Claire loves to get around and hates being confined to the stroller.

6) Here's Joshua teaching Caleb something new. (How to stand on his head, I guess.)


7) Claire decided to go looking for dinner (while I was making it.)

She knows, the baby dills are the best!


We're still going and growing and having some fun too!

GO-RIL-LA!!!

So, does everyone in our family remember that large Gorilla in someone's front yard on the way to the library. Well, Joshua saw a picture of William (my brother) standing next to him painted with shamrocks (the Gorilla, not William), and was so fascinated that I could bot resist taking him to see it. This is what we found in September:
























Then I took Caleb to see him in October:
























Isn't it amazing what can happen in just a few weeks time (or maybe even just one day).