Welcome To This Groove

Spring Break Fun!

2012-05-25T16:18:00.000-07:00

We had visitors come for Spring Break and we really packed a lot of fun stuff into 1 week! Thanks for everything Grandma Manley, Aunt Katie, Aunt Nicole, and Jack (especially all of the Randy's donuts runs.) We had so much fun with you all here.

Starting off the week right at C&O Trattoria in Venice: the garlic knots are always a huge hit!

Leo Carrillo State Park/Beach. So beautiful and fun!

Happy Easter! Coloring eggs and Sunday Morning Easter Egg hunt.

New Easter clothes. What cute kids!

Hike down to the Beach from the Trump Golf Course in Palos Verdes. It was a beautiful morning!

A fun afternoon of swimming!

Six Flags Magic Mountain was a blast and the kids went on their first ever rollercoasters! They LOVED going on 'NINJA' and went on it over and over and over again. Can't wait until they're a little taller and they can go on the 'real' coasters!

L.A. Zoo. Everybody just loved this baby orangutan.

L.A. Science Center

Dodgers Game Opening Week and Friday Night Fireworks. It was rainy and FREEZING COLD at the game but it was still a lot of fun and nothing a little hot chocolate couldn't get us through.

Fun Saturday in Hermosa Beach shopping and enjoying the ocean breeze.

Josh thinks he's a ninja.

What a great week. Come visit again soon!!!

Whale Watching Adventure!

2012-02-26T16:24:00.018-08:00

We took the kids on a 2 hr whale watching tour out of San Pedro and the port of Los Angeles, and had a blast! The California Gray Whale migration is happening right now as they leave the warm waters of Baja Mexico and swim north to the Bering Sea. It is the longest annual migration of any mammal. We were lucky enough to spot 3 whales and we followed them for almost an hour. It was so amazing to see them up close!

The kids waiting to board the boat.

Claire was so excited to finally be on the "big boat" that she'd been talking about all week!

Our captain pulled up right alongside a big group of sea lions. The kids were in heaven!

We were all in the very front of the boat and got absolutely soaked when we got of the port and out to sea because of the huge waves. Melissa took Josh and Claire up to the top deck to sit down and dry off, but Maggie and I stayed at the front the whole time and saw a pod of dolphins swimming along with the boat. They were right below us and it was SO AWESOME to see them that close and to see how fast they were swimming! Maggie was just loving it since dolphins are one of her favorite animals.

The captain found 3 gray whales all swimming together.

Right before the whales come up to breathe, the water will have a light turquoise color to it called the glow spot. The glow spot can be seen on the left of the whale spouting in this picture.

The glow spot is visible again of the whale on the left, right before it came up to breathe.

Two of them were coming up together each time to breathe side by side.

Josh and I were soaked and freezing cold!

Poor Claire got seasick and lost her lunch right at the end.

Jeffrey James Manley

2012-02-26T15:51:00.008-08:00

On January 10, 2012, my dad passed away after an 8 year battle with cancer. He was a wonderful father and grandfather, and was my hero. I miss him so much!

We are so grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ, and know that we will be with him again!

Love you dad!

December

2012-02-26T11:38:00.010-08:00

We went back to Utah for Christmas and New Year's and had a great time with our families.

In Price for Grandpa Manley's last Christmas.
Melissa checking out the treats trays.

Our little Christmas Angel.

Maggie was Mary in the nativity.

Making gingerbread houses on Christmas Eve.

Josh and Grandpa on Christmas Morning.

Poor Maggie had the flu Christmas morning and had to wear a mask.

Josh putting together his Lego Dragon set. It's the one thing in the entire world that he will focus on.

Having fun in Bountiful and snowmobiling at the cabin in Park City with Grandma and Grandpa Williams!

In Price for the New Years Eve crab fest!

November

2012-02-05T16:14:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Melissa!

The kids at Grandma and Grandpa Williams house in Bountiful for a Thanksgiving visit.

Warming up for the Turkey Bowl at Grandma and Grandpa Manley's house in Price.

Here's the cheerleading crew.

The kids were funny and all really wanted to pose in front of these pumpkins by themselves for a picture.

Maggie had to go all around town for a school project on Redondo Beach. Of course a visit to the pier and the beach was the first stop.

Josh and Claire at Maggie's school holiday performance.

Maggie was Helen Keller for a school project,

...and was also in "Smurfsical" at school.

The girls getting ready for a Daddy/Daughter date night.

Josh earned the Student of the Month award at school.

October

2012-02-05T14:42:00.000-08:00

We enjoyed a week long trip to San Diego with Jake's family in October. It was one last family trip before his dad got too sick. We stayed in a big house right on the ocean and had a lot of fun.

Hanging out on Coronado Island.

Dinner at Studio Diner - this place is THE BEST!!! Thank you Guy Fieri for the tip!

The cheetah run at the San Diego Safari Park was so cool!!! It was the highlight of the day for sure.

We got lucky and saw the cheetah up close as we were walking through the park. It was amazing!

This baby elephant was only a few months old. "So tute" as Claire would say.

Visiting the Mormon Battalion visitors center in San Diego.

Hanging out on the Ocean Beach pier with a pelican - longest pier on the west coast.

Burgers and shakes at Hodads in Ocean Beach. Sooo good! Thank again Guy.

Trip to Vegas for a high school friend's wedding.

The girls getting crazy!

Bike ride along the beach with some friends. We ended up going 16 miles (up to Venice Beach and back) and were exhausted!

Some Halloween pictures. The kids had a blast and got way too much candy as usual. Claire was really into it and loved going door to door.

I'm so proud of my jack-o-lanterns!

Claire was obsessed with witches all month long or "wit" as she called them.

It's been a looong time...

2012-02-05T13:52:00.000-08:00

It's been a long time since we've updated this so here comes a massive photo dump dating back to last summer:

Another trip to Utah for a family wedding.

Claire with Grandpa Williams. We love this picture!

Boating with Katie and Chad down at Huntington near Price. Maggie and Josh went knee-boarding for the first time and loved it!

Josh with Aunt Katie. He got sucked under and wouldn't let go - it was hilarious!

Claire loved the tube and being in the water.

Family Picture in Price

Shooting one last time with Grandpa Manley out in the desert. Josh and Jack the best of buddies.

I took Melissa to see Josh Groban at the Staples Center for our 10 year wedding anniversary since I know she loves him just a little bit more than she loves me. Claire's little hospital scare kind of ruined our Hawaii trip so we had to settle for the Grobe-meister. It was actually a really good show. That dude can sing, and had Melissa absolutely melted. How can I compete with that?

Back to school: Josh's 1st day of kindergarten! Hallelujah, we finally made it.

Cute picture of Claire wearing a pirate hat Josh made at school. She would wear this hat and walk around saying "Aaarrrrrr".

Josh's soccer uniform. They were the green hornets!

Josh turned 6 and had a fun b-day party with his friends.

Family outing to the L.A. Science museum.

Summer 2011 Part 1

2011-09-06T19:30:00.001-07:00

T-Ball Closing Ceremonies. Josh had a GREAT season. What a great ball player! I had such a blast coaching the team. GO BRAVES!!!

Father's Day. What great kids!

Goodbye dinner with Blanchards and Ghents. We miss you Brian and Rachel!

June/July trip to Utah

Maggie's baptism. We love you Maggie and are so proud of you!

Grandma and Grandpa Williams at Maggie's baptism.

Grandma Manley. We missed Grandpa since he couldn't be there.

The whole group. It was so hot that day!

4th of July fireworks in Price. Josh was in heaven! We may have a little pyro on our hands.

One of our many hikes.

Claire loved hiking and wanted to go in the water.

Cousins swimming at Grandma Stevens' house in Orem.

All the cousins together!

Josh shooting one of grandpas many guns out in the desert. He was in absolute heaven!

Sexy Melissa! Don't mess with her - she's a dead eye!

The Manley Men.

Maggie caught a horny toad!

Little cowboy! Josh thought this was one of the coolest things ever!

Back home in Redondo Beach, Claire turned 2 and loves feeding her bear and baby doll in the new high chair she got.

Midnight at the beach during the grunion run. Melissa really got into the hunt and kept stealing Josh's flashlight. It was a ton of fun and we'll definitely go again next year!

Maggie was so brave and was the only one to catch a grunion. Good job Maggie!

Our little grunion hunter!

Happy Birthday Maggie!

2011-06-18T14:19:00.000-07:00

It's hard to believe, but Maggie turned 8 years old! It just doesn't seem possible. She is growing up too fast! Since she was turning 8 we let her have a birthday party this year, so we made it a Tangled theme. It was last minute planning, but with the help of this website we were able to throw together a fun party for Maggie and her friends.

These jello cups and orange boats are inspired by the part where Flynn and Rapunzel are in the boat watching the lanterns.

Jake's awesome artwork! We played pin the frying pan on Flynn Rider

Since making a tower cake was a little too much for me, I figured my cupcake tower would be good enough.

The group of girls

On her official birthday she opened lots of fun gifts, including a new bike and cute clothes, but she was really excited about this present.

Cute scripture bag to go with them

The three musketeers!

Why?

2011-05-25T20:47:00.000-07:00

Why is it so hard for me to blog more often? Why do I feel like I have to touch up every picture before putting it on the blog? Why do I blog? I don't have the answers, but I do know that I feel satisfied when I finally do get all those pictures fixed and on the blog. I started this for our families so they can see what we are up to since we don't live around any family right now, but I'm pretty sure that only two from both families combined even look at our blog; even though both Jake and I have showed them many times where to go. Is it really that hard to click on favorites and then Jake and Melissa's blog? oh and how do set up how to see when others have updated their blogs? Thanks!

Mother's Day was great. As usual Jake was wonderful and made my day very special. The kids and I made Rice Krispie Treats for dessert, which are one of many favorites of mine.

I love this picture of Josh and me. We don't get many pictures of Joshua not being goofy, so this is a good one.

I love this picture too because it shows each kids personality. Maggie, standing good doing what she's suppose to, Josh being goofy and Claire cute and sweet.

My family came to visit which was so much fun! I love visitors so we always try and pack in as much as we can in the short time they are here. I think we were successful this time.

After Joshua's T-Ball game

He was so excited for them to watch him. He played a great game!

We went to Disneyland, of course.

Buzz seems to be the only character we ever see.

I had to put this picture because of Craig and Jake in the back ground. No not my Jake, my sister Jordan's Jake. Yes, my sister is dating and now engaged to a Jake. I didn't know how to feel about that, but there could be a lot worse then your future brother-in-law having the same name as your husband. He's great though. Very happy for them! **

Maggie has been doing an after school drama class and learning a shorter version of Annie. She was so excited when her performance and their visit were at the same time. She did such a great job! She wasn't scared or shy at all, I was so proud of our little orphan.

Maggie and her group of girl friends.

Another favorite thing to do when people come to visit is take them to all the yummy places to eat. Two that my family had never tried were...

Randy's Donuts

and

Yogurtland

We went to a Dodger's game. We prefer going to Angel's games, but they weren't in town.

We hit the beach and the pier even though it was a gloomy day.

Just a little bonus pic of Claire, because I just love this little girl!! Please don't ever grow up!

**little side note about Jordan and Jake. I was so happy to be part of the scheming and surprise of the proposal. The ring was being made and Jake found out it was finished on Friday. He decided to over-night the ring to our place so he could surprise her the following day. We were out to lunch when they tried to deliver the ring, so I had to drive to the Fed-Ex pick-up place and get the ring. I have to admit, I almost opened up the package and looked at the ring, but thought Jake should probably open it. He surprised her that night on the beach and she wasn't expecting it at all!! So fun :) I usually miss out on exciting family things, so it made my day to be part of this one. Love you guys!

Winter to Spring

2011-04-24T19:54:00.000-07:00

We've had a crazy couple of months highlighted by quite a scare from our little Claire who spent 4 days in the hospital with a bad case of pneumonia. That really wiped us out and we've just been trying to keep her healthy the past few months. But it's definitely time for an update so here are a few pictures of what we've been up to this year.

January:
A day at the beach (nothing like 80 degrees in January)

Josh and his legos

Maggie playing teacher - one of her favorite things to do.

3 cute princesses

February:
Poor little Claire doing one of her breathing treatments after coming home from the hospital. Thanks to everyone who helped us out with the kids and bringing meals, etc... - our friends are AMAZING!!!!

Josh started T-Ball and I'm coaching his team. We are The Braves, and it's been a lot of fun although trying to deal with 11 4-5 year olds at a time is like herding cats. Josh is a great little ball player though.

March:
I got to take a trip to see The Jimmer Show one last time at the MWC Tournament in Vegas (yes, the 52 point game against New Mexico was amazing!)

As luck would have it a little group called The Strokes were also in town that same weekend so my brother, his friend and I all went.

Two homeless guys in the casino

THE STROKES!!! Live world premieres of the new album. SO COOL!!!!!

Sweet Claire

Leprechaun Josh

Maggie's Science Fair Project

April:
Josh earned the "game ball" at his T-Ball game against the Diamondbacks. Great job Joshua, we're proud of you!!!

Happy Easter!

Happy New Year!

2011-01-10T12:53:00.001-08:00

Another year has come and gone and they just get busier and busier. Our year ended with a fun trip to Utah for Christmas. We had a good time with our families and snow. We realized while there that we prefer California winters :)

This post can be my unofficial, late, Christmas card...

Maggie: turned 7, started 2nd grade and lost her two front teeth. The famous Christmas song was sung many times around our house this last year. She still loves to read, draw, dance and play teacher (mostly so she can boss Josh around even more then usual) She will be baptized this year which is beyond crazy!!

Joshua: turned 5 and will be starting preschool so he can be ready for Kindergarten. I had the option of putting him in Kindergarten this last year, but felt he needed to stay back and mature a little more. He played his first season of Soccer and loved it! We had many people come up to us after the game and comment on how fast he is. He just loves to run, build legos, and anything Star Wars.

Claire: turned 1 this year! Learned how to walk and tries to run around with the kids. She is so fun and adorable. She doesn't talk yet, but signs more (for everything), thank you and all done. She's very observant and loves to be in the middle of everything. She's mommies little shadow.

Melissa: I was released this year as our ward's Primary president which has been really nice and a big change. I feel lost at church sometimes when I just get to sit and listen to all of the
lessons :) I'm now the ward choir director, which I'm still getting use to. I still stay home with the kids which I'm very grateful for.

Jake: Works for Northrop Grumman and hit is 5 year mark in July. He's the Executive Secretary in our ward. He's a very busy guy and works so hard to provide for our family. He still enjoys playing the guitar in his spare time - which doesn't happen very often.

We hope everyone has a wonderful year!

Thanksgiving Weekend

2010-12-01T11:57:00.000-08:00

What a month we have had. First I got the flu, then our car got rear-ended, then we all have had bad colds. I'm glad that November is over! We did end the month with a fun Thanksgiving. Jake's family came to visit us and instead of cooking all day and then cleaning up for the rest, we ate at Marie Callendars! It was stress free and fun. It's always nice to have family come and visit.

The gang at Marie Callendars, yummy :)

Claire is funny when we see family again. She's always so shy and won't go to anyone but me. She finally was smiling and being cute with Grandpa.

Thanksgiving night we didn't have any leftovers, but I figured we would need some more pie, so I made a chocolate peanut butter pudding pie with peanut butter cups on top. Jake pretty much ate the whole pie himself.

Claire sharing pie with Grandma. Her cute whip cream mustache

We took everyone to Randy's Donuts and they loved it. This picture was taken during our second trip in two days

We went to the beach and pier. These are some cute ones of Claire

When I had the flu, Jake took the day off work and headed to the beach with Claire and Josh. Thought I would share these since I love pictures by the pier.

Happy Halloween!

2010-11-01T11:41:00.000-07:00

We had a really fun Halloween weekend. It was full of parties with friends and our ward Trunk or Treat. I've always loved the Trunk or Treat which I had never heard about until moving into our ward. It just makes me feel so much better knowing my kids are going from car to car, in a secure parking lot, and getting candy from people we know really well. It was fun dressing up the kids and Jake and I got into the spirit of Halloween and also dressed up. Usually we put on a hat or my devil horns and call it good, but this year we did the whole costume.

Joshua making his scary skeleton face. He is still scared of Halloween because of the freaky masks. We thought if he had a scary face that might help him, but it didn't. Maybe next year :)

Before church I took the kids out to take some pictures.

I think Josh looks so big in this picture!

The Best Time of the Year

2010-10-21T19:52:00.000-07:00

I love this time of year for so many reasons. Jake would say he loves it because of baseball playoffs and college football, but I love the Fall and the holidays. The excitement of everything still gets to me even though I'm almost 30. What?! That can't be!! (We'll talk about that another time)

One word, pumpkin. I love pumpkin treats, pumpkin pie and I once tried pumpkin pasta. But this last week I made two pumpkin recipes and each one was a success! I usually buy the regular size can of pumpkin and seem to have some leftover that never gets used, but no longer!
One can of pumpkin + 2 recipes = a happy mom. I thought I would share, because that's the nice thing to do. Sorry, no pictures. I'll just fill in some of my cute kids instead!

Pumpkin Choc. Chip Cookies - Foodnetwork.com

1 cup unsalted butter, softened - I used salted and it turned out just fine
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup pumpkin puree - not pumpkin pie mix
3 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda - tsp will always remind me of Sleeping Beauty, I love that part!
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ginger
1.4 tsp. nutmeg
1.4 tsp. cloves
2 cups choc. chips

*note - we added a little extra pumpkin and spices for more flavor

Heat oven to 350* Spray cookie sheet with nonstick spray
Using a mixer, beat the butter until smooth. beat in white and brown sugars, a little at a time, until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs 1 at a time, then mix vanilla and pumpkin. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves. Slowly beat the flour mixture into the batter in thirds. Stir in chips. Scoop the dough by heaping tablespoons onto cookie sheets and bake 15-20 min. Remove from oven and rest for 2 min. Take cookies off and cool on wire racks.

Pumpkin Pancakes -Martha Stewart

Whisk- 1 1/4 cups flour
2 T sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp nutmeg
pinch of cloves in a large bowl
In separate bowl, stir - 1 cup milk
6 T canned pumpkin
2 T melted butter
and 1 egg
Fold mixture into dry ingredients.

We sprinkled choc. chips on while cooking to keep with the theme for the week. Fun dinner!

Joshua's Birthday

2010-10-10T21:10:00.001-07:00

It's hard to believe, but Joshua is 5 years old! He had a great birthday, filled with a sugar rush from his candy bar poster and a good amount of presents. He was so excited that his special day had finally come. He's been talking about his birthday since Maggie's back in June.

He requested a party at the park with his friends. He has a great little group of buddies.

We had a race car party so I decided to attempt another cake besides round, and I must say it turned out very well.

These are bonus pictures of Claire enjoying Josh's cake.

Go Stingrays!

2010-09-23T10:11:00.000-07:00

We signed Josh up for soccer and they officially started their games a few weeks ago. The first game was so much fun to watch. Josh really got into it and scored 2 goals! They only play three on three and don't have a goalie, but it's still fun to watch. The second game however was a little rough, since the other team was much taller and better then our little guys. Josh was getting frustrated and we had to have our first talk on good sportsmanship.

Road Trip #2

2010-09-17T11:08:00.000-07:00

It's taken me awhile to post these pictures. I blame school, homework, kids and laziness.

We had a fun trip to Utah to finish off our summer. It was the Williams family reunion up at the cabin in Park City. Full of jet skies, the Alpine Coaster, dune buggy rides, and matching yellow shirts. Matching shirts I guess are okay, but bright yellow? couldn't we have gotten a more subtle color? We love you mom and your matching shirts :)!

We spent a few days at grandma and grandpa's house. I absolutely LOVE this picture.

Josh always wants the ping pong table up while we are there. This was a good action shot that Jake took.

Claire and Audrie met for the first time

Cousins!

Jake took all the kids out one morning on the dune buggy. They came back excited to tell us about all the animals they saw.

We went to Jordanelle Reservoir one day and the kids loved the jet skies.

Waiting in line at the alpine coaster, so fun

Claire had developed a cough and was up a lot at night while we were there. One morning when it was our turn to sleep in the loft, Jake took Claire out for a walk so she wouldn't wake everyone up. They got to watch the sun rise together. I love this picture. Not long after, Claire fell back to sleep in Jake's arms.

I know this picture is blurry, but I had to share it. My mom gave the kids glow in the dark glasses to use on the drive home. Josh only kept them on for a minute, but Maggie sat and watched the movie with them on. I had to try and get a picture, they looked so funny with them on :)

2nd Grade

2010-09-07T19:10:00.001-07:00

I can't believe Maggie is in 2nd grade, crazy! Once again she loves school and had a great first day. She has a really nice teacher and one of her best friends is in her class.

Boys of Summer

2010-08-10T19:38:00.000-07:00

Jake and Joshua were able to go to a Dodger's game the other week. They had awesome seats! Josh enjoyed the game, but mostly because of the hot dog and cotton candy. He takes after his wonderful mother.

Happy Birthday Claire!

2010-07-30T12:06:00.000-07:00

I can't believe my baby is already one! It's amazing how they can go from this...

to this

What a crazy and exciting year.

I wanted to have some friends over to celebrate properly so we met at the park, cracked open a pinata, and had cake and ice cream.

She just sat most of the time like this watching the pinata

I LOVE this picture! It might by one of my all time favorites. It's just classic!

My awesome lady bug cake which I'm very proud of. I can take credit for all of it except the eyes which I saw used on another cake. They are the middle of Oreos with junior mints on top.

Stuffing her face. My friend Heather took most of the pictures which I'm so grateful for since I was too busy getting everyone cake. Thanks Heather!

Opening presents

We love you Claire!!

Road Trip #1

2010-07-28T14:57:00.000-07:00

We headed out for our #1 of 2 trips to Utah this summer, to experience a momentous event - Paul McCartney live in concert!!

First and probably last time ever in Utah and we were there; 21 rows back from the stage, and we got even closer as the concert went on. It was awesome!

Jake and his dad before the concert

While driving through Provo, we stopped at the Bean Museum on campus and the kids loved it. Next to the cougar, or course.

Josh was being funny posing next to the animals. I love this one of him.

While in Price, we celebrated Father's Day and July birthdays. Claire with her baby doll.

Josh with Grandpa

Swimming at the Helper pool.

We had a fun time with the slip and slide. Claire was trying to crawl up it and kept slipping backwards, too cute :)

While in Bountiful we had a fire at Mueller Park and made the only thing that makes camping worth it...Smores.

We went hiking up to Donut Falls. Priceless picture of Claire smiling.

Hiking with Grandpa.

Motherhood: An Eternal Partnership with God

2010-07-03T11:25:00.000-07:00

I was working on my sharing time today and came across this video. It was just what I needed to see and I wanted to share it.

Summer Break is Here!

2010-06-30T10:38:00.000-07:00

This school year was tough trying to juggle Claire's eating schedule, drop off and pick-up, but we did it! I'm so happy that I don't have to fight each morning to get out the door. Thank goodness for morning exercises at Maggie's school, or we would have been late almost every day. Here are some pictures leading up to summer break.

Jake and Josh had their first father and son camping trip. Overall it was a success despite Joshua wandering off twice, once at 11:00 at night, and Jake sleeping on a rock all night. Oh, the joys of camping.

Maggie turned 7!

Maggie and Eve at their dance recital

One last award for the school year

Last day of school!

Claire is 11 months old! She is crawling, pulling up to stand and the other night she started letting go and trying to stand on her own.

Same Old Stuff

2010-06-03T21:51:00.000-07:00

I know it's just me, but I go crazy when I've had a post up for a while and I feel like I don't have any "blog worthy" pictures to put up. I went through the most recent pictures though and found some that made the cut. I'm hoping that our summer trips and my desire to get out more this summer attitude can produce some good pics to share.

I love when I walk in the room and see Claire looking at a book. What a smart baby!

The school year is coming to a close, and I can't believe Maggie is almost done with 1st Grade! She is getting so big. We went to her schools Open House and saw all of her projects from this year. She was so excited to have us come and visit. Here she is with her fabulous teacher. I can't say enough about her. Maggie has been so lucky with her teachers.

Sitting at her desk.

Joshua has recently started asking to take baths more, just so he can play and pretend to swim. He usually has his goggles on while in the tub, but this particular day the goggles were worn for quite a while after the bath was done. He was flying around with his towel, had to get a picture. (I know you are all thinking, "look at his ribs! Does she even feed him?" Answer: Yes I do; it's usually a fight to get him to finish and then he runs all day and burns off all of the calories he does take in. I wish I had that problem)

10 months old. Her one year is just around the corner and I'm sad our baby is no longer a baby.

Her hair is getting longer, so we tried out pig tails for the first time. I just love this little girl!