September in Pictures

September September. Let me see. Well this month we celebrated our 4 year wedding anniversary, SPC was the grand marshall of  Peach Days so Kyle was on their float with Oliver and I represented my sisters coffee shop with Gus. Kyle had his 10 year high school reunion, filled with lots of laughs and a drunk classmate. Kyle bought an old truck to fix up. We went camping on the Boulders. I was a mistress to the Boulders while Kyle and I were dating. He went fishing there so so many times and not once did he bring me. It has been on my bucket list for forever. It seriously is one of the prettiest places ever. There are hundreds of these little lakes on the Boulders and we were the only ones on this lake. We were going to camp here, but it was raining when we arrived so we drove to Esclante National Monument and set up camp at a campground there. I have decided I want to live in Henrieville or one of the small towns similar to that one. So pretty, I loved it. Gus was in heaven, and both boys slept pretty good considering we were camping. 

We went to a few of Nicholas' football games until he broke his leg and found out he has a tumor. Gus picked loads and loads of weeds. Wherever we are he will stop to pick weeds. I had to pull over in Washington to let him go pee, it was pouring rain and he was standing on my feet cause he didn't have shoes on, next thing I know he is bending down. I asked him what he was doing and he said mom we need to pull these weeds. I assured him that these weed would be ok here. We went branding once again. Gus loves this time of year, he asks to go to the ranch almost everyday. We visited Grandpa Ballard at the hospital. He had blood clots in his lungs again...

AUGUST in Pictures

August, you happened so long ago I forget what we even did. I know we went to a couple of movies, Turbo and Despicable Me 2 I believe. We went on lots of cool car (my moms vw bug) rides, we went to sweet baby lola's baby blessing, then to Gma and Gpa Ballards Anniversary party. She wasn't there she ended up in the hospital after a fall. Gus got a haircut. We went to Kolob for FHE and went fishing. There must have been a fire somewhere because we got to watch a helicopter come and get water out of the lake a couple of times. While the boys fished, Oliver and I went running. Kyle and I did some long training runs for the st. george marathon...

a little entertainment

Kyle says Mariano Rivera is THE best closer in baseball. 

Ollie Boy at 6 Months

Ollie Boy at 6 Months

Weight: 15 pounds :: 8th percentile

Length: 25.25 in :: 9th percentile

Head Circ: 17.7 in :: 80th percentile

These pics are closer to 7 months then 6 months. We finally realized why Ollie looks so chunky, its his head. Unfortunately he gets it from me, my fam has big heads hopefully he grows into it soon. At 6 months Gus weighed .3 ounces more but was 1 inch taller as well. Ollie is my little squishy baby. He is such a happy boy, content as ever. 

He is not such a great sleeper though. He wakes up every 2-3 hours, I want to sleep train him. I'm worried to start though because he shares a room with Gus and heaven knows I don't want 2 boys awake crying at 3 in the morning. He still sleeps in our room with us, he looks so huge in the bassinet. To fall asleep he usually will take his pacifier and his silky and roll around for awhile until he falls asleep. Sometimes I have to bounce him. 

We started Ollie on food this month, he loves rice cereal, squash, yams, peas, he is so so with sweet potatoes. 

He is a roller. I will put him on the rug and next thing I know he has rolled across the room, usually to the rocking chair in the front room. He loves propping his feet up on something (like Kyle). So when he rolls to the rocking chair it is usually so he can prop his feet on it and push it with his feet. He sits up for a short period of time, I have been practicing with him everyday.

Ollie is a social guy, he loves when people talk to him. He has been pretty quiet until the last week or so, but now he jibber jabbers like crazy. He absolutely adores Gus when Gus isn't pestering him. 

July in picture form

July went by too quickly. The first part of the month we were in Cambria, then for the 24th of July my mom rented a huge waterslide. Gus and I went down it a million times. Kyle and I went on our first date on 7/7/01 so we have been together for 12 years. July brings marathon training for me and Kyle hit 6,000 miles on his bike this month. I went to Lindsey Hurst's house for a girls night out where we talked and ate yummy treats. I am the beehive advisor and we took the girls to do baptisms for the dead in July. Gus got new nursery teachers so we took his old nursery teachers a card that read thanks for being such a magical nursery teacher and we gave them mallow magic. He asks for his other nursery teachers every week. We met my sisters at quail lake for an afternoon of sun and water. Mama Linie took us to Despicable Me 2 when Rash got home from Italy. We had oodles and oodles of fun this month.