More visitors

We were lucky enough to have Scott's other set of grandparents come and visit us last week from Logan. The kids loved having so many visitors and all the extra attention. These picture are all in reverse order but we had another fun filled weekend with the Crockett's and my mother-in-law (who stayed behind with the first group left).

We had an early birthday celebration for Grandpa Crockett. He got to wear this awesome hat while the waiters sang to him. It's worth it for free ice cream right?!



Of course the boys each had to have several turns blowing out the candle.


Jaden loves climbing trees and he also loves to have me take his picture.

After church on Sunday we drove over to the cemetery. A women in Logan had said that the Yakima cemetery was the prettiest she had ever seen so we had to go and let them check it out themselves. We also snapped several shots of the kids. I wish I would have thought ahead to have us wear nice clothes so we could try for a decent family picture, it was gorgeous outside that day.

This is Jaden trying to help Logan figure out were to stand for his picture.

Feeding some ducks at the cemetery.

Despite the rain we took the boys to a pumpkin patch on Saturday.

We let our boys paint the pumpkins when they first get them. I think we will probably carve them tomorrow now that it is closer to Halloween.

Earlier last week Scott and I went to a murder mystery party. The theme was 1930's Hollywood premier. We only had two days to come up with costumes. I think we did pretty good. Regardless of how we looked, we had a blast and it was fun to get of the house without the kids.

This is another of Jaden's "Mom take my picture"

This is another random picture of Jaden just lounging around the house.

Birthday Weekend

Logan turned 2 this weekend and we had a house full of company to help him celebrate. Scott's parents, grandparents and his sister's family drove over from Utah/Idaho and spent a few days here. It was a good motivator to get our house in order, never mind the fact that we have lived here for 5 months already. I convinced Scott to let me buy a new couch and loveseat a few days before they arrived. I'm thinking next time we have company we are going to have to invest in a new dining room set :)

We drove up towards White Pass on Saturday, about 45 mins away. It was gorgeous but freezing!

Jaden asked me to take his picture while sitting on this rock. He's so cute.

Of course Logan wanted one of him too.

After church Logan was able to sneak in a cupcake before the actual part started. This is the face he makes now when I tell him to smile.

The crew: Mitchell, Logan, Jackson, and Jaden

Logan had a cookie monster themed party since he is our little cookie monster. Logan loves sweets and it constantly stealing everyone else's food. I attempted to make a cooking monster pinata. It didn't turn out exactly like how I had envisioned it in my head, but good enough to have a bat taken to it.

Checking out their loot.

Opening gifts.

The boys loved their new cousin Grant. Jaden starting bawling when they left saying he missed Grant and wanted him to come back.

Four generations of Holt's.

Seattle

We headed over to Seattle earlier in the month to catch a University of Washington football game. Lucky for us Scott still has connections so we were able to get tickets to watch the game in the suites. It was great to be able to watch the game with Scott, before he was always taking off to go down to the field or to schmooze a donor.

Before the game we took the boys to a playground by where we used to live. Jaden and I used to walk here everyday when we first moved to Seattle.

We took a bus over to avoid the parking traffic. The boys loved it!

Jaden has officially overcome his fear of mascots, Logan still has a ways to go.

Enjoying the pre-game meal. It's going to be a sad day when we have to start buying our own tickets.

Logan crashed around halftime

It was 85 in Seattle that day so after the game we took the boys to the beach before we headed home. They were pretty disappointed we didn't bring any sand toys, but that didn't stop them from having a blast.

My babies grew up

It has been an eventful couple of weeks. Jaden started preschool this week and Logan recently moved out of his crib into a regular bed. Logan was my perfect sleeper, easiest child in the world to put down and would stay happy in his bed until I got around to getting him up...then he learned how to climb out of his crib. Once he learned that he discovered his Independence and our sleep routine got flipped around. I figured it wasn't very safe to have him jumping out of the crib all the time so he got to move over to the bottom bunk. He loves his big boy bed (he actually calls it his big boy crib). I have to say it was pretty cute the first time or two I saw the two boys holding hands and sneaking out of their room together. It has been a couple of weeks now and for the most part Logan stays in his bed when we leave the room and no longer shows up in our room at 3 am.

This is after Logan snuck out of bed one night, he was so happy to be up that we let him hang out with us for awhile.

Logan didn't want to to down for a nap one day meanwhile I drifted off on his bed waiting for him to join me. When I woke up (it was only about 5 mins) I came out to find Logan fast asleep on the fireplace.

Logan's first night in the big bed I heard him moaning in the middle of the night. When I went to check on him I couldn't find him anywhere. Poor kid had fell off the bed and rolled completely under it. So now we lay this big bear on the floor next to the bed to soften the fall.


We kicked off football season last weekend and I awoke to find that Scott had pulled his old BYU poster out of storage and hung it in our entry way. I told him it was fine for game day but then it had to come down...a week later it is still hanging up.

Cheering on the Cougars...they loved the easy access to chips, cookies and licorice.

Yesterday was Jaden's first day of preschool, one the first day it was just an hour of free play with parents there. Tomorrow is his first full day and he is so excited!

Of course Logan had to get his own backpack too and wear it to school just like his big brother.

Logan loved it too and I am dreading having to pull him away tomorrow when we drop Jaden off.