Good morning

I had to post this picture even if Lily's got a crazy face. Today when she woke up from her nap this is the hairdo she had. It made me giggle.

Plus I got another great one from Sivai- "Mom, you know your not the only boss. Heavenly Father and Jesus are the boss too!"

Happy Birthday Austin!

Yesterday we celebrated Austin's third birthday, I can't believe he's growing up so quickly. The excitement has been building up for weeks! Everyday for about 2 weeks Austin has been asking about his birthday and telling me that he wanted red and green presents, a birthday cake, birthday ice cream, birthday candy and birthday candles (With each one of these he would point to a new finger, and he knew which finger was which birthday item.). I made him a bug cake (He saw the ladybug cake on Nick and Jeanines blog and had to have a bug cake) which I think he loved more than his presents. Last Monday I bought the boxed cake mix for his cake and he found it....

To explain more-for the past year everytime I ("I" meaning Austin seeing a cake mix in the store and putting it in the cart) get a cake mix Austin has to sleep with it until I make it. It started in Kansas when my Mom made him a cake and now I can't stop it. Notice the condition of the cake box in the picture, he slept with it all week!

I've also been trying to potty train him and I told him that if he would wear underpants and go in the toilet I would get him Lightning McQueen underpants. Weird thing is.....he has been wearing underpants all day and hasn't had an accident, we even made a trip to Wal-Mart! I'm hoping that this will be the end of diapers, but I fear it may take a while to be accident free.

Lily May

Vampire!

Next she'll be walking...

Oh, and Sivai has a loose tooth! In fact his other tooth is nearly half way up behind his baby tooth. Any recommendations for an orthodontist???....

Trapper and more of Sivai's quotes for the week

We've been having a lot of fun this past week with our new puppy. He's a Brittany spaniel and proving to be very smart. We have taken him fishing and to our 4th of July parade and he seems to have a very even temperment. I'm sure he's going to provide the boys with hours of fun.

Sivai~

While playing around on the couch, "I'm going to practice my kicking style for Egypt, no I mean Chinese. And I'm going to eat chinese food too."

We were fishing at a small stream and we saw some sort of small swimming mammal in the water, maybe a muskrat or something. We caught a fish and Sivai got his hands all slimy and was washing them off in the stream. I started to tease him that the "creature" was going to get him. His response went something like this.

Sivai "Is he going bite me?"

Mom "He might, he eats things in the water!"

Sivai "Why's he going to eat me mom!? Does he need to provide money and food and treats for his family?"

Pictures!

Before we left for vacation we had our family picture taken, what an adventure!!! To see the proofs follow this link,

www.brandisphotocreations.com

click- family, click- gallery, scroll down to Patrick

Also, here are a couple more pics from vacation.

Bacteria pool at mid basin geysers.

Some of the buildings left on the dry farm in MT.