Gillian's Birthday

My Blue-eyed baby is turning 3!!! Despite the fact she can't decide if she wants to turn 3 and give up her softy (and hopefully sucking her fingers that she only does with the softy in the other hand) or if she wants to stay 2.  She had a great birthday party.  We made pizza, one of her faves, and pink cupcakes (Magnolia's recipe of course) and then we all went for a swim!!!  Very fun day.  

Nick's Baptism

Nick was baptized three weeks ago.  It was very special.   The missionaries baptized and confirmed him.  By missionaries I mean all the missionaries in a 500 mile radius.  There must have been more than a dozen hands on his head during the confirmation!!! Also making the day even more special was the participation by his cousins, the Colemans ... the ones that weren't galavanting around Europe.  Jessica recited an article of faith, Clay gave a take about baptism and Maddie performed a song she wrote with her guitar, twice.  The Missionaries demanded an encore!!! It was also great to have so many other loved ones present, the Morris's, Taylor and Sabra and Grandma and Lee.  Thanks everyone!!!

Family photos

Friday we had a photographer come and take pictures of us.  She blogged a portion of the photo session on her website.  Check them out!!! I am so excited to see the rest.

Girls' Night out, the fall out

Story time with Gillian: Goldilocks and The Three Bears

I just happened to point the camera at her at just the right moment.  She would never have done this on que...

Nick-isms

(phone rings at work)
Nikki: "Hello, this is Nikki."
Nick: "Mom, I need my phone back."(Nick is currently without a phone because I sold mine in anticipation of the iPhone 3G, so I am temporarily using his and he has none)
Nikki: "Why, you only have a few more hours to go"
Nick: "I need to call Parker."(Parker is Nick's fair weather friend that lives behind us)
Nikki: "Just call him from the house phone, don't you know his number?"(Can't really hold that against him, I don't know anyones phone number either...my whole life is on my SIM card, or SEND card as my mother-in-law says)
Nick: "No, I don't know his number, it's saved in my phone. What am I suppose to do then, MANUALLY go and ask him to play?"

I have cute kids!!!

Here are a couple of pics of the kids from the last few days.  Nick loves to have his pictures taken...Gillian does not!!!  I have very few of Gillie looking at the camera.  She can't be bothered by such things.  I have tons of the back of her head!!! Nick on the other hand has never taken a bad photo. I have been seeing lots of photos these days where the subjects aren't square in the photos...I love them as you can see.  But since they are both angled the same way here, it's a bit dizzy-making (Uglies, anyone?)