Family Photos, Anyone?

We are in dire need of some family photos.  Since Mason was born, these are the only photos we have together:

 Creepy hand on knee and hiking clothes....

 Mason eating a dinosaur, weird Becky smile...

Chase on drugs, Mason STILL eating a dinosaur...

We've tried to have a friend from church take our photos 3 weekends in a row, but it just hasn't worked out so far.  I'm too cheap to hire a photographer, too, since I've been too spoiled having a sister that is a photographer.  She lives in Seattle, though, and now we live too far away :(  Maybe there's no hope for us...

Pictures that make me smile...

...From the past 3 months, in no particular order:

Papa Beaz would say that he's so happy because he's playing in Cardston. 

 This makes me smile because Auntie Chan doesn't realize that Mason is not as excited as she is...

 Man, I love any picture of Jadyn and Chase together.  So cute!  We miss her so much!

 see?  Cute, right?

 ...And this is something Chase learned from spending time with Jadyn.

 Oh, my goodness.  He's such a happy boy!  And he gets really excited when he sees the camera.

 And when I let him eat an entire nectarine.  Which happens every other day...

 Camera happy again.  Did I mention that he's crawling EVERYWHERE lately?  This boy doesn't stop moving.

 This is Chase scratching his face absentmindedly with his feet while watching Mickey Mouse :)  Who does that?

 I just can't get enough of these boys.  Is it just me?

 Daddy and Chase playing "Where's Waldo?"  I made Buddy do this with me on one of our first few dates.  It was awesome.

 The boys after their naps with their matching hand-knitted blankets from Celie (my high school seminary teacher).  They (and I) LOVE those blankets!

 Mason likes pulling himself up on everything lately.  He especially likes to stand in front of the screen/glass door and talk either to his reflection or to the outside world.  Can't tell which.  Both are equally cute.  

 I found out that a good place to put Mason while we're outside is in this car.  he sits in it really well, actually.  You can tell he likes it.  Or me :)  Oh, side story:  Mason LOVES his Pop Pop and especially likes his mustache, so I told Buddy maybe he should grow a mustache (since Buddy's annoyed that Mason likes Pop Pop and me better than him).  Then the other night we were all in the living room and I said to Chase "Who has a mustache?" wanting him to say "Pop Pop" since he was sitting next to him.  Chase said "Mommy mustache!"  Maybe that's why Mason likes me, too...

 This makes me smile because Chase LOVES playing in the cars.  He'll spend forever in there if I didn't take him out (for fear of breaking another rear view mirror or running the battery down).  He only plays in there when I can watch him now...

The boys love their Pop Pop.  Who we will start calling Grandpa since we found out that he prefers that name :)

I saved the best for last.  I love this picture :)

Chalk on the Trampoline

Man, it's nice to have easy access to a trampoline here--one of the many benefits of living with my parents :)  We're still in the process of buying a house--just waiting to be approved for a loan.  Apparently we haven't bought enough stuff on payment plans to have enough credit for easy approval.  It's taking FOR-EV-ER!  At this point we're actually hoping the sellers don't back out on our offer since it's taking too long and we have to set a later closing date.  Wish us luck that everything works out!

In the meantime...we've been putting the trampoline to good use here.  Any time I mention going outside, Chase will say "Tok on tamp-o-leen? (Chalk on trampoline?)"  And of course I say yes.  Because it's fun :)  How come I don't remember doing this when I was little?

 Yes, he's not wearing any clothes.  He was playing with the water table right before this, so he was all wet.

Oh, you want to see the pictures he drew up close?  Well , ok, if you insist :)

 He would tell me what they were after looking at them for a second.  I think he draws, and THEN decides what it is that he just drew :)  This is obviously a horse.

 This really does look like an ice cream cone ("eye greem goan"-with gutteral 'g's)

I think the lines were originally supposed to go IN the circle.  But what do I know?

This is exactly what he called this after he drew it.  We can thank "Blue's Clues"  for helping him learn that shape :)  I think he sounds so cute when he says it.

 And then he started rubbing his head on the tramp.  And before you think he's really ahead of his age and is coolly trying to make some static electricity (like we used to do), this is just something he does.  Anywhere.  On the carpet, on the hardwood floor, and now on the trampoline.  I hope he doesn't lose any brain cells while doing this.

Whew!  That was a lot of work!