Boys n Toys

We MOVED Blog addresses!!!!

2010-02-14T21:37:00.000-07:00

www.ourchildrenofalesserblog.blogspot.com is our new address! Please check us out there. I will be keeping up this site for those who ever want to look back through the years but from here on out we'll see you at the other site! mark your google readers, bookmarks, etc!!!!

Christmas time

2010-01-02T02:00:00.005-07:00

We celebrated two Christmas' this year. One with my family in UT before we left for NY and then of course one in NY with Tim's family. Here's a bunch of pics from both. The pics are as good as you can get while a child is ripping through paper. I didn't get any of them both together on Christmas Day...not like they would have sat and smiled anyway so maybe it's just as well. (I did find one with them both together, neither of them is looking at the camera and it's not a direct shot but hey they are both in the pic!)

Miles is 4!

2009-12-10T23:04:00.002-07:00

We went to a place that has tons of bouncy houses for his bday party. Then after dinner we had lots and lots of presents (As he likes to say) and ocean cake which he loved! It was a great bday!

Nolan's 1st Birthday Party!

2009-11-21T11:22:00.004-07:00

Nolan had such a great birthday. He was squealing with delight all night long. We played at McDonald's. Came home and had dinner with all the fam. Then we opened presents. He had a ball with his cake and after bath we played Beatles Rock Band (while he played with all his new toys)! It was a great day!

Hawaii and our Bansky find in New Orleans

2009-11-21T01:28:00.004-07:00

Here are some pics from our trip to Hawaii. There are so many that I just choose at random. It was an awesome trip. Lots of hikes. Waterfalls. Beaches. Zoo. Aquarium. Dole Pineapple Maze. Snorkeling...etc etc
The kids loved it! Miles adores any type of aquatic animals, sting rays and tiger sharks are his favorite.

trick or treat videos for Lesley :)

2009-11-01T21:13:00.004-07:00

here are cute videos in action trick or treating.

if you want to see more adorable tiger pics check out this link to see many cute ones!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/steveharnell/sets/72157622655340876/

Nolan Walks!!!!! And other cute pics

2009-11-01T16:34:00.007-07:00

Halloween Time

2009-11-01T11:36:00.009-07:00

Here are pics from the pumpkin patch, pumpkin painting, and of course all dressed up!Z

Our trip to the South

2009-11-01T11:23:00.004-07:00

So many of you know we have been in Mississippi since early Sept. Since we are so close to everything we have been on road trips to TX, AL, FL, TN, LA, and lots of other places in MS. So here are pics of our adventures. These pics are from New Orleans and Vicksburg.

Our Ny Trip

2009-08-22T15:28:00.003-06:00

We went with St Larn to New York and had a blast. Again so many pictures...here's a few to give you a taste. Special thanks to NaNa and Pops for great times in FL and NY!!!

FL fun

2009-08-22T15:16:00.002-06:00

We spent two weeks in FL and there are a ton of pics so I'm not using them all just a few good ones. We went to the beach 3 times, swimming everyday (Miles would even jump off the diving board) Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, and Wet n Wild twice!!! So much fun and even with 70 sunscreen my kiddos have a stellar tan.

Street signs

2009-08-22T15:06:00.002-06:00

Both of these street signs are in FL a few blocks from where Tim grew up. Both of these streets were discovered after our kiddos were already named. Funny enough we went to FL when both kiddos were the same age. Next time we have a baby we are just going to look at the street signs it should make the process a lot easier! Guess which is which...just kidding!

Flying High.....Guess which is which?????

2009-08-22T14:49:00.001-06:00

summer days

2009-08-22T14:40:00.001-06:00

Miles vs Nolan

2009-06-23T01:07:00.004-06:00

Here are pics of Miles from his 6 month pics and Nolan from his 6 month pics. (Nolan is wearing airplane shirt, Miles has hat on and white shirt)

Nolan's first sandbox adventure!

2009-06-13T01:28:00.002-06:00

and me playing guitar hero...the new way i've been playing it for the last 7 months!

Us after seeing UP we are all so happy!

2009-05-30T00:46:00.000-06:00

Memorial Day weekend

2009-05-27T15:23:00.002-06:00

We went to one of Tim's uncles houses for Memorial day for a BBQ. Miles loved jumping on the trampoline and playing in the treehouse. You can also see him eating a cookie on the ping pong table which the dog really wanted too!

Thomas the Train

2009-05-27T15:07:00.003-06:00

Nana and Pops came to visit and Miles got to go and ride on Thomas the train. He had so much fun! They had a section of trains set up to play with as well as a petting zoo!

What's on your DVR tonight?

2009-05-27T15:05:00.001-06:00

Here's what's on mine....

Cute pics of my boys

2009-05-27T14:59:00.002-06:00

My new fav set of pics

2009-04-22T18:35:00.002-06:00

These were taken this morning. Miles was still asleep and Nolan just grabbed onto his shirt and would not let go. It was so cute. I grabbed my iphone and started taking pictures. After the moment was over I realized that I should have turned my phone the other way to get a wide shot of the boys together...oh well!!! It's funny though!

First Cereal, finds toes and some other cute stuff

2009-04-22T18:28:00.002-06:00

My little piglet loves cereal and did great the first time. He also has recently found his little feet. The other super cute thing he does is puts his little hand on the handle of his car seat every time he is awake and in it. It's so cute as you can see in the pic of just his hand. When he went in his stroller for the first time when he was actually sitting in it, he put both his hands on it like he was in a recliner chair or something. So adorable! :)

Easter Day!

2009-04-22T18:17:00.001-06:00

When we posed for a family photo Miles was not happy about it and had a 10 min tantrum before it, which you can tell from his expression on his face. He loved looking for eggs though and had to open up each and every one when we came inside. Miles and Nolan have the same shirt on. :)

Can you tell which bunny is which??

2009-04-10T00:26:00.003-06:00

Take a guess at which buny you think is Miles and which one is Nolan!

Nolan's 3 month pics and Miles pants

2009-03-12T13:11:00.002-06:00

So here are some cute pics from Nolan's 3 month photo shoot. I also have the pj pants I made for Miles. Nolan has a pair of spaceship pj's that Miles feel in love with. I couldn't buy them anymore so I found some fabric and made him a similar pair. He loves them and you can see both boys in their outerspace jammies. You can't tell in the pics but Nolan's eyes are still blue but they do look brown in the pics...but they are not!

Bahamas

2009-02-05T15:51:00.004-07:00

Our 1st vacation as a fam of 4. Both boys were angels while traveling, we had an awesome trip in warm weather! We also got to hang out with the Pops, Nana, Uncle Todd and Aunt Val. Our hotel was kind of like staying at a Wet n Wild and we LOVED it!!!

Nolan's Blessing!

2009-01-25T14:46:00.003-07:00

Nolan's blessing day! We had a wonderful day for Nolan's blessing. Many people flew in for his special day, Nana, Pops, Great Grandma, and lil Sar! I'll apologize now for my horrid pic. I obviously don't have time to do my hair or anything like that anymore. :) Oh well.

Together pics

2009-01-25T14:41:00.001-07:00

Here are some together pics with the boys and one cute on of Nolan in big boy jammies. There is also a pic of me with all the kids including the cat, this is quite often what are evenings at home look like. :)

Some recent cute pics of boys!

2009-01-25T14:36:00.001-07:00

The picture with the crown on is Miles after his first day of Primary! Wow, he's getting so big! The rest are just cute.

Christmas Day.

2008-12-26T16:48:00.005-07:00

Miles had a great Christmas. He loved all his presents and after he opened one he would declare more presents. For our sardine gift this year (a present that is too big to be wrapped so it's hidden in the house and the recipient is given a can of sardines and while they open it someone hides with the present, and everyone else tries to find the gift and people, and you wait there till everyone's there) we had the slide that Nana bought him and had it set up downstairs, so as he ran around looking for his hidden present, when he found it he declared "play park". Kristina came in on Christmas Day and so did Uncle Mike and Aunt Shelia. We went to Aunties house for lasana dinner and had a great day!

Christmas Eve

2008-12-26T16:42:00.003-07:00

We had a great Christmas Eve. Kimmy flew in and we went to Aunties house for Turkey dinner. We did our Eve tradition of opening up PJ's (both boys got monkey pj's). And our new tradition of opening up a family game or puzzle to play that night.

Advertising works in our family!

2008-12-24T18:31:00.005-07:00

You need to copy and paste the link because i don't know how to do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KV4hxF66s0

Stockings

2008-12-24T01:58:00.002-07:00

Grandma Nana made stocking for our boy. Miles' got his last year and this year Nolan received his. We were taking pics with Nolan and Miles needed to do it too....so here are the cute results.

Prof Pics take 2

2008-12-17T17:49:00.004-07:00

So a couple of days later I had some coupons to go to a different place to get pics of the kids taken and basically get them for free. So I took the kids again, with my moms help and we did take 2. It worked out great because there was one pose I wanted with the boys together that I didnt get at the other place (the lady wa too scared to have Miles hold Nolan and I wanted a different one of Nolan which I got at this place, so I was pleased with my decision to go even though it was a huge hassle. Every photographer is different...

I also included the pics of Nolan taken at the hospital those are Nolan in the striped shirt.

Professional PIcs

2008-12-17T17:39:00.004-07:00

So I actually took both kids by myself to get some pictures taken. It was Miles 3 year old pics and some newborns of Nolan. Here are some of them. Miles actually wanted to get his pics taken and he just had a bath so when he said he wanted to go we were there! Our favorite is the two boys together, it shows Miles personality and prob their relationship for the next few years!

Santa

2008-12-17T17:30:00.003-07:00

I was thinking that when Miles saw Santa he'd refuse to sit on his lap and scream. We have been building it up for him. He went to one activity where there was a Santa and just let him watch other kids see Santa but didn't have him do it. Then we'd read some stories and I think he figured out that Santa was good. He was so good sitting on his lap that when they gave him the present afterwards, which was a book, he tried to climb back on Santa's lap so he could read it to him. Too cute, Nolan thought Santa was a bore and snoozed the entire time.

I also included a pic of Miles playing in the snow and a pic of Nolan wearing an outfit Tim wore at Christmas. Plus a look at our Charlie Brown Christmas tree. It's the fake tree I got last year for 15 bucks that has the lights already on it. I'm too cheap to go and buy a big beautiful one so we'll use this till it breaks. You can't see the top too well in the pic but yes the star is hanging to the side...it's got character. Miles loves it anyway!

Family Party

2008-12-10T00:10:00.002-07:00

For the family party we had pizza, train cake and presents.

Miles 3rd birthday party!

2008-12-10T00:05:00.002-07:00

We had 2 parties for Miles. This is his fun friend party.

Miles and Nolan comparision

2008-12-01T21:45:00.005-07:00

order is Nolan Miles Nolan Miles Nolan

Mr. Nolan

2008-12-01T21:42:00.001-07:00

More pics of new baby

2008-11-21T23:15:00.002-07:00

He's here and cute as can be

2008-11-21T23:07:00.001-07:00

Our new addition arrived on Nov 19th 8:09 am via c-section. We were a few days late and I wasn't going into natural labor and it looked like I never would so they scheduled our c-section (since I can't be induced due to a previous c-section). It was a good thing since the cord was wrapped around his neck twice really tight and the dr said it would have been a c-section no matter what. He is 20 inches long and 7lbs 6 oz. Name still under discussion. Here's cute pics.

Preggie Pics

2008-11-03T18:13:00.001-07:00

Here's a couple of preggie pics we took for fun. 38 weeks!

More Halloween pics because I can't help myself

2008-10-31T22:42:00.003-06:00

For the first 45 mins of trick or treating Miles wanted nothing to do with it. He as mad that we were taking pics (included in post because they are hillarious). He only wanted red suckers, so anything else he would either say "no, yucky" or he'd take it and then hand it back to them and walk away. This kid loves candy so this was very strange. After 45 mins it all clicked and he was excited to go trick or treating, would actually say trick or treat and also say thanks. Overall, it was very successful and we had a blast and mommy and daddy have tons of candy to eat. Thanks Miles! :) After trick or treating the whole fam went to Del Taco. Miles was so tired that he feel asleep there. Don't worry he woke up a soon as we got home and is still up right now. :)

Halloween!

2008-10-31T22:34:00.002-06:00

We did a few different activities for Halloween this year. We had a party at church, a Halloween carnival that friends of ours puts on every year, a walk around our "haunted lake", and of course Halloween itself. Miles would not dress up. We bought him 3 different animal costumes because they are easy and he became friends with them but would not wear them at all. So we decided to go with a costume that he would never know what it really is. I got this awesome 1970's leisure suit off of E-bay, we added some chops and a handlebar mustache. With his hair it's the perfect fit! I'll just note that putting make up on this kid is near impossible. I actually did it at 9 am while he was still asleep, then we had to hold him down to touch up. I guess he doesn't have my love of dressing up.

Painting Pumpkins

2008-10-31T22:26:00.002-06:00

It's kind of become a tradition in our house to paint pumpkins rather than carve them. Miles can paint pumpkins right now at his age and I don't have to worry about trying to teach him to carve one plus clean up is a breeze. So here are some pics of our night of painting. He was so excited after we painted them that he posed on top of them and danced on the porch.

Baby Shower

2008-10-22T00:15:00.002-06:00

My family threw me a little surprise baby shower. It was so awesome to be able to celebrate this little guy's arrival even though we have all of Miles hand me downs. So here's the only picture from the event since the camera ran out of batteries from our zoo trip. You'll see my chocolate cookie faced stained child who just finished his cookie before he opened up all of my (or the new baby's) presents.

The Zoo~

2008-10-22T00:06:00.003-06:00

So we went to the Hoogle Zoo for the first time. Miles loves animals and even though we've been to many zoo's before we figured this would be the first time he'd actually really really enjoy himself. And we were right!!!! The top thing on his list to see was the giraffe's! We went with Mongaloo and Papa, Lauren, Nate Dawg and Josh. He wasn't into taking pictures this day so getting some good pics was very hard, he was yelling at me in the giraffe picture about taking his picture. The tiger was roaring the whole time we were there which was very cool. They also had a train ride around the zoo which Miles was a big fan of and cried when it was over. The last great park about the zoo is the playground. Miles loved going down the snake slide and playing on the giant spider.

Pumpkin Patch

2008-10-07T19:32:00.002-06:00

This is an amazing entry. I am actually posting the pictures the day it happened! Wow! :) We had a lot of fun at the pumpkin patch. Miles sat on lots of tractors, picked out tons of pumpkins and went thru the children's corn maze. He had a blast.

Some cute pics over the summer

2008-09-18T18:40:00.015-06:00

We finally uploaded a ton of pics from our cameras so here's some that are a couple months old...better late than never!!! Miles would not float in the water with his floaties without being held at the begin of Aug, but by the end of the month he would go out in the middle of the water all by himself and swim to us!!!

Some preggers pics 29 weeks (I think) and almost 32!

2008-09-18T18:40:00.014-06:00

My boy today...the day after

2008-09-18T18:40:00.012-06:00

The day after the haircut....

Haircut

2008-09-18T18:40:00.010-06:00

Some of you will be thrilled to know that Miles finally had his first haircut...others will be less thrilled when they found out how much was cut! :) Here's some before's and afters. He was really good at the haircut place. It was worth the money to take him to a place that had slides and cute cars to sit in and he could watch whatever he wanted on tv. Of course the end style is not the way we'd do it, not a big fan of the side part but the cut turned out perfect. Not a lot of the length because we like it like that, we just put in some layers so it looks more curly and not so messy!

We cut Miles rattail that a few weeks ago.

Isn't she gorgeous!

2008-09-18T18:40:00.000-06:00

Hayleys and Mikes Wedding 080808

2008-08-14T00:18:00.002-06:00

When Daddy's away...

2008-07-28T23:54:00.003-06:00

Miles will cuddle up to the other man in his bed...his uncle! But his uncle isn't normally in his bed, just when he stumbles in from a crazy night at 9 am in the morn and of course little Miles still has 2 hours left until he wakes so why not!

More Grand Canyon Pics including my fav the stick up!

2008-07-23T18:49:00.001-06:00

Grand Canyon

2008-07-23T00:39:00.004-06:00

After we left Vegas Nana, Pops, Todd, Miles and I went to the Grand Canyon. So sad Daddy was away working. :(

Freedom Fest Dinner

2008-07-23T00:36:00.004-06:00

Here is Miles in the test run of his tux he will be wearing for Aunt Hayley's and Uncle Mike's wedding.

Vegas

2008-07-23T00:33:00.004-06:00

We went to Las Vegas for Freedom Fest. Here are some pics of Miles during the conference. Notice Steve Forbes in the background along with "Pocks".

It's a Boy!

2008-06-27T15:59:00.002-06:00

We found out that our next little one is going to be another boy!!! We are thrilled to have a little brother for Miles to play with. He's going to love it! Plus we don't have to purchase anything! Except maybe a few new clothes here and there...now if only we could come up with a name!

Splash Pool Pics

2008-06-27T15:56:00.003-06:00

He can actually run off the side and jump into the pool all by himself. The pool at it's deepest part is only 1ft6 and he loves being able to go swimming without mom and dad bugging him.

Fathers Day

2008-06-27T15:53:00.001-06:00

Of course we have no pics of Miles and Tim together, I think he was behind the camera on these shots.

This is why we love Daybreak

2008-06-27T15:49:00.002-06:00

All of these cool activities to do with the kids so close to home. One is at a carnival at the school, the other is the splash pool that Miles LOVES, and the last one is him climbing all over the monkey bars, he can climb up ladders and ropes all by himself (with supervision of course).

Miles First Black Eye

2008-06-27T15:46:00.002-06:00

Here is Miles with his first black eye. There was a controller up on the fireplace mantel that he was playing with and as soon as we realized this it fell on him before we could move it. Believe it or not a few days after this one went away he got another one...but I can't remember how....Boys!

Cute pics of Miles

2008-06-27T15:40:00.002-06:00

This is Miles riding his bike for the first time and also discovering what his dump trucks are really good for. He also discovered how fun it is to cover your body up in stickers. Sorry I'm not like other bloggers with cute stories about this or that I prefer one word sentences to describe 5 pics....LAZY! :)

Baby #2 is on it's way!

2008-05-13T18:55:00.004-06:00

We are so excited. We are due in mid-Nov. We'll post more updates once we find out the gender. This was the last of our little frozen embryos so next time we'll have to do a brand new IVF cycle, like we did with Miles....but it's worth it. :) I do have pics of the baby at egg state as well as 6 weeks and 10 weeks but I still need to get those scanned in...maybe one day!

So now the name change is even more important!!!! If I could ever think of one..I'm thinking of doing something cheesy like tim+auti......I haven't decided yet.

Blog name change suggestions

2008-03-19T14:47:00.002-06:00

As you can tell I've kind of converted this blog into a family blog rather than just a blog about Miles only. Even though most of it will still be about my little guy with an occasional pic of me or Tim. So, I'm going to be changing the name. If you have any clever ideas let me know. :)

My 30th Birthday!!!

2008-03-19T14:28:00.003-06:00

Here's a few pics from lunch on my birthday. We went to lunch with the AFS crew and they showered me with presents. Afterwards, we went to the world of birds, which not only had thousands of birds but almost every other animal you could think of. I'll post pics soon of some monkeys trying to steal stuff out of my purse. For dinner we went out with the agency, which I was showered with gifts as well. It was a fun day! The pics of the sunset are not on my birthday That was at the guys house who runs the production company out here and we had a bbq there the other day. Way fun, totally sweet house as you can tell from the pics.

Baboons and Penquins

2008-03-19T09:49:00.004-06:00

There was an entire family of Baboons hanging out on the side of the road. Notice the two babies. Very cute. We also saw Ostriches while we were out driving around. One of my fav things so far are these cute penquins. In the first picture the wind blew my jacket up into my face as he snapped the pic but I included it because I love the way the penquins both decided to get in my picture and lean a little bit towards me. By the time we actually got a decent picture they were over the photo shoot. Then we caught some other penquins making out! hehehe

Cape Point

2008-03-18T16:10:00.003-06:00

Cape Point is very very windy as you will see in the pics. It's insanely windy. Very pretty to look at though!

Cheetas and Eagles

2008-03-18T16:03:00.003-06:00

One of the coolest things we did so far is hang out with the Cheetas and Eagles. The big cat just laid there like another cute little black cat I know while we petted it. The Eagles just sat on our arms and we were able to pet it too! Very soft. Sorry the last pic is sideways.

South Africa is so cool!

2008-03-18T12:26:00.003-06:00

This batch of pics has Tim and Todd hiking up Table Mountain. Some cute ones of Miles and a couple of fam pics.

South Africa

2008-03-18T11:29:00.004-06:00

We went to the Aquarium and Miles loved it. The rest of the pics are of Todd and I at different beaches all across Cape Town. We were scouting out the best one. Miles of course loved playing at the beaches and climbing rocks with Uncle Todd. Poor Tim at work while we play in Africa!

Amsterdam

2008-03-18T11:06:00.003-06:00

We don't have a ton of pics here at the moment, we were so jet lagged but here's a few. More to come next week when we go back!

Monster Truck Jam, we dressed up in our fav style. :)

2008-02-29T11:11:00.001-07:00

Miles is not a big fan of snow!

2008-02-29T11:09:00.001-07:00

Uncle Todd is here!

2008-01-27T15:58:00.000-07:00

Uncle Todd has moved in with us and I have to do everything he does. I wear his shoes, I play the drums on Rock Band and I sleep just like good ole Uncle Todd! I also like to say "Todd Stink" all the time.

I love Bathtime!

2008-01-05T21:07:00.001-07:00

My cousin Luke and Me! (and Aunt Hayley)

2008-01-05T21:05:00.000-07:00

Central Park Zoo

2008-01-05T21:03:00.000-07:00

New Years

2008-01-05T21:02:00.000-07:00

Christmas!

2008-01-05T21:00:00.001-07:00

On a Sleigh and with Santa

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Now we can have Christmas!

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The party!!!!

2007-12-10T00:15:00.000-07:00

I loved my presents and I had such a good day. I decided instead of having a cool looking car cake I'd rather have my favorite cake that I like to eat instead with some cars on it!

My 2nd Birthday

2007-12-10T00:10:00.000-07:00

My morning present

Daddy's Premiere Party

2007-12-09T23:58:00.001-07:00

I know that I wasn't here but mommy and daddy had a blast. I did hang out with everyone before the party!

23 months

2007-12-09T02:46:00.000-07:00

Just because he's cute.

2007-12-09T02:41:00.000-07:00

Scribbles and Chocolate

2007-12-09T02:37:00.001-07:00

Halloween!

2007-12-09T02:30:00.000-07:00

22 months old

2007-12-09T02:24:00.001-07:00

I'm wearing the same exact outfit Daddy wore when he was my age!

Painting Pumpkins

2007-12-09T02:18:00.000-07:00

The final product! We just call it a monster.

Pumpkin Patches

2007-12-09T02:10:00.000-07:00

Mommy and Daddy took me to two pumpkin patches. The second one was way better and had cool tractors to ride on and a corn maze that I went in with Daddy.

Summer fun.

2007-12-09T02:04:00.000-07:00

I'm still upset even with 2 popsicles.I love Target, well at least the giant red ball.
Daddy dressed me today in my cute knee high socks.

21 months old

2007-12-09T01:56:00.000-07:00

Me and my Nana!

I feel asleep watching Richard Scarey Movies!

20 months old

2007-12-09T01:53:00.001-07:00

We are finally getting settled in our new house. I love the giant TV.

I'm sleeping in my big boy bed!

Yes, I'm wearing my mother's shoes...shhh!

19 months

2007-12-06T23:39:00.000-07:00

We love our new house. We love playing outside in the summer. Miles found out that he loves popsicles and playing with the hose.