Pre-breakfast time

Reading together waiting for breakfast!!  Wonderful sight!!

8-months-old

My goodness, she's already 8-months-old!!  She's learned so much in the past month.  She rolls all over the place.  She can get to anywhere and anything she wants.  She also does her own version of an army crawl.  She turns to one side, puts her arm up in front of her and bends her leg and pushes off with her leg while pulling with her arm.  It's hard to explain but so cute!!  We've never had a child do anything like it.  The others usually just go from sitting and rolling to "normal" crawling.  She gets little rug burns on her knees from it so we try to keep her legs covered.

She also claps when she gets excited and wants something.  She can shake her head no, too.

She does not like to sit still. She just wanted to grab the camera and I really think she knows when we are just in awe enamored with her because she starts squealing and clapping and kicking her legs hence the awesome pictures to follow. 

Grandma and Grandpa, these pictures are in honor of you.  We found this outfit and the zebra stripes and the "Grandma's sweetheart" on the front just had to be bought.

bunnies

Yesterday  some neighbors invited us over to see their new bunnies.  Apparently the phrase "breeding like rabbits" has reason behind it.  This particular rabbit had a litter of bunnies two months ago, another litter a few weeks ago and is due to have more soon.  Holy cow!!

Anyway, the kids were in love and now want to go back to visit everyday.  Even better they want to have their own rabbit.  Miles even held one and he DOES NOT usually like to hold or touch animals.

 Asia just about pulled off one of this one's ears.  Will, the neighbor boy, was so worried about it.  Needless to say, we kept Asia far away after that.

Topaz Mountain

Ben, Evan, Kamri, and Miles (Sara, Asia, and I had a baby shower and summer clothes shopping to do) took a trip down to Topaz Mountain with Dad's friend Brett and his family.  It was a day of hunting for topaz, motorcycle riding, playing in the dirt, and holding lizards.  

 Miles called this spot "his work" and kept asking Kamri if she wanted to go into his work.  So cute!

Book of Mormon party

I saw on a blog (I don't remember which one) the idea of a little celebration after finishing a book in the Book of Mormon as a family.  I saw this idea while we were in Jacob so that's where we started.  The lady had a fun activity to go along with the book after they finished it.  They went to Olive Garden after they finished Jacob (a.k.a the Parable of the Olive Tree) but that was a little steep for our budget and our patience.  So instead, we had "Olive Garden" at home.  I made lasagna and homemade breadsticks with a recipe for Olive Garden breadsticks.  Then we were going to go buy something to plant, prune, dung, and dig in our garden but the weather was not permitting so we'll have to do that part of it another time.