Blessing Day

Gracie's blessing day went great. We had lots of family and friends here for it so that always makes a day special. She was such a good baby and didn't fuss during her blessing. Which, to me, is a miracle...she's a bit of a Mommy's girl. She looked awesome in her dress but by the end of the day it was ready to go to the cleaners. Luckily she waited until the evening to start spitting up all over it. I took it to get preserved the next day. I was so worried if I didn't get it cleaned right a way that it would yellow from the spit up. I'm glad it's preserved but at the same time I'm kind of sad that I can't look at the whole thing anymore or show it off.

Here's a picture of the little doll with her Auntie Jill in the background. I think Jill was pretty proud of herself, she was holding Gracie is sacrament meeting when some girls behind us who were visiting the ward for another blessing told her..."oh what a beautiful dress". She smiled at them and said, "yeah, I made it."

So precious

Grandma and Grandpa Bodily. She wore the pearls they gave her for her blessing. I was so afraid her braclet would fall off.

My Mom and Steve.

Grandma and Grandpa.

Blaker Bod and his little girl.

My Baby and I.

And proud proud brother Benjamin. He is so excited that he's getting big enough to hold her on her own. Actually about a month ago now, I was really trying hard to get my chores done and it just didn't seem like anything was going my way. He told me "Mom I can hold Gracie while you do your chores." I was hesitant at first but then decided to let him try. He holds her really good if he's holding her like in the picture above (in his right shoulder). So, I decided I'd try it out. I told him that he could not move and that if he needed to move or needed something else, or if she wsa moving to much that he could yell for me and I would be right there to help. He was amazing and I was able to whip through cleaning my bathrooms. It wasn't bad I could ckeck on them like every minute and it didn't take me that long to get them all done anyways. What a helper!!!!!!!!!!

Fall Festivities

I havent blogged forever...now it's coming back to haunt me because I have a bunch that I want to post. So hopefully over the next few days I can get all caught up because I've got all the pictures I want to post ready to go on my computer now. Well when Gracie was about a month old, we went to the church to let the kids ride their bikes. It was so much fun, plus we kind of made a mess out of the church parking lot because we shook all of the leaves off of the trees. The kids had a blast they ended up playing in the leaves more than they did riding their bikes.

The kids thought their Dad was AWESOME when he would make the leaves fall. And honestly it did look really awesome to me too. They had a blast and kept picking hanfuls up off the ground and throwing them up in the air. I had a little video of it but blogger sucks and it took forever to upload and still didn't go through so these pictures will have to be enough. Well below we will start on Halloween. There's lots of pictures of Miss Grace because it was her first Halloween and I'm obsessed with how cute she is!

Billy would not pose for the camera at all. He didn’t like being in his costume and he
would NOT put on his Captain America mask.
So I never got a really good picture of him in his costume…ohhh the life
of being a Mom to a two year old.

Ben and Brendon were so cute together. They still love to put their costumes on and play. Seriously the best toys I've ever bought have ended up being their halloween costume. Although I don't think that Billy's will get much use. Brendon tried to put it on once cause he really wanted to be Captain America...yeah didn't work out to well for him, I laughed and he was embarrassed and had to take it off. It was a little snug!

He was so proud of himself. He had waited a long time to get to wear this costume. The suspense had been killing him.

I know the shoes drive me crazy! He's like allergic to tieing his shoe laces. He can do it...he just doesn't want to.

Ohhhh....sooo cute.... Sorry didn't realize I didn't get this picture rotated...oh well

She's so precious!

Gal I am obsessed.

Okay back to Captain America. This was the end of the night. Don't you love the chocolate drool he has running down his costume! Yummo.
She was so stinkin cute in her Halloween costume. I had to show of her little lady bug wings.

Ta-Da!!!!!!!!!

Glorious Day! Finally things came together for me today, and I was able to upload the rest of the kids' pictures. All these pictures have only taken up my last three posts! It still took me a while but faster then it has done this last week. Thank heaven. Well I started with Ben's first and have just gone down the line of kids.

Cute...cute

I like this one I see him make this face an aweful lot.

Blake says he looks sad in this picture but I still like it...like a lot.

Brendon is so photogenic it kills me. I love all of his pictures. But the finger on his cheek is adorable. He looks like this a lot when he's watching TV or thinking seriously about something.

This is the one I have hanging in our living room.

This one is so funny. That is not his normal smile, but it is still cute.

I love this one too. It's perfect. His eyes have turned so green, I've told Blake his eyes ought to be jealous. He gets his amazing green color from his Dad...well obviously.

Well bring a bucket of water to put out this fireball. And that is exactly what he is...man oh man. Out of all the boys he has probably had more of the terrible two's, well probably more than Ben and Brendon put together!

He would only let us take his picture if he could be playing with the light switch. I do remember two was a hard picture taking age with his older brothers as well.

His red hair is amazing though. And I do believe his eyes are turning green. I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure about it. That's okay. He's handsome either way.

Look at that face, don't let the innocence blind you to what is really behind that face.

Well here are the rest of Gracie's pictures. Her eyes are piercing in this picture, they just draw me in to her. For me any ways.

She looked so cute in her little outfit.

I love this picture. She looks so content.

This was the last tutu picture that it wouldn't let me upload last time. I love it. I probably love them so much because of the colors. Glad she looks good in red, because she may have a lot of it coming her way. Well there they are, hope you all enjoyed them.

This week is going to be crazy getting ready for her blessing next weekend which means I have company from out of town and out of state coming. So I don't know if I'll get in another post until next week. Because it's taken me so long to do all of these pictures I'm way behind. I have some fun pictures of the kids I want to share with you. We've painted pumpkins, been bike riding, and tree shaking...you'll have to wait on that one, and by the time I get around to it...Halloween too, since that is tomorrow. Well hope it was worth the time!

Gracie Adele's Newborn Pictures

I love this picture of Gracie. She is so beautiful. And those eyes are to die for.

All of these pictures are a manifestation of the labor of love. I made this tutu all by my lonesome, and yes as you can tell I'm proud of that. The hair piece that I made to match almost took as long to make as it took for me to make the whole tutu. Oh well...it was worth it cause it's stinkin adorable if I say so myself!

And of course the blessing gown. I've already talked to you about that. Labor of love again, but not just my love, that was her eAuntie Jill's love too. It did turn out exactly how I wanted it. The blanket that she's on in this picture was bought my my mother-in-law for Gracie's blessing. She had her name embroirdered on it. It's really super soft.

And of course I love this picture because it displays how long the dress is. I think that's awesome, and is it just me or is blogger doing crazy things with jouraling too. Now it's underlining everything and making it look like a huge, long, crazy, web link for something...grrrrrr...again

Well I'm trying this again I guess. I thought that my computer or blogger or whatever was working better today. I guess the jury is still out cause I'm trying to upload pictures right now and I just don't know if it's working very well...Well dang 3 pictures just popped up. Guess maybe it is working better today. Sweeeeet...maybe I can get them all done! That would be a miracle.

Okay well it's taken me like 3 days and this is as far as I've gotten. Now Blogger won't let me upload anymore pictures...soooo...here are some pictures of Gracie. I have more but can't get the done right now. I guess I'll have to try adding them later.

Grrrrr......

Why do I ever try to do anything? It always results in mw having a screaming kid...or two. Plus Billy always thinks he needs to try to climb all over the computer desk while I'l trying to do anything online. Well I finally figured out the problem, but it is still taking forever to upload the images...so this will have to do for now. I think I hate the pictures of Blake and I. But we got some good pictures of our family. There are more but now today. By the time I figured out what was going wrong and finally got the pictures to load Gracie woke up. So I uploaded these while I was trying nurse her. Well then she was done and the computer was still loading and I realized that the fireball of the house was being really quiet. I caught him in my room with my baby vaseline. He loves it, we use it on his face when he gets exzema but normally just use it on Gracie as diaper rash prevention. Well it is all over his clothes, hands, face, and the vaseline jar. Luckily it's cheap cause i think he use like 1/3 of a cup of it....grrrrrr...Well now i have to do my hair and make up, pick Ben up from school, go to scouts, come home and make dinner, drop of the kids and head to the temple. We have sealings tonight at 7:30. I guess we'll see how the rest of the day pans out. Maybe tomorrow I can get the rest of the pictures up. Enjoy these for now.

Sad Day

I've been trying to upload some pictures of our family picture day forever...but something is going wrong. When I first tried to do it the files were so big I could only do one at a time. So I decided to wait until I had more time to do the post. Well now it's not letting me upload any pictures into a post at all. I think blogger is mad at me or something. It got irritated about an hour ago because when I first tried this afternoon I decided to see if today it would let me do more than one at a time, and of course that made it have a hernia, and now nothing happens when I press the "Add Image" button...who knows. Tried to give it an hour and thought I'd try again, must still be mad at me. Maybe later... :(