Love Them.

So yesterday my little ones had their pictures taken by the amazing HOLLY APRECIO. Lots of you know that my little Charli can be SUPER shy, but it seriously took Holly no time at all to get Charli to warm up. In fact Charli loved her, and is still asking "where'd Holly go?" Anyways not only does she take beautiful pictures, but she is exceptionally reasonable! There's lots of people who seriously charge so much, and although I feel like she deserves it.... I'm super thankful that even poor people like me can get awesome pictures of our kids! Here is just a few (that she already had ready) of my cute little munchkins!! To see more, look at her blog http://hollyapreciophotography.blogspot.com Thank you Holly!

I could eat him!

Adorable! If I do say so myself!

Happy Valentines Day Daddy!!

This is the best smile I could get out of your daughter

6 Months Today!

My little baby Brooks is 6 MONTHS TODAY!!! Crazy how big he is, and how he is too quickly turning from a baby into a little boy. He is the sweetest cutest little guy I've ever met, and I couldn't possibly love him more! The last 6 months have been amazing with him as the newest member of our family, and I can't wait for all the time to come!

At 6 months Brooks:

Is loving his food! Seriously this kid is hungry all the time! He gets lots of little bites of whatever I'm eating (if its something a baby could eat of course) and loves rice cereal mixed with peas, applesauce, bananas, peaches, pears, sweet potatoes, carrots, and green beans! Its funny, he won't eat rice cereal alone... it literally makes him gag.

He can sit up for small periods of time, but when he looks around, he usually tips over:)

Gets around by rolling.

He has one little tooth poking through on the bottom, and another almost there! Seriously I can't believe this. Charli didn't get teeth until she was almost 1!

He laughs all the time, but usually it sounds more like this uncontrollable scream/squeal

He's turned into the BEST baby! I seriously can take him anywhere! Trust me, it wasn't always like this.

He still hates his car seat. The first 5-10 minutes of any drive are torture.

He's still a great nurser

He loves to grab his feet!

He seriously always has his arm up, and turned outward with his pinkey at his mouth... we call it his Dr. Evil, because seriously that's exactly what he does.

He loves to suck on his lower lip.

We're still not sure what color his eyes are going to be. Right now, they are a grey, with what looks to be a little blue and green...

He's a drooling machine!! We change bibs and shirts like crazy!

He loves our dogs. They make him laugh all the time!

He does not like to be left alone, where no one is in his eyesight.

He loves to watch TV. Even when I'm feeding him, I have to cover him with a blanket, or he'll just keep trying to turn his head to watch it.

He loves to face outward and see everything that's going on.

He loves to be held, cuddled, and given lots of attention!! WE LOVE HIM!!

Seriously??

This is what happens when I leave my children alone with their Dad.

When I asked why he did such a thing, Chris's response was "He fell asleep"

I can't go anywhere.

Spot Light on Charli!!!

My little two year old is growing like crazy, and I look at pictures of her from just this past summer, and can't believe how grown up she is becoming already! Mostly for my own records, but also for everyone to know, I thought I'd share a bit about whats going on in the life of Charli right now!

Her likes:

Playing outside with her umbrella and rain boots (we find ourselves ankle deep in puddles at least once a day when its raining)

Playing hide and seek

All things Disney but the princesses especially

being a mermaid in the bath

putting all her babies to sleep; she makes a bed for all of them

playing with all her cousins and friends

her pink pants

Singing by herself. If you try and sing with her, she'll tell you to be quiet

TV, but right now she LOVES Twice upon a Christmas.... I know Christmas is over.

Fern Gully

Marshmallows!

Blowing out candles every time I light one

Helping make dinner

Nursery

Going in the dogs cage

Her cash register

Sledding and all things snow

Doing her dance in front of everyone

Movie night

Coloring on MY picture

Disneyland ...She still talks about it

Mr. sun

Seeing birds and other animals outside

Reading stories, but especially brown bear

Her baby Brooks

Her dislikes:

Almost all food, with the exception of breakfast, and marshmallows

Having anything done with her hair

Staying in her bed at night

The dogs jumping on her

Sweaters, and scarfs

Being woke up

Having her picture taken

Leaving a place when she's having fun

She Can:

She can use a big girl bathroom!

She can sleep in her own bed

She can count to ten

She knows all the colors

She can sing lots of songs

She can be a great helper

She can buckle her own car seat

She can get herself dressed

Be the sweetest little girl I know!

Good To Be Back!!

Welp, I'm finally calling my blog vacation to a close. I seriously can't believe its January, and my last post was .... Halloween!!! Wow that's embarrassing. Anyways like all of you I'm sure the Holiday's were crazy and time just flew by! We had a wonderful Christmas spent at home, and the whole season was just great. It was especially fun on Christmas morning because Charli was finally old enough to understand what was going on, and loved opening every present she got. In fact it was hard to get her to keep opening them, because she wanted to play with each toy she got, right then and there. She still talks about how Santa ate all the cookies, and we are still watching "Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas." I'm sure Brooks enjoyed himself too, he mostly ate the wrapping paper after Charli opened his gifts.

Chris has been home since before Thanksgiving, and I partly blame him for my blogging absence. When he's here, we just try and take advantage of everyday, and do lots of fun things. Just a little catch up, here is some of the things we did over the break. Went sledding at Snoqualmie Pass, took Charli roller skating for the first time, made gingerbread houses, looked at Christmas lights, watched tons of Christmas movies, baked, decorated, undecorated, threw my sister-in-law a baby shower, spoke in church, shaved Brooks head, went to Christmas parties, saw Santa a few times, shopped, hung out with all the family from out of town LOTS!! And the list goes on.

So a HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone!! As far as resolutions go, some of my less personal ones are, of course I want to be better at keeping up with my blog, I want to have a clean car, stick to our family budget, and get the rest of our house decorated! We'll see how it goes, so far so good. Anyhow I have lots of pictures to come, but I just wanted to post SOMETHING right now! My little Brooks is 5 MONTHS!!! I can't believe it. He is a happy little guy, who rolls all over the place, pushes himself up, laughs, giggles, smiles, loves to sit in his bumbo seat, loves the dogs, loves him mom dad and sister, and .....still wakes up in the night. Ugh. Its my fault because for some reason I go through some weird separation anxiety, and wait forever to put my babies in their own room... I'm weird I know, but I feel like I'm abandoning them, and banishing them to the nursery. Anyone else ever feel like that?? Anyways I guess the time has come to finally put him in there and let him cry it out. If anyone has any advise let me know. I never had to deal with this, with Charli.

This is the most scattered post ever, but anyways mostly wanted everyone to know I'm back in the blogging business, and there is more to come later!

Halloween 2009!!!

Although it rained on us, Halloween this year was awesome! We trick-or-treated with our umbrellas, and Charli was having so much fun, I don't even think she knew or cared that she had to wear her rain boots under her little ball gown! We stared off the night, going around our neighborhood getting as much candy as possible, then headed over to Rob and Bri's house for their annual Halloween party!! It was so much fun, just like every year! I loved everyones costumes, but I'm so mad that I didn't take more pictures!! I didn't get even half of the kids, or some of the best adult costumes either!! Oh well, next year. Ok so don't judge our pumpkins, but look how disgusting that is!!! Hahaha I wanted Chris to be a part of our pumpkin carving this year, so we did them the night before he left, and by the time Halloween rolled around, they had definitely passed their prime:) SICK!

Here's my little brother-in-law Keni, who was Thomas the Train!!

A quick picture of most of the kiddo's on the couch!! Notice my little giraffe screaming his little head off.

To lazy to fix this picture of my brother-in-law Brian, who was probably the best Luigi I've ever seen! His wife Katie was a box of popcorn, and her costume was also AMAZING (she made it herself I might add) but I never got a picture of her.

Stephanie, our dead football player!

Torrin as Wolverine!

Rob and baby Robbie, as a zookeeper with his little kangaroo! Bri was also adorable in her little safari outfit, but I didn't get her picture either

And of course here's my little munchkins, who were just as cute as can be. Charli was my little princess Belle, and Brooks was a giraffe. Seriously my kids won't smile for the camera. EVER. This was my attempt on the couch, and these pictures are as close as I got. So frustrating, but whatever, I still think they're adorable:)

Seriously I took so many more pictures than that, and not one has both of them smiling. Guess I'm just not funny enough. haha

Here's a full length shot of my little Belle

And one of my baby giraffe! ...he likes to stick out his tongue

A Scary Moment

Last Saturday night was shaping up to be a good one, until my little dare devil decided to jump off the foot of her bed, only to some how get caught and fall face forward on the edge of the table in front of her. She cracked her forehead right open and was screaming bloody murder. I've honestly never seen so much blood come out of such a little head in all my life. I had a completely soaked little towel. Needless to say we took her to the emergency room, and I was fearing the worst, thinking she was gonna be completely traumatized by getting stitches. Upon arriving my fears shifted when the lady checking us in told me that they has some very scary, sick, contagious people in the waiting room, and that we needed to do whatever we had to do to protect our children! I was like what the heck does that mean???!! That's when my prayers started. To make a long story shorter, Charli was AMAZING and just wore the little mask. She actually didn't even want to take it off when we were leaving! Brooks stayed under a blanket in his carrier, and we waited in a whole separate area all by ourselves. Charli was such a trooper the whole time. All she wanted was some rubber gloves like the doctor, and she was golden. She serenaded the doctor and nurse with "someday my prince will come" as he glued her head back together (no stitches yea!!) Now she tells everyone we see how the doctor fixed her ow-wee and shes all better. Then she will ask you, if you're all better.

I didn't get any pictures of her cut in all its glory when it was bleeding but here it is post glue job.

They gave her this little animal that she calls mousey

She's showing off her "pretty bracelet" with a band aid over her cut before the doctor came in.

Carlton Farms!!

So this year we decided to go to the pumpkin patch that was right down the road from our house, and I'm sure glad we did! It was honestly the best pumpkin patch I've ever been to in my life! They had everything! A petting zoo, hay rides, corn mazes, a little kiddie maze, a little barrel train, a flower patch were you could pick dahlias, a farmers market, food, and even a pumpkin cannon that would launch pumpkins like 3 football fields away!! Charli LOVED it! I was worried because we went right during nap time, but she didn't want to leave! I'm to tired to label every picture, but it was seriously so much fun! I look disgusting in all of them but oh well. Oh my favorite are the ones of Charli peeking out through the corn!! Ah so cute.

A Name and a Blessing

This last Sunday we had the opportunity to bless our baby Brooks. Brooks Mason Pugmire. It was amazing just like it was with Charli, to hear Chris give this beautiful son on God a blessing. Chris had all his brothers by his side, and a couple ward members too. Thank you to all the family that came, it was especially important to me to have all of you there. Brooks was peaceful and quiet through the whole thing, and over all it was just a wonderful experience for our little family.

I loved his little outfit.... Although it seriously barely fit him. I loved how it was just soft and warm and made him just look like a little angel.... Well a big angel.

Father and Son.

My babies.