Go on, admire me!

Hyrum's nickname is "Happy" because he is such a happy kid! He's always smiling and gurgling and cooing at us, so so cute! We sure love our little boy!


Here's Hyrum enjoying all the attention from his cousins Emma and Katie.

At the beach...

Trains and Ponies

In California we went to Irvine Park, and the kids got to go on a train around the park. Brielle has been very into trains lately and so she thought this was great!


But the highlight of the trip was without a doubt riding on the ponies! Brielle was so excited to see them and pat them, and once it was her turn to ride one, and she was placed on her pony's back, her face just lit up with a huge grin that she wore the whole time.

When she had to get off she kept following us around asking for "more, more?" while doing the sign language for 'more' as well to emphasize how much she wanted to go again!

Cousins!!

For Thanksgiving we flew to California to be with the Streadbeck side of our family and Brielle had the best time ever! She had so many cousins to play with, she loved it!

Jonah, Brielle, and Elizabeth in the tub.


All the cousins watching a movie, and by the looks on their faces it's a very intense part of Winnie the Pooh!!

Cute Streadbeck Cousins! Brielle, Jonah, Katie, Emma, Hannah, and Elizabeth.

This is what the babies do....

One day I was putting Hyrum to sleep in a different room and Brielle was being unusually quiet (always a foreboding omen). When I came out I found her like this, she had dragged out the baby bathtub from the den and had pulled a blanket over her to go to sleep like the baby. Her newest thing is doing whatever it is that Hyrum is doing, and I must say it's awfully cute. The only difference in the scenarios here is that while I put Hyrum down with a pacifier, Brielle found a sucker in my purse and was using that (after unwrapping 7 other suckers and sucking on each one just long enough to stick it to the couch).


Watching a movie like the baby.

What else can I stand on???

Brielle loves to be up where the action is, to accomplish this she likes to use her little blue chairs. They're easy to drag over to whatever she needs to observe and/or touch/grab/play with/help with. However, it isn't always convenient having a one year old playing in the sink or on the counter tops so we've started putting her chairs away where she can't get to them. No problem, now Brielle will just drag over whatever she can find, cardboard boxes, laundry hampers, her booster seat, and sometimes if everything else has been hidden away she'll just start stacking up her books! What a smart (and mischievous) little girl!

In the above picture she is trying to do the dishes and in the bottom picture she is "helping" me cook dinner.

Halloween

For Halloween we went to our ward's Trunk-or-Treat at the Church. Brielle was an elephant and Hyrum was a monkey.


A good big sister trying to make the crying stop!



Brielle and Russell outside the church after the Trunk-or-Treat. We couldn't get Brielle to look at us and smile, she was too busy inspecting what was in her bucket!

When we got home, instead of following us to the house, Brielle went across the parking lot on her own and sat on the curb to admire her candy. No matter how we called to her, bribing and cajoling, she still refused to come. She had a bucket full of candy and a spot to sit, no way was she going to go home and let her parents take it all away and hand it out in smaller and less frequent portions than she would like!!


Getting ready to spend the night on the curb with her candy!

Our cute little monkey, he slept the whole time!