Thursday, August 28, 2008

Livie's first black eye!! So Sad

Last night the kids were playing outside and somehow Livie ran into our canopy. Her eyelid was bleeding and she was really sad. This morning I took a picture of her and she can hardly keep that eye open. I guess I should be glad that she made it to 15 months before her first black eye. That might be a record for the Cornia side of the family.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Work Party at the Zoo


Nate works for Tesoro Oil Refinery and for his work party they rented out the whole Hogle Zoo. The kids were so excited and it was a lot of fun because my brother Seth also works for the refinery as well (that's actually how Nate got the job).
This is the kids eating ice cream sandwiches.
This is Brock, Colie, Doran, and Seth aka Coco. We all went on the train together and they were behind us. Brock looks like such a stud with his dude rag on.
Livie as usual was fulfilling our families role of "fun-hater" she did not like the train at all.

I love this little boy so much he always thinks everything is so fun!!! He couldn't wait for the ride to start.

PresLeigh was super excited also because she was finally old enough to ride by herself.

Livie finally decided after the other kids had gone on the carousel this might be fun. She really liked it, it was so cute.

This is Doran and Gavin running around in the zoo. They were having fun running in front of all the rest of us.

After looking at most of the animals and riding the train and the carousel the kids played at the park. PresLeigh had been begging us the whole time to play at the park she might be the only kid who goes to the zoo and wants to play at the park. Livie really liked playing in the wood chips there.

Gavin's poor allergies

Gavin has some of the worst allergies I have ever seen on a kid. He can't breathe through his nose he is always sniffing his boogies up. So I finally called and got him in with an allergist. He had to be off of antihistimes for three days. This picture doesn't even give his eyes justice. His eyes were so swollen he didn't have eye lids.
This is his back the next day after his allergy test it is so sad to see him this way but I think we have a pretty good plan to get his allergies under control.

Family Fun Night!!

The kids really like to eat outside in the new house. So PresLeigh pulled out the table and chairs Grandma Paula gave us instead of trying to eat on the patio furniture that is way to tall for them. It was really cute cause even Livie can sit on it.
Then after eating Nate and the two oldest were jumping on the trampoline. It didn't seem like the best idea they all had full tummies but they did it anyway.
My Ooollldddd husband proved to me that he is not as old as I say he is by doing flips with the kids. In order to get these pictures timed just right he had to do like four flips he was pretty done by the end. But go Natey you 29 year old stud!!!

Just goofing off with the kids.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

More Picture's of Livie

Sarah took Jaxon to Kiddie Kandids for his one year pictures and since we have taken pictures of our other kids together we had to take there's. They look so cute together I love them both so much.

Since I was already there with Livie I took some more pictures of her and she was in a way better mood today than for Torie. I feel bad for Torie that has to be really hard to take pictures of kids when it's just not there day.
I love both of these pictures so much she looks so sweet and happy in them.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

The Girls!


PresLeigh is so beautiful, smart and she is pretty funny if I do say so myself. I look at these pictures and realize she is not my baby or my toddler she is a full blown girl.

Livie is almost impossible to get a picture of she is always moving hence the picture of her running away. I love it though her cute little legs.
Liv was totally devastated when I wouldn't let her take a picture with this Buzz Lightyear she found at Torie's house.
There is a girl in my ward who is in the process of starting her own photography business. She is very talented and super affordable I would recommend her for sure. She takes a lot of amazing outside pictures we will be using her in the Fall for our family picture, PresLeigh's 5 year, Gavin's 3 year and Livie's 18 month. Amazingly they are all within a month of each other so we will have a big photo shoot in the middle of October. Her Blog is www.toriejanephotography.blogspot.com .

Life lessons from Grandma

My parents have always taught us to work really hard for what we want. As kids we always had family jobs like cleaning movie theaters or Doctors offices, paper routes you get the idea. They always tried to make them fun for us. So leave it to my mom to make shucking corn seem fun. The kids loved helping and in the end they got to eat it.


Livie is our family's fun-hater she was not having any part of it and was showing so by folding her arms in disgust.

PresLeigh and Gavin worked together to get the job done. They didn't fight over which job was whose and it was a great lesson in team work. For anyone who has seen these two interact they always have to have what the other one has. I was a proud mom and daughter seeing my mom and kids working together. It was such a little task but what an awesome memory for my kids of my mom. I love all of my family so much!!

My Babies are growing up.

Gavin's normal getting out of the bath routine consists of me wrapping him up like a baby, carrying him down the stairs and snuggling until he's warm. A week ago as I started his usually baby wrapping he said "No, I big like my dad" He insisted that I wrap the towel around his waist like his dad. I was so sad he is growing up and I'm so not ready for that.
Since I was taking a picture of Gavin, Livie decided to get in on the picture taking. I love this little girl.

Livie apparently wasn't done eating lunch. I took her out and was getting ready to clean her tray when I came back with a rag she had climbed back up in her highchair. I wish I would of seen her doing it those pictures would be better. But here are the afters of her climbing in.
Gavin loves his cousin Brock so much he always has. So when Brock was sitting with Gramdma Gavin needed to as well. I took a picture because Gavin is holding Brocks hand.

Monday, August 4, 2008

The Twins!!





The pictures on the top are of Doran my nephew and his little brother Brock. The pictures on the bottom are of Gavin and Gavin thinks he is Doran in most pictures. The second picture from the top i took off of Seth and Coleys blog Gavin saw this picture and immediatly said "mom that me thats me with Brock". So I'll let you all be the judge of how much they look alike.

Girls Night Out for Breaking Dawn!!!

Well as everyone knows Breaking Dawn the fourth book to the Twilight series came out on Saturday, August 2nd. Sarah, Coley (my sister in law), Jenn (her sister), Kristine (there cousin), and I all waited in line to get a book at Barnes and Nobles.



This is us Jenn, Coley, Kristine, and Sarah at Coldstone around 8:45ish p.m. We got a quick snack and then off to wait in line for three hours.
This is Coley, Sarah and I the first in line for section D.

We all were wearing awesome I Love Edward or something of that nature shirts.
This is the line in front of us its hard to see but it was packed with people.
This was the lane in back of us it went all the way to the Outback.
Finally we all got our books around 12:15 and we were ready to read. It was so much fun and we have all read our books. I think I was the last to finish I got streap throat on Saturday and couldn't focus on the pages all I did was sleep til today. But I'm finished and let me tell you it was the best book yet I think.