7 Months Old & Other Random Events

 I had a bunch of pictures and small events that didn't warrant individual posts, so I combined them all into a random post of our end of May/first of June events.

 

May 20 was Lexie's last day of preschool. She was really sad to say goodbye to Ms. Kim, who is such an amazing preschool teacher; Lexie loves her so much! For their last day, they had a pajama/water party. Kim wasn't too happy to get a picture in her PJs, but we needed an end-of-year picture. :) Lexie learned so much this year, and is definitely ready for Kindergarten now!

 Here are a few pictures from Memorial Day. We got home from our weekend in Logan on Sunday night; Monday, the kids wanted to go play at the park for a little while.
Here are Hoyt and Daddy looking cool in their shades.

 Sabrie had fun in her stroller watching the kids, and Hoyt had lots of fun on the swings and slides.

 Lexie enjoyed riding her bike!

  This was just a random picture of Hoyt napping on the floor. Some days he just plays so hard that he eventually just crashes.

 Now that the weather is heating up, Lexie keeps begging to run through the sprinklers. Although, these pictures show that she's a little timid to get sprayed.

 One of my dear friends passed away, and I was lucky enough to attend her funeral in Orderville on June 1st. LaPreal Payne was my neighbor for most of my growing up years, and was like a Grandma to me. I spent my summers at her and Grandpa Payne's house with her many grandkids who became great friends to me. I spent many hours talking to LaPreal, and learning so much from this quiet, beautiful, amazing lady. We'll miss you Grandma Payne, but glad you are finally back with Grandpa Payne again. It was good to see some of the Payne family, and I'm sad I probably won't get to see most of them ever again.

Lexie asked me to take a picture of her sleeping on our little day trip. So here is the picture of the kids sleeping in the car...haha

 When we got home, they decided to make a trail of toys, and asked me to take a picture.

 I think it was bed time, because Lexie started showing some attitude. And then I left the room for a minute and they started taking pictures themselves with my camera. They weren't very smart, because the pictures just became evidence of the naughty things they were doing. Notice Hoyt has my cell phone.

 And here he is calling people on my phone...stinker!

 They also took a picture of Sabrie.

 Hoyt got into my makeup and tried to put mascara on.

 

 He had it all over. Silly boy!

  I guess Hoyt needs a brother, so he's not into girly things like makeup. haha. Also, notice Lexie in the swimsuit, which she wants to live in 24/7 these days.

And finally, my baby girl is now 7 months old and all over the place! She's scooting and mostly goes backward instead of forward, but she'll be crawling fast in no time. Being on the floor moving around, she is turning into a little vacuum cleaner. Whatever she can find on the floor goes directly to her mouth. This day it was a black crayon, as you can see all over her pretty little face. She brings smiles to our faces every day, and we love our sweet Sabrie Anne!

 Lexie loves having a sister! She is already starting to do her hair.

 Love that sweet face!

Here's the picture I took the day she turned 7 months.

Trip to Logan

 The first part of Memorial Day weekend, we headed up to Logan for a little Lyman family bonding. We left Friday morning, and because the drive is pretty long, we decided to split it up and stop at the Gateway Children's Museum in SLC. The kids absolutely loved it, and didn't want to leave. This was pretty much the only time I took pictures the entire trip. I just haven't been very good at picture taking since Sabrie was born, because taking care of 3 kids sometimes takes all my energy and I forget to pull out the camera. Oh well, I'm doing my best.

Lexie and Hoyt both loved the ball station, and wanted to play there forever. Here is Lexie with one of the workers, trying to make music by dropping the balls in at the same time.

 Hoyt loved all the little cars and kind of hogged them from the other kids.

 Another favorite for Lexie was the grocery store!

 Hoyt liked riding the horse.

Sabrie had fun watching the kids play, and wanted to join them.

Lexie playing in the water with Dad and Sabrie watching.

 Lexie anchoring the news, and Hoyt doing weather.

Inside the helicopter.

Pilot Hoyt driving the helicopter.

We finally convinced the kids to leave and drove the rest of the way to Logan. When we got there, we checked into our hotel, then got dinner at Burger King. Ok, so I think everywhere should get the cool soda dispenser there that lets you choose on a screen what kind of soda you want, along with flavorings; that is random, but I hadn't seen one of those before and thought it was cool. After dinner we went to James and Jenny's house to let the kids play. Lexie was so excited to play with Bethany and they had a great time together. When it started getting late we headed back to the hotel.

 

Saturday morning, we got up and had breakfast, then the kids wanted to go swimming. Lexie had a great time, but Hoyt was too scared to get in the water so after a few minutes I took him back to the hotel room with Sabrie to chill until Bryan and Lexie were finished. This was the only other time I got out the camera that weekend.

After swimming, we all got ready and headed to help set up the church for the main event of why we went to Logan in the first place: the baby blessing of our cute little nephew Daniel Thomas Lyman, son of Steve and Lucy and little brother to Patrick. Here is a picture of the little guy when he was born, since I didn't get any more pictures. It was good to see family and visit with everyone at the luncheon after the blessing.

We tried to let the kids take naps, but they were too hyper to sleep; so we went to visit Annie and Rob and Bryan's parents, then all went to dinner at Angie's Restaurant. I thought I should try eating there at least once, and it was actually pretty good. I'm not surprised, with a name like that...haha. Anyway, after dinner we headed back to James and Jenny's for the kids to have some more fun play time. We stayed until it was getting pretty late, and we all wanted to get some sleep (I really didn't sleep at all the night before so I was super tired). Luckily, we were all exhausted and slept a lot better that night.

 

Sunday morning we got up, had breakfast, and got ready for church. We went to church with James, Jenny and family, then all had a nice lunch at their house. The kids were having lots of fun playing and didn't want to leave, but we knew we had a long drive ahead of us; so we said goodbye to our Lyman family and hit the road. The best part of the drive home was when all 3 kids were asleep for a couple hours so Bryan and I could have some alone time to talk. It was a busy weekend, but it was good to be with family and make some memories together.



Hoyt turns 3!

Hoyt is now a big 3 year old; he is growing up so much!

3 year old stats:

Height: 3 ft 2.25 in (71%)

Weight: 33.5 lbs (69%)

I love my little Hoyt boy, even though he gives me a run for my money every single day. He is such a curious little guy who gets into everything. But he is also such a sweet, tenderhearted guy who loves to cuddle with Mommy. He is also very polite and always says "Please" and "Thank You". In the mornings when he first sees me he says "I missed you in the night, Mommy", and just like his Daddy he is always saying "I love you". Completely melts my heart sometimes. Hoyt loves cars and right now especially loves the movie Cars, so that's what we decided to have for a birthday theme this year. When he plays with his toys, he always uses sound effects, and loves things that have motors. He absolutely loves vacuums, and loves to help and push the real vacuum. He has been looking forward to turning 3 so he can go to preschool, so let's hope the potty training is successful this summer! His best friend is his big sister Lexie, and the two of them play for hours. He misses her when she goes to preschool, and I know it will be even harder when she's at school every day. Hoyt also loves music and singing. His favorite song is usually "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star", and favorite primary songs are "I Love to See the Temple", and "I Am a Child of God". His favorite shows are "Doc McStuffins" and "Daniel Tiger". Love this smart, adorable little boy.

We decided to have a party for Hoyt at my parent's house Sunday afternoon, the day before his birthday. He was excited!

Here are Lexie & Hoyt ready to party!

 Pizza time...

 Hoyt's "Cars" cake. This year I got smart and just ordered it from a bakery. It was well worth the extra money to not have the stress, and Hoyt absolutely loved the cake!

 Cake time...

 Lighting the candles.

 Singing to the Birthday Boy!

 Present time...and Lexie had to help.

He loved his fire engine!

 For Hoyt's actual birthday, we let him choose what he wanted to do. Of course he chose "Lunch at 'Donalds (McDonalds)" for a Happy Meal.

 The kids had so much fun playing in the McDonalds playplace.

 After lunch, we went to the SUU Bookstore to get balloons. Lexie chose pink, and Sabrie held onto her balloon, even while asleep.

 Because Bryan had crazy work going on, we decided to also go out for dinner at Applebees. We had a great dinner, but Hoyt did not like them singing him Happy Birthday, but liked the ice cream!

 Cute Sabrie at dinner.

 To end a fun birthday, Hoyt asked to go play at the new playground by the library. It's so much fun to turn 3!

After a fun few days, he sacked out pretty quick on the couch! Love you Hoyt, so glad you are Mommy's cute baby boy forever!