Rockwell's Favorite Things

Our little guy is growing up and keeping us on our toes! He is always moving and always into something.

One night I was cooking and he was whining so I handed him leftover green onion I was chopping. He LOVED it and gnawed on it for the next half hour.

He loves playing in water unless we want him to. One night we taught him to drink from the sprinkler.

It takes about 60 seconds for my house to go from clean to disaster. Just look at that mischievous face!

I still can't believe my sister's cat let him do this. Like most babies he loves animals. He chases our cats around and has his own word/noise for them that kind of sounds like a meow.

Most of all Rocky LOVES his daddy. I'm nothing when Troy is around and I try not to get jealous ;) I just wish this picture turned out better.

Family Photos

A while back my sister Sarah took family photos of us. Here are a few of our favorites:

Independence Day

We had such a fun and busy 4th! Troy had to work most of the day but Rocky and I made it to the parade. He liked the first few minutes of it with the fire engine sirens and horses going on.

It was a good parade but honestly, if you've been to one Rexburg parade you've been to them all but it was fun and I love going to it (although the chocolate milk truck didn't make it this year... too bad :( ) Hey! it's the gang on their bikes in the parade for Sign Design.

Eventually Rocky got bored and started stealing people's chairs.

Then we went to a picnic at Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Leon's house. I didn't get any pictures of the actual BBQ. This kid is so attracted to dirt. I think he can smell it a mile away. He's playing with his cousin James

We took an afternoon nap, got some work done and had another BBQ next door (no pics) By then we missed the rodeo and were to tired to make it to the Rexburg Fireworks (arguably not worth the 5 minute trip). So we put Rocky to bed and were trying to figure out what to do next when we hear fireworks close by. Our good friends the Keeleys down the street were setting of fireworks so we grabbed the baby monitor and joined them.

I had fun playing with our camera's night portrait setting. not bad. I look like I'm in pain and Troy looks like he doesn't want his picture taken (probably because he doesn't) BUT it's a fun setting.

Thanks Keeleys!

Woah! this picture looks cool!

Troy doing his patented fire dance.

What a great country to celebrate. Happy Independence Day everyone!

21.097494 kilometers

My mom and I did a half marathon in Island park this weekend. It was hard but it was fun! And I'm super proud to say we jogged the whole thing-no walking.... go us! Our time was 2:37 minutes which isn't bad considering the high altitude and the rough dirt trail and that it was our first time. The most fun was training- going jogging with my mom 3 times a week and having a set goal to get us out of bed each time. So, even though we got passed by some old ladies (who totally cheated) and came in almost last, we had a great time and will probably do it again someday.

Before:

After:

FFF

To me, Fridays are like a mini-holiday every week! Now for this week's Fun Fact Friday...

Troy:Drinks lemon juice STRAIGHT out of the bottle (he has his own bottle) and he likes it! it also helps with his allergies in the summer. Sometimes he mixes it with supertonic for an extra special kick

Alison: can not only pinch people with her toes, she can pick the weeds in the sidewalk with them. That's some talent. Bizarre, right?

Rockwell: can take about 20 steps all by himself! this week he just started to let go of the coffe table and walk without any coaching from Mom and Dad.

I won!

I won a blog givaway! How funny is that? I won an On the Farm pattern and kit from a really fun quilting website. Wanna see it? Go to http://ribboncandyquilts.blogspot.com/

Rocky's First Birthday

Rockwell turned one on tuesday the 31st. It was kind of a crazy week for us so we had a little party on saturday. It was going to be just cake and ice cream with family but because Phillip and his wife were in town visiting from Hawaii we had a bbq with a bunch of friends and then we all (family AND friends) had cake and ice cream. It was crowded in our tiny shack but it was sure fun and we are so glad everyone could make it that did.















The party guests (some of them)
















The cake and the birthday boy. Of all days to lose my camera! These are from my Ipod but you get the idea. His cake (it was my first dealing with fondant and it wasn't too bad, except it was too cold in my house and I had to keep putting it in the microwave to make it malleable)























And the banner (thanks Heidi)






















if I round up some more pictures I'll post them. Now for his one year stats!

Weight: 19.8 lbs 10 percentile

Height: 28.8 in 19 percentile

head circ: 18.1 in 39 percentile