Freezing at football

All Briggs wants its to watch football. And lots of it. More specifically he wants to watch his cousins play football. So into the windy, rainy cold weather we go, because we love those boys.

Brrr!

Jared had the sprinkler going so the kids thought they better go run through it- can't let it go to waste, right? And the fact that it was only 65° out?! Minor detail!

Stuck

Poor Briggs just wanted to sit in the Bumbo! Unfortunately he has grown a little bit since the last time he sat in there...

The "Mountains"

Briggs has been talking about the "mountains" for weeks.  We had been planning on taking them to our ward campout, but then it rained(and flooded!) that day instead.  But he never forgot that promise.  So when I asked what he wanted to do and where he wanted to go on his birthday, he didn't miss a beat, and responded, "The MOUNTAINS!"  It rained again that afternoon/evening, but we went anyway!  It wasn't too bad, the rain was just enough to make everything good and muddy up there. :)

Anderson's little smile as we were all hanging out.  The kids were giggling really hard at about this time, and he was just happy.  

Beautiful sunset.  The pictures didn't do it justice.

Trying to light the candles.  The girls were supervising Jared.

Singing "Happy Birthday" and blowing out the candles.

Eating dinner and enjoying the fire.

Love this picture.  Love this man.  He loves each of the kids so much and shows them all the time.  This was during a conversation about pre-school that day.

Love these kids.  My brother Zane gave Briggs some cheetos as part of his birthday present.  Dinner that night may have been 85% cheetos...

Waking up a little more.  I think the fire was popping and he was trying to see what was going on.

Who knew that one of their favorite parts would be the stairs and trail next to the stairs?  They ran up and down this for quite a while.

Thinking Christmas...

I think Fisher-Price must personally know Maddie. A princess stable?! She could hardly contain herself.

Love

They teach me so much about what it means to love another.

Circular conversation

Emma saw that Briggs had a couple of scratches on his arm.  Emma was wondering what happened so I asked him.

Me:  "Briggs, what happened to your arm?"
Briggs: "I got an owie."
Me:  "Where?"
Briggs:  (pointing at his arm) "Right here."
Me: (trying again) "Where did it happen?"
Briggs:  "Right here. On my arm."
Me:  "But what happened to your arm?"
Briggs: "I got an owie."
I give up.

Briggs has always been a good talker, but it is astounding the words/sentences he has come up with lately.

He has been playing with baby dolls lately. It is sweet, until the baby supermans it down the stairs. Or becomes his basketball.

He loves all trucks, motorcycles, trains, planes, horses and any kind of ball.

As we talk about soccer and school for the girls, Briggs often says, "How 'bout me?!" Poor kid is ready to be BIG. Sorry buddy, you get to hang with mom for a while longer...