Two Boys Resting

German told me that he and Eli wanted to 'rest'. These two laid down next to each other and started playing and laughing. I think resting was the last thing that was going to happen!

Eli is Getting Bigger...

Our little Eli is growing up. The doctor told me the other day that I had the okay to start solids whenever I want - how can that be, he's still a baby? You can see in the picture that he's reaching for the ball, which he loves. Eli loves to stand (reminds me of how Uncle Adam was as a baby) and he's working on sitting - it won't be long. We sure love this little bundle of joy and he loves us in return. I often find him watching his brother and laughing at his jokes.

A Tribute to Elsie

German has a lot of good friends here in Arizona, but the one that he plays the best with is little Elsie. They are a lot alike, except for the obvious gender differences! When all of the other kids have finished eating and are off playing, these two are still chowing down. They also have the most fun together. Yesterday we found them sitting on the arm of a chair, yelling and laughing. They truly enjoy playing together. All the AZ moms who read this would probably also tell you that these two are the most physical when it comes to a toy that they want!

Here you go Kira...

Kira has informed me that it's time to update the blog, so here it goes:

I added a couple of recent pictures of the boys playing. The first is as German told me 'German working.' I just wonder what he thinks dad does all day when we tell him that dad's at work. The second is of little Eli playing with his floor gym - which was my greatest yard sale find.

We haven't really been up to anything super interesting the last couple of weeks. Not that life is boring, just nothing out of the norm. We went to the "Desert Botanical Gardens" yesterday with our friends Kim and Andrew and Andrew's mother. It was a nice time and boy were there lots of cacti! We forgot to find a joshua tree to take a picure of the tree and my two Joshua's.

Garage Sale-ing

This post is dedicated to my aunts and grandma for their garage sale-ing examples.

A girlfriend in our ward asked me a while ago to go garage sale-ing with her and I finally went yesterday. It was awesome!!! I took a twenty dollar bill and said this is it, I won't spend anything more. My friend said I had beginners luck because the first house we went to was a big score. Some lady was selling a Costco size box of size 2 diapers for $10 and a baby play gym for $8. (The play gym had never even been out of the box and costs in the twenties at a store.) I also got German some clothes and some fridge magnet letters. I really thought I was doing well when I found a little baseball mit for German for 50 cents. I was so excited to show the family my treasures and then Joshua broke the bad news to me: I bought German a lefties mit. The really sad part is that he loves it and carries it all over the house with him. I guess I'll have to go sale-ing again to find him a righties mit! The best part is tonight while Eli was playing with his new floor gym, he rolled over for the first time!

I guess I can see how you might get addicted to the sport, it was kinda fun!

Brothers...

German is a very good big brother! He always lets me know when Eli is hungry or tired. He's also started playing with Eli, which is really cute! Yesterday I went into the other room for a few minutes and left the boys on their own - specifically I left Eli on the floor on his back. German ran into the room where I was and told me that Eli needed 'tummy time.' Sure enough, I found Eli on his tummy all propped up. I just hope and pray daily that German's 'help' doesn't do any permanent damage to little Eli's body!

Good Friends!

We've been very blessed since moving to Arizona in the friend department. I think that Heavenly Father knew we would be very much alone here, being that we don't have one blood relative in the entire state! I've met a lot of great ladies in our ward and we get together often. Sometimes we go on walks, have play groups, go shopping, but mostly we just hang out at the park! German and Eli also have lots of good friends, too many to name - plus it's probably not safe to put all of their names on the internet! Joshua also enjoys playing basketball and kidding around with lots of the people we've met here.

Among some of those good friends we've made are Andrew and Kim. Joshua and Andrew started work together on the same day and by virtue of being the new guys developed a friendship. We started hanging out with them last fall and we're super bummed that they're leaving soon to take a job in the midwest. We went to the zoo together last week and these were a few of the shots.