Ben's haircut.

Thanks to all who participated in the poll. After all of your helpfull suggestions we tried to "give it a go" again with Ben's hair ourselves. As you can see, we still have a ways to go. For Shannon, the tickle monster worked for about the first 3 strokes, but at least he wasn't crying. After that it got interesting to say the least. This is the furthest we've gotten to buzzing his hair so far. Maybe next time we'll get even further. For now, here are the pictures of how it turned out. Sorry to all of the Grandmas, it looks like we won't have any really handsome pictures of Ben for a while. -Shelly-

The final product when all parties decided to call it quits.

This was after he calmed down.

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Just a few pictures.

I haven't had anything to post lately because I haven't taken many pictures. Good news on baby Megan's part, I passed my glucose test first time around this time so I don't have to go back for the 3 hour test. I had to do that with both of the boys, it was not fun. This was the 5th time I've had to drink the wonderfully syrup-like orange drink. I've been watching baby Paxton for the Wilhite's (our neighbors/friends downstairs) while Emily is at school lately. We had a wonderful morning today, Paxton slept nearly the whole time! When he woke up he was all smiles and giggled at Ben a lot, so I had to post a picture of him smiling (sorry it turned out blury). We went to Dr. Eason's house on Saturday for some good BBQ and swimming. Of course we forgot the camera, but Jeffrey and Ben absolutely loved getting a chance to swim again and discovered the hot tub too. I'm going to have to get Ben in swimming lessons next year. Yesterday the boys were playing with some of the neighbor's outside toys and Ben decided he wanted to push Jeffrey, and Jeffrey wanted to be pushed, so it was nice not having to go through the effort of entertaining them. They're doing an excellent job of entertaining each other. All I have to do is make sure they don't try and kill each other at the same time. :) Jeffrey is BIG into anything that has a wheel he can turn. That's about it for us, enjoy the latest pictures.

This is Mr. Smiley Paxton!

These boys do everything together now!

They even went to time out together last night when they wouldn't be quiet and go to sleep in their beds. It's neat to see them playing together though!

Jeffrey loves the neighbor's fire truck, he climbs in and out over and over again.

And I wonder why I can never keep my house picked up!

Brian has been back in school for a few weeks now and I've been adjusting to having him gone again. The boys are adjusting in their usual way (getting into as much trouble as possible). Time is just flying by. Ben is 2 1/2 and Jeffrey is 15 1/2 months old now. Jeffrey has FINALLY started walking just this last couple of weeks. I always wondered what was taking him so long until I saw what happened every time he tried to walk. I guess Ben isn't thrilled about the idea of Jeffrey being able to keep up with him, so every time Jeffrey starts walking Ben jumps on the opportunity to knock him down. Ahhhh brotherly love. :) Somehow Jeffrey has overcome that opposition and is getting around everywhere now. Unfortunately the only video I have of him walking right now is a video where Ben is throwing a tantrum, but Brian and I thought it was hillarious how Jeffrey was showing off his cool Cookie Monster slippers in front of Ben (the slippers used to be his). Of course Ben is insanely jealous. Enjoy! -Shelly-

Jeffrey INSISTED that I let him play outside in the rain.

I don't know why I even buy toys for these kids. These guys tear EVERYTHING apart!

Jeffrey taking advantage of Ben being asleep.

Ben woke up very early and just didn't last until lunch. He's only done this maybe twice since he was born.

Jeffrey's revenge

It's been funny to see how Jeffrey is old enough now to start tormenting Ben the way that Ben torments him by taking his favorite things and not letting him play with toys. This is the start of a whole new world for us with disciplining. I keep thinking that Jeffrey's too little to be capable of tormenting his brother, but I'm slowly finding out that this just isn't true.

Yay! I finally got new batteries for the camera just in time for our trip to Atlanta!

Okay, so here are a few pictures from before the battery died in the camera (a little further down). We also had the opportunity to make an over night trip to Atlanta, Georgia without our kids. We had a blast! Our friends Gabby and Jerry watched the boys for us overnight at their condo (thank you sooo much!!!). Brian and I haven't been overnight without the boys since they were born (at least not that I can remember). We went to Atlanta to support our friend Janell Logan from church who was going through the LDS temple for the first time. We just happened to make a second honeymoon-type trip out of it as well. It was so nice to not stop the car because of a crying baby or messy diaper. We ate at a nice restaurant after we arrived at 9:30pm where Brian had lobster tail and fresh Chilean bass with (virgin) daceries and pina coladas. He was in heaven!!!! It was VERY nice to spoil ourselves. Unfortunately I didn't bring the camera in with us when we went to the restaurant so we don't have any pictures of that. To sum it up, it was 24 hours of heaven on earth for these two exausted parents! Enjoy the pictures! P.S. I still don't have the pictures from the big sewage dig in our backyard, I'll post them when I get them. -Shelly-

Of course I'm packing at the last minute before our trip to Atlanta.

Brian is smiling because we had just dropped the kids off for our 24 hour kid-less vacation.

Okay, so I had a craving for a SMALL chocolate dipped vanilla icecream cone from Dairy Queen.

Evidently Brian takes these cravings VERY seriously because he got me the biggest one they offered!!!!

Our goofy picture.

Brian putting his new contacts in at the hotel (he's still getting used to putting them in).