10 Months.

I know I say this every month, but how is Liam already 10 months old? He's going to be 1 yr. old so soon!

Physical Growth-
We went in for his 9 month appointment about 3 weeks ago. He was weighing 20.5 lbs (41%) was 29 inches (73%) and his head was 87%, can't remember what it was.

Tricks
-Throws balls
-Plays soccer with balls (really he crawls around and pushes it with his hands and chases it)
-Does head butts
-Can give high 5
-waves bye-bye.
-Gives kisses
-Can walk and clap at the same time :)

-Liam is pretty much walking most of the time now. He can turn around and everything. It's so cute to watch him. He still likes to walk to things and then hold on, and then keep going. But, he can walk over 20 steps.
-He loves to climb the stairs. We have to watch him because if we are downstairs with Devin's family he can escape really quickly and go to the stairs.
-He thinks uncle Jeff is hilarious. He loves to be chased by him. He will just laugh and laugh.
-Liam enjoys sneaking into the bathroom. We have to be super careful to leave the door shut. He always goes in there and throws all of the soap bottles and anything on the side of the tub- into the tub. Then he tries to get them (which results in him falling in and hitting his head). He also likes to get into the toilet paper, trash, and toilet.
-HE thinks he is hilarious. He laughs at himself all the time.
-He tries to feed himself with the spoon. He will bite on when I am feeding it and grab the spoon. Then he tries to stick the spoon into the bowl to get some food, but then just flings in around and sticks the spoon (now without food) into his mouth.
-Always hangs on my legs. Walks over to me and just hangs all over me. It gets a little frustrating sometimes. Apparently my mom said I did the same thing, up until I was like 8. Shoot.
-Tries to make the indian sound with his mouth.
-clicks his tongue.
-Throws tantrums. If he doesn't get what he wants, he will freak out. Mostly when we shut the bathroom door or take something away from him.
-He has 8 teeth. He GRINDS his teeth though, and it drives me nuts. How do I get him to stop doing this??
-Can get off the couch by himself. He knows how to turn backwards.
I love this baby so much. I am so lucky to be his mom. He is so much fun to play with these days. Even though he is naughty sometimes. Enjoy some picturs. I have a funny video to upload sometime, but the computer is being difficult.
i'm a big boy!
liam with some friends.
so sweet in the mornings. I usually bring him in bed with me and we snuggle for a little bit before he starts wanting to play.
i love bath time!
how did he go from not being able to move really to walking around eating crackers??

Walking Baby Boy.

Liam is officially walking as of last Thursday (the 15th). That was when he really started walking instead of crawling to everything. I would say he is walking just as much as crawling now. So cute! Here is a video. I don't know how to change the direction of it, but enjoy.

The End of Summer, Fall is here. and GOOD NEWS

NOTE: LONG POST.
Good news first:
I have a job! I applied at billiejo clothing and got the job! I will be a seamstress for them! :) I go in for training on Tuesday. I'm super excited. I get to work at home, do something I love, and make money!! And do pretty much as much or little as I like.
I just have to say that I am so excited about fall! The weather has been incredible. So, my mom decided that I needed to come to Wisconsin again this summer. So I was able to do that. But this time I was with my other sister, Tyler. And her two kids. Airports with kids can be a nightmare. So note to mom and dad: MOVE TO UTAH! :) St. George would be just fine.

Other than that we have just been moving into our new apartment (my in-laws basement). We are trying to save money, and this is the best way to do it. Anyway. My sister drove down here to Highland on Monday night (29th of August) with her two kids. They are adorable. Then Monday morning Devin took us to the airport. My mom paid extra for our tickets so we would be priority boarding and be able to get on first and everything. Well, she needs to get her money back. To sum it up, our flight at 8:55 was canceled. We were not able to get on the 12:00 flight. So we had to sit in the airport until 5pm. Yep. With a 5 year old, 2 year old, and 9 month old. Devin's mom had to bring me formula because i didn't have enough food for Liam. So we made it Vegas. Then waited there for 3 hours until we could go to Milwaukee. We got in around 1am. Thank goodness I have a good baby. He slept the entire plane ride. In fact, both of them. We stayed in a hotel that night, thank goodness.

The next morning my mom to Kady to play in the pool while Tyler and I bathed the boys and packed up.. We finally got home. The next couple of days we just chilled. We were tired. Some of the things we did while in Wisconsin was go to the beach, got a campsite and made dinner (then came home to sleep in our beds). I was able to hang out with some old friends! I saw Katie Schultz a few times which is always nice. I also saw my best friend from middle school, Anna Simono. She is doing really good. It was nice to see her. Every time I go to wisconsin I think about highschool and my old friends and feel nostalgic. I wish I would have stayed in contact with some of my really good friends. But life goes on!

Most nights I would say I was going to bed early, but then Tyler would make me hot chocolate and we'd stay up late and eat snacks. We watcheed Monty Python and the Holy Grail with my parents. All four of us watched it in their bed. Haha. While the kids were sleeping. We also had a little birthday party for Kady and Bradon. Their birthdays are both this month. It was really cute. Bradon LOVED his cars. And they both loved frosting their cupcakes. It was cute.

We went to church Sunday and then we went to the Milwaukee zoo on Monday before we left. I think the kids loved it. We then went to the hotel and took naps and went swimming. Mom bought pizza and then we just rested a little bit. We had to get up at 4:45 am the next morning to get to the airport. It was miserable. But luckily all our flights went smoothly. Liam had a blowout on the plane, but mostly slept. He is such a good boy.
Here are some pictures from the visit. There are a ton and all out of order, sorry
Tye and her babies
Grandma and her grandkids
Birthday fun

sibling love.
.Just hanging out at grandma and grandpa's house

My niece and nephew. Camping


Beach fun! Liam LOVED it. Mostly the sand. but also the water.




This explains Bradon's trip. Cars. Cars. Cars.
Airport picture..


I have more pictures but they won't upload. So now we are back. I got to see my husband! I always miss him tons when I leave. Now it's fall and I am looking forward to hot chocolate, Halloween, crafting, Thanksgiving and of course Christmas. I know it's a couple months away but i LOVE this time of year!!

My baby boy: 9 months.

I have so much to catch up on, but i will just do a quick post on my baby boy at 9 months.
-I think he says "mama", but how do we know for sure.
-has 5 teeth out, two more on the way.
-takes steps all by himself sometimes. most of the time we have to convince him to walk to us. He is still really unstable. I'm sure he'll be walking...soon-ish.
- is very clingy to mom.
-started liking strangers, he will give them smiles now instead of burying his face in my neck.
-the biggest mooch in the world. if we have food, he thinks he needs it!! It's pretty funny. And we actually give him pretty much anything we are eating. it's really nice.
-Liam loves his blankets
-Still wearing some 9 month clothes but also some 12 months. He's just too big!
I'm going to do a post on our Wisconsin vacation with many more pictures. So here are just a few of Liam.
Big blue eyes, also a big red mark on his forehead. poor guy is always falling on his head.
I now make him feed himself :) It's so cute.

Trips and Anniversary

So, we are MOVED! Goodbye, Lovell. I will say that I am so grateful for all the wonderful nice people we were able to spend our summer with, but I'm glad to be back in Utah. Things are a little crazy right now because we aren't all moved in and it's a disaster here. But we'll make it work. We finally got Liam's crib all set up. Poor little guy has been sleeping in either a tent or pack n play for a couple weeks. Ah.

So Devin and I packed up and cleaned all of our stuff from our Wyoming apartment. We rented a UHAUL and went to Yellowstone to meet Devin's family on Friday August 12th. Liam cried for a good thirty minutes. Other than that it was okay.

Yellowstone was a lot of fun. The whole family was there (minus Jessica...it would have been perfect if she could have come). While we were there we went to the mud pots, Old Faithful, a beautiful waterfall hike, and visitors centers. I still didn't see a bear, which i'm pretty upset about. We were able to play with the family, go swimming in the river right behind our campsite (almost getting carried away in the current!!). All in all it was a really fun time. BUT I don't ever want to go camping with a baby again. Liam wasn't so bad, but he wanted to get down and crawl around but he couldn't because he would eat dirt, get sticks stuck in him, etc. So Kayla and I thought it would be a good idea to take the babies home Sunday night and let them sleep in the car. Ha ha, bad idea. One would start crying and wake the other one up, it was pretty much a vicious cycle. Needless to say, the babies had a rough night and we got home at 3am. Happy Anniversary to me :)Here are some pictures from Yellowstone. I couldn't find my camera for a long time so I didn't get very many pictures. Most of them are around our little campsite.
Ryan holding the babies
Liam passed out on his stroller
Michaela, Tacy, and Liam chilling by the fire.
Cooking dinner.
Kayla and Mavrick.
Liam in his warm gear. It was FREEZING at night and in the morning.
Daddy and baby. Notice the UHAUL in the back. It turned into a community-use storage.
Devin and the babies. Liam kept pulling Mavrick's hair. Poor guy.
Michaela on baby duty.
Family in tie-dye shirts..
Old Faithful. It was bigger than the last time I saw it!!

Devin and I were able to celebrate our 2 year anniversary on Monday August 15th. Yay! Two years. I can't believe how fast time goes. I love my little family so much. And i'm so grateful for the best husband. We went out to chili's and ate too much dinner and a chocolate molten cake. YUM. Then we went to the movie theater. Devin wanted to see captain america, but at the last minute he decided he would love me and watch the help. GREAT movie. If you have ever read the book it is just like it and perfect!! I thought the characters were fabulous. It was really nice to get out for a while just the two of us. We had gone to the temple a couple times, but other than that we never went on a date without Liam! Hopefully we'll be able to schedule in a date night now that we are living with the in-laws. I think i'm going to pay my sister in-law to watch him once a week. He loves Corinn.

Then we spent the rest of the week hanging out with Ryan and Kayla and Mavrick and Devin's family. Oh and some friends we haven't seen in AGES. We also had a crazy night of Rook with Devin's uncle Alan. Kayla and I were the ultimate winners.
Here is a cute picture from the family picnic
Mavrick having some watermelon.
Liam and Tommy. Tommy is 2 months younger than Liam! He is so big and adorable!!
Mavrick and his crazy hair.
Happy with a ball.
Mav was just chilling in the grass. It was so cute.

On Saturday I helped to a baby shower for my friend Richelle. I think it turned out good. She got a petunia pickle bottom diaper bag, and i am so jealous. i'm probably going to make Devin buy one for me now!! :)

As I am writing this my husband and father in-law are moving refrigerators up and down the stairs. Someone is going to end up with a broken back. But, at least we will have a fridge!
This week will consist of cleaning Devin's parents garage and organizing our new home! Oh, and crafts. Did I mention crafts? :) The end for now!
-Brittany

What more could I have done for my vineyard?

Since all of the posts are about Liam, I figured I would write one about me (devin).
One of the only hobbies I've had this summer is gardening. I'm not talking about a big scale agriculture or anything. Just a small quaint garden. Consisting of one beefsteak tomato plant. I've put all that I am into it. I cleared a patch of land in the flower bed where I then deposited 15 tomato seeds. They all did so well, but there could only be one. I slowly began to prune the weaker specimens until only the brute was left.
Throughout the past two months I have been weeding, and watering, and nurturing this champion tomato. Below is a picture of it at its climax:


A question many people have asked is why bad things happen to good people. I myself have been asking this. Shortly after this picture was taken, my tomato took a turn for the worst. I couldn't understand it. What more could I have done for my tomato? Overnight it had wilted. Over the next three days it was completely dead. I launched a thorough investigation of the tragedy. Turns out it was a homicide. Although the tomato was the first to go, shortly after many weeds surrounding it began to wilt. As well as the grass along the sidewalk turned brown. The inconsiderate and ignorant yard-boy had mistaken my tomato for an enormous and beautiful weed. And turned it into this:

Better luck next year I guess. P.S. Take a look at the flower before and after. I was britt's from relief society that had died and I water and planted and it came back to life.

8 months!!

William is 8 months old. !!!! Pretty soon he's going to be shaving his face. Okay, fine. We still have a while before we get there...
Just a few things about Liam at 8 months old..
- He is crawling everywhere, but wanting to be walking.
-He pulls himself up using anything he can (walls, carseat, mom, dad, couch, laundry basket, etc..) And attempts to walk along it if he can.
- One of his favorite things to do is while he is standing to let go-throwing his hands in the air, and see how long he can go without holding on. He get's SO excited. It's adorable. Devin and I are working with him to see how long he can stand on his own. He's even tried taking a few steps when we do this. (Obviously he can't really stand on his own for very long without falling over..) But he's really good at getting down from the couch now and not falling backwards onto his head.
- Liam hates going down for naps and bedtime...which makes life hard sometimes. Ha ha, he will normally stand up in his crib and shake it (the crib bangs against the wall and makes a loud noise..probably to get our attention.) He does this while standing in the corner closest to the door so he can see us come in. Then, he gets a HUGE smile on his face and sometimes laughs when we come in to lay him back down. Ah, he is adorable.
-He sleeps anywhere from 9-12 hours a night. YAY!. --Except for the last couple of nights, he has been waking up every couple hours. Little man has some top teeth that are SO CLOSE to coming in..
- Enjoys oatmeal baby cereal mixed with fruits for breakfast. He eats carrots, green beans, squash,and sweet potatoes mostly for lunch and dinner. But we are also giving him finger foods now which is fun. He loves cheerios and is getting really good at putting them in his mouth. At first he would try to put his whole fist in his mouth and normally not even get the cheerio. :) He will also just have some of mine and Devin's food (depending on what it is...). He hates peas. Dang it.
-Likes to attack me and Devin when we go and play with him on the ground. I normally just lay down on a pillow and he comes and butts heads with me. Devin actually tries ramming him in the head, but don't worry. Liam puts up a good fight (pulls dad's hair, scratches him, head butts him back...it's great).
-I'm pretty sure he's giving me kisses. Open mouth, adorable kisses. But Devin doesn't think that's what he's doing. I say yes. He loves me.
-Can go from crawling to sitting on his bum.
-He always wants to know where I am. He comes looking for me. I love hearing his fast crawl across the floor.
-It's crazy that he knows already what he's not supposed to be doing. One of my favorite things lately is how hard he tries to get into my 'craft room.' I keep the door shut because i don't want him to destroy it or get hurt (there are sewing pins all over the floor). Anyway, sometimes I have to go in there and get something and he immediately stops what he is doing and tries super hard to crawl over fast enough to get inside. Sometimes he makes it, but when he doesn't he will stand up and bang on the door. Ha ha. Love him.


Here are some photos of Liam during the past month of his life. (Sorry about the mess in EVERY picture. lol.)
Sometimes when he gets crabby we go for walks.
Crawling on the sidewalk. Ouch.
He doesn't like to take a bottle very much, he'd rather play. So dad lets him sit up.
Playing with some dirt.
Standing up like a big boy on the couch.
Just playing with whatever he can find.
On the go. Always.
He loves these buckles in his high chair. Look how cute that belly is!
Here he is with socks (his own, and they are clean) in his mouth. He's been doing this for a few days now. His teeth are really driving him crazy. Anyway, he is also holding his hands up to see how long he can stand!
So precious.
Today, at 8 months.
Fighting with dad.
Sorry for the picture overload. Enjoy!!