Birthday Boy

We now have a two year old in our home, and he is quite a handful but at the same time he brings so much to our home of laughter and joy. Here are some pictures of his birthday celebrations from this week.

On Tuesday Feb. 17 Kimball received a package from his Mor-Mor. She gave Kimball a Bears sweatshirt and a little duck game. He doesn't quite understand the point of the game, so he just puts all the ducks on the moving pond and then with one swift movement of his arm, knocks them all off.
On his birthday morning he made cupcakes with mommy.
And then after lunchtime he got to decorate the cupcakes with mommy, except he got more frosting in his mouth than on the cupcakes!
For dinner, we all made mini pizzas together. Kimball had fun making them but decided not to eat his dinner... little stinker!
Here is the birthday boy about to blow out the candles on the cupcake tower.
He got a tonka truck from us for his birthday, and we were too cheap to wrap it so we just covered it with a blanket:)
This weekend, on Friday, we had Mike's parents come down to see Kimball and celebrate. We were going to have a party at Leo's place in Idaho Falls, but we cancelled that for a couple of reasons and opted for a quiet celebration at home.  Sorry Kimball, perhaps next year! Kimball's grandparents gave his a fishing pole and tackle box and some fridge magnets. He sure will have fun fishing with daddy soon!
We had a Thomas pinata for Kimball that we were going to use at the party, but since we cancelled, the pinata was used at our house. Here is Grampy enjoying the chocolate in the corner of our living room... Silly grampy:)

Crazy Hair Brandon

Since Kimball is the first born, he has had WAY TOO MANY picture taken of him. I think that is just how it is... So I have been trying to take more pictures of Brandon so he can't say when he is older that we never took pictures of him:) Here are a few of my favorites that I have taken recently...This is a picture of Brandon in his walker, he is so strong and can sit up in his walker and just loves being able to look around at us. Oh, and he is the DROOL KING lately, and he doesn't stop drooling for the pictures...

From this picture it is easy to tell that Brandon is definitely my son, I think the eyes give it away.
I'd have to say that this is my favorite picture of Brandon so far, the smile he gave here was priceless, and I captured it! You know, looking at the picture right now, he looks uncannily like his Uncle Brandon, his name sake, when he was a baby... go figure!Mike likes this picture of Brandon, nice hair little guy!
This picture really gives you a better idea of how crazy Brandon's hair really is!

Crazy Kimball

I take too many pictures to share them all, but here are a few of my favorites of Kimball in the past two weeks.
This picture is of Mike and his two best boys!! Whenever I put Brandon under his little toy, Kimball thinks he has to be under there too. Of course, Kimball requires supervision when he is around Brandon, so it usually turns into a family affair, playing with Brandon's toy:)
Silly Rabbit (Daddy) Trix are for kids! Kimball loves his yogurt, especially trix. Daddy does too...
Mommy and Kimball were playing around with the camera taking random pictures, here is one of us that we took.
One night, Kimball seemed especially interested in how we swaddle Brandon. So we swaddled Kimball to see how it feels and then he climbed into the bouncy. The funniest thing though was watching Kimball try and get out with the use of his arms!
And last, but not least here is our son with neon snot... well it really isn't a booger is is a marshmallow from the cereal marshmallow maties. He shoved it up his nose and thought he was pretty clever for doing so, we just thought he was silly!

Trip to Utah

I know it is a little bit late, but we went down to Utah on January 31st and stayed for one night. I took some pictures of the kids with their Grammy and Grampy Matusek. The last two pictures are of the trip home on Sunday evening. Kimball was hiding under the blanket and when he took it off he had the biggest grin on his face, it was cute! Anyways, we always have fun with Mike's parents and his sister Alyssa. 

Snowman Time

Kimball and Mike had a wonderful time out in the snow (which is almost gone now) last week. It really wasn't snowman building snow, however they still tried, or rather Mike tried and Kimball just played:) Kimball was out in the snow with his dad for about 20 minutes, and most of that time was spent doing face plants in the snow so he could try and eat some...all I have to say is BRRRR!!! After Kimball went inside Mike hadn't made much progress towards a snowman, and so just threw it up in the air, hopefully the snow will be more conducive for snowman making next time!

Picture tagged... by Angie!

Alright, so I was picture tagged... here are the rules that I had to follow:

1. Choose the fourth folder you store your pictures in on your computer

2. Select the fourth picture in the folder

3. Explain the picture

4. Tag four people to do the same

Oddly enough the fourth folder holds all of our engagement pictures, and here is the fourth picture.... You can't tell that we were totally sunburnt in this picture because it is B&W. We had spent the whole morning roasting in the morning heat at the Rexburg Temple Groundbreaking. We took all our engagement photos on the Idaho Falls temple grounds and my old landlord took the pictures, and she also was our wedding photographer. Anyways... I tag Kim, Teri, Leslie, and Melissa, have fun ladies!

Another blessing...Alex Nagata

Last Saturday, the 24th of January, Mike and I loaded up our boys into the ole station wagon and took a short trip up to Rigby, Idaho. We went there to see my cousin Rebekah Nagata's little boy blessed. His name is Alex Nagata, seen below with his father Spencer and older brother Andrew. It was a beautiful blessing given by Spencer, and Alex is so perfect! The picture above was taken at the get together, which was held at my Aunt Gwynn's house, is of my Grandfather Keith Moore and his Great Grandson Brandon. When I gave my little Brandon to my Grandpa, he just started smiling and gooing at Grandpa! What a precious moment that was!

Little K and Little B

The picture above was taken in May of 2007 of baby Kimball and the one below was taken in January of 2009 of baby Brandon. I swear, it is the same baby except for the hair of course. Kimball was going bald at this point and Brandon hasn't lost any hair, in fact it just keeps getting longer and more unruly! So these pictures is living proof that the two boys are brothers who look uncannily like one another:) They both look like their dad...Handsome!

Cold play (not the band)

Our next door neighbors, who also happen to be the apartment managers, have a little play slide in the back of the apartments. They invited us to let Kimball play on it, so we took them up on their offer, which was a lot of fun for Kimball. These days with the cold snowy weather, he doesn't get out as much as he deserves, mostly because it is such a hastle to bundle him all up to play in the cold or in the snow. These were some of the pictures that I took of him, and he could have lasted for a lot longer but Daddy had to leave so we had to go inside and watch Kimball's little brother, Brandon.

Sunday

We had a wonderful day here in good ole Poky, ID. We were able to have some friends over for a scrumptious dinner. Mike's old mission companion, Stewart North and his wife Becky live here in Pocatello. We invited them over for a roast dinner at our place today, and had a pleasant time with them. We even got to play a game of Wacky 6 with them.

It was interesting to hear Stewart and Mike talking in Italian, and Becky  even joked that the only reason we were having a dinner was so they could get together and talk in Italian. We are grateful for friends we have now and look forward to making new friends and acquaintances here, it is a great place to be!