It's 2AM!!!

Why am I awake? Well my 8 month old has decided she wants to be awake right now. Since she sleeps in our room in her crib she wakes up a lot easier. It's so much nicer when I stay at my parents to have her in her own room because she'll sleep right through the night. I put her in bed with us, but she just wasn't having it so I gave up and came out to the living room and decided to let her play while I catch up on some blogs. I've been so busy working for my mom lately that I haven't had time to read what everyone else is up to. Aliana keeps on insisting that she needs to type on the keyboard. She keeps pulling herself up and lunging for it. She is so strong now. She will pull herself up on anything. She even tries to stand up in the middle of the floor but when she goes to grab something to pull herself up all the way she falls. I cannot believe how fast she is growing. Since she has been able to sit up all by herself she started pulling herself up and she is so daring because she'll just let go of anything and try and walk. She is so not like her brother. He didn't pull himself up for a while and he was afraid to let go. Once she gets her balance she tries to let go of whatever and walk. It's so weird to see her trying to walk around because she's so petite and tiny. I'm not quite sure I'm ready for it either. She gets into enough as it is just crawling around...and I know her and her brother will be even more of a handful once they can get into things together. Oh the joys I have to look forward to. You all need to remind me that I am waiting a while to have another one. Every time I see a newborn I get so baby hungry. I don't know why since neither of my two are that old!! Aww...but they are so sweet....I love being a mother. And yet I am awake at 2AM!!

I'm having difficulties...

with the fact that my son can't talk! Oh my heck it drives me crazy when he just cries and I have no idea what he's crying about. I've been spending more time with him lately trying to teach him words and he tries but he just doesn't know how to say whole words. Will this ever end? He's going to be two in two months!! He does watch sign language videos and has gotten really good at please but I feel the signs only help with some things and not everything.

and Ali on the other hand has two teeth! She is biting me now when she eats so I'm going to try to wean but she really hates formula. Everytime I try to give it to her, which is quite often now, she just gags herself and won't eat it! Anyone have any suggestions on how to get her used to it? I'm thinking I'll start pumping more and get her used to the bottle and then maybe she won't realize as much but we'll see. She's going to be 8 months and I really wanted to breast feed her until she was 9 months since that's how long I did with Ethan but the biting hurts so bad and then she pulls afterwards.....yep it's a killer.

Cars...

is a favorite at our place...

Ethan loves cars, but he loves the movie even more. It's on all the time at our apartment...you can tell in these pictures!
He loves to play with his cars all over.
He also loves his car couch!
Here he is watching Cars.
Ali has started to eat cereal and baby foods and loves it.
Ethan loves Cheerios!
Watching Cars again.

My kids play together! :)

And I can't complain! It's so fun to watch them interact together. Well Ali finally started army crawling about two months ago and since has mastered the crawl. These pictures were about a month and a half ago. Ali's hair almost looks fake. It's thinned out a lot so it's not as thick as it used to be, but growing long. Ethan loves to play with his sister. He is always trying to pick her up and since she's so petite he can which is scary.
I love this little girl!!
I thought this was cute how I got Ethan in the background! He needs a haircut here!

I love that she thinks he is so funny even when he's hurting her! She is so tough. In fact the other night Ethan head butted her and he said, "OUCH, OUCH!" and Ali looked at him all funny and guess who ended up with a bruise? Yes, Ali did!!

Family Picture

Okay so I know I've been lacking on the blogging life in the last couple months so I will just put this quick post up! We had family pictures done...well my mom just set us all up and my grandpa took the pictures. It was fun! It was right before Ben left for his mission. We wanted to make sure to get pictures before he left since we haven't had family pictures since I think...yeah it's been a LONG time. It's already outdated because Brandi Kisler will be joining our family sometime in November. Yes, Robbie is getting married and we're all so happy for him! I want to get some more posts up of the pictures of the kids but I need to edit the pictures first! So much is going on in our lives lately!! It's been crazy busy!!

Happy Birthday Mom!!

Happy Birthday to you mom!! Mom, I'm so happy I have you as my mother! You have taught me a lot of valuable lessons! Atleast I hope you're proud of how I turned out with my little family! You have always been there when I've needed you the most..thanks for all the times you let me cry on your shoulder even when it was the stupidest things. You have been such an awesome inspiration! I know you've had so many hard times in your life and yet you keep the church so close in your heart and that always helps you (us) out in the end. I hope your birthday was awesome. Sorry I couldn't spend more time in Moses! I've been thinking about you all day though! Ethan and Aliana would like to say "Happy Birthday Nana! We love you!" One of my favorites! This was outside the Seattle Temple.
Right after Aliana was born.
My two kids with their fun Nana.
The most recent photo I have of these two together!!

Mom, I know you probably don't like all of these pictures but atleast I had some to prove that you've been with the kids since the beginning!! They love their Nana.

4th of July

For the 4th we invited Amber, Dane, Taya, Brandi, Ivory, Rob, and Corbin to come down. We thought they'd stay around longer, but we had fun. We had mustard seed for dinner Friday night. Roger brought some home from work and then we headed to Riverfront Park for the fireworks show. Ethan was a little scared at first but soon got used to them. Everyone stayed the night (we played rockband for a while) and slept in until 10. Roger and Dane took the kids on a walk. We enjoyed having them here. Here are some pics and I have to thank Amber because I don't have an adapter for my ScanDisk cards yet so I took these from her post!! Taya playing with Ali.
Ethan and Taya playing the drums after they got out of the shower!
The two lovebirds who need to tie the knot already!!
I LOVE this picture of me and my girl!! Sisters...and then there's Rob
The kids loved to ride on shoulders and it wqas so cute that they were holding hands!!
The youngsters...well I guess Chris is old, but not married yet.
The whole group minus Corbin who took the picture for us!!