Art City Days

We attended Art City Days Balloon Fesitival a few weeks ago. We have gone every year since we have lived here; I think, so going on a 4-year tradition. The balloons didn't take off that day due to "extreme wind." We still had fun and I enjoyed going with my family as well as with my dad.  I have gone with him for many years to the Provo Balloon Races. This year he won't be able to attend Provo races with me so I was glad he could make it this time. I have such fun memories of balloon races and I would really love it if my kids could too. When viewing the pictures, keep in mind one thing.. IT WAS EARLY!!.  That will explain the looks on the kids faces and Kimee's wonderful matching outfit.

The kids and my dad got to get inside the basket.. I think my dad was in heaven.  After almost 30 years of attending a balloon festival, he got to be inside the basket. Some day I will take him on real ride and it will wonderful.

My dad's artisticness, if that is such a word.



 Grandma and Kimee.

Grandpa and Kimee.

You may be wondering why it is only Kimee in the pictures... wonder no more. One word. TRACTOR.

 This was just sitting on the side and he saw it immediately..He loves tractors and trucks.

Grandma with the grandkids. I love Ethan's look.. and the grammy goes to Ethan for the best scowl.

9-months and growing

Well Jakey and Bekah are 9-months old, a few weeks ago. This post is slightly delayed due to the last 2 weeks being crazier than normal. Let's start with Jakey.

He weighs 17.5 pounds (13%), length 28 inches (31%) and head 17.5 (31%). His percentages have all gone from 6 months but I am not too worried. He eats a ton. I have seen him only spit out one thing and that was some pork and gravy.. very much to Carl's dismay. (He is a meat and potatoes guy). In Jakey's defense, I think he was not super hungry. I like to think he likes all food but maybe he hasn't learned the spit up skill yet. He has quite of bit of redish hair and still likes the exersaucer.

Jakey is such a happy baby. He loves to be around people and cries when everyone leaves the room. He loves to just sit and play. He gets in the stink bug position but doesn't do much more than that. His smile is so contagious. He sleeps great.

Now Bekah. She weighs 17.9 pouunds (39%), length 27.75 inches (51%), and head 17.75 (81%). She too has gone down percentage-wise. I guess the curve to measure girls and boys is very different. (Not that I really worry too much about the charts...just interesting.)Bekah's weight is 0.4 more than Jakey but that puts her in the 39% and him in the 13% and their heads 0.3 difference but that changes from 31% to 81%. No wonder girls have complexes when it comes to image..

She is putting everything in her mouth. She can crawl and get about anywhere she wants to.She is not super fast but fast enough that if I take my eye of her she is another room, under the bed, behind the chair.etc. She loves to be standing. She loves the walker and the jumperoo. (So much the first time I put her in the jumperoo she jumped so much she wore herself out. see above) She eats really well too. Several times I have left them in their chairs to go attend to the other kids. I come back to find she has reached out and grabbed the bowl with the food and spilled it all over her and floor. Her arms are much longer than I thought. She sleeps really well, usually since she is the one who can move, I find her cuddled (or body pinned) up next to Jacob in the crib.


It has been busy having twins but 3 months to 12 months is my favorite stage. I love seeing them grow and their smiles make it all worth it.

Memorial Day Weekend

This is a little late in posting but better than nothing I suppose. Bekah and Jacob just turned 9months.They are really great babies. I couldn't have pre-ordered any better. (Maybe my order might have only included one instead of two just kidding, we love them both). We decided to do more this summer than we did last summer and trust that doesn't take much, since I was pregnant all last summer.  We decided to go camping at Utah Lake. We had a great time and took one morning to hike the "Y." We left the twins home as we didn't have enough backs to carry kids. Kimee made it the whole way and Ethan did 3/4 way up and 3/4 of the way down...They did pretty good.

I would like to think that this picture of Jakey below is a "Groesbeck" trait...(falling asleep anywhere) but it could have easily been he got tired of waiting for his food.

Bekah was so proud of obtaining her first chocolate chip cookie all by herself.

 "Y" trailhead.

We learn to focus on the important things in life.

 Daddy and Kimee

She learned to pose like this from her girl cousin, whom will remain unnamed.. 

Ethan has to climb on everything.

 

Carl "cooking"(or burning) our tin foil dinners.

Kimee and her normal weird faces she pulls at the camera.

Ethan loved the giant campfire marshmellows.. Never again will I buy these even if on sale. They are HUGE and full of "pure sugar."

Let the fun begin

With no more preschool and the first outing of the new "rig", summer has officially started for us. We enjoyed "camping"(if you can even call it that) in the trailer at the local state park. I would conisder going again so that counts as successful trip in my book. We didn't catch any fish so maybe not so sucessful in the eyes of some. We had fun and look forward to many more summer weekends of camping.

 Our trailer in all of it's wonderful 26 feet of glory...


Can't be camping without a some fire and marshmellows.

This is one thing that made the trip enjoyable.. It allowed the twins to sleep through the night.

This custom install job on the bunk bed also helped.

All snug as a bug in a rug.

You can tell by his look how "fun" this was.

Cheesehead

Bekah loves to be on her tummy and look at everything.

Jacob..well not so much. Guess the excitement was just too much..