Lesson Learned

A very sad thing happened this last week. Our camera broke. Not only is it no longer in working condition, it took along our camera card with it. I don't know what happened but the card no longer works. Now, this wouldn't have been SUCH a big deal if I hadn't been such a procrastinator about transferring pictures off of the card. I still had pretty much ALL of the pictures I had taken since Orrin was born. Which means that I basically lost most of 10 months worth of pictures of my little boy's life. The few I still have are the ones that I downloaded to the blog, (which hasn't been very many since I have only posted twice this year). And also a few that my parents took with their camera. Once we are able to get a new camera, I will be posting to the blog more often! And also transferring my pictures more than once a year :) I don't want this to happen to us again. I feel horrible that we no longer have many pictures of our little man. Hopefully experience will help me to do better. So we may not be having many posts for a while as I am not sure how long it will take us to purchase another camera. :(

Precious Moments

This morning I was running late getting ready for church and I still hadn't planned my Nursery lesson for the day. I was sitting on the floor blow drying my hair and reading my nursery manual at the same time when Quinn came into the room. I looked up from my manual to talk to him, and Reggie walked up to me and bent over and picked up the manual and took it to the couch. He quickly climbed up on the couch and started flipping through the book. I was watching him and could tell that he was about to flip the page to the big picture of Jesus. So just as he flipped it, I said "Reggie, who is that?" He glanced down on the page and got a huge smile and said in complete amazement "wooooooowww Jes" Which is Reggie speak for "Wow, Jesus." This moment brought a huge smile to my face as he quietly and reverently looked at Christ's picture. I am so grateful for the precious moments with our wonderful children :)

Random Pictures

It has been so long since I have posted! So many things have happened but I will just start here in the last few months. These are just some random pictures of us lately. Orrin is getting so big and Reggie is having fun teaching him things.

Reggie loves playing in the sprinkler in Grandma and Grandpa's yard.

Reggie loves trains! Specifically Thomas the Train, but he likes them all. We started doing daily crafts in the mornings and I started with trains. I was trying to get him to show off his train but he just covered it up. He is so proud of his crafts. We have now made lots of different trains, tugboats, turtles, fish and many others. He has them displayed around his room. It has been such a fun activity for us to share together.

If he isn't making trains, he's playing with them. :)

And here is our Orrin. We love him dearly. Look at him, how could you not? Haha, he makes us smile with his fun charming personality. He is almost 9 months old and not quite crawling yet. He's got a lot of body to lift off of the ground so it is taking him a little longer.

Apparently I didn't get him to his bed fast enough, he fell asleep in his highchair!

This was taken when it still wasn't very warm out, but we got Reggie a sandbox. He loves to cover himself in the sand.

Just Mommy and Reg having a little fun together during our morning craft time :)

Christmas and Birthdays

I have neglected to post about my precious little boys for quite a while now. So here is an extremely long post to catch us up a little bit. Quinn graduated and we moved back to Baker just before Christmas. We are staying with my parents until Quinn finds a job somewhere, but the boys are really enjoying being able to spend lots of time with both sets of Grandparents.

These first 3 or 4 pictures were our attempt to get some Christmas pictures of the boys. We tried taking some together, but in the end it worked out better to get separate pictures of them. But here are a few anyway :)

Right after this picture was taken, Reggie just pushed Orrin aside and got off the couch, which sent Orrin rolling. Orrin is such a good sport with Reggie, he takes so much from his older brother. I think Orrin is just waiting until he can fight back. :)

This is Christmas Eve out at Grandma and Grandpa Anderson's.

Reggie sure loves his Uncle Weston, they have so much fun together.

Here is Reggie discovering the homemade Eggnog. He loves it just as much as we do.

Orrin getting his snuggles with grandma

For some reason Orrin didn't really like wearing his Santa hat, so we had to sneak it on when he was sleeping so we could get a decent picture

Christmas morning before Reggie discovered his presents

He was so excited! Santa brought his some really neat stuff.

Orrin with his Santa presents

Reggie and his new hat.

Reggie got a bowling set from his Aunt Kathy and Uncle Tom. He thinks it's just the greatest. He even likes to load up his brother in his Tonka truck and make him go bowling. (with our help of course.)

Orrin with his Uncle Weston

I'm not sure what Weston was doing here with Reggie, but he really loved it!

The Rest of the pictures are from Reggie's Birthday. He has recently become obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine, so we decided to have a Thomas party :)

This is Aunt Lisa showing Reggie his Thomas cake. Once he saw it he was so excited that he made her hold him up to see it for a long time. She kept putting him down and he kept asking to get back up again.

He got this hat from Grandma and Grandpa Anderson, which now has become one of his favorites.

It's a good thing we saved this one for last because we could have never gotten him to open any others. He got a Thomas wooden railway track and some trains to go with it.

Reggie is using the plastic Thomas cake topper to dip in his cake and eat it.

The boys setting up the train track.

And this is just a random picture of Orrin being his cute little self.

Dad and Reggie getting ready for bed, gotta love the hat :)