I Love these cute kids!!

Just having fun taking pictures of the kids in the living room!! Look at these cute faces!!

Baby Beck

This is the Orton's new addition, Beck. Jill let me do some experimenting with my camera on her brand new little guy. He is such a doll. It was so fun for us to come up with these ideas. The cowboy hat was his grandpa Beck's, who he is named after. And the basket is a potato basket, Jill's dad is a potato farmer. I think they turned out pretty cute. What do you think?

Photography classes

I started taking photography classes from Inkley's. It has been fun to have this new hobby, that was kind of an old hobby. Well, I've always loved photography. And even more fun, Nannies is going to take the classes with me.

Piggy tails

Look at Ava's cute little piggy tails up on top!!!

More Grandmas

My dad had to perform a wedding ceremony on Labor day and Calvin asked me what Grandpa Jeffery was up to for the holiday and I said, "oh, he has to marry some people." And Calvin replied,"What, I am getting more Grandmas!" When I finally stopped laughing I explained to him what I meant.

Wahoo!!

Wahoo!! Ava has been having the rice cereal formula for four days now and hasn't spit up once!! I only give it to her 2-3 times a day and nurse her the others and she hasn't spit up breastmilk or formula. She is no longer taking the Zantac, hallelujah, I don't like giving little babies medicine. And She has slept from 9 at night to 6 in the morning for 3 nights. I wish the doctor would have suggested adding rice cereal to the formula sooner. He said this is one of the greatest things for babies with reflux. And it has worked. My mom and grandma also suggested it a while ago, I should have listened. But it was nice to hear it from a doctor and to hear how much to put in it. You can buy the formula that has it in it or just add a teaspoon of rice cereal to a regular bottle. It has worked like a charm. I hope I am not jinxing it by saying this :)

Kid Kicker Dragons

Last summer we let Calvin do a trial karate class at Bobby Lawrence karate. He loved it. So we told him that when he was out of preschool he could do karate. Our reasoning is, once we don't have to pay for preschool we can let them choose something fun that they would like to try. We went to 5 different schools, including a capoeira class, to try and pick the right one for Calvin. We decided on Omega martial arts. It is a mix of several forms of martial arts and I loved the class structure, the teacher, the schedule and the price. There was actually a big range of all those factors and this fit everything we wanted. We have heard there are so many benefits from karate: self discipline, respect, listening skills, confidence. Calvin doesn't struggle with any of that right now, but I love that they teach that stuff. He has been to a few classes now and he loves it. He goes every Monday and Wednesday from 4:30-5:15. I am not quite sure how I feel about tournaments, but we will see when we get to that point. Right now he is a kid kicker Dragon and they just have one optional tournament a year. We are excited for Calvin to be doing something fun and we think karate is a good thing for him to learn.

Labor Day Fun

We ususally head down to Onion Days in Payson for Labor day and see the play and the car show. This year Jon was working graves so it was too much of a hassle to get down there before the play started. So we decided to take advantage of the fact that Andy is the manager of Trafalga and go to Trafalga Lehi and ride the rides. Andy is so great, he got us on all the rides, 20 tokens each, and dippin' dots for free. We had a blast. Even the little rides were enough of a thrill for me. There roller coaster is pretty fun, Lily said it was too scary but Calvin went on it 3 times. The kids loved every minute of it, especially the pirate arcade game. We even left and had dinner at Texas Roadhouse and then went back for more fun. What a great family day.