Happy Thanksgiving....I mean Halloween?

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. One thing I am grateful for is...Halloween! I am also grateful to all my friends and family who are so forgiving of someone who is never on time. So with that said, here is our fun Halloween. (I thought that you would all want to still see my cute kids in their Halloween stuff.)
Here is Emma and Camilla at our play group Halloween party. Poor Cami always looks a little stressed.

Here is Emma with (I have been informed by Emma) her best friend Jacob. I love that she has her arm around him.
Here is Camilla with Lucas. Cute babies!

Here are Emma and Cami on Halloween day!

Here are Emma and Jacob trunk or treating. You can kind of see Jacob has his arm around Emma in this picture.

Here I am with my girls and Rachel and her boys.

Here is Kevin NOT dressed up for Halloween. :( Every party has a pooper.... jk...love ya babe!

Emma loved her costume so much that she asked me to wear it almost every day. She would dance (like the Barbies-on the 12 Dancing Princesses Barbie version-really not too bad you should check it out) Anyway she loves to dance (including 'shakin her booty'). We love our Ems!

Redeeming myself!

So I saw that I was tagged! Thanks Rachel! This is me trying redeem myself on not doing the last picture tag. So the tag is post your sixth picture from your sixth folder and tell the story. This is a picture of Camilla. She was about a month old. We had just come home from church. It seems that the only time my kids have headbands in their hair and cute outfits on are after we go to church. So we always take Sunday pics. I can't believe how little she is. What happened to my baby?
I tag: Anyone who wants to post a fun pic from the past!

I'm sick...I am doe-ing to die!

As you can see from this picture, Emma did it again! She broke her arm! It is the same arm, but in a different place. She tripped and fell into a couch a broke it. So since I didn't take her to the doctors for 4 days last time, I took her this time right away. We went first to the doctors, you know how those waiting rooms can be! :) Then we had to go over to the hospital for x-rays (and waited...). Then we went back to the doctors to get a cast on it...and waited. It was a bit like "Waiting for Godot." By the time we got back home, we had been gone for 3 hours and 41 minutes! But her arm is now casted so all her birthday pics and Halloween pics (which are coming :) will have casts in them.So after that eventful day, the next day, Emma decided to take a tumble down the cement stairs leading up to the top story of our 4-plex. The next day, she fell on the black-top.Emma then took a break for a couple of days. Over the weekend, she decided to run into the bread-board at my parents and gave herself a black-eye. (You can kind of see it in the above pic). And then on Monday she did a front flip off the top of the slide. The question is...will this kid live to age 3?
I then ended up getting the stomach flu for a few days. I was very sick and was only eating/drinking Gatorade. Emma kept wanting a drink of my gatorade and I kept telling her I couldn't share because I was sick. Emma then says "Mom, I'm sick...I am doe-ing to die."
Oh this two-year-old. At least she brings comic relief! I thought this pic turned out cool! After a long and stressful day at the doctor/hospital, Kev brought me a red rose, my favorite! Thanks babe!

Cheer for the Home Team!

What would BYU be without BYU football? Well we got tickets to the home game BYU vs. UCLA. Go Cougs! And we won! Personally, I think football is a lot more exciting when you are actually there. Last year, we had season tickets, but with two kids this year, we didn't think we could handle that. Mom and Dad still have season tickets, so they come down and visit us every home game. (or is that visit the grandkids :) Either way, we have a lot of fun and have made some good memories over the past 3 years of BYU football games. And this is just one of them!

Here is BYU scoring one of their touchdowns. We had seats in the end zone, so it is pretty exciting when they score a touchdown. Camilla went to the game with us. Not too much emotion for the home team there. :) Brandon and Alicia (my siblings) babysat Emma during the game. Can you imagine her at the game?Cami spent most of the game on a make-shift bed of sweatshirts and blankets under our feet. She was a lot more content there.After the game with our little family...minus Emma :(

This was all of us that went to the game, Dad, Camilla, Mom, Me and Kevin. We had a blast. Thanks again Mom and Dad for coming down. It was so fun!

Mawage is what bwings us together today...and other firsts!

So who is super cool and goes to a wedding and forgets their camera? Oh yeah, that would be me. Thanks to my bro, I borrowed his camera and was able to document a momentous occasion...Kim tied the knot! Kim is Kevin's sister, for those of you who don't know. We have been waiting with baited breath to see if she would go through with it (she has a bit of a history:), and the winner is Darren! So we trecked up to Idaho for the wedding and experienced a great first! Funny story, at the luncheon she said, "now do you all believe me that I was getting married?" Go Kim!Here are the newlyweds coming out of the temple. They were married in Idaho Falls just like us. It was really fun to go back.Here is a pic of Kevin and his siblings. Yep, count them up folks...10! (Plus Kim's husband) Kevin is seven of ten children. (Might I add, the tallest and cutest of them all!)This is of all the siblings and spouses! There are now seven of us married. Kevin's parents are in this picture too.And this was an attempt at a Belnap family picture. You see the Belnaps take the counsel of 'multiply and replenish the earth' literally. As to date there are 26 grandchildren with one on the way. Not all of the family made it into the picture and like we could get all the children even remotely looking at the camera. (Yes, my Emma is one of those distracted children. She is in front in the red and blue dress. Kevin and I are in the back next to the bride and groom.)The next two pics are an updated family picture of us! We were on the temple grounds, so pretty! You will have to tell me which pic you like the best.Random Emma found a stroller at the reception and was pushing it around. There was a dance at the reception. Here is Emma dancing with her cousin Paxton. He is 2 months older than she is.
This first is Camilla hanging out in her exersaucer. I just can't resist her smile.

Here is a first...well maybe not a first. We all went to BYU-I together and haven't gotten together in a REALLY long time. We finally got back in touch. This is Rachel, Cori and me. So even cooler, we went to Vashon Island, WA together for a semester and taught school in Tacoma, WA. Good times!

A first! Camilla is eating rice cereal! She loves it. This is always a monumentous day!
These are some pics taken on Sunday after church. The first is the cute new outfits we have them in. And the fact that they only look cute on Sundays, the rest of the week, no curls or headbands.
We love our Cami Jo, even when she seems distressed.
My poser Emma!Camilla is starting to roll all over the place. This first was her rolling under the chair.P.S. Rachel here is a picture of my sink so I won't be lame! My first here is that EVERY dish was clean in my house! It only lasted maybe a minute and will probably never happen again.

So now that you have been overwhelmed with pictures, here is a fun video of Camilla screaming out her frusteration. She sounds just like Emma when she screams. (This is not a first, she screams every day)

Life for the Belnaps

I am always behind on my posts and usually only post events. So this time, I thought I would give you a little idea of what life is everyday. I felt cool that Rachel tagged me and then you would really get an idea of what life is like, but I didn't want to post pictures of a sink full of dishes, clothes on my bathroom floor and toddler toys strewn throughout the house. Thanks for the tag Rach, but you will just have to come to house to see what it is really like. One of Camilla's new tricks is rolling over. This is catching her performing her new trick. She has mastered it a lot better now. Here are our two cute girls. Emma loves to copy what Camilla is doing. Somedays I have 2 babies instead of one!
Does anyone else forget to change diapers sometimes? Ooops. Emma will usually tell me if she is soggy. But she failed to mention it that day and I was a little sidetracked or is that mommy brain? Either way, yes I know Rachel and Anabelle this is a good sign that I should potty-train. In the meantime, I am trying not to leave her so soggy.

Emma is a little mimmick. You can tell how I go to work each day. And this is the way Emma goes to work with me, purse, glasses and her keys. There is no stopping this chica!
This is Emma and Sophie painting pumpkins. If you come to our house Emma will be sure to show off her pumpkin. She loved it! Thanks Wilkins!
Our fun girls again! This picture happens to be on Camilla's 6 month birthday. (Happy half birthday to Lexey too!)
Ummm....yuck! So this is becoming part of our lives. Kevin has wrecked on his bike twice in the last month. Note to all motorists, watch out for my sweet husband! A girl pulled out of a parking lot and turned immediately. The only problem was she didn't look for the bike riding past her. So she hit Kevin on his bike. Duh! BYU drivers have got to watch out!

Kevin is taking a swimming class this semester. Emma thinks she is in the class too. She loves to 'swim' a.k.a. taking a bath with goggles.
Camilla's other trick is eating her toes. Check out that flexibility! If only we were all still that flexible. Me, I probably can't even do the splits anymore. Boo!

These vidoes are of our girls performing more tricks. Camilla is saying 'mom!' This is always a great day. But on the video it started to morph into 'ba' instead of 'ma.' But I promise she can still say 'mamama.' And Emma is riding her bike! This is a major accomplishment and has taken us all summer to get it. Good job Ems! (Too bad bike riding season is almost over)

Ode to the Minivan

So I have been feeling a little depressed the past couple of days. I don't know if depressed is the right word, maybe just dealing with change. Anyway, so we have been looking for a van for awhile in the anticipation of our move to California. So a really great deal came up and we bought a Honda Odyssey. (It looks like the above pic, but used :) So that is the good news...yeah, we got a deal!

So here is where the depression comes in. I am feeling so old! Owning a minivan is like a huge milestone! I still feel 18, but everything around me reminds me that I am not. So I guess I am officially a mom, since I now own the minivan that goes with the job description. You know, mormom mom, minivan, a million kids. Yikes! So thanks for letting me vent out the aging process of life! And good luck to all those in the future who will cross this great milestone called getting older and having kids and driving huge cars! In the meantime, don't laugh at people driving minivans, it might be me!