A Day With The Garces'

My sister-in-law, Steffanie, is at Girls Camp this week and she asked me to watch three of her kids, Erin, Alex, and Jacob, today while she was gone. I honestly had such a fun day with them! We played games, watched Cars (my first time seeing it...LOVED it!), ate, played, and went swimming. After we went swimming we came to my house so that Erin and Alex could play the Wii for a while. They loved to play the boxing game and I think that it really wore them out...they will definitely sleep well tonight! They are such good kids and I had such a wonderful time with them today!!

All of them adore Noah, and he absolutely adores them! Noah especially had a fun time with Jacob, since they are only 11 months apart! I was glad that Noah was able to spend the day with him today...we will definitely have to get them together more often since they had such a fun time! Here is a picture that I found of Jacob and Noah from Mother's Day in matching outfits (How cute is that?!?!):

We LOVE Baby Neptune

Noah has had absolutely NO interest in TV or movies since he was born. We have two Baby Einstein movies, and every couple of weeks I will put one in to see if it sparks any sort of interest with him, and the outcome is always negative....until today!! I put in Baby Neptune for Noah this afternoon and he sat on the floor and watched the ENTIRE video!! He was laughing and singing along with the video the entire time. I was AMAZED! Here are some pictures of this turning point...

Fridge Invader

I came across this picture today of Noah...isn't that the funniest thing! He can be a little stinker sometimes! He definitely loves to get into EVERYTHING!

Mmmmm....Spaghetti!

We let Noah feed himself spaghetti the other night. It was a bit of a mess, but he had such a good time feeding himself. He is becoming more and more independent and loves to do things all on his own! I miss doing these little things for him, but I know that it is a good thing to let him learn to do things on his own....I guess...

Jacob Family Reunion

Yesterday we went to the Jacob Family Reunion at a house, or, should I say resort, up Hobble Creek Canyon. I was able to go up earlier that day with my sister-in-law Andrea and Doug came up later that evening because he had to work. Ok, now the house where the reunion was, was unbelievable! Some of the features included a huge gym, a huge INDOOR junble gym, a huge social area with a ping-pong table and pool table, enough bedrooms to sleep 44 people, and a beautiful lake with swans. It was amazing!

It was great to be able to meet some of Doug's cousins (he has a TON of cousins!!). There were a lot of little kids there too, so Noah was able to play and have some fun of his own. It was a great day! Here are some pictures:

Andrea sent me this picture of Noah and Connor holding hands! How cute is that?!?!

Noah going down the slide on the INDOOR (can you believe that?!?!) Jungle Gym:

Maya, Noah, and Alex playing outside. Maya so cute with Noah! She is so nurturing and she reminds me of me when I was her age.

Kristen (Doug's sister) and my niece Maren eating ice cream by the little lake. I thought this was a cute Mommy Daughter picture.

Cute Erin posing for the camera:

Water Baby

We took Noah to the Lehi Legacy Pool today to go swimming and we had such a fun time. That pool is amazing and it is so kid friendly. Most of the pool is indoors, which is nice since it is so hot outside! They have a huge play area inside that has a HUGE bucket that fills with water and then tips over and dumps water everywhere....it's pretty cool. It was a fun day :). They are opening the pool where we live pretty soon and I am sure that Noah and I will spend a lot of time over there since he LOVES the water. Here are some pictures from today.

Newport Beach