Busy Busy

We have been busy over the last two weeks. I have been remiss in my blogging, so this is going to be a long one. But don't worry. I will try to do mostly pictures with a little captioning so as not to bore anyone.

Griffey and Trey just playing some computer games together. Can you believe that Treyton starts kindergarten in less than a month? How insane is that! He is definitely ready though and SO excited. He is doing SO great at reading. He loves to sound out all of the words he sees everywhere. It's pretty cute.
We tried some new crafts. These are bleached shirts. I just cut out a picture they wanted from my cricut and they sprayed bleach on the shirt. Next time I will know to wash the shirt after the bleach dries so that it doesn't keep eating away!

Jayci loves to dress herself now. She has a "different" sense of style. It includes putting on a new skirt on top of the other clothes she is already wearing that day every time she goes upstairs. Some days she ends up with five skirts on.

I saw on howdoesshe.com these bubble snakes. I thought they looked cheap, easy, and fun. I was right! They are so fun to see how long you can make them. Treyton kept blowing them on Jayci's head and making her hats. Its just a bottle with the bottom cut off, a sock over the bottom with a rubberband, and you dip that is dish soap and water solution. Nate had to go and show everybody up!

Jayci with her dance teacher, Ms. Elizabeth, on their last day. Jayci really loves to be around adults more than kids. When they did anything, she was glued to Ms. Elizabeth's side and would ask her about all of her rings, necklaces, earrings, etc. Another craft we made: their own chalkboards. They got to pick out the colors they wanted and we painted some old frames from Goodwill. Then we just used chalkboard spray paint and painted the glass with a couple of coats. They are now hanging up and the kids love to color on them.

Last weekend, we went to DC for Elliana's baby blessing. We stayed with Tyson and Diana in their new place. On Saturday, we took all of the kids to the temple grounds for a picnic, to see the visitors center, and to just get to see and touch the temple. It was beautiful!

Jayci, Treyton, Alexis, and Logan. Fun to cousins the same age kinda close!
Tyson and Diana plus kids.
Nate and I have a picture just like this when we were first married. We have been in VA for eight years now.

My parents flew in for Elli's blessing. Getting some good reading time in with Grandma.
After Todd gave Elliana a great blessing in church.
My dad loves to hold babies. And Griffey was in heaven sucking on the flavored water bottle.
The other day, jayci fell asleep during quiet time for 3 hours. Needless to say, she was not tired when bedtime came around. But she didn't complain and went to bed anyways. I went to check on them two hours later and she was still just reading books in her bed. So she came down and watched SYTYCD with us. She has been trying to use that ever since: "I need to come down and watch all of the dances with you." Yeah, nice try.
This is Jayci's Happy Place. Any time Griffin is awake, she is in heaven. She can't stop touching him, kissing him, hugging him, etc. She is in love.


Finally, since I didn't get any pictures of him at seven months old on the last post, I took some at seven months and one week! Isn't he adorable?