Cool Song from Youtube

Hi Everyone,

I thought this was really cool. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8#watch-main-area

Love,
Aubrey

Bo is the cutest thing ever. He is such a peaceful, happy boy and we loved having him here for a few days. It was good to see Carl, too. We wished we lived closer to our cousins, and we are SOOO excited for Carl and Steph!




I painted Brian and Tyler's room green and it turned out pretty cute I think. I never posted a picture of my summer project - stripping and staining the beds for Adam and Cam's room. It was a bigger project than I had planned, and I don't know if I would do it again, but I learned a lot!

My boys are getting big. Isn't Brian handsome and looking grown up? One of these days I'll take them in for some real portraits (or get a decent camera that actually takes a pic when I push down the button, rather than 3 seconds later!)

A few more pictures

 

 

 

We're hoping Joy starts smiling soon. I've added a picture of Grace too, sorry it's a little blurry but it's still so cute. Grace says- "it's a picture of me being BethAnne". She says the darndest things all day long. She also seems to believe in reincarnation, she often says things like "when I was a mommy..." or "when I was a boy..." or "when I was a soldier...". Then she'll tell us how things were then, it's bizarre but funny. Never a dull moment :)
Love,
Aubrey

Joy is getting so big

 

 

 

 

I'm posting this while I gently tap Joy's swing with my foot to keep it swinging. The motor is broken on it, but we've ordered a replacement. Joy is growing up so fast I wanted to post more pictures. Things here are going pretty well, Joy and I have had a cold, but I think we're getting better. Mark has been busy at work, so I've been getting used to being a real mom again. I'm enjoying it more now than ever. When I was on bedrest and when I was sick after having the baby, I really longed to just be able to be a mom and take care of my family. So now I appreciate it a lot more and I find that I don't mind all the work like I used to. Have a great weekend!
Love,
Aubrey

Family History

I found my first name to take to the temple! (actually it's a guy, so Brian will do it). I stumbled across that family history notebook that Grandpa Baker gave us at a family reunion back in 2001. I was looking up the information he highlighted for me to find, and low and behold one of the guys didn't have his endowment done. The new family search (go to http://new.familysearch.org) site makes it super easy to find people, and then to print off their cards so you can take them to the temple. I hope you guys will dig out your notebooks and give it a go. Grandpa is a great resource, so call him if you have questions (you could call me too, but I'm still learning). I'm excited to do more research in the online library to find the other stuff that's missing from my pages.

Fall fun

Here's the little monkey I promised to post...He was really adorable. And yes, Suzie, it was from Old Navy so it must be the same as Aiden's. My favorite costume ever. Adam really is a monkey. The kid won't sleep through the night. For the last year he's woken up at 4am and come into our room. I finally put my foot down a week or two ago and said no more monkeys in my room at night! He still wakes up at 4am, but since he doesn't know how to put himself back to sleep (I've always spoiled him by laying down with him until he falls asleep), he stays awake until 5, finding every excuse to yell for me to come to his room. We've all had it, but I love him anyway...

Only in Cache Valley could you find another family of boys that likes to shoot guns - and only in Hyde Park can you go 5 minutes away and shoot to your heart's content. This dad had even cooler guns than Brian - I think I know what Brian wants for Christmas now...

Here's a picture I forgot to post last time - Cute Chrissy, Jon, and Brian being good sports for the annual doughnut-on-a-string game. My awesome husband won...but the others put on a good show.

More Xander Pictures

Here's out sweet baby boy! Many thanks to Lisa for her editing work on the top photo (as you can see from the others, I haven't quite figured out the whole lighting thing when it comes to taking pictures).

Halloween at the Bousquets

We had a fun Halloween, and the kids were so cute. All Eva wanted to be was a T-Rex and we couldn't find any cute ready-made costumes in her size so we made one out of a box and plumbing tubing. She made the face on the hat all by herself. Aiden was a trick-or-treating maniac. He just wanted to keep going even though he got so tired and kept walking slower an slower. It turns out that Eva's picky eating even extends to candy. The only candy she wanted out of everything she got were the plain Hershey bars and lollipops, so Jeff and I didn't even have to feel bad about taking our cut of the loot.

The other day I found Aiden cradling this My Little Pony doll in his arms. I asked him if it was his baby, and he said, "No, it's my Xander." He then told me he had to put his Xander down for a nap, and he went upstairs and put it in Eva's doll cradle. A few minutes later he said, "The baby's crying," and went upstairs and got the pony doll again. It was so sweet!

Xander has been smiling and cooing a lot lately - so precious! Unfortunately we never seem to actually get any pictures of the smiling because we're so enamored that by the time we think of getting the camera he's stopped. Here's one of the few smiling pictures we have.

Out of the mouth of Grace

Grace is pretty funny lately. Here's a few of the things she's said lately.

Grace: Can I have a popcicle?
Me: Did you finish your vacuuming?
Grace: Yes.
Me: Okay then.
Grace: (Beaming) We're interested in love. Love and popsicles.

Grace: (to Mark) Is your first name Mark?
Mark: Yes
Grace: So your middle name is Daddy?

Mark: (to Grace) Would you like to say the prayer tonight?
Grace: No, I'm all prayered out.

Love you all.
Love,
Aubrey

Unfotunately, this is the only Halloween pic I got. My camera was on the fritz Friday morning, and then we forgot to try again on Halloween night. Adam wasn't a dog for Halloween night - he was an adorable monkey with a banana in his pocket. I'll need to get him to dress up again so I can take a picture. I am totally bummed we didn't get a picture of Jon and Chrissy - Jon was a gorilla (he literally terrified Adam) and Chrissy was his banana. They were very cute. We had a fun time with them - and hopefully they didn't get too annoyed with Cameron's "I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 10 game" that we played 30 or 40 times. They even went along with the donut-on-a-string game. Thanks for putting up with our chaos!

Chrissy and Jon came to Brian and Tyler's wrestling match. Jon was able to give the boys a few wrestling pointers - I wish he lived closer so he could go to all of them (maybe then Brian would be able to remember how to do a half-nelson and not have to mouth "I forgot" to us in the middle of his match). I love to watch the kids wrestle. It's hilarious to me for some reason. The kids have mixed feelings about it - depending on whether they are the ones pinning or getting pinned.

Sisters

 

 

 

 

I hoped I would be able to find pictures of our other girls wearing the same dress as Joy did today. I found pictures of BethAnne in it, but not Grace. I included pictures of both girls so you could see how similar they all look (the top pictures are BethAnne, the bottom two are Grace). Enjoy!

Sunday Dress

 

 

 

Hi Everyone,

I hope you're not all getting sick of my posts, we're having fun taking pictures lately. Today Joy went to church for the first time. I think this dress has been worn by all three girls, it was a present from Mark's sister Lisa when BethAnne was born. I think it's very sweet. Have a great week everyone!

Love,
Aubrey