Where have we been?

Well Life has been crazy busy in the Pearson household. Jace finished his semester of school we have had family events left and right, then Christmas, and to top it all off my nice Mac computer that I usually do my blogging on crashed a few weeks ago.  We are waiting to here if they can recover any information on it as I am one of those who did not backup any of my information.  Please pray we will be able to recover the data as it is all of Tate' baby pictures and video that I will lose.  I am praying that we will be able to recover it all.  Christmas was great we spent it with my family in Roosevelt and had a wondeful time relaxing and enjoying one another's company.  Every day is such as amazing day as I watch the wonderful things my two kids can do.  Grant is just about sitting up all by himself and wants to grasp at everything he can.  While he is still not sleeping through the night I am slowly adjusting to managing through each day with little sleep.  Tate continues to learn new words each day.  He knows most of his numbers through 20 and his Alphabet.  He still loves Thomas the Train and Lightning McQueen.  He has such an imagination and they do new things every day.  I will try to post pictures soon.  We have a new hard drive on my Mac and I am slowly making time to get the pictures I have on my camera downloaded to it.  Don't worry I will be backing up this next time around.  I hope everyone had a happy new year.

Tate going to Sleep!!

Ever since I went back to work I have been trying to get into a routine now that we have two boys and our mornings are really crazy with Jace having an 8 am class.  So with that said we have been trying to get Tate to go to sleep at a decent hour.  Before, we were always doing things and so he just went to bed whenever we got around to it.  Now we are trying to break this habit and at least have him in bed by 8:30 every night.  Well I am sure you can imagine how difficult it is to get a two year old to cooperate.  Every night it is the same thing with Tate.  We do baths, get in our jammies, and then we give him the option to watch a few minutes of his favorite show Thomas the Train or to read stories.  He picks and then after about 10 to 15 minutes we tell him it is time to go to bed.  He then starts deciding who is going to bed with him.  Now what I mean by who is what toys are going to sleep with him.  Well the other night something happened that was so cute and funny I had to write about it.  We had already taken Tate up to bed with his two Lightning McQueen cars, his big and little Thomas, and Percy.  After a few minutes he got out of bed and I was taking him back and he said he wanted one of his other cars.  So the next thing I knew we were headed downstairs and he was filling up my arms, Jace's arms, and his arms with cars and his golf balls.  We kept saying no more and he would then say one more grab a toy and put it in one of our hands.  Once this had been accomplished he then marched upstairs with us in tow, place each toy and ball in its place in his bed and then went right to sleep.  I wish I would have taken a picture but hopefully you can just imagine this little boy sound asleep with all of his toys laid out in a line next to him.  While he drives me crazy most nights with going to bed these moments make it all worth it.

Family Pictures

We have family pictures taken a few weeks after Grant was born.  Here are a few from the session.

Our Newest Addition

Here he is.  He was born on July 28th.  His name is Grant after my Grandpa.  We are so excited to have him here and as a part of our family.  He is such a joy.  Tate is getting better with him each and every day.  While there are still some rough days with the both of them we are adjusting to the changes a second child brings to the family.  Here are some fun pictures from his birth.

Day before my Delivery

Our little family.  Look at Tates Glare at Grant.  He wasn't very interested in Grant at this point.

The proud papa!

Going Home

My Two sweet boys

The Williams Family

We then spent some time with my mom's family for my Grandparents mission homecoming and also the Williams Family Reunion.  It was great to see everyone and spend a few days visting and getting caught up with everyone.  Here are some pictures from both events.

This a ball Tate found at the reunion

Lagoon Trip

We went to Lagoon with Jace's Family at the end of June.  Tate had a wonderful time.  He enjoyed riding on the rides.  Tate's two favorites were the train ride and the little roller coaster called Puff.  We had a lot of fun visiting with his family as well.  It was a great day.  Here are some fun pictures from the day. 

The Merrygo Round

On the Train

This is Jace and Max on the dinosour egg drop!

Jared and Kimee's Wedding

At the end of May there was a very exciting event Jared and Kimee were married.  Here are some pictures from the event.  The boys all looked so handsome in their suits for the event.  It was a lot of fun. 

CONGRATULATIONS JARED AND KIMEE!!!

Working in the Yard

We have been doing some work in our Yard.  Tate has loved playing outside; however, it requires more work for me since he needs a bath almost every night now.

Here is mowing the lawn with his Dad.  He got a play lawn mower for his Birthday.  He loves pushing it around following Jace around the Lawn.

Later that night Tate found some water and he sat in it.  He did not like the feeling of the wet pants.

Last night we worked in the Garden getting it ready to plant.  Tate loved playing in the dirt.  By the time we were finished this is what he looked like.

That is a line of Dirt and Snot under his nose.

Take a good look at his hair it is full of dirt.

Mom I'm not that Dirty.

We then gave him a bath and he wanted bubbles in it.  This is what Jace did to him.  He had so much fun.

I have decided there is no way I am going to be able to stop this boy from getting dirty and while it may mean I have to vacuum a little more often or give a few more baths, all I need is a smile like that and it doesn't matter how much more work it may cause.  I don't know if this boy could ever make me really mad with a smile like that.