Sunday, August 8, 2010

Grandparents Galore!

We blessed Natalie in church last week, so that occasion brought my parents and Jessica's Dad out for a visit.
Fun with Grandpa Smith. If you keep making those faces, your face will stick that way for ever.
Every time Makayla sees this picture she says "Natalie pulling my hair!"
Makayla "reading" to Natalie. Jessica has a very similar picture of herself reading to her sister Carly at approximately the same ages.
Love these Arizona sunsets!
Riding in the car with Grandpa Pace. Acting cool.
The whole crew pre-church photo.
Makayla hanging with Grandpa Smith. Still takes her a few hours to get used to him for some reason.
Natalie LOVES sitting on her changing table for some reason. It's her happy place. She is always calm when in the changing table. Sometimes if she won't stop screaming we'll just put her there and she'll be content as can be for at least a half hour.
Family shot.
Another family shot - we don't have a lot of these actually.
Grandma and Grandpa succeed in getting a Natalie smile on camera.
Makayla liked to wake up my parents each morning around 5:45 AM. I'm just glad she didn't include Jess and me in this ritual.
We went bowling. The place had automatic bumpers that came up when it was Makayla's turn. Maybe I just haven't been bowling for a long time, but I must say it's about time someone figured that one out. Much better than having to use the bumpers for everyone.
That's it for now. Thanks parents for coming to visit during the hot Arizona summer.

3 comments:

Jenn said...

Makayla looks so much like your dad, Tyler. How cute!! Looks like you guys have been keeping busy!!!

Lonna said...

That picture of Makayla reading to Natalie is really cute. Everyone is looking good in your family, I like the family photos. It is funny that the older the kids get, or the more kids you have the less the family pictures seem to come up.

You guys are doing a great job of keeping the pictures even, I think that I was trying to compensate for neglecting child #2 for a long time but the reality was that since he didn't really do much Gwen still got all the attention with the camera. Oh well. Hopefully our kids won't need too much therapy to overcome that one.

So glad to see that you are doing well, and that you had so much family come out to see you for the baby blessing. Do you think that your parents will come back after the early morning wake up calls that they had this time? Just kidding. Though that is really funny to me.

Gena said...

You guys look awesome. such a cute family with two beautiful girls!