What I love about these two pictures is that Tyler had not been, and would not be riding his bike. He simply woke up in the morning and relentlessly asked me to put his helmet on. He's my safety kid.

Lots of Kisses

Zachary loves to give kisses. I'm showered with them. The awesome wide opened mouth kisses. He kisses me and walks off then turns right back and gives me more. I just love it!

Zachary has turned 1

This was Zachary when he was born. It seems like it was yesterday. Time goes by too fast! He is such a sweet baby and we all just love him to pieces! He is pretty easy going but he gets into more mischief than I can say. He started walking when he was 8 months old and he is BY FAR my busiest child.

These are his 1 year old pictures. A good friend of mine took them. I think they turned out great! He's so darling and I think he has such pretty eyes.

Zach has been the perfect addition to our family! I have enjoyed him so much. Jeremy is completely infatuated with him and watching him love his brother makes my heart so full.

Strictly for documentation purposes: Zachary has many nicknames. We call him Zachary Lucas all the time, but we also call him Little Zach and Zach, Muffin, and Danger Baby. He gets the danger baby because he is such a daredevil.

Pinewood Derby

Riley has absolutely loved being in cub scouts. The pinewood derby was a favorite. This was his derby car. It's a stretch suburban. He won an award for best impersonation of a family car.

Trip to the Japanese Gardens

Recently we took the kids, and went with some great friends of ours, to a place we love. The Japanese Gardens are so Beautiful. On this particular day they had booklet full of things to find. The kids LOVED that! It made it so much fun.

Riley's Baptism

Riley was baptized February 5th! It was perfect and Riley was so happy! About a month before he was baptized we started helping him read the scriptures on his own. We always do a family scripture study but this was in addition to it, to help him learn to do his personal scripture study. I love how he loves to read the scriptures. Since his baptism he has said a few times that he feels so big doing grown up things.

Riley Over the Years

It doesn't seem like I could possibly have an 8 years old, and yet I do! Riley turned 8 this past January. (I know I know...I"m so behind on posting!) I looked back at all his pictures and how much he has changed.

6 days old

2 months

1 year old

2 years old

3 years old

4 years old

5 years old

6 years old

7 years old

8 years old

Riley has changed so much! I realize I think I have changed just as much! It's funny to look back and see how I was before I had kids, then all of the "1st time parent" quirks that I had. (sorry if you are a 1st time parent, you'll understand later). And now here we are Riley is 8 years old, in the second grade, he was just baptized and we have 4 boys. Time really does fly. And the ride with "you Riley" has been amazing!