Sawyer's Birthday

  

Sawyer loved throwing his blocks on the floor, but as you can tell Sadie didn't enjoy the loud noise.

 Sadie helped Sawyer blow out his candle.

 This is my gluten, dairy free cake. I made a pumpkin cake and  the frosting with almond milk and Sawyer's dairy free butter. Believe it or not it was very good! Even I ate some.

Pumpkin Carving

 Sawyer enjoyed throwing the guts all over the floor.

Sadie didn't enjoy the guts at all.

Spencer 8 months

Our little Spencer Bean. This little guy has been so sweet. He finally got his first tooth this last month. He can sit up really well by himself now and really likes all the attention he gets from Sadie.

Black Island Farms

 This is us on the trailer getting ready to go pick our pumpkins. This little boy was in Sadie's preschool class last year. He was so cute he saw Sadie and ran up to her and gave her a big hug. Then the rest of the field trip he held her hand.

 Sadie raising her hand to let them know she found the pumpkin she wanted to pick.

 This is how the ride began.

 This is how the ride ended.

 The slides were awesome. As you can see I had to try it out myself.

Sawyer loved watching the kids go down the slide and Spencer enjoyed a peaceful nap. I was really surprised how well all the kids did. All of them where so happy!

Soccer

 This is Sadie first time playing soccer. I think I was just as excited as she was. She was ready to conquer.

This is Sadie after the other team scored a couple of goals. She walked off the field and came over to me. She told me "I don't like soccer. I'm not going to play soccer". After her team scored a couple of goals she finally decided that she was going to try again. I guess she is going to have to learn about competition and good sportsmanship.

Still Canning Season

Sadie has been loving helping dad with all the canning. This is them making apple sauce together. Ben makes apple juice and apple sauce out of the apples. Our kitchen is smelling good lately.

Yard Sale

 Ready to begin

This is Tammi, her husband, and her sons ABA therapist. Tammi does a garage sale every year to help a family with autism treatment. This year she chose our family. We are so grateful for her service. The community, family, and friends were very supportive in donating items and cash. We are looking forward to working with Scott Pryor an ABA consultant. Thank you to everyone that has made it possible for Sawyer to receive these services.

Spencer Bean

 So tired

 Working on his pincer grip. It was a proud moment when Spencer hit this milestone. Most of us may not realize how amazing these milestones are. With Spencer I will be celebrating ever little milestone.

 Mmm, that taste good!

Look at me!

The Boys

Sometimes I feel like a mother of twins. These sweet little boys keep me busy. I have two mouths to feed, two diapers to change, and two boys to carry. We will have a celebration party when Sawyer decides to start walking. Maybe he will get it down in the next month for his 3 year birthday. He can walk across the room to me and Ben and is usually pretty stable, but he still will not use it as his form of transportation. I guess he will be teaching Spencer to crawl and then they can learn to walk together.

Spencer 7 months

Spencer is now experiencing full on separation anxiety. If anyone walks out of the room he screams. You would think someone pinched him. He is stubborn about sitting up. He can do it but most of the time he arches his back and falls back. When I try to sit him down he straightens his legs and tries not to sit. He has learned to roll everywhere now.

Sadie's first day of preschool

Sadie was so excited for preschool to start. She keeps telling me "Mom, I can walk to preschool by myself and if bad people try to get me I can just run".

Brigham City Temple Open House

We were able to go with Ben's parents and his brothers family to the temple open house. I'm so grateful for the temple and that it has given us the opportunity to be together forever as  a family.

Sawyer

 Abby and Taylor doing singing time with Sawyer and Spencer.

Me doing an ABA session of therapy with Sawyer. Sawyer is beginning to mimic sounds. I have taught him how to match pictures, shapes, and objects, do puzzles, point, mimic gross motor skills, "Get Ready", identify 8 different colors and much more. He will be starting preschool this coming October. It will be four days a week for 2 1/2 hours. I know it is what is best for our little guy.

Spencer

 6 months old!

 Spencer loves sucking on his two middle fingers. It looks like he is signing I love you.

                                  Mmmm, that tastes good!

Sadie Girl

 I know some of you will think this is inappropriate to share. I remember having this same picture as a kid. I guess the summer is wearing out this girl.

Our sweet silly girl. Sadie loves to play with her younger brothers. She is a great big sister and the boys love her.