James and I stayed at Stacey and Josh's while we were there and James had fun playing with new toys. He never liked the swing when he was really young, but he sure loved swinging back and forth as fast as he could this weekend. Sometimes I was afraid he was going so fast that he was going to flip the whole thing over. Fortunately, he never did. I loved watching him play on the John Deere tractor! It was the first time he's really figured out how to scoot himself along with his own feet.
My brother, Robert, and his wife, Cami, have a family staying with them for a little while and one of their boys is close to James' age, so they had fun playing together. Their favorite toy was my shoes. I didn't know that boys like to try on shoes too, but these two had a ball trying to walk around in the flip-flops that were about 10 sizes too big for them.
James really missed Paul while we were gone, so I got this look ALOT while we were there. I had my little sisters (well younger anyway...I think they're both taller than me at this point) babysit him so I could go to WalMart and then to the temple and he wouldn't let me out the room for the next several hours after I got back. I think we need to train him to be okay with babysitters...what do you think?
I decided to put pictures of my family on here because I don't get pictures of them very often. But they're a huge part of who I am, so here they are. This is my sister April (she's 15) and my niece Megan. Megan is just 5 months older than James, but they're about the same height, so James was really interested in playing with her because, well she's cute, and she was a little person too!
This little whipper-snapper is Hailey. She has been one of Paul's favorites since she was born because she could just charm him and get him wrapped around her little finger. She's five now and is as spunky and cute as ever. She's impressing us with her cherry-drop (or whatever it's called nowadays) abilities in these pictures.
This little girl is my littlest sister Lizzie. (She usually doesn't close her eyes for pictures, but it was windy, sandy and sunny out there that day so this was the best I could get). A you can see, she has curlers in her hair. She LOVES being a girl and looking really cute, so she had her hair in curlers for Church today.
Beautiful Bekah is my sister's (Belinda) daughter. She is eight and is the older sister to three brothers and a sister (Megan who you already saw) and is a great help to her mom.
This is my sister Kristy. She is a freshman at BYU and wants to major in some sort of film something-or-other. But she'll always be Musty Krusty to me. :)
This is April (again) and my brother in-law Josh with his daughter Berlynn. He's such a good dad!
Stacey, my sister that is just younger than me (married to Josh and mother of Berlynn), is deep in concentration in this picture. Brave Stacey decided to make her daughter's blessing dress. It turned out VERY beautiful. Way to go, Stacey!
This is Belinda (my sister) and Levi (one of her twin boys). I don't know how Belinda can look as beautiful and serene as she does in this picture because she is the mother of five and earlier the morning this picture was taken had run a 5k.
This beautiful girl is my sister, Miranda and Camille her daughter (to the left) and Sydney (my brother's little girl). Camille is seven and has the most beautiful smile and contagious laugh you've ever heard. Sydney is just a happy baby. She smiles at everyone and goos all the time.
So that's my family in a nutshell. I didn't get pictures of everyone there, but I was so glad to be able to see them all and hang out, even if it was only for a short time.
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