Las Vegas for Memorial Day

While we were visiting our friends in Las Vegas there was one thing I really wanted to do. I wanted to take Ethan to see the Bellagio fountain! I love it and I just knew that he would to. After getting there and walking around to the front of the fountains Ethan decided that he was dying of thirst and turned in to a grumpy, no-fun stinker! Perfect! I think he enjoyed the fountain anyway. I just wish they still did it every 15 minutes rather than every 30. We only saw it once...

See, I told you he liked it! How could you not.

Ezra with his 'girlfriend' Jaye! She loved to hold and play with Ez every chance she got. He liked it too.

It's always fun to make your mom smell your stinky feet, right?

Just a cute picture..

Finally Ethan happied-up when I got out my little camera so he could take a few shots!


You have to get a picture of the whole family sometime when you are on a vacation, right?! Especially since this was Ezra's first official vacation! He did great and I think he'll want to go back really soon!

8 Months old!

Yes, another month has gone by and my boy is growing and growing!! This has been a big month for Ez. He started to really crawl around over Memorial Day weekend while we were in Las Vegas. He'd been trying and scooting around a bit before that but now he is just everywhere.
This blue ball was my attempt at tricking him into sitting by his bear, 'Rocco' for the photo shoot. It didn't really work out for me. At least you get to see what he's up to and that he really never does sit still!

He crawls all around me every morning when I am working out. He thinks it is so funny to get under me when I'm stretching or doing yoga. He smiles and laughs until I get down and kiss him and play with him. Then it starts all over. My workouts have gotten significantly less effective with the new crawling. This picture had to go in here because he does this all the time! I would like to think he's getting his yoga practice in with the 'downward dog' move, but who knows!!

This is what I mostly captured! Ezra crawling away looking at me like I'm such a sucker for thinking I could trick him into sitting still!

This was my best shot with the two of them side by side for my comparison of how much he's grown.

Ethan is my helper whenever we do photo shoots with Ezra and this time he got my little camera to take his own pictures. This was one from his pictures. I just wish the flash would have gone off so it was more clear!

Homemade Garage

With the bunkbeds put together now, Ethan has a lot of fun finding things to do with them. This is one I would have never come up with. He brought up some cars and trucks from the toy room and made a special garage for them! I think the bigger idea was to initially keep them hidden from Mase so he wouldn't throw them or hurt himself, but it became quite the garage!

I had to get a picture of the master designer with his work of art! He was so proud of it until I got the camera, then he was embarrased! Boys..

Ezra's Blessing

We had quite the week when we finalized Ezra's adoption! The day after he was sealed we had family and friends come to our house and Spencer blessed Ez. We had quite a crowd and lots of cookies. It was an amazing week. It was especially nice to have so much family and so many friends join us for everything. Here is some of the crowd that came...

More crowd and Spen thanking everyone for coming.

Dad with his boy! Kind of a scarey face from Ez, but I didn't take enough pictures to have options on this one!

Here is a picture of all the men who participated. Again, thanks for coming.

My Granny has the magic touch with babies. She just held onto Ez all night! He seems to have enjoyed it himself too.

We were lucky enough to have Ezra's birth mother, Jen come for the party. She was a huge hit with the family. They all adore her. We are so thankful for her. She is the most amazing woman I know. We are so happy that she is a part of our lives. Ezra is a lucky boy to grow up with so many people head over heels in love with him!
Jen and her son Dyson.

We are the luckiest family to have Ezra in our home. We just can't say it enough!

Ezra's temple sealing~

WARNING...There are 30 pictures in this post. I am terrible at narrowing things down.

So the day after we finalized our adoption in court we were able to take Ezra and our 2 other boys to the temple to have him sealed to our family. It was a very special day for all of us. Ethan was really excited and I know Mason felt right at home. Ezra was on his best behavior - as usual. We had family come in from all over to be here for this special day for our family. The temple wasn't busy at all the day we chose to go. I was even given the entire bride's dressing room to get ready! It was a perfect day and I loved every second of it. I usually try not to go too overboard on the pictures, but I couldn't help myself this time!

My mom and Moose are best pals. She held him for the entire thing. He just loves her to pieces. I think he felt like a celebrity coming out of the temple with everyone there watching him!
Walking out with Ez. He was wiped out! I feel mean that I didn't let him sleep too long. I wanted him awake for pictures. The temple nursery ladies were completely twitterpated by him though. They didn't want to give him back yet.
Proud, happy parents!
One big happy family! This was such an amazing day for every one of us. If you ask Ethan about it he'll tell you that it was 'so cool. They had me wear just socks the whole time!' He remembers the most important things!
Our 3 boys! You can tell I love this picture since I put it at the top of my blog!!

Our family with my parents. They were so amazing to be our 'helpers' for our boys. They came and helped the temple nursery workers dress and take care of our kids while we got ready. Thank you again mom and dad!
The family with Spen's parents. We are so happy they were able to make the trip.

Family from Spen's side.

Me and Ez with my Granny. She is one of my best friends in the world. She is 91 and almost couldn't make it. I was so happy to see her there. It was the best surprise of the day!

Almost everyone who came. We have some friends who came from out of town that left before the pictures.
My favorite part of that last picture. He just loves his big brother E!


He was fascinated with the fountains. It was just such a perfect day.

He was so sweet and happy for the entire thing. It was the most perfect day! I'm so happy we were able to find him his own white outfit to wear for the day. He was very handsome.

Isn't that the sweetest smile!?

Playing by the fountain some more.

Ezra with his happy parents!

Me with Ez's great Granny. She's so darling and sweet. We were so happy she came.

Trying to get a family picture proved to be tricky!
Our best attempt!
Cute boy.
Ez with my parents. Affectionately known around here as, "Reg and Gramp."
Ez and Spen's parents. Also known as, "Nan and Papa."

Ezra having a ride with his dad. He loves to play with hair!

Spen, Papa, and Ez. Aren't they darling!

Ez holding his dad. They have been such close pals from day 1.

It was hard to get a great picture of Ezra all alone. He was fascinated with the grass.

Ez loves crocheted blankets and things. His Nan made him his very own temple blanket for his special day. My favorite thing about it is that she made it and remade it so many times I don't think she even knows how many times she did it. It was finished for the big day and it was perfect. Ezra loves it (along with Ethan who steals it) and so do I. He looked so handsome all dressed in his white temple clothes.