Fort Friday

On Friday it was raining. Image that! Rain in Washington! So the boys and I decided to make a Fort and we called it our Friday Fort. It was great, it kept the boys entertained all day!

The Fort went from one end of our house to the other. There were different rooms. They even ate their lunch in there. They had a ball.

Lucas in his "Science" room. He is my boy that likes to figure things out. He wants to know how everything works. He has a great imagination.


Austin is my little ring leader. He can get Lucas to do anything.

I LOVE it when the play together, it is so much fun to hear them make each other laugh!

Happy 5th Birthday Austin

I cannot believe that Austin is 5. We have had SO much fun having him in our family. Austin is such a good big brother, and a wonderful helper.

For Austin's Birthday he wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese. He actually wanted to go there last year but it was way too crazy to go in (lesson learned - avoid weekends there). He was a good sport last year and we did Glow Golf instead. The day before his birthday this year he asked if he was going to get to go to Chuck E. Cheese. I told him I was not sure. He went off on how he didn't get to go when he was 4 and now I wasn't going to let him go when he was 5 either. He reminded me that he had been asking for a year to go to Chuck E. Cheese, which he had, but with the craziness of having a baby 2 weeks ago I was not as prepared as I should have been - totally forgot about Chuck E.) I talked to Jason and we decided we should at least make the effort to go. It worked out and the whole family had a great time.

Austin had fun beating Jason at air hockey.

My uncle made this awesome Batman cake.
Thanks Dale and Michael!


I hope his wish comes true. He will not tell me what it was (because then it won't come true), but he assures me it was a good one.
Austin could hardly wait to get to his gifts. He had a great birthday.
We love you Austin!!!
Happy Birthday.

Happy Halloween

We had a great Halloween! We were lucky enough to be able to spend this Halloween with some family who visited us from Utah. Grandma Joyce and Grandma and Grandpa Ouzts came to see Dallin and help me adjust to having 3 boys.

The first Halloween thing we did was carve pumpkins. Not just normal pumpkins, but huge pumpkins, that our friends Mike and Marjorie got for the boys from the local pumpkin patch. Thanks M&M!

Luke was having too much fun stabbing his pumpkin. Poor pumpkin.
Even Grandpa Ouzts got in on the fun. Austin picked Grandma Joyce to help him with his pumpkin. Who needs mom when grandma is around?

Austin, Grandma Joyce, and Lucas with their Jack-o-lanterns.

Good job guys!

The next fun project we got to do with grandma was paint ceramic pumpkins. These ones we can keep and use every year to remember our fun Halloween with grandma.

Lucas decided it was more fun to paint grandma's hand. Grandma was a good sport and played along.

Before long she was rubbing the pumpkin. This gives new meaning to hand painting! I was hoping for the pumpkin genie to pop out and grant me 3 wishes.

Before long, painting grandma's hand turned into painting themselves.

Austin had like 5 layers of paint. It was flaking off. Good Halloween look.

Lucas got a little help with his pumpkin belly. He had to get a picture with a ceramic tiger he painted.
And of course there were costumes and Trick-or-Treating.

Here is Dallin and his 1st Halloween costume. His shirt says "I love my mummy" Thanks to his cousin Allison for the shirt.

Austin , Dallin, and Lucas.

AKA: Ben 10, Mummy lover, and Buzz Lightyear.

Man they are cute, if I do say so myself.

Buzz is soo ready to go trick-or-treating.

Peter (our neighbor) Austin, and Lucas.

Off to get all the candy they can carry, and a little more in Buzz's case.

Dallin Todd Crawford is here!!

Jason checking out his new little boy.

Dallin Todd Crawford
10-19-09
7lb 3oz
20 inches


This is Dr. Wiseman. She is the boys Dr. and she is great! Austin and Luke had to watch and of course ask a ton of questions. We love Dr. Wiseman!

Me and my 3, yes count them 3, boys.
I love how excited Austin and Luke were to see Dallin. They cannot stop telling Dallin how cute he is and how much they love him.
They are great big brothers!

Luke wanted to hold his baby brother. Thanks for the help Dad.

Austin is such a big boy, he made sure that he washed his hands, so he could hold Dallin's hand. He is so proud of his little brother.

Utah Trip

The boys look forward to going to grandma Joyce's because they get to play in her kiddie pool. Jason likes playing in the pool too, but I think he likes it because it is so much hotter in Utah. Or maybe it is because he is just a big kid.
I love brother pictures, aren't they cute?

We were able to go to the Oquirrh Mt. Temple open house while we were in Utah. It was beautiful.


We went to Utah for a big family reunion. One day we went to the lake. Luke was the only one willing to go on the sailboat with me. Thanks to my uncle Phillip we were able to have a fun little ride.


One of my uncles had a really fun water toy. Austin had a ball playing on this with his cousins.

Another day of the reunion was spent at the church. We had a bunch of family pictures taken. This one is with my grandparents and my mom's kids and grandkids. There is starting to be a pretty big group of us.

We had fun visiting and playing games. Jason and I even won the Newlywed game. We had a great time at the reunion. It was so much fun to see our family.

Summer fun

We got together with some of Jason's mission friends and all of our kids had a blast on the slip'n slide. Watch out here comes Austin.
I love this picture of Lucas.

We went to the Hogle Zoo. We love going to the zoo.

Swimming Lessons

Austin waiting to start swimming lesson.


Austin waiting with his classmates for their turn.

He loved swimming lessons. By the end he was swimming underwater.

Way to go buddy!!