Family Pictures

This past weekend we got together with all of my siblings and their families.  My youngest brother, Sheldon, left on his mission Wednesday.  So this was the last time we will all be together for 2 years.

We had a lot of fun enjoying my parents little farm.  Conner loves the cows, horse, dog, and chickens.  We are still working on animal sounds, but in his world a cow says "mow"  which is pretty close.  :-)

We took family photos on Monday to document our togetherness.

The Brown Family.  Look how big our family is getting!  It is crazy how fast it grows.  In 3 months this picture will be out of date and I will have to photo shop a baby into my arms.  :-)

Our family.  Conner was so good for pictures.

My amazing parents.  :-)  

My parents & siblings.

Grandma & Grandpa and all the grand kids.  We asked Conner to fold his arms, and he sat their like a champ!  Yup, he is adorable.  Poor Tioni is a little outnumbered by the boys.

Conner driving Grandpa's tractor.

Dad pushing/ tickling Conner in the tire swing.  Conner loved the tire swing.  

We had a great weekend with family.  I can't believe that Sheldon is old enough to be on his mission.  I am so proud of him for making the decision to serve a mission. He gave a great 'farewell' talk on Sunday.  I am sure he will be a great example to the people of Costa Rica.  Good luck Sheldon!

The rest of the pictures from the weekend are on my siblings cameras... so I will be posting more later.

Master of the Stairs

Spring is finally returning to Twin Falls.  Hurray!  Conner and I celebrated by walking to the park yesterday.

He is becoming a rather independent little boy.  Yesterday he was able to climb on to the first step of the jungle gym all by himself.  He climbed up the stairs and went down the slide over and over and over... His little legs had to be burning! 

Here is a video of one of his climbs.

Every time he went down the slide he would look back happily and laugh, except the times I got it on camera.  (of course!) I think he must have been trying to look back at me this time, because his ride down was not very graceful.  

But he was not deterred.  He went straight back to the stairs to go up and down again!

 After playing for a while, we stopped for a snack.  Conner loves muffins.

I tried to get him to look at me and smile for a picture, but he was too focused.  Yup.  He ate all of it except the hard-ish bottom.