Boy Model and Mischief Maker

Ever since this little boy realized what a camera is, he is obsessed with taking pictures!

He loves going and standing across the room and striking a pose and then coming to look at the picture and most times will say, "Cute, cute" and then go and strike another pose.

Maybe he's going to be a model when he grows up...

Personally, I hope not.

Models have to do lots of things which are against our standards.

But I do have to say I'm am truly enjoying the pictures we get from him now!

He really surprises me sometimes with what he does!

I do have to say that he isn't unhappy in this picture...he really is striking a pose.

I have lots of pictures before and after this one where he is smiling and laughing!

And I just LOVE this picture...he looks so grown up!

And then he's got his mischief side...which I'm sure ever child has.

The other night we were watching a movie and the boys were playing nicely in their room (or so we thought).

I went to check on them and this is what I found...

we had just opened this new box of toilet paper, so we still had about 8 rolls left. All of which were opened and rolled around.

Our apartment got toilet papered from the inside!

Join Us for Another Update!

Ok, I seriously need to get better at this because I really hate doing these "update" posts!

They are too long so I'm not sure how many people actually read the entire thing...

But so much has happened, it's ridiculous!

First off...Halloween!

Apparently Brandon and I aren't much of holiday people...we never really did much before we had kids and sadly, are keeping up the tradition with kids.

I feel like a terrible parent!

We didn't even carve our pumpkin! We bought one, but it just sat on our countertop.

But because of this, I really wanted to take the boys out trick-or-treating.

(It still almost didn't happen)

But here are the boys' costumes!

The adorable Mario!

The equally cute Luigi!

I had to hold his hands down because he would just take his hat off.

I wanted to get a picture of them together, but of course no one was cooperating.

David loved trick-or-treating...he would go up to the house saying "trick-treat," but then not say anything when the door opened! haha silly boy! But he loved going from house to house getting candy.

These boys drive me crazy at least 10 times a day, but I still can't get enough of them.

David is a typical two-year-old. Whoever came up with the phrase "terrible twos" was sooo right!

Example: In the time it took me to go to the bathroom, David got into the fridge and smashed about half a dozen eggs in our living room...and tossed the other half around the room (how they didn't break is beyond me!) It was like an Easter egg hunt for me, only there wasn't any goodies at the end!

He is exercising is agency every second of every day and honestly, Brandon and I are at our wits end. We need some new disciplining ideas because what we are doing is NOT working at all!

Just look at that face...it's got "I'm Up to No Good" written all over it!

Jacob is a typical nine month old...he is figuring out how to get into everything! But he's super cute doing it! haha He is working on standing by himself. He can do it for a couple of seconds and now has a controlled fall instead of flopping, so I imagine it won't be long before this little boy is walking! Sadly though, this boy has a temper...and I mean temper!

If he does not get what he wants, look out! I'm pretty sure a deaf person could hear his scream!

I just love them in their church outfits though...they just look so grown up and handsome!

Christmas ideas the relatives can get me (or the boys)- more church outfits! (since I don't have a girl yet, this is the only way I'm allowed to dress up my boys)

:)

Let me explain these next couple of pictures...

We have church at 1 in the afternoons...that's normally in the middle of David's naps. So quite often we have to wake him up to get him ready. Well, one day he just wasn't waking up...we tried everything from rubbing his back and talking to him, opening up his blinds, pulling off his pants, and nothing was working. Brandon got the idea of piling his toys on top of him until he woke up. As you can see, that didn't work out as well as we hoped either.

Can you see him?!

Don't worry though, we made sure we didn't cover his face so he could still breathe.

Brandon has been fervently looking for a job for when he graduates this December (only a month and a half away!) and so far, no luck.

He went down to Utah for an interview a couple of weeks ago, and last week they sent him an email asking when they could get in contact with him for a follow up (basically going to tell him yes or no). Well, he told them when he was available and they have YET to call him!

We were angry and frustrated because this was the only job that looked remotely promising.

But we have since given up on them (I don't think Brandon would want to work for them now even if they did happen to call and offer a job), and are back to the drawing board.

He's got a couple of interviews coming up, so keep us in your prayers that one of these places is the one...otherwise, we really don't know what to do.

I'm about 16 1/2 weeks along now...I've been starting to feel the baby move a little which has gotten me more excited about it. We still don't know how we are going to handle 3 kids, especially when 2 are driving us up the wall. We find out on November 29th what this little one is, and we are definitely excited about that! I have had no thoughts or feelings on what it could be...actually that's a lie. I will think it's one think and then my brain will talk me out of it, so I begin to think it's the other. It's been very frustrating, and I hate being in the dark! But I just need to wait a couple more weeks!

So that has been another lovely update on the lives of the Lyons'...please join us next month for another!

I promise I will start to get better!

Playing Catch-Up!

Wow! It's been a little while. I'm forever checking blogs, but I never feel like updating ours...still kind of don't, but a lot has been going on lately so I figured I might as well.

First off, Jacob is now 8 months old!!

And, as you can see, pulling himself up like a pro now!

He is fully crawling- no more amy crawl!

And mainly wanting solid food...this boy will eat anything!

Even if he has just eaten but sees us eating something, he'll crawl over, pull himself up and beg for our food. And I mean literally BEG! Puppy dog eyes, pouty lips, pathetic sounds and everything!

He loves to watch his favorite movie, "Meet the Colors"

Before you reprimand me for letting my 8 month old watch tv, it's a movie about colors. All they say are the colors (really, nothing else- it's quite annoying for an adult), and the little puff balls of color go around doing different things repeating whatever color they are over and over again.

It's educational, and I don't think it's hurting him any. It's also helping David learn his colors!

And here he is stealing David's pizza crust. He will literally eat ANYTHING! Seriously, Brandon gave him a small piece of pepper one day and he chowed down on it!

We have to put him in his jumperoo now whenever David is eating because he will just try to steal all of David's food!

Oh, he also now has his first tooth! Sadly, it did not go so well, and even more sad is I think his second bottom tooth is now working on poking though.

Yay for sleepless nights for Mommy!

And now, David!

We have let him play Mario Kart on our Wii and he is now absolutely addicted to Mario.

We found this cute little Mario doll, and as you can see he absolutely loves it!

He now has to make sure it is in his bed with him when he goes to sleep.

It's the cutest thing ever because he doesn't hold him, but places him on his pillow next to his head so he can look at him! It's so cute!

We are thinking about making him Mario for Halloween and Jacob, baby Luigi! I'll post pictures if it actually turns out!

He is just growing up too fast! Could this boy get ANY cuter?!!

We are working on his speech. He can put together a couple of sentences but mostly it's just the words he knows (which is A LOT).

I think he's longest sentence so far is "I'm gonna get you!"

And that's mainly because Mario says it in the game! haha

We're working on it, and he's getting there.

But ask this boy to do anything athletic, and he's there!

He's new trick: Hitting a ball with a bat, when the ball is tossed to him!

He can do it pretty consistently too...it seriously surprises us what this boy can do!

Now Mommy!

I had the special chance of going down to Utah with my fellow Relief Society women to see the Relief Society General Broadcast- which was absolutely WONDERFUL!

We also had a chance to tour Welfare Square (all my pictures there didn't turn out very good), and Temple Square. Both places I have never been before, so it was a GREAT opportunity for me! It was a great day, even though I did feel queasy even now and then

The beautiful Salt Lake Temple! It was a gorgeous day so I was able to get some great pictures!

I'm quite proud of that one! lol

The Christus (I think that's how it's spelled), in one of the visitor's centers on Temple Square.

We have one in the Washington D.C. visitor's center, so it reminded me of home!

All in all, it was a wonderful day- even though it was a long day. 5:30 am to 12:30 am!

Brandon had the boys all day long and he did SPECTACULAR with them!

I was a little worried because he hasn't has them longer than 2 hours before, but my worries were in vain!

He is a great husband for allowing me to have that wonderful opportunity.

Now we just have to get down there as a family!

Last, but not least, Daddy!

Sadly, there are no pictures of what Brandon has been doing the last month or so.

But you can imagine what it looks like...school, homework, sleep, and more school!

He is working hard in his LAST semester of school, and working hard to find a job afterwards.

Right now, he has applied to many places, but not a whole lot of interviews.

He's getting a little stressed that he hasn't found a job yet, and I'm kind of there too.

But we both know, everything will work out- it's just the waiting part that hard!

So there you go...you are now caught up in the lives of the Lyons'! Now I can go back to my blog stalking and not have to worry about writing for a while! haha :)

Believe It or Not...

So...

Believe it or not, baby #3 is on the way!

We are in shock...

I didn't think I was, but was about a week late, so I decided to take the test just to calm my nerves. To my surprise that stinkin' test came up positive.

I took it into the bedroom to show Brandon and just said, "what are we going to do?"

we are still in shock...I keep refusing to say I'm...that...because I think if I don't say it then it won't be true! Crazy, I know.

I'm about 7 weeks along...so why am I announcing it now?

I think, mainly, because I need support. If I have done the calculations right, baby #3 will come in the beginning of April, putting Jacob at only 14 months old!

I need people telling me I can do it, that we're not that crazy for having them this close, and to be excited for us (because I think we have yet to become excited).

I also have a sneaky suspicion that this one will be a girl. Remember this post, about looking at Jacob and thinking he's a girl, apparently that little girl wanted to come a little more than I thought.

What have we gotten ourselves into?!

Definitely Top 10

On August 10th Brandon and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary!

I can't believe it has already been 4 years...

in some ways it has seemed like a minute and in others it seems like we've been together forever!

We got married in this temple...the Washington D.C. Temple in Maryland.

It was a glorious, hot day!

Then this wonderful boy came into our lives!

And then this little cutie followed. (I couldn't get him to smile to save my life! haha)

Our beautiful boys...these pictures were actually taken on our anniversary, before chaos broke loose...

To start off this wonderful anniversary, I ended up getting up in the middle of the night to throw up! And then I had to sleep on the couch in the AC so I wouldn't get too hot and throw up again. The whole day my stomach was queasy and I couldn't eat anything, but I did want to spend some time with Brandon. So I got the boys out of the house and met Brandon at school for a picnic (yes, he is taking some summer classes so he can be done in December).

While there, the gardens looked so beautiful, so I decided to try and get some cute pictures of the boys. Well David ends up falling and busting his lip and getting a bloody nose, so that was the end of that. We come home, take a nap, and afterwards I get the boys dinner. David saw I was feeding Jacob baby food, so he decided he wanted some. I get him a bowl, he licks it clean, and about 5 minutes later starts fussing for no reason. Before Brandon or I could even guess what's the matter, he throws up ALL over the place. So me with my queasy stomach tries not lose it again while cleaning up the mess. I succeed, thank goodness! He then throws up again around 5:30 am in his bed.

Thursday day goes pretty well.

Then Friday (yes, I know this is not our anniversary, but it all runs together) I'm feeding Jacob his normal 2 jars of baby food, he eats all of it, I go to the kitchen to throw the spoon in the sink and Brandon says he doesn't think Jacob is feeling very well. I walk out and there is Jacob in his chair cover from head to foot in throw up...like the entire jars of baby food came back up. I've never seen that much throw up come out of such a little person! He throws up again later that night.

Saturday morning David throws up again, but makes it through the rest of the day.

Today is Sunday...who's going to go today? I think it's Brandon's turn...it would only be fair...

So this anniversary will most definitely make our Top 10 Most Memorable Anniversaries!

Do we have a #1 yet, you may ask?

We most certainly do!

#1 will always and forever be our wedding day...not for reason you might think.

Yes, it was a wonderful, fantastic day, but what makes it memorable is the fact that I had a BAT up my dress! Yes, a real live bat!

This picture was taken while telling Brandon's parents what had happen!

Absolutely priceless!