Friday, February 1, 2013

Introducing Benjamin Thomas Powell

He is here!
We are so excited to announce the arrival of baby Ben!

He was born January 14, 2013 at 2:16pm
(He shares his birthday with his youngest aunt, Angie, who turned 17 this year)
He was 7lbs and 20 inches long
 
The picture above is Ben the one right below is Daniel. What do you think? Twins three years apart? 

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

October happenings

 The boys are big enough this year that they really got into Halloween. I helped that Johnny learned about it in preschool and talked about it coming up each day as they learned about the days of the month and week. This year we had several pumpkins so we painted some and carved some. The boys as you can see here did the painting.
 Johnny's pumpkin even had a pretty good face.
 Danny wanted to paint the entire pumpkin and got mad at us when it was time to put the paint away.

 Here are the pumpkins we carved. They boys got to design the faces and then Tom and I did the dirty work with the knives.
 Danny trying to do Peek-a-boo and cheese at the same time while posing by their Jack-o-lanterns.
 For Halloween they were both Sharks!We found matching costumes at the second hand kids clothes store and couldn't pass them up. Many people asked us when we were out trick-or-treating if they were twins. For Danny's size you might think so...
Even better was that Johnny's best friend at school had the same costume. Cameron, the friend, is the shark in the middle. This was at the preschool party.
 Momma and the boys!
This is Johnny's new thing lately. He lays out all of his Sunday attire before putting it on. Everything is there in order including clean underwear, socks, shoes and scriptures. Daniel thought it was pretty cool and had to be just like brother so he laid out all of his things as well.

 My handsome little boy! He is getting too big to fast!
And finally a quick peek of the momma at about 28 weeks.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Start of school and farewell to Grandma

Johnny started preschool this month and he absolutely loves it! He loves to learn and loves to be with is friends at school.

I love this chessy grin!
I have been keeping myself busy while Johnny is at school with watching the teachers little boy and doing a little "school activity" with Daniel to keep him busy. He is a very busy 2 and 1/2 year old! And much too smart for his own good! We have a lot of fun together during our little one-on-one time. The boys are so much fun to watch and listen to when Johnny gets home as he is so exctied to show Daniel what he did in school and Daniel in turn is so excited to show Johnny what we have done. I love to hear things like, "Wow Daniel that is so cool!" They are the best of friends most days.

My little little "Linus" and his beloved blanket.

This weekend we travel to Utah to be with my family at the passing of my Grandma Rosella. What an amazing lady she was! And how grateful we are to know that she is at rest in Heaven with our family that has already gone ahead. When we go to Utah we often stop to rest at Little America which is about the half way point of the drive. The boys love this cool dinosaur, so of course we had to get a picture of them going for a ride. This is the Sinclair dinosaur. Little America is owned by the same man that owns Sinclair.

It has been since my wedding that we have taken a picture of just my parents and siblings. We were able to get everyone together during the funeral to capture the moment. (Across the back: Brian, Brandon and Darrell. Middle row: Dyanne, Alyson, Deneice, Nathan. Front row: Traci, Sheri, Mom, Halee, Jessica. And of course Daddy front and center.) 

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Singing

Daniel loves to communicate. If he isn't talking your ear off he is singing. I was looking back through older pictures and videos and found a video at this same age 29 months, and it is incredible the difference. Johnny was just starting to talk!
I realized this morning as both the boys were singing that I had yet to capture their sweet little voices on film. So here you are. It is mostly Daniel but Johnny jumps in at the end.

Monday, June 25, 2012

Our big news

Introducing baby #3
Due January 20th, 2013