i hate thinking of blog post titles almost as much as i hate thinking of FB statuses.

how we rock

We had a super cool jam session while Jackie, Joel, and Blythe were here.



This one features the babies. Blythe has a little stage accident at the end, but don't mention it to her...she's still pretty embarrassed.



I love this one because Ethan totally gets into it with a rockin' vocal solo.

resolutions, schmesolutions

I just uploaded the past few months worth of pictures from my camera. 781 pictures, but only about 12 of them turned out well. The camera takes great pictures, but the composition of the pictures is not so good (meaning it's an operator issue). -sigh- But I'm not going to make any statements about how I'm going to do better--I'm not promising anything!

Ethan turned one year old in March. He is the most beautiful baby in the whole world.

He had to get used to being on the grass this spring; it was tough since he'd been inside all winter!
He is 14 months old and has only 3 teeth.
Ethan and Daddy have a sweet Hotwheels collection. For his birthday, Ethan got 12 new Ferraris! And a few other cars as well.
Snowing in April, bah.
Blythe (and Jackie and Joel) have been staying with us this week. We played outside when we could, although it's been raining most of the time.
Blythe watching on as Ethan has a temper tantrum. Aren't those supposed to start when he's 2? Seems a bit early to me!
Bubbles!!
Swinging!
About a month ago, we went to Miller Sportspark for the Ferrari Challenge races.


Ethan loves cars--really he loves anything that moves and has a loud motor. He has different sound effects for each type of vehicle (car, truck, motorcycle, etc). The video exhibits his Ferrari sound effects.

a brief update

So much for blogging more, right? Oh, well. It'll come back.

Ethan started preferring walking to crawling on Friday. Brett said he saw Ethan standing and then he wanted to get somewhere, so he bent down to crawl. Brett said it was like something clicked in his brain, because he paused, stood back up, and started walking. He'd been doing a few steps here and there up to that point, but now he's walking everywhere!

He loves to read. I moved all his books down to a low shelf so that he has access to them. He sits down surrounded by his scattered books, reading to himself for 20 minutes at a time (or sometimes more). I just caught him reading a book to himself, babbling away, but when I watched him for a minute he was babble signing too! He was moving his hands all around while he pointed at the pictures and words. So cute!

a video and some pictures!

I've been procrastinating posting any pictures, because I've felt like I need to put up everything since I last posted. Ha. I'm just going to post a few recent pictures now and then one day when I'm feeling very productive I'll post the very cutest pictures taken during my blogging break.

I'm promising pictures in return for a favor. Please go to this website and watch Brett being famous in his band's new video release! It is so very awesome. Each time I watch it, I like it better! So please go watch the video and then tell all your friends to go watch it too!

And now that you have done that, here is my beautiful baby!




I can't believe I'm such a slacker. I haven't really taken many pictures since Christmas! Yikes, it's time to start snapping again.

journaling

I was talking with a friend of mine who told me to start writing a journal about everything that Ethan is doing, so that I can give it to him when he's older. I was ready to run out to a stationary store and get a pretty new book to write in when I remembered that I have a horde of cute little journal books in my office. And then I was reading an article in my parenting magazine about powerful Mom bloggers and I remembered my sweet little blog! It's the perfect answer to an Ethan journal/photo album/whatever I want it to be. Hooray!

Currently, Ethan is asleep in the room that has my external hard drive with all the recent photos on it, but never fear! Pictures will be coming shortly.

Ethan is so big now! He's cutting his first teeth (two at once). He is cruising around, standing for a second or two on his own, growling like a car or motorcycle all day long. We got him some little cars to play with and he pushes them around going, "grrrr, grrrr". He waves bye-bye to people, but only after they are already gone. He has 8 signs: cracker, milk, more, finish, dog, cereal, bye, water/book/somethingerother (we don't know quite what he means with this one) and 5 words: banana, Mama, Daddy, bye-bye, up. He is the sweetest, most well-behaved baby in the world. Ethan is always smiling and laughing. He jams on the guitars and bass with Daddy every day, singing and strumming the strings.

We are happy and well and I'll post some pictures soon so that everyone in the world can see my beautiful baby!

family history

My parents' friends filmed our family back in 1991. This is great!

Visiting the Bennion family in Utah - 1991 from Super Acht on Vimeo.

christmas delight

Brett and I made a couple of Christmas albums a few years ago. We are trying to scrape some Christmas money together and so are selling the CDs/MP3s. If you are interested in Christmas, french horn, guitar, and 8 Betsys singing simultaneously...this is for you!

We have 11 songs (give or take) on the CD and we would like $5 for each CD. If you would like only a few of the songs, I could figure a per song price as well.

You can sample some of the songs on my myspace. Let me know if you're interested!

sweet andrew went to heaven today

we miss him.

cell phone pictures

I missed these in my last post. Brett took both of them from his phone, so they were in a different file.

a growler and 2 rockers

massive photo overload!