A Little Holbrook Family Update

This year on the 23rd Jayme and Jeremy had us over for a bbq and some sparkler action! We had a fun time. Charlie and Samara loved the sparklers. Later that night Mark took Charlie to his Grandma Holbrook's to watch the fireworks from Mueller Park. She has a great view on her back porch from across the canyon. I missed out so little Miss Kenya could go to bed. There's always next year though right?



This little one is so busy! She loves stairs so she didn't want to sit on my lap, she just wanted to climb the stairs. She's so entertaining just to watch her walk around. And look, she still has a little bow in! Well, sort of...at this point she had it in for maybe 1-2 hours. That's a record!



Jeremy, Mark, my rugrats and Jayme's mom Lottyann and her husband Rick.

On the 24th we went to the Bountiful Carnival and man was it hot! We only lasted an hour but Charlie scored these sweet sweat bands at the fish pond. He insisted on wearing them for the next day or so.
I found sweet little Kenya in the bedroom reading herself a little book. She is such a little cutie, but she's not sleeping lately! This has happened often enough that I'm not so worried about it but for the past couple days she's only slept 1 hour during the day instead of 4! I don't know if it's teething or starting to grow out of the 2 naps, probably a mixture of both. She actually has always done this, she sleeps great for a couple weeks then has a really bad week. Both my kids are like that....does anyone else notice this in their kids? The great thing with her is that she's happy no matter what her sleeping is like, Charlie is not. I saw a little quote the other day that said "Sometimes I wake up Grumpy but sometimes I let him sleep." This is Charlie! Kenya loves pretending to color, stealing wet wipes and eating them, (mostly sucking on them but she has been known to actually swallow pieces, don't ask me why, she's done this since she was a few months old.) saying "uh oh", pulling hair (including her own.), and reading books. Both of my kids entertain themselves pretty well. I lucked out in that department. She's 14 months now! Not really a baby anymore! :(

Charlie is growing up so fast too! I can't believe how big he's gotten since I had Kenya. He's getting a little attitude though! The things he picks up! The other day he was drinking a smoothie and he said "this is my coffee." Mark and I looked at eachother "What?" He said "This is my coffee, like Kailan drinks coffee." I guess no more watching Kailan! He's also been a little mover since he was born, he's been dancing since he was in my tummy, here's a little clip of his latest moves, the other one is of Kenya reading her book. We don't have a video camera right now so my camera is all I have to record stuff on.



As for Mark and I, well we've just been busy getting stuff done on our house. Mostly Mark, he deals with most of it but I am sick of picking stuff out! We should have about a month and a half left so it's moving along. This picture is from about a month ago, the rock and brick, actually pretty much the whole exterior is done and the inside is getting ready to be painted. I can't wait to have a home again! Mark is getting ready for his flag football season, and getting excited for the Utes football season. I have been training for the Logan marathon with my sister Cami, still a little unsure about the idea but I know that if I'm this close and don't do it I'll probably always regret it. It's September 20th which is right around when our house should be done so hopefully it won't conflict with all that.