*SoLiDs and loving it!*

Yup Eli is 6 months so that means SOLID food! I started a little bit of solids here and there at around 5 months just to get him used to it as my pediatrician recommended. Now he is full on 2-3 meals a day and is doing GREAT! So as you all know, because let's be honest there are many posts about Jaden an how badly he used to eat (or the lack there of) so of course a baby that loves to eat and actually opens his mouth for the food and swallows, then wants more is like the heaven bells ringing to me..I LOVE IT. I went to the grocery store and stalked up on every kind of baby food known to man so that was actually pretty fun. It sounds weird I know since of course this is not my first time buying baby food, haha, but to buy it and know I won't be throwing half of it away in waste is pretty exciting!

It finally happened for the first time, Jaden fell asleep while eating! He never did it in his highchair but did at his little table hahah love it.

This is one of my favorite pictures of him ever!

*Six Months Old*

Love this boy to pieces! One thing that I love about him especially is that he is a great eater! He actually is loving his solid foods (which Jaden never did till about 18 months) so it's like feeding a baby solids for the first time cause I actually enjoy doing it and get great excitement out of it. I can't get food in his mouth fast enough so I'm really having fun with this stage of trying out different solids with him. Still a great sleeper, he can roll from front to back and almost from back to front and babbles all the time. Eli is a very happy boy and we loved having him for the past 6 months!!

*LoVe*

I love,love,love,love times a million these two boys! Jaden and Eli are really starting to become friends already and I'm loving every moment of it. Eli will just stare and laugh at Jaden all day if he could, and Jaden loves to love on his brother (sometime a little rough and I have to get remind him to be gentle) but those two truly have started to form that brotherly bond that will last forever! I can't wait to see them run around and play together, and hopefully one day be as close as my sister and I are. Even though having two kids can be really stressful at times, I think of how lonely one would be without the other and then what a blessing it is to be able to have multiple children. It truly is a privilege and I thank my Heavenly Father everyday for it!

This would be an example of rough love haha

*Malibu, CA Trip 2013*

Are Cali trip this year came and went to quickly! This year instead of going to San Diego (our normal beach RV camp was closed) we went to beautiful Malibu, CA. We had so much fun riding our bikes and hanging out at the beach all day, and of course what's a vacation in California without going to Six Flags Magic Mountain!?! WOW, what a day that was! I really have never had so much anxiety in my life then I did that day going on ALL and I mean ALL the roller coasters in that entire park. Josh's dad being so sweet got us all this thing called Flash pass which lets you cut all the lines and even go on the ride twice in a row! I think I have definitely conquered my fear of rides and think I can handle just about anything now. Eli and Jaden were again such troopers for the 7 hour car ride there and back, and were so exhausted every night passed out and slept amazingly! So sad this vacation is over but so excited for next year already! Here is a major picture overload.

Beautiful view from our campsite

Happy little beach baby!

Grandma and Jaden enjoying a snack before going on a bike ride

Bike buddies!

Camp!

Papa and Jaden building one of many sand castles!

Brityn and Jaden

Papa and his babies!

Six Flags Magic Mountain buddies!

Love him!

Love the wet suit that papa got him for the trip, and his cousin Brityn had a pink one too SO ADORABLE!

Daddy and Jaden testing out the water

Priceless!

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Almost 6 months old for his first amusement park trip!

LOL that is me four rows back turning my head, I was so scared haha

Lake Powell 2013

Our 4th of July was spent at the greatest Lake on earth... LAKE POWELL! It was also Eli's very first time and he was the best little lake baby ever. Both Jaden and Eli were so well behaved on the 6 hour car ride there and back, and Jaden had a blast all day swimming and making sand castles (he was a little obsessed with the making sand castles part hahah). We even got to watch an awesome firework show in Page so that was an added bonus. It was also so great to see our relatives and spend some much needed quality time with them. The only bad part about the trip was the horrible monsoon storms that come in the afternoon and it was a little toasty at night so I didn't sleep the best. Other than that it was an amazing trip.Here are a ton of pictures!

My cute little prego sister at 26 weeks! (Wish I could of been little enough to rock the two piece prego)!

My parent's awesome boat..and the clever saying "Let's be Powell's"

Lake Powell shirtless buddies

Grandpa and Eli

This is Carl lol enough said!

5 months old and first of many times at Lake Powell

This is what it's all about...relaxation!