William

Announcing a new Nephew:

William Knight Laws

May 15th, 2010

6 lbs 3oz

20 1/2 inches

Isn't he handsome? He was 10 days early. When he came home from the hospital he had lost wieght and was in the 5 pound range. He was soooo tiny. We went and bought him premie clothes. He is very sweet and I was blest to get to witness his first week of life.

Daniel loved him! He was so happy to get to hold him. They are going to be great buddies!

This is Big sister checking out the new baby:

Three Weeks of Travel, Part 1: Vegas and Alabama

We started the month of May anticipating our trip to Alabama to see Nate's family. Our flight left the morning of the 4th and we had planned to drive down the night before and stay with Nate's friend Seth. We were ready to go early so we looked up things to do in Vegas and headed down Monday morning. We spent the day watching water shows, avoiding pornography, and looking at lions, displays at the Billagio, and M&Ms. We ate at the Hard Rock Cafe and then headed to Seth's. It was snowing when we left Cedar City, and in Las Vegas it was so hot my fingers and feet were swelling up by the end of the day, I am not use to that heat! We had fun, but neither of us cared much for Las Vegas. This is the boys checking out the fishes:

Then we headed to Alabama. Not much to say ... we mostly just hung out. We LOVED the warm weather, but I was really not into the humidity. When we first got there we stopped at Target to get some things and this is what we saw:

Seriously?

This is their house. AL is very green and the house is on 5 arces, nestled back in the trees:

We got to celebrate mother's day there and we went to dinner with Nate's brother who is in college. We played Mario Cart and watched movies. Daniel LOVED their dog, MJ, and would crawl right up to her and pet her and climb on her. Luckily MJ is older and very calm. This is very different from Joey who used to freak out at the sight of a dog, but because Daniel liked the dog Joey did too.

Daniel also got to sit on the tractor with Grandpa:

He didn't like it very much. Joey wouldn't go on at all, even though he is pretty obsesed with tractors.

Joey stayed busy with the Brio Train set ... we would love one of these!

Nate got to help get the pool ready for the summer, they all had to stand there and let this thing drain, until finally Drew thought to cut it open:

And finally, this is just a pretty picture I took driving back to the airport to leave:

Joey loved flying after the intial "this is weird! what's going on?!" He got mad when we weren't going to another airplane to fly again.

To be continued ....

vrooooom!

Daniel now drives cars and says "vvvrrrrrrr".

These cuties, Part 2: Daniel

Since getting back from Santa Fe, Daniel and Joey both got Pneumonia and Daniel has been sick another time. Meanwhile, Joey has injured himself about five times. Outside of Daniel being basically miserable, he had lots of fun! The second-to-last picture was Joey's doing.

These cuties, Part 1: Joey

Joey has been up to a lot of craziness lately. To start, in April we had the Laws family reunion, which I don't have an pictures of. but on the way home I took a picture of Joey sleeping:

We stopped at the part of the grand canyon that is on the way home .... (?) by the vermillion cliffs, We took a picture, Daniel is in the right bottom corner.

This is Joey being very grumpy about me taking pictures:

Joey started using the cracker tin as a piano bench:

Joey says this is his cowboy hat:

Joey says this is an elephant:

A Hat:

This is the face he makes when we tell him to smile. He is trying to smile squinty-eyed, like his dad:

A picture of Joey's eye injury, he pulled a chair on top of himself and the seat of the chair hit right over his eye, lucky the top and bottom edge got just above and below his eye and eye lid, so nothing was too bad and he didn't have to get stitches. He is healing nicely.