February 12 of 12

1- Second Trimester Baby!
2-Smorz Cereal is an ultimate favorite in our house...all except Eli who has a hatred for the "styrofoam" marshmallows in cereal!  More for Axel to wolf down, I guess.
3-Grady thoroughly enjoying his bowl of Golden Puffs.  After a huge fit to get him to try it, he finally did and as he finished his fourth bowl I concluded that he liked it afterall and it was worth the battle!
4-Hello, my name is Velvet Hubbard.  [hi, Velvet] and I am a Pinterest addict.
5- I accomplished a major feat today and planned my monthly menu, complete with grocery lists.
6-Grady apparently picked a new favorite spot to watch movies... the kitchen sink is now his domain.
7-Yeah, this is the intent to vacate our apartment form I filled out today!  Excitement abounds!
8-This is Axel, the Pirate Captain (applicable if you've seen Band of Misfits and if you haven't you need to see it) He even has his imaginary Polly on his shoulder.  Bytheway if anyone else also pretends to have a Polly on their shoulder they are regarded by Axel as an idiot. My doctor tried to pull one over on Axel and asked if he saw his Polly too.  Axel looked at him like he was a complete fool.
9-Axel's new hobby is wrestling. It softened the blow of him not going to preschool anymore.  He loves it and is getting the hang of being aggressive.  (I guess we kind of turned him into a bit of a softy.) At least he doesn't try and pretend he is Iron Man to blast away his opponent when he is getting pinned anymore!  Here he is getting a takedown.
10-Learning the referee position.  I'm shocked I got a picture of him actually listening to the coach!
11-He loves practicing blast doubles on the dummy.  The bonus is I also captured the coach's butt crack as well.  Don't you feel special.  It's like it is real.  It's like you were there.  You feel the real-ness of it don't you?  :)
12-Grady is a pro at skidding right on his nose on the pavement.  And it always leaves a killer road rash.  Luckily he is over it pretty quick and is his happy self.

January 12 of 12

 January 12 of 12... At least I posted it before February's came out!  It has been a typical January month.  A month of the Holiday Hangover when  you have no choice but to get back to the grind of everyday living.   Blah!  But we have seemed to make the most of it, and even actually have had fun along the way.

1- My 13 weeks along pic
2- We have had the fever at our house which constitutes a diet of Meds and Chocolate Milk!
3-My friend Jamie Anderson is moving away... Boo hoo Sniff Sniff
4-Over at Jamie's helping her clean and get ready for the big move.
5-My new calling in the new ward.... VT District Leader (In this case "calling" is literal!)
6-Coloring is a favorite past time here.  Axel's go to color for everything is Black..Hmmm.
7-And Grady does everything Axel does.
8-Our newest family member:  Slider the Penguin...(Axel named him cause Penguins slide on the ice)
9-Axel loving the snowy playground
10-Axel's newest tweek on his play car ramp... it is now a pirate ship with his furry blanket.
11-Grady's passion is trains, especially when Dad plays with them and keeps saying, "Oh no! The bridge is out!" in the famous Arnold Swartzenagger voice that Axe now tries to imitate!
12-A good bye Pina Colada with said friend, Jamie Anderson.  I live for Olive Garden's Pina Colada's (virgin of course)

And since we have the January Blah's I have included some of our December fun since we always have an overabundance of fun and photos.

Axel's loves hanging out with his girl cousins Addy, Camille, and Ellie.   You should have seen the meltdown he had when he found out Camille had to go home.  It was truly tramautic. 

The fam, with our beautiful tree and meager decorations!  But even though we wouldn't be in Bozeman very long, I couldn't not have a tree when it makes me sooo happy.

Our sledding trip at the famous Hubbard Hill

Aaah Sisters.

Aaah Sisters.  Check out those snow suits.  Yeah, we are bringing sexy back!

Eli was glad to get on a sled again.  Grady didn't last very long.

Mariah on the saucer.  She was a sledding animal.

The snowman here is Travis.  Sitting in the front spot on the taboggan was not a coveted place!

Eli with that look of determination.  The sled is stopped Hub.  It is over. :)

Alex manning the other sled.  He played the worst trick on Mariah and Sunny pretending that he couldn't remember them since the accident.  It was cruel and hilarious all at the same time.  Mariah was furious when the truth came out.  Forgiveness may have to come in the next life for Alex. :)

Sunny and Camille getting whitewashed.

The three toe-headed stooges.  Jax, Axe, and Grady were inseparable during the whole week.  I love how much they all love tractors... that is the show that has them fixated on the T.V.

Like I said on my side of the family their aren't any boy cousins remotely close to Axel's age but so he resorts to dress up.  I was actually impressed with how well he functioned in high heels.  He put me to shame.  It's okay it's all part of growing up.  Eli was surrounded by sisters so he can empathize with the Axe.

Our secret weapon with Grady is tickling.  He loves having his tummy and back tickled.  It immediately makes him stop whatever he is doing and he will just sit their mesmorized.  We use it a lot in sacrament meeting and it works like a charm.  Most of the time, he will snap out of it before he falls asleep but this time he just couldn't fight it with all the late nights of Christmas.