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While working on bottling peaches last week, I asked Emily if she would help me by watching the babies. I made sure there were toys in the family room and thought that all Emily would need to do was to play with them. From the kitchen I could see that the babies had other games to play. They would take turns crawling to the stairs. Emily would grab one baby and take her back to the family room as she passed the other baby heading for the stairs. This happened four or five times before Emily got smart and decided to problem solve. I watched as she took the chairs from our kitchen table and made a bit of a "holding station" for Caitlyn. After making sure that she wouldn't be able to get out, she handed her a Chips Ahoy cookie and a toy, and said, "One baby taken care of." If anyone needs more babysitting tips, give Emily a call.

Kelsey is a bit of a wild sleeper. We usually find at least one appendage hanging (or stuck) out of the crib. The poor girl was REALLY stuck this time. She's asleep in this picture, but didn't sleep long once we started the routine to unstick those thighs.

We took a quick weekend getaway to San Diego over Labor Day weekend. You will notice that we did not take many pictures. The first day we were there, we couldn't find the camera and assumed we had just left it at home. While packing the diaper bag for our second day of adventure, we found it at the bottom of the diaper bag...HOORAY! Too bad we forgot to take any pictures of our day at the beach. Now no one will believe the MASSIVE WAVES we were surfing...oh well. We finally kept the camera handy as we finished up our weekend walking around the San Diego temple grounds as we made our way back to the airport. This temple is beautiful. We hope to be able to go through it next time we are in town. Emily on the temple grounds. Kelsey enjoying her time on the temple grounds. We'd also like to thank Emily for her help in taking this picture. Sorry Andy. ;) Here is Cyrus throwing a bit of an attitude right in front of the doors to the temple. He didn't want to pose for any pictures...

After some help from Cousin Caitlyn to clean out all of the kitchen towels and oven mitts from the bottom drawer, Kelsey decided it was also time to clean out the drawer of large utensils. It's a good thing someone around here thinks cleaning is important.

Kelsey turned 1 last Sunday!! HOORAY! Thanks to those who came to the PARTY! She sure has been a cutie this past year. We look forward to having her 100 more years....even though she is a bit of a bully and has vampire teeth. We love you Kelsey! You are a wonderful daughter and little sister! Here are just a few pictures of her party and her being cute.

In the spirit of the Olympics today, just thought I would share a quick clip from Cyrus' soccer camp. They usually finish the day with races. You will see that our Cy-man is their star runner. :) He loves to run, but not as much as he loves to hear people cheer as he's running. Enjoy....we did.

We took a fieldtrip last week to the Children's Discovery Gardens at Thanksgiving Point here in Lehi. We had not been there before but had so much fun that we will be going back again. The entire park is divided up into sections. After the first three sections, Emily and Cyrus got lost...errr ahhh...Kelsey and I got lost...anyway, Kelsey and I walked the entire gardens and couldn't find them. After about 45 minutes later, we saw them walking around. Apparently, they had found the "club house" and went inside to do some arts and crafts. It was a happy reunion and they had made some cute bookmarks. I decided to take the camera out and take picture of those cute kids...in case we got lost again.