I have been trying to post for days!

But technology hasn't been cooperating. We'll see how far I get tonight.

This is a collection of photos of us from the last six months, in no particular order. I'll try to get a few indroductory captions for each of them and some commentary on what has been going on in our lives, but I don't promise much.

This is Little T when he was just a few days old. He was born March 21 @ 5:03 p.m. It was a long, boring day spent at the hospital, because I chose to be induced (and incidentally the epidural didn't work on my left side for this round either) but I was ready to be done being pregnant and this way he definitely got to have his own birthday. One day after his great grandma turned 100.

Big T and Little T

Thanks to Grandma Philips for taking this sweet photo of our days old little man!

And thanks to Grandma for getting this photo also.

If you couldn't tell from Kadri's face in this photo, she LOVES her baby brother. Some adjectives she uses to describe him: so cute, pretty, too funny, wonderful.

Teo loves Kadri too. (We've been potty training Kadri for almost eight months now. She does better at getting to the toilet if she's not wearing clothes, so she doesn't wear clothes most days and is very happy about it.) Teo's first smile that I saw and count as a real smile was for her. 

Kadri and her daddy. He's the best friend this two year old could ever hope for!

Kadri and her daddy dancing at the Pulley family reunion. It had been raining and Kadri's hair was CRAZY curly and awesome!

Kadri and cousin Ethan playing in the fire pit during the Pulley reunion. They were two dirty children, but they had a great time.

Isn't he darling?!?!

This one is for Micelle, who gave Teo these cute red pajamas. Love the flap on the backside!

Teo chilling in his crib on the quilt Grandma Philips made for him.

How is still here too.

This is a face we see fairly often from our drama king. He could be yelling about any number of things when he makes this face. He's being tickled too much. He's not being tickled enough. Mom isn't holding him. No one is actively engaged in feeding him. Etc.

Here are Kadri and Tim with Tim's Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake he chose for his birthday dessert. That was some seriously blue frosting.

This is Teo and mommy on his blessing day.

Here is the little man in his blessing outfit that Grandma Philips threw together for him to wear. It was SO CUTE. But I barely got his little arms and shoulders into it. I should have been more diligent about getting a photo of him in it without our milk-stained couch as a backdrop, but oh well!

What a grin!

This is Kadri and I playing with her "colors" one day while waiting for Daddy to get home from work. 

This was us over Labor Day weekend in Yuma. I'm making a nasty face because Tim is touching my sunburn from floating the river two days prior.

And here we are floating the mighty Colorado river two days prior. Tim and I got sunburns. Miserable sunburns. Even after applying sunscreen. The sunscreen we put on the kids worked though. We all had a great time, including Teo. He's such a cool baby! He's already way ahead of me as far as accomplishments at six months old. He's floated and river, been on an airplane and seen the ocean.

Did any of you know Tim wears a monacle to swim? I didn't until after this photo surfaced.

Some other tidbits:

I stepped on a gecko on my way out the door to work one day this summer. He (or she) had been hanging out in one of my shoes. Also, I've received legitimate flowers delivered to my office from a florist three times in the last six months.  That never happens! Once from Tim and twice from my favorite clients.

Kadri loves learning about letters and is learning to spell some words, like her name, and that L-L-E-D spells computer. Someday we'll teach her that we read from left to right, unlike the Greeks and the Arabs and lots of others. Until then it's kind of cute that she does.

Teo went to his six month check-up on his half-birthday. He still has a pinhead (25th percentile), he's pretty average for length (48th percentile), and he's gotten skinny (12th percentile).

Tim is enjoying his job and his calling as ward media specialist, which apparently gives him an excuse to stalk people on Facebook. He left his scriptures on our car before we left for church today and surprisingly they remained there for the entire drive.

We're really busy between having both of us working, and trying to keep up with and spend time with our growing kiddos, and keep up on church responsibilities (at which I pretty much always fail), and keep up on a house, and still have time for family adventures, but we feel really blessed for all the good things have come to our lives in the last six months and pray that good things come for all of our loves ones as well.