Food anyone

Collin loves to eat. All the time. You wouldn't know that by looking at him but he loves food. Here are a couple of photos of him eating some blueberry baby food. The spoon wasn't working so well for him so he started using his fingers.
**Disclaimer: Please ignore me being awkward in the background. I was concentrating in only getting Collin in the picture. Unsuccessfully.**

Dancing Girl

On our way home from Utah we stopped by a mall to kill some time before going to the ferry terminal. We walked into American Eagle and Emily went over to the hats and started dancing. She picked up a fedora and headed to the mirror. This is what I caught on video a few minutes later. Enjoy!
**Side note: We bought her the hat and she still loves to wear it and dance around the house.**

Trip to Idaho and Utah 2010

Pictures from our trip...

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Walking Videos

What you have all been waiting for.... :)

Watch out World here comes Collin!

I am marking March 17th on the calendar as the day that Collin officially began walking. He has been taking 5-8 steps at a time for 2-3 weeks but now he only crawls for maybe two crawls, stands up and then walks. He pivots to turn to go the other direction and everything! It is soooo adorable. As soon as I get it on video I will post for everyone to enjoy. But for now I have to bundle him up and run him to a medical clinic in Ogden. He has a cough and wheeze that sound dangerously close to bronchitis...

This picture makes me smile. Emily loves to tell us "secrets." She leans in and tells us that she loves us.


Check out two of the other pictures my sister in law took on the side.

We're Off

In just over an hour we are off on our holiday!

Pocatello by Saturday night and then Mantua on Sunday!

Wohooo!

Collin's First Birthday Party

I know that Collin doesn't turn one until Thursday but we leave Friday afternoon for Idaho/Utah so I decided to move up his party until tonight. It was such a success! It was the first time that I was 95% happy with the cake that I made and decorated. :) Collin loved having so many people around that he loves. Thank you to the my parents, Matt & Ashley (and family), Coe Family (minus Jordan again but we love you still), Norris Family, and Corbetts in thoughts (we understood and we don't want you to get sick either!). Collin was spoiled with clothes and a book that he can take into the bath. He really got into the cake too! Emily had nothing to do with hers at her first birthday. She loved "helping" Collin blow out his candle and open his presents. He didn't get the whole opening presents things but he loved looking at the gifts afterwards. It was a nice time to visit with everyone. Earlier, while Collin was taking a nap, Emily was quite concerned about Collin and his cake. She kept telling me that Collin needed to blow out the fire so we could have cake but that Collin was sleeping. She became quite distraught over the whole thing. I promised her that we would wake Collin up and everyone would get cake. Serena was a good sport and allowed Emily to go "horseback" riding on her back. It was hilarious. Enjoy the pictures and short videos.

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Random snapshots of Palmer Family

Here are some of my favourite pictures taken over the last little while. Some of the pictures are blurry but they just show my kids personalities PERFECTLY. :)

Emily loves my new hat. She is such a little actress.


Collin loves playing with his sister's Wonder Pets cage. (Ming Ming) He is such a ham!

And I just love my little Collinator!

Sunday Walk

Last week we decided to go for a walk because the sun was shining and it was BEAUTIFUL! But true to our style we ended up putting it off until 4:30pm when there was only an hour left of daylight and the wind had picked up... :) The kids loved it. I had forgotten how much I love our stroller. I also love Collin's teddy bear warm jumper. (Thanks Rita) Emily decided that if Collin was a bear he needed to wear a Winnie the Pooh touque as well. I love my daughter!
(FYI the first pictures are taken in our house but our stroller is kept at my parents house so that is where the outside pictures are taken. I wish we had more storage space!)

Why didn't I think of that?

I love this new entry on a blog that I've just started following. I think every mother (and father) would buy this van....

http://lecaunplugged.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-new-minivan.html