This and That

It only took me 4 months to do it but, I finally got a few decorations put up in Alayna's room. It is hard to decorate on a budget, but here is what I came up with. Not too fancy but it works for now.

Alayna is about 4 1/2 months old now. I can't believe that she is that big already. We started giving her rice cereal and she has caught on like a champ. She finally rolled over from her back to her tummy but she has yet to conquer the tummy to back. That is how Austin was also. I guess we are just backwards in this family (like you didn't know that already)!
We had made a visit to grandpa Christensen's house earlier that day. They stocked us up with the usual grocery bags of peppers and tomatoes. When I got home I just set the bags on the counter and tried to finish the laundry and put the kids down for naps. Nearing the end of the kids naps I started making dinner and then Austin woke up. He came out and while I was just finishing dinner Austin helped himself to a huge ripe tomato. Here is the proof. He is our little tomato boy.

We took Alayna swimming for her first time a few weeks ago and we didn't have a swim suit but we have all the accessories. She is a good eater and has the rolls to prove it. One of my fine accomplishments!
Austin is swimming like a little fish and we got him to jump off the diving board at Grandma Gardner's house. What a guy!

Here is my birthday cake FINALLY! If you ever wondered what the lotion from bath and body works called coconut lime verbena tastes like, here you go. It is called Put the Lime in the Coconut cake. Oh it is so good, and has won the way to the top of my cake list. But I have to say after us eating almost the entire thing, I could lay off it for a while. Needless to say my ankles are killing from all the running I had to do to get all those calories burned. (let me know if you have any hints for the hurting ankles)
Here are my two babes. Austin and Alayna. Alayna wasn't loving the whole pose thing too much.