Guilt

So...I've been feeling extremely guilty at not having any pictures of gage. Especially after looking through elli's photo albums. I was a first child though...and I look through my albums and there's like...20 pictures of me wearing the same clothes, standing by the same apple tree as a three-year old striking different poses. None of my brothers ever had quite so many pictures...they just had more nude pictures than I ever did (go figure?). So...the kids and I had some fun taking pictures the other day. :)

He will be 5 months old on July 2nd.

I pulled this jumper thing out of the attic the other day...and he absolutely loves it.

As I was watching him kind of rock/launch/scoot on his belly the other day I was thinking about when Keith and Elli crawled. It's interesting...with Elli, we were so excited...took pictures...etc. etc...With Keith it was still pretty cool...now with Gage...I just keep remembering all those times that I swear I vacuumed the floor several times over...and the crawlers still managed to find something icky gross to put in their mouths. I really do love being a mom...I wouldn't trade it for the world...my kids bring me so much joy...most of the time :) And I do love as they get older 'cuz their personality starts showing and all that...eventually they stop eating dried up bugs and lint and week-old cheerios :)

Elli kept saying, "take a picture of me!"...and Keith kept trying to pop his head up and be in the picture too...for the most part they do well with the attention Gage gets...but every once in a while they want the spotlight :)

I absolutely love this next picture :) anyway...gotta run... ;)

A few more...

i don't have any real good recent pictures of Gage...poor third child. I'll blame it on our broken camera. I will try to get some more soon tho'...

So...we made this pinata for my brother's graduation...do you like our one eyed alien? It was way fun...but I don't think I've seen Keith that confused and shocked in awhile. I mean, think about it...Elli and I spend DAYS making this thing...then we all hit it with a bat...and then the thing breaks and candy and twinkies and waterguns and all kinds of goodies fall out of the sky. talk about one confused 2 year old. (Notice Sam making away with all the twinkies...)

These next few were from our trip to Arkansas...I sure do miss that neck of the woods :). It was a lot of fun. This is Tommy's folks backyard. Pretty cool, huh? Anyway...Elli loved going fishing with Daddy...in the first picture Tommy was actually trying to get a fish I had caught. The darn fish swam under a log and wouldn't come out. Eventually the line broke and the fish got away with my hook (that I baited all by myself with a live squigly little worm from the compost). I was so bummed it got away...I'm telling you it was huge! ;) *grin*

Elli scaling the fish DJ caught.

Well, I suppose that'll be all for tonight...I can't believe it's only 9:30...I might actually get to bed before 10 tonight. I really will try to get more pictures up. Things are going good...we've been busy...but I suppose that's good. I'm trying to think if there's anything else exciting going on that I can write. Gage is getting so big...it seems like the time goes by faster and faster with each child. I'm getting the hang of having the three of them...but not to the extent that I actually have free time...just to the extent that I'm not going totally insane. Today I went outside and Keith was building something very carefully with some scrapwood in the woodbox and he looked up at me and very seriously said, "I'm working." It brought back so many memories of my brother Paul...it seems like just yesterday paul was two years old and talking about how he was a "hard worker". They are so much alike. If 18 years from now Keith is "working" as a missionary like Paul is...I will be one happy mommy :). Anyway...I'm exhausted...goodnight online world :).

some more pictures :)

ok...here we go again...*grin*...i'm using my old laptop...that seriously runs slower than molasses in winter :)

We had a bunch of the Heinzen side of our family over the other day. They were on a Hawaiian cruise and their ship docked in Hilo...it was a lot of fun to see everyone!

. . . "Love at Home" . . .

I love this picture of Keith...I'm not sure why he looked so bored...he actually loves being down on our lot...

Daddy and Elli...

This is Tommy's addition ...he built a basket/cage thingie that goes on the front of his forklift...it has been worth it's weight in gold in this whole building process!

(p.s. I am the world's biggest dork. While uploading these pictures, I realized that there was a "upload another picture" link. Up until now I was uploading one than clicking submit or whatever...then doing another one...it seemed so tedious. Maybe I can blame my lack of blogging on that. Perhaps my newfound knowledge will lead to a more productive blog. Maybe. )

i am so lousy at blogging...and some recent pics...

i really am lousy at this whole blogging thing. *sigh* so...anyway...here are some random pictures from the past few...ummmm...months? :)

this is so sad...these pictures are like...3 months old. he looks way different now. he's got big chubby cheeks and thighs...and he smiles more and looks confused less :)

Here's our new addition! Gage Nemezio Griffith was born at 12:20 am, Saturday, February 2, 2008. We're all healthy and happy (although slightly sleep deprived). I don't know what the deal is with the lines going through the pictures...I called Sony and I'm supposed to send the camera back and they'll send us a new one. But...oh well. Anyway! He's a couple minutes old in the top picture...and a couple hours old in the next one...

Gage with an extremely proud big sister and a somewhat clueless big brother...

Elli can't get enough of him...He's 2 and a 1/2 weeks old now and she wants to have him lay by her when she goes to sleep at night...she wants to hold him every chance she can...it's been fun. I personally think I look like death warmed over in this picture...but we won't go there :)

i really should try to be better about this!

Just a few Christmas pictures...this is grandpa, keith, and daddy...decorating the tree :)

Elli really wanted a christmas tree in her room...they had little prelit ones at walmart for pretty cheap...and it was actually kind of fun having them in the bedrooms :)

We FINALLY poured the slab...hopefully we'll be in our own place...sometime remotely soon! Hopefully things will go a little quicker now :)

Well, the kids (and myself) are getting hungry...I'll post some pictures of Gage after lunch. maybe.

Last month we took a quick trip to the mainland. I have a family history paper to work on and had some interviews to do and some records to find and go through. It was great. The kids had a blast...I was so grateful for how well they did with the 'break in routine'!

There was a park close by and both the kids could have stayed there all day!