August 2011

August wasn't as busy as July, but it was hot and fun.  The kids I watched...and Isaac, would play in the hose outside.  Isaac loved (loves still), his swimming suit.  

 In the beginning of August my parents came up for the outdoor show at the Salt Palace.  They came and my mom brought up this sweet bed.  A friend from home was giving this bed away and I asked if we could have it for Isaac.  He loved it from the start!  Slept on it the first night, and hasn't skipped a beat since...okay that's a fib, when Kaleb was born he reverted to  putting himself in the crib to sleep, but now he's right back to sleeping on the bed.  A shout out to the Holmes' family for giving us the bed!  It has been a huge blessing.  

I came out one evening and found Isaac asleep on the couch. 

Isaac looking at my phone...

I don't remember what this picture was or why it was taken, but I figured I should post a pic of my pregnant self....

July Part 2

So sometime in July I went to a presidency meeting and left Isaac home with Kory.  I came home and went to the bathroom and flushed the toilet.  All seemed fine, but later Kory went in to use the bathroom and he noticed something was wrong.  Well we have a plunger, thanks to our experience when we first moved in :)  So I started to plunge the toilet and one blue lego came out...then another, then another, then two yellows came out.  Five legos, all the smaller size.  So Kory and I had a good laugh about how Isaac had flushed all those legos down the toilet.  We went on with our week.  Later in the week we noticed again that the toilet wasn't flushing right, so I go after it again with no luck.  So I called the manager of the property and he came and had to take apart the whole toilet....and he found the green one.  The biggest of them all!  It was stuck somewhere in the curve of the toilet and I couldn't get it by just plunging.  We had a really long and good laugh about it.  

 I took a picture of my hand next to the green lego so you can see how big it is.  

 Look at that blond hair! 

 The 24th of July!  I never really knew that the 24th of July was a holiday, or a reason to celebrate....but living here in Utah has shown me that the 24th is a lot like the 4th.  Just a different reason to celebrate.  It is the day that the saints entered the valley after a long and arduous journey across the midwest.  After being in the valley 10 years the early saints went up Big Cottonwood Canyon to camp and commemorate this special day.  The 24th of 2011 happened to fall on a Sunday.  We decided to go up Big Cottonwood Canyon  and attend church there and then make campfire dinners.  Church up the canyon was very special that day.  We sang "High on a Mountain Top" and we could look out the window to the tops of the mountains.  A member of the 5th quorum of the 70 was there and he and his wife spoke.  The chapel is beautiful up there and the ward was small but nice.  Afterwards we went and found a site with a fire pit and a picnic table.  We made s'mores early and often:) and we put chocolate and marshmallows in bananas and cooked them in a fire, oh they are so good!!

 We went on a hike, about a mile long, to St. Mary's lake.  It was hard, mostly because it was hot and I was pregnant, and Isaac walked a good portion of the way by himself!!

 On the hike down Isaac fell asleep.  

 Helping with the fire.

 Playing next to a small creek.  He had so much fun.

And that ends July, it was a busy and fun month, I'm tired just thinking about it.  

July Part 1

I love to barbecue.  Seriously I don't know what it is, ever since I was younger I love to stand at the grill and grill up the food.  I kind of had that responsibility at home with my parents, I guess I didn't always do it in California, but I did it often.  Oh I love summer, grilling, sunshine, gardens, lots of fresh foods....This is me at grandma Helen's on the fourth of July.  I took care of the hamburgers while everyone else got the spread laid out.

 Fireworks!!!  Isaac started the night on Aunt Jane's lap.  The fireworks were bright, Isaac is trying to shield his eyes here. 

 Isaac also didn't like the loud noises made by some of the fireworks.  He would cover his ears, then grab my hands and put them over his hands to make it even more muffled.  

 The boys, Chad and Kory, in charge of the fireworks.  

 The line up of viewers.

 The day after, or a couple days after, I can't remember exactly, we went up to Lagoon.  Lagoon is an amusement park that has a water park inside it, that you don't have to pay extra for!!!  When we first got to Lagoon I was sitting in front of the ticket office with Isaac, while Kory went to help his mom unload some stuff from the car.  We were already going to pay half for each ticket because it was "stake day", so we were pretty excited, but what made it even more exciting was that this guy randomly comes up to me and asks me if I want a kids' ticket for Isaac.  Apparently he had an extra because one of his children couldn't end up going, so he gave it to us.  I offered some money but he said it was no problem and just gave it to us, saving us money!!  

 The lazy river....

 Isaac going down on one of the kiddie slides....

 Playing in the sand.

 A ride in the amusement park  that Isaac rode, he loved it, "steering" the boat.

 The only ride I could go on, seeing as I was pretty pregnant at this point.  Isaac is sitting next to me, and freaking out!  The coaster went kind of fast, and just up and down, but it still caused Isaac to be very nervous.

 The carousel, which Isaac was also terrified of.   

This is the first part of July....

June 2011

In June I started watching more kids than I was previously.  I was already watching Kylee, and then I started watching Addison and Lauren, my friend Jenna's two little girls.  It was quite crazy watching so many kids, at nap time I had a kid in every room in the apartment, including the bathroom.  Haha, for a while I just laid a bunch of blankets down and made a bed next to the tub, and then after that I just started putting the pack and play in the bathroom instead of making a bed out of blankets.  It was nuts!  I didn't do much during nap time, mostly just rocked Lauren to sleep and then would fall asleep myself.  In early June Kory's good friend Taylor got married in the Salt Lake Temple.  We went to the sealing and after, while we were waiting outside, we caught a glimpse of Elder Ballard.  He stood in front of us, in the shade, while he was waiting for someone to come out.  Also in June my sister in law Allison graduated from high school  We went to her graduation at the Maverick center.  Afterwards we had a great party at Grandma Helen's.  Ronnie cooked up some good old Louisiana food, gumbo and jambalaya.  Samantha decorated some yummy cupcakes and we had a great party. Of course I forgot the camera for the graduation.....A couple of weeks after Allison's graduation, our cousin Bailee got married in the Salt Lake Temple, and I remembered the camera then...

 These are the pictures of us waiting outside.  It was a hot day, so we stood in the shade and I enjoyed watching Isaac look at the temple and play around.

 This picture is of all the girls cousins, except Heidi, who was a little too pregnant to travel up for the wedding.

Isaac playing while the pictures were being taken.

Isaac's Birthday 2011

Well I can't believe it, I am finally sitting down to begin the LONG process of updating my blog.  I have to start with last Summer, seeing as my last post was in June.  And although in June, I never posted pictures from Isaac's birthday....or much else for that matter. Here it is, Isaac turned two last May.  Ha, I'll have to post for his 3rd birthday here before long!  My mom was able to come up for the weekend of Isaac's birthday.  I love it when my mom comes to visit!  She and I made chocolate cake for Isaac.

 He's acting a little shy, we had some friends over and he didn't want to blow out the candles.  He did get a little more excited once he realized it was cake, but he is silly like that.

 At this point I can't remember well what Isaac got for his birthday.  I know he got a coloring book, a big ball, and a cool cars seat.

While my mom was in town, we went for a bike ride.  I love riding bikes!  And so does Isaac.  He sat in the seat and smiled the whole time.  I didn't think to get a picture, but I'm sure you can imagine it.  We rode our bikes over to the garden I grew last Summer.  I have really enjoyed having a garden, although I'm not much of a green thumb, but I was able to grow tomatoes, carrots, onions, radishes, strawberries and peas.