Monday, September 26, 2011

Aquarium fun

Jared got free passes to the aquarium from his work, so we decided to take the kids this past weekend! It was a lot of fun! Jared actually went with us, (some of you may be shocked by this) it doesn't happen very often, but we all LOVED having him go with us! Grant has always loved the aquarium. And Grayson actually enjoyed it too. We would show him things and he would say, "ooooooh" It was so cute!

 OMG They are so cute!

 If you click on this picture and look closely you can see that there are frogs in the tank. Grayson thought they were pretty dang cool. He wanted to touch them and couldnt figure out why he couldnt.
 (why does blogger do this to me?)
 Love these boys! If you look closely at this one you can see they are standing next to the dwarf alligator.
 The penguins were a lot of fun to watch. We got to watch them get fed, which was neat!
We had so much fun! What a great day!

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Grayson's party

Let me just say,I am NOT a party planner by any means. But I did spend a lot of time planning this party. When thinking about what I wanted to do for my last baby's first birthday I knew I wanted to go big. I wanted to involve all the people I love, which for me included my extended family as well as the usual immediate family. So as far as the guest list went, I invited my aunts, uncles, and cousins. And I am so glad I did. I asked Jared to invite some of his extended family as well and he didn't feel it was necessary, which I was not happy about but I was not going to force him to invite them.
I did a lot of DIY projects for the party. I spent a lot of time and energy on everything and put a lot of thought into how I wanted the evening to go. I was really excited! But as my luck would have it, Mother Nature had a different plan. Sunday as I spent all day setting things up and finishing up last minute details it was beautiful outside. The sun was shining and I was actually starting to break a sweat. But we live in Utah and we all know the weather can turn within seconds.
As the time for the party approached I was getting more and more stressed out about everything. Jared had people over to watch the Redskins game and they didn't even leave until about 15 minutes before the party started, which meant that my husband was glued to the TV and was no help. As people started to show up the clouds started to roll in, and with them they brought wind.
Now, I don't have room in my house to put all the wonderful people who came. I had things all planned out. I had things I wanted to say and do, we were going to all have a good time celebrating the amazing miracle that Grayson is and the joy he has brought us all over the past year. But that is not how it went at all. The weather was getting worse by the minute and I thought to myself we are not going to get anything done before the rain comes, so I went into turbo mode. I feel like I raced around the entire time trying to fit everything in before it was a total loss.
First we decided to do cake, so that everyone could eat while Grayson opened presents. When we sang happy birthday to him we didn't even light the candle because the wind would just blown it out. I hurried and cut the cake and got everyone a piece and then we dove right into presents. By this time everyone was freezing, including Grayson. He had no interest in opening presents, he didn't really understand what was going on. And I was just trying to get them all open before the skies opened up and poured on us. I feel so horrible because in all the confusion I forgot to have someone write all the gifts down and who they were from. As soon as we were done with presents the wind was blowing pretty hard and things were being knocked over and blown away. A few people were so sweet to jump to the rescue and help me clean everything up and take it all inside, just before the rain started. Total party time from beginning to end-under an hour.









 I really wish more people would have done the photo booth.





I know there is nothing I could do about the weather. But it was very upsetting and disappointing. I wanted it to be a really special day and unfortunately it just wasn't. At least not for me. But I am so so grateful for all our amazing family and friends. You all mean so much to us. I am so grateful for my wonderful husband and all he does for me and our boys! He is the best! And I am especially grateful for my boys! They are the most precious gift. I love them more than anything. Life will go on...

Monday, September 19, 2011

Utah State Fair 2011

 So last year when we went to the fair Grayson was 6 days old. OMG What was I thinking? Oh well he is still alive, right? Look how tiny and cute he is! He slept the entire time we were there.
 Fast forward one year and here he is. It seems so crazy to me that it has already been a year. But he laoved the fair, so much to see and do!
 We went and watched Paisley Van Patten sing, which was a lot of fun!
 We also kinda ran into my Aunt and Uncle and cousin(s) Grant and Cam are so cute together. Cam wanted to hold hands and I just had to get a picture of all this cuteness! Cam is so stinking cute and such a cute little guy. They get along so well!
 Petting the bunnies. Grant to Cam, "be careful, don't get your fingers too close to his mouth!"
 And Cam had so much fun making Gray laugh!
 For some reason Grant didnt want to go on the big yellow slide this year, so Jared decided to take Gray and he loved it! My little dare devil!
 Jared and Grayson on the left and Scott and Cam on the right!
 Cam loved it so much he went 3 times!
Grant really wanted to mini golf. He asked all night long and we kept telling him no we didnt have any money. By the end of the night he had broken us down and we gave in and let him play a round, besides it was only a dollar! :)
We had a great night together and we all cant wait to go back again next year!

Tubby time

Grayson LOVES taking tubbies! As soon as he hears the water running he gets so excited! It is the cutest thing ever! He would spend hours in the tub and he gets so mad when it is time to get out. He loves to play with bath toys, but of course his favorite bath toy is just a cup. He likes to pour the water over his own head and then laughs! He loves to splash mommy and if I make a big deal about it and tell him "don't splash mommy" he just thinks it is that much more fun and he does it more! I love to put the boys in the tub together because they will play and laugh and laugh and play!!! It is so cute! I still have to fight Grant to get him to lay down and wash his hair, but Grayson just lays right down and splashes water in his own face the whole time I am washing his hair. He loves the water, he is like a little fishy!We have so much fun at tubby time!