Adventures!

We went out to my mom's friend's house up by Pineview, so Steve could help Sheri with her computer -- we all went because Sheri has goats, and thought Gray would have fun with them! He sure did -- and he also loved throwing rocks in the river, and poking sticks in the dirt, and running everywhere as fast as he could go! He had quite the adventure!! :D Here are some pictures --what a pretty place, huh!

Happy Birthday to ME!!!

Today is my 26th birthday! Wow. I am officially closer to 30 than I am to 20. That kinda blows my mind a little. So weird. Anyway, I had a very fun day! Gray was a happy little energetic ball of love today, which always makes ME happy! OOh, AND he took a 3 hour nap, of which I myself slept for 2 hours as well! Ahhh wonderful! The best present he could have given me :D My brother JD took me out to lunch at Eastern Wind's, which was yummy and fun (thanks, Jade!), and he gave me some moolah, too, which I combined with some money my grandma gave me (THANKS, Ama!!!), and I took it all to Michael's, and bought me some awesome cartridges for my Cricut machine!!!!! Oo, I'm excited for those!! I got two of them for less than one usually costs!! Hollah!! Then my mom came and visited me, bringing gifts of peach cobbler and ice cream!!!!!! MMMMMMMMMMMMmmm! And she told me that she ordered me some new BOOTS!!!!!! If you know me at all, you know I am a bit of a boot-aholic. Oh how I love them! I'm so excited to get them!! Here's a picture of them: (I'm getting the gray ones in the middle)

Then Steve got home and he gave me my other presents! I put a picture of all my presents below:

He got me a new "skin" for my laptop, brandy roses (my favorite!), two crochet books to give me new inspiration for my Graybees :), a PedEgg (been wanting one of these for a while!), some new J.D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts) books, and an AWESOME headband that my friend Jessica made that I've been debating about buying for weeks now, ever since I saw it! It's a flower made out of stained glass!! Awesome!! (if you like it, go visit her website HERE!!)


(me wearing the headband! SO cute! --the headband, not me)

But here's the BEST part!!!!!!!
He bought me tickets to WICKED!!!!!!! I cannot even begin to tell you how friggin' excited I am for this! I was BEYOND disappointed/depressed when I couldn't get tickets to go see it when it was here in SLC, so he got me tickets to go see it in Seattle! So I got tickets, and a weekend trip TO Seattle, AND he booked a "deluxe pedicure" for me at the hotel spa!!! How spoiled am I?! :D I have the best husband in the world!!

Thanks to everyone who called/texted/sent a card/stopped by today! I feel so loved!! :D What an awesome birthday!!

Random Pictures

My mom just sent me these pics -- so I thought I'd share :)

Grayson has a mild obsession with chips and salsa. Seriously. I have never known an 18-month-old who likes salsa. But he LOVES it. He'll scoop up as much as he can, suck it off the chip, then go for more. And occasionally eats the chip, too. Crazy, I know. He gets it from his dad.

Our attempt at getting a new picture of the granparents and their grandbabies. This was the best one. At least Rowan and my mom are smiling :)

This is our attempt at getting a picture of my sister and me with our boys. This was how all of them were. Too funny!

Steve showing Rowan his Ipod Touch. I LOVE the look on Row's face!! "OoooOOOOOOooo!!"

My mom and dad bought Grayson some toys for their sandbox, and there was a little watering can with them. So Gray decided he would help his Nana water her plants! Such a good helper! (Actually, he'd just fill the can up and dump all the water right back out again, then carry the empty can around and pretend to water the plants. But it was cute anyway)

He also greatly enjoyed splashing in the water/mud. Goodness, he is SUCH a BOY!! :)



My parents live right by the elementary school, so Grayson LOVES to go down there and play on the playground! This is him in the tube thingy. Isn't he so cute?! He always says "BIG!" when he's in there, because once when my dad took him down there, he told him he was such a big boy going through the tubes! hehe :)

Gray loves the playground, but his favorite part about the elementary school is going up and down the metal ramps to the portable classrooms. He loves to stomp and stomp and stomp and make LOTS of noise!!


This is Gray and his Nana enjoying her birthday present :) We got her some Sesame Street dolls that she wanted, and a Sesame Street book to go with them. Gray was very excited and will probably get more use out of them than she will! LOVE YOU NANA!!! Happy Birthday! We love you SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!
(and thanks for the pictures!) :)

My Little Dapper Dude

Ok, I know I'm biased, but how friggin' cute is my little boy?! Ohh goodness! I just love him!!!

A Fun Night at Fat Cat's

Steve and I just had a much-needed date night with our friends! We decided to have a flash-back-to-high school night, so we went to Jake's Over the Top for dinner, then went bowling. We tried to go to WSU first (this is usually where we went in high school), but they closed at 7 "for the holiday" --what?! You close early on Saturday for the holiday on Monday?? Especially when the holiday is LABOR DAY!? This makes absolutely no sense to me. Whatever. So we went to Fat Cat's instead. Which wasn't in existence when we were in high school. But in the spirit of acting like high-schoolers, we bowled like nerds (ok, Steve and I bowled like nerds), went mini golfing, and rode the bumper cars! Ahh what fun, what fun! Here are some pictures I took, so you can enjoy our fun times too! Feel free to laugh.
Kandis and Derek

Jessica and Adam

This is my sexy husband, aka "The Claw" -- he was so excited that we were going bowling, he wore his bowling shirt -- it has "The Claw" embroidered on the front. And "Chicco's Bail Bonds" on the back. Preeeetty snazzy. And so is this pose.

Remember the nerdy bowling I mentioned? Here is the proof...

... and even more proof.

Cute Jess

Action shot of Derek's skills.

Silly Jess! We get pretty silly/weird/dorky when we get together. What can I say? We've been friends forever! :)

A super-good shot of our mini golfing adventure. It's the only one I took, so it's going on the blog. (I especially like Adam's hot pink purse in this picture -- the boy knows how to accesorize!)

The fun-ness that is bumper cars!


Yay! Thanks, guys, for coming up to O-Town to play with us! It was super fun, and we need to do it more often!
And thanks, Jeanne, for watching Grayson, so we could have such a fun night!! :) It was nice to do something fun without being pulled a thousand different directions by my toddler! :)

Oh, and in case you were wondering, Steve won everything. He beat Derek in bowling by ONE POINT (!), and won by like 7 points in mini golf. He even beat Adam in the one arcade game they played! He was on a roll! Good job, honey! Ya made me proud :)

Grayson is 18 Months Old!!!

Well, my baby is now 18 months old! Can you believe it?! *I* sure can't! He's getting too big, too fast!! We had his regular check-up, and the doctor says he's growing well, and is very healthy. He's still very skinny and tall -- he's just over 23 lbs, ... and I don't know exactly how tall he is. The medical assistant measured him, but when I looked at the graph they gave us, it said he was 83 inches. And I'm preeeeeetty sure my one-year-old is NOT almost 7 feet tall. Yeah. I think it's wrong. But it's pretty funny that that is going to be in his medical records :) I'm guessing he's somewhere around 36 inches tall -- though I guess she could have just typed it backwards, and he could be 38 inches tall. Anyway, the doc also said that Gray is super-coordinated and very articulate for his age :D (proud mommy moment!) He was very impressed by all the words Gray knows, and how he speaks in short sentences. Yeah, I have a smart kiddo :) I was very happy that Gray didn't need any shots this time -- he's completely up-to-date on all of his vaccinations! Yippee!! Grayson was ALSO very happy with this, and accepted his lollipop from the MA with a shocked sort of look on his face, like "What, that's it?! You're not going to torture me first?!?!" It was quite funny.

Then, today was Grayson's very first venture into Nursery at church! I have to say, I was a bit nervous, because Gray is a VERY shy boy, and does NOT like new people and situations! But I went in with him,(he had to pull me behind him everywhere he went - even when he was going two steps away! Guess he needed some reassurance that I was still there) and he seemed to have a great time! He loved exploring all the new toys, enjoyed his teddy grahams, and even clapped along to a few of the songs. However, it all went downhill pretty fast because of a few simulaneously occuring circumstances: 1)it was way past his nap time, 2)I made him put away the cow and horse toys he had toted around for the whole hour -- it was time to clean up, and he needed to follow the rules, too! He didn't like that... and 3) an older boy decided he didn't want Grayson to sit by him, and showed his displeasure by kicking Gray in the head. Needless to say, that was the last straw, and Gray grabbed my hand, pulled me quickly to the door (sniffling the whole way) and pounded on the door, saying "out! out! out!" and looking up at me with puppy-dog eyes and a quivering lip! So we left an hour early and put him down for a nap. All in all, I'm counting it as a success! I think he'll do better little by little every week (at least that's what I'm HOPING!). *sigh* my little baby isn't a baby -- he's a little BOY now!! :)

Dinosaur Park Fun

Yay! I finally figured out how to make my pictures work! So here are some of the pictures I took of our adventure at the dinosaur park. I know you're excited.










Lots of staring, lots of pointing, lots of "WOW!", lots of fun! :)