Seattle

Today is our anniversary so to celebrate we went to Seattle yesterday. We flew to Salt Lake Friday night and stayed with Wes's mom. Then Saturday we left the kids with her and flew to Seattle for the day. We are so grateful that she was willing to watch the kids all day so we could go on our little adventure.

We took the light rail to Pike's Market and just spent a few hours there. We walked around, took a few pictures and had lunch there. It was so much fun to just hang out and enjoy the day together without the kids.
They have the most amazing, beautiful flowers all lined up. I wanted to take some home but I wasn't sure how that would work on the plane.


We tried to take a picture ourselves in front of the big sign but eventually we just asked someone to take our picture.
It was a fun day trip and we are excited to try another place soon. (We even got to fly first class on our way back to SL)
Happy Anniversary!

Goodbye curls

Nathan needed a hair cut really bad so Wes cut it the other day. I'm a little sad because his curls are all gone! I think he looks so old. My little boy is growing up.

(I'm hoping his curls grow back fast!)

My little helper

Nathan recently figured out how to open the fridge. The other day I heard him in the kitchen and when I went in to see what he was up to, I saw that he had opened the fridge, gotten and egg out...just one egg...got a bowl out and had cracked the egg in the bowl and was stirring it up. I thought it was pretty funny. I didn't actually see him crack the egg so the other day when were making scrambled eggs, we let him crack the egg in the bowl so we could see it. He actually did a pretty good job. No shells.

Blake has just started eating food and today, Nathan really wanted to help feed him so we let him and he was pretty good at it.
He loves to help out and do whatever we are doing.

My week in Salt Lake

I am loving these flight benefits that we get. Last week me and the boys flew up to Salt Lake for the week. I mainly went for Liesl's wedding. Liesl has been one of my best friends since we were 15 and last Wednesday she got married. It was so fun to be there on her big day. Thanks to my mom and sister, I was able to attend the ceremony and the luncheon while they babysat the kids for me. Not only did I get to be there for her wedding day but I got to see some old roommates and that was so fun.On Thursday we went to the zoo with my sister, Jessica. Nathan had a lot of fun seeing the animals and Blake just hung out in his stroller. The kids didn't last too long so we will have to go back another time to catch the other animals. It was fun hanging out with Jess!

Swimming

It's getting pretty hot here in St. George and we are quickly learning that the only thing to do outside is go swimming. Everything else is just too hot to do. Nathan still loves the park so we have gone a few times at 8:30 in the morning so the slides aren't too hot and I can stand to be out there with him. But mostly, we like to swim.
We have a pool here where we live that we go to a lot but today, we went swimming at Wes's aunt's house. She just had a pool put in her back yard and it is awesome! We all had a blast. Here are a few pics of our day swimming.

A night out

For Christmas, Wes gave me some homemade coupons to use so last night I cashed in on a few of them. One said, "a night off of dinner, I will come up with the idea and make dinner" and another one said, "a night to yourself. I will take the boys and you can do whatever you want".

So, Wes made dinner - BBQ chicken with a few sides and he watched the kids while I went out and got my hair cut and styled. It was a nice, much needed, break. Thanks Wes for taking over for the night.

I had the lady straighten my hair. Here is a picture to show you my hair. Blake was being so cute and happy so he joined me in the pic :)

Baby Food

Well, Blake is a little over 5 months old now. I can't believe how fast he is growing. He is a very smiley baby. He LOVES his brother, Nathan. He loves to watch him and I think he is getting excited to be able to play with Nathan soon.

I have been debating on when to start giving him food. I was going to wait until 6 months (which is only 3 weeks away) but I decided to start on the cereal now. Today when I gave him cereal, he was so excited about it and ate about 2 Tbsp.

I love this stage. I think it's fun to feed them real food. I'm especially excited to make all his baby food. With Nathan, I didn't buy one jar of baby food. Not that I think store bought baby food is bad, I was just on a very tight budget so I learned how to do it all myself. I thought it was so fun and easy so I've decided to do it again. I hope that Blake will be a good eater just like his brother.