Camping

We went to Cedar mountain over the holiday weekend as well... My family bow hunts, Pat and I just go for the camping. We really had a great time. We borrowed an Motor home from one of Pat's good friends. I am totally spoiled now, it is the only way to camp. I don't think I'll be able to "tent it" again. To my great delight... no one killed a deer. So all in all we had a great time :)







































The day before we left there was an awesome sunset in Southern Utah. Here are a few pictures I took. I love this kind of weather!

HHS Class of 99 Reunion

We had my Ten year class reunion over the Labor Day weekend. It was a blast and so good to see everyone. I can't believe it's been 10 years. It doesn't seem like it at all. Here are a few pictures from the get together~ Thanks everyone who came!

Our summer adventures... continue

Ordinary things seem to be more like adventures with Brooks around. We are having a lot of fun taking him on these little adventures. Recently we visited the Stacey Aviary with Kyle, Erin, Mary and Jack. This was actually very cool. I had never been to an Aviary before. The coolest bird there was the Condor... he reminded us of the "bad guys" on the Dark Crystal. They also had a Bald Eagle that was a pretty awesome sight. The sad thing... the eagles are birds that have been wounded and can no longer fly. It made me sad to think how it would feel to be a bird and not be able to fly anymore :(. Here are some pics we took:




























Pat and I took Brooks to the petting zoo at Gardner's Village. Which consisted mostly of goats (which explains all the pictures of goats), but there were also chicken, geese, hogs, sheep, ponies, a cow and a donkey. Brooks had a great time I think he managed to give kisses to all the goats, luckily this was mostly just getting close to their faces and making the 'muah' sound.
































Brooks is getting bigger and bigger every day. In fact Pat jokes that every morning he must have grown in his sleep. I think it might actually be true. He isn't talking much yet. He says "Hi", "Hot" and we got him to say "Ice" the other day. He does know his body parts though, which is the cutest dang thing ever. He can find his eyes, ears, mouth, nose, toes and belly button. The funniest is when he shows us his noes. He points to it with one finger and taps it a few times. It reminds me of sherades (sp?) :).

New family pictures

We took some family pics this weekend... The one above and here are a few more

A family update

We've had a really good summer. So far we have been to Lagoon and spent the day at Lagoona Beach (sp?), we went to the Dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving point, and we've explored a lot of the canyons up here. We also spend as much time at the pool as possible. Brooks loves the water and his favorite thing to do is run off the edge of the pool into are arms. We are trying to teach him to blow bubbles under water but all he really does is swallow gulps of icky pool water. He loved the Dinosaur museum it was an afternoon of constant oohs and ahhs and running around everywhere.

Pat has been really into this thing called Photo reading (anyone ever heard of it?) It's supposedly teaches the ability to absorb a book into your subconscienc or something... I'm a skeptic if you can't tell.

I decided that this summer I was going to read all the Jane Austen novels. I love her stories, but I have only ever seen the movies. There are six novels total and I'm going in order of date published. I just finished Pride & Prejudice, and I read Sense & Sensibility first. The next one is Manfeild Park. I actually was pleasantly surprised... I thought they would be difficult to get into and enjoy because of the movies. I actually like the book so much more. It's the one thing that I always enjoy more about books. You get to find out what the characters are thinking, which is hard to portray in a movie. Plus, she also writes what happens to the characters after their marriages. Anway, if you love the movies as much as I do and haven't read the books, I highly recomend you do!

Brooks is getting bigger and (unfortunately) smarter every day. He has figured out how to climb up just about anything, he learned how to open the cabinet locks we put every where and he now says Pat (which comes out as Pap) instead of Dad :). I think it irks Pat a little, but it also makes us both laugh. He is a dancer. Anytime we put on music he does this cute dance, Pat calls it his getting water out of his ear dance. He is jabbering up a storm and tells us the most entertaining jibberish stories. His big thing over the summer has been the Disney movie "Cars". We literally watch it at least two times a day, every day. Pat and I can now reinact the entire movie :).

Well that's it for the update, here are a few pictures of our stud muffin
































Giving Love to the dogs... such a lover boy











Watching "Cars" for the one millionth time!

We love Daddy!!

We were out hiking last weekend with Erin, Kyle and Jack and I snapped this picture of Pat showing Brooks to throw rocks in the river. I love my boys :)

Cousins

It is so much fun to get the boys together. Erin, Kyle and Jack gave this car to Brooks for his first birthday, and Jack got one from Mimi on his birthday. Now they can ride side by side. All Brooks wants to do is get out of it now and push it himself though.









Boys... what is it with dropping thing down in grates? It's so cute to see them start to play together more. We love being up here so that they can hang out so much!