We've made a couple of trips to the Salt Lake area. It's nice to live closer to my sisters and be able to see their babies as newborns, not toddlers, for the first time. Candace had a sweet baby girl and we've been down to see them a couple of times. We got a hotel one night and the kids had a blast swimming. We also discovered an awesome Chinese restaurant and have been back to taste of its goodness already.
I seem to forget my camera whenever we go somewhere lately and so most of my pictures are from my phone, which tend to be fuzzy. But here is Claire holding Morgan, who is 5 months older than Claire. Claire is OBSESSED with babies lately and she was pretending that Morgan was her baby. (And no, this does not mean we need a baby in the house. Not soon, anyway =)
Oops, these are a little out of order. But we did get out and enjoy the Arts one evening with our great friends the Badgetts. And what a fine evening it was! Those Badgetts are some fun people. They chose what we did for the night and we ended up seeing this person in concert...
What? Can't you tell who that is? Okay, fine. It's Audra McDonald. Still don't know who she is? Well, if you watch the TV show Private Practice you will know that she is the character who plays Naomi. You didn't know she could sing? Well, neither did I. And let me tell you, she is GOOD!! I should have inserted a YouTube video here or at least a picture of her that you can see. Oh well.
Back to baby talk, here is baby Haven herself...
Dylan's been losing some more teeth. This next picture cracks me up. Nate was trying pretty hard to get that tooth out. No success. Ten minutes later, it came out while eating supper.
Dylan went a little crazy when it came out. It was funny to see him running around, not knowing if he should grab a kleenex, or spit in the sink, or find his tooth, or cry, or whatever. He just kept running around while we couldn't stop laughing.
And he turned 7 a couple of weeks ago! Wierd. And me, being the fun mom that I am, talked him into celebrating his birthday with the family. I know! Fun, right? He was all for it and didn't even ask for a party. I think I will try that every year, I didn't even bribe him. Just told him he could chose an activity and where we went for dinner. Of course, he chose the fun park and Golden Corral. Nate and I chuckled as we were playing arcade games and about to head to Golden Corral for our child's birthday. Who does that? Well, we do.
And, I must say. I really outdid myself this year with his cake. I mean really, if you know me at all, this was a BIG deal for me to make something like this. When I told Dylan I was making him a cake this year, he started crying. Seriously. With tears coming down his cheek, he told me he wanted a cake from Lee's. I kept trying to tell him how cool this cake would be that I was making him, but he would cry more. So finally, I lied and told him I would get a cake from Lee's. Nice, huh? And when he came home from school and saw this, he was really surprized that I made it. He was pretty excited about it and quickly apologized. Sad. I really need to do more things like this for my kids.
These 2 sure play pretty good together. Cassie loves to make Claire pretty by putting makeup on her...
We went down for baby Haven's blessing this last weekend and let the kids play at Kangaroo Zoo for a while. These 2 have so much fun together!
We've had 4 babies born between both sides of our families in the last 6 weeks. Last year we had 4 weddings in a few months, next year we have 5 baptisms. Funny how they all come at the same time.
We've been able to see both parents a lot as they pass through and that has been fun for all of us. In the next while, we'll hopefully get to some more baby blessings and we have some races coming up too! And maybe Spring? But really, I haven't minded this cold. Everyone seems to get sick of winter so quickly, but this is when I can stay inside and get things done. I don't mind it one bit. Except for the running part. Running outside is way better than running on the treadmill.
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