A Little Vacation

This past week I was able to go down south to visit my family. Vanessa, my sister, so graciously, volunteered to meet us half way and pick me up in SLC. I was so excited. It was fun to go down and spend some time with my sisters and nephews. While down south we decided to go surprise my grandparents in Circleville on Wednesday to try to avoid the "BIG" storm that was supposed to hit. My mom actually met us there too. It was fun to spend the day there. It would have been better if the baby would not have been such a mommas boy, he didn't want anybody to hold him. He is teething and is having a hard time, but what baby doesn't.

Thursday we all went and watched Spencer wrestle. He did so good. He pinned the kid in the first two minute period. What a stud!!! My sisters and I also made lasagna. I am going to toot our horn a little about the lasagna. It was awesome!!! Thanks for the help mom.

Friday Travis came down. Yay, I thought I was going to get a little break from always having to hold Sawyer, boy was I wrong. For some reason he didn't even want his dad. What a silly boy!!!

Saturday we had a funeral for Travis' Great Aunt Reva. It is sad that funerals have to bring the whole family together but it sure was fun to see everybody. We hung out with the Hollingsheads for Saturday evening.

Sunday we went to church with my family then headed down to Minersville to celebrate Katie's birthday. We played lots of games, we all love games.

Monday we visited the famous Beaver Pawn Shop. That place has everything. It was fun to go explore. The drive home was crazy with traffic. We are so grateful to have such great families. We love them so much and are so grateful for all them do for us.

JJ COLE

Well we have ourselves a little model. Sawyer was asked to do some modeling for the baby company JJ Cole. I love their stuff so I was more than willing to let my baby be one of the many cute faces of their company. Sawyer was actually "discovered" at the Fireside that Elder Ballard came and gave. I guess it really does pay to be spiritual. It was an excellent fireside though. I love it that we get so many general authorities to come and give fireside up in Logan.

Sawyer did okay with smiling for the camera. Our first shoot was on Tues. the 15 at 8:00 AM which is before Sawyer usually gets up. He was good at first but he got a little out of control so I hope they got some good shots before he started crying. Normally he is such a ham for the camera I felt really bad he was crying. Our second shoot was later that day. He did so much better the second time. I wonder if they could photoshop his face from the second shoot for his first one. Our neighbor was also asked to do the photo shoot. It was fun to have somebody I knew there with me.

Always an Adventure

I knew the day would come when Sawyer would be on the move constantly but I was not ready for it. Not even in the slightest. He is so adorable that I don't mind right now and he doesn't move too fast yet but this is his first week of really crawling. Today was actually the first day he even really explored on his own. He was everywhere.

He is so funny. He has discovered the door stopper and loves to make it make noises. He loves cords, which makes for a very nervous mom. He finds them everywhere, even ones that are behind things. He also loves, loves anything that crinkles such as plastic bags. NOT A GOOD TOY!! Today, he was trying to get under his crib to get his bag of diapers. It was hilarious. His head kept hitting the crib and he didn't know how to duck it. He just kept backing up and moving forward. He was getting so frustrated. It was hilarious.

Hardware Ranch

This past Saturday we seized the opportunity to get out of the valley and go up to some clear skies. It was amazing just 17 miles up the canyon and we had fresh air and blue skies. We haven't seen blue skies for a week or so. Honestly, since the day I posted about how beautiful Cache Valley is in the winter. I guess I jinxed myself.

It was our first visit to Hardware Ranch as a family. It was pretty fun. There were so many elk. We saw quite a few bulls and lots of cows and calves. We went on the wagon ride so we could get up close and personal with the animals. Two six points were actually playing/fighting-

I don't know exactly what you would call -it right by the wagon. One of the bulls even had electric fencing in its antlers. Apparently it doesn't bother him so they don't want to stress the animal more by tranquilizing him and taking it out.

After a cold day in the mountains we headed down to get some Aggie Ice Cream. We love Aggie Ice Cream!!! Even Sawyer has quite the sweet tooth for it.