Bryce Canyon Winter Fest 2009

Mark and I went away for the weekend to celebrate Valentines, Mark's birthday and our 4th anniversary. We went to Bryce Canyon National Park. We stayed at Ruby's Inn. They were having their 24th annual Winter Festival. They have classes in archery, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, watercolor, kids arts/crafts, kayaking, photography, geocaching and more. There were ranger talks and cross-country ski and snowshoe tours with the rangers. All of the classes and events were free and they also provide the snowshoes or cross-country skis if you needed them. We had so much fun! We went into the park and saw most of the park. We went to a geology class and an astronomy class with the rangers. We went to an archery class and also a snowshoe tour. We went and watched the sunrise on Sunrise point. It was so pretty. The park is so amazing in the winter. We were tired, because we were so busy. We ended up having beautiful weather, it was a bit cold, but it is winter after all and we were prepared for it so it wasn't bad. We would love to take the whole family down next year. The kids would love it! It was such a fun weekend. Thanks Shelly and Mom for keeping Jacob for the weekend. While we were there we bought our Annual pass to the National Parks and so we are now thinking about how we can see as many National Parks as possible. What fun lies ahead for us!

Feb. 7, 2009 - Eagle Day

We went to Eagle Day in Fountain Green. There was a display up at the fish hatchery along with a map of good viewing areas in Sanpete County. You drive around to the viewing areas to look for eagles. We had such a nice day. It was a beautiful day. The kids were so good. Shelly and Grandma came along with us. We saw 18 bald eagles and 4 golden eagles. We also saw a few hawks. The kids had so much fun looking through the binoculars. Jacob even had his little kaleidoscope that he kept looking through, thinking he was looking at the eagles. Shelly has some more great pictures that she will post on her blog.

Oh, Boy! My boy!

I was getting ready for school today. I had made Jacob his peanut butter and jam sandwich and he was suppose to be eating while I went to the bathroom for a second to put in my contacts and a little bit of make-up. Which is a rare thing. This evening I had my parent conferences and I wanted to look better than my usual, natural look. I heard Jacob say, "Mom, mmm." Well, I was thinking that he just thought that his sandwich was good. As I went in the kitchen to check on him this is what I found. He reached up on the counter and got the jar of peanut butter. He took the lid off and decided that he wanted some, so why not with both hands. He had his hands in his mouth and was saying mmm...

I was trying to hurry and get a few things done that I needed to do for parent conferences tonight. Of course, I can never be early or even on time for anything. There always seems to be something exciting like this going on at our house. A few weeks ago it was Vicks Vaporub, now peanut butter! At least peanut butter doesn't sting like vicks and it probably tastes better too!





I can't leave him alone for even a minute. He always seems to find some trouble to get into! Boy, I love this messy boy, even if he makes me tired and causes a lot of clean-up for Mom!
















































Mmm, mmm, finger licking good!

Family fun day - Saturday.

On Saturday, we tried to go swimming at the Lehi swimming pool. As we walked into the foyer of the Lehi recreation center we saw a big sign that said, “pool closed for the rest of the day”. Boy were we disappointed, but after we found out that someone pooped in the pool, we were glad to know that they wouldn't risk the health of their patrons. Since we were already in our swimming suits, we came up with a plan B. We ended up going to the American Fork pool instead. So, there aren't any of the really fun things that they have at the Lehi pool, but we still had a really fun time. We played volleyball with our beach ball. We were having such a great time playing that four or five other children came and joined in the fun.



We couldn't pass up going to Cabella's, since we were so close. Then we ate really yummy food at Rib City. We are glad that Shelly came up with the plans and joined us for the fun.

I'm a blogging slacker!

I love looking at other's blogs and I sometimes think, "What is going on with them, they haven't blogged in a while." My Mom said the same thing to me. I realized that I was a slacker on my blog. Jacob is still working on potty training. He is doing alright. The hardest part is for me is remembering to take him regularly. Thank goodness for pull-ups. It sure saves messy clean ups of little accidents. He likes to wear his underwear on top of his pull-ups. He doesn't like to go in big potty's, so that makes it interesting to try and get him to go in public restrooms. He still is telling the nursery leader that he has to pee, but when we try and take him he won't go.

He came out of his room the other day with a pull-up on his head, like a beanie. It was so funny, so of course he thought it was a fun game to make Mom and Dad laugh!






Where do you wear this thing?















He can have quite an attitude sometimes. If he doesn't want to do something, he will for sure let you know about it. Here is a picture of him with his "angry eyes".

A three day weekend!

Over Martin Luther King's weekend, we got to get away to our favorite place for the weekend, "F.G." as Jacob calls it, otherwise known as Fountain Green. We just relaxed for the weekend, watched movies, had naps and slept in. On Saturday, I got to go cross-country skiing up Maple Canyon with Shelly. The best part about it was that there was no inversion and pollution. It was about 40 degrees and a beautiful day to be out. We came back on Sunday evening and it was nice to have an extra day off on Monday to get things together. I even got to do a little shopping and found some great sales!

Vicks VapoRub anyone?

Well, we are already starting our second week back to school. Last week we were working on getting back to routines. Jake got off schedule over the break and the nap time got pushed back a bit, so last week we were trying to get him back on schedule. On Monday, Jake was watching his "ho, ho, choo, choo," otherwise known as the Polar Express. He hadn't yet fallen asleep, but Mark had already crashed, when he discovered my new, big bottle of Vicks VapoRub in the dresser. He loves Vicks, I think thanks to Grandma Linda. Well, he was still recovering from croop and while he was sick he looked forward to getting his Vicks rub down, so when he discovered the bottle he of course knew what to do with it. Rub it all over his chest, face, clothes, carpet, etc... and probably ate some as well. Mark finally woke up after the entire bottle was gone and Jacob was crying because of the burning in his eyes and I am sure everywhere else. It took two baths, three washings of his clothes, and shampooing of the carpet to clean up the mess. I wish I had a picture for you, but I had our camera with me at school. It must have been a sight. His clothes were just caked with Vicks. We still are finding little Vicks fingerprints on random things in the bedroom. He sure keeps us on our toes! It is good he is cute and that we really love him or he would really be in trouble.

He is getting older and is starting to potty train. It is really training the parents. He is starting to get the hang of it, but needs to be better at telling us when he needs to go. He told the nursery leaders each time he needed to "pee" even though he was in a diaper. They thought it was pretty funny! Life is an adventure and there is never a dull moment around here.