My Buddy and his Buddy

It's been awhile since I've posted a picture of Peyton somewhat looking at the camera. It's so hard for me to believe he's going to be two next month...and that he'll have a brother soon after that! I guess I'm still in denial that I'm 26 so whatever! I just wanted to express my overwhelming love for my son. He's such a sweet boy and genuinely loves his Mom and Dad. When his grandparents watch him, they always say it's fairly easy because he is so entertained by cars. Give him a basket of them and he's set for hours (and I'm not kidding when I say hours). This age is so fun because they can communicate and he's a little parrot...he repeats anything you tell him. He's been so great to have in our home and I love him!





















This is Peyton and Porter just relaxing on the bed watching "Woody" (I hear "watch Woody" at least 20 times a day!) McKay and Davy have dreams of coaching their sports teams together (if they hopefully get to play together...Porter is a late summer bday and Peyt is spring...so technically their ages don't fall in the same "school year"). We love Porter (and Khloe) and are blesssed to have the McArthurs as neighbors and best friends!

Sister Beck

I had the opportunity to go to a fireside done by Sister Beck, General Relief Society President for the Church. It was a great evening (thanks Dad for taking Peyt!). There were a few things she said I wanted to remember...

*At the beginning, they were thanking Sister Beck for taking time out of her life to come and be with us. The first thing she said was..."Well, I don't have any personal time anyway! All of my time is the Lord's and he does what he wants with it!" I loved that!
*"This life is not going to be the dream...it's just the experience. We must go through this experience to then have the dream."
*"Life's motto: Enjoy it!"
*Crisis + Time = Laughter

She is a great lady and I appreciated the time I got to listen to her.

Also...wanted to express my sadness about Larry Miller passing away. We are big Jazz fans at our house and he did so much to bring and keep them here along with many other successful Utah ventures that have helped our economy. I just hope everything he's built will stay strong now that he's gone!

And...I'm so excited to go out on a date with my husband tonight! I was gone over Valentines so this is the replacement evening!

California Trip and Dreaming of Summer

We had a wonderful trip to California last weekend. The only bummer was that it was cut a day short due to bad weather threats the day we were suppose to drive home. It's a good thing we left Sunday instead of Monday too because one of the high passes in California was shut down due to snow! We picked a great weekend for the weather! Luckily it warmed up just enough on Saturday for us to take Peyton to the park. Poor kid has been couped up all winter because I really don't like the snow. He is SO excited for Spring as am I! Again, our camera is so dumb and I barely got any pictures...it worked for a few minutes at the park. We're going to have to buy a new one before the baby comes I think...if you have any good suggestions on a good one, let me know!





















I love that my Grandma loves Peyton so much. She is so sweet with him and adores him. She bought him some fun toys to play with while we were there. She bought a little car toy that plays songs and Peyton thought it was the best thing to push the music button and dance around slapping his legs to "Dinah Won't You Blow" and "ABC". I'm sad I don't have a video of it. My goal this week is to get our camcorder out to do something documenting of all the fun things he's doing right now!






















Having fun on the swing with Grandpa. Thanks Dad for taking care of so much during our trip!




















Peyton loves the slide!

We had a wonderful time visiting Grandma. She is the perfect host and made delicious meals and made sure were were taken care of the whole time. Of course while we were there we snuck in some In N Out and Taco Nazo (great fish tacos). Vacations are so fun! (I just don't recommend going to a pregnancy appt. the day after you get back where you have to get on the scale!) Thanks again Grandma and Steve for a wonderful time. Hope our next trip isn't too far away!


I'm also SO excited for Spring/Summer to arrive. I'm dreaming of warm days where I can let Peyton out in our fenced backyard and play on this...













I think this is a purchase we're going to have to make for this summer. This one is pretty inexpensive and I think Peyton will love it. These playgrounds can get SO expensive! So between this and the trampoline Grammy and Papa gave Peyton he should be set! BBQ in our backyard anyone? CAN'T WAIT!

P.S. - There's a fun post below...good luck to the first three commenters!

Pay It Forward

My friend Jessica had this on her blog and I thought I'd join in!

"The first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive a handmade (or possibly store-bought) gift from me during this year. When and what will be a surprise. There's a small catch though...Post this same thing on your own blog and then come back and leave a comment telling me you're in. Remember, only the first 3 comments receive the gift!"

P.S. - a post about our trip is coming hopefully later today. I promise!

Something New

I needed to look at a new post on my blog. Darn my camera because it really doesn't work and I need to take new pictures of Peyton. I need to figure out how to make it work for next week because we are taking a road trip to CALIFORNIA! Unfortunately my hard-working husband won't be able to come, but my Dad and Chels are coming so it should be a fun time away! We are going to visit my Grandma and Uncle. It's so funny because Peyt keeps bringing up "Caleefoneea" and Uncle Steve's dog. He vaguely remembers our trip last August...I think at least.

Other than that we've been hanging out at home a lot the past little while. I did find some good deals for Peyton for his 2T wardrobe. I don't think he'll need anything now until 3T! I love to find good deals because it's such a waste to pay full price for kids clothes! And it's nice to know our second child will be able to use all of them too!

I'm sorry for all my family and friends who have been dealing with sickness/sick kids the past few weeks. I think I ended up with the 24 hr. stomach flu and blamed Chilis...oops! You still aren't excited to eat there for awhile after something like that happens! Anyway, hope everyone starts to feel better soon. We are thinking about you!