Camping???

For the past couple of years my family has had the tradition of going to my mom's property west of Nephi every year for Memorial Day. And this year we planned on doing just that, but when my sister got down there it was raining and hailing like crazy and the forecast didn't look too great and not wanting a repeat of last year (see below) we decided to dog it.

This was our car getting pulled out of the mud last year.

When I said in one of my last posts something about how we didn't need to go camping anymore because we had everything we needed in our backyard or close by I was really kidding, but seeing that everyone was already down our way we decided to just have a camp out in our backyard. It was great we still got to cook our tin foil dinners on the fire and have smores for dessert. And in the morning everyone just came inside for breakfast. It was a blast !

We ALMOST got Neil to keep his eyes open in this picture. We tried several times. But he still looks cute anyway. And sorry Austin we stole your old sweatshirt. And even Neil being the fun dad he is set up the tent and slept outside with Cole.

I'm sure my neighbors just love us!!!

And Monday was a really nice day and we had a lot of fun in the yard. One of mine and Neil's favorite things to do together is oddly enough yard work. So if we wanted to do yard work we had to keep Cole entertained somehow.

And I was having too much fun watching Cole that I didn't even realize I took all the videos the wrong way. I think we need a bigger pool. :) What do you think?

And our HOA requires us to have 3 trees in our backyard so Neil and I finally got our 3 planted. We (meaning Neil since all I can do is rake) made a flower bed behind our fire pit and yes there are 3 trees there. Can't you see the sticks poking out of the ground? I think this will be really pretty once all my flowers bloom and it fills the mound.

It all turned out to be a really fun weekend.

Zoo-pendous!

We went to the zoo last weekend with my sister and her 2 kids. I can't quite decide what Cole thought of the zoo. I think he liked the birds the most because they were one of the few animals that actually moved.


I'm not going to write much commentary about these pictures but this picture was just too funny. So this monkey was so cute and came up to the glass where Cole was and just looked at him for a minute. I tried to get my camera out to take a picture of it but right as I did the monkey looked at my camera and hurry and put his face down. It was like he was afraid of it or something. So I stayed right there waiting for the monkey to look up and the second he did I blinded the poor little guy with my flash. You can't see his surprise in this picture, but needless to say I figured out why he's afraid of cameras.

And is it me or is anyone else really mad that they took the bird exhibit out where you could go in with a stick of bird seed and the birds would fly to you to eat the food? It was the coolest thing. I guess it's been awhile since we've been. The above picture is the last time Neil and I went to the zoo. We were still dating and you can see the cool birds on our hands. People were probably grossed out about it but we thought it was way fun.

IT'S A .........

BOY!

Pix #1 = Arm pressing against my belly

Pix #2 = Face

Pix #3 = Profile

Pix #4 = BOY!