*~MeMoRy LaNe~*

Here are the directions:

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments. C'mon now, anything funny, strange, cool, embarrassing, or awful you remember about me?? This could be interesting...

Independence Day

I just LOVE the 4th of July. It is one of my all time favorite holidays! The food, the fireworks, the friends and family, EVERYTHING!! We try to do whatever we can on the 4th, and this year was NO different! And it was so fun to see all of Bubba's reactions! We will start with a play by play of the days...

We started our traveling on Thursday. All we really did that day, was drive up to Kaysville. Then we just relaxed the rest of Thursday and hung out with my family. We helped get everything ready for Friday. Yay!

Friday- We wake up and get ready for the parade. Now..Kaysville has always had a fun parade. There is the candy throwing, the fly-by of F-22 jets, the fire engines, and of course at the end of the parade, the water parade. Bubba actually slept through the loudest part of the parade, which included the jets, the marching band, the fire engines...and he woke up about half way through because it got quiet for a minute. Silly boy. My parents are part of the C.E.R.T. (I guess not really part..they kind of run it in Kaysville..) group and so they were out patrolling the parade, and there was some excitement for them, but they didn't get to sit with us. Chris, Tabitha, DK, Kaleigh, Tanielle, Sam, Bubba, and I were all there on our blankets. We got some candy, some beaded necklaces, and a stuffed animal for bubba. So it was a lot of fun.

After the parade, we took some pictures of Bubba with a clown (who was actually a firefighter) and also some pictures of him on the firetrucks. So that was fun. Then we went home and just kind of chilled for the afternoon to prepare ourselves for the fireworks. I decided not to take my camera to the fireworks, because I wanted to focus completely on bubba and Sam, since it was our first 4th of July as a little family.

In this next picture, you can see how little itty bitty he is next to a HUGE firetruck!!

So we head over to the firworks around 8 and we sat on our blankets up on the hill. We just hung out, and about 9:30 bubba decided to fall asleep. Now...this was a big fear of mine. Whenever we would go to fireworks, I would hear some baby start screaming as soon as the fireworks started and I always thought to myself, "poor soul". Yeah..not the smartest thing to think. I was sure that bubba was going to start SCREAMING when they went off. So when he went to sleep at 9:30, I thought he would just sleep through them like he did the beginning part of the parade! Well...about 5 minutes before the fireworks started he woke up. GREAT. Well, Sam decided to hold him and we had a bottle ready because he would be getting hungry shortly. Fireworks started, and Bubba just stared at them. Whenever they would get loud, he would just sit and watch and blink his eyes. It was pretty funny. We fed him while we watched, and that is all he did. Was watch. Yee-haw! I was proud! We then went home and went to bed. Ahh..

Saturday- We headed up to Logan. My good friend and fellow photographer Liz was shooting a couple of weddings at 36 weeks pregnant! So I was a back up shooter just in case she decided to go early! Which we thought for sure she would! The weddings went fine, and they were gorgeous up Logan canyon. We then stopped along Main Street and watched part of Cache Valley's Cruise In Parade. There were some AWESOME cars!! So that was fun. We then headed over to our good friends Greg and Nancy's house. It was SO good to see them again! We got to sit and chill with them for a little bit and talk. Nancy is SO cute with bubba, and he seemed to just love her! So we had a lot of fun with them. We then headed up to my grandparents for the night. Ahh...more sleep!

Sunday- We woke up and got ready for the day. We headed up Logan Canyon again to take Liz's maternity pictures, which I am proud to say they turned out well! Which makes me happy, because it was the first one I got to shoot!! Once she has her baby, hopefully I can make it back up there to take newborn pictures too! After that, we went and got the last little bit of church with my grandparents. We then ate dinner with them, and went over to see Sam's dad. After which we set on the road again and made it back down to Kaysville. We watched the movie Fool's Gold, and we did fireworks with my family. Bubba didn't do as well with these ones. He screamed once the first loud one went off!! After that, he seemed to calm down, but was so tired..he just wanted to sleep! After the fireworks and the movie...we went to bed.

Monday- We headed back home. We made a stop in Provo for a meeting, and made it home for dinner, and Bunco! Melanie and I are part of a Bunco group where we meet every month to play. It is a lot of fun! I also won a prize!! A slushie maker. I won it for having the lowest score. Haha!!

Anyway, so that was our weekend. Whew..that is a LONG post!! Sorry about that!! Hopefully I can update more often. I still have a couple of things to blog about from like 2 weeks ago!! Yikes! So here is this. Enjoy!!

Clearfield Pool...

So...on our vacation up to Kaysville, we had the chance to go to the Clearfield aquatic center with Chris, Tab, their son DK, Tanielle, Jackie and Curtis. It was a lot of fun to watch the little try to swim in the water!! This time, bubba didn't fall asleep...so we can only assume he had a lot of fun! So here are some pictures of him sporting his new swimsuit (still to big!!) and his sunglasses.

And this one, I just had to add because I LOVE his big toothless grin!!!

After swimming, we all went out to eat. We had to run home and kidnap our mom so she could come with us, and we headed to Wingers. (They have a pretty good gluten free menu) and enjoyed a dinner all together. The only one not able to make it was my dad. But we managed to have fun anyway. It was a fun afternoon and evening together, so YAY!!

Veteran's Pool..

So..this last Monday Mell's sister called us and asked us to go swimming. Since our day had consisted of waking up and doing laundry...we decided to go! So we went up to Veterans Park in Provo and it was a BLAST!! All of the kids would just go play in the water, and it was Bubba's first time swimming. He was so cute! I lathered him up in sun block and then we went and sat in the water. Here he is just after being lathered up:

And here we are in the water. He was FASCINATED by the water. He would just sit and stare at it and watch the light play on it.

Then...after about 20 minutes of watching the water, he decided he had had enough...so I leaned him back against me, and he was asleep within 2 minutes. So he slept for about 1/2 an hour when I decided to move to another pool. So here he is sleeping..

Can you tell he is enjoying it?

So that was our day on Monday. It was a blast! Then Tuesday, we headed up to Kaysville to see my family and give Sam a chance to study for some tests that he had to take in Logan on Saturday. I have a bunch of pictures from our trip up there, so that will give me a couple more things to blog about over the next couple of days. I will try not to bore you all with one GIGANTIC post!! So enjoy, and I will post shortly!

2 1/2 months

My baby is getting so big already!! I want him to stay little!! But it is so fun to watch him grow also! Let's see...what has he done lately...


This morning he discovered his toes. He LOVES to sit up with someone holding him, he will always try to pull himself up into a sitting position if someone is there. And this morning while I was holding him like that he just sat and watched his toes, and then he leaned down and grabbed his foot with his hand and then tried to suck on his foot! SOO cute!!

He has also discovered his head. He will take his hands and just rub his head and rub a fist in his eyes when he is tired. He is basically gaining a little more control over his hands. Which is fun to watch. If you put your face in front of him, he will try to hit your face. I love it, it is like he is trying to interact with us using his hands.

He is also giggling. Not just an attempt to giggle, but an actual giggle. He tries to do a belly laugh, but it comes out as a cough and it startles him. SO funny!

Something that I LOVE, is that he knows us. If we go out of the room and come back in, he will see us and grin and start trying to talk to us. But if someone else does it, he looks at them like "who the heck are you" but if they play for a just a second he will warm up and start smiling at them to. He also tries to get our attention if we aren't looking at him, and he sees us, he will start calling out for us to look at him. He will call out and then wait...if we still don't look, he will do it again until we do. I LOVE waking up in the morning and looking at him and the first thing he does is smile at me. Who wouldn't want to wake up to that in the morning?

Anyway...here are a couple of pictures, one from when he was just a few weeks old to one taken just this week at 2.5 months. See how much he has grown?! He isn't so little anymore! But yet, at the same time he is still little!! Anyway, enjoy!



You can see the black and white version of this earlier on in the post. This is our all time FAVORITE picture of him so far!! And it was taken at 11:00pm the other night when he wouldn't sleep!! Sam just keeps ooing and awwing over it, so I had to share! Enjoy!

Still Alive

So...this last weekend, we went on a mini vacation, and went to my nephew's birthday party, and up to Logan so Sam could take some tests. And I was informed by my mother that I need to update my blog more! So I will do my best to update my blog. I know that I am not very good at it, I figure that everything is the same ol' same ol' that no one wants to hear about it!! But I will try to be better.

So we went to my nephew's party on Sunday, and he was SO stinkin cute!! He just turned one, and he looked like he had a blast! He would go from one present to another, and had fun ripping the paper off. And then the cake. Oh goodness! He kind of looked at it like "what am I supposed to do with this thing?" and then started trying to eat it. He would pull it up to his mouth and try to bite at the edge. After a few minutes, he finally got his hands into it and just ripped it apart!! He ate almost the whole cake! He was so cute, he would take a bite and then look at people and start to laugh. I have some video of it that I might have to try to upload, we will see. He got so many toys and stuff that he will not be bored for a while!! So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to him!!

We also got to stay with my grandparents up in Logan. We had our own room, and bathroom. It was nice to be able to spend time with them again. They enjoyed spending time with bubba, and he liked them as well! So that is always good. I also got the chance to eat my Grandpa's pancakes. He makes the world's BEST pancakes!! He also does bacon and eggs. But his pancakes and my grandma's homemade maple syrup are to DIE for!! I want to eat as many as I can when I am there!! They were so good! So thank you to them for putting up with us. ;-)

This week has been kind of slow for everything. Just kind of been hanging out, so there isn't much going on. My mom and sisters are going to be driving down tomorrow and we are going to go do some shopping so that will be fun! I will try to get some pictures of that. I realised that I don't really have any pictures of bubba with any family members, so I will try to be better about that.

Bubba has decided that he wants to try and roll over. It is cute, he curls his legs up and tries to turn to his side, most of the time he doesn't succeed but it is cute none the less. He is also starting to grab at toys that are within his reach. It is so amazing watching him grow right before our eyes!! He is such a good baby!! He sleeps from about 8/9pm to about 6/7am straight. He will then wake up hungry, we feed him and he goes down again until 9/10am. And then takes a couple of naps through the day. Can I tell you how LUCKY we are!! I just love him so much, and my love grows every day!!

Anyway...this is kind of a long post. Sorry no pictures, I don't really have any new ones to put up!! But I will try to be better about it!! Just keep on my if I am not doing my job!

2 Month Appt..

We had bubba's 2 month appointment today! When he was born, he weighed in at 8 pounds. He is now 13 pounds! Wowza! The doctor looked at him and said "he's not a little baby is he!" He is also 23.5 inches long now. So, we asked and it was 50th percentile with his height, and 85-90th percentile for weight! The doctor told us that we could start other food in about 2 months! Yay! He also said that he is perfectly healthy, and right on target for everything! YAY!! So..everything was going fine and dandy, until this afternoon...

We had immunizations. Ugh. I am glad that we are doing them, but it still breaks my heart! So..I wasn't even nervous, I was thinking that I would be ok, and everything would be good. Well, Mell came with me because she needed to get her daughters shots done, so she went first. Once they put that first shot in...my heart sank and I started to cry! And it wasn't even my child!! She had 5 shots done, and I determined that I could not hold Bubba down while he got his shots!! Right before they gave them to him, he started to cry, like he was anticipating them! Then he stopped and they gave him the first shot...his face went from calm to "what the heck are ya doing" to "ouch! That hurts" to full on scream!! I started to cry yet again! It was so sad!! I am glad that Mell held him, because I just don't think I would have been able to! I then got to comfort him, and he cried for another 10 minutes! But we both survived. Within half an hour, he was back to his smily self (could have been due to the motrin...), and I didn't feel AS bad. :-) He had 3 shots and an oral immunization. Now, I can start preparing myself for the next round in 2 months. Eek!

Here is a video, it is just about a minute long, but we have discovered that Bubba is ticklish! So this video is me tickling him and him trying to laugh. SO funny!! So enjoy this one!

I am also going to add a couple of pictures that I took the other day. We put him in a levi jacket that we received, and he looks SO blasted cute in it!! I LOVE it, and it makes me sad that it will only fit him for a short amount of time, but oh well. I will have to look for another one later on down the road. (Sorry about the green animal behind him...that is one of his favorite toys right now!! It is a tickletoes, and whenever we make it laugh, he starts grinning at it, and trying to grab it! SO cute!!)

Also, on Saturday Melanie's cat had her kittens. This cat is 3 years old and has 30 kittens!! Wowza! So she had a litter of 7 kittens, and they are SO cute!! There is one black one, 1 gray one, and 5 white ones (they are himalayan (sp?) so have persian, and half siamese) But they are adorable! I have claimed the gray one and Sam has lovingly called it Hodaka (for those who don't know what that is...it is a motorcycle...silly man). I took pictures of the birth, but I am not sure who all wants to see that, so I will try to take some other pictures tomorrow and post them for you!

Wow...this was a long post!! I haven't done one of those in a while! We are still surviving down here, and we actually are having fun! Sam is not liking how much school work he is getting. He has had so much that he hasn't been able to work this week, which is sad, but we will survive! We are excited to only have 2 more months left of that! Yay! We are also heading back up to Logan this weekend so Sam can take a couple of tests. So that will be good to see everyone that I miss!

Anyway...I think I will end this forever long post. So have fun, and let me know what you think!