Rock Star in the Making

Here's Ryan's version of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. Listen closely.

Here's The ABCs...

Happy Birthday to you...

and the Itsy Bitsy Spider

Birthday Celebration Comes to a Close

Last night, we finally finished celebrating Ryan's birthday. It all started on Wednesday (his actual birthday). We opened presents and my mom and dad came over for some birthday cake. Then on Saturday we celebrated with Dave's family. Ryan had so much fun running around and getting crazy with his cousins. Unfortunately, I forgot to pull out the camera for pictures of this party. Last night, we went to my parents' house to celebrate with that side of our family. We also celebrated my aunt Liz's birthday and my nephew Cooper's first birthday. Ryan hadn't seen these cousins for awhile, so again, he had fun running around and getting crazy with them. They were so loud the gave my mom a big headache. But it was fun. And Ryan and Braden were really excited about the Lightning McQueen party gear. Ry's having so much fun now with all of his new toys.

Happy Birthday Ryan!

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Ryan, happy birthday to you!


Can you believe our baby's already 2 years old? He's growing up so fast! Here's what he looked like 2 years ago today.

New Look

I decided it was time for a new background. I got so sick of searching through the hundreds of designs and they all started to look the same. So I decided on something seasonal, in honor of Dave's excitement for the Games and all the extra time we've spent watching TV. Go USA!

What you don't want to see when you open the lid to your washer!

I've seen a lot of scary things when looking into the washing machine and dryer. I've seen Ryan's matchbox cars (not too scary), important notes left in my pockets (getting scarier), gum(pretty darn scary), and our new point-and-shoot camera (so scary I almost had a heart attack - and yes, the camera was dead). Yesterday, I found something one step below the camera. So I'm one of those people who washes their darks with the whites. If the darks have already been through a couple of cycles and there's no chance of them bleeding, what's the point of separating them? Yesterday, I thought my red lounging pants had passed the point of no more bleeding. Apparently, I was wrong. I was a quite surprised to see my laundry with a pretty pink hue. I didn't know whether to cry or cuss. (in case you're wondering, first came the *!@%, then came the tears). Unlike the last time this happened (yes, it has happened more than once), we only lost a couple of Ryan's shirts that he had almost grown out of. And I'm sure he won't mind wearing a pink bib, as long as nobody sees him. Thanks to some quick action with a gallon of bleach, I can still wear my favorite pair of capri's and we don't have to replace any pairs of g's. Hooray for bleach!!

The Big House

It is official - we are going to spend an afternoon in the Big House for the Utah-Michigan football game in three weeks. We do have high hopes for the Utes this season, but we are going more for the experience of attending a game at another big time college football stadium.

After this game, I will have been to a college football game at four of the five largest college stadiums over the last three years. Since 2005 I have been to football games in Rice-Eccles Stadium, Sun Devil Stadium, Romney Stadium, Ohio Stadium ("the Horseshoe"), Sam Boyd Stadium, the Rose Bowl, and Neyland Stadium.

Ok, I admit to possibly having an obsession with going to college football games, but I currently have no desire to abandon said obsession. Now I just need an excuse to go to a game at Beaver Stadium in Pennsylvania to complete the five largest college football stadiums...

Of course, I have already seen the best game that I will ever see in my life - Ohio State - Michigan in 2006. Fortunately, this time I will be going to a road game with this other Ute fan:

Go Utes!

Pioneer Day (Non)Celebration

Today, the 24th of July was just another day. Dave went to work, I played with Ryan. It seems like nobody, (except for the parade participants) celebrates anymore. After dinner our neighbors invited us to watch their impromptu fireworks show. So a bunch of the neighbors and their kids watched fireworks. Maybe we'll start some kind of tradition next year...potluck bbq with fireworks. And you're all invited.

And 6...

...pounds that we each gained at dinner last night...

Happy Anniversary, Linds! I can't imagine my life without you!

Happy Anniversary!

Well, today marks the day for another year of marriage. That makes 6 now. My, oh my, how time flies when you're having fun! So, after 6 years, 5 airplane trips across the Pacific, 4 trips to the Gorge, 3 college degrees, 2 job changes, and 1 child later... here we still are, happy as can be. Here's to many more happy years to come! I love you Dave!

Flamingo George

So here's the last account of our summer vacation. On Sunday, we drove to Flaming Gorge and met up with my family. It was so nice to get up there and have our huge tent all set up for us. It was also fun to have all of my aunts there, even the one's from Texas and California. We had lots of fun playing the usual camping games (Scrabble, Password, Apples to Apples, etc) and Ryan had lots of fun playing with the dogs in the "firetruck" (aka motorhome). Dave was bummed because he couldn't ski, but he enjoyed taking Ryan out on the waverunners. Swimming in the lake was also fun, and very refreshing (a bone-chilling 69 degrees). It was nice just to take it easy and lounge around all day, whether on the boat or back at camp. Of course, we had to chase Ryan around a lot and he fell a lot on the not-so-paved road, so he got lots of scrapes on his knees. We had a very fun time on our vacation, but it was nice to come home!