Classic Skating!

Yesterday we went to Classic skating. I cannot believe how much it has changed since the last time i was there. They now have a room with a bunch of blowups. Logan had so much fun! He loved going down the slides. Unfortunately he couldn't go up himself. I took him down a few times and other people took him up. I cannot believe how tiring it is to carry a baby up those things! After he while he was done with that and just wanted to go walk around. He walked around with various people for probably an hour. This kid is entertained by the smallest things. He liked chasing the colorful circles in the skating room! What a goof.

After we had been there a while and he still hadn't had a nap, he started to get very very grumpy. Luckily my mom had to go pick up a neighbor boy from school so she took Logan with her and he got at least a 40 minute nap. There rest of us stayed there for a little bit longer. Each time the kids came to the table to get a drink their faces were more and more red. They had so much fun!

We also had another playdate today. At dominoes they have new pasta bowls and they were giving them out today for free for lunch. We got those then went to Annie's house to play. We had a lot of fun. Annie has a huge dog and in the past Logan has been terrified of her. This time he was not so much terrified just more always aware of where the dog was. David thinks Logan wants a dog and I say not so much. I think he just needs to see Logan with this dog. Then he will realize we just don't need a pet!

I cannot believe this is only my third post for this month. Really not much has happened. Logan went to the zoo for the first time last week, but David had the day off so we stayed home together. I was a little sad to miss his first zoo visit, but I know there will be lots more. Really not much else has happened. This week has been pretty busy helping my mom get her house all cleaned up from the remodel and to get ready for our Scentsy party on Friday. I will probably spend all day there again tomorrow and all night baking. Anyone is more than welcome to come to our Scentsy party. It is Friday night and my parents house. It is an open house and it is 6:30 til about 8:30. Other than that not much else. Hopefully May will be a little more eventful and i will have the need to blog more!
Wow reading this post back I feel like the writing is all over the place. Sorry!

You cannot really tell in this picture, but their cheeks are SO red!

Logan on an inflatable.

This is Annie jumping and dancing around.

Ari and Mckenna with their scooters. Not one of the kids actually skated. They either used scooters or played on the inflatables.

St. George and VEGAS!

We had a wonderful weekend. About a month ago we were talking to David's brother and his wife about how we all need a vacation, so we decided to all go to St. George and Las Vegas for a weekend. It was very much needed! My wonderful parents watched Logan so that we didn't have to bring him with us. It was my first time away from him for more than four hours, and I thought I would cry and be so sad. I totally wasn't which really surprised me. Don't get me wrong I missed him, but I didn't cry and wasn't desperate to get back to him.

So we left Thursday night after David got home from work and drove straight to St. George. David's grandma has a little place down there that she let us stay at. It was really nice of her to let us stay there and we really appreciated it. On Friday morning the boys went golfing and Melanie taught me how to make my own backgrounds for my blog. I am so stupid about this kind of thing so I am sure she got frustrated while teaching me, but I am so excited to play around with what she downloaded for me. After all that we went to lunch and then outlet mall shopping. They had some awesome deals on kids clothes. I got two pairs of shorts and a shirt for Logan, and two shirts for my neice for only 30 bucks. It was a lot of fun. We then went home and played a new game called quiddler. I would definitely reccommend it. For the rest of the night we went to a little podunk place called fiesta fun. We did miniature golf, batting cages, and go carts. It ended up being so much fun!

On Saturday morning we woke up, got ready and left for Vegas. We stopped in Mesquite for their wonderful buffet breakfast. After that onto Vegas. We walked a lot! We went into quite a few hotels, a lot of shops, played the slots a little bit(I only put a dollar in the slot machine. I had a lot of self control.), and ate some great food. I can't really say there was a favorite part of Vegas and a least favorite part. It was all just a lot of fun hanging out, walking around, and people watching. One thing that was interesting..We ate at Jimmy Buffets Margaritaville and once our waitress found out we weren't getting alcoholic drinks we rarely saw her and if we asked her a question we would see her roll her eyes. Stupid Lady. Another thing, Last time we went to Vegas with Matt and Melanie we went into all the highend shops and had a contest to see who could find the most expensive thing. I won. I found a jacket that was $10,000 This year we decided to do the same thing. She found something worth $12,000 so I for sure thought she won. Well I found something for $20,000. A fur coat. Could you imagine spending that much on a coat?!? Now I am thinking I totally won. In the next store she found something worth $24,500!! A dress. It was hideous! We decided that we just needed to find the ugliest thing in the store and it was usually the most expensive. So crazy. Finally we drove back to St. George and didn't get back til 3:00 am. It was a long day.

Today we woke up and went swimming, got ready, packed, and went home. It was such a nice and relaxing trip. We were so excited to see Logan though. We got to my parents house and he was so happy to see us, but when we reached for him he just wanted to stay with my dad. As I have mentioned before him and my dad have a very special bond. I don't think Logan realized we had been gone for 3 days. It is sure good to see him and be back home, but I can't wait til our next vacation!

Miniature Golfing at Fiesta Fun. I came in dead last. I am a terrible golfer!!


Hitting balls at the batting cages. I hit all of the balls but one. I was very proud of myself.


David hitting balls. He didn't do too bad either!


We had a skiball contest and I won!! Only by ten points but still. I redeemed myself for my terrible lack of miniature golf skills.


At the Coca Cola Factory they have this thing you can do where if you pay $7.00 you get 16 different kinds of drinks from all over the world to try. It was very interesting. Some were a lot better than others. I highly reccommend doing this. I will tell you though, there was one really gross one and still thinking about it makes me gag.


Here we are at the Bellagio gardens. It is really pretty in there and there are a lot of different kinds of flowers.


David and Logan after we first got back. The two greatest boys I know!!

Recent happenings

This week has been a pretty busy one. On Wednesday we had playdate as usual and decided to make it easter themed. The kids dyed eggs and made marshmallow rabbits. It was a lot of fun for the older kids but Logan for sure did not get what he was supposed to be doing. I started to give Logan an egg and a white crayon to draw on it with and right when I gave him the egg he smashed it on the table. So I made two for him and he just colored on paper, which was fine enough for him. I am very excited for next year when he will start to understand all of this holiday fun. After we dyed eggs we ate some lunch and Logan was so tired he fell asleep while eating his pizza. It was so cute and I got video of it but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to put video on my blog. So you will just have to picture it in your heads. Just about twenty five minutes before Leslie and Annie had to leave the kids made bunnies out of paper and marshmallows. We didn't have time to color the paper first which would have made them cuter but they still turned out very cute.

On Thursday I watched my neice Leah all day. I am the kind of person who cannot stay home all day so I decided we would go to the aquarium. We picked up my sister in law, Elana and her son Layne to go with us. When we got there it was so crowded. As we were looking for a parking space we were trying to figure out why it was so crowded. Then it clicked...Spring Break. What a time for us to decide to go. It was packed!! We still looked at mostly everything but its a good thing we have annual passes so that we can go back when school is back in session. The kids did have fun though.

And our Easter Bunny came a little early. Growing up the Easter Bunny always came Friday night/Saturday morning. We would wake up Saturday morning and our baskets would be filled. He figured Saturday was a day for Easter fun and Sunday was a day for the real reason for Easter. And that is how we decided to do Easter as well. So since Logan is asleep the Easter Bunny came and Logan will find his basket in the morning. This year we went low key and got him a new swimsuit and rashguard and some new sandals. We are not big candy eaters at our house so the Easter Bunny only brought a little which is perfect. For our fun Easter Saturday we are going with my family bowling and it should be a lot of fun!!

Leslie, Layne, Logan, and Annie dying eggs. Well Logan is just coloring.

Our Marshmallow rabbits.

Leah and Logan at the aquarium.

All of the kids looking at the stingrays. Everytime I go i try to be brave and touch them, but i just can't bring myself to do it!! I am a major wuss!

Logan's cute giraffe Easter basket. I am trying to instill my love of giraffes on him. He seems to like elephants more though. I guess I need to work a little harder.

All of the fun stuff the Easter Bunny brought for Logan!

15 month stats

Yesterday we went to Logan's 15 month Dr. appointment. Here are his stats:

Height: 29 1/2 inches--9th percentile
Weight: 20 lbs. 2 oz.-- 3rd percentile
Head circumference: I don't know size but I do know-- 80th PERCENTILE!!!

Are you kidding me!! Alright so I can't believe he is barely more than twenty pounds. When we weighed him a month and a half ago he was more than he is now. Oh well at least he is not off the charts. Second of all his head in percentile is huge!! The dr. said there is no reason to be worried especially since he is hitting all of his milestones perfectly. Still...thats crazy. I said I don't feel like his head looks too big for his body and the dr. said no not at all so that is good. And his head circumference has always been much bigger than the other percentiles. He has got a really small body so... Anyway, he also had to get 4 shots!! 4! He did pretty good when he got them. He cried a little bit and then was ok. Well about 3 hours later he had a temperature of 103.0 and was very lethargic. I called the dr. and they said to watch him. Well his temp was high the rest of the day and all night. It didn't even get better with tylenol. Finally, this morning at 7:30 his fever broke. Needless to say it was a very long night for all three of us. All is well now though. And Logan now has 3 more teeth that have popped through. These three are all molars. That brings the grand total of teeth at this point:11!!

I also just need to put down a bunch of fun things Logan is doing. He says quite a few words. He can say mama, dada, grandma, grandpa, wow, no, stop, don't, soft, hot, more, hi, uh oh, and fish. He can also sign more, no, please, thank you, fish, Hilary, candy, and milk. He loves to try to dress himself. He tries to put on his shirts, jackets, shoes, and socks. He pretends to sweep the floor and uses the swiffer. Logan loves to kick balls, play catch, get into everything, and climb on everything. He is such an active little boy and I couldn't imagine life without him. He brings so much joy to David and I. We are so blessed to have such an amazing little guy in our lives!!

Easter Celebration

As i have said before i absolutely LOVE traditions!! And todays festivities were no exception. Every year for Easter we go to my grandparents house for dinner, an egg hunt, and an egg drop. It for sure is one of the funnest holidays. We celebrated early this year because my grandpa was in town for the weekend from Washington DC. I was definitely looking forward to it especially because Logan is old enough that he could go on the egg hunt this year. Well stupid Utah weather was going to make it not be able to happen. We would have done it at a later time but it would have been different since we considered this as Easter. Well despite the terrible snow we still did the Easter egg hunt. The older grandkids just hid the eggs downstairs in the basement and it was just as fun. Logan loved it. I think mostly he loved running around with the other kids. However, he did also really love shaking the eggs because there was money in them and he loved the sound they made. He ended up getting $4.80 from his eggs he found! Thats going right in his football bank. I am so glad that we were still able to do all of the fun things we always have while my grandpa was in town.

The egg drop was a little more difficult because of the snow, but most braved the snow to watch the festivities. I was not one of them. We didn't do an egg drop this year because we just could not think of anything to do. Everyone better watch out next year though cause we are starting to plan now!

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for all the fun traditions!!

Logan found and egg and was putting it in his cute giraffe Easter basket!

Here he found and egg but he also found a ball that he wanted to play with more.

Lookind for more eggs!

Still looking!

Here we are dumping out the candy and money. He loved the candy!!

The story of Logan

Since i use my blog as my journal i figured it was time to write down my experience with having Logan. I don't want to foget it and this is the best way for me to remember it always. So if you are not in the mood to read a long story don't feel like you have to.

It all started at about 7 months along. I went to my dr. appointment and my blood pressure was high. They said sometimes that is normal so we will take it again at the end of the appointment. Well at the end it was still high. So that is when i had to start coming in every week or so to get my blood pressure taken so they could start looking for signs of pre-eclampsia. At about 34 weeks i had to start going in every couple of days. I was so swollen and was just ready to be done. I was planning on working up until 38 weeks but my dr put me on bed rest at 36, which was fine with me i was ready to be done working. That was right around Christmas though and so i could not do any of my Christmas shopping. Mom and Hilary did it all for me.

So i had an appointment on Christmas eve and of course my blood pressure was high, so my dr. said i am not going to make you go to the hospital today because it is Christmas but the day after Tomorrow you have to call Labor and Delivery to set up a time to get a stress test done. So we do all of our fabulous Christmas activities and i packed about half my stuff just in case i had to stay at the hospital to have our little guy, not really thinking we would need to(which is why i only halfway packed). The day after Christmas we went in and got the stress test done and my blood pressure was the highest it had ever been. My Dr. came in and said looks like you're staying and gonna have a baby. We were shocked!! They got me into a room and started softening my cervix right away and i started having contractions right away. However, my contractions were not normal. They were three little contractions in one. Not that they weren't painful though. They would give my pain medication that would last for half an hour but then couldn't give me more for 4 hours! So it was a long long day and long long night. All that night everytime i moved a nurse would come in to move Logan's heart monitor. The next morning at 7:00 am the dr came in and started me on pitocin hoping i would dilate more since i was still at a one. And the contractions started hurting more.

Then at 10:00 they came in and asked if i wanted an epidural i of course said yes. So they got that done and it was wonderful. Everytime they checked my cervix it hurt so bad and i would squirm, but once that epidural came i didn't mind it at all. So then at about 11:00 am they came in to break my water once again trying to hurry things along. I was still at a one. It had almost been 24 hours and i was still at a one!! Are you kidding me? It was so dissapointing. The rest of the afternoon i pretty much just slept. Around 3:00 my grandma came to see us because she was getting a mamogram at that hospital and she asked if David and my dad had given my a blessing and that is not even something i had thought about. So we called my parents and they came right over and David gave me a blessing. I only wanted David in the delivery room but there was talk of a c-section so my parents hung aroung to see what was going to happen. At 5:00 the Dr. came in and said i was only at a 1 1/2 so they could do a c-section now or i could be in labor for another 17 hours and still have a c-section in the end. We opted for the first. They got me all prepped and Logan was born at 6:57 pm. David got to watch the whole thing and said it was very interesting. We were so glad to have this little guy in the world and he has brought so much joy in our lives.

I know that was a lot but i have to remember this crazy but wonderful experience!

The Farm

For playdate today we went to the farm. It was perfect weather for it. We got there and had a picnic lunch. After lunch we went to get tokens to go on the "hayride" which is more like a tractor pulling you around, but you don't sit on hay. After we got our tokens we decided to look at some animals since it would be a while til we could go on the ride. We saw the turkeys and sheep. Logan was terrified of the sheep. I can't say I blame him. The sheep were so dirty and loud. The lambs were so cute though. He didn't like those either however. After looking at the sheep we went to wait to go on our "hayride". We just waited around a while for the worker who left without telling us she was taking a break even though we were right there waiting.

While on the ride Logan was a nightmare!!! He hadn't had a nap yet and wanted to be walking around on the ride instead of sitting on a lap. So he screamed the whole time. I am sure the other people there were thinking what a terrible child. He was so loud. I was so happy when it was over so we could get down and walk. You would think that would have calmed him down. Nope! So we decided to leave even though there was a lot of other stuff to look out. We walked to the car and I put him in and he was awake. By the time I put the the stroller in the trunk and got in the car myself he was asleep. It was definitely needed. So even though we had to leave early we had a lot of fun being out in the wonderful wonderful sun!!

Our picnic.

Logan loves to push things, so it was no surprise that he would rather push the stroller than ride in it.

Annie and Layne looking at the turkey. They really are terribly ugly creatures!

Logan looking at the baby lamb. He did not like that area of the farm.

The three kids waiting to go on the "hayride".

I love Traditions!!

Yay for St. Patrick's Day!! I love holidays and i love traditions and this holiday is no exception! When i was growing up the leprechaun did the craziest stuff at our house. He would move furniture from the kitchen to the living room and vice versa, making all of our food green, cutting out to bottom of our cereal so that when we picked the box up it would all fall out. So we would spend the night before St. Patrick's Day making traps to try to catch him. It never worked but the leprechaun is now making mischief in my home. We woke up this morning to green milk. He also left us green jello, candy, drinks, and lucky charms cereal. Logan loved eating the Lucky Charms this morning and David even gave it to him in a green bowl with a green spoon. I am so grateful i have a husband who will go along with all of my traditions whether he thinks they are silly or not. I can't wait til Logan is older and gets so excited to make traps to try to catch the leprechaun. Holidays are definitely more fun when you have kids!!

Some of our green food.

Logan eating his delicious Lucky Charms with green milk!

Week full of Playdates

This week was a busy one. It all started on Monday. Logan woke up in the morning and seemed pretty fine. After he had been awake for an hour he fell back asleep. I thought thats weird that he is already taking a nap but that was that. Well he ended up with a terrible cough, fever, and runny nose and took FOUR naps that day instead of two. Well we were supposed to have a playdate on Tuesday and it had already been postponed for three weeks because of sicknesses, so i was like great we are going to be the one cancelling this week. Well luckily someone else had to babysit on Tuesday and we switched playdate and to Thursday. So since we didn't do it on Tuesday our first playdate was on Wednesday. It was with my mom, Leslie, Elana, Annie, and Layne. David had the day off so we just dropped Logan off and my mom's house and David and i had the opportunity to go to the Draper Temple open house. It was nice that we got a break and that he could still do playdate. They colored little lephrechaun pots and put gold candy in them. They were really cute, but i didn't get any pictures since i wasn't there.

Our second playdate was on Thursday with Teresa and Gavin and Rachel and Abby. It was a lot of fun. Usually we just meet at a restaraunt and eat then leave. This time we met at Cafe rio, got our food and came back to our house so the kids could play while we talked. Logan is the only mobile on so he was way wild while the other two were just content to sit there. Oh the days of Logan being content just sitting. I can't wait for them all to be old enough to actually play together.

Our third playdate was today with Melanie and Leah and her niece and nephew, and Heather, Braden and Mckaylee. Melanie has been watching her niece and nephew all week so she wanted to think of something fun to get them out of the house. We decided to go to a Mcdonalds play place for lunch and fun. It was a lot of fun. Logan played in the play place for the first time and LOVED it. They had a little blocked off area with balls and he played in there for so long. Then he went over to the slide. I put him up there to slide down but he decided to just stand up there and watch the other kids go down. We had a lot of fun with all of our playdates this week!

Logan and Gavin playing with toys. Logan kept trying to take the toys the other two had, but if they didn't have it, he didn't want it.

Logan, Abby, and Gavin.

Logan at the top of the slide. He would not go down.

Logan, Leah, Braden, and Mckaylee.

Happy Birthday Lindsay!

I just wanted give a quick note to tell everyone how much I love my wife. Lindsay is the most beautiful, loving wife I could ask for. And the most caring mother Logan could ask for.

You are the light in our lives, Dins. Happy Birthday (even though I'm a couple of days late here).

Love
David and Logan