A Weekend of Firsts

First off I need to write about my little brother. He got home from his mission a week and a half ago and it is so good to have him back. We missed him so much. At the airport was his first time meeting Logan and Logan loves him so much already. We are so glad grateful for the blessings we received on his mission and are so glad to have him back home with us!

Logan had such a busy weekend. My parents planned on taking Logan and Layne camping this weekend but things came up and they ended up not being able to go. They decided to take them to the Bees game instead. My brothers friend Ashley is a Honey Bee for the bees so she got them tickets. Logan's first baseball game. They said he had so much fun. Both boys liked to run up and down the stairs, and Logan tried to escape a few times. They both got to pick a treat at the game. Layne picked cotton candy and Logan picked popcorn. They were both such good sharers. I am so grateful to my parents for taking Logan. They not only took him to the baseball game but they let him sleepover too, so that David and I could have the night to ourselves and sleep in. It was wonderful! Thank you very much mom and dad!

The boys in the car on the way to the game. Logan is so silly around Layne!


My dad and the boys at the game. It rained and this pretty rainbow came. Layne said "Wow Brama (what he calls my mom)a real rainbow. I have never seen a real rainbow before." Cute boy.


The Bees Bee.


Today Logan went to nursery for the first time! Woohoo! We could hardly wait for this day to come. He is a very curious and rambunctious little boy and I don't think we have listened to a Sunday School lesson in two months. He did so awesome. He went right in and didn't even cry. When we went to pick him up his nursery leader said, "He was so good! Does he go to day care?" I was happy to say that he is just a very good little boy. Not that good kids can't cry, but I was sure proud of Logan for not crying. Hopefully it stays that way!

Logan in his church clothes just before leaving for church. I had to document his first time going to nursery.


His last first of the weekend was his first haircut! I know his first haircut at 18 months. Most kids have probably had quite a few by now. His hair is very thin though and there is not much of it. He had a lot in the back that was curly half the time and scraggly half the time. So we decided 18 months was a good time for him to get his first haircut. He did not enjoy it. He kept squirming and we had to keep giving him candy. Thank you so much mom for cutting it. He looks so cute! He is turning into a little boy and not my baby anymore. It makes me kind of sad. I even got a little teary eyed as my wonderful mother cut his hair. I can't wait for more firsts with our little guy!!

The before picture. It is definitely not a good before picture. David had already gotten his hair wet and Logan was not cooperating.


The after picture. I know it doesn't look much different than the before but it is!!

Father's Day!!

I couldn't let this day go by without posting about what a wonderful father David is. He is such an amazing man. David goes to work nearly everyday and works so hard so that I get to stay home with our wonderful little boy. He never complains about it. When David gets home from work we can see his shadow through the window and Logan always get so excited and starts jumping and yelling Dada. He loves when David get home. When he does get home I know he is tired but he still comes in and starts playing with Logan right away. My favorite times are watching the two of them play and laugh, and with David as a dad Logan laughs a lot. He changes diapers, gets Logan in jammies, brushes his teeth, and puts Logan in bed. I appreciate all of that so much. He never ever complains when I ask him to change a diaper. He always says I go to work all day but when I get home my job is to be a dad. I love that he feels that way. Every morning when Logan is awake before me, he gives him a bath and breakfast and watches him so that I can sleep and extra hour. Seriously he is an absolutely amazing man. I am so lucky that I get to be married to him for eternity and that he is such an amazing father to our child. I love you so much babe! Thank you for being such a wonderful man!




I also want to say how much I love my own father. He is such a great man. He is such a hard worker. My dad is also so supportive. He loved watching my brothers play sports but would also come to dance, choir, and band performances. My dad is so shy, but when you get to know him he is so funny! Like I have said before my dad and Logan have an amazing little relationship. My dad loves Logan so much and vice versa. When we are at my parents house Logan would rather be with my dad than anyone else, and my dad lets Logan do pretty much whatever he wants. He will follow Logan around for hours on end just going where Logan wants to go. I just want to thank my dad for being such a great father to me and now a great grandfather to Logan. We love you and appreciate all you do for us!

New Family Pictures

As I said in my last post, last week we went to Wheeler Farm to get Quinney family pictures taken. I think ours turned out really good considering Logan would not cooperate at all!! He just wanted to be down and playing. We didn't get any good pictures of just Logan so we will do another little shoot for his 18 month pictures. I just thought I would post a few that turned out pretty good.

Our little family.


The Quinney boys have a hard time posing for pictures. David does pretty good though. The sun was in our eyes in this picture but I still think it turned out not too bad. T this point we had been taking pictures for a couple hours.


The whole family. It took so long to get us all up in that tree but the pictures turned out really good.


My favorite boys walking to the car. My favorite pictures are always the ones with just my two guys!

Logan vs. the Duck

Yesterday we went to Wheeler Farm to get Quinney family pictures taken. My sister took them and did an awesome job! Toward the end there were some people there with brand new baby ducks and they were so nice to let the kids play with them. The kids had so much fun and my sister got some great pictures of the kids playing with the ducks. My sister in law told her daughter to hold the duck like a ball. Logan heard ball and these pictures explain what he thought he should. He really did love the ducks! The face on my sister in law throughout each picture is priceless!

Swimming: Take Two!

Every Memorial Day we go swimming at my aunt and uncles house. As I posted before Logan was not too fond of the water last time we went swimming. I was expecting this time to be much of the same thinking it would take him four or five times until he started to like it. Nope. He LOVED it!! He had so much fun. David would throw him in the air and catch him and he would laugh. He would get out on the side and walk into the my arms while I was in the pool and just laugh. He tried to swim away from us, dip his head in the pool, play with the noodles. It was amazing how much he loved it. So maybe we have a fish on our hands after all. When I got him out he was not too happy with me, but his lips were blue and he was shaking. So I got him out and my sister got him dressed. For the next hour he tried to go jump in the pool. I said "I don't know what I am going to do for the whole summer" and my aunt suggested just letting him go back in. So I got him in his swimsuit again and he got back in for about another hour. Then again he was mad when I got him out. I love that he likes it so much!

I love this picture of them because they are making the exact same face!


Everytime David threw Logan in the air I would cringe. It was freaking me out, but Logan loved it!


He hated wearing these goggles but I just had to get a picture.

Racing Day/Carnival

Today was a very eventful day. First off we had racing day. For those of you who have children who watch Backyardigans might know what this is. For those of you who don't it is an episode where the backyard friends have race around the world. They run, snowboard, canoe, and something else that I can't remember right now. A couple of months ago my sister Leslie was at the dollar store and found some stick horses and we thought it would be fun to use those for our racing day. Today was the first time we have had perfect weather to do it. Layne and Annie had so much fun with it. Leslie made obtacle courses they would have to go through with their horses. Logan on the other hand couldn't have cared less. He just wanted to walk around and try to pick up the cones. It was still a lot of fun with him though.

Last week I bought Logan two hats and have been trying to get him to wear them and he won't. Today he actually kept it on for over ten minutes. I was very excited about this. He is also very into sunglasses right now so he liked to play with those as well. He had not taken his nap yet so by the end of racing day he was exhausted. He went home and took a great nap.

After Logan's nap we went to the school carnival at the school that my sister works at. I used to work for the company that does the carnivals so it is always fun for me to go and see people. They also gave us wristbands half price which was really nice. We went with my sister, Layne and Elana, and Lincoln and his sisters. They are so awesome with Logan that figured Logan would love to go on the big blowup slides with them since he loved them at Classic. I was wrong. I had to get on the slide and go down with him and he still didn't like it. Later he went over to the Batman bounce house and really wanted to go in. So I went and rounded up the kids to take him in. He was so anxious to get in. About a minute before we went in I took his shoes off and he was not very happy about it, so when I stuck him in the bounce house he cried hysterically. After about five seconds he climbed out. Oh well. Maybe next year he will enjoy it.

Lincoln and Layne got their hair colored, so I thought it would be so cute to get Logan's done and get a picture. I figured Logan would cry while they were doing but he didn't. He was fascinated by it. When we got out of line we found out Layne and Elana had left. I was so sad I didn't get a picture with all three of them, but at least I got one with Logan and Lincoln. By the end of the night Logan was so tired and fell asleep on the way home.

At the beginning of racing day the kids were playing in these cars. I am so happy my parents got these cars. Last week my dad stayed home from work for a few days to work on the yard and when we got to their house he stopped to play with Logan. And as i have mentioned before my dad and Logan absolutely love each other and he lets Logan do whatever he wants. Logan wanted to go across the street and play in the neighbors garage with their toy car. My dad let him! In the garage! I was so embarrassed. She came out of her house and said "Oh I thought maybe it was a cat." Well later than night Lincoln's mom came to bring stuff for the garage sale my mom was having and she just happened to bring two of those cars. Perfect timing! My sister Hilary was so nice to buy them for the boys!

Annie and Layne on Racing Day.

Logan with his cute hat on.

Logan with his hat and glasses. I don't know if I will ever be able to get a picture with him wearing both things again.

Logan and I on the slide.

Logan and Lincoln with their colored hair! Everytime I would look at Logan I would crack up!

Emily and the kids when we were leaving the carnival.

Not a Fish Yet!

Today was our first swimming day of the season! It was so wonderful. My aunt and uncle have an amazing pool in their backyard and they are so kind to let us use it. We were so excited to take Logan. Last time he went swimming was 8 months ago and he really liked it as long as someone was holding onto him, although at times he was adventurous. Tonight was a little different. Right when he and David got in he started screaming. He did not like it at all. He clung to David so tightly. If David moved him even a little he would cry. After a little while he started playing with a football and loosened up a little bit. Then a little more and a little more. By the end it still was not his favorite thing but I think within two or three more times going he will love it. That is our hope anyway. We love to swim and want him to be a little water baby.

We cannot wait for all of the wonderful family parties, playdates, and just going over for fun we will have there this summer. Thank you aunt Kate and uncle Michael for always being so generous with your pool and home!

Just got his swimsuit on.


Logan and David just about to get in the pool and Logan is already not too sure about it.


In the pool with Daddy. By this point he had been in for about half an hour and was just starting to loosen up because he had a ball. He would also laugh when he would splash someone.


Snuggling up in his towel. He was so happy once he was warm!

Hotel for Dogs

I feel like all i have to blog about lately is playdates. I don't necessarily think yesterdays playdate is blogworthy but I have to blog about something. So here goes...For playdate yesterday we went and saw the movie "Hotel for Dogs". I was not too excited to see this movie but it was at the dollar movies so it wasn't like i would be out money. I actually ended up thinking it was a pretty good movie. It was a good story for kids. I am glad i didn't pay eight dollars to see it but I would definitely see it at the dollar movie again if someone wanted to. We had two new additions to playdate yesterday. My cousins Kate and Benjamin. Logan absolutely loves Kate and was so glad to have her there we are glad they could come.



I also added a couple other pictures on here cause they were so cute. Logan has this wiggles book that he loves. I am not sure why. We do not allow Wiggles watching in our house so its not like he knows who the people are. Its a little book about shapes and he reads it all the time. Usually when he is quiet I have to worry but lately he has just been laying down reading. He is becoming such a little boy rather than a baby. I love it!
Lately my camera and memory card have been doing stupid things so that is why this picture has a line through it. I don't know what the problem is.



The next picture is him folding his arms. He has been folding his arms to say prayers for a couple months now, but i just barely remembered to take a picture. It is so cute we say prayer time and he folds his arms right away. He doesn't fold them the traditional way and I know I will be so sad when

Day at the Park

It was a beautiful day today, so we decided to have playdate at the park. We had a picnic lunch and the kids had so much fun playing. The first time we went to the park this season was a couple weeks ago. Since Logan is old enough now i put him in the swing and he hated it until Lincoln would pretend like Logan was kicking him. Then Logan thought it was funny. Well I thought i guess that is the end of the swings. I decided to try them again today and he loved it. He thought it was fun the whole time. It is amazing what a couple weeks will do to a child.

Logan also loves going down the slide. He will climb up all by himself and go down the big slide. He is so brave. And he going down the traditional way is not good enough for him. He likes to slide down on his stomach. He laughs so hard. I love to see him playing and learning to do things for himself. He is getting so big and is not my little baby anymore. He is definitely turning into a toddler. I can't wait to see what the rest of the summer will bring and what he will dare to do!

I love this picure!


He sure does love the swings. After being on for a couple of minutes though he looks like he is going to throw up!


Annie and Layne are so cute together. If one of them doesn't come to playdate the other one gets so upset. All three of them play so well together. I am glad Layne and Annie are so good with Logan!

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.