Rayn's hat

Rayn gave Zaylee this really cute hat when we were down there and Zaylee immediately wanted to wear it. Well, on the drive to St. George she found that it was a GREAT sun blocker. As soon as the sun started to shine in her eyes, she pulled it down to block it out and soon after she was out like a light! =)

Wilderness Trail Hike

When we were camping up in Oak Grove again we decided to go for a hike. Well, you can read the details of the hike on Steph's blog but here are the pictures:
This was at the first of the trail. I don't know what this is because I'm not very smart, but I still thought it looked really cool. Just to the left of it is the cocoon that it came out of.


Alex took this shot from the top of the trail. This is the top of Pine Valley Mountain from where he was.


Looking down at Oak Grove from the hike -


Quail Lake and Sand Hollow -


LaVerkin and Hurricane -


This is looking out toward Washington from about 10 minutes before the top of the trail.


The view was awesome and it was a fun hike. However, I advise to anyone that chooses to hike it, don't try it with children, take WATER!!!, and I don't think that just before noon is a good time--there is very little shade on the trail and it's HOT!

Daddy Daugther Fun

Okay, this is a two day post. First of all, I wanted to post of our trip to Enterprise. But, with all of the car drama that we had, I only got these pictures of Alex and Zaylee. Oh well, they are cute.

Alex climbed the tree:

And Zaylee shortly followed! (Okay, she didn't climb but with a little boost up, she joined him!)


And then I was thinking about what a fun dad Alex is and thought I would include these pictures from a few weeks ago (I am bummed that I didn't get any really good photos, but at least I got these). I came home from work one night to find this in my living room:


I didn't end up getting a picture of the two of them in the fort but they were having fun hiding from me in it!

St. George water park

Zaylee LOVED playing at the water park in St. George. Even though the water was cold, she had a blast. She would go crazy in the water, run up to me to have me wrap her up in her towel and then she would remember how fun the water was and run back for more. It was so fun watching her play!






The cold water would shock her everytime she put her head under but without fail, she would run to the next one to stick her head under it! What a goof!!

Our Birds

We came home from our vacation and look what we found! Little baby birds. The first picture was taken on the 15th when and then I took the 2nd picture today. It's amazing how quick they are growing.

Sorry about the angles...being short and all, I have to stand on a chair and then just hold the camera up above them and hope I get a good shot. =)

Hooray!!

WARNING: NOT FOR THE EASILY DISGUSTED (This will be a tad descriptive....)

Zaylee just pooped on the toilet!!! YEA!! Okay, so as you know, she's been interested...we really haven't focused too much on it but today she ran to her favorite pooping corner (between the wall and the fridge) and started grunting. We asked her if she wanted to poop on the toilet and when she came out Alex ran over to her to help. She sat on the toilet with "stuff" already partially coming out BUT....she kept on pushing and ker-plunk! SUCCESS!!

Our bird nest

Well, it's not really OURS but we'll call it ours anyway. This is just outside of our back door. Everytime we open the door we see a bird fly away but we haven't been able to figure out what kind it is yet. I took the first two pictures about a week ago and then the last one just today. We're going to have babies!!

Zaylee's new unpleasant feat...

Well, I was going to post a picture, but decided I probably better not. As I previously mentioned, she likes to take her diaper off and run around naked. Well, her new thing is when she wakes up in the middle of the night instead of just crying and shaking her bed until we come and get her, she now has decided to take off her pj's, throw her diaper out of the crib, then cry, and shake her bed. This has happened nightly for the last 3 or 4 nights.... Last night we got a picture of it... due to child nudity it won't be posted, but here is what happens in the end:



Yes, that is my bed and her hogging it after we got her redressed the other night. Luckily, this was taken after Alex got up so he wasn't completely kicked out of the bed. Kasey suggested using a onesie to prevent the diaper removal...we tried that today...she can get that off as well. Any other suggestions????

Early Mother's Day/Birthday Present

So, I have many of these (early presents) but I thought I would quickly blog about this deal that we just got.



I got these at Shopko for $30 (after rebate)! I was pretty excited. If any of you have seen my current pots and pans you would be excited for me, too! The set has a roasting pan, open grill, 2 frying pans, sautepan w/lid, 4 pots w/lids, and 6 nylon tools. Pretty cool huh!

Oh wait...

One last cute photo that I forgot to post but I can't resist showing off: