Practicing

Clint really wants to teach me how to fly fish. He was helping me practice and Bode had to join in!

I love my boys.

Thurgood Visit

My sister was in town for about a week, then she went to Texas, then she came back. She stayed with us again for a few nights before heading home and we loved it!!!! I wish our house was bigger, but we manage somehow. The kids had a blast and I really loved having Kelli around. I have been missing her SO much since they moved to Washington. They were meeting some friends for dinner and invited us to come along. We ended up waiting at the restaurant forever. It was nuts! Aaron’s friend went in once, his wife went back in another time and nothing. I was getting so hungry. After it had been about an hour or more I decided to take matters into my own hands. I marched my huge prego self in there and asked how much longer was this going to be! I explained there were two pregos, a bunch of kids, it was super late and we’d already been waiting forever. The lady said, “Oh it’s funny you came in just now because your table is ready!” NOT funny, but I was glad we got to eat. :) The kids had a blast waiting and I took a bunch of pictures.

Clint was flying Kaylan and Bode was in awe watching!

 

Of course he had to have a turn next.

Kenna is seriously the sweetest little girl. She’s so funny and does everything so slowly and daintily. I just love her!

I was trying to snap pictures of the kids playing when Aaron blocked my view with his silly mug.

This little area was our worst nightmare! The kids kept grabbing handfuls of dirt from where those bushes are and throwing them into the fountain. Kenna wanted in on the action.

These pictures are of the kids playing in the yard before we headed out for dinner. I just love how much they love each other. Bode and the girls play so hard. Bode is still asking where Kenna and Kaynan are. He misses his cousins.

Who couldn’t use a little help from Bode?

Had to get one of Kelli and I.

Until next time … Thurgoods……

We’ll see you guys in July. WOOO HOOOO.

Aaron’s Jump

My brother in law belongs to an airborne unit in the military and we were so lucky to be able to watch one of his jumps while they were in town! It was the most amazing experience. It made me feel so proud of all our service men!! We literally had front row seats and one guy landed within 30 feet of us. It was insane.

We got there with plenty of time to spare because we didn’t want to miss out on anything. Lucky for us, it was not far from Eagle Mountain where we live. I think it was over an hour of waiting, but the kids had a blast. It was so dusty and dirty, but a little boy’s paradise. Bode kept busy throwing rocks at everything and miss Kenna and Kaylan had a pretty fun time too. I snapped a few pictures while we waited. This is my cute grandma and grandpa B.

I had Kelli try and get a picture of Clint and I. Somehow.. it never works out. Clint tried to do a stupid face and I’m trying to tell him to just please give me one normal face and it ends up we both look stupid. Ah well. We tried.

After Clint ruined our picture, I had him take one of Kelli and I. He was acting like he was a professional/tourist or something and moving all around and tilting the camera all weird.. He’s just goofy. Always.

I thought it’d be cute to have Bode hold Kaylan’s hand. What I didn’t realize is that he had just picked his nose and was in quite the dilemma. He didn’t know where to put the booger and Kaylan wasn’t impressed he was still holding onto it! I didn’t even know what was going on until Kelli told me. Gross Bode!

Kenna was moving around rocks to make her seat a bit more comfy. She is so cute and so darn funny!

The perks of having a potty trained boy is that you can have him go just about anywhere. :)

  The plane finally came!! We watched it go past us and turn around.

One by one the jumpers started coming out! Aaron was #5 so he’s the one closest to the plane in this next shot. He hadn’t pulled his shoot yet.

Here’s all 11 from the first jump! We got to watch 3 separate groups jump. SO COOL.

Here is Bode riding on my dad’s neck, as he calls it. He loved watching all of this go down. He still talks about how Uncle Aaron jumped out of a plane every time we see one now.

Sweet Kaylan girl was so excited to see her daddy. It was pretty cool because he was able to hang out with us as we watched the other two groups jump. Everyone had a bunch of questions for him, and his friend even came over and filled us in on some of what goes down.

Some of the guys landed SO hard and were dragged by their shoots. Aaron said that has happened to him 3 times, and he’s landed on concrete one time! I couldn’t even imagine. It was kind of scary for a few minutes because it looked like one guy wasn’t getting up. Aaron and his friend Spenser went running over to check everything out. My heart was sure pumping, but the guy got up and everything was ok.

I snapped a few pics of the cute family.

I don’t know how my sister does it, being a military wife! She is so supportive of Aaron and so proud. I really look up to her because I know she is sacrificing a lot for Aaron to be serving our Country, as is Aaron. This last bit of training for Aaron was the end of a 7 month stretch being away from home. Kelli got to see him here and there a bit, but wow that would be so hard. Kaylan and Kenna are so sweet and she does an amazing job with them. It takes a special kind of family to handle the stresses of it all, that’s for sure.  Thanks Thurgood family for all you guys do!!!!!!! And thanks for letting us be a part of this jump. :)

7 Peaks

I decided to get a season pass this year and we have been going a ton! Bode loves it for the most part, but it’s been a struggle some days. If you have a pass, you can get in at 9:30. So we get up, get ready, and go early. Bode must have at least 7 or 8 swim suits and he refuses to wear any of them but two. This has been driving me insane!!! He’s so picky these days with what he will and won’t wear. Drives me NUTS.

It takes about 40-45 min to drive there, and we always leave around 12-1. Once we get there, he always wants me to hold him everywhere we go. With my growing belly, it’s so uncomfortable to hold him. Sometimes the pressure sends these zings through my belly! It’s the weirdest thing. I never had these sharp pains the first time around being prego. I try to explain this to him but he still whines and cries sometimes. He knows by now what the rules are when we enter the park. In the car we go over them just as a reminder and he will say, “No hold you mommy, no cryin’, no runnin’ away, no screamin.” I remind him he needs to be nice and try really hard to have fun and be a good boy. Some days it works. :) I love getting away and enjoying the sun shine. He’s usually a lot of fun and we have a blast.

 

He loves his squirt gun. I just found out it’s not allowed in the wave pool though. Oops.

We went with his friend Logan last week. Isn’t he cute??

My little brother has a season pass and so every once in a while we run into him. Bode LOVES it. My mom came once and that was fun for Bode as well. Here’s to the rest of the summer!! I’m not keen on putting on my swim suit the following 3 months.. but there could be worse things I suppose.

28 Weeks

 

So I feel really stupid for 1. Having Clint take these pictures. 2. Posting said pictures.

I never had a “maternity” shoot when I was pregnant with Bode and I kinda wish I did because all the pictures I do have are blurry and bad. I never feel like I look good, period. I hate everything about having a pregnant belly.  Time goes by and I get bigger and all the sudden I look back and think hmm.. I didn’t look so bad.  I might coax Clint into taking a few more photos once I get farther along, but for now here is 7 months. :)

We are super excited for Baby Owen to get here already. He sure is an active little fella. Bode tells me all the time, “Mom! Feel it!!! Owen’s kickin’ me!!!!!” We feel his cute little tummy and play along. I can’t wait for 2 little busters in the house.