This Week

To start off the week we went to, The Living Planet Aquarium. It was awesome! It cost an adult $8 to get in one time or you can buy a one year pass and go as many times as you would like for $16. Definitely worth it. They had an octopus there that I tried to take a picture of but because their eyes are so sensitive to light you can't use your flash. So none of my pictures turned out from that. But here are some other fun ones.

This is an electric eel. The pinkish part is his face. On the tank there was a sensor that measured the amount of current that the eel was putting off. It was really cool. While we were standing there the sensor jumped up to say he was in hunting mode.

These are Piranhas. I didn't know they were so big.

They let you touch the Sting Rays. It scared me so bad but I finally managed to touch him. He was gushy.

Conner was so fascinated by this. It was a giant bubble that magnified everything that was in the tank. It had a very bright light inside and Conner was throwing himself to get to it.

These two pictures are of different kinds of jellyfish. I don't know why sea creatures freak me out.

We borrowed this walker from my sister-in-law. Conner walks over to the sliding glass door when he sees Copper sitting on the other side.

On Thursday Steve and I went to Ashley Beck's (Christofferson) house for a BBQ with all my girlfriends from high school and their husbands. It's always fun to get together.
Friday night I had a girls night with Hope and Ashley. Yummy food and foot spas. I did make a new recipe for the girls night. I made white chocolate raspberry cream cheese frosting on homemade chocolate cupcakes. Good times!
Saturday started off with Steve's work party up at Deer Creek. They rented a couple wave runners and provided lunch. I took Steve and me out on the lake. The water was really rough and I am not use to driving those. My throat hurt by the time we got off from screaming and Steve's stomach hurt from laughing so hard at me.
Saturday night our stake put on a Harvest Festival. I signed up to bring a soup and when I showed up I started laughing. I have NEVER seen so many crockpots at one time in my life. They also had face painting, a live band, gunny sack races, and blow up toys.
To end our night. Conner and Steve sleeping.

Currant Creek Campout

My sister Debbie and her family as well as my parents went with us to Currant Creek Reservoir this weekend for a camping trip. It was a lot of fun. Great food, great company and lots of laughs. The reservoir was about a 2 minute walking trip from our campsite. We fished quite a bit and didn't catch anything! It was very nice to have bathrooms nearby as well. Friday night we had some raccoons visit our camp while we were sleeping. We woke up to find their paw prints on the tablecloths and over all the coolers, we had one cardboard box of dry food that they had ripped part of the top off trying to get to the food. It's kind of funny how well and sometimes better you eat while camping even though it isn't near as convenient as cooking at home. Conner did have some rough nights but Steve did most of the work. Thank you babe.

Conner sleeping in his pack-n-play.Conner's sleeping attire. I thought he looked so cute!Debbie's little girl Kaylee. She and Conner are nine months apart.

Adison was feeding Conner his toys. They are so good with Conner.

Just down the hill from our camp.

Steve called me over to show me this, it was gorgeous seeing the sun reflect on the water.

This shows how close the water was from our camp site. Steve is standing right behind where our tent was. Jacie and Adison were off getting dirty as we were all eating dinner.

Debbie's three kids.

This is what Conner wore our first night camping. He is so precious.

After we got home from camping on Sunday and settled down the three of us were just playing around on the bed. Suddenly Conner got up on all fours and crawled about four steps toward Steve. Steve just looked at me with big eyes and said he just crawled to me. We got so excited and started clapping for Conner, he just got this big grin on his face. We tried to get him to do it again but we couldn't. It is going to be so fun and so much work once he starts crawling.

Random Pictures

These pictures were from a sunset that we saw a couple of nights ago off our back porch.

Conner's first time drinking out of a sippy cup. He did really well I was surprised. That is the shirt that I made Steve for Father's Day.

He is smiling so big he is all puffy.

I can't decide what kind of a look this is.

Catch Up

I know that I am jumping the gun on the fall blog but I can't wait! I love the fall. One thing I love about fall is school starting. I can't wait for Scholastic book orders. I keep forgetting to mention how Conner is growing up. He now holds his bottle about 75% of the time by himself. He rolls over in both directions. It is funny he'll lay on his stomach roll to his back and then roll to his stomach, fun to watch. Lately he gets up on his knees trying to crawl when he wants to reach something that is too far away but he doesn't pick up the front of his body so he usually ends up in a strange looking yoga position. He tried carrots for the first time and didn't really care about them at all. He can sit by himself for about 20-30 seconds before he starts to fall over. He has been back on his old sleeping schedule which is wonderful. Last night he slept 12 hours, from seven to seven. Well I think that covers it.
Today Conner and I went to the library and checked out some books but I only checked out children's books. If anyone has any suggestions for me to read that are clean and fun adult books let me know. Today we also went to Thanksgiving Point because it was $2 Tuesday. We went to the petting zoo with, Debbie, Amber and all their kids. It was fun. I took a ton of pictures.
I don't know.

Just Me and My Dad

My favorite picture. It looks like he is looking at Steve with such
admiration and saying teach me dad.

This is his new funny face that he makes constantly.

Another weekend of treats. Saturday night I made Texas Style Cheese Fries, oh they are good, then I made Oreo Truffles. A new favorite. Steve made homemade ice cream and dipped Oreos in chocolate. We are so weak. On the up side we did buy some peaches, bananas, and apples. We are going to try dehydrating fruit for the first time. We are also going to try to dehydrate some meat and make sweet and sour jerky.

Unexpected Night Out

Some of our friends gave us an unexpected night out. It was great! They gave us tickets to the Living Planet Aquarium and dinner. We didn't make it to the aquarium before it closed so we'll go another time. We went to Chili's we tried two new things, Texas Cheese fries and the Chocolate Chip Cookie Molten Lava Cake. They were SO good just typing about them I want to go attempt my own versions of them. Thank you so much you guys! It was raining before we left so we bundled Conner up we thought he looked so cute in his jacket we had to take a picture.I finally got a picture where you can see Conner's two teeth. But because the picture is so small you really can't see them. He is very happy here because he just woke up from a 3 1/2 hour nap

Weekend Review

I was doing so well after Conner was born with my eating. It helped a lot having gestational diabetes because I had to be so careful with my eating. So after he was born I didn't crave the sweets or a lot of carbs even a little was too much. But I slowly have gone back to my old ways of eating and looking back at this weekend all I remember eating is junk. I gained 20 lbs while pregnant with Conner and a week and a half after I had him I had lost 28 lbs. I have since in the last couple of months gained about 6 pounds back. So I really need to dedicate myself and start working out. I have to break the barrier of, "I would rather take a nap than work out." I know I would be so much happier and have a lot more energy. Just do it! Anyway back to my weekend. We did do a few things between eating all the junk. Friday we dipped oreos in chocolate, as well as pretzels and then we drizzled caramel over the pretzels, and had a frozen pizza for dinner. Saturday morning we went fishing up at Silver Lake Flats. Our sister in law Amber went with us with her four kids. It was really cold and windy which made it a little challenging with Conner. Steve and the kids did catch 3 fish so that was great.

Steve and Conner fishing.After that we headed down to Springville to try some custard that Steve really liked. Then we got home and rested till it was time to go to the drive in. We invited our friends Hope and Brandon to come with us. We saw GI Joe and Transformers 2. I liked GI Joe. Anyway I was trying to be good and I brought watermelon and canteloupe to the movies. Hope was very thoughtful and brought each of us a snickers and popcorn. Needless to say I didn't eat the fruit. Maybe that 6 pounds has gone up to 8 after this weekend. Oh yeah today we made churros. I told Steve we need to throw away our vegetable oil. What healthy recipe calls for it?
Look how good he is getting at sitting up.

5 Month Birthday!

Steve teases me because I get so excited about each of his "birthdays." Well, tooth #3 is on its way. The bottom corner of the top tooth is just barely sticking out. Earlier today Conner had his back side up in the crawling position but the front of his body was completely flat. But that didn't stop him from scooting around. He is getting stronger with sitting up by himself. Each day he can do it a little longer. I feel so bad for him because now when Conner lays on a blanket with animals or designs on it he tries so hard to pick them up. He'll try over and over again. He doesn't get it, they are part of the blanket. So the other day I put a duck over one of the images so he could pick it up. The last couple of days he has been so much happier. I am pretty sure it is because I have been reading the children's Book of Mormon to him again. We finished it a few months ago and I never started it again so a few days I go I got back on top of it and it has made a difference, for both of us. I have learned so much from the children's version.
It's been really neat.
Last night I baby sat my sister's two little girls as well as a boy that she had to watch for the week. So I had a total of 4 kids for 9 hours. A big pat on the back for all the moms out there with more than one child. You are amazing! Here is Conner's five month picture.
I am sure that Steve will have something to say about the pink blanket. Hee hee hee.

New photos

This is my fifth post in a week and a day, I obviously need a project. I think Conner is finally feeling a little better he is napping a lot today. Two hours after he woke up he fell asleep again for 3 hours. Then he stayed awake for 2 more hours and slept again for an hour and a half. Once he woke up from that nap we tried a little photo shoot with some new pants he got from Kyle and Jenny. He is eating right now but he keeps falling asleep. Here are some of the pics. I was trying to make him look like one of the kids from the 20s or 30s with the hat and pants.