Boating, Wakeboarding, and Windmills

We finally have gone boating a few times this summer with Mike(Phil's boss/good friend) and his family. Phil is glad his knee has healed so he can finally wakeboard again (our season got cut short last summer because of his injury). I also decided to do a little wakeboarding myself. It has been almost 3 years since I last tried. I think snowboarding has helped me with wakeboarding but it definately killed my back. Here is a picture of Kayden at the end of his first boating trip. He was a little nervous our first trip and would usually just cuddle up to me. After that first trip he was trying to walk all over and climb out of the boat. He even got in the freezing water for a minute. He is such a good little boy!


On our way up to the lake I noticed that they are adding a ton of windmills. I think windmills are awesome so I got all excited and made Phil stop so I could get a couple close pictures. Phil was talking to the project manager the other day about them and learned a lot of interesting facts. Don't worry I won't go into all the details but it was cool to me :) I guess they only have like a hundred now but when they are finished they will have 3,000. I can't wait until they get that many and they are all running!


Notice the little orange out house compared to how huge the windmill is.

4th of July week

We have had a crazy busy month already! Sorry if this gets to be a long post. Its been hard to keep up with blogging. A couple weeks ago I got to go up Grover and visit my family while they were camping. It was a blast being able to ride dirt bikes again. It's been so long because last summer I was hugely prego and couldn't go on any real bike rides. haha All I got to do last summer was ride around Auburn... and I'm sure back then I was quite a sight to see. Kayden also enjoyed his 4-wheeler ride with Grandma while the rest of us were off on our bike ride.


I got to spend some time with Courtney before she left for Montana. It is always fun to see her! Kayden also loved her birds! He kept trying to sneak over to the bird cages to play with Kiwi. Thanks for coming to visit Courtney! Maybe we will get in a vacation and come up your way!

Phil's family also came to town for almost a week. On Thursday we all got to go rafting down the Snake River. Phil and I went and dropped Kayden off at my parents house. My mom is awesome and willing to babysit so we can go have fun. While we were at my house, Phil went and helped my dad change pipe. Not a good idea! He didn't even make it out into the field before his eyes were way too swollen. He turned around and didn't even get to help my dad. The weird thing is that he has NEVER had allergies before. His eyes were swollen so bad that I kept making fun of him looking like a chinaman. haha I'm nice I know. Finally we got Phil's eyes to be somewhat better so we could go meet up with his family at the river. We decided to just rent a raft and have Mike be our guide rather than pay a ton more to hire one. We only made one mistake and didn't get out where we were parked. By the time we tried paddling over to the ramps, it was too late. haha this is where the adventure really began. The men hiked out at one spot and hitch hiked to the car so they could drive it to Alpine. Then they climbed back down the mountain so we could get going again. We ended up finding a spot to hike out just before getting to Alpine. The men were busy dealing with deflating and carrying the raft up the hill but we were very pushed on time to get the raft back before it was due. Sarah and I decided to hitchhike this time. There were a lot of jerks that wouldn't stop! Finally a super nice girl named Charlie from SV decided to pick us up. We didn't get the raft back in time, but luckily someone was still there so we could actually turn it in. This was definately an adventurous day full of fun!

Friday was Phil's birthday. Emily, Phil's sister, wanted us to take her to Eclipse and Friday was the best day for it to work. So we all went to the movie while Phil's mom was nice enough to watch Kayden. After the movie we went and had dinner at Red Robin. Phil then wanted to go race go karts. Once again Phil's mom was super nice and sat out with Kayden while we raced. Thanks Shirley. Later we went and had some yummy Cold Stone ice cream :)

Saturday Phil went golfing. Then later we had a bbq at Mike's. We also went and watched the fireworks. Kayden refused to look at them and kept covering his eyes while cuddling with me. After that we went back to Mike's for some more awesome not so legal fireworks. Shhh... Don't tell!

Sunday we had planned going boating, but luckily that didn't work out since my family surprised us by showing up. We went out and had a fun picnic of Panda Express (we finally got one here in Idaho Falls and it is delicious!). Kayden got to swing and play at the park with my family. Later we had a yummy dinner with Phil's family. Phil's sister also took some family pictures of us. I am looking forward to seeing these and will post them when they are ready! Thanks Sarah!

Anyways I am out of time so I will have to post some more pictures later... and there are some things I don't have any pictures of that just might have to steal from you too Sarah! :)

Swimming

This was Kayden's first time in his tiny swimming pool. He loved it! He was splashing like crazy and ended up getting me soaked too. Hope you enjoy the few pictures of our fun!

Our summer so far

I'm not very good at keeping up on blogging. Every day I think I should go post quick and then I end up doing other things. When the weather is nice we are busy trying to be out in the sun. Kayden now crawls to the door and basically begs to go outside. He is now crawling and pulling himself up all over the place. He is constantly getting into anything and everything (especially stuff he shouldn't be getting into). He is super fun and getting difficult to keep up with. He would rather walk than crawl so he spends a lot of time following me around in the walker too. Today I got out some paint for Kayden to enjoy. He had fun playing in the paint and even trying to eat the paintbrush. We finally got a finished picture to give to Dad for Father's Day.

Lately Phil has been going golfing a lot. He got new clubs as an early birthday present and loves them. Now he is constantly wanting to go golfing or go hit a bucket of balls. I swear he even thinks that his clubs belong in the living room rather than the garage or closet.

As for me I have been keeping myself busy with going on walks, shopping with friends and sisters, learning how to do a weave in my sister's hair, having Courtney highlight my hair (you are amazing girl!), working out, and trying to keep up with Kayden. Speaking of working out... I have been doing P90X for the past two months, and I would definately recommend it to anyone. It is amazing and it works! I have a lot more energy, I'm getting some muscles again, and I've lost more weight than expected (since I haven't really done any of the dieting part). I weighed myself in the beginning and refused to get on a scale since. I finally gave in and checked my weight a couple weeks ago... I lost 25 lbs in 1.5 months :) I was in complete shock because I haven't really noticed a difference looking in the mirror. So anyway I would definately tell anyone to try P90X because I have been seriously satisfied.

Last weekend Phil finally took a couple days off of work so we could get a little vacation. We headed up to Star Valley so the guys could go golfing (imagine that). Then after they went golfing Phil and my dad went and stained our headboard and footboard. My dad and Phil have been working on this project for a while now. They are building a beautiful headboard for our bed. I am super excited that it is almost done. This picture is before they stained it so you will have to wait for the finished product!

The next day my family and some of our friends all headed down to Utah. We spent one day at Lagoon. It was the perfect day to be there. It rained a little here and there but not way too much. It was awesome that it wasn't way too hot but we also got to enjoy some sunshine. Since everyone thought it was gonna be a bad day it wasn't very busy. There were hardly any lines. This meant we got to do whatever we wanted when we wanted. It was also super nice that I had so many people willing to watch Kayden so I got to enjoy it like I normally would have. The next day we got to do some shopping. It was fun to spend time with my family and get out of Idaho. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures. I took my camera but I guess I was just having too much fun to think to get it out. :( Maybe I will get better at that. We are having a fun summer so far and we can't wait for everything else we have planned.

First 4-wheeler ride

Kayden got to go on his first 4-wheeler ride with Grandpa. Grandpa has been begging to take him on the snowmachine all winter but I never gave in. He was finally happy to take him out on the 4-wheeler and bike. Kayden seemed to enjoy it. Everytime Grandpa would act like he was taking Kayden out Kayden would immediately go to him and act all excited. It was adorable. Grandpa finally found a way to bribe Kayden to come to him.

Eating his coat. Silly kid.

Here is his first time on a bike. Like the huge, pink gloves we had to stick on his hands since I forgot to bring his gloves? haha Poor kid.

He even enjoyed jumping with Dad

Swinging

Here are the pictures I didn't have time to add to my last post. Kayden's first time in the swings. He seemed to enjoy himself but it was definately something new to him.





In the last picture can you tell he was done and ready to go?

April Adventures

I haven't been keeping up on blogging lately. So here goes a post for the month of April.

For Easter we got to go to Star Valley. We had lots of fun coloring eggs and finding them in the morning. Phil and I also enjoyed still being kids and running around finding eggs filled with candy. Usually we have this egg hunt outside, but since there was way too much snow this year most of the eggs were inside with a few outside. I didn't get any pictures because I was too busy racing around trying to get more candy. :) Kayden liked his new toys. As you can tell he also loved the sugar peep Grandpa spoiled him with.

Watching conference with Daddy

The weekend after Easter, Kayden I got to go back to Star Valley for Shay's Jr. Prom. She asked me to help her with her hair. We wanted to do a half updo but the guys ended up only giving their dates an hour and a half to get ready. That short time also included a shower since they had been 4-wheeling all morning.
I couldn't even finish getting her hair curled in that amount of time, so needless to say she was a little late. Luckily my tiara I wore for my wedding was in my closet there so at least she had a little something more than just curls.

We have all been loving the nice weather. Every day that it has been nice outside Kayden and I have gone for walks. I've even started getting a farmers tan lol... ugh. Phil and I took Kayden to the park for his first time. He seemed to like swinging, but it was definately a new experience for him. I've run out of time for today so I will have to post the pictures of him swinging later. Here are a few pictures of his first time playing on the grass.

He loves his tongue :)

Trying to drink out of dad's glass