The Wilhelmsen Botanical Blog

Hey everyone!  Happy first day of Autumn!  I really enjoyed the rain this morning.  I took Aiden out and stuck his toes in a puddle and let the rain drip drop on his head.  It was fun. 

So last week was pretty busy.  Monday I took Aiden to the pediatrician because of a rash he had and his eye being goobered shut when he woke up in the morning.  While there I found out that he had a bit of pink eye and we got a prescription for eye drops.  When I left the appointment I realized that I had left the keys on the back seat and locked them in the car.  I ended up sitting on the grass with Aiden and waited for about 90 mins. before the locksmith guy showed up.  We have verizon roadside assistance so the lock out was free but geez!  It was a LONG wait.  Luckily I had taken the diaper bag in so I had a blanket for Aiden and was able to rock him to sleep. 

Wednesday I fed Aiden tiny bite sized pieces of hot dog, bread, puffs, & peaches for dinner because he wasn’t eating his pureed baby food very well.  He enjoyed picking up the little pieces of food and didn’t drop very many on the floor or in his lap.  After dinner I went to Pioneer Theatre to see My Fair Lady with my aunt Vicky.  As always the costumes and set were AMAZING! 

Friday we took Aiden to Target to get his picture taken.  We had him in a porceline tub with rubber duckies all around, a towel, baby powder, and then we blew bubbles while the photographer took the pictures.  They turned out REALLY cute!

Saturday we went to the University Village Block Party where we gathered some good pamphlets and ate burgers.  In the afternoon we went to my dad’s and I started to clean my sisters old room.  After we cleaned we went to visit my grandma and she gave Aiden a cream puff to munch on.  We also stuck our feet in her pool and visited with her and grandpa.  We spent the rest of the evening at home.

 Sunday I finished emptying my sisters old room and vacuumed.  All that I have left to do is wipe down all of the walls and then we will move her boxes of books somewhere else and take my vanity to the DI.  Hallelujah Aiden has somewhere to sleep!  When we got home I organized papers in our file drawer.  Well, I guess that is all for last week.  Thanks for reading…

This week has been a roller coaster of ups and downs.  Each evening for some reason I have gotten a little case of the blues and I don’t even know why.  Perhaps it is just because of the stress Brandon and I have been under. 

Unfortunately, I do not remember even remotely what went on early in the week and I don’t have anything written down in my day planner or on the calender to help jog my memory.  Oh well.  I do know that we watched Look Who’s Talking Too, King Corn, and Three Men and a Little Lady at some point during the week and I picked up some groceries. 

Thursday evening the three of us went out to eat with my dad to talk about us moving in with him.  (For those of you who did not receive our e-mail we have decided to move in with my dad for the remainder of Brandon’s schooling and part of next summer, so a total of perhaps 9-10 months.  We are doing this in the best interest of our family because we have had bad luck with the poor job economy and it is very stressful each time we go through a period of joblessness, especially now that our savings is gone.)  Anyway, my dad wanted some logistics and to find out what we are thinking as far as who will sleep where, what needs to be done, church, groceries, laundry, etc.  I think we figured most things out and will have to talk about other things as they come up.

We also visited grandma on Thursday and she enjoyed spending time with Aiden while Brandon attended and impromptu tour of UPS. 

Friday we took it easy all day.  We did run some errands to Target 1 & 2 to pick up our photos, to the library, to staples, and to the U of U to return a textbook that Brandon didn’t need.  We didn’t get a full refund for it because the full refund date was Sept. 5th or something and we would have returned it sooner but Brandon found out from his teacher on the 11th that he wouldn’t need it.  BAH!  We lost $6.00ish because of that.  But at least it wasn’t worse. 

Saturday was fun.  We went to the bishop’s for lunch and then dropped Aiden off with my mom to be baby sat so that we could go and see, “Scary Poppins, Super-nanny-gone-ballistic-expialidocious.”  It was funny and very clever.  The American Olio was good as well.  (Usually this show has a Back To School Olio but I am guessing that they went American due to it being an election year.) 

Well, my trouble this week has been with digital photos.  I found out on Weds. or Thurs. that if I want to download my photos from snapfish it will cost me 25 cents for the first one and 5 cents for each one after for every seperate download that I do.  YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!  Oi.  All those hours uploading photos was a waste of time!  Next, yesterday I was starting to transfer my pics. onto Brandon’s computer and I did something wrong and lost like 10 of my photos (total photo loss after recovering the missing data and trying to fix corrupt files).  It was really a bummer because I cherish my photos so deeply.  *sigh*  I am going to be much more careful in the future. 

As for Aiden, he is doing well.  He is getting around more quickly now and starting to get into things.  He likes pulling our phone books onto the floor off of the bottom shelf of our plastic stacker.  He has also started to venture onto the kitchen floor and like to crawl under the tables and chairs.  Another thing he likes to do is climb up into the bottom shelf of our white shelves.  Yesterday while I was folding laundry I had him in my lap and he used the laundry basket to pull himself into a standing postion!  He is so smart.  This morning when I got him out of bed his little eye was goobered shut, after I helped him get his eyelashes unstuck I noticed that his eye is a little puffy and slightly red.  If it still looks that way tomorrow or worse, then I will call the pediatrician. 

As for my Brandon, he has 2 interviews on Tuesday.  One with Loomis (the company he worked for when we were dating, and his boss would be someone that he worked with before), the 2nd with backcountry.com.  He also has an interview next week with UPS.  We feel pretty good about Loomis and Back Country though.  He is also doing a good job keeping up with his homework and Thumbprints designs. 

Well that is all for this week, thanks for reading…

Hello again!  I know that a full week hasn’t passed yet but Sunday is my usual day to write the family news (sometimes I don’t get to it until Monday but hey) and so today is the day I am to write.  I did a LOT of laundry this week, washing the dirty clothes from our trip, the clothes in the laundry basket, and any new clothes that were purchased in between (because I read somewhere to wash all baby clothes before the baby wears them).  Then of course we had all the dishes washed and I decided that I NEEDED chocolate chip cookies and hey, since we have cream cheese frosting in the fridge why not cook up some homemade cinnamon rolls as well.  As a result we have more dirty dishes.  I long for the day when I have a full sized dishwasher that my pots, pans, and baking sheets will fit in. 

The other fun thing this week is that Aiden is starting to really get into things and also get around.  Today I had to put up the gate over by the washing machine, bathroom, and our bedroom because he had crawled clear over there to get the milk jugs by the garbage.  He has also been crawling around under the kitchen table and chairs and all over the kitchen floor.  He has also learned to pull his buckets of toys/books off the bottom shelf of our book shelf and dump the toys on the floor.  (What he really wants is to play with the bucket and is not trying to make a mess.)  Aiden will put anything and everything in his mouth.  Last night he found a leaf on the floor and by the time we realized it he was gagging on it and had a fistful of it in his little hand.  I just patted him on the back and then gave him some water to dislodge it and wash it down.  Silly babies! 

On the night that we made cookies and cinnamon rolls I gave Aiden a little taste of the cookie (note the chocolate on his lips in the picture below).  He was thoroughly thrilled with the deliciousness of the treat.  The next night we want to our stake neighborhood party and they had cotton candy.  I decided to give Aiden a bit and he liked it but I think that he was not quite sure what was happening because by the time it was in his mouth it had dissolved and yet there was still a yummy flavor.  The most exciting thing with Aiden lately is that when he is in the mood he will give us kisses.  We just kiss him all over his cute little face then we say, “Kisses,” put his mouth up to our cheek and he will stick his toungue out and make a little noise.  It makes me smile SO much. 

Anyway, yesterday I went with my mom for a girls day while Brandon daddy sat Aiden.  We had lunch got a manicure and then went to Walmart for a little shopping.  I got some very cute shoes and pajama’s.  My mom got a couple of dresses and some high heels.  In the evening we watched Three Men and a Baby that we had checked out at the library.  It had been SO very long since I had seen it and it made me laugh.  Our next couple that we plan to check out are Three Men and a Little Lady, Look Who’s Talking, Look Who’s Talking Too, and Look Who’s Talking Now.  Go 80’s films!  Woot!

Well, that is all for today.  I will write some more next week.  Thanks for reading…

Well, last week was a whirlwind.  It was full of fun and whipped by quickly.  Monday was just a regular day at home with the exception of eating lunch at Red Robin so that I could have my free birthday burger.  It was tasty.  At home I feel like I am constantly trying to keep up with housework and in this tiny place even the smallest mess makes me feel like the whole house is a mess.  Brandon also started school on Monday.  I am not sure how he feels about it just yet but he seems to be getting into the swing of things. 

Tuesday was a lot of fun.  When Brandon got home from school we drove out to Ogden to IFly Utah and enjoyed a simulated sky dive.  You can see videos of our flight at http://wilhelmsenfamilyadventures.blogspot.com/  After our trip to Ogden we came home and I fed Aiden.  While feeding I noticed he was feeling warmer then usual and took his temp.  102.0 on the binky thermometer and 101.0 on the regular under arm thermometer.  I started to worry and was telling Brandon that we needed to cancel our dinner plans.  He said that we should go anyway and we will watch Aiden very closely.  I know that Tylenol and Ibuprofin help to reduce fever but it hadn’t been 8 hours since the previous dose and so I waited.  Anyway, while we were eating dinner I took Aiden’s temp. again on the binky thermometer.  103.3 Aghhhh!  I told Brandon that we needed to go to the ER and gave Aiden his next dose even though the 8 hours wouldn’t be done for 15-30 mins.  Well we went to Alta View hospital and by the time we got there Aiden’s temp. was 100.5 on a scan thermometer and under arm thermometer.  They took us back to a room where after waiting a bit we found out that they do not take molina medicaid.  Well we decided to refuse treatment and left.  Well, amongst all this I find out that my friends were throwing me a surprise party and we were supposed to be at Murray Park at 7:00.  So after refusing treatment we went to the park and planned to watch Aiden closely again.  After about an hour at the park Brandon took Aiden’s temp again and it had gone back up to 102.5 on our binky thermometer.  So we decided to head straight to Primary Children’s Hospital and have him looked at.  Thankfully a girl in our ward ended up being our nurse and the ER doctor was wonderful.  She said that he had a blister in his mouth and that it was the coxsackies virus.  Which is the same virus that causes hand, foot, and mouth disease.  As you know you can’t medicate a virus and so she told us what to do to keep AIden comfortable while the virus ran it’s course.  I am just glad it wasn’t something worse.

Wednesday we stayed in so that Aiden wasn’t exposed to anything else.  We also packed for our trip to Reno and I did my best to get the house cleaned up before our trip.  I also started to feel under the weather with a cold or something. 

Thursday after more attempts to clean up we went to my dad’s for a ride to the airport.  Then we embarked on our flight to Reno which was Aiden’s first plane ride.  It went well, he ate and then slept.  He also did this on our flight to Boise on the way back.  From Boise to SLC though he was wiggly and slightly fussy.  He would not go to sleep for anything.  It wasn’t as bad as I had imagined though and so I was lucky.

While we were in Reno we ate at Red Robin and the buffet at the Atlantis casino.  We attended a rib cook off and Aiden got spoiled because aunt Megan bought him a bunch of clothes.  We also swam in Megan’s pool and played Wii fit and Wii olympics.  The rest of the time we relaxed and let Aiden enchant and delight various family members.  We also visited Brandon’s great grandma (Aiden’s great-great grandma) and that was good for her to see Aiden.  Thanks for letting us visit Megan!

We returned home on Labor Day so as you might guess we spent our labor day traveling home and then my dad took us out to dinner.  Thanks dad!

Well, now it is just business as usual.  Thanks for reading…

Hello, hello! As you might have surmised from the title college starts up again for Brandon today.  Holy cow, is all that I have to say about it. It seems that we always have a million big ideas for the summer and then when all is said and done summer has slipped away and our list of things to do remains barely touched. For example, Brandon planned to build a giamongus kite this summer, he has made immense progress but alas the kite is not finished…maybe for next spring eh? He also planned to do a huge chunk of research and planning for the business that he wants to start and while he has laid a lot of good ground work it appears that he will have to make the big push over the Christmas holidays and next summer after he graduates (yes, I did say that, it is his LAST YEAR at the U of U!!!! WAH HOO!!!).

As for myself I wanted to attend a lot of the summer concert series at the Brigham Young Historic Park as well as a few of the farmer’s markets downtown. We never did make it to a farmer’s market but we did go see Peter Breinholt perform.

Which brings me to our week, Tuesday evening is when we went to the Peter Breinholt concert. It was a lot of fun. We used to actually go and help sell c.d.’s at Pete’s concerts so it was nice to go and be able to just enjoy. He played, “You wear flowers” and as usual invited people to come up front and dance. After the song he said , “When I first started performing teenagers would come down and dance, what you saw dancing up here just now was their children.” It made me laugh. Gotta love the circle of life. The evening weather was nice, just a perfect summer evening temperature.

Weds. we took Aiden to get his six month pictures taken (can you believe he is already that old, I can’t.) and there was a mix up. This mix up has happened to me twice now at Target and once at Walmart. We got there, we were signing in and another person claiming to have a 1:00 appointment came in. Well, it was THEIR name in the book and not mine so guess who gets to keep the appointment? They do. Luckily the girl called another Target and we drove there for the pics. The lame part is that we will have to drive back there to pick up the photos and it wasn’t exactly convenient. OI! In the evening my sweet hubby took me to Robintino’s for our 3 year anniversary. I can’t believe that we have been married that long. It has gone by quickly and has been filled with many happy days and various bumps along the way (like an endless cycle of having to find Brandon a new job.) The truth of the matter is that we are still as in love as the day we met (if not more so). We can still be called the poster children for PDA’s and why not? I want the whole wide world to know how much in love I am with my hubby! 🙂 Dinner was yummy and thank you to grandma Carolyn and Grandpa Warren for watching their great grandchild for a few hours.  Here is a picture of us on our wedding day…

Thursday was a day of many trips to the airport for Brandon. He picked up his dad at 7:00 so that he could come and visit with Aiden. Aiden was not too sure about this “new” person for a little bit but eventually he warmed up and flashed he famous smile for him. Thank you for the Jamba Juice Dad Wilhelmsen! After we had smoothies Brandon and his dad went to pick up my mom from the airport and deposit her back home. Aiden and I stayed home and had a visit with Mr. Sandman.

Friday was less eventful. Brandon worked 10:30-6:00 at a one day temp. job and then we just lounged around here at home (by lounged I mean ran around taking care of Aiden and keeping him entertained as well as doing household chores that needed to be done).

Saturday we went to have our family pictures taken. They turned out cute and I am excited to get them back. After that we dropped Aiden off at my mom’s so that she could babysit Aiden while we went to Desert Star. It was the last showing of Indian Bones and the cast had the giggles. There was a TON of ad-libbing and I was laughing SO hard pretty much the whole time. The best part was that they were riding stick “llama’s” and the good guys had white Llama’s while the bad guys had black Llama’s. Well, one of the good guys was miming that his Llama was trying to buck him and was somewhat violent so then the bad guys arrive on scene after the good guys left and one of them was playing along with the whole “violent” bit and really rough housing with his stick Llama and the head went flying off. I was laughing so hard that I couldn’t breathe. Then as he puts the head back on the stick he says, “this is not a good time to lose one’s head.” I must also say that this characters name is Rahboul and he is dressed like an indian snake charmer/sultan. He had an excellent comedic indian accent. So anyway, he rejoins he posse and then says that his Llama is very serious and has no experience so he must be Barack O’Llama. There were plenty of silly antics including some involving a riding crop and a token Nazi with a Hitler moustache but I will end my description here. After the show we went to get Aiden and enjoyed a slice of my birthday cake with my mom. (My birthday is on Tuesday but that was the only time she had available between now and my birthday to help me celebrate.) We spent the evening at home.

Today we enjoyed church and visiting teaching, home teaching, being visit taught and being home taught. This evening we will have dinner with my dad in celebration of my birthday and Brandon has a few things up his sleeve for my real birthday on Tuesday. Well, I guess that is all for this week. Have a good first week of school to those of you who are heading back this week and as always, thanks for reading…

Well, yet another week has FLOWN by.  We have been pretty busy with Brandon looking for a job and keeping the apartment from being a disaster area.  Monday I picked up Aiden’s 5 month pictures from Walmart and they are CUTE!!!  Going with a patriotic theme was the right idea and they couldn’t have turned out better.

Tuesday our 2nd niece was born after her mother had gone through 26+ hours of labor resulting in a c-section.  But I am glad she arrived safely and she is in our prayers while they and the doctors try to figure out the best path to go to resolve the troubles with her heart.  Welcome to the mommy club Sherrada!  We miss you and wish we could kiss little Lydia!  We also went and had lunch with my cousin, his wife, and their little girl Elise. 

Wednesday Brandon, Aiden, & I went and helped my sister pack her stuff into a moving truck.  Aiden has been taking shorter and shorter naps.  This is stressing me out because I am worried that he is so excited to be learning and so worried to be missing out on something that he isn’t getting enough sleep.  He should be getting approx. 14 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period.  Most days he gets 11 1/2 or so.  Not to mention this sudden jump from two 2 1/2 hour naps plus one hour long nap to three 30 min. naps has left me wondering how I will get anything done around the house and feeling bad that I don’t play with him constantly when he is awake.  On top of that he is eating strangely by being more and more distracted.  Maybe he is getting what he needs more quickly and being done but it is hard to know when you are a breast feeding mom.  Anyway, these things led me to be slightly ornery on Wednesday but we got a lot packed and I helped by taking things apart and putting them in their boxes. 

Thursday is wiped from my mind.  So sorry!

Friday we went to lunch at Applebee’s with my grandma, dad, sis., and her hubby Matt and then said our final goodbyes to my sis and Matt.  I hated to see them go but have known for years that Erica simply was not a Utah girl and would be moving on to adventures in other parts of the country and world.  That evening I went to eat and swim with my friend who was planning to return to Vegas today after having visited for the summer.  We had a good time, the water was pretty chilly but we got Aiden used to it and we all swam for a bit, I pulled Aiden out once his little teeth started to chatter.  He was cozy in his frog towel.  Below is a picture of him modeling his towel the day or so before we swam.  As we left I told Katie to let me know when her little one arrived and said goodbye.

Saturday I helped make baby blankets with the Relief Society for the new and expectant moms in the ward.  I only stayed about 45 mins. but was able to cut 2 or 3 and sew one and 1/4.  Later one, I was taking a nap/rest with Aiden sleeping in my arms (one of the ways I have been able to get around his short napping problem, but slightly inconvenient) and I heard Brandon answer my cell phone and say 6 lbs. 3 oz. & 18 in. long.  Ok I will let her know.  In my slightly groggy state I made a mental list of everyone who I knew was pregnant, the closest due dates and who would have my cell #.  I was baffled because the girl due the soonest doesn’t have my cell number and Katie wasn’t due for 5 weeks.  Well, I laid Aiden in his crib and yes, it was Katie who had called.  Her water had broken and she had delivered by c-section.  The docs. at this hospital thought that she was probably only 3 weeks early instead of the 5 she thought. 

Well, upon hearing this good news which brightened my day I started making plans to get up to the hospital as quickly as possible to see her little girl.  I had been feeling down because I won’t see my niece until December and this somehow made me feel a little bit better about that.  I am so excited for Katie and so proud of her for making the decision to becoming a mommy all those 9+ months ago.  Babies are such a joy.  So we drove to the hospital and Katie told us the story of her day.  I also took the opportunity to hold baby Ellie who is 1/3 the amount of Aiden’s current weight and feels as light as a feather.  It was nice to be able to visit my friend in the hospital.

Today we went to church.  It is always nice to go to church even though it is hard to concentrate much these days with little Aiden squirming around and needing various things.  We dressed him up in a little outfit that we got from Brandon’s aunt and he was looking very handsome and dashing today.  I love to see him smiling at people at church and it is nice to know that he is feeling the spirit, if only just a tiny bit.  Now if you are squeamish you may want to stop reading now, so this afternoon I had Brandon change a messy diaper and inside the mess was a bit of something with words on it.  Well, the other day while Brandon was watching him, Aiden was crumpling and sucking on paper and I noticed that there was some in his mouth.  I quickly did the hook swipe that you learn in infant CPR for getting things out of a babies mouth and retrieved some paper.  Tsk tsk.  At this point I took the paper away and gave the baby something else to play with.  I thought nothing else about it until today when Brandon held up the open poopy diaper for me to see the bits of paper that had passed through Aiden’s digestive track.  At least we know he is getting enough fiber.  🙂  Well, until next week thanks for reading…

Hello, hello!  I think that I will just jump right in and tell you about our week.  Monday evening we got a free redbox, Meet The Browns.  I actually really liked it.  It had a good story line with a bit of silliness mixed in and a happy ended.  Just the recipe that I always enjoy.  🙂  Brandon enjoyed it as well.

Tuesday has slipped my mind.  So sorry!  Wednesday was Aiden’s 6 month check up.  (I know, you can hardly believe he is that old already because it seems like just yesterday when he was born.)  For details on weight and height you can go to Aiden’s website.  The doctor said that he looked like he was doing well, he got his third set of shots, and we talked about getting him in to the allergist between now and when he turns one (yea, yea it is my fault that we have to be so careful, but better to be safe then sorry).  She also pretty much gave us the go ahead to feed him anything that I am not allergic to, including pureed meats, dairy products (but NO MILK until he is one), and wheat products.  This same day we also got the news that our friend Adam (who incidentally is the one who set Brandon and I up) and his wife were at the U of U hospital with their brand new baby girl.  We ended up going to see them and meeting their little one, Kathryn Emma Weiss.  (On a side note, it is VERY good that they didn’t name her Emma Kathryn because our first girl will be Emma and that is just too many Emma’s :p)  Anyway, we hadn’t been in contact with them for about 10 months and it was really nice to visit with them and get caught up on the news in each others lives. 

Thursday we watched College Road Trip.  It was good.  I like Disney movies.

Friday evening we drove out to Provo to attend the reception of a friend of mine from my U of U single student ward.  While we were there we got a chance to chat with another friend of ours Cameron and his wife.  We met their little boy and they met Aiden.  It was good to see them as well.

Saturday I drove out to Bountiful to visit my grandma so that she could spend a little bit of time with Aiden.  While we were there grandma let him play with her bucket full of rubber duckies.  There was one plush duck that quacks when you squeeze it and Aiden thought it was really cool so we put it on the ground and squeezed it.  He smiled and scooted/crawled over to it.  It was the closest to crawling he has done so far and I was just amazed.  He is getting more and more mobile every day.  I then went grocery shopping with my dad.  Thanks again dad!

Sunday we went to church.  It was nice to be back after being on trips and a baby blessing the last three weeks.  In the evening we had dinner with my dad, mom, sis, and her hubby Matt because they are moving to Florida on friday.  🙁  All of Aiden’s cousins will live out of state.  I am so used to seeing my cousins whenever I want that it makes my heart ache a little bit to think that Aiden won’t have that wonderful opportunity. 

We hope that everyone is doing well, Brandon did have one interview this last week and applied to be a UTA transit officer (he won’t hear from UTA for 7-10 days for an interview).  He plans to keep looking this week.  Love you all!  Thank for reading…

Hey everyone, can you believe that summer is nearly over?  It definitely went by fast.  Another thing that I am amazed about is that next friday my first born little boy will be 6 months old.  Time has sure passed quickly since he was born.  Why is it that time moves more and more quickly as you get older so that one day you wake up and it seems that you are in a race against time?  Couldn’t it just slow down a little bit.

Anyway, this week was pretty good.  We came back from Wendover on Monday and sort of took it easy.  We didn’t do a whole lot this week, it seems like we did a lot of dishes and laundry but that is just because there are always dishes and laundry to do.

A couple of things to update on are that Brandon is out of a job again.  He was working through Kelly Services and they weren’t keeping up their end of the contract with Kelly Services so the temp. agency pulled everyone of that job.  He did have an interview Thursday that seemed to go well and he also contacted a few other people about a job.  I am going to send him out tomorrow to search a little bit tomorrow and hopefully he can e-mail a few people.  He is also going to do some follow up as well.  His last day was the 25th of July.  We would really appreciate any prayers that you could say in our behalf and especially that Brandon might get the job that he interviewed for.

I was also having a lot on my mind because for some reason I hadn’t had my monthly visitor yet and I thought that I might be pregnant.  I took a pregnancy test on Monday, negative this worried me because I still hadn’t started of course and was afraid of another ectopic pregnancy, I eventually called my doctor and they had me get another test on Thurs. morning, negative again.  Later that afternoon my visitor arrived and all is well.  For those of you who are curious my doctor said that because I didn’t have damage or a loss of my ovary or fallopian tube my risk of another ectopic is about the same as a woman who has never had and ectopic.  He did say though that they will be a little bit more careful with me because I have had the one.  The doc also wasn’t concerned of me having an ectopic this time around because the pregnancy tests were negative.  Anyway, that is enough of that.

Saturday was a good day, I went to the temple with two of my very best friends Katie and Richelle, in the morning (I should have gotten a picture darn it) and we did a session.  It was nice to go to the temple because I haven’t gone for a couple of months.  I went home after the session so that Brandon could have the car to do a couple of errands.  In the evening Aiden and I went to my friend Richelle’s to celebrate my friend Charissa’s birthday.  It was good to see her and my other friend Melinda because I don’t see them very often.  As you can see in the pic. Aiden was enjoying the exersaucer during the party and he even got to taste watermelon.  (On a side note, we got Aiden an exersaucer of his own on friday from someone in the village who was selling theirs at about 1/2 the cost.)

Today my cousin’s son got blessed.  It was a good blessing and the open house afterwards was leisurely and relaxing.  I ate and snacked until my tummy was happy.  The brownies and cookies were especially tasty.  The other thing to mention is that we decided to let Aiden pet the little dog named Dolly, because although we plan not to have any dogs we most certainly don’t want him to be afraid of them.  Well, he enjoyed petting the dog but we neglected to wash his little hands off afterwards and this afternoon he woke up with red eyes and as he kept rubbing he got little red splotches on his head.  I concluded that he is probably allergic to dogs and gave him a bath to get the dander/allergens off.  That pretty well cleared him up.  Poor guy!

Well, that is all from us this week.  Aiden has his 6th month check up this week and I am having a nail party this Saturday, Brandon also intends to work on his kite since we will have the community center, other then that it should be pretty laid back.  Thanks for reading…

Hey everyone!  We hope that you had a wonderful Pioneer Day this past week.  We celebrated by taking Aiden to the Bountiful Handcart Days parade, his very first parade ever, and the eating at the carnival afterwards.  The food was good and Aiden liked seeing all of the new things that there were to see during the parade and at the park.  He did not like the loud sirens at the beginning of the parade, they made him nervous because they were so loud and he cried a little.  It was a lot of fun though.

This past weekend we went to Wendover with my dad, sis, and her husband Matt.  We went swimming as quickly as possible when we got there and we ate a yummy buffet on Saturday evening.  There were so many delicious dessert choices and also a chocolate fondu table with strawberries, maraschino cherries, pineapple, marshmellows, rice krispie treats and a few other things that I don’t remember.  Mmmm, mmm good!

Sunday we went to the salt flats and the wendover air field.  Both were interesting but there was not much to see.  After being tourists for a bit we ate lunch and then Brandon and I watched The Guardian while Aiden napped.  After that we went swimming for a brief length of time (it was insanely windy, it was almost knocking me over).   Then we ate dinner in the cafe.  After dinner we all watched a pay per view movie.  We picked Baby Mama it was funny and clever.  After the movie it was time for Aiden to go to bed and then Brandon went to play pool with my family while I went to sleep.  He and my dad won 2 out of 3 games only losing the third because Brandon hit the 8 ball into the wrong pocket.  My husband is a pool shark.  🙂 

Yesterday I gambled a dollar on the penny slots.  At one point I was ahead, havng won $1.38, when I cashed out I had $1.06 so hey I didn’t lose my money!  🙂  Go me.  I just don’t really get how people zone out and blow through thousands of dollars in one night.  But hey, whatever floats (or in this case sinks) their boat.  I am good with just playing a dollar or less on one slot once every 5 years or so.   Lsat night we watched 21 courtesy of our free Monday red box code.  I liked the movie a lot.  Movies where they try to “beat the system” in Vegas are intriguing to me.  This particular movie is about card counting which is not illegal but can get you beat up if you are caught. 

Anyway, I guess that is all for this week.  Life is going pretty well and Aiden is healthy and happy.  Until next time, thanks for reading.

I know I haven’t written for about a week and a half.  I wanted to wait until after our trip with my mom, sis and bro-in-law to Misty River and then I am going to try and write our posts on Sundays.  I will hit on the highlights since I last wrote and anything else that comes to my little brain.

Last Saturday the 12th This is the Place Monument had a family free day as part of the Days of ’47 festivities.  They had a lot of cool crafts for kids to do and I hadn’t been to see the little village since I went to the haunted village about 4 years ago.  I like looking around at all of the little houses and things.  It was blazing hot but enjoyable. 

Moday the 14th we ate ice cream with our dinner group for this month and we had a good time chatting with the others from our ward and eating tasty ice cream.  Yum!

Then on Friday the 18th (my sister’s birthday) we went to Misty River.  We got there around 7:00 and set up our bedding and things in the little cabin that was reminiscent of a shed.  (It was cozy and cute.)  There were about a million mosquitos and I got like 20 mosquito bites over the weekend.  After we unpacked we went to Nephi to pick up stuff for food and breakfast over the weekend.  By the time we got back Aiden need to eat and then I ate cake and went to bed. 

Oh on a side note, I went to walmart earlier in the day and was letting Aiden drink water from his sippy cup.  I eventually put it in his car seat between his legs and put his binky in his mouth.  Well, after wheeling around the store a little bit I look down to see Aiden holding his sippy cup and putting it up to his mouth.  I pulled out his binky and he started to drink from it.  I was proud of little Aiden for that accomplishment and to me it meant that he kind of knows what being thirsty feels like and that the liquid in his sippy will help relieve that.  It also means that his hand eye coordination is improving in leaps and bounds.  I can’t believe how fast kids grow and develop.  It is amazing!

Anyway so on Saturday we spent the morning in Fillmore and ate at a yummy little restaurant in town.  On the way back to camp we stopped at Yuba lake for a bit but there was no shade down by the water and I was worried about little Aiden being too hot.  When we got back to camp Brandon and I pulled our camp chairs into the river and sat.  It was very refreshing.  Eventually the wind kicked up and storm clouds rolled in so our plans of roasting hot dogs for dinner were foiled.  Erica, Matt, Brandon, Aiden and I ended up driving back into Nephi to pick up a pizza.  It was GOOD too. 

Sunday morning we ended up just packing up and heading home.  I was feeling exhausted because even though I felt like I was sleeping well I wasn’t feeling very refreshed upon waking up.  Even today I am still feeling sluggish. 

Anyway, there you have it.  Our adventures for the week.  Thanks for reading!