Happy Birthday, Cora Belle!!!

She's finally one. Finally? That is just too weird. But here is a birthday overload for the birthday girl. She was a little surprised that she got a cake all to her self. She wasn't quit sure what to do, but quickly figured it out.
She loved opening her presents. Her favorite was the bumble ball Aunt Dawn gave to her (yes Liz, it is a Crazy Dog Bumble Ball make fun all you want).

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

The Perfect Toy

As annoying as this parrot is, it was very entertaining to Miss Belle today.

New Pics

I had my sis-in-law take my kids pics today. I was having scheduling problems and traveling problems to get together with my regular photog (thanks Steph), so we took a trip to Kaysville today. Heather did a great job!! She was able to get some great shots of my kids. The first three pics have been edited. The others are just some of my favorite (she took the header photo too).*Note: The dress Cait is wearing, I made that last night in 4 hours with my new sewing machine. Yeah for me.
Notice the rock Dawson is throwing, and the water drops following it. Great timing if you ask me.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Matthew Korth deserves a big shout out. He called last night and offered tickets to the SL BEES game. David couldn't go because he needed to finish a paper, but I was not about to miss an opportunity to go to a game, so I took my sister and her boys. We had so much fun. Cait was soooo into it, Tim just kept asking questions, and Evan was asking when they could go again. It was just great fun.
These two were so wired. It is a good thing that it is okay to be noisy at a game.
Poor Evan sat next to his mom so he wasn't in on all the action between Cait and Tim. He loved it though.
Cait and Tim chased down Bumble. He seemed to be in a hurry so he was just walking past them. Cait came back over and said, "I touched the bee, mom." She thought that was the coolest thing ever.
So all in all it was great fun, it would have been better if they had won, but they got their behinds kicked. Final score: 12 to 2, Sacramento.
Now no laughing when you watch this video, I was trying to get the kids and Dawn to sing, but the just wouldn't cooperate so you just get to hear me and the rest of the crowd, but mostly me.

What Are We Teaching our Daughter?

David started school again this week and has been very busy :( So he has not had time to mow the lawn. I kept telling him I would do it, but just have not felt like it. So this morning he kind of had that tone of "well I guess I will have to mow the lawn." I took that as a personal jab, so I got to work. But it is not about the mowing the lawn that I am writing about, I told Cait that I was going to go out and mow the lawn and this is what the response was:
Cait: Girls don't mow the lawn?

Me: Girls can mow the lawn if we want to.

Cait: That is a daddy job, you're not supposed to do that, you'll get dirty.

Me: Girls can get dirty, and we do a better job anyway.

Cait: That's just weird?

What is up with that? I suppose that since Cait can remember, I have not mowed the lawn, so it just isn't a girl thing to do. I hope she gets over that.
But a side note to me, I had the front and back lawn mowed, the flower garden weeded and the roses trimmed in less than an hour this morning. Yeah for me.

Fourth Of July!!!!

The Fourth of July is one of my fave holiday's, so I took a bunch of pictures, so please endure to the end. The Gunnison Parade is the best parade in the world. They throw out more candy than you could possibly eat, plus T-shirts, Frisbees, balls, chips, milk Chugs, anything you could think of. We have so much fun and mostly it is the adults that get into the action and not so much the children. It is great fun!!! And yes the is a reindeer!!! One of the dairy farmers owns it. Don't ask me why, but hey, why not? After the festives at the park we saddled up the horse for the first time since dad bought them at Christmas. All of the kids got a turn, except Buddy, of course, he wanted nothing to do with them. And I actually got my picture taken, now I have proof that I was actually involved in a family activity. That is Cait in the top picture, I was too far away. And for sure we had to end the night with fireworks. I think the pics turned out fabulous.

A little bright side to today

If you all remember clear back to Christmas I posted that we had lost my double stroller at the museum :( So for the last 7 months I have been begging, pleading and finally, this morning, came to tears that I wanted another one. Dave didn't and probably still doesn't understand the importance, at least to me, of having a double stroller. However, he does not take the kids any where, I am the one that travels with the children. Anyway, I finally convinced him this morning. I knew exactly what I wanted, but I wanted it hear by Thursday morning. Yeah right, huh? I searched all the normals, Amazon, Ebay, KSL and found what I was looking for, but to get it here I would have to pay bookoo bucks. So instead of settling like I usually do, I Googled what I wanted. Lo and behold I found the best baby gear website ever, strollerdepot.com . The company is in Sandy they have everything you need for your babe and it's free shipping. If you happen to be going into Sandy, you can pick it up for 10% off. They didn't even jack the price of the stroller to cover shipping, it was the same price as, Target, Walmart, and the online stores. So with 10% off I saved money and I get it by Thursday. So what I am really trying to say is, check it out if you need anything baby, it just might save you a few pennies.

By the way this is the stroller that I got, the Baby Trend Sit-n-Stand LX with Parent Tray (parent tray not shown):