To keep me busy!

Cute little man!
Above and Below - Calendar I made! I SOSOSOSO love it!
This is all of the jam that I made over the last week. Yummy apricot and pineapple apricot jam!
Pretty much what I have been up to this week. Along with taking care of poor sick/grumpy Owen. Poor little dude. I also have been spray painting things like crazy - light fixtures in my house! and hanging up some of our family photos.

Lately

Lately I haven't felt much like posting.. or haven't had time! One of the two! So a little update on us. Owen is now 9 months! How fast time flies! He is so much fun. He is babbling more and more every day. He say's dadadadadad ALL day and mamamamama a few times in there. He is still crawling all over the place and loves to play with the puppies. I think he is very close to walking. He will grab something that he wants and just stand and balance... we will see. He is into EVERYTHING!!! Such a busy little boy. Wants to know whats going on and be involved in anything thats going on. We have been having the hardest time getting him to sleep at night because he doesn't want to be let out of the action. He has almost four teeth. We are just waiting for the top two to pop the rest of the way through. That was fun :p.. not! Owen had his appointment the other day and he weighs 23 pounds and seven ounces and is almost 29 inches tall. We took him on his first camping trip.. that was an adventure. Camping is definitely NOT relaxing with a baby. He played in dirt and chewed on sticks to Jerry's delight. He is such a BOY. We are going camping two more times (that are already planned) this summer and we are excited. Work is fine.. still there! We are still working on getting our house just how we want it and decorated how we want it. Also, the yard is still a work in progress. The sprinkler system is almost in and then we can move on to GRASS!!! Yippee! We are loving life and having fun and wish you all the same!

Family Pictures

Family pictures we got taken by
Abbey Kyhl with AK Studio and Design
akstudio.typepad.com

we absolutely love them!

Goings On!

I haven't posted for a while.. so here are some things we have been up to.
Owen is now crawling all over the place! It is so much fun to see him moving all over just more work trying to keep track of the little dude. He is getting super speedy. He really likes to grab on the furniture and pull himself up to standing on EVERYTHING! This is a really fun age! I took Owen to the splash pad thingy in st. george right off of main street and it was SO much fun. They have a little river that's probably 8 feet wide or so and 2-3 inches deep. He was crawling around and splashing in the water. He is right around 8 months and is growing SOOO fast! It will be an adventure to take him camping with us at the end of June. Jerry has been working like crazy trying to get our sprinkler system in. It wouldn't be so difficult if our dirt was a little bit more workable! It is very hard and very rocky! Soon it will be done - at least that's what we keep telling ourselves. I've started working on a few crafts and organizing/decorating my house when I have time. Hopefully once my house is decorated I can do some more crafts and sewing!

Owen playing in the grass at the splash pad
Splashing in the water!
Vinyl lettering I put on my wall in the middle of a frame - just needs pictures added!
More of the splash pad

This is how I organized all my craft stuff! I love it!

Love this....

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk's lawn.I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children.I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived. "

-Marjorie Hinckley-

Fun in the sun!

Too much fun for one little bucket!

6 month well baby check.. a little delayed

Today was Owen's six month well baby check. He is getting so big I can't believe he will be seven months pretty soon! Its crazy. He weighed in at 21 pounds 3.5 ounces and 27.5 inches long.

Some fun things
- He now has 1.5 teeth (we are currently working on the other one!)
- He can roll both from front to back and back to front
- He loves to stand!
- He can sit up by himself and roll onto him tummy
- He loves to watch the puppies run around
- He loves to CUDDLE! (I do too :)
- He is getting to be more of a chatterbox every day
- He never sits still! He is always moving