Simon's early B-Day

So I haven't blogged in a while and so much has happened. It seems that when I have a ton to blog about, I'm too busy to blog and know it'll take a while and when I don't have much to blog about I don't blog cause well I don't have much to blog about! Anyways, the past month or so Simon and I have been doing a little bit of traveling. First my sister Jessica graduated from college...whoohoo. My parents and sister came up for the weekend and it was nice to all get together. Simon and I flew home with my parents and sister and stayed with them for 2 weeks (one of those weeks my parents were off on their own vacation). It was fun hanging out with Jules and seeing all my friends that I miss so much in California. I'll have to post pictures from our fun times at the pool, beach, stables, parks and of course Disneyland. After our very fun sun-filled days we came back to Utah only to leave again shortly after for St. Louis. Andrew went to Modesto, CA to help his sister shoot a wedding and so last minute (meaning I had 2 hours to get to the airport last minute, mind you I was in the middle of a run too) I decided to take my parents up on their offer to head to my sisters house for the weekend. We had tons of fun in St. Louis and again I'll have to post those pictures too (pool, farm, tons of good food,etc.). Right when we got back from St. Louis (noticing a trend) my sister had surgery so my mom came to Utah to stay with her (so of course Andrew, Simon and I headed to Provo to stay with them). It was fun to have my mom and sister to hang out with all day and we did a lot of swimming and shopping. My sister and mom were even nice enough to watch Simon while Andrew and I meet up with some of his siblings for dinner Saturday night (I say nice enough cause Simon has been sick and let's just say my sister decided she doesn't want to have kids after watching simon....sad). So now I'd like to think I have time to blog but actually I have a marathon on Saturday and both Andrew and I are running the Wasatch Back next weekend (and I'm not ready logistically for either, tons of planning left to do). So I'm sure no one appreciated my overly long ramble of my schedule but that's what we've been up to. Summer is just a busy time and I could go on and on with what we've got planned for the rest of the summer but I'll spare you (except to say simon's b-day is in less than 3 weeks!)

Which, brings me to the explanation os the pictures below. Simon's b-day is soon and since my mom was in town she gave Simon's present to him early so she could watch him open it. He was really grouchy that morning (still sick) and it was hot in the apartment, so please excuse the lack of shorts on my kid. He loved all the presents and crawls all over the house with the school bus. Thanks again mom (and dad!).

*Disclaimer: my kid isn't dirty, those are just bruises all over his head and face (yes my kids gets about 4 new bruises a day, I swear I'm a good mom, that head just has a mind of its own).

Hiking and S'mores

Last weekend we went hiking for the first time this year. Its suppose to be spring, but Utah hasn't caught on to that yet. We took Simon out for a quick hike (if you can even call it that....after finding hives all over Simon's body and calling by brother-in-law to find out what I could give him, we didn't have much time before diner). So we headed out our front door and walked straight up towards the state park that is right in our backyard (well its not our house, but you know the one we are living in at the moment). It was fun to just get outside and Simon love it. I'm excited for lots of hiking and camping trips this summer (seeing how we did none of that last summer).











After dinner, we made s'mores on the campfire that my brother-in-law and his sons built in their yard. We also played soccer while waiting for the s'mores to cook and it was so much fun to get out and play. I'm sad that we don't have the ocean close by, but you can't beat hiking straight from your house and a yard big enough to play a good game of soccer in (okay maybe it was the neighbors side yard....but with no fences, its all the same)!

Bowling

Went bowling for family night this past Monday with Andrew's brother and family and some of his wife's family who were in town for Easter/Conference weekend. I have never been to a more old-school (aka. small town) bowling alley in my life. Its awesome! I guess we are just lucky that there is even a bowling alley in town.

Oh and the reason Simon has on a blue shirt in one picture and not in the others is because in typical Simon fashion, he threw-up all over himself, me, and the bowling alley. Also, Simon is not screaming because he's upset, he screams when he gets excited (which happen a lot).

Easter 2010

We had an indoor easter egg hunt cause, lucky us, it has snowed A TON the night before and was still slightly snowing all day long. Felt like Christmas not Easter. Its so much fun to live close to so much family and for Simon to be near a lot of his cousins. I grew up close to some of my cousins and I want the same for Simon. Simon's cousin, Jenner, was nice enough to share all the eggs he found with Simon. Simon was interested mostly in all the people around and in playing with the eggs.

The next day we watched conference and had a great Easter dinner with family (no pics). It was a great weekend even if it was a "White Easter". Sadly I don't have any pictures of Simon with his Easter basket (or at least not on this computer, might have a cell phone pic), but he did get an awesome basket from the Easter Bunny.

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Simon laughing and dancing.

Laughing at a balloons and dancing to music.

Family Photos

We took some family photos Sunday. I wish we had coordinated more, but the goal was to just get a shot where we were all in the picture and clean :). I'm not nearly as good as Andrew at editing photos, but I'm having fun pretending. Here are two pictures that I edited very quickly. I'll have to play around with a few more and post them later.

Pure Bliss

New Photos of Simon. March 18th

Simon is growing and learning so fast.

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