Utah Trip Summer 2010

I'm making two posts because I'm afraid if I attempt to write one post about both our trips to Colorado/Florida and Utah it might just end up extremely long, huge, boring, and unorganized. :)

So, here goes the first one. All about our trip to Utah. I'll start out telling you what happened from the day we left Oklahoma.

We decided we wanted to drive to Colorado and then to Utah; that way we could have more things for Katelyn (and myself I suppose) because we'd be gone for so long. We drove to Colorado and we planned on Nick staying there to work for his dad for a week and Katelyn and I flew out to Utah to help my sister with last minute wedding plans... or that could have just been an excuse for me to be in Utah longer. :)

After a few days Nick drove to Utah and met up with us.

We went swimming and played a lot of Wii with my little brother. Then we all (Me, Nick, Katelyn, my parents, older brother, and little brother) drove to BEAR LAKE! :) I haven't been to that place in forever, it was so fun to go back. And after a few days my other brother and sister were able to drive up and join us. It was a lot of fun!



Now is where the picture overload will begin. We did so many fun things the pictures will tell it all.

 Nick taking Katelyn to the pool :)

 Swimming! I love swimming

Katelyn hanging out with Grandma at the pool. :)

The condo. Playing the broom dance game.

Katelyn was laughing at everyone.. and I'm not kidding she thought it was hilarious.

AJ was trying to watch the soccer game and figure out the broom dance...not gonna work ;)

The Caves! Looks like poor Katelyn's hat fell down for the picture

Pretty neat! My first cave I've been in

The cave was FREEZING! We had to wrap Katelyn in a towel.

I don't have good balance so I held up the line a bit walking down the wet, dark, slippery stairs.. kind of scary if you ask me

There was no food or drink allowed in the caves, but Katelyn needed to eat so we had to hide her bottle

This was probably my favorite part.. bike riding! OK, well minus the jet skiing. :) 

Me and the little guy.

Letting my Dad and AJ get a turn on the 3 man bike 

I just thought this pic was funny. Isaac all relaxed in the middle with the boys on the outside pedaling hard. haha. It took quite a bit to get that bike going with 3 people on it!

So about half way through our bike ride there was a HORRIBLE storm. It almost blew the 3 man bike over and there was wind and rain and dust blowing every where. We didn't think we'd make it, but obviously we did :) It was actually really fun riding back to the shop trying to out run the storm. Here are the boys after the storm haha.

 Playing croquet!!

I was so behind that everyone was trying to help me.. i ended up getting second though, i loved it!

My silly brother making me pose for a picture :) haha just kidding, I think I was actually the one who mentioned this pose..

Katelyn hanging out at the lake

 Bear Lake!!

This is definitely the funniest picture of the trip. AJ trying to pull nate up on the jet ski. What would have been funnier is the one of nate falling sideways off the jet ski.

Waiting for a turn to go out

Me and Age :)

My sista :)

The little guy

Grandma and Katelyn at the lake! Thanks for watching her mom! :)

And last, the beautiful view from the condo.

Ok, so that's quite a few pictures from the bear lake trip, but there's much more! Including, fourth of July weekend, my sister's WEDDING! and then there's a whole separate post about our trip to Colorado and Disney World.. whew, this might take me awhile :)

Ok so real quick. On July 7th 2010 my older sister and only sister got married! It was a beautiful day and I'm glad we could be there.

The fam

My two most favorite people. I'm such a lucky girl :)

My sister, she looked beautiful!!

FOURTH OF JULY

During the fourth we had a nice little barbeque, did a little swimming, had some fireworks, watched fireworks, ate ice cream, went to the parade, and hung out with my favorite cousin. :)

Me and the babe

Lighting small fireworks

Me and Katelyn at the Parade. Right after our traditional family outing to IHOP. mmm i love that place!

All three of us :)

Me and my cousin Lisette!

Yay, fireworks. I love fireworks :)

Saying our goodbyes :( Sad day.

Got our shades on, ready to hit the road again! 

But wait! My sister showed up one last time to say goodbye :) The newlywed couple :)

And we safely made it to Colorado :)

Next post will come... hopefully shortly. This was the first half of our summer trips. The next half is Colorado and Florida! :)

6 months old!!

On Wednesday June 30th 2010 Katelyn turned 6 months old. 

I can't believe that it's been half a year since we had her. She is so sweet and makes us so happy. She still smiles so much, and is even happier now that she can do more things! I think she has a lot of Nick's personality.

She can do so many things! She can:

-Sit up

-She can crawl

-She eats solid foods

-She is starting to climb up things and pull herself up

-She still naps 3 times a day

-Goes to bed at 9 wakes up around 4 a.m. to eat then back to sleep until 7:30ish

-She laughs all the time

-She scrunches her nose up like this:

 My sister has a really nice camera and we love taking pictures of Katelyn, here are a couple she took! They turned out great!

She is absolutely adorable and growing up so fast! We love her. :)

Utah!

ok so this was kind of a random and quick decision, but we bought me a ticket to go to utah this monday!! i'm so excited. 3 more days! I can't wait to see my little brother i just LOOOOVE him. he is so funny and we have so much fun together. I also can't wait to see my sister, we have a lot of plans going on, including summer shopping at the mall, seeing ECLIPSE!!!! woohoo. and a lot more! :)

Family Fun

3 Things about the title:

1. We had family come and visit us today and it was a lot of fun!

2. I finally got my June family fun magazine that I've been waiting for awhile now!

And last but not least,

3. School's out for SUMMER! Now it's time to relax, and have fun as a family :)


First, today Carlie (Nick's cousin) and her husband Seth came from Tulsa to visit us so I could show Carlie how to make baby headbands. It was SO fun! I'm in love with one of the headbands she made (the blue one Carlie) so I might have to copy her. haha. We talked for a little, went to lunch, talked some more, went to the store and got the supplies, came back home, made a few things and they left. I'm so glad they could come! Thanks for coming down you guys!

Second, I recently have been receiving these Family Fun magazines. I don't know if someone signed us up, or if we got a free year subscription from somewhere, but I absolutely LOVE them! I hadn't got my June one and usually you get them before the month starts, so I figured maybe they combined the months of June and July.. and sure enough they did. I kind of wish they hadn't, but I'm excited to see the 4th of July crafts! :)

 My Family Fun magazine and on the corner is one of the headbands I made Katelyn. I like it, I don't have any purple ones (out of the millions I have made) so I was really excited to make a purple one. Now time for a new outfit! ha. OK I just remembered I do have a purple bow, but not a flower.. so it's not the same.. right? Gotta love those little girls and all their accessories.

I really suggest getting this magazine if you have young kids, or kids in elementary school because they have so many cute ideas and fun crafts to do! I can't wait until Katelyn is older and we can do some together.

Third, SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SUMMER!! Woohoo! Time for vacations. I am so excited, and every day I tell Nick "YAY, now you get to spend ALL day every day here with me and Katelyn!!" haha. More diaper changes for him ;)

K so in the picture that really means the end of Nick's school year.. in case that's confusing for any of you. It's been fun sending Nick off to school every day (although some days I just say bye in bed.. oops) I kind of feel like a mom in practice haha. Well, I know I'm a mom, but not yet to the stage of sending kids to school. So anyways, I guess this tradition kind of came from my mom, but she always took pictures of us on our last day of school each year, so.. here is Nick's picture on his last day of school for this year, yay! I'm proud of you Nick!

I hope you all are enjoying your summer and we can't wait to get out and see some more family members! love you all,

love,
Nick & Dana

So sweet..

I just love her!

I just want to say that Katelyn has an awesome sleeping schedule, naps, eating, going to bed ect. that is almost RIGHT on everyday. With in 5-10 minutes. For example, yesterday she went down for her first nap at 9:43 a.m. today it was 9:45 a.m. next at 12:56 pm. Today is was 12:58. Next nap, 4:20 p.m. and of course today 4:23 p.m. It's really amazing, it's like she's got this clock inside of her and when the timer goes off she's like "OK MOM, Time for my nap!" or time to eat.. or whatever else.

She is just so sweet.

She seems to be doing something new every week. It's kind of funny, she wont do something for too long, so I really can't say what she'll be doing in a few weeks from now.

About a month ago she would just scream at the top of her lungs with the highest, squeakiest, girliest, little voice. It was so funny. Not that she was mad or anything she just did it ALL. DAY. LONG. and she would even laugh and smile afterward. I'm pretty sure it was her way of discovering something new.. "Oh, I can yell"

Next she did this MUUUUMM, MUUUUMMMA, MUUM MUMM MUUM thing. And then about a week later... it was gone.

Then just recently she's been doing this blluuuuuupppp thing, blowing bubbles or blowing on her fingers making this puffy vibrating noise with her lips. It's so cute.

Last week or so she did this bird noise, like eaaaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkk,(i dont really know how to write it to describe the sound haha). And she would just smile.

Now she just likes to chew on her thumb, not suck, chew.  Also on her four fingers, and on her little rings, she'll just sit up and chew chew chew, and stare. It's funny. Maybe she's teething? If she is, she's been a trooper and hasn't complained much!

I wonder what she'll do next? It's amazing how babies seem to do something new everyday.. or is that just my baby?