A week with grandma!

Last week my mom and dad came to visit. My dad had a convention in Savannah, so he brought my mom along, and she stayed with me, while my dad went to the convention. We had lots of fun, and are so glad we got a chance to visit with Grandma & Grandpa. We don't get to see them as much as we like, so when the opportunity comes to see them it is like Christmas!!!

The first day they were here my mom was feeling a little under the weather, but Grandpa got up and had an early start with the grandkids. Mckayla and Isaiah kept following him around the house. They even tried to follow him into the bathroom. Poor Grandpa couldn't even get a moment alone. As soon as he entered the bathroom, little hands started pounding on the door. Are you done yet? It is a rough life being the Grandpa! The kids had a great time with him in Isaiah's bedroom. They were throwing our football pillows at grandpa, then he would retrieve them. The kids thought this was great, but I am not quite sure what gramps thought of the whole thing.

This is a picture of the blanket grandma made Mckayla. Mckayla said I couldn't wash it, and I asked her why, she said "because it smelled like grandma". I told her we would eventually have to wash it, and that grandma's smell will eventually fade away. I thought it was sweet that she liked the smell of grandma.

We had a great week just hanging out and talking with one another. We didn't do anything to exciting, but we had lots of fun just being together. On Friday night, Matt took Mckayla out to the local highschool football game, while my mom and I had a pizza party and a movie.

During the week we had also taken my mom out to Rita's italian gelati. It is so heavenly. Anyway it was a big hit. She liked it so much we had to hit it one more time before she left. This time we got to take Grandpa as well. The only problem was, it was Suwanee days, and it was a mad house. I think my dad was a little nervous because they had to catch their plane and we were in a very crowded mess. To say the least mom and dad got off to the airport, and they made their plane with no problems.

While they were off to the airport, we decided to stay and enjoy Suwanee days. We let the kids play on all the inflatables. Mckayla thought it was lots of fun, and was bouncing from one to the other. Isaiah on the other hand needed a little more coaxing. I guess I can't blame him. Sometimes they have some bigger kids in those bouncy houses, and he gets a little nervous. He is such a cute little runt. They seemed to have a good time, and we were so glad we had a week with grandma.

This picture I am throwing in, because I think it is so darn cute!!

5k fun

Sorry Britt, I had to steal your pictures, b/c silly me I never saved the ones that were taken on my phone. My friends and I ran in the Suwanee days 5k race. It was way fun, but it totally whipped my butt. I have been actually working out for the last month to be ready for this race. I have been pretty proud of myself because I have been getting up about six in the morning and exercising. At least 5 times in the week. This is not normal for me. I don't think I have ever done this in my lifetime. I felt pretty prepared about running this race, I figured that adrenaline would also kick in and it would be a smooth race. HAH! not. I was so dying. It didn't help that the race had some hills in it as well. I do not do well with hills. They are not my friend. I had a goal to finish in 30 min. or less. I finished (mind you that is a positive thing, many times I thought about jumping ship) the race in 33min. and 10sec. Definitely not the best time in the world, but hey not bad after just having a baby, and nearing the big 35. We are also talking about doing another race in October. Hopefully I can improve my time. So if I post about the next race, I guess you will know if I did better. If I don't post about it, you can probably assume I did worse than this time. It is all good, I really don't care about my time, I just enjoy the fact that I am exercising, and I am able to run a few races with some friends.

On the move again!

It's official. We are moving! Our new place to call home will be just south of Cleveland Ohio. We are still looking for a house, so I can't give exact details of where, but some of the areas that we are looking for a house is Twinsburg, Solon, and Hudson areas. Matt starts his new job on October 13th. We have put a lot of thought into this move, and it just seems to make sense. Matt and I have been feeling that we just want to live close to family. So that would mean either Utah or Ohio. Needless to say Ohio here we come. We will be about an hour from Matt's family. We are excited to be near them again. For all my loved ones in Utah, do not lose hope. We are certainly hoping that we will have the opportunity to move there again as well. We are tired of moving all around the country, and are hoping that this will be a stay for awhile (unless of course the opprotunity arises to move to Utah, because Utah trumps all). For those we have befriended here in Georgia, we will be very sad to leave you. It was certainly a hard decision for us, because we do like it here, but the chance to be near family could not be passed up. We feel so blessed to have the Lord in our lives, and for his direction. We are also very thankful to have the church, and it's instant family network. It truly makes moving a lot easier. We feel that the Lord has blessed us with dear friends, and we hope to keep those friendships throughout our lives. I will keep you posted on all of the moving front.

Animal fun

This weekend we went to the Yellow River game ranch with some of our close friends the Garfields. This was a first time experience for our family. We had a lot of fun. For those of you who do not know what this place is, let me explain. This place is kind of like a zoo, but they have animals you can pett, feed, and admire. They had deer, bunnies, buffalo, bears, squirrals, goats, sheep, ducks, and much more. The kids thought it was great. It was fun to be right up next to all the animals. Here are some pictures of all the fun.

This is Mckayla feeding a baby fawn!

Mckayla and Isaiah feeding the goats.

These bears were fun to see up close. They would all just sit around waiting to be fed by all the on lookers. While we were feeding them, some of them got into a little fight over the food.


This deer scared me to death. He came up behind me and started sniffing my arm. I had a hole stash of food on top of the stroller, and he came for a little snack. It was amazing to see some of these animals had no fear. We couldn't get rid of this deer. The kids had fun petting him and seeing him up close.

This squirral was quite comical. He would run ahead of us and the play like he was road kill or something. When we would throw him a peanut he would jump up and eat it. The squirral was cool, because you would throw him a peanut and he would tear open the shell and then eat up the nut. It was just fun watching him eat it.

This was a pot belly pig, and he was enormous. We were lucky to have a family shot with him. Our friends tried to get a family photo after us, and he started grunting and making all sorts of noises and then stood up as if he was not happy. We all just moved away quickly. Maybe he wasn't happy that he got his picture taken.

Check out this duck! He looked like he had a big pom pom stuck to his head. Talk about a bad hair day. I can relate.

I had to take this shot, the black sheep amongst all the white sheep!

Isn't this a great shot!! He is my little sweetheart. He was in the stroller for most of the afternoon, and was happy and content for the day.

our little chub, chub

Last week I took Seth in for his 6 month check up. Can you believe he is already at 6 months - Crazy!! His new weight is at a high of 18 pounds. He is closing in on his older brother's weight. I bet by the end of the year he will out weigh his brother Isaiah. He looks good, and as you can see growing like a weed. His head size was in the 95th percentile. Does anyone know what tortacollis is? Well our little Seth has been diagnosed with it. His muscles on his neck on the right side are tight which causes him to have a slight tilt of the head, and his range of motion is not quite equal with the other side. We were referred to a physical therapist, and have been given a couple of exercises to fix the problem. We have to go to physical therapy once a week, until he gets better. He is such a sweet baby, we love him very much!!