Snowbird Trip

We took a trip up to Snowbird last week and spent the night at my grandpa's time share!

They have a big fun playground with big ski lift swings!

Driving the car.

Going down the slide!

Grandma helping with the monkey bars!

Mommy and Baylee!

Owen is a good little traveler!

Baylee loves hida beds! She gets so excited when the couch turns into a bed!

We went on a little hike!

When I was growing up we'd go to Snowbird and walk this trail. I remember thinking it was the longest walk ever! Baylee thought it was a breeze though. She ran most of the way! This girl has too much energy!

She caught a ride on the stroller at the very end!

Owen made the trip too!

Beautiful view huh?

Owen woke up at the end!

It was pretty cold up at Snowbird but I packed our swim suits and Baylee really wanted to go swimming so she and I went one day! The water was heated so it wasn't too bad. I forgot to take the camera so we didn't get any swimming pictures!

Catch up. . .

I'm WAY behind on blogging. So here we go. . .

Baylee and I made homemade finger paints a couple of weeks ago!

I found a recipe online and it was pretty fun!

Like always Baylee was excited to help me!

She helped stir everything together.

Then I distracted her with colored water while I cooked it on the stove.

This is what it looked like. I think I made it a little too thick because Baylee spilled some water when she was pouring it in. I'll have to add a little extra next time.

I divided it up into three cups. . .

added a little food coloring. . .

and we had minutes (baylee has short attention span) of messy fun!

ha ha love this pic!

I stuck Owen's feet in!

Here is Baylee's beautiful creation!

I also made Baylee a new skirt that week! I love it!

She did not want to cooperate for pics though.

Baylee cut her hair that week too! It was kind of funny I had bought her some new conditioner so I showed it to her and she wanted some. I gave her a little bit and she stuck it in the back of her hair.

It was the Utes first football game that day so Mark stopped at his parents to watch it. I was trying to get ready to go over and Baylee came up stairs with the her little scissors. I just took them away from her and put them up high cause I only let her use them when I'm around.

We went over to Mark's parent's house and I noticed a long hair hanging from the back of Baylee's hair. I had just cut her hair the day before, so I thought maybe I had missed a piece. I pulled on it and it came out of her hair! Then every hair I pulled on came out! So I got a brush and combed through the conditioner in her hair and got a wad of hair out!

She had cut her hair at our house but it stayed in her hair because of the conditioner she had put in the back of her hair!

See the little piece of hair sticking up. Luckily her hair hides it pretty well! I'm just glad it wasn't in the front!

Jena wins a free photo shoot

The other night, just before I went to bed, I leaned of a contest to win a free photo package from Mirror Images Photography. To win, applicants had to submit an essay of why they or someone they knew deserved to win. I submitted the following on why I thought Jenalee should win. The next morning I got an email that said Jena had won the free photo shoot!

I love my wife. She is amazing. She is strong. She is beautiful. She is many things. But most of all, she is loving. And there isn’t anything she loves more in the world than her children.

About three months ago, my wife, Jenalee, gave birth to our son. There were complications during the delivery and he had to be born via an emergency cesarean section. Our son Owen spent the first two days of his life in NICU. Jenalee had to spend the first couple days of our son’s life separated from him. It was very hard for her to miss that time with him. Then, when the doctors cleared him to leave the NICU and be with us, Jenalee got very sick. She was unable to take care of herself and her children. We soon found out that she had contracted two infections from complications from the emergency c-section. She soon found herself back in the hospital for another week. It was another week away from her young son, who was growing and changing every day. I know that the pain and discomfort she felt from her infections, the I.V.s stuck in her arm, and the tubes that were stuck in her, pumping the infection out of her body, was nothing compared to the anguish she was feeling by not being able to be a mother to her children. She had to rely on our family and friends to take care of her kids, while she tried to get better.

Jenalee has finally healed completely. But she will never get back those first precious weeks that are so special to a new infant and a new mother. That is why I want her to win a free session from Mirror Images Photography.

One thing we have learned as parents is just how fast children grow. Our daughter, Baylee, is turning three in a few weeks, and our son, Owen, is already nearly four months old. Baylee is now nearly out of diapers, and Owen keeps growing into bigger ones. I want my wife to have some wonderful pictures of our children before they get any older and bigger. I want her to always remember our children as they are now, because we have learned that they won’t stay that way for long.

My wife missed out on happy memories with our son at a very special time of his life. But this time of his and our daughter’s life is special as well. And there is no better way to preserve and remember these times than by the power of photography.

Park City and Camping!

We went to Park City with Mark's family last week! It was lots of fun! Thanks Phil and Melanee for taking us we love you guys!This was us at the Olympic Park we rode the zip line and the alpine slide there but I don't have pictures of that.
Here is Mark, his mom, and two of his brothers, Micah and Philip.

This is the s'more fudge I got at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory it's on Main Street in Park City! Yummy!

Here is Owen having fun in Park City!

Baylee loved sleeping on the pull out bed!

I'm not sure how Owen feels about Baylee's kisses!

Mark and I did a devotional one night so we had everyone act out Lehi's dream.

Baylee is always up for some Ice Cream!

This is my cute nephew Beau! He saw that I was taking pictures of Owen so he came and stood in front of my camera!



After we left Park City we met up with Marks Aunt and Uncle and their families and spent one night at the Heber Valley Girls Camp.
Baylee got to work right away digging wood chips! I loved staying at this camp it is really nice and we had so much fun!

This is Mark's uncle Rex! We love this guy! He impressed the kids with his Donald Duck voice!

When we first got to camp Baylee and I went on a walk with Mark's brother Philip and found this little hiking trail.

We saw a deer and after that Baylee was determined not to leave so we could find "Bambi."

She was a good little hiker!

Later that day we went hiking with everyone (except Micah he stayed back at the cabins with Owen) we went further on the trail Baylee and I had been walking on. It went up to a nice little look out point!
Mark and I took turns carrying Baylee up the hill!

Here is everyone!

This is around the campfire! I had so much fun camping I hadn't been since before Baylee was born so it's probably been four years!

This was Baylee running around inside our cabin!

She loved the bunk beds!

Owen was a good little sleeper!

So was Mark!

And so was Baylee!




The Heber Valley Camp is owned by the church so when you first get there couple missionaries come around and do an orientation. They told us to always have a bucket of water by the fire. They also said that the campers before us had seen a flying squirrel and they thought it was a bat, so if we thought we saw a bat not to worry it was just a flying squirrel.
The morning after we had our camp fire Baylee had been wandering around and she came over to me and said, "mom, what's in that bucket?" I said, "Did you put wood chips in it? Is there water in it?" She responded, "No. Come on what's in that bucket?" I could tell she wanted me to follow her to the bucket so I walked over and I said, "See there is just wa AHHHHHH There is something dead in there!" There was a dead critter floating in the water bucket! Mark uncle had two buckets by the fire and only poured on out the night before. The poor flying squirrel drowned in the water bucket!

WARNING
dead flying squirrel picture below scroll fast if you don't want to see it!

Yucky huh!
This was me running from the squirrel! Ugh!

I went hiking to get away from the dead squirrel. Mark buried it while I was gone. Thanks honey! He said while I was gone Baylee said, "Mommy like squirrels when they are alive!" She's right!

On our way out of Heber City we stopped at this place called Dairy Keen Mark's aunt said that they have really good shakes. I got a raspberry peach shake and it was sooooo good! Yum!