Baby on the run

After two months of crazy army crawling and carpet swimming Ewan has finally started to crawl! He has been getting up on his hands and knees for awhile now but would always revert back to his carpet swim. Today he got up on his hands and knees and away he went!
We are in trouble now :)!

A night with The Police and...... Elvis!?

Yesterday Leif scored four tickets to see The Police with Elvis Costello at Red Rocks!!! We asked our friends Tyler and Jacque to join us and had such a good time. I remember in my younger years loving The Police and being sad that I would never in my lifetime see them live. I was excited when Sting decided to re-group with The Police and go on tour. I never thought I would get tickets to see them, and never at Red Rocks! So needless to say I was very GITTY yesterday when Leif called with the good news that he scored last minute tickets. My gitty factor when from 10 to 15 when I heard Elvis Costello was opening for them! I will use my '80's lingo to sum it all up............ it was RAD!!!!!

OH, those hot summer days!

More yard work, does it ever end???

This weekend we are trying to do the last of our yard work. Last Summer we laid new sod and made a "playground" area for the kids. This summer we are putting some finishing touches on what we started. We put a "picket" fence to separate the kid play area from the nice grassy area and to keep our dogs off the grass too. Leif decided to put crushed granite and river rock in areas as well.
Ewan thought the tractor looked fun so Leif took him on a ride and he loved it! He made this hilarious monkey face and did his funny little happy squeal while sitting on the tractor. He was very sad when he had to get off and come inside with boring old mom.

Ewan's first camping trip!

This last weekend we went on our first camping trip of the summer! Before we left on our trip we looked down and noticed we all had our flip flops on! I guess the longer you live with people the more you start thinking alike. This was Ewan's first camping trip he did fabulous, we were scared that he would not sleep but he surprised us. The first night he woke up a couple of times for a brief minute but the second night he slept through the whole night!
We went with some of our good friends Tyler and Lacey Knotts and their two kids Ellie and Avery. We got there Friday night and then Saturday we rented a boat and hung out on Boyd Lake all day. The kids did great and the adults had some fun as well. I tried to water ski and after make a huge fool out of myself tried knee boarding instead. I LOVED it! I had such a good time. Lacey of course was a pro at it and tried a 360 she came so close and then last minute let go of the rope. Leif tried both and got up on both the water ski's and knee board, he agreed with me knee boarding is our thing. Zana tried as well and got a little freaked out by the speed of the boat. Tyler had some amazing boat driving skills!
The little ones had fun swimming, Ewan and Avery both had a hard time staying awake on the boat. You would have thought one of us would have been smart and would have brought a camera along to document our fun but nope! We all forgot our camera's, I was so sad. :(
The kids al had a great time climbing tree's, playing in dirt and making smores. We are blessed to have great friends to share these fun times with!

Worthen Family Visit June 2008

My little sister Angie had her first baby on June 11th so 10 days later we gathered up the Snapp-Cook crew and headed out to Southern Utah to surprise her and see our first nephew Licoln on my side of the family.
We had such a good time there! Our nephew is adorable and we were so happy to get to see him while he was still so tiny and sweet. Ewan looked so big compared to little baby Licoln.
Leif and I were able to go on our favorite hike in Southern Utah and it was the first time EVER leaving Ewan while he was awake for more than one hour at a time.
Zana, Noah and Leif went camping with my dad and they all had a great time. Although Zana and Noah are sure that grandpa tried to kill them by taking them on a 6 mile hike!!! They managed to stay alive. :)
We love visiting and being with our family!

4 Wheeling with Dad

This whole summer Leif has tried to get us to go 4 wheeling with him and we FINALLY agreed! Noah was the funniest little guy about the whole trip, he kept saying "Dad this is not fun, this the worst day of my whole life." By the end of the day though he did say "This was fun, it was the best day of my life." Funny little guy.

Ewan has no complaints he LOVED every minute of it.