Daxton's Birthday

Friday was Daxton's second birthday. We all met at "Daxton's Place" at 7:30 for a pajama party. They were going to do the big unveiling of the headstone, but unfortunately they didn't get it done in time so that will be in about a week. The place doing the headstone felt really bad so they made a nice granite stone for Matt and Michelle in honor of Daxton which I thought was great of them. My boys made some birthday cards for Daxton that we put by his headstone (they were really cute, but I didn't think to take a picture of them). We all wrote messages to Daxton and tied them to balloons and then released them at the same time, it was really neat to see! My boys were not happy that we let go of the balloons, but I think Daxton would have loved it! Then we did a halo toast, it's where you all get donuts and do a toast with them. It was really neat and really hard! The tension was broken up pretty quick by the sprinklers turning on which we were all sure that Daxton probably had something to do with it! It turned out really well and we are all so grateful for all of the love and support everyone has shown to our family and Matt and Michelle.

Here are some of the people who were able to come and were great to come and show their love and support. Thank you!


Neal, Austin, and Zack missing their bud. We love you so much Dax!


The balloon release.

Cherry Hill

I'm a little late doing this post, but I have not been in a blogging or just computer mood in general lately. So all of you who's emails I haven't responded to I'm going to get around to it soon and sorry for slacking.

Last Wednesday my mom had her work party at Cherry Hill so she invited all of us girls and we had a fun girl's day out plus my boys. (We missed you Mandy, Neal, and Henry!) I haven't been to Cherry Hill in ages, but it was a lot of fun and they have the new UV filters so it makes my crazy brain rest a little easier (no Crypto here!). I think the boys were still a little too young to fully appreciate the fun we were having, but at least I tried. We decided to try their life jackets on them for the lazy river; it's the first time they've ever worn them and they were less than impressed, but it made a good photo op.


They thought the Pirate's Cove was okay once we took their life jackets off. They especially liked the slides that you get to go on in to the water and Austin liked the spraying water. By the time we had lunch they were pretty tired and enjoyed lounging together.



I was wishing I could have got some cute swimming pictures, but with my history I probably would've dropped it in the water. By the time we left Austin and Zack were asleep almost the minute they were put in the car and were limp dolls when we got home and I put them in their cribs. Thanks for the fun girls!

Memories

I don't want to be left out of the fun memory game so I'm conforming, here goes.
Here is a fun little game... leave a comment on my blog of a memory that you and I have had together. It doesn't matter if you've known me for a short time or a long time, anything that you remember! Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It is pretty funny to read the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you are playing and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. On your mark... get set... blog those memories!

18 Month Pictures

We had some new pictures taken of the boys and I thought I'd share them. Sorry but they are scanned in images so they aren't the best but you'll get the idea.

My Awesome Wife

I just wanted to say how proud I am of Heidi. She has had a goal to run a 10k for a while and has been training hard to be able to do so even though sickness, two little monkeys and one big ape have gotten in the way a bit. But today she ran the Farmington 10k in just over 59 minutes which is impressive to me! I am tired after 59 seconds. Great job honey!

4th of July

We had a great fourth of July, it all started with me running the Cherry Days 5k with Katie. The race went okay, the course was a lot of uphill and I have been sick, but thanks to Katie (she kept me going faster than I would have run if I was by myself) our official finish time was 29:26 (although my Nike Plus said 29:01). Now I'm just trying to figure out a way to get her to move by me instead of going back to New York, I would love a running friend!


Then we went to the parade with Aaron's brother's family. Their kids were so cute and kept bringing us and the boys candy, they were very good to share.


All Austin wanted to do was kick, step on, or throw the candy. He could've cared less about picking it up.


Zack just wanted to sit on our laps, he refused to pick up the candy. Oh well, maybe next year.


Then we all went back to my parent's and had some yummy Pizza Man for lunch and went swimming. It was so fun to play with our nieces and nephew and Zack and Austin loved the water!

No, Aaron doesn't have a new wife (at least I don't think so), I just needed a big change to get out of frumpy mode.



Then we all had much needed naps and that evening we went to my aunt and uncle's for croquet and to watch the fireworks from Weber High. The boys loved the fireworks, even though Zack was so tired he almost fell asleep during them and Austin was hyped up on sugar and kept oohing and aahing. We hope everyone had a Happy Fourth as well!

A couple more cute pictures:
Austin found a new way to eat, who needs hands or silverware?

Fun with friends

I know you will all be shocked to hear, but after our first week of going to nursery me, Austin, and Zack have all been sick. So because we didn't want to get baby Henry sick we weren't able to go to the barbecue and swimming party at my parent's last Saturday for Founder's Day so we bought the boys a swimming pool. They have loved it! It's nice because they can get in and out of it themselves and it was great entertainment while we were doing some yard work (one of us was watching them the whole time, they weren't swimming unattended).


Some of our best friends Ryan, Katie, and Josh are here visiting from New York so we had them over for dinner and swimming on Monday. It's been so great to see them again and to see Josh and our boys interact. We are so sad they are going back on Saturday!

Austin and Josh both really wanted to play with the hose, they weren't very sure of each other (I'm sure Austin was thinking oh great another kid to steal my toys).


I think they had fun despite the constant fight over balls.


Don't they look like they are conspiring to do something? Josh was pretty funny at first acting like wow I've never been in here with other kids. Although he was being a bad example to our boys getting them to stand in the tub, we'll still let him play with our kids. :)


Last night we went to Kayla and Brandon's house for a fun little party with our friends. It was so great to get together and just talk and see all of our cute kids together. We know we are very blessed to have such great high school friends and we're glad that most of us have stayed in touch. We love you guys and we missed those of you who weren't able to come!

Zack Walking!

I'm a little behind in my posts, but Zack started taking a couple of steps in between me and Aaron on Sunday and since then he thinks he's pretty cool when he walks. This video is from this morning.