One year older!

A couple of weeks ago I celebrated another birthday. I am now one year older, but I don't feel any wiser. I can say that I had a very pleasant, nice birthday. Kim my sister and her daughter were here and that made it fun. Craig even bought me black licorice. He must really love me because he hates black licorice. I was also told that I could finally get a Kitchen Aid (mixer), yeah! Thanks to all who called, texted, sent cards, and sang to me it was gratefully appreciated. I felt very loved and special on my special day.

Scout Camp/Swimming/Lucas Talking

The following week after we got back home, Craig went to Scout Camp, which is about 20 minutes from our house. It doesn't take very long to get to a forest here, we are in the middle of no-where sorrounded by trees, lots of trees! While Craig was at Scout Camp, Lucas and I decided to play, alot! We went swimming up at Whipple Dam with some friends. It took Lucas sometime to get use to the water, as first he wanted to just play in the sand, but by the end her would sit at the edge of the water, shovel in hand, digging in the sand. He enjoyed taking a shovel full of sand dumping it on his head, his head was full of sand by the end.

Later in the week we went with our friends down to Ephrata. On Friday's they have this huge farmer's market, where they sell pretty much everything, from fresh produce, pastries, candy, meat, to jewlery, bags, shoes, clothes. We had fun strolling around with three little people and two strollers. We also went to the Hershey Outlets and made a stop at the Children's place to get some clothes for Lucas for next summer.
By the end of the week Luas and I were pretty exhausted and as it turned out Craig was pretty exhausted too! We had a pretty lazy, uneventful Saturday! Though exhausted, Craig seemed to have enjoyed Scout Camp. With the help of some other scout leaders, Craig won the Scoutmaster dutch oven contest for his peach cobbler, and yes his Peach Cobbler is really, really good!

Craig was able to come home for a couple of days during Scout Camp. The day he came home, Craig went and sat on the couch. Lucas went to the couch looked up at Craig and said, "Hi Dada". It was the cutest thing ever.

Lucas has been doing a little bit of talking lately. A few days after we got home from our trip Craig was trying to tell Lucas he couldn't play with the curtains. Lucas backed up against the sliding door, looked at Craig and said, "What?" We have also been hearing, "What's this?" and "That?" numerous times during the day. Lucas continues to do our favorite things which is when he babbles and then stops and laughs to himself, like he has just told a funny joke.

The End!

After having been across the Wasatch Front, seeing and doing everything we possibly could in the short time we had, we headed back home! It was a long experience in itself, three separate flights all of which were delayed and we didn't get in till after midnight, made for a very long day! We will now be spending the rest of the summer home!

Swimming!

Made a trip to the Roy Aquatic center, which is a swimming area with pools, slides, and kid area. Lucas had lots of fun, was able to go down the slide with his dad. He liked walking around in the shallow areas of the pool, and splashing water. We had lots of fun in the sun!

Wedding!

Here are pictures from Craig's brothers' wedding Kyle and his bride Shelina. They were married in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. We have never been to this temple so it was neat to see the inside of this temple, it was beautiful. The reception was in a backyard which was a really pretty setting for a summer wedding.
Lucas and Elise were the etertainment for part of the night. Elise has a backpack leash, she was wearing and Lucas would grab hold of the end of the leash, it looked like he was walking Elise. Most of the time Elise was actually dragging Lucas along, Lucas was having a hard time keeping up.
I thought Lucas looked quite handsome in his black shirt and pants, suspenders and pink tie. I have to admit I was a pretty proud mom and wife, I thought our little family look pretty good matching each other, which gave us an opportunity to take another family picture. It was a very busy day, but very nice and enjoyable.

Pictures

We went to the park wtih Craig's family to take pictures. Lately we have been looking through all of our pictures and we have noticed that we have very few pictures of our little family. It was nice to go to the park get some pictures taken. Elise, Lucas cousin would try to hold Lucas hand, Lucas would not cooperate long enough for us to get a decent picture. Here are other pictures taken at the park. We also had a picnic with the Swenson clan, and this is a picture of Grandpa Boyd grilling while he is wearing his awsome apron made by Lucas.

BYU!

We took a trip down to Provo one of the days that we were in Utah. We walked around campus, had lunch at the creamery and of course had ice-cream. My personal favorite is Coconut Joy. It tastes like an Almond Joy, but better, because it's ice-cream. Lucas loved it, too! He also liked the fries and hamburger. Not the most nutritious lunch we have every given him, but we were on vacation so we splurged. To end our little excursion, we had to take pictures of father and son at the cougar and the BYU sign. After we took the pictures of Craig and Lucas next to the cougar, Lucas starting touching the cougar, they turned out to be really cute pictures, it almost looks like he is shaking the cougars paw. Fun trip!