Hello everyone! Oh boy did I pick a bad week to miss posting, there is a lot to cover here. I guess most of it really is from last week when we were out in Utah, but still, I feel like I've got a long ways to go. While we were in Utah we headed to my Aunt Alyson's house on Monday night for FHE and went swimming! It was a blast, and it was the first time for Brooke to go swimming with floaties (at least with me) and she even swam around a little on her own!
Being summer it was naturally Popsicle time Monday morning! Everyone had gone to the park that morning and needed a treat to cool off!
I think Brooke loves popsicles...
The park they went to was pretty cool. It had a little zip line at it that you could ride on. I think Brooke really liked it. Sadly I wasn't there as I was working back at my parents house, but when everyone got home they told me about how fun it was!
While out at my parents house I started going through old pictures and scanning ones with me in them. I back up all my pictures on Google Photos, but I don't really having anything from before 2005-ish time frame, so I wanted to scan some pictures while we were out there. I got through a lot (7 photo albums I think), but I know there are a lot more somewhere and I'm hoping to find them sometime on a future trip. Here's an old family photo!
And here I am as a tee ball all star! These are pictures I haven't found dates for yet, so they're still up by all my new pictures until I approximate a year and month and get them closer to when they were taken.
As mentioned, Monday night was FHE at Alyson's house! Before we swam we all got together to have some pizza and pass around babies! Look how happy everyone is!
Brooke had a lot of fun swimming with her cousins in the pool! Jonathan and Cameron are a lot braver/willing to take risks than Brooke, but Brooke never cried so they did a great job not being too extreme for her!
While at my parents' house Brooke got to start sleeping in a big girl bed! She loved it, and once we put her in she would stay in it until we got her in the morning. She hasn't been back in a crib since, and not until the last few days has she gotten out of bed on her own.
Since both mine and Monica's parents live within an hour of each other we split our week between families. On Wednesday we headed down to spend time with Monica's family. While we were there Brooke even helped clean!
On Thursday we had Audrey's (Brooke's cousin) birthday party! It was unicorn themed, complete with a rainbow to go under when you went from room to room! Brooke had a lot of fun at the party. There was pin the horn on the unicorn, and making glitter bottles, and decorating cookies! Lots of fun! I'm so glad we were invited and in town so we could attend!
Thursday afternoon Monica's friend Christine came down to visit from Idaho and we headed to the paleontology museum at BYU. I had never been there before, and while it isn't huge, it was awesome! We even got to take a family picture under this skeleton. It's probably related to a giraffe somehow, so this fits in with my pictures from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo!
Brooke even took a picture with Camden sitting on a dinosaur leg bone!
Winry got eaten by this giant alligator like thing!
But she wasn't enough food, so Brooke got eaten too!
We even found a dinosaur egg to point at! It was pretty impressive just how much stuff they have there. Some things are the actual bones, etc. and others are copies made from the originals.
After a few days sleeping on a boring old mattress at Gram's house Brooke wanted to upgrade to the tent she kept seeing! She got so excited the first time she got in! She did a great job sleeping in there too, and not letting her excitement keep her awake. Also, because I'm just remembering right now, I'm pretty sure that Brooke had no accidents over night while we were out in Utah, and we even got up one night to use the potty!
Here we are getting ready to go visit campus on Friday.
We headed to the BYU Store and got a picture with Cosmo on his bench. We did a bunch of looking around, but we couldn't find the things we were looking for there. We did find some pizza bagels and the world's best chocolate milk though, so we got them to take with us while we walked around campus!
After walking around campus for a while it was time to go to the MOA for lunch. We of course stopped by the stuffed cougars on the way, and Brooke also noticed the deer (look on the left, behind the rock wall)! She was even more excited for the deer and instead of yelling "GO COUGARS" she kept yelling "GOOOO REINDEER!!!"
The MOA had this cool art exhibit going on right outside the cafe! It was a lot of string in all colors to make a rainbow! After we had lunch we went to visit my old professor, Dr. Wirthlin and see how things were going in the lab! It was a lot of fun to be back and see how things are going. Also, they're building a new engineering building that will attach to the Clyde, and we got to see the outside of that. It opens later this year, so we weren't able to walk through it, but that gives us something cool to look forward to next time we visit!
Saturday was Jack's baptism. It was great! He seemed really excited! At the baptism Jack and all his cousins got up and sang "I am a Child of God!" The day before they had practiced it and I asked Brooke to sing louder so that we could hear her with everyone else. She did an amazing job, and I (and everyone else) LOVED the musical number!
On Saturday night Ron (Monica's dad) got us tickets to go see the Circus. There was one that had set up for about a week or so in Provo, and we got to go opening night! On the way, Brooke was unsure, but once we got there and she saw it she loved it! And Winry loved it and even took a nap for a while during it!
Here we all are as a family!
Sunday morning we headed back for home. We stopped in Parachute to go to church on the way, and there was a TON of traffic on I-70 for about the last 150 miles of the drive. A lot of people head out to the mountains from Denver every weekend it would seem. Google put together a pretty nice slideshow/video of the whole trip too!
When we got home Brooke was done with sleeping in a crib, so we pulled out her mattress. Obviously a mattress alone would not be enough, and fortunately I have a teepee! It fits just perfectly around her mattress too!
One day this past week when I got home Brooke was putting on Monica's pumping bra. I don't think anything I write could top the video, so we'll just leave it there.
Today Brooke wanted to wear her Easter dress, and Winry is just getting big enough to wear her matching one! We headed down to Colorado Springs to go to our friend, Trisha's baby Isabel's baby blessing. We were able to make it back in time for second hour in our ward where I had to teach. It was great that everything worked out just right, and it was fun to get to see the Klatts again.
For Father's Day Brooke got me this awesome shirt!
We also grabbed some 5 month pictures of Winry today (she hit 5 months 6 days ago)! What a cutie! I love this little girl so much! She is so great and brings so much joy to our lives!
And, I can ALWAYS make her smile!
Phew, that was a lot! Thanks for sticking with me through it all! I hope everyone had a great week (or two...), and thanks for stopping by and catching up with us! Have a great week!
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