Dinner on the BYU Football Field

Hello hello!  We're back from Utah and had a great time while we were out there.  We spent most of the week with my family, but headed down Saturday to see Monica's family and go to dinner with them on the BYU football field!!  It was awesome, but I'll drop more details later.

We actually drove out last Saturday (you'd know but that blog post hasn't made it out yet), but fast forwarding into this week we find Winry sleeping with her glasses on!  Guess her glasses are more comfortable than mine.

While we were at my parents house my dad had reached out to their neighbor who said we could come swim at their pool!  We had a lot of fun and went 3 times!  Brooke tried out their kickboard without her floaties.  I think she's done this at swim lessons, but the pool here was deeper than where she was for swim lessons, so good job to her!  Brooke actually took back to the water really well and got pretty brave, which was nice to see.

Grayson got this floatie for Christmas and it made the maiden voyage!  Grayson liked floating for a little bit, and really liked the toy duck and shark.  He eventually got sad (I think his shirt came up and maybe it was rubbing on him?) and enjoyed being held and swam around the pool.  He also does well with water on the face and didn't freak out when getting splashed, so we tried to help reinforce that.

Winry had a lot of fun, but wasn't quite as comfortable.  She doesn't trust her floaties yet, which is fair because she still had a hard time rolling around (like back to stomach) in them and can end up sideways and get her mouth in the water.  She spent a lot of time on the stairs (there was one really big stair where the water is about 1.5 feet deep) and loved to have someone swim her around.  She also liked being on these floating bed things.

At my parents house the girls were really great at helping out.  Winry fed Grayson lunch one day even.

Wednesday we headed back to the pool again!  We played a game where we'd jump in the pool and act out an animal.  Technically someone is supposed to yell it out as you're jumping and you try to figure it out and act it out quickly in the air before landing.  Anyway, Brooke did her favorite "mythical" animal!  I did inform her a narwhal is a real animal, and she was pretty excited about that.

Here's Winry over on that big step.  She was practicing doing bubbles!  She's still pretty nervous around water, so I was really excited to see her get her face wet on purpose!  On Wednesday some of Monica's friends also came to visit us at the pool and we all swam together.  I really enjoyed swimming at the pool and going down their water slide, and after swimming so much so often I'm realizing I really enjoy swimming and maybe even want a pool.  Monica was really excited about that revelation, but our back yard insists it's not ready.

The girls enjoyed getting to spend time with their cousins while we were out.  Here's a picture of Brooke and Cameron together.  Everyone really enjoyed playing with Grayson as well.  He was never short of a person to play with for long.

On Wednesday afternoon I went golfing with Niki and Alyson.  It turned out to be the perfect day because the high ended up only being around 90 (it was around 100 the rest of the week).  We had a great time, and I'm enjoying doing more golfing this year.  I missed it a lot!  Alyson took an early lead, but was kind enough to pull the door wide open on the last few holes, and I happily walked through into first!

On Thursday morning the girls were at Jerusha's house as they had a sleep over the night before.  Monica and I enjoyed our freedom by going on a morning walk together with Grayson who fell asleep!  We saw a crazy bee tree while we were out.  As you walked to the tree you heard a buzzing, and there were bees all over the flowers on it.  Probably at least 100, but I'm sure there were WAY more.  I did take a video, but you can't really see much, so I'll spare you.

Here's a cute picture of Grayson playing on the floor.

We went to Alyson's house again on Thursday night.  The girls got in to swim, but Monica and I got there a little later with dinner and everyone was ready to eat when we showed up.  It was still a lot of fun, and we even got to see Barkley,  Alyson's cat.  Oh, and Winry found Alyson's M&M bowl, so that's... problematic.

On the drive home Grayson started getting nervous about Monica's crazy driving, and had to hold on tight!

On Friday we made a final swimming trip to the neighbors house.  Great times again.  I tried on some swim goggles (it's been a long time) and I still don't love the tightness on my head/eyes, but it was pretty cool to see so well under the water.

On Saturday we headed to Monica's parents house.  This was great because Brooke really wanted to get to spend time with Audrey, who also came over.  The kids all had a great time playing together all day.  I brought my golf simulator down and hit a few balls with Ron.  We talked the possibility of future golf trips, and I'm hopeful those will happen.  When it was time to head to the stadium everyone who changed "just so happened" to match Grayson.  Please, I'm supposed to believe that just happened?!?

The dinner was a lot of fun.  We had our own reserved parking spot at the stadium.  Dinner was on the center of the field, and there were plenty of opportunities for pictures.  Cosmo came to dinner with us which was pretty neat, and Grayson loved him!  We got pictures of Cosmo holding Grayson, and Grayson really liked to grab and pet Cosmo's fur!

At dinner Cosmo sat across from me.  I got to watch him drink some water and eat some melon, and I WISH I had taken a video!  It was funny to watch.

On our way out Grayson did some jukes and jives in his stroller down the field to score his first touchdown!  All star play.  Also, the Blood family all got a picture together before we left the dinner.

We drove home on Sunday and stopped in Wanship for church.  We continued on our way and ended up stopping in Little America for lunch.  We had a picnic in the shade of the dinosaur, and after lunch we all climbed on the dino!  Winry really loves these dinosaurs and was very excited to see it. Whenever she sees one she says "there's my dino friend!".

While we were driving home there were two crazy rain storms.  Monica got to drive through one, and I got the other.  Monica wasn't feeling great, so we avoided windy roads and went through Cheyenne.  What exciting thing does that mean for you?  It means we drove past the tree growing out of the rock in the middle of the freeway between Laramie and Cheyenne!  Monica tried to get a picture as we drove by, and this is the most visible tree.

We're back at home now, and Grayson sleeps sometimes.  That will be more of a story for next weeks blog post though.  We had a great time in Utah and loved getting to see our family.  It was also great that Oriah and her kids were out there at the same time.  Have a great week ahead!