Summer is OVER....

 Well we made it through another summer! Its kind of weird that summer is already over.  It still feels like it is mid summer to me for some reason.  Maybe because they last few weeks have gone by in a whirl wind.  We had an interesting last couple weeks in Little Rock Arkansas to say the least.  We did enjoy a little site seeing and needless to say downtown Little Rock is pretty. And we had a fun group with us!

Here is a picture of all of us enjoying the sites!

Unfortunately, two days later one of our friends got hit by a car.... it was a crazy couple of days while he was in the hospital.... luckily he will make a full recovery so we are just so grateful that he is alive and doing well! 

A week later we packed up and moved to Corpus Christi Texas.

We played at the beach with some friends!

And then three days after we arrived we decided that it was time to go back to Utah.  We were burnt out from the long Summer of traveling and L with selling so we decided to pack everything up and make the 24 hour drive back to the motherland!

M.J. was amazing in the car.... we drove straight through and needless to say I am shocked at how well he did.  As you can tell we resorted to candy the last couple hours! 

It was a party when we got home! We were so excited to first be out of the car and second to be back in UTAH!!! We had missed Utah so much! 

Then four days later M.J. turned one! Needless to say we didn't have much time to plan a party or anything! So we just did something small.. see my previous post for more! 

Sense we have been back we have had lots of fun! With Trips to COSTCO... which we had missed a lot! 

Furniture shopping for our new house!!! 

And lots of quality time together! I love this time of year! L is home all day with us so it is so fun hanging out and having fun together!



We have been so blessed this summer! We have had so much fun with good friends and fun adventures! But we are so happy to finally be home in Utah and can't wait for the next couple weeks for our House to be completed and to be able to move in! 

M.J. turns ONE!

I can't believe I have a one year old.  This year has gone by way too fast!  I feel like M.J. has grown up just too fast, as I'm sure most parents do.  He has turned into quite the trouble maker sense he has started walking.  He never likes to sit still EVER!  He always wants to be on the go, running, opening things, climbing, falling.... just everything.  He has loved the toilet which is disgusting..... he also has this weird obsession with plungers..... which is even grosser... needless to say we always keep the bathroom door closed!!  He is getting his 7th and 8th tooth..... crazy he has four on top and four on the bottom now.... if only I can get him to eat better.  He is kind of a picky eater, he loves his milk still so he doesn't really like to fill up on solid food.... except suckers he loves sticky suckers haha.  He has finally started to say MAMA! Which makes me so happy but he doesn't say it very often... his favorite is DADA still! I am trying to get him to say more words but he doesn't like to sit still long enough to talk if he can't do it on the go he isn't going to take the time to sit and learn it... hopefully that will change some day soon.  Here are some pictures of some of the things he has been up to the past month....  Sorry it may be picture overload!

Grocery shopping with mommy he loves the carts with cars

Exploring Little Rock

Driving around the Little Rock Mall

His first quarter ride

Hanging out with Daddy on Daddy's 26th Birthday!

Past out with Daddy after a long day

Trying to eat a golf ball....

He got so mad when we packed up all his toys.... he didn't want to lose his toys!

Relaxing....

Playing in the ocean

He loved splashing in the waves

He is such a tank!

Being cute with his new hat!

His first push pop... I think he had a sugar overload

We had a little party for him with just Grandma and Grandpa M and Aunt H & C.

He was in his Birthday suit! 

Checking out all his gifts!

He was so spoiled!

Eating his favorite gift from Aunt C... A dino of course!

Enjoying his smash cake!

We love our Little M.J. so much and can't wait to see what else he has in store for us!  He has been such a blessing in our lives and couldn't be happier with the little boy he is turning out to be!

VACA

M.J. and I went on a VACA with my side of the family to St. John USVI the last week of July!  We had so much fun but really missed L.  He had to stay behind and work :( but if they win the competition this week we will all go on a cruise sometime soon. So that will make up for him missing this trip!  But here are some pictures of our trip.  We stayed in this gorgeous house a short walk for the beach and enjoyed lots of fun at the beach!

One of the many lizards we saw! There are lizards everywhere there!

Little M.J. being a stinker and not wanting to go to sleep!

The pool!

Playing on the ipad with Aunt C

One of the gorgeous beaches!

Playing in the Ocean with Grandma M

It was so fun to play in the ocean with M.J.  He loves the water but couldn't understand why it was so salty haha.  But he had so much fun, he didn't love playing in the sand as much as I thought, but thats okay!

Waiting out the Rain in the Car

Few from the house

Everyone just relaxing after a long day at the beach relaxing haha

Sharing an apple with Aunt H

Playing at the beach with Mom

I  love my sweet boy!

Playing Sumo wrestler!

Passed out after a long day

Chillin with Uncle D

He loved looking out the balcony

Another huge lizard!



That was kind of our trip in pictures! It was a lot of fun and I'm so glad that we got to go.  Big thanks to Grandma and Grandpa M for setting everything up!