St. George

Now that our life is finally settling down I feel like it's time to get back to blogging! Hopefully I can catch up! Back in May we decided to take a little family vay-cay to St. George. It was such a hectic time with packing, moving, and Alan graduating but I'm glad we took the time to go. It was a much needed break! I love taking trips just the 3 of us!

We spent lots of time at the park and I think this was when Deacon became obsessed with digging! He is such a boy! This picture was taken the day he turned 18 months.

We went to Swig more than I should admit! Nothing is better than the dirty diet coke. 

We had so much fun getting together with one of my college besties, Skye, and her cute family. Deacon and Grahm had a blast and I wish we lived closer because they would be the best of buds.

We went hiking one day. Deacon was less than thrilled to be carried in a backpack, but he was cooperative for a short while. I let Alan do must of the carrying after I carried Deacon for about 5 minutes and thought my back was broken. Those backpacks are killer!

Deacon practically jumped in the pool when we got there!

Deacon loved the pretend fish and his favorite thing to do at the pool is fill up cups. 

Deacon was pretty upset that I wanted him to wear a hat. The hat was taken off shortly after this picture was taken and no hat has touched his head since. I'm learning to pick my battles!

We had dinner at the Pizza Factory with Skye and her fam.

 St. George has an awesome splash pad/wading pool park and Deacon had tons of fun!

 One of our good family friends, Tommy, met us there as well and brought his darling little girl Avery! Deacon and her were instant friends and he has never taken a liking to another little girl like this! It was probably the funniest/cutest thing ever! His first kiss...

We had such a fun time and love when we get to spend time together as a family. It seems like good, quality time can be hard to come by with how crazy life gets! Deacon was such a great little traveler as well! Until next time St. George...

Boise Trip

A couple of weeks ago, we headed to Boise for a little getaway. Alan was presenting at a pharmacy conference and also had a job interview. Deacon and I decided to tag along and I'm so glad we did! It honestly was such a fun trip. We really haven't taken any trips just the 3 of us and we had the best time. I am so in love with my little family. Yes, we were just in Boise but for some reason everything about the trip was perfect. I am so grateful for the opportunity we have in this life to have families. There is nothing better and I love spending time with Alan and Deacon. 

We headed straight to P.F. Chang's when we got into town and quickly learned it was not a good idea to bring Deacon there...should have stuck with Chipotle! However, Deacon loved the huge horse outside of the restaurant. 

We were a little nervous about having a one room hotel. We were not sure how Deacon would go to sleep with us in the same room but he did amazing! We did some furniture rearranging so his pack-and-play was hidden behind the t.v. console and he didn't put up a fight. The only tricky part was keeping the lights off and being quiet from 8:00 p.m. until we went to sleep. So what did we do? We watched Downton Abbey on the iPad, sharing the headphones...pretty awesome!

If you know Deacon, you know he is obsessed with phones so he spent the majority of time in the room playing with the phone! He was in heaven!

We went to an indoor play gym one day. Deacon had an absolute blast and if I'm being honest, so did I! 

Maybe the best part of the trip was the swimming pool. The last time we went swimming Deacon was pretty little so we weren't sure if he would like it or not. He LOVED it! And how cute is he in his swimsuit...seriously the  cutest thing ever!

He had a blast splashing in the water and loved hearing his voice echo in the room. We swam every night and Deacon could not get enough. I can't wait to do swim lessons with him this summer. 

We fed the ducks one night. 

These two have the sweetest bond. 

The weather was gorgeous and we spent an afternoon at the park flying airplanes. 

It was the most perfect little vacay and it makes me want to do this more often. Heres to hoping for more family trips in the future!

Heber Getaway

We have some awesome family friends who have a house in Heber, Utah. Alan's step-dad actually built the house and Damon and Missy bought it. It is absolutely beautiful and such a fun getaway house. Damon and Missy have been so generous to let us use the house several times since we have been married. We actually went there on our first honeymoon. We were trying to plan a trip over Superbowl weekend but the house was booked so we quickly arranged to go last weekend. 

The Hubbards and Wards went with us and we had a blast!

We bundled up the first day to do some sledding. The hill in front of the house wasn't much of a sledding hill so we basically just played in the snow and pulled the kids around in the tubes. Actually, the Hubbards and Wards did this because Deacon was HYSTERICAL and wanted nothing to do with being bundled in his snow suit! I guess I can't blame him! 

{Charish, me, Cali}

Aren't these boys the cutest?

{Hubbards & Wards}

The boys did some snowshoeing or should I say hiking up the mountain?

{Alan, Clayton, Spencer}

The girls got pedicures that day while the boys watched the kiddies. I don't think I'll ever get a pedi in Heber again. It was literally the grossest experience of my life. There was just 2 men working, one of which was sick and literally had snot dripping out of his nose onto the floor while working on our feet! I'm still disgusted just thinking about it. 

That night we headed into Park City and ate at Red Rock. The Sundance Film Festival was going on so it was pretty crazy busy. 

Deacon ran around in the freezing cold while we waited for our table. 

After finally being seated, the waiter got our drinks and just so happened to drop the entire drink tray on Charish. She was covered in sticky soda! It was quite the experience. We for sure thought he would cover our tab but only offered to buy Charish dessert. Pretty lame, but it was the best dessert I've ever had. Thanks for taking one for the team Charish!

Sunday we mainly relaxed and the guys watched football. 

The girls went snowshoeing. It was my first time and it was tons of fun and quite the workout! Charish was awesome and went even though she's 20+ weeks pregnant. 

Deacon was adorable and found this photo collage and immediately pointed out his Granddaddy!

The neighbors had horses so we took the kids to feed them apples. 

It was such a fun, relaxing weekend and it was fun to see all our boys together. We did learn, however, that Deacon is entering that lovely phase of not wanting to share any of his toys. We have our work cut out for us!