Baby Bumper Cars at Lagoon

We took Londyn to Lagoon yesterday b/c Cody's brother's work had a Lagoon Day and it was Londyn's actual bday. She LOVED all of the kiddie rides!! Here she is - her car is purple and it's the one that keeps going in circles!!! I couldn't believe how brave she was on all the rides! Even when we got soaked on rattle snake rapids!

Londyn's "Under the Sea" party!

As many of you know, Londyn was very insistant on having a "lil mermaid party." So Saturday evening we threw her a party. Here is a pic of the under the sea slide! I'm sure most of you have seen it while driving by. And her is my attempt at the "lil mermaid cake" I thought she was a little pale and had a pig nose....but Londyn loved it and it tasted pretty darn good! Thank you to my mom for washing all of my icing bags and tips...thats the part I hate most about making cakes.

We set up 2 kiddie pools for the kiddos.
Birthday girl eager to blow the candles out.
Averie and Katie decorating a fish to hang over the slide.
Londyn and cousin Sofia trying to dry off and stay warm. They look like they could be sisters!

Ode to the Binki

The binki has been with us since the day Londyn born and with her SECOND birthday coming up, I thought it was definately time to say byebye to the bink. About 6 months ago I started to only let her have it when she was in bed. Then about 2 weeks ago she had fallen asleep for her nap twice without the binki so I just took it away cold turkey. I told her it was all gone. Cody told her it went to Australia (???!). And she has been great with out it. Every now and then she will ask for it, but is ok when I tell her its gone. I think it has been harder on me. It was so easy to get her to go to sleep with it. She still sleeps well but now she will talk forever in her crib, where before she would just fall asleep. And not having it on our St. George trip was hard- when she wouldn;t fall asleep at the hotel. But, I'm glad it's gone!

Pardon Our Dust

I'm trying to get a new theme working. It may take a few days.

- Cody

St. George

On Sunday after church Londyn and I took off for St. George. My mom and little bro Caleb were there getting Caleb settled in to school. (He is going to Dixie to play football). This is Caleb realizing he forgot his keys to his apartment and we were locked. Way to go bro!

Then we went to our hotel to chill and get out of the heat! See the pack-n-play next to my bed? Yeah, Londyn would have nothing to do with it. She slept with me both nights and for her nap on Monday. Sunday night I moved her to her bed after she fell asleep. Around 2am she woke up said "I need mom," and climbed out off the crib and into bed with me. I am soooo glad to be home and have her in her own bed!

Of course we had to get some In-N-Out love! Mmmm I love that place. We got some milkshakes too and they were so yummy! And we didn't even have to wait in line or for a table.

This is Caleb throwing with the quaterback and some other recievers. Londyn went down to say hello to "Uncle Caleb"

And last but not least, we went swimming at the hotel the last night we were there. Londyn has turned into quite the little fish (thanks Katie for all the pool time this summer-Londyn has loved it!) We bought her some arm floaties and she floats and kicks around all by herself.

And lucky us, we came home on Tuesday right after the big accident on I-15. So, 1st we decided to stop at IKEA and kill some time. Yeah, we didn't kill enough time, so we stopped at my aunt's in Sugar House for a little while. Yeah, still not enough time. So we drove some crazy way to get to 2200 W. and after 8 hrs from leaving St. George, we made it home. Its good to be home! Good luck this season Caleb!

Marc Cohn Concert

Saturday night we did the annual concert in the park at Deer Valley w/ Cody's fam. This year we saw Marc Cohn. Who? That's what I said! He sings the song "Walkin in Memphis." He was really good. We spread out blankets and had a picnic dinner, topped it off with a GIANT ice cream sandwich and listened to the music. Londyn had fun dancing and running around. The show went 'til about 10 and it got really cold. It was fun to snuggle with Cody and Londyn, then around 9:45 Londyn crashed on me! So fun to lay under the stars with good music, my hubby and a sleeping baby!

4th of July

The morning of the 4th we did the annual 4th of July breakfast a the park near Main Street. The food was yummy and Cody saw a lot of old friends. We let Londyn play at the park for a little while and then we watched the parade. I think we were in the right city for the 4th, the weather was so nice. It was cloudy and almost cool; as you can see by Londyn's blanket.






We also went to the Darling's fun party. I'm glad we were able to make it. The boys had a good time playing ball in the pool and occasionally taking there turns with the kids. Hunter was putting the moves on Londyn. Looks like she liked it. Cody calls him little Romeo! And the we tried to make it to the Walton Dr. street of fire, but as soon as we got there they were done. No problem though, the Cantenzaro's had a bag 'o fireworks. They put on quite the show and amazingly no one got hurt and no lawns caught on fire!

3rd of July

Cody took off work on the 3rd so we headed up to Park City to enjoy some of the Independence Day festivities. Londyn decided to sleep for 20 minutes on the way up and wouldn't lay down in the crib at Cody's parent's. We chilled at the house and then collected more rocks for our rockwall. Then we headed up to this place called Tuhaye for a party and swimming. Above is a picture of Londyn's 2nd 20 minute nap. Not a good nap day!


This is where we went swimming. Isn't is beautiful? I was bummed though because we got there at 5:30 and the pool closed at 6:00 because of the party. But we made the best of the time we had, and they actually let us stay in the water until almost 6:30. Londyn LOVED going down the water slide. I bet we took her down it a dozen times. I'm glad she likes the water.

Then it was party time. This place knows how to throw a good party. They had jumpy things and clowns for the kids. If you can see, Londyn got her face painted like a dalmation. She is really into 101 Dalmations right now! And she is eating a lobster sucker. They had a candy buffet that we made the mistake of hitting up before dinner. Do you think Londyn ate any dinner????

They had a huge tent set up where we ate dinner and they had a dance floor and a band. Luckily we sat right by the dance floor because Londyn wouldn't get of off it! She would go up to random adults and reach up for them to twirl her. She's nuts!! It was quite entertaining though.

Mini Golf

On Saturday night we went miniture golfing with the Darlings, Youngs and Smiths (x2) at Cherry Hill. It was a good time! And of course the girls smoked the guys! Sue used to work there so she knew all the tricks. And all of our shots were totally legit!

Backyard update

We are slowly but surely working on the backyard. We've started the rock wall. We get rocks from Cody's parent's property every time we go up there. We need about 10 more loads!!!! The grass is doing great, except for the dead spots in the corners that I over fertilized and burned. We've planted some flowers that are doing well and we but down some rubber mulch at the bottom of the slide. Our little veggie garden is struggling, but there are 4 green tomatoes and some sugar snap peas growing! We are loving the backyard though. We eat dinner on the porch almost every night and let Londyn run around like crazy! We have popcicles and ice cream cones. Its great. Maybe one day we'll have a table and more chairs and we can actually have people over!

My beautiful little girl....

We had a very busy weekend. Cody's little brother got married! Congrats to him and Chrissy! The wedding was on Saturday the 7th, which happened to be Cody and I's 3rd anniversary! Thank goodness we like them enough to share anniversaries with them! And my little Londyn was their flower girl. Just thought I'd share some of my favorite pictures of her from the wedding. (Cody took the 2 of her with the flowers and I took the one with the strwberry. I love his new camera!)

Ice Cream anyone?!

Over the weekend we spent a lot of time at my Aunt's house in Sugar house. Her oldest daughter got baptized and we had some family from Idaho come in town for it. On Friday night Londyn had her 1st ice cream cone. She's had lots of ice cream but never on a cone. It was fun to watch her and Sofia eat them! What a mess!
(If you are wondering what in the world the metal sculpture is next to Londyn, it's called a "nome-be-gone." My uncle makes them is all sorts of crazy poses!)

Memorial Day weekend

When we were driving up to Park City Sunday afternoon we saw 5 military helicopters flying together towards Park City.
They were so low to the ground-it was crazy! Today we found out that they were practicing for when President Bush comes today for John McCain's fundraiser at Deer Valley.

Londyn waving at the helicopters.

Londyn found a new place to sit and eat a banana!

The Snow storm as we were leaving on Monday Evening. It is May right?!

youtube video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM&NR=1

You guys have to see this. It's sooo funny!

Progress!

We have GRASS!!!! Yay! We put our sod in on Saturday...of course it was one of the hottest days. But we had a lot of help, and it looks great. Hopefully it will survive! That's Londyn's sliding hill. Cool, huh?!