Week 3 in UTAH

On Saturday after we got back from the train place Kolton and Tyler went out to play (just like every day!). A couple days before this Tyler and I had played with Kolton downstairs and the game we played was one that Kolton plays with Brady and LOVES. Brady will hit Kolton with a pillow or throw it at him. I'm not sure why Kolton likes this game so much but he loves it. Anyway, so Tyler and I were playing that with him. He'd have to run to the couch and we'd try and pelt him with a pillow. :) So, Tyler decided to do it with a ball outside. They had a blast!


Then Kolton decided to turn on Tyler and get him back! A few times T was a little ruthless and would just throw the ball at Kolton over and over and over hitting Kolton every time he was trying to get up. So, Kolton did the same to Tyler. Of course Tyler had to do a little acting on his part, but Kolton was proud of his payback! ;)





A few days after we got to Utah, Grandpa told Kolton he would wrestle him. Well, on Sunday Kolton decided that that was the day and he was going to get Grandpa. ;) He was SO hyper pretty much the entire time we were there all day every day! He never stopped to rest!

On Tuesday Kolton, Cam and Tyler went swimming. I just came along to watch. This was the first time Kolton had been swimming since last summer and it was as if he had forgotten everything about swimming. If he couldn't touch the bottom he wouldn't let Cambrea or Tyler let go of his hand. He loved the little kid area though. He had Cambrea sit at the bottom of the slide and catch him over and over and over. :)

He was "adventurous" and would jump in to the 1 foot deep water. Haha.


Tyler decided to take Kolton on the big slide. Kolton was EXCITED!

You can't catch anyone at the bottom nor can you wear floaties or anything so Tyler had to hold Kolton up every time they came down to keep Kolton up. He was excited to go down the slide as long as his head didn't go under water. :)

Tuesday night I drove to Provo for a girl's night and to celebrate my 25th birthday with my best friends from high school! It was so much fun! We met at a nail place in the mall. Shana really wanted me to get "glitter toes" so she treated me to that. So pretty!

We then went to PF Changs for dinner. So yummy! We had tons of food and had a blast catching up!

Shana and I! I'm so glad she put this together! I have the best friends ever! I seriously had a blast!

Since it was my birthday I got a little dessert shot with a little candle on top. :)

After dinner we walked around the mall and then went to Mallory's house to chat some more. Mallory got out pictures from high school and we just sat around reminiscing about all the fun times we had together. This night really made me miss them! I wish we could get together more often! We have had so many good times together! Oh we were crazy! ;) But it was so much fun! Love you Sarah, Shana and Mallory!!

This happened probably every day! Kolton took about 3 regular naps I think the entire time we were there. Every other day he'd fall asleep watching a movie or while we were driving. He was just so busy having fun and playing he never wanted to stop for nap!
On Wednesday we had a barbeque with all the members of my mom's bell choir. It was fun to get to meet them all! It was such nice weather all day and then at about 5:00 it started to down pour and so we had to move the barbeque inside but it all worked out and we had a good time. On Thursday we went swimming again and this time I got in with them and Derek, Lizzie and Korver came as well and Grandma came to watch. I helped Kolton remember he could swim on his own so he felt a lot more comfortable this time so that was nice. He still wouldn't go under water like he used to but he'd atleast go swim by himself. On the way to swim he got another bloody nose. He said to me "we need to call my daddy. He can fix it with his tools. Maybe a screwdriver?" Haha. Lets hope not! ;) This one wasn't as bad as the first one, though, so that was nice. Then when we got home from swimming he squished the heck out of an ant that was on the ground (he killed a bee too--crazy boy!) and then turned and said to me "we don't squish red ants. Red ants can hurt me. That's what my dad said." Good to know he's listening. ;)
On Friday I took pictures of my siblings. So fun! Kolton came with us during some of it and really wanted a picture taken of himself so I obliged. He's just so darn cute!
While we were taking pictures of Cambrea behind my parent's house she kept saying it smelt like poop. My mom and I just told her she was fine and that it wasn't that bad. Well, she got up and started walking away and we noticed her butt had a nice size oval of poop smeared on her jeans. Yummy! Apparently she knew what she was smelling!
He then wanted to take a picture of me so I let him. I have probably 20 pictures on my camera that he took that either don't have me in it at all or just have an arm or the top of my head or something but this one actually has most of my body in it! Way to go Kolton! ;)

After picture taking we went putt-putt golfing. Kolton was in HEAVEN! He absolutely LOVES to golf! He's pretty much obsessed and would go every day if he could! We all had a good time. Here's how our scores ended up: Kolton 82, me 65, Cam 76, T 55,Mom 59, Dad 45. Dad said whoever got the lowest score got $100. Pretty lame he won! :)


Saturday morning while Kolton was eating breakfast he put his fist up and said "Some of my knuckles fell off!" pointing to the space in between each knuckle. It was pretty funny. :) That afternoon we went to Temple Square. Kolton had fun looking through the museum.

This is a full size replica of the Angel Moroni that stands atop each of the LDS temples.

Kolton really liked being able to speak from the Conference Center podium. He thought that was pretty cool!

We then went to the Children's exhibit where he got to play and play and play!

He loved going fishing! He had to work hard for every fish he caught!

He then built a tower with Grandpa. Well, he wouldn't really let Grandpa have much say in where the things went but Grandpa tried to help nonetheless. ;)

Then he built a tower with Tyler. Tyler had quite a bit more say in where things went and really this time around Kolton was the one being told where to put things. ;) They built this awesome "temple" and right as I was taking the picture it started to fall, but you can hardly tell! It looks like it is pretty much standing straight up!

Kolton made us all dinner to eat with the missionaries. He cooked and cooked and cooked some more. It took him a long time to get all the food ready. But once it was ready it sure was yummy! ;)

Tyler taught him how to flip the food in the frying pan. I don't think we'll be doing it anytime soon with real food (haha-obviously! :) he missed a few times), but he enjoyed doing it with his play food. ;)

He then did a little dance. It was so cute! He got so in to it! He's such a good little dancer! ;)





We then went and took pictures in front of the temple.

Kolton and Tyler doing their poses together. :)

This is Tyler's new thing. I don't get it...Am I too old...??

So sweet! ;)

T, Cam, and Kolton on the way to the side of the temple.

Kolton did his own posing. :)

We went to see the Christus statue. I have several pictures of Kolton in front of this doing different poses. He was really in to working it for the camera. :)
Before heading home we went to an ice cream place. It was YUMMY! And the ice cream dishes were HUGE! Tyler and I shared. It was funny though, because as we were pulling in Cam told Kolton it was the building with red on it. Well, the red was kind of faded so it looked pink and so Kolton got really upset and said "This is NOT the right building! This one is pink! Not red!" Oh dear! Drama, drama. ;)

Sunday Tyler was ordained to an Elder and received the Melchizedek priesthood. So proud of him! Kolton was too and really wanted a picture with him! Our uncle Jeremy was able to come as well as our uncle Raleigh and his wife Kim and their kids. It was great to see them! We had a nice get together afterwards and ate dinner.
T and his family. ;)


Kolton had fun playing with Raleigh and Kim's kids. He was attached to Araleigh for a little bit then had a blast playing with his friends Hyrum and Ruth (their two youngest kids).
What a fun and exciting trip we had! Kolton had so much fun spending time with everyone! Tyler opened up his vocabulary to things such as "dawg" and "boss" (as in...you drive like a boss, or you shoot like a boss--it was funny to listen to). Kolton also loved playing with Korver who is is "cousin and friend." He got spoiled by everyone and loved every second of it! :) Brady was excited for us to come home, though, after being gone for 3 weeks! :)

Week 2 in Utah

Our second week in Utah was a busy one! We did lots of fun things! Before I get started with the narrating, I quickly want to record a sweet moment with Kolton. I actually think this happened during the first week, but one night Kolton got in trouble. I'm not sure what for anymore, but when we were getting in to bed, he rolls over and puts his little hand on my cheek and says "mommy?" I answered with "what?" and he said, with his hands under his chin, fingers intertwined with one another, "Will you forgive me?" It was such a sweet moment! Another quick little story I just remembered (not as tender but cute nonetheless) occurred one morning. I had just woken up and was getting ready to head downstairs and Kolton said "Mom, do you need to put your eyebrows on before you go downstairs?" I just laughed. He meant bra... It was funny. :)
Well, these Lagoon pictures are supposed to be at the end, but I accidentally uploaded them here so this is where they are staying. ;) We went to Lagoon on Monday, the 6th of June. It was supposed to be a really nice day! Once we got in the park, Kolton started to get a little nervous to go on a ride. At one point we were standing, deciding what ride for Kolton to ride first and all of a sudden his nose just started bleeding! He got his very first bloody nose! :) Once I noticed it it just started flowing from his nose. We didn't really have anything so my mom ran to the nearest food place to get some napkins and I made Kolton bend over the ground and just let the blood drip to the ground. He was fine until I went to hold the napkins on his nose and then all of a sudden it was super painful and touching it was off limits. ;) He started crying and crying but luckily he let me hold the napkin there so that blood wasn't going everywhere and, after about 3 or 4 minutes I'd say, the bleeding had slowed down and he calmed down. After that was all taken care of we headed to the kid rides and Kolton went to town! First up was the little kid boats.

Then we just went from one ride to another. He loved them all, of course! I left him a couple times and went with my siblings to go ride some rides while my mom took him and Korver around to the rides. When the day was over and it was all said and done, he rode every ride at least twice, most 3 or 4 times and some 8 or 9 times. :) His favorite rides were the bumper cars and the "mushroom ride." With the bumper cars I had to tell him he needed to crash in to people. When they'd crash in to him he'd get this look on his face like "how dare you?!" and drive off. On his 3rd or 4th time on that ride he finally started crashing in to people and liked it. He would pick a car and then chase it until he could hit it. :)

This is the "mushroom ride" because when you stood in line you stood under a mushroom. He was afraid of this ride at first. I pretty much had to make him go on it. I knew he'd like it--he went on it last time we were there, and I was right! This is one of the rides he rode 8 or 9 times. :) It was funny, though, because as it would start the worker would tell you to put your head against the head rest and he did it every time and would make sure the person riding with him did it too.

The look on his face in this picture with Tyler makes me laugh!

Korver's first ride! :) He's so cute! So excited to ride the merry go round!

The weather ended up being really weird that day. Apparently the high was hit in the morning because the whole time we were there it was a little chilly and drizzly. There were little pockets of sunshine but it was mostly overcast and then it rained a couple of times. During one little rainstorm we decided to ride the train to see all the animals and get out of the rain. They were quite vocal this time. The tiger randomly attacked the fence and started roaring. Then the lions were pacing in their cages roaring as well. Pretty cool. Tyler also had a little fun of his own that day. He would randomly start dancing in the middle of the walkway for 20-30 minutes. People would stop and record him on their phones, throw money at him, yell and scream, and join in on the dancing. Sometimes he would follow people who were walking by and start dancing up on them until they'd dance back. It was hilarious!!

Kolton had Cambrea wrapped around his little finger (who am I kidding--everyone was). She watched lots of movies with him! ;)

Tyler fed him breakfast (and played hours upon hours of basketball with him).

My birthday was on Thursday. Tyler volunteered to take me out to lunch. I let Kolton pick--I should have known it would be McDonalds. ;) Tyler was excited though to introduce me to the McGhetto (a spicy chicken sandwich and a cheeseburger) and the McMac (a mcdouble with mac sauce and lettuce added). :) After we ordered, when asked for his name, Tyler told them Tazanger. :)

Tyler and Kolton at McDonalds. Kolton had Tyler scare him over and over at the end of the slide.

When we got home from lunch my mom came and took my camera out of my hands really quick. I thought, "she must really want to see the pictures from our lunch" :) but she really wanted to take pictures of me receiving my flowers from my dear, sweet husband who was back in Oklahoma. I love him so much! He really is just such a great husband! They were delivered while we were gone. I loved coming home to them!

They lasted a long time! Some of them were still going strong when I left to come home!

After that my mom and I went shopping and I got a new shirt. I actually ended up getting a shirt that my sister has that I loved. :) Derek and Lizzie came over later that afternoon to open presents and go to dinner. Kolton loved playing with Lizzie!

Tyler left for a few minutes to go have his Melchizedek priesthood interview. I can't believe he's that old!

When he got back we opened presents. When I was a little kid we used to wrap our presents in brown paper bags and color on them. Derek decided to continue the tradition and color on a brown paper bag for me!

Grandma helped Kolton make a card for me and he was so excited to give it to me!

Look how excited he is to have me look at it! He was so proud of himself! :)

I got Hilary Weeks' new CD (I love her!) and a new lens for my camera. I love it!

We went to Cafe Rio for my birthday (my pick--I wanted to make sure and go there at least once while I was there!) and then we went to Boondocks to play some games and go laser tagging. Cambrea and I had a go at Dance, Dance Revolution and lets just say, I'm no pro. Haha. I could NOT keep up with the steps and got completely lost several times. ;) Laser tagging was fun! We did boys against girls (Dad, Derek and Tyler vs Me, Cam and Lizzie). Girls ended up on top! Yeah buddy! (although the boys claim our 100 point sensor wasn't letting them shoot at it--excuses, excuses!).

We came home to eat cake and ice cream. My mom had taken Kolton to the store a day or two before my birthday to pick out my cake. He did a great job not telling me what he picked! He kept it a secret the whole time and I never saw my cake until it was time to eat it! I had to cover my eyes so I wouldn't spoil the surprise. He was SO excited for me to see it and loved that I loved it. ;) He picked a Mickey and Minnie Mouse surfing cake. ;) I love how in the middle picture he's looking at me in anticipation hoping my reaction would be positive and loving that it was. ;)

Kolton accidentally put his knee in the side of the cake and decided to lick the frosting off. ;)

Mickey's ear actually caught on fire from all the candles. :) And I ended up having trick candles so Kolton and I got to blow them out over and over and over. He thought that was hilarious!

The next morning I went out to take some pictures of Tyler for him to send out in his graduation announcement (even though he was graduating that night :)). He's so handsome! He did NOT want to do this pose but I made him (he'll do anything I say) and it turned out to be one of my favorites!

Friday was Tyler's graduation! So crazy! Here he is right after getting his name announced.

Receiving his diploma...

He found us in the audience. ;)

Derek telling Tyler about what he yelled after Tyler's name was announced. Some Call of Duty thing. I think it was something like "Enemy AC-130 above!!" :)

T with mom and dad (with no head :)).

Tyler and I. So proud!

T with all his siblings (except Shawn of course and Brady) and nephews.

Afterward we went to Garcia's for dinner to celebrate Tyler's graduation. Derek told the waiter it was my birthday the day before so I got to have the whole birthday celebration complete with wearing the sombrero and getting sung to. Then we all got to enjoy some fried ice cream!
On Saturday we went to S&S Railroad. Kolton absolutely and completely loves trains!! He loves 'em! So he was overly excited and couldn't wait to ride on the train and to look at trains with "lines" on them. He obsessed with finding trains (toy ones usually) that have a "line" that connects the wheels on the sides. None of his trains have it so every time we are looking at toys at the store he always tries to find one. Most of the trains for wooden tracks don't' have them. I can only find them on the trains for plastic tracks that are motorized. Anyway, he was excited! ;)

They have a big train you can ride and a little train you can ride. Kolton chose for us to ride on the little train. It had a longer ride and went through some tunnels. That was his favorite part--that and bridges. He'd get really excited when we'd go through or on one of those.

After the train ride we walked around and looked at some of the things they had on display. Kolton loved watching the little trains go around and around on the track.

We really wanted Kolton to take a picture with this old red train but he wasn't interested so we each took a turn posing with it to try and convince him he was missing out and should take a turn.

As you can see with the progression of the pictures, he still wasn't keen on the idea at the beginning but slowly warmed up. :) The second to last picture makes me laugh. The placement of his leg just does not look natural! He did his own posing. :)

Afterward we went through a drive-thru and got some ice cream! What little boy wouldn't be excited for that?! :)

We had a good week! Now, on to week three. It might take me a while. ;)