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. ;)

Week 1 in Utah

We flew in to Utah on the 24th of May. When we got to the airport, I started freaking out because the security line was HUGE!! I only got to the airport an hour early because, lets face it, the Oklahoma City airport is EMPTY! I thought there was no way I was going to get through security in time to make my flight. "Lucky" for me my flight was delayed about an hour. Then after we got on the plane we sat there for about 30 minutes waiting to get more fuel because we were going to have to take an alternate route that would add an extra 220 miles to our flight to miss the bad storms that were between us and Denver. That day there was SEVERAL tornadoes in Oklahoma. In fact, Kolton and I were on the last flight that left OKC because of the bad weather. Brady even had to go to a friend's house to get in their shelter because a tornado was coming right for them. Luckily it dissipated before it got too close. Anyway, because of my delay I then missed my connecting flight from Denver to SLC. I had to go to customer service and get new tickets for another flight to Salt Lake. We ended up getting to Salt Lake at about 7:30 that night.
Wednesday we went to the park with Lizzie and Korver. Kolton LOVES Korver and Korver LOVES Kolton. He tries to eat and kiss him any time Kolton gets near. :) Kolton loved playing at the park, swinging and going down slides.

Kolton really wanted to take Korver down the slide with him. Unfortunately the slides were really hot, but Kolton still loved being able to take his cousin down the slide.

Kolton even got to help Tyler fly his remote control helicopter. He thought that was so cool. His favorite part was making it fly really close to us spectators. ;)

Wednesday and Thursday nights Cambrea had dance recitals so we got to go watch her. It was so fun to watch her! She's awesome! And her dances are really cool too.

One of the dances that her company does is a huge Alice one. Cambrea is one of the cards. Its really cool to watch. They stay in character so well and never break their concentration.

This is from her hip-hop routine. I love watching hip-hop. Its so cool!

Friday we lounged all morning with Derek, Lizzie and Korver. Derek wanted to take Kolton fishing so we went fishing that afternoon. We didn't catch anything, but still had fun. ;) The second the line was cast in the water Kolton would ask if they had caught anything. After a few attempts he said, "Maybe we could catch a duck." Haha.

Kolton had to take a potty break while fishing. Tyler took a picture. Makes me laugh. ;) He was very concerned about people watching him. Everyone had to turn around and not watch.

Saturday we decided to hike Adam's Canyon. We thought it would be fun to do a little hike and this one takes you to a waterfall. Its really cool too because you walk along the water for a lot of it. We didn't realize how long the hike was, however. :) This was at the beginning where you just walk back and forth up the mountain until you get back to the water.

Here's "Adam."

This is how close you are to the water. There are some parts where you have to either walk in the water or climb over big rocks to get past. It was so cool! Kolton did so good! I thought he was going to peter out about 30 minutes in but he stayed strong and was leading us all for a lot of it! Some parts made him nervous, though. He didn't like when we had to climb over rocks or walk on these skinny strips of land to get through. One time my dad went out in to the water to stand on a rock and the rock kind of shifted and Kolton flipped out! He wanted grandpa to come back. It really scared him because he thought he was going to fall. It was so sweet. ;)

As we were hiking up we kept asking people who were going back down how much longer until we reached the top just so we had an idea. I swear everyone said 45 minutes to an hour or more. Every time we asked. It was always the same! How could we have just hiked 30 minutes and not have gotten any closer to the top?! :) We stopped and had a snack at this "picnic" area.

Tyler and Grandpa would help Kolton cross the hard parts. Tyler usually opted for just walking in the water.

Here we are on the way back down. We never did make it to the top of the waterfall. We hiked to this bridge (a log going across the water with wood planks on it) and then went back down. We were told that he top was about 20 or so minutes from that bridge but that it was the most treacherous part of the hike and having Kolton (and us old people who are out of shape) we decided not to try and just go back down. It was a fun and beautiful hike, though, and I'm so glad we did it!

On Sunday Kolton went to all of Primary! I was so surprised! I figured he would go to singing and sharing time because Grandma is the singing time leader but I thought for sure he'd be going to Relief Society with me. When I took him to Primary he was really hesitant but when he saw Grandma he was fine. After sunday school I went out in the hall to go get him if need be. Grandma took him to class and then had Tyler sit in there with him for a few minutes and then Tyler left but Kolton stayed. Yay!! ;)

On Monday Kolton helped Grandma and Grandpa build a storage cabinet for the garage.

We then went to Derek and Lizzie's for a barbeque. It was really rainy on Monday which makes for a bummy Memorial Day. We had fun at Derek and Lizzie's house though! Kolton fell alseep on the way there. He has probably taken 2 or 3 real naps since being here. Every other day he falls asleep in the car or on my lap. If we are in the car in the afternoon, it is pretty much a guarantee he'll fall asleep. ;)

When we had a stop in the rain Derek and Tyler made a campfire in the backyard and we roasted mashmallows and ate smores. Kolton wasn't really interested in the smores. He just kept wanting to roast the mashmallows. He liked putting them in the fire.

It got a little smoky sometimes, though, and so he'd cover his eyes and try and put it in the fire. Haha.

Tuesday Kolton and I went down to Provo to see Jaycee and Adam and their new baby, Landon. We were there for 3 or 4 hours and it was great to be able to meet Landon. He had just come home from the hospital the day before, but was almost a week old. We got to take some pictures of him too! Kolton had a lot of fun playing with Adam at the playground right by their house and with Grandma Brammer as well.

After we left Jaycee and Adam's we went to Shana and Kit's new place in Provo. We only stayed for about an hour but it was good to visit with them!

Week 2 will be next! It includes stuff like my birthday, Tyler's graduation etc.