Whale Pillow

Okay, I finished the pillow.

The colors that I had made me think of water, so I did a little whale theme. The yarn is a chenille, so it feels like a really soft bathrobe.



The only problem with this project is now Rhonda wants a pillow (or two... or three...) for herself.

I have some more of this yarn, so there might be enough for a matching blanket.

Arts and Crafts

Paul has been working a lot of LONG shifts lately. In order to keep myself occupied after William goes to bed I have been crocheting.

I've been trying to use up all of the varied yarn that I have laying around. I seem to be a bit of a yarn hoarder...

Anyway, I finished another little baby blanket and was showing it to someone when they suggested that I take a picture to post online.

I figured that this would be a good way to document the projects that I complete, since I usually give most away.

This is the blanket that I made for William.

This is the one that I just finished.

I ended up giving this one to one of the girls in our office for her niece.

I am working on a little pillow for William's room. I'll post a picture of it once I am done.

4th of July

Well, I hope everyone had a fun weekend. We sure did.

Due to the fact that the 4th of July holiday fell on a Sunday this year, and nothing happens in Utah on a Sunday (except church), we had 3 days of celebrations.

On Saturday Erin invited Will and I to have a picnic in the park. We went to the same little park behind mom and dad's house that has the water park that we went to on Memorial Day. We had a nice time, especially since it wasn't too hot.

Saturday night we went to the carnival and fireworks at the park in Magna. This was the first big fireworks for Will. It was a lot of fun. Paul got us some popcorn and cotton candy. William had never had cotton candy before. He seemed confused by the fact that it disappeared when it hit his tongue.

I didn't get many pictures because it was dark, and once the fireworks started William wouldn't let me move my arms from around him. He was a bit frightened by them, but as long as he was in my lap and my arms were around him he liked it. We named off the colors as they would go off. He seems to think that everything is yellow, but that could be because he likes to say yellow.

On Sunday we rested because we all have a cold, and we were out late at the fireworks on Saturday. We did manage to go to church and to the toy store. I bought Will a little doctor's set to play with because he was really interested in all of the tools that the doctor used when we saw her on Friday. He gave me a "check up" all afternoon.

Will and I took Grandma Nina to the aquarium on Monday. He liked showing her the octopus and sharks.

I could use an extra day off just to relax after running around all weekend!

Wrestling, Comedy, and Sleeping Boy

Last Saturday we spent the day at Grandma Rhonda's house playing in the swimming pool. We had a lot of fun splashing around.

After the long day we had dinner, but Will was nodding off into his plate, so I laid him down on the couch with a blanket.

He fell right to sleep.

He was so exhausted that he just slept straight through till morning. The only interruption was when we had to take him home.

PS... Thanks to Aunt Kathy for the wonderful blankets.

On Sunday night Paul, Ed, and I all went to see our friend Marcus do his comedy routine at a local club. You may know Marcus from Last Comic Standing. He came in second a few seasons ago (he was totally robbed).

Marcus is one of the crazies who taught Paul and Ed how to wrestle. The last time that I saw him he was diving out of the rafters onto some poor sap in the wrestling ring.

If you have the chance to go see Marcus live, or if you can catch his Comedy Central special that will be airing sometime this fall, I highly recommend it.

Cooking Dinner

Last night as I was cooking dinner Will went downstairs to play.

When the food was ready I went down to get him and I found this.

When I asked him what he was doing he said "I cooking". He had put on his own apron and was washing dishes and was putting things in the oven and microwave to "cook".

Usually he lets me know that he is done cooking when he yells out the door that "nutch ready" (translated "lunch is ready").

I was highly impressed that he had found his apron and put it on himself. I knew that he had figured out how his bibs worked, so it makes sense that he would translate that to his apron.

Idaho Trip 2010

We did our annual pilgrimage to Idaho over this last weekend.

We went to celebrate Grandpa Bill's 80th birthday. Aunt Kathy put together a great party at Grandma and Grandpa's club house.

I spent most of the time running around after Will and taking pictures with the disposable cameras that we had for the party. I did manage to get a few shots of Will on my camera.

Grandma Rhonda gave Will a bag of new toys to play with at the party. His favorites were a paddle ball and a beach ball.

Will also liked riding in Grandma and Grandpa's golf cart. Here he is with Grandma Rhonda and Great-Grandma Donna.

Every time that I turned around Will was trying to drive off in the golf cart.

We had a lot of fun visiting with everyone. We even got to have dinner with a few of our friends from school. It's kind of surreal to look at everyone that we grew up with and see that we all have kids now.

The only down side to the trip was that we couldn't spend more time visiting. It's hard to spend a day driving and then turn around and do it again a day later.

Especially with a toddler...

Memorial Day 2010

We spent Memorial Day shopping and having a picnic this year.

Paul got his Father's Day present early this year. We got a new TV and a Blue Ray player. (I know, he's spoiled.)

On our way home from the store Will was playing with his sun glasses. He has figured out how to put them on himself, but he usually gets them on upside down.


Later in the afternoon we went to the park with Grandma Rhonda, Grandpa Bob, and Aunt Erin. Grandma made a really nice picnic for us.

The little park behind Grandma and Grandpa's house has a splash pad that the kids can play in. It was really cool because it was free to the public. There were pillars around the edge that turned the water on when you touched them.

Will wanted to go into the water. I didn't have a swimsuit for him so we just let him run through in his clothes.

The only downside was that the clouds kept covering the sun and there was a breeze. By the time I pulled him out he was ice cold. Not that he wouldn't have kept playing if I had let him.

This morning I had the camera sitting out so that I could download the pictures from Memorial Day. Will found it and wanted me to take his picture. He had just gotten up, so his hair was all messy.

He has learned that you say 'cheese' when someone takes a picture.

This is him saying 'cheese'.