Living Aquarium, Zoo, & Bee's Game!

This post has a LOT of pictures in it, not like the other ones didn't or anything, but I just couldn't decide which ones to put in and which ones to leave out. This post is about our trip to the Living Planet Aquarium, the Zoo, and to Bee's baseball game.

First is our trip to the Living Planet Aquarium. The whole family was able to come to this one and we had a lot of fun.

See how happy she is when she is on the frog by herself. Now add Uncle Eric.....

and this is what happens!

She was so funny with the two boys one second she loved them and then the next she didn't want anything to do with them, but she really does love them so much and they love her too!

Family Picture on the frog!

The one thing I was so excited for was having Makayla touch the sting rays, they have them in an area where you can touch them. When I saw Makayla go right up and touch this snake I thought yes she is going to love the sting rays and be all about them. By the way she is not my daughter I HATE snakes!

When it came time for the sting rays this is what happened instead, she freaked out! She wanted nothing to do with them. She even got to the point where she didn't even want to look at them. Oh well the rest of us had fun touching them. Most of us did that is!

Uncle Eric taking his turn

I think Caleb had the most fun with this. He thought it was so cool to touch them.

Then it was my turn. I think my face says it all. Not a big fan of slimy things.

So cute! Uncle Eric, Makayla and Uncle Cory

We wanted a good picture of Makayla by the sting rays, so we took her back after we looked at everything else and she was ok being by them as long as we didn't try to make her touch them.

Grandma and Makayla!

I wanted to get a picture of Makayla with Grandpa though the glass, and it turned out pretty good, but the one I got before was even better!

I thought he was pulling a face at me, but he told me he was sneezing. What a funny picture!

After having so much fun at the Living Aquarium we decided to take Makayla to the Zoo. (not on the same day of course) She loves the zoo out here so we knew she would love it. The Utah Zoo is a lot bigger than the zoo out here, and to be honest sometimes smaller is better!

Drinking from the Lion's mouth!

We went to a bird show and after it Makayla was able to donate a dollar and have a bird take it from her hand. She thought it was so cool!

Riding the Tigers!

Look at the Iguana above there heads. Crazy!

No trip to the zoo is complete with out a ride on the carousal. She loves it so much! I was glad daddy was there to ride it with her so that I didn't have to worry about getting motion sickness!

Family picture again! I love these two so much!

Makayla and Uncle Eric

Grandma, Makayla, and Uncle Eric

We really had so much fun!

Giraffe Head!!!

One of Caleb's favorite things is baseball so we thought it would be fun to take Makayla to a game while we were out there. She did better than I thought she would, thanks to the boys entertaining her with seeds!

She would go from one to the other tasting both kinds of seeds that they had! The boys loved this time with her.

Cory got himself in trouble when he told Makayla to ask for a snow cone and I turned it back on him. He ended up giving into her, who could resist her, and bought her one. Look how happy she is!

Makayla also got to meet Bee. She was so proud and got her ticket signed and all. The only thing missing from this game was a baseball. Let me tell you we tried really hard to get her one too.

Thanks Grandpa for getting us the tickets!

That is it for this post!

Still more to come from Utah!

Carnival, 1st Movie, & Boat Races!!!!

Our next round of fun started with a carnival at my grandma's apartment. It was a lot of fun! They had little games to play for prizes, cotton candy (my favorite), food, western pictures, bounce house, pony rides, and a mechanical bull. Needless to say it was a lot of fun and Makayla loved it!

Eric wanted to ride the bull so bad, even though the only people in line for it were little kids. He got his dream and got to ride it!

Makayla saw her Uncle ride it wanted to try herself. I thought she would just be happy with sitting on the bull so we put her up there and took a picture of it and I thought we were good. Boy was I wrong!

As soon as we took her off she freaked out and said she wanted it to move. So we asked if we could put her on and have it go very slow. They were good with it and she loved it!

Daddy giving her some words of encouragement before her big ride!

Look at the face she loved it! I have a dare devil on my hands!

Bounce house, what kid doesn't like the bounce house? Well mine doesn't when there are other kids in there. She only got to go in for a few min. because then it was over taken with big kids and she had a melt down!

Last of all was the pony ride. She rode the pony a few times and loved it each time! She is getting so big. Sometimes she wanted us to walk with her other times she did not.

While in Utah we took Makayla to her first movie. She loves the Toy Story movies so we thought it would be perfect to take her to Toy Story 3 for her first movie. She enjoyed it, but I think she would have done better if there weren't so many previews! I think that for matinee kids movies there should not be previews, but hey who am I! I think she enjoyed her treats a little bit more than the movie, but oh well it was a lot of fun.

Enjoying her snacks!

The last thing for this post is the Rain-Gutter Regatta we went to. My parents ward had an activity with dinner and boat racing. It was a lot of fun, but I think the most fun was watching Grandpa paint and put together our boat with Makayla's help. They make a great team!

Makayla and the finished product. She was so proud of our Elmo boat.

(Daddy drew the Elmo on it)

To race the boats you had to blow them down the rain-gutter. It was fun to watch everyone compete. Makayla got to help both Grandpa and Daddy race the boats. She won once, but then the sail got wet and that was end of it, but she still loved every second of it!

Helping Grandpa race the boat!

Helping Daddy race this time.

Still more to come on our trip to Utah! Sorry if you are board with all of these posts, but it is a great way for me to document all of the things we got to do!

This Is The Place & Swimming!

When we got to Utah we had lots of things to do. We sat down and planned out what we were going to do each day. Our first adventure was to go to This is the Place Monument. Boy did we get lucky, it costs $9 a person to go, but apparently on Wednesdays it is only $2 a person. Talk about luck and a great deal that we didn't even know about it.

Uncle Eric joined us on many of our adventures and here he is with Makayla getting ready to walk around.

Don't worry they both had their shades on!

They had a pony ride and Makayla was so excited for it, until the pony in front of her pooped. She started to freak out and didn't want to ride. It took us a while to figure out that the poop was the issue. We thought it was so funny!

They also had this great petting zoo that Makayla could have spent the entire day in. Here she is with her daddy and a 2 week old lamb. She was so sweet and soft to it. Let us hope she is that way with her soon to be little sister.

Makayla and the goats. She loved these and would follow them around.

Standing in the middle of all these animals and it didn't even make her a bit nervous.

We also "panned" for gold. There were lots of kids running in and out of the water getting soaking wet and muddy might I add. Then there was my sweet Makayla and all she would put in was her feet and even that she wasn't so sure about.

Look at that piece of gold she found!

They also had a little train ride around a little pond that we rode on. Makayla was getting tired at this point, but she was sure glad she rode it when we went through the tunnel and it was ok to scream as loud as she could. Now any tunnel we go in she raises her hands and screams!

Makayla and her Grandma! Thanks mom for making all of the trips including this one possible. We had a lot of fun with Grandma and Uncle Eric!

Along with the many adventures we went on there was a lot of swimming that took place. Makayla LOVES to swim and Grandma bought this kid pool for her to swim in. Other than the water being freezing at first Makayla loved it!

Getting ready to swim while dad is still trying to get it all set up.

The elephant sprayed and Makayla didn't like that too much, so we never had it on after the first time it got her

What a great daddy Makayla has. He was in there keeping her company most of the time. Again let me remind you how cold the water was!

We also had Makayla's best buds come over and join in the swimming fun!

Kyson, Taylee, and Makayla enjoying a cold treat after swimming. Oh how we miss you guys! Makayla insists that her baby sisters name is Tay-Tay.

One last picture of my cute girl!

I can't get enough of her!

Much more to come!

Our Journey to Utah

Ok so I have a month worth of pictures from our trip home to Utah to post, but I am just going to take my time. I thought about posting all the pictures at once, but that would be a ton in one post, so I am going to make several posts about the trip and include pictures all along the way. So here we go!

First we will start out with the LONG drive out there! It was a total of 24 hours to get there, no that is not the normal time it takes if you go on I-80, but we decided to take a little detour to see some of Caleb's family and that is why it took so long, but it was worth it to get to see his sister and dad.

Makayla driving in the car. She insisted on having the pillow there. I am not sure how comfortable it was but she didn't want it any other way. All I can say is thank goodness for portable DVD players! It entertained her the entire time!

We made our first stop in Kansas to visit Caleb's sister and spend the night. Thanks so much Cami for letting us crash at your place! It was great to see you! On our way there we made a small stop in Liberty, Missouri. We were able to see Liberty Jail, where the Prophet Joseph Smith was falsely imprisoned. I can't imagine having to be in there, and being in there for no reason at all.

One cool thing about living out here is how close we are to all the Church history sites. It makes everything so real!

Family picture at Liberty Jail.

Makayla wanted to talk to all the manikins that they have in the Jail. All but one of them. He was sitting on the ground at the back of the Jail and she wasn't so sure about him! You can't see him in the picture, but trust her he was scary looking! Haha!

Makayla and Aunt Cami.

After spending the night at Cami's we got back in the car and made our way to our next stop in Colorado to visit Caleb's dad. Even though it wasn't Utah it was sure nice to see the Mountains when we got to Colorado. I sure miss them! This is Makayla the next day. This time she used her neck pillow I made for her. I think it was a little more comfortable, but I am not sure.

We spent the weekend with Caleb's dad, and it just happened to be father's day weekend. So what a great treat. Makayla and her daddy on father's day with the tie she made in nursery!

We had a lot of fun visiting with Pops and CC. Thanks so much for letting us stay with you.

Makayla and Pops

Look at those socks! She really wanted to put them on and she was just so cute with them, we had to take a picture!

After a great Father's Day weekend we left and made our final drive into Utah! More to come in the next few days on that part of the trip.

More Drama!

Well I sure hope our house can handle some more drama! That is right we found out this last week that we are expecting another little GIRL!!!!!

We are very excited, but I hope I can believe it this time! If you remember what happened with Makayla you will understand why I am a little hesitant to believe it. After thinking Makayla was a boy for a month we found out that she was a girl I sure hope that doesn't happen again!

During the appointment they were not able to get a good picture of the heart, everything looks fine they just couldn't get it to show up when taking the actual picture, so we have to have another ultra sound in a month. (Shucks right!) So for the time being we are having a girl, but make sure to check back in a month to know if she changes to a boy!

I just had to add some picture of Makayla! She is so funny these days. I will often find her dressed in the craziest outfits doing the craziest things. Here are a few of the ones I was able to catch on camera.

Cowboy hat and rain boots!

Ridding her horse! (a.k.a.the couch)

Wearing two pairs of goggles and don't forget the hair pick!

I know this new little girl will be so much fun and add so much to our family, but she can leave all the drama in Heaven when she comes here we don't need anymore at our house.

Trust me we have plenty!