Hello Baby!

I had to hurry up and get some "baby pictures" done of this little guy before he got any bigger! He's growing up so fast. He's doing the crawling thing now and really wants to walk. He loves to have you hold his hands so he can stand up. Not to mention he's quite the little chatter box. Come and get some of his baby-ness while you can!

This boy was a dream to shoot pictures of. Smiled the whole time. Which is really his overall demeanor all the time. I love how happy and smiley this guy is!

Boating- Pineview Resevior

Our new favorite place to go here in Utah is just East of Ogden. In the winter they have some awesome ski resorts, and in the summer there is a beautiful lake/resevoir called Pineview.

We rented a boat (oh how I dream of one day having our own...) and went out tubing and wakeboarding for the day. We had gone a couple of times when we lived in Texas, and so we knew Danelle would love it, but this was Gunnar's first time out on the boat!We even talked my dad into trying to wakeboard. He had water skiied in the past, but wasn't able to get up on the wakeboard- so close though!

Nathan was doing all kinds of tricks on the tube and wakeboard, and Danelle loved watching him!

Lane wakeboarding

Elise wakeboarding

I think that's my dream house right there in the background...

One of the best days of our summer!!!!

Park City- June 2011

For a week in June my parents had a timeshare in Park City, Utah and it since Lane was out of town for work we got to go hang out with them for a few days! Danelle and never been up there, and they have lots of fun stuff to do in the summertime. We did some swiming in the pool:

The alpine slide:
Some good treats:

The alpine "coaster":

Such a fun place to go in the summertime!

Lane's Cache Valley Triathalon

Lane did his first ever triathalon up in Cache Valley and finished in 1 hour and 32 mins! I didn't take any pictures of him swimming, but he said it was pretty cold. They did their swim in Hyrum Dam. I did take some of him transisiting to the next leg, the bike.

Danelle had more fun hunting for rollie pollies with the other kids. It's hard to just sit and wait for that split second where you actually get to see them, but they did great.

Coming in from the 2nd part, the bike ride.

This is him crossing the finish line, in the orange and black.

Danelle (and Gunnison) were good supporters. Danelle rang the Utah State cowbell the whole time for her daddy!

Lane took 3rd place in his category! Danelle has been having playing pretend"award ceremonies" ever since we got home.

Lane with his friend Steve and some of the other guys in their group.

The Great Outdoors!

I was having my doubts about if summer would ever arrive, but alas it's finally here! We've been out and about exploring the fun things to do outside. The kids have especially been loving to go on hikes.

This kid especially!

Thomas the Train- Heber, UT

Over Memorial Day weekend we went up to Park City (Heber actually) for the Day Out with Thomas. Danelle was way into Thomas last year, and I wasn't sure if she'd even get excited, but she loved all the fun activites they had, and it was her first time riding on an actual train.
Gunnison could care less, but he is so cute tagging along wherever we go.

Megan's SUU College Graduation

In May we headed down to Cedar City to watch my little sister graduate from Southern Utah University! We now have the older five kids with Bachelors (or Masters) Degrees and Breanne just got her Associates and is headed to Utah State University to finish hers up! What a well educated family we have ;)Afterwards we had some BBQ (and cake at Megan's place) and swam in the hotel pools.

5 down, 1 to go!

"Meeting" the Easter Bunny

Easter Dinner I love this one. Lane just woke up for his Sunday nap, Danelle is actually looking at the camera, but not smiling, and Gunnison is looking as sweet as ever!
The Easter Egg hunt. She was squealing with delight at the start, but lost interest fairly quick.

Dad and Danelle before church:

My desserts:

The Basket:

So while Danelle was off feeding the ducks with Nathan and Megan, Lane and I hid the easter eggs around my grandparents front lawn. On the way back, Danelle got excited, thinking she was going to get to actually meet the easter bunny.

Not only that, but the whole time she was finding eggs she kept asking where the Easter Bunny was, and eventually gave up the egg hunt and went inside thinking he was in there (I told her she could have her basket from the bunny after the eggs were found).

Trying not to disappoint her, we dug up some random video of an Easter Bunny at a mall on YouTube to help. Poor girl, but this was the best we could do this year :)
Video clip of her reaction:

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Bonus: Danelle dancing & trying to burn off all her candy here.