Grandma trip to Oregon

Grandma Oliver took a trip up to Oregon to visit her family for a week and took, Aunt Jessica, Uncle David and Spencer with her. I'm not going to lie, I was a bit nervous and sad when he left. Luckily Jessica and David took a lot of pictures to keep me updated. 

They went to a fishery museum that we also visited the first time we went to Oregon when Spencer a baby. Comparison picture in front of the same display. He's changed a little bit.

Got a really nasty cut while he was there that is still healing a month later. But he got to have Lucky Charms every day for breakfast, so totally worth it.

Aunt Jennifer came down from Washington to visit for a couple days too.

Road their bikes to the beach and got to see a lot of very beautiful Oregon sites.

Fiesta Days

Spanish Fork's city days are called Fiesta Days. We moved in last year a couple days after it ended so I was excited to participate this year. 

The festivities kicked off with a firework show. There was a concert before hand and it was supposed to start after the concert about 9:15pm. I didn't think the boys would sit through a 2 hour concert and it was really late for the baby so I decided to leave the baby with Steve (pros and cons of having a husband that would much rather stay home then go out and do things) and I took the boys at 9pm. Well the fireworks didn't end up starting until after 10pm. I brought a bottle of water but that was it. figured we'd get there see the fireworks and go, not sit there for an hour while the people next to us were eating Pizza. Rod was tired and hungry and was NOT a happy camper. He kept looking over at the people eating pizza and would start crying and say, "I'm just so jealous and hungry!" Not even picture taking would cheer him up. But luckily for me Spencer is an amazing older brother. He saw Rod needed cheered up so he asked Rod if he wanted a ride on his back. Rod perked up and hopped on. It did the trick. They played and ran around until the show finally started. About 3 minutes into the firework show Rod got very quiet and still. I looked over and he had fallen fast asleep. I think we'll wait until he's a bit older before taking him to another firework show.

We also splurged and took the boys to the carnival on buddy night. Buy one un-limited ride wrist band, get one free. It was very hot for the first half-hour but the sun started going down and once it started cooling down we all had a blast.

This is a fun house they had that the boys loved! They probably went through it at least 30 times. At one point I just sat on a bench and watched them go through it over and over and over.

Most of the rides were kiddy rides but Spencer was tall enough and really wanted to go on a big kid ride. I finally let him go on one that wasn't too scary. But he couldn't ride it alone and I didn't have a wrist band so the guy in charge put him with 2 other girls. None of them were too thrilled by the arrangement (I personally couldn't stop laughing at their facial expressions). But Spencer still loved going on it.

Rod's dream come true. Still loves motorcycles and wants to be a "motorcycle  and helicopter police guy" when he grows up.

My favorite was the parade and even Steve joined me for this one. I went a couple hours early, while Steve got the boys ready and brought them later, so we could get a good spot. It's always awkward for me when I camp out in front of some strangers house.

Haha I also realized I wear my Red SUU shirt a lot. It's my go-to what can I say?

Summer Happenings

Getting ready for dinner.

Annual College Roommate Reunion with the Stephensons, Jarom Brown and the Cramers. Missing a lot of roommates but still had a great time with our old friends.

When I get hand-me-downs I really put them to good use. This shirt started out as Toren's went through all the Woodstock boys then was handed down to Spencer, went to Rod and now Jeffrey is using it. Still cute.

Having fun at the park We made a goal to visit all the parks in Spanish Fork this summer. The park by our house was the first on the list.

Since Christmas we've been using our Christmas tote as a baby gate to keep Jeffrey in the family room area and away from the stairs. It worked great for about 6 months and then the day came that he finally overcame the barrier. Sad day.

Steve, "Rod, why do you look like a weirdo?"

Rod, "What do you mean?"

Jeffrey figured out how to use my camera.

Every time the boys go out to pick raspberries my heart bursts. Living the dream.

Jessica was going through some old boxes and stopped to explain to Spencer what cassette tapes were.

I was showing Jeffrey this picture of Grandpa and Grandma and he loved it. Every time he sees my phone now he starts saying, "Papa? Papa?" Because he wanted to see this picture. I pull it up and he gets all excited, "Papa!" He used to say ga-mah but now he just says papa for both of them.

Rod wanted me to take a picture of him with his super hero fighting fan.

Boys taking pictures and videos to entertain themselves while I was teaching our next door neighbor girl piano lessons.

Summer work party for UCCU. Private screening of the new Spiderman movie. It was pretty good and fun to have a date night with Steve. Love my job and love my company.

Jeffrey with one of his Lovey's. Dino and Curious George are his favorites.

Brian's birthday. Good lookin kid.

Had a mini-high school reunion with these cute girls. We met in Salt Lake for dinner and gelato. I missed them and it was so fun to get together and catch up. Felt like old times. 

Left to right: Melissa (Bown) Petty, Jennifer (Mildenhall) Skipper, Me, Brenna (Lyman) Olsen, Michelle (Ferry) Williams.

Museum of Curiosity at Thanksgiving Point. Jeffrey is old enough he has fun there too now.

Hanging out at swimming lessons waiting for the older boys. (He was actually having fun. We were making silly faces.)

Jessica's birthday. Making a wish.