Family Pictures

For those of you who read Caroline's blog, I decided that I would post three of the family photos that she took for us. Can I tell you that I love working with someone who knows us so that we can get these really awesome shots. Plus it is a lot of fun! So here are just a few. Thanks Caroline!

Lagoon Day

Yesterday we had the special treat of going to Lagoon with Creed's family. Valerie is in the "On Broadway" show that happens in the evenings and she was able to get us some really cheap tickets. We had a blast and the show was great. Sarah took one nap the whole day, but didn't really cry to much. She really loves being outside. She also really loved Lagoon-a-beach. Here are a few pictures!

I love rollercoasters and so I was really excited about going, last time Creed and I went to Lagoon was the middle of October last year and Sarah was born two weeks later. So being able to ride a roller coaster was great fun, and the new one, Wicked, is great! I am not a huge fan of the white roller coaster, a little too jerky for my tastes. Sarah did learn a new trick yesterday. We have this camelback and she watched me drink out of it and decided that she wanted to as well. Here is a picture of this new trick.

We all had a great day and by the end we were all pooped. Here is a few pictures of Sarah sleeping in her stroller.

Oh what fun it is!

I love being a Mom and I love spending time watching my little one learn. Her new trick this week is that she waves! So I guess it is time to buy Baby Signs and teach her how to sign to me so that she doesn't always have to cry! Lately she is a cryer. I don't know if any of your kids were like this, but she is what I call a perpetual teether, a tooth is always trying to come in and so she it seems like she is always crying. But she doesn't like to sleep during the day, she only takes two naps. One that is an hour long if I am lucky and another that is two hours long, if I am lucky. But she really is the cutest thing. She loves to be outside and in the car and the bath. Well I haven't posted any pictures for a while, so I thought that I would do that today.

Here is Sarah with my dad's parents. They came down for the Manti pageant and we got to visit with them for about an hour!

Here Sarah is helping me fold the laundry.

Sarah loves the bath and know she has figured out that she can see herself in the little silver thing in the tub.

I love getting Sarah up in the mornings, look at how happy she is!

This last weekend was a pretty good one. I watched Caroline and Michael's little one Ryan while they went to the temple on Saturday morning. It really was a lot of fun and he is the smartest little boy I think that I have ever met, um.....yep the smartest one! He and Sarah had fun at the park that is in our little neighborhood, until it got to hot, then all Ryan could say is "hot, hot, hot!" So we knew it was time to go home. Then later that night Creed and I went to a wedding reception and on the way we played the question game. It is a game that I made up while we were dating long distantly to make our conversations a little more fun. It is played by asking a question and then he askes a question and you both have to answer the question that you asked, it is actually a pretty good learning game and we really enjoy it. Sunday was a pretty good day, had fun in primary and then planned a lot of what I am going to be doing for the rest of this month and making games for the rest of the year. I really do enjoy my calling! We also spent some time in Murray. Sarah really loves her grandparents and aunts and uncles.

Sarah likes brushing her teeth, she now has two and another on the way!

Here is Ryan riding a horse.

This is Creed and Sarah playing, well, Creed is trying to keep Sarah from sticking wood chips in her mouth. I love my little family!

July already?!?

I can't believe that it is already July, though it is pretty hot here in Springville. This week has been a busy one, getting John all settled in, writing a talk, and of course the 4th of July. We also had our family pictures taken, thanks Caroline! Our fourth of July started out with family pictures, followed by a birthday breakfast for Creed's Mom. Then everyone decided that they wanted to go see a movie, half went to Transformers and the rest went and saw Ratatouille. I don't have a ton of interest in Transformers so we went and saw Ratatouille, which is a great movie and I highly recommend it. Then the rest of the week was spent helping baby soothe her little teeth, I can't believe how much pain it is to cut teeth, and how cranky she can become. But then again she is way cute and trying so many new things. The other day we went into her room to get her out of her crib and she was standing up and teething on the wood part of her crib. Everyday for her is now spent trying to stand or crawl with her feet and hands, which doesn't really work, but she still tries. She mastered kneeling the other day and it was really fun to see her get so excited about being able to kneel on her own. John is all moved in and almost situated. He is also all registered for classes and still looking for a job, so if anyone knows of a job down here in Springville we would really appreciate the heads up. So far he has been a great help. He told me about these teething tablets and let me tell you they have been lifesavers! Before them we were just using Motrin and it worked, but she was still way cranky and crying a lot. But these teething tablets are wonderful, they take away the pain so that she can sleep, which is way nice. So thanks to John! Creed is doing great and is being a wonderful husband as always. I just love him!

Shark

Okay, I will probably only do this a couple of times, but I know how many moms read this and I just have to tell you all about this great product. It is called Shark and it is a steam cleaner that cleans everything! I love it because I can clean the bathroom and mop the floors, clean the couches and chairs, sanitize Sarah's toys, carseat, high chair etc. all in one day with one product and a few rags. No chemicals! Yeah! My aunt has had one for a year now and then my mom got one, and after seeing everything it can do we got one. I LOVE IT! Now it isn't cheap but it isn't too expensive either, $100 at Lowes, plus we had a coupon and got $10 off (thanks Mom and Dad for sending the coupon!). And yes you all read the blog right, my cousin John is coming to live with us. He is going to be staying in the basement, and no the basement isn't finished yet, we aren't that fast. But we framed a room and then stapled painters cloths along the wall and ceiling to give him some privacy and to keep the insulation up. He moves in tomorrow and we are very excited!

Where does time go?

Last week and this week are have just flown by, I can't believe that it is Thursday already! Last week was busy with me not feeling very well thanks to the fact that I am a woman, blah! Then we also had the anniversary party and my cousin came to stay with us for the weekend before he moves in this weekend (which we are very excited about!) Friday was spent getting him ready to start the fall semester at UVSC and checking out a job possibility. Saturday he helped us move in a new chair, and a shower/tub combo for the basement. He also started to help us frame another room. When he gets here the basement is going to start getting done a little faster. This week Sarah has been teething, two teeth at once, so she wakes us in the middle of the night and doesn't sleep very well during the day and I am getting exhausted, but she finally slept well last night and Creed and I went to bed early, around 9:30 to catch up. I have to say that I really do love sleep and I finally feel like I got enough last night, so now I am ready to face the rest of this week and I am looking forward to what lies ahead!

50th Wedding Anniversary

Grandma and Grandpa Mitton have been married for 50 years and last night was spent in a celebration just for them. It was really exciting to see them so happy and in love and to know that hopefully someday our kids and grandkids will be throwing us a 50 year celebration. For all of those who know Grandma Mitton, yes there was a show put on. There was orchestrational pieces, singing etc. And even Sarah got to be a part of it. I don't know if I have mentioned this, but Sarah really enjoys singing and the closing number in the production was a medly of hymns, and everyone in the family was involved, I was singing and holding Sarah and she was singing along too (no she really didn't know the words, or the tune, but she did lend her voice and that was really cute!) She was pretty tired though by the end and fell asleep in my arms. It really was a great event and we are so grateful that we live so close the the Mitton side of Creed's extended family. Creed and his dad and brothers did as barber shop number and it was really fun.

The whole clan going at it, Creed is the one playing the bass.

The babershop boys!

Sarah playing with her cousin Parker