Quick Trip

On Sunday I made a quick trip to Ogden.  My cousin Vivian was in town from Texas and so my mom invited her to dinner.  I was up at the cabin but I packed me and Eden up and headed that way. 

Here is the reason we Hutchisons are they way we are...

Of course my mom had to theme this dinner...we had company!

Since it was July, my mom went for the independence theme...

This was all I got of our dinner...because shortly after taking this picture my child decided to channel a demon and was non-stop crying until she went to bed that night.  My baby is usually a pretty happy baby most of them time but she was NOT having it.  She cried from about 5-9pm.  Once I put her down she was out like a rock until 8am the next morning. 

Since my child decided she was feeling better we took the opportunity to go the Pineview with my dad, Tracy, Marcia and the kids. 

this was Eden the instant she got in the water...all smiles!

Tracy and Ever kickin' it on a fallen tree

I could not get Eden out of the water.  She just layed in her floaty and kicked, kicked, kicked.  Serioulsy people, my child could live in the water.

We found a nice shady beach and got Miss Clovi settled quite nicely.  We even used an inflatable kick pad for a padded air mattress.

She was in heaven...check out the drool

After the dam, Eden and I packed it up and headed home.  Just in time to do some laundry and pack again to head back to the cabin....I LOVE the summer!

Party Central

The last couple of weeks have been party central for us.  Last weekend Les' uncle invited us over to play some basketball.  Well, Les doesn't play basketball, but we went over anyway to hang out with the gang. Les' cousins all have babies so it was fun to get to see everyone and let Eden hang out with the kids.  She had her first trampoline experience and L.O.V.E.D. it. Dare I say that Eden loves most things. 

Jarom would jump and bounce Eden and she just screamed at him in delight.  It was very fun!

That same weekend a friend of ours had a party for her little girl Marlee.  She was turning two and she rented a jump house with an attached waterslide.  We came ready to get our slide on but after watching all the little kids pumpel each other trying to get up the ladder we decided it was best if we stayed as far away from the jump house as possible...maybe next year.  However, at the party she had snow cones and Eden was in love.  At first she was a little skeptical and had to keep looking at me to see if it was "OK"

Once she tasted the syrup, she was all in!

notice how her face is getting more and more red.  It isn't because the snowcone was red it was because her face was FREEZING! If I tried to take the snow cone away, she screamed (as per usual)

On Tuesday, Eden went to spend the day with her Pa.  Eden has a special place in her heart for her Pa.  If he's around she wants nothing to do anyone else, including me (which is great for me).  I had to get CPR certified for school and so my dad came down and we went to lunch at Happy Summo (delic) and then he took her back to Ogden with him.  Once my class was done I headed that way.  When I arrived this is how I found her.

literally swimming in the pool.  It's an understatement to say that my child loves the water.  She lives to be in the water. Look at that face!

This is her face right before she squeeled in delight.  The water was a little cold, but I couldn't get her out.  It wasn't until her lips turned purple that I MADE her get out which was followed by a tantrum...go figure.

Wednesday was Ever's 2nd birthday and so my services were enlisted by Marcia to get the party ready.  I know I don't need to explain to you all how our family does it so I'll just get right to it.  The theme was "horseys" since Ever is OBSESSSSED with them (according to Brennen)

My dad came over Wednesday morning and took Ever on her special day activity just her and Pa.  Now, if you know Brennen then you know it's a rare occasion that Brennen lets my dad go anywhere without him, but I guess since it was Ever's birthday Brennen was okay with him taking just her.  Here she is all ready to spend the day with her Pa.

He was going to take her swimming.  She was still not fully awake and I couldn't get a smile out of her for the life of me.

Anyway, back to the decor....

Marcia and I attempted to make some horsey cupcakes but after a few choice words and Marcia putting herself in a time out...this was the best we could do.

Noticed I didn't get to close and this is the only picture I took.  Not a proud moment for us...to say the least!  Marcia has sworn off cupcakes since they literally drive her bonkers....We will just have to see what happens when Brennen's birthday rolls around in 3 months...

After a delicous dinner of taco salads, we headed outside to let Ever open her presents.  She was a little nervous with all the attention so it was slow going.

Tracy had to step in and be the official present opener. 

If the present had a horse in it she wouldn't put it down.  It had to be on her lap when she opened the next gift...

Then came the moment we (or I) had been waiting for.  Ever opening MY gift.

with a little help from Brennen and Bennett.

yup that's a GIANT plastic horse.  I saw it at Target and couldn't resist.  After demanding we get it out of the box...Ever promptly did this...

because she can!

Here is the other awesome gift Ever got.  I am totally getting this for Eden....

How freaking cool is this bike?  Totally jealous and I'm 25!  Brennen even got in on the present action.

It was an early birthday gift for him but I think he was stoked!  Where was my child during all the shananagins? Oh here...

oh just here...in the water.  Happy as can be.  Guess that means a trip to Target for a kiddie pool is knocking on my door.  Now it's up to the cabin to prepare for the big 24th weekend.  Happy Weekend everyone!

Counting Airplanes

Last night the weather was so nice that I grabbed a blanket and headed outside.  Eden, Les and I layed out on the blanket in our backyard and watched the airplanes and birds fly by.  Everytime one would fly by Eden would wave to it.  It was very cute.  I wish I had a camera to capture that moment because it was sheer bliss.  Laying outside as a family, enjoying the nice weather.  I hope I have many more memories like this to come. 

Big Plans for the 4th!

So for this 4th I had a lot of things planned.  A friend of mine was having her son's birthday party at Cherry Hills that I REALLY wanted to go to but my husband told me he had "big plans" for us for the holiday weekend.  Now, if you know my husband you know he doesn't "plan" things so I was thinking "wow...he really must want to do something if he has something planned..." so regretfully I decline to invite to go to Cherry Hills....major bummer.  So the weekend rolls around and on friday I ask my husband what these big plans are.  I was thinking maybe we'd go to the cabin and go hiking up in the Uintas or something fun...um no, my husband's "big plans" were to finish the house.  LAME!  He refused to let me go anywhere because we needed to "focus" on getting the house finished....

I mean I guess I see what he's saying but Cherry Hills?!  come on people.  I was wanting to get my tan on, but I was a good wife and stayed home and I must say, our house looks great.  I have a few more things to do but it's pretty much done.  Hooray!  I will definately post some before/after pics once I'm done.

So how did we celebrate the 4th?  Well, on Sunday I had my parents and Tracy come down for dinner.  I think this was the first time I set my table...ever!

I don't think I've set this table since I got it 3 years ago AND I think I busted out more of stuff (as far as kitchen ware goes) then I ever had before. I want to take this time to thank everyone who got me stuff for my kitchen for my wedding because until this weekend I hadn't used any of it but it all came in handy quite nicely.  I would say to Les..."Man, we could really use something to put these hot dishes on..." and Les would reply..."I think we got something like that for our wedding."  Sure enough we had everything we needed to host a nice little get together with my parents.

Les even got fancy and busted this out!

My sweet husband thought it would be a fun tradition to make home made icecream for the 4th.  Ya know, start something new with Eden.  Very sweet right?  Well, he went to the store, bought all the ingredents, and had the icecream maker going all before I got home from church.  Well, as I was putting away all the extra supplies he got from the store (he had "big plans" to make icecream again) I noticed all these cans of evaporated milk.  I asked him what this was for since the recipe clearly call for condensed milk..not evaporated milk.  After a few choice words my husband begins to explain to me that ALL recipes are made for women.  He told me that at the store he couldn't find light cream anywhere.  I told him it was by the milk and it's just whipping cream...he just had to make sure not to get the heavy whipping cream.  He was all "Ya, I had to ask someone what it was.  Why can't they just put whipping cream in the directions...how am I suppose to know whipping cream and just cream are the same thing....AND why would they put evaporated milk and condensed milk right next to each other at the store?!  How confusing is that?!" 

Les was pretty bummed we weren't going to have homemade icecream for the 4th of july, but after adding a little bit of sugar and some coco we turned his concotion into a chocolate mousse of some sort.  It actually tasted pretty good and Les was quite impressed with himself for his "new" recipe. 

Anyway, dinner was great and dessert was great too.  My daugher has decided that she is old enough to feed herself and wants NO help from mom.  So this is pretty much how my table looks during/after she eats...

I usually let Dixie in after she's done and she pretty much takes care of the mess on the floor.

After my parents left and Eden had a bath we headed outside to have some fireworks.  It was still light outside but it was 8:30 people and this child of mine needed some sleep....so we went ahead and did it anyway....Eden's faces pretty much sum it all.  I'll let her tell you how her first firework experience went.

She wasn't a fan of the ones that made noise.  After our firework show, she hit the hay.  She was one beat little girl.  I layed her down and went to make her a bottle.  When I came back I found her like this...

dead asleep...

check out her leg...I wasn't sure it was very comfortable but she didn't make a pep...fine by me! 

Even though I didn't get to do what I thought we were going to do...our 4th of July was pretty low key but it was nice to spend the holiday as our little family. 

 

Happy 4th of July! 

Spaghettios!

Feed Eden some Spaghettios today...I have one word for you....L.O.V.E.

Founder's Day Weekend

So I went to Ogden again this weekend (much to my husband's dismay) and celebrated Founder's Day.  We Hutchison's celebrate Founder's Day rather than the 4th of July.  This weekend was jammed packed full of activities..so much so that I forgot to bust out the camera in most cases but I did get a few.

Friday:

Eden had a doctor's appointment in the morning for her 9 month check up. Here are her stats:

Weight: 19 lbs 6 oz 70%

Height: 28 in 70%

My daughter is no longer the giant I thought she was.  She has been then the 95% until now.  Her weight and height is dropping off but I still think she's huge...

After the doctor's appointment we headed straight to ogden and it was off the the North Ogden Aquatics Center.  That place was a MADHOUSE!  It was packed! I didnt' take any pictures because I was too busy trying to keep my eyes on the kids.  It was Me, Tracy and my mom with 4 kids.  This should never be done people.  You need to have an adult to every child at a crazy pool.  At one point I took Eden to the deep end and unbeknown to me Brennen decided to follow me.  Apparently Tracy was yelling my name to let me know that Brennen was following me but I couldn't hear her.  The next thing I know I turn around and see Brennen gulping water trying to swim.  I race to him and picked him up just in the knick of time....needless to say, we won't be going to that crazy pool anytime soon. 

Once we recovered from the swimming we headed to my dad's work for an open house.  We were going to take a tour of the plant but Tracy and I got stuck outside with the kiddos and my dad wasn't able to give us two a tour before he had to go to work....so pretty much Tracy and I were trying to wrangle 3 kids and again, no pictures were taken. 

Saturday:

Started the day off at the Founder's Day Parade..ya!  We love this parade.

Here we are getting ready to grab some candy...babies and all!

Tracy and the babe

We got this fan and Eden would not let it go...she was waving it around and fanning everyone off as the temperature went up. (please over look the closed eyes)

 Still holding on to the fan...

Ever waving at her horsies!

Right after the parade we went to Walker Theater in Willard and watch Toy Story 3 except that child decided that she wanted to be a demon and FREAK out.  So I pretty much kicked it in the lobby. What I saw of the movie I liked but I am going to have to go see it again.

After a short nap we headed BACK to my dad's work to get the tour we missed out on the day before and this time I brought my camera. 

Here we are getting some grub.

The kiddos enjoying some chips

livin' it up on the bounce houses they had there

Ever enjoying her snowcone

taking turns on the slide

After the Kimberly-Clark tour we went home and ate again at our neighbor's house.  The Barretts alway feed us and we love them for it.  After some relaxing and yet another nap we made some caramel popcorn and enjoyed the Founder's day fireworks.  Eden was alseep before the fireworks started and I just happen to check on her right as the first one went off.  Well, I have never seen Eden jump so high straight out of sleep.  I was glad I was there cuz she leaped into my arms and started crying.  Once I took her outside to show her what the noise was she became memormized and throughly enjoyed herself. 

Anyway, it was a fun filled weekend as always...love me some Founder's Day!