Monday, June 29, 2009

Cabin and the Lake

We've had adventures this week with a quick trip to my parents cabin to see Jeff, Melenie and Adam and then a trip to Lake Powell with Clark's family, my parents, and David and Bryce. Lake Powell was quite a trip . . . Here are Kason's top 5 TERRIBLE things that happened:

5. WIND. It howled all night our first night there, and the kids wouldn't go to sleep until after 10 p.m., and Tige and I hardly slept a wink. Not a good night.

4. RAIN. It rained Friday afternoon, so we sat in the tent for several hours. Our usually brave Kason uttered phrases like "We're gonners!" and "It's going to flood." Water started seeping into our tent and started getting out bedding wet. In my 33 years of going to Lake Powell, I think this was only the 2nd time it's rained on us.

3. The TUBE. We put Brock and Kason on the tube to be pulled behind the boat. Should have been fun, but I think they were sitting too far forward and when the boat started pulling it, it submerged with the boys hanging onto it. They emerged from the Lake crying hysterically and Tige had to jump in to calm them down. They did not enjoy the ride!

2. SKIING. Clark bought a new beginner set of skis for the kids, and Brock & Kason both tried it. Kason was a tropper giving it a shot 3 times, but each time he hated it and cried. Getting splashed in the face while trying to hold onto a rope isn't any 5 year old's idea of fun I guess. Maybe next year.

1. FISHING. My dad fell asleep while "watching" Kason's fishing pole (baited and hanging off the side of the boat), and before we knew what happened, it was gone. Some poor fish is swimming around with a brand new spiderman fishing pole and a hook stuck to him. We tried to cheer Kason up by telling him he must have caught a really big fish!
The kids had a ball swimming, playing in the sand, and making nature discoveries though, so it wasn't all bad. We stuck Abby in a little sand pool, which she really enjoyed.
And I only had to try and stop her a dozen times from sticking a fist full of sand in her mouth.

A ski attempt with my dad.

Lunch at a cafe near the cabin with Jeff's fam.


Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Rachel's Baby Shower

Andy & Rachel came down from Wyoming last weekend, and we threw her a little family baby shower. We had a nice time visiting, and she got lots of cute presents. Her feet are very swollen from the long car ride down, but other than that she's feeling great and looks so, so cute!
Opening presents.

Rachel 36 weeks and Char about 24 weeks.
David's wife is about 32 weeks, so we have lots of Taylor babies coming soon. Yipee!

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Tige's First 5K

Tige ran his first 5K last Saturday, even though he'd injured his foot earlier in the week during a practice jog. Saturday morning, he was totally bummed when he got ready and decided his foot hurt too bad to run. Then a few minutes later, he changed his mind and off he went. I guess he just couldn't stand the thought of not running it after all his training and hard work. Anyway, I got the kids ready so we could go see him at the finish, but he ran it more quickly than I thought he would, and we got there as he was getting a drink after finishing. Dang it--Oh well, it's the thought that counts, right? We're very proud of him for all his hard work over the past 11 months at the gym.


Arriving home after the race.

Kason awarded Tige his primary singing "medal" after the race. Too bad it was too small to go over his head.

Abby sits


Last week I posted the differences between my kids at 8 months of age. Just a day or 2 later, Abby finally started sitting unassisted. She's doing good and seems to be enjoying the change of scenery, but after a few minutes over she goes. I had her in the tub yesterday sitting up, but when she loses her balance she's like a slippery little bar of soap.

With a brother like Kason, I'm not sure she'll ever get into girly things. She's destined to love spiders, snakes, lizards, frogs, etc. Yuck, hope not!

Instead of crawling, this is what she does when on her tummy. She arches and lifts her hands and legs up at the same time in a pilates-inspired swan move. Actually, most of the time she really pushes up on her arms, so if she could just figure out how to get her legs under her, she'd be off. Not looking forward to that day--I love her still being fairly stationary.

My cute kids. They love each other. I have to remind Kason 30 times a day that "Abby is fragile! She's like a delicate flower" because he's rough and tumble all the time.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Vegas Vacation

We hopped down to Vegas last Thursday-Saturday for a little family vacation. We weren't there long, but crammed lots of fun things into our 2.5 days. We swam and swam. Kason is a little fish. We went to the Natural History Museum, which Kason was the perfect age for. We also ate one night at the Rainforest Cafe in the MGM. The food was pricey and not very good, but the atmosphere was great, and Kason loved it. He got a "spiderman" balloon animal, which made his day. We saw the movie "Up" which Kason says is his new favorite movie of all time. Tige and I got to watch movies after the kids were in bed. We sure enjoy being together.

Swimming pictures. Kason was very friendly to other vacationers during our multiple swims. He came up to me and said "mom, I said hi to that stranger, but he was nice and he'd never steal me." We had to reinforce stranger danger to our little friendly, social boy.

All things sharks at the Natural History museum. Kason was in heaven. The top, left picture is of bamboo shark eggs/embryos in various stages during their 2 week gestation. They were pretty cool.

More Natural history museum.

Dinner at the Rainforest Cafe.