Weston's 2nd Birthday

I can not believe that my little man is already TWO!!! Time sure has flown by! WE sure are happy Weston is a part of our family and what a joy he is. We got to celebrate his birthday on his actual birthday...it helped that it fell on a Saturday!

When Weston woke up he found his presents and balloons already at the kitchen table waiting for him! He was so excited!He LOVED his balloons and thought it was so fun to have all the attention on himself! We let him open his presents before breakfast because he was so excited and wouldn't have it any other way. One of his presents was a prince of Persia horse and little figurine. He always likes to play with kambria's play horse so we got him one of his own! As you can tell he knows what to do with it. Another present he got was a spider man umbrella. He thought it was great! Its raining its raining mom...He got some clothes from Bryan's parents. He thinks they are a lot cooler now when he get to wear them than when he opened them...but he also got a talking Thomas the train...and he wore out the battery in the first day he loved it so much! This present was a special one to me...as his mother. Kambria gave him her tricycle as her present to him. It did not take very much coaxing for her to do either! She was excited that this was her present for him. And he LOVED being able to ride his new bike without her trying to take it from him. It was special to see Kambria giving her brother one of her prized possessions...she didn't even know she was getting a new one for her birthday! What a great big sister!Cake came later that night. Of course it was a train cake! He is big into choo choo's right now! What a special joy this little boy is to our family! I still can not believe he already 2! He is learning more and more everyday and talking up a storm. There are still times when I can not quite understand him, but he gets his point across by showing me....he takes my hand and makes me walk to what he is talking about...whether it be a certain type of cereal or a certain way he wants things done. We love him and are so glad he is in our family!

Weston's first potty experience

we caught Weston in the "act" and made him sit on the potty...he did great. Now it is up to mom to get on the ball and potty train him. We will see how much energy I have to do this in the next coming weeks!

Weston's 2nd haircut

I gave Weston his first haircut when he was 18 months and so I decided that 6 months later it was time for another one. His curls had gotten a bit long and were starting to get frizzy...So we attempted his second haircut a week before his 2nd birthday!

The before "cheese" picture! What the back of his head looked like with all his curls! If he was a girl it would be great...but he is not and so we thought we should let him look like a boy!

And the after "cheese" shot! What a cutie!!!And this is what the back of his head looks like without all the curls! He sure does look older now and more like a little grown up boy!

BBQing

We decided that since summer was almost over we had better do some grilling. Bryan was brave and just dealt with the blazing summer temperatures...while I sat inside and took pictures!! ;o)
We bbq'ed hot dogs for the kids and hamburgers for us. And of course we had to do smores with all that left over charcoal!

cookies

Just a quick post...Weston waiting and waiting for the cookies to be done! He got so excited...waiting again! He is jumping for joy when the buzzer went off!

we love our Weston and his excitement for life!

Rose of Sharon

These pictures are for MaryEllen to see if she can tell us if the bush in front of our house is a rose of sharon. Hopefully she can see enough from these two pictures...cause this is all we got. Bryan trimmed the "tree" now so there are not any more blooms.

sunset

Just a pretty sunset in Utah as we drove home from seeing my Grandma!

American Idol in Nashville

We came back from seeing the war cannons and tried to catch the tail end of all the people who tried out fr American Idol here in Nashville. This is all we got to see. We pretty much missed all the crazies...but it was fun to see those that were still there. We did not get to see anyone rush out with a golden ticket, but it will be fun to watch it and say we were there! ;o)

civil War cannons

We decided for our weekend adventure to learn more about the civil war here in Nashville. So we went and had the opportunity to hear some actual civil war cannons being shot off and the correct way to load and shoot them:

These men took their "role" very seriously!

Kambria even got to be to be the head guy who shouts out all the commands.

This was an actual cannon they shot!!

Great Grandma Jetta's

We went and spent a few hours with Grandma Jetta and Aunt Sherie. Bryan always loves to go and visit withthem, they are both just so much fun, and funny.
They got bubbles for the kids to play with outside...well, as you can see, the "kids" are playing with them.

Kambria just loves to play with bubbles. She is getting better at it too.

Sherie was helping Weston with his bubbles.

The bubbles only last so long and then they want to do something else. Kambria wanted to water the plants, and of course Weston wanted to too. We don't have to work very hard to get Weston to smile for the camera. What a cute little boy.

Sherie and Bryan were playing an I spy game with Weston.

Kambria playing where is Waldo with great grandma Jetta. Here are the four generations...Jetta, Dirk, Eliza & Kambria and Weston. How fun!

Thanksgiving Point Flowers

We went and walked around the gardens at Thanksgiving Point. We had walked around here last spring when they had the tulip festival and thought it was just so beautiful, so we were excited to go back and see what they had in their flower beds this year.
Kambria and Madalyn got a ride in the wagon from Erik.

Weston and Layna. Weston is such a ham for the camera!

Do I need to say anything else? That guy sitting next to me is the hottest guy I know!(Bryan is writing this can you tell?)

I just don't think the pictures do this justice. I looks so much better in person.

This was the rose garden. They had what seemed like 100's of different roses growing. It was so pretty. Our camera battery was running low, but these are some of the pictures Bryan took of the roses.

This was my favorite one of them all.

Layna smelling the roses!