My Little Fish

There are certainly benefits to apartment living. One of the biggest for me is having a big swimming pool and hottub right outside my back door. Shannon and I have gone almost every day since the pool opened for the season, and she loves it as much as I do. She has started to kick, realizing that she moves when she does it. I have also gotten her to put her face under and blow bubbles. She is probably ready to get some arm floaties or something so that she can swim on her own, but this little baby raft has sure been neat. She almost falls asleep in it sometimes!

This is the Place

Today we went with my sister-in-law and her kids to Heritage Park. It is a huge village that surrounds a monument to Brigham Young and the pioneers. For those of you who may not know, after the pioneers walked across the plains they came through one last canyon and as soon as they got through it Brigham Young pointed to the huge valley below and announced that this was where they would finally settle. That was the birth of Salt Lake City and the rest of the valley. I couldn't get a great picture of the valley because of the storm coming in, but you can kind of see the valley. This is basically the view that the pioneers had from the canyon (minus the people and the park, of course). There was a great petting zoo with hundreds of baby chickens running everywhere, peacocks, goats, rabbits, cows, pigs, horses, and llamas. This is Shannon petting the goats, which she thought were kitties, of course. The animals actually seemed to enjoy the attention.
She was too tired at this point to care much, and she wouldn't let go of her dad long enough to ride the pony, but she did sit on it for a picture.

There was the cutest little mini village with this barn, a general store, a firehouse, a teepee, and a log cabin. Shannon liked the store the best because it even had toy food and a cash register (which she promptly picked up and walked off with). She probably would have stayed here all day if we had let her.

This is Shannon with her cousins and a friend on a little wooden train. They had a lot of fun playing on that, too.

Finally, a nice day!

We had a long, hard winter here, but Spring finally came. Then we had a few weeks of more cold and rain. Today was finally nice enough to take Shannon to the park. I met a few of my fellow young women leaders there for lunch and we talked while the kids played. Shannon was just fine playing all by herself in the huge sandbox.

Friday night Shannon spent the night at her grandmother's house, so Matt and I took advantage of the alone time to finally see some movies. We did a double feature and saw "Prince Caspian" and "Indiana Jones." I really enjoyed both movies a lot. We also played air hockey and went out to dinner. It was a great time!

An Interesting Morning

This cougar was found just blocks from where we live this morning! There were 3 calls to 911 from people saying they had seen a cougar, so 911 started calling people in the neighborhood to bring their children and pets inside. We had a helicopter flying around trying to find it, and the elementary school kids had to stay inside for recess. They found it pretty quickly, though, and it didn't hurt anybody.

On another subject, I was able to go up to Idaho this weekend to visit my sister and see my niece get baptized. My parents were there, as well as another of my nieces with her 3 week old baby. He is very cute and never cries unless his dad changes his diaper. If you want to see him, click on the link to the Blair family blog on my blog list. It was so much fun to see everyone for the second time this month. We always have a good time together playing Trivial Persuit and talking.

Another one!!

It's finally time to make the official announcement. We are going to have another baby around November 30th. I just went to the doctor today and he did an ultrasound just for the fun of it. I got some pictures, but my scanner isn't set up and I am too lazy right now to get it out, so you will have to wait. They aren't very good, anyway. It's a wiggly baby, just like Shannon was. The ultrasound was every bit as fun as last time. It's just so amazing! I saw the tiny little hands waving around and the legs kicking. Then the baby did a really good stretch for us. Even the doctor was having fun with it! Since the most common question seems to be "how are you feeling?" I will just let you all know that I am feeling great. I was nauseated for a few weeks, but not very badly, and it has pretty much gone away now. Other than that I'm just very excited!

Mothers Day

What a fun weekend! My sister, Jeny, somehow managed to get all of my siblings except for the two oldest to make the trip to Colorado to surprize our mom for Mothers Day. She was very surprized and happy to see us. I think her favorite part was introducing all of us in church on Sunday. I took Shannon, and my sister, Amy, brought her youngest son, Zach. He is only 4 months older than Shannon, so they had a lot of fun together. The first picture is them playing Ring around the Rosies. They were very cute. We all stayed up way too late every night, and woke up to early every morning we were there, because we didn't want to waste any of the time we had together. Needless to say, we are all exhausted now!

Yesterday we went to the Salt Lake temple to attend the wedding of Matt's brother, Sam. It was a perfect day and a very nice ceremony. Shannon got a new dress to match her cousins, and she looked just beautiful. Here she is with a grape in her mouth to keep her from crying because it was way past nap time. She had a lot of fun just walking around and playing with her family. Matt and I were up until 3:00 on Friday night helping to get everything ready, so by the time we got home last night we were exhausted.