Swim

Isabelle has been going to swim lessons for the past two weeks. I finally got to take some pictures, of her learning to swim. It is pretty exciting, because the last time she did this she was only 5 months old and I was swimming with her. If only we were able to keep that up, it would have been great. Each day she is pretty excited to go and swim, she talks about what she is going to do in the car on the way over and she will even “practice” in the bath tub. Pretty good considering the first two days she screamed or cried almost the entire time. Now she loves it!

Dress Up Stuff

For work today, Ben went around with one of his sales guys to visit with customers. One customer he visited hosts dress up parties, where you can purchase the outfits as the party favors. I thought that was great, I think we know what Isabelle will be doing for her thrid birthday. While he was there, he picked up a couple of outfits for Isabelle, a cowgirl and a princess outfit. She looks too cute and really enjoys them. She even shared her hat with Bear, he's still a little small for the outfits there, but I bet in December we'll be able to find him something cute.

Eleven Months

Barrett is now eleven months old and let me tell you everything goes in this kids mouth. I attempted to take some pictures of him without stuff in his mouth today and pretty much just gave up. I truly think he really uses taste as another sense all the time or we just aren’t feeding that kid enough. Who knows but he is still the cutest thing. Very close to walking, I think he could do it if he really wanted to. You can get him started and he will go until he reaches his target or realizes that he is walking. Isabelle helps him out by holding his hands and walking with him, which in it self is great to watch. Bear just loves it!

Disclaimer: I had a hard time getting everything to work right but finally have it made, so please enjoy the pictures of Bear. I still think he is too cute!

Tim & Faith

Let me start off by saying that Tim McGraw and Faith Hill can put on a great show. For Mother’s Day and my birthday, Ben got me tickets to see them in concert. I really wanted to go last year but we had just moved and things were still crazy. So this year I hinted around at it a lot and he bought me two tickets. The best part was that he said I could take whomever I wanted. I took Missy with me and we had a great time. The concert was amazing. Our seats were not great, but it was still incredible to be there. Their show has just gotten better over time. If you ever get a chance to see them I would definitely do it. Even if you don’t like country music they have a little bit for everyone. It was so much fun, plus he is so hot. As Ben said “. . . he would be the only person Allison would leave me for.” No chance of that I think, but hey a girl can dream. Plus I’m not so sure I would want to leave Ben; I think he has a pretty good hold on me.

Camping Fun!

We went on our first real camping trip this past weekend. We only stayed over one night but it was a lot of fun. Both of the kids did great. But let me tell you, it’s hard to get them to go to sleep when it stays light out side until almost 10pm. They were both so active and having too much fun to want to sleep. I think we need to have an after dinner activity next time to help wear them out. Even still it was a great time.

All across the nation you could fish with out a fishing license on Saturday, and so we took a little advantage of that while we were out. Isabelle and Dad went fishing for a little while on Friday, because Isabelle does not need a license, and plus that’s just what Dad wanted to do. And then of course we went on Saturday as well. It was just a little bit hard, because we did not have a boat and could only fish along the shore. Not many fish were caught by the shore line.

It was a good thing we were not relying on the fish for our food. We would have been in deep trouble. Isabelle liked the fact that she had a rod that was just her size. Even Bear thought it was pretty cool. I personal don’t like to fish I just can’t wait around, it takes too long. Oh well!

Overall we had a great time and we hope to go again soon. In July we are for sure going up to Flaming Gorge to go camping, right on the beach, it should be great. I can hardly wait! And then in August we will be going do to Moab to take advantage of the white water and the camping.

This girl can sleep anywhere. Just like her Dad, Isabelle has the ability to sleep right where she is sitting, standing or eating. I was cleaning up around the house getting ready for playgroup today and Isabelle was at the table having a little snack. I noticed that she was pretty quite so I came up to see what she was up to. I came to find out that she had fallen fast asleep all curled up in her chair. It was too cute!!