Gonna Party Like It's Your Birthday

wwf minus Ashlee and Dylan, Colby's Fam, and Danny's Fam!

It was my mother's birthday (May 16) and we partied hard. We had races, ate oreos, I made her a cake, and we played on the swings:)

Happy Birthday to the greatest mom and grandma! She has done soooo much for me over the span of my existence and I can't thank her enough. She always has the answers to all of my Gus questions, and I hope she had the best birthday a girl could ask for!

QUIETBOOKERS

I was feeling a little less enthused about the quiet book pages I chose. For weeks I put off even working on the page. The page I chose (Mr. potato head, and then the counting page) just wasn't floatin my boat. So I brainstormed and came up with this page. I have only been working on it for 2 days and I am almost done with all of them. It is crazy, once I chose a page I was excited to create, I couldn't stop making them! So my page is a braiding page!! How are your pages coming? My thoughts on dispersing the pages are as follows.

Send 9 of your completed pages to Emily and she will disperse one page to each of the following girls. (They all live near her) Jen, Nicole, Lindsey, Tara (&Dallas), Andrea, Emily, Leslie, and Mindee

Then send 1 page to SUMMER I will give you her addresses via e-mail or facebook message:)

Brotherly Love

I took my brother (Chance's) engagement photos a couple of weeks ago. I am by no means a photographer, and no I am not starting a photography biz;) I was just a gal with a camera and some pretty cute people to photograph:) Maddox was sooo good the whole time, we just had to use a potty word (poop) over and over and over and over so he would laugh! I am so happy they are getting hitched, Brooke is such a great mom to Maddox and soon to be wife to Chance. Just today I overheard her talking to Maddox and I thought to myself "I hope I have conversations like that with Gus someday." Chance is the happiest I have seen him and can't wait to see their little family grow!!!

side note: photographer friends that read my blog- what setting should I have set my camera to in the first photo so that the mountains have good light and the family? It seemed that if I messed with the f stop thingy either the fam was too dark or the mountains didn't have their pretty colors. Notice how the fam is really dark. Luckily, Brooke's sis IS a good photographer so she photo shoped the pics so the end result is very very cute!

verry merry unbirthday

Our little fish

He reminds me of Noah in this picture, always holding something in his hand:)

Our little Gus is basically a fish! He had his first swimming experience and he just loved it! I had a lady at one of Coco's soccer game tell me that Gus has such an old soul. She said he looks around and you can tell he is thinking ya that's pretty cool I will do that someday! It explains him so well, I have actually had multiple people tell me the same thing. So the whole time swimming I could tell he was thinking, ya I am going to swim the shiz out of this pool when I am a little older! We put him under the water 3 times and he didn't shed a tear, but heaven forbid after baths I try to put clothes on him (multiple tears shed:) I have video of one of the dunks, but its currently downloading, I will post it tomorrow.

Good Intentions

We had such good intentions to walk around the track at the annual relay for life, but you as you can see below, these little kiddos got in the way. Evee, Owen, Marsh Man, and Gus Monster had a blast playing together. Oni, Mindee and I had fun reminiscing, we reminisced about the days in middle school walking from Mindee's to Oni's to my house often multiple times a day. Tragically in our lives Mindee had to move our ninth grade year. When she moved we made her a scrapbook and gave her the movie Gattaca, random yes, but we loved that movie (watch the trailer it's pretty hilarious).

oh ya know

what have we been up to the past week? Oh ya know just a little bit of this...

I went with the madre to watch cousin Coco play Wasatch in a playoff soccer game. Unfortunately we lost, but Coco had a great year! He was on the front page of the Spectrum sports section after their win to Judge Memorial! Gus was a trooper the whole way, even in the blasted Heber City wind!

Me and the Gus monster. Our first Mothers Day together. (taken during sacrament with Kyle's phone;) Mother's Day is soooo much better after popping out this cute little boy! Definitely one of the hardest things I have done at times, but also THE MOST rewarding!! Love this little guy to pieces and his daddy as well. They gave me two months to get skin cancer(tanning pass) and it came with two free frozen yogurt coupons!

This was the Gma's Mothers Day gift. Silhouettes of one of their favorite little grandsons:)

Gus met Kyle/Linies dog Sage. Gus loves dogs, it doesn't look like it in this picture, but a few moments later he was grabbing him and smiling!

I gave Gus a stick off of Gma Linie's tree as a chew toy. He loved it! I figured that is what the pioneers would do. right;)

Gus loved watching the ducks, one of Gma Linie's animals on her mini farm.

Gatorade and Sydney showing Cowboy to Gus.

Gus just loves Cowboy. He loves him sooo much he wanted to eat his ear:)

Gus chewing on the stick and watching the ducks for entertainment.

Amy got out the baby book, and we decided Kason, Coco, and Gus look a little bit alike:) They all of Gma Becky's big eyes for sure.