Monday, September 29, 2008

Utah Trip, Dustin and Corey's Birthday Party

Good Evening everyone! We've had a busy couple weeks, and they're going to get busier! Alice and I were able to visit Utah (we hadn't been home in a year and a half) It was great to see my grandparents who haven't seen Alice since she was five weeks old. Now that she's getting a little older, she really enjoys to travel and visit family--we don't have to worry so much about her being in 'her element' and 'on schedule'.
Playing with a Cinderella doll and dress on the Airplane (that thing was a life saver!)
Grandma and Grandpa's newly landscaped backyard. Her favorite part was the rock waterfall. Saturday morning, we had pancakes and hot chocolate on the new deck with the cousins.
Kora is Alice's cousin that's only 12 days older than her. We call them the twins. They especially loved picking apples from grandma's trees and chatting on the 'table rock.'
Cousin James and Alice getting rides on ponies at Gardner Village.
Aunt Ginny and Vilolet at Gardner Village--what a cutie!
James and Alice trying on bracelets. Sooo cute.
We had dinner with her great-grandma Harding. Alice was in chocolate chip cookie delirium.
The 'twins' enjoying a slumber party and gelatto :)
Grandma took us to a corn maize and we actually made it all the way through!
Man I miss these mountains! If I wasn't preggo I would have done some serious hiking.
We went to Logan to visit my two younger sisters, Aunt Jess and Aunt Cass. We had lunch at Angie's restaurant, a Logan original.
hmmmm. Jess, do you feel like Betos?
Little Alice on our Logan River Trail hike. Auntie Cass showing off her cat-like reflexes.
Alice wasn't so cat-like. She fell and skinned her knee-which resulted in much drama and my sisters and I carrying her for about a mile and a half.

She was finally soothed with a granola bar.
We were anxious to get home and see Dustin again. When he picked us up from the airport she didn't stop hugging him for 10 minutes straight. awwww.

As promised, here's some pics of the deck we, ahem, Dustin built. His buddy, Andy came over and helped him a lot while I was in Utah.
Here it is 95% done. It's very nice to have all this outdoor space, I'm very proud of my handyman!

On Saturday, Melissa and I had a joint party for our hubby's whose birthdays are only 3 days apart. She got them these hilarious shirts and Corey did his famous crab and shrimp boil. Oh, Dustin turns 31, so give him lots of grief if you can!

What a handsome man!

4 comments:

Malisa said...

Congratulations on the deck, it looks great! Looks like you had tons of fun on your trip to Utah.

Dustin HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Kris Doman said...

Hey, where are the REAL photos of the twins? You know I don't mind if you post them! :-)

Tim, Crista and Addy said...

Couple things....yeah for a girl!! Alice is SO big and cute! Yeah for a trip to Utah and the very biggest YEAH for a trip to Angie's!! Oh, how Tim and I miss our Saturday morning breakfast there! Congrats again!

Jessica said...

So cute! Your little family is so awesome!