Daddy's New Toy

Cam was pretty tired of spending 3 hours to mow our lawn every week (we have a big yard), so this year he was bound and determined to buy a riding mower... used. I gave him a week or two of looking online for a used mower and contacting those selling one, when we realized we had no way of getting it back home. So when we came home from our Texas vacation and our grass was 2 feet taller than everyone else's, I had had enough waiting for Cam to find a mower. So I had to drag Cam and the kids to Home Depot to buy a riding mower giving him the "I go out and spend your money all the time and it's fun! So I'm going to show you how much fun it is and you're going to buy a mower and you're going to like it!" lecture... pathetic I know. So we headed off to Home Depot and the closer we got the bigger Cam's grin got. So I thought I finally got through to him. Nope! When we walked in the store, he walked right past the riding mowers to look at the push mowers!!!!!! AHHHH! I literally drug him over to the riding mowers, then his desire to have one those big honkin' mowers kicked in and he was grinning from ear to ear in the check out lane. It now takes him under an hour to mow the yard... def. worth every penny!

The girls fight over who gets to mow the lawn with Dad first. Even I had fun riding it :)

3 1/2 years and 3 pounds apart

Yep, there's 3 1/2 years in between Syd and Bentley and only 3 pounds difference between the two, ha! It's pretty funny watching Sydnee hold Bentley... he's bigger than she is. Bentley's six months old and weighing in at 19 lbs. 12 oz. Can't remember the length, but it puts him in the 80th percentile. It's the weight that I can't get over and here's what he's up to:

• He sleeps from 8pm-7am... sweeeet. He still pees through his diaper onto his pj's and sheets nightly but at least he sleeps through it now and doesn't wake up... poor guy. I figure if it doesn't bother him it doesn't bother me... until the morning that is. I've got stripping his bedding and starting a wash every morning down to a science now ;)
• He is starting to sit up, still a bit wobbly but getting there.
• He's learned how to be heard in this family: by yelling or screeching at me once...or twice... or three times. And it works too.
• He's becoming more vocal, making cooing sounds. 
• He totally gets when the girls are trying to be funny around him and laughs hysterically at them.
• He started baby cereal this month and is my only child that LOVES it. 
• Has a tooth bud forming... we're just waiting for it to POP through.
• He's still such a laid back and happy guy. He's worth keeping around for a while.

 


 

I Miss Those College Days

My good friend from college, Amanda, and her fiance Aaron were driving through our neck of the woods on their way to Maryland and they stopped by for a quick visit and a place to sleep! It was GREAT catching up with Amanda, and reminiscing on all those late nights we spent working on PR campaigns our senior year of college at BYUI. Great times. Congrats to you and Aaron, it was so fun seeing you again and meeting Aaron!