Just Like Papa!

Grandpa's biggest fan!

So my dad has recently came back to his great hall of memories and got a Harley Davidson Sportster, it scares my mom to death that he is driving it now in his latter years but since it makes him happy she's willing to allow it (as long as he wears his helmet), but she hasn't been brave enough to bust open her brand new helmet and climb onto the back of it yet.

But one person who isn't scared is our little rugrat, first thing he did when he escaped into grandpa's garage was climb up onto the bike all by himself and immediately try to figure out how to get it on and now any time he sees a motorcylce driving around he yells "bike! bike!". So the other morning my dad walked into the kitchen while getting ready to leave with his helmet under his arm, when Xander spotted it and called it a hat and insisted on wearing it! And soon enough he put two and two together and put it on his head on and staggered down the stairs in the over sized helmet into the garage and climbed back up on the motorcylce! Any time we aren't quite sure where he's at the first place to check is the garage and we usually find him sitting on the Harley. He's too funny and I'm sure makes his papa proud!

Yesterday my dad had his first passenger in years, my sister in law Yuki went for a ride to antelope island with him. Xander was reluctant to get off and upset to see them drive off without him. My mom was just happy to have them both happy to return in safety... maybe she'll be riding with him soon!

Backyard Blast!

What else to do when you're bored on a summer sunday evening!???

Well here's and idea and this is what happened...

The big boys (Nick, his little brother Luke and my brother in law Josh) decided to cool off by rigging a sprinkler to spray onto the trampoline and since that didn't turn out as fun as they thought one idea let to the next. They ended up making a 50 ft slip n' slide and lathered themselves with dishsoap and hurled themselves down the slick surface. It was hilarious to watch! But of course it's always fun until someone gets hurt which they all did. They each headed into the house with their baddle wounds when the sun went down. I wish I knew how to get a video on here, because it is just too funny to keep to myself, but oh well.

Yeah that was a fall! :)

Mean while the little boys (Xander and his cousin Gunnar) enjoyed following the men around copying their examples. They had a blast jumping on the soggy tramp, and being hurled by there dad's down the slip n' slide. And also enjoyed eachothers company gettin some sun, playin in the pool and in the sandbox!

Every time a picture is taken, Xander screams CHEEEEESE! for as long and loud as possible. Gunnar thought it was fun to do too, so he joined in and together they were bouncing up and down saying, cheese! cheese! cheese! Silly boys!

4th of July

We had a rockin’ fourth of July! We started out early by heading to the Clearfield parade, I wasn’t so sure if Xander would get into the festivities, but he totally did! I had to hold his hand a few times and run out to grab the candy the floats were throwing but after a few times he picked up quick and sooner then you know it he was darting around snatchin up as much candy as he could and was so proud to admire his stash! It was so fun to watch him get so excited and he waved and said hi to everyone!

After the parade we hung out at Nick’s sister;s and grabbed some breakfast before we headed to the next activity on our list. When we caught our breath we headed to a big backyard pool party! Xander is like a fish in the water and has no fear, so we invested in a good old life jacket for our amphibian of a son, that way maybe he might make it to the day we put his little bum in swim lessons, A.S.A.P!

Once we had enough fun in the sun we raced to get ready and we met back up with Nick’s family at the best place ever, Burger Bar and grabbed us some dinner before we headed to the demolition derby in Ogden. We were running late and there was a line of cars waiting to find parking and we noticed people driving into a backyard at a near by house and we followed them and found us a spot for $5, those people are pretty clever, it was great! So anyways we had a great time and saw some definitely peculiar people, if you know what I mean! But it was a fun to watch the cars crash into each other and especially exciting to see a few cars rammed over the cement barriers! It was wild! After the derby there were fireworks, which were good, but we haven’t seen any that top Cedar’s opening ceremonies fireworks for the summer games, but that’s OK it was still fun of course!

Xander was a monster from all the cotton candy, sweets, and junk he'd eatin all day, and ended up throwing up because he was so upset for waking him up to put him into bed, but when the night was over were totally spent and we crashed as soon as our heads hit the pillow. So all in all I'd say it was a very successful day! :)

Cabin Fever!

So my brother in law invited us to Idaho to a friend's cabin in Island Park the end of last month! And let me tell you it was beautiful, definitely worth the 8 hour drive it took us to get there! It comfortably accommodates 19 people, meaning that many people have a bed to sleep in! It was like 6200 sq ft! It had like a 10 person hot tub, it wasn't very far from Yellowstone, and four wheelers were also there for our pleasure and I'm tellin you took advantage of it all! It was awesome!

We went sight seein, we went to big springs where we saw rainbow trout that were like 30 inches and some were were smaller but still big! We went to Yellowstone and saw old faithful, and also some buffalo and elk. Then we went and shopped around in west Yellowstone like all tourist we bought Xander some memorabilia two really cute shirts!

While we were there we relaxed a bit and had a fire, and we also went on a few four wheeler rides and saw some more wild life, including a mama moose and her baby! We had a really good and loved spending the quality time with family and creating those memories and we can only dream of having a cabin, or a house like that some day!

Father's Day Weekend!

For father's day we went camping at Sand Hollow, it was really windy but hey we're used that from living in Cedar so we didn't let it rain on our parade, which it did just a teeny bit, we were just glad it didn't tip our old ugly camp trailer over!

We tested out the water but it was kinda miserable because of the wind so we headed back to camp. The crazy weather calmed down by the evening and once the sun went down the critters came out! And let me tell you, they weren't shy either! The little kangaroo rats were scowering for food, running right over our toes! We went on a toad hunt and rallied together almost 20 FROGS! it was crazy and we were laughin so hard watchin nick round them all up, at one point he had like 8 or 10 crammed in his hands!

The next day was decent so we went and played in the water again and had a blast, Xander played in the sand and a little in the water, seriously if you give the kid a rock around any mass of water he is entertained for hours!

Nick and I got a chance to do a little snorkeling it was a little windy still so the water was a little chilly, but we had a ton of fun!

Gone Fishin'

Finally we had some luck at fishing at a kids pond up cedar canyon, usually we go home empty handed, but we managed to snatch about 7 from the water we kept 3 the rest were just little ones! Xander loves fishing with his daddy and reeling them in!