Trip to the Zoo

A few weeks ago, we took Mason for his first trip to the zoo. It's taken me awhile to get the pictures up (surprise, surprise), but I thought that they were so cute, I couldn't leave them off. Mason was soooo good the whole time. Even though I know he was tired, he never complained or whined once. He was so enthralled by being outside and looking at all of the new things. We are grateful to my parents for the thoughtful gift of a season pass to the zoo. We are definitely going to take advantage of it!

I love how intent Mason is on seeing everything and learning as much as he can about where he is

David was such a wonderful Daddy, he carried Mason through the whole zoo because he couldn't see very well from his stroller.

My turn didn't last nearly as long as David's did.

It was a pretty hot day when we went, so it was fun to take an ice cream break. As you can see, Mason especially enjoyed this part!

It was so hot, and Mason was so thirsty that he couldn't even wait to get the lid off of the water bottle!

They had some little bongo drums in the African animal section. Mason already loves to bang on things, and this just increased that love! Isn't that just the cutest face ever?

A Night with out Mom

Last night one of my friend's from the ward planned a girl's night. It was so much fun! We got together, ate dinner, ate chocolate, and pampered ourselves with foot massages and masks. It was nice to be able to sit and relax and not have to worry about anyone running around and getting into things that he shouldn't or needing to be held etc. I was gone for only a few hours.

When I came into the house, Mason and David were sitting on the couch, waiting for me. The first thing that I noticed was that an entire box of kleenex's was strewn in front of the coffee table. They were all scrunched up and many were shredded. I said something like "wow, you guys have been having fun". David looked up, very tiredly and said "that's not half of it!" Uh oh. I immediately knew that I would have a surprise waiting for me in the kitchen. I hesitantly walked over, and my suspicions were confirmed. There was shells and cheese mixed with broccoli all over the floor, Mason's chair, and the table. By this time Mason had realized that I had come home and had not given him a hello hug yet, so, of course, being exhausted, he couldn't handle this fact and had thrown himself on the ground and was screaming.

Upon closer examination, I noticed that crunched up potato chips were mixed with the kleenex's on the living room floor. Apparently Mason had discovered the big multi-pack of chips that I had just bought for David's lunches in the closet. David described it as Mason half pushing the bag across the floor, half sliding on top of the bag, like he was on a "hovercraft". He then became hysterical until David let him have his own bag of chips.

We have been having a problem with ants in our kitchen, so I couldn't just leave all of that delicious ant food on the floor, so, instead of putting Mason down, I decided to at least pick up the floor. Mason sat and helped. David said that he had only been interested in throwing the shells on the floor and not eating them earlier. Well, this time, he was very interested in eating as many cold shells as he could off of the floor. At least he was semi-helping.

To David's credit, he was feeling pretty sick and had stayed home from work that day. He felt bad that the house was such a mess, but said he didn't have the energy to stop Mason. I was grateful that he at least cleaned him up from the Shells and Cheese and gotten his jammies on him. :)

Unfortunately, I didn't think to photograph the mess, which, I know, would have made a much more interesting post.

I do have to say that cleaning up was not nearly so bad as it would have been if I had been there to witness the mess-making. I know it was because I had just been laughing and enjoying myself with friends. This is proof to me that a mom needs to go out once in awhile. It makes her appreciate the little mess maker all the more.

Gotta have that sleep!

This happened a few weeks ago, and it has taken me forever to put it on. I was so excited to get the classic, falling asleep while eating picture of Mason. It was getting close to nap time, but Mason was also acting a little hungry. Rather than have him wake up early from his nap because he was so hungry, I decided to give him one of his favorite foods, cinnamon and sugar toast (Daddy was the one that first thought to give him that). Anyways, I cut up his toast, and started cleaning the kitchen, when I looked up, probably a minute later, this is the sight that I saw:

His head was bobbing and he was teetering in between sleep and consciousness. I ran to get the camera, and he tried to eat some last pieces of toast

If we would have had one of the bigger, more comfortable high chairs rather than this booster seat, he would have fallen asleep for sure. In this chair, though, there was no where to rest his head. As soon as I picked him up, he went to sleep and it was time for that wonderful time of the day...nap time!

Two Years and Counting...

On May 6, David and I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary!! It is hard to believe that it has already been two years since we started our eternal family. It seemed like we would be newlyweds forever...and at first, I was counting all of the month anniversarys. Somewhere along the way, I lost count of the months...and now we are into years! :) We have had many great times over the past few years, including three homes (well two apartments and then our current townhome), a new job for David, a new, wonderful baby, a few fun vacations and a lot laughs. I am so grateful that I have David in my life, and I love him more and more as time goes by. I thought I would post a few pictures of us from the last few years as a celebration of the day.

Since we bought our digital camera with gift cards received from our wedding, I don't have too many digital pictures of our wedding. Here is one that I scanned in:

And here are some pictures of us on our honeymoon:

We are lucky enough to have a very busy May and June. In between May 6th and June 6th, we get to celebrate our anniversary, Mother's Day, and all three of our birthdays! Also, a few weeks later is Father's Day. Here is a picture of us on David's birthday, a few weeks after we were married:

We had a lot of fun that first summer, and that fun is continuing....

As you can see, we are into the pregnant stages. We were able to go see my good friend, Christy, be married in Utah 2 1/2 months before Mason was born:

Now, as I'm looking through pictures, I'm regretting that we didn't get more pictures with David and I. There is a big stretch from Mason's birth to Christmas where we didn't get any with both David and I in the picture. I guess I will just have to make more effort from now on! :)

Mondays....

I don't really enjoy Mondays. I don't know if there is any really that does. Here is my reason, and it may seem kind of dumb, but I was thinking about this this morning and decided to record it for posterity :). During my whole pregnancy with Mason, I was working a pretty demanding job and so I was always really tired. I never took the time to clean the bathrooms. The Monday after we brought Mason home from the hospital, I decided to tackle them. Needless to say, they were pretty bad. I made a resolution right then that I would never let them get into that condition again. I decided that I would clean the bathrooms every Monday for the rest of my life. I have pretty much kept that resolution, except when a holiday fell on that day or something. I have to admit that it is nice having relatively clean bathrooms...but, boy, do I dread Monday mornings!

Haha I know that it only takes about an hour...and that is out of the 168 hours that I have in the week, so it is worth it. It is also nice, on Monday afternoons, to realize that I will not have to do it again for a week. I used to clean them first thing every morning. But then, Mason became mobile and curious. It became impossible to keep him out of the room, unless I locked myself in and then, he would just stand at the door screaming. (What can I say...he loves to be with me!). So now I've resorted to dedicating some of his precious nap time to the task.

Anyways...that was just a random thought that I had....