Talan's first trip to Lagoon!!!!

This week my company had their summer party at Lagoon. Even though being 28 weeks pregnant and walking around in the 95 degree heat while watching people go on rides doesn't sound like my idea of a fun afternoon I decided to put on a happy face and go so Andy and Talan could have fun. It turned out to be a really fun day for all of us!
When we first got there I was nervous about what should be Talan's first ride cause I didn't want to put him on anything too scary and then have him terrified to go on anything else for the rest of the day.
We saw a cute little ferris wheel that was going slowly so we figured that would be perfect. What we didn't realize until Talan was strapped in was what we saw was just the loading and unloading of the ride. Talan was the last one on and suddenly the ride TOOK OFF. It was spinning so fast!!! Talan was grabbing on to Andy the entire time but by the second or third time around he was smiling and saying "up! up! up!". Here are pics of the first ride:

Waiting in line:



A little concerned before it started:



Dad is excited!



After the ride he wanted to get off ASAP. I actually had to ask them to let him off before his turn



After the ferris wheel we tried the merry go round. He was really excited in line, but once on the ride he had to sit waiting on his horse for over 5 minutes... which is way over the threshold of patience for a one year old. So he was pretty ticked



Dinner time!





Andy won him this hat by throwing a baseball 66 MPH, he did it on the first try! I was rather impressed!





His favorite ride by far was the train!! He got to sit next to his cousins which he loved cause it made him feel big. He kept looking out of the wrong side of the train though so he missed all the big animals. But he was excited just to see the ducks, he kept saying "quack!".





After that the batteries in our camera died :( but we were there till past 10. I was surprised Talan was able to stay awake that long. It was a great day!

While Andy was on his mission he collected an enormous amount of hideously ugly ties. Shortly after we were married he told me he had done it with the hopes of marrying a girl that would make the ties into a quilt for him. I of course laughed at him and asked why then he married me cause I don't do stuff like that!!!! So a few months ago I decided that if I can't do it myself I could hire someone to do it for me!!! So I put an ad online asking for a quilter (which surprisingly finding a quilter in Utah is not an easy task) and I finally found someone that would do it for a resonable price... I had no idea a custom quilt would be so expensive!!
Yesterday morning I woke up and made Andy a breakfast of pancakes and bacon. Then after lunch I gave him his present from Talan first. Talan got him 2 new nice ties. I then gave him a card from Talan that said "I hope you like the new ties I got you, I figured you could use some new ones since mom ruined your old ones". And then I gave him the quilt!!!! This is a video of him opening it. You'll notice the first thing he did was to point to all the ties he wished I didn't cut up. LOL, but really he does like it. He took it over to his mom's yesterday to show off to his whole family. And they all thought I was pretty dang clever!!! Sorry the video isn't the best quality, it was taken with my phone and I was laughing so it is pretty shaky!!



Talan loves the quilt!! He has been snuggling with it ever since Andy opened it.



Here is a close up picture of it. The ties are all so ugly!! But it actually made a pretty good looking quilt!



She also made these three pillows out of the skinny parts of the ties. We are going to give one to Talan, one to Cohen, and one to Abbey (the daughter we'll have in 5 years) so they all have something from Andy's mission.





I'm so happy with the way it turned out. And Andy loves it which is the best part. He is an AWESOME Dad and deserved to have a good day for it. Ever since I got pregnant he gets up with Talan EVERY MORNING and lets me sleep in. He gets Talan dressed and everything. And Talan really adores him. He is amazing!!!

ahhh... the joys of motherhood

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST CONTAINS A STORY ABOUT POOP AND SHOULD NOT BE READ IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH... DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU!!!

Talan is now sleeping in a big boy bed. We decided to switch him over now so that when Cohen is born he feels as much like a big boy as possible. Thankfully he hasn't figured out yet that he can get out of the bed by himself so naps and bedtime are still very easy. Today we got home from taking Andy to work and I changed his diaper before his nap and then laid him down in only his shirt and diaper like always. I could hear him in there playing on his bed for almost an hour. He had slept a little in the car so I wasn't surprised that he didn't want to sleep but was glad he was at least in there.
I was on the phone with my manager when suddenly he started SCREAMING. I figured he was just done being in there and wanted to come out. So I finished my phone call and went in to get him. He was standing in the middle of the bed HOLDING HIS DIAPER IN HIS HAND and screaming. And there was poop everywhere!!!!!! All down his legs, on his new bedding and even on the wall... but none on his hands so I really don't know how it got there. It was disgusting! And Talan was NOT happy to have it all over the place either. Gross, Gross, Gross!!!