Family Pictures

Last week we had my friend Alisha's little sister take our family pictures. I absolutly dread doing this. It takes so much work just to have Zach hold still for two seconds to take pictures and very rarely do we get a good picture especially a family picture. Anyway I think she did a great job and we really love these pictures. All the pictures on the side of the blog and these are the ones she did. Her blog for her photography is http://allsnappedup.blogspot.com check it out because she does the cutest pictures. Sorry there are a ton of pictures, but they are mostly for Preston's brother Pace since we are terrible and never write letters. By the way Zach is holding a pear in most the pictures because that is the only way he wouldn't be a dork. He called it his parrott. Don't tell the Stowell's because he stole it off of their tree!

Was it worth it?

Ever since I met Preston I knew that he loved baseball. I have never seen him play so I always pictured him very awkward, but to my surprise he is actually pretty good. We go to our ward's men's softball every Tuesday night. It has been really fun to get out and Zach loves to watch his daddy and play in the dirt. Anyway last Tuesday Preston was running to home, but someone was also throwing the ball to the catcher. Everyone held their breaths and just hoped that the catcher would drop the ball. Me being sceptical just figured my husband was out, but to my surprise he slid into home and the next thing I knew the catcher was on top of Preston and the umpire was yelling safe! Well everybody cheered and all the elders quorum was saying how cool it was but they wouldn't have done it. Preston definitely proved me wrong about being awkward because it was very cool to watch. Next thing I knew Preston was in the outfield and I looked over and he was emptying sand from his shoes. A quick three outs happened and my husband hobbled to the bleachers asking my to get a wipe for the blood that was dripping to his socks. We cleaned hip up and he headed back out like a true baseball player. Anyway that was a really long play by play but since you didn't watch it somebody had to fill you in.
P.S. This is not as gruesome as your post Megan so I didn't need a warning and if any of you needed a warning I'm very sorry.

First day of school

We survived the first day of school. Granted I didn't have to do anything, but I did stress for Preston. He started student teaching at Canyon View and teaches with a really fun teacher. Now I'm starting to regret how mean I was to all the student teachers I had when I was in school. Anyway the first day went well and he even got to teach part of a class. I'm so proud of him and it's just one step closer to the ending.

Come on down.....

It was our anniversary last week. I can't believe it has been four years. Preston and I decided to head to Las Vegas for a couple nights. Preston needed to get clothes to teach and I just needed a break. We decided to go to The Price Is Right stage show. We always talk about going and we finally did. Although we didn't get called up we had so much fun. It was a great vacation. I am so glad that I am married to Preston. He is the sweetest person ever and I am so lucky!

Vacation

We went on our annual trip to the zoo this month. We decided to go for a couple of days and go to Lagoon and to the dinosaur museum. My sister Amy and her son Scott went with us. My mom and dad decided to surprise us and came the last day to go to the zoo with us. It was really surprising because my dad had just had knee surgery 3 weeks earlier. We had so much fun and it was nice just to get away.
**I usually don't like boat hats but Zach picked this out because it had turtles on it and Amy bought it for him. He just loved wearing it.

Zach hated Lagoon and yes I'm one of those parents that make my child ride even when he is crying. He actually liked the log ride until we got wet then he screamed, "I WET"


My dad will kill me if he knew I posted this but I just thought it was a really good picture of him even though he is in a jazzy.

We have a picture taken in this same spot every year.

This is at the dinosaur museam at Thanksgiving Point. I thought it was boring but all the boys loved it.

Anyway sorry about the picture overload. It was a really fun trip and I'm glad we got to go before things got too crazy.

So if any of you know me well you know that Footloose is one of my favorite movies. Well my sweet husband decided he would sacrifice and take me to the play at Tuachan. It had Thayne from the show "So You Think You Can Dance" from a couple of seasons ago so I was pretty excited. Any way it was a really good play and I recommend it to everyone.

Camping

Zach loved the BBQ chicken

A couple of weeks ago we decided we wanted to go camping. Every year we say we want to but we never end up going. This year was the year. We were a little chicken to go stay in a real camp ground because we didn't know how Zach would do so my mom was very generous and let us camp in her back yard. It worked out great because she even has a fire pit to dutch oven. We had lots of fun and Zach was so excited and slept really well. I had worked four nights in a row and couldn't sleep so Preston kicked me out of the tent at 1 in the morning so it was a good thing we were at my mom's or I would have been sleeping outside.