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.

Birthday, Graduation and Stitches

Well time keeps flying by. We have been very busy and I just decided not to blog on Easter because it has been too long and not very interesting. Zach's birthday was on the 26th and we went to Las Vegas to pick up my dad from New Zeland. Zach missed his grandpa who is also his best friend so picking him up at the airport was a great birthday present. We went to the Shark Reef and looked at all the animals at Bass Pro. He is just getting so big and so smart that I don't even know what to do with him. He carries on full conversations all the time now. We are very blessed to have him.
We also had Preston's graduation on May 2nd. I had to be the proudest wife in the audience. It was so nice to see Preston finally accomplish what he has worked so hard for four years for. We still aren't done with school, but it was a big stepping stone for us. President Monson spoke as well as a man that was 104. It was a pretty impressive day. I must brag for moment. Preston graduated Summa Cum Laude (high honors), 3.88 GPA and his last semister which he had the most credits he has ever taken he got a 4.0.
Finally last week we were getting ready to go to Parowan and my crazy baby got too excited ran in the livingroom and fell cutting his head open. We spent a couple of hours in Beaver's ER and then 3 stitches later we were done. Well thats been our lives lately. Sorry for the long post.

This is Preston, Zach and Preston's brother Parker-all the boys together

He only cried for 10 min. and then ran around the ER with blood dripping down his face thinking he was funny.

ipod touch

We got an iPod touch for preston's graduation and we are attempting to post this blog entry from it. It is pretty much the coolest invention ever! You can get online with any wifi connection and do pretty much anything a computer can do. Preston downloaded the scriptures onto it and it is sooo cool! Now I can blog-stalk from anywhere! We celebrated Zach's birthday over the weekend, I will post more about that later.

We're adults!

Well it's 2 in the morning and I worked Thursday night and have to be at work in 3 hours so needless to say my body is screwed up. What better thing to do when you can't sleep but blog. Well Preston and I broke our long streak of not being in debt last week. We bought a new car. Preston's jetta that he bought a month before he met me had the water pump go out. They said this usually wasn't expensive but in a jetta it was. This hasn't been the first problem so just jokingly I said we should just buy a new car. I've been saying this for probably three years now but the answer is always the same except for this time he said "ya probably." After two days of stress and me signing away what felt like my life we bought a new car. I won out and got a bigger car because I hated putting Zach in the carseat in the jetta. So this is our car and we love it.

The past month

I keep telling myself that I'm going to update this more than once a month, but it never happens. We have been so busy lately. I have just switched to working the night shift again and I love it. Preston has been so busy with school and even when he had spring break he kept busy doing extra stuff for me and my family. Zach has been growing up so much. He learned to climb out of his crib so we had to switch to a toddler bed. He slept really well for his first nap, but then for about a week after he would gather all of his stuffed animals, pillow, and blanket and go sleep in front of the door. I am happy to say that he sleeps all night in his bed and even has naps there too.

This is a picture of my little monkey who thought he could climb on his dresser. He fell off and hit his head. I am very surprised that this is the only blood shed we have had since he is very adventurous.

Preston and I spent the first of the month getting his bulletin board put together. This was a project for one of his education classes. I'll have to post closer up pictures to show how detailed it is. I think for the first time Preston was very glad I bought myself a cricut!