Yellowstone

Yellowstone was great as usual and Ethan did much better than I expected, I guess. He slept in the bathtub in G&G Summers trailer. We could put him to bed at 7:00 pm, turn the fan on and still be in the trailer, it worked out great. (We figured this out when G&G Summers camped just down the lane from me while I was at girls camp and had Luke and Ethan with them. It was so great of them!) Danny's sister was there for the first two days at Colter Bay in Teton National Park and then it was just us and G&G in Yellowstone. We wondered if it would be hard for Luke to not have his cousins to play with, but he put us all to work playing with him. Probably Grandpa the most.

We all took turns staying at the trailer in the evening while Ethan slept, and everyone else went out looking for aminals (as Luke still says), but on the nights that Grandpa stayed at the trailer, Luke decided that he would rather stay at the trailer too! Grandpa was his little buddy all week, it was pretty cute. On the last night, back at Colter Bay, I stayed and Luke decided to stay with me. We played "Grandpa" games. We "teased" each other, i.e. "hey that's my coat, give me back my coat!" We "be funny" with each other, i.e. "hey you hambone," "hey you moose face!" and we looked at train magazines. We also played hide-and-seek every day in Yellowstone which he loved. Needless to say there is always a bit of crying when we tell him it's time to go home. Luckily this year we had my nephew's wedding to go to so that was a bit of a buffer for him to see his other cousins and there weren't as many tears this time. As usual too many pictures, but we just can't help ourselves.

Rainbow at sunset

Bear Lake

So the whole Stevenson family went to Bear Lake a few weeks ago and stayed in a monster cabin (I don't think you can technically call it a cabin), it was beautiful. I'm not sure why I didn't take any pictures of it. But we did get a picture of the monster truck that they used to pull their boat. It wasn't a truck, but that's what the kids called it. Super fun weekend! (I know, too many photos, sorry!)

The crazy Utah we live in!

So this is what we woke up to Monday morning, May 24, 2010. Crazy snow storm, 4".



And here is Monday evening of the very same day. A bit of sunshine and 20 degrees difference and we're back in spring. Oh and this is our favorite family night activity as of late...yard work! Good thing L is at the age where it's so much fun to be a helper and do exactly as dad is doing.


Wheelbarrow races!


Back filling the trampoline hole.


Treats after outside on the deck. Fun night for everyone.

My little fuzz head and my funny face guy

Unfortunately I seem to have a knack for always cutting the top of his fuzzy little head off. :)





Hanging out in his crib with Luke and Kaleb.



He also does a great Jack Nicholson impersonation.

Kids on the block

We were just hanging outside one warm afternoon, and the kids were sitting on the door step eating Ritz crackers. They were being really cute and funny so I grabbed the camera.