Calebs 1st hair cut

    It has taken Caleb two years to grow his hair, but we finally decided he needed a trim. He didn't enjoy it, he kept wanting to be all done. We had to give him a popsicle to get him through the rough two mintues it took to cut what little hair he had.

His hair is so blonde, so it's hard to see but it defitnetly needed to be cut.

Last week there was a carnival in town so we took caleb down there, and he had a blast. The rides were over priced but we let Caleb pick a few of them to go on. This is what he chose:

        The TRAIN

Mom and Dad both got the chance to ride it too...Caleb thought it was so fun.

  It took him a min to figure out that you could jump in this bouncy house just like a trampoline, but he loved it after that.

 This is only the beginning of our fun summer!

High Up in the Air

Caleb and I just returned from a great trip to Utah! Being back felt like I'd never left. It's been 6 months since moving to New Hampshire, and although we love it here, it felt like a long time since I'd seen family. It was just what I needed, and Caleb too. He was spoiled up the whazoo! Chickens, sheep, trampolines, hammocks, swimming, new toys, and best of all grandparents, aunts/uncles, and cousins to play with. We orginally were going to fly down just for a visit and then got wonderful news that Paul's sister, Salena was getting married. So we bought Paul a flight as well. Caleb and I stayed for 2 1/2 weeks while Paul came for 3 days during the wedding. Congrats Salena! We're so happy we could be there for her marriage! I'll let the pictures do the talking.

Liberty Park

City Creek Shopping

You can tell Sam is really excited to be shopping.

haha isn't this a great picture?!

Feeding Aunt Shara's 20 chickens! Caleb wanted to visit the chickens at least once/day. I was surprised how much he enjoyed holding them. He liked the grown ones more than the baby chicks, he also enjoyed talking about their poop. Hmmm.

Picnic outside, can you tell it's Caleb's nap time? Since when does my 2 year old boy just lay there?

Faster Sam! Faster! What a good cousin.

Layin' on the couch with Aunt Shanlee. Caleb didn't put that guitar down, he insisted he lay with it to watch a movie.

Popcorn in Grandma's popcorn machine.

String Cheese with "the girls". Anna, Becca, Cela and Sammi were such great playmates to Caleb. He loved getting all the attention from them. While the adults just overwhelmed him these girls stole his attention easily.

Getting ready for the wedding, 2 curling irons and make up at the same time.

The beautiful bride!

Caleb playing with the girls again. They'd hide under the blanket and Caleb would find them. They were all giggling and giggling!

The aquarium in Salt Lake.

Needless to say we had SO much fun! Caleb loved flying as well. He got bored quickly but in 3 out of 4 flights I was able to bring his car seat. The day after we got home he was asking for grandpa and the chickens...I just realized we don't have any pictures of grandpas and grandmas...oops, I'm going to have to work on taking more pictures. Thanks family for taking time to hang out with us!

How to beat the heat?

It was 90 degrees outside today.... It's the middle of April and its already that hot??? So to beat the heat we invited some friends over to play in the pool!

These are Caleb's friends, Ava and Jamison Todd




They thought it was fun to have me spray them with the hose


Caleb has become obsessed with bikes lately. The other day some kids were outside riding and Caleb stared out the window without making a word for at least 10 min

No candy left behind

Happy Easter!

We've already had our fill of candy already and there is more to come from Paul...I mean the Easter Bunny tonight.

Yesterday for playgroup we had an Easter Egg Hunt, this was perfect because the city one that we went to today was crazy busy with all the kids hording eggs. So for playgroup each child was allowed 12 eggs (that's how many we each brought). Caleb was able to take his time finding them and open each one and grab a candy snack while he looked for the next egg.



"Eggs where aaarrree you?!"
"Oh there it is!"





And today we went to another egg hunt. He got his face painted and a picture with the Easter bunny (they'll email us a better picture soon).


He was willing to yell "hi" to the Easter Bunny while we waited in line but when it came to sitting on his lap he was too scared. This is, until the bunny gave him an egg with candy in it. The Easter Bunny had all Caleb's attention after that.


We were smart to choose the other side of the grass area, away from this hord of kids

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And dying eggs went better than I planned. Caleb didn't get very messy and he enjoyed it more than I thought he would. A success!

lookin' good

When you look this cool...

...life can be tough.

I guess New Hampshire, is famous for Maple Syrup. Yesterday was the open house for all Maple Sugar Houses in New Hampshire. We choose to go to the one that listed the most FREE food online, and it was a good choice. (Hey we're a student family, what can I say, FREE is what keeps us alive.) We went on a tractor ride, which Caleb loved! He kept saying "whoa, bumpy ride, whoa!" or screaming, "Tractor!!!"


We ate and ate and ate. They had maple flavored hot dogs, popcorn, and chili. As well as hot chocolate and doughnut holes. And my favorite was a homemade buscuit covered in maple syrup. After eating that I HAD to have a pint of pure maple syrup to take home. Back in the Fall Paul and I bought some pure maple syrup from an apple orchard store but we didn't really like it. I have higher hopes for the pint sitting in our cupboard. Apparently it's a sin to eat store bought maple syrup here. Oops.
Lately Caleb has been into guitars. They had a live band at the Maple Sugar House and Caleb only left the music for a tractor ride, then went straight back to the band when that was over. He danced, rocked out, and pretended to strum his own guitar. I know what we're getting him for his birthday.
It was pretty interesting learning a little about Maple and how it's extracted from the trees. I kept thinking about Joseph Smith, maybe becuase there is a scene in a movie about him where he is gathering maple during the winter with his brothers. We'll definately be back there next year.

haha I love Caleb's super cheesy smile. We told him to say "cheese" for the camera. He said "cheese please" and gave us this face.

It's a GREEN kind of Day

We had a fun St. Patrick's Day! I hope you did too. I decided to celebrate it like many others, with green food, and we loved it so much I think we'll make it a tradition.
We woke up to green "Leprechaun" Milk and Lucky Charms with a green smoothie.


Because it was Saturday and Paul didn't have to study we drove up to Winnepesaki Lake for a walk and picnic. We didn't fully think it through but 1 hour North is a lot colder than here in Concord. We walked on the railroad tracks and looked at the lake, then jumped in our warm car for the picnic.



For dinner we had green fajitas, with green peppers, avocados, green beans, a green apple and green Sprite. And for dessert green cupcakes with green frosting. Yummy!





We were babysitting our friends Jensen, Kenzie and Kaylee and Caleb enjoyed eating at the "little table" with his friends. And after allowing them to frost their own cupcakes it was bath time!