Family trip to Ohio!

The last week of May we went to Cleveland for Taylor's brother Josh's graduation from medical school. It was such a blast and we made so many fun memories. I don't even know where to begin, but we took tons of pictures so enjoy! (The few below are pictures from out little camera...its so nice to have around, but doesn't take great pictures!)

The baby slept on the airplane the whole way there!

Niagra falls...

The "Maid of the Mist" 

The Indians Game...it was a blast!

We went to this sweet indoor water park. The baby loved the water

We played corn tossing a lot outside. The weather was great, not too hot or humid.

We drove up to Palmyra on Sunday after church. We started with the visitor center and Hill Cumorah. It was such a special place. 

I have like a million pictures of Paxton in his stroller...the poor babies spent a ton of time in those things! He was always so happy though!

We went to the Sacred Grove and the Smith Family Farm on Monday morning. Of course I LOVED this sweet sister, her testimony was wonderful and she did such a great job.

I love this picture of Rylee listening so intently

Oh the sibs!

Are we all matching? Yes...ha ha we took family pictures in the Sacred Grove. I'm too lazy to post them here too so feel free to check out my photography blog here.

Monday we also drove up to Niagra Falls. I had been before, but I loved it just as much again, and that probably was one of my favorite things this trip. Tuesday we had kind of a relaxing day. The boys headed to the NFL hall of fame and the girls went shopping. We went to the Indians game that night. Wednesday was the waterpark and here were are at Thursday at Amish Country. The pictures below are of a place called Rolling Ridge Zoo. Its run by Amish. Its pretty much a sweet zoo that you can feed all of the animals. I couldn't believe it!

The animals hear the wagon coming and all start running towards you! These little potbellied pigs were hilarious!

 This is Humphries the camel. He was NOT shy...

 I can't remember what this thing was called but he stole my bucket right out of my hands!

This was our cute little driver...he was pretty funny and even let Rylee drive the wagon.

Look at that tongue!

They also had a little petting zoo

Friday we visited Kirtland. It was neat to see the Temple. It is always so interesting to feel the difference in the Spirit. We had a great tour guide there. 

We went to the LDS visitor center next. Loved the sisters again:)

The NK Whitney store

The Mill

The Ashery

Weirdest picture of Taylor ever...the shadows hit just right. Ha ha

We then drove out to the John Johnson Farm. That was one of our other favorite things of this trip and Taylors #1. There was such a special spirit there and we had the coolest Senior Elder give us an amazing tour. Here are the little kids (and Josh) playing around after the tour. 

It was an amazing trip. We did so many amazing things and are so grateful for Taylor's parents. We loved being with the whole family. We laughed a lot and played a lot of games. It was fun to get to know Josh and Dina better. We miss them, but hopefully we can go visit them soon. They are moving to New Jersey for their Residency and hopefully we can go visit them and my sister Amy who also lives in New Jersey!

Big boy!

Had to post these pictures of the baby from the past couple of weeks. He is getting so big and last week he started to roll-over. He can roll from his back to his front and at first would get so mad because he couldn't get his arm out from under him. We can't believe how big he is getting and how big his personality is getting! He has started to squeal and has to have my attention all the time. He is sleeping through the night really well...except for last night of course. We had planned ahead to go to the Temple for an early morning session.  I pumped yesterday and Taylor's grandparents agreed to watch him.  Of course the baby woke up at 2 and stayed awake until 5. Awesome... let's just say I feel like a zombie today. But, it was a beautiful session and a much needed time for both of us to spend together in the Temple. So grateful to have it close and to have family to watch the baby.

My birthday was so fun. Taylor got me donuts and Reeds Dairy chocolate milk for breakfast and he gave me presents. That sweet ladder you see in the picture below...and drum roll please.........tickets to CELINE DION!! Woot woot. I've been telling Tay that I have to see her before I die (sounds a little ridiculous as I type it). So we are going to Las Vegas and I can't wait for a little family vacation in July. Then Taylor headed off to work and I had a lazy morning watching netflix while my Mom and Lizzy drove up from Alpine to spend the afternoon with me. We hung out and went to my favorite cafe in Idaho Falls, Babe's, shopping at Hidden Treasures, an awesome antique store in Shelley. They loved it just as much as I do and we all came home with some fun things. They had to head back to Utah to make it in time for Young Womens (my mom is the YW president and an amazing one at that!). Taylor came home and my MIL, Jill came over to visit and give me a sweet camera remote. So here is an attempt to get a family picture.

Then we went to dinner, and we definitely splurged. I'm all about making dinner, but I was not feeling like making food or doing dishes on my birthday. So we went to the Sandpiper, a fantastic restaurant that overlooks the Snake River in Idaho Falls. Later that night I was playing with my camera remote and captured these gems that I couldn't help but sharing.

See that high chair in the back? That's what I got at the antique store!

Here is a little video of him rolling over.

Mothers Day Weekend

This weekend we began a little project at Taylor's parents. The boys started outside on the deck. They are building a cover for the deck. Here they are...Taylor talking/working?? Ha ha

Vince

Jaron

Rylee and Reese supervising, playing bubbles and having a picnic.

Paxton on his walker strolling around the house

The girls started in the master bedroom. We painted it a lovely golden-yellow. Here is Paige being a champ at the roller.

Ashley doing the bathroom

Kenzi

It was a great Mothers Day, my first one as an actual mom! Here is my sweet baby boy. He is starting to rollover...scary!