Vacation...better late than never, right???

So I promised to post vacation pictures. I don't have any from camping, but I do have pictures from Ross Park's swimming fun. Enjoy!

It was overcast off and on throughout the day, but we still had a blast!

Tackling the stairs and more

Here's the video I promised. He's got a little cold, so it sounds like he's wheezing a bit.

I thought I'd post some pictures from our latest adventures as well.

Here are pics from our anniversary that we celebrated a couple of days late. We went to the Clark's Planetarium in the Gateway mall to watch Deep Sea 3-D.

{Our beautiful glasses}

We went to the batting cages at Cherry Hill and did miniature golf. I totally kicked Pete's butt at golf, but he hit more balls than me in the cages. I chose fast softball, and let's just say it's been a while since I played fast pitch softball, plus the flip flops didn't help.

We ate lunch at Mexican Grill in Bountiful.

{One of the jalepenos in my burrito. Pete thought I was just being a wus (sp?) when I said that my mouth was on fire.}

Then we went to IKEA in Draper for a few things. I could honestly spend hours there, but we were in a hurry to get to dinner with the family at Texas Roadhouse.

My mom watched Jonas for the whole day. THANKS MOM--YOU'RE THE BEST!!!

Chukars Game

We went to a Chukars game for a BYU-I alumni night a couple of weeks ago. It was fun and Jonas zonked out toward the end. They lost, but it was fun anyway. Here are some pictures of us with our friends Dustin and Megann Heath and their cute girls Lainey and Libby.

A Love**Hate relationship

I am posting this now because I don't want to miss documenting it, but I can't find my camera after our weekend vacation, so I'll try to get a video posted later, so check back.

When it comes to Jonas getting older and getting through his milestones, I call it a Love/Hate issue. LOVE because it is so fun to see him do new things and keep up with his contemporaries, but HATE because I want this little bugger to stay cute and small and I have liked not having to keep a constant eye on him.

Well, I bring this up because I was eating breakfast this morning and I heard Jonas by the stairs that go up to the bedrooms and bathroom {only 6 stairs}. I thought to myself "he'll just be stuck at the bottom with both his hands on the second step." I heard him just having a grand ol' time and I look and saw him on the 5th stair!!! I was shocked to see him up so high. He's never even gone up the first one, let alone all of them. I took him back down and had him do it again. It was so much fun to watch him. Pete came home for a little bit to grab his laptop for work and he watched him cruise on up. In fact, he was going so fast, he nearly tipped over. He gets really excited when Pete comes home.

So, now I have to watch him, not going up, but wanting to come back down. At least if he does fall down, it's only 6 stairs and it is carpet at the bottom. The other set of stairs--not so much!!!

Oh, and along with a video of him climbing up the stairs, I'll post some stuff from our past weeks' vacation pictures.

Three items of business...

#1: Midnight Party--So, I will post pictures of my twilight par-tay later, but I did want to post pictures of me and my best friends from HS when we went to the Border's midnight release party. We played a trivia game and I won a red rose, BD pin, and BD stickers. I helped Destiny win for one of the questions too, and I tried to win one for Jamie, but then they were ending, so I gave her my flower and Destiny gave her some stickers. Dang, those questions were hard and I only knew a few answers because I had them as questions at my party!!! It was so much fun. We also listened in on a debate between Edward and Jacob. The 'sides' were definitely lopsided {obviously in favor of Edward}. They released the book and we were out of there within a half hour or so. It was so much fun. Then, I made Jamie read the book on the 30 minute drive home, stayed up to finish the chapter we were on, then hit the sack so that I could sleep while Jonas was sleeping. As of yesterday, I was at the half-way point and I am calling shots along the way. No reading today {Sunday}, but I'll pick it up tomorrow to get through some more.

#2: Our anniversary was yesterday. And you may ask, "what did you do?" Well, we actually didn't even see each other!!! Pete was doing a 108 mile bike ride with his brothers in Park City and came home today with a bike rack that he won with a $10 raffle ticket. This thing retails at $395. NICE PRESENT, PETE!!! I was super excited because he just installed the hitch a month or so ago and we've talked about getting the rack for the back, and now we don't need to. Pete always wins stuff--I don't get it. I never win things like that. And what do you think I did for most of the day??? Yup, I was readin' away. Very good so far.

I can't believe it's been 6 years. I have loved every one and they just keep getting better. He is such an awesome husband and I couldn't ask for a better one. It's funny how we've 'evolved' in our marriage. We've started evolving more and more into each other. Pete has become more clumsy and I've gotten better at being on time {I'm still not quite there, but man, it's much better}. He is not just a wonderful husband, but he's also an awesome father. He can make that kid laugh with the silliest things and Jonas is always so excited to see him after being with me all day :0). He just follows him around everywhere. One of the reasons I fell in love with Pete in the first place was his love for the gospel, especially the temple. I am so glad we can go together and that our family will be together even after we've passed on. It makes our marriage so much better knowing that. Well, that's about as sappy as I get :-}

#3: Something I haven't done in 15 years:

{BEFORE}

{AFTER}

Yup, I got a perm {thanks Kristin}. The last one was super tight and in 6th grade {see past post}. I still haven't quite figured out how to do it, but I am excited about it. Sorry for the funny pics--I had to take them myself. I guess you could say that this was my present to Pete for our anniversary. He's not the typical husband who likes long hair {thank goodness because I will never go back} but he has always wanted me to have curly hair. And, to get all this hair to curl, it would take 2 hours to curl with a gold-plated curling iron and insta-freeze hair spray, and then I'd have to pin each curl up to cool and after all that, I'd still have pieces frizzing out all over the place, which he didn't like. Pete also did not like the "fake curl" done by the ultra fast and easy triple-barrel curling iron. So, here it is. I am loving it already because it is so easy.