My Sweet Pea!

Highlights

We LOVE summer and LOVE playing outside during the warm days and enjoying the beautiful evenings! Here's some highlights........

Playing at the park with dad! Once Dave showed Milan the joys of going down the slide, he was busy until he was too tired to climb anymore stairs.


So freaking CUTE!

Spending the day at Buckboard.
Milan playing on the jet ski with her little friend Haven.

Lounging on the camp chair.

Playing at the Splash Park.
"Hmmm.....this is a neat drain in the ground....."

"Oh, wow!"

"A tower of water!"

The 4th of July parade in Paris. Milan was pretty grouchy for most of the day....turns out that she was coming down with Chicken Pox.....sad.

Eating sand at Bear Lake

Playing with Extended Family in Paris. (Dave's cousin Todd and his wife blessed their baby over the 4th of July weekend and we were so fortunate to join their family for the blessing and the 4th of July weekend.)

Out of the Bubble

After a full week of isolation, Milan's chickenpox passed the contageous stage and we decided to have a little family outing. We drove to Green River, picked up shakes at Arctic Circle and headed down to a little park to watch the trains. We thought Milan would enjoy watching the trains on the track and we got there at a perfect time with lots of activity. Milan was more interested in running on the bridge and just playing around.

Milan did LOVE sharing our shakes and eating the Nilla Wafer that comes on top......

Saturday night we hired a new sitter so we could go hang out with some friends. Usually Milan stays pretty close to Dave or I when she meets a new person. It turns out that she was bored hanging out with mom and dad for a week........as soon as the doorbell rang, Milan ran to the door and immediately started playing with the babysitter, and never looked back to find us. We're glad that Milan had a fun night and we had a fun date too :)

CHICKENPOX!

Here's a little story.......We went to Bear Lake for the 4th of July and hung out outside where there were a lot of mosquitos. It looked like Milan had gotten a ton of mosquito bites on her face. Milan has also been pretty inexplainably cranky. 3 days later I finally figured out that she contracted chickenpox from her vaccination(1% chance of happening.) The good news is that it's a pretty mild case and she doesn't seem to be too itchy or too cranky anymore. I feel so bad for not knowing because we have been around kids a lot lately (good news is that 80-90% of vaccinated kids won't catch it....here's hoping!) Now, Milan and I are having fun hanging out at home until the last pox is gone.

If you look on the picture, you can see them on the right side of her face....most of them are on her face and arms.

Naps & Cuddles

Dave often tells me that I have an awesome job as a stay-at-home mom and I try to point out that it is harder than he thinks. Yesterday, Dave came home from lunch to find Milan and I napping.


Okay, maybe I do have the best job in the world......taking a nap and cuddling with my little girl :)

Camping

We have been taking advantage of the gorgeous weather and camping as much as possible. We love going with our friends the Wades; we have been twice and are planning another trip this weekend :). The first time we went to Firehole and parked the trailer in the dessert. It was a short trip, but we all had fun hanging around the bonfire at night and riding the 4-wheelers the next morning. Milan struggled because she hates to sleep if she thinks she might be missing something so she sat in an exhausted daze around the campfire for hours until she finally passed out then woke up and screamed every 20 minutes during the night; it was not a restful time for anyone since we were all in the same trailer.

I was surprised when the Wades wanted to go camping again. Our second camping trip was awesome though! We camped near the water which Milan couldn't resist. When we first arrived, Milan was happy playing with and tasting all the rocks around us.


We showed Milan how to throw rocks in the water.
When we were close to the water, Milan wanted to try getting the rocks under the water.


One thing led to another and soon Milan was soaked.


We gave Milan a warm bath and cuddled with her by the fire then she went to sleep and SLEPT ALL NIGHT :)! Meanwhile, Dave focused his efforts on collecting sage brush for the fire (I think this is one of his favorite parts of camping especially since he overlooked the bundles of firewood we had and went looking for his own firewood.)


Milan was awake and ready to go at 5:30 am (definitely an improvement over the last camping trip, but next time we are hoping for an 8:00 wake up.) She was pretty tired, but definitely fighting sleep, so she sat on dad's lap and played with a water bottle and lid for a LONG time.

A family picture by me!

This time, I was prepared for Milan's swimming adventures so I dressed her in her suit, doused her with sunblock and bug spray, and sent her off.

Milan had an awesome time and so did we. We had a great time 4-wheeling and jet-skiing. Can't wait for this weekend! :)

We're NERDS!

Milan has some special cabinets and drawers in the kitchen. As you can see, one of her favorite games is taking everything out that she can reach. Milan started blowing on the tupperware lids then it turned into a game for the whole family. Milan was cracking up the whole time and we all had a lot of fun :). Here are some pictures to show you just how nerdy we are......