Our Baby's Home

Several people have asked for me to send them pictures of our crib and bedding set. So here they are!!


These are just some pics of the closet shelves Benjy built for us. The man is a pro!

Old Mother Hubbard

This picture is just a taste of how cute my baby shower. For everyone who went, thanks a million for coming. My sister and mother totally out did themselves. The theme was Nursery Rhymes and EVERYTHING correlated. It was so adorable and it was so wonderful to see all my friends.

I've been discovered!!

Well, I have been caught. I started this blog about 7 or 8 months ago but never did anything with it. One of the things I love to do is check on everyone's blogs. I check to see what everyone has posted a couple times a week, that is how much I like it. So one day I thought it was time to start my own but I did it in secret as a trial. I was afraid I would tell everyone about it, and then never post, which is exactly was happened. I have been outed though. So, for everyone's benefit, I added several posts today and will try my hardest to stay on top of things and keep posting. But don't worry, even if I don't do so well for the next few weeks, once our baby is born, I plan on bombarding everyone with tons of pictures and stories. So for now, enjoy just hearing about Benjy and I!!

Creative Hayden

Let me start off by apologizing for being part-retarded and not making the pictures turn the right way but I am too lazy to go back and change it :) At the end of the summer we went camping at Otter Creek in Southern Utah with my parents, Hayden, and Christina. We had a blast. We went trucking everywhere and went to see Fish Lake (one of our favorite places) and went to see a reservoir that has a name but I can no longer remember it (laugh all you want, I'm pregnant and can't help it). What ever that place was, it was beautiful. While we were camping Hayden got bored with the notion of using a stick to roast marshmallows and invented a new way. By tin foiling a shovel, he could place the end of the shovel into the fire and use it like a frying pan to cook tons of mallows at once. What can I say, I come from a very creative family when it comes to food.

Uncle Benjy and His Cute Little Giny Pigs

These pictures are of Benjy's niece (Allie) and nephew (Gabe). We love all of our nieces and nephew to death but for the last few months we have been referring to them as our giny pigs. Benjy says he needs all the practice with babies he can get and these are the only babies he has access to. These pictures show Benjy practicing napping with a baby and making a baby laugh. Allie is going to be coming to visit us in a few weeks Benjy is all excited to try the car seat out with her in it, let her sleep in crib to make sure it is ok, etc, etc. I have to say, it is pretty wonderful to watch him get all excited about these things. Thank goodness his sisters are very understanding and are also great teachers!!

The Super Ax

Ok, so this is kind of a wierd thing to take a picture of but there is a story behind it. We took a weekend and went camping with some of Benjy's high school buddies this summer. Every time we go camping, we try and buy something small to add to our camping stuff instead of just buying it all at once. This camping trips purchase was an ax. Benjy was so stinking excited about this because apparently this ax is indestructible because one of the tests they did with this ax was have a huge truck run the ax over and the ax didn't break. The part that makes me laugh is that almost EVERYTHING Benjy buys has been tested by having a huge truck run it over. You guys may think that I am kidding but I am totally not. Benjy has a large collection of things that have all been tested the same way. So here Benjy is, using his ax that can withstand being run over by a huge truck.