Not quite crawling

Well, here you go! Our needing incentives, not quite crawling, happy little critter.

My Biggest Fan

Our stake is putting on the production,

and today I was practicing "Much More" from The Fantasticks for my audition. I quickly found the cutest little eyes peering up at me from underneath the piano. Cadence had crawled over, rolled under the piano, and was staring up at me smiling. When I would stop, he would clap! Talk about making mommy feel good, especially after being out of audition practice.

We definitely picked the right name for him! He LOVES music!! In fact, in his activity center he has some animal buttons. They make a different noise if the more you press them. He has figured out that you have to press the "cow" button 4 times, in order to hear mommy sing "Old McDonald". He watches and dances the whole time. His favorite animal is the "dog" (I think because I make different types of barking sounds). He has also started to experiment with the piano. What a fun little musician we soon will have. For now though, he is just my biggest fan.

Puzzle-mania!

After doing 2 puzzles on vacation, Austin decided he wanted to do another. While up at bear lake, we bought one, but didn't really get to much of it until we got home. We chose this puzzle because it matches Cadences room and Austin was set on displaying after we had finished. He also has a puzzle made by the same company that he and Kory together, hanging up at his office.

Dinosaur Museum

If you live anywhere in Utah (and maybe even if you don't), I'm sure you heard about $2 Tuesdays @ Thanksgiving Point. At least, it seemed the entire population of Utah was there! I even thought with school having already started there would be much less people. Of course, I was wrong. Utah loves cheap (even better free) so you can always expect a crowd. Cade & I had a lot of fun spending time in the museum. Andy, Jaylyn, & Sadi joined us too! We only wish Austin could have enjoyed it with us.
They have so many fun activities for kids! I am definitely planning to go again when Cade is older. Check out the picture of the dinosaur the kids are putting together! They have lots of different, stuff-animal-like dinosaur parts so kids can design there own. Plus a fossil dig, a hands on erosion (sand and water) area, a mural, an eye spy, and the list goes on. We had a great time!

Bear Lake Trip

The annual bear lake trip with all of our Illinois friends. We always stay in Kory Dopp's grandparents cabin. They are so nice to always let us use it. This year, the word got out kind of late so it was only the Dopps, the Hix's, and us. It was the first time that everyone who went was married though! We're all growing up.
We had a nice relaxing time. Most of us decided to go to the pool instead of the beach. Of course a round of golf and shakes are tradition as well.

We all had fun taking turns flipping each other in the pool.

We visited Taylor and Jon for dinner on Sunday and then headed home. We were so grateful for the beautiful rainbow. At one point on the drive, you could actually see two at the same time. Cameras just don't ever do mother nature real justice
(or at least this camera/photographer doesn't).

Where have you been?

Okay, so for the past 2 weeks (the longest vacation of our married lives) we've been living it up in Florida. To blog 2 weeks of a crazy adventure seems overwhelming so, for what it's worth, here is our 2 week extravaganza in a couple words (though it may not seem a few).

Edgewater, bees, Grandma & Grandpa Smith, Amy's family, missing Eddie & Jenn, Beach, Lighthouse Cafe, Central Florida zoo, Disney World: Animal Kingdom & EPCOT, BJ's, Brazilian food, lots of old friends, loved seeing the family, lighthouse puzzle, El Flamboyen, New York puzzle, Disney Quest, pedicure, Dominos (the game, not the pizza), Kevin Dion, clapping baby, black light minigolf, practically crawling, singing with sisters, Carrabbas, a fun plane flight, and exhausted...

Feel free to ask what any of it means... or add to it family! I'm sure I left something out! Love you all! Thanks for a great time!

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