Catching up...

These past couple months have been crazy and exhausting... Ryley finished up his second year of med school, competed in a triathlon, and is now studying like crazy for his Step 1 USMLE.  I entered my 3rd trimester, ran a 5k with my cute sister (Kassi), and moved our little family into a new house!  (With a little of Ry's help, of course. :))  We now live in a cozy little home (which we painted, carpeted, and made livable) up 3 flights of stairs... if dragging Logan and groceries up those every day doesn't put me into labor, nothing will. :) Logan is growing like crazy, and is the cutest little man in the whole world.  Right now he loves to swim, climb, play with squinkies, and play in the dirt. For mother's day, Ryley handed him flowers and chocolate to bring to me.  Logan handed me the flowers and told me "Happy Mother's Day!"  Then he handed me the chocolate and asked, "Can you open my chocolate for me, please?"  He has a new blue room, which he loves, and is a little comedian.  He is my best little buddy, and biggest helper.  He's going to make the best big brother!  Our little girl is growing like crazy, and should be making her appearance in about a month!  When I think about that last sentence too hard, I start to have anxiety attacks at the thought of two children, so I've been ignoring it.  :) 

Right before Ry competed in the 4th street Triathlon and I ran in the 5k with Kassi.  

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Logan the "Blue Monster".... Nail polish is so NOT fun to get off of a two year old's face.

At McGill Pool

McGill Pool with Jessi

Swimming with Grandma :)

Logan went fishing for the first time ever while we were in Ely.  Here's my handsome little man on a mission, with his pole in one hand and "sword" in the other. :)

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Logan's favorite part of the trip...worms.

Grandpa helping Logan touch the "swippery fish".  We are still working on his l's. :)

Grandma helping Logan fish

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Grandpa helping Logan catch a fish

Yummy smores at the lake

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

Logan on a lion

It's springtime here in Utah!

Such a silly man...

Coloring eggs... monster eggs!

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Our contemplative little man

My handsome guys with their 'guns'

I really am the luckiest woman in the world....

Hope your Easter was as wonderful as ours!  

Egg Hunts and General Conference

What a wonderful, sunny week this has been!  We've had lots of fun adventures...

Logan loves to make new friends... every time we go to the park/museum/library/store he will watch all the kids for a little bit.  Then he will choose a new friend, follow them around until they acknowledge him, and then introduce himself.  Almost always, they are at least 5 years his elder. :)  The past week he made a nice new friend named Morgan.  He fell in love with this second grader, and Morgan and her grandma fell in love with him.  And they decided that Logan needed a trike... so they gave him one....

 It's about 50 years old, and Logan loves it!  I almost started crying when they brought it out and Logan jumped on it and started pedaling down the street.  When, exactly, did my baby boy learn how to ride a trike?!  I'm planning on sanding it down and putting a fresh coat of paint on it

 On Friday the MSA had an easter egg hunt!  Logan was so excited, and Ryley had him practicing picking up eggs for a few days before.  When the egg hunt started, Logan raced to the first egg... and stopped.  It was in the shape of a monkey!  He soon realized that some of the eggs were animals, and refused to put any eggs in his basket that weren't some sort of animal.  He's a fast little guy though, and still managed to bring home a full basket of eggs filled with candy. :)

Logan enjoying the frosting on a cookie at the egg hunt

On Saturday Logan and I planted some herbs.  Logan was so cute putting all the seeds in, and watering them with his itty bitty watering can.  He keeps checking the pots now, wondering why his "bean stalks" aren't higher than the clouds yet. 

I absolutely loved General Conference this year!  I love creating new traditions with my cute husband, and this year we tried out a few that I think will definitely stick.....

For breakfast every conference we make Beignets.  This year, since it's so close to Easter, Ry cut them out in the shape of bunnies and flowers, and Logan made a butterfly.  They were so yummy, and we ate far too many of them.  It's a good thing for us that conference only comes twice a year. :)

 Logan sure enjoyed them...

In an attempt to keep Logan occupied during conference, I tried a neat idea I found on Pinterest.  I made a bag for each apostle, and filled it with a game/treat.  Whenever an apostle spoke, Logan got to choose the bag with the speaker's picture on it, and play with whatever was in there while he spoke.  There were a bunch of things: marbles, a notepad, play dough, squishy stuff, a GC memory game, our laminated faces, popcorn, bingo, marshmallows & toothpicks, etc.  (This is for next conference when I can't remember anything I did... :)  

 Here Logan shows off our marshmallow/toothpick creation... a temple!  If you look close you can see Angel Moroni on one of the spires. :)

A picture of some of the bags... nothing fancy, but Logan really, really liked it.  And he kind of paid attention!  Whenever there was a new speaker, Logan would jump up and ask if that speaker had a new bag. :)

 After conference, we made pizza.  I had to document this because Ryley made the most amazing looking pizza crust in the world... hand tossed and almost a perfect circle!  

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend, and had a chance to listen to the uplifting messages of our leaders!  

Here is a video of Logan at the egg hunt.  I would advise turing off the volume, due to the fact that all you can hear is me trying to get him to put more eggs in his basket.  I knew what was in those eggs... and I wanted chocolate. ;)  At 26 weeks pregnant, chocolate is pretty much a constant craving. 

St Patrick's Day

With Logan having Irish blood on both sides, we knew a Leprechaun would be visiting our house this Saint Patrick's Day....

Logan and Ry set a trap for those sneaky little Leprechauns....

and caught one!

The little green man escaped, but luckily left his treasure for us to enjoy!

A rainbow led the way....

The first thing Logan asked when he woke up was, "Where is my Leprechaun?!" and then raced upstairs....

I made the rainbow balloon arch for a primary activity we were having later that day.  Logan thought it was a snake, and rode it around the house. :)

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

 24 weeks along with our little girl.. definitely showing more this time around! 

Our rainbow dessert cake.  Ry and Logan made it while I made massive numbers of sugar cookies for the primary activity.  Needless to say, we have all officially been sugared out! 

Hope you all had a Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Spring Break

For the last time in a very long time, Ryley was allowed a spring break.  So... we jumped in the car and headed out of Salt Lake!  First we headed off to Ely to spend some time with the family....

Aunts and Uncles can wear a guy out!

Logan's best buddy... his uncle Aydan!

We made it back to Salt Lake City just in time for the snowstorm...so Ryley could sneak in some research and studying.  Then we headed off to Moab!  Some med students were heading down to do some service with skin cancer awareness, and since we had never been to Moab before, we decided to join them.  We originally were planning on camping, but the nights were still pretty cold.  Instead we ended up renting a cute little cabin.....

Life sized chinese-checkers at our "campsite"

And life sized chess.  You can see the cute cabins in the background.

Each cabin had two beds and a heater... there was a bbq outside, and Logan loved his hot dogs and smores made over the fire!

We spent most of our time at Arches National Park.  This is "Balanced Rock".  The rock structures were so amazing!  

It was almost 70 degrees in Moab, and Logan had tons of fun playing with dirt, climbing on rocks, and looking for "wizards".  (One of these days he will learn how to say his l's. :))

Logan with Delicate Arch in the background

Double arch is behind us, but really, I just love the look on Logan's face. 

Me and our baby girl at 23 weeks! 

Double Arch

Ry and Logan inside one of the arches

Logan was such a trooper... he was starting to come down with a bad cold here,  but he kept on smiling!  This was at Turret Arch.

Logan and his cute dad at South Window.

It was so nice to get out of town for the week and spend time with family and my two handsome men.  All of the sunshine we soaked up made us really eager for spring!  Let's hope it doesn't take too long getting here....