Fun in the Country

Thursday night we went to dinner out at Leslie's house. They live ten minutes outside Rexburg and have two acres. It is so much fun and Cody loves all the space. He had a leeetle accident and ended up playing naked! It was so cute I had to snap a few pictures.

Cody and I always jump on the tramp together because lets be honest, I know how to have the most fun on trampolines. I guess all the gymnastics was worth something after all! We do "rocket ship" together a lot. We say "three, two, one BLASTOFF!" and I fling Cody in the air while he laughs and screams. It cracks me up! We also have this new game where he pretends to be my pillow and I pretend to fall asleep on his tummy. Then he wiggles and I am shocked to find out that he is Cody and not in fact my pillow. He thinks it's hysterical!

Les is being induced on Monday! I am so excited to meet baby Sadie. Here are some pictures of Les and Cody and his baby sister to be.

Tough Kids Drive Trucks

Cody LOVES his dad and loves to copy him. He especially likes to drve his truck! He steers and even crawls down to the gas pedal to push it. So cute!

Hadley

We have been back and forth to Utah for the last two weekends and we have been so happy to see some of our best friends Darren and Jody and their little girl Hadley. We used to live near eachother in Logan and always had so much fun together! Hadley was born up there and was the most beautiful baby. I can hardly believe she is three now! She is a doll. And she loves Max! She helped me give him a bath and while he was getting ready she said "I think he is going to me mine." Like he was her pet or something! It was so funny. We are so glad that we will be living close to Darren and Jody again! We always have so much fun and laugh so much when we're all together.

no deal

Everyone get ready for a little sob story. I am so cranky right now! Last night Danny and I put an offer in on this house in Farmington:

I am so in love with it! It had the best floor plan ever and it had the cutest little bonus room over the garage. I was sure we were going to get it (or at least a decent counter offer) because it was a pretty dang good offer, and then out of nowhere, some other couple made a full price with no realtor (which is great for the owner/agent). The people were so nice and said they really wished it could have been us but they obviously couldn't turn the other guys down. They were moving just four houses down so they would have been our neighbors and they were super cool! Life sucks right now. Back to the drawing board.

baby boy

What can I even say about this? I'm in love. Those eyes kill me!

Jumparoo

This week we got Max a jumperoo. We put him in Taylee's and he couldn't take his eyes off the bird, plus he is reaching to play with things a lot more, so we thought it would be good for him. It is EXACTLY the kind of thing I swore I would never have in my house. A big thing that plays music, loud primary colors with goofy rattley stuff hanging off of it, and takes up like half the room. Plus, who knew these type of things were so stinking expensive! Rediculous. I guess you just deal with it if your baby likes it! And Max does. As you can see in the last picture, Max is sucking on everything. He sucks on his baby bjorn, his arms, his jumparoo. Whatever. He is starting to get pretty good at sucking his thumb too!

Dam Race

Danny ran in the Teton Dam Marathon Relay his weekend and had so much fun! He ran the last leg which was six miles. It was not as hard as he thought it was going to be, but I can't imagine how running six miles could be easy! His sisters Mandy and Tiff also ran, along with his cousins Rylee and Whitney and Tiff's husband Nate. Their team was called the Dam Roadrunners. Now they are thinking of training for a mini triathlon in August. If they do, I am MAYBE thinking of doing it too. It sounds like a lot more fun than just running.

Cousins

I love watching Max with his cousins! They all love holding him and talking to him. It's so cute- even J.J. makes baby talk to him. Cody like to push him in his swing. He used to push a leeeetle (okay a lot) too high, but now he pushes him really soft and says "lih push. lih push." which means little push. Whenever Les and Cody come over, Cody starts looking for Max right away. He can say "baby Max" perfectly! He looks around for him and calls his name untill he finds him and says hi. Max met Ashlee and J.J. for the first time this weekend and Ashlee was so excited to hold him as soon as we got home. She could hardly wait for Max to eat so she could have a turn. Ash and J.J. were both leaning over talking to him and Max totally started smiling at them! I love that Max has cousins around his same age that he will grow up and be close with. It will be so fun to see how they interact as they get older.

Ashley and J.J.

This weekend Ashlee and Jacob (J.J.), Mandy's kids, came to Rexburg for the Teton Dam Race- perfect opportunity to get my pictures done! Now all I have left is Max and Leslie's little girl, who is due in a few weeks. It will be weird to see Max next to a brand new baby- he will seem so big.

We took these pictures at some random person's house in Rexburg. They were so nice! We knocked on the door to ask if we could take pictures on their old tractor. No one was home, so we just helped ourselves. Then later the farmer pulled up on a four wheeler and was so sweet! He came right up and asked if we wanted to see his horses. There was even a two week old baby! He held Ashlee so she could pet them and let them feed the horses treats. He and his sister spend about a half hour with us and the kids and eventually talked Ashlee into riding the horse bareback. She loved it! They were seriously the sweetest people and asked us to promise to come back again and visit. Only in Rexburg would you meet people who would be so kind to a bunch of trespassers!

funny poo poo

So as many of you know, Max has a serious problem with pooping up his back. Yesterday being no exception, Max pooped everywhere while I was coaching. I mean everywhere- up the back, and down his leg on to his shoe. It was ridiculous! So I start changing him, wiping "mustard" off of his clothes and his whole body (and the smell was intense I tell ya), and Max starts LAUGHING! He has laughed a total of about three times ever, and he just thought it was hilarious that his poo was causing so much commotion with me and all the coaches. I thought I was going to die it was so funny! What a stinker. Literally.

Tay Tay

Last weekend I took some pictures of Taylee Hebdon- she is such a doll!

row, row, row your boat...

soaking up some rays

don't judge him. it's a life vest.
Max and me! Sorry- I have boat hair.

Taylee's hat fell in the water, so she tried on Max's.
Danny Hebdon in his beautiful wet suit.

Danny in his cool pink floyd hat. He got it since his dad finally painted over the prism in his room a couple months ago!

Our friends Danny and Annie (aka "the Hebs") got a boat! We decided to help them test it out this weekend. It was so fun to be out on the water- the boat put Max to sleep! I didn't get in (I hate cold water), but I loved hanging out on the dock. Danny and Heb tried skiing on a ladies ski and they couldn't get up to save their lives. They were dragging under water forever! Annie and I thought it was pretty great. Later we met up with some of Danny and Annie's neighbors, which was fun- they were so nice. The girls got to hang out on the dock while the boys went wake boarding- forever.

happy 4 month birthday Max!

Max turns four months old today- I can't belive it! He is getting so big and we love him more and more every day. Here he is celebrating with his girlfriend Taylee (actually, this was a couple days ago but whatever). In honor of turning four months, Max did two new things yesterday. First, he laughed! Like a real laugh! It was sooo cute, I loved it. He did it over and over too. Of course I went to get the video camera and when I came back, he smiled for days but no laugh. Oh well! He also started reaching for his toys that hang from the thing he lays under ( I have no idea what the "things" are called) and hitting them. I get so excited every time he learns something new! Happy #4 little buddy!

Strollin'

Here is Max looking rad in his little punk t-shirt and sunglasses on our Sunday stroll. We just changed from the bassinet attachment to the seat on his stroller- strangely it was a little sad for me! Here's Max on his first real outing- the Orange County Swap Meet! I was so nervous. How times have changed...