Bear Lake Reunion June 19-27

 We stayed at an awesome "castle" on the Idaho side of Bear Lake. This was our own private dock.

Nana Bowe bought Aidan this chair while we were there.....

.....because he wanted to sit on Michael's chair, but Michael wanted to sit on his own chair. :)

Aidan was walking down the dock with Uncle Ron and started going too fast and fell down.....got this on his nose.

Aidan sitting with great-grandma Woolfenden watching Sesame Street on the iPad.

We went through Paris and stopped and did the tour of the tabernacle there.

I found this some place in Idaho and just thought it was funny. "Children left unattended will be rounded up, corralled, and GIVEN A FREE PUPPY OR KITTEN"

Josh took Aidan out in the tube behind the boat. Aidan was a champ and lasted at least 5 minutes with only slight whimpering :)

 Waiting to get in the boat and playing in the water with a flag.

 
Aidan LOVES lemons and eats them--peel and all.

This was at a Chinese restaurant  and this was RIGHT before he spilled the cup all over the table! :(

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

I wish all the mother's out there a Happy YOU day! 

I am so thankful that I am a mother to this boy! Aidan, I love you very much and you bring such a joy to my life!

Short and Sweet

I found out that today is National Licorice Day! I'm so glad I have a tub of Red Vines to help me celebrate!
:)

New Goal----about 4 months too late :)

HAHA! I should have made this goal at the start of the new year for a New Year's Resolution, but better late than never.
I am going to work out at least 30 minutes Monday through Friday and go walking at least Saturday or Sunday if not both since the weather is getting nicer. I am going to measure my waist at the end of every week. I am keeping a "ledger" if you will with the day of the workout and how long it was and my waist measurements.
I am also going to start drinking more water (those of you that know me well, know that I don't like water and this will be hard for me....well I like it, I just don't like the taste of most water.......yes I can taste differences in water) and I am going to try and limit myself to one soda a day, if that. (also those that know me well and my addiction to Dr Pepper, know this will definitely be hard!
I told Josh that he needs to keep me in line and make sure I am doing this. My motivation for doing this..........I want people to stop asking me if I'm pregnant again (no I', not and am not even thinking of it in the next few years).......I HATE THAT!

18 months

Aidan is 18 months old now! I can't believe in 6 months he will be 2!
He is just recently starting to walk around. He's not all the way there yet, but it will be soon. He's just been getting braver and braver everyday. 
He loves to give you open mouth kisses on the cheeks and makes a sound like "ohbrwa" Haha, no one reading this will know what that actually sounds like. But trust me, it's cute! He will have his checkup on Thursday, so I will post stats on Facebook.
I am so proud of him and I love my little man!

Leap Year February 29, 2012

I always wondered why we have leap year and I finally decided to try and find some answers. I thought this was pretty good.

The leap year is a contrivance so that the calendar year (usually 365 days) doesn't get too far away from the solar (astronomical) year. You say: huh? Well, the astronomical year - the time it takes the earth to go exactly once around the sun - is not precisely 365 days. The ancients estimated it as 365.25 days. That wasn't bad as calculations go; it's actually 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds.

Now, you may think that crummy little fraction (almost 6 hours or 1/4 of a day) doesn't matter much. But every four years, the calendar would lose a full day against the seasonal year. Christmas (Dec. 25) would start to come a little earlier each year. After about 20 years it would come before the winter solstice; after 200 years or so, Christmas would come in the autumn (since the seasons are tied to the astronomical year, because they depend on the earth's slant relative to the sun) . . . and then in summer . . . and . . .

To prevent this drift between the calendar year and the astronomical (seasonal) year, we add one extra day every four years. Thus, over the four year period, we have 1461 days, not 1460, for an average of 365.25 days per year. That pretty much makes it come out right.

Looking Forward to the Year 2012

I saw this on a friend's blog post and I think it's a great idea.
These are some things we get to look forward to in the coming year.
#1- Josh's family (Dad, Mom, and Heather) is moving back to the states on FRIDAY! That is this Friday folks. This is a very exciting thing! The day after we get to celebrate Heather's 26 birthday at Sizzler. Yum!
#2- My mom's family is having a reunion down in Blanding. We did this so long ago and I remember having a great time!
#3- Along with the in-law family, I will get to take my sweet boy Aidan to Disneyland in September. He already knows who Mickey Mouse is, he loves pointing at Mickey. Also in September, Aidan will turn 2 and I will turn the big 30. But I'm staying 29 forever ;)
That's all the we have planned so far, but I believe it will be a terrific year. :)