Happy Anniversary!

Kade and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary last weekend. Since I'm getting a little farther along with this pregnancy, we decided not to go too far away, just in case. So we headed up to Island Park and stayed the weekend at the cabin. We had a lot of fun and it was so nice just to get away.

Paxten fell asleep on the way up, blankie in his mouth and all.

 

He climbed in the side by side and buckled himself in all by himself. I think he wanted a ride!

We went down the lower Coffee Pot. It was so pretty! I've never been to it before so it was fun to go see.

The next day we took Paxten to Big Springs to feed the fish. He had so much fun there.

He ended up feeding more of the stupid seagulls more than the fish, but he thought it was great. He kept calling them ducks :)

Then we went to the top of Sawtell. Here's a view of the Grand Tetons from the top of Sawtell.

It was about 53 degrees at the top, and we didn't take jackets with us because it was a spur of the moment trip. So Paxten was about to freeze.

That night we went out for dinner and watched a movie together afterwards. Then Paxten got a really high fever and was having a hard time breathing...That's about when the anniversary celebration ended :) He is fine now and we are so happy he's ok. I'm so thankful to be married to my best friend. He is such a great husband and and awesome dad to Paxten.



Family Fun Day!

Kade decided to take us on a family fun day Saturday. We left early and made our first stop at Tautphaus Park Zoo. We haven't taken Paxten to the zoo yet, so this was so much fun. He loved seeing all the animals and making the different sounds they make. I think he liked the monkeys the most.

Family Pic by the flamingos...we didn't aim very good since you can't see them :)

Paxten really liked the big turtles too. He sat and talked to them for quite a while.

He woke this guy up from his nap with his ear piercing scream. He was really excited to see them. He would roar at the lions, but they never roared back.

Looking at the lions.

There was no tiger to see for some reason, so this was the next best thing.

After the zoo we headed toward Palisades. It was such a beautiful drive!

Here's the reservoir. I just wanted to go jump in and swim. I couldn't believe how big it was. I haven't been here since a was really little, so I barely remembered what it looked like.

After that, we stopped at Hoback and watched some rafters come down. It was fun to watch them and most all of them tipped their boats over in front of us. I have always wanted to go rafting, but I think watching them changed my mind!

I didn't get any pictures of them actually flipping, but his one did right after I took the picture.

Then we headed toward Jackson Hole. Paxten was such a trooper and did really well in the car....until this. Daddy bought him a bag of Cheetos and he did great for about an hour, then he decided they needed to be out of the bag. My car still has an orange film on it.

We stopped and had lunch in Jackson and wondered around a bit before heading back. I tried snapping a shot of the Tetons before we headed up the pass.

Kade has stopped at the place that sells square icre cream cones before, but he's never had one. So we stopped in Swan Valley and got some ice cream to top off the day. We had so much fun together as a family and we able to see some really pretty scenery. Seeing all of it made us get the camping itch, so I'm sure we will be heading out soon on a camping trip.

4th of July Fun!

We had such a fun 4th of July weekend! It was packed full of fun and family!

First off, we headed to Island Park on Thursday night. Friday was such a beautiful day, Kade went fishing and me and Pax enjoyed being outside. We were the only ones there until Friday afternoon.

Paxten on our walk. He really enjoys being outside and listening for birds, playing in the wees, and of course throwing rocks! He even tried filling up his pockets with rocks...he's such a boy!

I sat outside and read for awhile while Pax was asleep. The view couldn't get much better than this!

Pax ready to drive the boat.

Driving with Grandpa

Kade trying out the new jet ski

Paxten testing out the cold water. It didn't bother him much, I could never keep him out of it.

On Sunday we went to my parents for the redneck 4th of July party. Here's Pax playing with the snap fireworks.

We were planning on playing water balloon volleyball, but it was just so hot, we never got around to it, but the kids had fun throwing them at each other.

Kade getting his fireworks all ready to go.

Getting started with sparklers. He wasn't sure at first, but he had fun once he figured out they were ok.

Sparklers as big as he is!

We had such a fun night. This is such a lovely picture of Kade and Pax ;) but it's the only family one we got that night. We ate and ate and ate until we could barely move and really enjoyed all the fireworks.

I had to throw this one in. We went in Paxtens room yesterday and he has this potato hand puppet tucked into bed and must have been reading a book to him. It was just so cute!