Weston Turns 1

Over the weekend we had Westons birthday party. It was a lot of fun. He enjoyed having all the attention on him and to have a lot of his friends there. Thanks for all who came out for the celebration. You are the best. Here are some pictures.

Weston excited about his presents





His very own car cake. (I made two because i didn't think weston would want to share his cake with anyone else)



The final outcome. (He looks like a blue smerph)

Even though he looks happy, he is really screaming in this picture. He is mad he had to get cleaned up.

An Update

Well we have been super busy lately but I think that is what I say all the time. We came back from California the beginning of August and then two weeks later I had girls camp in which I was the camp director and so in charge of the whole thing. It was a lot of work but a lot of fun. While I was at Girls Camp Joe went back to school (teaching not being a student). A week later we moved into our house. We bought a home about 15-20 south from where we were originally at. It has a lot more space and we are loving it, but have only been here for about a week.
Weston is loving the space and is now walking everywhere. He still falls all the time but is loving his freedom to go wherever he pleases. We are preparing for his first birthday soon. Here are some fun pictures of Weston because he is just so funny.






This is Weston under his crib. He saw me getting under the crib cleaning stuff out of it and decided he wanted to do it to. Also if you notice he is holding onto his stuff animal monkey. He loves this little guy and takes it wherever he goes.

Joe made a mini pool table a while back for one of the projects for his students. We pulled it out and Weston loves it. He stands on top of the table and he loves to pull the balls in the holes. I think he could do it for hours.

I will post pictures of our new house in a bit.

Fun in the sun

Our summer is coming to an end quickly so we decided to take one more trip. This time we went and visited Megan's family in California. Weston had a lot of fun playing with all his cousins. We went to the beach a few times and played a lot in the sun. Weston also got his first taste of sand.




Below is a video of weston eating his first bites of sand.

Lake Powell

Well we went to lake powell a week or two ago. It was a lot of fun. Weston enjoyed the boat ride and liked being in the water. We went tubing, wake boarding, skiing and other things.


Weston sporting the life jacket

Joe on the air chair

Me on the wake board (look at me tear it up)

Weston and daddy swimming. He loved his little tube.

He loved looking over the boat and taking in the breeze as it was going. He was so funny.

Weston's First Swim

We took Weston for his first swim the other day. I have been wanting to take him for a while but just have never gotten around to it. He didn't really cry but wasn't super excited about it. Just kind-of was there. He hated it when we got his whole head wet or slightly dunked him. We didn't have a life jacket on the whole time. Joe wanted him to have one on so it would be easier for us. We went to the Dimble Dell pool and they have like slides and toys in the water. It was really fun.

On his back, learning how to float.

Hanging out with daddy.

Part I Paris

So we decided to spend some of our hard earned money and go to England to see my parents. Well since we were going so far, we stopped in Paris first. We left Weston with Joe's family and were gone for 8 days (two of those days were just travel). I have learned several things from this trip: I hate long flights (in a 24 hr period - I slept 2 hours); try not to eat anything off the street (they dont cook their food and it is left on the counter all day long); and ask before buying something we ended up spending 20 euros on 3 pastries! But in all we had a lot of fun. Here is some pictures from Paris.

Us in front of the Eifel Tower. It was cool to actually be there.

We went to the Louvre and saw some cool stuff. Joe trying to do the Egyptian walk.

We took a river cruise done the Siene which was awesome but I was freezing!!

Us eating French food on the street. The restaurants were so fun because they are right on the street.

The Arch de Triumph. Pretty cool.

Part II England

Well for the rest of the time we were in England. We spent one day in London and the rest with my parents in Leed in which they drove us around to several different places.

Here is the Castle Alnwick which is somewhat near Leeds. This area (I believe) is where they filmed Harry Potter's games.


This is the famous bridge in London. We even walked acrossed it.


This is at Chastworth house near Leeds. This waterfall thing was in their background. It was super cool but cold. Joe was a wimp and wouldn't try it out.

My parents and I admiring the view from the castle.

We even did some archery. I actually did ok and hit the target.

I wanted to frolic with the sheep.

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Us trying mushy peas.