Everythinggoingoninourlivesthissummer.

Has it really been two months since I posted last? Man, I get behind so much faster than I think I do! Well, we have been up to quite a bit this summer. We have been busy with something or other every week! Not all big things, but small things add up fast, and what do you know, summer is flying by. :(. I am a little worried about my poor Dozer. He spends 2-5 hours outside every day. What is going to become of him when it gets too cold to play outside? Just drive mom crazy I guess. But that is ok :) We will figure it out.

Anyway. What have we been up to? My poor little sister had her tonsils taken out earlier this summer. But, they were really scarred and big, so the Dr. wanted them to stick around in Utah for a few days just in case she had any problems. So I got to keep my sister and my mom for a few days! I thought it was great :). My mom helped me finish painting Dozer's new room, and my sister was plowing through Harry Potter. I was extremely proud that I am not the only die hard Harry Potter fan in the world! Haha! When she finally finished the series the three of us sisters all conference called each other and talked about Harry Potter for well over an hour! Awesome! I was sad when they had to go home :(, but my poor dad and brother were getting pretty hungry back home I guess :). My mom and I were making a baby blanket for a girl my sister's age and this is a scrap from it while we were making it. Haha, he wanted it on ALL the time!

Next we had my hubby's family reunion over the fourth of July weekend. I am really lame and have no pics of the actual reunion. I LOVE going to this reunion because I can just sit and talk to EVERYONE for the longest time! One tradition at this reunion is to let the kids swim in the pool. I thought it might be fun for Dozer since he hasn't been in anything deeper than a few inches. Plus, he LOVES water. I'm not sure what he thought of it for the first minute, but after that you couldn't pry that kid out of the water! I was a little surprised at how hard it was to play with him in the pool. The shallowest part is 3', so I wouldn't let him in without a life vest. But he does not know how to balance or swim AT ALL, so if you let go of him, his head would go right down into the water. Even with the life jacket! I was pretty surprised. I thought those things would keep a bag of flour upright. I guess not. You have to be able to balance a little. Hopefully that will come with practice. :) But he loved it, and wasn't scared of anything. He went down the slide a hundred times, would run to the deep end, and try to jump off the diving board before I got there, and just plain LOVED it. Anyway. He had a blast and totally fell apart when we got out.

Also, that weekend my in laws took us to Lagoon! I was too big to do anything, but Dozer sure had fun! He has never been to Lagoon before, so I wasn't sure how he would like it. But turns out (I should have guessed) he wasn't scared of anything! He never is. The bigger the ride the more he liked it! Here he had a melted chocolate covered granola bar. HUGE mess :).

On the car ride with his cousin.
The boat ride was a favorite because of the water. Luckily it wasn't that busy of a day so the lines to the little kid rides were very short. Sometimes he could just stay on the ride a couple times in a row.

I was really grateful for Ashli. :) I'm not sure Dozer would have understood what to do on the ride if she hadn't been there with him.

This was the log flume ride. Dozer LOVED it.

Lunch at Lagoon.

I think that Dozer really loved the fountains near the entrance to the park the most :).

And of course the letters :).
He just squealed and screamed the whole time! He was having so much fun!

I love this one because this is what he does with his hands when he is really really excited :).

End result. 100% saturated. Water was squishing out of his shoes!

We were pretty sad to see all our family leave :(. It always seems like so long for them to be able to come back.

Next, we had some fun with our friends at the West Point 4th of July celebrations. We went to the park, listened to music, ate our food, played some games, and watched the AWESOME fireworks. Now these firworks are HUGE city sponsored fireworks. And we were sitting right under them! Boom and Crack are not really strong enough words for how loud they were, but Dozer didn't even bat an eye. He LOVED them!! He kept saying, "fireworks!" Over and over. He LOVED them and loved watching our neighbors shoot them off around our house, too. He still asks for fireworks, and thinks thunder and lightning are fireworks haha!

These are just some of the cute random things I find around the house. I try to take pics of them while they last. He moves them all the time.
I just have to laugh at what he will use as a letter sometimes :). And if he can't find one, he will make one out of sticks or straws or something.
The G was there just a second ago.

That says cookie :)

This is another thing we have been doing to keep cool this summer :). If it is water, he loves it.

This is also something he likes doing :). Getting into messes!! He got into the fire pit in the back yard and got COVERED in soot!

Next, we had MY family reunion up in Wyoming. We tried to pack as much in as we could in the few days we were there. We went to Palisades reservoir to play in the water. And I'll give you one guess to see if Dozer liked it or not :).

We also went to the park for part of the festivities, and had tons of fun there too :). He loved playing in the rocks and dirt. These are his square, triangle, and circle rocks :).

And this one is my favorite :).

I wish I had gotten more pictures at the reunions. We had so much fun!

This one is at a wood craft store. He slept the whole time we were there, and it is a good thing because there was one WHOLE WALL of just letters. He probably would have had a seizure if he'd have seen them.

And this is how he fell asleep on me one day :). Both arms are straight down. It looked really funny.

We took Dozer to the zoo last weekend, and he loved it! He sees animals in his books all the time, so I think he really liked to see the real thing and how big some of them were. They also had all these animatronic dinosaurs there throughout the park. He liked those a lot too. And you guessed it! He wasn't scared of a single one. It was funny to watch some of the other kids there burst into tears when they got close to one. :). Not really. It was a great trip over all. It wasn't too hot, and it wasn't too long. And no melt downs! And no pics :(. Sorry I'm not so good at it.

And finally, this last weekend, we went to Bear Lake with my family :). We had soooo much fun! We usually go from Friday to Sunday, but I am in no condition to camp so we just went for the day on saturday. Here is my dad with Dozer in the lake. The only thing that got him out of the water was the cold. The morning was pretty cold and breezy, so the kids couldn't stay in the water long without shivering to death. It finally warmed up that afternoon though.

Ridge was trying to play with Dozer, but Dozer didn't really get it though.

We've been trying to get a lot in this summer before the baby comes. We wont get many chances then. The only other things that have been going on are just chores. I have had a "honey-to-do" list a mile long, and my amazing hubby has just plugged away at it without one single complaint or anything! He doesn't sit still much, so I think really he likes to have projects of sorts and things to do :). Other than trying to tame the wildness in our garden, we have painted the small lawn ornament tractor we have, fixed up or small chicken coup, cleaned up the basement, cleaned out BOXES of stuff from the garage and basement, trimmed the trees, mowed the lawn/weeds a hundred times, and anything else I can't seem to do anymore. He even canned a batch of banana peppers the other day with nothing more than verbal direction from me! He did amazing :). I love him so much. He takes great care of us.

And last but not least, Dozer can READ. I used to think that it was really just memorization. That he was just recognizing words that he already knows. But it isnt! My hubby bought him some cute flash cards with words on them, and Dozer can read most of them! And a lot of them he has never seen before. He will bring me books off the shelf he has never read before and can read me the title and as much of the book he has the attention span for. He reads street signs, logos, things on tables at restaurants, anything! And it really is amazing. He love the cat in the hat right now, and can read the whole thing. He doesn't usually because it is a long book for a 2 1/2 year old. :)

Well, that is what is happening with us. Just 4 more weeks until the baby comes. Although, I'm personally hoping it is sometime sooner. Like tomorrow. I'm ready to be done. :)