Everyone Loves Puppies

It's the truth isn't it that everyone loves puppies? Well sometimes we feel like our baby is a puppy. He is so incredibly cute and does such silly things that make us laugh constantly. We love our little puppy.

Gavin, Hayden, and Indee came up and visited for a day. We had a lot of fun.

Carrie also came and visited for Sara Brunson's wedding. It was fun to hang out.

One day I went out to run some errands and came home to this.

Our spoiled little son getting to eat dinner in the living room while watching a movie with papa.

Eric put up a campaign poster in Layton for city council. Maybe one day.

We had a little campout in Layton on Eric's parents lawn with the whole family. The cousins all got together and hung out.

The 24th was Pioneer Day. We went to the park for a little homemade butter and some hatchet throwing. We must have improved since last year because both Eric and I got the hatchet to stick in the wood target. We got coupons for Wendys frosties. We also pet some mini animals, played with stilts, and pulled handcarts. It was fun. Oliver's hair is getting long if you can't tell.

Oliver has been pulling himself up on everything. All he wants to do is stand. It cracks us up because he also likes to suck on the edge of whatever he stands against. Lots of standing means lots of falling. It also means trying to stand in the bathtub. Hopefully he starts responding to all of our nos and instructions soon. As well he is becoming a speedy master crawler.

Giggle Son and a Family Reunion

In public Oliver likes to pretend that he doesn't think Eric is very funny. But at home this is how it really is.
And this is Oliver with his first crawl/scoot ever (this was 2 weeks ago). He is much better at it now and we can't keep him in one place. He crawls around the whole house and likes to take breaks and get in a real crawling position as a teaser for the future.

He is getting better at drinking from a bottle by himself.

And at eating Lizards.

He loves soft pretzels.

Look at these yummy brownies. Actually don't be fooled. They are made with black beans as a substitute for flour. All the reviews said that you couldn't tell a difference and boy were they wrong. They were probably one of the grossest things I have ever tasted. So don't try them.

Watching his show.

At the Rigby reunion.

Eric's new favorite game of spikeball.

Secret pictures from Eric and Oliver.

Had a fun visit from Wendy and family. It was fun getting to meet Joseph as well.

Push-up time.

Wendy and Oliver at the parade.

Happy 9 months, Oliver!

If you didn't see the previous post about the Stadium of Fire, check it out!

Stadium of Fire

Not many people know this, but I love Kelly Clarkson. About a year ago Eric asked me who my favorite singer was and I didn't know what to say. He decided for me that it was Kelly (his is Rhianna). After he said it though I knew he was right. I remember watching Kelly when she won American Idol 11 years ago and being awed at how amazing her voice was. I love Kelly because she has true vocal talent.

Stadium of Fire occurs every year at the BYU stadium. I have never really had a desire to go. The last few years were
2012- The Beach Boys, Scott McCreery,
2011-Brad Paisley, David Archuleta,
2010- Carrie Underwood, The 5 Browns, Jenny Oaks Baker,
2009-Jonas Brothers, SHeDAISY, Glenn Beck

When each of these people came, I never had a desire to see them. I haven't been to many concerts in my life and generally enjoy hearing the radio version. But this summer I realized that we will very soon be leaving Provo and Provo has quite a few fun activities and events to attend. I made a goal that we would attend some of them before the end of the summer. When I heard that Kelly Clarkson was coming, I knew that this was one of those events that we needed to attend. 

I found a great deal on tickets from the Daily Herald, we got a babysitter (Natalie Chambers and Ben Chambers, you are the BEST!), and we headed over there.

An 11 year old girl sang the national anthem and was incredible. How is it possible that a little girl can have such an amazing voice?

There were little girl dancers too that had giant slinkies to dance with.


Cirque du Solei was pretty awesome. They ended with this awesome 4 person high standing on each other's shoulders that was pretty insane.

The other performers included Carly Rae Jepsen. When she performed it was obvious that she is not famous for her vocal talent. She was cute though and it was fun to sing "Call Me Maybe" with her and everyone else in the stadium.






Then finally it was Kelly's turn. She was incredible. I almost thought she sounded better live than on the radio. She seems like a sweet person too. She has so many famous songs that there were only 2 songs that she sang that we didn't know and she sang at least 10.




Thanks Kelly for the visit and for helping us attend Stadium of Fire.