Our HOT date!

We recently had some good friends of ours (Amanda and Justin) offer to come and watch Sawyer so that we could go out... so what did we decide to do with our precious time together... alone? We went grocery shopping!! And then stopped on the way home at the drive in Sonic! And once home (Sawyer had gone to bed) we played cribbage! It was GREAT!! Not exactly romantic... but it really was fun!

Happy Father's Day!

This year was special since it was technically our "first" Father's Day... so to celebrate, we went to church! Just kidding! (well, we really did go to church, but that wasn't the celebration!) We ended up having dinner with our really good friends- Kody, Sheena, & Emma! The guys cooked some steak and shrimp, Sheena made a delicious apple pie, and then we had some salad and mashed potatoes to go along! It was so YUMMY!! Kody got this awesome grill (so now he and Eric have matching!), and Eric got the coolest gift of all. Some orange sticks and a home-made tie! haha-- he even had to wear it to church (but he got lots of compliments).




We didn't get a picture of Eric in his suit- but he looked GOOD!! Happy 1st Father's Day Eric-- WE LOVE YOU!!

And Happy Father's Day to our own Dad's-- we love you too!

Eating "Crack"ers!

My very first cracker!


Maybe it's time to upgrade to the next size diaper?! What do you think...

A Day at Daddy's Work

A day OFF, at Daddy's work, that is! Eric had the day off but we decided to head up the trail anyways. So Eric took us up the American Fork canyon to hike up to the Timpanogos Caves. It was a really fun day!! We hiked the mile and a half up the mountain and took the tour of the caves... and then back down. It's a fairly steep hike so we took our sweet time (about an hour) and then spent about an hour actually inside the caves. They were awesome!! And it was fun to see what Eric does and get all the "inside" info that nobody else hears about! Here are a few pictures of our adventure.

Just starting up the trail.

This is one the rock walls that Eric helps to build...isn't it pretty?

Sawyer really enjoyed being outside for so long and having so much to see.

This was our tour guide standing next to one the the cool formations inside the cave.

The "heart" of Timpanogos Cave (the picture doesn't do it justice) This thing weighs about 2 tons!! And most of the formations in the cave are millions of years old (older than the dinosaurs!) The very first ones that we saw were 70 years old- and they were only about 1/4 inch long.

The 3 of us inside the caves.

Our names on the visitor's log (Notice that there were a few other people from Burley that went through just before us!)

Me and Sawyer.

Check out this view of the valley!

Here we are again getting ready to head back down the trail.

Sawyer slept through most of the caves since it was so dark (and it was nap time)

Right after we came out Sawyer woke up and I had to take a picture!

Looking at some random something on the way back down.

Taking a break to take yet another picture! (I'm a little bit obsessed!)

About half way down Sawyer fell asleep again...

WE MADE IT!!!

By the sweat of their brow...

Well we finally did it! We planted our own garden! Can you believe it? All our lives we complained about planting and weeding the garden, and now... we have one of our own! And we couldn't be more excited! Between our neighbors next door and us we have corn (8 rows!), 2 kinds of onions, green beans, pumpkins, watermelon, cucumbers, squash, radishes, carrots, broccoli, peppers, 2 kinds of tomatoes, and SUNFLOWERS!! Hopefully ONE of them grows! Here are a few pictures! (there's not much to see yet).

Looking at all our hard work.

Sawyer sitting in front of the tomatoes.

The tomatoes and peppers.

Sawyer playing with the cherry tree in our backyard.

It's kind of hard to see but there are sticks marking the rows of corn in this one.

The 3 of us in front of the garden!

This rose bush in our backyard goes up a tree about 30 feet! It is just starting to bloom and I am so excited!


Well, there it is... it doesn't look like much yet, but we're hoping to put lots of pictures up as it progresses! And like we said, we will be happy if only one of them turns out! OH MY GOSH-- we are soooo nerdy!! :)