Peanut's World: 2014

My baby just turned 1 (I am only a week and a half late putting these on)

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We started off by filling his crib with balloons. Gage was not the only one who loved this.

We had a big bug party at our house, I didn't get many pictures of it though because it was crazy and we were having way too much fun. But I did get pictures of Gage eating his cake.

Gage does know how to eat!!!

This is what was left

We let the kids dig in the dirt for bugs. Cheznie thought this was great (this dirt was all over my house, but I kind of knew it would be).

Adam made a 'Pin the Head on the Praying Mantis' game.

Gage really did not like that we gave him a new toy and then took it away so we could just give him another one.

Sister is so good at sharing Gage's toys with him

So it has been a while so I am going to kind of do a quick over view of our summer and a photo dump of my favorites from this summer.

I just cannot believe summer has gone so fast, but we kept so busy it is not really a surprise. It all started off with Adam getting a promotion, we were moving to Rock Springs, WY. Yeah we were so excited for this new adventure, but it came a very busy time. Adam’s brother, Jacob, was getting sealed in the temple in New York and at the last minute we decided we would go and also celebrate our anniversary at the same time. So Adam had training Monday through Thursday then I met him in Las Vegas so we could fly to New York; after dropping the kids off with my sister (unfortunately Gage was having a bad reaction to something and it was not a good week for them). It was a very busy but a great time in New York.

Palmyra Temple

Smith Family Home

You can see the top of the temple from the Smith Farm

Niagra Falls (amazing)

These ponchos are a joke we got soaked! But it was so much fun! You can stand right under the falls

This place was incredible! It was called Watkins Glen and the pictures do not do it justice! There is a river/stream that runs through this canyon and it is covered in foliage and moss. There were waterfalls that you could be right under.

Seeing Adam's Grandma and Uncle

The top of the Empire State Building

A miniture of Statue of Liberty

Manhattan Temple

When we got back we headed to Moab for my Step Mom’s family reunion over the 4th of July. We thought it would be fun to spend some time with them and get to know them a little better. And I was hoping to see her brother who happens to be my Allergist to look at Gage who seemed to have gotten worse while we were gone (very small world). So we did get to go down the river with some of them but our car was not acting right so we decided not to drive up to the cabin. We were a little sad about that. So then Sunday we finally go to head back to Vernal.

My cute kids for the 4th of July

The next week our baby girl turned 3. She is so stinking cute but truly knows how to push my buttons. She is pretty easy going and loves balls, books, coloring, animals (stuffed or real), princesses, tv and movies, her brother, being outside, water, helping out, music and dancing. She is such a big helper especially with her brother.

someone stole my ice cream cone

my cute kids in the garden eating green beans

Then a week later was the Scow reunion. That was a lot of fun with going down another river and taking the kids this time. Cheznie absolutely loved being on the water of course and after Gage took a nice nap while floating down the river, he kept trying to climb in the water.

Then we had a couple of weeks in Vernal before Adam’s company moved us up to Rock Springs. If anyone ever gets the chance to have a moving company move you, do it! It only cost $8600, just a little out of our price range. It was great I didn’t have to lift a finger, they packed everything up in 2 days and the 3^rd day they put it in our new house. The only issue is some of the things they put in different boxes and so some things were lost for a little while (like our silverware).

Then Adam had another training and I was not going to stay in the new house all by myself so I went to see Lindsay and the new babies. It was a ton of fun but a lot of work traveling with 2 kids.

Sorry could not get the pic of all the babies to work but here is Chez helping out

Then we headed up to Salt Lake to spend some time with some friends

This is Cheznie at Lagoon (sorry the picture quality is so bad and sideways) on one of the roller coasters, by the look on her face you would think she didn't like it right?

This is her at the end. She asked to go on this over and over. Her face looked the same each time. Terrified while moving, then asked to go again!

A few weeks after that was the Holyoak family reunion. We had it down in Bluff and that was lots of fun and Cheznie loved playing in the dirt the whole time. Then we actually stayed in Rock Springs for a few weeks. And then back to see the new babies again for their blessing.

And now we are in Rock Springs for at least a few weeks. Which is good since I am now in the primary presidency and can't really get away much. It has been a very crazy summer and now we are looking forward to just being home for a while. We are liking Rock Springs so far, our ward is really great and we are finding fun things to do around here.

My children love the water

So much so that Gage climbs in the bath tub by him self, this time i was actually showering when he did it. So of course his sister also had to get in and play too!