Our week and orange paint

Wes got caught up on some immunizations on Wednesday and has been having fevers for several days. He spent most of his time in my lap or on my shoulder for most of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. We started wondering if he was ever going to be back to his normal loud, destructive self until he started throwing ketchup covered french fries at Cari on Saturday and running away in the hotel. His fevers are gone now but he still has been a little more mellow than normal. He has had a slight rash today which hopefully will be gone when he wakes up tomorrow.

We got to visit Rose, Josh and Grace on Wednesday. Friday we had Leah (who just got back from her mission) Sarah, Josh, Rose and Grace over for a little while to play, it was super fun. Saturday we met up with Cari and Alec in Salt Lake for lunch and then came back to Provo to hang out with Nathan and Chelsea for a BYU football game bbq. Such a fun week.

Today I finally got an art project going for Wes. We picked some smokebush leaves and made pumpkin cards and played with paint. Wes had a pretty good time and surprisingly didn't make too much of a mess. He usually just eats crayons so the paint worked out quite a bit better.

Nursery

I would like our baby's room to look like this:

Some things I found

These are all either from the farmer's market or DI (and all under $4 except the dress): rain boots, little italian shoes with bells (well, they both had bells when I bought them, then Wes ripped them off of one shoe when we got home), freshwater pearl bracelet, red girl shoes, pillowcase dress and vintage patterns which I am excited to make.








I love Wes' cute chubby legs in these pictures!

Millcreek Canyon

All the Petersens came to hang out Saturday and we went up to the Salt Lake farmer's market, which I always enjoy. I picked up a darling little baby bracelet and a vintage pillowcase dress for baby. I also got a small bag of granny smith apples which are pretty much like candy, I should have bought a box instead, I only have one left.

We had a bbq up Millcreek Canyon afterwards with delicious hamburgers and a rootbeer keg. Wes really liked throwing rocks and pinecones into the fire and sitting in the camping chairs. John and Emily tied the board game and we had pizza for dinner. We smelled like campfire for the rest of the day and went to bed early, it was a great way to spend our Saturday.

House

Here are the outside pictures of our house, with finished landscape and all, although you can't really tell much by these photos. So if you know anyone who is looking for a house in provo spread the word.

Party in the Park

After dinner at Mimi's we headed over to Rock Canyon Park and had some delicious carrot cake. Wes gave John a soccer ball, which he picked out, and all the boys played soccer for a while. Wes got stung by a bee on his hand but wanted to keep playing so he was running after the ball half crying and half laughing. It was a fun night.

Happy Birthday John!

This post is dedicated to John.
Happy Birthday to the best husband and dad in the world!



I found this picture of John when I was looking through some old files, he did it as part of a campaign when he was working for BYU, it's hilarious.