Random Thoughts and What we have done this last month

As I was checking blogs this morning, I realized it has been almost a month since I last posted, so here it goes and it will be long.

As I was watching Conference this morning, I got to thinking about how my view/appreciation for Conference has changed. When we lived in Michigan, it was always a fun weekend. Either my dad would clean the carpets and therefore we would be gone from the house all day or having people over at our house to watch Conference. My parents got a dish when we lived in Michigan so we would be able to watch Conference (and BYU games). So we always had the people that lived in our town over to watch it (since the church was a 20 minute drive away). It was always great to have friends over. Shortly after we moved to Utah, we got tickets to go to a session of Conference in the new Conference Center, it was great. I think it was around then that I started really appreciating listening to the Prophet and apostles speak. I always get so much from Conference. My first year at school, my roommates and I went up to Salt Lake for the Saturday or Sunday sessions and sat outside the Tabernacle to listen and enjoy the beautiful weather. After Rex and I were married, we got to go to a session at the Conference Center.

I enjoyed the talks this morning, which I heard most of between the boys playing and the live streaming stopping and starting the whole time (I don’t know if it is just our computer or if it is something with how they are streaming it, but it wasn’t working the greatest). Rex will be home for the afternoon session and hopefully he can get it working.

We have had beautiful weather the past few days (I have been trying not to get my hopes up as I know we will probably get more snow). The boys have loved being outside, riding bikes, and going to the park. We finally were able to get Ian’s bike out from under the deck, the snow melted enough so we could crawl under and get it. We still have a lot of snow in the backyard, but you can see that it is slowly melting. The front is almost all melted (including the huge snow plow piles). The sun makes a lot of difference. Anyways, Ian is doing great on his bike. After him not really wanting to ride it that much last summer, I wasn’t sure if he would ever really want to ride, but the past few days he has lived on his bike. Jaiden wants to ride the bike too, he could care less about his truck push toy thing. We have gone to the park the last few days. I was wondering how Jaiden would like the slides since he hadn’t really been on one. He LOVES the slide. He will climb up the stairs and go right down the slide all on his own. He goes down on his stomach, feet first. When Ian was little (like Jaiden’s age) he went down head first on his stomach.

Kaia trying to help Jaiden on their trike, but Jaiden really wasn’t interested, he just wanted to ride a big bike.

He also wants the camera whenever he sees it and he finally noticed I had the camera out.

I cut Jaiden’s hair for the first time about a month ago. It took me like a week or two to take a picture of his hair cut. It is impossible to get a picture of the kid, he is always on the go. He kept wanting to see what I was doing, but did pretty well (better than Ian’s first hair cut).

Before

After

Last week we went to Draper to visit Rex’s family and see Garrett before he goes into the MTC. We left Sunday afternoon when Rex got off work. Spent Monday and Tuesday morning with family and got home Tuesday night. We went to the Church History Museum Monday afternoon. We spent most of the time in the children’s area, Ian and Jaiden loved it.

Us with Garrett right before we left.

Also at the beginning of the month we watched BYU playing the NCAA tournament.  The boys enjoyed watching with us a little bit. I will post the video of them cheering tomorrow.