Tomatoes!

Our neighbors told us how easy a drip system is to do in the garden (and be able to hook it up to your hose) and how much it helped their garden. We're probably going to do one too so I went to measure the garden yesterday and Crue came outside with me. I have 7 grape tomato plants (one is dying I think) because Crue loves them and eats them like candy if we let him. While we were out there I noticed a tomato on the ground and when I looked through the plants there was another one that was ready to pick. I gave them to Crue and he was SO excited. I told him to wait so we could wash them off. He'd hold them up to his mouth once in a while with his mouth wide open and wait to see what I'd do/say but when I told him we had to wash them first he'd put his hands down and be ok for a while. I offered to hold the tomatoes while he tried to walk through the weeds and then up the stairs on our deck but he didn't want to give them up. So I just grabbed his arm to help him. Here's the happy boy with his tomatoes! They were gone as soon as we got them washed off.

24th of July

Jared had the 24th off so it was fun to spend the day with him. We went to the parade that morning.

I LOVE the old firetrucks. Crue did a lot better with the firetrucks at this parade. I think he could see them coming and we acted all excited before they got close and really loud.

Kyle would run out with Crue and help him get candy when they were throwing it.

On the way back to the parking garage we passed a splash pad (not anything like the ones in St. George or the Mesa area in AZ) so I let Crue go have some fun. I swear he would live in water if we let him!

Cooper enjoyed the parade.

That night we went to Tyson and Rachael's house for a BBQ and then some fireworks. Crue burned himself with a sparkler but he was so good about it. He didn't cry at all. I only knew about it because Loni told me (she had been with him while Jared was lighting off the bigger fireworks and I had moved to the garage so it wasn't so loud for Cooper) and you can see where he burned himself. It was a fun party. We had a great time!

Jared got this pit bike for free and he's had a lot of fun with it. Lately Crue has been scared of it. He would scream and cry every time Jared started it up or we tried to put him on it. The funny thing is Crue likes riding the Magna. We figured it must be because the pit bike is loud. One day he decided he wanted to ride it and now he likes to ride it every time he sees it. This was the first time he rode it with Jared (or one of the first times). They're in Tyson and Rachael's back yard. It's funny because when Jared takes him for rides on either the pit bike or the Magna Crue reaches up and grabs Jared's shirt by his armpits to hang out (you can see it in the bottom picture).

Blessing

Jared gave Cooper a beautiful blessing. We had lots of family and friends there to support us. My entire family was there, Jared's entire family (except his sister, Beka, and her family that live in Washington state), my cousin Caleb and his sister Caitlin and her daughter Scotlyn, Tyson and Rachael, Kevin and Rachel and Chloe and Jeremy and Rebecca and their kids.

Crue had been eating the olives and other veggies my mom was putting out and did not want to come for a family picture. We're lucky we got one with him looking at the camera.Cooper was too small for Crue's blessing outfit so we were going to use the one that my brother, Kyle, wore for his blessing. He ended up chunking out by the time we blessed him so although it was still a little big, he was able to wear the same blessing outfit as Crue.

Caitlin's little girl, Scotlyn. She is so cute!

Crue and his cousin Dylan.

Crue and Aunt Molly.

Grandma Peterson and Cooper.

Four generations - Grandma Spendlove, Grandma Peterson, Jared and Cooper. Grandma Peterson wasn't there so we weren't able to get a four generation picture of the Peterson side.

Our cute boys

There's nothing cuter than little boys in just their diapers!



My dad was loving holding both his grandsons (Crue wasn't feeling well that night so he let us hold him).

Fourth of July

Unfortunately Jared had to work on the fourth of July (although he did get paid time and a half so that's good). That morning I took the boys to the parade and my parents, Loni, and Kelci met us there. My friend Rachel joined us when she got there with her daughter Chloe and her mother.

The fire engines all had sirens going and kept blaring their horns. It scared Crue enough that he was crying. Being the mean mom that I am, I laughed. We saw our friends Lowell and Katie in one of the firetrucks (Lowell is a firefighter so he drove one of the trucks).

I love old trucks so I got a picture of this one.

Last year Crue was scared of sparklers but this year he loved them. I pretty much had to stand there with him the entire time though because would almost burn himself or others.

Mom and Crue watching the fireworks at the Sessions house. We went there for a BBQ with awesome food and great fireworks after. Jared's parents were there too so they were excited to see the boys. While we were eating there was a gutter on the edge of the house by us that didn't go all the way to the ground and had a little bit of water coming out of it. What does Crue think? It's water like at grandma and grandpa's house so he starts playing in it and then I look over (I had been telling him to get away from it since it was obviously not clean water) and he was trying to drink it! I got him away from it after that. It was funny. It was a really fun day but we sure missed daddy!

How to survive St. George

We went to load up our truck and a friend's trailer with the stuff from Jared's parents' house that we are storing in our house. It was really hot, considering it was July in St. George. I had been in the house most of the time doing stuff while Jared was in the garage loading what we took out to him and the others that were helping. Crue played in the back with his cousins. When we were done Crue was dripping with sweat! He was so hot so we took his clothes off and Sandra turned on the water faucet on the back of the house. Crue was in heaven!

He figured out how to drink the water.

Look at the smile on that cute face!