Our Summer Continued

My daddy turned 50 this year, so to celebrate we made a quick trip down to Lehi for an over-the-hill b-day party. While my mom, Charli and I prepared some of the decorations, the boys expanded the deck out back. It was in dire need of a facelift since it could barely hold my dad and the grill. It was just our family, but missing Trevor :(  Haden's girlfriend (sort of) at the time, also came for the party. After eating we enjoyed a few games of volleyball, as always.

Neither one seem too sure of anything..

Corra LOVES Halden...sometimes a little too much :)

Dad's Depends cake. He was quick to inform mom that
she got the wrong strength of reading glasses...

RIP Here lies Shane's youth

For the 24th of July we went to the parade in North Logan that goes right by Grandparents Buck home! They went to the parade as well, but we didn't know that until after :( But we did find Matt & Jacki and their family. Ty's parents were there too! I was actually pretty impressed with the parade and the amount of candy that they passed out! Unfortunately the only picture I got was of us, luckily we have a cute little boy to make up for it :) :)

 

Halden and I also made it to Fielding Fun Days. Their parade was also better than I had imagined (it being Fielding and all...SMALL!) They also have a mini little fair type thing after too. This was way freaking cool and we're definitely going back next year. They have lots of fun little booths for the kids to go to and they get a ticket and a prize at each one. Then at the end they use all of their tickets to "buy" a larger prize as well. And it's ALL FREE! Then they had burgers for lunch followed by water games with the fire department. That night they had fireworks and Tyler was able to make it out to those :) Halden did really well with them, as long as he had one ear cuddled up to me with my hand covering the other. And he's such a fantastic baby he actually slept through part of it! My favorite part though was when a little boy copied his daddy. There was a dog that barked every time a firework went off-super annoying!!! Well one guy finally had enough of it and shouted "Shut that dumb dog up!!" Then you hear a little voice say, "ya! shut that dumb dog up!!" haha It was pretty funny! Gotta watch what you say :)

 

 

I think it will be even more fun next year when Halden can enjoy some aspects of it. Especially if Kristi and Bolden can make it down!!

 

The weekend after the 24th we went camping up at the lot with Jer and Kristi. It was a pretty lazy trip. We played dominoes with Pam & Dave and David & Paula. We also went fishing for a bit. Then Kristi's cousin and his family came up and spent the night too. But we had to head home early Sunday morning to make it back to church in time. Tyler got put into the Elder's Quorum presidency, and that was the day they sustained them, set them apart and had tons of meetings, making it fairly important to get back. Which was kid of a bummer. Good thing we're going to make it back up again this year.

 

Jeremy was supposed to be putting Bolden down for naptime, Tyler went
in and found the roles to be reversed...

Halden all cuddled after a cold night in the Uintas!


For Father's day, we got both of our dads a fly pass. Basically they got to fly a little airplane for about 30 minutes with an instructor as the co-pilot. Part of the deal was they could take 2 passengers with them as well. So Danny took Tyler and Jer up with them. They all loved it! The instructor walked them through g-forces, negative and positive and had him try all sorts of things.

 

Danny at the "wheel"

A pretty shot from above of the Bountiful Temple

The Plane

While Tyler was with his dad flying, we went camping at Stone Reservoir for the "Jensen Reunion" (a.k.a. Oneida Narrows). Tyler came up with us Friday night, left EARLY Saturday morning and came back for the rest of the day. It was nice to actually get in the water and relax..I love the lake!! I tried knee boarding this year...no Bueno. Between my insicion killing me and lacking all muscle mass, I basically just drank a gallon of lake water!! haha But it was still fun. Tyler wakeboarded for quite a while though. My dad also brought the waverunners up so we got to enjoy them quite a bit as well. We tried dipping Halden's toes in the water... suffice it to say, he didn't like it. haha Not one bit. It was a little too cold for him so he just chilled on his playmat the whole time!

Gathered around the Campfire



Cuddling with Dad :)

All snuggled up

Meeting Grandma Jensen for the first time!!
(And seriously, don't you love the swim shorts!!)

Our anniversary is in August, so it was a little different this year with wee little man. We stayed local, and went golfing at Birchcreek (Halden did SO good. Slept most the time, ate during one hole, and was happy and content to look around for the last 2). That night we went to Cafe Sabor for dinner and rented a redbox movie to finish it off. Tyler also surprised me with Dr. Pepper, Dove dark chocolate, and flowers...he knows me so well!!

Off to dinner!

Cutest little man ever!

My awesome putt! Be very impressed...I was. haha

We were also able to make it to the Cache County Fair. We mostly just walked around and admired the event. We got our annual sentsy buy in, but they didn't have my favorite smell which was kind of a bummer! And right before we left we ran into Matt and Jacki! It was a nice little surprise :)

Blakers and Trev loving on Halden

Halden was enthralled by some mascot looking duck thing. haha

 And of course we made it to the Golden Spike Fair and Rodeo. Jer and Kristi were able to make it up so we went with them and Ty's parents! Halden did okay, but got tired towards the end and couldn't sleep with all the noise so we had to head home a bit early. The worst part, by far, was having to nurse him in a bathroom stall standing up. Never again. On the bright side, that meant that we got to the hot chocolate before the crowd set in!!

 

For Labor day we made it back up to the Uintahs. It was a bit chillier this time around, but lots more family and a whole lotta fun! Saturday we mostly chilled around and played lots of horseshoes, Sunday we went to church and celebrated Jax's B-day, and Monday we went on Halden's first 4 wheeler ride! He slept pretty much the whole time. Tyler had him all snuggled up on him in the wrap and then the windbreaker. Thank heavens we had that because there were a few good wind gusts!! Tyler's parents and Jacki's family were the only immediate family members who made it up, but it was such a fun time as always! We're so lucky that they have property up there with so many trails around them. Halden mostly wanted to stay in the trailer and play on his playmat...he seriously LOVES that thing.

 

I also feel it's noteworthy to mention that I won 2 contests via facebook and instagram. That's right, all of that reposting FINALLY paid off!! A dress and a photo shoot, one lucky girl right here!! BOOM.