Decided

Mackenzie helped me brainstorm themes for Jonathan's first birthday party. It's been decided... Curious George it is. I wonder why...

He's so curious and into everything!

Bruises

Last Friday I went shopping with Celeste, Niki, and Jonathan. We got at least 3 comments on Jonathan's bruise on his forehead (the one on his left side)... then he fell yesterday and got a matching one on the other side. Poor guy!

Oh, boy

I was just sitting here blogging about MN when I noticed it was really quiet. I turned around to see what Jonathan was up to. Here he is:

 Needless to say (after I got pictures) I went up stairs to get this out of the box:

Minnesota (3 Posts)

Last week Jonathan and I got back from a week-long trip to Minnesota to visit my brother and his family. We had a great time! As soon as we got there we went straight to Mall of America. After doing a little shopping we got to go on some rides. Jonathan went on his first ride... Blues Clues. He seemed to like it. :)

We had a blast watching the Olympics (I'm sad they are over). Mackenzie bought some medals and American flags to help us get in the spirit. The kids loved it! Mackenzie took some great pictures:

Celebrating his 2 gold medals

Well on her way to beating Phelps' record!

Photo Shoot, Fair, and Cheese Factory

As mentioned previously Jonathan turned 10 months old while we were in MN. We took lots of pictures. Here are some good ones:

How do you tame that?

Picking the grass

Trying to shake the leaf off

Silly face

Henry taught him to love sticks

Haha

Shoulder ride from Henry

Yummy

Saturday night we went to the Washington County Fair. It was a very fun and spontaneous outing.

Petting a rabbit

Petting a calf

I don't think I've ever been so close to a cow... they are HUGE!

Pig racing

Saturday morning we planned to go to a Wisconsin cheese factory. We drove the 20 min there and found out that they stopped doing tours not very long ago... lame. So we went to their store and bought some cheese and this beautiful thing for Spencer:

Sunday

Jonathan often does not make it through all three hours of church on Sunday. The best part about Spencer and Mackenzie's ward was that the church building was right next to the temple! So... during the third hour we went out and took some pictures and enjoyed the perfect weather! 

Here are pictures from our evening walk (we got some great ones!):

Spencer, Mackenzie, Madeleine, and Henry: thank you so much for letting us come for a week and spend time with you all. We had a blast!

10 Months Old

We were in Minnesota the day Jonathan turned 10 months old... so we took advantage of Mackenzie's photography talent. The first three were taken the day he turned 10 months... the others were taken on Sunday evening. 

Look! I have 3 teeth now!