a 5K

At the beginning of June we did our first 5K! As cool as that sounds... we pretty much walked the whole way, I did jog the last bit though. Scarlett even went with us, in the red wagon. We kept up a pretty good pace, it was a good experience as a family.

Scarlett's pretty dress

Because I have been super lazy at blogging... This is just a random post with super cute pictures we took of Scarlett in a pretty dress she got as a gift from a special person. She's 15 months in these photos, June.
Here she is throwing a tantrum. :)

PG Strawberry Days Rodeo!

We went to the Strawberry Day’s Rodeo in Pleasant Grove in June. I have gone the last 3 years in a row now. Scarlett enjoyed running around finding cows and seeing the crowd.

Reese and cousin Mary & Ryan joined us too! I love the picture of Reese’s cheese face in the slide show.

It’s almost impossible for Scarlett to fall asleep anywhere other than her car seat and crib. But! We got lucky that night and she fell asleep pretty easily.

She did wake up for fireworks though. We really enjoy going to rodeo’s, just as long no person, or animal gets hurt.

Random Summer ness

We have been having a lot of fun this summer, which I guess is my reason for not blogging at all!?! Or it' s just because I haven't made it a priority. In June a combo of aunts, uncles, and cousins ran Ragnar! So there were cousins from out of town visiting, and it was a very fun weekend! I haven't compiled all my photos from that weekend, they're on two different cameras, my ipod, and my phone. But here are a few to share.

Gage is such a sweetie to Scarlett. I hope they'll grow up to be good buddies, though they are 11 months apart.

Cousin Preston has been in Michigan all summer so we don't have any recent fun pictures of those two together. But they're coming back to Utah in a week or so. So we have had my friend watch Scarlett for me while I work 2 days a week. One day Scarlett had dirtied her clothes (food, drinks, playing, etc) so when I picked her up she had her bikini on! Ha. Ha. I had forgotten to put an extra set of clothes in the diaper bag for that day. But it was really perfect... By the time we got home it was raining, and she just went out in the rain in that little bikini.

PG Children's Parade

We joined cousins Olivia and Gage for the Pleasant Grove Strawberry Day's Children's Parade again this year (June). We had a great set up with the red wagon! Gage and Scarlett were pretty good to just sit in it the couple of blocks we walked.

The cups dragging behind them were a hit! I'm glad Seth could leave work early and join us for the fun event.

Seth's favorite children's book

Scarlett loves books. She has her own shelf on the living room book shelf of just her books, just at her reach. She'll often bring us a book for us to read to her, or she will just carry them around the apartment.

Seth's favorite children's book is "The little mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear". Quite the title. He says it's the first book he memorized, they must have read it a lot growing up!

I love these pictures of Seth reading his favorite book to Scarlett.

End of May

I have so much to catch this blog up with. Like the end of April - When Seth's parents came and visited for a week!! It was such a blast. And Easter! I haven't even posted about Easter...

Or how about Seth's birthday? He turned 27 on Monday. I haven't taken as many pictures as I really should be.

So here are a few photos... I'll have to get a few slideshows done to highlight the last month and when Steve and Sandi were here. But until then...


She loves to wear Seth's Shoes...And then tries to walk in them.
Scarlett just got the "sip from a straw" trick tonight... It took her a bit, we are so proud! :)





Scarlett and Raja.... They both love looking out the screened window...

Here is Raja trying to make peace after Scarlett had shoved her away from the window.
But Scarlett is pretty sure only she can be looking out the screened window, no room for a cat too! Scarlett usually "pats" rather than "pets" Raja... Which Raja will usually endure. Then there are times Raja will not take it from Scarlett and they get in their "cat fight". Thank goodness for plastic claws you can put on cats so they don't scratch you. We learned about them after Raja had had enough and got Scarlett REAL good - on the face. Much better than declawing a cat. and it actually works. Seth's Birthday Banner... Does it look familiar?

Scarlett was running a fever all day. So none of her invited cousins could come to Seth's Birthday party. :( After 102-103 temps we took her to the doctor Tuesday... double ear infection... joy! She sure is a trooper though. Of course she was well enough to test out cousin Ryan's shoes.
The Big 2-7... Lots of smoke after he blew that cake out!



A Rainy Day... Seth worked the weekend day shift last week. So while we missed him on Saturday and Sunday... We had a lot of good family time Friday/Monday/Tuesday! Too bad Scarlett was sick for most of that time, we had hoped to do a few more fun things. But the weather wasn't great either, so not sure what all we would have planned on doing anyway.
She cracks me up.
Saturday night Scarlett went with me to the Adult session of Stake conference, since Seth was at work. We lasted an hour... she just wants to run around everywhere now. Sunday, we made it just an hour of the general stake conference session... I'm so grateful for Seth, it would be very difficult to be a single parent! Sunday... Scarlett was very interested in the fire hydrant outside the church. She even dropped the Things so she could really find out what the hydrant was all about.

And here she is eating olives for the first time. She didn't seem to care I had put them on her fingertips... I don't think she really even noticed. She ended up chewing on them for like a half hour and then spit them out. Warm, gushy, and slobbered olives - gross.