Yellowstone For A Day!!!

On Wednesday we decided to go up to Yellowstone for the day! We wanted to go do something fun but couldn't decide what so at the last minute we decided on Yellowstone! It's only about an hour and a half from our house so we are pretty lucky! I love how we don't have to drive far at all to see such a beautiful place! I must mention that Holy Cow the gas prices there are $4.36 a gallon! Isn't that just ridiculous! This picture below is of my boys in Island Park just before Yellowstone at a creek where the water runs right off of the mountain! We had to stop and look at the fish! It's amazing how clear the water is and it's freezing cold too! So pretty though! 

Here is an awesome waterfall we stopped at in Yellowstone! It was so powerful and just gorgeous! Can't really tell in this picture but it was! It was like we were standing right on top of it! So cool! So while me and Clifford were looking at the waterfall and getting pictures we turned around....

and we saw Corban had climbed up this rock! haha I guess he decided he wanted a better view of the waterfall! He probably saw that other kid was up there so he had to go up there too!  He thought he was so cool! So Clifford had to climb up there and get him down so we could get a family picture and....

this is what we got! haha He was not happy we made him get down! We told the people taking our picture to take it even though he was throwing the hugest fit! So funny! We thought about blowing it up and putting it in our big frame in the family room as our new family photo! What do you think? 

We finally saw some buffalo after a couple hours of driving! Good thing we did cuz Corban would've been sad! He was saying "fuffalo"the whole time in the car! This time we got lucky and there was a bunch of them right by the side of the road so we got out! Here is one I got to get pretty close too! So scary! 

I had to pick Corban up otherwise he would've ran straight to it cuz he wanted to pet it! 

Then one of them decided to go in the middle of the road so we all hurried and ran back into our cars! 

You just can't go to Yellowstone without going to Old Faithful! It was a bummer though cuz we had gotten there right after it erupted so we didn't get to see it this time! It erupts every 45 minutes! We didn't feel like waiting that long so we didn't get a very good picture! It would've been way cooler to get one with it erupting but this will have to do! 

Here's Corbs in front of Old Faithful! 

 ...and here is Corban sitting on Old Faithful

I am still bummed that I haven't seen a bear there yet! I am determined to see one! Even though we didn't see a bear we did see a few deer! Didn't get any good pics though! We had such a fun day! 

Corban's 3rd Birthday!!!

I can't believe that my baby boy just turned 3 yesterday! Wow how time flies! It makes me sad to think how fast he is growing up! I just want him to be little forever! Well I guess he's not even little for his age...we took him to the doctor a week ago and he is a whopping 46 lbs! My goodness! He is already in little boy clothes! He is so sweet though! I just love how much joy he brings into our home! I love my little man so much! 

We decided to try and make him a cake this year! As you can see he picked Wall E! I baked it then Clifford actually decorated it! It was quite a project! I don't how people do this for every kids birthday they have! I think this was the first and the last time we will make it! haha It turned out cute though! Good job Clifford! 

My sister Denise and her family are up here visiting her husband's family so we were lucky enough to have them come over and sing to Corban with us and then eat the cake and ice cream! These are the pics I got of Corban and his cake! He loved it and had like 5 pieces I think! haha 

So for his birthday present we got him a bike with training wheels! Now he just needs to figure out how to pedal! haha He still doesn't quite get it but hopefully soon! 

We also took him to the zoo! We invited our friends to come with us! They're little girl Emma is 16 months old and just a tiny little thing but just cute as ever! She's the little girl I've been babysitting ever since she was little so Corban absolutely loves her to pieces! It's so cute to see them play together! He was so excited when I told him Emma was coming with us to the zoo! After the zoo we took them to this place called Leo's Place! It's a fun place for kids! It's got a huge jungle gym type thing in it that the kids climb and play on with 2 huge slides that are probably 12 feet high! It's so big I couldn't even get a picture of it! So you order your food and sit and eat and watch the kids play! They had a blast! So here are some of the pics at the zoo! It's a pretty small zoo but it was still fun for them! It took us less than an hour to go through the whole thing!  It's definately not the Phoenix zoo! haha 

They were more interested in the fake tiger than the real ones! 

Oh just have to point out the orange sticker on his forehead! He found it in the car and had to have it sticking to his forehead the whole time we were at the zoo!

Happy Birthday Corban! I love you Dude!!!

Demolition Derby!!!

This past weekend there was a demolition derby in town at the fairgrounds so we decided it would be fun to take Corban! It's funny because I think the whole town of Rexburg was there! Demoliton derby's are a big hit in a small town! It was pretty fun! He liked to watch the "cars crash"! I really think I want to be in a demolition derby sometime! 

If you look real close at the black car in the middle below it says "called to crash" on it and had missionaries names on the sign on the top! We thought it was funny! 

New Belly Pic!!!

Here is my belly from the side taken by Aubrey at her house! She told me it was time for an updated belly pic on my bloggy so here it is! I am almost 35 weeks now! I can't believe that I am almost done finally! 5 more weeks! Woo Hoo I will  put one more up right before I have her in a few weeks! We'll see how much bigger my big belly will get! 

4th of July Weekend!!!

We went down to Utah and stayed with Aubrey, Nathan, and little Deacon at Hotel Hunt!  It was alot of fun! Friday morning Aubrey took us on a little nature walk behind Lagoon so Corban could see the buffalo and elk they have there! Here are some pics from our adventure! 

Later that night we bought some fireworks and lit them off at Aubrey's house for Corban! We thought we would be able to see the fireworks that they do at Lagoon from their house but we couldn't so we didn't get to watch any this year but it was still fun lighting them ourselves! Corban had a blast and loves the "fire"! Here he is playing with the sparklers! 

Thanks Aubrey for letting us stay at the Hotel Hunt! We had a great time! 

Random Corban pics and Goodbye Friends!!

The other day we were outside playing and Corban wanted to climb the tree so I helped him climb up and he just stood there for like 15 minutes! He kept telling me he wanted daddy to see him in the tree so I had to run inside and get Clifford and I grabbed the camera too! I got a couple cute ones of him chillin in the tree! 

Also my good friend Kara and her husband Danny and their new "baby Ben" as Corban calls him just moved back home to Illinois! They lived in our apartments just a couple doors down! Corban loved to go over and see the baby! He is gonna be sad when he goes over there and they aren't there anymore! We are gonna miss them! Here's a pic of me and Kara and Corban with baby Ben! 

Green Canyon!

Last weekend we went with some friends to a place called Green Canyon! It's about 30 minutes from our house! It's a natural hot spring that they made into a huge public swimming pool! It's so cool because the shallow end is huge and only about 3 feet deep so Corban could just go off and swim by himself! He had so much fun! He also jumped off of the diving board into the deep end a few times and did so good!  The water is pretty warm just like the swimming pools in AZ in the summer when it's so hot outside that the water is like the bath tub...ya that's what it felt like but it's supposed to be warm so it was awesome! In random places throughout the pool you can feel holes where there is hot water coming up from the ground into the pool!  They also had a super hot one outside but of course I couldn't get in that one! haha These are the only pics I got to take of us just after we got done! That's the pool behind us!