Soccer and Cookies

This Saturday Johnny and I got to go to Seattle to a professional soccer game. Seattle now has a new team and a huge team from England came to play them. We lucked out and got some tickets so we headed up with some friends and had an awesome time together.
This is a shot of Seattle in the background. We thought it looked pretty awesome. And behind where we were sitting was the ocean so it gave us a nice breeze throughout the game which was perfect.Here is the opening part of the game. I think it is so neat that when the players walk out that they each are holding a little kids hand. What an awesome experience for a little kid.

Here is an action shot...too bad it isn't Seattle making a goal. They ended up losing to Chelsea

2-0. It was still an awesome game to watch and to see what a difference it is compared to watching high schoolers play!

This is not the best picture but I still thought it was pretty good.


Last week we had a ward BBQ which was a lot of fun. I was suppose to bring a dessert so I made my favorite chocolate peanut butter chip cookies. Lexi saw me put my apron on and wanted to wear hers too and help me make the cookies. Don't worry if you ate one of my cookies because I just let her put the chips in so she didn't touch any of it :)

And any kids favorite part was to lick the beater. This was her first time but she already looks like a pro and let me tell ya that that thing was clean when she was done.

Gee... I wonder where it all went?

28 Weeks

So I realized I haven't posted a picture of the belly recently, and I have grown a lot since 19 weeks, so here is me in all my glory at 28 1/2 weeks. I am feeling pretty good. I am getting uncomfortable but I try not to think about it because I know it will only get worse! The baby is definitely a mover. Johnny enjoyed watching her kick me from across the room today. Next week I have another ultrasound so I will let you all know how that goes later!

Our Reno Trip

Our family just got back from a week long vacation to Reno to visit my family. Here is Lexi giving us directions.
12 hours later we finally made it. It was a long day but Lexi did well considering she hates her car seat. We got to spend some time at my sister Candice's house with her kids. Lexi loves bikes and is always climbing on. Hmmm... I wonder what Santa will bring this year?

This is a picture of Hannah and Uncle Jared giving Lexi a little help.

We stayed at my cousins Steph's house with her husband Robert. We got to enjoy their pool a few days. Lexi loved teasing everyone and pouring water all over us.

At Lexi's other cousin's house she enjoyed her first tea party with Juliana. She made a good little mess, but thankfully it was just water.

Reno has this little safari zoo, so I thought that would be great to take Lexi to. She loves animals and was so excited to see so many different ones. This is a peacock trying to get this females attention, but she didn't give him the time of day. The poor guy tried so hard to woo her with his beautiful feather and fancy little shake thing.

They had a nice feeding/petting area that had some deer and goats. Lexi was a little timid because they like to chew on your clothes but she warmed up really fast and would pet all the ones she would see.

Lexi and of course my favorite was this white tiger. He was just chillin' in this pool thing and then he started to make a little whirl pool for himself. Lexi just talked about the kitty cat every time I asked her about the zoo.

Here is Daddy and Lexi feeding the animals. Lexi thought it was pretty funny. They put the food in an ice cream cone, so she kept thinking she could have some ice cream. Pellet flavored ice cream anyone?

Later that day we went to Circus Circus which has a pretty nice arcade and carnival games. Here is Lexi doing her favorite one, the race cars.

At one of the games we won a stuffed lion. Lexi got to choose which one and she held onto that thing for a couple of days, and even threw her Care Bear on the floor and only wanted to sleep with her new lion.

Too funny not to post this picture. We took off on Thursday to go camping with my family. This was Lexi enjoying the ride.

Johnny set up his hammock that he brought and all the girls fought about it the rest of the week.

Here is Emily and Juliana playing in the sandbox.

This is about what Lexi looked like the whole time we camped. She loves to play in the dirt. She even had her own hand print on her face in this picture. She would lay in the dirt and put it on top of herself. And the poor dogs got a lot of dirt on their heads too. All of the hard work playing caused her to do something she never, ever does...fall asleep in my arms. She has not done this since she was probably 4 months old.

Lexi enjoyed a few wagon rides by different people. The last night we were their we hike to an area we call the point. Lexi and Juliana got pulled most of the way by Johnny, while Mike, Grandma and I pulled up the rear. It is almost a mile hike a luckily for me Marissa came along on her four wheeler and gave Lexi and I a ride back.

This was the view from the point.

Lexi warmed up to everyone really well but there was a select few she really liked. One of those was my brother in law Brad. He loves to tease her and she just eats it all up. He asked her if she wanted to get on the four wheeler and she jumped at that idea.

So what does four days in the heat and dirt plus mosquito bites equal? One very tired and sad looking girl. I had to tell people that it is not the chicken pox. I counted 11 on one arm and she wouldn't stand still so I know that she had way more than that. Poor thing!!!

We all had a great time visiting the family and camping with everyone. It had been about 7-8 years since I have been with my family on a camping trip so I had a really good time despite the mosquitos. Lexi loved playing with her cousins and getting teased by everyone.

Hopefully it won't be another 7-8 years before we get to do it again.