A Weekend With Grandpa and Grandma!

My parents came to see our Connor this last weekend! I also must mention that it was their 25th anniversary on the day they arrived!!! :) i love how obvious it is that after 25 years together, they are still just as in love as ever! they are such a wonderful example of a marriage that works! i feel so grateful to have them as my parents, and i hope they know just how much i love them! <3

We (Connor and i, Caleb had drill all day) picked them up at the airport on Saturday morning, and Connor was out like a rock! We decided that since the airport is right by the zoo we would go celebrate there and do something fun!

My mom has many more pictures on her camera, but im just posting the ones that that i have! It was super hot outside! We arrived about 10 and it was already nearly 100 outside!

 We got sunscreen on everywhere first thing, and i think i was the only one who ended up with a sunburn! i was so careful to make sure Connor didn't that i forgot about myself!

Grandma let Connor wear her sunglasses and he thought it was a BLAST!

 We went and checked out the Arizona section of the zoo first. i can't remember what the names of all the animals were, but Connor was pretty intrigued! he looked at alot of the first ones from the stroller, but decided Grandpa's arms were a better view!!! We made sure to drink plenty of water during our zoo adventure, and i had even packed a little lunch for us all. i had expected it to be hot, but i forgot how horribe it is in the darn arizona sun!!!

My dad had to spot alot of the animals for us at first!!!

 He got SOOO excited by the animals and kept wanting grandpa to put him in with them! he was pointing and talking and my parents looked to be loving the time and attention with him!

Connor was very good about drinking water!!!

Connor really really REALLY liked these little prairie dogs!! he kept running back over to them trying to climb in and play with them!

telling grandpa to take him over to the prairie dogs again

and this was him trying to climb over the wall!!!!

I was so glad i captured this picture! he NEVER holds my hand! he warmed right up to them!!!

 After the Arizona animals, we headed over to the Safari animals. i didn't take pictures of all of them though!We got some lunch in us, and after looked at some more animals we decided to go in search of the water play area i had heard was somewhere in the zoo!

The Yakulla Caverns were the highlight of Connor's time at the Zoo FOR SURE!!!!  we played there for quite a while! cooling off was just what Connor needed!

doesn't that smile just say "boy am i having fun!!!!???"

After a while of chasing him around i got worn out, so Grandpa got to take over! :)

 When i finally declared it time to move on to another area, Connor was NOT pleased! he didn't even want to sit still for pictures! he wanted to play play play!!!

He was trying to climb back down to go back and play!

 After we left the water part, we had a few animals we wanted to see before we left. First, the elephants! Connor loves Elephants! and then, the lions and tigers, and my mom wanted to see the Rhinoceros! It was after 1 at that point and we were exhausted from the heat, so we called it quits, but had soooo much fun while we were there!!!!

After we got home and rested i did a color and cut on my mom's hair, and cut my dad's. then Caleb came home and we all got cleaned up and went out to Olive Garden to celebrate my parent's anniversary! Connor loved eating the food and had a great time distracting other people around us and making them play! 

On Sunday morning my mom and Connor played legos while i got ready for church and i thought it was so cute that i wanted to take some pictures! that wasn't a smart move though, because as soon as he saw me he freaked out and threw a fit!!!

 after church i made a delicious dinner for us all, and we all went to bed at a decent time since Caleb would be dropping my parent's off at the airport in the early morning! We had such a wonderful time seeing them, and loved watching Connor with them! ever since they left he wants to play legos like he did with Grandma, and will kiss the phone when he talks to them, and likes watching the same movie he watched with Grandpa! he sure loves them!!!

SOO GLAD WE GOT TO HAVE THEM WITH US FOR A WEEKEND!!! :)

Welcoming August

Because i have been so scatter-brained, i don't have much to say about anything. Except that Caleb started a new schedule at work that we are LOVING! he works a spit shift, and it leaves so much more time in the day to spend as a family! he works 6am-10am. and then again at 4pm-8pm. several times a week he works his part time job 11am-3pm, but we still get a few afternoons with him a week! i'm loving it, and so is Connor! it has been a big change for Caleb, but he says he really enjoys the extra time with us!!! AND he has sundays off now, which is soooo wonderful!

We had been sick quite a bit in July, so when we started feeling better, i decided i would take Connor swimming. i had a nasty staph infection that i had to be on antibiotics for that  left me feeling really sick for a week, and Connor had a cold, AND he has been teething. He got two molars in!!! when he teethes he gets feverish and whiney, and clingy.. he's not a good teether haha. so that combined with all the illness we have been dealing with in our house left us with lots of snuggle time and lots of afternoons in jammies!!!

Connor loves his car seat. He is sooo proud to sit in it like a big kid, and loves to climb in it when its in the house. it rarely is, but occasionally i clean and wash it. Figure that's a smart thing to do if you have a 14 month old that makes huge messes! lol

Just another picture of Connor and the TV... he loves to handle the remotes! i doesn't know which buttons to press, but he loves to press them and see what they do!

Connor loves his Daddy, and he's not afraid to show it! Yesterday he brought me his daddy's patrol cap and wanted it on his head. he was sooooo happy about me putting it on him, and would walk around and squeal and take it off and bring it to me to put it on him again! it was like a little game! he knows exactly whos hat that is, and how to wear it! so cute i thought!!! :)

The End of July

i have been a huuuuuge slacker with my blogging!  so now i'm playing catch-up with it. sorry! :)

 I took Connor to the library with me on one day to check out the kids play area they have there. i usually don't take him since i just want to run in and out and its a hassle to take him in and out of the carseat, but i decided it would be fun to on that day. he had a BLAST playing, and especially loved the etch-a-scetch. i have no clue how to spell that, haha!.

Connor LOVES to chase poor birds... he would do it all day if i let him!!!!

Mr Connor is an expert at making messes in an incredibly short amount of time...and i have learned he particularly likes to eat mascara! this isn't the first time he had done it, but we were cracking up because it looked like little mustache!!! how cute is he?!?!?

 Our little guy is soooo smart! he can turn on his own movies!!!! he doesn't need any help at all as long as it is on the right channel. and if he gets it on the wrong channel, he will bring you the channel changer to fix it. it crazy to see how smart he is with technology! definently has his daddy's smarts!!! :)

 This was a bit of a "you're a horrible mom for wanting a picture of that" type of things. Connor loves smoothies and tried to get some out of a cup on his own and when he put it back on the desk it was only half on, and it fell back and landed on his head... i couldn't stop laughing at how cute and sad it was to see! it had to be sooooo cold though! i grabbed a pic as he cried and cried. then got him in a bath and cleaned him up!

Baths make everything alllllll better!!! :) isn't he just the cutest?!

Connor loves to play outside! he throws fits and tries to open the front door if i don't take him out. i don't like the fit throwing, but i do like that he's an active little boy!!! :) He's got a bit of an independent streak going right now!