First Birthday

I (Zak) am posting today only because I promised “Grandma” we’d have pictures up tonight. And since I am already dangerously close to getting cut out of the will, I better not flake out on this one.

Here we have our pre-birthday party in St. George. Kennedy’s first attempt at indulging in a paradise of sugary goodness didn’t go down the way we expected.

Things looked good initially…

But the distraction of colorful sprinkles and sticky icing killed her appetite…

We all thought her apparent distaste for baked goods was hilarious…

It was not.

 

On her actual birthday, we decided to go a little more low-key. A simple cupcake, and only 3 spectators.

Concentrate on the objective…

Intimidation is key…

This staring contest lasted a good 3 minutes. Seriously…

Victory at last!

With a little prodding, we got some chocolate pumping through those veins.

Official Texans!

We are Deep in the Heart of Texas again! We’ve known that we were going to move to Texas for the past 7 months and it’s actually here now.  The movers came and packed everything up and loaded the truck  in Orem on June 29 and 30.  Then we spent 8 days in Southern Utah with our families, which was wonderful!  We arrived in Texas on Wed. night and the movers delivered everything to us on Thursday and we spent the next few days unpacking and organizing!  We hope to only be in this apartment for a few months while we try to find a house, so sadly lots of our stuff is still in boxes. We are feeling a little more settled now though. Zak started his first day of work yesterday and is enjoying it so far.

Kennedy thought it was pretty cool she was surrounded by boxes! A few pictures from St. George, the night before we left:

Bree, Allie and Kennedy eating yummy plums right off the tree

First time jumping with dad

Grandma Barb and Grandpa Kerry

The box chaos in Texas!   

Lake Powell

We sure love going to Lake Powell, we have so many fun memories there! We’ll admit it was a lot more work with an almost one year old, but we still had a blast! We went July 1-5 with Zak’s family. It was a nice vacation before we headed down to Texas.

(Sorry for the picture overload, but lots of fun pictures were taken.)Love this girl!What’s Powell without some card games? Jumping off the top!

Zak surfing

Jer took us on a helicopter ride over Lake Powell. It was beautiful! Here is a view of Gunsight from the chopper.

Chillin on the rocks Doesn’t she look so cute in her swim attire!Having fun with cousin Bree

We stayed up Warm Creek most of the time, but the last night we parked the houseboat at Antelope Marina to watch the fireworks.

Thanks for the fun trip Jer and Sharla!

Timpanogos Caves

We went up to Timpanogos Caves last Monday, another thing we wanted to do before leaving Utah. The hike was good and the cave was awesome. It was nice being up in beautiful American Fork Canyon. Yay! We’re almost there!

Just outside of the caves, we thought it was going to be pretty cold inside, so we came a little too prepared.

On Sunday evening we decided to drive up Provo Canyon one more time and see the beautiful mountains again, we sure are going to miss them! We also saw a moose off the side of the road