Lake Powell Part Two

We just got back from our last trip to Powell for the year and it was a lot of fun! I was super stressed to leave Ella behind as I had never been without her for entire night. Surprisingly Jarre and I did really well and enjoyed our time together IMMENSELY! It was so nice to just relax, and not have a care in the world, it was a weird feeling but we both desperately needed it. I think Ella had a good time at Grandma and Grandpa's because she did really well while we were gone from what I heard so I feel better about leaving her in the future.
We just had a small group this year which was sad because I missed the usual gang but I got to just relax which was so nice too. We did a lot of extreme tubing, and if you know me at all you know it's on the top of my favorite's list. I could ride on the tube forever!! We are always ripping and replacing our tubes, I wonder why??

OK so I realize this is a total crotch shot, ha ha but we all thought it was pretty funny so I'd thought I'd share.

My whole body is still recovering from our extreme tubing but it was well worth it, I had so much fun!

On Friday we decided to take a boating trip to rainbow bridge, It was fun to see because I haven't seen it in a long time. There were signs everywhere saying NO DOGS! We ran into the Ranger and he caved and let us take Maggie up the trail but said we were lucky because Maggie was the only dog he let by all summer, he had turned down 20 dogs in that week alone. Jarrett told him that Maggie is more of a person than a dog which is totally true.



Our lovely houseboat. It's totally a piece, but much better than camping on the sand!

This is Jordon cliff jumping. He got his mission call and today we found out that he will be going to Kennewick Washington on October 27Th and we are so excited for him. I told him all trip that he can't leave before Ella's birthday I really didn't want him to miss it and he's seriously leaving the day before!!! Ha ha oh well. I'll seriously miss him so much 2 years just seems like so long, Ella will be 3 when he gets back which is so crazy to me.




Peace out Lake powell, until next year!!

Yay a pony!

Ella's hair is finally starting to fill in, FINALLY! She was supposed to have tons and tons of hair like me, but well at least she has some. A few weeks ago I thought maybe I'd try to put a little pony in her hair and it worked! I was so excited to finally do something with her hair. I have all sorts of things I want to do with her hair so a pony is a good start. I'm going to need to start making some clips to go in her hair.

At her 9 month check up she was just 15.3 pounds and dropped down to the 5th percentile for weight. I wasn't too surprised because she wears 3-6 month clothes still, even 0-3 month onsies. I looked on her chart and the biggest she's ever been was in the 29th percentile when she was just tiny. She's such a busy bee and is crawling everywhere. She goes all over the house and is curious about everything. Let's hope she doesn't walk too soon because she's really trying hard right now.

Canyon

We've been going up American Fork canyon for dinner sometimes with friends. I love it because I can come home and shower and get all the campfire smell off me. It's nice to get away and spend a few hours in nature, it's so peace full up there. Jarrett is helping me to like camping more and more, although I really hate to go a full day without showering so if there's no way to do that, I'd rather not, I'm weird I know. We Eat tin foil dinners which are a new thing to me, I love how they're so quick and easy to put together.

Ella could sit on his shoulders all day. She loves running her fingers through his hair.

My two sweeties. He was trying to get too close to that stream and I got mad so here's his "I give up pose".

What a little goof ball. She is starting to pull funny faces for the camera, silly girl.

Our little neighbors

Evey time we open our back window he hear BBBAAAAAHHHH!! outside. We have some little hairy neighbors that love it when we come pet them, this is Ella staring at them in awe.

Cute huh? Well I have to admit they're much cuter in person, their tiny Pygmy goats and they are so friendly. They are the size of a medium size dog and they eat all the weeds by our fence. When they say BBAAAHHH, Ella says "BBAAAHHH" back to them it is so funny!

Sometimes when one gets more attention from us the other goat will get jealous and head butt him. It's funny to see them play together who needs to go to the zoo, just come to our back yard it's way better I promise, I've been twice this year!

Pool Time!

I love the pool, LOVE IT. My dream is to have a pool one day to play with my kids all summer long. We went to a friend of a friend's pool in their back yard a few weeks back and I was SO jealous! I know they're a lot of money and work but it's just something I've always wanted. Jarrett says one day he'll make one, I think mostly to just shut me up ha ha. Anyways I'm always up for going so hopefully I get to go a few more times before summer ends.

Ella and Ayden. He's an adorable 3 year old that will hopefully marry her one day, I need Ash in my family, ha ha.

Oh my goodness this girl loves the water, LOVES IT! She is so happy to swim around and splash.

Next year it will be a bit more scary because Ella I'm sure will be jumping in the pool, she's fearless and that's not good when water is involved. I'm going to get her in swim lessons for sure!!