Author: Jen

Happy Father’s day to all the fathers out there, but most especially to my baby’s daddy! To Nick: we love you soooo much! Sorry we can’t be there to celebrate fathers day with you this year but we are definitely thinking of you and are grateful for your role as a father. Thank you, for being who you are. LOVE YOU!!!

P.s. Nick I took these pictures specifically for fathers day (but what I made with them you won’t see until you get back because it wasn’t done in time to send, sorry!) But I just love the way that Jonah is looking up like he is admiring someone…so appropriate for fathers day. I know I love and admire you for many, many reasons.

This past weekend we kicked off our summer up at the cabin. The weather was amazing (sunburns all around) and even though the water is still freezing cold, even Jonah managed to get in! (He thought he wanted to go in, he kept trying to jump in, so finally I stripped him down and Nicole threw him in…he screamed bloody murder and we pulled him back out.)

This is our first summer enjoying the brand new jet-skis. They are fast. It scares me (yup, I’m a wimp) so the fastest I went was 35…but I’m pretty sure the boys may have doubled that number. Jonah loved riding in the boat and yelling at Taylor and Dustin out on the jet-skis. He also loved exploring a new house with lot’s of stairs to go up and down.

I feel like on lucky girl to be able to enjoy the cabin this summer with my family. There’s only one thing missing…

Speaking of Nick! He will be on his way home next month!!! He might even be home by the end of the month, and at least by the first week of August! I’m so excited! Trying to figure out the logistics of him coming home is giving me a bit of a headache, with the lack of information, but I am excited to see him as soon as is possible!

We finally had a sunny day! All this rain is starting to get on my nerves. Since it was sunny we spent as much time out there as we could. Jonah loved it. He rolled in the mud puddles, threw rocks and ran around like crazy. He even got to help Carson drive the tractor!

Watching grandma and Carson “race”

Diaper buds

I’ve been playing bunco once a month with some awesome girls. This month I volunteered to host it. So I baked cookies, decorated and set up the tables…it made me appreciate when other girls host! The theme for the gifts was white elephant, and every one brought really cute things as they always do. It was a lot of fun, thank for coming ladies!

Jonah is 13 months old today! I just barely got used to saying that he just barely turned one…now I have to say he’s 13 months! Jonah’s new tricks this month are not quite as much fun as other tricks he’s learned. He has started to throw fits now. When he doesn’t get what he wants he throws himself to the ground. Even if he’s on the wood floor and it bangs his head to do so. And sometimes, to emphasize it, he will get up and do it again, and again. It can be funny, but sometimes it’s frustrating. He uses the sign “more” all the time, and usually I’m not really sure what he wants more of, I think he just likes to do it. He loves to run around, sometimes literally, he just goes in circles. He loves to explore, especially outside. He gives hugs now, they are very sweet, except when he tries to bite your shoulder while giving you a hug…that hurts. He loves to talk talk talk but he’s not speaking English yet. He’s a cheese-ball and will pose for the camera. He’s gotten his top two teeth now for a total of four. I think he might be teething or still struggling with ear aches because he hasn’t been the happiest these last few weeks.

Is anyone else rejoicing that June has finally come?? I know I am! Now I get to say “next month my husband will be on his way home!” Granted, he probably won’t be in the country until the following month, and I probably won’t see him until the month after that (with all the weddings going on and his debriefing period). BUT, June sounds so nice. And maybe, just maybe, it could get warm and stop raining? Wishful thinking.

When you pull the pieces apart the bees cling to each other and make little bridges trying to hang on.

See the queen? She’s all black.

Taylor in the bee suit.

Jonah LOVES to go outside. Every time the door opens he rushes to attempt an escape. He loves to run around outside, chase the chickens, pet the dogs and feel the dirt. He loves to jump on the trampoline with his cousins. But he hates the swing…which is funny because I hated the swings too. Actually I still hate the swings. For some reason I got it in my head when I was little that if I swung too high I would flip over the top and it still scares me.
Jonah is becoming quite the little daredevil. He likes to stand up on his little bike thing. Just today he stood up on the seat, no hands and started dancing and laughing. Yes he falls sometimes, but he still keeps doing it. He likes to climb everything. Shelves, washing machine, I’ve caught him several times as he’s almost flipped head first into the bath tub.

He is a happy boy, but he is happiest in the morning. Right after he eats breakfast, I get him out of his high chair and he claps. Then he proceeds to run all around the house yelling. He yells about everything…my sister laughs at me when I say he’s singing or talking or whatever it may be, she says it all sounds like yelling to her. What can I say, he was born yelling really.

In other news, Carson found a little yellow bird in the house. Not sure how it got in. Taylor caught it and as he was setting it free it stayed for about a minute. Cute little birdie.

I am continuing to train for my triathlon and have registered for a sprint triathlon on July 25th, as I’m not sure I’ll be able to make it to the Olympic one on Aug 8th. One of the perks to this triathlon thing is that I have lost weight…I just bought the smallest pair of pants I’ve bought since, well, maybe ever. (Although I do think that sizing may be changing with the times…people getting bigger, sizes are too) I spent several days at Nicole’s house last week quilting…still not done with the dang thing but getting a lot closer. I haven’t been working too hard on my other goals, motivation just hasn’t been my friend lately. I have been playing Bunco once a month with some ladies from the ward, biking to lunch on Wednesdays with some ladies and I guess you could say maybe I’m making friends.

I am missing Nick like crazy. I want him to come home tomorrow and never leave me again. Sometimes I feel really lame having to tell people I live at my parents house…but I guess it’s better than being alone in Maryland. I miss my house. My own space. The green, green springtime of Maryland. I miss my weekend partner in crime…my sidekick to every adventure, my sounding board. I keep telling myself that it won’t be too much longer…but it still FEELS like it’s gonna be forever! But thank goodness the weather has finally warmed up anyways.