Thoughts of the Day

We finally have internet! We went a while without it when we switched providers. It's funny how much we need it...definitely a must.

These last few weeks...Paul's first and second weeks of school...have been new. He seems to like his classes and is doing pretty good. We got a new desk from our neighbors that just moved, and Shayden has been loving it. New drawers to open, and when we were putting it together, it was a nice little hut.


Last Thursday Alisa was struggling with a pretty bad headache. She couldn't even sleep, the poor girl. My mom came up right away when we took her to the hospital where they did a cat scan to make sure there wasn't anything serious going on. She had given her friend a big hug/tackle and landed on her bum, and something snapped in her neck. Talk about a rough first week of school. She's doing okay now, though. My mom stayed in Logan long enough to go to Suzie's birthday party at the Aquatic Center. That was pretty fun.

Friday I was able to talk Paul into going to the Mantz Reunion last minute and we drove off Friday night after his Psych Lab. I was not excited for the long drive. We stayed in Riverton that night and drove the rest of the way to Monticello the next morning. Shay did pretty good up until the last hour. It was fun to be around family and see everyone. On our way through town we were still in our pj's and stopped by Kit's house to get dressed. I didn't realize I left all of Shayden's clothes/shoes on his couch until that night as I was giving her a bath. Yah, it was crazy. Lynette was awesome and super prepared and let her wear one of Garick's onsies, borrow his soap and she also wore Caelee's extra shoes in the cold weather. Thank you Lynette!

My family got together at the Ranch this last weekend and had a blast. Jealousy! They rode the horses and four wheelers around. I'm glad you guys had fun. We sure love you guys.

Here are some pictures of our adventure in Monticello:

This is Shay being done playing with Tyeson's toy cars. That's Garick's onsie she slept in and wore that day. I should have just driven into town to pick up her stuff, but we were only there for about another 4 hours the next day so I thought we would just tough it out and pick it up on our way out. You can see in this picture too that Paul has been growing a beard the past few weeks, but finally shaved it for me last night. Wahoo!
Here's Jon, Paul and Shayden just hangin' out.
It was pretty rainy that Saturday night. Thank goodness for those cabins! I felt kinda bad because Mason and Jarom got soaked sleeping in a tent because they let us sleep in the cabin they used the night before. There was some mud around the fire place, and Shayden happened to fall face first in it twice.
This is Grandpa Mantz and Grandpa Bob. G-pa Mantz seemed kind of happy we're not naming our boy Albert Paul. Nobody seems to like the name Albert in the whole family.


The future Chemist. This is before we left for Monticello.
Everyone in this picture is kind of small. Paul's in the middle, and they're playing kick ball.
Shayden and her long lost sippy cup.
Pullin' a cheeser.

Just as an extra here's some videos of Shayden from about a week ago, and then one of her in the 8 hour car ride. What a trooper!

Shayden kind of has this dazed look in her eyes here. She says "Uh" for "uh-oh."