John's Birthday

John's birthday was this past Tuesday (8/26). He took the afternoon off and we went hiking up in Big Cottonwood Canyon. We went to Donut Falls and had a great time. Nicholas was so proud that he picked out a remote control Jeep for his Daddy's birthday present. Nicholas was also excited to sing "Happy Birthday" and eat "Happy Birthday Cake". Our friend Jeriel watched Nicholas so we could go to dinner (and actaully enjoy it!).

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Nick's 1st (and 2nd) Day of Preschool

Nicholas started preschool last Thursday (8/21). He was so excited and ready to start school that we put him in the Fall semester at the Lab school at Salt Lake Community College right up the road from us. Originally, I was going to start him at 3, but he was ready and he's almost 3 ;0) I thought I might make it without crying, but no such luck! Nicholas, on the other hand, just gave us hugs and waved "bye-bye". I think that sending him to his MyGym camps got him ready for starting school. When we took him in to his classroom and he sat down and started eating (they get breakfast). He is going to go Tuesday & Thursday 8-11. I think it will be great for him (and me!). Once he found today was a school day, Nicholas popped up out of bed and slowly made his way to the couch for his milk. When he found out that Daddy was taking him to school in the Firebird, he was down the hall and dressed in a minute :0) They were having waffles today (Nick's favorite) so Nicholas just went right in to his classroom and got ready for his breakfast. I guess we have it pretty easy that he loves school so much already!

First Day

2nd Day

Our Recent Hikes

We have taken Nicholas hiking in Big Cottonwood Canyon the past 2 weekends. He loved it! He just loves being outside and up in the mountains.

Silver Lake Pics

Hidden Falls Pics

More Pics!

I took Nicholas to meet Clifford the Big Red Dog last week!

Helping Daddy mow the grass

Slowly Getting Pics Up!

Mini Golfing for the 1st time

Bowling for the 1st time

Grandpa & Nicholas playing

Pregosaurus Alex

On a walk with Grandpa...finding peppers & pumpkins!

Nicholas's new race car bed in his new "big boy" room

Nicholas's Adventures

Nicholas has had some fun adventures recently! We went to the Animal Planet Expo a few weekends ago. We got to see some animals and Nicholas got his first tattoo. He got a dog :0) After a week of having to stay in the house (because of his asthma episode), Nick was able to go back to MyGym and his other activities. He even went to a camp a MyGym last week. He'll be going again this Tuesday. We also took him to Chuck E. Cheese for the first time last week. John and I were pretty disappointed. You'd think since there is only one in the Salt Lake Valley, it would be real nice. That is not the case! But, Nicholas had a blast, so that is all that matters. Nicholas wore his water wings around the house yesterday, so I took the hint and took him to the pool today :0) We had a lot of fun. We have a few more things going on this week, but we're mainly looking forward to Grandpa (my dad) coming out for 10 days beginning this Friday!!! We cannot wait for him to get here :0) For those of you who keep asking...I will post some pics of me looking like a pregasaurus very soon.

Update

Nicholas has been a busy boy lately! We took a trip to Sandpoint, ID to visit our friends Matt, Val, & Baby Dallen over the 4th of July. I will get those pics up soon...I have 200+ to go through. We had a great time and I will write all about it. I took Nicholas to a petting zoo (that had all mini animals) a few weeks ago and he LOVED it! He was so excited to be able to "hold" all the animals. He was especially interested in the white duck. He is still going to his classes at MyGym and will be starting camps once a week there again next week. Nicholas is on the waiting list to get in to the pre school right up the road from us. We should know by the end of the month if he got in. He'll start that in August. I started taking Nicholas to music classes at the Discovery Gateway Museum. He really liked the class and it looks like we might try to work that into his regular schedule.

I am 22 weeks pregnant now and still getting sick about once a week. Hopefully that sickness will stop all together soon! Everything is going great with the pregnancy and we're just waiting for November to get here! John is doing great. He is in the process of finishing our basement and he hopes to get it done before the baby gets here.