Pure Deliciousness

Pure deliciousness has got to be what goes through Baylor's mind as he eats one of his treasured biter biscuits.  My first experience with these lovely treats was with my nephew Cole who is now 9 years old.  Please believe I have never forgot the name though...BiTeR BiScUiTs or HuGe MeSs as I like to call them :)  I was baby sitting Cole and my sister had "left" them for me and told me I could give him one.  (haha Leanne)  Little did I know I was going to have to hose down the whole kitchen, Cole, and myself when he was done.  I learned that day that biter biscuits = baths, but that babies LoVe them.  

I was excited to give one to Baylor and see how much he would enjoy it.  From the pictures you can tell he was equally fond of them.  I just know to give one to him right before bath time.  YuMmY! And speaking of biting... Baylor is just about to get his SiXtH tooth!  Crazy!

True Blue

Here are a few pictures from our awesome Dallas trip!  We had the best time in the short 2 days that we were there.  Of course, the best part of our trip was the game.  Cowboys stadium is even bigger in person that in looks on t.v.  The jumbo-tron alone is mind boggling!  We all lost our voices screaming for our cougars (Russ especially).  It was such a cool experience, I'm so glad we were able to go!  

No, we did not make these signs, BUT they were so classic that we had to get our pictures with them.  "Every Sooners Phreakin' Nightmare" Love it!!!

This is my cousin Riley.  He's the punter for BYU and a darn good one at that.  I got some really cool pictures of him with my super duper zoom lens.  This was him on the jumbo-tron.  The HD on that sucker was so good, you could see EVERYTHING.

Sha-bam

The crazy crowd.  Of the 76,000 people that were there, the sea of blue made up one little corner.  We held our own in the cheering department though.  Oklahoma had their band, cannons (hence the smoke in the pic), about 68,000 fans, and a covered wagon pulled by horses... no worries though, because we BEAT THEM!!!  

This is me flipping off the stadium for my dad.  He HATES the Cowboys so I had to take this for him.  I was raised believing that the Cowboys = crap.  We definitely don't cheer for "the stars" at the Painter house.

Russ and I with #19 Matt Marshall.  He is the little brother of Russ' childhood best friend.  We went to Dallas with his mom, Diana.

My brother-in-law Trevor all painted up.  The Olsen boys are about as die hard as it gets.  Please believe I painted a 99 on my face for my cousin.  I did this in the rearview mirror.  As we are walking into the stadium Russ asks me (laughing) why I painted PP on my face... um DUH!  Luckily Diana had a wet wipe and I got it off in a hurry.  My BAD.

"Saddle up partner"  Posing at Wild Bill's country store

The night we arrived we were SO hungry and couldn't find anywhere to eat.  We ended up at this bar.  There was a Cowboys game on so the place was full of crazy, loud, drunk people.  We laughed, HARD, at some of them and had some surprisingly yummy food.  I would eat there again any day.

Our beautiful Grand Marquis rental car.  Russ reserved an Impala.  The lovely Avis worker must have enjoyed pulling a fast one on us, because we ended up with this.  She made it sound like the Impalas were all gone so we were fine with this beauty.  Then we get to the lot to drive it out and passed about 10 nice and new Impalas.  Thanks a lot lady.

And lastly, the day of the game we were able to go and see where President Kennedy was shot.  It had a strange feeling about it, but I'm glad I was able to go there.  Russ and Trevor had to go out into the street and get a picture where the second shot hit.  

Me on the infamous grassy knoll.  We heard all the conspiracy theories and I'm a believer.  The government's stories seem pretty darn shady to me.

The School Book Depository where Lee Harvey Oswald shot from.  Second window down, on the right.

This man was there the day of the assassination.  He was 13 years old.  He told us his story and of course I got my picture with him.  He's pointing to himself in the picture.  Crazy stuff. 

Now you've pretty much experienced our trip to Dallas.  It was hard for me to be away from Baylor for 2 whole days and nights.  I missed him like crazy.  It was good however, for me to get a little break.  One other highlight... the whole plane singing the fight song as we flew home.   They let a kid sing on the overhead system and everyone sang along.  It was hilarious.  Rah rah rah, rah rah rah, Goooooooo COUGARS!

My Mowgli

My little MOWGLI... Baylor decided early on that he wasn't going to crawl on the hardwood at my mom's or the tile at our house.  For the first couple weeks, he just crawled to the edge of the carpet/wood or tile and then sat there.  Now he's figure out that if he wants on- he just has to do the bear-cub crawl.  It reminds me so much of Mowgli from the Jungle Book.  He always has me smiling.  I also must add that I don't blame him!  Have you crawled on something that hard lately?... it hurts!

This is a bird's eye view of Baylor... asleep.  How in the heck does a person fall asleep bent over??  You've got me, but don't worry- we always move him onto his back (after a picture of course :)

He was lovin' this little puppy at my mom's house.  After he thoroughly checked him out, he gave it a BIG FAT KISS.  That's my little lover!

Kisses for the puppy

Now, sMiLe!!!  And have a WoNdErFuL day!

Whoa Nelly

So the past few weeks Baylor has been figuring out a few new tricks.  He is getting big WAY too fast.  I know people always say that, but it's true!!!  He will be 7 months old this Wednesday and it honestly has flown by.  Tonight he was crawling around, which he just really figured the arms out a few days ago.  Baylor, I was already impressed with that.  You can stop now... then little do I know, the little rascal starts climbing up the couch and bam- he's standing up.  AAAAHHH!  The paranoid polly in me was screaming out- don't fall, don't fall, DON'T FALL.  So as he went to do it again (and I of course grabbed the camera), I made Russ go stand guard so that if he did fall, he could catch him.  I don't know how I'm going to handle this walking business, etc, because my anxiety starts flaring and I want to follow him around like a magnet.  I guess it's time for me to take a chill pill and let him do his thing... deep breath :)

My little cruiser, doing his thing

Oh look, I figured out something new...

Oh my Mom, watch me and get an ulcer...

I DID IT!

Too tricky for his own britches

The "Yeehaw"

One of the highlights of every summer is the Ute Stampede in Nephi!!!  Of course, this year was fun like always.  (truthfully, it was way better as a kid but I still love it...)  I get to see a lot of my family from both sides and usually a lot of my friends.   I didn't get to see very many this year which was disappointing.  Russ likes it because he gets to dust off his "ute stampede hat" and wear it along with the tightest jeans he can find in his closet and wear them to the rodeo.  

Every Saturday of the stampede my Grandma Zoma has a get together for all the girls (all the pics are on my mom's camera though).  This year was pajamas and thin pancakes.  It was a blast.  

We also entered the Mammoth parade which is on Friday for my Grandpa's Sinclair business.  He is the Grandpa that passed away this past year and we did a cool float in memory of him.  They drove his big green gas truck along with the new gas truck and all the grandkids and great-grandkids were on the float throwing candy and popsicles.  My sister Michelle, cousin Janelle and I, RAN the entire parade and gave out balloons and pens.  It was really fun and also very neat because SO many people stood up along the parade route as we passed and yelled things like "we miss him"  and "we love Forrest" and even put their hands over their hearts.  

All in all it was a kickin classic time and now I get to look forward to next year when the second weekend in July comes and it's time for the next annual UtE sTaMpEde!  Yeeeehaw!

Baylor and Grandpa Bill

Me and my boy

My nephew, Cole Skywalker

Me and the hubs in front of the notorious Ring of FIRE...

Baylor modeling his new jeans that were WAY too big and he couldn't wear.  The picture doesn't really show you exactly how big they were, but they were huge :)

4th of July Fun

We had a great 4th of July!  We went up and stayed at  Stein Eriksen Lodge.  We started off by boating at Jordanelle.  Baylor's life jacket was huge!  I felt bad that because it was up in his face, but he didn't cry or anything so I guess it wasn't too bad.  Bronx even got a life jacket.  Pretty funny.  On Saturday Russ and I took Baylor into Park City and walked main street.  He was a trooper.  That night we ate a yummy buffet at the Lodge and Baylor eventually fell asleep so I could enjoy.  We had lots of fun together.  It's always nice to get away and relax.  Unfortunately on Saturday night, Baylor had a ROUGH one to say the least.  I think he's getting another tooth.  I was up with him far more than we were asleep and I ended up holding him to sleep the last few hours.  I hope the tooth pops through soon so we can actually get a little sleep!

The only tubs up at the lodge are HUGE!  I decided it would be easiest to just climb in there with him to bathe him!  I didn't get too wet and he thought it was fun.

Walking Park City's Main Street

Baylor enjoying dinner:)

Happy first 4th of July Baylor!

My 3 guys!  Baylor and Bronx in their new lifejackets.

B wasn't quite sure what to think about boating!

Teacher Domination

Today was the annual 6th graders vs. the teachers softball game at school.  Good times like always!  And I am proud to say that we beat them!  We even let 10 batters bat each inning regardless of outs.  I can also tell you that my body does not work like it used to!!!  I felt like I was in slow motion some of the time.  I guess that's what getting old and having a baby will do to you!  I did get on base each time I was up and made quite a few outs... so at least my students can't give me any crap!  

I hate to tell you girl, but you're about to be thrown out!!! :)

Kids everywhere!

Me and one of my former students, cute little Daisy (she was my photographer too)