Swine Flu Shmoo

My mom emailed me this funny picture- only fitting since I have the SWINE FLU.  I can't believe I have it.  I started feeling sick on Tuesday and by Wednesday, Russ had to take me to the doctor because all my symptoms matched the ones they were talking about on the news.  I feel like a train hit me.  Today I have a bad fever too.  No fun and I can't be around Baylor so I miss him like crazy.  Luckily he is having a little vacation at my mom's.   I hope this crap goes away soon.  

Little Monkey

Here's my little monkey in his Halloween costume!  I LoVe HaLlOwEeN!  This year is even better because I get to enjoy it with Baylor.  We call him "monkey" so we thought it was perfect to choose this costume for his fIrSt Halloween.  

I love Fall.  I love the leaves changing, football, the weather cooling off, wearing sweaters, I love the fun decorations, and I LOVE Halloween.  I hope you are all enjoying the fall as well!  

It's practically impossible to get him to sit still for a picture anymore.  Hence, we got a lot of pictures crawling- I think it adds to the costume though :)

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 :)