The Playground

We took our first trip of the season to the playground last week with our fun neighbor friends. I am excited for this summer since Davis is enjoying things like this now! The only problem is he is a little wreckless and would jump off anything he could with no thought of danger if I am not right there to stop him! He has no fear. I am going to have to keep a close eye on him. He doesn't quite get that other kids want to go down the slide and really enjoyed trying to climb up the slide while the other kids patiently waited for him to move. Every time I turned around there he was again trying to climb up the slide!

Carrie Comes to Visit!

Well, Carrie really came to visit almost 2 weeks ago, but I am finally getting around to posting it. Carrie was my roomate for a long time and she is the greatest best friend! She is living in Chicago and loving it there. It was so fun to have her stay with us and have a fabulous, fun-filled weekend while she was here. I just have to say that it is so great to have a best girl friend around. I LOVE being married, and Steve is the best husband ever, but he isn't a girl and sometimes you just need some girl talk and shopping and fun! I miss having Carrie around all the time. She is the best and I love her! Thanks for coming to visit Carrie!

Happy Easter!

I love this picture-I had to take about 10 pictures to get one good one! Getting this kid to hold still is practically impossible! But, I think Davis looks so handsome (and big!) in his cute Easter outfit. We had a great Easter day. Davis and I went to the nursery for the first time at church. I thought he would be fine to just go by himself (he goes to the gym daycare all the time, so I thought it would be the same) but I was sadly mistaken! He has been cutting new teeth and very sad and he was very upset in nursery. We also found some things we need to work on to be a good nursery participant, such as sitting in a chair for more than 20 seconds, not eating playdoh or crayons, coloring, and not eating other kids snacks. Not to mention drinking out of a cup by himself and figuring out what a prayer is and maybe even folding his arms. Oh boy, lots of work to do! Maybe next week will be better.

We had a nice evening at Steve's aunts and then dinner at the Bentley's. Yummy food, good company and a good game of pounce. What more could you want on Easter?! The Easter Bunny must have forgotten to stop by our house, but thank goodness for Grandma Wright saving the day and bringing Davis the cutest Easter basket! Hope your Easter was great!

Easter Egg Hunts!

The Easter Egg Hunts were really fun this year...Davis really got the idea of picking up the eggs and putting them in his basket. It was so cute to watch him! We had a fun Easter party/egg hunt for play group on Friday, and a neighborhood hunt on Saturday. Grandma and Grandpa Larsen took him to the Easter party/hunt with the Black Family on Saturday also. I think he was all hunted out by the end! The sad part for him was I didn't let him have very much candy, but he had a great time playing with all of the plastic eggs!

Moab Half Marathon

Last weekend Steve and I ran the Moab Half Marathon...we had such a fun weekend and had a great time running! Our friends, the Gardners came down with us. We stayed at our favorite little cabins and left Davis with Grandma Wright which was a nice break and made for a relaxing weekend!

I played my first round of golf ever (yes, I have evaded it this long!) and it was, well, alright I guess. Steve loved that I went with him but I just don't think golf is that fun when you stink at it. I would tee off on the holes I wanted to, then Steve would go find my ball in the bushes, hit it up to the green for me and I would putt it in. Not a bad way to play I guess! It was beautiful and of course the red rock surrounding us made it great as well as the pretty warm weather.

It was not so warm when we started the race-we were freezing up at the top of the canyon where it started. Once we got going, however, it was okay. I finished the race in 2 hours 1 minute (my goal was 2 hours and I just missed it-I should have ditched Steve earlier!) and Steve finished in 2 hours 5 minutes. We ran together for the first 8 miles, then found some friends to keep Steve busy so I took off and finished a little quicker. It was an inspiring race-I realized half marathons are a lot easier than I remembered (or maybe I am just in better shape, I am guessing the latter!) and I decided to run a full marathon this summer or fall. Steve loved getting ready for it and decided he is going to do a 'sprint' triathalon this summer. It was really fun to train together and see so many friends also running the race. We love Moab!!

Finally Walking!

Davis finally decided to walk! I was wondering if he was ever going to get around to it-He is a super crawler, he is so fast I seriously can't catch him sometimes. He has been taking steps for a couple of weeks, but he is really getting the hang of it now and can walk across the entire room. Here is a video of his cute cute walking!

Mischief

Well, it seems that Davis is constantly into something these days, and yes, I do mean constantly. You know the child that you ask 'what does a cow say?' 'Moo' they respond; 'what does a cat say 'meeow' they respond; 'what does a mommy say? 'no no no' they respond...I'm pretty sure that will be what Davis says because I feel like I am always telling him 'no no no' because he is always getting into something or other! We have put locks on every cupboard and drawer possible, but I tell you, there is not stopping him! Here are some of his recent 'mischief' pictures.

The drawer under the stove is probably his favorite spot in the house. He likes to put his toys and treasures in there as well as himself.

This happens at least once a day at our house-and I took the picture on a good day-usually Davis tears the toilet paper into as many pieces as he can before I catch him. Bless his heart. I love cleaning up toilet paper bits. He also really likes to play in the toilet water. And sometimes drink it. Fabulous.