Garrisons 2nd Birthday!!

Garrison turns 2 today! We are having an Elmo party for him, everything is wrapped in Elmo paper and we have all the plates and decorations and a cookie monster/Elmo cake.

I can't believe how fast my little guy has grown up! He is an amazing child. He is seriously just awesome, so smart and for the most part obedient =) He can almost count to ten, depends on what he is doing. He counts for lots of things. Sometimes when he wants to take a bite out of food he will say, "1...2....3...bite!!!! Other times he will start with 4 and count to 10. Sometimes he misses 7 and 9. He knows his alphabet all uppercase. I have tried working with him on the lower case, he knows a few but I think he wonders why there are 2 a's =) He also knows his colors, red, green, blue, orange, yellow. One day he sat down at the piano started playing and was saying the alphabet at the same time. Then he started counting. One day during a prayer he said a whole sentence on his own. "Please bless me to sleep well." Dallin and I were shocked!!! He only did it once but we just keep expecting him to do it again. =) I love this boy with all my heart. He is so creative and loves to spend time with his family. He loves looking out the window in his room and watching the birds and animals and just loves to watch what is going on. He will stay in his bed until we come and get him out, which is amazing. I am so grateful for him and I am excited to see what he keeps learning, discovering and teaching us. Happy 2nd Birthday Garrison!

I had a fun and interesting time making his cake. I cant believe the craziness parents put them selves through for only a few mins of glory before the cake is eaten!

It was so nice to go swimming. Brent and JoAnne let us have the party at their house. Garrison loved it, they have a swing, pool and sandbox! It was the perfect place, Garrison had so much fun! Being 9  months pregnant, swimming felt amazing! I didn't want to get out!

 Garrison LOVES corn!

 This is Garrisons "CHEESE" face. He just has a hard time remembering to look at the camera.

 We had to make him focus on opening his presents,it was hard because he wanted to play with the sandbox. So I had Dallin start to open them and then Garrison finished. Looking back on the whole situation, we should just have let him play in the sandbox and finished opening toys later, also I need to remember that he doesn't really care about gifts right now so that means he doesn't really need very many!

Baby 2 Update 36 weeks

I went to the doctor Friday with some pretty good contractions. I was going to try and get in earlier because I was getting nervous that I was going into labor and Dallin had to work in Salt Lake that day. So I was hoping to find out if I was before he went. I ended up going at the same time and the doctor said I was dialated to a 2 and still 80% effaced. So nothing to exciting. He did say that I could have the baby any day or he thinks that I will probably go into labor right around when we scheduled my induction date on Oct 6. I am just hoping I can get through Garrisons birthday today and then my moms birthday on Wednesday, then I can have the baby any time after that.

California

Baby 2 Update

I went in for my 35 week appointment on Friday and the doctor checked me. I am dialated to a 1 1/2 and 80% effaced. So the baby could come anytime from now until my induction date Oct. 6. When the doctor checked me he said the baby has dropped and that he was really really low, which makes complete sense, since I am going to the bathroom a hundred times a day and waddling like a penguin! I am hoping to be able to celebrate Garrison's 2nd birthday on the 17th and then I am ok with the baby coming anytime after that. So lets hope he stays in one more week!

Sea World 2011!!

We went to Sea World on July 25th. We were there all day and were totally exhausted. We had so much fun and have lots of awesome memories! We also found super deals online and so it didn't cost and arm and foot to go and Garrison got in for free! It was a great last vacation for us before our next baby comes.

This is the dolphin show. It has also changed since the last time we went. Its kinda hollywoodish. But it was fun.



Garrison loved watching all the animals jump out of the water.



You can buy some fish and feed the sea lions, but you have to be careful because there are a ton of birds waiting around to snatch it out of your hand if the sea lions dont get there fast enough. We experienced this first hand. My mom was trying to get Garrison to give a fish to the sea lion and a bird flew right by and ate it out of her hand. It was really crazy.



Misty loves turtles so we stopped by the turtle reef. It was really cool to see these huge turtles up close.


We went to the Shamu show. Which I loved last time we went, but since the last time we went one of the trainers was killed and so they are no longer able to swim with the killer whales, which actually made the show not as cool.
Garrison is trying to do the Shamu clap. He was trying so hard.

It was still a fun show. These animals do amazing things!



We went to the tide pool where you can touch the star fishes. Garrison had lots of fun putting his hands and feet in the water. It was also really hot so it felt nice to be able to get wet a little bit.



This is at the Sea Otter Show. They have some pre show entertainment. The guy reminded me a lot of Jimmy. He was hilarious.

He is doing the grease dance and lip singing both the man and womans part.
This guy had the sea lion following him, they are really talented creatures.

The whole day I was excited for Garrison to stop by the Sesame Street Place. We finally made it at the end of the day and they were singing and dancing! We then decided to take a picture with Elmo.
Garrison did a really good job saying hi and giving everyone hi fives, but when we went to take the picture he just started crying. It was still super cute. I am glad we did it.
Before we left California we went to see were Grandma MacDougall was buried. She was buried right next to Grandpa and Bruce her son. We got a few cute pictures of Garrison sitting there and then we took some family pictures.

Garrisons First Testimony

Dallin decided to bear his testimony during the August testimony meeting. He was holding Garrison and I suggested that he take Garrison with him and have Garrison bear his testimony. Dallin took him p to the microphone and said "Garrison, where is Jesus?" Garrison pointed up towards the ceiling and said"UP!" I am not sure who taught Garrison this because we never told him that Jesus was up. It was the cutest thing and it is amazing how much little kids learn. Everytime we ask him where Jesus is he says, "UP" Sarah and I also bore our testimonies this last meeting and it felt great to get up in front of everyone and share what I believe in.It was a great fast and testimony meeting.

First Day at Xango

Best way to welcome a new employee. Chocolate.