cake smash | will's first taste of sweets

This boy melts my heart. If he could only talk I would probably give him whatever he asked for! I wanted to do cake smash pictures, just like we did for Katy. He was not such a big fan of them though. Luckily I still got some cute ones. These were actually taken on his birthday.

Side note: This is when his runny nose started. Since his birthday he has been SICK and we have been to the doctor multiple times. Each time he has something different, and this week he is super stuffy. Hopefully he can get better soon because I felt awful taking these when he was obviously feeling not at the top of his game. The reason being, I still need to take some one year pictures (and he is 13 months!!!) Hopefully I can get some in the next week or two.

national holiday | 30 by 30 birthday list

I am 30 *mind blown*!!! Officially do I have to catagorize myself as an adult, when does this all happen? I still feel like a little kid, and then I realize I'm just a mom that acts like a kid. That and the fact that Steve keeps telling me he is only 22 years old...that kind of suprised me to think that I am 30 when I am just turning 22 again in Steve's mind. Adds a few years I know.

I'm getting side tracked. I've always wanted to do a birthday list, but haven't ever made one so let's give this a try. Here are 30 things that I would like to do while I am 30 years old...in no particular order of course!

1. Pick fruit at a local orchard
2. Run a marathon
3. Do 30 random acts of kindness
4. Make Halloween costumes for the kidos this year
5. Go to New York City
6. Get my house work organized
7. Read the book of mormon again
8. Blog every day for one month
9. Limit my TV time and get outdoors more
10. Make 5 movies
11. Get out and go on 5 new hikes with my family
12. Teach Katy how to sew something
13. Make my garden super cool
14. Run a race with Katy
15. Go on an epic road bike ride with Steve for a date
16. Run a half marathon
17. Write a short story for my kids
18. Try 5 new cookie recipes
19. Make a piece of art for my house
20. Try my hand at juicing
21. Cook a turkey by myself
22. Practice hand lettering
23. Try screen printing something
24. Read 12 books
25. Try a new restaurant
26. Find the perfect shade of lipstick and wear it more often
27. Paint each of my fingernails a different color
28. Learn to play a musical instrument
29. Build a bird house
30. Take 10 rolls of film and get them processed

I will definatly be blogging my progress. Here's to being 30.
Also, on a side note, Steve and the kids totally made this the best national holiday EVER!

monday fun day | Logan | april 22nd

What is a Monday Funday? Well...it's a free day where we can do whatever we want and go wherever the wind takes us. We are random by definition.

beardshall (beard-shall):
1. the act of flying by the seat of your pants.
2. to be awesome
3. a combination of random and blow your mind crazy have the best time.

We literally found ourselves driving up to Logan this particular day because we wanted some of that famous Aggie ice cream. I think I've had this before but it's been a long while. Steve was happy to oblige us and proudly drove us up there to his old stomping grounds.

Katy and Will, of course, had a great time. Katy was so cute to share her ice cream...something she has a hard time with (which I'm convinced she gets from her sweet tooth mother). We also went to the book store and got a shirt, went to Steve's old dorm, checked out the temple, and drove around town.

Funny side story. The weekend I met Steve he was talking about going back up to Utah State with his friends. He was recently back from his LDS mission, and was 100% going back. By the end of the night we had a date set up for the following week. While eating our 2$ waffles at the Belgian Waffle Inn I mentioned something about going back up to school at Utah State. Steve quickly cut me off and said that he didn't know where I got that idea from but he was going to the U. This is funny because many many months later he told me this was a spur of the moment decision he decided to make right then and there on our first date. I'm sure we would have made it work, but I am grateful he stayed with me!