Funny Milly

Milly is way to funny right now she is very big with sitting on mats, she will walk over from the wood flooring to go sit on a mat even if its the door mat. We are also winging her off Binkies so as you can see when she gets a hold of them she hold onto them for dear life.

Peach Days

We arrived at Peach Days just in time for the Parade, Milly loved it mainly because she is really into waving right now and well that's what people on the floats do. So needless to say we watched her wave to random people for a bout an hour. It was also fun to see her dance to the floats that played music. As well as go and just sit on some strangers lap ( I know we need to teach her about stranger danger). After we checked out all the booths and went to the car show and than to end my Peach Day experience we went and bought our Peaches!!!

I Passed!!!

I am completely officially done with school and have my Basic Esthetics license. Everything went so smoothly so smoothly that as soon as I was done I scheduled my test and figured things would continue to run smooth, however I passed the practical and failed the Theory. It was devastating to me. I cried and was so up set I was mad at mu school for not preparing me correctly and mad at myself for not studying more. So long story short I had to wait 30 days before I could retake it again those days were awful I lost so much sleep and it was always on the back burner. So for a month I studied every day and the day before the test I studied all day. I was still nervous and felt like I couldn't do it. I than received a beautiful blessing from Brett I felt somewhat better but still did not have all the confidence I wanted. He than reminded me that if I prepare to the best of my ability Heavenly Father will make up the rest and help me. This could not be more true, the day of the test I read the questions and still found myself what I thought to be guessing on them. It was such a hard test even when I submitted the test I still didn't feel confident I passed, however I did and passed with an 87%. I KNOW with no doubt I was helped from above and I now have testimony in this principle and am grateful for the experience. I can say I am glad I didn't pass the first time because I needed this experience.
Long story short this is what Brett bought for me. Thank you Brett for believing in me and knowing I could do this. He bought the bracelet a couple days before the retake test was because he knew I would do it!

Always in the Way

One of the things I'm trying to learn as a mother is to let Milly do things. Its hard for me because I'm not big on messes and pretty much everything she does leads to a huge mess, so whether I am mopping, sweeping (all the food she throws on the food) I would just rather do it myself so its done the way I want and done fast. But Milly wants to help, play and do. Sometimes its fun and sometimes annoying but I am learning and getting patience.

Davis County Fair

I love going to the Fair, it is the only good thing about Summer coming to a close. We enjoy seeing all the animals like chickens rabbits, cows and others. This year they even had some exotic animals like Camel, Zebra, plus others in the petting zoo. My favorite was seeing brand mew pigs, Pigs are my favorite animal and I loved seeing new ones. I reflected on times at Uncle Arnolds with new born pigs and how Uncle Arnold would always name them after us kids. I also thought of him and us picking them up and how they would make such a loud squeal and the mom would get so alert and go crazy for her babies. Anyway it was such a fun family night we really enjoyed.

Dancing while sitting

Random fun and places

Overall Yellowstone was a very fun Beautiful place. This isn't our typical vacation but we loved and am glad we did something different than go be a bum at the beach (which is usually what we do).

Tepee

Milly loved playing in here, she also loved sitting on the wood block and danicing. She was quite a joy in her! At one point she looked like she was going to fall off the block so I went to help her and she quickly pushed my arm away.

Feeding the Bears

At the Center they have a kids program where they get to hide the food for the bears. Micheal and Mackenzie were old enough and it looked like fun for them.

Grizzly Discovery Center

This was my favorite stop! Because we saw the Bears get into a little fight. Let just say it was all I could do to not clap at the end of the fight (okay I did clap). They fought because one of the Bears was getting into some food and the other wanted some. The wolves were pretty disappointing and I think that is because they all were to skinny ( I think I was expecting some huge tough wolves like in Twilight). But the Bears did not let me down they were exciting and also at times relaxing to watch.

Yellowstone Animals

Although I would of course like to have seen more, we did see Elk, a Bear, Deer, and Buffalo. An attendant taught us a little about the Buffalo and how fast it was. Once we learned that I think we all looked around and said to ourselves "well if he charges I know I am faster than this person" really though why so many people got so close was beyond me. The last day at the park Brett and I were leaving when we saw a huge amount of cars parked, we asked the guy what everyone was looking at and sure enough it was a Bear, I got out real quick while Brett parked the car. Neither one of us saw it to well but we did see it!!! The picture that all you see is a black spot is the Bear, like I said we didn't see him that well.

Hanging out at the Cabin

At the end of a long day of driving, sight seeing, walking and of course playing, we enjoyed coming back to Island Park where we stayed in a very nice comfortable cabin. We played games at night and had a marshmallow roast, and just hung out.

Hebgen Lake

It was fun going to this lake and seeing a Bald Eagle and learning some history of the Lake as well as hearing some stories of Grandpa Satterlee. Most of all it was fun to just relax and talk in the sun. We enjoyed a picnic, swimming and watching Chris fish. Were still not sure if Jayanne is being nice to Milly or not lol its just a funny picture!

Old Faithful Lodge

After lunch we walked into the Lodge, it was incredible, I would love to stay there some snowy day, we went to the gift shop and just looked around. One of the things I love about Milly is how much she loves others. So when I went to take this picture of her and Jayanne I loved that Milly just grabs her hand to hold she is the sweetest!

Old Faithful

While in Yellowstone we of course saw many attractions but the one I looked most forward to was Old Faithful, I'm sure it is becuase it is so popular and you hear so much about it. For what ever the reason we enjoyed it. We saw many different geysers that day and than enjoyed eating lunch at the cafe there before going to are next stop

Ready to go Again!

We flied back to SLC from Seattle late Monday night, Tuesday was a busy day repacking for Yellowstone, so as you can imagine the suitcases did not get put away. As soon as I unpacked it and before I could repack it Milly was in it looking at me like "where to now mom"!

Red Mill Burgers (man vs food)

While picking up the rental car we told the attendant we were going to the zoo and he told us that we would have to go to Mill Burgers which was featured on Man vs food. The food was really good however I will still take a Big Daddy from Good times any day, what I would give to have Good Times in Utah!

You cant visit Seattle without visiting Starbucks!

So since we are not coffee drinkers I didn't get into the whole Starbucks thing, but by the end of the trip I figured that I haven't experienced Seattle to its fullest unless I go. So although I have been to the first Starbucks my Starbucks experience took place inside the airport. We were lucky too because the first one we saw was closed and I thought to myself "great I messed up this entire trip" Thankfully however 10 yards down was another one that was open and we were able to enjoy a Strawberry Frap (no Coffee of course) Amy told me she loved these drinks and she was right, I am still craving one!

Red Robin YUMMM!!!

I know we are very against going to eat on vacation at a place that we can eat at back home, but it was the only place Wayne and his family wanted to go. So setting that aside it was still the perfect evening that it really didn't matter, we enjoyed eating outside and on the pier.

Pikes Market

At 2 different occasions we enjoyed coming here, on the day we left we decided to come one last time and I'm glad we did so much more was happening, I was able to see the fish get tossed and see much more performers, I enjoyed the doughnuts, seeing the first Starbucks, sampling all the YUMMY fruits, being part of the crowd and looking at all the different vendor booths.

Waynes House

I loved my brothers home, it felt like a resort. Even though it was great to go sight seeing around Seattle, we enjoyed most of our trip just hanging out at his house. We played games, walked around the lake, swam, having a marshmallow roast, playing on the Iceburg, tramp and log. These are all water toys that were so fun, I have to say I was the only one who made it across the whole log!!! It was also fun to canoe and go out in the paddle boat! It really was a great relaxing trip. I also have to say I never got sick of the view each time I walked into that house and looked out the window it took my breath away, he is lucky to be in such an incredible home.

Snoqualmis Falls

When Wayne told me we would go to the falls in no way did I think they would be this amazing. Snoqualmie Falls are bigger than Niagara Falls just not in width. It was part of a nice Sunday afternoon drive, we enjoyed going to many different places as well as seeing what Darcy's family likes to tease her about as being her first date destination!

Why we went!!!

So the reason we went to Seattle is because Brett has constantly got the shaft since Milly was born, I dont mean to do this it just happens. So after Milly s birthday I soon realized I needed to figure something out for Brett's Birthday so I began looking into the NHRA races and saw that they would be in Seattle so I called Wayne told him we were coming and bought all the tickets, I hope Brett enjoyed his day at the races and whole trip! At first I was nervous because Milly wanted nothing to do with her ear plugs, but once one funny car drove down with her not wearing them that was it, she didn't have a problem keeping them on the rest of the time. I enjoyed getting Brett and Millys picture with Robert Hight ( he blew up his car that same day) and we all got to sit in a top fuel car!!!