Avon

Yesterday, Paton and I went to Pioneer Bible Camp for dinner. While there, we found Katrina and her sister Colleen. Katrina is one of Paton's favorite people. She's babysat him several times, and when he sees her he shouts, "Nina!" and runs into her arms.

After dinner, Paton and I met Greg and Ed and drove on the Avon pass. It's a rough dirt road that goes through the mountains. What beautiful views!

There were free-roaming cows that weren't in a hurry to get out of our way!

We're on the pass here looking into our valley. You can see our house from here!

A Pool!

Finally! I've got a pool set up for Paton. The first one was large but had a big hole right in the middle where all of the water leaked out. When searching for a sturdy hard plastic pool to replace it, I discovered that WalMart was sold out of the hard pools--they only order so many and when they're gone, they're gone. Apparently people buy those hard pools for their dogs. So I settled for this $8 little pool. So far it's been great. Paton loves to play in the water.

BJU Western Mission Team

The BJU Western Mission Team is here for the week. Part of the team will help Kaysville Bible Church with their VBS program, and the other part of the team will help out at Pioneer Bible Camp. They arrived Saturday afternoon, and joined our C2 (college and career) group on a hike and hotdog dinner. The hike was nice and short and took us to a wonderful waterfall. Paton was fascinated with all of the water but immediately started shivering due to the chill of the rain that began to fall. He was such a good boy on the hike and dinner afterwards, and Greg was a great daddy to carry Paton to and from the falls.

First few days in July

Greg went to Omaha to watch the Gamecocks take the World Series! On his way there, Greg dropped Paton and I off in Cheyenne where we met my parents and made our way to Colorado. So we got the best of both worlds-Greg watching the World Series in person, and I got to spend a week with my family.

We began the 4th of July with a 10k race in Huntsville. I didn't do too bad considering that I had a hard time breathing due to a sinus infection (didn't know it was an infection until the next day)!

Later, we went to Liberty Days-a family oriented day of entertainment in our local park. We stayed until lunch.

One of the activities was filling this giant pool with water and stocking it with trout. Kids were then supposed to catch the fish--with their bare hands or with a rod?? Not sure. But Paton was fascinated with the hose.

Paton's first time in a bouncy house. He wouldn't go in without me, so just so you know that I'm not in there for my own enjoyment!

That afternoon, we played with the bubble gun given to us by Auntie Lisa from Missouri. He loves that thing!

Our 4th of July feast consisted of corn on the cob, brawts, chips, strawberries, and coke. It was marvelous!

Paton loves corn.

We invited anyone and everyone from church to sit on our lawn to watch the fireworks. We had a tremendous view since our house sits up high in the valley.

This month last year

This month last year Paton was just taking his first steps. I have several videos of those steps, but it seems to be rather difficult to load them onto my blog. Anyway, I do have pictures, and one of my favorite things to do is to look at pictures from years past on the same month. But now I've changed my mind...I'm going to include last year and the year before.


Below is Paton's one month birthday. Since we celebrated his one week birthday with a slice of pie and a candle, we decided to do something similar on his one month birthday. My mother in law was there for his one week, and my mom was there for his one month.

One year later, Paton was learning to walk. We were still living in Missouri at the time, and my mother in law was visiting us. In the picture below, Paton was getting ready to swim with his friend Teagan.

And then another year later, we're in Utah, and my buddy is running, walking, climbing, falling, and much more! He loves going to the park and playing on the play set, swinging, and playing in the sand. I'm looking forward to what next year brings!

Farmer's Market

Farmer's Markets are up and running, and I love to visit the booths of handmade goods! This past weekend, we went to Logan to meet up with some friends of ours. We picnicked at the park for dinner and then went to the local Logan Summerfest--an arts and entertainment festival. Paton now has a new friend-Kelsie. She's about 4 months younger than him, but they had a blast together at the park! She brought her pink ball with her, and for Paton, it was love at first sight!

I could probably push Paton on the swing for hours and he wouldn't tire of it. He loves to swing!

I had to take a picture of Paton in his church clothes this morning. The tie and suspenders are courtesy of Nana Baker. He got quite the reaction at church!

Trampolines, VBS, and Peacocks

Nana Baker gave Paton what we call a "bouncy-bouncy." He loves this thing! Even more entertaining is when he puts one or several balls on the trampoline with him. He gets such a kick out of the balls bouncing up and hitting his legs. Love this instrument of exercise!

My lesson last night in VBS was on Christ's birth so I wore this hat in my intro. Paton really enjoyed wearing it before hand.

Our VBS theme is Gold Rush--Greg plays the part of a miner pretty well!

During games, Paton just runs around and screams. Hey, if it works and he's having a great time, then I'm loving it too.

Upon returning home after VBS, this peacock was waiting for us in our front yard! My neighbor a few houses down owns it, and it's really neat to the hear the peacock cry--makes me feel like we're in the zoo.