My trip to Boise

I decided to take a trip to Boise last week .  I lived there from 1996 to 2004 so it feels like going back home to me.  I was so excited to go and I thought in my head, “this is going to make a good blog entry.”  But I only took one picture while I was there.

This is the one picture.  This is my dad.  Out of all of the family members in my family, Ben seems to remind me of my dad the most.  Every now and then I’ll look at Ben and I’ll do a double-take because he reminds me of him.  My parents were stopping in Boise on there way to Logan to see my Grandma Erma who has pancreatic cancer.  They just found out about it and she only has a few days to a few weeks to live.  It is very sad but I think once you get past a certain age, passing-on is a good thing.

Well anyway, I really enjoyed my time in Boise with my sister, Anna.  At least I could have gotten a picture of her…..my wonderful hostess, but I didn’t.  So I’ll have to use one I already have on my computer.

She was so good to me.  She took off Thursday and Friday from work.  We were able to visit with some old friends and show off my cute baby.  And if you are one of my Boise friends and I didn’t get to visit you while I was there, I’m sorry….I tried my best to see as many people as possible.  We got to go to places like:

The Boise River Greenbelt.  I used to love to go walking and biking on it.

And the Boise Farmers Market

It rocks.  It takes up like three blocks.  We bought some yummy bread and had free samples of goodies.

We also got to go to one of my favorite restaurants that I can’t find in Provo.  The Mongolian Barbeque.

I love Boise.  I love the friends I made while I was there.  I’m sad I didn’t take any pictures of them while I was there.  So I dug through my box of pictures from my Boise days and scanned some in to bring back some old memories.

 

 

 

 

 

More Ben

Here are some new pictures of Ben

Ben and My Dad

Ben on his first bike ride

See how chubby he is!!

Soccer and Piano

Piano Recital - May 1, 2009

Bedrock

Jeff and I went to Moab for a few days.   This is the second time I have gone to Moab and I always feel like Wilma Flinstone because it looks like Bedrock with all of the beautiful red rock mountains all around.  On our way done there we stopped in Price at this wonderful restaurant my parents and I discovered right before Ben was born.  My mom was born in Price and lived there until she was 12 so she has fond memories of the town.  So when my parents were hanging out at my house waiting for Ben to be born, we took a little drive to Price so my mom could see her old hometown and we found this restaurant called Big Moe’s.  It has the best hamburger I have ever tasted.  The buns were even homemade.  

On the first day we were there, I hiked while Jeff rode his bike on Slickrock. 

 

Hiking in Moab is so fun.  When you look around you feel like you are in a totally different country because it is such a different site that you have every seen before.  You have excellent traction and feel so secure when going up or down steep hills.  It was very windy and a little chilly that day so I kept Ben all nice and warm in his front pack.

Ben got a brand new onsie. 

On the next day we went to Bartlett Wash.  Jeff got to hike with Ben and I rode the bike.

I have tendonitis in my right wrist and I am trying to get it to heal so I couldn’t be as daring as I wanted to be.   Jeff is such a sweetheart because he walked the bike (and carried Ben and the backpack) when I didn’t want to ride on the hard parts.  It was so fun to bike on the rock.  I felt so cool.  So I asked Jeff to take a picture of me and this is what I looked like and I didn’t feel so cool after seeing how lame I look biking.

 I could have at least had a cute tight biking outfit on.  Oh well.

We stopped for lunch on the hike and took some cute pictures of Ben.

 

I love this picture!  We put a onsie on his head because we weren’t sure if the sun screen was going to keep him from getting a little sunburned.  Jeff went over to take our picture and then Ben put his arm on my arm like he was totally posing.  What a cutie.

Ben has been busy

Guess what Ben has been doing the last couple of weeks......

Growing more teeth, that's what!

The haps

Look at my baby all grown up. He will be 6 months old this Sunday

Jeff hiked to the top of Mount Nebo a few weeks ago with some friends and he took the camera and took this beautiful picture below. This is a view I will never see for myself because I could never (nor do I want to) hike to the top of Mount Nebo. Here he is with his ice pick.

Ben had carrots today for the first time. He loved them in case you can't tell from the picture.

Mr. Photogenic! Doesn't his smile just melt your heart?

His Grandma Young was here for a few days and bought him this cute hiking turtle. He loves it....especially the shoe laces. He likes to chew on them.

Smiling is what we do

I've been a little busy. Ben and I have been doing a lot of smiling. That is what we do all day long. My cheeks are exhausted from so much smiling. But man, I feel pretty good inside because of all of this smiling I have been doing. You should give it a try.