Scott's 30th Birthday

Scott had a wonderful birthday weekend!  Scott's family came up and we had a fun, busy weekend.  I hope that everyone had fun as it's hard to tell when you're hosting.  Scott's family arrived Friday morning and everyone slept until about noon.  Once everyone was awake, we got ready to head up to Snowbird.  I decided it would be fun to go up there and show them something they hadn't seen before.  Since we left a little later in the afternoon, all we had time for was to go swimming.  The kids did have fun, but it would have been fun to go on a little walk to the outlook as well.

After swimming, we ate Cafe Rio and then to Brita's place to play some games.  Saturday morning, I made a breakfast of waffles and fresh orange juice (with oranges from California).  Scott headed out golfing with David, Kyle and Lane.  He had so much fun and I was able to prepare things for the party.  Kristene was such a huge help in getting things ready.  The kids also took long naps, so everything just worked out really well.

I looked for ideas for the party on pinterest and saw these birthday cakes made out of fruit.  It was perfect!  The theme for the party was All About Scott and fruit is something he loves.  I still made his favorite birthday cake (yellow cake with chocolate frosting) out of cupcakes.

The cake coming together.

Kristene. Two heads were better than one in putting this cake together!

The finished product!

The main dish we had was pizza (one of Scott's favorite foods) which I got from Papa Murphy's (with a gift card and coupon).  It was nice because I picked them up early and then was able to bake them right before, so they were nice and hot.  I love that the food I chose was simple as to cut down on stress.  I made sure to calm myself down when the frosting for the cupcakes wasn't turning out and I had to try 3 times to get it right.  There was going to be no freak-outs for me!

Since we were having the party at the park, the main activity was to play kickball, but it was so hot outside!  We would have had to have the party at 9:00pm for it to be cool enough.  I did do another activity where I had everyone answer questions about Scott and whoever got the most correct won a prize.  It was fun to hear reactions from people when finding out the answer Scott gave me.  Scott's mom won in the end with 19 out of 30 correct!  There was a great turn-out (Andrew & Rebecca even stopped by on their way back to Colorado) and everyone was so helpful in putting things together.

Since it was so hot, we headed back to the house to cool off and play some games indoors.  We played a few rounds of Mafia and Scott opened presents.  Scott received a lot of jam for his birthday (strawberry from me and raspberry from my mom), some new shoes, a new griddle and various other presents (I can't remember everything).  It was a whirlwind day and I hope Scott had a fantastic 30th birthday being surrounded by people who love him.

Happy Birthday Scott!  I hope your 30's are full of wonderful, unforgettable moments.  Kylie & I love you!

Scott w/ poster. This thing was a pain to display.

Collage of pictures of Scott throughout the years.

Friends came to the party too!

Pretending to blow out candles. It was too windy to light.

I wrapped up 6 jars of jam. :)

Save the date I made to make sure everyone could come.

Official invitation.

11 Months!

Kylie has been 11 months for about a week now.  My little girl will be 1 here so quickly!  I know that at 1, Kylie will still be a baby, but she is starting to look like a girl every day.  Kylie's hair is long enough that I can put it in a little ponytail or pigtails.  I need to buy some cute little hair clips to use.  She just looks different (in a good way) when her hair is up.  It is starting to make me nervous for when her hair is long enough to do some fun things with as I have trouble even doing my own hair.

Another thing that makes her look older is her teeth! That's right, she's cutting her third tooth right now!  Kylie has been such a trooper with cutting teeth.  The only thing that I can notice is that she's been more tired lately.  She also likes to gnaw on pizza crust to help.

• Kylie waves bye-bye sometimes; she just does it when she wants to.  
• Kylie can do some sign language and it all relates to eating.  She can do more, eat, all done and milk.  I'm trying to remember to do please and thank you to her, but I don't do them enough for her to know what they are.
• Kylie likes to dance now as well. She especially loves to dance to the hot dog song from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. It is so cute to see her dance.
• We are slowly getting her used to whole milk by putting it with her formula.  She seems to like her bottle a little bit better now.  Kylie would just rather drink juice from her sippy cup.
• Kylie has gotten used to needing a story before naps and bedtime.  She'll get upset if I stop reading, even if I've read her 3 stories.  It's fun to see her enjoy reading and books at such a young age.
• Kylie loves playing with her cousins and other babies.  She is such a social baby that I wish I had friends who have a baby her age to play with.  It will be nice when the reading times at the library start back up as it will give her a time to be social.
• This girl is doing wonderful at keeping up with all of our activities this summer.  I'm glad that we haven't felt like we can't go and do things.

It's 11-months too late, but I've discovered that the best time to take her pictures is right when she wakes up from a nap.  This girl always wakes up happy, so it's a perfect time to catch some smiles.

This was before her nap.

This was after her nap.

Snowbird

My grandma has had a time share at Snowbird for as long as I can remember.  Almost every summer when we'd go out to Utah for vacation, we'd end up going to Snowbird.  Looking back now, I have no idea how we all were able to fit inside the room!  There are so many of us and I can't imagine everyone gathering in the room today.  It is so fun though that my grandma lets everyone in the family have a chance to spend a night at Snowbird.  This year, we were able to spend a few nights there as a lot of other extended family were headed off to Lake Powell.

Saturday was a busy day as Scott & I headed up to pick raspberries at my Aunt Debbie's in the morning.  Their bushes were so full of raspberries!! We picked so much and it didn't even look like we picked anything.  Kylie would attack Scott's bowl and for the first 1/2 hour, there was nothing in there as she ate everything he picked.  We ate as many as we could, froze some and then my mom made jam out of the rest (for a birthday present for Scott).

After picking raspberries, we headed to Snowbird for the weekend!  The room was supposed to be available at 4, but housekeeping wasn't ready and we had to wait for about an hour.  We made tacos for dinner and played games the rest of the night.  Sunday morning, we went for a hike up at the Alta resort.  After the hike, we ate lunch and relaxed for a bit.  Grandma Omer and a friend of Aaron came up for dinner.  After dinner, we all went swimming.  Kylie loves to go swimming!  Mom watched Kylie while the rest of us checked out the hot tub and 18+ pool area.  After swimming, we had dessert, watched The Lego Movie and played games.

Kyle, mom and Aaron had to go to work on Monday, so it was only Brianna, Scott and me.  We wanted to take a walk to the outlook as it's short and something to do.  We got a little lost trying to find it and Kylie was hungry and tired, so we headed back to the room.  People took naps and relaxed until dinner.  After dinner, Scott went to go play soccer and Brianna, mom and I set out to go to the outlook and were successful this time.  Kylie wanted to walk a lot of the way and had a blast checking out nature.

Scott & I were the only ones up at Snowbird during the day on Tuesday.  Mom had to work and Brianna worked for Carolyn in her insurance office.  It was nice to be able to do our own thing.  We didn't want to be too bored though, so we went swimming again!  After swimming, Kylie took a nap and we were able to figure out a way to play Settlers of Catan with just two people!  It actually worked out pretty well, so the game was fun.  Scott had scouts that night and I had to get the key to the office from Brianna, so we headed back home around 4:30pm.

I love that Snowbird is like a stay-cation.  It's far enough to feel like you're getting away, but close enough that you can take care of things at home.  Kylie enjoyed being somewhere new and it was a good preview for when we go to Yosemite.  Hopefully we'll be able to go up to Snowbird often!