Pictures that make me smile.

I have many many pictures of chase that just make my heart melt (none as much as the real thing does), but I also have many pictures that just bring a smile to my face. These pictures don't always fall into the same category as the ones that make my heart melt, and I thought I would share some with you.


This is my little Chase after a bath. He will roll, twist, hang upside down, anything to be able to see the T.V. when it's on. Sometimes he will even pretend pout if you turn it off.

Bad hair day. Again watching the T.V. (can't you just see the mesmerizing swirling of the eyes? What is it with this kid?)

This is a make your heart melt picture. I am fully aware that he doesn't understand the sign that his hand is making, heart melting non the less.


Oh don't worry there are many more pictures that I will someday use to black mail my little Chase, but this is it for today. I hope you enjoyed as much as I always do.

The Vacuum Terrors

What a sad face huh?
Chase has many favorite things: warm milk, binkies are high on his list, clean diapers, his exersaucer, wet wipe warmer and more warm milk. Some things around our house fall into the not so favorite things list and at the top of that list falls the vacuum. Chase hates the vacuum no matter what we do. We have tried easing him into it, holding him while vacuuming for comforting, having one of us hold him in the other room and have the door closed and he can still hear it. This is so traumatic that the only way to calm him down is to comfort him as he cries himself to sleep. And I was told that the sound of vacuums is suppose to comfort babies. Does this mean I don't have to vacuum anymore?

Favorite things part 2

It's not that I don't have enough favorite things to do these post very often, it's that I have too many to decide what to do next. (These come in no particular order except for what is on my mind at the time).
Temples are one of my favorite things. Although it doesn't match the wonder of partaking of the blessing of the temples, the beauty and majesty of the temples hold a strong and desirable spirit. There is some attractive force that pulls you toward the temple even when time doesn't allow you to enter. The grounds are sacred and possess a wonderful feeling of hope. Hope in a world that constantly worries me. I no longer worry for myself and the trials that I will have to face (maybe I do a little), but what scares me to death is the things that my little Chase, and other future children will have to face and stand up against. The temple is one place that strength can come from for them and for myself. They are such a blessing to us and because of this, it is one of my favorite things.

Golden Spike and Spiral Jetty

We have been having so much fun. Beware this may be a boring post to read all the way through but our vacation destinations come highly recommended. Why would I purposely make a boring blog for all to read? The question is simple. This is now my journal. I have never been good at writing in a journal and as I was looking through past blogs I thought "I wish I could just print this as my journal." So I used that idea and created a standard digital scrapbook page and have been copying and pasting pictures and text to make my blog my journal.

I have to give all credit to Daniel for coming up with the great ideas for this weekend. We have been going stir crazy all winter with the new baby and not being able to get out, and now we feel he is big enough and it is warm enough to take him out on adventures. Our first stop was the golden spike railroad Historic Site. Neat story and awesome replica trains (that actually work), but not much else there. Mostly just a plaque of where the last rain road tie was placed that connected the west to the rest of the United States.If you look in this picture down in front of Daniels feet is one newer piece of wood for the tie and that is the plaque. Before you look at the picture and wonder why it is so grainy after I just got a new SLR camera and am learning all about it, let me explain the horrible thing I did today. I was playing with the settings on my camera last night in my dark apartment and for those of you who understand I set the ISO to the highest setting and didn't change it back. Fortunately I did realize near the end of the day so some pictures turned out nice. I am keeping the others though because they documented our day.


My favorite part of the day and pretty much the remainder was spent at Spiral Jetty. This is an artists design out into the lake with the black molten rock that is all around.


It was about an hours drive on a 4-wheeling kind of road (sorry about the car mom :). When we first got there Chase was having non of this. He was tired and cold and mad.
(Again bad picture) But eventually he warmed up to the idea of being outside and looking around.
This really close into the distance of this picture and you will see the closest I have ever been to a tornado. (Can't you see the little twister in there???)


We took full advantage of the remote control on the camera and got some family shots.

We stopped for a quick visit at Thiacol on the way back so Daniel could see his rockets. (Too bad Smith and Edwards was closed or that would have been on the list as well.)
And then it was the two hour drive back home.

After a beautiful day in mostly sunshine ( a little snow here and there), what a shock to come home to this:


Hope you all had a good weekend as well!

Exersauce!!

The new fascination around our house is the exersaucer. Chase loves the exciting colors and noises that it makes.



Daniel and I are amused by the squawks and squeals that comes pouring out with the drool. It keeps us all so busy!

Laughing in the wind

Two weeks ago my parents were up here to visit. We spent some time visiting President Hinckley's grave, and Heber (Chase) Kimball's grave. It was a very windy day and Chase suddenly broke out in laughter as this huge gust of wind came blowing in his face. He had us all laughing with him instantly, and I did my best to get this cute moment on film.
This is Heber C. Kimballs grave (along with many friends and family). Just as a side note, Heber C. Kimball is Chase's 5th great grandpa and where his name came from.

It was neat to visit President Hinckley's grave a well. There was a cane with a white handkerchief in front of it and that made us chuckle a little. If you haven't been yet, it comes highly recommended from us. There are many other prophet and apostle graves closely surrounding it, so look around and see who you can find.

It's Wonderful

What's wonderful? The feeling of spring in the air. It has been long awaited and the time has come for the sun to warm us for good. (Thats my opinion anyways. We will see how the weather feels about that.) We have been taking full advantage of the warm weather with trips to Moab. Two weeks ago we enjoyed hiking around with Mom, Dad, Kyle and Michelle through Arches, unfortunately I left my camera home for that one, and this week hiking again with Mom, Dad, Jill and Aiden.

The scenery was almost as good as the company.

We bundled Chase up really tight and he slept most of the way. He was awake just long enough to get this picture that I love.
Mom and I drove each everyone crazy with pictures.


Here is our little family, so happy to be outside once again.