Birthday Post #3

My grandma (Benjamin's great grandma) turned 89 on Sunday(May23) and so on Saturday night we had the idea of surprising her for her birthday. Sunday morning we woke up and made the trek to Newdale, Idaho.

I thought this was a beautiful picture, so I had to take it. Yay for Idaho.

Here is sweet Benjamin just chillin in his car seat. Not his favorite place to be, but you'd think it was by this huge grin on his face. I love this picture, he looks so handsome!


Here is Benjamin and my dad having so much fun. And yes, Benjamin has no pants on. That's how he rolls.

Here are Grandpa Howard and Benjamin having so much fun. Benjamin likes anything dangerous or thrilling, so you bet he loved being flipped over by Grandpa!


Josh and Benjamin on the merry-go-round with Nana Howard looking on.



This is probably one of my most favorite pictures of Benjamin. He loves the slide...even though he looks slightly terrified yet slightly excited.

I know, we go to say Happy Birthday to Grandma and we didn't even get pictures of her...I'm lame and partially just love taking photos of my cute little guy.

Birthday #2

Josh's actual birthday is May 8th. We decided to go to breakfast since Josh would have to work that night. Evan and Ashlee so graciously came from Colorado for Josh's birthday - they love us. And maybe they had a wedding to go to as well...but mostly for us, right? Josh got a HUGE cinnamon roll just because it was his birthday. Needless to say, we took it home with us.

I think it's the size of Benjamin's huge noggin. Don't worry, that's a huge glob of BUTTER. We took that off before we ate it the next day.

Benjamin had a good time playing in the water. Go figure...he's just ALL boy.

Here's Benjamin sporting his new hat - it was just a cute picture so I had to take it!

Josh got a new i-pod touch for his birthday - he is spoiled, we know. He also got some new movies, a tennis racket, some clothes, an embosser for his books, some chocolate rice krispie treats, an i-tunes gift card, and some guitar picks. Thanks to all for helping us celebrate Josh's birthday. All in all, it was a great birthday for Josh...at least I think so.

Birthday #1

A couple of days before Josh's 27th birthday we decided that he really needed a hair cut. He asked me to cut in a mullet just for picture purposes. So here is the birthday mullet that I quickly cut off after we took the pictures.

On Friday, May 7th, we had a BASH. It was a Josh's Birthday, Swen graduated, Chelsea graduated, finals are over BASH. The Sandbergs so graciously let us have the BBQ at their home. It was barely warm enough for us to be outside, but we had fun.
Here is Swen starting our bonfire.

Here are some of our favorite peeps chatting...trying to get warm in the sun.

Here is the cake that I made from scratch...it was so easy and so delicious! It's true, it was a 4 layer cake. Yum-my! I'm pretty amazing like that. :-)

Sunday Walk

We are loving the spring weather here in Logan. It's finally getting warm and we love to be outside. On Sunday we took our family walk.
Here is Benjamin enjoying the outdoors in his rockin' hat that is slightly too big for his huge head. I know, it's a miracle. But then as we were walking, we saw something that made us laugh. You know it's summer in UT when you get a picture like this:

Strollers and bikes galore...no locks necessary. It was a funny site to us Indiana/Wyoming natives. The fact that people can walk to church is a novelty to us in and of itself, but this...this takes the cake. I think that on our next walk I'll take our actual camera instead of just my phone. We're still in awe....and every time we try to tell a UT native friends about it they just stare at us like "what's so weird about that?" Oh well, it was a fun laugh for us.

On a sad(but will be happy one day) note...I (Terra) got braces. I feel like a teenager going through puberty and look like I'm 12. What's worse is that I totally found a zit on my face the night they put them on. I don't want to talk about it anymore.

Let's leave on a happy note - Josh found out that he doesn't need to take Calculus as a business major. They just changed it. WAHEW!

Baby Animal Days

Last weekend we went to BABY ANIMAL DAYS with some friends and we had a great time! We saw piglets, calves, baby goats, baby ducks, chicks, lambs, AND a BEAR CUB! ROAR! We also saw a ginormous sheep...this picture just doesn't do it justice. In addition, Nicki Welling told us of her secret ambition to ride a mechanical bull. After much prodding, we still could not coerce Nicki to ride the bull...we were all so disappointed! By the end of all of this excitement, Benjamin was ready for his nap. So that was the end of our Baby Animal Days experience of 2010. Please click on the collage to enlarge it and enjoy the fun pictures!

Benjamin & Jessie

Benjamin loves Jessie - almost as much as I love her....but probably for different reasons. Benjamin loves her because she gives him vanilla wafers whenever he asks and he can throw all of her DVD's on the floor and they both just laugh about it....hysterically. Here are some pictures I took of Jessie and Benjamin before Jessie had surgery and can't get on the floor with Benjamin OR lift him...he's WELL over 10 pounds!

I had a video...but it wouldn't upload. Sorry, I'll try again later. It's a fun video! Thanks, Jessie, for being the best Aunt Jessie EVER! We love you!!!

Benjamin & Paige

Paige Alayna Stagg is my niece - my one and only sister's youngest daughter....did you follow that? Paige was born about 11 months after Benjamin and because Benjamin's birthday falls on the last day of September, he and Paige will be in the same grade together. They're pretty tight. When we were there a couple of weeks ago we took some fun pictures of Benjamin and Paige. Don't be alarmed by the top two pictures, he doesn't hate her...he just loves faces! The bottom right hand picture looks like they're arm wrestling...who do you think is winning? Click on the picture to make it bigger.