1 has come and gone...

So my little baby Max has officially turned one. He is our little peanut and he has sooooo much energy. He loves to play outside, go hiking, biking, swimming and on stroller rides. He is definitely an outdoor boy! So, we thought we better take him to do something he loves for his Birthday. Unfortunately it was raining :( But we made the best of it and went swimming! The pool was a little chilly but we had fun anyway. Check out the video at the end...

Later that night, because it was Memorial Day on his birthday, we celebrated with Todd's whole big family. Julie and Bryce were even in town! We had a little dinner and I made a cake ball cake....attempted it anyway. They sure did taste yummy and Max enjoyed his first taste of cake! However, I think he is more of a fruity dessert person like his daddy. I guess I'm the only chocolate lover in the home :)

My cake ball cake...

Getting ready to blow out his candle...however, all his cousins kept beating him to it :)
Yum :)
Over his birthday weekend, we also took him to Litzas, Todd's favorite pizza place on earth. Max is a fan now too :)

I just wanted to say how much I love baby Max. I won't lie, this last year has been really rough and Max is not an easy baby by any means, however, he still has a huge part of my heart. I love that little boy to death and I never knew how much you could really love until that little guy came along. He brings joy to my life every day with his sweet smiles, giggles, excitement, and energy that he carries in him. My mom always told me I had so much enthusiasm for life and I see that in Max as well. He has a lot of love to give and I am so excited to see what kind of boy he turns into. We love you Max! Happy first Birthday!

Going down the big slide at the pool...

A Fun photo shoot!!

So I have quite a few blog posts to do to catch up with everything but this was a quick and easy one for me to do. Julie Parker, name may sound familiar because she was the one who did my shoot for the magazine when I was pregnant, shot these pics below. She was doing a one on one mentoring session and needed a couple to shoot. It was so fun! Especially because we got to shoot where Todd spends most of his time, the airport. There were so many good ones, I had a hard time picking...that is because she is an AMAZING photographer and can make anyone or anything look good :) Thanks Julie. Check out her work at julieparkerphotography.blogspot.com!

St. George Volleyball Tourney!

So I am a little behind on my blogging but thought, better now than never right?! In March my teammates and I headed down to St. George for a volleyball tourney. It was sooooo fun! We had a blast and believe it or not, we took first place!...never done that before with this particular team! So we were pretty excited!

To explain the picture below, we decided our favorite good luck cheer was, "not suck". So we named ourselves Team Not Suck. This was our sign for it... I know, we are weird. But hey, it sure worked!

Girls night out...

Once again, Team Not Suck!!
Dinner at the Brick Oven

We had a lot of fun and are looking forward to some more fun tournaments!!

Jenniferrossiphotography!!!

So as I mentioned before....Jennifer Rossi took some photos for us. It was a horrible night, windy, and rainy, and she still managed to get a few cute ones!!! Thanks Rossi! Love them!

A lil' Sneak Peak

So once again, our friend Jenny Rossi took some great photos for us. She asked if she could take some to put on her blog! It ended up being a horribly windy and rainy night when we finally got around to shooting. I haven't seen any of the pictures except these two so far. But I had to post them because I LOVED them! I mean who doesn't love pictures of their own child?! I must say, his eyes look enormous and beautiful in these! Love you little man! :) More to come...

The beginning of Spring

So this March I turned 26. Woo! Crazy, on the downhill side of my 20's! Bummer huh?! Anway, Todd has been crazy busy working at Whirlybirds and I don't see him much. But on his little bit of down time he manages to do something sweet for me! I haven't been snowboarding in two years because of pregnancy and well, now having a kid makes it a LOT harder to get up on the mountain! So, Todd took me night skiing up at Powder mountain. Man it felt good to go again!! I sure have missed it! He has promised me for 6 years he would make me my favorite cake, yellow cake with chocolate frosting! HA, I know I know, kind of boring. But I sure love it! Anyhow, he finally did it! He did awesome frosting it as you can see below....

Max thought it looked pretty good himself... alot better than his bottle :)
And made a wish...we'll see if it comes true :)

My little peanut watching his favorite movie... doesn't he look so cute? Well we think so :)
So I got so excited that it was warm a few weeks ago that I decided to take Max to the park. It was a little colder than I thought it would be but Max had fun! The only problem was that he wanted to eat all of the bark, rocks, and grass that he came across!

Love this picture!
Peekaboo!
K, couldn't get a very good shot of him in the swing, but he sure did love it :) He looks a little drunk or something in this picture!
Well, we are looking forward to Summer and no more sickness! It seems we have been sick for months around our house! Please summer, can you just get here already?!

My New Found Cousin

So, here is my story...

I'm so totally excited that I have reconnected with my cousin Ashley! We have always been good friends and kept in touch, even though she lives in Oregon! But we really kind of got out of touch for while and I'm glad to say things are back on track and we are closer now than we ever have been! Funny how things work out! Sadly, the thing that brought us back together was my Grandma May's funeral...

Anyway, on a happier note, she married the COOLEST guy! His name is Don and they LOVE to have fun! They came to visit us in Ogden last year and they made the trip to Jackson this year, so we met them up there for a few days. It was a blast! My parents even babysat while we played! It was pretty fun!

It is also pretty amazing to me how much they have in common with Todd and I. We are so similar! Ashley and I could be sisters if you ask me! :) ...Anyhow, they just bought their second dog, thanks to us and our wonderful advice about the joys of having two dogs. They also bought some cross country ski's for Christmas...thanks to us and our wonderful advice about how FUN cross country skiing is! Now all they need to do is have a baby....thanks to our wonderful advice about how "fun" it is to have baby. HAHA! ya right! Anyway...story time can be over now and picture time can start.

We went cross country skiing up Snow King. The best part was going down...both Todd and Don ate it...Ashley and I, well we're May's, of course we didn't fall! :)
Cousins ...and our 3 dogs, soon to be 4!Love my sweetie
Coolest picture ever!...on our way to Granite Hot springs on their sweet snowmobile!
The jump Picture...tried but didn't succeed :)
Todd wore some goggle from like the 1980's and this is what happened to him..hehe.
Granite Falls...so pretty.
Another Jump picture...successful.
At the hot springs. However, the crazy lady that owned it wouldn't allow us to eat in the hot springs, she watched my every move through the window of her apartment....She was so creepy, it kind of felt like we were in the movie "The Shining".
So nice...
Thanks for a much needed vacation Don and Ashley. We had a blast! And thanks mom and dad for watchin our little one!