Kansas Trip 8/20-8/28

On thursday when we arrived in Kansas Papa was there to pick us up, Yia Yia was in Cedar Rapid, Iowa helping Todd with the kids since sadly Sabrina's mother passed away. The next day we drove to Cedar Rapids so we could see everyone and go to the welcome service for Todd at the Temple. Of course Tyler was super excited to see Noah and Gavi he loves hanging out with them. He also loves their new house, it is so big! There were so many hiding spots and hidden stairs that Tyler loved. That night Tyler did very well at the welcome service, considering they started at 7:00. The only problem is that he wanted to stay up there with Uncle Todd and Dance, of course everyone thought it was cute. He loves the attention. The next day we drove back to Kansas. On monday night we went to the baseball game. The Royals Stadium is so cool! They have a kid zone and it has a merry go round, a mini field so kids can hit the ball and run the bases, a splash pad, a playground and a mini golf. When I asked Tyler what his favorite thing was he said when it was Tylers turn to hit and run. After we played we went to sit down and watch some of the game. I guess Tyler is good luck because we were loosing by three when we sat down to watch and when we got up to leave to go home we were up by one. Of course once we got in the car and turned the game on we were loosing again. Here are some pictures from the park....

Another thing we did is go to Deanna Rose. This is Tyler's favorite place to go when we visit Yia Yia and Papa. This time we did stuff we had never done like a horse ride and feeding the baby goats a bottle. He had so much fun on the horse ride! Kids under 3 were not allowed to go on but we let Tyler and I just told him that he needs to hold on really tight. He had the biggest smile the whole time! When we were feeding the goats everytime Tyler had food they would all go to Tyler and try to get the food. He fed one to each of the goats and if one he had already fed tried to get more food from him he would say no, no , no and wave his finger at them. It was so cute he wanted to make sure all the goats got food. Here are some pictures...

Thanks Yia Yia and Papa for flying us there to visit!

I LOVE YOU TOO!

Every time I saw I love you to Tyler he looks at me and says I love you too with the sweetest voice! It melts my heart everytime, I love him so much!

Cute Pictures

Here are a few pictures of Tyler I had to put up because they are so cute!

At the zoo when it was 100 degrees out, that boy always wants to go to the zoo. We were all dripping in sweat, ewwww!

Tyler talking to his friend

Dressed for natalie's cowboy/cowgirl party

Tyler is the cutest cowboy ever!

4th of July 09

For the 4th of July we had everyone over for a barbecue. Even though we were not allowed to do fire works we did some small fireworks in the front yard. I had to put this picture up, Tyler looks like he is going to set himself on fire. He loved the fireworks!

Steamboat 6/14-6/20

For Harvey's birthday we all went to Steamboat, CO. It was kind of a shock going from Houston, Tx to Steamboat, CO. There was snow still on the top of the mountains and the day we arrived we had a hail storm! Of course I didn't pack the right clothes and I had to go out and buy a sweatshirt(which was good because it was cute!). We stayed at one of Donna and Harvey's good friends The Fry's House. It was so big, Everyone got their own room and we had plenty of space. Downstairs they had a theater room that we all watched the video that Brian and Todd had made for Harvey and it was great. Here is a link to the video http://gallery.me.com/rambir#100000 We went to a hot spring and it was so nice the water was so warm, we went on hikes and rode up the mountain on the gondola. One of Tyler's favorite things was to climb on the big rocks and there were so many around he ran from rock to rock. After we we went up the mountain on the gondola we had lunch and then hiked back down which was about four miles. We were hesitant to have Tyler hike down but he did great, well for the first two miles. He was a very polite hiker. Any time there was a stump or a rock in the middle of the hiking trail he would say be careful a rock. Then after two miles he got tired and said up please to(of course) me. He only wanted mommy to carry him. Everyone kept offering to hold him and he didn't even want daddy to hold him. So I after two miles of hiking had to hike another two mile down the mountain with a 34 lb toddler in my arms, boy were my arms really sore the next day! We also went to this place that had miniature gold and a maze. Tyler got a hole in one on his first hole all by himself but then got bored so he started crawling through the stuff on the holes. Then we had to go through a maze and it was timed and if you did it under a certain amount of time you got a prize. Thankfully Tyler wanted to switch to Daddy's arms(he had more hole punches then mommy) and they ran around and finished fast. Thanks Donna and Harvey for such a wonderful vacation!

Tyler keeping warm with dede(Mickey)

Tyler on one of the many rocks he climbed

Tyler doing a belly flop of the diving board

Tyler on another rock pointing at the waterfall(wrong way)

Tyler not letting one of Sunny's puppies go, he loves them!

Everyone hiking down the mountain

After Tyler got tired of hiking

The Thalblum Family!

Playgroup Camping Trip 5/29-5/31

Yes I am finally blogging! The end of May we had our playgroup camping trip and everyone loved it! When I first told Brian that we were going he didn't seem to excited, if his family had a choice of camping or a really nice hotel, they would choose the hotel. But once I got started talking about it and that we were going to stay in air conditioned cabins and it wasn't really camping he was ok. They were cute little cabins, two bunk beds with a full size on the bottom of one of the bunk beds. Each cabin had a cute little patio and picnic table and the bathrooms were close and clean. Tyler had a blast spending a whole weekend with friends. When he woke up in the morning he would start yelling Cole and Avery's name and would go outside and there they would be waiting to play. Jennifer and Bryan brought their boat and that made the trip even more fun. All the kids loved it, Tyler even went tubing with me and loved it. We went on a hike, went swimming in the lake, rode bikes, got really dirty and roasted marshmallows. It was so much fun and I hope we can do it again some day!