Baby Einstein Chris

A few weeks ago I checked out a Baby Einsteins book about shapes from the library. Maybe a week after getting it, Grant would start saying "dad" every time I would get the book out to read. I couldn't figure out if he was saying "dad" because Chris always read that book to him or if he read it in a certain way that Grant was hoping I would do. A couple of days of this went by and then finally Grant pointed to the logo on the cover when he said "dad." I started laughing as I thought maybe he thinks that little guy looks like Chris. I decided to test him to double check and asked him where dad was and sure enough he pointed straight at the guy. I'm sure Chris is flattered to know that's what Grant thinks he looks like. :)

Graduation, Gardening and Basketball

The last few weeks have been busy for us. Chris graduated from BYU. Hurray! He has worked so hard especially these last few years. I have been so impressed at how well he managed to get everything done and still spend so much time with Grant and I. He has pretty much finished everything on the remodel project he was working on for his dad and has now started a new job at a company called PSI. They are currently working on the City Creek project in downtown Salt Lake.

Grant has been working on improving his basketball skills or "butball" as he calls all balls with the new basketball hoop he got from Grandma and Grandpa Thorley.

I managed to get a garden planted. I am so proud of myself. I tried out the Square Foot Garden method. Chris built me the boxes and helped me get the soil and plants and then I was able to get everything planted last weekend. I also cut and sewed some strips of fabric together to make the grid. It involved figuring out and using a sewing machine all by myself! I am still a little skeptical about the square foot garden method. It all looks fine now but I am a little concerned how everything will fit when it's full grown. We'll have to see how it turns out.

Easter Weekend

And I'm back...for now...although, I don't know how long it will last as our computer is still not fully functioning. Thanks to Chris for picking up the slack and posting updates every once in awhile.

We had a really fun Easter weekend last week. Chris's sister, Stephanie, celebrated her birthday on Saturday and invited us all down to play in our favorite Utah Valley. We ate out at a lot of different delicious places. I love to eat out. We bounced around and slid down the slides at Kangaroo Zoo. We went to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point. Chris got to go rock climbing. And Grant loved running the hallways with his cousins at the Motel the family stayed at. I'm sure the other guests enjoyed it as well. Then that Saturday night Chris, Grant and I got hooked up with some tickets to the Utah Jazz game. Thanks Hannah! Unfortunately, they played terrible, but it was still pretty fun to be there with Grant. He cheered like a pro. Then for Easter festivities, we braved the rain and went to the Easter Egg hunt at Mountain View HS and had another hunt with the family Sunday afternoon. Grant wasn't quite into the egg collecting. He was a little more interested in egg throwing.

Dinosaur Museum

(Sorry the pictures are a little dark. )

Pictures of the rest of the festivities were supposed to be right here, but I am still having blogging/computer issues, so now there is a slideshow above this post that you probably already looked at.