cuteness!

In between chasing the rabbits and just plain old running around, I got a couple of pictures of her in the dress and headband/flower I made her.

7/20/2012 Century 16 shooting

In case anyone was wondering, we are all ok. We did not go to the movie last night. And for those who don't know, there was a shooting at the Century 16 theater in Aurora, a couple of miles away from us. It is "our theater" the theater we go to. We are big movie buffs and we go to midnight showings. Jason is a huge fan of the batman series as am I, luckily Jason was too busy/tired from working, and had to get up for work pretty early.
It's horrific what happened and I am so grateful we weren't there. We have been watching the news most of the day. We did go get some groceries from walmart, which is really close the century 16 theater. They had all roads leading to the theater blocked with cones and police tape. They had a news helicopter up in the sky above the theater.
Anyways, I just wanted to get it out there, we are ok. There are still people in critical condition and we continue to pray for them.

A couple of photos

This was a no nap day... Absolutely not my favorite type of day. 

Watching little Einstein's. 

Skype with Penny (or as Evie says it, "Pebby").

The memory on this girl! She found the temporal scanner and knew exactly what to do with it! (After she got up on her tiptoes and knocked it off the shelf so she could play with it)

We were lucky enough to be invited to our friend's house to go swimming today. Evie was in heaven in their backyard!

After swimming we got to play inside. It's always so much fun playing somewhere new, with friends and new toys!

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Pictures from Utah

We got to go to Utah for the 4th! Jason had to stay home (surgery rotation). We arrived on Monday night (our flight was delayed so it was a couple of hours past bedtime), Evie did great on the plane and while we were at the airport we ran into Mikelle and her daughter (a friend from high school)! It was great being able to run around with the girls while Mikelle got to rest and watch the luggage (she had been stuck at the Texas airport for four days trying to find a flight home. We flew into the Provo airport which was amazing. I loved it.

We had so much fun in Utah. We didn't take as many pictures as we should have haha. Evie had so much fun with everyone. Here are some pictures.

Me, Evie, Kambry, Mikelle


Penny, Tanner, and Evie jumping on the tramp.




Shoulder ride with Grandpa.



Evie on a stroller ride with Tan.


Trying out Penny's hammock with Tan.



Eating cookie crisp.




Evie saw Chloe climbing over the baby gate and the lightbulb went off. She immediately tried climbing it herself.




Grandpa Den in his festive jacket!




We went to the Neilson's grove park and played on the swings.



Playing the playhouse with grandma Rita.



On the way to the Provo airport.



Playing with the seatbelt on the airplane.

 Playing with Kate and Penny.

 Trying to squirm out of my arms so she can play.

 Playing with Tan.

 Going down the slide.


Metta let me take some pictures of Cici while we were there. I didn't bring my own camera so I got to use Tanner's. These are some of my favorites.

I also got to take some of my other cousin's baby

She's about 3 weeks old so she was harder to position, but I think we got some cute pictures in the tiny amount of time.

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Saturday fun

We had quite an adventure today. It was Jason's day off and he agreed to go down to the Renaissance festival. I had read that it got great reviews for families, and even won an award for being family friendly. After Evie's nap we drove down to Larkspur and had us some renaissance fun...   

Right before our little ride

Riding an elephant! (We had to share our ride with the people behind us)

Strawberry ice. Sooo good!

Sword swallower

Jason was helping evie pet the animals. (They have a petting zoo area for the kids)

Trying to grab the rooster.

We bought a cup of pellets to feed the animals. Evie loved these sheep. She was teasing two of the sheep and it was really funny!

Petting the horse.

Amazing fire-breather!

Hmm which should I get...

Trying to decide if I want to buy this

 in lieu of this.

Or should I even get either?

Prices:
travel smart: $29 with free shipping
gogo kidz: $71, or $50 ish on ebay...

The travel smart doesn't have nearly as many reviews as the gogo, but the reviews it does have are great. The word "sturdy" was commonly used in the reviews, and look how compact it folds up! No negative reviews being used as a car seat carrier (although there were only 3 or 4 reviewers that used it as such). The negative is that it might not work for my car seat (although it probably will), and that there are so few reviews...

The gogo has a bunch of excellent reviews, it also has quite a few bad reviews, including the wheels popping off and if you look at it, there isn't a base for the carseat to sit on, so there is the possibility of your car seat dragging. Out of 367 reviews it got 5 stars from 214, 4 stars from 91, 3 stars from 18, 2 stars from 18, and 1 star from 28. Overall it seems pretty good, unless I get a faulty one or my car seat isn't compatible.

I'm still not sure if I should even get one, but if I do, I think I'll go for the travel smart luggage carrier. Like Alton Brown, I'm a fan of multi-taskers.