Good Ole Dr. Seuss

We have a Dr. Seuss fan in our house. Clay is obsessed with this book. Clay wants to read it about 10 times a day. I have hidden it but he will search for it until he finds it (obviously I am not a good hider if a toddler can find it. I will have to work on that). He never gets through the whole book though because it is a long book for a toddler, 63 pages. Spencer and I have the first 10 or so pages memorized.
Now... if you know the "One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish" book you may find that this stuffed...thing looks familiar. Yes this is the "fat fish" in the book...the one with a yellow hat. Clay loves this fish (it doesn't look like a fish to me, its pretty ugly). We call him Buddy and he is never forgotten when nap time comes or when its time for nigh nigh. I have tried to give him a stuffed dog, Poo Bear and even Tigger (he loves that cartoon), but no luck. It has to be Buddy. Oh well, what do you do?

Here is Buddy's character in the book.

See the resemblance?

I've Got My Ticket, How About You?

So today was the first day that So You Think You Can Dance tickets went on sale. I have been an avid watcher for 4 seasons and this will be the first time I will be going to their dance concert in November. This is the one show that I never miss, except when our DVR went out ( boy was I depressed that night). I never was a dancer but have always loved to watch dancing. In high school, when we would have assembles, we usually had our dancers do a routine for us and I really think that was my favorite part of the assembles. I have such respect for people who dance, they can be so graceful, amazing and just good at what they do. One time my dad asked me if I wished they would have put me in dance when I was little instead of softball. I told him that I think dance would have been a lot of fun, but I probably would have hated it when I was little because I was very much a tomboy, all I wanted to be like was my brothers. They would have had a heck of a time getting me to go.

I think dance can make you feel so many emotions; relaxed, calm, happy, angry and sad. For all you fans of the show I think you know what I'm trying to say. Did you watch Tyce's breast cancer routine? That was amazing and very emotional. I didn't cry, but I did feel the power of it.

Anyways, on and on I go about this show. I finally purchased my tickets after an hour and half of waiting and redoing the whole ordering process about 4 times. I'm so excited to go with my sister in laws who are also big fans. Only 3 1/2 more months to go.

Finally Some Pictures To Look At

I'm finally able to post some pictures. It has been a while so I'm going to play catch up with some photos.

We went to Thanksgiving Point with some friends to watch the 4th of July fireworks. Clay was not to sure about the loud sounds, but he made it through with out a melt down.
Clay loves it when Daddy gives him a sip of his Slurpee

It was Clay's real first time at the Orem pool and he easily could have stayed there all day. Our good friend Jorrel bought him the life jacket so Clay could go down the water slide. We love Jorrel, he is a good Uncle.

Clay loved the slide...well all except the part when he drop off into the water.

He had fun playing in the kiddie area.

We went to the zoo with his cousins. He loved playing in the play area.

He is such a cute little boy, what would we do with out him?

He loves to go to the park and play in the coin ponds and run around in the grass while Daddy is chasing him.

One Long Update

Okay, so I know that it has been a long time since I have blogged. We had a rough time with computers lately and didn't have one for a while, but at last we bought a laptop and I'm back online. Its pretty sad to think how much I need this electronic essential in my life. I could do with out TV easily as long as I have my Internet. Anyways I thought I would take the time to update you with what is going on in our little family.

First and far most...Clay is FINALLY WALKING!!!! YESSSS!!! No more carrying him into stores or unable to use restrooms because I couldn't let him sit down on the most disgusting floors anywhere. After 14 months of of no walking we decided that he was going to walk everywhere we go with holding on to our hands, no more carrying him. After about 1 week of that he finally decided that is WAS faster to walk than to crawl. So now he is confident in his walking, he is even dancing and trying to run which causes many tumbles. He is tough though. You won't see him without a ball in each hand or hear silence from his mouth. We have a talker on our hands and right know it is cute because its just gibberish, but I'm afraid what is going to happen when its none stop words.

Spencer decided to go back to school and get a 2nd bachelors in Accounting. We are really excited about, but it will be hard not seeing him really during the week with night school. Luckily his job will pay for his schooling so thats one more debt we are without.

As for me, my business is growing after 2 months. We doubled our orders last month so that was great. We hope to keep growing and get more customers as the summer months come to an end.

We have a couple of fun things coming up for us. My family reunion is in August, Spencer's parents are coming up for education week, Clay and I are going to St. Louis for Dorians baptism, and we are going to Disneyland in October.

I'm sorry but I can't put pictures on this post because Clay chewed up the adapter that copies pictures onto the computer, so I have to go buy another one. So...until than.

Oh P.S. Clay ate his first bug the other day. I think it was a potato bug, well from what I could make out of what was left. Yeah he gave me a chewed up shell. Protein Right.