On Wednesday morning William and I arrived back home completing our 2 week trip to Utah/California. It was fabulous to visit friends and family but the actual traveling and 2/3-hour time change was rough.
William is growing up so fast and learning new things every minute. His vocabulary is impressive (to his parents, at least), including "
bbbboo" (shoe), "
wada" (water), "
ni-
ni" (used to say 'goodnight' and for his blanket)... those are just some of my favorites.
Alright.. so the good stuff. Here pictures from our trip:
Seeking relief from that last nasty 12-month molar that's cutting.
William LOVES shoes. These slippers are too small and the jacket is obviously huge but he
insisted on wearing them both.
A bit before we took off on our vacation we had our last dinner with some of our favorite people, the
Johnsons. They've just moved from the area and I can't tell you how sad I am or how much William will miss his best friend William.
Hanging out on Grandma's front porch. I know my head is cut off, but it was too cute of W to skip over.
My sister's dog, Timber, all decked out to watch the 4
th of July parade. Probably the best dog I've ever met.
Watching the parade with Grandma (who has bribed him with a dumdum that is hidden in his fists).
I love this picture! W had so much fun playing in the kid toys at Grandma Julie's house.
Grandpa Ralph getting involved in the 4
th festivities. What you can't see are his awesome
argyle socks!
Nathaniel is such a great activity leader. He headed up a group of family to hike up to
Timpanogos Cave. (There's a little belly shot of me. I promise we'll get a 'good' one soon.)
The "heart" of T
impanogos cave.
Hancock family minus Jared & co.
My nephew monster... I mean Preston. You can't help but love him.
Aren't we sweet?
Trevor & Natalie had us over to their house for dinner and I mentioned that I'd never seen N chop veggies. He had me take this picture so now I've seen it and so have all of you.
After our trip to Utah N flew back home for work (noble man!) and W and I took off to Cali for some more fun. This is a sweet picture of Poppy (my dad) and W up in the redwoods at my dads' house.
This picture of W playing in a little stream was taken moments before he decided to climb IN the stream to try to get into the little pond. yuck!
W's favorite toy. What a big helper!
And... now we're home. I'm trying like crazy to get W back onto east coast time, but I tell ya what. It's a challenge. I hear him chatting in his crib right now. Gotta go!
This picture looked good on the little screen... but if you'll notice, his left elbow and arm are in focus while his head is blurry! Oh well. He's my sweet piano loving child. He doesn't even (always) just sit and BANG. He likes to pick out notes to try to copy Mommy. He's been very into copying lately... My favorite was trying to copy Daddy putting pomade in his hair.
To kill time in evenings and to beat the heat (and water the lawn... look how multi-tasking we are!) I turn on the hose and let William have at it. He thinks it's hysterical when the water hits him in the face and especially when it hits Mommy in the face. 
Pointing at the camera.
Looking at the airplane.
My attempts at being artistic... I just set the camera to the automatic macro feature for this one. It's off-centered... but in my defense I was dodging a toddler with a hose.
