Playing in Utah

Utah here we are! Can you tell we're sooooooo excited?

How about now?

I bought Jasper a sticker book for Valentine's day. It had over 700 stickers in it. They are from the Cars movie, of which Jasper is a HUGE fan. This photo is from the first day in Utah. Jasper and Azalea covered themselves in stickers just about every day, and we still never ran out of stickers. That book paid for itself on this trip ten times over. It was awesome!

As a sidenote, Jasper is really methodical about the stickers. He only put each sticker on the right page. So, for instance, he put Mater stickers on pages in the book that have drawings of Mater. It's an activity book with stickers and pages to color.



Stacy and Joel kindly rented baby gear for all the kids while we were there, but Benjamin and Ryker still spent time on the floor.

Ryker can feed himself his own bottle!


Mornings with the kids are fun! Here Stacy and Mark are hanging out around the exersaucer. I heard there was a dance party around the exersaucer the last day we were there. Jasper and Azalea took turns playing music. Jasper's favorite is the duck and Azalea's is the lion. I don't know exactly what tunes they are - but they're both Mozart.

Gideon gets his own music started.


Here are Joel and Gideon. You might assume it's morning from the fact that Gideon is in his PJs, however Gideon was on vacation and more than one day spent the majority of his day in his PJs. Is there any better way to spend the day?

Forget gender specific toys! Both Jasper and Gideon enjoyed playing with Azalea's pink Polly Pocket cars.

This little corner of the ski in/ski out condo could be considered the laptop couch.

Jasper did not like it when Drew left to ski the first day, so the second day I set him up with a Clifford DVD as a diversion. There were no tears the second day. :)

Here are the bundled boys. Ryker is 5-6 weeks older than Benjamin. Unbundled, both boys can roll around, but once they're bundled like this they really can't move. However, both boys enjoyed being outside. Benjamin would quickly fall asleep in the ergo and Ryker was just super chill in the baby toboggan.

While we were there, Jasper learned how to make snow angels.

Miss Sarah helped teach him, and he was a huge fan of Sarah. He was sad when he had to say goodbye to Sarah, and as he came to bed after saying goodbye he told Drew: "that was nice of Miss Sarah."

The weather was not cold while we were in Utah, so spending time outside was a total pleasure. Jasper loved being out, so we explored while Drew was skiing.

We decided to do some equal-opportunity skiing/parenting. The dads went out in the morning, and the moms went out in the afternoon. Here Sarah's taken a photo of Stacy, me and Ame before we went down one of our favorite runs at Brighton: Lone Star. How appropriate?

And here are the dads with the babies. Ryan is holding Ryker and Drew has Benjamin.

One afternoon Drew took Jasper down to the Brighton resort to check out the snow machines.

The location of our condo was such that we would see groomers go up the mountain in the late afternoons, and Drew had pointed them out and told Jasper what they were. When they were down at the resort, they saw groomers up close, and Jasper thought it was awesome!

And here we are all together.