Trip to Utah-Part 1

I have a TON of pictures from our trip to Utah and I was there for almost 3 weeks, so I am going to blog about the trip in parts. Hopefully, it won't bore you too much.

I flew to Utah a day before Brent left for his conference in Montreal. The flight was a nightmare. Owen was horrible and wouldn't settle down. He refused to eat his baby food before we got on the plane so I think he was hungry and tired and just wanted to get down and crawl around. He actually didn't cry very much on the flight he was just squealing and was being really loud. He was also swinging toys and hitting the lady next to us. I was pretty much about to break down when he hit the formula dispenser out of my hand and a large amount of formula spilt all over the floor. Needless to say when we reached our layover in Phoenix and I found out the plane was delayed by an hour, I gave in and let Owen crawl around on the airport carpet. I am sure there were many people thinking I was crazy letting him crawl around on the carpet, but after what I went through on the plane, I didn't really care. In fact, he chased my water bottle around for about an hour and everyone thought he was just adorable. To his credit, Owen was VERY good on the flight from Phoenix to Utah and slept most of the way. However, by the time we got to Utah I was already worn out.

Owen took a little while to warm up to Grandpa and Grandma and my sisters. It didn't take him long to realize he was getting a lot of attention and to start showing off. He didn't, however, let me out of his sight without crying most of the trip.

The first couple of days we hung out with my two sisters and my parents. We went to the zoo, although I don't have any pictures of it. Owen didn't really care much for the animals, but he LOVED the carousel. Every time his animal went up, he squealed in delight. It really surprised me, I didn't think he would like it that much.

Matt and Kelie came into town a couple of days later and while they were in Oakley, we rode horses and roasted hot dogs on the fire pit. It was fun, but it was actually cold. I had to borrow a jacket from my mom and put pants and a jacket on Owen. SOOO different from the weather they had in Missouri while we were in Utah. It was in the 100's while we were gone...didn't miss that! Anyway, here are a few pictures from the horseback riding/weenie roast.

Owen and Grandpa Morgan

Owen and Aunt Kelie

Owen and Cousin Daylen


Us and the sheep

Matt and Marcie

I have to admit that I was a little nervous about taking Owen on the horse, so Uncle Cody took him for a ride. He didn't seem to be excited or nervous about it.

Owen by the fire pit. He loves fire.

Marcie roasting her hot dog!

Camping

I am way behind in my blogging, but for journaling sake, I wanted to post a few pictures of our camping adventure about a month ago. Brent loves to camp and I don't mind it if it is only for a short time, so we decided to head down to Lake of the Ozarks for a night. I know...we are crazy. It was like 107 heat index, but we had a good time and Owen was actually very good. He played in his pack n' play for a while while Brent and I set up our tent and after a little bite to eat we went on a little hike by the lake. We just brought stuff for sandwiches for dinner since we weren't too excited about cooking in that kind of heat, but it was still fun to eat outside and enjoy the scenery. It was fun...even though it was sooo hot.

We finally got Owen to go to sleep around 10 and around 11:30 we decided it was probably cool enough to try to go to sleep. We were just about asleep when we heard raccoons coming into our camp. Brent scared them off a couple of times, but they were determined to get something from our camp, although we aren't sure what they were after. They were climbing on our picnic table trying to get the trash bag hanging on the tree and they were climbing on the back of our truck. I must say that I think Brent was most concerned about his truck getting all scratched up so around 1:15 in the morning, we decided they weren't going to leave us alone so we packed up and headed home. We got home around 2:45. So much for camping, we should have just planned a picnic and gone home at a decent hour. The funniest part of the whole thing is that we survived the blazing heat, but ended up coming home because of racoons! What an adventure.

9 months

As usual I am behind on updated Owen's monthly progress. I figured I had better do it before I went to Utah otherwise I would be way behind. Here are a few things about Owen at 3/4's of a year!

• He pulls up on everything and anything he can find. It is his new "fun."
• He has started eating some very basic table food. He has had some of our noodles, lunch meat, avocado, hamburger, chicken, mixed vegetables and lots of bread. He loves bread! Actually, he loves anything that has flavor and is not the cereal we try to get him to eat at every meal.
• He loves to pull all the books off our book shelves and open all the drawers, cabinets, and doors he can find.
• He is a crawling maniac. He is very fast, especially when he puts something in his mouth that he shouldn't be and I go to get it out. He takes off and fights hard not to let me get it out.
• He moans when he is about to fall asleep. He has been doing this for several months now, but I don't think I have ever mentioned this so I thought I would throw it in.
• He has started doing this thing where he scrunching his nose up and breathes in and out of his nose really fast. I will have to try to get that one on video to explain it better than that.
• He claps his hands and love when we play patty cake with him.
• He also has started waving.
• He loves playing in our blinds and had already broken a few slats that we will have to replace before we leave. Just the beginning of the destruction to come!

Pulling down the books. Note that his mouth is actually closed in this picture, which is a very rare.
Big bump and scrap after playing around on his car seat and going head first into the carpet. The second bad one, but there have been many since then.


Sporting some funny hair. His hair is actually getting long enough on top that when he wakes up from a nap it is often poking up.

Showing off his new hat. He actually stood by himself for a few seconds.

Daddy playing around with Owen and some winter hats.

Here is a little video of Owen crawling. I thought I was uploading a different one, but I guess this one will have to do.