Not motivated to blog

(On the oldest farm in Utah, Antelope Island, on the Great Salt Lake.)
I don't know if it's just that nothing super-fantastic interesting goes on in my life every day, but I'm so not motivated to blog. Every day I've been picking a project to do around the house. For example, this morning, I cleaned out the filing cabinet (probably hasn't been done since we've been married!). Anyway, after that, I just don't want to clean anything else for the rest of the day.

Don't get me wrong it's not like my life is super boring, but it's not like I have an epiphany every day either. The only exciting thing to happen lately is that Callie has begun to take several unassisted steps! She will only take one or two, but she's not quite brave enough to try more than that yet.

We've also been struggling to get her to drink milk and to ditch the bottles. By the way, if you have any suggestions feel free to post them as a comment! Anyway, I've tried chocolate, strawberry, and mixing formula with milk, but she doesn't want to drink milk from a cup. Strange I know. Anyway, I tried orange juice with milk (sounds extremely gross I know, but it actually isn't that bad), and yesterday she actually drank some on her own! Hallelujah, and Praise be to God! I was so excited. She's not guzzling it down, but hey, at least she WANTED to take some sips yesterday.

Speaking of Callie I believe she just woke up from her nap. She got up pretty early this morning, and thanks to her mother's genes, she isn't happy until she's had a morning nap. :)
Guess I better go check on her.

Thank God for the rain last night! Just had to say that too. Pretty random, but I've got about 5 chigger bites right now (one on my bum, TMI I know!), and they are ITCHING like CRAZY!!!!! Guess that's what I get for picking blackberries just around my yard. Pray that God takes the itch away or at least relieves it!

Hey, I believe after typing this novel of a blog, I might be motivated to do it again soon. :)

Callie's Party

It's hard to believe my sweet little baby is already one year old! It really does seem like time is flying by. Everyone always says that, and they are right. Today we had Callie's party, and I believe it was a success. Everyone seemed to have a good time, and we had lots of good food and cake and ice cream to top it off! Callie got lots of dresses and a few toys. She will be the prettiest girl at church with these new outfits! :)

Anyway, the preparation and whole ordeal has made mommy very tired. I need a nap myself. Callie is still enjoying hers as we speak.

Finally Home... Still Tired!

Hey! We made it home from our long vacation. I don't think I've ever been gone so long on a vacation before! We had a good time, but crossing two time zones will get you so messed up! lol
My internal clock is trying to get back to normal. I guess this is what they call jet lag!?

Anyway, it was wonderful to see all that God has made on the other side of the country, but I'm glad to be home. Some of the things we saw were absolutely breath taking and nothing can describe them. The pictures that I took cannot do justice to the beauty of the Grand Tetons and the awesomeness that they have. All I could think was how it was IMPOSSIBLE to see those mountains and the beauty and believe there wasn't a God who created them. It was amazing. We think we have seen beautiful mountains on our side of the country, but believe me, they have us beat out there in the West!

We arrived in SLC on Friday, drove about 4-5 hours up to Jackson Hole, WY, and there we stayed a few days. It was very neat in that town, and the scenery was amazing. I can't imagine having a backdrop like those people do EVERYDAY! We went back to Park City on Monday, and we enjoyed our beautiful scenic route there as well. Who knew that parts of Wyoming and Idaho could be so boring to ride through but oh so beautiful to look at? At one point we were riding through "Open Range." I never saw any stray cows or animals crossing the road, but I wanted to! Our stay in Park City was a bit unexciting since it's a major ski town, and well, it's not ski season!

There were a few interesting things that happened though:
1. It snowed on my birthday! I don't think that'll ever happen in Georgia, but hey, it did in Jackson! Notice the date on the picture below!
2. We got really close to a bear while we were at Jenny Lake in Grand Tetons National Park. We know because we saw the bear scat and it was so stinky and VERY fresh! (See picture below!)
Callie did well on the trip. She really took it all in and wasn't a pain for the most part. Bless her little heart, she had two teeth breaking through the skin those last couple of days, but she made it. She did well on the plane flights and just traveling in general. I was pretty proud of her.

We are glad to be home!

Going out of town

We are leaving on Friday morning (very early I might add) to fly to Denver, CO, and then we will fly to Salt Lake City, UT. We are actually staying in Park City, but before that we are driving up to Yellowstone in Wyoming to see some of the park. I believe it should be beautiful! I know it's going to be stressful getting there, but we are excited, and I hope that Callie does better than I expect her to. :) (keeping my fingers crossed....)

So, I will not be home until June 14th. I probably won't blog until after that since we'll probably be super tired from all of our running around! I believe this is not going to be one of those vacations where we get in much "relaxing!" It's more of a sight-seeing tour!

Anyway, say a prayer for us that we will be safe in our travels and that Levi and Ashley will also arrive home safely on Sunday as well.