perfect day for a hike!

justin finished finals yesterday and is technically graduated! yippee! we have a lot more schooling ahead of us, but it's nice that the undergrad work is finished. to celebrate, he took the day off so we decided to go on a hike in the early evening. one of our neighbors told us about the heugh's canyon hike, which is literally right in our backyard, and said it goes to a waterfall. i've been wanting to do this hike for awhile and today seemed like the perfect day. justin was a trooper and carried all 22 pounds of jorgen in the baby bjorn the whole way. it was such a pretty hike! a lot of little yellow flowers, that smelled so wonderful, lined the majority of the trail. i love hikes so much!

justin and jorgen getting ready for the hike...jorgen loves being in the baby bjorn!

justin exlpored the area while i fed jorgen...there was the coolest little camping spot right off of the trail, we might come back to it later on and camp...so fun.


when the sun tucked behind the clouds, it got a little chilly. good thing we brought a light blanket for jorgen...he loved every minute of the hike, singing, squawking, and talking the whole time.



here are a few pictures of the valley and the waterfall...and, more importantly, the two cutest guys in my life!!!!!!

avo-stache

yet another picture at the table. such a kandid place for pictures:D jorgen ate one of mommy's favorite foods today, avocado!!! it made quite the mustache and i had to take a picture.

we're moving!

ok, so the picture doesn't describe anything really, it's just a street that is in palo alto, california. palm trees and california just go together. don't you think:D

it's true...palo alto, california is where we are moving. justin is taking a research assistant position at stanford where he'll be working with two professors. we are so excited to move and learn what it means to really scrape by...i knew california was expensive but i am really beginning to understand what expensive means. we will figure things out and it is going to be interesting. i am so excited to live in such a beautiful and sunny place. i will miss utah's beautiful mountains and even more our family that is here, but this will be so good for us. i am also glad we felt good about this offer because it is the closest we'd be to utah family than anywhere else that was an option. so blessed!

bumbo fun

there is so much stuff out there you can buy for you baby. some of it is not all that necessary and other stuff is essential. now, i'm sure every mom has her favorite things, items that just make being a mother easier. so far, i have two that have proven far more useful that i ever thought they would be. first item: kiddopotomas rubber bib. i didn't attach a picture of it because if you view any of our previous posts, it's on about half of them. it has been the most useful bib. jorgen is quite a slobbery kid in general and so i go through bibs a lot. i use the rubber bib for eating time and it makes clean up SO easy. just rinse and set aside. no washing, sorting, or folding! love it! second item: the bumbo seat. when i first had this, is was useful when i'd sit him in it to feed him or when i was busy and needed him to stay put. i think we got the most use out of it in the early days in hawaii with the whole bennett crew. many of the grandkids used it, for intended purposes or not. well, jorgen hasn't fit in it for awhile (chubby chubby legs:D) but he uses it now even more than he did when he fit in it. he uses it as his play base station...one of them at least. that little bumbo acts as so many things: a shelter for his toys, a well to drop things in, a little mountain to climb over, an oversized and awkward shaped ball (he tries to roll it), and also a place where he often gets stuck. the basket also got involved in this incident. i think it is such a funny picture.

the gate

jorgen has this funny game he plays with us that i want you all to know about. maybe your kids do it to??? maybe you don't keep them gated in like i do though:D in the basement where we live, there is a pool table room (which is actually my sewing/craft room, that also has all of our other junk in it. there are two different entries to it so we gated them off. there is also a gate that leads to the stairs. don't get me wrong here, jorgen has plenty of crawl space, there is just too much for him to get his little hands and mouth on in the craft room. well, when i'm over there, he of course wants to be over there too. so, we have this little game we like to play, well actually, he started doing this and i turned it into a game. he smashes his little face against the netting and waits until i see him. it always catches me of guard and i usually just start laughing. then i go over to him and look at him through the gate netting and he does it again. it's almost like peeka-boo but without totally hiding yourself. we tried to get some pictures of it tonight, but they just didn't turn out (slow camera) but i wanted to post one of the pictures just so you get the idea. i will try and get a better picture of the distorted face, it really will make you wet your pants. it is so funny. and the fact that he does it over and over again is the best!

toilet time

jorgen discovered the joy of tossing toys into the toilet bowl today. i usually shut the door to the bathroom (and our room...and his room...and have gates everywhere else so he can't destroy everything) but he has realized that even if it's shut, on occasion, he can still open the door if he pusses hard enough. i usually do my job of shutting it tightly so he can't push it open, but this was not one of those times. so, i was busy in the kitchen getting dinner ready and i hear a 'beep beep'. right then i knew he was playing with the scale in the bathroom. instead of hurrying over there, which i should have done, i took my time and then i went in to discover the toilet paper role unrolled a bunch, with some in his hand, ready to go in his mouth...that actually made me smile, my siblings might recall a time when i enjoyed such things (but jorgen fortunately is too young and has no siblings to blame it on:D). on closer inspection, i discovered that his cute little bear was taking a plunge. i almost grabbed bear out but decided to mark and record this moment. hope you all enjoy it. i better go check on the bathroom door, he's headed that way now.

cute face!!!

one more picture of my baby cakes!!! don't you think he is just so handsome! yeah, i agree! :D thanks, gwampa for being such a grand photographer, you're the best!

EGGstravaganza!!!

we had a wonderful easter! my parents, grandparents, and mckenzie, corey, and taegan came over for a yummy lunch and a fun easter egg hunt. jorgen loved all the colorful eggs and slobbered all over them, as you can see! yummy! he loved gg's (great grama vera) present as well, and also slobbered all over that! auntie mac gave jorgen a cool sippy bottle and jorgen went to town slobbering and sucking his new toy (not really a toy, but right now it is:D). he had fun playing with taegan and everyone else. it was perfect weather and we had such a great afternoon. i love being with family!!!

ginormous tongue turned monkey tongue

for those of you who are as interested in this as i am, jorgen's tongue abilities have developed even further! that is correct...instead of just sticking his tongue straight out he now curls it onto his upper lip....creating monkey lips! what a crazy kid! i've been wanting to capture the moment on camera for awhile, and he did it while eating carrots. yummy! i think he was reacting to the cold temperature of his carrots (i got the ice cube carrots - homemade, of course:D- out of the freezer and they weren't quite thawed yet...poor kiddo, he lives with such amateur parents!). what i don't do right in some areas, i make up in showering him with kisses and kisses and more kisses, all day long. who wouldn't want to smooch on someone this smoochable???

ginormous tongue!

a few days ago, jorgen really discovered how to move his tongue. for a couple of days, he would stick it out SO far and move it around. it was hilarious watching him discover how to move it. this particular picture was taken while he was eating bananas...so enjoy the extremely long tongue, with food on it:).