Friends

I had the BEST group of friends in high school!! I was so blessed! After 17 years of being out of high school, we still get together. (Definitely not as often as we all would hope, but at least we still do!) They helped make me who I am today. This Monday we got together at Brick Oven and laughed, talked, and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. I sure hope my girls get friends like these when they are growing up! Here's to you, VL club! :-)

Our gang, minus a few

Bingham Canyon Mine and the "Up" House

Kennecott was giving free tours of their copper mine so we went. It is a cool thing to go see at least once. On the way home we stopped by and saw the "Up" house. A builder built a replica of the house in the movie Up. It's going to be in the Parade of Homes, but tons of people already are going by to see it. It's really cute! The girls loved seeing it and so did we. It was a fun Saturday.

In front of the copper mine

The huge pit

These are the size of the tires on the massive machines that haul away the rock. The video we watched said the machines are as tall as a house!

In front of the cute Up house

The mailbox is even the same! So cute!

Tyler at 2 months

My little guy is already two months old! He is so precious; I love him so much!! He's holding his head up better and is a major smiler! He's even been sleeping through the night the past week. He's definitely a keeper! :-)

Thought I would do a post of pictures from the past two months. Enjoy!

Starting out his life

loves, Loves, LOVES to be held

Is super loved by his sister

Emily's already trying to teach him sign language. Can you see him signing I love you, with just a little help? :-)

Cheering cuz he's in our family! :-)

Another position he likes; crazy but true

Isn't he SO cute?! Oh, I love him!!

Coach Pitch

Emily was too old to do T-ball again this year so we put her in coach pitch. We were very nervous!! Could she actually hit a ball thrown to her? The answer: yes and no! :) Some times up to bat were great and she hit it right away and other times the coach had to be VERY patient. Overall she did fine, but still liked the treats at the end of the game the best. At least she had a good attitude about the season and going to games!

They had a pink bat which she loved!!

Posing! She did much better in the field this year. When she would actually get the ball though she'd be so proud of herself she'd look over at us and wave the ball while her coach was yelling, "Emily, throw the ball!" Oh well, at least she was proud of herself. :-)

4th of July

The 4th of July is Kenny's favorite holiday so we always go to the parade and fireworks. This year I didn't feel comfortable dragging Tyler out in the hot sun for 4+ hours so I stayed home with him and Kenny took the girls. As it turned out the morning was very overcast so it would have been fine, but I enjoyed relaxing alone with my little guy.

Anyway, we always leave att he crack of dawn to see the balloons and find a spot for the parade. We get our traditional McDonald's breakfast and head to the parade. This year because it was overcast, they didn't launch the balloons which was a big disappointment for Kenny, but the parade was still on. Here are some highlights:

Giving high 5's to the runners while still in their PJ's. We leave to the parade while they're still asleep.

Dressed and looking cute!

Ashley being happy; she'd probably just done something naughty because she has that look on her face. :)

Ashley enjoying some gum--she LOVES gum!

And some of Daddy's Pepsi, much to the chagrin of mom!

Waving to the princesses

They sat by a balloon maker so they got some cool animals and hats

The F-16 flyovers are Kenny's favorite part of the parade and everyone loves the big animal balloons--scooby doo was a favorite this year. After the parade Kenny took the girls to Seven Peaks and had a blast. That night we went to our sister-in-law's house for a BBQ then on to PG for their fireworks. It was a fun day for everyone.

A Bad Skin Week

Warning: The pictures below are a little hard to look at.

Tyler has REALLY bad baby acne. We think that one of them got infected. Two weeks ago, he started getting lots of little sores with honey colored scabs, especially on his right ear. It looked so bad, but we just assumed it was the baby acne. Each day it got worse and worse spreading across most all his right cheek until a week ago when he woke up his face by his right ear was swollen and oozing. It looked so horrible that I couldn't let it go any longer. I called the doctor and made them work me in immediately. As soon as the doctor saw him he said, "That's impetigo." Impetigo is a staff infection of the skin. Luckily it's easily treatable. Tyler got put on oral meds and face cream and luckily a week later he's looking wonderful.

I had a mole that had turned black so I finally made an appointment to get it removed. It seemed to go well until the next day when around the bandaid my skin started turning red and feeling hard and lumpy. I have VERY sensitive skin so I didn't think too much about it, but the red circle continued to grow, itched super bad, blisters appeared all over and hurt like crazy whenever I stood up. So the next day I couldn't take it any longer and I returned to my dermatologist to show him. Apparently he had put polysporin on the wound site. I am allergic to neosporin and I guess polysporin too. This was a severe allergic reaction. He gave me some cream and luckily once again it stopped hurting within a day or two. The blisters have gone away but it still looks horrible and red. My skin is so sensitive and dumb that hopefully it will be healed before I go back to school in a month but I wouldn't be surprised if it was still around!

It was definitely a bad week for skin in the Day family!

Unfortunately I didn't take a picture of his skin at its worst, but you can see the oozing and sores on his face. This was about two days after we started treating him.

He looks so much better now! I love my little guy!

My leg--Yuck!

Flag Cake

I've always wanted to make the 4th of July flag cake. This year I finally did. It turned out cute. We didn't have blueberries so we improvised, but my girls didn't care. They thought it was neat. Emily even wanted to say the pledge to the cake so we let her.--That's the video below. The best part about making the flag cake...we got to eat it!!

Em putting her hand over her heart in honor of the flag

Happy sisters by the cake

Not only is this cute that she is saluting the cake, but listen to how she says the pledge. :-) Very cute.