Henry’s First Camping Trip

Over Independence Day Weekend, we and Tiffany went camping up in American Fork Canyon.  Of course all the good campgrounds were packed, so our site was a little lame, but it worked just fine for us!  Henry did really well.  He loved walking around the woods, and even though he got to bed pretty late, he slept okay.  We’ll have to go again!

This is our shiny new tent!  It has 2 rooms and is rather luxurious

Henry was such a good helper

We went out the next morning, and a couple had brought horses to ride some trails!  Henry was thrilled!  The people were so nice and even let Henry sit up on the horses.

He was a natural!

That last picture was Henry not wanting to get down. 

Then it was time to break down camp.

Again, Henry was a good helper.

All in all, we had a good time!  On the way home, we had the windows down and Henry kept throwing his hands in the air like he was on a roller coaster.

We drove by our favorite place in this canyon.  If you get a chance, check out Tibble Creek Reservoir, or go even further to Silver Lake.  Definitely worth it!!

Playing with Kids

Jimmy’s sister, Trisha, and her husband have a goat in their yard.  We went to see it, and Henry had a blast! 

This is Stu.  Or as Jimmy spells it, Stew.

Henry chasing chickens

My boy is an excellent chicken herder.  Look at how he separated them by color!  (Baaa Ram Ewe!)

Farm life makes a little boy sleepy

Henry Miscellany

Because we haven’t posted in . . . forever, here’s a melange of pictures too fun to pass up, but too random to get their own post

After a bath one morning snuggling with dad

These are obviously pre-hair cut!                  

This next one was at an Ultimate tournament of ours.

Happy Birthday, Henry!

Can you believe it’s already been a year?  Henry turned 1 on July 15.  He hardly fits in my arms anymore, and he definitely doesn’t stay there long.  He’s growing into a fun-loving, happy toddler, but deep down, he’ll always be my baby.  Right now some of his favorite things are going outside, watching big kids play, swinging at the park, and pretty much doing anything physical.  He climbs on everything, spins around in circles, and the other day he figured out how to climb up the slide at Grandma & Grandpa Dunn’s house!  It’s sad that I only get to see him for a couple hours most days, but at least we still have bedtime.  That is when he still lets me rock him and sing to him, and he’ll give me hugs and kisses and snuggle up in my arms.  Then we lay him in bed and he snuggles his dog and his gorilla.  Incidentally, that gorilla was given him by his pediatrician because Henry’s just so loveable and passed his well-child checkup with an A+.  He wins hearts wherever he goes, smiling or chatting with people at church and running around being so cute the old ladies let him steal their walkers

We still haven’t had a party for him, but on his real birthday, we did go out to eat, open some presents, and have a cupcake.

After much debate, we ended up getting Henry a Tonka-type truck that he can ride or push around.

Then we gave him his cupcake – you have to take these pictures – I’m pretty sure it’s a rule.

It’s hard to see the mess in this lighting, but there was a big one!  Happy birthday, little boy!

Catch-Up Posting: Haircut

Neither Jimmy nor I, nor Henry, for that matter, have posted anything in a long, long time.  So I’m just going to blog-storm for a little bit and see how much gets up.  These may not be current, and they may not even be in chronological order.  But at least they’re here!

My little brother’s hair curled ever-so-cutely when he was Henry’s age, so I was excited that Henry’s hair was getting long enough to curl at the bottom, too.  Then he got called a girl twice in one day and Jimmy said it was time for a hair cut.  Here’s how Henry took it:

You can see how he banged his head, screaming, onto his tray, so it came up with Chex all over his forehead.

Notice the long locks

Priceless.