Fishing

Brian gave me the most wonderful surprise yesterday. He had arranged to drop Kyler off and his moms house and took me fishing for the day. We went to Strawberry reservoir because supposedly it's suppose to be fishing really well right now. The weather was suppose to be freezing (literally, 30 degrees) So Brian came prepared with cold winter gear. But as you'll see from the pictures, it was BEAUTIFUL!!! This was my first real time fishing, there has always been something romantic about fishing for me, the quiet lake, the beautiful scenery, doing nothing but enjoy nature, and cast of course. Anyway, I loved it, here's me fishing.

And here's my fish!!! I only caught one, but after 4 hours of nothing, I was totally ecstatic to get anything at all. He is an 11 in Rainbow Trout.
Time to prepare the fish, Brian was nice and cleaned it for me. It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. So all I had to do was cook it. You can also see the lovely sunburn I got on one side of my head...:)
The finished product!
Yummy!! I'm not much of a fish person, I really don't enjoy the "fishy" taste. But this wasn't even the slightest bit fishy, it was SO yummy, quite possible they best "meat" I've ever had. Can't wait to catch more!

SNOW!!!

Pictures of our first snowfall, I LOVE WINTER!

Sisters by Chance, Friends by Choice

So I was tagged by my friend Jenny. Here's how it works, I'm suppose to go to my picture file and post the fourth picture in the fourth folder, tell a little about it, then tag 3 other people.

Here's the picture

This is my sister Heather before our Dad's wedding. I love my sisters, they are my best friends. I look up to them in so many ways. Life hasn't always been easy for them, but they have turned out to be amazing women (already!! I can't believe my little girls are women!) They are hard workers and seem to turn every bad situation into a good one. They have worked several jobs to support themselves from everything to eating out, to buying a car. I'm so proud of them. But mostly I just love being with them, I love slumber party time at my house, or "babysitting" them when my moms out of town, not that they need me there, but that it's a good excuse to spend more time with them. I love them so much, and I'm SO grateful I get to spend the rest of eternity with them. I love you girls!!

Here are some good times with my sisters

I tag Alyson, Christel, and Amy

Temper Tantrums and a Two Hour Nap

It came out of no where, I was totally blindsided. Kyler started throwing temper tantrums today. It started when I got him up from his morning nap. I put him on his changing table and he started screaming...I thought, weird, I wonder if he's not feeling well. I finish changing him, and put him on the floor next to his train, and he is suddenly happy. "Interesting" I think to myself. I start to walk out of the room, torrential tears, so I pick him up. Happy. We go into my room so I can get dressed for the day, put him down, he falls to the floor kicking and screaming. Mind you he's only 13 months! This pattern goes on all morning, I can't do dishes, go to the bathroom, even pick up toys, the minute my attention might slightly be off of him, tantrums ensue. Needless to say, I was looking forward to afternoon nap time. He usually goes down at 1:00, but by the time lunch was over, I don't think either of us was going to last much longer, so I put him down at a quarter to 12, and he's STILL sleeping. He hasn't taken a two hour nap in months!! He must have been tired. I hope things are better when he wakes, because I wasn't expecting tantrum till he was 2! :)

Silver Lake

On Saturday we went up Big Cottonwood Canyon and stopped at Silver lake. This is a really beautiful place, and Silver lake is very family friendly. It has a boardwalk all the way around the lake so its great for strollers and kids. It also has picnic areas. There are two trails that branch off the boardwalk, we took the 1.25 mile hike up to Twin Lakes reservoir.

This is Silver Lake, the leaves were so beautiful.

Here's us on the trail

View of Silver Lake from the trail

Twin Lakes Reservoir.

The hike was much more amazing then the destination.



Pretty pictures of the leaves.

The Actual Day and the Party Day

So Kyler's actual birthday was a big day for Brian. He had a test in his hardest class AND he was defending his doctoral presentation that day, so needless to say, I figured we'd do nothing. But Brian surprised us by skipping some classes, and we went out to play. We went to Liberty Park, and had a wonderful picnic, then we went over to this little river/splash park that Kyler loves.

Kyler got this funny crawl because the cement was hurting his knees



Brian gave his presentation with flying colors and it was excepted (wahoo!), so then we took Kyler and went out to dinner with some of Brian's school friends who also defended that day. All in all it was a great day.

We celebrated his birthday on Saturday at my Cabin. We opened presents throughout the day so he'd get some good one on one time with each gift giver. He got:

A WAY cute suit from my Mom and the girls

The cutest toy train ever from Jeff and Leslie

And a fun new book from G & G Smith, Aunt Kiki, and Aunt Juju with LOTS of cloths (Thank you!!)

The rain held off just long enough for us to enjoy the outdoors, and eat dinner.

Then the best part...the CAKE! We made a sand castle cake because Kyler loves to eat sand. Our little Sand Monster.

What a great day! Thanks to everyone who came! And to top it off, Kyler took his first steps that day, here's proof.