The end of traveling as we know it.

This summer has been one of many travels. We decided to try and see all of our family this summer since I will be in no condition to travel around Thanksgiving and Christmas. So I figure we won't be going anywhere until after winter is over.

Well, We just got back from a trip to Utah. We went down for Labor Day weekend. It was a lot of fun. My dad and his siblings were having a family reunion so we were able to see a lot of family. All of my sisters came as well. Steph started another semester of college. She is a Junior now. It is prett crazy. I must be getting old.

Josh had a lot of fun playing with everyone. I don't have all the pictures from this weekend because my mom took most of them, and I didn't get them from her. But she said she would send them. We stayed at my uncle's, which was fun because they had some little kittens. Josh thought they were pretty cool. He kept calling them dogs though, we couldn't get him to even think about saying kitty. He always wanted to hold them. The only think he didn't like about them was when they followed him around, he would get scared when he turned around and they were there. It was pretty funny to watch. He also found out that they don't like to be pulled around by their tails. He only did that once.

It was so much fun to see Josh play with his little cousin Nathan. When we saw them a few weeks ago, Josh didn't want to have anything to do with him. But this time, He would wave and get really happy when he would see him. It was really cute, Josh kept giving Nathan hugs. Nathan is only 8 1/2 months so sometimes his hugs were more like tackles than hugs, we got pictures of both. So the first picture is the tackle and the second one is when we asked Josh to give Nathan a hug.

It was fun to watch them try and learn to share. My uncle has one of the flinstones cars and they both thought that it was pretty fun to play in. They also both wanted to play with the ball. Here Josh is taking the ball from Nathan. Luckly they are both pretty easy going and neither one really cared when the other took something.

My Dad really had fun playing with his two boys. He obviously could play better with Josh because he is walking and 6 months older than Nathan. And I must admit that I really really enjoyed watching my dad play with Josh. It made me very happy. I just wish we lived closer so that they could play more often and develop a really good relationship. But maybe someday.

Well, I am sure I have mentioned before how much Josh enjoys playing with water. Well, my dad showed Josh the joys of a hose. We were at my Grandparents house after church on Sunday and They had a hose out. So my dad turns it on and Josh thinks it is great. My mom has all the pictures from him playing in the water, but Andrew took some videos of it. In this first one he is just playing in the water.

In this second one he has discovered that he can drink from it. I am pretty sure he figured it out himself. What is really funny is that later, he started to blow bubbles into the water that was comming out. When he found the hose again later, he picked it up and started to blow into the hose again, which pressurized the hose and water started to come out. He thought that was pretty cool. He got so wet, we took his pants off and I literaly was able to ring them out. So here is a little clip of him drinking.

So those are the highlights from this weekend. How is everything going with all of you? Krista we haven't heard from you in a while. What is new. Also does anyone have any ideas for lunches and snacks for 15 month olds. I hate trying to figure out lunch for me and now I have to do two of them. So any new ideas would be great. Thanks.

Well I htink that about wraps this up. Sorry that it ended up being so long. I hope you enjoy it.

Julie