Cheese fries please!

Cameron gets his love for cheese fries from his mom :) but I have no idea where he gets his kick back, make yourself at home and relax while you eat attitude!?

We went to Training Table the other day (surprise surprise) and had lots of fun. First of all Jeremy brought all the food and set it on the table, when we realized they gave us the wrong size of cheese fries. So he took them back up to the counter and as he was leaving with them Cameron started crying and screaming....he kept trying to get out of his high chair to follow those cheese fries. Once they came back he was his happy self again and went to town eating them.
I'm sure one day we will teach him some manners and let him know it isn't really appropriate to eat with your feet on the table, especially in public :) But for right now it sure is funny and cute! I LOVE this kid. The fun never stops with him!

The Mailman

I'm sure most people in Utah know the 24th of July as Pioneer Day and celebrate this day as the day the pioneers settled the state. However few people know that this is Karl Malone's birthday!!!

Karl came back to Utah to celebrate his 47th birthday with ME :) He had a big party at his dealership and Jeremy and I drove by thinking we might stop in and try and see Karl. But I decided once we drove in that I didn't want to deal with the crowds and the chaos with Cameron. So we drove a little further to turn around when I looked out the window and what did I see...Karl Malone standing right before me! I jumped out of the car and ran over to him. I shook his hand and said Happy Birthday Karl. Then I motioned for Jeremy to jump out of the car and take our picture.
He is one big fella! I have always loved the Mailman. He is so down to earth and nice. He is so genuine and just chatted with me, he wasn't in a hurry but I think Jeremy was :)

So what I love about Karl is what you see is what you get....there isn't any arogance or cocky attitude....he isn't wearing big 'ol diamond earrings or tons of bling....he isn't in a suit or designer clothes to show how much money he has etc. He is just laid back and hard working. Happy Birthday Karl, I hope you had a fantastic day!

Swimming

My friend has a little boy who is 6 weeks older than Cameron and they are good buds. Her mom and dad have a swimming pool at their house so we decided to take the kids and cool off. It has been in the upper 90's and a few days reached 103 degrees so needless to say the swimming pool was a great idea!

Cameron and his bud Jayden hanging out in the tubes...

Sitting on the steps, splashing and having fun.

Cameron does have a cautious bone (phew) and wanted me to hold him when we first got in the water. He didn't like the idea of being in the tube right at first. So he observed the other kids swimming and splashing and I let him slowly get comfortable. Then he got on the tube by himself....then sat on the steps....and after that was having a blast climbing in and out and splashing. He didn't want to leave. We will be begging to head back to the pool again. Maybe Cameron can get rid of his farmers tan if we go a few more times :)

Funny boy

Cameron LOVES to laugh! He seriously cracks me up...he laughs all the time...out of the blue...we can be riding in the car and he will just start laughing. He has the cutest personality. He knows when he is being funny and he knows when Jeremy and I are laughing that he should laugh too. I took this little video about 10 minutes into the game Jeremy was playing with Cam. If you can believe it, he was laughing even harder and longer before I started videoing. I absolutely can't get enough of this kid!

Cousin Pictures

Grammy and Grampy wanted to get some updated pictures of the grandkids so she had a photographer come to their house one night last week. Thank goodness she was a patient photographer and worked well with kids because she had her work cut out for her with Cameron. We never knew when Cameron was going to smile or stay put, so the cousins had to have their game face or picture face on at all times! They all did awesome....

Jeremy and I had our family pictures taken a few weeks before these so I really didn't plan on getting any of the ones she took of Cameron....however, I just couldn't pass up these two! When I get the ones back of our family I will post those, but it is taking a long time.

I love his little back side...what a cute picture of him walking on the path!

The 3 boy cousins....Cameron, Troy, and Spencer. Even though they are much older than Cameron, they still love him and have fun playing with him. They will be good examples for him to follow!

Janessa, Spencer, Troy, Lindsie, Cameron, and Mallory.

Cameron wouldn't leave grammy and grampy's wagon alone....I let him play in it until all the other cousins were posed for the picture and then hurry and plop him where the photographer wanted him. Sometimes he would stay and most of the time he wouldn't. Finally I suggested to just have all the kids gather around the wagon for a picture and thought they might actually be some of the best ones because Cameron would at least be happy. She didn't love the idea because she thought it looked less professional and more like an everyday picture. But I think you just have to work with what you've got, and we had an active 1 year old with a mind of his own :)

The best part about these pictures is all of us standing around the photographer making fools out of ourselves. Margo and I dancing and making weird noises, blowing a whistle, throwing grass in the air....Michele waving a puppet all around and making noise with a paper bag. We were trying anything to get Cameron's attention and try to make him smile. Most of the time it just caught his attention and made him stop for a second...I am pretty sure he thought we were crazy though. Finally, we realized we needed Grampy out there to make him smile and laugh. It worked for awhile until he just wanted Grampy to "save" him and hold him :)

There he goes....to have Grampy save him. I actually LOVE this picture, it is my favorite. Mostly because it captures how the day really went and how Cameron really is! I Love this kid and all of his energy and spark. I love my sisters' kids and think they are all such great kids and are so good with Cameron. Somehow the picture doesn't seem complete though! We just might need to add another cousin to the mix. NO that isn't an announcement, just a thought :)

4th of July festivities

Siince the 4th fell on a Sunday this year, we celebrated the holiday all weekend. Saturday night we had a neighborhood BBQ and watched a great illegal firework show :) Our neighbor had a bunch of boxes full of fireworks he bought somewhere. After we ate dinner and were waiting for it to get dark enough to start the show, Jeremy gave Cameron a bath and put him to bed. I thought for sure he would wake up when the bombs started going off and wouldn't be able to go to sleep. But he slept right through it all...he must get that from his dad :)

This was the beautiful sunset we enjoyed while eating dinner.

Everyone getting ready for the big show....it was actually a little cold so we had blankets and sweatshirts.

OOOHHH, AWWHHHH


EEHHHH, AWWHHH

My two handsome boys all dressed in their Sunday best sporting red, white, and blue.

On Monday morning my family met at IHOP for breakfast and then we headed out to Tooele to enjoy a day full of waterskiing, wakeboarding, riding motorcycles, and hanging out at Last Chance Lakes. Rick and Margo are what we like to call "waterski snobs"...they bought a bunch of property to build a private lake on so they could ski glass water anytime they wanted and not deal with a million boats and choppy water. We can't tease them too much though because it benefits us too right?! They plan to build another house out there since they spend the whole summer out there. So far they only have the boat doc/house built...we enjoyed hanging out up top eating lunch and Jeremy and the kids had a blast jumping off the top into the water. You can go to http://www.lastchancelakes.com/ to learn more about the lakes or to purchase a lot and enjoy the rights of skiing the private lake too :)

Grammy, Cam, and Daddy chillin

Cameron had a blast just hanging out in the ski boat. He was such a good boy for being in the heat all day and not taking a nap. It was a long day for him, but he had a blast!

Grampy, Cam, and Grammy on the boat.

Me getting ready to wakeboard.

Jeremy got up wakeboarding for his first time. He did awesome! After wakeboarding we got on their other boat (ski boat) to do some waterskiing. Unfortunately the camera didn't make it with us on that boat. When Margo was making the turn to give Jeremy the rope she hit a huge wave that covered the boat and soaked everything. My camera was simming and drowned. May it rest in peace :) Just know there will be no more blog posts until we get a new camera :( I am surprised at how many times a day I go to get my camera to take pictures of Cameron...just habit.

The water is so blue and pretty, it was perfect weather, the views were awesome and it was a fun and relaxing day. Jeremy and I even rode our motorcycles around while Cameron played with everyone (mostly Grampy his favorite person).

Troy getting ready to wakeboard. He is so good and is only 8!

Cameron had fun on the beach, but was a little hesitant to play around in the water.

Mommy, Cameron, and Mallory playing in the sand. What a fun day we all had. We can't wait to get out there again soon. I am excited for Cameron to learn to ski...maybe next year?!

Silly Boy

A few nights ago Cameron would not go to bed....he wasn't tired! I wondered if he might be hungry so I put him in his high chair and fed him. He grabbed the jar and decided to drink it?? It was about 10 pm and he was wired. I tried to think if he had any sugar or anything to cause him to be wide awake and full of sillyness :) But it is pretty rare if he has any sugar at all ever, so that wasn't it.

He was being so funny and just laughing. Maybe he was overly tired and was slap happy or something? I think he finally settled down and went to sleep at 10:30 or 11:00.

I can't believe how long his eyelashes are. And how they curl up perfectly!