I'm so glad when daddy comes home...

This is what happens everyday...

"oooh is that Dad home??? I better go crawl over there and see..."

wait for it...


There he is!!



"Don't leave me ever again!"


And this is just cause he's cute :)



Here ...fishy...fishy...

Happy Birthday to ....US!

Daron and I share the same birthday, which brings a lot of confusion to many people. Yes the same day, AND the same year. We're pretty much twins. Sharing the same birthday is kind of crowded for two people to share, so we've decided to have a birthweek. That way we both get spoiled for a good amount of time :)
We started our birthweek with a trip to Taggarts Restaurant. Daron's parents took us there. It's a good 45 minute drive. It's near Morgan. It was wonderful. I had the yummy French Dip w/ Battered fries! I love fries, and battered just makes it better. Daron ordered the Salmon, which he enjoyed.

After dinner we went outside to see the peacocks and fish.



Thank you Mom and Dad Bergstrom for a wonderful meal!
On our "Real" Birthday, Austin and I played all day and then partied with Daron at night. We went to the Pizza Factory in Bountiful. We discovered two things. First, we loved the bread and salad. Second, not so much the pizza and pasta. Now we know.
Austin loves restaurants! He enjoys smiling at all the new people.

After dinner, Daron took me shopping. We went and tried on hats at Target...

for me, not Austin.
Then we opened presents. Austin was in awe as Daron opened lots of shirts and a game.

He helped me open my present...

Wahoo! One that works (Thanks Katie for helping Daron)!

We also celebrated for the rest of the week by:
Watching the BYU Game at Daron's brothers house. Daron held cute little Grace.

My family celebrated our birthdays with a fun BBQ! We also received our gift Cards to the Melting Pot and Teppanyaki. We are excited to use these. And thanks for the cute shirt and the fun game Catan. For those that don't know that game, you seriously have to try it out. It's only a two player game, but so fun. Daron and I played it for 3 hours the first time!

I experimented and made a Rachel Ray recipe. Pretty good, too much work though.


And of course, our free meals at Red Robin!


Phew! We had a great birthday. Here's to being 27!!

So Cool...Again!

I know, I'm not really the type to show off, or tell you how cool I am. But, this is something that I just need to share, and yes it pretty much tells you how cool I am. Are you ready (If you get confused just keep reading, it may make sense in the end)???
On Monday I go shopping to Rite Aid and Walgreens. I check a few key blogs, look at my coupons, fill my purse with crackers and cookies (hey, it's for Austin) and head out the door ready to get some good deals. I arrive and go at it. Yes, the sales people know me, and Austin. They probably refer to me as the "coupon girl." But, mind you, there are many of us out there. So this particular day I went to Walgreens and spent $9.20 and I got back $10. So thank you Walgreens for paying me to shop at your store.
I continued on, this time with a smile on my face, to Rite Aid. I had a scenario in my mind and hoped it would work. I have coupons, and Rite Aid coupons, and Video coupons. My total before all these coupons was $45..something. Then the magic happened...it kept going down until I reached the total of $14.13. Wahoo! Oh, but that's not the best part of it. I got $7 back in "up" money (basically free money to buy whatever at Rite Aid) oh and I get to submit about $6 or more in rebates, which I will get back as a check, pure money. Do you see the grand total?? Yes, I paid about $1 for all that you see below!!

These are expensive items (yes that's a full pack of diapers), so to get them free is AWESOME!! They are things that we use regularly. The picture below has the Walgreens items as well as the Rite Aid. So with that $1 back, I got all this for free :)

Go ahead...say it...I'm pretty cool huh! If you want to know my secrets, let me know, I'm happy to share.

Austin is 1 !!

Our little baby boy is one year old! This year has been filled with so many fun memories. Austin has brought us so much joy. We find that at nights we are content by sitting on the couch and watching Austin play, crawl, stand, laugh, smile, drool...you name it. He is such a fun boy. We love him!
We had a family party for him. It was supposed to be held at our cute park close by. I had all these great games planned for the little kids, and big kids, but of course we had a freak summer storm. So, my wonderful games were bypassed and we scrunched into our house and tried to party that way. It all worked out. We even attempted the pinata during a break in the storm.
When I went to pick out the pinata I tried to think of something that Austin would like, and recognize. I found a cute little doggy. Austin loves dogs. I somehow forgot that we would be smashing the heck out of that dog. Austin just kept smiling at the dog, wondering why in the world I wanted him to hit it with the bat. Oooops..



All in anticipation of the candy to drop...


Austin got spoiled! Thanks to all that came and helped with that.


The cake. I was imagining Austin "going at it." We all started singing to him. If you can imagine 25 people singing and staring at you, you would probably do what Austin did....he cried. It was sad, but once I gave him the cake he was a little better.



On his real birthday, Austin and I were able to play all day long. We did whatever he wanted to do. Like open and close the cupboards, climb the stairs, throw toys, go on a walk, took a long nap, and played with the neighbor girls (who adore him!!) I had a Young Womens event that evening, so Daron took care of Austin. As you can see below, he experienced his first happy meal.

He is so big and so fun. I am amazed at how fast he picks up on things.
He now says:
nana = Banana
baba= Bottle
ba= Ball
up=up
dada= dad
datu= Thank You
Num num= anything edible
And he can sign "all done"
I'm still waiting for him to say "mama". He will say it on occasion if he is mad. Hummm...
The stats:
21 pounds (20%) I know! I totally thought he was huge! I guess I should feed him more happy meals.
29" (40%)
And a large head...still.
We love him!

We LOVE Summer!!

I love the mornings. Austin usually sleeps till 8 or later, so he is a happy baby when he wakes up. He wakes up and starts talking. I usually let him talk for a while so I can wake up and get ready. He's so fun to listen to. A couple weeks ago I walked in to see this...

The day has come that he is climbing up in his crib. Since he realized he can do this, this is what I see every morning and nap!


Darons work had a party the other week, where we were able to go eat dinner and watch a Bees game. It was really fun. The weather was perfect. Not too hot, and not too cold (I didn't even need a light jacket...get it??:)


Our excited faces after the game, even though they didn't win.


Austin loves being outside. We found a little park close to our house. It has a lot of grass and nice tennis courts and a great park. This is how Austin crawls in the grass. Tongue out and everything!


On Saturday we were able to go up to Bear Lake for a Barlow reunion. It was so much fun! Austin LOVED the water. But even more then the water, he loved eating the mud. He would roll his hand over the mud and watch it, grab a handful, and stick it in his mouth! We would say no, and wash his mouth out, just for him to do it again. Little stinker.




Austin loved snuggling with dad.


Cute boys!


These are very cool castles my cousins built. I had to keep Austin away from them, they were so tempting to go smash.


Austin went on his first boat ride. I didn't get a picture in the boat, but he enjoyed it. We went water skiing. I was able to get up and stay up for awhile, it was so fun! Daron got up....and that's about it :) And kudos to my Aunt Cindy who looked like a professional at 50 years young!
We had a great time. Austin fell asleep all the way home!

Bonners Ferry and Jackson Hole

Why is it so hard to come back from a vacation? We had so much fun up in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. We left on the 17th of July and carpooled with my parents up to Bonners. The town is so beautiful! Pine trees and rivers everywhere, what more could you ask for? It took us two days to get there, since it's a 12 hour drive. Yes, Idaho goes that far. Bonners is about 30 minutes from Canada, so we were heading for an adventure. My Aunt and Uncle live up there, we were meeting my mom's side of the family for a reunion.
On our way up, we stayed at Georgetown Lake. It's by Anaconda Montana. It was beautiful! Even little 3 month old Kezzie came!


This was the first night that we had Austin in a tent. I was sooo nervous! It was chilly, so I bundled him in I don't know how many layers. He really liked rolling around in the tent (as seen below), but when it was bed time he SCREAMED! Yes SCREAMED! I couldn't do it, so I took him out of the pack n play and went back out by the fire and we just sat there until he fell asleep. Once he was asleep, I put him in his bed and he did pretty well. Daron and I didn't sleep well, since we were thinking of Austin the whole night. He cried a couple times, and then fell back asleep. After he fell back asleep, I would get up and look at him, making sure he didn't move blankets over his face. What a night!


Once we reached Bonners, we stayed very busy. They have so much to do! They have a very nice pool, which we swam in daily. It was so nice. Austin LOVES the water! Whenever he saw the pool he would start kicking his legs.


We also went and played tennis. My Aunt is really good, so it was so fun to play with her.
Don't we look professional :)


We also played another tennis...table tennis, otherwise known as Ping Pong! This is a Reynolds tradition. So fun!


We did so many other fun activities that I didn't get pictures of, including:
Golfing (boys)
Fishing (boys)
Hiking
Bike Riding
Card Playing
Volleyball
Singing to Songs
Eating yummy food
Visiting with family!

Here are the Reynolds siblings...two brothers weren't able to come.


Two of my cute cousins. They LOVED playing with Austin.


Me and my sisters, relaxing :) That's right, ,we didn't do make- up or hair all week. That's the best! It was so fun to be together.


After Bonners, we headed to Jackson Hole where we were meeting Daron's family. We decided to drive 10 hours in one day. Yikes! Austin did extremely well! With a little help from Baby Einsteins, and a lot of toys we made it to Jackson! We again camped that night. Austin again cried before bed, so I picked him up and had him sleep with me in my sleeping bag. Bad idea! I was wedged in one position the whole night. My sweet baby took up basically the whole sleeping bag, leaving me to squeeze against the side. Oh what we mothers do for our babies :) He slept good, even though I didn't. All I was thinking about was the hotel room that we would be sleeping in the next night. Yes, that got me through it.
The next day we had to hurry to get to our white water river trip. I didn't bring my camera, I'll have to get pics from my cousin who took pictures. It was so fun! It was Darons first time, and he very enthusiastically said it was worth it. Good times.
After river rafting we went and got ready for a night at Bar J. If you haven't heard of them, you need to go. It was awesome. A great dinner, and fun entertainment.
Our family, at the entrance of Bar J.


Daron's family. We had such a fun time there. Austin didn't like all the noise, so we wondered around a lot. Thank goodness they had a lot of other things to look at.


Our last day in Jackson we wondered around the shops and then came home. As you can see Austin was tuckered out. It was so fun to have Daron with us 24/7. I think we need to go on vacations more often!

Summer Fun!!

This summer has been a blast! I can't believe it's almost August! July has been full of adventure.
The 4th was awesome, with parades, BBQs, friends, and family.
My mom and Austin had a great time!


My friend Shellie came home for a day and it was so fun to see her and her boys. She has one of each hair color, blonde, red, and brown!


My sister Sarah and her boy Jaden, and Austin and me at the K-town parade!



Since it's been such good weather I try and do something active with Austin once a day. We go on A LOT of walks. I've started going to the park with some girls and their kiddos from our ward, it's so fun to be out and enjoying the sun.
I also get together with these wonderful girlies...


We met at Erin's place, since it's right across from the temple. Who can beat that location?? It was so fun to talk and walk around and then go back to an air conditioned apartment.
We tried to keep Austin and Grace hydrated :)