Our Week in Utah

Trent and I decided to take a trip to Utah a week ago. We thought it was best, being that Calvin's great-grandparents are getting older...94!! We wanted them to have a chance to meet their great grandson. We first flew into St. George and on to Hurricane. Calvin was so good on both flights...I was quite proud! But once the plane touched down in St. George, He just completely soured! We then went on to Kanab to visit both great-grandparents. Now for those of you who have never been to Kanab, It is a small village located on the south border of Utah. When I say village, I mean a very charming village :) Here we visited Grandpa White (who is 94!) and Donna.

Grandpa white was quite charming while telling stories of the past. One story he told was of pitching to Jakie Robinson while in College. From what I understood, they wanted to advance him to the minor leagues but under the condition he would move out east. Seems Grandpa White said no thank you. This man really has some interesting stories!Calvin just spent most the time crawling on the floor and going through my purse and diaper bag (his favorite activity). Once, while in church, I wouldn't let him go though my purse so he scooted up the the pew in front of us and started going through a young lady's purse....so funny! Hey - this purse playing business doesn't mean he's "fruity"....just something kids do.

Next we went to Grandma Mary's house to visit for awhile. Calvin seemed quite intrigued with his great-grandmother.

We then stayed several days in Hurricane to visit with aunts and cousins. Calvin met Aunt Tammy and his cousins Tyler and Andi. He didn't quite know what to think of baby Mason. Calvin is so funny about other babies...He usually seems so terrified of them!

Then on to Salt Lake City we flew to visit Calvin's Uncle Brian, Aunt Holly and their awesome kids Kylie, Sydney, and Tyson. It was at this point I forgot to take anymore pictures :) I think this was due to the fact that we were jet-lagged and zombie-like from lack of sleep. Calvin did NOT sleep well while on vacation! We love and miss our Utah Family. Next time we go, we're going to make a special trip to visit old friends...that I was so sad about not getting to see :(

Our Special Surprise

Calvin turned one on March 3, and it was a much anticipated party by his anxious mother. First of all, I OBSESSED over making his cake. I decided to do "A Very Hungry Caterpillar " theme and I wanted the cake to be perfect. I think it actually turned out pretty decent myself. I've never actually made a birthday cake for anyone!

Then I obsessed on how to decorate for the birthday. Thanks to pintrerst, I came up with a few ideas.

Last, I was completely obsessing over the special surprise I had for our parents. You see, Trent and I had been keeping a little secret from everyone for several months. We had known since Dec. 6th that I was pregnant with our second child. We were overjoyed over the news, but I didn't think about it non-stop like I did with my first pregnancy. To be perfectly honest....I would just forget I was pregnant. It wasn't that I lacked enthusiasm about the pregnancy, I just stay busy and it's just not quite as exciting as your "very first" pregnancy. With this being said - I decided to find a fun way to reveal the secret to the grandparents. I bought an adorable shirt for Calvin that read "I'm not lion, I'm going to be a big brother". The shirt had an adorable lion in the middle of it. I thought what better time and neat way to reveal our secret at Calvin's party with all the family around?!? I put the shirt on Calvin and put a vest on top of it so the secret wouldn't be revealed until the perfect time - which was when I put Calvin in his high chair to dig into his cake. That way everyone would be around watching and notice his shirt.

Well here's how that "reveal" went down. We took off Calvin's vest and put him in the high chair so everyone could read our exciting news.

Yeah, that's how this ungrateful, party-pooper reacted. To top this rude behavior off.....NOBODY noticed his shirt....NOBODY.  Trent finally picked Calvin up and held him to calm him and so everyone could read his shirt.

And NOBODY noticed his shirt...at all. We finally just put Calvin back in his chair and gave him a piece of cake to see if it would calm him.

And it did! Hey - sugar will make ANYONE happy! He was good-to-go after the cake. Sadly, no one ever did notice the shirt so we had to bring it to everyone's attention...what a waste of $27!!!