half a year already

I cannot believe that Rhone is 6 months old. It went by so fast, but it has been so much fun. Every week he learns some new sound to make. Right now he makes the sound of a "d" all the time. You might find this hard to believe but Rhone is slimming down, he's lost a few tummy rolls and I can feel his ribs when I pick him up. He has a new found love of fresh peaches and anything that everyone else is eating. He ate a whole one at one setting. He isn't crawling yet, but that doesn't mean he isn't mobile. He loves being outside, attention, and splashing in water.

Rhone has learned that if he leans he can get a better view and now his balance is good enough he doesn't tip over. My uncle was nice enough to take a few 6 month pictures of Rhone. If you're interested you can see the rest of them here

Rhone at Antelope Island

This is one of Rhone's toe push-ups, nothing is on the ground but hands and toes.

The joys of Rhone feeding himself. He loves it and so do I except the messes. He thinks cheetos are delish.

Notice he even managed to get some on his forehead and it is smeared all over the tray.

Being 6 months is hard work, luckily we (my mom is the best) convince him to sneak in a few cat naps.

a little feminine

My mom and I got our first pedicures together. Our family friend Mary, was nice enough to squeeze us in. If you enlarge the picture you can see the impressive details. It's been so fun to spend time with my mom!


My college friend Alexis is tying the knot, so Rhone and I made a quick trip to Idaho Falls to help her celebrate at her bridal shower. It was so much fun to see her and Jenna. Plus Rhone got to see some of the things at the dairy farm, like a hairless calf (nope I'm not kidding), Burbon the huge Great Dane, and even stick his fist up the horse's nostril. What a great trip.

Jenna, Me, Alexis, and Rhone

Notice that you can see the wrinkles in the calf's neck because there is no hair (his skin is just that dark). It was so weird to touch him.

Rhone eying up Burbon. We think Rhone feels right at home around other large things.

celebrating

I feel behind in blogging, so here's a quick catch up. We celebrated the 4th of July for 3 days straight. It was fun but exhausting.

On Friday July 3rd, my mom's family always has a cook out (actually we call it a weenie roast, but that might be offensive to some people) where we roast hot dogs and marshmallows over the fire. My two uncles were in town, so the whole crew was there (well you know, expect for Ben). It was lots of fun to visit and catch up with everybody.

Kaleigh and Rhone playing together. She's such a nice older cousin.

Morgan and Brock getting ready to eat

On the 4th, we watched the Malad parade with family friends. Rhone seemed to enjoy some of it (well mostly the 4-wheelers), but the high school band made him burst into tears- I guess he thought the music was bad or just too loud. We had yummy bar-b-que with the Dorius family, went to some of the events at the park, had our own little cookout and finished the night with fireworks. For such a small town Malad does have pretty good fireworks. Rhone even managed to stay up until 10:30 or so to see part of the show.

Celebrating Independence Day and hoping that Ben is maintaining his independence by evading the enemy at survival school. We are grateful that our country believes that, "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

Some of the gang watching the parade.

Who grills at your house? Yep this is my mom grilling up the goods for dinner.

One of the things I love about Malad is cool summer nights. Here's Rhone waiting for the fireworks to start. He wasn't the only one wearing a warm jacket that night.

Rhone was too busy watching the fireworks to look at the camera.

On Sunday my dad's family had a little bar-b-que at my aunts house. It was fun to see my cousins and all their kiddos. The older ones where a hoot to watch playing in the pool and of course it was fun to take turns holding everyone's cute babies too.

Tiff with Alli and me with Rhone. Rhone is only a week older than Alli so it's always fun to watch them play together.

There's always a bright side to everything right? Because my cooking and cleaning has been at a minimum at my mom's house while Ben is TDY. You can find more of these comics at http://jennyspouse.com/

christmas in june

Yesterday we got 2 packages. One was from Ben full of clothes for Rhone and me and the other was our new backpack carrier. (We already have one thanks to Ben's mom, but as previoiusly noted, it is in Mississippi). Yesterday we went up a nearby canyon and took a little hike to test it out. Afterwards we had marshmellows around the campfire with my parents, brother and some friends. Today Rhone and I are both sporting our newly delivered clothes. Isn't getting packages great!