Headed to Oregon / Updated pics of Bailey

I am headed up to Oregon to visit Janelle and help her with Kareen's wedding cake. I am kind of excited to go on a trip by myself (for fun) because I haven't done that in quite a few years. I will miss my family a ton, but it is a quick trip, so they probably won't even miss me.


Also, I have a few updated pictures of Bailey, so I will post those here.

Bailey's crawling and has teeth!!!!

My little baby is growing up so fast!!! On July 14th, she decided to become mobile. I caught it on video, but it was when she was just starting to learn how. She is much faster now.

Bailey has also decided it's a good time to grow her two bottom teeth. She is cranky and doesn't sleep well these days, but this morning I felt them poking through. Yeah! I'll get pictures when they become visible.

Grandma Harris visit

It's been a while since I've posted. We've been really busy and things at work have picked up, so I don't have a lot of free time any more. I will try to catch up on my posts when I can find spare time. Ha!


Grandma Harris came out to Utah on July 9th to visit with the grandkids that live here. She spent the weekend with Aleta's family, but I stole her away for Friday night and we went to the SLC Bees baseball game. Grandma told me a while back that she loved watching the Detroit Tigers on TV and I thought she'd really enjoy going to a live game. The Bees aren't major league, but we sure have a great time whenever we go.


We stopped at Costco and grabbed hot dogs for dinner first and then headed off to our upper deck seats. Grandma had to shift in her chair a few times to get an angle where she could see the batter, but after that she was hooked. Bailey lasted until the top of the 9th inning when she gave us the signal that it was time to go home. The Bees won the game and we got to hear the roar of the crowd as we were crossing the street to get to our car.


I got grandma back to Aleta's house after 11 pm which will probably cause me to be grounded from taking grandma out again. It was fun to catch up with grandma and to spend some time with her and my little family. Here are 2 pictures we took of her with Bailey. (you know how much grandma LOVES pictures) :-)

More Cabin pictures

A few more activities from our trip to Idaho.

1. I took the girls up to the top of Sawtell peak. It is the one with big ball on top of it, which we found out is owned by the FAA. It feels like you are on top of the world up there and has lots of snow still on the ground. Shelby wasn't too thrilled about the drive up. She was scared I was going to drive the truck off the mountain. The lake in the first picture is Henry's Lake, where we spent one day fishing. The second picture is of a stream on the drive up. It was absolutely beautiful.

2. Aaron took the girls to a pond near by to fish. They brought these fish home and cooked them up.
3. The girls LOVE the 4-wheeler. The girls took turns watching Bailey while I took them on rides.

4. I thought this picture was too cute, so I had to share. Gretchen was tired and didn't want to fish any more. :-)

Cabin Fun

The cabin was, as always, a blast. Here is a highlight of happenings from that week:

1. It rained a little everyday (and all day on the first 3 days)

2. Aaron ran into a bear about 400 yards down the road from the cabin. He came back and got us and we drove back to the spot. We were able to see the bear in the trees about 75 yards off the road. It was a huge black bear. I also decided that walks were going to be eliminated for the remainder of the trip.

3. Grandpa Jenkins joined us for most of the week. He and Aaron had a great time fishing on Henry's lake.

4. The whole family spent a few hours on the boat fishing. Bailey had a good time playing with toys on the floor. she didn't like the life jacket very much. :-(

5. We took a drive over to Cody, WY on Saturday. We had never been through the East entrance of Yellowstone, so it was fun to see a different side of the park. I will post some pictures of the interesting sites we saw there.
I'm not exactly sure what this is.....

Probably the weirdest house I've ever seen

6. In Cody, WY, we spent the day going through 5 museums combined into one building. Most of the time was spent in the gun museum, which Gretchen declared the most boring thing she has ever done in her whole entire life. In fact, she was so bored that she kept trying to get kicked out by hiding the sticker they gave us that shows we paid to get in. One time she hid it on the back of her neck, another time on her bum and another time on the bottom of her shoe. Unfortunately for her, security never caught on and she had to endure looking at the 1200 guns on the first floor of the museum.

The girls loved the natural history museum, though. It was full of activities and hands on stuff. I think their favorite part was the silicone molds of animal pooh. Nice......

7. We got ice cream in West Yellowstone twice. Yeah!

8. I bought bright green t-shirts for the girls and brought up a bleach pen and let them draw designs on the t-shirts. They turned out so cute!!!!

9. Bailey slept really well the whole trip. Compared to the last time we were at the cabin, she was an angel.

10. Grandpa really enjoyed playing pat-a-cake with Bailey and getting his buns kicked in Cribbage by Shelby.

I'll post pictures at a later date. I actually can't seem to find my camera, but I'm not 100% unpacked yet. (I think it's in the truck)