FHE - A bus ride to the mall

On Monday, Tim got to ride the bus for the first time!

He did pretty well. He liked looking out the windows and smiling at all the other passengers. But didn't appreciate having to hold still.

We all shared some lemonade from Chik-fil-a and some pretzel bites.

And Tim got to run around their dinosaur play area, which he LOVES.

A little Tim-sized doorway!

I love this action sequence of Tim climbing into and out of the dinosaur's mouth:

Pi Day

A little over a week ago, it was Pi Day (March 14 = 3/14=3.14...). Being a nerdy household, we had to celebrate! So I made some pies!

This was a peach pie. At the last minute, I threw some frozen raspberries in with the peach pie filling and it was DELICIOUS!!!

Strawberry Rhubarb. And as you can see... My pie runneth over. 

Guess it really does go on ad infinitum. :-)

Waffle Night with Tim

About a week ago, we had waffles for dinner. But... if you feed a baby waffles, he's going to want some Nutella on them. And if you give a baby Nutella, he's going to need some of your milk. And if you let a baby drink your milk..... you'll get a face like this:

Tim now knows what spoons and forks are for, and he tries every so often to use them. 

A Trip to the Park

We have had beautiful spring weather here. So Tim has fallen in LOVE with outside. As soon as you put his shoes on, he heads to the front door and starts reaching for the knob! He just wants to go play!

Sunday evening, we went on a walk down to the elementary school to play for a while.

And fun was had by all.

Sunshine

Yesterday, we had the most wonderful weather! Which was perfect, because the carpet cleaners displaced us. It was in the mid-sixties with lots of bright sunshine! So we took Tim outside to run around. (He stayed out for around 2.5 hours!) Josh and Shelby came out for a while as well, and Josh brought bubbles. Which pretty much made all the kids think he was a rockstar!

Laundry day. See you there.

I figured out how to upload multiple photos from my phone! Progress!

Tim and I did some laundry last Friday. There was a lot of waiting around for machines to open up, so he got to ride around in the cart. He LOVED it!

Fun with Cousins

Mike and Karen invited us over for dinner on Saturday to continue our celebration of Jake's birthday. He got to pick the meal and they had presents for him and Tim.

After bathtime, the kiddos had fun with one of the boxes a present was wrapped in. 

Tim is finally big enough to play WITH his cousin to a certain extent. It is so fun to watch them. I LOVE having Mike and Karen and their family so close!

Jake's Birthday

Thursday was Jake's 26th birthday! We didn't get a chance to do a TON of stuff that day because Jake was on campus from 0800-1830 and then I had a bell choir rehearsal from 1900-2100. 

But I did have this little surprise up my sleeves:

Shelby helped me bake, frost, and pipe 120 cupcakes. (They were mini cupcakes)

We arranged them as the Periodic Table of Cupcakes and brought them in to the Stockroom.

Jake turned 26, so element #26 (Iron) got a special little bit of something.

Tim had fun running around the hallways.

As an awesome birthday surprise, Jake had a telephone interview for one of the jobs he has applied for! 

Stockroom Fun

A few weeks ago, Tim and I went down to the Benson Building to have an indoor picnic lunch with Jake. Afterwards, we stopped by to visit Jake's coworkers in the stockroom. They were kind enough to share some ice cream with Tim.

New Phones and catch up

We got fancy new phones. That run apps. So I'm testing out the blogger app. And hopefully a picture of Tim will show up with this post. Its from lunch today, when we shared some macaroni and cheese and he smeared it ALL over his face!

Anyway... some highlights of life.

I took a predictor test at school. It said that my predicted probability of passing the NCLEX-RN on the first attempt was 98%. Woo hoo confidence booster!

Jake is busy applying for jobs and doing school/work. Still no ideas where we're headed after graduation.

Tim got his two top teeth. And he says "duck". And he can clap!

We got Tim's one year old pictures taken Monday. More on that later.

Those are the big things. Lets see if this posts!

A Chemistry Celeb!

Back in October, Jake volunteered to help out with the National Chemistry Week Festivities here at BYU. Mainly he helped out with the liquid nitrogen ice cream. 

YUM. I made 3-4 special trips to campus that week just for the ice cream. I even got them to custom make a batch of Reeses ice cream for me. (The perks of having a brilliant scientist for a husband).

Anyway, they just found out that Y-Chem (the chemistry club on campus) just received an award from the American Chemical Society for their activities during Chemistry Week. 

Whose picture was in the article announcing this?

JAKE! That's who!

Articles about Chemistry Week (that feature Jake's face) can be found here and here.