Babymoon - Colorado and Utah

Jay and I took a couple babymoon trips over the last couple months. The first was to Colorado and the second was to Utah.

Colorado (July 12 - July 14)
We stayed in Denver, but visited quite a few of the surrounding cities. Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Shane and Uncle Matthew kept John while we took our trip to Colorado.

Friday, July 12, 2013: We flew into Denver Friday evening, went to dinner at Freshcraft and walked around 16th Street Mall.

Saturday, July 13, 2013: We slept in a little and then took a tour of Hammond Candy Factory, ate lunch at a little pizza buffet, toured the Coors Factory, went to the Buffalo Bill Museum, and walked around historic Central City (old mining town). We enjoyed dinner at Lou's Food Bar and then had an after dinner snack, in the rain, at Little Man Ice Cream. This was a full, fun day in the mountains of Colorado!

Sunday, July 14, 2013: We had a fun day exploring Denver with their "rent a bike" program. We went to brunch, biked around City Park and visited the Colorado State Capital before Jay took me to the airport to head back to Dallas. Jay stayed in Denver for a work conference.

Utah (August 23 - August 26)
We stayed in Salt Lake City, but also visited Park City while in Utah. Nana came to stay with John while we took our trip.

Friday, August 23, 2013: We flew into Salt Lake City Friday, mid-afternoon and walked around Temple Square. In Temple Square, we had a little ice cream snack, visited the Family Research Center, and ate dinner at a quaint little Italian restaurant. We spent most of our evening in the Family Research Center looking up our ancestors and tracing some of our genealogy. Some of Jay's family went all the way back to Joseph of Arimathea!

Saturday, August 24, 2013: We visited Park City, the home of skiing jumping for the 2002 Winter Olympics. We watched ski jumping (into a pool), road up the chair lift to the top of the mountain and then walked down while watching people bobsled (on sleds with wheels, since it was summer). Saturday evening we explored the "Alphabet Streets" and found a great lookout point.

Sunday, August 25, 2013: Before heading back to Dallas, we had a nice brunch at Wild Grape Cafe, visited the State Capital, toured the Mormon Church History Museum, and walked on the beach of The Great Salt Lake.

We love spending time together, especially exploring new cities! 

John - 13 Months

                    John at 13 Months

- As on August 9th he weighed 29 pounds, 5 ounces. Had another cold, which he gave to both of us. 

- Basketball star...learned how to catch, dunk and starting to shoot

- Shakes his head "no" a lot

- Will respond with animal sounds when asked; duck ("dac"), cat ("meeow"), dog ("ruf"), snake ("ssssss"), elephant (uses arm and lifts up like the trunk of the elephant)

- Does not talk all that much, but points and grunts at what he wants. He is becoming very opinionated. 

- Insists on a fork or a spoon at meal time

- Not eating as many vegetables, but will eat asparagus right now. Really likes fruit. 

- Loves Mac n cheese 

- Loves to play outside, especially in the evening when we go for walks. He runs/walks up and down a hill in our neighborhood.

- He is starting to walk much faster ... almost a run. 

- Does not like when Daddy has to get ready and leave in the morning. And he takes it out on Mommy

- When we lay him down for a nap he throws his dog, George and both blankets out of crib before laying down. After waking from his nap, when we get him out, he points to the dog and George on the ground and insists we put them back in their places. 

- He loves to read books (Hello Testudo, the Bible, Happy Hippo Angry Duck, What Does Cow Say?, Little Red Car) 

- Daddy introduced him to Curious George TV shows and he likes to get the controls to tell us to turn the TV on to watch his show. 

- When we ask where the baby is he points to our belly buttons.

- Likes to point out planes in the sky.

- Likes the nursery at church.

- Likes to wrestle with daddy, but he doesn't fight fair (sits on face, pulls hair, grabs face, etc.). He thinks it is so funny to tackle daddy! 

Hopefully I'll keep these monthly blogs up when baby #2 arrives. For now this has been a great way to keep up on John's development each month!