The Magleby's

Sundance

For Katie's Birthday we went up to Sundance and had a yummy meal at the Foundry Grill, and then strolled around outside anjoying the beautiful scenery up there. We really need to go up there more often, its so close there really is no reason not to!

Happy Birthday Aunt Katie!!

Zach & Grandma playing Cars while we waited for our food

Zach & Grandpa counting how many cars there are

me & joe :)

had to get a family photo!

Zach's 4th Birthday

Well, my baby turned 4... it sure doesn't feel like 4 years has passed since he was born, but I have to say every year I am more and more grateful that it is this year rather than the day he was born. He has come such a long way from those early scary days, and with every passing day I think i forget a little more and a little more just how scary it was, and only remember how great he is now. He is the best little boy any parents could ask for. So loving, and happy, and genuinely worried for people when they are sad. He is a good listener, so fun & outgoing, and becoming quite a funny person. He has the cutest personality and now that he is talking so much you can really see it coming out, and he says just the funniest things. He brings such a joy to our lives, and I just cant even begin to think of what our lives would be like without him.

Enjoying a yummy birthday breakfast of French Toast & Banana's

Opening up his birthday card's from great grandma grandpa trout & great great grandma herran!

For his Birthday day we made some cupcakes and took them to our favorite nurses at the NICU!! I am so mad I didn't get any pictures while we were there! But they were SO excited to see us, especially Zach and see how great he looked, how well he is talking and just generally how healthy he is now!! We are so grateful for these nurses and doctors... not a holiday, birthday or general milestone Zach achieves goes by without me thinking of them... without them Zach wouldn't be here today.

Afterwards we went to go see Despicable Me... Zach has been asking and asking and asking to see this since he first saw the previews, and it was SUCH a cute movie!! Then we went out to Brick Oven for some yummy dinner! Zach enjoyed his yummy pizza and they even sang Happy Birthday to him, and brought him a ice cream sundae with a sucker in it!

Then on the way home we stopped by Toys R Us so he could pick out something fun with his birthday money he got from Great Grandma & Great Grandpa Trout and Great Great Grandma Herran! He picked out this Iron Man 3 pack he has had his eye on the last few times we've stopped by.. he was in HEAVEN!

Zach's 4th Birthday Party: TRANSFORMERS!!

For Zach's Birthday this year he decided he wanted to have a Transformers party... I thought for sure it would have changed to Toy Story, or How to Train Your Dragon or one of the other fun movies that came out this year, but NO Transformers it was!! So we had a fun party on Pioneer day, which happened to be the closest Saturday to his Birthday. We had a blast seeing friends, and watching the kids play in the water!

The Birthday Boy!! I can't believe my baby is 4!!

Getting things set up!

putting the finishing touches on Optimus Prime :)

Optimus from the front

and from the side... Not my best cake, but Zach loved it!!

Zach & Uncle Ben... can you tell Zach was saying cheese!

Bubbles!!

the kiddos table for lunch :)

As soon as Zach saw his Auny Emily he went right up to her and gave her a big hug and took her hand and they walked off together, it was so cute!!

Aunt Katie helping Zach be brave enough to get close to the sprinkler & dump some water on it!

trying on his new Iron Man mask!

Aunt Annie, Katie, Zach & Grandma Kay

Zach blowing out his candles (with some help from mommy)

trying out his new Harley :)

Zach & Kaylin squeezing in a little bit more playtime before it was time to clean-up!

As soon as we got home Zach put on his mask & said "I AM IRON MAN!!"

4th of July Weekend!!

As has become our yearly tradition on the 4th of July we went to the parade in Provo with the Magleby's and JT & Kasaundra & the twins came with us too. It was so much fun as always!!

It was so much fun the the 4th was over the weekend this year because it seemed like all the fun festivities were spread out!

On Saturday the 3rd we went up on the Kimball Tower with Joe's family and watched the Stadium of Fire Fireworks, this was Zach's 1st year going up there and he loved it!!

The on Monday the 5th was the Parade. This year we brought some of those little poppers, thinking Zach would like them, and if not then Joe would definitely have fun with them!! As it turned out, Zach LOVED them!!

me & joe :)

Annie, Linda & baby Delilah!

Uncle Dan making sure the loud sirens don't hurt Zach's ears!

"It's a MUSTANG!!!!" Zach was very excited there were so many Mustang's in the Parade!

Mommy & Zach

After the Parade we went over to Dave & Linda's house for some yummy lunch and Zach's favorite pool time!!

looks like he picked yet another water fight with daddy.... uh-oh!

Water Fun!!

One of the best things about our new place is that we can pull out Zach's water table all the time, (without having the people downstairs complaining about water getting on their balcony)!! This particular day Zach and daddy got into a big 'ol water fight!

Feeding the Ducks!

Once it was finally warm enough outside we decided it was time to go feed the ducks again!! Zach loved it so much last year, and had been asking about it for a while! So we made up our bread bags to take & visit our duckies!