I am extremely grateful for my baby boy! Even though he's not a baby anymore.  These last 2 years have flown by and I'm so grateful to have had all the experiences we have had so far. 

I look forward to watching him grow even more.

 

 

Palmer turned 2 on Oct 15th! The night before we had a Sesame Street birthday party for him.

This has been my favorite party I've planned so far!

And Palmer LOVED it.  I loved seeing how much he enjoyed it.

 

This is the table.  We had cookie monster juice boxes, cookie monster's cookies ( which aren't in this picture), Oscar's trash cans, Bert's pidgeon food, Hooper's Hot Dogs (not in picture), Elmo's goldfish, and three veggie/fruit trays in the shape of Elmo, Oscar and Big Bird.

 

Cookie Monster's cookies were chocolate chip.

 

 

 

Oscar's trash cans were chocolate pudding with crushed oreos and gummy worms.

 

For Elmo's face I used strawberries and raspberries.  His mouth is made out of blackberries,

his nose is a half of a sliced orange and his eyes are slices of pears with halved blackberries.

 

For Oscar's face I used broccoli.  His mouth is made of olives, his eyebrows are carrots and his eyes are ranch cups with an olive in each cup.

 

 

Bert's pidgeon food was so simple, POPCORN! And I liked the colorful paper bags.

 

Big Bird's face is harder to see but it consists of pineapple and pears.  I wanted to use mango but the store I was at was completely out. Darn!

 

 

 

 

 

My good friend Josey, at Dan's, made this personal cake for Palmer. It's the cutest thing ever!

And Palmer is like his mommy, he loved all the icing.

 

 

 

 

 

And so did Lyla! She's ready for her smash cake for her first birthday in December!

 

 

 

Palmer had so much fun! We continued celebrating on his birthday with his Grandma Sue! She had a surprise 50th birthday celebration and Palmer loved being with family and friends. 

Thank you to everyone who came!

 

I am the worst Blogger in the history of blogging. . . . .But all that matters is that I am finally doing it again.  And this post is to Show our new house a little bit!

 

 

We moved in the Saturday before Father's Day and have really enjoyed living here.  Our new ward is filled with very friendly people, lots of new families with little kids. Palmer loves it!  The first week he made friends quick and followed them around through Sacrament and didn't even want to kiss us good bye when he went into nursery. We were thrilled! That family wasn't there today so it was a little harder for Palmer to go to nursery. 
Just a few fun facts about our home and the moving in process:
1) We had an adventure painting the upstairs bedrooms and discovered that neither Ryan or I should paint.  We are so grateful our wonderful brother and sister, Adam and Jess Johnson, pretty much took over  and made it look amazing.  Palmer's room used to have a nasty hand painted camo wall and our room used to be yellow with a purple strip around the whole perimeter.  We love the color we picked!

2) I have always wanted a red accent wall so now I have one! I absolutely love it!!!!

 

 

 

 

3) We replaced the carpet upstairs and are so pleased with it.  I love the smell and feel of new carpet:)
4) We were going to rip out the carpet in the front room and put new carpet and tile.  When Ryan ripped up the carpet we found beautiful hard wood floors!!! Ryan, being so amazing, rented a sander from Home Depot and refinished the wood. He really did a great job!

5) We both really love leather couches and now we have two!!! They are so comfy.

6) Palmer loves being outside!  The previous owners left a swingset.  Palmer loves the slide, but the swings not so much.  He's the first kid I've seen that doesn't beeline straight for the swings.

 

7) Ryan's favorite part about this house is the detached garage. It has it's own 200 amp power supply and he can't wait to work on cars, etc.
8) I love my kitchen! It has so much cabinet space.  It has two huge tuppeware drawers, yes Palmer tries to climb in them and he fits, a built in lazy susan and pull out drawers for food storage.  Palmer really likes the bar stools as well.  He has found that it is quite tricky to get down though.  It's funny to watch him. lol

We love and appreciate everyone who helped us move! We wouldn't have been able to do it in a day without all the help we received.

Hope you enjoy the pictures!