A few videos

A few fun videos for your viewing pleasure....



Remember the dancing Frog? He's gotten more aggressive. Sometimes I think he'll rock the highchair over. He knows it's funny, so he'll do things just to make us laugh. It's awesome.



We were about 2 minutes too late on this video. The cute part happens in the first 5 seconds. But earlier, Reed would go press a button, then come get a kiss. Like 10 times. It was so cute!

Halloween Festivities

We had a great Halloween weekend! Kevin's company throws a HUGE party! Actually, they just decorate the buildings in different themes. They spent 2 weeks planning it and several days decorating. In fact, all the employees are required to stay and decorate the day before until it is finished (everyone started at 12pm and ended around midnight). It's serious business. And SO fun!

Work Party

I was an elf last year, but I didn't want to go buy another costume (I wear this every Christmas Eve--its main purpose). Kevin had a Santa suit on hand, so Reed had to fit the theme: Rudolph! I thought he made a very cute reindeer. It was so cute that tons of little kids would point out Santa and some even asked him for certain things for Christmas. I wish I could play Santa so bad!


G.I. Joe area. I think they brought all the plants from the building to make it look like a jungle. Cool, huh?


An employee dressed as Beetlejeuse. He played the part very well.


Watching "Thriller." Very cool.


Looney Toons.


Scooby Doo.


Flinstones car.


Pirate ship from Peter Pan. This was my favorite. The canons actually worked! (They shot air at you).


This guy got a $1000 for winning the costume contest. Can you guess who he is?? :)
Kevin's department won the decorating contest with Pac Man. Sadly, I didn't get any pictures. I guess they had employees dressed as Pac Man, Mrs. Pac man, and all the ghosts and they were all running through the maze they built.

Carving Pumpkins

We made Reed take out all the pumpkin goop. :)


Kevin's pumpkin--kinda looks like a frog, huh?


My pumpkin--notice the snaggletooth? I did that on purpose.

Trick-or-treating

We only went to two houses. Reed had no idea what was going on. He didn't even want to hold the bucket.


He did notice something in his bucket. I let him eat a couple pieces of chocolate on Halloween and he loves it (naturally). His face was like, "Holy cow, you've been holding out on me! Who knew food could taste so good?!"

Halloween party

Ghosts


Carrot finger dip


Eyeballs


Witch's brew


Puking pumpkin


Graveyard (contributed by our neighbors)


Carmel apples


The cupcake family: Ryan, Jayna, and Eliza


Aladdin and Charlie Brown: Chris and Allie


Condiments: Brian and Ann

We ate a ton of junk and played games late into the night. It was super fun! I'm just trying to hold tradition for Cassidy since she moved, though there is no way I could live up to her creativity!

Pumpkin Farm

When I was little, we went to the local pumpkin farm every year. And I LOVED it! I want to start this tradition with our family, so we took Reed to a pumpkin farm this weekend. There were a lot of fun little activities.


Miniature maze for tykes. Reed almost found his way out too! Almost.


I love these things.


They just let you loose in the petting area with a bunch of animals: pigs, chickens, sheep, and a goat. It was hilarious trying to chase and corner them. Though I'll just say that Kevin is quite a pansy about touching farm animals--he didn't even want Reed to touch the sheep because it was "dirty."


Crazy donkey.


Fun slide.


We made Reed try to get out all by himself. We're so mean. :)


Hehe.


Buried in the corn box.


Not quite, bud.


Ignore the dirt on his mouth. He fell face first and, apparently, we don't care about having a dirty boy.

The Happiest Place on Earth

Prepare yourself for a whole lot of pictures! We just returned from an 8 day vacation to Disney World! Kevin's parents were so nice to take the whole family out to Florida. It was SO SO SO fun! And Reed did so awesome! He had his moments but, overall, he was a champ!

SEA WORLD


Kevin and I went to Sea World our first day. Kevin's parents watched Reed which was so nice. I don't think he would've lasted sitting in the 95 degree weather + humidity. I thought I was going to melt. Plus, for some reason, we torture ourselves by not buying food in the park (understandable since it's so expensive), but then we also try to ration our food/water all day. I'm pretty sure I was dehydrated at the end of the day. For real, I was sick.



This is possibly the ugliest animal I have ever seen. Walruses are huge too!


DISNEY WORLD: Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Epcot, and Hollywood Studios


Entering Magic Kingdom for the first time. Reed was intrigued by the castle.


Trying to cool down. It was SO hot all week (except our last day was perfect weather...it even got cold at night!)


There were a lot of "firsts" for Reed on this trip: raspberry lemonade slush, M&Ms, and apple juice.


Some of our crew: Marty, Whitney, and Kevin's parents. With everybody, we had 15 people.


The Pirates of the Caribbean ride was a little too much for Reed.


Reed has become quite the paper eater. He ate at least 2 napkins, toilet paper, and about 10 straw wrappers on our trip. I guess he's taking after his girlfriend, Scout.


Bats in Animal Kingdom. I think bats are really cool.


Dinosaur ride with Frog (similar to Dumbo).


We had such a cool splash area for little tykes at our hotel, but for some reason Reed wasn't into it.


Reed Frog doesn't usually like stuffed animals, so we were glad to see him playing with the Mickey Mouse we got him (at Walmart--so much cheaper!). He likes sucking on his nose.


He loved It's a Small World ride! Probably because all the singing people are his size. But not as much as he liked the Lion King show. He was giggling so much at these monkeys (acrobats) doing flips on the trampoline. It was so dang cute.


How cool is this?


Florida has its pretty parts, I guess.


Meeting Chip and Dale. To my surprise, he LOVED them. He tried talking to them (babbling like crazy) and kept touching their noses. It was awesome. Another reason to have kids. :)



As we were leaving, Reed discovered some wood chips (of course) and sat down. Chip and Dale decided to join him, and Reed offered some wood chips to them. It was very cute and all the people watching thought so too. Also, there must be a lack of babies in Florida (besides Disney World). Every time we ate out or were at Walmart, people acted like he was a famous baby or had never seen a baby before. He charmed everyone.


A fun little play area. Reed loves watching kids run around. He thinks it's funny and he tries to do it too.


Epcot at night.


We knew Reed wouldn't wear this hat all week, so we didn't buy him one but managed to get this picture at least.


Soon-to-be Elder Michael Wilson. He makes us so proud! :)


Very recently returned Elder A.J. Wilson. Can you tell? :)


Reed warmed up to Mikey just in time for him to leave on his mission.


Entering the greatest ride ever: Toy Story Mania! It was possibly my favorite. Plus, I want to decorate a room like this.


Cousins: Ellie, Aidan, Reed, Cade, and Colin. We learned that it is impossible to get that many kids to look at a camera at the same time. Especially when there is so much more to look at.


Our friend was so nice to let us borrow their travel car seat, so we didn't have to check ours at the airport. It slid around a ton, so it was hilarious to see Reed fighting to stay up straight.


Kevin grew a beard (then a goatee) in Florida and Reed was trying to figure it out.


Hanging on for dear life.


The famous Dumbo ride. I still don't understand why people wait up to an hour for this ride. But Kevin insisted that we did. Can you even see Reed? Don't worry, I didn't go on it by myself.


Much easier and faster to get a picture this way.


Kevin did a lot of carrying.


Our family on the Winnie the Pooh ride (which was a lot less scary in Disney World, I thought).


It really was magical at night.


Kevin and Reed (fireworks).


We had to meet Mickey and Minnie.

The trip was so awesome! We definitely didn't want to come back. Thanks to Kevin's parents for making it possible.

Fun Frog Moments

Reed's first experience with a sucker. The nurse at his appointment asked if she could give him one after his shots. I begrudgingly agreed--it was so gross but so cute.


He loved it!


Playing in the tub again. I still don't know how he gets in there.
Reed just learned how to spin. He thinks it's really funny.

Idaho

We took a trip to see my mom and Bob in Idaho 2 weekends ago. They had a really cool zoo in Idaho Falls that was perfect for Reed. It was small, so you didn't have to walk a billion miles to see the next animal.


Reed was way more curious and interested in the animals than we thought he'd be.


It's hard to tell from the picture, but this black swan had the longest neck I've ever seen! It looked like a snake neck.


Looking at some baby ducklings. I think these were his favorite animals.


We made him touch the goat. :) He only likes to touch animals if they are smaller than him. He LOVED Bob's cat, Missy.


Kinda majestic, huh? We were all in awe by this lion...and a little freaked out too.


Now that Reed has mastered climbing up stairs, he is obsessed with it. As long as he spots stairs, he has to climb them.


Apparently he likes to kill flowers too.


And eat dirt.


I took this picture for my mom. Notice Reed holding her finger--it made her day!


I also made a superhero cape for Reed while I was there. It was intended to be for a future gift, but he didn't even notice it on, so it might also be his Halloween costume this year.


Batman and Superman reversible cape.

We had such a good time. It's nice to get away. I think I could maybe even live in Idaho if it wasn't so dang cold.

Boating

Our neighbors, Ann and Brian, invited us to go boating with Ann's dad on Utah Lake. Kevin and I have only been boating a couple of times in our lives, so we jumped at the opportunity. (I've always been jealous of those people who go to Lake Powell every year). I have tried water skiing one time and Kevin had once or twice as well. So we were newbies.


Reed was so cute in his little life jacket. He did awesome on the boat! He only whimpered a few times and usually when the boat was stopped.


Brian giving Kevin some instructions on wake boarding.


Almost there.


Good job Kevin! He got up a couple times which is impressive considering he cracked at least 2 ribs in the process (one on each side)!


Somehow I got up the first try.


I ended up doing pretty well wake boarding. I even got some air jumping the wake!


I also tried knee boarding which was super fun! Kevin was done due to the rib-cracking situation.


Doing a 360 on the knee board. Ann and Brian made it sound really easy but it was pretty tough. I got stuck going backwards for a little while before completing the turn. Then they gave me credit after. Thanks guys.


Reed's hair was awesome! And he didn't even fuss about the wind in his face, probably because he was so dang tired. He hadn't taken a nap yet.


He couldn't last.

Our little water adventure was SO fun! And since we had so much fun we realized there was only one solution: we need to buy a boat (or convince Kevin's family to get one). :)