May Cuteness

I can't really say Baby Cuteness anymore because he's really not a baby anymore, so here are some cute things from Jet in May.

Wanting to be like his brothers. Maybe not as successfully.

"Hot Dog Hot Dog Hot Diggety Dog" (doing the "Hot Dog Dance" from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

Whee! Playing on swings at the park.

Going for walks with Mommy

C'mon, Nichole. It's time to go. Get your shoes tied already.

Being a big helper. "Cutting" onions.

Planned Power Outage... Again

We knew the electricity was going to be off again one day so we had some fun. Instead of going out that day, we stayed in and played games and made shadow puppets on the wall.

 

Lucky is pretty good with his shapes. Jet absolutely loved seeing them and interacting with them.

 

Even when the power came back on we kept playing and enjoyed ourselves.

Family time! Woohoo!

Cuteness and Creativity

I was going to work on laundry after I finished what I was working on in the kitchen so I had a basket of clean towels sitting in the living room.

I heard Jet in the other room saying something. When I listened carefully, I could tell he was saying, "I'm a turtle." I came in to see he had knocked over the basket of towels and picked one to make a shell on his back. "I'm a turtle."

After a while he started using the towel in other ways.

"I'm a bat. Flap Flap Flap Flap." "I'm a T. rex." "I'm a shark monster." 

And finally, "I'm a mouse. Squeak Squeak Squeak."

Oh, the cuteness and the creativity.

My Birthday

I keep telling you. Life has been chaos. I didn't even know if there would be time to celebrate my birthday in May this year. Jeremy asked, "If you were to get what you wanted for your birthday dinner, what would it be?" My answer? "Pizza with the works except anchovies." Jeremy made it happen. We made pizza crust early and Jeremy chopped up and prepared toppings and we had several pizzas to choose from for my birthday dinner. I love pizza.

Oh, and that morning, he made me an omelette. I love when he makes me omelettes. It's a bit of a family history thing I share with our kids. An omelette was the first food Jeremy ever made for me when we were getting to know each other. It was so good. His omelettes are still so good.

I got a little time for myself that day to listen to an audio book or read an ebook (I don't remember which) while waiting to pick kids up from a school activity.

I got plenty of love from my family that day and when I dropped kids off for youth activities that night, a friend of mine pulled several of the young women over and had them sing, "Happy Birthday," to me. I am loved.

It was a nice birthday.

Advertising Works

National Smile Day was May 31.

Jeremy saw an advertisement for Nestle ice cream Drumsticks that talked about National Smile Day. Drumsticks were on sale at the grocery store so he went and bought several boxes and we ate some drumsticks that day to celebrate.

Advertising works!

So You Want to Know About More May Holidays?

May 20 was Eliza Doolittle Day. We ate lots of chocolate while watching My Fair Lady.

May 23 was World Turtle Day. Jet played with some turtle stickers. Some of the kids started watching Going Postal.

 

May 29 was Memorial Day this year. We spent the day weeding. I only got a selfie of me with the American flag.

Avalanche

Let's talk Bridal Veil Falls. I love Bridal Veil Falls. Because of avalanche danger it is closed from November 1-May 1. Some years you can see why.

It has become tradition for me to visit Bridal Veil Falls as close to the end of October and the beginning of May as possible. It's fun.

This year, however, since there was an avalanche in January (I mentioned that in my blog post on June 2), when I went for a drive on May 1, the road that goes down past the falls was closed. Even the viewpoint was closed. A few days later, I went again. The lower road was still closed but the viewpoint was open.

I could see why the lower road was still closed.

Note, this was a few months after the avalanche occurred. The snow and debris went all the way across the base of the falls, the Provo River Parkway, the river itself, across the parking area, all the way to that lower road. Wow.

I could just see the river cutting its way through the area.

I've visited a few times since. In May there were more and more holes opening up in the snow/ice all the time and the river was cutting its way through more and more.

 

When I visited in June the river had cut all the way through and I could see where the trail used to be.

I haven't visited in July yet.