Swim Party at Grandma Peterson's!

Courtney just enjoys being part of the party and watching everything around her. This empty little sandbox made a great place for her to stay contained while I helped Cameron. She loved hearing the kicking sound her feet made when she knocked them against the sandbox.

Whoosh!! This was Cameron's first experience on a slip and slide and he loved it!

Cousin Trouble - Ganging up on uncle Nate!
Ruel, Brenna, Jake, Michaela and Cameron

Cameron willingly turning on the water so uncle Nate could fill up the balloons - even though it was hard for him to find the right water pressure.

Who's Next? It's amazing how fast you can go through a huge bag a water balloons!

Randall Family Reunion

We had a wonderful time at the Randall Reunion which was held up in the mountains near Monticello Utah. It was great to be able to get together with Chad's aunts, uncles and many of their kids. Pictured from left to right: Dean (Grandma) Randall, Harriet, Julie, Jared, Todd, Barbara, Sanford, Sheldon, Kristin and Ruel (Grandpa).

Tribute to Grandpa Randall

Jacob and Cameron building and climbing on the fort!

Courtney was quick enough to get her hands on that yummy sugar cookie with bright blue frosting. She ended up getting ahold of it was I was occupied with Cameron, it was fun to see her determination to devour it and her bright blue lips afterwards!

Getting kids to focus their little minds and eat while there are so many fun things going on and exciting people all around can be quite the task!

Cameron and his cousin Michaela just enjoying the treasures of the day. I think Cameron went through Cousin withdraws after we got home and he didn't have a constant little playmate!

He had so much fun just running free in the mountains, playing, getting dirty, making forts, shooting bows & arrows, cap guns and much more. He enjoyed sleeping in the tent with Dad, Uncle Nate, Redd & Jake although there wasn't much sleeping going on between each of the boys keeping each other up for one reason or another - ("I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I'm cold...") Chad told me he thought it was a little un-neccesary for me to pack a granola bar and water in Cameron's bag until he heard the whining in the night and had a way to combat the "I'm thirsty, I'm hungry"

My sister-in-law Sara is a wonderful artist. In no time she whipped out these charcoal drawings of Grandma & Grandpa Randall (Chad's Mom's parent's) to enter them into the auction for the family reunion fund for next year. Since it was too hard to put a price on them we ended up making it so that you could buy raffle tickets and have your name entered into a drawing to win them. It was very fitting who ended up winning them - Grandma and Grandpa Randall (there really was not cheating involved!)

Courtney - just fascinated by her Great-Grandpa Randall. Putting on her cute little smile, she reached out to get his attention.

Liberty Land!

We had a great time at Liberty Land with Aunt Aubree & Danielle. We had fun riding the roller coaster, squirting each other with water in the bumper boats, jumping in the jump house, riding the airplanes, rock climbing, driving the go carts and playing laser tag for the first time! Courtney was just excited to be along for the ride and loved riding the carousal. She didn't want to let go when it was time to get off.

Getting Into Mischief!

Courtney found mom's tree and started pulling all the dirt out and eating it! At first I had to say, "Courtney no, no" then ran to grab the camera.



Dumping the garbage out in her room and trying to find any paper the she could eat - she loves paper! I then have to check her mouth with the famous finger sweep to pull out anything she might be hiding on the roof of her mouth!

Dad, I wanna be like you!

Cameron was being a little too quiet so I went to find out what he was up to, as he kept trying to prolong having to go to bed. I found him in our room trying on Chad's pajama pants and got a kick out of it, he looked pretty funny!

Learning New Things!

Stages of learning how to crawl! Getting the leg up, pushing up a little and then doing what we would call "Fish out of Water"




Just sitting back and reading a book! It was pretty cute seeing how intrigued she was to hold the book and turn the pages on her own.

California Here We Come! - April 2009

Cameron loved seeing the actual Disneyland Castle. Leading up to our trip to Disneyland we would always point out that castle on the disney movies to show him that was were we were going.


Cameron and Dad on "Dumbo" This ride was a hit! He loved being able to make Dumbo go up and down!


Cameron and Courtney relaxing and planning out our next days Disneyland route!


Courtney in awe with the boat on "It's a Small World" I remember going to Disneyland and waiting in line forever for this ride - I guess kids enjoy different things now because we practically just walked right on to "It's a Small World"


Mom and Cameron getting dizzy in the Tea Cups! Cameron kept asking me questions to try to understand exactly what "tea cups" were.


Can he pull the Sword from the Stone?