Trace goes to Utah to see Grandparents

This week Trace and I went to Utah while Kody was on a business trip in Phoenix. It was fun to see everybody.

So while we were down there my sister Dina (in the middle) found out she was pregnant. After dinner we handed my mom the positive pregnancy test and made our parents guess which one of us was expecting! They both guessed my sister Janis and my mom ran over to hug her and congratulate her. She couldn't take the praise and admitted it was Dina. It was just funny because it could have been anyone.

My parent's poor dog Brinkley (who is not shown here) has cataracts and is overweight. That is sad, I wish he would live forever, he is ten years old now. I took him for a walk and he was so excited until we walked around the corner of the house, then he stopped as if to say "this is as far as I go". No wonder he is 50 pounds overweight!

The whole time Trace was such a good smiley baby. He never made a peep and everyone wondered how we were so blessed with a perfect baby. Now that I am home he hasn't stopped crying since. He is just a show-off!

What I found in the woods... so I called 911

So Kenya and I went on a walk this morning near the Boise river in Eagle. It is one of my favorite places to go because its quiet and only about 10 minutes from home. We didn't realize when we got there that by the end of our little walk I'd end up calling 911....
The Boise river runs for miles. There are a ton of trees and little trails that make it fun to just let your dog loose and wonder around so we did. We turned a corner that is when my stomache jumped..

I saw this man laying lifeless entangled in a fence. I said, "hello". He didn't move. I wondered if I had stumbled across a corpse. Your probably wondering why I would ever think that it was a corpse because he is not laying on the ground but if any of you paintball then you know how we often poke ourselves inbetween twigs and fences, or maybe he was hung I don't know, after all we are in the woods. So at this point all I knew was it was a man and he wasn't moving. Yes, it sounds rediculous but if you saw this in the middle of the forest you would probably be at least a little taken off gaurd too.


Being the fearless one that I am, I let Kenya off her leash so she could check out the corpse. She is not much of a corpse searching type of dog so she just laid down on the path so I went closer for a closer look and found this. Gosh, whomever stuffed those legs sure made them look lifelike!


As I continued along the path we came to a fire. I thought maybe someone was camping there but as we got closer it was evident that it was just burning on its own in the trees and weeds. So we (Kenya and I) called 911 and the firetrucks came and put it out. I took this pic after the fact but if you look closely you can still see some smoke. Yeah, this story has a dumb ending but at least no one was hurt, no one was a corpse, and Kenya and I survived yet another walk through the woods.

4 things I've learned

Well its been two months since Trace was born and I've learned a whole lot. But I thought I'd tell just 4 things for today.

#4 - There is nothing better than being a dad! Poopie diapers and all!


#3 The other day we put Trace in my old baby jammies. I was surprised at how well they fit him. It made me think of how time flies by so fast. We better enjoy these days cuz soon he's gonna be a big fellow. ;)

#2 Sunday Trace and Landon were both blessed. Holding this cute little bundle made me so greatful for the priesthood. I learned if I love this little guy so much, how much then must our Father in Heaven love all of us! Wow!
#1 - There is absolutely nothing more important than Eternal Families. It definitely puts this world into perspective having a little guy to look out for. And here I thought I knew it all before he was born! ;)

This is Halloween, This is Halloween!

The Search for the Great Pumpkin!

The Commander

Ok, I am not a trekie and I know nothing about Star Trek, but Kody says our son looks like Jean Luke Picard (Patrick Stewart).

I, however, see an astonishing resemblance to Wentworth Miller. What do you think?

Already October!

Time for a Change

So I had a bad hair day as you can tell in photo 1 and decided I needed a change. We went to the store and Kody picked the color in picture number 2 (Where's Dina when I needed her?). It wasn't a color found in nature and I felt a little gothic so I went back and dyed it brown and ended up with picture number 3. Another do-it-yourself adventure!

Grandma Stimpson holding two little bundles.

1 hour old! 1 month old!

Guess who pooped up their back this morning?

a) Lisa
b) Kody

c) Trace

d) Kenya
e) all of the above

Big Boy Trace!

10 second camera timer is not enough!

Oops! 10 seconds goes way too fast!



We were ready to go until Kenya stood up, "sit Kenya, Kenya"!!!


This way didn't work either! Next time we are going to hog tie her.


The cool thing about Lisa is she still smiles even while Trace is averaging around 8 POOPIE diapers a day! Oh, and yes, I change a lot of em too. :)



Trace is sporting his favorite binky, or maybe its my favorite binky for him. Its his Atlanta Braves binky that came all the way from Georgia from his Uncle Jared and although its a little big for him, he'll grow into it soon enough. :) Meanwhile, this hillbilly shirt I have on is Lisa's favorite. I wore it on our first date and never again since, but today was a special day. Since this pic it has been placed back in the back of the closet never to be spoken of or seen again for at least a year.