Baby? What baby?

So here Jared and I were driving over to Sharidee's house yesterday for your typical Sunday afternoon root beer burping contest when we realized we were missing something kind of important. No, not the root beer. Although that would have been a big deal...



This little gal was back home catchin' some Zzzzz's. I even double checked every door to make sure we had locked up before we left. We usually come home with most doors either unlocked or completely open. I guess in the back of my mind I knew I was forgetting something. Just couldn't quite put my finger on what it was.

Ostrich Bake Anyone??

A few weeks ago Jared couldn't resist buying an ostrich egg down in St. George and we've been keeping it in our fridge not sure who'd be up for trying out the big huge egg with us.
Well, Jared's sister's family and my parents were the lucky ones who got to be the guinea pigs. This is one big old egg.

As my Geology professor would have said, "The egg of interest is on the right. There is also a chicken egg on the left and a silly Grandma for scale."


The men getting out the power tools to conquer the thing...




Now time to blow out the eggy stuff...

A nice close up for grossness

Got some recruits for help. Just like CPR it works best as a team effort.


This one egg equals about 2 dozen large chicken eggs.

We didn't take pictures of the finished product. We made one sausage-tater tot-ostrich egg bake and one sausage-tater tot-regular egg bake and most of us couldn't tell the difference in taste, It's been over 24 hours and as far as I know most of us have survived too.

Independence Day

Our 4th of July was a little bit lazy. We had stayed up late for a couple of nights in a row so we decided to take the morning slow and lazy on over to some friend's for lunch then we went over to Liberty Days (in Liberty UT). There wasn't much going on by the time we got there but the boys got to have their faces painted and they felt like superheroes!!

Tanner going with good old Spiderman


Jackson's an Avatar


Annabelle's 1st time trying out a swing. Although the picture may look otherwise, she loved it. Mostly.


Jared was tired of pushing all the kids on the swing and decided he wanted some fun for himself.


Later that evening we headed over to Huntsville for their fireworks and boogied through the night. The girls in the background make me laugh. Looks like Jared has a couple back up dancers.


The boys spontaneously had a major meltdown. We have no idea what caused it but it seemed pretty serious. To them, anyway.


Aunt Susie offered them a tic-tac if they'd smile and apparently it worked. Jackson got his groove on and put all of us dancing fools to shame.


Doing the worm


Annabelle just couldn't figure out why nobody would let her go to sleep!


We love the 4th of July. We feel lucky to have spent a few back East where our forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence and to have been able to see so many awesome historical sights where it all began. It makes us miss VA and Washington DC very much but we also LOVE having family to celebrate with. Not to mention the awesome Utah weather!!!