Baby Names?

People are constantly asking us what we are going to name the baby. Answer, we really don’t know. We do have a few names that we like, but it changes often. We are still open to looking at other names, so it may not be one of these in the end. Nate suggested I take a poll. I’m a little worried this may back fire on us, but here it goes.

Options:
Smith
Benson
Cache
Kingston
None of the above.

Let the voting begin.

Week in Review

So I am a little behind. We had a lot going on last week, but we managed to keep it pretty low key.

First off was Father's Day. Nate work Sat, Sun, & Mon so we didn't get to celebrate at home. But Trey and I did meet him and his partner and family at a park near the station for a little picnic on Saturday, so we will count that. I got him the Aerosmith edition of Guitar Hero, but it won't be released until next week. Sorry no pics.

Next up was Nate's birthday, we celebrated on Tueday. We got a sitter and went out for a nice dinner and a movie. Something we used to do all the time before kids, but now we only do on special occasions. We saw Iron Man. Loved it! I got him a special backpack for when he does triathlons. Again, I have no pics. However Nate's niece Jackie made him a birthday card and drew a picture on it of him blowing out his candles with a fire extinguisher, of course.Next was Trey's birthday on Thursday. I kind of feel bad, especially after the huge fuss I made for him last year, but we didn't actually do anything this year. We were at the grocery store on Wednesday and happened to walk past some Hotwheels. We grabbed a few on the way out the door and wrapped them up for him. Later that night we went to the rodeo in Pleasant Grove. We didn't actually take him for his birthday, but if he ever asks, we'll tell him we did. :) He didn't seem to care for any of the real rodeo action, but he loved to climb up and down the fence and look at the baby cows.

Luckily the next day Nate's sister and her kids came over to bring a birthday card to Nate and Trey. So I hurried and made cup cakes. If she hadn't come over Trey wouldn't have had a birthday cake at all. Thank you Nicole!


Trey's cousin Laura was born two days after Trey, so we sang to them both. Neither of them has really figured out what to do with candles yet. Maybe next year.

More Triathlon Pics

We founds some pictures of Nate during his Triathlon last week that were taken by the race officials. They are way better then any of the pictures i took, so I thought I would post them here.

Tubes

Yesterday Trey got tubes put in his ears. Our doctor recommended them last March to treat his "chronic" ear infections. But said we could wait and see if he did better as the weather warmed up. He got another one in April and again last week, so we decided to go ahead with it. They had to put him under completely so we had to take him to the hospital. After we checked in he ran around for more then an hour playing with everything and pushing the nurse call button several times. Poor thing had no idea what was coming.

Here he is getting into stuff while we waited for his turn.
The surgery was very quick! They took him away and brought him back in less then 20 minutes to recover. He was pretty drowsy and very ornery at first, but in about 15 minutes he was back to his normal self and ready to go home. Hopefully this will due the trick

This was taken after he can back. He didn't cry nearly as much as the other kids in the recovery area. He's a real trooper.

Preggers

The other day my brother Dave said to me "Whoa, you got big!" I let him know that was an inappropriate thing to say to any woman, pregnant or not. He tried to justify himself by pointing out it had be a while since he had seen me (6 whole days to be exact). I've actually been getting a lot of that kind of thing lately at work, church and from other family members. Other common comments are "You have how much longer!?!" and "You just popped right out didn't you..." and my favorite "Are you sure it's not twins" (that was from an uncle who will remain nameless). So I decided to post a photo so no one else will be surprised when they see how BIG I've gotten when you see me in person. In case anyone wants to keep track, I still have 65 days, that's two whole months, before my due date. So plenty of time to get even bigger, yeah!

Viking Man!

This weekend we drove up to Burley Idaho for so Nate could run in the Viking man Triathlon. It was his first half iron-man and he has been training very hard the last few months to get ready for it. I was a little worried he wouldn't make it. He had been very sick the whole week before with a fever, cough and sore throat. Trey also saw fit to keep us both up most of the night before the race. The morning of the race there were some pretty intense head winds for the all of the swim and most of the bike. Entering the water there was a 33 degree wind chill. Ouch!

Even around noon while Trey and I were waiting for Nate at the transition it was very windy and pretty cold. Trey didn't like it. But he did get to give his dad a hug before he headed out for the last leg of the race.

In the end Nate swam 1.2 miles, biked 56 miles, and ran 13 miles. Wow!!!

First Campout

Kind of. Nate was planning to camp out in the back yard with Trey on Friday but ended up having to work. I was feeling adventurous, so I decided to try it on my own. Thing started out pretty good. I got the tent set up a lot quicker then I thought I would on my own. This pic is only half way.
I think I would have gotten done even quicker if Trey didn't keep running away with the tent poles. I chased after him, but I think he thought it was a game.

Still with the poles...
Ta da!
No afternoon with Trey would be complete without a few tears. This is him after I finally got the pole for the rain cover away from him.

I gave him a cheese stick to cheer him up. He fed almost all of it to the dogs, but it did cheer him up! :) I think the dogs liked it too.
Here's the set up. Trey in the play pen and me in the sleeping bag next to him. I even brought out a chair and a flash light so I could read for a while after i put trey down.


Here he is relaxing in my chair before bed. The plan was to get him dressed for bed, read some books, put him in the play pen, and say good night. Same routine as usual, just in a tent. While we were getting dress Trey started to show me how quickly and easily he can get in and out and in and out of his play pen. That was my first clue that it might not work out.



Two hours later I was getting very sleepy, but Trey was showing no signs of slowing down. Camping is just way more exciting then I realized. We abandoned the tent and both had a very good night sleep in our own beds, indoors. Maybe Nate will have better luck next week.