Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Labor Day Events

We tried to hike the Y, but didn't get very far. Eryn calls it "the BYU Mountain." She was really excited to go and see the views, but not as dedicated of a hiker as she was on the arch trail. This hike is a lot more steep and pretty difficult. Brooke and I didn't get past the first few hundred feet before turning around. Too steep for me and Brooke smelled bad almost immediately. Not hiking with a smelly cranky baby sounded like a good enough excuse for me.

We went to my Brother-In-Law Ryan's apartment to go swimming. That was pretty fun. Brooke hung out in her car seat in the shade and slept most of the time. Uncle Josh kept an eye on her from the hot tub. I'm not much of a pool person, but I did venture into the water for a short time. Eryn really wanted to go hang out in the hot tub because with the jets on it looked like a bubble bath. But when I tried to get her to just stick her feet in she freaked out screaming about it being too hot! When it was time to leave she really struggled. She just wanted to keep playing.






After that, it was off to Grandma's to have a BBQ with more of the family. Grandpa had recorded the BYU game from Saturday, so the guys watched the end of the game again and all celebrated the victory together like it just happened!

It was definitely a busy day with lots of things going on. The sad part was that our friend Andrew Depew had to go back to Idaho to start another semester at BYU Idaho. : ( Eryn was sad to see him leave. She's starting to ask if she can go to college now. I told her she has to go potty every time in the potty before she can go to college.

That might be her motivation! Yesterday she went to the potty 6 times and only had 2 accidents! Man, I'm going to be in trouble when she's potty trained and is confused why she can't go to college yet.

4 comments:

Justin & Heather said...

haha that's awesome! I want to be a fly on the wall when you have that college conversation!

chelsea mckell said...

Yeah - the hardest part about taking a kid somewhere fun is trying to make them LEAVE. It makes me debate whether to go anywhere fun at all. Or at least come prepared with bribe material for her to get back into the car or stroller. Anyways.... fun pics. That's really funny the boys wanted to re-live the game. I used to work with a guy who had a pictures on his screensaver of the BYU QB making that final touchdown in the game we won against the U a couple years ago. Whatever makes them happy, I guess.
Eryn looks really tan in that last pool pic!

The McKays said...

Does she say she wants to go to CA? ha ha:)

valmike said...

We did take her to visit Stanford... She's pretty set on going to BYU though. Eryn's Native American blood shows when she's outside. She tans super easy! That's even while covered in 45 sun screen!