Company Picnic

Okay, so I know I've already failed at updating our blog weekly. I have no excuse other than the fact that our lives just are not that interesting, nor does our daily activity change often enough for me to blog about it. Trust me, if I did you would be terribly bored and would never want to check our blog again...

That being said, we recently attended a family picnic for the fire department. We had planned to go as a family, but at the last minute John did a trade with another Lieutenant who desperately needed that day off. It was fine, Tyler and I went and had some good food and got to see some friends we don't see all that often anymore.

Tyler had fun playing with the other kids and playing at the big playground. He was soooo tired when we left that day.

This was some HUGE Frisbee that all the little kids thought was just the coolest thing they had ever seen. They used it for everything but a Frisbee. This thing made imaginations run wild for the teeny kids.

The balls Tyler is playing with go with some strange game. There are two balls attached together by a string and apparently you play the game similar to horse shoes, but throw them at bars that are at varying heights. Anyway, the small kids couldn't get enough of them. Every time I turned around Tyler or one of the other kids had swiped the balls from the game and were carrying them around.

So the name of this game is "Freak Out Mommy". For those of you who have known my husband most of his life, you'll understand...for the rest of you here is why. John has asthma, and with that come some crazy allergies that irritate the asthma. One of those allergies is to hay...which my son was sitting in. Thankfully, this was just oat hay, which John doesn't seem to have too much trouble with either. However, my other concern was that Tyler so far has shown no signs of asthma...thankfully...however, he does have some skin allergies. For instance, he'll pet a dog or cat and then five minutes later have hives all over his arms or face or neck or wherever the most contact was. Thankfully, he did not have any breathing or skin trouble after taking a "roll in the hay"

Okay, so the real point of this game was for the kids to dig through the hay to find money. They had put a ton of change in there. Tyler really had no idea what he was looking for, but as you can see from his left hand, he quickly picked up from the other kids that they were looking for something. Silly boy, he never found anything. It was probably gone by this point because I wouldn't let him in when the big kids were ferociously digging for their prizes or he would have been squashed...

Tyler found this unattended game and thought he should climb on it. It was cute, we weren't sure what he was going to do...you never know what is in their cute little heads.

He decided to sit, and it was cute enough to take a picture, unfortunately, I didn't have my camera so someone else took this picture. So this is not a pose, this is the result of the fact that Tyler didn't know the person who was taking his picture.

More shyness...but I think it's still a cute picture. He's trying to pretend he doesn't see the "stranger". It's so funny.

Vacation to Salt Lake City

We recently took our annual trip to Salt Lake to visit John's Aunt Nancy and Uncle Jerry. We go out every year as a golf trip for John and Uncle Jerry. This also means that Tyler, Aunt Nancy and I get to do whatever we want to while the boys golf. We always have so much fun.

John's cousin Jeremy and her (yes, her) husband Eric came down from Idaho Falls for a couple days and we got to visit with them. John’s Cousin Pat also lives in Salt Lake so we got to have a short visit with him. (Nancy and Jerry have 3 kids: Jeremy, Patrick and Louis. Louis still lives in Hagerman, ID and wasn’t able to make it out to see us).

Tyler had his first swimming pool experience. We figured he would have fun since he loves the tub so much. We were right; we had a terrible time getting him out of there. The rec center there is really cool, and they have a lot of fun things for the little kids to do. They have a big water slide, and a lazy river inside. Then outside there is a big pirate ship that of course has water coming out from many places and its fun for the little kids. The pool out there only goes to 3 feet and Tyler's favorite thing of all was the water jets outside.

We always have so much fun on our trip Salt Lake and we can't wait for next year's trip to see what other adventures we can find.

"Oh, I love this splashy water on my head" Tyler wasn't at all bothered by the fact that the water was in his face and on his head

We tried playing in the big water, but that just wasn't as much fun as the water jets coming out of the ground

Tyler just couldn't make it to the newest water jets fast enough...this is so much fun

A short preview of Tyler in the water...he had soooo much fun!! You can't hear over the sound of the water, but Tyler is yelling "WATER" the whole time. His dad was there to make sure he didn't walk onto the ground that wasn't wet because it was super hot. He did this same thing for nearly 2 hours, except for the 15 minutes we were inside at the waterslide and maybe another 10 minutes in the bigger outside pool...otherwise, this is where he wanted to be.

Daddy took Tyler down the water slide. He thought it was fun, but not as fun as the water jets.

"Look mom, no harness" Tyler had to try out the climbing wall while we waited for Daddy to get changed out of his wet swim trunks.

Tyler had fun hanging out with Cousin Jeremy and her husband Eric.

Cousin Patrick was nice enough to share his snack while Tyler made himself at home and watched a movie with him..

John, Uncle Jerry and Aunt Nancy

Tyler lookin' cute and very small so far up high

Tyler found some fun slides at a park in the mountains, he had a lot of fun

"Wheeee, this is fun"

We've been turned into bloggers...

Well, here we are...the Blunt Family, and we're blogging. I have held out for as long as I possibly could. I don't know exactly why, but I wasn't ready to join the blogging fad. However, on a recent trip to Salt Lake to visit some family, I was guilted into it by a certain cousin of John's when she said, "I would love to keep up with Tyler he's so much fun and I know his Auntie Angie would like to see him grow also." So I've seen many family and friends start their blogs, and held out and now I'm one of the many. Hopefully I can keep the blog updated weekly so our friends and family that haven't seen Tyler as he grows can have a glimpse into our lives, boring though it may be.