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i heart high-speed internet - a.k.a. massive picture upload!

In celebration of the fact that we now, once again, have immediate access to *high-speed internet!*, I thought I'd post a whole lot of pictures for your viewing enjoyment.

These first few pictures show one of James' recent favorite activities - going outside! This kid LOVES putting on his shoes (a word he can now say, by the way) and going out and walking around on the grass. He loved the doggies and kitties at Nana and Grandy's house, and loves to just walk around and look at things.

Walking out the front door to play outside - I just love this picture

This is the day that James first discovered rocks. He held on so tight to them and got upset when I took them away at nap time.

Our cute boy

"Ball! Ball!"

Sweet little guy

Swinging with Mama, and not quite sure how he feels about it...

These next two pictures just go to show that random family traits get passed down - we couldn't help but think of Jonathan's sister Rebecca when we saw James in this position - she is notorious for falling asleep in interesting positions, but especially while praying!

Going for a walk on a COLD February evening...we walked down the Bosters' lane, and then said to James "do you want to go further?" to which he clearly shook his head "no." Smart boy.



Some pictures of my handsome boys...



Another outside outing (is that redundant?) - I love this picture of James pointing to the cat, because there is a picture of me when I was around this age, and I was pointing at a cat, too! Like mother, like son.

Gotta love James' outfit here...

Ok, so we drove back to Salt Lake from Oregon on Sunday afternoon. We had been there for about four months (wow) and originally had thought we'd be moving up in that area. We had taken multiple trips between Salt Lake and Oregon, for various reasons, so we had accumulated a lot of stuff. Lucky for me, my husband is an EXPERT car packer (is that a word?). You would not beLIEVE how much stuff we fit in our little Corolla on our way back on Sunday. Just to give you an idea, here are a few pictures...

This is the view of my lap. Yes, I was completely covered with stuff. Plus I had ZERO leg room. I was sitting on top of a couple of coats and blankets. Can you find my knee in this picture? I can't believe my legs didn't fall asleep on this six-hour drive.

Where's James?

There he is, the poor kid! At least he's happy in this picture. At one point he got really bugged by all of the blankets and stuffed animals stuffed around him. I can't say that I blame him, poor kid. Yes, it was quite the exciting and humorous trip.

This little iguana was sticking out of the diaper bag on my lap, and soon became our trip mascot. We named him Iggy.

EVERY time we drive from Idaho to Salt Lake I see this sign and WISH I had my camera ready to take a picture of it. Well I got lucky this time, and had my camera out and ready! Sadly, you can't really read what it says, but it says "MIRACLE HOT SPRINGS..." and then the good part at the bottom: "CAUTION: ALLIGATORS." Is this funny to anyone else? I just thought it was completely random! Alligators in Idaho? Who knew?

James in his stroller ready to go for a walk! This is his cute new face that he does. His daddy makes the exact same face sometimes.

So all of the stuff from our car got dumped in our family room in my Grandma's basement, so on Monday we were just trying to clean up. I was distracted, putting things away, when I turned around to find this:

James found our treat bag from our trip (which, sadly, we never even got out - it was stuffed under my feet and was not reachable), found the Pringles (barbecue flavored), reached his little hand in and grabbed a whole stack and started eating them. It was hilarious. He just loved them! One of James' new words is "delicious!" (although, it really doesn't sound anything LIKE the word delicious, but whenever we say delicious he mimics us, and at least it begins with a "d" sound!)

James loves yogurt. And now prefers to feed himself.

We're Back!

Well, for anyone who hasn't heard, we are back in Salt Lake! Long story short - we have decided to refocus our job search here, so we moved back a few days ago. We are so excited to be here and we feel so good about it. We know that we had to be up in Oregon these past few months for some reason, and we learned so much and had a lot of fun. We do miss Jonathan's family a lot! It was so much fun to be able to spend so much time with them. Stay tuned for lots of pictures and updates!

For whoever needs their daily James fix:

Our boy is having lots of fun lately. He loves to jump and "dance," to lay on the hardwood floor on his tummy and scoot around backwards, to play with the doggies and kitties outside, to watch "Pongo" (our family's most favorite movie of late), to read books (he'll sit and flip through books forEVER, he just loves them), and to talk. He likes to say dada, mama, nana, grandpa (ba-pa), dog, duck (which sounds just like dog), car, ball (his most favorite thing lately - he goes CRAZY when he sees a ball!), josh, and liz. And he makes a great duck sound! He is also getting pretty good at making the sounds of pigs, doggies and cows. He can find his head, hair, ears and tongue and is working on his ears and eyes. He likes to mimic anything we say and is our little buddy.

this is how i feel right now

I'm bored.

Gotta love this boy!

a dream come true...

Now this post probably isn't what you're thinking. I'm talking about when you have a dream at night, and then whatever you dreamed about actually happens. Has that ever happened to you? Well it happened to me once - I once dreamed about this random kid from my piano class at BYU - I didn't know him too well and never really talked to him much. This one night I had a dream that he proposed to his girlfriend on stage after his sophomore recital. I saw him in the HFAC a couple of days later, and I was like, 'Hey! I totally dreamed about you!" and I proceeded to tell him about the dream. He kind of just stared at me with a shocked look on his face, like he couldn't believe it, and finally said " I AM planning on doing that...." Sure enough, about a week later I was at his recital, and at the very end he had his girlfriend come up and he sang to her or something and then proposed. Later I was introduced to his girlfriend as "the girl who had the dream." Yeah, it was crazy.

Well, it happened again last night. I had a dream, and then today it came true. Although this time it was more like a bad mommy dream that comes from changing so many diapers. This morning I went to change James' diaper and it was so messy that I just took off his pj pants and took him right in the bathroom to give him a bath. He had his bath, and then I got him out and put on his diaper and was cleaning up a few things. I walked out into the hallway and then I realized I was standing in something kind of...sticky. I started screaming, after which my in-laws came to see what the heck was the matter. (It was most definitely one of my finest moments.) And then it hit me - I had had this exact dream last night! I had changed James' diaper in my dream, and then there was poop on the floor and I stepped in it. When I woke up, I thought "eeew! what a weird dream!" - and then totally forgot about it, until it came true!

Has this ever happened to anyone else? (and I mean the whole dreaming something and then it actually happens thing, not the stepping in poop thing....)