Wild Wild Webbs

2012-01-27T11:00:00.000-08:00

Week 2: I am trying to eat protein and get my muscles to grow. I did two cycling classes at the gym and they were awesome. I ran with my boss. Next week I need to do more weight training and that's good because I have two sessions with a trainer. Fun! I am having a hard time staying away from all the candy and cakes around. If anyone has tips please let me know!

Gold's Gym and Doterra Weight Loss Competitions

2012-01-20T07:55:00.000-08:00

WEEK 1 The weight loss competition sounds oh so fun. Not really, not when you like to make desserts all the time. Not when you have to watch every portion size. Oh and did I mention that my neighbor who is a salesman for Winder Farms brought over THREE Carrot Cream Cakes this week because I watch his 11 year old sometimes. I gave one away to a neighbor, but I couldn't resist the luscious temptation, and I ended up devouring quite a bit. Maybe that's why I've only lost 2 pounds. I figured I would just exercise it off. So that's why I was at the gym for three hours tonight. I need to drink more water before I eat, and exercise. That's one thing this week I will try to improve on. Also eating more Doterra Slim and Sassy shakes to satiate my hunger.

A Weekend with Riley

2012-01-20T00:24:00.000-08:00

This blog post was saved on drafts, and I just found it today. I thoguht I had lost all the videos of Riley, so I am happy to see this is here. I think it was 2010 when I thought it would be fun to bring a racoon home for a weekend after Rachel offered. I don't know why. I realize it coud be very germy, and I promise I would never do that now. Riley is lucky to be alive. Her mom was shot because she was living in an attic in Rachel's in-laws house in Alpine. I guess racoons are a regular occurrence there. A day after she was shot later they heard alot of crying and realized there were babies. Her father in law asked his sons if anyone wanted a baby raccoon, and all four got adopted. I thank Rachel for raising such a cute little raccoon. She had to do a lot of work bottle feeding her and keeping her warm since Riley was only about a week old when she got her. The other ones ended up dying. We enjoyed playing with her, and she was very friendly. She ended up giving Riley to some comservation group after a few months because she was too hard to keep out of the house.

Pete is 29

2012-01-20T00:22:00.000-08:00

I just got around to posting this. Pete had a great birthday here in Spanish Fork with his family and Logan and I and Jesse. Logan loved the mango slushie drink and especially because he got to drink it our of a goblet. We had fried fish (dover sole), and I just amde up some flour mixture to fry it in which turned out really well. I also used it on the potatoes. There were so many nice things to say about Pete that we had to go around the circle more than once. I can't remember if it was two or three times, but some of the nice things were that he is a good dad, fun to be with, an outdoorsy person, and always cares about what's going on in other peoples lives. He got a nice BYU Football book from his parents. Happy Birthday!

Great Grandkids' Treasure Hunt at Grandma Barkers

2011-07-14T14:34:00.000-07:00

Funny, I haven't made a post in more than a year. Well now you know where my priorities don't lie. Internet at home is way too slow for uploading pics and no blog post would be good without a picture, right. So now I am at school, just barely getting the results back from my thesis data, but I decide to do a bog post. Pete and Logan made it up to Fruit Heights, which doesn't happen too often, back in June when Katie was visiting with her kids. I had to teach a racquetball class, but I heard it was fun. Logan likes olives! The Vernons (my immediate family only) have a tradition of not liking olives unless they are on a pizza. I guess Logan really is a Webb! Or Great Grandma Fern has passed it down to him.

I guess there was a treasure hunt by Great Grandma Barker and no one could find the treasure, incuding her. She found it later in a cupboard. I totally know the feeling - i.e. old Halloween candy. Playing with Grandma Barkers awesome toys and games should have been fun enough for the kids. Hot Wheels racing, driving electric trains, poke the pirate and alphabet stacking blocks to name a few. Well I hope to do another post soon, but I really should get going. Check back next year.

Thanksgiving Point Tulips

2010-04-21T22:44:00.000-07:00

The tulip festival was a great idea for my cousin June's birthday.

Mom got all 4 kids in one stroller, and gave them ice cream cone bubbles. It reminded me of my childhood - always so fun and squishy in the car or the stroller. Etta Mae will have this many kids in one stroller pretty soon, plus one walking. Logan- 23 mos, Alan- 26 mos and Austin- 19 mos, June's boy.He was getting tired by the end and needed his binky.

Finding his bellybutton, as usual.

Logan follows Alan in dangerous stunts.

Logan had a little wedgie.

2010-03-22T22:28:00.000-07:00

Good Luck on your mission Willi! When did you get so tall? This was taken literally minutes before he went into the MTC, as were saying good-bye at Grandma Vernon's. After you endure the monotanous MTC, you will love Taiwan even more! Julia promised she'd hold off on any wedding plans until you got back. JK, but maybe Parley will wait for you to be back. Oh yeah, and I will beat you at racquetball when you get back-even if you are playing right handed!

Bye Bye Oldie, Hello Jim

2010-03-22T22:15:00.000-07:00

When I got my oldsmobile from my cousin Maryilyn, she told me her name was Goldie, but I changed it to Oldie. She was a great old car, with nice, comfy, soft benches that moved with controls, lots of room to nurse Logan in the back seat, and it could even seat six people for when Hallie and her kids needed a ride. But I suffered through some hot summers with no AC and only one window working, some ridicule over my window crack that was letting snow in and so got some ugly duct tape all over it, and I had to learn to use the makeup mirror for a rearview mirror - Thanks, Dad, for glueing the rearview mirror back on, it but it just wouldn't stay. Then a couple weeks ago Oldie started lurching and not accelerating when I was trying to get onto the freeway. A little scary. The last time I was going to Provo in her, she lurched as I was accelerating, and turned off completely, which made it really hard to steer and brake, especialy trying to U turn on highway 6. We got home, but I knew it was time to say bye to Oldie - plus she has 234,000 miles, which is really good for an oldsmobile. But the biggest reason is that I had already purchased a replacement for Oldie.

Meet Jim -named by his previous owner- a reliable Honda Civic with way better gas mileage, turning radius, AC (a first for me), and low miles. He has a few rust spots on the outside, but what does it matter what a car looks like if its got a good engine? Plus, a couple of my neighbors would definitely agree that Jim is better looking than Oldie, as my friend told me I was moving up in the world.

The first time I saw Jim on KSL early Sat morning I knew he woud be my car. I called and magically got an appointment to see him that morning before anyone else even though twenty people had called the day before and people kept calling all while I was buying Jim. Dozens were lined up to see him that afternoon. I trusted the U of U student selling the car, who told me that Jim had a lot of life left in him, and had been well taken care of. He did, however, get made fun of by friends for driving a car made with no right side mirror. Who looks at those anyways?
I really needed to get rid of Oldie, but I couldn't just give her to the junk yard, so I listed her for 200.00 on KSL. Explaining her current condition I was suprised to get a lot of calls, but it made me happy that Oldie was wanted. So, late last evening a black guy drove down from Bountiful to take her to his friend's shop, and fix her up. I had a nagging feeling as he was on his way that I should do something, so I remembered to take off the license plate, but I wasn't sure that was it.
Then the guy drove up in his friend's flatbed towtruck with pretty lights all down the sides and came to look at Oldie. As he took Oldie for a test drive, I went in to get the title, which he had specifically asked for before he came all the way here. Suprise, it wasn't in our important file folder binder like I thought! Now I knew why I fet like I should have been doing something. I couldn't believe it wasn't there, and thought it was just between some other papers. But after checking three times and not finding it, I was devastated. I scrambled to any place in the house I could think of, and spread all the papers out of the phonebook cupboard on the floor, out from under the bed, all over the computer desk. I had no idea where it was and it would take hours to go through everything, but by this time the guy was back and standing in the garage waiting. I felt really bad that he had driven so far because I had told him I had the title. I am sure he wouldn't have come if he had known I didn't have it. Several more minutes passed, as I was frantically searching, so I made Pete go out to apologize for me taking so long.

FINALLY, I thought to say a prayer, and then I right away I got help. As I headed downstairs, I felt like I shouldn't go down there, but to the computer room. As I entered the room I remembered a gold colored BYU folder I had put some housing papers in, and I knew the title was in there. I looked around the room thinking gold folder, gold folder, and then I thought to look under the bed, where I had already looked. I found it, and inside was the title (I forgotten I had scanned it for something last fall). I quickly ran outside, scared that the buyer had left, but he was still there. We made a quick exchange of the title for 200 cash, he loaded up Oldie -which was fun to watch with Logan - and left. Then as I closed the garage door, I realized how thankful I was to Heavenly Father for telling me where to look for that one important piece of paper.

I Want to Be Like Dad.

2010-02-09T21:51:00.000-08:00

Logan crossing his legs like Pete.

Yep, that's just how Dad does it.

With one arm out for support and everything.Logan wanted to put on Pete's hat, and then he made such a cute face we all ooooed and he kept holding the same face for a long time so I could get a picture.

Pete wants to be like Logan.

Zermatt Ice Castles and Kahtoola Bigfoot Snowshoe Festival

2010-02-02T00:42:00.000-08:00

Gorgeous ice formations that we thought were just frozen fountains at first when we drove by on the way to my race in Midway. After the race we came to look at them in front of the Zermatt Resort and found out that they were ice castles made by a sculptor who worked on them 14 hours a day, moving around PVC pipe and harvesting icicles-we even saw him out there in his crampons. We were excited that we could go inside for only 2 dollars.

It was cool that under the ice castles were warm springs, like this one where fish could live all year, and Logan liked finding the fish.

This was the biggest one that you could go inside. They keep growing until the end of February and then last until May.

So pretty. We want to go back at night because they have lights on them.

We could play hide and seek around them.

Inside the big castle there was a narrow hallway, and a little window. It was quite slippery. Has anyone heard of that cool hotel in Canada or something that is made out of ice?

Logan loved being inside and when we went down the slippery stairs he wanted to go up again so bad that we braved the ice steps one more time.

Someday I'm going to aspire to doing this in my backyard. Wouldn't it be cool to say that your mom does ice castles for a living, like this guy does? It's awesome. By the way, the whole Zermott place was wonderful, just like Switzerland, with it's music, architecture, and bellhoppers in tights.

Earlier that morning at the Kahtoola Bigfoot Snowshoe Festival, standing next to a little Sasquatch Bigfoot.

Me, before the race. I was excited because it was so beautiful to run with sparkling snow all around and no roads. I was also just glad we got there in time. The thick fog all around Deer Creek made driving there a little scary. Good thing I got Pete up and made him drive me, but we didn't leave until 8:10 so I was a little worried. At least we had a GPS directing us so we knew right where to go. It kept telling us we would get there at 8:59, and the race started at 9:00 -Oh no!. It turned out OK and actually the race ended up not starting until 9:15 so I even had time to get a pre-race picture.

What the race course looked like. This lady was on her second loop -she was doing the 25k, I think. The races offered were: 5k, 10k, 25k, marathon and 50k -in snowshoes! These people were amazing, I was glad I was ony doing a 5k with the shape I was in. There were some true 'granolas' there.
Me, post-race with my frozen eyelashes and mustache.

My traction device called Yaktrax that Pete got me for my birthday last year. A lot of people ran in snowshoes, but I think these were much faster, as long as I didn't step in the middle of the trail and sink in. But to win in the long races you had to wear snowshoes the whole way. Kahtoola company was there selling these snowshoes you're supposed to be able to really run in -I might try them next year

I won overall first place female in the 5k, suprisingly enough. I guess my total of two workouts on the treadmill this winter payed off. This is me with the awesome race director, John Bozung, who is an amazing ultramarathoner. When he turned 52 he did 52 marathons in one year.

They had great cream of broccoli soup afterwards. This guy was waiting around for his friend to finish the 50k -over 30 miles! He came with his family and friend from St Louis- there were people from Virginia, and a couple other states as well.

Logan and Pete enjoyed seeing all the visitor center animals while I ran.

But the coolest thing was finding all the heater vents. Logan does that everyhwere he goes, nowadays. In the store he will point out if they are big square ones or big circle ones-those way up high in the ceiling. That's something I never noticed before - he is so going to be a good handyman.

Logan got ahold of half of my 180 energy drink which tasted like orange soda, and was in a pop can, so he loved it, of course. The race director warned us that Logan would be jumping off the walls, and he was right - the caffeine combined with M&Ms that Logan kept sneaking made for one hyper little boy. After he ran around in the visitors center awhile, people kept telling Pete that Logan needed to run the race next year.

Pete and Logan eventually came outside to get some of those wiggles out, and it worked. By the time we drove home after stopping at the Zermott, Logan fell fast alseep.

Pete liked the Sasquatch Bigfoot statue. I hope Pete never decides to let his hair grow out like that.

Julia and Logan

2010-01-29T08:12:00.000-08:00

Julia and Logan were having a very fun time dancing together, and twirling their baby dolls around in circles while big Julia and Jason talked on the couch. They were so cute sitting on this little doll sofa together, and also it was cute when they were tired they'd lay down on the floor next to each other. Then one of them would say, "Wake up," and they'd start dancing again.

He Stayed in Nursery!

2010-01-19T22:11:00.000-08:00

This is Logan with a new haircut and ready for church.

And yes, he did stay in nursery for the last hour by himself - not crying one bit. The teacher did have to hold him on his lap all the time, but I was very impressed with Logan for learning that he can have fun without us there. Props to Pete for being the one to leave him, I don't think it woud have worked with me.

Logan was so cute I had to take a video, and also to show off my birthday present I bought myself at Kmart for only $25 because it was 75% off - a Christmas light music box that moves the lights to the music. All of these were gone even before Christmas, but this was the display and so no one thought it was for sell. I found some worker and asked him, then waited while that guy called three people to try out if it was for sell and find the price, then give me 75% off. But it was worth it even if Logan had to eat a few skittles to stay quiet. We will have a cool house next year, if our tiny patch of grass doesn't put a damper on things.

Logan's Reading

2010-01-12T21:07:00.000-08:00

"S-T-O-P, Stop!" Logan has become obsessed with this little stop sign. He doesn't really know how to read, he just likes to say "Stop" after he spells it. Still, it's a start. Logan's cousin, Julia is super smart, but she has this defiant streak in her and usually just pretends she doesn't know the answer. Logan misses her the most out of any cousins, because he goes around saying, "Julia gone, Yas Degas," (Las Vegas). Good thing she is coming back to visit in two weeks!

Snowy Days

2010-01-09T06:21:00.000-08:00

We were lucky to get a huge snowfall after Christmas, so we spent a couple days just playing in the snow and it was great. Logan got out in his snowsuit and for the first time enjoyed it. He wasn't scared to walk off in the snow all by himself in the deep snow along the fence, or walk on the slippery ice. He didn't want to go down the sled hill by himself, however.
I stayed busy making snowballs for Logan and Julia to smash. Logan kept saying, "Logan, big one." Then he would say, "Logan smash it, fingers." Julia looked cute with her snowpants and connected boots. I held both their hands as we walked through the deep snow and they liked to stomp it down, or do anything the other one did, like push snowballs through the grate. They had so much fun together, sometimes I really wish I had twins.

Our little snow house that Keirra and I spent forever making, but it was fun. Mom gave us these cool brick molds we used with snow and a little water to make the bricks keep their shape. It was a couple days in the making, but even had a few tunnels under the wall for mail, etc. Alaya kept making tunnels for dogs to get in. One time Julia pushed over a lot of bricks before they froze together and I got mad at her. Logan thought it was a good place to hide.

He's trying to stick the little shovel through the window when I tell him not to.
It's always fun to tease Mom.
Keirra, Alaya and I had a secret night sledding party and meeting in our snow hut. We went out at 10:00 with a fashlight, some silly string and hid from the airplane bombers (Keirra was scared of this one low-flying airplane). A board and a few sleds closed off the roof so much that it got warm inside, and I could even sit up comfortably under the roof. The sledding was really good that night - it was so slick we just slid down in our snowpants, and actually went really fast! It was just gorgeous outside, although the wind started picking up. I miss just doing fun things like late-night sledding with the family. Scott and Keirra with her beautiful snowman princess.

The best sled hill was right behind our house!

Feeding Jesus

2010-01-09T06:04:00.000-08:00

We set up a big manger scene in our house and I put a porcelain doll down as baby Jesus. Logan one day came back to the kitchen where I was washing dishes and said, "raisins, Jesus." He had dumped all his box of raisins on Jesus' face to be nice and share with him. Logan likes to feed other people, but now he's only allowed to give Jesus the toy milk bottle.

Christmas Morning

2010-01-08T05:39:00.000-08:00

We got to spend the night at the Webbs and enjoy a great fire and sheperd's dinner. Logan kept saying Grandpa fire hot. Christmas morning was a whole new experience for Logan, and he sure loved having so many fun people around like Ian and Micheal. Logan loved Megan too, he just didn't want to show it at the time. He wouldn't say her name or give her a kiss, and ran away when he got close to her in the kitchen. He was just scared of her, and now he's better, but it was really funny.

After some help, Logan learned how to open presents all by himself.

We had a great time playing with the playdough buckets that morning. He really liked cutting with the little knife all the cookies and cheese and pretzels we made him. Pete and Logan also enjoyed building block towers and tearing them down. Logan aready can't wait until next Christmas.

Festival of Trees

2009-12-05T06:36:00.000-08:00

It was so beautiful, I have never seen so many Christmas trees in my life. This Fairy tree was one of my favorites, and there are more pictures of the gorgeous and fun trees later.

Logan and I tried to go to the park this morning, but it was freezing cold especially with the wind I found out later it was about 5 degrees. Then Grandma Helen invited us to go to the Festival of Trees with my Aunt Miriam and my cousin June who's boy, Austin, is Logan's age. We were glad Grandma saved us from a day of boredom.

Before we left Grandma was deciding what to wear to the Messiah tonight because she wouldn't have time when we got back. She walked out all fancy wearing these huge earrings and I laughed. We vetoed them because would distract from the soloist who she sits right under with the other flutes. But they are clip ons so Logan got to wear them a little and he sure liked them. When I am taking the picture he looks at the camera with his "I'm cute, and I know it" pose.
Before walking all over for two hours at the convention center we went to eat all we could at Sweet Tomatoes buffet. By that time we all felt like being pushed in a wheelchair like Grandma Carey, as June said. Logan and Austin were the cutest boys sitting together at the end of the table and eating plate after plate. Austin was always tring to feed Logan his pizza or cucumbers, and Logan just kep eating and eating. Nobody could believe that they ate so much although it was really nice because they were both so good and quiet the whole meal, eating as much as we did. There were concequences later, however, when we drove over the mountain back to Alpine Logan was eating an apple, and it was just too much food to keep in with the bumpy ride. He started saying, "Owie" and then he threw up right before we got home. What was funny is that later we were telling Grandpa what happened and as I was describing all the food Logan ate and how he just coughed it all up, Logan looked at me and opened his mouth to throw up a lot more. I was almost out of clothes by then, but we found some deep in the diaper bag.

Miriam's favorite tree, Breath of Heaven, was one I liked also, with a row of tutu's aong one side and that cute chair.

Great Grandma Carey and Logan got free rides. By the end we were all shuffled out and wanting rides, as Miriam said.

June's favorite.

Mom's choice if she was going to buy one, because of the statue that you would have when the tree was gone.

A kid favorite.

The Madame Tussou Tree, that was so nice of that lady to give up her whole doll collection. I am sure it sold for a lot.

The Book of Mormon tree was gorgeous with liahonas and everything. It was made for a BOM Dad and had lots of BOM games and cool things underneath.

Actually this was another of Mim's favorites. How cute for a girl's room.

I thought this was really fun and looks cute even with the ice cream theme.

Miriam's Barbie tree from the back. It turned out great, with the pink ribbon, and chair, and was a very popular one with the kids.

A great tree for my Dad.

A Jazz tree, that looked cool.

I have a Nursery Boy

2009-12-05T05:59:00.000-08:00

I can't believe Logan is old enough to go to nursery. Here he is ready and excited his first day. It's been three weeks since then, and the transition has been hard for this little mama's boy. He won't let me get even cose to the door or he screams. Last week Pete dropped him off crying and after 15 minutes I hear his screams for "Mommy, Mommy" in the hall as the leader brought him to me. He was so upset that he wouldn't let Pete or I get more than a few feet away, wanting to hold onto both of us at the same time. He is such a cute guy, even when he is crying. I think I just need to explain it to him a few hours before church so he is prepared.

It was such a nice day outside for being the middle of November.

Just to please me, Pete did his hair spikey like Logan's. How sweet. I want to see it spikey when it's longer.

The weather was so nice we went to Salem ponds with Patty and her mom, Maria, and Jacob to feed the ducks. Boy were they hungry, there were three giant geese that were super loud and greedy. They wanted food so bad they almost bit Logan's hand off.

Two cute boys at the park. Logan likes to do whatever Jacob can. He loves Jacob so much. He kept pointing to him in the car and saying his name because he was so excited to see him.

The Night of the Tiger

2009-10-31T21:07:00.000-07:00

Going along with Logan's Halloween theme. Keirra did the cool butterfly and Hallie and Alaya did the mustang.

Then just because it looked cool, I also did a tank - I indulged myself spending way too much time on pumpkins this year. So, Prenten- I am waiting to see what you did with your squat, little cinderella pumpkin. We were part of a traveling circus this year. I was the fortune teller along with the tiger and his trainer. I should have had them do a little act, but Logan really wasn't willing to stand up on his own. Doesn't Pete look the part like some Bill Sykes or something?
Poor Emily, our neighbor whose house we are standing in front of, has the swine flu and couldn't go trick or treating. Logan took her some rice crispy treats and candy, but we didn't see her. Get well soon, Emily- Logan and I miss you and love you!
Lions and tigers and please don't cry! We stopped to visit Jaron, and as you can see the tiger was a little bit tired. The trick or treating didn't work so well since the tiger was too tired to stand up. I would hold the pumpkin bucket out for his candy, but he didn't seem to care, plus he doesn't need any more candy. We just did a few houses, and enjoyed seeing the neighborhood.
Alaya the unicorn, Julia the poodle, and Keirra the black fairy, with Scott's mom, Janice. Thursday night we stopped at Julia's work -Heritage Care Center where they had a super fun party. I am sorry I didn't get more pictures, like Hallie, because the old people were so cute, and the spooky graveyard was really cool. Good job Julia, I am coming next year for sure. Then Logan will be able to do all the fun games like bowling and ring toss. Congrats, Alaya for winning a goldfish!
Hallie took this while I was driving -sooooo cute. Did you know my cushy oldsmobile actually holds six people - Hallie, Alaya and I in the front with the three carseats in the back. Squishy, but all the more merry, especially when the whole back seat started fussing as we were five minutes from home. Us in the front just imitated their fussing, and the backseat madly screamed all the louder until our car was rolling with noise. Maybe I won't ever need a van, just someone to get my window to go up.

Games at the Vernon Halloween party Friday night included an eyeball relay, a treat relay, a spider race, a treat walk, a tiger's cave, the limbo, and find the broomsticks and spiders. Thanks, Hallie for doing all the games and decorating the house super awesome, since I was recovering from Wednesday. Scott, your homemade rootbeer was a big hit!

I say Prenten wins best costume. It's hard to see in the vid, but he was a guy in a car wreck, with one half of his body normal and the other all scraped up, from his sock to his face. I think it's funny that he ripped and burned a nice Sunday shirt- Rachel probably didn't like that- but it looked cool. BTW, thanks for fixing the blind and saving me a lot of worry.

The Little Gym trunk or treat party was actually so much fun. Logan was a natural on the bar, and Jacob was so cute -he got his face painted after he got there. I liked his tiger fight with Logan.

Logan is quickly learning how to talk -he usually copies my last word - and he understands almost everything. I need to videotape him pointing out letters and saying their sounds.

I like the swimming tiger. He kicks his legs like that in the bathtub all the time, probably because we taught him to do that last summer in the pool.

Oh the little tiger and his roar are so adorable. Sorry about the super long post!

Curly Apples

2009-09-27T22:47:00.000-07:00

Logan loves grabbing an apple or two off of Grandma Webb's tree whenever he visits, so she gave us a whole bag. Usually Logan eats apples from the bottom up, core, seeds, and all. But since he discovered the cool apple curler machine, he won't go back to eating them normal - for now.

Logan has a knack for finding yummy things in the pantry and getting me to give them to him. We ended up going on the front steps to eat the otter pops after he made sure I got the scissors out of the drawer. Then he got so happy he ran really fast to the front door - he knows thats where we eat otter pops together. It is actually really fun that he always wants me to eat one with him he keeps pointing to his and mine. Then as soon as he is done he hurries to the door with all the trash and whines so I'll open it and he can run to the trash can. He sure helps me keep things clean.

Kids and Kids

2009-09-18T06:16:00.000-07:00

Every time we go to Alpine we stop to play at Rachel's farm. She has baby goats, chickens, ducks, baby chicks, and sometimes horses or cows in the pasture right next door. We love this cute little brown spotted goat that Joel named Escobel. We call her Bell, and she will follow you around, while the all black goats just run away from you. There were six baby goats, and Rachel is selling all but Bell.

Alan is usually nice to Logan, but I caught him pulling Logan's hair and I had to pry away his fingers. Boys will be boys.

And Logan was pretty mad.

So Alan was put in the cage. Just kidding he liked to go in there and shut the door.

Just Peachy

2009-09-16T22:01:00.000-07:00

Logan loves canned peaches, but the canning process was by no means perfect.

One jar's bottom broke off, so I found peaches floating in the big pot and had to fish them out.

Logan got a little bored playing with Daddy and discovered he could poke holes in the peaches, or even better - rip them apart. "Uh-oh."

Does anyone know how to get rid of the tons of fruit flies in my kitchen? They are still there even after my peaches have been gone for over a day. I hate those annoying flies, but they remind me of my high school science class with Mr. Shuler where we predicted the traits of the drosophila melanogastor. Did anyone else do that lab?

Las Vegas

2009-08-31T19:30:00.001-07:00

I loved this chandalier. Each crystal was hanging from its own thread, and could move separately. I tried to blow on them, but they were too far away.

Pete relaxing after a long day of driving.

We had fun with Hallie. Julia and Logan loved the family hot tub- there was also an adult hot tub and pool -and Julia even learned how to say "hot tub" really cute. Logan would just point at it and walk over there saying "hot, hot," and then get in by himself.

The Silverton was a fun place for Logan, even if we missed the mermaid show.

See the big Manta Ray sucking on the glass.

Planet Hollywood with its cool indoor sky.

MGM Grand. The Rainforest Cafe. Logan really liked the twinking stars, moving butterflies and a moving alligator.
The Bellagio, my favorite hotel.

We went to the Ultimate Variety show -really good because it had a little of everything. We liked the acrobatic guys, and the piano juggler was really funny. I'd say it was worth the 90 minutes of salesman's blabber- plus we got 5 buffet tickets.

Camping Out

2009-08-31T18:55:00.000-07:00

Spanish Fork River Park and campground is just 5 minutes up the canyon. We slept in the primitive area, which is only $2 a person, but you had to walk about 200 yards from your car over a little bridge. It was worth it because no one else was there- except for the millions of mosquitoes. We all got a couple bites.

Pete's cool way to cook eggs and pancakes.

County Fair

2009-08-17T07:04:00.000-07:00

Logan and his friend Jacob had so much fun at the carnival. Patty is my new friend in the ward. She is from Peru and is really fun. They speak spanish at home, so Jacob always says "Hola Hogan," and it is so cute. Her mom lives with them and doesn't speak much english, so I have fun trying to talk to her in spanish. I got discount tickets at Maceys, and then sold some, so our tickets cost next to nothing.
Logan and Jacob loved the cars of course.
There was a huge tractor. We also liked seeing all the sheep and cows.

Randomly, there were Peruvian dancers at the Macey's stage where we all went to get free popcorn. Logan and Jacob were full of energy even though it was 9:00, and they were both dancing really cute, although Logan stopped dancing when I started videoing. The dance teacher asked if anyone knew where the dances were from, and Patty said, "Peru". The teacher said, "No, Bolivia," which was funny because Patty and her Mom would know. Then the teacher said that actually they were all the same countries back then. It was such a fun evening.

Mom's Little Helper

2009-08-11T06:20:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday I got Logan's vacuum at a yard sale for a quarter so that he wouldn't always try to steal my vacuum, and it worked. I was able to vacuum the whole main level, and Logan was content with his own little Dirt Devil.

Webb Times

2009-08-11T05:36:00.000-07:00

Brandon (Pete's brother) and his family came to visit from Az for a few days, and Logan had a lot of fun getting to know his cousins. He and Mariah liked playing with the same toys together, and Ethan kept making Logan laugh super hard - especially in the ball pit.

Grandpa Webb made a delicious dutch oven dinner up the canyon, and even though it started raining really hard, we stuck it out and left the wet table for a dry cement spot under a tree. In the end the food was well worth it.
Chuck E Cheese is a perfect place for kids this age. It was Logan's first time, and he loved the cars so much that he held on to the steering wheels for dear life when I went to get him off.
Logan and Hailey on the dragon.
Logan and Ethan in the monster truck.

Logan and Mariah- too bad it is fuzzy, they were so cute together.

When I went to get Logan off the trolley he scooted way to the other side of the seat and grabbed the steering wheel as tight as he could. When I went over there he scooted back to avoid me. It was hilarious how determined he was to stay on

the trolley.

A hike to Bridal Veil Falls. Brandon & fam weren't there, but I never got around to posting this. It was a beautiful, fun hike.

We found some cute fuzzy caterpillars for Logan to hold, and he got out to hike the last 200 yards himself.

Little Pioneer Logan - Carey Family Reunion

2009-08-04T23:32:00.000-07:00

Pioneer Day this year was at Moyle Park with candle making, hoop rolling, clothes washing, stick pulling- you name it.

Logan won best overall boy costume, and I didn't even use a pattern.

Logan was a little scared of the washtub at first, but he was soon scrubbing clothes with all the women.

Logan was especially helpful in filling up the water cans to carry back to the washtub.

As soon as we hung up the clothes, Logan was ready to pull them down and wash them again. Here are our other pioneer activites.

Candle making

Hoop rolling

Fiddle Dancing
Stilt walking. Julia is one hard working pioneer.

All pooped out - being a pioneer isn't easy!
It's OK, Elizabeth will finish the ice cream for you.
It sure tastes good in 100 degree weather.

We're trying not to smile.

Wouldn't be a reunion without family orchestra the next day.

or good food like Grandma Carey's 90th birthday cake -there really are 90 candles.
What fun cousins. The whole Vernon family minus Parley, Rod, Amanda and David.

Tour de Donut

2009-07-12T22:57:00.000-07:00

Annie, Ruthann and I (friends from my grad program) had a blast at the Tour de Donut Sat in AF. You ride 21 miles in three 7 mile loops. After loops one and two you can stop at a table and eat as many donuts as you want, and a volunteer records it on your race number. You get three minutes off for every donut you eat. I thought I could eat a ton, but only ended up eating 8. It is so hard to eat them when you are exercising, they start getting really gross and I felt like throwing up. I kept thinking how good Parley, Scott or William would do, I bet they could eat at least 10. But the Tour de Donut Champion ate 28 donuts! He was also the King of Donuts (guy who ate the most and still finished). I saw him smash two together and stuff them down like a pro. He had a hard time getting on his bike after eating 21 on his first stop. He killed everyone else in the men's category, though so don't think everyone ate that many. Most guys ate around 6.

I was so mad later to find out that the Queen of Donuts only ate nine! I could have eaten two more if I wasn't trying to be fast. I ended up getting 5th in women. If only I had eaten a couple more!

A Father's Day Tribute

2009-06-22T16:23:00.000-07:00

Look at all the good times Logan and Pete share! Pete has been the best father because he is so patient and caring yet at the same time playful and fun. Pete watches Logan almost every morning and sings him to sleep at night with spanish hymns. Logan lights up when Pete is around and loves to play chase with him. What a great father!

Wasatch Back Relay

2009-06-20T19:15:00.000-07:00

This Friday and Saturday I did the Ragnar Wasatch Back Relay with Pete's brother Micheal and some of Pete's cousins. Our team name was Twelve Peas in a Pod because there are twelve runners and Give Peas a Chance was our slogan. That's what our shirts say if you could read them, and we put that on our vans as well green circles, so everyone would know we were the peas. It was super fun. This is a picture from the end when we were all tired and sweaty but we all ran the last 200 yards together like every team does and got medals when we crossed the finish line. The race goes from Logan to Park City, is 188 miles long, and each person runs three legs over the course of the two days. My first leg was ranked very hard and was 3.8 miles on a huge hill going up to Snow Basin Ski Resort. I did really well on it though, and passed 13 runners on the way up, never stopping the whole way to the exchange. That was the biggest, hardest hill I have ever run- it just was so steep for so long. Overall I ran 18.4 miles. It was awesome.Here is the whole team minus Catlyn, who had to leave early for a family thing. From top left there's Clay, Seth, me, Rebecca, Katrina, and Emily. Bottom row left is Micheal, Jeremy, Collin, Rosanna and Burdette.

This is Pod # 2. We all rode in the second van together and then tried to sleep while Pod #1 took over the running for a while. The sleeping didn't go over too well due to small sleeping quarters in our car, and scheduling with when runners would be in.

Seth was probably the fastest runner on our team.
An exchange checkpoint with Katrina handing off. Night running was the worst because we were so tired - I ran 7.3 miles at 3:30 but I couldn't get any sleep before then, so I had no energy at all. Running vests and headlamps were required.

There were some weird teams there. This was the NO PANTS team and they wore these big T-shirts the whole time. One of my favorites was the Xena warrior princess team with black pleather outfits, or vans that were decorated like mammoths with huge tusks on the front that even were lit up by Christmas lights at night. Next year we could each be one of the twelve apostles, or one of the twelve phases of the moon. JK.

Hiking to the Cross

2009-06-17T06:31:00.000-07:00

Pete braved the pollen to come with Logan and I on a beautiful hike in the mountains near our house. It was just about 2 miles round trip and sure was fun. On the way down Logan fell aspleep in the backpack and his head was bobbing.

First Words: Ball and Bubble

2009-06-01T22:16:00.000-07:00

Logan's first word is ball, and he says it so cute, with his mouth all round like he swallowed a ping pong ball. He loves to play basketball, so that is where he first said ball, but now he says it for everything.

Logan loves bubbles, reaching for them every time we pass the shelf they are on and saying, "Ball." Just today he started saying Buuu bulll with the accent on the bull. It was so cute I had to get a video his real second word.

I Found a Ducky That Loves Me

2009-05-21T21:54:00.000-07:00

I wonder if Mom will get mad if I step in the water.

Wow, they usually just run away from me.

I know I just ate a ton, but I can't pass up a chance to eat some dirty bread. I need food too, Mom.

I can jump on command and pet the ducky with a stick. I am such a big boy.

I Want a Summer Buzz Like You, Dad

2009-05-21T21:34:00.000-07:00

What is that cool buzzing thing, and why did Mommy put a trash bag on me?
I hope you know what you're doing, Daddy.
Daddy, what did you do?
Bye bye you hot, carseat-sweaty, ear-tickling, bedhead curls.

Fun Run

2009-05-17T21:20:00.000-07:00

The Alpine North Stake Fun Run was a blast this year. Rachel and I decided to push strollers and I wanted to push the double with Alan and Logan. A good idea until Alan fussed at mile two. What could I do? He quieted down, though and was rewarded with Stephen's Hot Cocoa, pancakes, fruit salad and eggs at the end. Way to go in your first race, Logan and Alan! You guys are champs! And we ended up winning the 20-30 female age group - a big suprise to me. What good little racers.

Logan is One!

2009-05-17T15:02:00.000-07:00

A JCPenney's Photo. A timeline of Logan's first year.

Logan loves balls and pools, so I brought out the whale pools I got at DI -what a find for $1 each,- and filled them with balls and water. Logan had a blast, playing so hard he fell asleep way early. Logan's best neighbor friends, Emily and Emory.
Logan and Micah, BYU buddies.Alan was much braver than Logan.
Logan and Alan enjoyed ice cream cones instead of cake. Look at those beer bellies.

Not exactly professional, but even if you didn't know it was Optimus Prime, hopefully you could tell it's a truck.

Logan tried so hard to blow out the candle that he almost drooled on the cake -Don't worry I caught it with my hand just in time! Logan got a load of presents, his favorite are a piano and his turtle sandbox. Thanks everyone!

A Night Out

2009-05-02T23:28:00.000-07:00

I convinced Pete to go to BYU's alumni dance- the Traditions Ball, in the Hinckley Center. You may be wondering how I got him to go to a dance, but the secret is that we mostly just watched the entertainment, and had great refreshments. The best entertainment was Noteworthy, the female version of Vocal Point, and they had some really funny numbers. We noticed the yearbooks from the 50's 60's and 70's displayed, and I randomly picked one that had Uncle Bob (Robert Webb) in it. Then I looked for Mom, and found her on my third try in '64 - who would've guessed? Can you find her? Mom was easy to pick out in all the orchestra pictures with her big hair, on the front row looking all smart and pretty. Actually my favorite part of the evening was walking out to the gazebo in the stars, and it just reminded me so much of Twilight, so I leaned my neck back and told Pete I was ready for him to bite me. Pete was super embarrassed, because the people next to us heard, but it was just the perfect setting and I could easily imagine some of the couples as vampires. Of course we were not the only ones to think along those lines -I overheard Cullen comments all night. However the only fangs I saw were Cosmo's (but who's really under that costume?). I was worried to leave Logan for so long, but the evening worked out great because Hallie watched Logan in SF where he played with baby Julia, and then went right to sleep when she put him in his crib. When we came home he was sleeping soundly. What a nice night out.

For Penny's Sake

2009-04-20T22:16:00.000-07:00

Logan swallowed a penny about a week ago. What a bad Mom I am! I don't know how he got two pennies in his mouth, but he did and when I tried to get them out he arched his back and resisted so much that one of them went right down his throat. I thought it would just pass through, but for the next day or two he gagged and coughed and sometimes threw up his solid foods. One time he started crying and wouldn't eat anymore even though I knew he was hungry. Poor chubby Logan was living off of nursing and applesauce. So we got an appointment with Logan's pediatrician, Dr. Lauret, and he brought out a cool metal detector wand like policemen have. Sure enough it beeped right at shoulder level. Dr. Lauret couldn't see the penny down Logan's throat, and I was a little worried that he would just tell me it wold pass on its own. But he said, "We're going to get that penny out." So he sent me to the hospital and we got x-rays that they let me keep- that was cool. Then we spent a long time waiting to see Dr. Parsons, the ear nose throat doctor and the really bad part was that they didn't want me to feed Logan anything just in case they decided to put him under right then. Dr. Parsons recorded me saying some stuff into his little microphone about Logan gagging, and then he decided that the next morning would be the best time to take the penny out. Then he said that Logan should spend the night in the hospital so they could be sure the penny didn't come loose and block his airway. Are you kidding? I wasn't ready to spend the night at the hospital after 3 hours in docotor's offices trying to keep hungry Logan from fussing while filling out pages and pages of billing information. Talk about a nightmare, but we finally got to go home.
When we came back the next morning at 6:00, the experience was much better. Pete came with us, and Grandpa Webb visited a little later. In Logan's room there were cute little baby hospital clothes layed out on the bed with a toy car for him to take home along with booties, and a sippy cup that they filled with apple juice. Logan sat on the big hospital bed with his hospital garb holding the remote that the sound came out of, and watching TV all grown-up like. It was so cute I really wished I had my camera, and all the nurses kept stopping to adore him. He was not scared at all to leave with the nurse for his "surgery." When he came back he was a little wobbly and fussy, so he wouldn't sit in the bed anymore, but Grandpa Webb still got some pictures on his cell phone for us. The nurses brought in pudding for his sore throat, and Dr. Parsons came in with the shiny 2007 penny in a biohazard bag, telling us to "put that in his keepsakes." Dr. Parsons told us everything went well, and it didn't tear the esophagus, which would be really serious, but the penny was wedged in there pretty good, and a little lower than what he usually sees. After a couple hours Logan was back to his happy self, eating anything he could get his hands on. Logan ended up having one grand adventure all for the sake of a penny.

Easter Morning

2009-04-19T08:29:00.000-07:00

Well Logan loved finding eggs all around the house with candy in them. It was too cold to go outside in the morning, but later we had a hunt outside, and an egg pinata that Prenten, my brother in law made. Logan loved the whole day. Pete watched him all afternoon while Hallie and I cooked, plus Pete was nice enough to cut the ham for everyone. We had a full house with my parents, Julia, Parley, William, Hallie's family, Rachel's family, my mom's mom down from Idaho, my Dad's parents, and Rachel's friend from Taiwan. It was a lot of fun.

Disco Egg

2009-04-19T06:43:00.000-07:00

Logan loves the Disco Egg, and he knows how to turn it on, which means we hear it all day. I sure do love hearing Donald Duck sing Disco all day. Logan dances to it really cute, but never so good when I am taking a video. By the way, Logan's new favorite thing is a spoon. He has one in his hand 24/7. Sorry I can't figure out how to turn the videos right side up.

Walker Walking at 8 Months!

2009-01-26T11:26:00.000-08:00

Logan knows its wrong to climb stairs, but when I shake my head he just laughs!

He loves walking all over with this.

Up, Up and Away

2009-01-14T21:16:00.000-08:00

Logan suprised us last night by climbing up the whole flight of stairs by himself. That is one tough little guy, he just kept going and going, even when I could see he was very tired. Don't worry, Pete followed him up, but all he had to do was give Logan encouragement. Now we know that Logan's chubby thighs are really pure muscle. Logan and I had fun today destroying my gingerbread house. He wanted to eat it, but I am sure that candy would taste nasty by now. By the way, our Christmas tree this year was more alive than any tree you'll ever find!

When it Rains it Pours

2008-12-12T04:29:00.000-08:00

Three milestones were crushed last week as little Loagie finally rolled over from his back to his stomach, first in front of Pete and then in front of Grandma Webb. He's almost seven months old, but better late than never. Logan also got his first tooth, after being really fussy all day Thursday, until finally I noticed it. He already loves brushing his tooth on a regular basis, and I'm sure it stays quite clean. Third, Loagie is getting around on hands and knees, and though sometimes he hops his legs forward, I would pass it off for basic crawling. I was playing violin when I looked over and he was gone. It seems he loves to hide under the dining room table, though I bet that stops as soon as he can stand! Yes I am writing this post at 5:30 am, it being the only time Logan is asleep while Pete is not using the computer. He has this huge paper due Monday that he has to get an A on, so I guess that trumps my need to blog, and I let him take the computer to work. But too much homework makes him do weird things like put Logan in frying pans. We just hope Pete can pull out a 3.0 this semester, to stay in his program.

Happy Halloween

2008-11-08T09:28:00.001-08:00

As you can see Logan was a chubby penguin, I was a geisha and I convinced Pete to put on a minimal ninja costume for the Webb Halloween party. On Halloween night we passed out candy to the many toddlers in our neighborhood and then we walked around to look at everyone's decorations. I have to admit the pumpkin is from last year. Logan would never give me enough time to do that. I can't wait till next year when he will trick-0r-treat. Happy Halloween!

October Fun

2008-10-26T15:56:00.000-07:00

Logan really enjoys playing in the ball pit with his cousin Julia. It was a great place for him to learn how to sit up on his own, because he could fall down without getting hurt. He actually likes to fall down in the balls. Yesterday I left him in there and he was playing so well all by himself. When I went over to check on him he had fallen down and was all covered with balls, but he was just moving them around over his head, and loving it. Soo cute. Today Logan was dressed up like a missionary in honor of his Uncle Michael. Everyone at church thought he was adorable and wanted to hold him in relief society. In the picture he stood up all by himself-leaning against the door. Logan and I had fun hiking the Y last week with my sister Hallie and her family. It was a new experience riding in the backpack, but he laughed when we started up, and then fell asleep. The backpack was uncomfortable for me, but I can't complain when Hallie carried Julia in a tummy pack when she is pregnant. She is superwoman. Logan always has a stunned look on his face due to the amazing flash of the camera. At least it helps him look at me. We are having a lot of fun this October. Halloween pics are soon to come.

4-months old!

2008-09-28T18:18:00.000-07:00

Our little Logan has grown so much bigger. He weighed 18 lbs 7 oz at his 4 month visit, and eats like he is starving. He loves to chill with Dad on the hammock, and chew on all his toys. His eyes have turned a dark brown and he is much tanner than I ever was. He laughs when we tickle him and screamed when Pete made a scary face at him. We love Logan!

Baby Logan

2008-05-23T15:39:00.000-07:00

Our son was born May 14, 2008 at 6:36 pm weighing a whopping 8 lbs 15 oz. He was 20.5 inches tall, and we named him Logan Thomas Webb. He has dark hair like I did as a baby, some of my facial features, and legs and feet like Pete. Logan had a little jaundice, but that is gone now thanks to a wonderful Grandma who always took him out in the sun. Pete and I were so excited to finally see him. We were lucky everything went well, and the hospital experience was so great with nice nurses and a super good anesthesiologist, Dr. Lind. My doctor, Dr. Rees did a great job of delivering him with the help of forceps, even though a c-section was very likely (85% chance). Luckily Logan's head molded very well and made it possible for me to deliver him, although it looked quite pointy after he came out. Pete's lil bro prayed that Logan's head would not be so cone-shaped. No worries, it was back to normal the next day. Now Logan is a week old and just loves to eat and sleep and curl up in Daddy's lap. He also loves to take baths. We are so lucky to have such a cute little guy come to our family!

Hey I got a blog!

2008-02-01T13:40:00.000-08:00

I have no idea how this works, but I guess I will figure it out by just playing around. It seems like you can do different things from facebook, so that is cool.