Flat Stanley Visits

My niece, Kylee, sent me her Flat Stanley to visit.  For those of you who don’t know who Flat Stanley is I will explain.  This is Flat Stanley.

Flat Stanley is a boy who was flattened by a bulletin board.  So now he can can do all sorts of things like travel in an envelope courtesy of the United States Postal Service.   Here are our adventures with Stanley.

It had been almost 2 years since we had been to Jamon’s hometown Sparks, NV so we decided to travel the 8 hours to visit Jamon’s 2 brothers that still live there. 

We stayed with Cameron and Natalie on their small farm.  They have some fun and unusual animals for a farm.

A Yak

Two Emus.  One of them bite Flat Stanley.

A Llama who likes to give kisses

 

I think Jamon liked it.

They also have typical farm animals, cows, goats, dogs, chickens, cats, and pigs.

              

We also:  played a lot of Kinect, which is so much fun,  Jamon went on a ride-a-long with his brother who is a police officer,  Had a dinner and a movie night, and Played Dance party (watch out Ethan and Kyle we’re going to win next time).

Liam started gnawing on a Clementine, which was quite entertaining.  We all sat and watched for a good 20 min.

   

This is what it looked like when he was done.

Cousins:  Emma, Austin/Ethan, Kaleb, Ethan/Austin, and Kyle.  (I still can’t tell Ethan and Austin apart,  I have to wait for someone to say their name in the morning and then remember what shirt they are wearing)

Thanks to Cameron, Natalie, Daron, and Jamee for letting us visit.  We had TONS of fun!

Oh, wait do you ever wonder what a REAL farmer’s wife looks like…

straight from singing at a funeral to mowing lawns she can do it all, even in the same outfit.  Amazing.

 

 

Wait!

Flat Stanley’s trip doesn’t end in Sparks NV,  we drove home long enough to do laundry and then travelled to our favorite Idaho town, Ola, to help with the Round-Up.

 

Liam’s first Round-up.  Doesn’t he looked impressed.

Instead of chasing the cows to the chute, Jamon just picks them up.

A decent family picture… in our work clothes…whatever works.

This is the new pet Turkey.  Not by choice though, that is not by Mom A, Dad A, Weston, and Carrie’s choice.  He just hung out with everyone for the weekend.  And it was opening day of the Turkey hunt.  Hmmm…

 

Liam and cousin Jaxon had fun playing and eating cheerios together.

Jamon and I went Shooting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is Daron, Jamon’s brother and police officer and my shooting instructor.  He looks so tough.

Then on Sunday the river started to flood over so we checked it out and took these pictures

  

To end Flat Stanley’s trip to Utah he played with Jaxon and Liam and ended up loosing an arm.  Sorry Flat Stanley

Thanks for visiting.  When you come back bring my nieces with you.

9 months

Whoa, three months went by SO fast.  Liam is growing tons.

 

9 months stats:

• Weight: 19 lbs (25 percentile, so they say, but we don’t think so.  I don’t know how much bigger he needs to be to be in a higher percentile. Oh well at least he’s growing)
• Height: inches (25 percentile)
• Figured out how to role around to get what he wants.
• Started to inch his way forward, but no crawling.
• Sticks his tongue out all the time.
• Likes things being thrown on him.
• Loves to stand up on things, but prefers to use Mom and Dad’s hands.
• Would prefer to lay down in the tub and roll around than sit up and play.  He even tries to swallow the water sometimes.
• Still sleeps through the night .
• Eats whatever we give him.
• Started throwing mini tantrums, by grunting and growling at us.
• Makes an awesome horse sound.
• So far, not a fan of grass.  This better change.
• His hair sticks up into a mohawk
• Likes it when we tell him secrets in his ear.

      

We are LOVING Liam at this age. Every day with him is more and more fun!