Utah and the rest of this week

We flew out to Utah so I could go to Tiva's wedding and so my mom and sister could watch me get fatter. Donovan loved being around so much family every day! Both Sundays while I was there, my brothers came over with their girls.

Little Faye. She's getting so cute and fun! She is a little chatterbox now, and she's not scared of me anymore! The kids thought it was really fun to have Tyler try to rope them. Thankfully nobody got hurt.

The first picture of all 4 of my parent's grandkids. We got pictures with the first 3 about a week before Lia was born. Lia wasn't very happy about being away from her daddy (brother Nicholas), so this is the best picture I could get!

Rachel and Kaylee were so good to play with Donovan while we were visiting the Silvey's. It gave me some time to make some cute flower hair clips for baby girl. I think they were trying to get the cat to come down so they could maul her.

My friend Jessica came out to Lehi for a little visit before we left. I had to make some copies at Pioneer Party (best store ever, I wish we had one here) and the bakery is next door, so she bought treats for the boys. Donovan loved his "muffin"...I know, it's a cupcake, but anything that looks like a muffin is a muffin to him. As you can see, he really enjoyed the frosting. I'm not sure if he ate any cake at all.

The reason for making the trip! I love this girl so much! She is a great friend and an amazing person. I'm so happy for her and Ryan. I'm so glad I got to be there for everything. I love sealings, they are amazing. Tiva looked so gorgeous (that's not really a surprise, she's always gorgeous) and Ryan had that same big grin on his face all day.

A few of the soccer girls. Katie came out from California, so we were the special ones that got a lot of thank you's from her family.

Katie and Me at the reception.

The day before we left, we hiked up to Timp Cave. We saw Becky up there, but I wasn't thinking and didn't take a picture with her. I had some pretty extreme, irrational anxiety while we were hiking, but everything turned out just fine and Donovan didn't run off a cliff. Even after that I had nightmares about what could have happened. I am so awful. It's like becoming a mother awakened all of my pent up anxiety! Now I know how my poor Grandma Milda feels. I was tense all the way up and all the way down, it was hard to enjoy the hike.

Grandma "Minnie" and Donovan in the cave. He had to pee for most of the cave tour, even though I made him pee at the last stop before we got to the cave. When we finally got through, I carried him halfway to the bathroom before he started whimpering, so we stopped and I let him pee on a rock on the trail. He REALLY had to go!! I'm glad I didn't try to make it to the bathroom because I didn't realize how much further it was, and we would have had to hike up another hill to get there. It was a great trip! I'm glad we got to go out to visit family before baby comes. We won't be making it out again until at least next summer.

This is what Donovan came into my room wearing the other day. He had found Mason's old soccer shirt (not sure why we haven't returned that yet, sorry Mason) and his soccer socks that have built in shinguards. I know, you can't see the shin guards in the pictures, but it was pretty funny. Oh yeah, and he wasn't wearing any pants.

He dances to his own music.

We spent Friday at the zoo. We were thinking of riding the bus to the game against Scott County with Brad, but decided it wouldn't be a very pleasant drive for a 3 year old and a pregnant lady (it's about 5 hours). We had to fill our day with other things. Donovan loves watching the honey bees.

He also loves playing on the spider web by the barn.

After spending the majority of the day at the zoo, we still hadn't had enough of the awesome fall weather so we spent some time outside drawing with chalk and playing in the leaves.

This was taken right before he threw leaves at me.

I'm 29 weeks today, that's crazy to me. In 2 more weeks, I'll be down to single digit weeks. Ridiculous. It's gone by SO fast! These are my best attempts at mirror pictures...Sorry, Brad is in Utah recruiting this week (I know, you'd think we could have planned our trips better). At least you get to see a blurry Donovan in one of them. Don't mind the mirrors, I haven't cleaned them in a few days.