Katelynn received a sprinkler toy on her birthday this year. We don't have access to a hose at our apartment and this is a necessary component to the toy. We went over to my grandparents to try out Katelynn's toy, and oh boy, did she have a good time.
Now please note in these videos that I was not feeling in my tip-top-shape, healthy self. I was having some stomach flu-ish thing. Katelynn is a cutey though.
Now the stuff on Katelynn's face is not chocolate, or food, it is dirt. There is a plant pot next to our neighbor's door. Katelynn loves to run around and was over by the pot and before we knew it, Katelynn had a hand-full of dirt in her mouth. Nasty!
She really didn't seem to see that there was anything wrong other than her spitting it out, but she does that everyday at her high chair.
On Friday, I stayed home from work sick. I really was sick. I was just achy but it was intense achy and I hate being achy. I would rather have just about any other ailment: vomiting, fever, sore throat. We got a cute picture of Katelynn when she came up to me and cuddled in the blanket.
Jen thought it would be cute to paint Katelynn's toe nails. I thought Jen was very brave with how active Katelynn is all the time.
Katelynn loves to carry things around. It sometimes seems that the heavier, the better.
Right before we shot this video below, Katelynn was making her "Ethan" face. An "Ethan" face is a face that her cousin used to make to smile. It is just a cute, cheesy smile. I think she knew we were taping her and she was playing with us a little. She really seemed to like the light being turned on, though. What do you think?
We had a wonderful Fourth of July. We started the day off with a nice long walk from our house to the morning festivals. We wanted to watch the hot air balloons but because Katelynn allowed us to sleep in we didn't make it to the hot air balloons. Katelynn had fun during the parade mainly playing with my keys and eating raisins.
See that big inflatable guy in the center of the picture? He was really funny. I think there was a person in there and he kinda jumped and skipped around. He just looked so silly.
There were seriously about 50 people on Segways making their way around. Some were patrolling and keeping the parade on task or as parade participants.
Of course there were old cool cars in the parade. If you look closely President Samuelson is the the cowboy hat.
Of course Cosmo graced our presence but the cool part was that he was riding a classic Brick Oven motorcycle thing.
This is BYU's float.
As we were walking over to the parade we saw Katie Moyer who we haven't seen in over a year. Only those who know her will be able to recognize her since the picture turned out blurry. She had a backpack on and is next to the person in a white shirt.
Many people may not know this about Nathan but he loves bagpipes. Nathan was in heaven due to the fact that there were multiple bagpipe groups.
Here's Katelynn with her raisins.
Nathan said his cousin went to this high school, Lone Peak.
This car was pretty cool with the double rear axles.
Nathan really wants us to show you this guy who was sitting in front of us. We'll just say that he was quite the character. He helped entertain us when we were bored.
What would a parade in Provo be without the missionaries?
This is what the guy in front of us had to say about it.
This needs no caption really- we wonder as much as you why there was a KFC float.
This is another one where you can wonder why it is a part of the parade. I'll quote the side for you "O. H. Undertaker 1870"
This was the LDS Churches float. It was really neat, the eagle rotated around the mountain and tilted back and forth.
The rest of the day was great too, but being the brilliant people we are, we didn't take any pictures. So we sum it up, you make the pictures in your head. We stopped at Sonic and got a slushy so that we didn't die climbing the mountain the Provoians call State Street. We invited Alyssa, Ben, and Dan for dinner. Dan was great entertainment, as usual. Katelynn naturally was the center of attention though and was great entertainment as well. She was such a big girl, showing off her toys, pulling them out of the cabinet for everyone to see.
