The growing boy

Anthony has started growing out of his clothes and it seems like every other day I find something else he can't wear anymore. We also have started putting Anthony to bed instead of waiting until he falls asleep. This has worked pretty well but now he doesn't always need to eat when he wakes up so I have to figure out when to feed him and when to just cuddle him.

Just finding a routine

Bryan just started school again and we're getting into a routine for the semester. I'm working full time but hope to be able to stay home during the day by the end of summer.

Anthony loves to smile and does most of the time when we talk to him. He also loves trying to put his fists in his mouth. Oh, he has even rolled over a few times though I'm pretty sure he doesn't do it on purpose yet. He weighs about 12 lbs. and is starting to get too big for some of his clothes.

He changes so fast, we're just trying to keep up.

As I feel like I have dropped off the face of the earth for a few weeks and now am ready to begin re-entering society; I will begin keeping our blog up to date again.

Besides the huge change of having a baby in our house now... Bryan has a new job at Conservice in the IT department and is enjoying it immensely. He works part time although today was told during Christmas break they would like him to work more hours. This will probably be a job that he will keep for a while and may get him the experience he needs to enter his field. We are excited as I already work there (in a different department) and we like the company.

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River Trip

For the last weekend in July we floated on Green River just below Flaming Gorge. We camped at Red Fleet Reservoir the night before and then spent two hours on the river.

At Red Fleet Reservoir we were able to go swimming, there were even some good rocks to jump or dive off of. There is also a dock and a boat launch. It was a real nice place to go camping.

Kimberly and Darin were pretty good at catching some of the reptiles we found. They caught a frog the first night and a lizard the next day. Here’s Kimberly holding the frog. 

We ended up forgetting a few things like a cutting board, a can opener, and a cheese grater. But we got by and dinner was delicious.

Here’s Mom cutting pieces of cheese since we forgot the grater.

The fire pit was surrounded by green grass so we could lay  down right beside it, at least until it really got going.

Bryan and I went to town to buy firewood and apparently got some treated wood. It crackled like fireworks and threw tons of sparks. It took only a few moments to get going and it burned hot. Then after a while it would die down really quick. Bryan compared it to a sugar high-pretty good comparison.

While I don’t think it made quite as good coals for roasting marshmallow as most firewood, the flames were hot enough to produce really good marshmallows pretty fast.

We rented an 8 man raft to go down the river. To get it to the launch pad we had to put it on top of one of our cars. It dwarfed Mom and Greg’s car but wasn’t so bad on Neil and Kelley’s. The river took us about two hours. We stopped at one spot to jump off a rock but didn’t stay too long because the water was freezing. We also had a war with another boat. I’m pretty sure we won but the other boat put up a pretty good defense, especially the second time we attacked. We also had loads of fun throwing each other into the water and trying to pull people back into the boat. Even without many rapids it was a fun ride.

Hulse Family Reunion

We were able to go to Mountain Home and see my family in mid-July.

Many of the cousins went tubing down the river. The water was very cold since it was all spring run off. six of them even went on a 2 hr tube ride. I didn’t go tubing with them but we also went to the reservoir and swam for a while.

We have a family dinner and breakfast each year as well as play cards, especially canasta.

Bryan and Alan had a sword fight with a plunger though I’m not sure where they got a plunger.

We were glad to spend some time with my family and we love to camp so we enjoyed ourselves immensely.

Birthday Cake

We threw a party for my senior team lead’s birthday and I thought the cake was pretty cool so I wanted to post a picture of it. Cold Stone made the cake and the picture is of Lady Gaga for those of you who know who she is.

The black frosting kind of stains your teeth but it was really good cake.