Rigby Lake/Utah Trip

Sorry -- this will be a post with lots of pictures!

Pictures from my dad, Jill, Gabe, and I's visit to Rigby Lake the night before we left for Utah.

First time on the sand (a little wary at first, but then he loved it)

Mud bath, anyone?

Just plain cute.

He found a stick.

Getting all warm n' snuggly after swimming!

Jill and my pops

Second half of pictures are from our weekend trip to Utah (we met my mom down there):

Gabe loved visiting the SLC temple.

Pioneers don't smile

He loves eyelashes (that's my mom, btw)

Mom, Gabe, and Jill chillin' in the mega Deseret Book in downtown SLC

Gabe's first haircut courtesy of Grandma O

{he was a pretty good boy during all of this, just a little wiggly}

This is from the wedding reception we attended Saturday night.

Gabe is with little Jace DeWitt, who is the son of a family friend of ours. He is about a month older than Gabe. It was pretty funny because Jace loves hair and eyes and was constantly poking and pulling Gabe's hair and eyes. The top picture kinda shows where Gabe is starting to get annoyed by this. Cute little boys.

Dancing with Jilly.

The reception was in a friend's backyard; it was so pretty -- just had to take a picture with Gabe in it.

And just a side note here -- while we were getting ready to leave the hotel on Sunday morning (yesterday), Jill and my mom started getting really sick with stomach issues {if you know what I mean}. I was fine the whole drive home until right before Rexburg, and then my stomach really started hurting. We figured since all three of us got sick, it was probably something we ate. I have never been that sick in my life! All I know is that I never want to eat at fast food again!! Especially McDonald's, they are so disgusting. Okay that's it. :)

Oh What a Week!

My dad and Jill have been staying with us during this week and its been a lot of fun. We've gone jet-skiing/tubing, to the park, gotten snow cones {x2}, eaten out at some of our favorite restaurants, went swimming @ BYU-I's pool, saw Prince of Persia {very good}, watched "Scream Queen" episodes, had a game night, watched Star Wars III w/ friends, and have been talking a lot about politics!

Such an awesome week. Here's some pictures to show the main highlights. And we are leaving tomorrow for Utah to meet my mom for the weekend.

A Perfect Sunday Evening

Alejandro got home yesterday, my Dad came into town a couple days ago, and my sister Jill finished school and is staying with us for this week. It's been fun to have family here! Yesterday we went on a lovely walk through BYU-I's Gardens. It was so pretty and nice outside. The only picture not taken in the Garden's is the first one. I just wanted to show Ale's aunt that Gabe loved his new teddy bear!

He loves his teddy bear from his Aunt Olga in Uruguay

Handsome boys

Gabe telling a story

Attempt at a family picture. Gabe always is trying to escape. :)

This wasn't staged. I promise.

It's hard being so pretty

hahahahahahahaha

Wow. There's a lot going on this picture.

1) Gabe's cute face

2) Ale scratching his leg

3) Jill trying to kill our dad

No Jill, don't do it!!!!!!

Pure cuteness

My dad admiring the tree that's "not doing too good" (in his own words).

Jolly Good Times

My mom came to visit this weekend (actually she's still here; leaving tomorrow morning) and we had sooo much fun with her! G loves seeing his family and we, of course, do as well. She got here on Friday and that evening me, Aunt J and Mom went to see "Comedy Improv: The Society" at BYU-Idaho. It was so hilarious! If you have the chance to go see it, please do! Then we went out for icecream at Dairy Queen and talked for awhile there. I love talking with my mom and sisters.

Then Saturday we ran some errands, ate lunch with some friends, and went down to Idaho Falls to eat dinner at Texas Roadhouse {yum!}. We rented "Young Victoria" from Horkley's and the girls watched it that evening. That movie is realllly good -- highly recommended.

Sunday we slept in, had a lovely breakfast by Chico, went to church, had dinner over at Jill's apartment, and played some games with her roommates. It was a lovely Mother's Day. Chico got me my favorite perfume from Victoria's Secret (Dream Angel's Heavenly ... divine!). And today my mom went with my sister to some of her classes and we also ran around town running errands. Tonight my mom is going to do mine and my sister's "new growth" and just chill together. What a fun weekend! We love our mama!

Here are the few pictures we took from this weekend:

Eating at Texas Roadhouse. G loved the menus and dinner rolls.

What cute ladies!

He also got to eat some cheese that mom brought (he has a hard time keeping all the pieces in his mouth). :)

This is from Mother's Day morning. G was eating his bottle and Chico put him on my mom's back as she was looking at her gift from us. He was actually a little freaked out by it.

Hanging Around

After graduation, we had some time to just hang out and enjoy each other's company. We found that G absolutely adores his Grandpa O. Whenever grandpa was in the room, he was following him and staring at him. It also helps that g'pa has a bunch of fun "toys" on him (i.e., glasses, pens, etc.).

G loved grandpa's clothes too, and was constantly trying to eat his sweater vest.

Just some fun pictures of me snuggling with my little guy (his legs always crack me up)

He gets a daily screech or two from me because he's so darn cute!

Man's Best Friend: Woof Woof

When my dad was out here for Ale's graduation, we went to the Museum of Idaho's "Wolf to Woof" exhibit. It show cases the history of wolves and dogs. If anybody knows our family, we LOVE dogs. We've had many family dogs and we have little Zoey and big Roscoe right now. Well, we really enjoyed this exhibit, and I suggest if you love dogs, you take your family too. They had various quotes about dogs around the musuem, and I'd like to share a couple of my favorites:

• "He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader." --Anonymous
• "In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the dog." --Toussenel
• "I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religous cult." --Rita Rudner

Outside the front of the musuem

Jill is pointing to the two breeds that make up her little Zoey (chihuahua and Jack Russell Terrier)

I'm pointing to Roscoe's breed -- good ole Golden Retriever

It was awesome that we could take pictures -- and they had some cool displays we could take advantage of :)

Jill so kindly walking one of the display dogs (I can't remember what kind it was)