Downtown

Of course I had to take my mom dowtown while she visited here.  The last time she came to visit she came the day Preston was born so we didn't get out much.  Here's the "alligator" (elevator) that Preston won't stop talking about now.

Before we got there my mom let me stop and take a few quick pictures of her.

Then we went over to the Space Needle.  She took Preston and the camera up and got a few pictures of downtown

Preston

and the Pretty views.

She even had someone take a picture of the two of them.  You can't see much, but you get the idea.

They enjoyed looking out while I fed Carter down below.

I always thought Preston was afraid of heights, but apparantly he's not. :)

After that adventure we went over to the monorail and Preston was VERY excited to be riding a real train.

It took us down to the...

Where we enjoyed the pretty flowers

the view of the ocean

the produce, the crazy fish

and the locals!

Soon it was time to say goodbye so my mom could rush off to the airport.  It was a perfect ending to a nice trip.

I had to stop to feed Carter right after we dropped my mom off at the airport, so we just sat in the cell phone parking lot there.  The poor kid pooped through all his clothes too and the onesie I had in my bag was too small for him, so he got to ride home topless.  At least it was hot outside, right?

Need I say more?

This is what today was all about.

Grandma Love and Some Silly Boys

We spent some tine lounging around while my mom was here too.

Preston liked sitting next to Grandma and cuddling with the Giraffe she gave him.

And Grandma liked making both of them happy.

She was especially good at making Carter smile

she even taught him how to stick his tongue out

squint one eye

and make silly

silly

silly faces

and they sure were cute!

Of course Preston had to be silly while she was here too and decided to make a mess with his cream of wheat.

He tried to fingerpaint with it

and exfoliate his hands with it. ;)

He also went into my closet and chose these shoes to wear all by himself.  They're the ones I wore for our wedding.  Is it bad that my two-year-old little boy is able to walk all the way across the hall in these. ;)

We are Pioneers

This year our stake had a fun pioneer activity, the same day as Preston's party, of course he thought it was all for him. ;)

Oh, and he thought he would dress up for the occasion.  No, I didn't let him wear this for long. ;)

We started out by having to do chores, washing clothes is our specialty.

Since we couldn't eat until we earned enough money to pay for it we even put Preston to work carrying water

We all decided to try our luck at grinding wheat too.  Preston just wanted to eat the bread.

His favorite chore of all was churning butter though, I think.

Or maybe it was hammering nails into the wood stumps.

He especially liked the games he got to play.

and the fact that he got to go fishing

and hunt for candy in a big pile of sawdust.

No, we didn't let him climb the grease pole, don't worry.

We did, however, let him get his face painted.

and he loved it of course!

He wasn't too happy about being put in jail.

He should have taken matters into his own hands, like Tesila.

She was a sneaky girl

But at least she was free!

We let Preston free eventually too, after the downpour of rain.  He was glad when he was safe in the nice warm car eating pretzels with his hair newly spiked.