One Last Getaway Before School Days

A week ago was the last opportunity to pack in all the last minute fun before wee ones headed back to school, so we we headed up to Amber's & celebrated with a pool party.

Last Swim Party of the Summer

There we had fun splashing in pools, sprinklers and even smashing water balloons. I even donned on my maternity suit/tent for a refreshing dip in the cool waters.

"Parkle" Nails

Last Sunday we had the chance to play with Katie while her parents went to the temple dedication. In this picture Phoebe's shows you her new favorite addiction, Sparkle Nails. Everyday Phoebe runs to our bathroom, sits in the dark and yells, "PARKLE, PARKLE" until we hear her and come in to give her, her daily dose of glitter nails. Here in this picture you can see I have even taught her to blow on hr own nails to dry them.

Fergy Family Cook Out

Last Sunday, due to the aforementioned Temple dedication, there was no church so the Fergy Family took the opportunity to gather together and have a dutch oven cook out up in the canyons. I have never had dutch oven before so this was a real treat. We had chicken and potatoes in the ovens while also enjoying other delicious treats brought. For the most part, the weather was wonderful, except for 5 minutes of torrential downpour, but that even dried quickly. Here are a couple of pics Cory took of the beautiful view we had from our table. Below thoes is a picture of the whole Fergy clan; Phoebe is in my arms, but unfortunately fat Zack is covering her up.

Thanksgiving Point $2 Buck Tuesdays

During the whole month of August, Thanksgiving Point has what is called $2 buck Tuesdays, pretty self explanatory. Thanksgiving Point is someplace I have always wanted to go to, but normally they are pretty expensive so we have never been. It is home to 3 main exhibits, a Dinosaur Museum, Gardens, and Animal Barns. We had the opportunity to visit the Dinosaur Museum and the Animal Barn. Hopefully next year we can visit the gardens, they are suppose to be beautiful with the worlds largest man man waterfall.

Dinosaur Museum

Phoebe didn't enjoy the dinosaur museum as much as we thought she would. I think it was too crowded for her and she was more intrested in the real little goldfish they had in the streams than any of the dinosaurs.

Here Phoebe is playing in the erosion pool and helping to excavate dinosaur bones. She is a natural born paleontologist, digging in the dirt is already one of her favorite activities.

Animal Barn
The animal barn was more to our wee ones likings, she ran from animal to animal (pigs excludded, she hates pigs) trilled to watch them eat and even more often trying to feed them her hands.

They also had tons of cute baby animals to see, here are a few of my favorites.

Here is proof we feed our child. The scale is reading 100lbs, she is the same weight as 5 new born lambs. Although, I am not exactly sure if this scale is entirely accurate, because when I got on it, I weighed the same as 3-4 new born calfs (300 lbs).

August Amusements

I admit it, here in the Ferguson home we are a bit of procrastinators so what does the middle and latter part of August mean to us...time to squeeze in all our someday summer activities.

Liberty Park

Liberty Park is a community party near downtown that has lots of fun activities for the wee ones. We had the opportunity to play in the wading pools and waterfalls, visit the gardens, and even partake in a free lunch program that Salt Lake offers in the summer.

I love this picture of Phoebe's fat cousin Zack, he appears to be contemplating things over.

Baby Showers

In the middle of August I had the opportunity to throw a baby shower for my neighbor Krisi and if you know me, it is something I get excited to do. I planned and made everything from invitations to treats and gifts. Baby shower gifts/crafts are something that I really enjoy researching for ideas and making, so I was thrilled that several people wanted to go in on a group gift and gaie me the funds to make 2 of my newest baby creations; a baby cake and baby wreath. Both were fairly simple to make and turned out stinkin' cute in my opinion.

These two pictures are of my last baby gift creations, they were onsies I turned into lollipops.

I Can Dress Myself

Phoebe is just getting to the stage where she likes to dress and undress herself. This was one of her outfit creations I found her in after nap time one day. The boots add just the right touch I think.

Readin' Fool

This is a common scene in our home. Phoebe loves books & often goes to her book shelves and grabs every book off of it and piles them all on the couch for us to sit and read together.

Visitors Beware

Where has the privacy gone? This is what happens lately every time one of us uses the restroom. It is also not uncommon for little arms to reach under the door or to have constant knocking on the door while a little one says, "Hello, hello, mama/daddy." Just a warning, potty at our home at your own risk.

Our First Friend

This is Katie, Phoebe's first real friend. They were born 4 days apart and now live about 4 houses apart. Katie is advanced in learning for her age and luckily Phoebe learns from Katie (Monkey See Monkey Do). For Example: We worked with Phoebe constantly to teach her body parts, then one night we saw a blog video of Katie finding all her body parts and after only 2-3 views of it Phoebe now knows most of her body parts, even ones we never even taught her. To go along with that, Phoebe is now learning to count and I can only imagine it is because Katie was over last week counting up a storm. Finally the most valuable thing our dear sweet Katie teaches Phoebe to do is to eat. Whenever the two are together Phoebe turns into a hungry hungry hippo. Phoebe once saw Katie eat a PB&J sandwich, so she then ate one; I can't tell you how many times before this I tried and tired to get her to eat a PB&J sandwich with no luck. Katie is the perfect teacher & friend!

Here they are sitting together on the couch watching Horton Hears a Who. They are sitting so close together because Katie patted the couch and told Phoebe to come sit by her and so Phoebe practically sat on top of her.

The Rarest Treat of Them All...Desert

Anyone who knows anything about our wee one knows she is TINY. She will be 2yrs old in less than 2 months from now and still only weighs 17lbs. For some reason Phoebe finds food to be totally deplorable, however, about once a week she actually gets hungry enough to eat more than a few pretzels. To reward such an occasion, Phoebe gets a treat for desert. You can see by the look on her face about how rarely she sees desert time.

I like to Move it Move it

Phoebe is not a big dancing queen like her cousin Lily, except when we visit Grandma Fergy's home. At grandma's house, Phoebe always runs to the back bedroom where she pumps up the music and busts out her greatest moves for us.

If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd Baked a Cake

On the 24th of July (Pioneer's Day), Cory celebrated his big 29th birthday. This year he requested an Oreo Cake for his B-day cake. The day before Cory's birthday Phoebs and I borrowed cake pans from our neighbors that were shaped like an Oreo cookie to make the cake look more authentically like an Oreo cookie. Unfortunately, my ambitions were where they usually are, way above my abilities. Despite this mini master chefs help, the cake stuck a bit to the pans and so once again it was the thought and love behind it that counted not the finished product.

On the morning of the 24th we started the day with one of my favorite parts, opening the presents. We tried to involve Phoebe with helping out daddy, but she mainly just wanted to point at things around the room and crumple the tips of the paper.

After presents we went to Grandma+pa Fergy's for a pancake breakfast and grandma's first annual Flip Flop Party. The party involved us all getting our own pair of flip flops and then decorating them with jewels, ribbon and flowers. Below is Mommy and Phoebe's Flop Flops, below that is all the decorated shoes of the nieces, nephew and mine.

What holiday celebration would be complete without of course swimming and water games in Grandma+pa's backyard. This was a new water toy that Phoebe turned out to love.

Here is Cory and uncle Davey (Cory's twin) having just blown out the candles on their birthday cakes. Uncle Davey's cake was a Texas Sheet Cake with David and Goliath figurines on it, Cory's was a melted Oreo ice cream cake.

After a whole day of celebrating we headed home to play until bed time. This actually lasted until 20 minutes before the neighbor's fireworks started so Daddy got Phoebs back up to watch the her first ever fireworks, you can note how into the show she was. The poor thing was so out of it, we had to really move her around before she woke up enough to enjoy the show.

What a relaxing way to end a great day of pioneer heritaging and birthday celebrating.

A Postie Here a Postie There

Cinderella...

Cinderelly, Cinderelly night and day it's Cinderelly, "Make the fire, fix the breakfast, Wash the dishes, do the mopping, And the sweeping and the dusting..."

Here is my personal Cinderelly with curlers in her hair sweeping our bathroom floor.

I am such a slave driver I wore the poor thing right out.

Here she is ready for the ball...well not really. I was the only person who unfortunately got to view these cute curls in her hair as we sat outside grandmas locked house on the grass. They only lasted until 12, or in other words about 1 hr, then the magic wore off and the curls fell out again and she was just normal Cinderelly.

Gateway Discovery

Last week Charisse, Amber & I took advantage of 2for1 admission at Discovery Zone and took our wee ones. This is a fun little play place with lots to do. Phoebe quickly found this police car and put dibs on it. She ever wanted to get out of it and if any other child did get in it she was right there to remind them it was her car. On the Second level they had a little theater where Phoebs dressed up as a wild thing, not a far stretch for her. She also got the opportunity to fly a life flight helicopter. She discovered however, she has a bit of growing to do until she can sit in the seat and touch the controls at the same time.

Mary Mary Quiet Contrary how does your garden grow...

Lately, as I have begun to blossom, we shall say, Phoebs has taken on her roll with helping me out around the home. Here she is "helping" me water the back yard. Her help is truly invaluable! Without Phoebe's fine help, I could only water the yard in 1/2 the time it takes or her to drown each and every plant.