Omniture's Carnivale!

The day after Ray's birthday, his company had their annual summer party for all employees and their families. Last year, they rented out Seven Peaks water park for the day and this year the theme was Carnivale and they rented out Thanksgiving Point and had lot of blow-up slides / obstacle courses for the kids as well as a ferris wheel and another dizzy ride for the kids and adults. They also had cotton candy, snow cones, face painting, games and a cool cow tractor ride as well as a hamburger / hot dog dinner for everyone. Jackson and I ducked out a little early but Ray and Kaden stayed until after dark and listened to the band and watched the fireworks display.

My company just had their annual summer party up at the Park City Resort and we all got to ride the Alpine Slide and the Alpine Coaster which was a blast but we forgot to take the camera so no pictures of that, maybe next year.

Happy 30th Birthday, Babe!

Ray and I are the same age again. Ray's 30th birthday was on August 1st (and I'm just barely getting around to posting about it but at least I'm still in the same month!) Having Ray's birthday on August 1st takes some real planning because if I wait to look at birthday when I turn the calendar on the 1st of the month, I've already blown it! Anyway, I planned ahead this year and I know that Ray likes ice cream so I planned to get him an ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins. Does anyone have any idea how many kinds of ice cream cakes you can choose from? I finally had to break down and ask him and he wanted one that wasn't on their website...a fudge nut round cake with Pralines n' cream ice cream. For his birthday, I splurged a little bit and got him tickets to go see Cold Play in November. I asked him (after I'd already bought the tickets) if he could go see anyone in concert, what concert would he want to go to. He said he couldn't think of anyone he'd want to see in concert so I was a little deflated but figured we could sell them on e-bay if he didn't want to go but when he got the tickets, he was excited since it's one of his favorite bands. We had a great day...Ray took the day before his birthday and the day of his birthday off work. We took the kids to daycare and spent the day before his birthday just the two of us going to a movie (Dark Knight) and a nice lunch and we spend his birthday with the boys and went swimming and had a nice family day. Here's 5 things I love about my sweetie:

1. He always kisses me goodnight
2. He is very supportive of me and all that I try to accomplish
3. He is a super dad and the boys scream in delight when he walks in the door
4. He helps around the house and does ANYTHING I ask him to do (even toilets and cleaning the cat litter).
5. He does everything in his power to reassure me on a daily basis that me and the boys are the most important people in his life.

Thank you for being such a great husband and an amazing dad...we love you and are so glad you were born...you are such an important part of our family! I love you babe!

Children's Museum

We finally made it to the Children's Museum. What's funny is we visited the one in Seattle before we visited the one in Salt Lake City and we were living in Salt Lake City at the time. What is it about where you live that you never go do all the things you could and then when you move away, you vacation and go do the things you didn't do while you lived there. Does anyone else do this or are we just really lame? Anyway, enjoy the pictures of our visit to the Children's Museum...next time we'll go on a weekday...we went on a Saturday in the middle of summer so needless to say, it was a madhouse! (The last picture is not from the Children's Museum, just a cute picture of fireman Jackson).