Baby Andy is here!

Shawn called during my lunch break on Monday to let me know that his sister, Amanda, had her baby that morning, so we made plans to go and visit that evening as soon as I got done with work. We headed to the hospital in the Murray area as soon as i got done with work.
It was fun to go to the hospital to see a brand new little baby (it had been a while since I had visited and seen a brand new baby at the hospital).
Amanda looked great for just having a baby and Ben was tired but so excited, Vincent was there too and so excited to show off his new little brother.
Baby Andy was so sweet and tiny. He looked so good with beautiful pink skin and so so much black hair.
Baby Andy just added another little nephew to out list of 10 nephews and 2 nieces. He is so sweet and we are so happy to have him here with us in the Platt family.

Shed Raising in Evanston

Last weekend Shawn and I headed up to Evanston to help his dad make a shed for his backyard. Shawn's older brother Brandon met us up there as well. The 3 men spent the whole day Saturday building the shed in the heat of an August day.
My day was not as hot and busy...I got to read, relax, and take a nap. But I was also in charge of feeding the boys lunch, dinner, drinks and snacks through out the day.

The almost finished shed...all it needs is some paint, finishing touches on roof, and the door.

Shawn, Brandon, and Eugene

Platt Family Reunion

This year for the Platt family reunion we all headed up to the Uinta Mountains to go camping. We had everyone there except for Shawn's youngest brother, Joseph, who is on his mission in Tennessee. We also had my youngest brother Kyle with us as well-he was planning on flying out to stay with us for a week and it happened to be at the same time we had our camping trip-so we just brought him along with us. The Platt family are some of the most welcoming people there are-so I know he felt very welcome and had a great time too.
We arrived Wednesday night and set up camp-that night we had a huge rain-thunder-lightning storm it was so loud outside our tent-but luckily we stayed nice and dry. Kyle got alittle wet in his tent so we made a nice tarp covering with about 4 tarps the next day. The rest of the camping trip stayed pretty cold with occasional rain and lightning storms every once in a while.
During our 4 days camping we all played lots of games (especially Ticket to Ride-everyones favorite) we ate yummy dutch oven food and my favorite-Smores, went to the Provo Falls and Mirror Lake,and got to play with all of our cute nieces and nephews. There are 9 nephews and 2 nieces in the family with 2 pregnant mammas who both have more boys to join the family. They are all 5 and under and so fun to play with.
We all had such a fun time together camping in the mountains. Although I do not like that I could not shower everyday or have a bathroom and I am always scared of a bear attack and I am not a very experienced camper-we defiantly need to make this an annual trip!

Thank you Platt family for such a fun time together and it was also great getting to meet Jade and Dot (Shawns cousins who came too)!!!

Here is a big group shot of everyone (again except for Joseph, and Amanda's husband Ben, who was at work) Shawn and I in front of our tent (as you can see if was very cold-I always had at least 2 sweatshirts on)

Corbin, Cael, Jonathan, Hadley, and Vince. Such fun little boys and they all had so much fun playing together

Shawn and Ben after they got out of the falls-It seriously was in the 50-60s everyday and the water was even colder then that since we were in the middle of the mountains-Shawn and Ben decided they would be macho men and impress us all by going swimming

Shawn and Ben in the waterfall

We played alot of, "Ticket to Ride, " on our camping trip...everyones goal was to beat Shawn Shawn, Kyle, and Ben-they are trying to get Kyle alittle wet because he got his swimsuit on and told them he would swim with them and realized it was way too cold for that!

Ben, Shawn, and I at Provo Falls

Kyle and Gabe-Gabe is the sweetest little boy and he always seemed to seek Kyle out and then jus sit on his lap and chill with him. I think Kyle had fun playing with all of the crazy nephews

Eugene, Kyle, and Shawn with our make-shift kitchen-we had rain storms that would come and go the whole campling trip

Kyle and Shawn at the Provo Falls (I dont know why they were called that because we were hours away from Provo) Uncle Shawn with Gabe, Jonathan, Cael, and Corbin

Shawn and I sitting around the fire (it was very cold)

Shawn and Vince after we visited Mirror Lake

Part of the group together at Provo Falls

Finger Puppets!!!!

One of the things that kept my mom and I very busy while in Oregon was making these cute finger puppets.
While looking on the Etsy website I found some cute little felt fingerpuppets that I wanted to get. They cost $5 for 1 + shipping. I did not want to pay that much so I decided to show them to my mom so that we could make some ourselves.
I ended up bringing home 19 puppets and my mom ended up with that many as well. They took awhile to make-but once you get the hang of it they actually go pretty quickly.

Boondocks!

Shawn and I met up with his sister, Amanda and her husband Ben, at Boondocks on Saturday. I had never been there before but we all had so much fun together. Boondocks is such a fun place-makes me feel like I was in junior high again, we use to love to go to the Family Fun Center close to home.
We went miniature golfing, we raced on the go karts, played some arcades, played air hockey (which is my favorite) and went on a 4-D ride, which was a simulated space roller coater ride that felt very real to me and I was screaming the whole time.
Me on one of the arcade race cars (which Shawn loved to race on and I was not very good at) Shawn at the shooting booth

Inside the Boondocks Fun Center

Shawn in the front blue car and I am in the car behind him-we raced and he won!

Miniature golfing-Shawn beat me by 2 points.

We had such a fun date at Boondocks-now that we have experienced the fun of Boondocks I think we will be going back!

Thanks Ben and Amanda-we had a fun time spending the evening with you!!!