What Success Takes

On June 2nd, Garrett's first book titled "What Success Takes" launched to the public. We're so proud of his accomplishment of writing this book. Please check it out at www.whatsuccesstakes.com to receive a free audio CD edition of the book, and other special bonuses available, or you may purchase the print version at www.whatsuccesstakes.com/store.

Lake Powell

The day of Gracie's birthday we left her with Aunt Carli and we were off with the Barber's to Lake Powell. The first few days were stormy, so we spent quite a bit of time inside the "new" houseboat which is awesome compared to the old one that burned. Finally we have more than 1 toilet in the boat, however it's just as stinky as the old 1 was and we did have problems with the tank overflowing. Thank goodness we had a port-a-potty on the ski boat and we so close the the dump station. In this new houseboat there are also a couple of beds in the "basement", one "upstairs", and one in the back "master suite". On the top desk is lots of space and a slide too. There were 21 people on this trip including Nathan, who's birth Mom is Kelli. It was such a fun place and now we're in that let-down period after you go on vacation. We miss you Lake Powell!
However we were so excited to come back to see our baby. She's quite onery now and I'm wondering if it's because we left her for so long, but she is teething now too. Who knows?!

Grace is ONE!

May 21 was Gracie's first birthday and we had a little celebration for her. Thanks for all the fun presents. Grace is now has 4 teeth, walks well, is 30 inches tall (78th percentile) and weighs only 18.3 pounds (8th percentile). So we're trying to fatten her up although it's proving quite hard. When we try to give her fattening stuff like pasta with cream sauce or mac and cheese, but she hates them and spits them out. We have found that she does like peanut butter and ice cream. Her favorite food is still peas. She'll just pick them out of whatever you've put them in.

Walking with pigtails

Gracie has been up to a whole lot of trouble lately. She's been walking/running for a few weeks now and seems to always find trouble. She loves to suck on dogfood, carry clean clothes, dirty clothes, wet clothes, toys, brushes (anything really) around with her and put them right in the middle of the floor so you can see the pile she's created. Today was her first day with 2 pigtails in and she looked so cute, but I knew I had to take a picture right away because they wouldn't last long, and the didn't. She is also getting at least one of her top 2 teeth in this week too, so she's not always as cheerful as she usually is.