It's Been A While!

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Balloons!

For the last few days, The Boise Classic Balloon Festival has been going on downtown. We decided to wake up early this morning and take Isaiah since he LIVES for these sorts of things. I thought he would be a little grumpy waking up at 6:30, but he understood why, and was all smiles and excitement the whole way there.

We started out at Ann Morrison Park where they launched 30 balloons. Isaiah got to walk up and touch the red Coca-Cola balloon as it was inflating...he thought that was awesome.

After they had all launched, we drove up to the Old Train Depot and watched from the top of the hill. One of the balloons landed on the tracks right by us. It was a ton of fun! I absolutely love living in a city where we are able to experience these events (without requiring a snowsuit and mittens)!

Isaiah's Happy Feet

Isaiah loves "Life is a Highway" and requests we play it over and over. He just came in from running in the sprinklers, and this is the little video we took while he was eating a snack.

Lots of Pictures

This summer has been so busy, and we are not even midway yet. We just got back last week from a trip to Idaho Falls where my mom's family had a reunion up at Heise. I really love spending the 4th of July in Idaho Falls. Isaiah had a blast at the parade even though it was about 50 degrees. We didn't take him down to the river for the fireworks though. I think he is still too little. We bought a few small fireworks instead. I am kicking myself for forgetting my camera. Here is a plethura of cute little pictures I have been saving for a while now:

Isaiah demonstrating the proper way to do Itsy Bitsy Spider




Our Day at the Morrison-Knundsen Nature Center:





Isaiah acts soooo cool everytime he puts on these dragon sunglasses. He pulls "The Uncle Will Face"



Three days ago, all on is own, Isaiah decided it would be a yummy snack to dunk his Oreo cookies in a glass of milk! What a good idea. Why hasn't anyone else thought of this?

I almost forgot...

I am so used to posting little factoids about Isaiah, sometimes I forget to post about NIck and myself.

Quick update...Nick is doing really well in his new role as Team Leader for Qwest in Boise. His center finished #1 in the company his first month. Way to set the bar high! His new job doesn't require as much travel, so that makes me very happy.

I passed my exam for the NASM Certified Personal Trainer course. I was so nervous because it encompassed so much information, I didn't know if I would remember each detail, but I DID! I don't plan on working in a traditional gym setting because I don't want to leave Isaiah, so I plan on hosting a couple of late summer bootcamps here in Boise. They would have 6-10 women who meet up 3 times a week in a park for a killer total body workout. I'll post more when I work out some of the details. Let me know if you are interested. Should be fun!

Warhawk Museum

Since Isaiah is such a fanatic about cars, trucks, airplanes, helicopters....etc, when I read about the Warhawk Museum in Nampa, I knew we had to take him there. It is filled with old war planes and WWII era military jeeps. Just as I thought, he had a great time. The only bad part was that he thought he could climb in the jeeps and drive like he does at the zoo. Notice the photo of him arching his back like a contortionist to grab the steering wheel. It will be fun to take him back in a few years when we can actually explain all the captions of the exhibits.

Mothers Day and Memorial Day at the Zoo.

So once again, I have fallen behind on my posts, and sadly I don't think this post will count as a full-fledged update either. I should have more spare time in the next week or so. In the meantime, here are some photos, including my Mother's Day T-Shirt that Isaiah handmade. He picked the t-shirt color and the paint out at Michael's with his dad. (can you imagine Nick pushing a cart through Michael's with Isaiah pulling everything off the shelves saying "Okay Buddy...what color do you think Mom would like?") Apparently, Isaiah knew exactly what he was doing and picked out the exact same color scheme as his own outfit! He then proceeded through the store holding the tube of fabric paint and waving the t-shirt singing "aaa MomMomMom" to all the craft ladies. It was one of the best days I have ever had. Mother's Day might be my new favorite holiday. I guess that explains my cheesy grin in the photos! Ha Ha!