Vacation to Daddy's Birthplace

Yep, Daddy was born in St. George, Utah, and aunt Mellie recently moved there with her new hubby Colby, so we decided to go visit June 18th-20th.

First stop, Warm Springs, in between Vegas & St. George. A small oasis of palm trees around a warm spring in the middle of nowhere, and the church has built an awesome recreation area there. Our ward campout in April was there, but we didn't know at the time that Elder & Sister Dansie were also there doing a senior mission! They're Daddy's second set of parents, he half grew up at their house playing with their son Jonathan.

They fed us an awesome lunch and told us about what a Warm Springs mission was like. It was great to meet them, and Daddy loved catching up.

On to St. George! This was in the Christus room at the temple visitors center. It gave Mommy good memories of the Christus room from the Hill Cumorah visitors center in her mission.

Here we are in front of the temple. I was having a blast, just glad to be outside. I saw where Daddy lived when he was first born, too. It's right across the street from the temple and chapel here. He says he doesn't remember it though, they moved when he was 1 year old.

Aunt Mellie showed us an awesome park with a bunch of water. It was right near the tabernacle. I love water, I wish I had been in my swimsuit!

Saturday night we went to a park by Colby & Melanie's place. Colby grilled up some burgers while we played! It was sweet, I really liked the swings.

St. George was a pretty cool place. I think I'll probably take Mom & Dad there again sometime.

Pratt's Utah Trip

Yep, Pratt and Mommy went to Utah from the 12th to the 17th, leaving Daddy all alone (that would be me). I was relegated to evenings filled with no-brainer guy movies and the Wii.

Fortunately they came back with some great pictures

Pratt doing his thing...just kind of sitting there looking cute

Helping Mommy unload the dishes

Early B-day dinner for Mommy at Zupas. Yes, I love the place as much as her, and no, I wasn't there. Non paid shout out to Zupas, if you haven't been there yet GO. It's awesome.

He's lovin' that inflatable B-day cake. Remember when I got the cake? He was sleeping.

The 4 Generation Picture: Great Grandma Hardy, Grandpa Hardy, Mommy, and Pratt!

4 Generation again, including Uncle Nathan and Cousin Elijah

The Glorious 2nd Amendment

While in Utah last fall, I wanted to take Janae shooting since she had never been. We lucked out & the sporting goods store in Vernal had an event at the shooting range where several different vendors had their whole line up of firearms to use. You would buy tickets, turn them in at the tables, and whichever gun you wanted to shoot determined how many rounds you'd get. Can you spell FUN?!

Here's a little clip of Janae nailing the target with a handgun. Before this day she hadn't even shot a BB gun, but there she shot 3 pistols (.22, .380, and 9mm) and a 20 gauge shotgun.

Now that Janae had been shooting there weren't any excuses left. We purchased our very first firearm, under the tutalage of Grandpa Brady. It's a Smith & Wesson 9mm M&P compact, and to make it really fun it has a Crimson Trace laser sight on it.



Janae and Pratt were visiting family in Utah most of this week, so that left me with some time to take it shooting for the very first time. Although I'm the last guy in our family to get into guns, I can honestly say it will be a great hobby!

Christmas Fun

Pratt's favorite part of Christmas was all of this beautiful wrapping paper.

Pratt opening his first present (a CD from us) on Christmas morning at Grandma and Grandpa Bradys'. He loves all the new toys and books he got.

Christmas Morning in Vernal. We had a blast hanging out with Scott's family watching movies, playing games, and adoring Pratt.

Our little Santa Claus on Christmas.


Here we are at my parents' house enjoying our 2nd Christmas of the year. We had a lot fun with my family relaxing, watching movies, playing Rummikub, and making Pratt laugh.

Here is Pratt enjoying his first Christmas stocking from Grandma and Grandpa Hardy. We can't get enough of this little guy and his fun personality.