Summer Fun

 So I love summer time. It was a blast being a kid during it and I am loving having fun with our kid too! So many simple joys. O found one.... juice boxes. Cousin Sloan shared with him and boy does he love sucking from straws now!

Mmmm... Not watered down juice!

 Here is another thing summer thing I have wanted to do since college. Oh yeah, my roomies and I totally did finger painting once. Talk about a blast! And if "mature" college girls loved it, what would a kid think about it!?!?

All suited up and fully covered.

Didn't really know what to think about the junk on his hands. But he loved the squishy sound affects Mom was making.

But it sure was tasty! (Thank goodness for non-toxic)

Of course all 3 of us got our hands dirty. Bryan even made an adorable picture. I will have to take a picture of all of our masterpieces after they are hung up. I am using them as wall art in O's bedroom.

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY OWEN!!!!

Our little boy is 1 year old!!! Holy Buckets. I am scared to think of how fast life is going to keep going.
He is such a cutie. His little smile/smirk will melt your heart. He loves making noises and copying all of the funny sounds Bryan and I make.... which is quite a lot. He obviously thinks walking is for the weak because he wants nothing to do with it. Crawling all the way. If he could only drink juice for all of his meals, he'd be the happiest kid in the world. And if Owen finds out you are eating something sugarish and not sharing with him, freak out. Bryan passed that sweet tooth on to him :) But there are some fun O facts.

Now, on to the party! Bestemor and Bestefar came all the way down from Utah for the fun time. They went through some crazy things and we felt very blessed to have them for even the short time that we did. We love seeing the Illguth family whenever we can. First we went swimming at great-grandma and grandpa's. The classic Sessions' family birthday party.

Bryan filled up a TON of water balloons and we have a blast with them in the pool.

Then it was back to our house for pizza, cake, ice cream and presents. O was a good sport for everything he let us do to him.

With cake time, we had gotten him his own personal trashing cake. He wasn't so sure about this thing with fire on it placed in front of him.

It wasn't until Bryan ripped part of it open and he saw the goodness inside that he went to town. Mainly on the frosting.

And he LOVED the cold ice cream. He held it forever it seemed like.


He is getting so good at sharing :)


I also made a separate cake for everyone else. We had a cute bug theme going. Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and Oreo crumbs. Topped with sour gummy worms. Mmmm..... (O is too young to have a favorite cake yet, so I went with one of mine :)


Then we attempted to have O open some of his presents. He had no idea what was going on like any normal 1 year old. But he got some wonderful things that he already has a blast playing with. He says thank-you in his own special way to everyone!!!!!

Looking forward to another year full of laughter and smiles! We love you Owen!!!!

1st Daddy's Day!

I know it was a bit ago, but I gotta do a post for Bryan and his first Daddy's Day with O. I had a blast getting things ready for the day.
Bryan first had "breakfast out of bed" because he was out of bed before O and I could bring it to him. Then he got some simple gifts. My favorite was this tie that I made for him. Boy was that one fun to come up with! I had seen bow ties, so I tried this one.

O sure loves his dad. When Bryan comes home and sweeps him off the ground....priceless. Dad is definitely more fun than mom :)
But I think that this was one of Bryan's favorite gifts. If you know Bryan, you know that he absolutely LOVES Legos and Pirates of the Caribbean (plus he can do a kick-trash impersonation of Jack). When he saw that they had come out with Cap. Jack legos, he about fell to pieces. And he says I'M still a kid at heart! So we got him this set from the last movie. Jack, Barbossa and Blackbeard.
What a wonderful dad Bryan is and he's only on his first one! I have a blast parenting with him. O and I sure do appreciate everything that he does as the father of our home. Happy Father's Day!

VIDEOS!!!

Ok, so I was trying to load videos for the first time the other day. It wasn't working. So genius Bryan showed me another way. But I still am not totally savvy, so I have to post the videos all by themselves. I do what works. Anywho, this vid is one that Bryan put together for a video contest. He did a bang-up job and I wanted to share it. Good job babe!

Beethoven O

So, Sloan has been playing the piano a ton lately, and O looked like he wanted to do it. I have now found something that he LOVES to do!!!

Untitled from Kara Illguth on Vimeo.

Mr. Mobile

Here's our little crawler. There's no audio, but he's still adorable.

Untitled from Kara Illguth on Vimeo.

Picture updates

So here is our cutie pie and what our family's been up to. Not too much, but we are livin' up life in Mesa. O is getting so big! He's still a small baby, but he's already 10 months old. Bryan and I were just planning his 1st birthday party! Geesh... but he's lovin' his new front tooth. (Only 1 on top has come in.) So he loves biting into things... like berries. Obsessed.


Ha. He looks fat here. But this is the best angle for an optimal tooth shot.


Since O FINALLY decided that crawling was the cool thing to do, he loves to pull himself up onto things now. Which also means he now is a lot more whiny and pulling at my legs to be held. He follows me around like a lost puppy. But O's in the picture with his second-cousin Sloan, who I watch 4 days a week. She is such a cutie and it's like I have an older daughter.
Now for some older Easter pictures. He looked so dapper that day.
He loved getting the bright Easter eggs. His cousins were a little faster than him though. He'll catch up one day.

And this last picture is up because O's aunt Aubrey moved to Utah to start on her own. She is going to a hair school in Provo. But we love and miss her and hope she has a blast! I loved my school days in Provo.