That's Right!

We're MOVING! HOORAY! The condo life is over! We're moving into a Pleasant Grove home at the end of this month and we could not be more excited!! We've lived in our condo for two years, and although the payment has been nice, we have not really enjoyed it.
The new home sits on .47 of an acre and it's fully fenced :) I'm so excited for Drake to just run and burn energy!!! (I think I've used my yearly limit of exclimation points!)
Anywho, we're super excited and just can't stand to wait any longer.

Here are some fun pictures that I took of Drake helping my mom in my grandparents garden. They were doing some Strawberry pickin'

So tell me...

What is your favorite blog to read and why??

On My Mind

I hate TV sometimes. My 3 year old loves it and I think because of that reason I hate it.
Drake is not the shy child you see clutching onto his mothers leg at the shopping store. No, no, no, he's the one touching everything he can. He's the loudest kid in the store. He's not afraid of ANYTHING. I love this about him, well, most of the time. However, when we meet new people or when I want him to behave his very best, I'd like him to just calm down for a bit. Anyway, back to this TV thing. Drake is a talker (I wonder where he got that from) and he's very articulate as well. He picks up EVERYTHING that you say!!! And because of this I hate TV now.
Drake can say some really bad words. He has said a few 4 letter words but I'm talking about words like 'stupid', 'loser' or 'idiot'. I can't stand those words coming out of me 3 year olds mouth. Oh, and the #1 word that I hate him saying is the Lords name in vain. He's only said my #1 hated word 2 or 3 times, but in my book that's 2 or 3 times more than he should have. He doesn't say any of these words very often because he knows they are bad words but I swear he only says them when we are around other people. They've got to think I'm raising some punk kid or something. I don't know how to get away from these words.

- On Toy Story, Woody calls Buzz an 'idiot'. Thanks Pixar!
- EVERY Single channel (even Disney and Nick channels) say the Lords name in vain.
- On Kai Lan, she called something 'stupid'.

And the list goes on and on.

I know that Drake is just pushing my buttons, and I'm sure he's just testing the water to see what he can get away with. But, I want to hear from other parents. What do you do about this? My son can't be the only one that does this. Am I being too picky about what I consider 'bad words'? I just think he's too young to say those words.

Comments??? PLEASE!

Zimmerman Camping Trip 2011

This is the 3rd annual Zimmerman Family Camping Trip. The first couple years we called it the 4-wheeling trip, but we all have kids now and so it makes it hard for all of us to go on one big ride together.
We camped up by Strawberry reservoir and it was beautiful! The weather was great too. Here are a few, ok I mean a bunch, of pictures.

We're on our way!!



The view from our camp









Drake was dirty from the second we got out of the truck until we got home. We don't have a shower in our trailer so we went through a world record amount of baby wipes to try and get this kid clean before bed each night. He had a blast!!!

CJ went fishing on Saturday while the rest of the boys went to the shooting range.

This is my Brother Zac and my dad preparing some kabobs for dinner.

We ate lots of delicious food!!!

While we were there you couldn't fish the streams. And we saw a lot of fish in them. This is my nephew Dallin, my niece Addi and Drake looking at the fish in the water.

This is my niece Addi holding the butterfly that she caught.

All the kids playin' some ball. My nephew Dallin has a broken arm so it was kinda funny to watch him play :)

In the dirt, again.

This is the whole clan! (I love self timer)

My sister Jennell is pregnant with her fist child and she found out what she was having the first day of the camping trip. Most of the group was already up there so we were just waiting to hear from her. When she pulled up, she got out of the truck holding a 'It's a Boy' balloon. Super cute idea!!


This is Baby Rekker, Brandon & Whitney's little guy.

This is baby Dax, Rusty & Jess's little dude.

And this is baby Henry, Zac & Traci's 3rd little buddy.

They all so dang cute!!!



CJ and drake did a little 4-wheeling.

We had a blast, and with all these little kids, it will just get more and more fun each year!!! I love family!

What Do You Think??

Let me know what you think of Amber's Bridals. It was so hot outside and with all that dress that she had on, I'm sure she was close to dying. I think they turned out BEAUTIFUL though!






If you want to see more, check out my photography blog HERE

The last Couple Weeks

(I wish I could some up with really cool or fun titles for my blog posts, but it's just not my cup of tea, I'm not any good at it... Sorry)

A couple Saturday's ago, CJ competed in a Tree Jamboree. For those of you who don't know, CJ is a Tree Trimmer. The company he works for is contracted with Rocky Mountain Power to clear the lines from any brush or tree. He really likes his job and has worked there for 6 years. Anyway, a Tree Jamboree is a competition for the tree trimmers that is held each year, and this year it was held in American Fork. They setup courses and they get timed and scored on performance (the winner gets $2000 towards a trip to Australia, to compete in the world competition. Don't hold your breath... CJ did not win)

This was CJ's first year ever competing and he had lots of fun. He scored 21st place out of 32 (not bad for a new guy I guess) and in one event he got 3rd!
I was not able to stay and watch all the events, we've got a child, end of story. But here are some pictures I was able to snap.








We went camping for Memorial Day and we went with CJ's siblings. It was a lot of fun! Except the last day when we got 3" on snow fall, then heavy rains.... oh and then we got stuck.
We planned on coming home Memorial Day but when we woke up Sunday morning and saw the snow we thought we could eat breakfast, break down camp, and head out while the ground was still frozen (who the hell's idea was that!!!). Well, by the time we got all that done, the snow had melted a ton and it was drizzling rain. we headed down the road and maybe 100 yards from camp we got stuck! A camp that we near by came and told us that they were in the middle of helping some other people get un-stuck and that when he was done, he'd help us. He also told us that even when/if he can get us out we wouldn't be able to go anywhere. Four other cars were stuck on the road that connected us to the main road off the mountain. We set the trailer back up and planned to spend the night.


This was taken after we got stuck, so most of the snow had melted by this time, but here's the idea.





This was not mud, it was clay. You could hardly walk anywhere without getting your shoe sucked off. Oh it was bad news!

So here is what happened next. We unhooked from the trailer and these nice guys hooked on to the truck.



We got out like butter.... I want one of these Raptor machines, bad!!
Next, we tied onto the tongue of the trailer to move it 45 degree's so we could hook the truck back on.


Then we hooked back on and the nice guys pulled us out. NICE! CJ had a really nice big rope that is probably worth $100 of more and the guys wanted to buy it from CJ because they liked it so much but we decided to give it to them for being to kind!!! Thanks again, where ever you are!




You can't really see the depth in these pictures but these ruts were HUGE! And you can see our tire tracks where we had slid right into the muddy mess.

Now, I saved this for last because I wanted to reward those of you who actually read this whole post. Do you guys want the ingredients for the worlds BEST s'more??? I can't hear you..... DO YOU? ok ok I'm just kidding, but, you gotta try this sometime this Summer!
This is what you need; A marshmallow, 2 fudge stripe Keebler cookies and a milk chocolate caramel filled Giradelli chocolate square (i know, right.... enough said)



I've never been, but I'm pretty sure this is a little piece of heaven!

The Ripe Old Age Of 3

Drake has been amazing CJ and I with all his talking. I tell all of our close family about all his funny little stories and they are adamant that I need to be writing this stuff done.
Here's a couple funny/cute (well, I find them funny) stories.

CJ's dad had a little black dog named Max, and one day Drake was over at his Aunt Shaylee's house playing with a little girl named Cami. Well, Cami doesn't articulate her words quite as well as Drake does and so Drake was getting rather frustrated with Cami when she would call the dog "Ma" and not "Max". Well, a couple weeks later Drake and I were walking to the car when Drake informed me "Grandpa's dog is black"
Me: "oh, is he?"
Drake: "Ya, he's black, and his name is Max"
Me: "Cool, did you go play with Max the other day?"
Drake: "ya, and Cami, but she says Ma, not Max"
Me: "oh she does?"
Drake: "Ya, but it's not Ma, it's MAX"

It's not a hilarious story, but it goes to show what a big boss he thinks he is!! Little stinker!

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Drake is getting to the point where he will start having memories of things and the last thing I need him to remember is his mom naked, so I don't change or go to the bathroom in front of him anymore. Well he's all potty trained (things went smooth, YAY!) and we call "it" his "wee wee". Well about 2 months ago, right after the potty training ended I went into the bathroom to go number one. Well I didn't shut the door all the way and so Drake came bee boppin' in "What you doin' mama?" He said
Me: "Drake, I'm going to the bathroom. Please go out and shut the door."
Drake: "Oh, are you just peeing out of your wee wee?"
Me: "No, Drake I'm not peeing out of my wee wee. I don't even have a wee wee. Shut the door."
I then went out and tried to explain to Drake that girls don't have wee wee's and that only boys have those, his response; "Oh, so girls just poop?"

Honestly, how do you respond to that!? I know of an ER nurse that taught her children the real and direct names for their body parts and they got Child Services called on them. When her kids were at day care they were talking about their Penis and Vagina and the day care lady thought that they might be being abused or something because what 4 and 5 year would know that much about the body??? CRAZY!

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My son is the spitting image of my husband. It scares me! Ha! I put in the movie Bambie for Drake while I hopped in the shower one day. When I got out Drake was sitting on the couch watching Bambie, THROUGH HIS BINOCULARS!!! And when I asked him what he was doing he shhh'd me and told me that the deer were fighting. Oh, ok then.

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My dad is hunter, ahugethatisallheeverwantstodo hunter. The other day Drake and I were up at my parents while CJ was off on some OT work. Well, my dad was expecting a couple guys to come over and pick up a gun that he had been working on for them. The guys showed up and my dad and them stepped into the front room. Drake slipped out of my grasp and wanted to check out what Grandpa was doing so he ran into the front room. I yelled for Drake to come back to me but he had already struck up a conversation. My dad told the guys that Drake knew more North America and African animals than any other 3 year (which is probably right) and that Drake is my dads re-loading budding (re-loading of ammunition, for those of you that don't know). Well Drake went in there and was talking about butterflies and how butterflies are not scary and so on and so forth. Meanwhile my mom and I were dying of laughter that Drake was talking about butterflies in front of these hunter guys. Then one of them asked Drake what his favorite animal was. Drake said "UMMMMMM" (he thought forever) Finally my dad interrupted the silence by saying to Drake "He asked you a question, be nice and tell him what your favorite animal is". I was crossing my fingers that Drake would make his grandpa proud by announcing any other animal besides butterfly or something along those lines. Finally Drake blurted out " A Caribou" ("YAY!" I thought, and I'm sure my dad did as well) They all started laughing and the guys who asked the question said "That's impressive. I didn't even know what a Caribou was until I was 12!"

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The most recent funny story was just the other day. CJ's Birthday was May 13th and that night we were going to a dinner with my family and my little sister's soon to be in-law's family. She was getting married the very next day and wanted us all to meet and mingle before the big day. I asked Whit (my little sister and the bride-to-be) if it would be ok to bring cake and ice cream to the dinner for a fun little SURPRISE for CJ. She agreed that it would be fun. Well, Drake and I went to the store to pick up candles and Drake started to whine that he wanted a birthday and that he wanted candles. I explained to him that he just got a birthday and that these candles were for daddy. On the way home I called CJ and put the phone on speaker for Drake to talk to him and wish him a happy birthday.
Drake: "Happy Birthday Daddy I love you"
CJ "Thanks buddy I love you too! What you doin'?"
Drake: "I'm with mama, I got your candles!!!!"