Zion National Park--4th of July

John and I decided that since we couldn't go home for 4th of July we were going to do something fun anyway. We packed up late Thursday night and then first thing Friday morning we jumped in the car and drove to Zion National Park. We had so much fun. We were only able to stay for one night due to church responsibilities but it was worth it. It was like 100 degrees the first night and so we slept Lucas in just his diaper and John and I slept on top of the sleeping bags. The second day was much better as it was only in the upper 80's with occasional cloud cover. We went on several of the hikes. Some great friends of our let us borrow their backback to carry Lucas in. I think John and I are going to invest in one. It worked great and Lucas had a blast. The only downside is that we couldn't take Tibo along because there is only one trail that dogs are allowed on and we didn't think it would be fair to him to leave him at camp, nor did we think it would be fair to the other campers as Tibo tends to bark alot when he sees thing going on.

Here are a couple of pictures from our trip.

Lucas found hiking ver relaxing. This is a picture of him sleeping on our about 1 mile round trip hike. We went on 3 different lenghth hike and about half way through each of them, he fell asleep!


This is our cute family on our hike up to the top of the 3 Emerald Lakes. A great hike. The weather was wonderful. Lucas fell asleep just as we started coming down the mountain.


This is Lucas having his first french fry. We ate Lunch at the Zion Lodge so we didn't have to carry a cooler hiking.


Daddy and Lucas on our last hike of the trip.


Lucas again fell asleep about half way through that final hike!


On our way out of the final hike off to the side of the road was this deer. Just eating away at this little tree. There were two deer but this was the last picture on our memory card. Good thing the trip was over!

5 Years

John and I celebrated our 5 Year Anniversary on May 30th. I just want to take a minute to say how grateful I am to have been married to such a wonderful man for the last 5 years. He is such a great father to our son and a great example to all those around him. I can't believe how fast time flies. John is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. Without him I know I would not be as happy as I am now. I love him so much and want him to know that I appreciate all the hard work he does to provide for our family and that I am so proud of him for all that he does.

Summer Time is Here!!

Well now that summer has officially arrived in Las Vegas, I should probably take the time to update everyone on how the Turner clan is doing. When I say summer has arrived, I mean that Summer arrived weeks ago on the first day of 100+ temps. We have been above 100 now for almost 2 weeks, give or take a day. We have been doing lots of things. Here is a little of what we have been doing.


We went out to Lake Mead with some friends of ours who have a jet ski. We had so much fun riding that thing. There were not that many people out on the lake so we had a pretty easy time going where ever on the lake that we wanted to go. Of Course Lucas came too, not on the jet ski though.


While were out there I snapped this picture of John and Lucas. Let's just say this is my new favorite picture of my boys. It shows their matching personalities perfectly!


Our friends, Shawn and Nichole have a little boy, Dillon who is 2 weeks younger than Lucas. Although, from this picture you would think that Dillon was older than Lucas. Lucas is this short little guy next to his buddy. We'll see how long Dillon stays taller than Lucas when they get older.


We also hit the races. Every Saturday night out at the race track they do races. Not big Nascar races, but short track races. We watched this little 12 or 13 years olds race in little cars. They are proably not much more powerful than a go cart but they sure could race those things. Who knows, maybe we watched the next Dale Earnhardt race. It was very loud but Lucas had so much fun. He sat there so intently watching the cars rush by. I think it cost 10 bucks a person to get in and then they had $1 hot dogs and sodas. Lots of fun for really cheap.


John and I had our 5 year anniversary. Yep we have been married for 5 years. So for our anniversary we decided to go to Arizona for a Diamondbacks game. We left Lucas with a friend for the weekend and drove down for the game. We had so much fun. That stadium is one of the most amazing places I have ever been. In about the 3rd Inning it cooled down enough outside so they opened the roof. Right there in the middle of the game the roof started to open. Soooo Cool. We will definately be back for more games and we'll take Lucas next time.


Lucas has grown so many teeth these last few weeks. He is up to 2 molars, 4 top front teeth, and 3 bottom front teeth. So we decided that we should start teaching him how to feed himself things that he won't choke on. This is his first time doing so, it was spagetti. He ate all of the noodles, but I don't think a single drop of sauce made it to his stomach. Needless to say, we put him in the bath immediatly following this yummy dinner.

Updated Pictures

Lucas is standing now. Well, pretty much pulling himself up on anything...the wall, the couch, the baby gate, you name it. Not only that but he is into EVERYTHING. His favorite thing to get into is the cupboards of the entertainment system. He crawls over and pulls open the cupboard and then opens the drawer and empties the contents all over my living room. I then go and pick everything up and then Lucas crawls back over and empties it again. It's a fun game.




Our little family went on a hike a few weeks ago. It was nice outside and since it was stake conference we thought it would be fun to drive up to Mount Charlston and go for a hike. We had so much fun. Tibo loved it. There was still a little bit of snow and it took 15 minutes just to get Tibo to come out of it. He was having so much fun playing fetch in the snow with John. It was such a fun afternoon. We packed a little picnic lunch and stayed up there for a couple of hours.



John and his company finally got their first Gold Medal in Corporate Challenge. They took the gold in Kickball...yes Kickball...you know where you kick the four-square ball and then run around the bases. You know,the game you played when you were in 3rd grade. Well they hung in there and won all of their games. It was so much fun to watch these big bad adults having a blast playing kick ball.



Lucas has started eating finger foods. This was his first time having a little biter bisquit. He loves them but they make a huge mess. I took this picture and couldn't help but post it. It is just too cute.

Crawling!!!

So Lucas has entered a stage in his life that I have been somewhat dreading. He is crawling. He went from trying so hard to being able to crawl all the way across the room while Mommy wasn't looking in two days. Crazy. Apparently it is one of those things that once you figure it out...you run with it!!

It has been so much fun to see him progress. And now that he is doing it is do much fun to see how happy he is that he can move around. Although, now I need to baby proof my house. He has already learned that he can pull each DVD out one by one off of the shelf. I guess that means I need to move them higher :)

Wish me luck as we try to survive the mobility :)

Corporate Challenge

John and the company he is working for are participating in the Corporate Challenge. Basically, it is a competition that companies of similar sizes compete against each other in a variety of events. The events are anything from things like Soccer, Basketball, softball, etc to things like archery, chess, range shooting. They even have events like the "Biggest Loser" and a walk race. It just started a couple of weeks ago and it has been so much fun to watch. It is really cool because John is gaining friendships with the people he works with.

John so far has competed in two events. Last weekend he competed in the Raquetball singles competition. He did great and took home the Silver. It was a very long day...I think he had 5 games over like a 4 hour period. Well, all this week they competed in the Softball competition. They made it all the way to the championship round and then lost. So they took home the silver. It was so much fun though watching everyone have such a great time. There was laughing and joking around. Here are a couple of pictures from the championship game.




We have been taking Lucas to all of the games and he seems to make friends at each game. The little girl is a guy John works with daughter Bella. She absolutely loves Lucas. Every single game that we go to she runs up to Lucas and gives him a little kiss on the head and then says Hi to him. The boy in the other picture is the son of another guy who John works with. He and Lucas played Pick-a-boo the entire game and they were both just laughing....It was so much fun to watch.




Lucas is also trying so hard to crawl. He gets up on all fours and then moves backwards. He's stuck in reverse. He hasn't quite figured out how to move forward yet. But I have a feeling that with in the next week or so I am going to have a very mobile baby on my hands. I don't know what I am going to do at that point.

Easter Season

My goal for the last few months has been to update our family blog. So the month is almost over and I am doing it...barely but I am.

This Easter season has been so wonderful. We were able to spend the last week with my family here in Vegas and then John's family up in Heber City. Easter is a great time to reflect back and spend time with family. Easter is a great time when we get the opportunity to think of the Savior and all that he has done for us. I know that John and I have been truly blessed and we have such a strong testimony that the Savior Lives and that we will live again...together with our families. I am so grateful to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I am so thankful for the knowledge I have and for the testimony that I have gained.

Here are a few pictures from our easter break in Heber. As you can see, Lucas has two new teeth. He had so much fun with everyone and it was especially fun to see Lucas and Ethan interact with each other. I think we spent more time watching them play than we did anything else.





We also had the opportunity to go up to Park City and go up to the Olympic Park. Unfortunately it was closed for a private event but we had so much fun up there having a little snowball fight.




This last picture is the sunset on Easter at the house we were staying at in Heber. It was so beautiful. What a difference clean and crisp air makes on a sunset :)