Georgia

On Saturday, Logan and Daniel flew back to Utah while Henry and I rode with my Scott and his family back to Georgia. I rarely see them and wanted to spend more time with them. It was a really good time. I miss having them live close.

Their kids are so adorable and getting to know them better. Their house is awesome and I was really suprized with how pretty Georgia is.

This is my niece, Joyce. She's my twin. She looks exactly like I did when I was her age. Here's proof.

 

I was also able to meet up with my friend Laura while we were there. We went to BYU together, the grad school at the U together and then worked for Davis School District together. She just moved last Christmas and it was so fun seeing her, her daughter and their new baby. I miss having her around!

 

Georgia was so fun and while I really would like my brother to move closer, I'm happy they live in a cool place that I can come visit.

SeaWorld

We had a lot of fun with my dad and brother's family at SeaWorld. I had no idea we would enjoy it that much.

My favorite part was feeding the dolphins. It is something I always wanted to do but never thought I would have the opportunity.

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Logan went to lunch with my brother's family and my dad. It was "Lunch with Shamu" and they got to watch the whales up close and saw the trainer work with them. This is one thing we regret. We decided we were only going to do one lunch (each lunch is $30/adult so we had already paid $60 the day before to eat with Mickey and his friends). We should have done this one as well. Oh well. Logan loved it and we're glad he got to have the experience.

They had trick or treating stations there. Logan is wearing his "Utah" halloween costume. It definitely wasn't made for Orlando and the 90 degree weather.

Joyce is in love with princesses and her face when she was meeting them was priceless. She reminds me so much of me at her age.

On one of the rides. I was really shocked they had so many rides there.

Logan and his cousin, Joyce

 

 Fun with cousins. Logan hadn't seen them for over a year but they got along great and he loved his time with them.

 

 

 

This is one Logan "won" his turtle.

 

This vacation couldn't have been any better. Well, maybe it could have been a little longer but we loved every second of it.

Disneyworld Day 2

On our 2nd day in Orlando, we went to Animal Kingdom with my dad. It was a totally different experience than the Magic Kingdom, but we still loved it. I think Logan's favorite part was Finding Nemo-the musical and the dinosaur ride.

Logan and Henry were so good all three days of being there. Henry spent most of his time in the stroller either sleeping or looking around. He was perfectly content which was kinda shocking for us considering he wants to be held ALL OF THE TIME when we are home.

We went to "It's tough to be a bug", "Festival of the Lion King", "Kilimanjoro Safaris", the "Tusker House Restaurant" for a character buffet, "Kali River Rapids" which Logan was just a tiny bit too short to go on, "Expedition Everest","TriceraTop Spin" and "Finding Nemo-the musical".

Before the character buffet, we got to meet Donald Duck which Logan was excited about. Because the characters don't talk, Logan thought they were Deaf and kept on trying to sign with them. It was pretty cute.

 

 

We had so much fun and we were so lucky my dad could join us. We love Disneyworld. We have no idea when we'll be back there, but we would love to go again. Logan still talks about it daily and often asks "we go to Disneyworld tomorrow, mommy?" I wish, Logan :)

Disneyworld Day 1- Magic Kingdom

About 5 months ago, we decided we wanted to go on a family vacation. We hadn't seen my brother and his family for over a year, so we thought maybe we should fly out and see them for Fall break. Then I found some cheap flights to Orlando and asked if they wanted to meet us there. They wanted to see SeaWorld and thought that it would be fun for all the kids to be together so we booked the flights.

3 weeks before we left, we made a countdown chain. Each day had something fun to do related to going to Disneyworld. Some of them were "sing your favorite Disney song", "watch a disney movie", "color a Disney picture".  Logan woke up every day so excited to take a link off his chain and do the activity and then count how many days left.

One of the days, Daniel made Mickey Mouse shaped pancakes. Logan thought it was the best breakfast ever!

Daniel and I left work early on the 16th, I picked up the kids from their grandparents house and then met Daniel at home. We arrived at the airport, went through security and then waited to board. Logan couldn't stop smiling.

 

This is Logan on the airplane. He is watching signing time, eating crackers and drinking apple juice. Could you tell he was happy?

 

We transferred in Denver and then flew to Orlando. Logan and Henry were absolutely perfect. Seriously. Better than I could have ever expected.

 

Once we arrived in Orlando, we rented the car and then drove to our condo. We didn't get in until about 2 in the morning but we were up by 7:30 the next morning ready to go to the Magic Kingdom.

 

When we got there, we took a ferry over because the tram was down. Here is our first picture at Disneyworld.

 

The whole place was decorated for Halloween. Logan was in awe the whole time.

                                               My prince and I in front of the castle

                                                                 Logan's first ride

                                             Riding Dumbo. Logan kept wanting more!

Unfortunately the only camera we had was on our phones and they died pretty fast.

In Adventure Land, we did Swiss Family Treehouse, Jungle Cruise and Pirates of the Caribbean. In Frontierland, we went on the Walt Disneyworld Railroad (see pic above), Splash Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. In Fantasyland, we did "It's a small world", "Dream along with Mickey", "Mad Tea Party", "Dumbo the Flying Elephant", and "Barnstormer". In Tomorrowland, we did "Tomorrowland Speedway" (Logan loved this one!), "Space Mountain", and "Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin". We also saw a parade in the afternoon with all the princes and princesses (well, I did at least. Daniel went to splash mountain and Logan slept through it in the stroller. I was holding Henry and many of the characters-like the mice from Cinderella- came over and squeezed his cheeks or rubbed his head. I wish I got a picture of it.) We also saw the Disney Electrical Parade. That was pretty cool. I remember being 7 or 8 and listening to my disney cd's everynight and the electrical parade song was on it.

Logan got to see Donald, Mickey, Minnie, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Eyore, Piglet, Jessie, Woody, and Buzz,

We got to the condo around 10 and then my brother, his family and my dad arrived. We chatted/caught up for a bit and then went to bed.
 

New House

* Just a reminder to anyone who reads this...this is also our journal where we share our personal thoughts and feelings. We want to make sure we remember our lives at this moment and the lessons we are learning and this is where we have decided to record it. Feel free to skip over what is written to just look at pictures if you want :)
We absolutely love our new house. The first few weeks were crazy trying to move in with Daniel starting work again and boxes everywhere but we are feeling pretty settled now. We still have to hang pictures, unpack a few boxes, and hang curtains but we aren't too concerned. We'll get around to those things when we have time.
Since we moved, we've had the fence installed and the landscaping done. It was hard not to let Logan play outside and having to take Koda on a walk when she needed to go instead of just letter her outside. We love our yard (SOOO much better than our old huge yard that took up so much time) and Logan is constantly going outside to play with Koda and play on his swing set.
Our neighborhood couldn't be any better for us. There are 4 parks all within a 5 minute walk, a splash pad just down the street as well as a basketball court,  2 huge soccer fields and pavilions. We also have a clubhouse with a fitness center, swimming pool, hot tub and toddler pool. It is never busy when we go and Logan asked to go on a daily basis during the summer.
More and more houses on are street are being completed every day. It has been so fun to watch the progress on these houses and meet new neighbors. We just had new neighbors move across the street this weekend and they have a 2 week old and 4 year old boys, our next door neighbors have a 3 week old boy named Henry, yesterday we met someone who lives a few houses down and across the street and they have a 5 year old, 3 year old and 6 week old and they are all boys. Our other next door neighbors don't have any kids yet and I work out with her a few times a week. Our home ward is awesome and there are a few people who know sign, including our new babysitter. She has a 2 year old son and Logan and Henry go there one day a week and it works out perfectly. I also joined this crochet group a couple girls in the ward have and have really enjoyed hanging out with them. We also are really enjoying our new deaf ward and we both have callings as Sunday School teachers (Daniel teaches gospel doctrine and I teach the youth deaf sunday school).
We also are so pleased with the house itself. It is more than double the size of our old house, has a 3 car garage which we love for storage, a huge bonus room for Logan to play in and a good size kitchen that I actually enjoy cooking in. It also cuts Daniel's commute by at least 40 min/day.
The whole thing just feels so surreal. We tried selling our house twice before and it didn't work out. Daniel applied to different jobs for so long and none of them worked out. For so long we prayed for a job for Daniel to earn more money, another baby and a new house. About a year ago, we finally decided to just be happy, enjoy that time in our lives and trust in His timing. In January, Daniel starting teaching at SLCC and this year he sold one of his prep times to teach at another high school during that time. In June, we suddenly decided to put up our house for sale and sold it in a week. In July, Henry was born. In August, we moved in to our new house. It's amazing how our Father in Heaven has a much better plan for us than we do for ourselves and how His timing is so much better than our timing.  We feel like blessings have just been poured down on us recently and we are so grateful. We know that we needed to have some of the struggles we had to grow and we want to make sure that we remember these lessons for future trials.

2 Month Stats

Height: 23.5 inches (64th%ile)
Weight: 13 lbs (73rd%ile)
Head Circumference: 16 inches (60th%ile)

Baby Blessing

On September 2nd, Henry Kline Edwards was blessed by his father. In the circle was Craig Edwards, Ben Edwards, Wilson Edwards, Tim Leishman, Blair Goates, Marshall Jones, Daniel Edwards and Henry.

Daniel gave a beautiful blessing and Henry was quiet the whole time. Afterwards, we had friends and family over for lunch.

Bear Lake

We had a great time in Bear Lake with Daniel's family. We had dinner when we arrived and Logan had a fun time exploring the place with his cousins. We stayed at the scout cabins because Daniel's dad works for scouts and was able to reserve it for us. The kids played some games and we unloaded our things into the cabin.
The next morning, Logan and I went down to the water and threw some rocks while we were waiting for his cousins to wake up. Daniel's dad cooked a great pancake breakfast and then we went down to the water and spent the rest of the morning and afternoon there. Henry slept in his bouncer which was so nice for us. Daniel and I went swimming while Logan played in the sand. We also went out on the canoe. Logan said his favorite thing there was going on the canoe with grandpa. When we got home, Logan was asking where all his cousins were and when we were going to go back to grandpa's cabin. We're hoping this will become a new family tradition because we had such a great time.

Waterton- Trip 2

Daniel, Dad and Jessica canoeing

Logan crying on top of prince of whales hotel

Logan, Daniel and Dad canoeing

Me and my boys

My cousins baby Hank and baby Henry- both named after their great great grandpa

Logan and Grandpa picking "saskatoon" berries

Hiking and picking berries

Candy store with Grandpa- every morning we would ask Logan what he wanted to do and he would always say "go to the candy store with Grandpa!"

                                                      Eating his candy on Grandpa's boat

                                               He fell asleep on my lap shortly after this

                                                                Driving the boat

                                                     Reading with Grandma Milne

                                                     Logan and his Waterton friends

                                                                       Wall Lake

                                                   One of Logan's favorite things to do

                                                                    Hiking to Wall

One cute baby

Momma bear and her cub

We always LOVE going to Waterton and have the best time. We seriously couldn't ask for a better vacation!