How do they even know how to do that?

A few days ago I changed Sophie's diaper in the living room and out of laziness I tossed the diaper on to the coffee table to pick up later. When I tossed the diaper it rolled off the back of the coffee table and went between the wall and the table. Sophie and I then headed down stairs to play and hang out with daddy.
After being downstairs for 15 minutes or so, Sophie and I came back up. As soon as we got up the stairs, Sophie walked right over to where the diaper had landed, picked it up and walked down the hall to the laundry room and threw it away.
It just blows my mind. Not once have Mike or I shown her how to do that or even really talked about it. Since she typically goes on the potty, we hardly ever even use that garbage for diapers.
So today I handed her a diaper to see what she would do and sure enough she marches it straight to that garbage. Sophie, you are AWESOME!

Sophie now likes the rocking horse!

My parents saw this cute rocking horse at Costco that they felt Sophie needed. So when they came to visit last week my mom took Sophie it to go get one. Well Sophie was terrified of it. She didn't want anything to do with it. She wouldn't come within three feet of it. My mom almost didn't buy it because Sophie was so scared. But my mom decided that Sophie would probably get used to it and so they got it.
Well over the next week Sophie still did not want anything to do with it. I sat on the horse and we gave it loves and kisses. We even put stuff animals and Bjorn on it, but she was still freaked out. So we just tucked it in to the corner and hoped that she would come around.
Well today we had a breakthrough. She actually touched it and then she sat on it!!! Check out this video of her riding her horsey

Country Lane

We love living in the country especially because we are only five minute from real shopping. I also love that we live on Country Lane, it really adds to the whole country living thing. This is a picture from our house to the field at the end of the street and the one below is from the field looking back at our house. It almost looks like we have a yard, but really that is just our neighbors grass.
Maybe someday!


As you can see a bit in the first picture, the sun was red that day. It is hard to get a good shot of it, but here is one. It was much more red then what this picture reflects.

We went over to the field to get a better look at the red sun and to visit one of the horses that was near the fence.


Such a cute little family!

Olson Family Labor Day Visit

My parents and both of my brothers came to visit us over Labor Day weekend. It was really fun. My mom got here Wednesday night, my dad and Erik arrived Friday evening and Scott came later that night. We wanted to do something different because we had done most of the usual Salt Lake touristy things. We decided to make the 4 hour drive to Moab. We left Saturday morning and headed out on our road trip to Price. Price is a small town in Central Utah that has the Collage of Eastern Utah's Prehistoric Museum.


After visiting I would use the term "museum" loosely, but it was still pretty cool. There was a little kids play area that we all enjoyed. I mean that Sophie really liked.



After spending some time at the museum, we got lunch and then putted around town a bit before heading to and even smaller town Green River. We got to our hotel and all went swimming. Sophie had a good time and seemed to really like the water, especially the hot tub. After the swim we all cleaned up and when to dinner at one of the only two restaurants in the whole town.

The next morning we headed out early because we still had an hour drive to Arches National Park. We decided to head to the Delicate Arch hike first becasue it was going to be the most challenging of all the arches that we wanted to see. It might only be 1 1/2 miles but it is hot, a high elevation and did I mention hot? While you are hiking it seems like it might not be worth it, but once you reach the arch you know why you did it. We had such a great time at Arches and was so glad that we decided to go there.


The next day was Monday and Mike had to work (Labor Day was his holiday to work) so the rest of us head to Antelope Island. I had only been there once before when Scott visited a year or so ago, but not everything was open when we went before, so we got to see some new stuff this time. Here are some shots from the island. In case you are wondering where there are island in Utah, it is in the Great Salt Lake.




On the island there is a little ranch with the home where the ranch hands lived since the island was modernly inhabited. It was neat to see how they got by on the island with so little modern technologies. I mean what did they do with out the internet? The pictures below are my parents trying to rope "the bulls." I don't think that they would make very good cowboys.