Burton Family Pictures

We just got back last night from an 8-day trip to Oregon to visit my family. We had an absolute blast playing all week! Cooper was running all over like a mad-man the whole time playing with all of his cute aunties and awesome uncles. Cooper & Dane sure are lucky boys to have so many aunts & uncles that love playing with them!

While we were there we took family pictures.

It was Cooper's naptime. We gave him a lollipop to bribe him to stay in the pictures.

All of my cute brothers & sisters

All of the girlies

All of the studly boys

At least Dane smiled.

Many more pictures from our trip to Oregon still to come.

4th of July weekend at the Cabin

Mason & I were sitting in the very back of the Carter's car, it was so funny to see all of these cute babies all in a row.

We caught 5 frogs and one snake. Cooper called the tall grass "the jungle"

I stole these frog pictures from Alison. Thank you.Before we left, we made the boys let the frogs go. They were very sad.

Visiting Grandma & Grandpa Burton

On our way home from Utah we stopped to see my Grandparents. It was so great to see them. Cooper had lots of fun setting up train tracks with Grandma in the basement, and Grandpa showed Cooper their "secret garden" in the backyard. We love you both so much, and wish that we could have stayed longer.

Ragnar Wasatch Back Relay - 188 MILES!

On June 19-20 Mason ran the Ragnar Wasatch Back relay. The relay is 188 miles long, it starts in Logan and finishes in Park City, Utah. Just like last year he ran for Team Chasqui, the team is made up of 12 people, his brother Warren and two brothers-in-law Jordan & Dennis are also on the team (Jordan started the team) as well as his cousin & her husband. Each person runs three legs of the race. Mason's first leg was 3.5 miles then 9.6 miles and his final leg was 3.6 miles. He started running his 2nd leg sometime around 3 in the morning. Do you have any idea how far 9.6 miles is? And running it in the middle of the night,. The relay slogan is "Run. Drive. Sleep? Repeat." His last leg was 3.6 miles, which isn't very long (further than I can run) but it was classified as "very hard" because it was a "severe uphill climb" ouch! Mason is my hero!

Team Chasqui finished in 29 hours 39 minutes shaving 20 minutes off of last years time! Not only that, this years race was 7 miles longer than last year's race and they still managed to beat their time!

Way To Go Everyone!

ps: Thank you Allan for a lot of the pictures.

Playing with the Nielsen Boys

We took a trip to Utah the weekend of the 20th. While we were there we met up with my cousin Lizzy and her cute boys at the park. Cooper had so much playing with Doyle, Logan and Andy. On our way back to Las Vegas Cooper said "Mom, I want to play with Lizzy some more." Lizzy is pretty cool, but I think that he really meant he wanted to play with her boys.

A boy's pure delight

A couple of weeks ago we were at Mason's parents house for dinner. Our scooter has been parked over there covered by a tarp ever since we moved here to Las Vegas. Mason told Cooper that he would take him for a ride on the scooter if he was a good boy. Allan (Mason's Dad) took this great picture of Cooper right as Mason was taking the tarp off of the scooter.

Dane's 2 month check-up

Dane had his 2-month check-up last week. He had to get 3 shots, poor boy.

Here are his stats:

13 lbs 6 oz : 75 -90 percentile

24 inches long : 75 -90 percentile

I seriously cannot believe how big he is already. The doctor kept saying how "built" he is and that maybe he has viking blood in him or something. It's so weird because Dane and Cooper were both born 3 weeks early and they were both breastfed, but Cooper has always been little, Cooper was 4 months old by the time he weighed as much as Dane does at 2 months, and Cooper was only 23 inches long at 4 months. I love my two cute boys, my little Cooper and my big Dane.