We have had a great summer so far, but I cant believe that it is almost August already! Here are some highlights of the last month or so. One morning I took Jack and Rusty to the duck pond to feed the little ducks, which they loved. These two are best buds and Jack totally idolizes Rusty.
We play in the backyard a ton...I spend a lot of my day pushing kids on swings.
Gotta love the diaper plumber's crack.
I love summer and I hope the next month is as good as the last two have been!For the 4th of July Holiday my whole family (even Dana flew in from Hawaii) went camping at Flaming Gorge. It was an awesome trip and we had a great time. Here are some highlights:
Gus and I (Jackson was asleep in the car)
Nate, Devon, and Rusty...how cute is little Rusty with his hand on his mommy's face? Oh...and because Devon hasn't really announced it yet, I will: she is 5.5 months pregnant with a girl!!!
Jackson and his dad.
While the guys fished, we all hung out on a dock.
Titan, Rusty, and Brody got a little excited about the water and got their clothes all wet so they hung out in their unders.
Doug and Melissa's youngest, Diggy, who definelty won the best camper award. This was the face is made basically the entire trip.
Hanging out at the camp fire enjoying some smores.
My parents trying to figure out how to play a game on Dana's iphone.
Jackson telling us to get out of "bed" so we would take him to the playground that was across the street from our campground (which was perfect!) 
When I first started this blog it was so exciting and I couldn't wait until I had something to post about. And now it is starting to feel like such a burden...does anyone else feel the same way? Well anyways, it has been awhile so here are some highlights from the last month or two of our lives.
Gus and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary in March, so to celebrate we planned a weekend get-a-way to Park City in April. Due mainly to my fear of leaving Jackson overnight it turned into a family get-a-way, which actually turned out great and I am glad we brought him. Jackson loved the condo, and especially loved the shower and huge soaker tub. He kept walking into the glass shower door because he couldn't see it...funny and sad. We spent a lot of time and too much money at the outlets, swam, went for walks, went site seeing, and ate a ton.
This was the view from our bed...too cool.
Jackson is now 18 months and full of personallity. He recently decided that it would be super cool to have an attitude and LOVES the word no. You know how on cartoons they ask the viewers questions, like Mickey Mouse asks "do you want to come inside my playhouse"? Well Jackson even responses to that with a solid, non-waivering "NO".
My sister-in-law Melissa and I took all 5 boys to the zoo a couple of weeks ago. I felt like all I did was yell their names and constantly count to make sure we hadn't lost one. But it was a lot of fun and the boys loved it. Somehow we got them all to sit in one place to get a picture of all 5 grandsons...arent they too cute? I just love these boys.
I had a great mother's day. I recently started playing soccer again so I got new soccer cleats and flowers. Here is a picture of Jackson and Grandma Russell. My poor mom...everytime we go over there all he does is brings her book after to book to read.
Jackson absolutely loves to play outside. First thing he does every morning is go find his shoes and bring them to me. Then he goes to the door and pounds on it. So needless to say, we have been spending a ton of time outside.
Here is our recently finished sandbox which provides hours of entertainment.
So there is a snapshot of the last 2 months or so of the Hytonen family...thrilling isnt it? 
Here is Rusty, who is an egg hunt expert, giving Jackson some pointers.
Next we headed over to Doug's neighborhood for our second hunt of the day. We got there a little early, so to keep Jackson away from the eggs we hung out at the playground.
Constantly changing!!! About a week and a half a ago we had a huge snow storm. We got at least a foot of snow in about 5 hours...it was rediculous. And there is something about South Weber that causes us to get way more snow than anyone else. Here is the tree in out front yard...I think it looks so cool covered in snow:
And this is our back/side yard. Those are trees behind the swing set, not bushes. There was so much snow, the trees were bent over to the ground. 
Gus taking a break while shoveling the steps.
Jackson absolutely loves being outside no matter the weather. 
Doesn't he look cute in his snow bibs?
After being buried in snow, we were blessed with a few days of nice, warm, sunny weather. I have been so grateful for the nice weather...both Jackson and I get cabin fever, so it has been so nice to be able to get outside.
We even made it to the park. All of the parks in our neighborhood are still buried in snow, so we went to the duck pond in Layton with our nieghbors.
So because Jackson is pretty much all I blog about, here is a post all about me! As promised, here are some pictures of the bag I made:
It was so fun to make. I love the feeling of accomplishment after taking pieces of fabric and turning them into something you can use and like! I had a bunch of fabric left over and I made a wallet using a pattern my friend showed me online (thanks Cambria). The flowers on the front are already starting to fray, so I am trying to come up with anther way to make them.
It needs some work, but now that I have made one, and taught myself how to install a zipper I am going to try again.
This past Saturday Devon and I "competed" in a team triathlon. We were actually on different teams but we both did the swimming leg. We were both so nervous which was silly because it was just for fun and we only had to swim 500 yards (10 laps (down and back=one lap)). I actually surprised myself and swam it about a minute and a half faster than I thought I would and ended up finishing 6th out of 30 swimmers.
So there you have it...a post all about me!
