Fishing

I just noticed we were missing a few pictures from Lake Powell so here they are.

Lake Powell 2009

Well, I was going to try and write a long description of the trip and something for each pic, but I've had these pictures uploaded and just sitting here for a week. Rather than getting further behind, I'm posting without descriptions so family and friends can see the pics. It was a lot of fun and the kids LOVED it. They were good the whole week and my highlights were fishing and having every Kaylee and Austin catch their first fish ever and all by themselves. It was a very proud moment for me. Especially since Austin caught his with his brand new handy dandy Spiderman fishing pole. Kaylee caught hers on one of Grandpa Rigby's old fishing poles that I used when I was a little kid and fishing with him. What a great trip!

Pioneer Day Weekend

I was doing good there for a while and then started getting behind again. Not this time! I'm keeping up and after I get pics downloaded for the start of school we should be good. I think this is the last blog about this summer I have so let's get to it!

Pioneer Day (July 24th) in Utah is a huge holiday. It's basically like a second 4th of July. Fireworks, barbecues, rodeos, parades, everything. We didn't go to any parades, but had a fun day as a family and decided we wanted to go camping. We were going to head somewhere, but kept hearing about tons of campgrounds being full in the valley. So we decided to just have a campout in our backyard. We have a tent, but not near big enough for our family so we were going to borrow one from Jess' parents. Then we thought we should do S'mores, but we don't have a fire pit. Jess' parents have a portable fire pit and I thought we could borrow that too. Well, instead of running to their place, loading that stuff up, setting up in our backyard and running it all back the next day we decided to just go hang out with Jess' parents, and her sister and her husband. They loved it because nobody else came over for the holiday and they were trying to figure out what to do.

So we made the event fun and had a barbecue. It was great! The kids were so excited and loved trying to help me and Jess set up the huge tent in her parent's backyard. Then my father-in-law and I wanted the fire pit up on the deck, but didn't want to harm the wood so we built a temporary platform with a bunch of bricks and it worked great.

The funny part of the night for me was when I started to make a traditional boy scout fire with some newspaper, kindling and firewood. I got the newspaper in there and went to go find a hatchet or something to split up a piece of wood to make kindling. When I got back my father-in-law had stacked the wood like a tipee and doused it with gasoline. Well, from previous bad experiences it's not the best thing to just have uncovered newspaper in a fire when it's a little windy and I've never been a fan of the 'fire water' practice. I grabbed the kids and moved them to safer quarters inside the house. The match was thrown and BOOM! We had a HUGE fire roaring on the deck and my mother-in-law started freaking out. Then to make it worse the newspaper started flying out and floating across the yard or onto the deck! My mother-in-law was so worried it was going to catch something else on fire! I was just laughing because I knew that was going to happen. Then I turned to everyone and said 'Watch, Mark will come in and blame it on the newspaper'. No more than 30 seconds later he comes in and the first thing he said was 'I think our problem was that newspaper'. Everyone busted up laughing. They told him I had called it and he thought it was pretty funny too.

Well, after the newspaper had stopped flying everywhere and the flame was down enough and burned off enough of the gas so that we could get within a few feet of the fire, we finally got down to business with the S'mores. It was great. We even tried a new combo where you use Reese's pb cups instead of straight chocolate. Very tasty.


Austin needed a haircut and so we decided to go with a mohawk just for the day. Grandpa thought it was pretty silly......as did Austin.



Austin was loving the S'mores and kept begging for s'more S'mores. Oh, and if you're wondering what he's eating, we also tried chocolate covered graham cookies instead of the separate graham and chocolate. Very good.


Kaylee loved being able to do her own marshmallows.




Time for the fireworks! Jess' sister and husband went to pick up some fireworks for the evening and I have to say they did a great job. The final two were some of the best 'legal' fireworks I've ever seen. Notice the plywood under the fireworks? Ya, they had just refinished the street and my father-in-law was worried about us leaving marks on the street. So every now and then I'd throw one down the street a little ways after lighting it when he wasn't looking. All of a sudden it would go off and he would be like 'Hey! Not on the street! Don't leave any marks!'. We all got a good laugh out of it.


The 'Superheroes' with their sparklers.


We loved the big tent. The kids were asleep in a matter of minutes while Jess and I had a very long night on bumpy ground and loud rain pounding on the tent. I wish I was a kid again.


We got home the next day and Austin was exhausted. He just crawled up on the couch and covered up. He was asleep in a few minutes and I think he stayed there for an hour or so. What a cute kid.


The next night the kids wanted to camp again, but we told them instead of camping we'd have a picnic in the family room. They picked to have a breakfast dinner (which is one of our families favorites) and they loved being able to sit in the family room while eating their dinners and watching a movie as a family.


Did you notice Austin's mohawk was gone in that last picture? Ya, he got the complete buzz after his little nap on the couch. Now we're growing one out again for our Lake Powell trip. Pictures to follow!

Randomness Summer 09

Here is round two of random pics. This spans from the end of May until about the end of July. Just getting some more pics up for family and friends. It's been a busy summer and the kids just keep growing way too fast.

This is one of the 4 owls that are camping out in grandma Rigby's huge trees. They were amazing to see and so big. The kids were amazed by them and just kept staring. I personally love owls too and thought they were pretty awesome.




While up in Lewiston we decided to run by and see grandpa's headstone. It was the first time we were able to see it. One of the greatest men I've ever known.


Kaylee loved having grandma and grandpa Price in town in May. She couldn't get enough of him.


Jess is a donut fanatic. This is what she wanted for her birthday.


Kaylee got to be part of a class presentation about what she liked to do. She loves helping Jess bake and cook so she talked about that. She was so excited to get dressed up and talk about it. I wasn't able to be there, but Jess was and said Kaylee did a great job.








Kaylee's kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Bishop.


Austin and his best bud/cousin, Nate.


Scooter time!


Kaylee with her little hip move again. Seriously. Where does she get that from?


I just thought this pic was funny. Everyone has a face going on. Austin looks like he's wanting to rock out. Carter is just somber while sporting his cool shades. Jess is either doing a pouty face because of Carter or flirting with me through the camera. I'll go with the later one because she's looking mighty fine. lol!


I got up and made the kids Mickey Mouse pancakes one morning. They love them! You can kind of see Kaylee's still, but Carter's already started downing his mouse. He's a pancake monster.


Austin has been begging for a while to 'cut my hair like daddy'. Well, it's summer and he's a sweaty boy so we gave it a shot. I love it and so does he. What a stud.


How can you not love this guy and just want to kiss him all over? He's such a funny kid.


Looks like Kaylee got a hold of the camera for a while. Ha! Hilarious.


Totally random. Jess letting the kids rock out on the counter one day.


We had a family night with the Robinson Clan at the American Fork Rec Center one Monday. The kids had a blast.






Carter came in and wanted to sit with me one Saturday afternoon. I had been cleaning or something and sat down for a break and watch some sports. Carter got right up with me and just sat there and watched for about 15 minutes. Jess just wanted to capture the moment. Can you see the little tear of happiness in my eye?


Jess has been an exercising machine the last 8 months or so and Carter loves to copy her when she gets home from her walk/run.


My brother-in-law's little brother is serving as a missionary in our area so we've been able to see him several times over the last two years. He leaves to go back to Va. in a couple months and he was finally able to come over to our house for dinner one night. I've known this kid since he was about 5. Had to capture the moment so we did a classic MySpace pose.


Carter using all his strength, and facial expressions, trying to get a cap off a marker. I think Jess is trying to help. Ha! :)

Happy 4th!

I'm almost caught up! So now on to the 4th of July. We made our yearly migration up to Lewiston, Utah to keep with tradition. It was a bit weird with grandpa not being there for the first time, but it was still fun. We loved being able to see grandma and playing with Uncle Ed, Aunt Cathy and some of the cousins.

This is us getting ready to say the Pledge of Allegiance as Uncle Ed raised the flag. I was able to lead everyone this year.


Kaylee loves being with the girls. There were several more that had not showed up yet, but they all played together really well. Here they were waiting for the parade to start.


Austin and Carter were all about playing with 'snaps'










I love this pic of Carter and I.


The kids after the parade. They are starting to get a bit tired from being up so early for the fireman's breakfast. The fun was just starting though.


Carter loved the teeter totter at grandma's and made this face every time he went up. We couldn't stop laughing.


Kaylee and Austin were in hog heaven hauling Ben and Cort around in the John Deere at Uncle Ed's.


Austin loved Uncle Ed's cows. I love this pic of the boys. Carter didn't get much closer unless I was with him....


...even when Austin tried to coax him over.


Austin couldn't resist getting in with the cows.


Carter's cute, innocent face with a real nice bruise. No, we didn't beat him. He had a little fall on grandma and grandpa Robinson's stairs 5 minutes before leaving to Lewiston the day before. Poor guy.


The boys watching anxiously as Uncle Ed got the fireworks ready.


Let the show begin! I'm still a kid...right?


Brooks, me and Austin. Three peas in a pod that night.


Carter was a trooper this day. Woke up super early and was good basically all day. He wasn't even really scared of the fireworks as long as he had his chair and cookie.

Scuba snacks anyone?

While in St. Martin Jess, her dad and I decided to do some scuba diving. Jess and I were pretty stoked since it had been a while and we love doing it. We were also going to a place called Shark Hotel and we were really, REALLY wanting to see a shark on this dive. Luck wasn't on our side and someone was already there diving so we couldn't go there. We were able to dive a shipwreck though and another maze of coral tunnels. The cool thing is there was a professional photographer that dove with us so we were able to get a bunch of pics. Really glad since we saw some cool things and......'the ray'. You'll see. :)
Ooooooooh........barracuda!













"THE RAY"

Jess and her dad touching the ray with me coming up from behind. I was coming to pet it, but Mark decided he wanted to see it swim so he grabbed it's wing and gave it a gentle nudge.....

....and it worked. Still wish I could have petted it though. Jess said it was pretty slimy. A lot more slimy than she expected. Maybe it needed a bath.

Space Cowboys (and girls)

After the cruise we had an entire day in Florida to kill since we got off the cruise ship early in the morning and our flight wasn't until 4pm. So we decided to take a VIP tour of Kennedy Space Center. The highlight, and lowlight, of the visit was the Space Shuttle Atlantis was supposed to land there while we were visiting. The lowlight is they said it was too cloudy and had to reroute it to Edwards Air Force Base. Apparently they REALLY don't like doing that since it costs 2 MILLION dollars to get it back over to Cape Canaveral. Holy rocket boosters! It was a great experience though and we learned a lot and saw some really sweet things. Including gators. :)





They always have one shuttle on standby when another is up in space in case a rescue mission is needed. This is the Space Shuttle Endeavor reading and waiting.

The largest one story building in the world. There are huge doors on the side that can open up high enough to roll the Statue of Liberty right into the building. Wow.

Cruisin' it

Loving the drills

Hmmmm, maybe loving it a bit too much. We were just all so giddy to be on the boat!

Took this the first night we were there. Super nice outside and it was pretty awesome.

The view from our lounge chairs in Cococay Bay, Bahamas. It's a little private island with 55 residents that's owned by Royal Caribbean.



A ray we saw swimming along the edge of the shore. I tried to get closer, but it was too fast.

There's the entire island. Not very big. While there we did a sea kayak trip and saw starfish over a foot in diameter, lots of fish, conks and sea mucus. Yep, mucus. It was pretty gross. Looks and feels like snot, but lives in the ocean. Funky.

Hitting the town on our first formal night. I can say 'town' since that's basically what we were. 4500 people living close together with shops and entertainment all around us.

She's a hottie. :)

One of the many towel animals that greeted us as we returned to our room at night.

St. Thomas as we pulled into port. It was a great place with super nice people. We went on a catamaran ride and snorkeled in a bay. We got to see a lot of new things like a barracuda, rays and squid that changed color and swam in formation! We also saw a little sea turtle and tons of colorful fish.



It was a big boat.

Just a little side street full of shops.

The ray.

The mouse?

They celebrated my birthday while on the cruise. Yep, the whole ship. lol! Just kidding. They brought out a beautiful dessert that was tempting that I didn't even take a pic before diving in. Oops.

WOWSERS! No wonder out kids are so dang good looking.

We were in a happy place. :)

Inside the boat at night.

The second formal night.

The monkey.

The monkeys. They will probably kill me for putting this on here. Ha!

They wanted me to take a pic in my black tux with blackjack in my hands. My name is Price......Seth Price.

Mark couldn't resist my bootyliciousness.

Baby got back!!!!!

This is in the hot tub that stuck out over the edge of the boat. We are literally sitting about 100 feet above the water.

The last night with our waiters, Faruk and funny guy.

NYC baby!

We had just gotten out of the van that took us to our hotel in Time Square. Had to capture the moment.

Times Square right outside our hotel.

Below are several pics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was the first place we went and I've wanted to go there forever. Could have spent days in that place. Couldn't believe I was actually seeing the paintings I had spent many hours studying through college.













We decided to do a rickshaw ride around Central Park. It was HUGE! We didn't get to see all of it, but loved everything we saw. Could have spent days there too. Can I just buy a huge piece of land and have it be like Central Park in my backyard? Is that too much to ask?

Jess' dad was having a little too much fun. :)

The FRIENDS fountain!





Jess, me and her mom at the Top of the Rock(efeller). We had just finished seeing Jersey Boys as you can tell by my playbill. LOVED IT! Some crude language, but the music was great. Totally forgot that Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons sang so many great songs.

Times Square at night.

Times Square at night again. It was probably about midnight and the place is still jumping. We were exhausted and went to sleep, but in the morning...

...we saw Tom! Tom is one of our oldest and best friends. We were roommates in college and he's currently a chef in NYC.

The flat iron building

Empire State Building

Madison Square Garden

Wall Street

New York Stock Exchange

Rockafeller Plaza

The U.N.

Chrysler Building (one of my favorites).

Lady Liberty. She a good looking lady.

She's even better looking at night. Since she wears a gown and it's at night, does this mean she's in her nightgown? Oh my. I'm a bit embarrassed now that I took a pic of her. This was taken on our dinner cruise one night. It was awesome. I thought I had more pics, but the boat had an all glass, dome shaped ceiling so that it felt like you were just sitting on a big open boat, but you were covered. It was nice since it rained just a little while on the cruise. The food was great also.

The Empire State Building and Chrysler building. Sorry the pics aren't the best. We need a new camera.



I could totally take Yao.

Since I'm such a kid at heart we HAD to go to F.A.O. Schwartz while in NYC. It wasn't like I thought it would be. I remember it differently in movies so I was a little disappointed, but it was still amazing. On the other hand, the Apple store was right outside and it was AWESOME! Can't believe we don't have a pic of it. Wait, I'm getting one from the internet and putting it on here.

Darth Lego

Yep, we played chopsticks.



Jelly Belly toy soldier.

The oustide of the Apple store at night. It's a huge glass box that you walk into and then go down a glass spiral staircase.



The spiral staircase and inside of the Apple store. It was actually pretty crowded and had tons of tables with Apple products on all of them for you to test out and play with. It really was MY candy store.

Randomness Spring09

This will be one of the few posts I do to just catch up on random events or pictures in our lives that don't really go with anything else. This is what you have to do when you're about 4 months behind.

Yep. She makes her daddy very proud. Found her like this one morning. Brought a tear to my eye.

Kaylee was so excited to take her school to lunch to practice for 1st grade next year. She can't wait to be able to eat in the cafeteria and is especially looking forward to Wednesdays. That's pizza day.



Yep, those are our boys. As you saw before, Kaylee can have a basketball in her bed and sleep sound enough that it stays next to her and she even stays covered up. She's just a peaceful sleeper. The boys on the other hand.....well, you can see for yourself. You can basically expect them to be in some weird position every night. I even walked into their room one night to check on Carter and Austin fell out of his bed while I was in the room. He slowly crawled back up (barely) and went back to sleep. Kind of like it was a nightly routine. Who knows. Maybe it is!

I got Jess 6 dozen roses for Mother's Day this year. One dozen for every year she's been a mom. Kaylee helped with a picture and a piece of paper in front of each vase. She thought it looked nice.





Just showing I still have it in me to blow out 33 candles at once!

Kaylee is a great helper at cleaning and organizing things.

Carter was Austin's shadow while they helped us clean the house.

Once again, Carter is Austin's shadow.

This isn't just for people to see us, but more to see what's going on behind us. We didn't know until we looked at the picture. Little booger picker!

Carter found a microphone and decided to entertain us....for the next week.

Austin has become very independent and loves when it's time to brush his teeth. He actually probably brushes them better than the other two.

Austin's field trip

Okay, so I'm going back again and doing Austin's field trip. I honestly don't know when it was since Jess went with him, but it was sometime this past Spring. I know, I'm waaaaay behind. This is basically to help us journal our year so hopefully nobody cares that this is all old news. Still new pics though, right?



This is one of my favorite pics of the boys. Carter always loves to do whatever Austin is doing.





McKaylee has always been a bit timid around animals of any kind, but Austin is a bit more brave. He had a great time at the farm.

How time flies

Okay, so Jess and I are doing a pretty horrible job at this blogging thing lately, but I'm about to make it up to you. I have a bunch of pictures and will leave a few comments, but not many. A picture is worth a thousand words, right? If so, I'm about to spew out about a million. :)

We'll start with Kaylee's birthday.....back in April. I know, it's a long time ago, but I have to share some pics.

She loved her new hat and I think it looks pretty dang cute myself.

This was at Grandma and Grandpa Robinsons. We were singing Happy Birthday and she got this little shy face kind of like she was wondering what to do while all the attention was on her. I love her little smirk.

She was a little excited about her new scooter. Just a little.

It was all about High School Musical this year. I have been informed by Kaylee that Troy is 'sooo cute'. Oh brother. It begins.



She really enjoyed having all her friends and cousins over for her party.

Now onto some random pics from the past couple of months.

We just love this pic of Carter asleep in the car. He just looks so content and peaceful.

Apparently Kaylee thought it would be funny to eat her breakfast in Carter's high chair.

Carter is our pancake/waffle monster. He can eat those things like they are going out of style!

Not exactly sure what this one was for, but Kaylee loves this outfit. This was before I asked her to 'strike a pose' and.....

...this was after. Seriously took her one second to pop that hip out. Jess and I just busted up laughing.

Just the kiddos on the couch.

Kaylee getting ready to kick off with her friend, Brianna, at her soccer game.

She wouldn't stop looking at the camera as she was running off the field. Cheeeese!

Okay, so I thought I had the next pictures ready, but I guess not. Next post to be coming soon called Big Apple, Big Boat and Big Rockets...OH MY!

Austinisms

This was the chat I had with Austin today while getting ready for work.

Austin: Are you getting ready for work?
Seth: Yep
Austin: To work at the temple? (I helped with parking at the open house on Friday)
Seth: No
Austin: Your real work?
Seth: Yep
Austin: Why?
Seth: So I can make money
(long pause)
Austin: Cause sometimes we waste it?
Seth: (snicker) Ya, sometimes
(another pause)
Austin: Like on happy meals?

I couldn't help but laugh and give him a hug. What a great way to start the day. I love that kid.

THIS IS AWESOME!!!

Okay, so I came across a friends blog that had this link to a website (http://www.directhomefind.com/dream-home/) where you answer a few questions and it will basically tell you what kind of house is your dream home and give you a little snipet of the blueprints. I thought it was a bit hokey, but I gave it a shot. Boy was I ecstatic with the resutls! This definitely is the perfect home for me all the way from the GNC kitchen to the Chocolatessen (still trying to figure out how they knew I loved chocolate AND health food) to the on-call masseuse or the study with sports magazines. How did they know I'm a fantasy sports fanatic?!?!!? I'm not totally sold on owning a Hummer, but I'm not going to turn one down either. I have several other cars I'd buy before one of those. The movie theater and hedge maze in the yard are pretty sweet though. Along with the trophy room. I don't have any, but if I had enough money for all of this it would turn into my UNC sports memorabilia room. :) Take a look and see if this house isn't me. Thanks Bonnie and Joel!!

Your home is a Athlete's Manor Your kitchen is actually a GNC franchise, though all you really need are your Power Bars and Red Bulls. There's a Chocolatessen, which is rapidly becoming your favorite room of the house. Having one is also becoming a trend among your wealthy neighbors. Your master bedroom has an on-call masseuse and sports therapist. Your study has current issues of Sports News & Sports Illustrated, marked with a highlighter for better preparing your fantasy sports league. One of your garages houses your Hummer, and others contain your H2, and H3... with room for an H4, if they ever invent one. Your home also includes a guest wing and private quarters for your servants. Your guests enjoy your home theater with 37 different sports channels. Outside is your hedge maze and gardens, meticulously tended by a team of world-class botanists. Below is a snippet of the blueprints:

Real Estate

EASTER

Kaylee and her High School Musical egg. She thinks Troy is soooo cute.

Austin rocking out on his air guitar.



Carter crying when we took the eggs away. He was throwing them all over the family room. And yes they were real.



Getting ready for church.



Of course I have to pick a color for the whole family.

Austin was so excited it was warm enough to wear shorts.


The Hunt is on.






My cute little man.

Trips, quotes and prayers

So I’ve been wanting to write lately for a few reasons. One, we are taking a trip to NYC and then a Caribbean cruise in the next couple of months and we are trying to decide what to do while in NYC. We will be there three days, but neither Jess or I have ever been. We have some friends that live there and a lot of friends who have been so any input would be greatly appreciated. I’m looking more for something that the usual ‘tourist’ might not know about. Something off the beaten path.

I’ve also wanted to start sharing some quotes from our kids because they just seem to be so funny lately. Probably more so to us than anyone else, but I still want to share. One a while back was a discussion at the dinner table where Kaylee had just been the Kinder Star Student at school. Austin was about to be the Star Student at preschool and Kaylee was trying to figure out what it should be called.

Austin: I’m going to be star student at school daddy
Kaylee: No, you’re going to be the kinder star student
Austin: No, just the star student
Jess: If you are the ‘kinder’ star student because you’re in kindergarten then what would Austin be?
Kaylee: (thinking……..) preschool star student? No, the ‘pre’ star student
Austin: No, the four star student. I’m four now.

Guess he thought she said the ‘three’ star student. It was pretty funny for us because Austin was so matter of fact about it. Austin has also been doing really good at his prayers lately, but tends to rush sometimes. He’s started to combine the word ‘and’ with whatever word is at the end of each sentence, drag it out a bit and then have a pause while he thinks. His prayer last night went something like this….

“Bless us to be safeannnd……bless us to have a good day tomorrowannnd…….bless us to be healthyannnd……..bless kaylee to feel betterannnd……bless us to be happyannnd……” You get the picture.

Anyway, those are my thoughts for today. Not the greatest, but at least something. More thoughts (hopefully deeper) will come shortly.

The kids

Well I haven't been very good at taking pictures lately. Probably because nothing very exciting is going on around here. Here are a few moments that have been captured in the last couple of weeks.

Carter just hanging out watching TV. He is totally enthralled by Baby Einstein.
Here he is jumping on the bed and playing the piano.
McKaylee's self portrait
Some cute kids
Digging in the dirt
Gross. Is that dirt on my hand?
Oh well, I guess I'll just get dirty.
My partners in crime.

Great day!

I know. You may be a bit shocked now. Hopefully you’ve picked yourself up off the floor and realized that yes, I really have done two posts in two days. There’s good reason behind it though. Well, more than just the fact that I actually enjoy the release blogging brings me and I’d like to do it more for my own selfish reasons. I’m also writing again today because it was one of my favorite days of the year. Even though the day seemed to drag on longer than a dance recital (you know what I mean), the best part was when I left work to grab some lunch and I had to roll down my window because it was too warm in the car. There is just something about being able to roll down your window again without having your ear freeze off or seeing your own breath. I’m not sure what the temperature was, but it was warm enough to roll down the window and that’s all that matters. It was sweet bliss to feel the breeze against my hairless head, crank up some tunes and enjoy the time that was available before it inevitably snows again. Probably tomorrow.

Quick update

So Jess is off with her mom, sister and sister-in-law scrapbooking something together and I just got the kids down to bed a while ago and surfing the net. Figured this was as good a time as any to give a quick update of what's been going on around here. This past weekend was pretty uneventful except for when we went to some friends house on Friday night and played Guitar Hero World Tour (I totally rocked the Beastie Boys 'No Sleep 'Till Brooklyn) while the kids played with each other. Well, at the end of the night when we were hoarse from singing and laughing we gathered up the kids and Austin's eye was pink and goopy. We get him home and sure enough, it's pink eye. Well, we've been lucky it hasn't spread to anyone else. I had it as a kid and it was the worst! My eye was always hurting and extra goopy. I'm not talking little eye boogers here. I'm talking full scale assault on my eye. I couldn't open then in the morning because they were caked. Nasty and probably a little too graphic for some, but that's how it was. I'm so thankful Austin hasn't had that. He said they hurt some, but that's about it. So he's missed church, preschool and not been able to go to the daycare so far, but he's doing a lot better and it's almost cleared up. That's about it for this post. Sorry it wasn't more exciting. I really will try to do better and get more pics up soon.

Happy Valentine's Day

About the only way Austin will give anyone a kiss these days is if he has these fake lips in his mouth. They thought they were pretty fun to play with. I think they thought their mom was crazy when she asked them to give each other a kiss.

Carter giving his webkinz some good loves.

Kaylee had silly glasses day at school. These are the ones she picked.

Seth and Jess at a Jazz game. It was pretty awesome to sit in a suite. I think we gained 5 pounds though. So much for the diet.

All bundled up to go outside in the freezing cold. Do you like the socks on his hands???

Sledding, Sledding, and more sledding.

The Happiest Place On Earth

The title and these pictures tell the story. We had so much fun on our trip to Disneyland.
McKaylee and Austin were running to the hotel room.


McKaylee's face when she saw the castle.





The kids were worn out. We don't even know what Austin was doing in his sleep.

Hello stranger.

Well, once again it's been a while. It's the day before New Year's Eve and I was thinking about goals and resolutions for the upcoming year. I'm a big goals guy. I may not reach all of them when I want, but if I hadn't set them in the first place I wouldn't even be close to achieving them. If that challenge is in front of me then it drives me a little more. Anyway, one of my goals is to do better with our blog. My parents are out here visiting for the holidays and they said they miss seeing pics of the kids. Nope, not me or Jess, but the grandkids. I feel kinda bad depriving them of our children's beauty so I'm back on the wagon. I will be blogging on a much more regular basis. Thanks to all of you who continually check our blog just to find the same post time after time. I hope to bring more joy to your lives when you actually visit our blog and you see something different. Not that the blog itself will be entertaining or worthwhile, but at least it will be different than the same picture of Carter drinking a bottle with his feet up on his high chair. It's cute, but you can only take so much cute, right? Okay, I'm off to work again and will be gathering thoughts, goals and pictures to add in the next day or two. Talk to you soon!!!

Carter, Carter, Carter...and some

Carter eating his bottle with his feet up.

We're finally starting to crawl. Only 11 months old, but who's counting?

Carter found a new favorite toy. Daddy is so proud.

All the kids playing together.

Carter standing...kind of

I left the kitchen for a minute, and when I came back every cupboard and drawer was opened. That's Kaylee for you.

Kaylee ready for soccer practice.

Mommy and Austin

Daddy and Kaylee

Who's ready for snow? My kids are. They were asking to go play in the snow from the second they woke up and saw it outside.

Who's ready for Halloween? Again...my kids are!!!

1st time for everything

Austin's first day of preschool. He was so excited to bring the sharing bag

Kaylee's first soccer game. I think she was more concerned about her uniform than she was about the game.

She bounces more than she runs.

Austin started karate. He loves doing this move right here.

Cute Carter

Kaylee and Austin patiently reading and waiting for mom and dad to get ready for church

Lounging on the couch with Grandma

Kaylee and Austin pretending to play the drums

Carter had his own drum, or tupperware that he was banging on his highchair.

Pretty cute kids if I do say so myself. I might be a little biased.

Going Private

Well, it seems to be what a lot of my friends are doing lately and I think we're to that point also. We're setting our blog to private soon and wanted to let everyone know. If you'd still like to be able to view our blog, please send me an email at sethdouglasprice@yahoo.com. I'll keep it public for one more week so hopefully all our friends/family see this beforehand. We'll go private next week sometime. I think you can still ask for permission to see the blog after it goes private, but I still wanted to give everyone a heads up. Hope everyone is doing well.

Enjoying the sunshine

Since this warm weather is almost a thing of the past, I thought I'd post the rest of our pictures from the summer. Maybe if we didn't take so many pictures, I wouldn't feel like we were always behind on blogging. Well here we go...
Kaylee doing Aunt Liza's hair for her...she's already following in her mothers footsteps.

Carter had his first ice cream sandwich. He wouldn't let me pull it away for a second. HE LOVED IT!

Austin has a habit of walking around the house in the middle of the night. We usually call out from the comfort of our own bed, "Austin get back in bed." He just goes back into his room and closes the door and gets back in bed. One morning this is what we walked into. He must have remade his bed in the middle of the night...on the floor.

We went out on the boat while Heath and Liza were here. We had a great time and here are a few pics from that trip.



Austin really wanted to drive the boat.



Grandpa and the boys

Seth trying to get a hummingbird to land on his finger



How cute are they?

Thanks to Becca for capturing these moments. She is the one who took the last 5 pictures.

Austin was sooooo ready to go to preschool. This is right before his preschool orientation.

Kaylee keeps saying she wants a baby sister. Here she is going for second best. Just dress up your brother as a girl. You can only imagine how much Seth loves this picture. Well that's all for now, but keep checking in. Seth has been so busy, so I have decided the only way to catch up is to do these pictures myself. Then I saw his 101 blog and I think he has entirely too much time on his hands. What should I ask him to do around the house???

New pics

Jess added some new pics to a post she started a couple days ago, but it was put underneath the last two posts. We just didn't want our family and friends to miss out. Scroll down or click here.

101 things that make me Seth

So I have a friend that just did this and I thought it was pretty interesting. If you don't know me, you're about to and if you do know me, well, you're probably going to learn more than you wanted. So let's do this!



1. I'm a chocoholic. I LOVE CHOCOLATE! I have to have some every day or I get a little bit grumpy. It doesn't have to be fancy or anything. Just good ol' milk chocolate usually does the trick.
2. I'm a pretty shy person. People who don't know me in high school usually don't believe it and people in h.s. can't believe I talk as much as I do now. I still have a hard time though.
3. I get choked up easily. Certain things cause it more than others. Movies. Thinking about something happening to my family. My daughter's wedding day.
4. I'm a book fanatic. I love books. I want a large library in my house someday with hundreds or thousands of books. I'll read what I can, but I just like having them.
5. I love flying. I used to love flying during college because it was just me and I can sit at an airport and people watch all day long.
6. I love fishing, but don't do it near enough. Doesn't matter where. Streams, ponds, lakes or ocean. I love the fight and when they're not biting I love the sitting around, relaxing, thinking and eating part.
7. I believe in soulmates. Doesn't have to do with love, but can be about two people just having a connection and be great friends.
8. I love singing in the shower. It just always sounds better there.
9. I have a pair of University of North Carolina basketball shorts that one of my best friends gave me over 10 years ago and I've probably worn them over 1000 times easily. They still look pretty new.
10. I love my buzzed head and wish I would have done it back in college.
11. If I had one wish it would either be that I could go back to the age of 8 with the knowledge I have now and do things over or to be able to see at least one day into the future at all times.
12. I enjoy all kinds of music. Well, almost. I can't take the super hard metal, but almost anything else. Pop, Rock, Rap, Country, Classical, Bluegrass, etc. Whatever mood I'm in determines what I listen to.
13. I love the early mornings. The world is just quiet and still and you can get a lot of things done. The sunrise is pretty nice too.
14. I love sports and my favorite teams are UNC (college bball), Va. Tech (college fball), Washington Redskins (NFL), L.A. Lakers (NBA) and Braves, Mets and Red Sox (baseball). I'll cheer for a lot of other teams, but those teams first.
15. The Discovery Channel is awesome! I like most shows on there.
16. I've had lots of different jobs. Lawn mower, Bagger, Stocker. Asbestos Removal Prep Guy, Residential Construction, Commercial Construction, Telemarketer (sorry), Wal-Mart store set-up, Substitute Teacher, Graphic Designer, Realtor and Frozen Foods Manager.
17. I love surprising my family. The planning, build up and surprise are great.
18. I'm VERY goal oriented. This has only been true for a few years, but I have a long list of goals at all times. New Year's resolutions are big to me as you can see. Some people tell me I'll never accomplish them all and it just drives me. Others say they are too far out of reach and I just set myself up for disappointment when I fail. The way I see it, if I fail at least I probably did more than if I had no goal at all and I'll just try harder next time.
19. I'm really self conscious.
20. I'm really competitive.
21. The first things I notice about people are their eyes and smile.
22. I'm a momma's boy and proud of it.
23. I like plays. Jess bought me tickets to The Phantom of the Opera for my first birthday we were together. I wasn't very happy and asked her if she even knew me (even though we were engaged). We went and I loved it. Been to many, many more and my favorite is Wicked. I also LOVE STOMP!!!
24. I love art. Since I was an art major in college it helped, but art history was very hard for me. I don't want to know when they painted it or what underlying meanings there were usually. I just love looking at it and buying it. Some favorite artists are Norman Rockwell, MC Escher, John James Audobon, Christian Riese Lassen, Salvador Dali, James Christensen, and Liz Lemon Swindle.
25. I love the rain and thunderstorms. If it's during a day I can take a nap it's even better. Playing sports in the rain. Running in the rain. Dancing in the rain. Kissing in the rain. It's all great.
26. My first concert ever was with Heidi Frampton and we went to see the Smashing Pumpkins at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
27. One of my favorite memories of childhood was chopping wood with my dad.
28. My wife and I met at Ricks college. We started dating a year after we met. Before that we dated each other's roommates. Ooops.
29. I grew up in the mountains of Virginia and love bluegrass music. Nickel Creek and Jack white are some of my newer favorites, but I love a lot of the old stuff too. Ralph Stanley. Allison Krauss. It's all good.
30. I've lived in 4 states: Virginia, Idaho, California and Utah.
31. I love milk. It's my favorite drink. I probably drink 3 to 4 glasses a day. Still waiting for it to 'do a body good'.
32. I'm a big fan of hugging/kissing. My mom is a hugger so I just grew up with it. I have to hold back some now, but if there is ever anyone that needs a hug, I'm your guy. They are both just so much fun and can make a bad day good and a good day great.
33. My favorite holiday is Valentine's Day. That's the romantic part of me coming out. I love buying stuff for loved ones and planning surprises.
34. I'm not a fan of pets, but I have one that I'm bound and determined to have someday. A pet shark.
35. I don't know hardly anything about cars, but I love them. My favorites right now are BMW, Aston Martin, old hot rods and trucks.
36. I got a 'Dear John' letter while on my mission. By the time I got home she was married and 8 months pregnant.
37. I still keep in contact with all of my college roommates from my first two years of college. They are like brothers and we keep in touch with emails, blogs, fantasy sports and the occasional get togethers when we are close.
38. I have 21 screws in my mouth from a jaw surgery I had at age 17 to fix an underbite. I can still feel some of them through my gums on the top. Freaky. And no, I don't set off any metal detectors.
39. When I shoot 3-pointers I usually click my heels. You can always tell if I'm on or not if I get a good 'click' going.
40. I absolutely love Sportscenter. What's not to love? Sports and whitty comedy. Love it!
41. I want a large cabin someday. I love cabins and would want to spend more time there than at my house.
42. I've already started drawing plans for our next house. We helped design the house we are in right now, but we already have changes we'd make. I love houses and coming up with unique things that would benefit our family or just be plain cool.
43. I don't mind chick flicks. My favorite is The Notebook. Jess has had me watch Steel Magnolias a lot too and it's pretty funny.
44. I'm a romantic even though I don't show it as much as I should. Need to change that.
45. My grandpa is one of my biggest heroes.
46. I have a fear of deep water. If I can't touch the bottom or see the bottom my over-active imagination takes over and it freaks me out.
47. I love playing fantasy sports with my friends and family. From analyzing players and teams to preparing for the live draft and the head-to-head matchups. It's just fun and if anything it keeps us in contact.
48. Scuba diving is awesome. Jess and I got certified about 3 years ago and have only been diving in Hawaii, but plan on doing much more through the years. We are hoping to go somewhere in the Caribbean this spring.
49. I have a bucket list. It's really long, like my goals, but I really want to do all of these things. Right now I'm just hoping to don one a year.
50. I'd love to hold a world record someday. No particular one. Just grab the most recent book, pick one I think I can do and go for it.
51. UNC is my favorite team of any sports, any level. I bleed Carolina blue.
52. I am a True Aggie.
53. I made the Ricks College Contemporary Dance Team. I thought it was going to be more like hip-hop, but it was more like 'pretend to be a leaf being tossed around by the wind'. I didn't stick with it.
54. I'm a huge video game fan, but don't have any systems for that reason. My wife would probably leave me and my kids would never see me.
55. I want to own my grandparent's house someday. It's in a really little town in northern Utah, but they live in an old Mormon church that was built in the 1920's. It has a basketball court, stage, etc. They've renovated the rest to be their home, but it's awesome.
56. I'm related to the Civil War General, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
57. I have 3 kids, McKaylee, Austin and Carter and we're probably not done.
58. I proposed to Jess by making her a book called "151 reasons why I love Jessica Robinson" with handwritten reasons complete with pictures and other sentimental things. I had her look at it on the side of the mountain in Logan as we overlooked Cache Valley. Reason #1 was "For accepting these flowers filled with my love". I gave her a tulip filled with little plastic x's and o's. Then another. And another. Then another, but that one had a small, plastic ring. We had talked about marriage, but I told her I didn't have any money for a ring so it would have to be a small plastic one. When she saw it she laughed some and I gave her another rose. She began to try and look inside it and that's when I got down on my knee. Luckily she said yes.
59. I served a 2 year Mormon mission to Carlsbad, California and loved it.
60. I don't know how to water ski or wakeboard and all my in-laws do.
61. I really like bellybuttons.
62. Jess and I went parasailing this past summer. I was able to cross off something on my bucket list, but my fear of deep water came into play when the driver decided to dip us and leave us there a long time. I swear there was a great white under that water just waiting for me.
63. My wife still amazes and surprises me with her beauty after 9 years of marriage.
64. I have killed a deer while hunting with my dad as a teenager and would like to go elk hunting with him someday.
65. I'd like to learn how to paint. I took a class in college, but it wasn't enough.
66. I really enjoy playing a good game of chess, but can't find people to play with.
67. I was almost bitten by a 4 foot Cottonmouth/Water Mocassin snake when I was about 10 years old. It was a few inches from my ankle in the water. I jumped out of the water and it swam across the water to a hole in the rocks.
68. I've been shot by a bb gun, many, many times.
69. I love a good steak. Some of the best I've had were at Ruby River Steakhouse, Flemings Steakhouse and Texas Roadhouse.
70. I have ideas for personalized license plates I want to have someday, but none of them really belong on a '01 Toyota Corolla.
71. I love cufflinks. My parents gave me my first pair for Christmas this year (UNC ones of course) and I love wearing them. Now I have a wish list of about 10 more that I want. I can see it becoming an addiction.
72. I love wearing a nice suit.
73. I'd love to learn how to fly a helicopter someday.
74. Some of my favorite desserts are Kula Pie (Mama's Fish House on Maui), Big Mountain Chocolate Cake (Black Angus) and warm fudge brownie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top and chocolate syrup/fudge.
75. I love quotes. Inspiring ones are the best. Here are a few of my favorite:
"Imagination is more important than education" - Albert Einstein
"It's better to shoot for the stars and land on the moon than shoot for the moon and land in a pile of crap" -Jace McInelly (mission companion)
"Make it Happen" -Robinson Family Motto (my in-laws)
"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed...every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle...when the sun comes up, you'd better be running." -Successories poster.
76. I'd love to ride LOTOJA someday. It's a one day, 206 mile bike ride from Logan, Utah to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Hence the name LO TO JA.
77. I'd like to compete in some sort of triathlon someday. Maybe not a full Ironman, but at least a spring triathlon.
78. I've had stitches in my knee, head (twice), neck and mouth.
79. I had a full page picture on the cover of a section of the newspaper when I was about 16 talking about soccer. I was a goalie for our undefeated soccer team.
80. I love money and learning about it.
81. One of my nicknames is "Money".
82. I love a sunrises and sunsets. I'd often get up and see the sunrise coming out of the ocean growing up on the east coast and then on my mission in California there were many times I saw it set in the ocean as well. It's just peaceful and calming.
83. I love smells. Especially perfume. I've always had a habit of inhaling after a female walks by just to see how they smell. It's just become a habit and it can sometimes be intoxicating. Many times I've wanted to ask women what perfume they are wearing so I can get it for Jess, but I'm not brave enough.
84. I'd like to write a book someday. Not sure what about.
85. I'm one of the biggest dreamers you will ever meet. Just look at my goals. My overactive imagination takes over and I can outdream anybody. Donald Trump has a book called "Think Big and Kick A**". I have the thinking big part down, it's the second part I've got to master.
86. Growing up I wanted to be a fighter pilot, cartoonist, race car driver or architect.
87. Girls in trucks/jeeps are hot.
88. I have a fascination with wine bottles. I love the artwork on most of them and would love to collect them someday.
89. I enjoy a good Nascar race now and then and hope to attend a live race someday.
90. I love grilling and cooking and wish I had more time to do both.
91. I believe college sports more fun than professional sports.
92. Did I mention I have an over active imagination? It's definitely not a good thing most of the times, but it does help me think big. It also helps freak me out a lot if there is even the smallest seed of doubt. It's tied to me being self conscious, my fear of deep water, etc.
93. I love coins. I have a large jar full of change and love to get change when buying anything.
94. I count everything and they have to be even. If I'm walking sometimes I'll count my steps. I take even amounts of candy or swallows or basketball shots. I count to two before every free throw I shoot. I will countdown any time I'm waiting for a website to load. If it's not done loading by the time I count to ten it's usually not worth it.
95. I love the internet. All the information at your fingertips and tons of stuff to buy. I pride myself on being able to find good deals.
96. I'm a pretty good speller. Give me a word and I can usually get it right. Usually.
97. I'm a huge Michael Jordan fan. Not only did he play for UNC, but he was also the best basketball player ever, has great work ethic, very business savvy and took Nike to where it is today. My daughter's name was almost Jordan Michael Price until Jess realized what I was trying to do. She liked Jordan and she liked Michael as a middle name, but not together. Her middle name is still Michael.
98. My first crush was Christy Stevens from kindergarten to 6th grade. Then I moved and my new crush was Aimee Merrill until I graduated.
99. I only skipped one day of school in high school and that was because my girlfriend was sick and her parent's wouldn't let her stay home. I called the school, acted as her dad and got her excused. Then I called my dad, played sick and he called the school for me. All that work just so I could drive her to my house and get busted by my bishop just as I was pulling into my driveway and then she just slept all day. I was bored out of my mind.
100. I wink at Jess to let her know everything is okay without having to say anything.
101. I'm addicted to Apple products. I have a Mac computer. I have an ipod. I crave an iPhone and am hoping to get a laptop soon.

DONE! FINALLY!!!

Horrible

Yep, that's what I've been at this blogging thing for the past few months. Just plain horrible. My only explanation is that my little bro-in-law left on his mission today. In fact, he's going into the Missionary Training Center in Provo right this very minute. I'm not there because I needed to be at work and said my good-byes last night.

Anyway, since he was leaving we've been doing everything under the sun with the in-laws to share the last few weeks we had with him before he left for the next two years. During that same time period we had a few baby blessings, a baptism, my sister and her family came to visit for almost two weeks and my grandpa passed away. It's been a pretty eventful, emotional, stressful and hectic time. I didn't even talk about work, church, making a video, swim lessons and Kaylee starting kindergarten. These are all things that I plan on catching up on since everything is over now. I think our lives might, just might, get back to somewhat normal. Is that too much to ask for? Normal? You know, like when I go to work and can come home to see my wife and kids and have dinner, play with the family, put the kids down and have some time with Jess? I can't remember the last time that happened, but I'm really looking forward to it. Maybe I can actually take Jess out for our anniversary that was last week.

So be prepared to be amazed at the amount of blogging that takes place in the next week or so. It might surprise you.

More catching up to do

These pics are from the 4th of July. We spent the morning in Logan and then back to our house for fireworks that night.
Carter hanging out in his high chair

Austin and Kaylee loved the fireworks



Seth and Austin went to the demolition derby

Kaylee carries her little brother everywhere. No wonder he is not crawling or walking yet.

Kaylee and Austin did awesome in swimming lessons





And last but not least, Kaylee started Kindergarten. I just can't believe that I have a kid old enough to go to school. SHE LOVES IT, even if her parents aren't quite sure yet.