Our Baby Steps: The State Fair and my Birthday

So last Saturday, to celebrate my birthday I took Cailin and one of my best friends Brittany to the State Fair. I hadn't been for a couple of years so I was extremely excited and so was Brittany. As it got closer to Saturday, we would be texting each other different animal noises. When the day finally came, we couldn't have gotten there any sooner! We left around 1pm and were stocked up on water and camera. The weather was perfect and Cailin was sitting in her stroller for the first time without being in her carseat. We went straight to the animals and what did we see first...LEMURS!! Cailin was so fascinated by them. I couldn't get her to peel her sight away. They had two baby lemurs out to pet and Cailin was a bit timid to pet one. But when it came to cows...I had trouble holding when I took her up to get close. All because I was laughing so hard at her excitement and she was moving so much she almost slipped out of my arms. We tried to find the piggies but we didn't seem to find them. The next day we found out we had walked right past them...DOH! We had been there about 3 hours when Cailin decided to throw her bottle out of the stroller and we didn't notice till was too late and that bottle was no where to be found. That's we figured it was time to head home anyways.

Then on Sunday, I had the pleasure of waking up at 6:30am to get ready to pick up my mom at 7:30am so we could drive up to Logan for one of my cousin's mission farewells. My cousin Jacob will be going to Hong Kong!! Wow! Everyone could get over how cute and adorable Cailin was. Right as the sacrament hymn was being announced, I had to take Cailin out for a diaper change. Walking around the building waiting for us to go back in, we found the picture of the Lion and the Lamb lying together. Cailin must have recognized the lamb because she giggled and got all excited. At the luncheon afterwards, I started to worry that Cailin would take away the attention for Jacob. But Jacob would disappear all the time so I didn't worry so much. I was really glad that I decided to go up and spend time with my family. Later, we had cake at my Uncle Lemar's house. And it was my favorite...Cookies n' Cream cake. YUM!