Fat Lips and Full Mouths

Russel fell the other day and got his first fat lip! :(

Showin off how fat it is!

Ooohh, it hurts!

He fell asleep with a biter biscuit in his mouth... it was too cute

Camping! (Kind of)

So we planned this great trip while Ben was off from school to go to the Arches, Bryce Canyon, and Zion's National Parks. We got all ready, and then the day we were supposed to leave, I got sick!!! Oh man...

So when I was feeling better, we decided we'd go somewhere close by. We ended up finding a great spot in the Uinta National Forest up Spanish Fork Canyon and set up camp.

Here's our campsite

Russel loved every minute of it, especially playing with the tinder Dad made

Another view of the campsite, with the river in view. Ben took Russel down to the river, which was moving decently fast and was FREEZING!! Russel didn't care, he wanted to swim and splash in it while our feet were tingling and going numb!

The full perspective

YUM! We cooked foil dinners the first night, which Ben did an amazing job on (I've never had such good foil dinners) and of course we roasted marshmallows, which obviously Russel enjoyed!

When it was coming close to bed time and we were faced with the reality of the night-time cool down and trying to get Russel to sleep in a tent.... we decided to just go home! LOL

Catching Up!

It's been a while, and I have lots of random pictures to catch everyone up with.

In this one Russel pulled a hand mixer with fruit dip on it down on himself. He got the fruit dip in his hair, creating this awesome look. (He thought it tasted pretty good too!)

Here's Russel climbing a fence...

A little higher...

Made it!

How do I get down??!

Lol, we just put him up to the fence and he held on, so we had to create that illusion!

Model Shots and Easter Candy

Russel had a sweet hair-do goin on after his bath one night, so Ben decided to take some pictures... little did we know how ready he is for the Calvin Klein spot in Times Square.

Yeah baby, look like ya just don't care

That's right, stare me down

Show us a little vulnerability... nice

Now give us a flirty smile... perfect!

Gramma Caswell sent Russel some Easter candy. The kid's already hooked on chocolate! I broke off a piece of a chocolate bunny and let him have some, then wrapped it up and put it away. Next thing I knew, he had found it, unwrapped it and broken off another big old piece! Ohhh man.

Here he is trying to shove an entire Cadbury creme egg in his mouth. When we pulled it out, we realized he had bitten straight through it and was sucking out the filling!