We had a few exciting things happen in September this year. We went to an FSA (Families Supporting Adoption) BBQ, Mia had a birthday, Grandma and Grandpa came to visit from Idaho, and we had a fun day with Monty's whole family.
The first weekend in September we went to an FSA BBQ. It was a lot of fun meeting other families who have adopted, are trying to currently, or both. They had a bounce house and Mia absolutely loved it. She would hold on to the netting, jump up and down, and just shout "jump, jump, jump," over and over again. They also had an awesome playground she played on but I didn't get any pictures of that.
I just had to remind her a few times not to bite the netting.
On the 15th Mia had her 2nd birthday. We just had a BBQ with grandparents and with Aunt Trina since she lives with us now.
Last year Mia wanted nothing to do with her cake. This year she still didn't care much for the cake but was definitely a fan of the frosting.
For her birthday Mia got all kinds of fun clothes,
Including an RSL track suit (Monty's family is HUGE soccer fans)
Legos,
A new baby.
And a bunk bed for her babies. This bunk bed my grandpa made for me when I was little and to make a long story short, it just recently found it's way back to me so we cleaned it up a little bit, I got mattresses and made some sheets for it, and now it's Mia's.
After our BBQ Grandpa helped Mia work at learning how to pedal her trike.
Mia enjoys taking care of her new baby.
She just keeps growing and tries to be such a big helper.
The last weekend the month, to celebrate Monty's mom's birthday, the whole family (minus Gina who's in Connecticut) got together and went out to Simpson Springs to go 4-wheeling. I'll admit I was a little nervous as to how Mia would do in the desert all day with no nap and outside her normal routine, but for the most part she did great and we all had a good time...overall.
When we got out there Mia got to go on a little ride with Monty on the 4-wheeler around the camp ground
Mia wasn't too sure at first but ended up loving it.
Mia started her eating early when we got there and never did stop. She used her little camp chair and then made the picnic table bench her table. At least for a little bit, then she realized it was much more fun to run and eat at the same time.
Monty and I left Mia to play with the family and took off exploring on our own on one of the 4-wheelers.
A little while later the big 4-wheeler was back and available so the whole family went out for a ride. I felt much better about this ride over Monty's ride with Mia because Monty could focus on driving and I could hold on to Mia. Mia just sat there looking around and every now and again would say "Weee."
We spent a lot of time just hanging out, talking, enjoying each other's company,
And of course eating.
The longer the day went on the messier Mia got. She didn't mind a bit though.
Nana brought some little water guns so we had a mini water fight going on.
By about 3:30 Mia was pretty tired. She decided to just lay down in the dirt to rest. Silly girl.
By the time we left everyone was exhausted. Mia was enjoying a little nap with Aunt Trina, but that was when the real adventure began.
Sadly the naps didn't last very long. Luckily we were in the back of the caravan on the way to dinner because about a half an hour down the road, Monty's parents truck blew a tire. What I neglected to mention is that when they first got to the campground and got out of the truck they heard a hissing sound and saw a tire going flat so the spare tire was already on the truck when this one blew.
So we emptied out our trunk into the bed of the truck, loaded the first flat tire into our car, I got out and Monty's dad got in and they headed into the big old town of Vernon, UT (population 200) that was 8 miles down the road. Once Matt and Jen realized no one was behind them anymore, they turned around and came back to find the rest of us.
Jen and Sam took the blown tire off.
While the rest of us sat around, supervised, and waited for the tire to come back.
Luckily someone in the tiny town of Vernon was able to put a couple plugs in the tire. They made it back with the tire, got it put back on the truck, and managed to make it the 8 miles to Vernon before to plug came out and the tire went flat again. The wonderful nice family that fixed the tire in the first place let Monty's parents borrow a car to get home and to get a couple new tires and then made the hour and a half trip back to Vernon on Sunday to put the truck back together and get it home.
Kelly was kicked out of the truck and made the rest of the journey back to West Jordan in our car. We didn't stop with everyone else in Vernon seeing as we had an exhausted and hungry 2 year old. Luckily Mia had 2 aunts entertaining her for the ride home.
Unplanned adventures aside, we all had a great time.
