$5,000 peanut and other fun

We moved about a month ago. I can't believe how fast it's gone, I feel like we have already lived here for a lot longer. We are so close to everything in the valley, we live right off of I-80, so it only takes 10 minutes to get to downtown, about 30 to Park City, and we are minutes away from several canyons. I had no idea that living in this big city would have so many outdoor opportunities. I guess I have never really been in East Salt Lake much. We like our ward, everyone has been really nice.It's kind of funny, there are families with like 3 generations all here in our ward. People have kids who grow up and move away, then decide they like it here so much that they move back into this ward, and have kids who grow up and do the same thing. There are also mostly older homes, but you'll be driving down a street and all of a sudden there is a huge, gorgeous, new home right next to all these old ones. It's interesting. We have a couple of squirrels that live in our backyard, a bluebird that I see almost daily, quail, doves, hummingbirds. Oh and I can't forget the neighbors annoying dog who barks at us every time we go to our garage. It's been pretty good so far, but it sucks not being able to jump in our car and drive 5 minutes to my parents, or Andrew's. We go down on Sundays for dinner and to visit, so at least we live close enough to do that. Our last day in our old place we ran back down to do some last minute cleaning, I gave Kaden some peanut M&M's to occupy him. That was a mistake, it ended up being a $5,000 peanut! He started crying right before we locked up and headed to our new place, then he choked, spit out some bits of a peanut and started coughing. On the way home, about 15 minutes or so later, he started making a wheezing sound every time he would breathe. We decided to wait until morning (it was about 10pm) and see if it had gone away. Well, it didn't so we ended up in the ER at Primary Children's all day! Needless to say don't give toddlers peanuts, or anything else hard to chew until they are a little older and have all of their molars!

Here he is post surgery. He was actually fine and pretty happy-then when I pulled out the camera he started crying . I guess no nap and then being sedated for 30 minutes and woken up would make me ornery too. He had to have a bronchoscopy, poor little guy. I'm just glad he is OK. Andrew had 2 weeks off in between quitting work and school starting, so we did lots of fun stuff. We went to the Tracy Aviary:

Millcreek Canyon

Andrew found an army ant nest, and Kaden was enjoying whapping the ants with a stick in that first picture. Airplane ride in the park

Porcupine in East Canyon

A few nights later, we drove back up East Canyon, and this moose ran out right in front of us. It stopped to get a drink so we were able to get some pictures of it.

Thanksgiving point has $2 Tuesdays in August, so we fought the crowd and took Kaden to the dinosaur museum since we have never been. He LOVED it!

Wheeler Farm

This picture is kind of creepy, the two glowing things are moose eyes. I don't know why our flash was not working very well. We were so close to this moose, it was in Millcreek Canyon.

Now that Andrew is in school, our fun has come to a screeching halt. Here is us at our old place

We miss it! :(