The Adams Family

2011-01-02T10:20:00.001-08:00

Here are my two adorable boys looking so cute going to church. Of course Jackson wasn't having it but I still made him take a pic. I'm trying to upload these pictures on our new ipad so it might take a little getting used to for me. So if anything looks weird I'm still trying to figure it out!

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The Boys looking Cute

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The Boys looking Cute

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A New Year!

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Summer 2010

2010-07-28T19:12:00.001-07:00

Okay so it's been awhile since I've posted and I'm sorry about that. I haven't really been in the posting mood for some reason but I'm back and I'm excited! We've been doing a lot this summer mostly just hanging and playing but we have been loving the weather and I love being with my boys!
This is Matt drawing with chalk outside. He loves drawing but he always comes inside covered with chalk dust.

This is Tim and I on our anniversary. Its been 7 years I can't believe it! We went out to dinner and to a dollar movie that I've been waiting to see. We had lots of fun and I'm so grateful for my husband everyday! He is truly the best!

This is on one of our visits to Tim's parents house. This is Jackson and Matt with Tim's dad. I thought this picture was cute!

This picture was taken on father's day at my dad's grave. It was an emotional father's day this year but I tried my best to make it special for Tim because he is a great father as well.

I took Matt to his first Rodeo in Lehi and he loved it! He loved the horses, cows, motorcycles, and the bulls. I love being able to do fun stuff with him now that he's a little older.

We also went up to Tim's sister's house and the kids had lots of fun being together!

Matt has recently learned that he can just drop his pants and pretty much go anywhere. I do have to say that his father taught him this. I loved this picture of his cute bum!

This was on the 4th of July we went up to Tim's parents house for a little while and all the kids got in the water and played and had lots of fun!

This is Matt getting ready to watch the Parking Lot of Fire at my mom's house. He loves sitting next to the girls!

This is Matt doing a sparkler right before he burned his hand. Of course even when your sitting there right next to them they can still do that!

We went to Park City for a little vacation and this is us on the Gondola ride. It was fun but I got kind of sick because it was so hot in there!

This is our family at the zoo.

This is Matt getting ready to ride the train. I love this smile on his face what a great kid!

Matt and his Grammy on the Alpine Slide.

This is Cody, Sarah, Ren, and Matt at the Olympic Park.

Matt riding a horse.

Jackson has just been learning how to walk and he is so adorable when he is trying. This is one of the first pictures I got of him standing on his own. He is so proud of himself!

This is the boys at Cabela's looking at the fish.

This was the Lehi City Foam day. Here is Matt, Corbin, and Jackson playing in the bubbles. Matt loved it but the other two boys weren't so sure.

Matt covered in bubbles. We've had a great summer and I have so many more pictures but I can't post all of them. I am really going to try and be better about updating my blog. Until next time....

Jackson's 1st Birthday

2010-04-14T14:01:00.000-07:00

This is a post to Jackson Lee Adams who turned one on April 11. This is a picture of him when h was one day old. I got to do his hair and I thought he looked adorable! After he was born he started having trouble breathing and it was soon learned that he had pneumonia. Two days after he was born he was transferred to Utah Valley hospital and was well taken care of.

Here is little Jackson on oxygen looking so darn cute I can't handle it! I didn't include a picture of him on a respirator with lights on him because of jaundice. He seriously looks so bad so I wanted to put pictures when he started feeling better. This is when he was about a week old.

Just chillin in the NICU!

My little man wearing his dad's hat. He is such a sweet, good boy I am so thankful he is a part of our family.

Seriously looking at his face makes me happy!

Here is Jackson opening up presents on his birthday. It was funny because I was nervous about what he would do. He totally went after his gifts and even though he didn't know exactly what he was doing he had his cousins there to help him!

Jackson getting ready to eat his cake.

This was when we were singing happy birthday to Jackson and he wasn't quite sure what to think.

He did a great job at eating his cake. He got it all over himself but that's why he's naked!

All the grandparents with Jackson. I am so thankful that Jackson is here with our family and for all the joy he brings into my life! I love you Jacks!

New Business

2010-03-20T13:33:00.000-07:00

Well I decided to start a business selling Herbalife products. Many of you may be wondering why I decided to do this and what Herbalife is exactly. Well let me tell you. Since my dad died I have felt awful all the time physically and emotionally. Finally about 3 weeks ago I decided that I need to try to help myself feel better. I wasn't eating a lot because really nothing tasted good and I just have had no energy. So I was looking at something to help me because running around after two boys all day long can get very tiring. So I found Herbalife and its been a great product for me. They have so many different Herbs and Vitamins to help people feel there best. They have a plan that can help you lose weight, maintain your weight, or gain weight. I've just been taking some shakes to help me get the nutrition that I need and some extra vitamins and I feel so much better physically at least. I have honestly not felt this good since my dad passed and it was such a good feeling. So I decided that since I'm feeling so good why not help other people feel good as well? So I signed up to be a distributor and I'm learning all the ropes right now and I'm really enjoying it. So if anyone reading my blog is interested in knowing more information or just wants to pick my brain about health issues that I've learned about e-mail, call, or leave a message on this post. I'm so happy to start feeling better physically it makes me feel like a better mom and a better person. The emotional part will take a lot longer for me to start feeling better but I feel like I've started healing in some ways and other ways of healing will come. Anyway I hope all is well and I'll post again soon about my family. Nothing has really been happening around here I wish I had something to post about!

Fun in February!

2010-03-03T18:18:00.000-08:00

So February was a fun month we did some fun stuff but it went by way to fast! I'm trying to catch up so bare with me! Tim and I had to opportunity to go to the Jazz game with my sister Sarah and her husband Cody. We got to sit on the 5th row and it was awesome! It was even better because the tickets were free! This picture above is us at the game and even though I look horrible I had to prove that we were there! I love going on dates with Tim, we never seem to go on enough of them!

Jackson got his first haircut! This is his hair before he got it cut. By the way i didn't do it before we went to get it cut I didn't see the point!

This is my cute boy after he got it cut! He still has so much hair even after getting it cut but its fun to style so I'm not complaining!

Usually on Tuesdays I'll go down to my mom's house and hang out with my sister Sarah and our kids. All the kids love being together and its nice to get out of the house and hang out with some grownups for a little bit. This is Sarah with Matt, Jackson, and her little boy Corbin. Seriously how cute are they?

Here is Jackson and Matt in the bath. They love taking baths together and its so much nicer to have them take a bath at the same time. I love having these pictures for future generations!

This is Matt's lawnmower but he thinks its a vacuum because its so loud! So he was vacuuming one morning with no pants on and since he hates having pants on I wanted to show him later in life how he really was when he was a child. Every time I try to put pants on him he refuses and since I don't want to fight over something so dumb I just don't care anymore. He does wear pants when we go out of the house so I am thankful for that!

So I let the dogs out one morning and I came back inside and here was Jackson having a great time with the pretzels. He was so cute and innocent I couldn't get mad at him I just had to take a picture.

This was Matt's first fort and he was so proud of it.

Okay this picture is a classic. Matt had to go to the bathroom and he had his sunglasses on so naturally I had to get a picture of it. He is such a fun, cute, smart boy!

Last but not least here is Jackson just hanging out in his room. This shows his cute new front teeth that I love because he had a big gap in the middle of them. He is such a great kid and I'm so grateful that he is a part of our family.

I am doing better then I have been in the last little while. Ever since my dad died I've really been struggling with life in general. Even taking off my makeup and brushing my teeth at night was so hard for me because I just didn't care. But in the last two weeks I've finally started to care about myself again and that is a great feeling! Thanks for all of you who have been there for me and helped me through this very difficult time in my life. I don't know what I would do without my family and friends they are everything to me!

Finally Christmas Pics!

2010-01-27T20:00:00.000-08:00

So its taken forever to get my Christmas Pictures up because I got a new camera for Christmas and thought I lost the cord to put the pics on the computer and I just found it tonight so I'm pretty happy. Well Christmas was good but very hard this year without my dad. I tried to make the best of the situation but I wanted to break down many times. On Dec 23rd Matt and I tried to make a gingerbread house and we got it to stand for about 2 mins and then it was done. We had lots of fun and got really messy making it. I love Matty so much and I'm so grateful everyday that he is a part of our family!

On Christmas Eve we went to my dad's grave and sang Christmas songs with my Aunt Diane's family. This is my dad's headstone and the Chips and Fries in the corner are because those are my dad's favorites and Tim thought he would enjoy those rather then flowers.

Here is Tim, me and Matty in front of my dad's grave. Jackson was in the car, it was so cold outside that we didn't want him to get sick. I'm hoping that we make this a family tradition to sing Christmas Songs every year at my dad's grave. He loved singing Christmas songs at the hospital and we thought this would be a great way to honor him.

After we went to the cemetery we ate dinner at my mom's house and watched some old Christmas movies when we all lived back in Maryland. I only lived there until I was 6 so it was fun watching all of us when we were so young. Afterwards we all went to the hospital and sang some Christmas carols to about 5 people. It always touches my heart every year I get to do this because I just think about if I was in the hospital and how nice it would be for people to come sing to me. Most of the people are so grateful. This is a picture of my Aunt Diane's entire family. We always have so much fun with them!

Here is our family minus Sarah's husband Cody and her son Corbin, and Tim and Jackson. We are very small compared to my Aunt Diane's family.

We all slept over at my mom's house and it was fun hanging out with just the kids until late at night. We woke up early on Christmas morning of course and opened lots of nice gifts. I know it was hard for my mom this year but she was truly amazing and she was so happy to be with all of her kids.

After presents we made breakfast and then we went up to Tim's parents house. There are 6 grand kids now and they all had a great time opening up presents together. Matt was kind of in a bad mood because he wanted to play with the gifts he had and not open any other one's. We were all pretty tired but we still had lots of fun.

Here is Tim with Matt. Matt fell on the ground on Christmas Eve morning so he had a nice carpet burn for all the pictures you got to love boys!

Here is the cute Wilson family with Heidi, Issac, Ashlynn, Carter, and Tony. We love them all very much. I don't know why but I didn't get a picture of Tim's other sister Carrie or Stephanie and there families. Sorry guys we love you to!

Here is Jackson cuddling Spencer I thought that was adorable! After we opened gifts we went to visit Tim's Grandma Adams and his other Grandma who was in a rehab center because she broke her back. After we got home we were all so tired! We ate a great dinner of grilled cheese sandwiches (I wasn't prepared) and we all went to bed by 8! It was a very nice Christmas and I only cried half a dozen times. I still miss my dad everyday but I know that he's watching out for all of us from the other side! I hope everyone had a great Christmas and my goal for this year is to update my blog every 2 weeks! We'll see how that works out!

Its Been Forever!

2009-12-14T19:30:00.001-08:00

So I'm looking at my blog the other day and its been 2 months since I last blogged. Wow where has the time gone? I have been just crazy busy this time of year I guess but that is no excuse. I have been doing lots of fun stuff with family and friends and its been nice to get out of my house and not think about life and how hard it is at times. I'm sure that we all feel that way.
These pics are kind of out of order so bare with me. This is me and my cousin Melanie on Black Friday. We both bought the same headband and we had to show them off. They were dang cute I might add!

This is the whole group who went shopping we started out at Tai Pan, then Bath and Body works, Target, IHOP, and of course Ross. We were gone for 10 hours and my legs were dead by the end but it was so much fun. I'm so glad we have this tradition. My dad usually would go with us every year and we would have him wait in the long line while we shopped and by the time we were done he was at the front of the line, this strategy worked out perfect. We didn't have any takers this year. It was defiantly hard without him, he will always be missed!

On Thanksgiving we went to my cousin Alex's church and played games and had great food. We had lots of relay races and we were all put into teams it was so much fun. You have to understand I have 54 cousins and 10 aunts/uncles and over 100 second cousins and counting right now. When we all get together we have so much fun but there is always lots of people and I love it! This is my sister Sarah with her cute little boy Corbin. Oh also we lost our camera at the church so I had to get these pics from my cousin Melanie. We did get a new camera for Christmas though. Here is my adorable Jackson he seriously is so cute I can't handle it. He looks exactly like Tim and that makes it even cuter!

Here is a picture of my mom and her three grandsons. We are hoping someday to give her a granddaughter but that won't be for awhile on my end! You know life is good it is hard for sure but I know that I've learned so much through my trials then I have when things were going great. I am so thankful for my family and friends who are there for me and who care about me so much!

Pics and so much more!!!

2009-10-25T20:25:00.001-07:00

I thought that title would be catchy! Well this month has been pretty fun we've done lots of stuff but I haven't taken pictures at everything. But the events I did take pictures at I wanted to show everyone who looks at my blog.

This was actually tonight we carved some pumpkins. Matt was so excited because he picked the pumpkins out himself like 2 weeks ago and we've been waiting to carve them so they didn't go bad. This was Tim carving and getting all the seeds out.

Here is my cute boy Matt! He is such a sweet feisty boy and I love him so much!

This is a pic of both boys having fun carving. Matt wanted Tim to carve him an alligator in the pumpkin and since we didn't know how to do that we carved a pumpkin with teeth but one of the teeth chipped so it looks like a redneck pumpkin its pretty funny!

Tim took the boys up to his parents house last week and the kids decorated pumpkins. I was up in Logan at my cousin Matt's wedding reception. The kids loved doing this and Matt talked about it for days afterwards. This is Matt with his cousin Ashlynn.

Carter, Ashlynn, and Matt before they decorated.

We also went up to Gardener Village and saw all the witches. For those of you who live in Utah this is such a fun place for kids. Its free and its just fun walking around and seeing all the fun witches. We do this every year with my friends.

This is a pic of all the kids and Jackie, well she's a kid at heart so its okay! Jackie, Collin, Matt, Nora, and Quincy.

My little sister Sarah also had a baby boy Corbin on October 4 and I went over one morning to help her. Since it was like 8 in the morning the boys were all in there pj's and they all looked adorable! I think its hilarious that Jackson is only 6 months older then Corbin and he looks huge! We are so happy that Corbin is here and we all love him to much, what a good baby!

We also went down to my friend Melissa's house and my old boss Alexis from college came over. Weird thing but Alexis lived next door to my friend Melissa when she was my boss and we all became friends. So anyway we all got together and it was so much fun because I haven't seen Alexis for about 2 years. One other friend came over but I can't remember her name! Sorry! This is a pic of all the kids. They all had fun together. Its been a fun month and this week will be crazy with lots of Halloween activities so be looking for some fun pics of that! Until next time...

Some Thoughts

2009-10-01T08:47:00.000-07:00

Sorry I haven't posted on my blog for awhile now, its been a very challenging time for me. I have had so many people write and tell me so many nice things since my dad passed away and I wanted to thank all of you for all of your love and support. Everyday is a challenge and I find myself crying constantly but I know that someday the ache and the pain will get better and I'll be able to just think of great times with my dad and not feel so sad. I am truly blest to have an amazing family who looks out for one another and amazing friends as well. I don't know what I would do without any of you. Again thank you all for your love I feel it everyday and I am thankful for your prayers as well. I've posted two new posts for the last 6 weeks. Even though I have lots more pictures this was all I was able to do today. Hope you enjoy!

Matt's 3rd Birthday

2009-10-01T08:24:00.000-07:00

Well these pictures are in the wrong order sorry so we'll have to go backwards. This is Matt blowing out his candles. He couldn't quite get is so Tim's dad stepped in and helped him out. But he looked so cute trying.

This is when Matt was listening to everyone singing happy birthday to him, he was so happy!

Opening gifts with everyone. He was a little overwhelmed so other kids helped him open gifts.

All the kids playing at McDonald's playland. Matt just wanted to go to McDonald's and go on the slide so we had some family meet us there and all the kids just had a great time playing and eating McDonald's. That wouldn't be my first choice for dinner but it was his birthday.

My mom , Jackson, Aunt Chris, and Aunt Diane. I had so many wonderful aunts and cousins come to celebrate with us. It was so nice of all of them to make an effort for Matt and I really appreciate it!

Cody, Sarah, and Reynolds. They are all having a good time!

Our niece Ashlynn with Tim's mom.

Tim's dad with our nephew Issac.

The proud dad!

The proud mom! This was such a good day for Matt we just had a chill day and he got pretty much whatever he wanted. It was hard in some ways because my dad was looking forward to Matt's birthday so much. Months before his birthday he was telling me what he wanted to buy him and how excited he was. So it was really hard not having him there. But I know that he is looking out for Matt from up above. I am thankful for times like this when we could all be together as a family and just have fun. I can't believe Matt is 3 though, with everything that we went through to get him here and then everything that happened to him at birth I am so thankful everyday for this little guy in my life!

Labor Day

2009-10-01T07:11:00.000-07:00

So for Labor Day weekend this year we went up to Tim's parents house with his entire family and had a "stay cation" weekend. We all slept over on Friday night and half were outside in tents and the other half were inside. I was inside with Jackson. I heard that the one's who slept outside didn't get at much sleep as they would have liked to. We all hung out Friday night eating and talking and just having fun. The next day we went to the Children's museum and I forgot my camera so I don't have any pics from there. The kids loved it though. They had so many fun cool things for the kids to do and I think the adults were having just as much fun. Afterwards we went to Apollo burger and ate some good food and then we all parted ways until Monday. On Monday we went to The Farm at Thanksgiving point and the kids loved the animals there.
Here is Matt riding the horse and loving it. You'll notice he had a little mustache on him well he got a cut above his lip and my brother Brandon decided to put a band aid on it and drew a mustache on it. He wouldn't take it off and I figured it was pretty funny so I let him have it on.

Matt and Ashlynn looking at the animals.

The cute newlyweds! Steph and Carter had only been married on even a month yet. They were super nice to come up and hang out with all of us.

Tim holding Jackson and showing him the horse. He looks like he's having fun!

Matt with Tim's mom. He loves her so much.

Looking at more animals. Afterwards we went to Cabela's and ate some lunch but then Matt got a really high fever when we were there so we decided to come home. It was so much fun though being with Tim's family and just hanging out together! Thanks for the good times everyone!

These are just some pics of the boys the last month. Matt with his mustache.

My adorable Jackson looking like a deer caught in the headlight.

Sorry I didn't turn this picture.

This is what Matt wore to Steph and Carter's wedding. He was so cute. I don't have any other pics of the wedding I wish I did.

Tribute to my Dad...

2009-08-09T22:45:00.001-07:00

Here is to my wonderful dad! For those of you who haven't heard my dad passed away on Aug 1 at 6:15 pm. He had some blood clots in his abdomen that the doctor's couldn't get under control and it eventually shut down all of his organs. He had never been sick or in the hospital in his life up to this point. He was in the hospital for about 3 days until he died. He was only 55 years old.

I am so grateful for my dad and for all that he taught me. He taught me how to have a sense of humor, how to laugh at my mistakes, and how to truly love everyone for who they are. He is such an amazing man and the best part of this experience is that I'm not scared of where he is now. I know that he's with heavenly father and I'm so grateful that he gets to be with them and that he doesn't have to worry about earthly things anymore. This picture above was on the 4th of July with Matt. Matt still talks about how they watched fireworks together. He misses his grandpa a lot.

I know that our family will be together forever and I'm so grateful for this knowledge that I have. If I didn't have this knowledge I know that I would not be doing that good right now.

This is my dad's last birthday. Of course he has Matt with him because he always has Matt wherever he is. These two had so many good times together.

I love my dad with all my heart and I miss him so much already. I know that it will be tough without him but I know he's watching out for all of us and that someday I will get to see him again. I love you dad with all my heart and I'm so grateful that I am your daughter. You are the best dad I could have ever asked for!

24th of July!

2009-07-25T20:25:00.000-07:00

We had such a fun 24th of July this year, and we are all very tired from it as well! This picture above is Jackson just hanging out, I love that he's getting so fat. He's such a good boy and I'm so grateful that we have him in our life!

On the 24th we went to my parents house and we had a great BBQ with my entire family. Afterwards we all hung out and talked for awhile and then we played games. The great thing about going over there is that Matt will nap really good for like 2 hours or more so we put him down and we played games and just hung out for awhile it was great! I always have so much fun with my family and I'm so grateful for all of them and there example to me in my life. After we came home we had to wait until it was dark to do some fireworks so at about 9:30 we went outside and our next door neighbors were doing there fireworks as well. They invited us to come over so we did and it was fun hanging out with them. I was lighting a firework for Tim and a spark hit him right in the eye. He was in pain and had to go home. Today he's doing better so hopefully he won't have to go to the doctor's. Sorry I didn't get any pictures at my parents house. I guess I forgot with two kids and good food! So today we went to Tim's parents house and we also have some great times there. We had another fantastic BBQ and the kids had so much fun playing in the pool. Tim's parents also got in on the pool action and pretty soon there was a water fight between the grand kids and the grandparents. It was great! Up above it Tim's mom Rhonda with all the grand kids minus two who were sleeping.

This is a picture of everyone watching the kids and just having fun hanging out. I didn't tell anyone I was taking the picture but of course my husband saw me and did the west side sign. Got to love him!

Here is grandpa getting all the kids wet. They all had lots of fun giving there grandpa a hug and getting him all wet. What good sports Tim's parents are!

Here is Matt's saggy diaper. He seriously had a bubble butt and it was hilarious! He couldn't hardly lift his legs because his diaper was so big! After we went swimming we celebrated Tim's sister Steph's birthday. She got lots of great things and she's getting even more excited because she's getting married in 3 weeks! After the gifts we all hung out because we were all tired from the sun and then we came home. It was a great weekend just hanging out with family. I am so grateful for both of our families, we all get along so good and just have a great time with each other.

4th of July and other happenings

2009-07-05T21:26:00.001-07:00

Well this week was a fun week for us. This is a random picture of Jackson, I seriously love taking pictures of my boys! They are just so darn cute!

I decided earlier this week to try and potty train Matty because I'm so sick of changing two kids diapers. So I tried and I failed! This is Matt using the potty as hat. Luckily it had nothing in it!

For the 4th we went over to where Tim dog trains and had fun with lots of people over there. Tim loves it because everyone loves dogs. I like dogs to just not as much as them! Jackson seriously went poop all over himself and his car seat while we were out dog training. Luckily I had a onsie in my diaper bag but I have never cleaned up so much poop in my life! The poop completely missed the diaper and went all over, isn't that the reason I buy the nice diapers seriously! Then we went up to Tim's family's house to celebrate birthday's, father's day, and the 4th. This is Steph Tim's sister with her fiance Carter. They are so cute together and we are so excited to see them get married on Aug 14th!

This is Tim's other sister Carrie, just relaxing and enjoying the kids!

This is Tim with his Grandpa Kersey. We love his grandparents very much and I am very grateful for all the love they show to me!

This is Tim's mom with Jackson. I thought Jackson looked so peaceful in his Nanny's arms.

Here is Matty, Spencer, and Carter taking a break from the pool to take a picture! The kids loved the pool so much and Matt and Carter were dumping water on each other. Well Matt was dumping water on Carter way more than Cater was dumping on Matt. We didn't have any swimming diapers so they had regular one's on and you all know that when they get wet you can totally see the little one's crack and its hilarious!

After playing in the pool and eating lots of yummy food I took the boys down to my parents house. Tim had to go work at the Parade of Homes so I was on my own for awhile. Luckily the boys fell asleep on the way down to Orem but it wasn't long enough they were so tired! We had another BBQ at my parents friends house and there was lots of people there. Then Matt decided to get in the pool with my dad and brother Reynolds. Matt loves swimming so much even when he's freezing and his lip is shaking. But then he got in the hot tub and he said it was a nice warm bath. He liked swimming in there!

Afterwards we went to the Parking Lot of Fire! This tradition started about 20 years ago when we moved here. They have the Stadium of Fire and we never went there but since my parents live next to a church parking lot we started bringing our fireworks over there and doing them. Now almost every family in my parents ward and all there kids and friends come and we all bring fireworks and food. There are lots of illegal fireworks and that's what makes it so much fun. This was Matt's first time going and he absolutely loved it! My dad was holding him most of the time and he would turn to him and say, "Oh my gosh grandpa!" Then he would clap and yell! What a cute boy! Luckily Jackson was dead asleep in the house and I checked on him every 10 mins or so and he never woke up.

Matt with his grandpa. Well we had a great 4th of July and I'm already getting excited for next 4th of July to roll around again! Good Times!

What a Slacker!

2009-06-28T21:38:00.001-07:00

So its been a while again! I swear life is just going by very fast these days I can't believe that Jackson will be three months in July! We haven't really been up to anything this month and maybe that's why I really haven't posted anything. The weather has been horrible and kind of cold. I haven't been able to put Matt's pool out or sprinkler's and he's been sad about that. But hopefully now the weather won't be so bad. This is a picture of Matty playing with a ball. My mom gave him this ball and he has been loving it. I didn't know that such a simple toy could bring hours and hours of fun! He loves throwing it around the house and sometime's hitting me in the process! He thinks that's hilarious!

This is my cute baby boy. He has been smiling so much lately and I love it. This morning when I went to get him in bed he gave me the biggest smile. I'm so excited that he's in this stage right now because it makes everyday so great! He is such a good boy and he sure loves his food! He's starting to get fat and I love it!

Here is another cute picture of Jackson I am so blessed to have two amazing boys in my life. I am also very blessed to have a great husband. I am surrounded by boys here but I wouldn't have it any other way.

This is Matt with Jackson. He had a hard time with him at the beginning but now he's starting to love him. He loves to tell me when he's awake and I usually don't hear him to its nice to have Matt telling me. He also loves to tell him what a good boy he is (hopefully he keeps that up). Two such sweet boys what more could a mom ask for! Hopefully my next post I'll have some fun or interesting news so until next time...

It's been awhile!

2009-06-09T10:23:00.000-07:00

Its been awhile since I've written anything on my blog and its not that nothing has been happening its that lots has been happening and when your not getting much sleep it seems to make things even harder to get done! I loved this picture of Matt with Jackson. Every time Matt holds him he wants me to take a picture of them. Its so cute! I am so grateful from my boys and for the love and joy they bring into my life.

I love pictures of babies in the bathtub its always something that you have to take a picture of. Jackson was so cute in the bath and he's starting to like it a lot more. He used to scream the entire time he was in the bath and now he just sits there and loves being in the warm water. What a good boy he is!

Here is Jackson getting all warm in his towel. What a cute face!

Jackson was also blessed on Sunday and it was such a special day for our family. This is his blessing outfit and it was also Matt's blessing outfit as well. He looked so darn cute! Tim was able to bless him and he gave him such a sweet spiritual blessing. I'm so thankful that Tim can bless him and that he honors and respects his priesthood. Afterwards we had some family and friends come over to our house for a breakfast. I didn't make any of the food so I can say that it was all amazing! Thanks again to everyone who brought food over. Jackson is such a sweet little boy with such a great spirit and I am so grateful that he is a part of our family!

I'm Back!!!

2009-05-17T20:16:00.000-07:00

I used to blog almost every week and I was looking at my blog and its been almost a month. Wow time really does fly by when your sleep deprived! Things are going good for our family we are just still trying to adjust to having 2 kids. Matt is doing okay with Jackson, sometimes he loves him to death and other times I have to defend Jackson from his brother. I know this is all normal I just hope that Matt can start to understand that Jackson is not leaving. He keeps asking me when Jackson is going home. But anyway I wanted to put some pics on my blog of the last couple of weeks and what we've been up to. The pic above is Jackson with his cousin Ashlynn. Tim's sister Heidi and her kids came down for the afternoon a couple of weeks ago and we had lots of fun together. Heidi had a baby not long ago either so its nice to know that other people are as tired as I am, probably more than me!

This is Matt with Ashlynn, he loves his cousin!

Matt with Carter. They are only 5 months a part and Carter is like 2 inches taller than Matt. I think its pretty funny!

On Mother's day weekend we hung out with Tim's family on Saturday and it was nice seeing everyone. The boys made us KFC for dinner and it was very good. It was just fun seeing everyone. Tim's sister from Cedar City and her husband Mark and their little boy Spencer came up so it was fun seeing them. This pic is Spencer, Matt, and Carter playing on the floor. It will be so fun watching all of these boy cousins grow up together. Lots of fun times ahead! On Mother's Day I went to church with Matt and Tim stayed home with Jackson. Tim tried to make me breakfast but I don't eat very much in the morning because I get sick so that idea was shot. Later that day we went to my parents house and my dad made us dinner and he did a great job. I loved seeing everyone and just relaxing and enjoying every one's company. Thanks boys for making Mother's Day fabulous for all of us mothers!

So I decided to buzz Matt's head and I did a good job in the front but that back....

The guard on the blade came off and I totally messed up Matt's hair. I was going to take him to get it fixed but his hair is actually already grown back in. I told Tim that I would just try to take him to get his hair cut in the future. Who knows if that will really happen but I can always try right?

This is Matt being cute with Jackson. I know they will be good friends when they get a little older.

All of my boys! I love them all very much and I'm so thankful for them in my life!

Pictures as Promised

2009-04-24T21:46:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of little Jackson today right after his bath, wide awake and ready to hang out! He is so adorable and a very good baby!

Here is Matt with his little brother. He is having a hard time with another little one around here but hopefully he gets used to it soon!

Jackson getting ready to come home.

Jackson in the NICU. He is such a blessing to us and we are so grateful that we have him home and that he is doing well! Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers in Jackson's behalf.

I am Alive...

2009-04-22T20:21:00.000-07:00

I wanted to start this post with saying that I am alive and well. Life has been pretty crazy lately but I wanted to write a post letting everyone know what has been happening the last two weeks.
On Friday April 10th I was having some contractions and some weird pains so I decided to go into the hospital to make sure everything was okay. They hooked me up to some heart monitor machines and a couple of times when I had a contraction Jackson's heat rate went very low. So they decided to keep me in the hospital and induce me. I was suppose to get induced two days later so they figured it was okay. The funny part was that one of my best friends Valynn was having a baby two rooms down from me. We thought we would have our kids on the same day but it didn't happen. So I went to the hospital at 4:00pm and little Jackson was born at 1:20am Saturday morning April 11th. He weighed 7lbs 1oz and was 19.5 inches long. He is such a beautiful baby.
After he was born he started turning kind of grey so they brought him down to the nursery to give him some air. I did get to hold him for a second which I was very grateful for. The next day he was getting worse and by the next day even worse. He was having a hard time breathing on his own without help. Then on Monday morning at 1:30am I got a call from his doctor saying that they were going to put him on a ventilator and transfer him to Utah Valley Medical Center in Provo. Tim and I watched our little guy get loaded up on the ambulance and it was one of the hardest things to watch. It was so sad for us to see now our second child have to go to the NICU. So we were up all night making sure Jackson was taken care of that by the next day we were so tired. When he got to the hospital he also had Jaundice so he was under the lights for a couple of days as well. He had many IV's for possible infections, the lights for jaundice, and his ventilator. I felt so bad for him and I could hardly touch him because he was in so much pain, it was awful to watch. But everyday more things starting coming off of him.
Also last week Matt got a really bad sinus infection and he didn't feel good, and our basement flooded. So last week was seriously a week that I never want to have again. But I am so thankful for family and friends who are so willing to help us when we really needed it. So this week has been better, Jackson is doing better and better each day and eating like a champ. He eats so much food and even the nurses were saying that they've never seen a baby eat so much! What a strong boy I have! So hopefully he'll get to go home tomorrow that's the plan right now and I promise that next time I update I will have lots of cute pictures of Jackson. I just wanted to let everyone know what happened and give you a heads up about our life right now! Until next time!

Conference Weekend

2009-04-06T22:50:00.001-07:00

We had a great Conference weekend and I'm so sad to see it over! I love listening to all the General Authorities and all of there amazing inspiring messages. They always make me want to be a better person after I'm done listening to them. Matt was pretty good during conference, every old man he saw he would call the prophet it was really cute. During the morning session of General Conference I laid on the ground because my back was hurting so bad and Matt laid down next to me. I told Tim to take a picture because I thought it was so cute that he wanted to be next to me.

This is Matt reading my book, he was totally into and I thought he was so cute!

Baby Update: Well I went to the doctor again and nothing has changed :( Oh well I get induced in a week from today so I can't really complain and he's inducing me 1 week early. But it would be nice to go before because I am so uncomfortable. But I am so excited for this little guy. I want to see what he looks like :) I will be posting pictures for sure after he's born to stay tuned for next week!

Early Easter/Birthday

2009-03-31T16:44:00.000-07:00

Well this year my birthday was lots of fun! I haven't been feeling to well lately, just being pregnant and all, but I still had a great birthday weekend. It started out when we went to Tim's grandparents house on Friday night and they cooked us dinner. We just hung out and talked and it was nice to get out of the house and not cook dinner. What better present can you ask for? Then on Saturday we went up to Tim's parents house. Most of Tim's family was there except for his sister Carrie and her husband Mark but they live in Cedar City so will let it slide! No we love them and miss them a lot. We got to hang out for awhile and then we had an Easter egg hunt for the kids. Tim's sister is blessing their baby on Easter Sunday so we decided to have the kids do an Easter egg hung earlier because that day is going to be crazy busy! The picture above is of Matt and his Aunt Heidi. He kept going up to her and asking her to hold him. It was cute!

This is Carter, Ashlynn, and Matt getting ready to find eggs! Ashlynn was great about sharing all the eggs with the little boys.

Matt wasn't quite sure what he was doing he thought he could eat the eggs! But after while he got the hang of it and had fun looking for the eggs.

Matt looking for eggs with his Nanny.

This was after they found all the eggs. All the kids got loaded with lots of yummy treats. The fun thing about having a kid is the parents get to eat lots of the treats to! Later that night Tim took me out shopping but I didn't really want to buy anything when I have 2 weeks left of being pregnant so I'm going to get something after I have the baby. But I did find an outfit for my boys and a belt for Tim. Then we went to the movies and we saw "Knowing" I pretty much hated it! I mean the concept was okay but it freaked me out! I was also so uncomfortable the entire movie my back was killing me. But I was very grateful that Tim took me out and that we just got to enjoy hanging out together. On Sunday which was my actual birthday I got to sleep in, went to church, took a nap, and then we went to my parents house. My mom and dad cooked dinner, I got presents, I won the game Wacky 6, and I got to just relax which is what I wanted! I of course got presents from people and I want to thank everyone for that! But it was such a nice birthday weekend and I couldn't have asked for anything else!

Update on the baby: I went to the doctor last Thursday and he said that I'm dilated to a 2 1/2 already and that the baby can pretty much come at anytime. I am so ready for him to come! I am so uncomfortable right now. He did an ultrasound and he thinks the baby looks just over 6 lbs. right now so that's good. So I'm pretty much just waiting for him to arrive. If I don't go into labor anytime soon I know that I will at least be induced April 13th! Yeah wish me luck!

Sarah's Wedding/Cute Matty!

2009-03-23T14:20:00.000-07:00

This last couple of weeks have been fun and very busy. This is my sister Sarah with Matt the day before her wedding. Sarah was very calm and relaxed and seemed to be very excited about getting married. Matt also loves his Aunt Sarah and whenever she comes over he gets very excited!

This is Sarah's wedding dinner at "The Bungalow". It was a great dinner with lots of family to celebrate Sarah and Cody's wedding. My dad has sung the song "My Girl" to Sarah and I since we were little girls so for our wedding dinners he sang that song to both of us. This is him singing to Sarah. He thinks he doesn't have a good voice but he really does and it always makes me want to cry when he does it because it reminds me of when I was a little girl.

This is Sarah getting ready for her wedding reception. She looked so beautiful that day and I don't think anything went wrong. I am very grateful to have such a wonderful sister and I am so happy for her and Cody. I didn't take any other pictures of the wedding because I was busy doing stuff, but if I ever borrow Sarah's wedding pictures CD I'll post some pics of it on here.

This was Matt this morning dancing to Elmo. He loves his Elmo show Wild Wild West and whenever the music comes on he dances around. He is so cute and I love this little guy so much! Our other little guy Jackson will also be here pretty soon. I get induced if I haven't already had him on April 13, so I finally see an end in sight. My doctor's were nice enough to induce me a week early and I really appreciated that! This pregnancy hasn't been bad at all I'm just super uncomfortable right now, I'm not sleeping well at all and pretty much in pain all the time so I will be very happy when I can snuggle and love this little guy soon! Until next time...

Random Times!

2009-03-09T19:11:00.000-07:00

Well things have been pretty fun/busy lately in our household. I'm trying to get ready for the new baby and I pretty much have everything so that's nice! I just have to get it all out of the basement and into the room and also switch Matt into the other bedroom. That's what I've been doing this last week! Tim and I went to the Jazz game on Friday night and it was very fun. My sister Sarah's fiance (they're getting married this weekend) got us tickets to the game! Thanks Cody! Anyway we went with my brother Brandon and his girlfriend Karen. We were at the very top of the Energy Solutions Arena but it was great! I liked that I didn't have to worry if anyone was annoyed behind me, but I never did stand up so I guess that didn't really matter!
Here is a picture of Brandon and Karen

Here is Tim and I and of course he's making a face. Every time I ask him to have a nice picture it never happens, why do I ask anymore?

Last but not least is Sarah and Cody, the soon to be newlyweds. They've been dating for over 2 years now so its going to be weird that they'll actually be married soon! I think it will take me a while to think of them as married and not just dating. I will be taking lots of pictures this weekend at the wedding so stay tuned for all the good times there!

On Sunday (yesterday) we went up to Tim's parents house for dinner. Matt loves going to his grandparents house. This is Matt with his nanny. He was the only grandchild there that night so he got all the attention for everyone and he loved every second of it!

A couple of days ago Matt brought all of his blankets, pillow, and stuffed animals out to the couch and just snuggled with them. I thought it was to cute to not take a picture!

This is Matt with his cousin Spencer. He loves the babies in the family and I hope that he'll love our little guy as well. Spencer was laughing so hard at Matt it was super cute!

We also went and hung out with some friends of ours a week ago. This is Matt with Ethan and Cole is in back round. All these boys range in age but they all got along really well. Matt is the oldest and of course the smallest! But he can hold his own so I never worry about him!

This is Matt with his Aunt Steph's motorcycle helmet on. I think the helmet weighed more than he did, I don't know how he kept it on his head!

But anyway things are looking up for our family and its nice. I know that everyone is struggling right now with the economy and there scared about what's going to happen but I know that with faith and hope we will all make it through this crazy, stressful time! There's my thoughts for the day!

Random Happenings in February

2009-02-23T20:09:00.000-08:00

So there has been a lot of random stuff going on this month. Its been a hard month for many different reasons but things are starting to look up so I'm very excited about that! Okay so this is a random picture but Tim and I were driving and we saw this truck in front of us and I was wondering how in the world he got all this crap to stay in this truck? He didn't have anything tying it down it was just all shoved in that truck! I thought it was going to fly out any second and I made Tim stay far back so we wouldn't get hit! Random picture I know but I thought it was weird!

I haven't taken a picture of Matt in the bath for awhile so I decided to do it. He seriously is such a cute little boy! I am so thankful for him and you know when your having a hard time kids just make everything better. You look at their little faces and you can't help but smile and be happy! I'm so thankful for little kids!

Yesterday Tim's sister Heidi had her little boy Issac. He came about 3 weeks early but both mom and baby are doing great! She had him at Mckay Dee Hospital in Ogden and he seriously looked so good for just being born! Usually babies have weird shaped heads or bruises or they look like old little men but he looked so adorable! I had to point that out to Heidi because I knew it would make any new mom feel good! Tim loves babies and this made him more excited for out little one to come. Only 8 more weeks to go!

This is Issac in his bed. He grunts when he sleeps and makes the cutest little noises. It made me want my baby so bad! But then I just remember that little Jackson will be here soon enough and to try and get as much sleep as I possible can before he comes!

This month has seriously had many ups and downs in it but I feel like I've learned and grown so much and I'm thankful for all the experiences that I've had in my life even if they are hard because they make me want to be a better person. I am happy that life is getting better and better each day and that we'll be adding a new one to our family pretty soon! Until next time...

Its been a while

2009-02-09T12:50:00.001-08:00

Well its been a little while since I've posted a blog and its not that I haven't wanted to its just been crazy and than really boring so I wasn't sure exactly what to write about! Well two weeks ago today Tim was driving and passed out while he was driving. So we took him to the hospital and he got all checked out and he's fine but it was super scary! He says that he remembers passing out and then being on the side of the road, he doesn't remember how he got there! So I think its a huge blessing and I'm so grateful that he's doing okay. He threw up right before he got in the car and started driving and the doctor thinks that because he started driving right after he threw up that the blood was just rushing from his head so it made him pass out. I guess he already has a low heart rate and that had a lot to do with it as well!
So later that night Matt started getting really sick and throwing up everywhere.It was seriously a very bad day! So Matt and Tim were both pretty sick all week so I just took care of my boys and thank goodness I didn't get sick myself because I don't know what we would have done. So the entire week was just busy trying to take care of everything that was going on. Last week was actually pretty boring around our house but I like it that way. I would rather it be boring than crazy! But I did take a few pictures of what we did last week so I hope you enjoy...
Tim was reading a book and Matt went and grabbed his books and started reading with Tim. I thought it was so cute!
On Saturday I took Matt to Cabela's to look at all the animals. He loves animals and he had so much fun just walking around. This is him in an ice fishing tent. He loved going in all the tents and walking around. But he liked this tent the most because he had somewhere to sit.
This is us in front of the fish. I know you can't see the fish but there in the back. Matt looks scared in this picture, I just look scary!
This is Matt with the animals, he is such a cute boy!

Matt with a bear!

Okay so I have a question and if anyone can help me that would be great! This last week Matt has been very difficult. He screams if he doesn't get his way and I try to distract him with other things and he just screams louder. I put him in time out but when I get him out he just does it again. I really don't want to spank him or anything so I was wondering if anyone had some suggestions because seriously I feel like I am at the end of my rope!

I was thinking...

2009-01-25T18:36:00.001-08:00

So I've been thinking this week about lots of random things but one thing that has really been on my mind has been going to the temple. I've been really wanting to go to the temple this month and just feel the spirit and it seems like the days that you are planning to go things are always bad! Before we had kids we would just go on the spur of the moment because we didn't want to plan and have things go bad and not be able to go. So anyway Friday was our day to go and I was not feeling good all day.

I was having small contractions all day that were actually pretty painful. Then Tim was late getting home and right before we left Matt runs into his rocking chair in his room and has a bad bloody lip. So I'm seriously thinking in my head can I really go to the temple I am so not in the mood! But we decide we'll go anyway because when you don't want to go is when you need it the most. So we get Matt's bloody lip under control and we head out. Tim's parents were watching Matt and they live in West Valley and on a Friday night at 5:30 is not the best time to be on the road, plus you add in lots of fog, man it was kind of a scary drive.

So we finally make it to Tim's parents and then to the temple and there is no parking because it was a Stake Temple night. Its a good thing that there was so many people there but I was just so tired by that point it was just one more thing. So we finally made it into the temple and I'm so glad that we were able to do an endowment session. I felt the spirit so strong and even though I could barley fit into my dress and physically it was hard to sit there it was such a great night.
We were suppose to pick Matt up afterwards but we didn't get out of our session until 10:45pm and the fog had gotten worse so he ended up spending the night at his Grandparents house. So we went to Village Inn for some dinner since I was starving and it was just so nice to be able to be with Tim with no interruptions and just hang out, talk, and laugh together!

Thank you Ron and Rhonda for watching Matt I needed a break and it was nice to be with Tim! Anyway after we got home from our outing I was thinking of how hard it is sometimes to do things that we know we should be doing in our lives. Satan throws all sorts of obstacles our way to make us not want to do those thing we should be doing, but if we do things we want/should be doing we will feel so good afterwards! Anyway it was just something I was thinking about this week I hope the 2 people who read this blog will enjoy it! Until next time...

Good Times

2009-01-19T19:36:00.001-08:00

Over the last week I've had some good times with Family and Friends! On Saturday we went over to Tim's parents house to celebrate Tim's birthday. He got lots of nice things from his siblings, parents, and grandparents. We have many people who love us very much! This is Matt with is Nanny and Grandpa. He loves them both very much and we are thankful for all that they do for us in our life.

In our house underneath the counter was where the microwave was but I didn't like bending down to microwave everything so we put it on the counter and now Matt has a favorite spot. He loves to eat in this little "nook" and of course lay down and pretend to be sleeping. He is such a good, fun little boy!

I also had Girls Night Out with my girlfriends and of course we had a blast! We went out to dinner at Los Hermonos and afterwards went and saw Bride Wars. It was a cute movie. We always have so much fun talking and catching up on life that sometimes its hard to go home. But I'm so thankful to have such great friends and for all that they've helped me get through in my life. I'm also very thankful for a great husband who will watch Matt so I can get out and have some fun. Also I think this is a horrible picture of me but everyone else looked cute so I decided to put my pride aside and post it on the blog, this is for you girls!

Random Happenings/Tim's Birthday

2009-01-14T14:37:00.000-08:00

Here are a couple of pictures over the last two weeks. This is a pic of Matt with a bow in his hair. I used to dress up my little brother when he was little like a girl so I guess I'm still doing it with my own kids! I'm sure Tim will love this picture!

This is Matt with his Aunt Steph. She was visiting one night and he just climbed up on her lap and wanted to lay down with her. I thought this picture was so cute!

This is what Matt did with all my shoes one day. He got all of my shoes out and lined them up from the closet through the bedroom. He loves lining everything up its pretty funny!

This is Tim blowing the candles out on his ice cream cake. Matt was very excited that he picked it out for his dad. On Tim's actual birthday I took him out to dinner to Mcgrath's fish house and then to the Jazz game. I think he liked it and had a good time. I also gave him some gifts that hopefully he liked as well. He is such a great husband and I'm so grateful for all that he does for our family. I don't know what I would do without him in my life!

This is just a funny pic of Matt. He got a hold of my mascara and he got some on his face it was pretty funny! That's pretty much my life in a nut shell this week. Until next time...

Its the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

2009-01-01T19:10:00.003-08:00

Well first I have to say that I had such a wonderful Christmas Season and I love this time of the year! We haven't had a lot to do but plenty to do as well so I never felt like things were out of control or overwhelming! The pictures I have of December are out of order so you'll have to bare with me.
This is a picture of Matt and his cousin Spencer on Christmas morning. I love that they are both smiling they are so cute! We slept over at Tim's parents house on Christmas Eve so we were there bright and early Christmas morning.

Here is a picture of Ashlynn, Carter, Tony and Heidi. What a cute family! We all got together with everyone in Tim's family and opened gifts on Christmas morning. Even though the weather was horrible we still made it down to my families house for the rest of Christmas day.

We got down to my families house around noon and Matt was having fun opening up more presents. I think he was a little overwhelmed because he wanted to play with the toys he got and I was trying to give him more gifts to open so he didn't really like that.

This is everyone getting ready to open up gifts at my parents house. We all got together and it was just fun being with everyone. We didn't really do anything all day just hung out, ate a lot of good food, and got to spend good quality time together. What more can you ask for?

For our parents Christmas gift this year they wanted and new floor in their laundry room so all of us kids pitched in and helped give them a new floor. I have to admit that Cody and Sarah did the most but I tried to do as much as I could being pregnant and all! This is all of us getting ready to grout the floor. It was fun being able to spend all of that quality time together and do something really nice for our parents as well.

These are a picture of Tim's mom's famous sugar cookies. She spent a lot of time on them and I had to take a picture so I could show the world what a great job she did!

We went over to Tim's parents house the Monday before Christmas to have a family night and the kids had lots of fun learning about Christ's birth and putting pictures up on a board. This picture is cute because they were all very much into the story!

The Saturday before Christmas we went to Tim's grandparents house and got to see all of his extended family. We don't get to see them very much so when we do see them its always nice. This is a picture of Tim's cousins son Daxton who is a month older than Matt, Carter and Matt. These boys got along well and I'm sure they will be having some good times as they grow up.

This is one of the sweetest pictures. all of the Great-Grand kids got together and they sang I am a Child of God to their Great-Grandpa. Even though Matt doesn't know the words he still stood there which I thought was great!

We also had a great Christmas Eve. We went to our friends house in Alpine and pretty much just hung out and had fun. There were 4 couples and it was fun because we all have kids the same age so the kids pretty much entertained themselves and just played together. We don't get to see our friends very often so it was fun to be able to hang out for a long time and just catch up and talk about life. Its also great to hear stories of Tim and his friends when they were younger. They did some crazy things! But its been a great holiday season and I'm sad to see it end but I'm also looking forward to the New Year. I'm going to make some new resolutions and hopefully in the next two months have Matt potty trained! Wish me luck! Happy New Year everyone!

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-23T19:12:00.000-08:00

I hope that everyone has a wonderful and safe Christmas! Merry Christmas everyone! Hopefully we can all update our blogs so we can see what everyone did!

Updating!

2008-12-12T15:14:00.000-08:00

Well I feel bad because its been about 2 weeks since I've updated anything! We haven't been to busy around here just busy enough which has been very nice! The above picture of Matt was yesterday when I shaved his little head! I know your thinking why in the winter? Well I tried to cut his cute hair myself and of course screwed up again so I had to shave the whole thing. So now whenever he goes outside he has to have a hat on. But he does look super cute!

This is one of Matt's favorite things to do lately is line up all of his toys. He doesn't even play with them anymore he only lines them up. Its pretty funny to watch!

This is a picture of our Christmas tree. We just got it and its very nice. Tim picked it out all by himself and he did a very good job. I was sad that we couldn't fit the star on the top, so now I need to find another star that will actually fit the top.

This is Matt giving me a big cheesy smile! What a good boy he is. One thing that he did today that I thought was amazing was he started counting all by himself. I was in the other room and I heard him counting and I was so excited! I ran into his playroom and started counting with him. I have gone through the numbers with him but not that much so I didn't think he even knew what they were, little did I know he was listening to me. Kids are so smart!

Thanksgiving

2008-11-30T17:36:00.001-08:00

Well we certainly had a great 4 day family fun filled week! We started on Wednesday night and had Thanksgiving dinner with my family. I've posted a lot of pictures but they are totally out of order so I'll have to go through them at the end. We had dinner with all of my family except for Brandon because he was working and my Grandpa, Cherri, and my Grandma Bishop. It was so fun seeing everyone and of course eating great food! Thanks again Mom!

On Thursday I went down to my parents house again while Tim slept so I could see Brandon. I don't get to see him very often so I wanted to see him for a little while. We had fun together and afterwards we went up to Tim's Grandma Adams house for Thanksgiving dinner. It was fun having everyone there and of course eating some other great food! I need to learn from all these cooks. We looked at the Black Friday specials and talked and just had fun together.

On Friday was of course Black Friday. I got up at 4:30am and went to Walmart with my cousins Melanie, Heather, Bethany, Aunt Diane, Mom, Dad, and Sarah. Walmart was seriously crazy and we've decided to never do that again. We went to Sears, Target, Sports Authority, and of course out to IHOP for some yummy breakfast! Thanks again girls I had a blast! Later that day I did get a little nap and then we had Tim's sister Carrie, her husband Mark and there little boy Spencer come over and we ate dinner and watched the Jazz game. It was fun hanging out with them since they live in Cedar City. Thanks for hanging out with us!

On Saturday we went up to the Cemetery in West Valley and decorated Tim's little brother's grave. This has been a tradition in his family since his brother passed away 18 years ago. I love this family tradition and I'm so happy that they do this together. Afterwards we all went out to eat at Hires Big H which was seriously so good! I kept saying how much I loved the cheese fries! I could eat those everyday!

We had a great 4 days and even though I'm tired I wouldn't trade my family for anything! I loved being with everyone! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and that we were all able to remember the many things we have to be grateful for.

Matt with Aunt Steph
Tim and Mark

My mom getting her neck massaged by my dad. I thought this was hilarious!

All the girls at IHOP eating

Matt with flour on his lip. So Cute!

All the Grand kids and Carrie. Ashlynn, Spencer, Carter, and Matt

Brandon and Matt

Mom, Matt, and Dad

Fun Pics of Matt

2008-11-24T20:12:00.000-08:00

I had to post a couple of pictures of Matt I've taken in the last week. He seriously is such a joy in my life and he makes me laugh everyday! He loves wearing shoes and he especially loves to wear shoes that are a challenge. These are my boots and they pretty much go all the way up his leg. Its so funny to watch him walk around in them.

This is Matt on his bike with some underwear on his head. He thought the underwear were a cute hat and he wore them all day! He has been so fun lately and I'm so grateful everyday that he is a part of my life.

So I just wanted to give my input on the Twillight movie. I seriously thought it was great! There were a couple of things that bugged me but I really loved it! I want to go see it again and again! I know so many people are saying crap about it but it was so good, it had no swear words or anything bad in it. It was a nice wholesome movie.

Opinions Please!

2008-11-19T10:41:00.000-08:00

Okay so this may sound really weird to many people but I've been thinking a lot lately about writing a book. I know sounds crazy, but it won't be a normal book. I was out with my friends a couple of weeks ago and I was telling a funny story that happened to me and after I was done telling it I said, "I should write a book about all the funny things that have happened to me." Seriously after I said that I have not forgotten it and I think it would be fun to just write a book about funny things that have happend to me just to make other's laugh. I don't think I would ever publish it by any means but just let people read it if they wanted to for a good laugh. So I need everyone's opinions PLEASE! I really have thought to myself many times that I am here for many reasons but one of them is to make people laugh and to have fun! So let me know what you all think. Thanks!

Orlando Baby!

2008-11-17T16:21:00.001-08:00

So this weekend we went to Orlando Fl. for a business trip that Tim had to make for his company. So I decided that I wanted to join him and just have a fun 3 day weekend with my hubby! We left at 10am on Friday morning to Denver and ended up being stuck there for over 3 hours because they had to get a new plane for us. It was actually kind of fun to not have anything to do. We just walked around and looked at all the shops, ate lots of food, and read. It was just nice being with Tim. So finally are plane gets there almost 3 hours late and we were on our way to Orlando. I did throw up on that flight because we hit horrible turbulence so that was lots of fun! By the time we got to Orlando it was about 9pm and I was starving! I ordered a huge pizza in the room and ate like 4 pieces! We also watched a movie and then we went to bed.
I didn't get up the next morning until 9:30 because I was so tired from the day before and by that time Tim was at his conference. So he met me for lunch at noon and then he was at the conference for the rest of the day. So I was trying to decide what to do so I decided to go shopping. We rented a little PT cruiser (which I would not recommend to buy) and I went looking for places to go shopping. All I could find were little strip malls with policemen at every single one of them. Those policemen made me feel really safe! I ended up just going to Payless Shoes, Radio Shack, and Walgreens. Pretty exciting I know! I had only been out for like 2 hours and I was totally done so I went back to the hotel and just read my book until Tim got back. After Tim got back we went out to dinner and he wanted to go "shopping" so I took him to a couple of places and then we went back to to hotel and just hung out.
On Sunday Tim went to the Conference in the morning but we had to be out of the hotel by noon so I was wondering what I was going to do until our flight left at 6:30 that night. So Tim ditched out of the rest of the conference and we got some food and decided to go to the airport early to see if we could get an earlier flight out. No such luck, so here we were again at the airport and we had 4 hours to kill! By the time we got on our flight I was seriously not feeling good. We were only going to Atlanta which was an hour away so I thought I would be fine, but I was very wrong! (Caution there is a bad throw up story, continue at your own risk)
So as we were descending into Atlanta I started getting really sick, so I tell Tim and he's looking all over for a bag for me. He can't find a bag anywhere and he's asking everyone around us and of course by that time its already coming up so I grab my sweater off the ground and just totally puke in it. Of course the sweater has little holes all in it so its dripping all down my legs and all over my shirt. By this time we've landed and I'm sure everyone could smell it and they just wanted to get off the plane. I'm crying because I feel awful and I smell like puke! So Tim gets me a big bag to put my sweater in and we get off the plane and I look at Tim and I was like "I'm getting a new outfit, I'm not flying another 4 hours in puke clothes"! We only had like 40 mins until our flight left so I was in a big hurry to find something. Finally all I could find that had pants was a Puma store. The pants were $50 dollars but I could have cared less. I got new pants and a new sweater because lets face it that sweater had no chance. So I was all clean I felt good and on our next flight I didn't get sick (probably because I had no food in my stomach). So I'm trying to look for the good in the story and I found a couple of things: I got some new clothes, I got a good laugh afterwards, and I learned what not to do before I fly. So there is are adventure in Orlando. I hope you enjoyed my wonderful story I know I'll laugh about it more in a couple of days!

New Pics of Matt

2008-11-12T07:44:00.000-08:00

A couple of weeks ago I went up to Provo Canyon and my friend Emily got some really great pictures of Matt! We had so much fun looking for places to put him and he was such a good boy!

I loved all the funny faces he was pulling during the shoot. It was so funny!

What a cute boy! I just needed to tell everyone about my friend Emily and if they need some cute pictures done they should go to her website and look at the stuff she's done. Her website is www.imagesbyem.com

Pictures (Finally)

2008-11-07T07:22:00.000-08:00

So here are some pictures of Halloween finally! We got our new computer yesterday so I'm still trying to figure some stuff out but its so nice to have a computer that doesn't freeze all the time and that will actually go fast! I didn't take any pictures on Halloween because we were sick and all that fun stuff but here are some pics from the weekend before at Tim's parents house. We had a little Halloween party for the kids and they had lots of fun. Here are all the kids with there Grandpa. It was funny how Matt and his cousin Carter were the exact same thing and we had no idea! They were different colors though.

Tim with his Monkey son!

The cute Monkey twins and Grandma and Great-Grandma.

Matt at Cornbelly's with Reynolds.

I went with matt on a little ride and it was a very tight squeeze!

Fun/Sick/Scary Week

2008-11-02T15:12:00.001-08:00

We still don't have our new computer so I won't have pictures again. So this week has been so crazy. It started out good, we went to my parents ward Halloween party and it was so nice to see everyone from my old ward and Matt had lots of fun. He was kind of nervous around everyone because they all had costumes on and it scared him but he had fun playing the games and seeing all the kids. On Wed. I got my hair cut and colored by my friend Jackie and it turned out really cute. Once again I'll have to post pics some other time. Thursday night was a really hard night. Earlier in the day I had some weird discharge with clots in it followed by some cramping and it really scared me. I thought something was wrong with the baby like I was having a miscarriage or something. I called the doctor and they told me to just relax and in the morning they would see me. So that night at about 9:00 Matt woke up throwing up. This continued until 3:30 in the morning and about every hour after that. I called his doctor in the middle of the night because I was so scared. They told me that a bad flu was going around and that he would just have to get over it. I think he threw up 25 times that night it was horrible! I was crying so much that night worrying about Matt and also the baby. It was a hard night to say the least. On Friday morning I went to my OBGYN and they did an ultrasound and they saw that everything looked fine with the baby which I was so happy about. So as he was looking around I asked him if he could tell what the baby was. I'm almost 16 weeks so I figured he could hopefully tell. Well he saw what we were having and we are having another BOY! I was excited for Matt to have another brother. It makes me feel good to know that Heavenly Father trusts me with his sweet sons. I only hope i can do a good job raising them. I do feel bad for our niece Ashlynn she wanted me to have a little girl but there is only so much I can do. Matt was very sick all day long but he did sleep threw the night thank goodness. So I woke up the next day very sick. I got exactly what Matt has so Tim was taking care of both of us. Then today Tim woke up sick so all of us have just been laying in our living room all day sleeping and trying to take care of each other. We've never all been sick before so its been very interesting. I hope that everyone is well and hopefully no one else is sick with this horrible flu bug!

What's been happening

2008-10-26T19:39:00.000-07:00

So this week has been pretty good I haven't forgotten my son anywhere, flooded the house anymore, or set our house on fire so I think it was great (I have only flooded the house though so far). On Thursday I got to help Sarah with some wedding stuff and that was fun. We went looking at reception centers and it just makes you excited for weddings, especially being involved in them. She wants Matt to be the ring bearer at her wedding but I told her that she will probably have to have Tim walk with him because he will throw the pillow down the aisle. So that was fun, afterwards I met some friends at Bonneville Park and we let the kids play while we talked and had a good time together. I was not really feeling good that day so I left kind of early, sorry about that girls!
On Saturday I went to a baby shower in the morning and Matt got to be watched by his grandpa. He loves his grandpa and when I walked in the door to get him Matt was on the counter taking all the spices out of the cabinet while my dad was standing beside him watching him and the BYU game. Afterwards we went up to Tim's parents house and we had dinner with everyone and we dressed all the kids up in their costumes and we took pictures and they went trick-or-treating around the room. They all ended up getting a big bag of candy, man their grandparents and great-grandparents must really love them! It was fun seeing everyone and hearing my sister-in -law tell us that she's going to have a baby boy. That means that if we have another boy there will be 5 boys and 1 girls. My niece Ashlynn really wants me to have a little girl, so I told her I would try my best. Anyway our computer broke this week so I have to use Tim's laptop for now so I'm not sure how to put pictures on here. I think we're going to be getting the new computer sometime next week so hopefully I'll have pictures for you then.

Update!

2008-10-21T16:36:00.001-07:00

So lots of stuff has been going on in our house lately. I've had some doctors appointments with my OB and also Matt had his two year check up. My OB doctor visit went great and he heard the babies heartbeat right away which is the best sign in the world. Its so hard when the baby is so little and you can't feel them move yet you are never sure if they are really okay. But the baby seems to be okay and I'm finally starting to feel better. I am about 14 weeks along right now and I'll probably go to Fetal Foto in the next two weeks because I pretty much can't handle not knowing what I'm having. Matt is doing so good as well. I took him to the doctor and I had to fill out this questionnaire and he is doing everything he's suppose to be doing and in most areas he's advanced. I was always so nervous when it came to his gross motor skills because that was where he had all the brain damage and the doctors really thought he would have major problems and I just look at him running around and jumping off the couch and I'm just so grateful for him and for all the many things he's able to do. He is such a great boy and such a joy in my life, I don't know what I would do without him.
My little sister Sarah also had some good news happen to her last week. She got engaged to her boyfriend of 2 years Cody Branin and she is very excited. She wanted to have the wedding in April but since I'm due in April she was nice enough to change it to March when I'll be 8 months pregnant instead! I don't care I'll just be huge and that's okay! But we are happy for her as long as she's happy!
Tim has been working like a mad man and its been paying off. His company is doing so well and we are so grateful especially with the economy like it is. He is such an amazing man and I'm so blessed to have him a part of my life. He is a great husband and such a good dad to Matt. Man what would I do without him?
As for me well I'm pretty much just pregnant and forgetting everything. Okay if I tell this story I don't want to hear crap from people because I feel pretty stupid about it. So last week I was soaking one of Matt's shirts and I left the laundry room and I guess I forgot to turn off the water. So about an hour or so later I go to the basement and its totally flooded! I couldn't think of where it was coming from until I ran upstairs and looked in the laundry room and saw the sink. I felt so stupid. Seriously what's my problem? But Tim was so great and he just bought a wet vac and he cleaned up the entire basement for me. I tell you if I can get through this pregnancy without burning our house down that will be amazing!
One other thing we've been doing is Tim bought us a pass to the Legacy Center and we've been going swimming and working out. Matt loves swimming and he pretty much wants to go everyday now. It gives us something to do and its good for our bodies.
So these are a few of the things are little family has been up to, thanks for sticking with me through this, until next time....

Cedar City

2008-10-15T13:45:00.001-07:00

Matt and I went down to Cedar City this weekend with Tim's mom for my nephew Spencer's blessing. We left on Friday night and we had Matt and his cousin Ashlynn. They both did really good until about the last hour and then Matt just couldn't take it anymore. It was 10:00 at night as well so he was very tired. But we got down there safely and just hung out all day Saturday. On Saturday afternoon Tim's sister Heidi and her husband Tony came with my other nephew Carter. This above picture is Matt with Carter picking up crayons. All the kids get along so well and we're so lucky that we never have to worry about them. It was such a nice relaxing weekend and it snowed down there so that was very fun to watch, but not to go outside in. Then on Sunday Tim's dad, Tim, his sister Steph, and his grandma all came down to Cedar. They left at 3:00 in the morning because the blessing was at 9:00am. Wow all I have to say is that Tim's family is very devoted and they love their family. I am so blessed to have such wonderful in-laws that I can have fun with and who love Matt so much!
This is a picture of Spencer he was sleeping in the dad's hands while he was trying to burp him. How cute is he!
This is Tim's parents with all their grand kids so far. They will have two more grand kids by next April. I can't believe how big the family is getting.
Here is a picture of Tim's family. They are all so amazing and I love them all. I had a great weekend with everyone and hopefully we can hang out again soon!

Our Landscaping is Done!

2008-10-09T15:07:00.000-07:00

This obviously has nothing to do with the landscaping, but Matt found Tim's shirt yesterday and he wanted to wear it so this is him wearing it. He got so mad when I had to take it off of him to. He also wore it all morning. Kids are so funny!
This is a picture of the front of the house. I think the landscapers did a great job. They cleaned everything up so it looked all good which really made me happy!
Here is the backyard. If you can tell we have a water feature/ river in the backyard which is very pretty as well as a fire pit with rocks and trees around it. The rest of the yard it some curbing, bushes, and grass. It turned out great and now that the weather is changing we need to quickly enjoy it while we can!

Sick Week

2008-10-06T13:38:00.000-07:00

So for the last 5 days I've pretty much been at home with Matt because he's been sick. He's had a really bad cold and a fever. I feel so bad for him but when he's sick man you better watch out! By the end of the day I'm pretty much toast. I've had to leave 2 nights this week when Tim got home to just get a break. Of course my break was going to the grocery store and getting dinner but hey I got out of the house for more than 5 seconds. Matt is such a good boy and I'm so thankful for his sweet spirit. We did feel bad though because Tim's sister Carrie and her husband Mark came up this weekend with there new baby Spencer and I really wanted to see him but I didn't want to rick Spencer getting sick. But I was pretty sad about not hanging out with Tim's family. But luckily we are going down to Cedar City this weekend for Spencer's blessing so I'll have plenty of time to see him. Matt is totally into babies lately. I've had lots of good friends who have had babies and he just loves them. Whenever he sees them he gets so excited. I hope this keeps going on until we have ours in April. Other than Matt being sick he did go pee pee on the potty twice last week as well! I haven't been pushing him to go really I just put him on there before he takes a bath and sometimes he goes and other times he doesn't. But hopefully he'll be totally potty trained in the next 6 months. Any who hopefully this week is exciting in some way or another. Tim just bought our family a pass to the Legacy Center in Lehi which is pretty much like a gym and swimming pool. I think Matt will love the pool so hopefully if he feels better this week I'll be able to take him.

Fun Times

2008-09-29T10:47:00.001-07:00

So this week has been pretty fun. My good friend Jackie had a baby boy last Tuesday so my friend Melissa and I went to visit her in the hospital on Wednesday. This is a picture of Matt with her cute little girl Chloe. These two got along so well it was very nice. We were so happy to see that everything went good with Jackie's delivery and the baby.
On Friday Melissa and Chloe came up to my house and we got to hang out and talk for awhile it was fun! Good times Melissa!
On Saturday Tim and I had to go to a funeral of one of Tim's family members. I always have a hard time at funerals because I always feel so bad for the families left behind. Those who have gone on are happy and doing good but you just worry about all of us that are left. Funerals also make me think about what people would say at my funeral and how people would respond if I died. I know I'm probably weird but I think of things like that. But the good thing is that funerals make me want to be a better person because you never know when you'll be leaving this earth.
Saturday night was Women's Conference and it was fabulous! I loved all the talks and it was so nice to be able to just sit there and listen to those amazing speakers. I definitely want to read those talks when they come out in the Ensign.
On Sunday we got together with my dad's side of the family for a family picnic. I don't remember the last time I saw people from my dad's side so it was nice to hang out and catch up with everyone. It was at a park so Matt was going down the slide the entire time. He was so sad when we had to leave! Well all I hope everyone has a fabulous week and I will see you next time.

Matt's 2nd Birthday!

2008-09-21T14:55:00.000-07:00

This post is dedicated to Matt for his 2nd birthday! I just wanted to post some pictures of Matt over the last 2 years and how far he's come. The beginning as many of you know was so scary and we consider Matt our little miracle boy. This was the first time I got to see Matt in the hospital before they took him by life flight up to Primary Children's. He was covered in wires and I wasn't quite sure where to touch him so I just held his hand. I was so scared and I didn't know what would really happen with him.
This is Matt in the NICU at Primary Children's and Tim decided to bring a 9 month shirt in to the hospital for him to wear. It was a little to big but the "built tough" principle was great for Matt.
This is Matt on his blessing day. I love his blessing outfit. Tim also dressed the exact same way. They were my little twins that day.
This is just a fun picture of Matt. He loves playing around and having fun.
This was Matt on his first birthday eating cake. He got it all over himself it was sure fun to clean up.

For Matt's 2nd birthday this year we decided to go to the kid barn in Draper. They have all this big bouncy toys and the kids and Tim and our brother in law Tony had fun on them. This is Matt and Tim playing in one of the bounce houses.
Matt loves slides and they had 3 big slides that they could go down. He had so much fun!
This is a picture of Tony, Tim, Carter, Matt, and Ashlynn on the top of the biggest slide. It took the men a long time to get all the kids up there.
After the kid barn we came back to our house for a BBQ. Then Matt opened up his gifts. He has so many great people in his life who love him so much and we are so thankful for everyone.
This is Matt blowing out his candle. He was good a blowing but he didn't have quite enough power so I helped him out. I am truly thankful that Matt is in my life I don't know what I would do without him. I know that he is a miracle and a gift from our heavenly father to Tim and I. Its so interesting when you think about gifts that our heavenly father gives us and why some people get a miracle like Matt and other's don't. I really struggled with this after Matt was born I just kept feeling guilty. Finally I came to the conclusion that heavenly father knows us all and that he truly has a plan. I know that I've learned so much from Matt and from him being a part of our family but I also know that I would learn just as much if things would have turned out differently. Our heavenly father knows what we can handle and what we can't. Anyway I love you Matt and I hope you had a great day!

Dr's Appointment

2008-09-15T11:47:00.000-07:00

So I went to my first doctor's appointment today and it went really good. I have a new doctor so just that fact makes me very happy. I talked to him about what happened with Matt and that I was scared and he was very nice and totally supportive. He just gave me some different options and the pros and cons of each option and he told me to just think about if I want to do the labor thing again or do a c-section. Honestly right now I'm really not sure, I really need to think and pray about it. I would love to do a regular birth because I've never done it all by myself and I know that the after birth won't be as bad. If I got a c-section I won't have to worry as much but the after birth is really hard I heard. So I'm really not sure what I'm going to do but I have like another 6 1/2 months to think about it. Other than that he took an ultrasound of the baby and I have to admit the baby already looks cute! It looks like a little chicken nugget so I think until I know what the sex of the baby is I'm just going to call it nugget. But I'm in good health and he said that everything looks great!

Fun/Crazy Week...

2008-09-14T19:25:00.000-07:00

So like my title says this has been a fun/crazy week. We are getting our yard done right now so there are 5-10 people here each day outside being loud like crazy and leaving all their garbage all over the yard! Hopefully the yard will be done in the next two weeks! (lets cross our fingers) On Wednesday I had 4 of my very good friends come over: Valynn, Kristy, Melissa, and Jackie, with all their kids. It was so much fun hanging out with everyone and the kids for the most part get along great! Then on Thursday Tim was working late so I decided to go to my parents house for dinner because I hate cooking for just Matt and me. Matt loves going to his grammy and grandpa's house and he loves seeing Reynolds and Sarah as well. On Friday my cousins Melanie, Heather, and Bethany came over as well as Sarah. They brought their kids and the kids were so funny. They all got along really well and we had a great time just talking and catching up.

This is a picture of Matt in Sarah's boots. He loves shoes and if the heel is higher the more of a challenge it is to him. Then on Saturday Tim's parents came over for awhile because they were on their way to Cedar City to see Tim's sister who just had a baby. Matt loves his nanny and grandpa as well. We love when Tim's parents come and see us and so does Matt.
On Saturday Tim's sister Heidi and her husband Tony and their kids Ashlynn and Carter came over to watch the BYU game. The kids seriously get along so well we never have to worry about them. This is a picture of them jumping on the bed. After the BYU game we went over to a BBQ at our friends house in our old Lehi ward. We saw lots of friends that we haven't seen for awhile and it was so fun! It seriously has been such a fun week and I love seeing family and friends. I also love being with people because then I'm not feeling sick and I'm focusing on other things. I go to my first doctor's appointment tomorrow and I'm very excited about that! Until next time...

Girls Trip!!!

2008-09-09T08:40:00.000-07:00

We had a great girls trip this year! We went to Park City again and it was so nice to be so close to home and yet so far away. The first night we went out to eat at "Good Thymes" but it was not a good time. I think out of the 8 of us there 2 people actually liked their food. My cousin Melanie and me got the chicken and it was half a chicken with red veins sticking out of it, it was so gross! Let's just say that after dinner Melanie and me went to Cafe Rio because we were starving. The picture above it my cousin Heather giving "Good Thymes" a thumbs down!
This is the whole group of us that went (excluding my Aunt Sharon because she's taking the picture). In the picture is my Aunt Diane, Melanie, Mom, Shauna, Heather, Me, and Sarah.

My cousins and my aunt how cute are they!
My cute family! We kind of look alike in this picture.
We ended up going shopping all day Friday and it was great! We do a lot of damage when we shop. Later that night we were all sitting talking and Melanie and me realized we were sitting in the exact same way so we of course had to take a picture. We stayed up late both nights and it took me a day or so to recover but I am so excited to have this time to spend with my family. We always have so much fun together! Love you girls!

Long time...

2008-09-03T16:04:00.000-07:00

So its been awhile since I've written anything. I don't have any pics of this last week because I forgot to charge my camera. I took Matt to the zoo on Thursday with Tim's sisters Heidi and Steph and Hedi's kids Ashlynn and Carter. They kids had so much fun and they were all so good! Ashlynn was such a big help. She pushed Matt around in his stroller and was so fun to be with! They loved all of the animals, but Matt especially liked to Elephants and the monkeys. I was thinking about it and the Hogle Zoo doesn't really have that many animals. I always thought of getting a pass to go there but I think its a once a year event for us. We ate lunch went on the train and the carousel and we just had a lot of fun. The weather was perfect it wasn't to hot it was just right. Thanks Heidi and Steph for going with us it was so much fun! Tim's other sister Carrie just had a baby on Monday and I wanted to congratulate her! They had a baby boy and they named him Spencer. I am so excited for them they will make wonderful parents.
My life is pretty simple right now. I'm just trying not to feel sick all the time and trying to find things to eat. Today I went to Subway because it sounded so good and I got a foot long sub and I ate almost all of it. Wow I really am pregnant. Of course I could do that before I was pregnant so I don't know if that means anything? Anyways I'm feeling pretty good just tired and sick sometimes but I can't complain because I haven't thrown up once which I am very thankful for. Tim has been super busy at work which is a good thing I just miss him, but I am so grateful that he is such a good supporter for our family and that he is such a good husband, I am so blessed. Anyway all is well just thought I would update you all.
P.S. I just plugged my camera battery in so I will have some more pictures soon!

Modest Clothes

2008-08-29T07:42:00.000-07:00

So my friend started a clothing line and I wanted to tell everyone to go look on her website and check it out! She did a great job and the clothes are so cute! The website is www.JonCarDesigns.com. Check it out you'll like it!

Random Happenings

2008-08-22T15:12:00.001-07:00

So this is a random post of all the random things going on in my life right now. Tim has been hard at work and I've hardly seen him for a week so Matt and I have been hanging out together. I call Matt my best friend because I'm with him all the time and we have a great time together (most of the time :) But we really appreciate all that Tim does for our family and we are very thankful for him. This is just a pic of Matt sleeping I thought he looked like and angel.
This is my pregnancy test. If you can tell there are 2 positives there! I had to take it twice just to make sure!
We had pizza for dinner last night and this was Matt's face after. He was quite a joy to clean up I might add.
This is our new kitchen. Its beautiful and the countertops are concrete which is pretty cool.
This is a picture of the family room which is the same room as the kitchen. I really do love this house and we will be here for awhile!
Okay so I have a pretty funny story this will reasure you that I really am pregnant. So just barly Matt comes out of his room with poop on his legs, feet and of course face. So I'm wondering what happened. I had two dogs inside with me and I thought oh great they pooped and he got into it. No they didn't poop Matt did and he pooped all over himself because I forgot to put a diaper on him! I guess I thought I did but I didn't so he had pee pee and poop all over him. I was laughing to myself wondering how in the world I forgot that. Then I remembered that I'm pregant and pregnant people do funny things. So after I changed him I walk out and the dog had pooped on the floor. Yeah I wasn't to happy about that. They hardly ever poop in the house so I was very suprised. Anywho there's story about how fun my day is going!

I am Alive!

2008-08-19T15:13:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to say that I am alive I have just been moving this last week so life has been pretty crazy! We did make it into our house in Lehi and we are renting our house in Draper for about a year and then we'll hopefully try and sell it. Its been a hard experience moving because I was really sick with a bad cold all weekend long but we had to get out of the house so I had no choice just go through the pain! I love our new house though its beautiful even though we have had some problems with the A/C, some leaks and some appliances not working its all good! I wanted to thank all the family members who helped us out this last week with cleaning, moving, or watching Matt I really appreciate it! I also wanted to tell everyone that I found out some other exciting news on Monday that I am PREGNANT! Yes I am and it happened pretty quick but I'm totally excited. I haven't been feeling to bad or anything just a little queasy and tired but I have been moving also. So now we have a new addition to add to our family and we couldn't be more thrilled!

Cali Pictures

2008-08-01T11:50:00.000-07:00

Okay so I finally have some pictures up from California. This is Matt and my dad on the beach just hanging out with each other. Isn't this picture adorable?
My mom was reading Matt a story. They always have a great time together
This is Sarah and her boyfriend Cody just hanging out on the beach.
Matty giving me a big cheese!!!

Okay so Matt watched his movie signing times like 30 times on the trip and this is him watching it.
Shannon and Sarah hanging out!
Dad, Matt, and Tim in the pool.
Matt with his daddy!
This is my cute little boy, I love him so much!

California Trip

2008-07-27T15:46:00.000-07:00

Our little family just got back from California yesterday at about 5:00pm so we are still trying to get back into our daily life. We went to California with my family which included my mom, dad, Sarah, her boyfriend Cody, and Reynolds. We stopped in Las Vegas and stayed with my Uncle Kerry and his family for 3 days and we had so much fun with them. My uncle took us out boating and I loved going on the tube. I was pretty good but I did get whipped off a couple of times. Matt loved the boat as well. He just loves being outside and he really likes boats as well. We were on the boat for about 5-6 hours and he was great he entire time.
I did find out some bad news right before we got to my Uncle Kerry's house and it made it really hard for me to enjoy myself during our entire trip. One of my best friends Melissa's mom died last Friday and I was so shocked and I felt so bad for her and her family. I've known her mom since I was 12 and she is such an amazing incredible person. She was always so fun to go and talk to because it was like she understood what we were going through and she could relate with us. I know that I loved talking to her about boys, and friends, or whatever was going on in my life. I just wanted to let Melissa know that I will truly miss her mom.
We left Vegas for California on Monday morning and arrived at Newport beach about 3:00. We ended up swimming that night and just relaxing together. The next day we went to the beach and I wasn't sure if Matt would like it or not but he ended up really liking it. He loved the sand and he liked playing in the water but it was kind of cold and he didn't like that very much. After the beach all of the kids went and saw "The Dark Knight". I have to admit that was a pretty good show. Heath Ledger did freak me out but he did a great job playing the joker. I would recommend that movie to whoever wants to have fun and be totally entertained. On Wednesday we ended up going to Laguna and shopping at all the little shops everywhere. It was nice to just be out and have fun shopping because as girls lets face it we pretty much all like doing that. On Thursday it was our last chance to go to the beach and I swear I almost drowned it was scary. The waves were huge and I kept getting caught underneath and I was so scared by the third wave that hit me. I ran out and I was shaking. But I am okay so no worries. Then we went shopping again and we watched a movie. Every night after we would get back we would play games and just have fun being together. On Friday we drove back to Vegas and stayed the night and then drove home yesterday.
It was very nice getting away for awhile and I want to thank my parents for planning the trip and for just being great amazing parents.
For those of you who don't know we will be moving back to Lehi probably the entire month of August. We have been praying and fasting for several months now and we just feel like its a good place for our family. We really like Draper but I am having major pain in my hip and all the stairs in our house is making it worse. So we are going to buy a rambler so its all on one level and I'm pretty excited but sad at the same time. That's pretty much what I'm going to be doing the entire month of August so if you don't hear from me much you'll know why. Oh and we're going to rent out our house in Draper. I'll update if anything happens. Until next time....

Animal Farm

2008-07-18T11:56:00.001-07:00

We went to the Animal Farm last week at Thanksgiving point and Matt really liked it. We went with my sister Sarah and my mom. This is a picture of the cutest baby goat I've ever seen! The lady even let us hold it. Matt wasn't to sure about it but we decided that if it stayed that small we would have taken it home with us!
This is Matt in the gift shop, he loves dogs and he wanted this one but his mom took it away shortly after this picture. He had to many stuffed animals at home.
Sarah and my mom thought it would be funny to put this apron on Matt. He does look pretty cute but he was happy to take it off.

This is Sarah, me and Matt in front of the chicks.
This cow was hilarious. After this picture me and Matt went down to get a better look at it and it gets up and starts going to the bathroom. I don't think I've ever seen any animal go so much it was pretty funny!
This is Matt looking at the ducks. He knows all the animal sounds so he loves seeing animals.
This is how Matt wears his flip flops. I thought it was funny.
This is Matt and his grammy on the carriage ride. We had lots of fun going to the animal farm and I'll probably bring him back soon because it was only $3.50 because Matt gets in free until he's 2. Until next time...

Leaving Comments Anyone?

2008-07-13T22:24:00.000-07:00

My friend Jackie had this on her blog and it looked really cool! Here are the directions:
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.C'mon now, anything funny, strange, cool, embarrassing, or awful you remember about me??

4th of July Fun!!!

2008-07-08T06:49:00.000-07:00

So we had a great 4th of July this year. We had so much fun with our families, it couldn't have been better! These pictures our out of order for some reason so I'll try to explain them all to you the best that I can! This is Matt and I swimming in the pool at my parents neighbors house. He got so tired because he hadn't taken a nap that he wanted to lay on the kick board! How cute!!! This is Tim and I at the "Parking lot of Fire". My family starting this tradition about 15 years ago and its still going strong. We do our fireworks in the church parking lot next door to my parents house and there is about 100-200 people who show up every year. This year was no exception. We have all kind of fireworks and of course illegal one's as well. The show lasted about an hour and it was so fun!
This is Tim my pyro husband having fun setting off fireworks!
This was the grand finale they did this year. They had three ladders and they put boards going to each ladder. They then put all the big fireworks on each board and lit them all at the same time. There was 6 guys doing this and let me tell you it was kind of scary! They were all running away getting the fire out of their hair! But in the end it was a great show and no one got hurt!
This is just a picture of Matt with his sunglasses on upside down!

We started off the day up at Tim's parents house and it was so funny because all of the kids showed up in the same shirt and we hadn't planned it at all. This is a picture of Matt and his cousin Ashlynn playing in the backyard. We also celebrated Tim's mom's 50th birthday and his Grandma's birthday as well. They are two wonderful women and I'm so happy that they are a part of my life as well as Matt's life.
This is Matt and his cousin Carter playing on the fridge with the magnets, they were getting ready to swim.
Here is the three kids having so much fun in the pool together. The water was a little cold but they had fun being together. Here is Matt getting wet in the pool by his Uncle Mark. I thought this picture was so funny!
This is Matt and my dad swimming in the pool. This was the only smiling picture I got of him later because he was so tired!

Summer Fun

2008-07-03T11:10:00.000-07:00

So this summer has been pretty boring so far. Its so hot outside that I have such a hard time wanting to be outside for a long period of time. Matt loves being outside so I do take him outside everyday but he pretty much freaks out when I bring him back inside. This is a picture of him in our office playing with all the pens and pencils. He gave me such a cute smile!
I bought him a sprinkler and a pool and he had so much fun playing outside.
This is Matt trying to get a drink out of the sprinkler. He loved just running around and especially trying to test his limits. He thinks he can pretty much do anything and he won't get hurt, its a little scary at times but we've had no major accidents yet! He is so much fun and I'm so grateful that I am his mom!

Camping on our Anniversary!

2008-06-25T15:31:00.000-07:00

So we went camping this last weekend and it was also our 5 year anniversary. We went camping at Strawberry Reservoir and it was very nice. On our anniversary (which was Friday) I gave Tim a picture frame that has a picture of us when we were dating, one of us on our wedding, and then us five years later. I also wrote him a journal entry of what we've been up to the last year. I make him a journal entry so we can remember everything that happened that last year. I was in charge of our anniversary and I wasn't quite sure what we'd be doing since we were camping but Tim's parents ended up watching Matt for us (thanks again for that) and we went into Heber and went out to dinner and a movie. I know it sounds lame but we hardly ever do that so it was a treat for us. Since Heber only had one movie showing we only had one choice and we saw Get Smart. It was funny but I would have rather rented it then saw it in the movie. So we had a great night and it was just nice being together and that's all the really matter right? We also went on that cruise in March which was for our anniversary so I count that as our big thing for the year!
So Matt loved going on the boat with his grandpa. He was even running around camp with his life jacket on because he knew that meant he would be going in the boat. He just sat and walked around him the boat for up to 5 hours! Sometimes he fell asleep but most of the time he was awake and loving it. Tim said that maybe we need to buy a boat for Matt now!
This is Matt driving the boat one of his favorite things to do. We had fun camping even though it was only Tim's parents and his sister Steph we always have fun together. I also had to bath Matt in their sink in their trailer and it was hilarious. He was actually very good but the sink was so little and he could barely fit in it. Too bad I didn't get a picture because it was pretty funny. Until next time...

New Bedroom!

2008-06-19T08:19:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to post some pics of some new stuff I've been doing to our room. I decided in May that we needed some new decorations. So I'll tell you what I've done to it since May. I got the new rug shown up above, the blanket, and a new laundry basket.
I also bought some new pillow the leaf thing on the wall, and the two pics above the bed. I really like the colors and how everything has turned out so far. I do want to paint but we're not sure if we're going to move in the next couple of months so I'll wait until then.

Father's Day/Swimming Time

2008-06-19T07:59:00.001-07:00

Here is a recap of Father's Day. We went to Tim's parents house on Saturday and had a family BBQ (we missed Steph, Carrie and Mark though). We all hung out and played with the kids and of course ate great food! The kids all get along so good so its so fun watching the three of them playing together. This is a pic of Tim's dad and our niece Ashlynn.
Here is a pic of Tim of course being the cute man he is! He is such a great father and I'm so blessed to have him as my husband. He loves being with Matt and would do anything for him.
This is a picture of my Grandpa Stephenson. I have never seen him wear a cowboy hat so I had to get a picture of it.
On Sunday we went over to my parents house and hung out. My Grandpa, Cherrill, Aunt Cindy, and Aunt Chris came down as well and it was nice being able to talk to everyone. My Aunt Cindy and Aunt Chris both lots their husbands last year so this was there first father's day without them and they said it was nice to be with family and kind of a hard day. I'm glad they came down. All in all we had a fabulous father's day and both Tim and I are so grateful for our father's and the great examples they are to us in our lives. Love you dads!
We finally were able to go swimming because it was finally hot enough! Matt loved going in his little pool as you can tell! Our neighbors came over and Matt had lots of fun with them as well.

Happy Father's Day

2008-06-15T22:20:00.001-07:00

I just wanted to say Happy Father's day to all those great dad's out there! We had a great weekend with our father's and I just wanted to say that I love both my dad and my father in law very much. They are both wonderful father's and I'm so grateful for their example's in my life. I'll put pictures and more information about father's day at a later time.

Funny Matty!

2008-06-11T21:06:00.001-07:00

So I had to blog about Matt because he has been so funny lately I can't handle it! This is a picture of him in my high heels. He loves walking in my shoes around the house he thinks its so funny! He likes to put men's shoes on as well and walk around don't worry :)
He has also been into hats like crazy! He loves putting things on his head whether its my headbands, hats, or wet wash clothes he's so funny!
This is the first time he was finger painting. We did this today for Father's Day so that Tim could have an original Matt painting. He was having so much fun and this is at the end and of course he was crying while I was taking the picture. He did a great painting though I might add.
This is Dad and Matt giving me a big cheese for the picture! They are great buddies!
This is a picture of Matt eating sticky rice. As you can tell it got stuck all over Matt but he was loving it. It took awhile to get off of him but you got to love it!
I have to tell you 2 funny stories really quick as well. So I was singing to Matt while he was eating dinner and he turns to me puts his finger to his lip and says SHHHHH! I was laughing so hard because he has never done that before. I didn't even know he knew how to do that!
My other story is that today I was playing with him and he was hitting me so I picked him up and told him that we don't do that. After I explained it I said, "Do you understand what I'm saying to you?" Then he looked at me and yelled, "YES!" He has never talked back to me and I was laughing so hard. You may not thing these stories are funny but I thought they were pretty funny. He has his own little personality and I'm so grateful that he's such a good boy!

A New Day

2008-06-10T21:51:00.000-07:00

So I'm starting to feel better and its so nice because I don't think I could have lasted one more day in my house. I went to Enrichment tonight in my ward and they did such a good job. We talked about preserving memories so we talked about scrap booking, blogging, and having family traditions. All the women did a great job and when I got home I came right to my blog because I wanted to update it with the new stuff I learned. I tried to add some other stuff but I didn't like it so I'll have to figure some things out later. Any who thanks again for everyone who has helped out family this week we really really really appreciate it. I know that Matt was wondering if his mom was going to ever take care of him and he probably didn't care because he was having so much fun with everyone else.

Surgery Time :(

2008-06-07T17:08:00.000-07:00

So I had surgery this week, good times. I had surgery on my right ear. They were replacing a bone that was missing so that I can hear better. I didn't know that we had three tiny bones in our ears and when we don't have them all you can't hear very well. I had this surgery about 3 years ago but my body rejected the bone so they went back in to see if it might work again. The good thing about this surgery is that I haven't thrown up once! I usually throw up for days because going under makes me so sick. But the doctor really listened to me and helped me to not be sick so I really appreciate that. I'm trying not to take a high dose of medication because it makes me feel loopy and since I have to watch Matt on Monday I figured I should get it out of my system now. I am so thankful to people who have helped during this week especially my family and Tim's family for watching Matt. I have had many other family and friends offer to take Matt as well and I'm so thankful that I have such wonderful people that I can come to if I need help. You might be getting a call this week you never know :) I am so thankful for Tim and for all he's done for me since Wednesday. He has given me every meal, every time I needed anything he was right there to help me and he's been such a support to me, thank you honey I love you! So hopefully my next blog will be upbeat and happy and I'll have something fun to talk about! Until then....

Camping

2008-05-25T19:41:00.000-07:00

We went camping as a family the last weekend. We usually go with Tim's family a couple times a year and this was the first trip of the year yeah! We went down to Yuba Lake and the weather was awesome. Tim's parents truck broke down in Nephi but we got everything they needed out of the truck and we were on our way. We set up camp and pretty much just hung out for the first day. Matt decided not to sleep very good that night so Tim and I were so tired the next day. But luckily we took turns watching Matt and we took some good naps. The picture above is Ron, Carrie, and Stephanie.
This is a pic of Tim the next morning making all of us some breakfast. What a man he's cooking for his family ahhh!
On Saturday Tim's sister Heidi, and her husband Tony, and their kids Ashlynn and Carter came down to the lake. We went on the boat and that had some much fun. Matt never took a nap unless he was on the boat so whenever they were going out I wanted him to go so that he would get some sleep. He was seriously running around non-stop the entire time we were there. He loved every minute being outside. The picture above is Matt, Carter, and Ashlynn playing the fishing game. They are our entertainment because they are all so fun to watch!
This is Matt and Ashlynn, they always have so much fun together and Ashlynn is so sweet to Matt. We had a very fun trip but it was nice to get home and sleep on a mattress after 3 nights of sleeping on the ground.

Mother's Day

2008-05-12T13:11:00.001-07:00

Yesterday was a great Mother's Day! Tim totally spoiled me, I don't know what I ever did to deserve that. He let me sleep in and made me cinnamon rolls for breakfast. Then he gave me a gift certificate to a spa and also a gift certificate to Pier One. Wow I was surprised. Matt has had croup all week so we didn't want to take him to church so Tim stayed home with him while I actually got to listen at church it was great! After church we went to my mom's house and had dinner and then we played games and just hung out and talked with everyone. It was nice seeing everyone in my family which I haven't see for awhile. This is a pic of my mom, me and Matt. I also wanted to give a little shout out to my mom who I love so much! I am so thankful to her and for everything she does for me. Whenever I'm having a bad day I know I can call and vent to her. She is fabulous in every way and I love her so much!
This is a pic of Tim's mom with our nephew Carter. We took Tim's mom and dad out to lunch on Friday and it was great being with them. I also wanted to give a shout out to Tim's mom. She is such an incredible woman. She raised some great kids and she has so much love for everyone. She serves the church with all her heart and I'm so thankful that I have her in my life! Thanks for all you do Rhonda, we don't know what we'd do without you!
I love both of our mom's so much! I hope you had a Happy Mother's Day!

Jazz Game

2008-05-12T13:05:00.001-07:00

So Tim and I went to the Jazz game on Friday night. It was a great game! It was also very cool to see David Archuleta singing. His voice is fabulous I love it! He sang the National Anthem and of course did his own arrangement and it was awesome. Listening to him in person was so much better then T.V. I must say!
This is Tim all decked out in his Jazz stuff. He really liked Ronnie Price so he got his t-shirt and of course a Jazz hat to match it.
This is us just having fun! My voice hurt so bad the next day because I was yelling at the stupid Ref's. They were horrible that's all I have to say.

Wheeler Farm

2008-05-04T19:54:00.000-07:00

We went with Tim's family to Wheeler Farm on Saturday for our nephew Carter's birthday. He turned 2 and loves farm animals so it was the best place to go. The weather was great as well. This is a pic of Tim and Matt hanging out on the fence. Matt was so grumpy even though he just woke up from a nap. Oh well he still loved looking at the animals.
This is a picture of us by the cows. They sure smelled good!
I love this picture of Matt holding his grandpa's hand, how cute is that!
This is us by the chicken coop. There's a funny story with that. We were joking around earlier because Stephanie (Tim's sister) was saying the last time she went to Wheeler Farm she was bit by a chicken. So when Matt was looking at the chickens he put his finger in the chicken coop and of course a chicken bit him. He was bleeding of course but he was fine after about a minute. We were all laughing though after we all knew he was okay.
Here is a picture of Carter the birthday boy! He is such a cute smart little boy and we are so thankful that he's a part of our family! Love you Carter Happy Birthday!

TImpanogas Reunion (Sort of)

2008-05-02T12:18:00.000-07:00

Hey all you out there who went to Timpanogos High School and graduated in 2001 listen up. We are going to have a mini reunion at Windsor Elementary School which is right down the street from Timpanogos. It will be on Saturday May 10th (the day before Mother's Day) at 5:00pm. Just bring your own picinic food or if you want to eat before and just come to hang out that's great to. There is nothing really planned we just wanted to hang out and see as many people as we could without actually planning a reunion. So hopefully lots of people will come have fun, and talk about the good ol days.

Sleepovers and Questions

2008-04-27T18:23:00.000-07:00

So I had a sleepover with some of my best friends from high school on Friday night. We've decided to start a tradition of a sleepover every year so we can hang out, have fun, and reminise about life. This year we had our sleepover at Jackie's house. We got pizza from Papa Murphy's and we all ate a ton! It was great! Then we went swimming and hot tubbing. We ended up just talking all night but I had a blast and I am so grateful to have Valynn, Melissa, Jackie, and Kristy as my friends. We have been through a lot together since the 7th grade and I'm glad we're still such good friends. Love you girls!

I also decided to do an answer questionaire from my cousin Melanie's blog so here we go....
1. Song that always makes you sad? You'll be in my heart by Phil Collins (It reminds me of when my Grandma died and I heard that song so whenever I hear it I cry and think of her.
2. Last thing you bought? Chips and Salsa and skittles (for the sleepover)
3. Last person you argued with? Probably Tim?
4. One of your stuffed animals' names as a kid? All I remember is my Cabbage Patch dolls name which was Abagail Famey
5. Did you ever own at one time a Michael Jackson Cd? No but my parents did.
6. Favorite day of the week? Friday and Sunday
7. Did you take Piano lessons? Nope never have.
8. Most frequent song played? I have no idea
9. T.V. show you secretly enjoy? I love the show John and Kate plus 8 I think its hilarious!
10. Favorite scents? Baby lotion, flowers, fresh cut grass, rain, air freshners, I could go on..
11. Date someone older or younger? Both
12. One place you could travel right now? I would love to go to Italy
13 Favorite time of the day? Anytime after 7:00 when Matt's asleep.
14. Do you know all the words to the national anthem? Of Course!
15. Something you're wearing right now? Brown shirt, white shirt over it with jeans
16. Job you've had? Hogi Yogi, Baskin Robbins, Fresh food junkies, University Hyundai, The Toddle Inn, Anniversary Inn, Garts Sport, The Center for Service and Learning
17. Did you go to your high school prom? Yes (Daryl Austin, Jonathan Fowlke, Aaron Fisher, and Mikey Peterson)
18. Perfect time to wake up? 9:00am
19. Perfect time to go to bed? 11:00
20. Favorite soda? I love Rootbeer!
21. Ever been in a car accident? I was in an accident with four friends on our way up to Salt Lake for a date it was just a fender-bender no big deal.
22. Closer to mom or dad...or neither? I'm really close to both parents. I probably talk to my mom more but since my dad works at our house I get to see him everyday and I love it!
23. Who would you want on a deserted island with you? My Timmy
24. Have you been bungee jumping? No and I don't think I ever will I think I would pee my pants before I jumped!
25. Favorite ice cream flavor? Rocky Road baby!
26. Do you have an article of clothing you have had since you were in high school? Yes I got this black skirt and I still wear all the time! I got it my sophmore year too!
27. Did you play high school sports? No but I did try out for the softball team but I got cut!
28. Were you ever in a school talent show? No I wasn't talented enough :)
29. What are you allergic to? Loratab
30. Have you watched sex and the city? No
31. Fun place you lived? Logan Utah
32. First kiss? I think it was Brian Mangum when I was 16
33. Favorite Hobby? I like cooking when I have the time, scrapbooking, decorating, and gardening.
34. Most Memorible Gift? My Grandma Stephenson gave me this statue of a boy milking a cow on my 2nd birthday and I still have it.
35. Have you ever gambled at a casino? Yes, Tim and I decided to do 5 bucks and of course we lost it so we decided to never do that again.
36. Have you thrown up on a plane? Yes I have its a great experience :(
37. Have you thrown up in a car? No
38. Favorite cartoon as a kid? I loved the Muppet Babies
39. favorite childhood tv show? Saved by the Bell and Full House
40. Who was your first roommate? Becca Beutler she was great!
41. What alcoholic beverage did you drink when you got drunk for the first time?I've never had a drink.
42. What was your first car? It was a 91' Corsica that had no power steering, and no AC
43. What was the last movie you saw? Princess
44. How old were you when you first moved away from your hometown? 18
45. Who was your first grade teacher? I don't remember
46. Where did you go on your first airplane ride? Probably to Utah
47. When you snuck out of your house for the first time, who was it with? I snuck out with my brother Brandon and my cousin Heather. We decided to stay up all night and by 3 in the morning we got bored so we walked around the neighborhood.
48. Who was your first Best Friend and are you still friends with them? My first best friend was Michelle Swanson and I haven't seen her for 15 years.
49. Who is the first person you call when you have a bad day? Tim or my mom
50. Who's wedding were you in the first time you were a bridesmaid or a groomsman? I was in Jennifer Condrey's wedding
51. What is the first thing you do in the morning? I got Potty!
52. What are some concerts you have attended? Ricky Martin (yes I will admit that) Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Tim Mcgraw, Sugar Ray
53. First tattoo or piercing? I got my ear's pierced when I was 7.
54. First celebrity crush? Jonathan Taylor Thomas!

Updates!

2008-04-19T18:49:00.001-07:00

So I haven't written a blog for awhile and its not that nothing has been happening around here but that I don't have any pictures. So I decided to just write a blog without pictures this time sorry! :) All is well with the Adams family we have had 6 German Shepherds at our house for about nine months now and just this week we sold 2 of them! I am so excited! My husband thought he was going to train them but he doesn't have the time so we decided to sell them, that means that Shannon doesn't have to take care of them anymore. (That makes Shannon very happy) We are also selling our 2 year old male so if anyone wants to buy him you know who to contact! So that was some pretty exciting news for me this week. Tim is still working like crazy at Cintas and his construction company Boulder Creek, and he also trains dogs so he's pretty busy but I think he likes it that way. We still hang out mostly every night so I'm doing pretty good with all his jobs.
Matt has been so funny lately. Since we got back from our cruise he has been throwing fits, I thought that maybe he was mad at me for leaving for a week but now I see that he's getting to the terrible two's stage. So that's been so much fun this week. If anyone has any ideas about how to deal with that please let me know. Lately whenever he hears music he starts leading it like in church. I think I have a picture of that so I'll have to download that next time. Its so funny though in church now he has to stand on my lap and lead the music with both hands whenever he hears it. I've had many people tell me how cute they think it is. So yeah life is good right now nothing bad which is good just going through life. Until next time.....

More Pics

2008-04-09T18:42:00.000-07:00

So the next day we went to Grand Cayman and swam with Sting Rays. I thought I would like this but I ended up freaking out. It was the creepiest feeling to have them glide across your legs and one even jumped on my back! Everyone got a kick out of that. But I loved watching everyone from the boat!
We also had Island night later and Tim wore his Bob Marley shirt and I wore my Jamaica shirt. They had dancing and Tim participated in the many events they had. He even won a bottle of champagne. But since we don't drink he gave it to the runner up who we didn't know at the time was only 18. Yeah we felt bad afterwards.
This is all my cousins eating in Cozumel, Mexico. We went to the best Mexican restaurant(if you can believe it we're in Mexico!). We ended up going snorkeling which I didn't get any pics of and Tim got really sick on the boat and threw up. I felt so bad for him.
This is our last day at the Bahamas. That's our ship in the back round. I was so happy to go on this trip because we really needed a break from life and we needed to just hang out with each other.

I'm Back!!!

2008-04-09T18:23:00.001-07:00

So I'm back again! I was on a cruise for a week and I just haven't got back into the groove of things. The cruise we went on was fantastic! I went with a bunch of my cousins, their spouses, and my aunt and uncle. We started out in Ft. Lauderdale Florida and went to Ocho Rios Jamaica, Grand Cayman, Cozumel Mexico, and we ended at the Bahamas. I got a little sick one day when we were at sea all day and the boat was rocking back and forth like crazy but other then that it was good. I wasn't able to fit all my pictures on here so I'll have to do another blog of some more pictures. The picture above is the first day in Florida, we were waiting the get on the boat so we went to the beach. From left to right Shannon, Heather, Lisa, Melanie, and Shauna. It was fun just hanging out at the beach and actually feeling warm!
The first day of the cruise was my birthday so the waiter and all my family sang Happy Birthday to me. I was a little embarrassed but it was fun!
This is the first night we went to a show on board. From bottom to top: Shannon , Shauna, Mike, James, Heather, Scott, Lisa, Uncle Mike, Aunt Diane, Melanie, and Carl. They had some awesome shows every night and the comedian was hilarious!
The next day we were at sea all day long so we just hung out on the boat and explored. Then later that night it was formal night so we all looked so great in our formal wear. Then we went and did some karaoke. This is a picture of Heather and Melanie singing, Oops I did it again. They were hilarious and Heather can do a great Britney Spears.
The next day we were in Jamaica. We climbed Dunn's River Falls and it was awesome. I fell a couple of times along with everyone else but it was so fun and so warm. This is a pic of Tim and me at the top. So this was all the pictures I was allowed to put on my blog so I'll write more later.

Easter 2008

2008-03-25T13:07:00.001-07:00

This is a picture of Matt after he opened his Easter basket. He could have cared less about the things inside the basket, he loved the blue grass! That is a great toy for kids to just throw around but a pain to clean up.
Here's a picture of Tim and Matt right before we went to church. Matt had his new outfit on that his Grandma Adams gave him and he looked so cute!
Here's a picture of Matt and me. Matt also went to nursery for the first time today. He just turned 18 months old I can't believe it! It was funny because Tim and me were freaking out thinking he wouldn't like and and he loved it. When we went to pick him up he was asleep and all the kids were playing around him. =)
After church we went to my mom's house and had dinner and an Easter egg hunt. Since Matt is the only grandchild he had lots of eggs to get all by himself. He wasn't sure what he was doing but he liked picking the eggs up and shaking them. It was a great Easter and I'm so thankful for my family and friends.

Matt's New Haircut

2008-03-19T18:38:00.000-07:00

So today I decided to trim Matt's hair because it was going past his ears. So I get out the trimmer and start to do it and what happens I go to far and I have to shave his entire head! I actually almost started crying. I love him with hair but its nice to not have to do it as well. So from now on I told Tim I'm going to take him to a professional because I pretty much don't know what I'm doing. :)
This is a better view of his little head. :( But he still looks cute! That's all that matters right?

Lots of Fun Stuff Happening!

2008-03-15T18:55:00.000-07:00

So its been awhile since my last post and that's because our computer was not working. We just got it back yesterday so I'm blogging again! Last Sunday we went to Tim's parents house and hung out with them and these are a couple of pictures that we got. This is Matt, his cousin Carter and Grandpa (do you notice Tim texting in the back round wow there's a shock!) The boys always have fun together and its great being with family
Here is a picture of the boys playing go fish with Grandma. They had fun being with there Grandma.
This was on Tuesday when the weather was awesome. I took Matt to the park and Tim saw me outside playing so he grabbed the camera and got a picture of us. For those of you who have never been to my house we live right behind a park so its so nice for Matt to be able to play over there.
Sorry I didn't rotate the picture I forgot but this is Matt and my dad and Matt has his cute hat on. He was totally into hats on Thursday and he wanted some hat on his head all day long. It was really funny. He hasn't done that since this day. Kids can be so random sometimes I love it!
This is a picture of the Rascal Flatts concert which was two weeks ago. It was so fun! Me and a bunch of my cousins went out to dinner and then to the concert. It was a pretty good concert I just wish they could have sang more then talked. I love their music though!

So Matt's been sick these last two days and I feel so bad for him. He started throwing up yesterday afternoon and he hasn't stopped. Then today I thought we were doing good and all of the sudden he throws up again later this afternoon. This has been a long long long winter, and I am so excited for nice hot weather.

Oh I wanted to update you about my hip, so I talked to my doctor and I guess I have a tare in my hip. I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do because the surgery for it is pretty bad so I'm going to talk to him on Monday and see what the best option would be. I don't want to get surgery but if that's the only thing that will help me feel better I guess I don't have any other choice. So hopefully I can figure something else out but if I can't I am glad that we have modern technology to help with these problems. Until next time.....

Updates!

2008-03-05T21:10:00.000-08:00

So I wanted to update everyone on how Matt is doing. A couple of days after his really high fever he broke out in a nasty rash. So I took him to the doctor and he looked at him and diagnosed him with Roseola no pneumonia. So I was glad that he didn't have pneumonia but I wasn't sure what Roseola was. He said its a virus that kids between the age of 1-2 get sometimes and they get a really high fever followed by a rash all over their bodies. So now he's completely over everything and doing great!
So I went and got an MRI done today on my hip. I was actually really nervous because I just want to know what's going on. For those of you who don't know I've had hip pain because I dislocated my hip 9 years ago and its never gone away so now I'm trying to figure out what is wrong with it. So I get to the hospital and the doctor tells me that they have to inject this colored dye in my hip so they can see all the different ligaments and tendons and stuff. I had no idea they were going to inject me with anything. So I get the the "Injection" room and the needle is no lie longer then my finger. I thought I was going to pass out. He had to go to my bone to get my hip completely numb and then they stuck this little tube in my hip to put the fluid in there. I had this done at 3:00 and now its 10:00 and my hip is still numb and half of my leg. My body does not do well with injections. So anyway I was going to get my MRI done and they ask me do you have anything metal on your body and I say no. So they have me all strapped in and there putting me down the tube and I forgot I had bobby pins in my hair! So it felt like someone was trying to pull all my hair out. I started yelling at the guy to get me out and he probably thought I was an idiot but I don't care. So then I had my arms down by my side and after twenty five mins. the lady gets on the speaker and asks if I have my arms on my side, I told her I did and she said I wasn't suppose to have them there so they had to start the test all over again. So I had to be in the tube for another 25 mins, I seriously thought I would never get out!
Then to top everything off they put my right leg in a weird position so they could see my left hip good so when I finally got out of the tube my right leg hurt so bad! I was walking out of the hospital looking like an idiot. I had my left leg numb to my knee and my other leg was in so much pain. I would have loved to be a bystander looking at me I would have laughed my head off! So anyway there's an update of my lovely MRI experience. I'll post again when I find out what's going on. Until then......

What a Week!

2008-02-24T22:04:00.000-08:00

We started out the week by visiting Grandma Bishop. We haven't seen her for awhile so we decided to go visit. She didn't want me to take her picture but I took one anyway!
This is a picture of Matt with his pants on his head. Tim thinks its so funny to bug him and this was one thing he did a couple of weeks ago. I love the way he's posing!
At the end of the week on Friday I got together with some of my old friends from College. We graduated together and since there was only 10 of us graduating in community health we all became tight. We haven't seen each other since graduation so it was fun to catch up see each other's kids and just hang out. Matt was not very happy in the picture because he was sick and I didn't know it yet.
He's been sick all weekend long with a very high fever. We took him to the doctor on Friday night and we found out he has pneumonia. I feel so bad for him. He's taking lots of medicine right now though so hopefully he'll get better soon.

Fun Pictures

2008-02-17T20:23:00.000-08:00

This is a picture of Matt on his first birthday which was on September 21. (I know this is totally late but I didn't have a blog at that time so I'm posting this for fun now!) He had a cake all for himself and he loved it! I had never given him any type of candy until this point so when he tasted the goodness of chocolate he loved it! I wonder where he got that from? :)

My brother Brandon decided to paint a beard on his face since he had cake all over his face already. You've got to love brothers!
This is a picture of Matt with is Grandma and Grandpa Adams. He loves being with them.
This is a picture of Matt at the zoo for his birthday with my mom. She wants him to call her Grammie. Matt also loves hanging out with Grammie as well.

Happy Valentines (One day Late)

2008-02-15T11:32:00.000-08:00

Well I hope that everyone had a good Valentines day. To my suprise I didn't do anything I thought I would do yesterday. Every year Tim and I switch who is in charge of Valentines day and this year it was my turn. So I thought that since Tim was going to work Matt and I would suprise him and come visit him and bring a bag of treats. So I had this plan in mind but then yesterday morning Tim tells me that he's taking the whole day off work to be with me! He hasn't had a day off for a very long time. He's been working all week long doing Cintas/Construction stuff and then on Saturdays he trains dogs until 4:00 so pretty much he's never home during the week. He changed all of his appointments so that he could be with me. That's all I wanted to Valentines and I thought it was great. We ended up not being together most of the day because I had to get an x-ray on my hip and that took forever. But after that we went to the mall and went shopping, got new phones, and got some takeout from Cafe Rio. I wasn't in the mood to take Matt anywhere he was so cranky. Then we watched a movie last night and tonight Tim's mom is going to watch Matt so we can actually go out to a movie. I'm very happy that we celebrate Valentines Day because I think we sometimes forget to take time out for the people we love the most. I hope my amazing husband had a great day and I just enjoyed spending time with him. Oh by the day I have not seen any mice for about a week now! I think there all gone Yeah!

Update

2008-02-10T21:05:00.000-08:00

So we caught two mice this week. Yeah! We got these cool mice traps that are a little square box and they have this sticky stuff on the bottom so when the mice try to run underneath it they get stuck. We've caught two mice this way and it seems to work well. We hope that's all the mice that are in the house. Let's cross our fingers!
This has been a pretty frusterating week with Matt. He's cutting a tooth and he's been very cranky. I feel so bad for him but I don't know what to do to make him happy. He pretty much wants me to hold him all day long and since I can't do that he gets upset. So hopefully this week will be better and he'll be feeling better.
My little world right now is pretty much the same I've just been reading lots of books this week so I don't go crazy with Matt. If anyone likes LDS romance novels I totally recommend Anita Stansfield books they are awesome! My mom has all of them so I just borrow them from her. Other than the whole crazy thing with the mice we've had a pretty slow moving week. I'm excited for Valentines Day this year because I'm in charge so I need to come up with something fun to do does anyone have any suggestions?

I survived!

2008-02-04T10:59:00.000-08:00

I just wanted everyone to know that I survived the night without a scratch or a nibble on my body. If your wondering what in the heck I'm talking about you'll need to read my post below.

What a Day!

2008-02-03T21:48:00.000-08:00

Okay so your probably wondering why I put this picture of a mouse on my post right, well I'll tell you why. So today has been a very weird day to say the least. This morning we wake up and what a suprise its snowing again, but this time its a blizzard outside. So I'm getting ready for church and I notice that Matt is not with me, so I look into my room and I see him with my cleansing cream all over his hands. He was wiping his hands on the pillows, the dresser, the carpet, and all over himself. I would have taken a picture but I was in a hurry to get us ready for church. So I clean him up and we get to church in all the snow. So we only had sacrament meeting because the snow was so bad so we all got to go home early. We helped everyone in our area shovel their driveways and some paths so we can all get out cars out and it was nice helping out all of our neighbors. We tried to watch the Superbowl but I pretty much only like it for the commercials so when the game wasn't on I was all tuned in to see which commercial would be funny. Tim and I were shocked to see that the Giants won the Superbowl! Wow good for them! So anyway the rest of the day went pretty good until later tonight. I was in my room reading a book when all of the sudden this little mouse comes running out of our bathroom. I was screaming and Tim was wondering what in the heck was going on. I told him there was a mouse in the bathroom and he told me to bring a dog upstairs to ge the mouse. So I do this and the dog goes to be with Tim. So anyway I'm sitting there again and all of the sudden the mouse runs down the hall. So we looked for the mouse everywhere and we couldn't find it. So now I'm pretty freaked out to go to bed because all I can think of is this mouse crawling all over me while I sleep. EWWWWW! I'll write later and let you all know if I survived the night!

I'm Tagging myself

2008-01-22T21:59:00.000-08:00

So lots of my friends have been tagged to do stuff and they always say on their posts to tag yourself so here I am tagging myself so that everyone can get to know me better!

4 Jobs I've had...
1. Anniversary Inn
2. Garts Sports
3 Hogi Yogi
4. The Toddle Inn

4 Movies you Love...
1. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
2. Phantom of the Opera
3. The Notebook
4. Pirates of the Caribbean (all three movies)

4 Places I've lived...
1. Mt. Airy Maryland
2. Orem Utah
3. Logan Utah
4. Draper Utah

4 T.V shows I love...
1. Friends
2. American Idol
3. The News
4. Gilmore Girls

4 Places I've Vacationed...
1. San Diego California
2. Yellowstone National Park
3. Maryland
4. Vegas Baby!

4 Foods I love...
1. Steak and Potatoes
2. Fried Chicken
3. Anything with chocolate
4. Chips

4 Sites I visit Often...
1. my e-mail account
2. blogs
3. stephenie meyers website
4. ksl.com

4 places I'd rather be right now...
1. On a sunny beach with Tim
2. In my bed
3. Taking a hot bath, and reading a good book
4. On the couch watching a good movie

I dare anyone to tag themselves and answer these questions!

Matty!!!

2008-01-22T14:01:00.000-08:00

So Matt is so funny now and I love it! He gets into everything of course but I love watching him figure things out all by himself. A couple of days ago he got into all my plastic lids and took them all out and sat in the container. He looked so cute and inoccent I had to take a picture of him.

So Tim thought it would be funny to put Matt's shirt over his head and have him walk around. Matt thought it was funny as well. But we didn't leave his shirt like this for long. It is so much fun watching him grow up into a little toddler and learn how to do things all by himself. I am so grateful that I can be there to watch him.

Happy Birthday Tim!

2008-01-10T12:49:00.000-08:00

Tim is turning 27 on January 12 and I wanted to dedicate this post to him since he is my sweetheart and the love of my life. I am so thankful for Tim and for all that he does for our family. He is such a hard worker and I am so grateful for the attribute he has. One of his goals in life is to help other people throughout his life and I think this is a great goal to always have. He is a great dad and Matt loves playing with him and just being around him. They always have so much fun together. He is also very patient with me and all my faults. I wanted to end my saying 10 things I love about him.

Why I love Tim...

1. He loves me for me!

2. His love for animals

3. He puts his family first in his life

4. He loves the gospel and would do anything for the church

5. He values his priesthood authority

6. His love for learning and growing

7. He loves reading everything about the gospel

8. He loves the Jazz!!!

9. He is always thinking of ways to improve his life

10. He is the best husband in the whole world!!!!

I love you honey! Happy Birthday!!!

New Year's Eve

2008-01-01T13:09:00.000-08:00

This is a picture of me and Tim at the Jazz game! We had great seats and we had so much fun just hanging out together !

This is a picture of what the guy was doing during half time. He could bend his body in ways that was pretty crazy. In this pic he bent his body to fit in this little box. He could also put his legs behind his head and walk around on his hands. Wow it was pretty crazy to watch him.

This is just a pic of the game. The Jazz did great and it was nice to see them actually win for a change. After the Jazz game we went to Tim's grandma's house and hung out with his family playing games until midnight. Matt was asleep the entire time which was really nice. But we had a great new year's eve and I hope that whoever reads this blog did as well! Happy New Year Everyone!

Early Christmas

2007-12-23T22:13:00.000-08:00

So we decided to have an early Christmas for Matt. We're going to be gone on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to our families houses so we decided to let Matt open our gifts. He's still in his pj's because he's not feeling very well but he still has a cute smile on his face!

He needed some help with his gifts because he's still not quite sure what to do. (Sorry about the pic I couldn't get it turned)

Here is Tim and Matt playing with his toys that he got. They have so much fun together!

Tubing

2007-12-21T10:01:00.000-08:00

So last night my entire family went tubing up at Soldier Hollow. It was so much fun! The best part is you just grab your tube and then they hook you up to this pully system and it pulls you up the mountain so you don't have to walk! The runs weren't very slippery but we still had so much fun. It was snowing like crazy and it looked like we were in a snow globe it was beautiful. We did a huge train of 8 of us going down the slope and it wasn't very fast but it was fun. Matt got to hang out in the lodge with his grandma and they had fun together. It was nice of my mom to watch Matt so Tim and I could have some fun together. It was really fun just being together as an entire family, that doesn't happen very often with everyone's different schedules. On our way home Provo Canyon was crazy. People were off the road, and we had to go about 20 mph almost the entire canyon. It was a long ride home but it was fun hanging out with Sarah and Cody in the car. So we get home and I told Tim to put Matt to bed and this morning when I went to get him he was still in his clothes plus is shoes! I was laughing my head off. I knew that Tim would leave his clothes on but his shoes too? Then just a second ago I went to check on Matt in his crib because he's suppose to be taking a nap and he had thrown everything out of his crib including his blankets, stuffed animals, binki, and pants. He was in the process of taking off his shirt. He is so funny I love my little boy so much! Sorry I don't have any pics I forgot my camera last night. What was I thinking!

Weekend of Fun!!!

2007-12-16T22:16:00.000-08:00

So this weekend was fun and also a little stressful. We started out by dropping Matt off at my parents house to spend the night and to have some quality time with them. Then we went to my cousin Heather's house for her annual birthday party. Her husband James always creates a game with 10 rounds that have all sorts of questions and fun things to do. We were divided into three teams and we had so much fun during the game. We had pop culture questions, sports, world trivia, and of course a sing off! It was great watching people sing the song A Whole New World from the Aladdin soundtrack. Of course my team came in dead last which it does every year but who cares we had a blast! (Thanks James and Heather)
So we get home from the party and our heater stopped working. So we had a heat vent by our bed and that kept up pretty warm but when we woke up the next morning it was only 50 degrees in our house! If Matt would have been there we would have called the heating repair man that night but luckily he slept over at my parents house. So Tim spent all day trying to repair out heater and calling the repair man. I spent all day at my parents house watching Matt because there was no way I was bringing him home in a 50 degree house. You never realize how nice it is to have a heated home when you don't have it anymore. So finally in the afternoon Tim got the heating fixed and Matt and I came home. Then we had some friends over that night and we had dinner and we watched the movie Elf. That movie is hilarious! I just love Will Farrel's facial expressions! So it was a good weekend with only some mishaps.

Bubble wrap/Snow/Holiday Movies

2007-12-09T22:22:00.000-08:00

Here is a picture of Matt playing with bubble wrap. Tim got a new picture and Matt loved playing with the box/bubble wrap. I was trying to show Matt how to pop the bubble wrap and he just looked at me and laughed. He didn't quite understand how to pop it but I'm sure he will someday. I love watching him discover new things and see things for the first time. Just watching the expressions on his face makes me so excited. I am so blessed to be his mom and to watch him grow up.
So I've been thinking about all this great snow we've been getting this weekend. I love the snow. I love looking at it while it comes down and playing in it. The only thing I don't like about it is driving in it. Sometimes I get impatient and I want to drive faster then I should and then I see people on the side of the road and then it reminds me to slow down. But I am grateful for all the snow we've been getting we really need to moisture.

Its been kind of a weird week I've really been into holiday movies. Any movie I see that's on that has to do with Christmas I either watch or tape so I can watch it later. I usually watch it when Matt goes to sleep and Tim goes to sleep (he goes to bed around 9:00 because he gets up around 5am). Its actually really put me into the holiday spirit and I've really enjoyed it. I won't be able to watch movies this week because now I have to play catch up and actually get my Christmas shopping/wrapping done. Sorry for the long post, if you read all of this your a trooper!

San Diego Trip

2007-12-05T13:37:00.000-08:00

So we went on a trip to San Diego with our friends Ryan and Janine and their kids Taylor and Alissa. We had so much fun all together. Janine works for Jet Blue and the week before their trip they invited us to go because she got two free airline tickets. We got to San Diego around 7:00pm so we ate dinner and went to bed because we were all tired. This is a pic of Matt in his crip at the Hotel. We thought this crip looked like it should be in an orphanange. It was a pretty sad crib.
So the next day we went to Sea World and we had so much fun! Matt loved all the animals at the park and he even got to pet a dolphin. It was around 85 degrees there it was awesome weather. We just went to all the different shows that they have and just hung out and had fun. The kids were also great.

The next day we decided to head up to L.A. because we thought we could get a better flight out of their airport. But first we went to the beach. This was Matt's first time and he just kept looking at us like where are we? He did like the noise the ocean made. The kids got in the water and had lots of fun playing, but he adults on the other hand were not about to swim and then drive a couple of hours. Oh to be a kid again! This is a pic of Matt's first time in the ocean. Right as Tim was taking the pictures a wave came up behind me and got me pants all wet. You can see the suprise look on my face. After the beach we drove to L.A. and went shopping a little bit and then went to the airport. It was a short trip but we had so much fun just getting away and not having to worry about anything for awhile. Its fun to get away sometimes and not have to think about all the stress of the world. Its even better getting away when you don't have to pay for the airplane tickets (Thanks Janine!).

2007-12-03T15:21:00.000-08:00

This is a picture of our family that we just got taken. Hopefully having a blog can keep me connected better with people and I can see what's going on in everyone's lives.

My First Post

2007-12-03T15:07:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone! So I decided to be cool like everyone else and start a blog. I didn't do one for a long time because my life really isn't that exciting. But I thought It was a great way to stay connected to everyone. Life is good right now. Matt is doing great and he is so cute! I'm posting some pictures of him on here that we got taken about a month ago. Tim went out of town for a couple of days so I'm here holding down the fort. I don't know what else to really write so I'll write something later.