New Tricks

The kids have been learning lots of new tricks in this wonderful fall weather.  Izzy got it in her head last week that she needed her training wheels off..Once something gets in her head there is no changing her mind...So she helped her dadday take them off.     "

One good push from her daddy and

Voila!  She did it...And she is a wild woman!  She is riding all over the place, and taught herself to start without help as well..I'm super proud that my 4 year old little girl is doing it!  (Tyler was not quite as excited to get his off, at an older age too)

The other day I here Tyler yelling to me "You gotta see this"  He has learned to ride with no hands!  He has since moved on to hands above his head with the rock on symbol and yelling  "ROCK ON!"  Jared and I have bets on how long its going to be before he breaks a bone!

Back to School

I can't figure out why my pictures are turned, so..sorry...School started, a while ago...Tyler is in the second grade, and seems to  love it!  I personally think that the first grade work was just too easy for him and was bored...Of course all moms think their kids are genius's...but I really think its true...Last year his spelling words were, it, the, was, is, who, what, where etc...Or they all rhymed and had the same ending...This year a whole different story, such as remarked, appreciate, children, worried, acrobat....And he is doing so well!  NO calls from the teacher about talking as of yet!!  So maybe he just needed a challenge..Last year is AR scores were very poor, which was very frustrating considering how long he'd been reading..Now this year he is at a 93%...again he has harder books, which seem to make more sense to him...He brought home an assigment for a science project, and he and his dad have been hard at work for a couple weeks, and he is so excited to take it to school next week.

Our baby, is no longer a baby!  She started preschool this month, and is enjoying every minute!  She is acting so grown up lately, makes me very sad :(.  Yesterday she informed us that today they would be going on a fall walk and we were not allowed to come, only teachers...Her dad said "well I want to go on your fall walk with you"  And she informed him no way!  I was a little concerned for her because she just misses the cut off to be able to go to kindergarten this year...and all the kids in her primary class got to go..The kids she will go to school with are sunbeams right now. and she calls them the babies...But that first day of school when I had to leave her, broke my heart..I KNOW that if that had been kindergarten, and we would have turned around and gone home..There would have been no way I would've left my baby! And she hasn't said one word about going to preschool with the babies!

Our new Addition!

 We've had a new addition to our family in the last month..


Meet Gracie

She is the cutest little thing!  I'm still not quite sure how I got suckered into getting them a puppy....I am not a dog lover, or animal lover period...But since we can't seem to have babies at our house, we got the next best thing!  And it has been so fun!

But she has the cutest personalityl...this is one of her favorite games to play.  We try to touch her paw and then she tries to get our hand..We all end up laughing hysterically .

 

This is where she has ended up sleeping..She starts out on the floor in her bed...but at somepoint Tyler puts her bed up in his bed, and then she ends up sleeping on his lap...It is pretty cute.

She has to be involved in everything!  Here they were taking the training wheels off Izzy's bike, and she thought she could help.

My baby boy turne 8 on the 8th. I still am in shock over it. I can't believe I am old enough to have an 8 year old. This year he requested a drag racing party. It was not an easy task to come up with activities centered around drag racing yet age appropriate for 8 and 9 year olds.















Grandma and Papa, gave him a pair of Binoculars...but his mom had requested school clothes, so grandma listened. And as you can tell from this picture, he was not happy about that at all!















In our house,birthday celebrations last all day. So here is Tyler with his favorite breakfast with a candle in it, and a "fancy glass" with his chocolate milk.















He was much happier with the nerf gun he had requested.

One day I told Isabella to go get dressed after we were done running through the sprinklers and slip and slide. Well she came out like this. Yup, leggings, knee socks and church shoes. She looked awesome! So I say "Wow sis you look sexy!" Well that was a mistake. For the next 2 weeks everything was sexy. Everything she put on, she'd say "is this sexy?" She was wearing my big sun hat everywhere and told all the neighbors that she had her moms sexy hat on. I was mortified (inbetween Jared and I's laughing hysterically).

But thats not the worst part...She started running around the house with her arms in the air like super man yelling "Sex girl to the rescue!" The first time she did it I was shocked!! I said "what did you say?" She says "I'm sex girl, I help people!" So explain she probably better not say that, and the smart pants goes "But you said it! You said I was a sexy girl!" Well she had me there, so like the good mother I am I convince her I said sassy. So then she ran around saying she was "Sassy Girl." Phew, that could've been bad. Thank goodness the sexy phase has passed us! I'll have to choose my words more careful next time she comes out in one of "her" outfits!

Projects, Projects, Projects

Over the last year or so, I have worked on lots and lots of projects...Mainly baby presents. This is one of the latest..( I have more, I just can't find the pics yet.) THis is one that I made for a friend of mine when she had her baby last month.

Yep, its a catepillar!!! I thought it was very cute!! just tooting my own horn a minute!!

Projects

We've been working on lots of projects around our house! On Memorial Day we sought out on a big one....A new shed. My hubby is amazing! He started it about 9 that morning and by 9 that night we were finished! I even helped..It was pretty simple putting it together until Jared's helper(I won't say her name) gave him the wrong length of 2 x 4....twice...and he had to make some alterations.

Its amazing we could go from this huge pile of what looked like scraps.

To this

To This

And finally This!

Remi Sure thought he was helping that day.

Cruise

I can't get the words and pictures all worked out, so just keep reading and hopefully it will all make sense. I also still need to scan in the professional photos we got taken as well.


In June, Jared and I had to the chance to go on a fabulous cruise to the Mexican Riveria. Because I have soo many pictures I'm just going to post them all. Unfortunately I didn't take many pictures though..I carried my camera EVERYWHERE with me, but we'd get done doing something and then I'd remember I had it. The cruise was great, it was nice to relax and be I waited on hand and foot..They cleaned our room every time we left it, and the service at dinner was amazing..I haven't been able to eat out in Soda Springs since we got back (Soda has the worst service EVER). Except for the last day on very rough water and we both got sick, it was great!

We had towel animals on our bed at night, and I thought they were all so cute. Except I forgot to take a picture til our last night. I even took a towel folding class..So if you ever need a towel animal, you let me know!!

Every day in the elevator it had the day of the week on the floor. I laughed and laughed at this..Then one day we got in the elevator at 12:05 AM and it had already been changed.

I just thought this sign was hilarious! Really its pesos, which makes it only $1.90 in US but still, I laughed a lot at this. Don't mind me in the picture we'd been at the beach all day, salt water does wonders on the hair.

Its about time!!!

OK I know its been forever since I've put anything up!! I was kind of boycotting my blog, NO ONE reads it. But I think today I will finally put some stuff up for my 2 readers! So keep checking back!

Relay for Life

On July 30th, several people have joined Bear River Chiropractic and we will be participating in the Race for the Cure. We will walk from 6pm to 6 am. CANCER NEVER SLEEPS AND NEITHER WILL WE!! Jared and I's Grandpa's both suffered from cancer. We do have to earn a certain amount of money. So if any of you amazing people out there could donate to either Jared or I, it would be great! Even if its only $10, it helps us reach our goal, and helps the American Cancer Society, hopefully find a cure. If you would like to donate, the easiest way is to go to our race for the cure website, and either do Jared's name or my name and you can donate right there.

The website is well, I can't get it to copy and paste, but if you go to relayforlife.org/sodaspringsid you should be able to navigate through...i will keep working on getting the exact link to post.

Our new niece Ellie came for a visit today. We were so excited. And she is soo cute! There is NOTHING like a newborn (1 week) baby. Especially in a house where our baby is 4 1/2.

Izzy decided that she like to help feed her.

I had to take a picture of her hair. She has so much hair and it is black! I have never seen anything like it. But Jared's mom said that most of her babies had dark hair like that.

She was awake and so alert for much of the time we got to see her. Too cute!!

This week Cami, Tyler & Jaxson came and spent part of their spring break with us! I don't know who was more excited for them to come, the kids or Cami & I!!!

Izzy looks all sweet here like she was helping Jaxson and playing with him...Which was true for part of the time, unless he found a toy he wanted that she decided she didn't want him to play with. Then it was on! She had a bit of a hard with that part of it....I guess thats what happens when your the baby!

And yes, she is in a swimsuit, and Jaxson was in his jammies, because it was 8:00 in the morning...we were going to Lava that day, and Izzy wanted to go the second she got up. We ended up going that night. We didn't get any pictures, but Jaxson LOVED it! Aunt Stephy even put him all the way under the water, for the very first time. I'm pretty sure I gave his daddy a heart attack! While we were there, Jaxson looked at Jared and waved(for the first time!) It was pretty cute. Jaxson also started saying his version of hi while here too. I think he just loved being with us!!

Jaxson was just too cute! He loves the water, and he was bouncing up and down watching the water fill up the bath, he was so excited to get in. I think its because Aunt Stephy is much more fun than his boring ol' mom and dad who lay him down in the bath. Aunt Stephy let him sit up and play and splash!

One of those "nice" moments out of Izzy, where she really just wanted to hold and love on Jaxson.

Again another one of those nice moments, but notice that there were no toys involved in this one. So she didn't feel quite at threatened I guess.












Tyler just loved Jaxson. I really think Jaxson loved him too. Every time he would see Tyler, he would open his mouth and want to kiss Tyler. But apparently, 7 1/2 year olds don't kiss on the mouth, so he kept turning his cheek to him. Jaxson would be so confused and get this look on his face like "what was that?" Then he would open his mouth again, but Tyler was not too big on the whole kissing thing.












I found this picture, apparently Tyler tried to take their picture himself.
















The first night they were here, Tyler thought maybe Aunt Cami wouldn't notice if Jaxson slept with him