August's Everyday Moments

August has been a strange mix of happy and sad moments.  Sad that we moved from good friends. It is always so hard for me to change. A new home, new neighborhood, new ward, new new new. I love it but I definitely don't love feeling a little lost.  

But mostly, it is full of happy:

Happy that we have this little guy in our lives, he is such a joy

Happy that we have cousins close by again. Oh how we have missed cousin playdates:

and happy whenever we get a moment with this man:

I love these every day moments that make up our lives.

Ryder's big boy bed!!

Well...here's the first sneak peak into our new home.  

Ryder's room:

Our crazy little man figured out how to climb out of the crib. It was the coolest trick ever, so he had to practice it over and over and OVER...at 9pm, 2am, 4am, 6 am...

SO. we decided he might as well be in a bed instead of possibly getting hurt while he climbs out of a crib in the pitch black. He LOVES his room and bed and has done so great in it.  I did put a child lock on his door so he knows he has to stay in there during sleeping hours. It took him a couple of nights to be okay with that and now we are ALL getting much more sleep. Awesome!!!

I can't believe my baby is getting so big!  Everytime I say that, though,  Weston reminds me that I have a new baby now... so here's to my big 2-year-old. 

We sure love you Ryder!!

School is Fin-tastic!

We had a fun back to school party the night before West started school.  

We had pizza for dinner at a park and then the boys came home to this surprise set up:

The yummy dessert:

West had to add fish for the sharks to eat, of course:

We made a fun little shark craft (the teeth spelled out their names)

Weston was one happy kiddo to be heading off to school the next morning:

Our cute Tave could NOT wait for his turn the next week. (9-05-2012) 

He was so thrilled to start preschool. His favorite part about it (so far) is the little tree house:

I can't believe both my boys are at school now. They are LOVING it and so happy to be learning!

Nicole & Shar's Birthday!

 Shar & Travis moved here August 18th, just in time for us to spend our birthday together! YAY!!!

It is SO much fun to have the kiddos back together again. 

They are having a blast, and we are loving it too!!

So they stayed at our house for the weekend and Monday morning (our b-day) the guys let us sleep in. 

We had to be ready to leave by 10am and that's when they gave us our gift:  the day together!!  

It was awesome.

We went to Kneaders for the amazing french toast breakfast. Then headed to the mall for mani/pedis. Bliss.

Did some shopping and then met up with the guys for a date night dinner.

After dinner we went back to our house for a fun party with the kiddos.

It was AWEsome. So amazing. I love my birthday...Jeff sure knows how to spoil me!!!

Love my sister:

Happy Birthday to us!

The guys made our favorite dessert, cream cheese pie with fresh fruit. And they ROCKED. 

It was THE best pie ever. Really, they made it better than I ever have. 

Cute kiddos enjoying the food:

Ryder loved my party  hat:

Happy Birthday Shar!  

Love this little fam:

I love my crazy guys!

Callen's Blessing

August 19, 2012

We waited to bless our sweet Callen until we had family in town.  

Shar & Travis were moving back to UT (YAY!)  at the end of August so it turned out perfectly! 

My dad helped move them out so my parents were both able to be here for it.

I love baby blessings.

It is such a sweet day to recognize what a gift this little man is in our lives. 

I love being married to a man who honors the priesthood he holds and, above all, honors our Father in Heaven.  Watching Jeff take our baby in his arms and, along with the other amazing men in our lives, gives our baby a blessing, fills my heart with love and gratitude. 

We are so grateful Heavenly Father sent him to our family and that he is ours forever.

(it was a VERY windy morning, but we had to take some pictures while everyone was dressed up!)

Love this family of mine:

The priesthood truly is amazing:

Our family:  Travis, Shar, and girls, US & boys, Mom, Dad, & Mckenon

Our wonderful friends, Will, Geniel, & their cute kiddos (the boys best friends) joined us for Callen's special day. We are so glad they came:

After sacrament meeting, the kids had a little energy to get out:

Love my bro:

Mom, me, Shar. Love, love, love.

Our cute Callen in his blessing outfit. He was Mr. Serious and hardly cracked a smile...

Me & my little man:

I love that my boys have such an amazing example in their daddy. Oh how I love this man:

Kapria and Mila LOOOOVE babies and couldn't wait to hold Callen. So sweet!

He was pretty tired most of the day and crashed with Grandpa:

Thank you to all of you who shared this special day with us!