Playing Catch Up

I know it's been a long time, so I'm going to play catch up here with a few random posts of what we've been up to lately.

First of all... Scott and I celebrated our 6 year anniversary this summer. It's been the best 6 years of my life. I love you, babe! We celebrated it by going camping for a few days in Yellowstone...with the boys. Probably not the most romantic vacation ever, but we had such a great time. Can't wait to do it again.

That's my Benjamin. Always performing for the audience.

We saw some pretty amazing geysers, some even erupted.

Climbed some trees...

Had an entire herd of buffalo come through out camp site. That's our tent right there.

We had an amazing time. Our boys are the best campers ever. They hadn't complained about a thing the entire time. No winning, no fighting, just pure fun for 4 days straight. That's what I call a great vacation!

Why I love having 2 kids...

I've been thinking lately how much I love having 2 kids. I just love watching them play together (although, they do fight too), be silly and laugh their little heads off together. I love seeing Andrew try to repeat everything that Benjamin does or says. I love how protective Benjamin is of Andrew and how he tells everybody to be nice to his brother. I love that if Benjamin gets up in the morning before I do, he gets Andrew out of his crib, gets both of them a bowl of cereal, gets the milk out of the fridge, and pours it in their bowls. They eat their breakfast together and then come get me. LOVE those mornings. I love that if one of them is getting into trouble, the other one will most likely come and tell me about it. I love seeing how different they are in so many ways and yet, how similar they are in others. They are always together. It's been so fun! I decided having two kids is just perfect.

With that being said... We are having another one. I'm 20 weeks pregnant with a little GIRL. I think my world is about to be turned upside down... Bring it on, baby girl. We can hardly wait!

Birthday Celebrations, part 2...

On to my troublemaker... Benjamin turned 4 a couple weeks ago. Unlike Andrew, Benjamin has been talking about his birthday for months now. We had it marked on the calendar and he was counting the days until the big day.

His birthday fell on a Wednesday so we just did a couple fun things during the day. I asked him what he wanted to do for his birthday, he said "have ice-cream, get presents, go for a bike ride, get a movie from redbox". Bless his heart. Gotta love the simple pleasures of childhood. And so we did as he asked.

On the following Saturday we had a little Monster Bash to celebrate his big day with his little buddies. It was a lot of fun. The weather was perfect! The company was perfect!

My monster centerpiece creation (I can't take full credit for it, I saw a picture on-line and just recreated it)

The kids got to do a Monster Race with these fun little monster stompers.

Even the Dads got to participate in the Monster Race.

Just 'cause I love this man!
Andrew cracking up, watching the Dads race.Monster Pinata
Some of the little monsters themselves.

Happy Birthday, my little monster. We love you!

Birthday Celebrations, part 1...

My little Andrew turned 2. How is it that my baby is already 2? He's not much of a baby anymore. Sigh...We didn't do too much stuff for his birthday, since he didn't really know what was going on. He did enjoy all the attention and the presents.


As a little tribute to my little man, here's just a few fun facts about him:

1. He loves to give kisses, and we can't get enough of them.
2. He is amazingly good at sharing (except for his food; don't anybody dare touch his food).
3. He is very independent. I have never, NEVER been able to feed him. Even when he was a baby and was eating baby food. I could never feed him with a spoon. He always wanted to do it himself. He'd just used his hands until he learned to hold a spoon. He always made the biggest mess.
4. He loves to dance. Whenever he hears music, he kind of starts shaking his whole body. I wish I had a video if it, it's pretty funny. We call it the Andrew shuffle.
5. He doesn't like when I sing to him. He starts saying "no, no, no" the second I start. It's not helping my self esteem, kiddo. I already know that I'm not the greatest singer. But that bad? Really? Oh well. At least he enjoys watching me dance. That usually gets a good laugh out of him.
6. His favorite food is hotdogs and clam chowder soup.
7. He loves being held.
8. He loves trains, or "cho-chos". We have a geo-trax train trax and he can play with it all day long.
9. Lately, he's been hating the diapers. He takes them off every chance he gets and loves running around naked.
10. He loves books.

We love you, Andrew. You are such a joy!

Easter Festivities

We spent Easter with family at Gunlock this year. We had such a great time. They had an Easter Egg hunt in the community park there. And then we had one of our own in the back yard. The kids were on sugar overload all weekend long.

Here are our lovely Easter bunnies.

The kids thought this truck was Mater. They wanted to walk over and say hi to Mater. So cute.

Also, I don't have any pictures, but Jamie's sister-in-law came by to visit. She has a little girl, Gracie. Benjamin kept chasing her around and calling her "pretty girl". After we got home, he told us he was going to marry that pretty girl. Boy, am I looking forward to his teenage years.

P.S. It is so difficult to watch/listen to the conference with kids running around everywhere. I feel like I hardly get anything out of it. I can't wait to get this conference Ensign issue.

the big 3-0

Yesterday was Scott's birthday - his 30th. I really wanted it to be special and memorable. But since we just barely moved to Utah, don't have a place of our own, and pretty much most of our stuff is in the storage, we opted out for spending it outside. Saturday we grabbed some gear and went snowboarding with some good friends of ours, Eric and Camille (they skied). The weather couldn't have been better. It snowed the night before and it was sunny and warm outside. We had such a great time. Oh, and I have to brag, I went down the black diamond. Ok, so all of us did. But everyone, except for me, has done it before. It was exhilarating. I could barely move the next morning. Scott, on the other hand, wasn't sore at all. You would think it was me who was turning 30. Good grief!

Later that evening we went out to dinner with Scott’s roommate buddies and their families (those who live in Utah). It was so fun to see everybody again. Thanks for coming out. We love you, guys.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Hardy! I love you!

We are...

MOVING.

From sunny and warm Nevada to cold and dreary Utah.

My winter wardrobe consists of 2 sweaters and a ski jacket.

We have no idea where we're going to live. Scott's job is downtown Salt Lake, so I guess we could live anywhere. His job is starting in less than two weeks. We just found out we're moving last week.

Heaven help us.