Whats been happening??

I havent updated the blog in awhile and we have had a lot going on! I will keep this post as short as I can so I dont bore ya! Last weekend we went to Enterprise Reservoir with our friends Danny and Chalein. We spent the day relaxing and having fun! Then they had us over for a yummy turkey dinner!

During this past week I have started painting Nates bedroom during has nap time. I put him in the spare bedroom and worked for about 2 hrs while he is sleeping. My mom and my friend Amy helped me chalk out lines and apply tape. The lines came out perfectly straight! The first couple lines I did, did bleed, but then my mother in law gave me the awesome idea of painting the line with a clear glaze and then with the color and it worked like a charm so the rest of the lines came out great! It is coming along really good and I cant wait for the finished product! I am doing a baseball themed room. I am doing an accent wall of baseball threads. I have the lines completely done, so now I just have to add the threads(thats this weeks project!) Hopefully it continues to go as well as it has!

On thursday Skyler had his last first football game ever! It was a great season opener! Skyler and the team did so good! They won the game 37-28.








Nate is getting so big, smart and is such a little stud! Here are some pics and videos we have taken of him over the last couple weeks.


I think the picture below is a spittin image of skyler!

This sunday I also got called to be the Laurel Advisor in our ward! I am so excited!! I have to admit I am a bit nervous and a little overwhelmed because I know a lot of the past leaders and they were amazing! I know I have a lot to live up to and I hope I can be as good of a leader as their past leaders! I am excited to get to know the girls and be there for them if they need me too! I love young womens and I think this will be the greatest calling ever!

Skyler had surgery this morning and I just heard everything went great! The doctor said he will be sore for awhile, but will recover in no time! We are so glad everything went great. Thank you for all your love and prayers!

Amanda and Ty taking the next step!

My sister Amanda went through the St. George temple on Wed. Aug. 12 to receive her temple ordinances in preparation for her mission. It was a beautiful session. My sister Angela was able to come down from Logan and come to the session too so it was extra special. It is weird to think that my brother will be going through in about 6 months. It was so cool for us all to be in the celestial room together! I wish my husband would have been able to go, but unfortunately he had football practice and wasnt able to join us. I cant wait until Ty and Alena can go through and we can all experience the joy and happiness you feel standing together in the celestial room. That night Angela, Amanda, Ty and I went to Dennys at midnight (it's our sibling tradition-it used to just be me and Angela, and then when amanda was old enough she started to come, and now that ty has graduated from HS he's coming too. Soon Alena...soon). We always have the best time talking and catching up on each others life's! On friday, I went up to drop my brother off at Snow College with my family. It brought back a bunch of memories of living on my own for the first time and going to college. I am excited for Ty and his next step in life! He will have so much and I have no doubt he will make great friends and have the time of his life! Here are some pictures of this past weeks events!

My parents and Amanda after the temple session




















I love my family! (For some reason when we took the picture my white tank top is shinning through...sorry!)


















The sisters




















Angela, Ty, and Amanda















Me, Angela, and Amanda

Alena, Nate and Tyler (Angela's son)

Tyler playing at the splash pad















Nate playing at the splash pad































Taking Ty to College


Siblings in Ty's new college dorm room

Parents and Ty right before we left


Mom and Ty saying goodbye



Congrats to Ty and Amanda for taking their next big steps in life! You both are amazing and will be awesome at what you are doing!

Football Season Has Officially Started!

Football season started for Skyler this week! On Tuesday they had a bunch of meetings and Wednesday they picked up their equipment and had a team dinner. Yesterday was his first day of practice! I asked how he felt after his first practice out on the field and he said "Old!" Ha ha, Its a good thing its his last year because we are not sure he would make it through another one! His 2 younger brothers are playing with him and he loves having them out on the field with him! Nate and I went and watched some of the practice and the team is looking good. We are excited football season is under way! We loved watching them play! Good luck to Skyler, Jesse, and Justin, you guys are gonna have a great season!

Lady Antebellum and Due West Concert

Skyler and I bought tickets to this concert about 2 months ago and I have been looking forward to going to it for a long time! I wasnt let down either! It was such a great concert! It was nice to go out with no Nate (thanks to my in-laws who babysat) and just enjoy ourselves and some great music! It was so relaxing and fun and was the perfect date. The only negative was it was outdoor and it was like 110 degrees outside so we were sweating like crazy!


Due West

Lady Antebellum

15 months already?!

Nate turned 15 months last week and I cant even believe it! He has grown into such a handsome little guy and just love him to death! Just to pre-warn you this post is going to be all about Nate and what he is doing at 15 months so its going to be long. He had his 15 month check up on friday and he weighed 23.3 lbs and was 32 inches tall. At his 12 month appt. he was 27 inches tall and in the 10% for height and this time he was in the 75% for height! He grew 5 inches in the last 3 months! I knew he had grown a ton because he went from wearing 6-9 months clothes to 18th month clothes in 3 months! He has changed so much since his 12 month appt and not just in heighth. He is starting to say a lot of words and it is so fun! He could only say about 3 words at 12 months and now he can say over 25! He can say ma (ma ma), dada, ball, shooz (shoes), buh bye, yes and yeah, Jeez (Jesus and Jesse), hah dawg (hot dog), cheets (cheez its), wah (water), juice, nana (banana), men (amen), deer, fish, bird, qawk qawk (quack quack), woof woof, rawr (tiger, lion or dinosaur), boo (moo), gascar for madagascar (the movie), no, fu ball (football), tah dowh (touchdown), nahk nahk (knock knock), Ju ju (Josie), Ty, and Buddy (he calls all dogs buddy because that is the name of my in-laws dog). For some words he makes sounds instead of saying the word like for car he says broom broom and for horse he clicks his tongue. Anytime he is thirsty he runs to fridge and wines or says juice. Anytime he is hungry he runs to the pantry. Anytime we say lets go nigh night he gets his blankt and runs to his room. He has been copying us a lot lately and if Skyler and I ask him to say something he will try saying it. Its so cute. Sometimes it doesnt sound anything like what we are saying and sometimes it sounds exactly like it! He has been able to say no for a long time, but has never been big on saying it until yesterday and that is all I heard non stop! It was driving me nuts! Most of the time it is not just no either its na na na na no (I guess he figures if he hads 4 nas I will get the point). Nate pretty much understands everything we tell him to do. He is such a good helper (or tries to be anyways). He loves to push the laundry hamper from my bedroom to the laundry and help be put the clothes in the washer. He helps pull the clean clothes out of the dryer which is frustrating at times because he throws them all over the floor so they probably arent so clean anymore :) He loves to sweep and mop and clean the toilets with the toilet brush. He now knows how to lift the toilet lid up and so he is constantly playing in toilet water so we have to make sure that the bathroom doors are always closed! He has to be in my arms when I am cooking which makes making dinner extremely difficult, but I am starting to get it down. He loves pulling dvds out of their cases, so we had to move our dvds to a higher shelf. He loves climbing...he is a little monkey! He loves swimming, going to the park, and splash pads. His favorite movies are cars and madagascar. He loves throwing balls or really anything for that matter. He likes to swing a bat at a ball you throw him (I see a future baseball player :) He is only taking one nap a day which has its pros and cons. He sat through 95% of sacrament meeting for the first time ever on sunday! He is less then 3 months away from being in nursery (yea!) He is impossible to take to the store because he has figured out how to squirm out of the seatbelt and climbs out and runs wild all over the store! The other day we were at Applebees eating dinner with some friends and he had a HUGE come a part because they had a basketball glued to the wall and he wanted it and didnt understand why we couldnt give it to him. Note to self, do not go to restuarants with balls glued to the wall! He has 8 and a half teeth. He is getting in his 1 year old molers right now. Yesterday we bought Nate a Step 2 Kangaroo Climber and he absolutely loves it!! It came in seperate pieces and I had to put it together and Nate had already started climbing the pieces before I even got it put together! It was so funny! I am so glad he has something fun to play with that will keep him entertained! He played on it for 2 hours straight yesterday! Loved it!

Here are some slideshows of Nate at 15 months:

First time ever at Mc Donalds


At the Hidden Valley Splash Pad yesterday


His new favorite toy he got yesterday

4th of July

We spent the 4th of July up at the cabin with Skyler's family. His brother Jesse just got home from a mission a couple weeks ago and it was his first time going to the cabin since he has been home. We had a lot of fun! The weather was perfect! We went on a lot of 4-wheel rides. Our longest one was one we took to a creek and we got out and let Josie and Nate play in it. They loved it and didnt want to get out! We went up to brian head to watch the firework show which was so good! Skylers family has 4 horses and I got on a horse for the first ever which may suprise some people considering I am from Texas and most people think I rode on a horse to school. That was not the case...I was a city girl. I was nervous especially since Skylers dad was breaking in a horse right before I got on mine and I saw him get bucked off a few times. Needless to say I survived and it was fun. I felt like a little kid again especially since my neice (who just turned 2) was riding the horse by herself a couple of minutes before I rode. Oh well everyone has to be a beginner at some point :) Nate loves the horses and has to ride them with daddy everytime we are there! I love it...he is our little cowboy! We also had a horseshoe tourny. Skyler and I were partners and horseshoes is definitely not something we are good at! Even though we lost every game we still had fun. We love going to the cabin and always make such good memories when we are there! Skyler took a lot of pictures on his phone when we were up there that I havent been able to put on the computer yet so I only have a few to post.