Monday, June 1, 2009

Memorial Day - Bear World Yellowstone

May 2009

After working on the yard for every good day we had in May it was time to have a family day. So we headed to Rexburg and spent the day at Bear World. I'm pretty sure I liked it just a tad more than my boys. Huntyr kept calling it "bear woord' but I think he liked looking at all the animals. His favorite part was the train ride and feeding the fish, and the "stupid goose"
Welcome to Bear World
1 in 6 million elk are born white, pretty cool
This is the stupid "Goose" more like a Swan but does it really matter to a 2 year old? Huntyr kept getting mad because he was eating the fish food.


Huntyr feeding the deer


We spent lots of time on the train ride


The mighty grizzly. I would have loved to see one stand straight up.

you drive through the park right where they live and walk around. You are told to keep your car moving at all times and the windows up at all time. We might have snuk a few pictures with our window down.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Landscaping is for the birds

May 31,st

Before I get to my catch up posts I wanted to just post these. 1:00 church is so hard on the boys. I was making dinner and they were on the couch watching cartoons, I think it was all but 5 minutes and they were out.



May 2009


We did the daunting task of building a home, now the task is really putting in the yard. My hats are off to all the landscapers because this is hard work. Luckily we have had a guy in our ward who has been so awesome to help us, he owns a landscaping company, so he dug all the trenches for Josh to put the sprinklers in. Josh is the plumber so we knew he would be doing the sprinklers. I had no idea how long it would actually take. 2 full saturdays and a week straight after work till dark. Josh has worked so hard (and 95% by himself) I did try to help but when I have a two year old running around really all I did was carry the pipe out of the garage and put them by the trenches and then the occasional finding the pieces he needed. Josh is such a hard worker and I know when we get our yard done it will look amazing.

after awhile we just dumped the box out, made it easier
trucks and dirt, what else does a boy need???
we used it all!
before
after
to be continued with pictures of curbing and the firepit (my favorite)

Friday, May 29, 2009

Tyson and Brandy's Big Day

May 2nd 2009, (see I'm getting caught up)

Today was the day for Tyson and Brandy to tie the knot! Tyson is my younger brother and the baby of the family and he has been the last to get married for a long time. I'm so glad he found someone as compatible as Brandy, they are so perfect for each other. They weren't high school sweet hearts but they did go to the same school, same graduating class but just found each other later in life and really hit it off.

They took a short honeymoon and then started their new life in Alaska working out of Heli (spelling?) which I believe is close to the Denali National Forest, but dont' quote me on that. They will be back in September but sure seems like they are far, far away now!



oh yeah, look at those boys, so glad their mine!
all the cousins, don't they look sharp

Tyson and Brandy at the reception
Huntyr giving Brandy a little love (notice Tess the dog) stayed under Brandy's dress the entire day, she was their ring barer





Tyson's friends did justice on this truck, it was completely wild and you should have seen the inside..what a mess

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Easter Celebration

I always love Easter for the reason it represents, plus all the fun little Easter egg hunts. We took Huntyr to the little Easter egg hunt that they do here in Franklin, it was so much fun they had it all seperated in age so he was with the babies to 3 year olds which was nice so all the older kids didn't have to take over. We prepped and prepped before it started I told Huntyr once he heard the horn to run and get all the candy all over the ground, he was all ready to go. The horn goes off and he turns to me and says what was that, he started looking all around and swarms of little kids took off. Josh took him by his hand and led him to find a few candy pieces. What a funny little dude!


Hunt at Grandma's




my boys are so handsome!

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Private blog/blog-a-day

I thought about it even more and have decided not to go private, the reason being is for myself I find it harder to go to people's blogs when they are private so I will keep mine up and public for the time being. With that said I have so much to blog about so I will do a blog a day to catch up, so check back often.

Baby Animals Days April 10, 2009 (see how far behind I am)

I had this day off from work, yippy! I wanted to take Huntyr to baby animal days, it wasn't too nice of a day but at least it wasn't raining so I went and asked my mom to come along. There were so many people there you couldn't even get in to any of the places to see the animals, should have know it was spring break.
Huntyr didn't care to hold any of the animals, I guess that was ok because we couldn't even get into to spots to hold any of them. It was a bit of a rough day because he was so cross this day and for the people who know me, know I don't do well it big crowds with a not so happy child. A big note to self, we won't go to this again unless we have Josh (daddy) with us to help out. All in all though Huntyr liked it and talked it about it for days after. I love to watch him be happy and excited over things.







death to that bunny, scratched the heck out of us..

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Yikes!!!!

So I just read this scary thing that happened to someone on the blog which has forced me to totally change my mind on the blog and go private. Its time I move on into a private sector. For all you that leave comments or just blog stalk now you have to leave me your emails.

Thanks Trisha for giving me the extra push I needed.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Big Boy Bed and no more binki's

**mothers don't pass judgement that Huntyr still had a binki**

My story begins with an idea to serach for Huntyr a big boy bed. I started out with the local furniture stores, then moved on to KSL.com to search for a used one. I knew what I wanted, the beds with the storage underneath, because his room is not that big. I finally found a newer one on KSL called and they had sold it just prior to me calling (go figure it was super nice). I emailed this person back the next day to ask where they had purchased the bed. RC Willey, so on Saturday we headed down there to check it out. It was much more than I wanted to spend but we decided to bite the bullet and buy it anyway (sort of) we put 20% down and then was going to go home and measure to see which one we wanted to get the twin or the full. Then we would call back and pay for the rest. When we got home from a long day in Layton and Odgen I decided to check one more time on KSL to see if I could find this bed set, and to my surprise, one had been posted just an hour prior to me checking. I called and told them I wanted it, a nightstand and an entertainment center went along with the bed, all for 300.00 cheaper than what I was about to spend at RC Willey's just for the bed itsefl. At 8:30 at night we headed back to Odgen to get the bed, once we got out of the canyon Huntyr decided he wanted to be car sick, so we had quiet a mess on our hands. At Midnight we rolled back into our driveway with the bed in tow..Who knew the bed would be such trauma, but I wanted it so bad, I'm sure Huntyr could have cared less.

Prior to us getting the bed, every night before Huntyr went to bed, we reminded him when he got his big boy bed, he couldn't have his binki anymore. We set the bed up and he was really good about throwing the bink in the garbage, it was easier than I thought and he has been 3 days without it. Its a miracle, my little baby is growing on up.

The new bed complete with the dresser under the bed
There is a cubby door with storage under the bed, I'm not sure who is having more fun playing in it


The cubby door that lead to Josh and Huntyr's secret hide-a-way

He looks so tiny in this huge bed, I'm sure that will change quickly.

Taking down the little ol' crib