Tagged with T words

Rules: Use the first letter of your name to answer. They have to be real places, things, names...nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person who tagged you had the same first initial. You can't use your name for the boy/girl name question.

What is your name? Tristen

4 Letter word: trim

Vehicle: Truck

TV Show: The Hills

City: Tallahassee

Boy name: Trent

Girl name: Tricia

Occupation: Therapist

Something you wear: T-shirt

Food: Turkey

Something found in a bathroom: Toilet

Reason for being late: Turned around...lost

Something you shout: Tickle, tickle tickle!

Tag 3 people: If you read this then do it! :)

Ward Campout

This past Friday night we went to our ward campout up at Pineview Resevoir. We had a good time with the people that came! I forgot to get my camera out until Saturday morning when we were packing up our stuff. So here are a few pictures of where we were and how nice it was there!

Introducing...Roxy!!!

After much deliberation we decided to buy the kids a dog! She is so sweet and cute! We went and picked her up tonight down in a small town about 20 miles outside of Richfield called Aurora...ironically this is the same town where Ryan's aunt Jodi lives. Her name is Roxy (named after her mom) and she is a miniature dachsund. She is too cute and the kids love her already! She is 10 weeks old and on the way home tonight I asked Ryan what her papers said her birthday was. Well, her birthday just so happens to be the same day as our Rylee girl's!!! Here are some pictures of our Roxy!

Well I tried to get some good pictures of her but she follows me and Ryan around very closely and therefore all you get are some seriously closeup shots of her! She absolutely loves Ryan! At the house we got her from I took her out of the basket and put her on the ground and she ran right to Ryan. She likes to crawl on our laps and right now as I type she is curled up on my lap! Sweet thing!

Wii

Okay so now for the last post! I have been playing catch up this morning so please go on and read the rest of the posts too! But this one is quite exciting! This past weekend we had the opportunity to play Wii Fit because my brother brought it from Vegas with him. It was so much fun too! I was kinda bummed because I would love to have one but ya gotta buy the Wii and the Wii Fit which are both extremely hard to find at any given time! In the ads on Sunday we saw that WalMart had Wii's in their ad which means they will have some but most likely they will be gone by Monday. So yesterday at lunch Ryan stopped by WalMart on his way home to pick up some milk for Rylee. I asked him just to go and check to see if they had any Wii's by chance. He called me up and told me that they had one! So then just by chance I asked if they had any Wii Fit's and he said looks like they have one. Are you kidding me?! So he came home with much more than just a gallon of milk for Rylee! We are now the proud owners of a Wii and a Wii Fit! Now that was some serious luck!! Here it is...

Family Reunion...oh I mean drama!

We had our family reunion for my dad's side of the family this past weekend. It was fun to see so many cousins and aunts that live out of state. We have a raffle and my dad did the number calling since his voice is louder than my uncle Karl's. There is always a quilt to raffle off as well and each family gets one ticket for the drawing. The quilt raffle this year has cost some serious drama to occur in the family! So stupid! I just don't understand how people can blame someone else for their problems...like losing their quilt ticket!? Okay, so here are the pictures from the family reunion...
Most of my cousins (and my brother) from this side of my family.

My dad calling out numbers!

Here is the quilt that was won by my Great Aunt Esther (who is not in the picture).

Church History Museum

Last Friday we rode Trax downtown to go to the Church History Museum. I had never even heard of anything that was in there but it was really neat. They have a part called "I am a Child of God" for kids and my kids had a really good time! Afterwards we walked around temple square and then had lunch at a little cafe inside the Joseph Smith Memorial building called the Nauvoo Cafe. SO YUMMY! I can't wait to go back there! I think a couple of my favorite parts of the museum were the Angel Moroni (actual size) and then the replica of the Conference Center's podium where you could stand behind it and see what the people who speak see. Pretty neat! Here is a little bit of what we did at the museum and our trip downtown...

The actual size Angel Moroni in the museum.

Zoo

Last week we decided to go to the zoo one day. It was fun to go see all the animals because I hadn't taken Nathan or Rylee this year at all! I'm a terrible mom, I know! We went with my brother Wade, his wife Alexis and their girls Caitlyn and Elsa.

Elsa and Wade

We learned something new this time we went! They have a carousel at the zoo now and so of course we had to ride it! I kept Rylee off because she was fussy but everyone else went.

The best part of the zoo! Choo-Choo Train! We had a good time on this for sure! Nathan kept asking all throughout the zoo when we were going to ride the train?! Don't worry we rode on it!

Leader's Night Out

Okay, sorry these pictures are dark! But last Tuesday night all the leaders in the Young Women got together for a leaders night out! We all gathered at the Beehive Counselors home since she is the only one without kids! We basically brought food to eat, talked and played games! It was so nice to get away from the house because I was going stir crazy with Rylee being sick! We didn't leave until after 10pm that night and I really enjoyed being with these awesome ladies!
(left to right): Janna, Kim, Heather, Chris, Trista, Mikaila and (me where no one is sitting at the bottom of the picture)

Cousins

Two weekends ago mySIL Alexis and her kids came and stayed with us since my parents were going out of town for the weekend. We enjoyed having them come and play! Her kids are the same ages as my kids and so we had a full house with two-1 year olds and two-3 year olds! A bit crazy at times but it was fun to have them here!

Elsa

Rylee

Rylee's hair up on her head

Rylee out running around the swimming pool while Nathan and Caitlyn played in the pool.
She got soaked!!

They had a fun time!

Yes I finished...

I did finish the book as a few of you have asked! I have been MIA because I have been taking care of a sick baby since last Sunday...who is finally better after two doctors visits, over 104.4 degree temperature and high ones for 5 days thereafter, ear infection, and lots of Tylenol and Motrin! Last Sunday she had a fever that I didn't even notice until we were in church and she was extremely clingy and onry! So that night she had the extremely high fever ALL night and Monday she was NOT herself...she wouldn't eat, drink, and all she wanted was for me to hold her. So Monday evening after finding out that her doctor was out of town I decided that I would wait for Ryan to get home and we would take her to KidsCare. The doctor said she had an ear infection in one ear and gave her some antibiotics. When she woke up the next day just as onry and miserable I was not convinced that she was by any means better or getting better! I stayed home with her and Nathan since she was way to sick to go anywhere until Thursday when I thought I was going to go insane inside my house!! I got up and got Rylee ready and realized she had a rash on her belly...I immediately thought she was allergic to her medicine. We went to the zoo with my mom, my brother Wade and his family. Rylee was pretty good until the end of it but I wasn't too worried because I was taking her to her doctors office to see the nurse practitioner (who I don't exactly care for but what can ya do when your baby is sick!?). The first thing the doctor told us was that the rash was Roseola. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? I did not think it looked anything like Nathan's rash from Roseola and she still was running a fever with the rash which usually doesn't happen! Basically she started getting better like that evening...she was eating better and everything! She looked so sick the entire week it made me sad because her eyes looked terrible too! The ear infection was completely viral as well! They did some blood work and it was all viral...Can I just say...I hate ROSEOLA! This was the very same virus that made Nathan seizure when he was 8 months old! Yuck! Glad that's over with!
Okay, so I did finish Breaking Dawn last week...one day while Rylee was sleeping, my mom came over and got Nathan so he could get out of the house all I did that afternoon was read! I read until I was done! I really enjoyed this book. I think I said that it wasn't my favorite but I really loved reading more about Bella and Edward! I LOVED how it ended...it made me happy but at the same time it wasn't like I thought it would be kind of anti climatic as Ashley put it. For some reason during parts I thought she dragged things on that didn't need to drug on as long as she did. But overall I enjoyed it! I think my favorite book was Eclipse but I am eagerly awaiting for Twilight the movie to come out in December. I think I will be going back and reading all the books again...but not right now...I do have three other books I have started reading but haven't finished. I must finish all of them first, including The Host! I have much to blog about still! I have lots of pictures of what we have been doing besides taking care of a sick baby! My SIL Alexis has been here for two weeks now and they came and stayed last weekend...we had lots of fun the past two weeks and I have pictures to blog! Soon...

Breaking Dawn

My SIL Alexis is in town so we have been hanging out and letting the kids play! Yay for lots of cousin time! My mom, Alexis and I went and saw Mamma Mia and went to lunch to Iggy's yesterday. I enjoyed the movie and it was so nice to have a girls day out while Kilee and Megan watched all the kiddos for us! Meanwhile, I have forgotten to take my camera every time we go to my mom's house or wherever we are! So, NO pictures! How lame huh?! I will confess that my mind is someplace else currently. I am in the middle of reading Breaking Dawn. I am almost 500 pages into it. I haven't read very much while the kids are awake because I will not neglect them like when I read the Twilight series in a short amount of time=not very much attention on el kiddos!! I will be done with it in a couple of days I would imagine. I am definitely enjoying it but probably not my favorite out of the books (with what I have read) but I will let you know how I feel after I have finished the book! So I better get to bed, so I can read some more...

Backyard Camping

Nathan and Ryan slept outside in our backyard last night in the tent. Doesn't sound like too much fun does it? Well, Nathan had the best time! He was so excited to sleep in his sleeping bag and in the tent; he didn't even care it was only in the backyard! They took books out and a latern and they read some stories and had a wonderful time just being together! Ryan said that when Nathan fell asleep, he was out for the night and didn't wake up till this morning! What a cute little camper he will be! This morning when Ryan was taking everything down and bringing it inside a wasp stung him on his leg! Not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES people!!! Hello!? I would have been freaking out but he wasn't. He came upstairs to where I was sleeping and just calmly told me that he had gotten stung three times on his leg. Apparently he found a wasps nest under one of the stairs on the deck. He was just glad that it wasn't one of the kids who had gotten stung and he sprayed the nest this morning so tomorrow we will knock it down.
I am happy to say that we got our books last night! Yay! I didn't think I would start to read it but I did read about 15 pages last night before I went to bed. I just couldn't contain myself! I have read some more today but I have had a serious headache. I actually put both of the kids down for a nap *Yes Nathan is taking a nap!* and I have worked on my lesson as well as been reading some more of Breaking Dawn!! SOO GOOD! Anyway, here are the boys outside camping...oh along with a picture of Ryan that Nathan took...ENJOY!

Abort Operation!?

First off, I got on to check blogs tonight and after getting frustrated about a pop-up saying it would abort operation to my blog, I checked my friend Amber's blog (I LOVE google reader!!) and she saved me from many more headaches! I guess blogger is having issues with Sitemeter. So I just deleted my sitemeter and I was right back on! So thanks a million Amber!!!
I am up waiting...Yes waiting. My friend Karen and her daughter Kilee (who is my babysitter and one of my cute Beehives!) are going to get our copy of Breaking Dawn!!!! Yay! I am very excited to get my copy of it...which we pre bought so we shouldn't be too late. Ryan and Nathan decided to go out and sleep outside in the backyard in our tent. Nathan has been wanting to sleep in the tent for a long time! We had bought an air mattress for camping and the tent. We bought a king size mattress that also zips apart into two twin sizes. Well, the king size is also the same size as the WHOLE entire tent. So before we head to the ward campout this month we better buy a new tent for the four of us. Rylee and I couldn't even fit in the tent tonight so we got stuck inside. Oh well, I suppose I will just enjoy my bed. :)
I must say that I am so nervous about my lesson on Sunday. I have to teach the Beehives and Miamaids and the topic is about to kill me! Anyone have any suggestions on Sacrifice and Consecration?!