Finally our first nephew!

I think I have mentioned before that Ryan's sister Carrie was pregnant. She was due May 4th or something like that. Well last Thursday she had her cute little baby! We were so excited because Ryan and I have ALL nieces (6 to be exact!) and ZERO nephews seeing as Nathan is the only boy on each side until now! Soooo...Zachary Dee was born last Thursday at 10:30am and he weighed 7lbs. 9oz. and 21 inches long. He is such a LONG and skinny baby! He is so cute and we were very happy that we were able to go and see him and Carrie at the hospital two times!!! Nathan was so excited to have another new cousin! He will tell you that he has a new cousin and his name is Zachary. So much fun! I told Ryan after we got home that I was so excited to hold a new baby but when I held him I was so glad that I wasn't the one who would have little to no sleep!! hehe Sometimes it's so nice to just be an aunt! Here are some pictures of us with the new baby:

Time for a haircut

Sorry these next couple of posts will be to catch up from last week.

Last Monday we took Nathan to get his haircut. We had found a place on Saturday just for kids haircuts called Cookie Cutters but they were closed. On Monday we took Nathan back there and got his haircut. It was well worth it too! They definitely gave him the best haircut that he has ever had!! They had a slide to play on while you waited or video games to play! Then when it was Nathan's turn they let him pick out any of their DVD's or video games to watch/play while he got his haircut. Then they let him pick the seat or in this case the car he was going to sit in while he got his haircut! He of course picked the fire engine. They had all sorts of old cars or trucks that he could pick from. The lady did an amazing job on his haircut and after he got a balloon, cookie cutter and a sucker! Well worth the $15 price. Check out his new do!

Yay for Blurb!!

I must say that today I received my blurb blog book in the mail!!! I am so pleased with it actually I am so glad that I now have a sort of journal of those six months that I published. It was fun to put it together and sooo easy! I am definitely going to do more! Anyway, for those of you who would like to somehow publish your blog....you should check out Blurb. I only paid like $42 for the book and shipping and handling. Not bad for like 150 some odd pages it's a 7x7in with a hard cover!! Anyway, love it and so glad that I did it! Thanks Blurb!!!

Here is a picture of the final product...

Forty Things

I got this off of my friend Amber's blog.
Forty things about me.
Feel free to do this on your blog if you would like!

1. I am a 25 year old girl.

2. I love shoes.

3. I like to shop.

4. I am 5 years younger than my husband.

5. I graduated from Southern Utah University with a degree in Elementary Education.

6. I don't want to teach now...I want to go back to school.

7. I want to be a nurse.

8. I love to watch other people.

9. I am very claustraphobic.

10. I like to watch baseball and basketball.

11. I won't drive to Green River because of the road. (Spanish Fork Canyon and from Price to GR)

12. I love babies!

13. I would wear flip-flops all year long if I didn't live in the snow.

14. Summer is my favorite season of all! I love the heat...can't tell I grew up in Vegas??

15. I like to go swimming whenever I can.

16. I wish I could decorate...but I just can't!

17. Sometimes my husband's job frustrates me...in the summer especially!

18. I need a lot more patience than I have currently.

19. When I sit down on the couch I don't fall asleep.

20. My favorite baseball team is the Atlanta Braves.

21. My favorite NBA basketball team is the Utah Jazz.

22. My favorite college team is the University of Utah. Go Utes!! (Can't tell I like sports?!)

23. I know the fight song for the UofU (I even taught it to my 2 year old son who knows it and sings it all the time!) but not the SUU fight song where I actually attended college.

24. I like to have pedicures throughout the summer because I love my toes painted...and my baby girl Rylee's toes have to be painted too!

25. I am only 5'4" tall...I mean short and my husband is 6'4" tall

26. I am a talker.

27. I like to be surrounded by good friends whenever I can.

28. I try to be a scrapbooker but I'm not so creative hence the decorator block.

29. I think I am a compassionate person towards others.

30. I like to play games...board games, card games you name it!

31. I don't like mushrooms but I will eat them if they are already on whatever I am eating.

32. I love Diet Pepsi but I am giving it up because I need to lose weight and I am starting there.

33. I am kinda germaphobic when it comes to grocery carts, restaurant highchairs and tables...I have antibacterial wipes in my car that I use to wipe everything off.

34. I am not allergic to anything that I know of.

35. I like to cook and bake most of the time but I also LOVE to eat out.

36. I LOVE good Mexican food and good Chinese food.

37. I have to be on time...usually I arrive a few minutes before because I hate being late for things.

38. I watch way too many reality tv shows thanks to DVR.

39. I wish I was more organized.

40. I love to listen to music.

Back-tracking

This post is going to give an update about what we have been doing around here the last few weeks. I know, I am slacking but life has gotten a bit crazy lately with the kids and all!!!

Let's see...Rylee is standing up to everything she can pull herself up to these days.

Nathan's new love is his Cars: racecar track and cars. He wants to play with them all the time.

Nathan took this picture with the camera...

Rylee and her daddy.

We had big tractors and trucks outside our house for about a week. Nathan and Rylee spent many of the morning hours just watching the tractors dig right outside our front window. They had a great time! Rylee has been crawling for about a month now and she pulls herself up to EVERYTHING!

Nathan pulled his car rug out the other day and had his cars all over it. As soon as Rylee saw what he was doing she was right there playing with his cars too. So much fun!

It has been crazy weather here this past week! First on Monday it was 82 degrees so we took Nathan and Rylee to Wheeler Farm and had a great time with Nana and Grandma. Then yesterday it was in the 70's so Ryan was outside doing yardwork and Nathan was outside getting dirty so I took Rylee outside and she got to have her first bike ride. She did really good on it even though we had to go really slow so she wouldn't slide off the seat.

This picture of Rylee isn't very cute. Let me explain! Since the hospital passing out experience we have had no episodes...close calls...yes but never completely passed out. So last night I was downstairs with her while the boys were getting ready and she wanted to crawl into the bathroom. I was holding her shirt and she completely freaked out so I picked her up to see her holding her breathe...but it isn't like she just holds her breathe. She is crying so hysterically that she can't stop and take a breathe. Next thing I knew her eyes were rolling back up in her head and she was turning purple. I was blowing in her face, patting her back, calling her name...you name it and I was trying it. I stood up and walked to the bathroom and I was calling her name when she finally came to. Ryan saw her right after she came to and she was white as a ghost for about 45 minutes after the whole episode (hence the picture I took of her). This totally freaked me out! I woke up in the middle of the night last night thinking about it again. I have decided that it was almost like when Nathan seizured. Her face with her eyes rolling back was so much how I remember Nathan's whole seizure incident andher body was quite stiff. I don't know what I am going to do with this little girl...she's gonna give me a heart attack one day!!

Nathan's "Utah Man Sir" outfit for summer. He is so proud of it!

Weekend in GR

This past weekend we went to Green River for a baby shower for Greg and Heather's new baby. For those of you who don't know Greg is Ryan's older brother. They didn't find out what they are having but the shower was so great anyway! There were about 50 people who came and Greg and Heather received some amazing gifts! Heather looked really good and then today we received a phone call from my MIL Teri. Apparently Heather went to the hospital this morning at like 3am is what I heard. I guess they have been there since and now we are awaiting the new baby!!! So exciting to have a new baby in the family!

The trip to GR was pretty uneventful except for the fact that Nathan had the most horrendous cold/cough bad enough that he would throw up when he started coughing! Then Rylee came down with a fever Saturday afternoon and it never went away till Sundayish. Rylee is cutting like three teeth right now so I understand why she doesn't feel good and you can definitely tell she doesn't feel good in the pictures. Here are a couple of pictures I stole from my SIL Mandy's blog from this past weekend.

Rylee wouldn't keep her hands off of Kinsey when she was close to her! So she looks like she is trying to hold Kinsey up but really she was trying to get her hands on her...possibly her mouth or her eyes, or nose... Yes Kinsey is 5 months younger than Rylee. They are pretty much the same size in weight and almost height too! I am sure they will be wonderful friends when they get older!!

Nathan with the two crazy girls!! Watch out!!

Auntie Heather and baby inside along with Kinsey at the baby shower.

Cute little Kinsey girl just chilling on the floor! We love you girl!


Saturday afternoon at like 5pm Nathan was sitting with Grandpa looking at pictures on the computer and one minute he was awake and the very next minute he was out like a light! He took a good nap and still went to bed at a normal time! He was so sick and definitely didn't feel good! Sorry buddy!

This little truck is at Grandpa and Grandma's house for the kids to play with. Nathan LOVES it! They have a little hill on their patio/cement so Nathan would ride the truck down it and then get out and push it back up and do it all over again. He had such a great time being outside in the beautiful weather!!!

PS After I posted this today I got a call from my BIL Greg saying they had the baby. It was a girl! They named her Allie and she was 6 lbs. 11oz. and 21 inches long! CONGRATULATIONS GREG AND HEATHER!!

Drop up Rylee.

Since we didn't get to spend much time with Nathan a couple of weeks ago and then we took Rylee with us when we went to St. George; we decided to take him and have some 'Nathan time'. So this past Friday we took Rylee over to my parents house and my mom watched her for us so we could go do something fun with Natey. We had decided that we would take him bowling since we heard how much he loved it when Nana took him. We asked him what he wanted for lunch and he didn't want anything because he just wanted to go bowling. Everything we offered him he would tell us "No, that's too hot inside". I guess he meant to say that it was too hot to eat or something weird like that. After we finally got something to eat we went bowling. We bowled 2 games and Nathan had a blast. It was lots of fun to be with Ryan and Nathan even though we missed our Rylee girl! Nathan bowled really well. He would pick his ball up and put it on the ramp and push it down. Then he decided that he was too big for the ramp so he would just throw it down the lane. So that took forever when his ball would barely move down the lane but it was so much fun to watch him. He was completely enthralled with the ball return. He would make sure he was watching whenever a ball came back up, almost more entertaining than bowling itself. They even had arcade games and he really thought he was big when he would go back and sit on the games and pretend like he was playing. After bowling we got in the car and offered Nathan some ice cream. He said that he wanted ice cream but first he wanted to "drop up Rylee" meaning We needed to pick up Rylee from my mom's. We just laughed because he really misses his sister when she isn't around!!! As much as he loved his one on one time with Ryan and I; he still thought it was lonely because Rylee wasn't there with us! Too cute Nathan!! We love you!

Here are some pictures I took with my camera phone since I forgot my camera at home.

*To my loving wife*

Tris has been wanting me to post on here, so I am going to post about her. Tris, I love YOU so much, words cannot describe how much I appreciate you. You are a great wife, mother and friend. I know it isnt easy when I am gone for work, sometimes 2 or 3 nights in a row, or even during fire season for 1 or 2 weeks at a time. You know that I dont enjoy being away from home that much. It is my job and you know that I enjoy and Love my job, (at least most of the time I do). But nothing compares to being with you and our 2 great kids. In fact I miss you guys more than you think i really do. I am so grateful for the long weekends that we usually do get, being able to have Friday off (most of the time), makes a great day to spend together as a family, whether it is shopping, catching a movie or just finding something around the house to do, we usually seem to have a great time. I Love you Guys!
At work we are in the middle of our annual Statewide Programming. This is a 4 week schedule where we go around to the different offices in the state and program all of the different radios, both vehicle radios and handheld radios. There are only 4 of us Statewide 2 others like me and our boss. So me in SLC I cover Salt Lake and Vernal Areas, 1 in Richfield he covers the Richfield, Fillmore, and Moab areas and 1 in Cedar City that covers the Cedar, St George, Kanab, and Escalantee areas. So as you can tell we cover quite a large area. But as we are doing this programming we help each other out to get each others areas done quicker. This week marks the halfway mark with 2 weeks left.

Definitely not normal

I was lying in bed last night thinking about how crazy life has seemed lately. Nothing has seemed at all normal and trying to get back to normal is difficult. As I was lying there I was thinking about where I was one week ago. Yeah, that would be at Primary Children's Hospital sleeping on a chair pull out bed. Glad to be back in my own bed and to have Rylee out of the hospital as well. My kids and I slept at my parents the day we got out of the hospital because Ryan wasn't home and I didn't want to attempt my house by myself with Rylee quite yet! Anyway, Ryan got home on Wednesday and we all slept at our house that night. Then the very next day we took Nathan back over to my parents so he could stay there while we attempted an anniversary gettaway with Rylee. hehe A HUGE thanks to my parents for taking care of Nathan while I was at the hospital with Rylee and Ryan was busy at work and then again Thursday thru Saturday!!!

Ryan, Rylee and I took off for St. George, Thursday afternoon but first we stopped in Cedar City and went to dinner with our friends Scott and Jill. We went to Rusty's since we hadn't been there since my graduation in May of 2005. So that was nice to go to dinner with good friends! After dinner we headed to St. George. We actually stayed just outside of St. George at a brand new Holiday Inn Express in Coral Canyon. The weather was so beautiful while we were there so that made me extremely happy because I wanted to go somewhere where it was WARM!!! Friday we really just hung out and went shopping and to lunch at the good ole' Pizza Factory. Then we went back to the hotel and went swimming. Yep, Rylee got to go swimming for her very first time! At first she wasn't really sure about the water. It wasn't like bath water but it was heated. She got used to it and then she was splashing and having a great time! She was too cute and so much fun all weekend! We did some more shopping, ate dinner, and sat outside and enjoyed the weather by the Old Navy shopping center. The weather was so great that Rylee was in some cute legging capris and a baby doll shirt with no shoes or socks all weekend! You know she loved that because she always takes her shoes and socks off so I didn't even bother with those at all!

Saturday morning we got up at about 9am and we left around 10:30am. We were going to go over to Panguitch on the way home and see Kalen (Ryan's brother), Mandy and Kinsey but it was one of those days when I felt like I needed to get back home because I had hardly seen Nathan all week (since he couldn't come to the hospital) and I wanted everything to get back to normal for us. (So Kalen, Mandy and Kinsey we are SOO sorry we didn't come and see you but I hope you understand!!) Anyway, we didn't do very much for our actual anniversary except go to dinner with our kids and drive home. Overall, it was so great to spend some time with Ryan and yes little Rylee girl too since there was no way I was going to leave her home after that whole situation Sunday night!! I love Ryan and I am so grateful for him especially after the past weeks events and our getaway. He is a great guy and I am so lucky to be married to him. I love you Ry!