Always and Forever

Catch Up Time

2011-08-07T21:47:00.008-06:00

Now that school is almost back in session I figured I should probably update what we have been up to over the summer. So here is a quick over view...

Jeff got his associates.

We went and stayed with our friends Cody and Robyn and their children. While we were there we went to the Hill Aerospace Museum. I think Isaac was a little taken back by all of the very large airplanes. He wasn't quite sure what to think while we were there.

We took a little detour on our way home and stopped in Heber to see Thomas the Train while it was in town since Isaac has been a big fan of trains lately. Again Isaac wasn't sure what to think while on the train ride. Before seeing this train all he ever saw were the tv shows like Thomas the Train, Dinosaur Train, and lately a favorite for him, The Polar Express or toy trains. So he never really knew how big an actual train was until then.

Thomas taking more passengers for a ride.

Then in June I was a bridesmaid for Brittnae, a cousin that we have gotten to become good friends with and that was fun for me at least being able to be a part of her special day.

Brittnae had an open house up north and while we were up there for that we went to the Kennecott Copper mine. One of these tires costs over $25,000 and each truck has 6 tires. That's a lot of money. And they don't even last more than 9 months. Crazy.

The 4th of July we went to Jeff's uncles house and celebrated Independence Day with there family.

SkyWest had a discount for certain days to Tuacahn to see either The Little Mermaid or Grease. Obviously we chose The Little Mermaid which was pretty good minus the two 20 minute delays due to rain.

We got home around midnight, had to make sure we were all packed and ready to leave by 4:50am to head to the airport and be on our way to Chicago.

Chicago

We got to Chicago on Thursday. Friday Jeff and I went to Six Flags and played in the water a good part of the day.

Saturday Jeff, Isaac, Grandma, Grandpa and I went to the Shedd Aquarium. We went and watch a little dolphin show. Then we went and watch a 4-D Dora the explorer movie which didn't impress Isaac and pretty much after that the Aquarium went down hill (at least for Isaac).

We saw penguins and very large various types of fish.

A favorite part of mine at the aquarium were seeing all of the different types of Jelly Fish. This was one of my favorites.

Monday we took a train into Chicago and walked around for awhile. We went to The Bean, we walked to a Disney store and headed back to catch the train back to Jeff's parents home.

Isaac liked seeing his reflection in the bean.

Wednesday Jeff and I went and saw Peter Pan which was another fun experience. It was done in a round tent and the scenes were projected onto the ceiling. I liked this version of peter pan because there wasn't much singing involved.

Just a cute picture of a worn out, tired little man.

Being silly while on the train.

Thursday was my favorite day of the trip because we got to go to a Cubs game which I very much enjoyed. Isaac enjoyed it as well but eventually fell asleep because of all the excitement.

Sunday we headed home which was a very long day for us.

and that has been the most eventful moments of our summer.

The Last Little While

2011-03-25T14:11:00.003-06:00

Not a whole lot has been going on but here are some pictures from the last couple of months.

Every now and then I will be doing something in another room and all of a sudden I will hear music playing. I will go check on Isaac and he will be there playing on the piano. It's pretty cute.

For St. Patrick's day I made rice krispie treats. They turned out a lot better than I thought.

The leprechauns found us and turned our dinner green. It was rice and cream of chicken soup.

For spring break we went to Las Vegas for a day and watched the dolphins and saw the lions and tigers at the mirage. It's the closest thing to a zoo for a us and it was pretty fun.

So that has been what we have been up to. Not a whole lot and I have been alright with that.

Music

2011-01-06T16:23:00.003-07:00

So I new my parents were sending us something for Christmas but I wasn't sure on what they were sending. I called my mom to see if there was a tracking number to the box and got that number. I looked it up on the internet and it had it's weight at 121. So I new it was something heavy. Then someone called me this morning to see if I would be home all day that they could drop it off sometime. They mentioned something about it being electronic. So now I know that it was electronic and it weighed 121. Then a guy knocks on our door and says, "I have a piano or something like it for you." He then went and brought this box to me and I was in Heaven. I have been wanting a piano so very bad for so very long and now that dream has finally come true. Thanks to my WONDERFUL parents. THANK YOU mom and dad.

The box it came in.

The piano all put together. It's so very pretty. I absolutely love our new piano.

Snow

2011-01-03T11:09:00.002-07:00

So last night I had stepped outside for a minute. It wasn't really that cold. This morning I looked outside and there is maybe an inch of snow. Isaac didn't enjoy being outside very much.

The neighbor kids and I built this snowman. He lasted about 5 minutes and then it was destroyed.

Isaac eventually became a little happier after finding a puddle to splash in.

Christmas Break

2011-01-03T10:55:00.002-07:00

For Thanksgiving we went up to Logan to visit my family. While we were up there we went to my sisters and my entire family was together. It had been awhile since we have all been in the same place at the same time so it was fun to be with everyone.

When we got back home I thought it would be fun getting Isaac throwing leaves up in the air. I think he had fun.

Halloween Fun

2010-10-31T20:21:00.005-06:00

These are the 2 pumpkins that I did. Woodstock I decided would be a lot easier to paint and snoopy was the one that I cut out.

Snoopy with the flash on.

Snoopy with the flash off.

Isaac's first Halloween he was a football, his 2nd Halloween he was a skunk so I had to keep up the creative ideas and came up with the idea of him being a backpack.

Friday was the parade at SkyWest where we took Isaac trick-or-treating to different cubicles.

Saturday we went to our ward trunk-or-treat and then afterward we went trick-or-treating with our friends ALL around St. George.
Isaac all tuckered out after a long day of trick-or-treating

Isaac did it.

2010-10-19T22:06:00.002-06:00

There I was sitting on the couch minding my own business when whack, I got hit in the head with a train track. No, I did not punish Isaac for throwing it. I was to mad and in pain that I had to go and put myself in time out before I did anything stupid.

Less than a week later, I had the ironing board leaning against the wall by the door when Isaac shoved the door open and knocked the ironing board down and it hit my leg.
He is still just too cute and so hard to get mad at sometimes.

Yummy?

2010-10-19T21:52:00.002-06:00

This was a peach pie that I made out of some of the peaches that Brittnae and I picked from the church orchard that they have here. It looked really good...

but if only things tasted as good as they looked. It didn't turn out the way I was hoping it would. Oh well.

2 Years

2010-10-19T21:29:00.004-06:00

So I am a little really slow and am now just getting pictures up from Isaac's little birthday party but hey, I am at least getting them up. So we celebrated Isaac's 2nd birthday with our neighbors and a couple of other friends. Nothing really fancy.

Isaac's cake that I made for him. The letters were made from candy melts and not the easiest thing in the world to do.

All of the kids had fun hitting the unbreakable pinata.

We took the screen out of our window and Jeff hung the pinata from our broom.

The 3 Musketeers. Everett, Isaac, and Adric eating there suckers.

This pinata would not break. So we just ended up dumping the candy onto the ground.

Isaac loves this track that our friends Matt, Chenoa and Everett gave to him for his birthday.

Family Fun

2010-08-31T14:26:00.005-06:00

July 30th we went up north because on August 1, Jeff's brothers were blessing their newest members of their families. Jeff left back to St. George that day to go back to work and Isaac and I stayed with my parents for 2 weeks.

Here is a picture of Mia who really is just so adorable.

Isaac found a blue marker that must have tasted yummy but only he knows.

I had my very first canning experience and I got bottle raspberries. Oh and they tasted so so good.

I have always enjoyed going to 1st dam and throwing bread to the ducks so we decided for family home evening to go and do that.

My dad is helping a young man with his eagle scout project so they had been gathering rocks and my dad decided to give Isaac a ride in the wheelbarrow.

Wednesday, August 11, we left for Island Park and when we got to Rexburg we stopped by my Grandparents home. My Grandpa has a lot of little toys that you wind up that he always pulls out for the kids.

Katy, Tyler, Isaac, my dad and I went on a little boating adventure and Isaac loved it. My dad showed us all around and I never realized how big Island park really was. It was so pretty and I would live there all summer if I could.

We fished for a little while though I think all the fish swam away to some other world because I had been fishing 3 different times that day and not a thing!

Isaac LOVED throwing rocks off the dock into the water. He could have done that all day if we had let him.

Going for a walk to see all of the many cabins.

I loved waking up and looking out the window to see this every morning. It was so pretty.

We came home Sunday afternoon and headed to Sam's scout thing.

Jeff flew up Monday afternoon and we flew back to St. George together. I hate flying but it was good not having to deal with 6 hours in the car. Isaac was great on the flight which made it a little nicer for me but I don't think I will ever get used to flying.

4th of July

2010-07-09T14:50:00.004-06:00

We decided to go up north for the 4th of July weekend for a couple of reasons. 1- We had a funeral to go to and 2- It was the 4th of July weekend. Isaac found a buddy there also named Isaac and they seemed to like each other pretty well. That was Friday, Saturday we went to a parade and hung out at Jeff's brothers house and Sunday we headed home back to the heat.

Isaac and Isaac had fun throwing grass at each other. It was pretty funny.

This was at the parade and this a Down Syndrome kid doing karate. It was pretty fun watching him go by. He was really into it.

These are just 3 of the many places that had fireworks going on.

Since we didn't see any fireworks over the weekend we headed over to Hurricane and watched there's on Monday. I think we will be going over there every year now. We don't have to worry about lighting our own fireworks because everyone else is doing there's and there firework show was awesome.

Sand Hallow

2010-07-09T12:53:00.004-06:00

One very hot day we decided to go to Sand Hallow. We had gone there a couple of weeks ago and Isaac absolutely hated it. I love the water so for me to not be able to go and play in the water without having a screaming boy was very disappointing. After that I was determined to get Isaac to like the water. I don't know what his deal was a couple of weeks ago but this time we went he seemed to have no problem. Well, there still was a little hesitation but he would actually let me leave his side. So here are some pictures from that little trip.

And can I just add that it is really nice to have a few lakes and reservoirs ruffly 20 minutes away!

California

2010-07-09T11:50:00.005-06:00

Our friends Cody and Robyn and there family were doing to Disneyland in June so we decided that we would go and surprise Cody. While we were up north a few weeks before we asked my sister Roz if she would like to join us. So we figured things out and she got to come for a few days. We drove up Thursday and Friday we went to the beach and to Disneyland. Saturday was all day at Disney. We surprised Cody Saturday afternoon and took Roz on some of our favorite rides. Sunday morning we took Roz to the airport and in the afternoon we went to the Medieval Times Show and spent more time in Disney. We had a fabulous time while we were there and headed home Tuesday afternoon.

Here are some pictures from our little vacation.

This was at Newport Beach.

Disneyland

We got a picture with Buz so we had to get a picture with Woody.

Memorial Day

2010-06-02T12:02:00.005-06:00

Since it was memorial weekend and Jeff didn't have to work on Monday, we decided we would head up north for the weekend. We spent Friday at Jeff's brothers home and spent Saturday hanging out with his family and with our good friends Cody and Robyn and there 2 adorable girls.

Me and Isaac

Cody, Addi and Oakley.

Robyn and Addi.

Saturday day night we drove to Logan and spent Sunday and Monday at my parents.

Isaac after drinking his yogurt.

My parents have church at 1:00 so Isaac didn't get a nap until we headed to the canyon for a picnic.

Sitting by the campfire roasting our hot dogs.

My parents.

Grandma and Isaac throwing rocks in the river.

Roz and Sam being fish

Monkeys

Meese

and Penguins

Sisters

Best Friends

Sam and I

Siblings

Silly siblings.

Best Buddies

Great Sport.

Swinging in Grandmas and Grandpas backyard.

Our drive home Monday afternoon.

Dolphins and Tigers

2010-05-24T00:25:00.002-06:00

Here is a video of the dolphin.

Here is a video of the tigers.

Las Vegas to Celebrate

2010-05-23T23:43:00.005-06:00

To celebrate our 3rd anniversary we drove down to Las Vegas for the weekend. We had Jeff's cousins watch Isaac which was very much appreciated. Here are some pictures from our little getaway.

We wanted to go on gondola ride which was very fun.

The dolphins were very fun to watch. At one point one of the dolphins would come down and just look at us. It was very neat.

These tigers were very active. There was a lady in a wheel chair and she had a service dog and these tigers were going crazy. She was asked to leave because the tigers were getting so worked up.

We were walking through a mall in Las Vegas and came upon this ride and Jeff just had to have a picture.

Cuteness

2010-05-23T23:32:00.005-06:00

I left our room for a minute and came back and found Isaac laying on his tummy watching a movie on my ipod.

Fun Little Moments

2010-05-23T18:57:00.004-06:00

Isaac and Everett eating some popsicles just being cute little boys.

One of our neighbors kids celebrating her 3rd birthday.

Jeff and I got tired of getting light headed from blowing so many bubbles so we decided it was time to buy a bubble machine. I think he got a little overwhelmed from all of the bubbles.

Ward Block Party

2010-05-23T18:38:00.004-06:00

Our ward and a couple of others got together and had a block party (literally). They blocked off a road and had different activities and a dinner. They had a dunking machine, a slide a little carousel swing, and this little train.

Those barrels are not so comfortable and I swear it lasted for 10 minutes but Isaac loved the ride so I guess that is what matters.

Isaac enjoyed it until he went with his dad. Then all he wanted was out. Luckily that ride only lasted a couple of minutes.

The Great Race/Carnival

2010-04-23T15:14:00.002-06:00

So every year Dixie has an event called the Great Race. It is a course with different stations and obstacles which teams try to race through and win. After the Great Race they have a carnival where you can get snow cones, cotton candy, hot dogs, hamburgers and different things of that sort. Isaac and I went on this big slide it was fun but I don't think Isaac quite thought the same thing.

Here is a close up picture of the picture above.

I love Isaac's face. Good photo taking Jeff.

There was a man in a bright green suit making balloon figures so we thought we would get Isaac one. It a tiger. He would not let go of that stick until we made him once we got home for him to take his bath.

This is what I got from the carnival. A BIG FAT lip. You are all so jealous of me I know. No I did not get punch in the mouth though sometimes it sure felt like it. This is what happens to me when I forget to wear chapstick with sunscreen in it.

Easter

2010-04-10T22:21:00.003-06:00

Isaac didn't quite understand the concept of gathering all the eggs he could find. But he did know there was candy inside.

We told Lexie that we would take her out to ice cream since we missed her Baptism and thought we would take to SkyWest first for there Easter Egg hunt they have there. We got there 5 minutes late and all of the eggs were gone so we had our own little Easter egg hunt. It was fun.

This year I thought I would do something a little different than using regular eggs. So i made rice krispie treats and shaped them like eggs. Took some melting candy and decorated them. They were yummy and fun to make. If anyone would like to do this idea. I used a Big plastic easter egg. Sprayed it with cooking oil then smashed the egg with the rice krispies inside.

This was fun. Jeff had no idea about this until Easter Sunday when he found it after playing hot and cold. So I found this backpack in the mall and thought what a perfect gift this would be for Jeff. I had it upstairs hiding in our closet until Easter Sunday came around. The only problem I had was when it came time to hide it. I couldn't because Jeff was downstairs in the front room and the backpack was upstairs. Then I remembered that Isaac didn't have a screen in his window and ended up lowering it using yarn. I went downstairs grabbed Isaac's easter basket went outside and sort of hid his basket. Went to the back and grabbed Jeff's backpack and hid it in the bush up front.

Florida

2010-03-25T15:22:00.005-06:00

Jeff''s brother Carson got married in Florida so we were able to take a week off and enjoy some of that time in Disneyworld. Here are some pictures from that wonderfully fun week.

Mickey Mouse made in flowers.

Jeff and Isaac and the Castle behind them at Magic Kingdom.

Epcot and behind us is the giant golf ball. Who knew there was a ride inside that thing. It was pretty cool.

Some of the animals we saw at Animal Kingdom.

Giraffe

White Rhinos

Big Gorilla

This tree was way neat.

All sorts of animals carved into it.

Jeff could tell you what ride is behind us but I'm not sure.

The Big Day

March 20, 2010 was a very busy day. In the morning we had to go to the Orlando Temple where Carson and Heidi got sealed for time and all eternity. After that head to Cocoa Beach where pictures were taken and the reception was held and all the many fun things that go with a wedding.

Isaac and Even hitting heads. Not sure why.

Little worn out Isaac. This was at Carson and Heidi's reception.

Carson and Heidi exchanging rings.

Little Bryce playing in the sand during the ring exchange.

Spending the last day at Cocoa beach collecting seashells.

All in all we had a fantastic time in Florida and really hope to be able to go back sometime in the future. (And hopefully spend a little more time on the beach)

H2O

2010-02-19T17:08:00.004-07:00

Saturday night, we decided to go out to dinner to the Texas Road House to celebrate Valentines Day. Everything was going pretty good. We were just finishing up our meals when Isaac decided to try to crawl onto my lap as well as get a drink from a full glass of water. It spilled all over me as you can see. Oh well, a little water can't hurt me.

2010-02-19T16:54:00.002-07:00

Moms make great pillows.

Nap time.

Isaac and some of his stuffed animals.

Isaac really likes to sleep under his lion.

2010-01-02T20:06:00.004-07:00

This is our awesome Fiber Optics Christmas Tree. It's 5 feet tall and I absolutely love how pretty it is.

This was the gingerbread house that I made after Christmas.

Another year gone by and a new year to come.

Our lucky day.

2009-11-14T12:43:00.004-07:00

Tuesday November 10, 2009 was not Isaac's nor my lucky day. He fell down the stairs as you can see below and I tripped over a curb as you can see above. (Sorry how gross looking my legs is.)

Ouch

2009-11-10T21:54:00.002-07:00

Isaac thought he would try walking down stairs but instead went head over heels down them.

Shirts

2009-11-10T21:51:00.000-07:00

Jeff's birthday decorations.

Halloween continued...

2009-11-03T15:10:00.004-07:00

Isaac was a Skunk

Jeff and I were the unlucky campers that got sprayed.

Skunk Isaac on the hunt for his next victim to spray.

Halloween

2009-11-03T14:43:00.002-07:00

Here are the pumpkins Jeff and I carved for Halloween. I did the mummy and Jeff did Mickey Mouse.

Mummy lit up.

Mickey Mouse lit up.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Michelangelo. They had a pumpkin carving contest and I won 1st place with him.

First Big Haircut

2009-11-03T14:30:00.003-07:00

Before
After

Isaac's very first major haircut. I was very nervous about cutting his hair. I liked it longer but the majority won so I cut it. He was really good for me which made things a little easier.

Corn Maze

2009-11-03T14:23:00.002-07:00

The little dots in the air is not rain or snow but dirt and hay.
Jeff and Isaac going down the slide before we did the corn maze.

Determined

2009-11-03T14:12:00.005-07:00

He had a goal in mind and he was going to accomplish it no matter how many falls it took.

Walker

2009-11-03T14:03:00.003-07:00

Isaac is growing up just to fast.

So Peaceful

2009-11-03T14:01:00.001-07:00

He's just to darn cute!

Elder Holland

2009-11-03T13:58:00.002-07:00

They had an Alumni Banquet at the college that Jeff got to work at. After it was over we got to go get a picture taken with him. It was really neat.

Clean carpets. Yeah.

2009-11-03T10:53:00.004-07:00

These first 2 pictures are before our carpet got cleaned. You can tell where the couches use to be. Yuck!

These 2 are the after pictures.

Then this is where all the stuff went that was in the front room. It didn't take up as much room as I thought it would.

To (Great) Grandmother's house we go

2009-03-19T21:21:00.000-06:00

Jeff and Isaac were great sports to join me for an 8 hour drive up to Rexburg Idaho. We left Friday, March 13 and drove 5 hrs. up to Farmington, Utah where we stayed the night at Jeff's brothers home. Early morning of the 14, we drove the rest of the way to Rexburg (which was gratefully only 3 hours). My Grandmothers party was at 1:00 pm so we made it just in time with 1/2 hr. to spare. My family showed up 10 minutes after we arrived and headed to the church where the party started. Oh and by the way it was my Grandma Singtlon's 90th birthday on the 14th. That's why we were going to Rexburg. We partied and had food and all the jazzy stuff. Then left back to my grandma's home where we hung out till it was time for everyone to head to bed and we left to our hotel for the night. Got up the next morning and had breakfast with my family and left back to St. George. Yes, this time is was straight back. The only stops we made were for gas.

The Beginning

2009-02-20T16:49:00.001-07:00

How things started: I moved to St. George to go to college in 2005. In 2006 when I came back from home for the summer, I met my, now husband, Jeff. We got married on May 25, 2007 and have enjoyed married life ever since. He works at the Sky West Airlines headquarters and working towards a Bachelors degree in Computer Information Technology. Isaac joined us on August 31, 2008 and is the happiest little boy ever. When he was born he weighed 5 lbs. 3 oz. and was 18.25 inches in length. He is almost 6 months and is growing so fast. That is our little family in a nutshell.