Our Serenading Son

I have to say my favorite Father's Day memory for today will have to be when the primary went to sing the father's day songs during sacrament meeting. Ryan had been saying that he wanted Teancum to sing to him at church so Teancum could hardly wait for his turn to get up and sing. He even declared that he was going to sing into the microphone so we could hear. Finally the speaker that was scheduled before the primary finished speaking. We encouraged him to go up and "Sing to Daddy." Without further ado he beat the primary up onto the stage moved the stand up to the podium adjusted the microphone and started to sing "Happy Father's Day to you!" He made it through the entire song while the rest of the primary made their way up to the stage, Ryan and I were laughing so hard that tears formed in our eyes. Then when he finished he walked off the stage to come back to us, we had to send him back up to sing Daddy's Homecoming with the rest of the primary. We had a lot of people come up and tell us what a wonderful job he did, most of them didn't realize that it wasn't part of the program. Ryan definitely felt like his son sang the most for him. Thank you Teancum for making this father's day so memorable.

Kids cutest saying award.

Ryan and I were watching the CMT awards online last night. Our favorite award goes to Teancum for his performance during Taylor Swift's "You belong with me" performance. Soon after Taylor started our cute little pumpkin piped up with enthusiasm and excitement "Look IT THE OLD MAID, it's the old maid, she has glasses just like the old maid." we laughed for the rest of the performance.

Also check out the intro for the awards...our favorite is Swift's Rap Video dream, we found it hilarious.

Shake your Booboo

This is what Teancum told me to do the other day. Confused I told him I didn't have a booboo, but he had one on his knee. He pointed to my chest insisting that I had a booboo, I laughed and told him that a booboo was another name for an owie, and that I didn't have one. After that he started shaking his knee around. Maybe I should worry about his interest in my anatomy, but for now he just makes me laugh.

Vacation Pics are Here!

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Family Vacation means Family Fun

We just got back from a week of family fun in Denver...Here are some of the highlights and things we most loved about the trip.
1. Having Ryan around 24/7 for 5+ days
2. Playing 500 with my grandma and seeing my family briefly
3. Hearing Teancum say "We're gonna die" before going on his rollercoaster then grinning and going on it over and over again.
4. Splashing at the kiddie pool section
5. The lazy river
6. Ryan saying the vacation helped him realize how beautiful I look pregnant
7. The ball war zone- give boys some soft balls and guns that shoot them and they'll be happy for hours on end.
8. The sea lion show- lots of fun and lots of laughs
9. The Denver zoo
10. Getting my hubby hooked on listening to the Twilight series
11. A very inexpensive and roomy hotel room- The hotel is what Teancum was most excited for about going on vacation.

Other memorable things:
Jacob running off twice on the first day- first at Elitch Gardens (I found him in the women's bathroom) and then later at the hotel (he went out the door and was down the hall and around the corner before we realized he was gone).

Pictures are forthcoming

Birthday fun

Today I'm 26 and have been having just the best birthday. It started early with Jolena and Bill driving into to town last night. Then this morning Ryan made my favorite breakfast of walnut pancakes and we spent the morning playing games in the backyard. After lunch Jolena took some family photos for us, and I was once again reminded how lucky I am to have such cute kids. During naps it was more games with our friends then a date thanks to Teesha for some last minute babysitting. Dinner was delicious (BBQ ribs) with Bocce Ball in the park following. After we picked up the boys there was Tres Leches cake and presents, most of which I had picked out previously. Ryan was sweet and bought me some cute ruby earings (he remembered that when we were ring shopping almost five years ago I had toyed with the idea of rubies on my wedding ring, so thoughtful). Anywho hear are some of the pics Jo took for me, I love love love them.

Yay for couple pics...Our Growing FamilyJacob was very happy as long as he could reach some nature Teancum with his new best friends

Strong little boy

My favorite boys.

A thought on Friends

With moving often (8 times in 4 1/2 years) I've been thinking lately about friends. I have to admit I am horrible at keeping in touch with people, I never call, I never write. Yet there are many people who I wonder how they are and what they are up to. I'm the kind of person who doesn't open up often. Though at times I can be really outgoing and other times really shy there are few times when I feel like I can talk to someone about the things that trouble me, the things that keep me awake at night.
The down side of moving so much is that I finally feel like I have a friend or two to talk to and we move. The plus side is that once I have opened up to you in any way I count you as a friend forever, even if I don't call or write I will think of you often and wonder how you are and if you are happy. I will pray for you and keep you always in my heart, and if I ever run into you again, to me it will feel like old times and I know around you I can truly be myself.

So to all of my friends out there: I love and miss you and hope you are doing well.

A wonderful mother's day

I was lucky enough to spend mother's day with my mom. So along with Teancum's wonderfully cute gift, my Dad's delicious cooking, and talking to my missionary brother on the phone we were able to get some cute mother's day pictures...Here are some of my favorites.

My wonderful parents

One with my little bro's

I don't often get pics of myself so this is a fun one...Oh and you can see the headband Jolena gave me.

Fun grandparents and cute bumpkins