Our House- Part 1

I've been reminded a few times lately that I never posted pictures of what our new place looks like. Even though we will only be here for a few more months here are some pictures of our new abode for family and friends who will not be able to come visit us soon.

This is the view when you walk in the door and look right. On the left is the hallway that leads to the bedrooms and bathroom...tbp later

This is the living room, what you see when you come through the front door and look left.

Another view of the living room

If you walk straight when you come through the front door you make it to the kitchen. Here is the table on the left...



And on the right is the rest of the kitchen. Sorry it's a mess I decided to take pictures while I was in the middle of cooking dinner (taquitos de papa)And there you have the main living spaces. I'll post the bedrooms and bathroom later, we also have an unfinished basement with shelves for food storage and a HUGE laundry room that doubles as storage area for my craft room (yes there's room for me to do my stuff down there, but I always bring upstairs anyways). We also have a garage, a good size backyard and front yard with a section on the side of the house for a garden. All in all we've been blessed.

I love my boys

Can I just say that I L-O-V-E having two boys close in age that are such good friends.

Today Teancum was pretending he was going to the zoo, he got on his navy blue jacket and his blue sunglasses. Of course Jacob wanted in on the fun and brought me his navy blue jacket (how he picked it out from among his four jackets beats me) after he had it on he went to the toys and came back with Mr. Potato Head's blue glasses on.

Right now it's 9:00 (an hour past bedtime) and I can hear them giggling. I love my boys, can't wait to have a third one to join in the fun.

This week at the Hive

This last week or so has been pretty busy. Take a look at some of the fun things, and not so fun things that have been happening in our family. Teancum has gotten lots of practice in riding his "new" bike (I love garage sales!)

We took my three favorite bums to the park early on Father's Day. I love seeing Ryan interacting with his boys. They have so much fun together, he really is a wonderful father. Jacob was cute and wanted to cuddle with me.

Teancum's Favorite thing at the park were these bars he could slide down.

And Jacob loved going down the slide

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Last friday I found out my Grandma Black passed away. I don't think I can describe the mix of emotions I've gone through this last week. I have always felt a special bond with my Grandma because I was named after her, my middle name Nicol (prounounced nickle) is her maiden name, a name she was very proud of. I grew even closer to her while I was at BYU and able to visit her regularly to talk, and play. She had the best laugh; a big and jolly cackle that was so infectious. She was generous and loving and intelligent. We'll miss her greatly but I'm grateful to know she is happy with her 6 siblings that preceded her, her daughter, and her parents and that she is probably busy teaching...she loved to teach.

My family spent the night on the way to Provo for the funeral. Jacob was thrilled to see his Grandpa

The boys were great during the 5 hour drive to Provo, we stopped at fed the ducks at BYU before the funeral to let the boys get some energy out before subjecting them to having to be quiet and still.

Teancum felt like he needed to herd all the sleeping ducks into the pond.

The service was beautiful. I learned more about my Grandma then I knew. My dad gave the Eulogy and my Uncles Lance and Dal spoke too. Here they are by the casket. Besides learning more about my Grandma another plus about atending the funeral was that I was able to see a lot of my cousins that I hadn't seen in a long while: Derek, Christi, Tami, Leanne, Aryn, Courtney, and Autumn to name a few. I was also able to see Jolena and her parents. Thank you, Ryan for getting the day off, driving us up for the funeral and watching the kids then entire time we were in Provo so that I could concentrate too, then driving us back the same day; I appreciate your love and support more than words can say, it meant the world to be able to attend my Grandma's funeral.

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