Life and Love

The Happy Couple
The Boys with Uncle Trent

An eternal Family in the making

This weekend we were able to go to my best friends wedding in Utah. It was so exciting to be go to the sealing in the Salt Lake Temple (for those who are not members of our church, the wedding ceramony was in one of our Temples, because of the sacred nature of these buildings only those members who have "Temple recommends" can go into these buildings. When you are married in a Temple you are also sealed for time and all eternity, meaning you are married not just until death do you part but forever. We were able to go because of the covenants we have made and kept...and because we were invited to witness the wedding and sealing.)

Jolena looked beautiful of course and I relished the opportunity to go to the temple with Ryan. I was thrilled to be reunited with friends that I had kept in touch with only through blogs and also see Jolena's family. IT was a great weekend. Thanks Trent for watching the boys so we could go, they had a great time too.

Christmas Vacation

Christmas was a blast for us. We spent two full weeks in South Dakota with Ryan's family and saw his brothers (we hadn't seen Trent since he went into the MTC in May of 2006 and Morgan since...well almost two years). The boys absolutely adored their aunts, uncles, and grandparents. It was nice for Ryan and I to relax and watch our boys have so much fun playing, we got to go sledding and swimming at the rec center in Bell Fouche...and the highlight for me was taking Ryan's sisters to see Twilight, Trent came along too. I'd been waiting to see the movie for a while and even though I was dissapointed with the character development, I still enjoyed the movie since it was Bella and Edward on screen. All in all we were very spoiled at Christmas time. Pictures up and coming

One and growing

Jacob turned one last week. My baby is growing up. We had a small party for him, Teancum made the cupcakes and helped wrap his present. I must say Jacob did not like the cupcake too much, but he loved the walker we gave him. It gave him the confidence to let go while walking and within a week our little baby went from tentative walker only when holding on to something to full out "I'm concentrating and walking so nobody get in my way." I have since caught him walking about 8-9 slow and thought out steps on his own, and even walking backwards with his new toy. Get him walking to dad or mom though and he's to excited to stay up for more than a couple steps.

The candle Ryan managed to find...definitly too big for the cupcake. Good thing we couldn't find a lighter, Jacob's fingers would have been scorched

That's as much cupcake as he would eat

Showing off his new toy

Why we love Colorado

Here are some pics of why we love Colorado...we'll let them speak for themselves

Our Little Rocker

Teancum love's his uncles and learning. When they let him keep their old toy guitar as a birthday present he was thrilled. Check out his first performance featuring His favorite.....the ABC song

T's big day...also late

Teancum's Birthday was Also Ninja Turtle themed. It was nice for him to have one last shindig with his friends before we had to move. I didn't get a picture of the Leonardo piñata, or individual pizzas the kids made but here are some other pics of the party. Check out the radioactive ooze cupcakes

I wasn't sure about more dinosaurs...But he plays with these ones all the time. they are his Land before time dinos



Cowboy stuff to remember texas by..and from his favorite girl too

Yes he got a Ninja Turtle...Now his favorites are Leonardo and Michaelangelo.

Halloween...a little late

Alright, I know I'm probably the last to do this, but even two months after the fact I think these pics are cute...even though they don't catch my Boys in all their Ninja glory. this year Teancum wanted to be a Ninja Turtle for Halloween (and a have a Ninja Turtle birthday). Since I had some blue fabric around the house I figured it woudl be easy to stitch up a mask and some armbands to go on some green sweats and viola T was his favorite Ninja Turtle. Of coarse he wanted the rest of us to be them too so I made small purple and large red and orange bands a masks and we went to our halloween party as the complete set, too bad I didn't have anyone take our pic. Then on Halloween Night we went with some friends and Let me tell you they were the cutest set of kids on the block. Thanks Nicole for getting some pics for me.

Donatello with Diego and Baby Jaguar

The Whole Crew

Leonardo taking on a Ninja and Indiana Jones

Caught redhanded

I was busy preparing dinner today and turned to find my sweet little Jacob with his hand caught in the cookie jar...so to speak. He recently discovered how yummy marshmellows are yesterday when he found the container in our cupboard and I gave him one. Here is the play by play of todays caper

I'm caught...

Look Mommy....

....MMMMMMmmm....