Growing Shay

Shayden is learning so much. She usually copies when you say a sound or stick your tongue out, but she wouldn't in the video. She copies when you say da da or ma ma. She also loves to put on and wear a leigh (sp?) around the house. She's so stinkin' cute!

Oakcrest '04 Staff Picture

This is a picture of a lot of the Staff of '04...the ones that came to the Oakcrest Reunion on Friday. I didn't get to see Paisley or Belle or talk to a few of the others that were there. Hardy or Feliz isn't in the picture; they were there too. That summer was one of the most amazing of my life. I feel like I learned so much about how the spirit teaches and how I can be an instrument if I strive to keep the commandments and do the will of the Lord. The church is true!

Just an update

I don't have any pictures from the past few days, but I wanted to post to let people know what's going on.

We just got back from Paul's drill last night pretty tired from a full weekend. Paul worked really hard in Dugway building a structure for these dumpsters...lots of work. He dropped me off at Oakcrest on Friday night for a big reunion they had. It was good to be around so many awesome people and in such an amazing place, but Shayden and I were super tired. We caught a ride home with Dory and spent some time with family on Saturday. I was able to see Lynette and Jon and talked them into giving me and Shayden lunch and give a place for Shay to take a nap. Those guys are so cool to let me hang out. Thank you! Gerick is such a cute little man walking around.

I also had Paul and my 5-year high school reunion on Saturday. Blast for the past! That was fun to see all these people from high school. 5 years isn't really that long, but it's long enough. It was sad that Paul had to miss it.

Life is great! I'd better go make Paul some lunch.

More pics

Here are some more pictures from the past few days.

We had hamburgers on the 4th for dinner. They were huge!


That trip to Panguitch from Logan was pretty far. We switched off drivers and tried to sleep. Ha. I think this picture is funny.
For lunch we stopped and had some pretty dry sandwiches. Trisa fed us too when we finally got to Beaver.
I call this picture "Drinking my sippy cup at the temple." This is when we were waiting for Paul at the Salt Lake temple at Steph's wedding. I forgot my recommend in Logan so I couldn't go in.

4th of July Madness

Here are some pictures from our 4th of July Celebrations.

Alisa and I took Shayden to the Hyrum parade on Friday. We missed the first part which was where Teri was. Sad day. The rest of the parade was good though. Yay for candy! Shayden was so cute. When she saw this piece of candy she gasped and went to go get it.
She also liked to run out into the parade so I had to stop her a few times. The girl in the red sleeves next to us was so awesome. She would give Shayden candy every now and then smiling all cute.
Every 4th our ward has a huge breakfast done through scouting. It was yummy! Cody went to help early in the morning; Paul had to work that morning so we just went over to partake of the good food.
Mmmmmm....
We went to the Logan Fireworks on the 3rd with Cody, Lisa, Lee, Alisa, Jaime and Teri. Lisa made this amazing red, white and blue cake goodness. She's got this amazing touch with food. AND she made an amazing steak dinner before. Thank you Lisa! In this picture Shayden was so tired. She fell asleep about half way through the fireworks.

Before it got too dark we did some fireworks in front of our apartment with the missionaries. They live above us and we just invited them to come and watch. Don't worry...we were safe even though it looks like I'm trying to give a sparkler to a one-year-old.

Hangin' Out at the Ranch

We spent the weekend in Panguitch and at the ranch after Stephanie's wedding on Thursday last week. What a blast! Crystal came down with Mom and Trisa and Jared from Beaver. I couldn't get any cool pictures, though because I left our SD card at home. This is the only one that the camera would take: Just hangin' out. Mom got a really cute video of Shayden playing in the ditch. I'll have to add that later.

Here's an extra picture of Shayden from yesterday. She figured out how to crawl onto chairs and loves to sit at the kitchen table.

Funny Faces

We had dutch oven peach cobbler with our 4-plex yesterday night. Paul is getting good with getting the coals started and stuff. Shayden liked to climb the steps and kept on pulling these real cute faces. yes, she's wearing Caelee's "Born in 2005" shirt even though she was born in 2007; we just use it as an undershirt. You can kind of see her umbilical hernia in that picture too. We'll take her in to see a surgeon for that next week. Lately Shayden has learned to blow her own nose and fold her arms. She knows "more" and "all done" in sign language, and waves goodbye.

Alisa has been staying with us the past few days and she taught Shayden some sweet dance moves. Alis will be moving into Old Farm soon and she loves her new job so far. Yeah Alisa!