Ranch Fun

Favorite Ranch pictures.

Shayden's First Day of Kindergarten

Shayden loved her first day.  She said they didn't play with toys, but they asked a lot of questions, and were told not to do bad things.  Here goes to a new life!

Bert Sheffer Reunion

This is what Ashlin does when she hears music or gets tired

Ranch House missing Dad

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How do I get rid of these ads on my blog!? They are driving me crazy. 

Happy Days

Visiting Dad

Family

Finally blogging again. 

Ashlin at 13 months

 I'm finally posting Ashlin's 1st birthday.  This was a month and a half ago.  She loved her chocolate zucchini cake, and got all good and messy.

 She is always making us laugh.  She loves to grunt, which is what she thinks is the best way to get attention.  Her favorite activity is to unload drawers and play in the flour or sugar.

Christmas was awesome!  We tried doing a live nativity, but Gavon pretended more to be a ninja than anything.  Shayden knelt by the box all cute.  We had a Jerusalem Dinner, read some scriptures and watched the Bible Videos on lds.org.  On Christmas morning Shayden opened a Barbie with clothes.  "This is exactly what I asked Santa for!"  She hugged it and put it to the side.  The next present was fingernail polish.  She opened it and said, "I told Santa I wanted this for next year but he gave it to me this year.  That is so funny!"

I Love Being a Mom!

 I get to ride bikes in stores!

 Go to girls nights with family and wear crazy lip gloss!

And I get to let my kids do this kind of stuff!  (This is powdered sugar...their bedroom is covered!)

Gavon Turns 3

Gavon's birthday is tomorrow, but Paul had to go to drill so we celebrated a day early.  He had a spiderman birthday cake, with pizza and ice cream.  For his birthday present I made a hot wheels cubby fabric thingy as shown.  How do you explain that?  I got the idea from a Relief Society activity and thought it was perfect for Gavon.  The fabric on back is Lightening McQueen and it has velcro that latches it shut so you can take it to church or in the car.  He loved it!  When he saw me making it once, he said, "Is that for me!?"  I had to hide it for a while.  Shayden and Gavon did a pinata too.

Daredevil Baby

She did this all on her own!

Ashlin the Cutie Pie

Ashlin took off walking, and turning around at about Halloween.  We had an amazing Halloween by the way!  We went to Beaver to have some fun with Trisa and Jared.  It was so fun!  Paul was in his gorilla costume, Shayden was a beautiful ballerina, Gavon was a dragon, and Ashlin was a bumblebee.  Shayden immediately started dancing across the room after I got her ready; she had so much fun.  Gavon kept breathing on people saying it was fire, and Ashlin was the center of attention with Holly, Karri, Valerie and Hiedi.  Poor Tayci (How do you spell Tayci Tris?) just had to watch everyone play with Ashlin.

Well, besides Gavon being superman in his underwear, this is the best video I have of Ashlin walking around.  Everyone in my neighborhood gets big eyes when they see her.  "She's walking?!"  They're all of a sudden not little babies anymore.  She has the cutest personality.  One thing that drives me crazy though is that she grinds her teeth like crazy.  The dentist said he's only seen 3 kids in the 10 years he's practiced with severe side affects with grinding.  I think Ashlin might be one of those kids.  It's like nails on a chalkboard.  When I tell her no or to stop, she whines this cute little wine. 

Potty Training Gavon

It's crazy how each kid does their own thing.  Gavon has been doing really well potty training the past few weeks.  I've been doing laundry like crazy, but I think that's normal.  He's usually a pretty submissive kid, but he likes to be funny.  When I put his Thomas the Engine underwear on, "Ha ha ha, I can poop on Thomas."  I tell him, "No, you go on the potty, bud."  Most of the time he doesn't care if he pees his pants, so the goal is to get him to go on the potty before he goes in his pants.  He did great today.  Only one accident. 

Happy Days

Ashlin the Walking Girl

I finally videoed Ashlin walking!  We took this video this morning.  Her first step was Aug.31.

Shayden's Concern

We had a Family Home Evening last night on families, and how Heavenly Father put us into families to love and take care of each other.  Somehow the conversation went into how we will all die one day, and Shayden got so sad.  "Mom, I don't want to die."  I told her it was all part of Heavenly Father's plan.  "That's a sad plan, Mom."  She cried for a little while, and I told her about the Resurrection, and how Jesus Christ makes it possible for us to be happy even after we die.  She said she didn't want to be resurrected.  Well, we still have to work on that one.

Run! O Wait...Watch Out For That Cable!

 So Karen and I go running in the wee hours of the morning before you can start to see the sun lighting the sky, and this morning we did the "corn route" which passes a small patch of corn on the other side of 10th.  We were trying to figure a good way to get around all the nasty construction on 10th when we decided to just make our way across the road jay walking style instead of running on the freshly cemented sidewalk.  Surprise!  We were side by side, so we both hit a tight cable stretched across the side of the road going about 8 min. mile just about mid-thigh level.  We were on the ground looking at each other like we both were trying to say, "Ouch."  I got that feeling of being sick because it hurt so bad, and then the welts turned into bruises later that day.  There's another bruise just like that one on the other leg too.  I wonder if the construction workers saw us.  I told Shayden when I got home, "I ran into a wire in the dark." and she said, "Why didn't you just wait for the sun to come up Mom?!"

 I was nursing Ashlin last night and Gavon came and sat next to me like this.  Paul was able to catch it on camera.  The kids like to jump on the back of the chair and pop the leg rest open when I'm trying to nurse.  It drives me crazy, but then I just try to get comfortable and not care.  I try to say no only when I have to.  Shayden and Gavon like to jump on that bed next to the chair while I nurse.  Only 3 more months and then she can be on her own!  I like giving her that freedom, and I like the freedom of not nursing too.  Just have to hold out until she's one.

 Ashlin isn't a binky baby, but she found this binky and just chewed on it for a good 30 min. She's actually pretty fast at crawling now and can stand on her own for about 5 or 6 seconds.  She's taken one step so far.

Paul took this picture driving to the temple about a month ago from the drivers seat. 

Family Picture

We just had the Sheffer Reunion. It was a blast to be around everyone. Only Ryan wasn't able to make it. The kids had so much fun doing cousin chants, and playing games while we were camping. Gavon was running around like crazy and didn't even care when he fell flat on his face tripping on a rock every few seconds. My favorite quotes were Gavon after being put on my dad's shoulders, "Where'd your hair go?" and Karri when she was carrying Ashlin to the clubhouse, "Are you going to slobber on every piece of sidewalk?" Ashlin doesn't know how to swallow; a family curse? It ended in Riverton and was so fun.

Crawling Ashlin

Ashlin has been army crawling since mid July, but has just started on her hands and knees. She's still pretty slow, but she loves to stand and walk while holding your fingers. She likes to get into drawers. She has the cutest two tooth smile you've ever seen.

We went camping with Kami and Levi in American Fork Canyon 2 weeks ago for the Provo River Half Marathon. There were so many people there, it was kind of crazy to camp! I got a 1:40:40, 3rd in my age division and 21st overall women. I've stopped running so much since the race.

Gavon is always making us laugh. One morning Paul was getting him to say stuff. He said, Supercallafrajilisticexpialadocious, and Gavon said, "WHAT?" It was so funny, we tried to get him to reenact it.