Trisa and Jared

Trisa and Jared were driving through Logan on their family vacation for the summer and were able to stay the night with me and Shayden yesterday. It was way fun! We went to Cody and Lisa's to BBQ some amazing chicken...wish I had a picture, Lisa is always behind these amazing meals...and drove around the valley today.

We sure love you guys!

For My Hubby

This post is dedicated to Paul. I love ya mister. Shayden misses you.

Tall lamp: $8
Picture of Christ:$150
Comfy Nursing chair/Daddy recliner: $300
Knowing there's actually 3 people in this picture: Priceless

I wanted to pose all cool for Paul, but Shayden wanted attention. It kinda showed off my figure too, so I thought I'd let the world know. Here's little Jr. after 5 months of growin'. He decided to grow faster when Paul left. Yep. We're expecting a little boy Dec. 10. We tried hard not to post about it so we could make it a big surprise for Kit and Lisa. Now they know so everyone else can know too.

"I wish I were an 80's rock star"

Paul is doing his annual training for the next little while. Church was good today.

I took out Shay's hair tonight and it did this cool crazy mohawk thing. She makes me laugh.

Two Posts in One: First words and Eebee Jeebees

Shayden is starting to use more words. I would say her first word was "Shoe." She says that word the best. She also says "bah" for ball, "hah" for hot, "uh" for uh oh, and "out" for ouch. She really likes to put on shoes big or small.

Speaking of shoes, I was putting on these slippers that Paul got me for Christmas, nice fluffy ones, this morning to take Paul to work. When I stuck my foot in I said to myself, "Usually I can only feel the tag, but there's another bump in there. Mmmm...I guess Shay stuck something in it." So I tried to get it out with my foot a couple times and a big spider came out and ran behind our bedroom door. blawapakajawa. I started screaming and thought I would faint or throw up or both. Ugh! I hate spiders. I got Paul to kill one already this morning, and they're not small either...they're about the size of a half dollar coin. It took me a while before I could put the slipper back on so we could go. We've had spiders and earwigs and other bugs roaming around our house the past month. Maybe we'll move into an upstairs apartment in our complex in the next while to get away from it. Blah!

Paul is finally home! Yeah! He had a blast camping and is now getting ready for A.T. We'll leave on Saturday. It's nice he'll stay close to home...only have to go as far as Camp Williams.

Dancing girl

Ode to Cocoa and Rex

When I was growing up we had a few wiener/doxen poodle mix dogs. The ones I remember most were Cocoa and Rex. When I was little my first word was Ginger, our wiener dog at the time. It would be cool if I could make up a cool poem about them, but I was just running this morning and saw a wiener dog in a nearby neighborhood. I thought I would put a special post just for them.

A while ago Paul and I were running past this same wiener dog and it tried to jump from the top of the curb to the road but got stuck half way because its legs were too short. I thought it was so funny...ah life's funny moments.

Sheffer Reunion

Shayden and I just got back last night from the Sheffer Reunion. It was a ton of fun! Paul, Shay and I went out on the lake with Kami's tubes and just swam around...kinda muddy. Shayden got really dirty and loved it. The only time I got my camera out though, was when she took a nap. Here she is half way in and out of my parents' tent not looking very tired. She was just having too much fun. Even when I laid her down she would go to one end of the crib and belly flop on the blankets over and over. She's a party animal. Dillon was good and fell asleep in the tent just next to her. There were some lighting storms in the distance pretty much the whole time, but it didn't come over until right as we left. It felt so good to be around everyone and just talk and have fun. I LOVE MY FAMILY! Alisa was nice and let me play horseshoes with her. After a long time we decided to call Alisa the winner when she got the first point. I'm not very good at that game and it was hot. We were both tired. Camping was a blast. Paul left early on Saturday after we played in the water to go camping with Cuyler and Scott for the next few days. I spent the rest of the day and Sunday with Kami and Teri. Teri took me back to Logan with her Sunday night. She was so nice to do that for me. When we were leaving Riverton I was able to see Ashley Ross who just got home from her mission. Sweet! She is one of the most amazing people ever. And, I also got to look at Parker from far far away. He's finally home! Sheila was gone when we were there both times, but I just looked at him from far away. He seemed happy to be there. It was kinda funny when we were leaving. A huge wind storm picked up and a big box blew right onto Teri's car as we were heading toward Bangerter. Whoa! We couldn't get it off for a while, but finally did. Random. We got home safe and sound.