Utah Outings

The weather here is Utah during the spring basically sucks. The month of April we had some like 2 sunny days, we had snow, and then some rain, oh and some more snow. What ever happened to April showers bring May flowers? What does April snow bring... Here is what we did to pass the time.

Dino Park, and Museum

Hello. If anyone out there still reads my blog you may have noticed it has been under a little construction lately. I have been playing with the settings and trying to give it a little face lift. Anyways, I really need to update as well so here it goes. This is what we have been doing this past couple months.

In March sometime, I cant even remember when, we headed down to AZ for a week, and then headed up to Vegas to go to the Mountain West Tournament on our way back. Garrett went and I just kicked it with family. The weather was perfect in both places. We had a blast. Wes had a couple of firsts.

 These were the seats where the boys sat. They loved every minute of it.

President's Day

NEW YORK, concrete jungle where dreams are made of...


Because of that song, I can't say New York with out those words singing behind it. Anyways. I had a blast out visiting Jenna. I left Wes with Garrett I know best husband again, for an entire week. I did it so I could actually help Jenna out. I tried to do everything I could remember of what I wished I could do once I had Wes. So, I basically got to spend most my time entertaining Davis. The weather was warm a couple of the days so we took full advantage.

I spent Valentines with my two most favorite Boys. We had a great linner, where Wes kept throwing up. I gave him rye bread for the first time. I don't think he was the biggest fan of it.  Then I got take the red eye out to see Jenna and meet Chloe for the first time.

Birthday Weekend

Can I just say that I have the best husband in the whole world. Every year he goes above and beyond for my Birthday and Valentines. This year he and a buddy surprised me and his wife Kallie with a trip to Vegas. They even worked out people to watch our kids, planned dinners, shows, and even scheduled time to go shopping. So the day before he told me all nonchalant what we were doing so I started packing and off we went to Vegas.

Once we got their we had a blast. We saw Ka, which was cool but kinda weird. I always wonder what these people were on when they created shows like that. Anyways, and we saw Blue Man group which was so awesome. I think the best part was sleeping in. I couldn't get over that I could really stay in bed for as long as I wanted. It was the first time I left Wes so I was missing him like crazy.

                                    (sorry about the quality of my pictures. I only had my phone)


Thank you love, this was one of my favorite most memorable weekends in Vegas. I love you so much.

UPDATE NEEDED

McCall's intown...

Its sad that I only have one picture of her staying with me but i guess we were to busy having so much fun. I loved having McCall, Jackson, and Clara stay with us. Wes loved watching them play. Jackson would show us how fast he could run, and Wes would just crack up. Jackson would just keep running so Wes could keep laughing. he probably ran a couple miles that day. :) My favorite thing Jackson would said is "when are we going to Old McDonald?" meaning McDonald's to play on the jungle gym. I just love little kids. Thanks for staying with us, we love you.

Update

So I finally updated my blog. I am up to date on everything. Its sad because this year I really only made 1 New years Resolution. It was to be more organized with my pictures. I haven't even thought about any update until now January 20th. Maybe Ill just start over in February with the goal thing. This year should be a pretty great one. Already so much is changing. We just found out today we are moving. I know the we are moving AGAIN. We have moved 5 times in Less then 4 years. I guess we like change. Anyways, we are moving and need to be out of this place by the 1st of February. So the next 2 weeks are going to be crazy. Also, Garrett is changing up his job. He is just going to work from home now. Hopefully we wont kill each other. Come February (my favorite month of year) everything should slow down, and we are just getting use to our new routine.

An update for Wes, this week he is learning to copy me. I put my hands above my head and so "SO BIG" then he does it. He doesn't talk but he does the actions. Here is my little boy:

Oh one more thing. all the videos of Wes are on HERE This is where I just send all my videos for now so I can keep track of them all. Enjoy.

Baby Showers

This month so far has been the month for baby showers. Jolynn, Annie and myself threw one for our friend Emily at the beginning of the month, and then we had a surprise one for Shea last week.

Take a look at the adorable Elephants. I going to brag a bit and tell you that I made those cute things out of diapers, and socks. So sticking cute huh.

CHRISTMAS 

This year for Christmas we mixed it u p a bit. My mom came out to Utah. It just kinda worked out that all the siblings couldn't get together at the same time so I my mom decided to just come up to Utah and spend it with us. We were so excited. This was the first time ever, that I have just stayed put and didn't travel anywhere. I did miss my siblings so much and wished we could be all together though.
When my mom got up here I wanted to do all the Christmas activities Utah has to offer. We went and saw the Temple lights, We drove through Thanksgiving point at their light show, we went up to Park city to the outlets, and had a fun time being lazy in our pj's and eating a ton of food.

Christmas Eve night we spent it with Kaycee and Tyler and their extended family on the Allred side. This was great because it was so fun to see all the little ones acting out the nativity scene, we got to hang out with family, and eat a huge traditional Christmas Dinner.

December Update
 
The month of December, we did a lot of fun things, and Wes did a lot of firsts. To begin, I could spike Wesley's hair now. This is fun because now I have to do his hair in the morning. He also can sit in a shopping cart all by himself. That was huge. Now I don't have to lug around the car seat all day. Huge milestone for me. He also really discovered the TV. He will just look up at it and watch it forever. He now can pull himself up so he is standing. When Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is on he will start to dance. So cute. Maybe he will busting gout the windmill sooner then we all think. :) Its pretty cute until I realise how close he is to that TV and try to get him off. Another funny time, I walked in to get Wes from a nap and found him standing. I was so scared when I opened the door. He was happy but then he started to cry because I ran out to grab my camera.
We also did a lot of Christmas activities. We went to a fun gingerbread house contest with our play group. We went to a live Nativity Scene. This was amazing! You will see form the pictures Garrett is next to a goat, and I tried to take a picture of the camels. It was the coolest thing. I have never seen a real camel before. They are gigantic. Wes saw snow for the first time. It was so cute, he always tries to grab it. Lastly, the month of December I was obsessed with making homemade oreos with candy cane. i made like hundred different batches.

Family Pictures

Here are some of our Family pictures we took back in November. I haven't posted them because I was using it for our Christmas card this year. Kimber did yet another amazing job. Thank you again. This is Wesley at 6 months old.

Thanksgiving

I feel so bad that I haven't posted my Thanksgiving pictures yet. I have so much to be grateful for and feel so blessed this year.

We went down to California and spent it with Garrett's family. We also had Scott and McCall come up and spend it with us too. Garrett's mom was so happy to have more people coming to her Thanksgiving and invited them in with open arms.

I didn't take a ton a pictures but this is what I have come up with

Things That I am Grateful for:

1. I am so Thankful for family this year. I love my little family. For Garrett who always works above and beyond everyday so I can stay home with Wes. I couldn't of asked for a better husband, best friend and dad for Wesley.
2. For Wesley. I'm grateful for Wesley and for the joy that he is. Always full of smiles, and his happy personality. I can't even imagine our life without him.
3.  Grateful for my siblings. I have really learned a lot about the importance and power of sibling relationships. I love my brothers and sisters so much and couldn't have gotten through his year without them.
5. Good Friends
4. The Gospel. The huge role it plays in my life and how truly happy it makes me feel.

Arizona

I was down in AZ for a couple weeks this month. We had a lot of things to celebrate so we all made a trip out of it. Jenna flew from NY, McCall drove over to Cali, I flew from Utah and Jaime lives there. All the family was together, minus a couple husbands. We had so much fun being together and watching all our kids get to know each other and play. It was so fun being around so much family.

A highlight from all the pictures above was going to Schnepf Farms. We basically had the entire park to our selves. It was so fun. Also, Davis and Jackson playing with Barbies. Jenna kept correcting Davis from playing barbies to playing people. It was so funny. Also, we celebrated my moms birthday. We took her out to Cheesecake, and treated her to a massage.

 

Wesley loved his uncle Brad.

Of course the main event, Abbie's Baptism. She was beautiful! I can't believe she is eight. Then, the day Jenna and I left Jaime had their little girl, Penny. I was so bummed I missed it. can't wait to meet her!

(I of course didn't take a lot of pictures, so thank you Jenna and McCall. I stole most of these from you guys.)

 I met up with Carli, Stuart and Morgan for lunch one day at Rosa's. Here are all our babies. So crazy, we all have known each other since Elementary School. Now we all have little babies. I'm sad because I saw so many of my friends this trip and didn't even take a pic. Maybe next time.

 Wesley's first time swinging. I think he liked it...

 He met his Great Grandma and Grandpa Randall for the first time. Sorry not the best pic. :(

I can't forget about this little girlie. Gwen turned 1 while in AZ.

Cyber Monday



It is that time of year again - Cyber Monday.  As you all know Garrett
has a Cyber Monday website.


I wanted to reach out and ask you if you have a blog or website to add
a banner that he has created for Cyber Monday?


I would really appreciate it.  All you need to do is follow the below
link, then copy the code under the banner you want to put on your
website and paste it on your blog or website.


http://www.bestcybermondaysales.com/promote-cyber-monday


Cyber Monday

Halloween Weekend Wrap up

 On Friday We went to the famous Zagg Halloween party. OK, so clearly we are the Spartan Cheerleaders from SNL right? (If you have read this last sentence and not understand what we are please go look it up) The reason I say that is a lot of people just thought we were random cheerleaders. I felt so old...
The best part is they had a costume contest, and guess who won? My little monster. He won that gigantic horse. I have no idea where to put it in my house but I was so proud.

 

 Then came Halloween Day. I have been dreading this day. I signed up for a 1/2 Marathon when I was ready to get back into shape after having Wes back in August. I have been training but didn't know if I really wanted to run it. Well, with some motivation from friends and family I did it. I can finally cross this goal off my list. Pretty sure I never want to do a Marathon again.

Then on Halloween we had a little get together with some friends. This is the only picture from that night. What a cute couple huh?

We had a great Halloween. I hope you all did as well. Now its off to AZ for a couple weeks.