Getting Settled

As we get settled into this house I am loving it more and more. It feels so good knowing where were going to live for the next few years and not just the next few months. Were not trying to just make an apartment work for a while we get to really enjoy everything a house brings. There were times when I hated living up here and dreamed about Chris getting transferred. Now we have been here for almost 2 years and have made some really great friends with kids Hayden's age, and because this is such a small town, they all literally live right down the street. This is not our dream home by any means but we are VERY comfortable and happy here and the recreation up here is to die for if you like the outdoors, and we do!

Hayden and his dad on the snowmobile and tube, Hayden was not sure what to think.

This at Park city about 15 min. from where we live, this is the mogul freestyle world cup. They have events like this all the time, we just saw Shawn White win a world cup Half Pipe! My favorite part is it's FREE entertainment!

We got a dog when we moved in here his name is Ganghis as in Ganghis Kon (you would have to ask Chris about it?) So far he has been a great puppy, Hayden can't get enough of him and he learns quick. He has learned that carpets are off limits and he has a nice fenced in yard with a dog house.

This is just Hayden enjoying the new house and space. So far his favorites are the stairs and light switches.

Major life changes

So the last few months have been long and crazy here is a quick update. For those of you who don't know we are expecting our second baby in April. It's a little GIRL and we are very excited but nervous to have two little ones, well I am anyways.
We had Christmas in Oregon with my family and it was so much fun to all be together with all our kids.
We have bought our first home and just moved in and so far i LOVE it. This mean no more basements, no more orange and brown carpets, and no more of the weird things you put up with for apartment living (and we have had weird ones)! I will have pictures as soon as I actually find the camera and have had time to breath, moving while pregnant is hard.

Hayden playing in the snow, we get plenty here in the moutains!

The 6 grand kids under 3 (soon to be 7)

My growing family

The beautiful ocean in Oregon

Portland temple

mt. Hood as we drove into Portland

Stupid computers a necessary evil

Throughout our married lives Chris and I have had really bad luck with our computers. You name it and it has probably happened to us from being stolen, breaking, crashing, and just plain dieing. The latest is our touch screen computers touch screen stopped working. In trying to fix it we had to reset it to factory settings and we lost the software to link Chris's phone to our computer which is how we get the Internet, hence the no new blogs. After finally getting hp to warranty it and getting it back with it is now broken again and I really don't want to deal with. It works fine as a regular computer but who wants a touch screen that doesn't work!

That being said here are a few fun pictures over the last few months. Hayden is almost 18 months and I am tyring desperately to keep up with him. He is fun and growing up so much every day but I have no idea where he gets all his energy. If he is awake it is rare that he is not running around. He is overall a very happy boy unless he needs a nap of course! Chris is working hard on his masters and is almost half way through. We will both be happy when that is over and we can take a break from school until I go back and who knows when that will happen.

We have to heat our little place with a wood burning stove, here is Chris working hard for his family.

Halloween was fun and Hayden actually kept his hat on for me. With Halloween came the discovery of suckers.

I added this just for Augie so he could see who Hayden chose f0r his team, and no I didn't put it on him

This was a trip to see my sister Jentry and I love that we fit all three car seats and that they all crashed at the same time from all the excitement.

Back to School

Well the summer is over and Chris has his students back and they are living up to high school student reputations. Just kidding I think he is enjoying teaching again. He also has to drive down to Weber State three nights a week which gives Hayden and I plenty of bonding time! It's hard now but will be worth it when he's done.

In the mean time Hayden has gotten pretty good at walking now and no longer likes to be held. He's not really saying words yet except for ma ma and da da, but he has mastered the point and yell. I am having fun with my camera and my cute little boy.

This is at our local rec. center, it's a really fun pool especially now that Hayden is really starting to enjoy going there.

The Walking Begins

Hayden had been very cautious about his walking and so even though he could take his first steps well over a month ago he has finally decided to start walking. In less than a week he can walk on his own, bend down to pick things up and stand up in the middle of the floor. I'm not used to it yet since it happened so fast but its fun to watch him learn.

His new favorite activity now is taking his lion to the park where he can push it as far as he wants. He gets really into it and pushes it around for over an hour!

As a family we went to our first demolition Derby and I have to say we had a lot of fun, even Hayden liked watching the cars crash. I can't believe people are crazy enough to get into cars and crash them till they can't move anymore. My favorite part is that there is not alcohol or smoking allowed which kept the crowd mellow and fun!

This was our friends car, He almost won out of almost 50 cars

We went to Cherry Hills with Chris's family which turned out to be a pretty cool water park

This is Chris's oldest brother Scott with his two kids

Small town life

There are hard things about living in a really small exspensive town such as not having any stores and not being able to afford a house but there are no apartments! There are also really great things like Christmas music playing on loud speaks through the whole town all of the holiday season, awesome fire work shows that you can see from your front porch four nights in a row for the 4th of July. They also have these random events like everyone slpit into teams and we played volleyball all night. Today they had a car show and and auction (people spending rediculous amounts of money on donated items for charity) with all the fair type booths. The best part is that you know almost everyone so it is just a big party!










We finally bought some furniture, we went to IKEA which was an intense but fun experience. Going into that store with money can be a dangerous thing.
As you can see I can't even get Hayden to leave things on the shelves long enought to take a picture.

Chris decided he couldn't live without this mirror but neither of us realized quite how big it was until we got it home. After a good laugh we decided we really like it.

My New Camera

My wonderful husband got me a nice new camera for my birthday. I hope this will motivate me to take more cute pictures of Hayden and then I can blog more often. Any way here are my first tries I hope to get better, luckily I have a very cute subject.

Hayden turned 1 last month I can't believe how fast it went but it sure has been fun, He was such a sweet baby and now I am getting to see his wild side, hopefully we will continue to have fun !

These are just pictures of Hayden doing the crazy things that kids do.