GOOGS GIGGLES!

Disney World 2010

2011-04-29T12:09:00.002-05:00

Houston Zoo!

2011-03-24T15:47:00.007-05:00

We went to the zoo! It was a ton of fun. There were alot of elementary schools there so we were able to see the animals moving around. They had alot of workers out feeding the animals and giving animal facts. Nate and Addison loved to see the animals up close and moving! Well the rhinos were the only ones not moving.

Addison and Nate love to play at the park there. It was covered so it made it a nice break from the heat!

Nate was off in his own world climbing, sliding, and running!!

The elephants were really neat! The baby is 6 mo. and over 700lbs! The mom was putting on a nice show for us. Opening her mouth, lifting up her feet, turning, backing up and then getting feed.

Nate really wanted a picture with the fake elephant. So I told him to go up there and this is how he sits. What a little poser! I love it. The guy behind us was laughing and saying "look at that little kid, he is posing all by himself."

And then we came to the African huts. Nate was supposed to get a picture of me and Addi, but obviously that didn't happen! So instead we get the pictures where he was trying to be really scary and then he started laughing at himself!

These chimpanzee's were really cool! There were 10 of them all out together. It was the first time that they had all been out together. They use to be used to do commercials and things until they were donated this last October to the Zoo. So they moved around alot, and there was one that kept coming over and running by the window when alot of people came by. There was 5 girls and 5 boys. Addison wanted to stay there.

The lions were being feed by this fence while a worker talked about them for a class. Addison wanted to be right up there to see, it was pretty cute!

The got a picture of the class, and the lions posed for the camera!

Asleep

2010-06-11T13:16:00.003-05:00

So Nathan wanted to play the Wii and I told him he needed to eat some cereal before he played. He was so tired and I knew he wasn't going to last long. When he sat down he instantly was falling asleep. The last video's I did we dark and and this one is to. I could see them on my computer but when I checked it with someone else's I couldn't see anything. So I hope you can see this one. Right after he was done eating I told him if he would lay in bed for five minutes to rest he could go play his game if he got up...I know I am mean but it took him about 2 minutes to fall asleep for the night.

For Grandma's missing their grandkids!

2010-05-30T23:58:00.013-05:00

We all went to the Alligator Park! It was a ton of fun and we saw a lot of alligators!

Running to the car from the alligators!

Well who knows where the captions to these pictures are actually going to go so I stopped writing them. Hope you have fun just looking at them and two of the video's aren't supposed to be there but I can't tell which ones are the right one to delete. I hope you can see them some are dark but Nate is pretty funny. In one of them Nate was driving me nuts because he wanted me to blow up his balloon over and over so he could let the air out. After the 15th (or so) time I told him I was done and he can just play with the balloon blown up. He didn't like that idea and started to whine. I nicely told him he needs to not talk back to me and he needs to listen to what I am saying to him, and I was done blowing the balloon up. Needless to say he didn't think that was very nice. LOL! These video's are kindof lame but they are for the grandmas cause I know you guys are missing seeing them.

Hanging around the house

2010-05-14T20:53:00.000-05:00

We like to just hang out around the house. Nate is constantly climbing on EVERYthing! Addison is growing little bits at a time. It has been so different with her, she does everything the opposite that Nate did. She eats less at a time, talks like crazy, it is amazing to me that she is a girl...well I guess I just didn't think there would be SO many differences. I don't know why, I guess I just never thought about it that often.

We have been spending our days at home the last little while. We have been drawing with chalk outside on our front patio, I bought Nate a paint set, so he paints in the grass or on my kitchen floor. We have a bug catcher that Nate uses to get bugs from the dirt. Nate also just got a bike! He loves to ride it and he fixes it with his Handy Manny tools. Addison can roll over back to front and front to back. She will scutch forward, but usually forgets she needs to lift her head up while doing it. Nate loves to hold Addi and watch movies with her. Addi is starting to eat rice cereal. She has been much happier this last week since we started. I wish I would have known I could start rice cereal at four months with Nate. He would have liked me a lot more.

We just went out to the pool today. I forgot how much I miss swimming with him, so we are going to start going out a lot more. Nate wears his floaties and a life jacket, so he goes everywhere in the pool and is starting to get pretty fast. I am burnt again. I don't know why but I tend to forget that it is a lot hotter here and there is humidity. Man how dumb can I get.

We also like to get away from the apartment complex. The Library is .5 miles away, so we walk there at least three times a week it seems. Nate like to read books and I read Nate the Great books to him at night before he goes to bed. (He introduced himself at the pool as Nate the Great to a girl, and kept telling her cause she was only calling him Nate.) They have story time at the Library. This week they read books about Kittens and then brought 6 kittens for the kids to play with. Nate kept grabbing and moving the kitten he was playing with when another kid would try to play with it. Then he told me that we needed to just take one home with us. Not going to happen.

There are a bunch of parks here. We try to go at least once a week. There is one with three sections, one for 0-2 another for 2-5 and one more for 5 and up. They also have a splash park that is a lot of fun. There is a huge pond with ducks to feed, a train that goes around the whole park. And the zoo is right next door.

Nate loves to cook with me. We have made banana bread, bread dough, pizza crusts, rolls, cinnamon rolls, mac and cheese, and sugar cookies. We froze the pizza crusts and we make mini pizzas for lunch.

I posted two other small posts before this one tonight if you want to see more!

We are missing everyone.
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Bowling

2010-05-14T19:59:00.000-05:00

During the off season Nathan is always going bowling and out to eat with Homeshield! Nate always wants to go with dad so we would take him. He loved to go, but is more interested on putting the balls on the ramp than seeing what his ball would hit. We had a lot of fun hanging out with the Wilders and relaxing.

Macaroni!

2010-05-14T19:27:00.000-05:00

I was so excited for this day...Nate ate NOODLES!!! I was so excited to start making things with noodles. Ramen, mac and cheese, spaghetti, lasagna, white cheddar and shells. There are a lot of things.
Unfortunately, that was the only day...this was back in October, can't get him to eat them now...but we are going to try again tomorrow. Since he has been watching the videos. Hopefully I can get the videos working!

2010-03-31T16:20:00.000-05:00

We walked to the park just 1.5 miles down the road. It was a good walk but Nate and Addison were both tired. I tried carrying Nate but I decided pushing both would be alot easier! Nathan bought me flowers for my birthday.

Obviously Nathans phone takes WAY better pictures than mine. But these are my flowers after they all bloomed.Nate loves holding his sister... I'm not so sure what she thinks about it.We bought a paint set for Nate. He loves to paint, and has painted almost everyday since I he's had them. We are having a blast. The weather is great! We have started going to the pool in the mornings so Nate can get some "Dad Time" in. Nate is missing his dad during the day but we are gettin through it. Addison is growing, she is finally 11lbs. She smiles alot and is a very good baby. I have been scrapbooking and reading some books when I get a second to myself. All in all we are loving our home here in Texas!

The DRIVE!

2010-03-19T12:26:00.000-05:00

Well, last friday we packed our car and at 4:30am saturday morning we loaded our kids in the car and took off to Texas. They both were amazing. Nate had cars, books, handy manny tools, coloring books, and FOOD, to keep him occupied. Addison just hungout and only fussed when she was hungry or the sun was in her eyes! It was awesome. We drove all the way to Amarillo Tx and stayed the night there, woke up and left by 8:30am. We drove to Dallas to drop off Ryan Wilder. Once we left there we only had 3 1/2 hours to go. Nate and Addison slept for 2 1/2 hours when we hit a bit of traffic so we had to stop quickly. I was so relieved when we didn't hit the car infront of us...when we got a little bump from behind. The guys following us in our car rear ended us!! AHHH!! Nothing at all happened to the truck but $2500 worth of damage happened to our car. Thank goodness for insurance. Nate is driving around a rental and I have the truck! It has been nice to have the truck this summer. We are going to be able to get things done when I need them done. We are able to go to the park and do other things fun for our family.
Nathan is enjoying managing this summer. He has a fun group of guys to work with. Sales are going good. He was pretty nervous to start up again. But he was able to sell the first home owner he talked to and hasn't stopped yet.
The apartments are super nice. I love them. There is a hot tub and a pool here, which Nate loves. We are loving the warmer weather. Our plans for this next week are to go to the zoo, before it gets HOT, and to go to the park.
We are finally settled. The only thing I am missing is a broom!

HAWAII 2009! SO MUCH FUN!!

2009-12-06T23:17:00.000-06:00

All of these pictures are going to be random but Hawaii was so much fun! I am so glad I was able to go. I didn't get in the water a whole lot cause I am a chicken and prego.

This is just all the guys waiting for another wave!! If we would have let them they never would have left the water.

These are different mountains we passed on our drive. In between most of the cracks were beautiful waterfalls.

Just some surfer we were watching! It was awesome!

We went out to lunch and I looked over on the trees and plants and saw huge snails so we moved one to the fence. They played with them for a while while we waited for our food.

SUNBLOCK!! I put it on in the morning before leaving my room, before we left for the beach, at the beach when we got there, and a few times while we were there and i still got fried!!

The temple was closed for construction. I wanted to go through but we couldn't. It was beautiful though!!

All the guys talked about jumping off but some didn't really want to. Then the wives started going and the men that stayed behind felt obligated to go jump! I was funny.

Sunset at Pipeline

We went to Matsumoto for their famous shaved ice. I was good but Nicole Wilder and I thought the snow shack in Rexburg was better! It was crazy how busy it was.

This was our view while we ate lunch and saw huge snails.

At the beach by our house Bryan and Nate opened a coconut and everyone ate it!

Driving in the car!

One of the fire dancers at the poly center.

This is were we stopped for lunch,where the snails were.

USS ARIZONA

Cool trees

The best place to go snorkling they say. I don't enjoy my face in the water so I didn't stay out long enough to say.

More Firedancers

Getting ready to find out where we are staying.

Hunama Bay!

It's a long hike down to the bay to go snorkling.

Waiting for waves.

SICK.

Even worst. EWWW

Just got done seeing the show. The fire dancers were the coolest.

Two seconds later a huge wave came in and washed everyone off the rock but me! Thanks to Doug for holding my intertube so I didn't get washed away, but he cut his toe pretty bad, sorry! That was the only time I was in the water without my tube, scary for me. I hate deep water.

I decided to round up all the wives for a picture cause none of us wanted to get wet. So we stood 5-7 feet away from the water. Sure enough a big wave came in almost knocking us all over. Sorry for getting everyone wet!

Kyle and Melissa, Nate and Me, Ryan and Nicole at the beach by our house!

I wanted to see if i could climb a coconut tree. I CAN!! It was pretty cool, I didn't dare go to high cause if i were to slip I would hit my belly. This is me heading back down. I got over there heads before I went down. I wish I wouldn't have been prego.

Hanging out at the beach, everyone (well most of us) came in for some lunch.

Nate going for the waves!

GO BSU!!

2009-12-01T17:20:00.001-06:00

We went to Bosie a few weeks ago to see Nathan and Nicole Kent!! It was so much fun hanging out with old friends again, it made me want to move back to Boise. We played games and watched movies. Nicole and I got our husbands to play CLUE. If anyone knows our husbands CLUE is not one of the games they like to play but we made them anyways, it was pretty fun. We went to a Boise State football game!! It was so much fun, I miss going to games!

It was freezing cold but we had tonz of fun. It was so good to see our friends!! Miss ya Nate and Nicole, we need to get together more often!!

2009-10-24T19:08:00.000-05:00

Here are some pictures of NASA!!

They had a part where the kids could play! They put the balls in that machine and it would shoot them out at different parts of the play area.

FOOTBALL!! Nate II loved it although he hates taking pictures!

But he loves to take them with uncle clint and dad!

This last week has been fun...

2009-08-04T18:01:00.000-05:00

This last week has been fun. Shae and kayla have been over. These are some earlier pictures of Nate. I was playing the Wii, and he was playing with me and having a lot of fun. I am alittle nervous I come home in three weeks, I have the girls for two and I have to pack my house. It will be nice to have the girls distract Nate so I can get some things packed. But I hate packing!! Clint will be here on the 20th, we are really excited to see him and to have him on the plane ride home!! Can't wait to get home, we miss everyone see you soon!

The Aquarium

2009-07-20T11:38:00.000-05:00

I hope these pictures aren't to spread apart but hey I finally got them on!! We went to the Houston Aquarium. It was a ton of fun and had really neat fish and other animals. There was a little carnival type thing out side so we rode the rides...that were for the kids but it was a lot of fun just relaxing and hanging out.

Concealer

2009-07-09T10:46:00.000-05:00

As you can see Nate got into my makeup! Luckily it was only concealer. He was over at the end table playing with his cars being so good and quite! So I thought. He walked over to me and my first thought was to scream and yell!!! I was so mad! But before I did anything I found the humor in the situation and ran for my camera. This first picture is what I captured. He didn't know if he was in trouble or not. I could see he was a little nervous because I normally won't even let him hold my concealer let alone open it and play with it!! so I tried to not laugh to much but as you can see he soon figured out that he was not in trouble!!

OH YA! I tried to stop him from rubbing his eye but he wouldn't, but he didn't get anything in there thankfully!!

I say smile and this is what I get!!

Some times I am just not sure what to do with this child of mine!!

YOU JUST GOTTA LOVE'EM I GUESS!

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2009-07-06T19:48:00.000-05:00

So we went for a walk the other day and Nathan wouldn't let me take the pink purse from him so we walked around and through rocks with it!!
I just bought him a new bag (a monkey back pack, he likes it) and I am getting another one soon.

These lizards are everywhere. I always feel like I am going to step on one!!

We love to go swimming! I think I got everyone but we have lots of fun!

He dragged our frinds towel in the pool!! Sorry Mellissa!

2009-06-28T20:06:00.000-05:00

Okay so I was was tagged by Nicole and Nathan Kent! So here are 10 random things about us...
(this is going to be ruff)

1 To state the obvious I love vanilla ice cream.

2 Nate and I have moved at least once every year we have been married.

3 We can eat two packages of Oreos (One mint and the other Golden), and one package of Doritos in one sitting whether it be watching a movie or just hanging out doing nothing.

4 I work as a hairstylist on the weekends doing updos for weddings. Nate works as a door-to-door salesman. (Don't you just hate those guys!!)

5 I go to the pool at least once a day!! YA! I should be really tan but I don't look like it... until you see my tan line and it is hard to think I could have really been that white!!

6 I love listening to Christmas music. I am thankful Nate works cause I listen to it year round and it drives him CRAZY!! BUT I just can't help myself I love it!!

7 I HATE deep water and Spiders!

8 I LOVE watching my son learn. I just think it is amazing how minds work!!

9 Nathan is fearless of the water and is a little fish! Unless he is in the tub then he is not a fan!

10 I love moving around every summer but I am alittle bit more homesick this year! Last year I didn't get home sick at all!!

Yes, I finaly made it through 10 things! Now it is your turn:

Jenn Anderson
Amy Anderson
Ginger Gugelman
LaReta Gugelman
Cindy Anderson
Devyn Spencer

Oh boy...I wish my internet was consistent!!

2009-06-17T18:01:00.000-05:00

This past week has been crazy. I've been sick, Nate is developing a very beautiful attitude. When he gets real mad he throws him self on the floor and bangs his head off the floor two or three times. I just look at him and ask him if it hurt and he reply's "Yes, hurt!" and that is that. Today I was talking to LaReta on the phone and Nate wanted me to stop so he lays down on the cement floor realizing it is harder than carpet and hits his head on the cement, fairly soft but gave him afew little cuts on his forhead. Sure enough 10 min. later he did it again but that was the last time I think he will do that again.

We went to Melissa's house, to visit Jaycee and Melissa, and Nathan got a hold of a bright pink cup cake purse, and he didn't want to part with it when we left. So, Melissa let us take it home, (THANKS)!! He loves it. I have some pretty funny pictures that I will post when my internet will let me! So I did the unthinkable! I bought one of those back pack with a leash on it!! I know I said I would never do it but Nate saw it and liked it so I thought I would give it a try. I still don't know how often I will have the leash part on but oh well it's worth a try. (ANYTHING TO GET AWAY FROM PINK CUP CAKE PURSES!!)

Life is going good! Nathan is doing really good, compared to last year at this time he has doubled his sales. He is enjoying managing, it's stressful at times but he does a good job!! Houston is really really hot! We almost got to 100 degrees yesturday!! I don't know how he does it!

New Haircut!

2009-06-09T20:11:00.000-05:00

New Hair cut!
Alright just kidding! I shaved it all off!

We were just playing with bubbles on the patio!

So inocent!

We went to Noahs Ark Water Park just down the road from our house!

Climbing up to go down the big slide!

Going down the little slide!

He loved the bucket! He was splashing all the kids as they went by him!

We had alot of fun. He didn't look like he liked going down the slides but he always wanted to go again!

Our Past Few Days Without Dad! This one's for you Honey!

2009-05-27T19:25:00.000-05:00

This is what we have been doing since Nathan has been gone!

It is acctually all backwards, but I didn't realize it soon enough!

So we will start with today!

Well we went for a walk to the office to get mail and pay our water bill when he saw the pool. He really wanted to go swimming I wasn't planning on it but I looked in my purse and there was a little swimmer. So I let him go swimming in just his diaper! It was late so no one but a little girl was there so I figured it would be alright. He had a blast. The video's are of nothing special just of him running around and chatting a little but I know that my mom's are missing him so enjoy!

We were in the car listening to the Jungle Book and this is what happened it is kindof dumb but I think it is funny. Hope you can hear the music.

This is just random!

Just for fun, they were trying to catch a lizard!

And alittle more of his amazing running skills!

Lounging!

Relaxing!

Jumping on the chairs.

Trying to hold her hand (he gets it from his dad)!

This to is from his dad . If you look close you can see his flip flop tan lines!

No fear... if I would have had is arm floaties(??), and if I was in my swim suit and not pants he would be out with the water to his chin!

Running away.

We went to the zoo, it was allright nothing special, Nathan loved it. He loved the elephants, giraffs, and chased the birds around like crazy. We watched the monkeys forever and he liked the sea lions. We are definatly going to have to go back when you get home!

Giraffe

Mamma,

Baby,

And Dad.

Dad and baby playing. We watched these two for 10 min. befor nate was ready to go.

Man the dad was UGLY! I wish I could have got his face for you.

For some reason my clear one wouldn't load so you get the crappy pic of the albino aligato

I think he liked chasing the birds the most!

He really was enjoying himself I just suck at getting his smile!!

He liked this untill he found a bird and then it was game over.

Sea Lions not to be confussed with seals! The sign in the previous picture explained all about it.

Yes I know they are HUGE!

The male elephant was by himself.

Male elephant.

And that's what I get when I ask for a smile.

Here's the females.

Baby elephant.

He wouldn't leave.

Elephants.

We went on a nature walk on sunday with Matt, Adrienne, Alexis and Scarlet Brown, Jonny Blaisdel, and Spencer (my brother). We had alot of fun, we saw a huge fish about 3 or 4 ft. long but we couln't get a good picture so we are going to go back another day. We were swinging on the vines (ya..like Tarzan). We were all just talking about it not thinking we really could, So Jonny tried and it worked. We were there for 30 or so minutes. I will have to get the pictures later I didn't have my camera at the time. Then we came to this area that was going to be made into a park but it had these to things here for the bikers, and the kids went wild and had alot of fun.
Missing shoes and Nate showing off his diaper.

Scarlet and Nate!

Climbing up and trying to slide down.

Hanging out together!

Kids will be kids.

More hanging out.

Doesn't want to leave!

Looking for a bunny!

Still looking for the bunny.

These are of swimming but he was to tired by the time I got the camera out. OOPS!

He is falling asleep!

Just trying to get to the stroller.

We have been having fun but we miss Nate. We are half way through I hope you all liked the pictures. Sorry it took me so long to get them posted!

Our Day

2009-05-23T14:01:00.000-05:00

The pool was fooling alittle yesterday so we went out and he splashed around!

He almost fell asleep like this he was so tired but he loves to play!

Nathan, Nate II and Me!

2009-05-15T19:26:00.000-05:00

Pictures are comming soon. We are missing everyone!

Well, Still no pictures but what can i say...

2009-04-27T15:50:00.000-05:00

Houston has been fun, and HOT!! YAY!! This is actually the third time I have tried to type this blog, everytime I "publish post" something goes wrong!! The flight out here was fast, Nate did well slept through the second flight and luckily the first was only 45 min. Since we have been here, we have gone to the pool ALOT! We would go more if it were up to nathan. There is a pond here with about 10 turtles in it and a bunch of fish so we feed them just about everyother day. Nate is starting to talk more and more. I am working do in wedding updo's on saturdays. It is a ton of fun and I am only gone for 4-5 hours. Nathan is enjoying selling and is doing well. It has been nice having my brothers out here. We are missing everyone!

2009-03-03T15:59:00.000-06:00

So we went outside in the snow today. Nate is loving that it is getting warmer outside. He Splashes in the puddles and slush. I think he has had his picture taken too much cause before we went out I told him to smile and this is what I got.

We like to go for walks down the side walk. He loves to play with the rocks and watch the cars drive by.

Out in the backyard his shoe kept falling off. He wasn't quite sure what to do, so he would squat down and play in the snow.

He played in the snow for about half an hour. It was nice to get out of the house!

ONE YEAR OLD!!

2008-12-09T21:55:00.000-06:00

Well Nate II turned 1 today! We had a little party with family here at our new house!

he loved all of his toys and having his cousins here!

We were planning on making a really cool CAT(like the trackors) cake BUT we have been painting and cleaning and unpacking all day today that he got a COOL fruitloop cake!! Okay I know that is really stupid but hey Nate liked it!!
I put the frosting on while the cake was still hot SO by the time we got around to singing to him the fruitloops were melting out of place!

It was a ton of fun! Nate II got a truck, a basketball set, a football, clothes, and more stuff just look at the pictures for everything! He seemed to like everything!

I think he likes the swords the best! He loves to sword fight!

He got a cool cow bowling set!

He has been throwing a ball in his toy box and kept wanting me to fish it out for him so we bought him a basket ball set!

We just moved into our apartment these last three days and we have been painting and getting everything ready! We are finally done!! Well we have a few things left to do but they can wait! It feels good to be back in Idaho... at least for the next 4 months!

The Fantasticks!!

2008-11-18T14:03:00.000-06:00

Well, my life has been crazy lately. After moving home I became homeless. I bounced around between my mom and dads and my inlaws! Then for the few weeks that Nathan was still in Virginia I read the Twilight series! Oh. man they are good, and I can't wait for the movie to come out! But since he has been home I have spent all my time on The Fantasticks! Nathan is performing in the theater in Malad and I am the assistant director. It has been tonz of fun, but very time consuming! So, heads up I am still alive. I know that I have been hard to get a hold of lately and I haven't been to visit! But I am alive!! This weekend is opening weekend so I am even more busy trying to get everything done! It has been a bunch of fun working with my mother in law! We will be in Malad until the first sunday in december (that is the last weekend of the show)! If anyone wants to see the show it runs Nov 21, 22, 24, 28, 29 Dec 1, 5, and 6. It starts at 7:30! FRIDAY the 21ST TICKETS ARE BUY ONE GET ONE FREE, CALL ME IF YOU WANT TICKETS!!

We're movin' to the White House

2008-09-08T15:17:00.000-05:00

Washington DC... We went to
Washington DC! It was a ton of fun!

Hopefully Nate II gets some
hight!

There was a party at the White
House, Nathan was mad because
he thought he should have been
invited!
HA HA!

Nate just couldn't handle the heat!

Jordan(a friend) thought he would
try to be a photographer! LOL
What do you think Travis
Can he have a job!! JK!!

Swimming and Volleyball

2008-08-26T12:58:00.000-05:00

We were in the pool two days ago with Kristen and Keri!

We went to Six Flags while we we out here! While we rode on rides Nate hung out in the stroller!

Then we went to the water park and he played in the water!

This is a bunch of bad pictures of the office playing volleyball. I did the best I could!

We had alot of fun!!

Nathan and the boys!

2008-08-26T12:21:00.000-05:00

I am coming home!! Well the summer is coming to an end, I am heading home to Idaho Falls but Nathan is going to stay out for another month. He is heading to Virgina for post season! It will be sad but I think we will manage, at least I hope so! Well Nate is starting to get into closets, cabinets, turning on and off the XBOX360 and can crawl over that chair barrier in the picture! So needless to say it is a good thing we are coming home because he needs some friends to keep him busy and none of our friends have any kids!

Nate doesn't like wearing clothes, and I was lucky to get his pants on this day!

He loves his dog, and this is the only kind I want him to have!

Finally a SHIRT!!!

Here are some pictures of Nate and his boy cousins!!

Nate and Josh
Mckay and Nate

Benson is walking Nate

More of Nate and Josh

The Boys and their Mohawks

Three posts in four days!

2008-07-13T06:18:00.000-05:00

So I know you guys weren't expecting me to post so soon again but I can connect to the internet so far these last few days. So just be sure to look at the last two posts cause i just did them on friday! Last night i was finally able to get him acctually crawling well on video. He is really good, Ithink for only 7 months. These other pictures are of some of the friends we have made out here. Last night we all got together and played cards, watched a movie and hung out. It's Keri and AJ, with Brynnlee and Trevor and Emily(the baby is theirs). Well, I hope you all love these new videos.

Videos, i finally got them to work

2008-07-11T21:53:00.000-05:00

He is really good at army crawling nowthis is the funniest crawl thing i have ever seenhe was crawling but i couldn't slide back fast enough!!

Sorry there is only one video

2008-07-11T15:02:00.000-05:00

Well here is what we have been up to this month. Nate has learned to crawl but every video i have he only crawls for a second and then back to the army crawl. This first picture is of Nate with his new toy!
When I was taking picture trying to get him to smile... ...well lets just say at least i got his face!!LOL!

We went to the hospital to see Emily and Trevors baby Brynnlee Faith. Nate just wanted to grab and hold her. It was pretty cute!
These next pictures are fun. Nate was watching a movie with me and i looked down and he had his hand up and i just started laughing, then when i took the picture he looked up at me. It was funny. I wanted to get a picture with all of us and obviously Nathan didn't want to be in the picture, but i did get him to atleast look at the camera!

These last two pictures I like he looks a little goofy but I love my little boy. Nathan took the picture of Nate all curled up. He was crawling and just decided to go to sleep!

LOTS OF PICS!

2008-06-19T21:27:00.001-05:00

We went swimming today! It was a lot of fun. Nate really likes the pool, i don't really know if you can tell from the pictures!

Nate
and Dad!

He got his shirt from David and Echo!

WE HAVE A CRIB, well as you all know i am in Chicago and i thought we would be okay without a crib for a few months. well he didn't sleep well, he would wake up when i would put him down (because of how far i had to reach), and i just don't think he liked it! So one of the office girls is letting me have hers!

This is of Nate sitting and playing with his toys!! I know he is kind of crazy but he is sitting up and balancing well!

It's about freaking time!

2008-06-19T00:15:00.000-05:00

Well sorry that i haven't blogged in a while i don't have the internet here and i forget to take my SD card over to the office when i go get on the internet! But Nate has started eating rice cereal, he didn't like in at first but Ginger (my sister-in-law) told me that she mixed in alittle apple juice and i remembered my mom had said the same thing...so i did it and he LOVED it!!And the other day okay it was about two or three weeks ago but anyway, he was really hungry and really tired and he couldn't decide what he wanted more...to eat or not!! It was pretty cute! Well Nate has been rolling and wiggling like crazy and he has figured out how to, well it's not an army crawl... he uses both hands together instead of alternating them, so i don't quite know what you would call it but it is pretty funny, but he has been moving around ALOT! It is pretty fun. He loves his bouncer he bounces like it is going out of style i will try to get the video soon!

Easy Entertainment

2008-05-16T09:26:00.000-05:00

Our drive from Kansas City to Chicago went really well. Nate talked, slept, and stared out the back window the whole way there. We stopped once for gas, and once for Nathan. We didn't have to stop for Nate once, he traveled surprisingly well. We made it to Malad and to Pocatello to see family and the graduation. I still can't believe they graduated and that my dad only has one year left. Time flies. Well, when me made it back to Chicago at 7:40 pm we found out that we had a flat tire! So what was supposed to be a 20 to 30 minute took us about 2 1/2 hours. It was great!! But, we made it, woo hoo!!

Since we have been here we have been just hanging out. The other day I let Nathan play with a pop can and he loved it. He played for about an hour. It is amazing that he will play forever with a random object but with his own toys for only 10 minutes! Oh well. We also went swimming for they first time. He was laughing and smiling for part of the time, and other times just looked confused.

I like it here, it is nice cause there are other people that stay home. I do a lot with Emily Jones, Trevor Jone's wife (he's from Malad). It is nice not to be alone all the time. Nathan works really hard. He leaves to go to work at 11am so we have him home for the mornings. He has sold and serviced about 34 accounts. He likes his job, and comes home everyday with new crazy stories.

We talked to Spencer on Mothers Day he sounded really great! It was good to talk to him. He had some funny stories to tell. Man i love that kid!!

Leaving Kansas

2008-05-07T18:30:00.000-05:00

It is our last day here! We are driving to Chicago early tomorrow morning and then flying to SLC and off to Pocatello for the graduations!! WOOHOO CONGRADUTATIONS JENNIFER AND RITA!! WE LOVE YOU AND YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING!! Anyways then we fly to our new home in Chicago on sunday. But, here are some things that we did...that we acctually got pictures of... in Kansas City! NO, these pictures are not blurry that is just how bad it was raining! That was the biggest hail we saw but on the news it said that some places had golf ball size hail or even bigger, i was hoping we could see that but we didn't. This wasn't even that day that we had the tornado warning, the weather was worse that day but i didn't getout my camera cause i was freaking out.

Then we went to Liberty, MO and saw the RLDS church, and their temple they we pretty interesting. They have tours through their temple but they weren't open on sundays so we just walked around the outside and on the roof through the gardens. At least that is what it said but there was just a pathway and grass no flowers. Across the street from the temple was a LDS Visitors Center and we went through it and saw the Joseph Smith Movie. It was really good!

The temple was in Independence. But our main purpose for going to Liberty was to see Liberty Jail. It was really neat. Sorry that is the only picture with us in it so i guess it will have to do.

Then for our last get together with some of the guys on monday we all went out to eat at Bucca Di Beppo, it is an italian resturant and it has really really good food. Just out side of the resturant there was a hog statue and of couse all of the guys had to get on and ride it!!

And that's what we did in Kansas while we were here!!

TORNADO

2008-05-03T10:49:00.000-05:00

ON MAY 1ST WE HAD A TORNADO WARNING!! THE SIRENS WERE ALL GOING OFF, IT WAS RAINING, HAILING, THUNDERING, AND LIGHTENING!! (sorry if they are spelled wrong!) IT WAS QUITE SCARRY, THEY DON'T HAVE TORNADOES IN IDAHO. WELL, THE STORM WAS HEADED RIGHT TOWARDS US GOING 40 MPH AND ON THE NEWS IT WAS SHOWING US THAT THE CLOUDS WERE STARTING TO ROTATE AND CIRCLE. ABOUT 25-30 MILES FROM US THE STORM ALL OF THE SUDDEN STARTED HEADING NORTHEAST INSTEAD OF JUST NORTH (lucky us)! THEN AFTER IT HAD TRAVELED ABOUT 25-35 MILES (not in our direction anymore) THE TORNADO TOUCHED AND YA IF IT WOULDN'T HAVE CHANGED COURSE IT WOULD HAVE HIT US OR BEEN PRETTY DARN CLOSE!! AAAAAHHHHHHH! YA I WAS FREAKING OUT BUT HEY I AM ALIVE!!

Anyways, today i took some pictures of Nate in his new clothes (okay, okay, i got them at the baby shower but this is the first time he has been able to wear them.) I think he looks pretty good. They are his 6-9 month clothes! The bottoms are supposed to be shorts, they kindof look like capris. He generally can fit into tops a month or two early but the bottoms are generally marked right! This last one Nate was playing with my phone and took it himself .

Today we are just going to get what we can packed cause we are leaving to LaReta(mom-in-law) and Jennifers (sister) graduation and then we are heading up to Chicago!! I am pretty excited to see everyone!

JUST ME AND NATE

2008-04-28T18:20:00.000-05:00

Well it's just Me and Nate! So Nate and I just hang around the house all day while Nathan is working! Our morning starts when my little pooper wakes me up. I pack Nathan a lunch, and feed nate breakfast. We send Dad out the door and we head to the gym. Nate does really good while I work out! He just watches the fans or sleeps. He laughs at me while I am doing crunches on the big red ball...well he just looks at me alittle confused but he just grins and giggles...I guess I look funny! (and he will be the only one who will ever know :) Then we come home and I feed Nate. While he sleeps I shower and get ready for the day. Then we just hangout. He has been eating his toes alot lately, it is pretty funny. We clean the house...eventually...but it isn't hard cause we are the only ones ever here, but it gets done sooner or later! Latly Nate has been sleeping and eating ALOT! I think he is growing. (obviously) So needless to say I have alot ALOT of extra time on my hands. SO, soon we will be moving to Chicago. There will be about 7 other married couples there so during the day I won't be so BORED! When Nate wakes up we generally go outside and play in the grass. Nate loves the feel of wind on he face. He closes his eyes and grins like crazy! Well, after that you just never know we just kindof rotate back through what we have already done! :) Nate is starting to get very ticklish. Under his chin around his jaw line will almost always get lots of laughs. Just today I was clipping his binky to his shirt and he was just laughing like crazy. I couldn't figure it out at first but while I was pinching his shirt when my fingers would just barely touch his skin, it made him laugh like crazy. Well that about sums up my day, everyday, everyday since I've been here. I know it sounds really boring but I try and have fun!
P.S. Josh, I know I am supposed to send everything to you to edit before I post but I guess you are just going to have to deal with all of my typing, grammer, spelling, and any other errors you find!

CABELAS

2008-04-18T18:27:00.000-05:00

Well, the other day we went to Cabelas. It was huge. They said it was one of the biggest. (Its the

third biggest I think.) We had alot of fun, I think lil' Nate liked it he was looking around and smiling at everything...till mom wanted a picture then he just looked at me and seemed to say okay just take the picture allready. I liked the elephants so I made Nathan get into the picture. He didn't want to be in the picture either! But, in the end I got both of my boys in a picture. After we got home both of my boys fell fast asleep and I couldn't. You know they tell me sleep when your baby does but I tend to want to go to sleep or I fall a sleep right when Nate wants to wake up! Lucky Me!

Well I am liking it here, but I can't wait to get to Chicago, because we are only in Kansas for 1 month!

well i am in KANSAS

2008-04-12T20:53:00.000-05:00

well i am sorry i haven't kept up on my blog i have been really busy moving and i just haven't had time to get on the internet. we only get the internet here sometimes and it is usually not very good. i should be able to get some pictures on here in the next day or too! i will write more later!

WE ARE MOVING!!

2008-04-04T14:22:00.000-05:00

Well, they finally did it! well last year we were recruted a bunch form those summer sales people! Well this year we did it we signed with homeshield pesticides. So we are moving to Kansas City for one month and then we will be moving to Chicago!! Man i am so excited! We leave on monday! We are packing like crazy because we thought we had another week but they called and asked if we could come out early!!

I know you all probably hate me cause I haven't changed my page for a while but i am sorry life happens! We got new pictues of nate! I love them! And i will get my CD soon so that everyone can see them! My mom has had it so i am sure she has some on her page and i think Jen does too! Well i promise to change my blog more often!

But here is a picture i took of nate about 1 month ago(or maybe to i have no clue)! BUt he just sits next to his dad and plays the XBOX 360 with him! He seems about as interested as his dad does. I can't get either ones attention when they are playing!! It is pretty cute but i am nervious I won't be able to get him to do anything when he gets older!! just kidding!

Little Tough Guy

2008-02-27T18:52:00.000-06:00

Well, baby nate is trying to sit up on his own. He grunts as he tries to pull up his head and lift up his feet. When i finally help him (i let him hold my fingers while he sits up) he grins and tries to giggle. He grins really big and when we try and get pictures of him he stops until after the flash then he grins again. BUT, we have only had 11 weeks of practice, i hope we can get it down soon!

it's about time

2008-02-27T17:08:00.000-06:00

hey i finaly figured out how to do this!!