The Newest Member of our Family...

It's been a LONG journey but it's finally happened!! When we moved to Utah we knew that we were just adding another thing to our plate, especially with this baby on the way. We've looked for a place to live but haven't found something that we just love or is in a decent neighborhood. We have just looked and looked and looked but it hasn't happened. So then we kind of switched gears for the last couple weeks and decided to look for a new car. The eclipse just isn't cutting it anymore and with the idea of a new baby on the way, we knew we had to find something before I had her otherwise I'd be thumbing a ride home from the hospital. Well when we first got married, we had talked about what kind of car we would drive when we had kids. And never once has a minivan been one of those cars. We don't buy cars often and don't like the hassle of dealing with everyone or having a car payment, so we knew we should expand and expand for the future with this car. So we looked at a few minivans and finally found one that we both liked and that was a good price. On on Monday May 31st, we signed for ownership of this new baby!!

It's a 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan and it's super nice!!

These 2 could not be happier!!

They LOVE it!!

It's so funny going from an eclipse to a minivan and how easy it has been getting use to it!! We really like it and are so glad we made the jump!! Jaylee loves to tell us about where everyone will sit. She is so excited that her cousins can ride with us now!! She loves the BIG car as she calls it!!

Time for a little Catch-up

It's been a long crazy month and I'm just now getting to updating this blog with pictures!! This is kind of long but mostly pictures!!

Home Depot Kids Workshop:

Jaylee loves to do these little projects and it's free so why not!!

May she made a planter thing!! She's so proud of them!!

Hey Megan it's this Saturday just so you know!!

Kids Workshop at Poppa's work:

They had some fitness workshop at Mike's school a few weekend's ago so I took Jaylee. It was pretty cool except it was packed and my 3 year old tried to ditch me and she ran away and hid in one of the blow-up toy things so we left early!!

She loved this slide though

Regional Stake Conference at the Conference Center:

The first Sunday of the May we had a regional Stake conference. We went down to the Conference Center with Mike and Shirley for it. It was nice and Jaylee did okay considering it was 2 hours long and she doesn't sit very still for very long. She took lots of walks and went exploring with Mommy and Daddy a lot during the meeting. But afterwards on our way back to the car, we stopped at one of my favorite places on Temple Square. I love that she loved it so much too!!

Then Nanny gave her a coin to throw in and she really loved that!!

Baby Gideon:

I'm hoping that all this love she shows to him and how much she loves to hold him, is an indicator about how she's going to be with her baby sister when she comes. And Gideon is a good sport about all the love that his cousin's and siblings give to him especially on Sunday's!!

I'm sure she's trying to convince Aunt Megan that she doesn't need help here. She's thinks she's big!!

Jaylee's Project Time:

We try to have a craft/Project time during the day. Jaylee loves it especially when she gets to paint.

She is SO my daughter!! She loves to have her picture taken most of the time!!

Golfing with Nanny and Poppa:

We had a fun family Night on the 17th. We went down to Swan Lakes and had dinner and then we all went golfing. Everyone except Mike, Brady and I did Miniature Golf. We did the 18-hole putting course. It was way fun and the kids were so cute to watch together!!

The Girl Table-You had to be a girl and have special permission to sit at this table

Jaylee and Hudson

Tenley

After golfing-Harper and Jaylee running around

Brady and JBJ decided to putt around on the practice green and the kids of course wanted to join them. Well when they weren't letting the kids have a turn, Jaylee took matters into her own hands and went and got a putter and ball from the guy in the Pro-Shop.

And then we had melt-down when it was time to go. She LOVES to golf!!

She did not want to leave and had to be escorted off the green!! Then she managed to talk the Pro-Shop guy into giving her a ball to take home with her.

A Snowy Day with Tenley:

Marlee had a test to take one day so we got to play with Tenley. The girls get along so well and are super cute together. Well it started to snow outside and they decided they needed to go out and play in it. So Jaylee let Tenley borrow a Jacket and some boots and gloves and all that jazz. They were so funny to watch. And they had a blast so that's all that matters!!

Jaylee in her snow-gear

Tenley in her snow-gear

They are so funny-look it's not even snowing anymore but it was a little cold still

At the Doctor and Park:

Brady's day off tends to be the day that we go to the Doctor, and run a bunch of errands. Well we try to do something fun at least by going to the park so Jaylee can run around and play.

Waiting to see the Doctor

Then it was park time!! It was super busy, I'm sure since it was actually nice weather for once. Well since I didn't see a bench I decided to sit in the car since we got a great parking spot. Well Jaylee keeps a park bag in the car and of course it has bubbles in it. So she decides it's time to play with the bubbles with her daddy and suddenly they have a bunch of other little kids all around them playing with the bubbles too. It was super cute to watch!! He's such a great Daddy!!

I wish this picture was not taken through the window, it would have been even cuter!!

Cute Harper in her Japan outfit:

I really took this picture to send to my host family, but I had to include it. When we had the girls, my host-family sent a super cute one for Jaylee and Megan loved it. So she asked me to see if they could find another one for Harper and they were able to find one. She's now big enough to fit into her outfit and she was wearing it the other day. It's so cute!!

Brady's Birthday at Boondocks

Brady just wanted to do something fun for his birthday!! Well this cool place called Boondocks has a deal that on your birthday they'll give you a $25 card to use at their place, so that's what Brady decided he wanted to do. We went to dinner with his parents and then the entire family(well those here in Utah-we missed the rest of you guys) joined us at Boondocks. Mike and Shirley had some miniature golf passes for everyone so we did that, and then it was time to hit the go-carts and arcade.

Jaylee begged Brady to let her ride this!! Not that she had to do much begging!!

Tenley and Harper loved the ride too!!
Tenley

Harper

It is so much fun to watch these 3 together.

The Birthday Boy

Jaylee hasn't learned the rules of golf yet!!

The group behind us!! Marlee and JBJ with Pacey and Tenley and then Brenn, Mike and Shirley behind them.

The Triplett's were in front of us!! And Harper kept finding cool things to explore while everyone else was golfing

Jaylee is such a Daddy's girl!! Everything he does she has to do!!

Tommy kind of had a little handicap-he was carrying Gideon while golfing

She's getting better

My little picture lover-She loves to ask me 20 times to take a picture of her

To bad she doesn't stop talking or sit still long enough to get really cute pictures sometimes!!

Brady is getting a little funny in his old age. Anyone who knows him, knows that he follows the rules to a T and is super obedient. Well Jaylee really wanted to ride with him on the go-carts but of course she is to little. So Brady didn't even ask, he picked her up and snuck her on to the go-carts. She LOVED them and kept telling him to go faster since he was going super slow with her being on there.

This is really dark but you can see Brady and Jaylee coming around the corner on the track. and notice that white stuff in the background on the mountain-yes it's snow at the end of May!!

So then Mr. Trend-setter as well as his siblings and in-laws, managed to have all of the double carts while they all went for a ride. The kids loved it just as much as the adults!! It was so cute to see how excited they were!!

Above-Megan and Tate in the first cart, then Marlee and Tenley in the next one back

Then it was Tommy and Harper

Then behind Tommy was JBJ with Pacey

Then there was a single car, then Brady and Jaylee again and Brenn and Hudson.

Brady had a wonderful birthday and even though he hasn't decided what he really wants for a gift, he had a blast!! We're so glad that everyone was able to join in on the fun!!

5 Years Ago...

So Brady and I were talking last night and realized that 5 years ago around this time was when we actually started talking to each other again. For those of you who don't know, Brady and I had been really good friends for about 2 years before we ever dated. Then we dated for a few months and when we broke up it was kind of messy!! So for 6 months, we didn't even talk to each other until about a week before his birthday. We both know that we needed time to deal with things and needed the break, but now looking back it's kind of a funny thing!! I still tease him about breaking my heart and he gives me a hard time about telling him to get over himself and that I had moved on. We weren't very nice to each other. But I guess that time apart taught us something that we needed. I am so glad that I married my best friend. We have so much fun together and enjoy so many of the same things. Of course we don't get to do them all the time and often have an adorable little girl that joins us on our outings, but we love each other and since we were friends for so long before dating and eventually marrying, we know each other all to well. Of course that can have it's down-falls at times, but I wouldn't trade my friendship with my husband for anything!! I love him so much!! I'm so thankful for the man that he is and the father he has become!! This pregnancy has been a lot harder on me then last time, and he just takes such great care of us!! I try to do it all for him but often fall very short especially right now as I'm finishing up with this pregnancy, and he just picks up my slack!! Brady, I love you so much and am so grateful you answered my text that May day 5 years ago!! Thank you for EVERYTHING you do!!