Emry's baby blessing

Emry Ruth

Our precious baby girl was born on June 12th at 1:25pm.  She was 7.2lbs and 20 inches long.  She is perfect in every way.  Jaxon just adores his little sister.  He can not stop kissing and hugging her.  He wants to share everything with her.  Right when he wakes up, he gives her a kiss and says, "cute baby".  He keeps saying, "She's so pretty."  He is the best big brother.  Emry is a great baby.  She is a great night sleeper and an even better eater.  We love her so much.

Perfect Timing to be POTTY TRAINED!

Jaxon woke up last Monday and said he wanted to wear big boy undies like his cousins. I thought it was perfect timing to start potty training since Ryan would be gone all week and we could just stay home and do nothing but focus on going potty and because his baby sister should be coming in just a few weeks. Day 1: no accidents Day 2: 2 accidents Day 3: none Day 4: none Day 5: none and woke up dry in the morning Day 6: none Day 7: none and woke up dry in the morning He is doing so great. Lets pray he keeps it up so I will only have to change and pay for one kid's diapers.

Testimony

Jaxon saw a few younger kids go up and bear their testimonies during Sacrament Meeting yesterday. He kept saying that he wanted to do that. So Ryan took him. They had to wait their turn and Ryan was explaining to him what they were going to do and say. When it was Jaxon's turn to bear his testimony, he put his mouth right on the microphone and said, "Mom. Momma. Mom. Mom." Ryan said he was looking for me in the audience and couldn't find me. He wouldn't say anything else. Even though he didn't bear his testimony, I was still so proud that he wanted to go up to do it. I love my little boy so much.

"Let's have a lil' talk"

Every week Ryan and I talk up nursery so Jax will be excited for when Sunday comes.  Jaxon gets all excited and then right when the closing song starts in Sacrament, he starts whining that he doesn't want to go to nursery.  We keep telling him that nursery is fun, with bubbles, play dough, snacks, toys, coloring, and all of his new friends.  He fake cries the whole way down the hall.  We place him in nursery and he starts to really cry.  Ryan takes him out into the hall and they have a "man to man" talk.  Well last week, Ryan told him on the way to nursery that there will be no crying today and he agreed.  So when we dropped him off, Jax looked like he was about to cry and told Ryan, "Dad, lets have a lil' talk".  Ryan started laughing and walked to the corner of the room with Jax and they had their "man to man" talk and then Jax was just fine. 

No fun for Ryan

Ryan had a basketball tournament for work. It's called the Big's N Blue. Police play against attorneys, firemen, paramedics, etc. During Ryan's first game, a guy charged him. He fell on top of Ryan. That would usually be okay during basketball unless you are really skinny like Ryan and obviously fragile like Ryan. The guy's elbow landed right on Ryan's ribs. Ryan just thought he had a bruise or something and continued playing. He played the rest of the 1st game, was a little sore during his 2nd game and couldn't even do anything during his 3rd game (which was against his brother-in-law, Andy). His mom wrapped him up tight and they got ice for him. After the tournament was over he went to a QuickCare on the way home. Sure enough, he broke his rib. He was so sore that evening and the following 3 days. It hurt to breath, move, or practically do anything. I felt so bad for him. Ryan doesn't complain much, so when he does, you know he is in a lot of pain.

Welcome HOME!!!

We are finally in our new home. Actually we have been for about 3 weeks now. There were a few things that tested our patience on the way, but for the most part everything went smoothly. We are settled and loving the neighborhood. There are hundreds of kids everywhere you look. I can't imagine what it's going to be like in the summer. I'm not completely done decorating but I am having a blast doing it. I am still getting used to the drive. It is pretty much far from everywhere, but the home and neighborhood make up for the commute. It is on a dead end street with little traffic. It is almost 3200 sq. ft. It has a split bedroom floorplan which I love. There is a great room, master, mudroom, 1/2 bath, office, and laundry room downstairs. Upstairs are 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a game room. The yard is spacious and the foothills are right outside our door. So we will never have backyard neighbors. It is so quiet. If you can't tell, we love our new home.

True Story

Ryan was in New Mexico for bomb training from Sunday-Thursday. While he was away, I was watching my two year old nephew Jake all day. Jaxon had a blast playing with his cousin all day long. That same day I had to meet a couple different guys at our new home to get some estimates on a few things we need done around the house before we move in. I was downstairs talking with the floor and window covering guys. My realtor, Sharon said she would keep an eye on the boys for a minute. Jaxon and Jake ran upstairs and I thought nothing of it, since Jaxon knows where the balls are hiddens in this house. So I thought they would just run around and find a ball or two. Well, I was busy talking with the guys and Sharon got to talking to them also and Jax and Jake were unattended for about 5 minutes. My mom came to see the house for the first time and went upstairs to look around and yelled down the stairs, "Cali get up here now." I ran upstairs and had found that Jax and Jake had thrown 3 shoeboxes full of tiny, plastic jewelry beads all over the gameroom. The floor was cover with thousands and thousands of tiny beads. My mom and I started cleaning handfuls of beads up when Sharon and the blinds guy came upstairs to see the mess. All four of us spend at least 45 minutes picking up beads while Jax and Jake thought it would be funny to keep throwing them up in the air. So my mom put them in timeout on the couch and the blind guy put a movie on his ipad for them to watch. It was so annoying. I learned two things that day. One, don't ever let your daughter have tiny jewelry beads and second, don't leave 2 two years old unattended in someone else's home.

Emri will be the best dressed lil' girl...if only I knew how to sew

I was looking on my friend's facebook page and she had a link to this website. I fell in love with this little girl's outfit. I would love Emri to have the entire thing. The only probably is...I suck at sewing. Everytime I need the littlest thing done, I have my Mom do it for me. So, if anyone wants to make this outfit or anything as cute as this for baby Emri...feel free. I added 2 more links from the same blog, but just to give you an idea of what I want Emri to wear.
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Changes and surprises!

Ryan and I have had a crazy last few weeks of changes and surprises. First we found out we are having a baby girl in June. Her name will be Emri. I like "Emri" but Ryan doesn't like that spelling, so the spelling could possibly change. Then we bought a new house in Hidden Springs. It is perfect. We are so excited to start our lives out in the boonies. It is actually so far away that my phone didn't get coverage. So Ryan bought me an Iphone with a new carrier. Thank you Ryan. We still had not sold our home and I was kind of nervous spending a lot of money on a new house knowing that we had payments on our house now. But the Lord does hear our prayers and I think He answers mine more quickly than most people, knowing that I am not patient and can't sleep because of worry. So He was nice enough to answer my prayer about finding a buyer for our house within the week. Needless to say, we got a full price offer yesterday. By the end of the month we will be in our new home. We are all very excited. Everytime we have gone to our new house, Jaxon says, "my house". It will be fabulous. He will have so much fun playing in the big yard, swimming, exploring in the foothills, riding his bike all over the neighborhood and much more.

New Year's In California

Our little boy so excited to be at Disneyland.

Trying to share his lollipop to the cheetah at the Tarzan treehouse in Disneyland.

Jax with his cousins and Pluto.

So excited beforehand and then so shy while he is hugging Mickey.

"Oh my goodness, there Goofy", said Jaxon.

Jaxon riding the carousel at Disneyland.

Daddy and Jax on the Dumbo ride at Disneyland.

My boys laughing on the beach.

The fam on the beach.

My boys and me on the beach with the beautiful sunset we saw nightly.

Auntie Lys, Daddy and Jax on the farisswheel on Balboa Island.

Us on the Newport Pier.

Bishy, Gaga, Lys, Daddy, Jax and me on our huge bike we rode around Balboa Island.

My hott hubby and me after my day at the spa, all done up.

Jaxon at the Rainforest cafe with all the boys.

Jaxon at the Angel's Staduim.

We found Jack Bower from 24.

Mommy and Jax on the Queen Mary.

Daddy and Jax on the Queen Mary.

All of grandkids on the hottub on the roof enjoying themselves.

Jaxon found a seashell. He loved throwing them in the ocean and running away from the waves.

Sexy Daddy after his run on the beach and then playing tackle football with Jax on the beach.

Every year my husband's family takes a trip right after Christmas for a week. This year we went to Seal Beach, CA. It was gorgeous and the most perfect weather. We were spoiled rotten with activites, food, and 75 degree weather. We spent a lot of time on the beach, went the aquarium, Disneyland, rode a 4 person bike in Balboa Island, pretended to shop on Rodeo Dr., walked around Hollywood, shopped, ate a lot of great food and hung out in the jacuzzi on the roof. It was a fabulous trip. Brenda even sent all the girls to a spa for the day. We each received a body massage, facial, manicure, pedicure, make-up and hair done. They even had lunch sent to us on their private patio. It was so relaxing. The boys took all the kids to the Angel's Stadium and Rainforest cafe for the day while their women got pampered. As you can tell, I had a fabulous time.

New baby...new house

We finally told our family that I was pregnant on Thanksgiving, so now it can be open news. Yeah! I'm pregnant. Jaxon pokes my belly button (kinda hard sometimes) and then kisses it and says "hello baby JoJo". Ryan always called the baby while it was still an embryo, JoJo the Embryo. And now that it is a fetus...he calls it Clitus. So now Jaxon says, "hello baby Clitus". It is really cute. He is going to be the best big brother. We are all very excited.
We also put our house on the market TODAY! Ryan and I were not planning on moving until we outgrow this house...maybe when we are pregnant with our 3rd child or something. But the timing is just perfect. We have already looked at a few houses in Hidden Springs subdivision and we will go look at a few in Southeast Boise just to compare. We love both areas. So now we just have to sell this beauty and then we will be in our dream home. We are so excited.

Farmstead

Jaxon has been looking forward to the Farmstead for over a week now. We finally got to go because it stopped raining for a day or so. He LOVED it. He rode a mini horse, fed and pet animals, ran through a mini hay maze (since Ryan hates corn mazes and didn't want to do it.) He rode a tractor pulled cow, ate mini doughnuts, played on the toys and picked out a couple pumpkins. He had a blast. It is kind of hard picking out pumpkins with a 2 year old. He picked up every pumpkin he could carry and set it in our cart. I was putting back pumpkins all night. He thoroughly enjoyed it though and that is all that matters.

My Baby Boy is Not A Baby Any Longer

Jaxon is 2 years old! I cannot believe it. Daddy came home from work as usual at 7:45am and had made Jax Mickey Mouse pancakes and eggs. Then we had a fun filled day while Daddy slept. After Ryan woke up around 3pm, we opened presents. Ryan and I got him a T-ball set with bases, a baseball mitt and a real baseball. He was in heaven. So we played baseball for a while until Ryan and I got bored. We then were off to Chucky Cheese (where a kid can be a kid) and adults can act like kids as well. I got an instant headache with 100 kids running around. It was all worth it when I saw Jaxon's face when we walked inside. He played games, gave the creepy Chucky high fives and won lots of tickets (which we gave to a cute little girl because we didn't want to wait in a huge line to redeem our tickets for a Tootsie Roll or something lame. As you can tell, Jaxon will never go to Chucky Cheese or anyplace like it with his Mother ever again. We drove down the road to eat pizza at Flying Pie. After pizza we went to the park to meet all his friends. They played on the toys, ate baseball cupcakes and icecream, sang to Jaxon, watched him open presents and then played some more. They had a great time. I think Jaxon had the greatest birthday a 2 year old could have.

Aloha!

Ryan and I just spent a week with our friends, Kerri and Chris from Arizona in Hawaii. We left Jax at the grandparent's houses and had a great time. Kerri and I hung out on the beach with the boys played frisbee for hours in the ocean. We ate a lot of delicious food, shopped, did a session at the temple and explored towns. We ziplined over beautiful waterfalls for FREE. The guy from the snorkeling shop told us to talk to Luke at the Zipline shop. When we called, Luke was out on a tour. So when we got to the shop the next day, Luke had totally hooked us up and gave us the zipline tour, which would have cost us $150/person, for FREE. The tour giudes from the zipline shop told us about a gorgeous hike up the river that leads to a waterfall that you can swim at the base of. That was the prettiest place I have ever seen. We bodysurfed and got sand in places I didn't even know were there. We swam with Manta Rays at night. Those suckers are 16 feet wide and swim right against you. It was insane and the coolest thing we did. I would recommend it to anyone. We went to a luau and ate TONS of crazy food and had great entertainment. We had a fabulous time. We stayed at Rod and MaryAnn's beautiful villa on the golf course. We had perfect weather the entire week. It was a perfect vacation. We loved everything about it.

Dirty Dash is Really Dirty

Steve realized he had to coach Max's first football game and asked if I would like to take his place at the Dirty Dash. I was so excited. I literally couldn't sleep the night before. I had my extra clothes and towel and everything ready the night before like it was my first day of elementary school. Lyric had quite a few of her friends doing it with her. We drove up to Bogus Basin and found tons of people dressed up. Girls with tutu's, chefs with whitey-tighties and aprons, wedding dresses, etc. We started the race by having to jump over 5 gigantic hay bales. Then it was up and down hills with little obstacles, like walking a straight line on poles, running through tires and crawling through tubes. Then after a major hill, there was our first muddy obstacle. We had to run up a little hill, which took me several times to get up, slide down and then crawl through tubes full of mud. Then climb over fences that were several feet high landing in mud on the other side. At the very top of the hill, beer was served. We took a few sips of Root Beer (which wasn't smart, because I was burping the entire rest of the race). It was downhill from there. A few little obstacles led us to the bunny hill where we had to run up and then slide down a huge boucey slip n' slide landing in mud. The last 20 yards of the race was a swimming pool of mud. Lyric was literally swimming- doing the back stroke. There were photo shots at the finish line. We were covered in mud. It was challenging and tiring, but the funnest race I will ever do. Thank you Steve.