Random Pictures from the past 3-4 months

Logan looking very surprised (he was probably around 2 months here)This is one of my best friend Brittney's little girl and Logan. They are a week and a half apart.
Landen and Andie riding a ride

Candace and Alli playing with Logan

Troy and Logan at little Brea's blessing

This is at payson citys Onion Days Parade. (We are in the process of teaching Andie how to sit while she is wearing a dress. Still have a long way to go I guess.)

Andie likes to take Logan for walk around the house in her baby doll stroller

Last week sometime Andie came in after playing outside with Reese. It had rained earlier in the day so the sandbox was muddy. I didn't realized she was playing in it (after I had gotten her ready for bed) she came in covered in mud. This picture doesn't even do it justice. Her and Reese sure do have a lot of fun together and get into some trouble to. I am so glad that Reese lives down stairs so Andie usually always has someone to play with. It will be SO SAD when they move in January.

When I am feeding Logan right before bed usually Andie just goes and gets in bed by her self. After I had told her multiple times to please get in bed I looked over and saw her fast asleep on the couch like this. Silly girl. She has done this several times now.

Andie doing one of her favorite things. Holding Logan. She is always asking to hold him. It is getting harder for her now that he is so long.

Andie just started gymnastics last week with her friend Mae. SHE LOVES IT. She came home and was telling everyone all about it and was showing them what she did. If you haven't noticed in these pictures she also got her new teeth at the end of July. They look really good on her. Her mouth was sore for a couple of days but other then that she acts like they have always been there.

Andie's birthday

Andie is 3!!! I can't believe that I have a three year old. It is so crazy how fast the past three years have gone by! Andie's birthday is on September 11th. I remember being in labor in the hospital just waiting for her to grace us with her presence. It was the 5 year anniversary of 9-11-01. The only thing on T.V was videos of sept. 11th and everyone remembering what had happened. The day we were in the hospital was a day of sadness for the rest of the world but it was a day of happiness for me and Landen and it always will be. Andie's due date actually was on September 11th but I didn't actually think she was going to be born on that day. Not very many people actually have their babies on their due dates but that is the day she wanted to come. When I would tell people her due date they would always say "Really? Well you don't have to worry you won't have her on your due date." I always laugh when I think about that.
We decided to take Andie to Pirate Island on her birthday and she got to bring one friend with her. We had a lot of fun their. The food was actually pretty good. Andie keeps asking us if we can go eat with the pirates. The day after her birthday we had both of our families come over and we had cake and ice cream. It was a fun weekend.

Andie putting on her new dress up stuff!!

Landen and Andie at pirates island playing a game

Mae and Andie riding the merry-go-round

Mae and Andie at pirate island

This is right after she woke up on her birthday. I decorated her room while she was sleeping. That morning I walked by her room thinking she was still sleeping and as I walked by she yelled, "MOM!!! Look!!" She was so excited. She had probably been awake for a while but didn't leave her bed because she didn't really know what to do with all of that stuff in her room. That whole weekend she kept saying she had a birthday room and had to show everyone.

This is what she got right when she woke up.


Logans Aunts were having fun with him at Andie's party



This is Andie on Sunday wearing her new dress she got for her birthday.

We all had so much fun celebrating Andie's birthday, especially since she knew what was going on this year. It was fun to see her get excited. We missed my parents though, but they called Andie a couple of times to tell her Happy Birthday.

Fundraiser

On August 22nd my siblings and I held a fundraiser to raise money for our Dad's cancer treatment. When my Dad found out he had cancer he imediatly starting researching his different options of treatment. He decided the best treatment for him would be at a place in Atlanta Georgia. The only problem that they kept coming across was the money they would have to pay for this treatment out of pocket. When it came down to it that was the ONLY thing keeping him from getting the treatment. We told my parents not to worry about the money. We wanted our Dad to get the treatment that he needed and we felt money should not be the reason he doesn't. We told them that we would do whatever we needed to so he could go to Georgia

Honestly I thought we were going to have to do this fundraiser, a fundraiser dinner, a yard sale and anything else we could think of doing. We decided to start with a fundraiser day and then go from there. All I did for 6 weeks straight was prepare for the fundraiser. I had SO MANY people help me with so much. In that 6 weeks I learned a lot. One of the things that touched me so much was I got to see how kind and giving people are. My friends were so willing to help without even thinking about it and even complete strangers. I had a lot of sleepless nights worrying about what I needed to do and also thinking about all of these amazing caring people so willing to help our family even if they didn't know us. Everyday we would get donations and people volunteering to help us with whatever we needed. I want to say THANK YOU. Thank you for your kind and giving hearts and for using your talents to help us. By the end of the night of the fundraiser I was so overwhelmed with gratitude (and surprised everything went so well) and I was also very ready to go to sleep. The night before I had planned on going to bed around 10 to get a good nights rest but then it was 5:30 am by the time I was done with everything and I had planned on waking up at 5:45 or 6:00 so I thought it would be best just to stay awake. There is NO WAY I could have only slept for a half hour or even a hour. It was easier just staying awake. Needless to say I was not really with it the whole day......which was probably a good thing.

Balloon Artist

Domino's Pizza

Raffle Items

Sale Items

Jamba Juice

Cotton Candy and Popcorn

Little Mae having a good time

Cold Stone

JDawgs

Tye Dye

Bounce House

Auction Items

Bake sale

Landen took all of these pictures with his cell phone since we didn't have a camera.

The day went so well! While we were planning for this we all thought that maybe we could raiser 2-3 thousand dollars (that is why we were planning on doing several other things). At the end of the night after counting the money we had raised 8,500 dollars!! My parents were in complete shock. You could instantly see a huge burden lifted from them. When all was said and done we ended up raising over 10,000 dollars. People were still sending money in the mail and giving us money. We had a goal to raise 10,ooo dollars and with the kindness of everyone we did it.

My parents are in Georgia right now and my Dad is recieving his treatments 5 times a week. They will come home right before Halloween. I am really close to my parents so it has been hard while they have been gone but I know they are where they need to be right now and I happy they can be there.

I am so thankful and feel so blessed for people charitable hearts and christ like service. This wouldn't have been possible without all of you that helped us. I just can't say thank you enough. Also thank you to all of those who came out to the fundraiser and supported us!

July

In July we had a lot going on. It was our four year wedding anniversary on the 29th. Yay! We couldn't celebrate the night of becuase Landen had scouts. On friday night our awesome friends Heidi and Jason watched our little ones so we could go to a dinner and a movie. On Monday we went with some of our friends (brian and shelly) to see a play called "The Fantastics" up at the out door thearter at sundance. It was really good and I liked that it was outside. Before we went to the play we went to Glorias little Italy to eat and none of us were really happy with it. We probably won't be going back there again. I have heard so many good things about it so we were a little disapointed.
The third week in July we blessed Logan. Landens Mom made his blessing outfit. He looked so cute. We didn't have a camera then because we broke ours so we had other people take pictures. I will post them later. We had a breakfast at our place after. There were a lot of people here. Good thing we have a backyard. It was a really good day for our little Logan and it was really good to see our family and friends.
The 24th of July we went to Landens Aunts and Uncles for a BBQ and then we went to an owlz game. Baseball games have been really fun to go to this year because Landen can actually sit with us and enjoy the game. Andie didn't like the fireworks afterwards though.
We had a really good month of July and it was even better because Landen didn't have school this summer so we got to see more this summer than we have since Andie has been born. It was so great!!

July 4th

For the fourth this year we didn't do anything special. We spent the day going shopping around to different places. For fireworks we went to the church parking lot with some friends and lit some fireworks. Andie really really liked it a lot. She likes the little fireworks a lot more then the bigs ones in the sky. She doesn't like those ones so much.

Zions National Park

Wow.....it has been a long time since I have blogged. It has been so crazy busy around our house lately. July 6th-8th we went down to Zions for landens grandparents 50th wedding anniversary/family reunion. It was so much fun and good to see everyone. We only got a few pictures. Our camera was broken on this trip so we went a couple of months without taking pictures. Which was sad for me since Logan is changing so much and so fast. I am just happy we finally got a camera!! Here are the few pictures we got.

My Dad

Host: Tipton Kids
Type: Causes - Fundraiser
Date: Saturday, August 22, 2009
Time: 9:00am - 9:00pm
Location: 531 E. 100 N.
City/Town: Springville, UT
Email: laurs_tpt@hotmail.com

Description
My siblings and I are holding a fundraiser to earn some money to go towards my Dad's cancer treatment. This is something my parents never thought would happen but it did. My Dad has served our community for over 20 years. He is a retired volunteer fireman and is currently working as a Police Sergant for Spirngiville City. He has helped his children with so much and has served others for so many years that we feel that we need to do this for him. We don't want money to be the reason he doesn't receive the treatment he needs.
* J-Dawgs will be there! (11:00-1:30)
*Cold Stone will be there (Starting at 12:00)
*Jamba Juice will be there. (Starting at 11:00)
*There will be a bounce house for kids
*There will be a silent auction for a Little Giant Ladder.
*There will be tickets for the Jazz, Bee's, Flash, Real Salt Lake...etc.
*Raffle fora scuba Teds open water certificaton (valued at $199.00)
*There will be MANY different gift baskets and gift certificates from business around the community
*BYU football Gift basket
*You can get your hair done by a professional.
*You can get a massage by a professional.
*There will be a lot of different things you can buy:
-Flowers and bows for your hair
-Purses-Baby blankets
-Car seat covers
-Roberts Crafts gift basket

(Everything is New)

SO MUCH MORE WILL BE THERE!!!

All proceeds will go to paying for our Dad's cancer treatment

.***INVITE YOUR FRIENDS***

If you have any questions please e-mail me or leave a comment

I NEED HELP!!!

My Siblings and I are holding a fundraiser on AUG. 22nd to earn money for our Dad's cancer treatment. I bought a pattern to have some purses made.....except I don't know how to sew. My awesome neighbor is going to help me sew one of them but I still need to find 5 other people that will kindly donate their time and just make the purse for me. I have the pattern and fabric...I just need someone who would be willing to sew it. Let me know if you can help.

Thanks!!

The Jungle

Yesterday I went out to Elberta for Marcea's baby shower. Landen stayed home with Andie so they could hang out. He ended up taking her up to Sundance and going on a 3 mile hike up to this water fall. He said that she walked pretty much the whole way. On the way down she wanted to be carried every once and awhile. I called Landen to see where they were at and Andie was yelling in the phone ," mom, I in the jungle." It was so cute. Landen said it was a pretty hard hike. I can't believe that she walked the whole way. When they got home she just kept telling me about the jungle and the waterfall. She really liked to show me these pictures on the camera.

Every since Logan was born she has become Daddy's little girl. She wants Daddy to do a lot of things that mommy used to do. This includes her hair. Last Sunday she absolutley refused to let me do her hair for church. She kept saying, "no, Daddy do it." That is what she was doing yesterday. I usually try to get her hair done when Landen isn't around so she doesn't look like an orphan but some days daddy has to do it. You just might see us out and about and Andie most likely will look like she has been neglected because " daddy do it"

Tent in the front room

Last week Landen went camping with the scout and it rained the whole week. Our tent has been set up in our garage drying out the past couple of days. On Friday night Landen brought it in and thought it would be fun for Andie to play in it and watch a movie before bed.

He was right. She thought it was pretty funShe wanted Logan to join in on the fun

Andie and Logan fell asleep before the movie was over.
She has had so much fun with it we decided to keep it up for the whole weekend. If come over you just might be sitting in our tent.

Opening game

Last Thursday was opening game for the owlz. Of course we wouldn't miss it. This was Logan's first baseball game. He was really good and everybody had fun passing him around. I am sure we will be going to plenty more this summer. It is a fun summer family activity. Andie gets to excited when we tell her we are going to the baseball game. She the the mascot, Hootz. She gets so excited that she gets to see him.

Grandpa and Grandma Garner

Carnival

This year we had so much fun going to the carnival. Andie just couldn't get enough. It was fun to watch her get to excited and have fun. She had the most fun when she would go on the rides with her cousins.

Andie and Alli
They were so funny. When the ride was over they put on their puppy dog faces and asked if they could stay on. Of course the guy fell for it and they ended up going on it three times in a row. We didn't really know what was going on until Landen went over there the 2nd time to go see what was going on and he saw their perfomance. We all just laughed.

Almost everyday she asks if we can go to the carnival.

BBQ

A couple of weeks ago we went up hobble creek canyon and had a little BBQ and let Andie play around. It was nice to get out and go to such a beautiful place. Andie had so much fun. We also found a really big play ground up there and she loved it.

This is Logan when we first got there.
Andie's checking on the food

Andie and Dad playin catch. She LOVED this. She couldn't stop laughing.

She kept asking Laden to take her to see the water.

This is Logan when we getting ready to leave.

Three became FOUR.....

on May 18th at 6:41 p.m. Logan Ruff Garner was born! Once again it took us until we were leaving the hospital and signing the birth certificate to decide on a name. We decided on Logan Ruff. Landen came up with that name and I liked it. That was the only one that we both really liked. Ruff is my Grandma Tiptons maiden name and my Dad's middle name. He weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long. He is growing so fast. Yesterday was his two week appointment and he was 8 pounds 3 ounces and 21 inches long. I put a lot of pictures on here....I couldn't just pick a couple. They are out of order and I don't feel like putting them in order.

Just hanging out at the hospital Logan and Uncle Troy
After his bath at the hospital. The nurses combed his hair with a part.

Aunt Amy and cousin Ashley

Andie exploring her little brother. She is always asking to hold him and she loves to give him his binki.

Uncle Brian

Hanging out in his swing. He was holding his arms up like that for a long time and I thought it was funny so I took a pic.

Dad is breaking him in early

Andie being such a good big sister. She has adjusted a lot better then I thought she would. It is almost like he has always been here. She hasn't been jelous of him at all, which I was a little worried about.

Grandma Tipton loving her new grandbaby

Getting ready to leave the hospital

One proud Daddy. I love seeing how Landen is when he is with Andie and Logan. You can see how much he loves them.

Hilary and Logan

Anj holding Logan. This is the first time Andie saw him.

Logan right after his bath at the hospital with a funny part in his hair (I still think that Landen had something to do with that...ha ha ha)

Right after he was born

My family watching him get his first bath right after he was born.

I love this little guy so much. I am so happy that he is finally here. He is a blessing to our little family. Andie loves her litte brother and I know when he can play with her they will have so much fun.

Princess Party

One of the neigborhood girls had a princess birthday party a couple of weeks ago (the same day as Landens work party). Andie was in heaven. She still talks about Ava's party. It was so cute to watch all of the little girls get all dressed up and walk down the runway. Then there was the princess tea party. SO FUN and cute. Andie loved the PINK chocolate milk. She is only 2 and is already playing princesses, all the time.

Princess tea party, sitting next to Mae.

Taking her turn to walk down the run way

Landen's summer work party

A couple of weeks ago Landen's company had a party up Hobble Creek Canyon at one of the owners house. They had blow up slides, blow up bouncy stuff, a pond with a canoe, tree house, swings, trampoline, lots of food, cotton candy, snow cones...etc. Andie had SO MUCH FUN!!! Right when we pulled up she couldn't wait to get out of the car to go play on all the blow up stuff. We got there a little after it started and stayed until it was supposed to end. She could have stayed all day and night.

Taking a breather

Going on a canoe ride. She was so excited for this. As soon as she saw people in this on the water she kept asking if she could do it.
It was kinda funny watching them trying to steer this thing and it was really funny when they were trying to get it on the ground to get out. It took 4-5 try's. Andie loved it and she liked it when she could help with the paddle.
Dad pushing her on the swing

It was a fun outing for us. The last one before our little guy arrived. It was in a beautiful place and was fun to see Andie having such a good time.

Elder Garner

Welcome home Vance

Vance, Landen's brother, came home from his mission to Puerto Rico on April 30th. We all were so exited. Andie was only 6 months old when left so we were curious to see how she would react to him.

She didn't want him to hold her....at all.
Landen giving Andie a ride on Vance's suit case

Andie has since warmed up to Vance very well. She asks about him all the time and gets excited when we say we are going to see him.

Easter (very late but......oh well)

Easter:

Easter this year was so much fun. Andie is finally at the age where she understands holidays. She had fun going to all the Easter eggs hunts and she especially loved all of the candy! We had an Easter egg hunt at her Grandma Garners house, the orem owlz and at our house. She loved seeing the mascott, Hoots, at the owlz hunt. She talked about that for days.

Landen helping Andie at the Owlz Eater egg hunt.

At the end of the day and being in the rain for most of the day she is having fun with the games at the owlz hunt.

Grandma Garner's Eater egg hunt

Coloring eggs

She wasn't very happy before church.
After church she was happy as can be. She is showing off her Eater dress

Whats been going on....

at our house. Nothing too exciting but we still have been having a good time. Andie's friend Mae has come over a couple of times to play and they have so much fun!! Mae has some fun princess dress up clothes. Andie loves to play dress up. It was so fun to watch them and what they did.

Andie is Sleeping Beauty and Mae is Tinkerbell

Cute Minnie Mouse

This was so cute. I babysit this little boy Marshall a couple of times a week. He was there one of the times Mae came over. Mae was so worried about him and just wanted to make sure he was happy. She was reading him this book and rubbing his head to make sure he was ok.

Landen did a pine wood derby car for the Elders pine wood derby in our ward. Don't ask me how he found the time to do it. Well that was pretty much his Spring Break I guess. He decided to do a Bronco. It looks just like his real Bronco. It turned out really good! It didn't win any of the races that it was in but it kept up with all the cars. Next time he will have to put some weights on it.

Andie LOVES her Papa Tipton. This is right before we were going to go home and go to bed. This is one of her favorite things to do at his house. Sit on the fridge and jump off. She isn't really afraid of anything when it comes to stuff like that.

She could do this for hours.

Andie and Marshall

My little Vampire. I still think she is the cutest, even though she is missing 4 top teeth. (I told the story of what happened on my Christmas post)

This is Hilary, Adam, me and Landen at the Jazz game. It was a lot of fun and the Jazz won so that made it even better. It was good to hang out with them. They are moving this summer to Seatle (sniffle, sniffle) because Adam got excepted to school out there.

We have been having lots of the fun over the past month.

I will do another post in the next couple of days on how the pregnancy is going.

Valentines Day

Valentines Day was a really good day. I got to spend the WHOLE day with just Landen!! Andie got to stay at her Grandma & Grandpa Garners for the weekend. She loves it there. We started the day off by going to Park City and shopping around at the outlet stores. Landen found a really good deal on a jacket he has been looking for. Then we went out to dinner at the Outback steak house. It was yummy but I ate way too much! After dinner we headed to Salt Lake where we went to the ballet at the Capitol Theater. It was really good. That was the first ballet I have ever been to. I really enjoyed it. It was just a really good day because we got to spend the whole day together. I have the most wonderful husband!!

Landen and me before the ballet started at the Capitol Theater

Andie Helped me make cookies for Valentines Day! She always has to be up on the counter helping me and this case eating what we are making! I love my little helper! She just can't get enough of the chocolate cookie dough.