Garner Family

Surprise on Landen's 30th birthday!!

2012-01-08T10:29:00.004-07:00

Landen's 30th birthday was yesterday. We celebrated by having both of our families over for homemade pizza and dessert (totally forgot to get the icecream out so now I have a freezer FULL of icecream). We got a special cake made for Landen. Pink and purple. ha ha. When I brought it out to sing happy birthday everyone kept saying why is it pink? Thats funny it's pink. They couldn't see what was written on it because I was holding it up high. After he blew the candles out we showed them and said we were having a baby girl! We hadn't even told our families that we were expecting baby #4 so they got two surprises. The first was that I was pregnant and the seconed that it was a girl. I am so happy to have finally told everyone. It was so HARD for me to keep it in that long. Everyone was surprised and it made Landen's birthday that much more fun!

We look forward to adding another little girl to our family and Andie just can't even wait to finally have a baby sister. Yes we are a little crazy.Yes it has been extremely hard to have to take care of a baby (Jaxon) while I have been really sick and throwing up but I am feeling much better now. Jaxon and this little girl will be 16 months apart. Logan will turn 3 in May so we will have 3 kids under the age of 3. It will be hard but being a Mother is one of the best things I will ever do in this life.

A year in review 2011

2012-01-01T10:03:00.014-07:00

I really wanted to find the time to go back and catch up on every thing that we did this past year with its individual posts (I still might). For right now I am going put some pictures on from the past year. You can watch Jaxon grow up before your eyes. ha ha. The last pictures I posted of him was when he was born and he will be turning one at the end of this month. Pretty crazy. There are so many pictures but at least I am all caught up.

Valentines Day

My sister and her new baby Noah, Charly and Jaxon

Jaxon's Blessing

Easter

Landen Graduates

Doing Charly's hair

Andie cut her own harid. This is after Lisa did what she could to fix it. Looks pretty good. I was so sad she cut her curls off.

Andie's last day at pre-school with Miss Becky

Logan turns 2

Art City Days parade

Troy and Andreas wedding

Andie went to a princess tea party

Corn Maze

Andie's 5th birthday party
Andie's first day of school

Childrens garden at thanksgiving point

Sand Dunes

Andie turns 5!!

We hiked Ensign Peak

Andie got her first bee sting
We traumatized Jaxon. We forgot his jammies and this is all grandma had.

Went fishing

Went to Gardner Village.....

and temple square in the same day

The new Spirngville Library opened

Halloween

Kids helping dad change light bulb
Went and saw "The Savior of the World" and ate at the Garden

Made a ginger bread house

My friend Hilary and her baby Mary came and visited from Washington

Christmas Eve party

Hopefully this next year I can find the time to be better at blogging so I can have a better record for my family.

It's been to long

2011-07-05T15:13:00.003-06:00

I have so much I have wanted and do want to blog about but having 3 kids has made me put the blog on the back burner for awhile. Caring for them is more important anyway but I like to blog for a picture type journal/scrapbook. I hope that one of these days I can just sit down and catch up but for now I just wanted to post one picture and say we are doing really well. We LOVE our little family of 5 and little Jaxon is such a joy.

Landen GRADUATED!!!!!!!

(hopefully there will be a longer post about that in the months to come)

I am so proud of him and it has been AMAZING actually having him home for a couple of hours a day. He keeps saying that he acutally gets to see one of his kids grow up since they were born (talking about Jaxon).

This is all for now. I need to get back to my kids. Hopefully I will be able to catch up soon.

Our Little Jaxon

2011-02-12T15:07:00.002-07:00

Our little guy made his arrival on January 25th. We are so excited that he is here and his brother and sister just can't get enough of him.

I decided to write down the labor and delivery. I didn't write it down with my other two and I already regret it. You can skip right to the pictures. This is going to be long and may jump around as I am trying to remeber all the info.

I had been scheduled to be induced on the 25th (39 weeks). I was SO READY for it. They were so supposed to call me anywhere from 5 am - 7 am to tell me to come in. I couldn't sleep at all that night because I was having contractions all night long. That was the 4th time in that week I was kept up in the night with contractions. 5 am came around and I was laying awake in bed waiting for a phone call. I just kept telling myself it didn't matter if these contractions stopped this time because I was being induced and having this baby no matter what. 6 am came around and still no phone call. 7...8...9..10 am still no phone call and my contractions had stopped once again. I called the Dr's office to see what was going on, to make sure they didn't forget to schedule it. The nurse said she would call the hospital and give me a call back. She called me back and told me they were completely full and couldn't take any inductions until they had a free room. They asked if I wanted to wait until the next day or go in anytime during the day as soon as a room became available. I almost was in tears talking to her. I told her I wanted to go in asap. I was emotionally ready to have this baby. After being up all night for the 4th time that week and counting on having my baby that day I was more than ready. I was so upset and sad most of the day. I had made an appointment with my Dr for 2: 15 that day so he could check me to see if those contractions were doing anything at all and to have him strip my membranes. When he checked me I was a 3 1/2. Four days before I was only a 2. PROGRESS. I was hoping that my contractions would start again and wouldn't stop. After the Dr left the room I immediatly started having contractions. When I got home I told Landen what the Dr said and that we just had to wait until the hospital called. I was still having contractions and they were pretty painful. I told Landen that I thought I was in labor but I thought that 4 other times that week to. As I was talking to Landen the hospital called and told me to come in!! I was so excited. My mood instantly changed. My mom came over to watch the kids and we were on our way. The whole way over I kept telling Landen that I think I am in labor. The contractions were hurting pretty bad. We got to the hospital and we were checking in. Since I was there to be induced they weren't in any real hurry to get me into a room. I remember sitting there filling papers out and thinking "Hello I am in labor and I can barely sit here right now and fill these papers out." Of course the lady had no idea that I thought I was in labor. She took us back to our room and our nurse came in to get me all ready to go. It was almost 4 p.m at this point. I told her that I thought I was already in labor. She checked me and I was still and 3 1/2. She said she would give it an hour and come check me again. She came back and that time I was a 4 1/2. She said she was pretty sure I was in labor. I asked her if I could not have the pitocin and see how far I could get on my own. She said that was a good idea since it seemed I was in labor. They got me started on the med. for strep b and a iv sugar water solution. My dr wanted to try something different for me because with my last two I got pre-eclampsia after I had both my kids. He thought the sugar water would help with swelling. I got an epidural around 5: 30. Once it kicked in I was comfortable and was able to relax. That only lasted about an hour. I could start to feel the contractions and feel a lot more. At 6:45 or 7 my dr came in and broke my water. My nurse checked me at 7:30 and I was only a 5 1/2. At 7:50 I called my nurse because i told her I felt a lot of pressure and pain. I was a 7 1/2 and she said you will probably be ready to push in 15 minutes. What? really? By this time I could feel everything. I kept pushing the button for the epidural but it didn't seem to help...at all. I could move my legs without any problem and I could feel the contrations and they were really painful. I could feel everytime they would check me. 10 mintues later I told her i felt like I needed to push. She checked me and she said, "yep your a 10." Just had to wait for my Dr. to get there. He was working on some paper work in the hospital so he wasn't to far. When he got there I started pushing and two contractions and 5 minutes later we had a crying baby! I couldn't believe it happened so fast! My other two were all day. He was born at 8:19 pm. He weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces. It took us until we were leaving the hospital and signing the birth certificate (once again) to pick a name. We named him Jaxon.

When the nurse was helping me get dressed I asked her what this thing was on my gown. She just kinda stared at it. The look on her face was confusion and you could tell she was processing something. She finally said did anyone unhook that? I said no. She went over to the epidural pump/bag (I don't know what it is called) that has the tubing coming out that is supposed to be hooked to the tube in your back for the epidural. The one that gives you the medicine when you push the button because your in pain. Yeah that one. The tubing hooked to the bag still had the cap on it!! It never got hooked up to me! I only got the medicine that he injects right when you get the epidural and that only lasted about an hour to an hour and a half. I couldn't believe it and the nurse couldn't either. She said that has never happened before. You would think I would be mad but acutally I was so happy. I have always wanted to do it without pain med. but I didn't ever think I could do. Didn't have faith in myself. Yeah, it hurt....bad. But only for a short amount of time. I was at the hospital for 4 hours before i had the baby. For about 1 to 1 1/2 hours of that I had an epidural. This just showed me that next time I CAN do the whole thing natural and I am strong enough to do it. The nurse kept apologizing and I just kept telling her I was happy with how to turned out and happy that happened.

This was my shortest labor by far and easiest one. It was such a good experience. I am so happy that I ended up going into labor on my own and didn't need any pitocin. With Andie I went into labor but was dialating to slow so they gave me pitocin and with logan I was induced. I am so thankful that the hospital was full that morning so my body could do it naturally. At the time I was not to thankful and kinda mad and sad. I look back at it and I know that it happened the way it was supposed to.

I remember saying over and over again right after he was born that I was so happy how everything happened and turned out. Even the epidural not working....I was so happy about that.

Here are some pictures. They are all out of order. I put a lot on here since I get my blog published into books.

Christmas Eve 2010

2011-01-01T14:30:00.004-07:00

My family has a party every year on Christmas Eve. It's tradition to do the same thing evey year and I always look forward to it. We usually start out with a dinner, which is always delicious then we have a program. Each family either tells a story about christmas sings a song or share an experience. This year Landen sang a song for our family. He sang "Come Lord Jesus" It was so beautiful. After Our program all the kids act out the manger scene. I had to do the costumes this year and lets just say I didn't really have much to choose from so it is really random. Santa usually ends up coming sometime in the evening. It is different every year. The grandkids get to open their PJ's from my parents and the adults open their gifts from the sibling exchange.

Landen singingAll the kids waiting to sit on Santa's lap
Andie on Santa's lap
Logan not so sure about Santa

A little nervous but he didn't cry

All the kids in the Manger scene. Andie was Mary and baby Charly was the baby Jesus.

Andie's cousin Evan gave her that purple ball for Christmas. She loved it.

Opening Christmas PJ's

Andie loves them

This year was really good. It was so relaxing and enjoyable. I wasn't stressed out about anything and I just got to relax and enjoy it all.

Shopping with coupons

2010-11-06T14:01:00.003-06:00

I have been using coupons since around January. I have really liked doing it and have gotten a sense of security from it. I have never had as big of a food storage (non-food and food) as I do now and I haven't had to go over on my budget to do it.

Here is my latest shopping trip to smith in Provo:

This was taken with my phone because we broke our camera. This is a list of everything that I bought.

*Jello/Pudding (large box): 8 boxes
*American Beauty Spaghetti: 6 bags

*Nestle Cocoa (individual packets, 10 in a box): 6 boxes

*Captain Crunch crunch berry cereal: 4 boxes

*Stove top stuffing: 2 boxes

*Stewed Tomatoes: 19 cans

* Carnation Evaporated milk: 8 cans

*Campbells cream of mushroom soup: 25 cans

*Swansons Chicken Broth: 10 cans

*Gatorade: 30 bottles

*Powerade: 1 bottle

*Ricola Cough drops: 8 bags

*Pringles Chips: 4

*Land-o-frost lunch meat: 2

Total Items: 127

Here is the BEST part. I only spent $15.52!!!! It was a savings of 93%.

If you were wondering about the experation date on these items most of them don't expire until sometime in the year 2012 some of them do expire around this time next year. Not every shopping trip is like this. Ones like this come ever month or every couple of months.Just depends on the kinds of sales that are going on at the time. The rest aren't so big but I still do save a lot of money.

I just wanted to share how you really can save money using coupons and build your food storage at the same time. I have had serveral people ask me if I was going to have another coupon class at my home so if you are intersted let me know. I am thinking of having one in a couple of weeks.

Girl or Boy

2010-10-18T13:07:00.002-06:00

I am way late posting this, mostly because I just forgot to do it. We found out on September 10th that we are having a BOY!! I was so convinced that we were having a girl. This pregnancy has been so similar to when i was pregnant with Andie so i just made myself think it was a girl. On top of that Andie woudn't stop calling the baby a girl and she wanted a baby sister so bad. I thought she was going to get what she wanted. At the ultrasound I could clearly see that it was a boy and I was shocked. When we told Andie she said, " I don't want a boy." After it sunk in that it really was a boy and not a girl I got really excited. Logan and his little brother are going to have so much fun and be so close together in age. I am 25 weeks right now so we still have a ways to go but it has gone by really fast.

5 Year Anniversary

2010-08-02T14:27:00.000-06:00

Landen and I had our 5 year anniversary on July 29th. We decided to go down to Vegas and St. George to celebrate. We left Wed. morning and got to Vegas in the afternoon. We stayed at the Excalibur. After we checked in we did some shopping around on the strip and ate dinner and then we headed off to see The Phantom of the Opera. It was SO GOOD. I had seen it once before at the capitol theater and it was so much better in vegas. We loved it. Thursday we went out to breakfast with Landen's friend and his wife. We spent the rest of the day shopping around and walking the strip. We love to shop and I am not lieing when I say WE. Landen likes it more than I do. Which is really good because I know there will always be time for that anywhere we go, Landen makes sure of it. That night we went and saw The Lion King. It was a really good show. I thought it was better when I saw it in NYC but it was still really good. On Friday we checked out of our hotel and did some more last minute shopping and then we went to the wax museum. Tickets to the wax museum came with our tickets to the Lion King. After the Wax museum we left vegas (which I was so ready to do) and headed to St. George. When we got to St. George we had just enough time to check into our hotel and go look for a place to eat before we headed up to the Tuacahn. We couldn't find anywhere that was fast enough and that sounded good so we skipped dinner and decided to eat after the show. Little did we know was that the power was out at the Tuacahn because of a wind storm and the show wouldn't even start until after 10. We ended up just eating snacks from the show for dinner and called it good. Saturday we went and did sealings at the St. George Temple. I love that Temple. It was so nice to go there and spend some time with Landen doing sealings to celebrate our anniversary. After the Temple we went and visited with Landen's friend and his wife for a couple of hours. It was so nice to site and talk with them. Before we headed home we decided to go do more shopping at the outlet stores. We found lots of great stuff there.

This is me and Landen on a Gondola ride. Our guide was awesome and sang really well too. (Landen looks a little freaked out)
This was made out of Jelly Belly's.

This was on of the costumes they wore in the Lion King

Babe Ruth at the wax museum

Wax Museum

John Wayne at the wax museum. We got this one for my Dad.

We got this one for Andie. When we showed her she loved it.

We had so much fun and it was nice to get away for a couple of days. I was in the sick stage of being pregnant but as long as I ate a good breakfast I felt pretty good.

Carnival

2010-07-24T14:16:00.000-06:00

Andie LOVES the carnival. Anytime there is one close by we take the kids and let them go on a couple of rides. This is the one in Spanish Fork. They had a really good time even though it was REALLY HOT.

Primary Activity

2010-07-20T22:25:00.000-06:00

I always have heard stories of when little primary kids tell their teachers everything about their parents but had never experienced it......until today. I went to go pick Andie up from her primary activity today and a couple of people told me that Andie told them something and they were wondering if it were true. Yes......yes it's true. Andie has had a seceret for a while and she has just started telling people. This is what she usually has been telling people, " My mom has a baby in her tummy and it is a girl." Yes I am expecting baby number 3 but we still don't know what it is. Andie is set on it being a girl and she really thinks it s a girl. I am 3 months so we still need to wait a little longer to find out if Andie will get her wish or not. It is so funny because she has known for weeks but hasn't said a word until this weekend. I was SO ready to tell my family so we decided to do it this weekend but Andie beat us to it. She told my sister but my sister didn't believe her. We decided to tell the family and she has been telling people ever since. I asked her if she was excited and she saiad, "not yet. I will be when your tummy gets big like Lisa's" She makes me laugh. My sister Lisa is about 29 weeks pregnant so her belly is bigger than mine and Andie loves it.

Cabin

2010-07-17T14:03:00.000-06:00

Lisa and Garret invited us up to Garrets parents cabin for the weekend. We ended up only going for all day Saturday because Landen was working Friday night and we didn't want to miss church on Sunday. It was so much fun. Their cabin is right by Scofeild Lake. Brandon and Michelle brought their boat up. We spent most the day taking turns on the boat and relaxing at the cabin. This was the day that we told my family we were expecting baby number 3. They were excited. Later in the day we also found out that Anjali was expecting number 2. Yay. Me, Lisa and Anjali are all pregnant at the same time. These are the only pictures I got with my camera.

We had so much fun. Andie loved every minute of it and begged to spend the night. Thanks Lisa and Garret!

Camping

2010-07-08T19:33:00.000-06:00

Landen and I decided to take our kids on their first camping trip. We camped at Jolly's ranch up Springville canyon. We went on July 5th, 6th and 7th. Everyone left on the 4th so we pretty much had the whole place to ourselves. It was fun but kind of stressfull at times. Logan is to little to understand not to do certain things and when your camping their is a lot a little 1 year can't do. We decided to fence him in with some toys in this tent while we were preparing food or doing other things that would keep us from having our full atention on him. At first he didn't like it to well but he got used to it and had fun. Giving him some food to munch helped him be happy.

We took the kids to the creek to do some swimming. Once they felt how cold it was they didn't really want to do much swimming. Logan wanted out as soon as he got it. He didn't like it so much.

Andie didn't like it at first either. She liked walking in it but that was about it. She made Landen hold her hand so she wouldn't fall and get all the way wet. Playing in the water only lasted about 15 minutes but it was still fun.

The nice thing about where we were camping was there was a big play ground just around the corner. Since our kids are so small and Logan could only handle being fenced in and told no so much we took them down to the park several times. They loved going to the park.

I am totally aware of how much my kids look like orphans. I wasn't feeling well at all so I let them be dirty and let them look like no one was taking care of them. That is what camping is all about.....right?

Logan after a long day of playing

Yes...Landen is holding lighter fluid so the fire could be huge when the camera took the picture and yes it was so hot Andie couldn't even look in that direction. Crazy parents.

Roasting marshmellows. Andie was really good at eating them

After eating all the chocolate that she could find.

We had a lot of fun for our little families first camping trip. We learned a lot too. We hopefully will be able to go again before the summer is over.

Art City Days

2010-06-14T07:43:00.000-06:00

This year we did more of the kids activities than we had done in the past. It was a lot of fun. They had these blow up slides, popcorn and cotton candy for free right by the Jr. High. The best part was that it was free and Andie LOVES the blow up slides so we let her play there for a little bit and have some cotton candy.

We took Andie and Logan to the childrens art festival. It was raining the whole time but we still had a lot of fun. They had a lot of different things the kids could do. Andie really liked it even though it was raining.

Andie got to ride on the fire truck with her cousins for the parade. She loved it.

We went to the carnival and there was hardly anybody there so we never waited in line and they got to ride the rides twice as long. This is Andie's favorite ride. I was taking her to put her on and some how I ended up on the ride too. I just laughed the whole time and so did Andie. We just kept going and going and going becuase there wasn't anybody in line. Andie sure did like it but I was ready to get off after going in small circles over and over and over again.

Logan, Landen and Andie on the farris wheel. They really liked this one.

Art City days was a lot of fun this year. Next year we will be doing all of the kids activities again.

Childrens parade

2010-06-12T07:32:00.000-06:00

We decided to take Andie to the childrens parade this year. She loves to ride her bike. She loved this even more because we put balloons and other decorations on her bike. She had fun seeing all of the other kids and riding her bike with them. Landen took Logan on our bike and he seemed to enjoy it as well. We had fun and we will be doing it again next year.

Pictures from May

2010-05-28T19:38:00.000-06:00

May was such a fun month. We celebrated birthdays and spent time with friends and family.

This was so funny. Logan was playing with my cell phone and then all of the sudden he fell asleep face down on the floor.

Logan and Brea. We babysat Brea one day. Logan and Brea had fun playing together.

Me and Andie on one of the little log bridges on our way up to a little waterfall up Payson canyon.

Landen and Logan on a log bridge At the waterfall

All bundled up sittine around the campfire.

A friend of Landen's invited us up Payson canyon to roast marshmellows. It was still cold outside but we still had a lot of fun. Andie LOVED helping them build the fire and finding the firewood.

Logan's First Birthday

2010-05-19T19:03:00.000-06:00

We had a little party with our family for Logan's first birthday. He had no idea what was going on but he sure did like all of the attention. Andie knew what was going on and she loved every minute if it even though it was all for Logan. I always have fun having all of our family come over and celebrate birthdays. Andie helped Logan blow his candle out and open all of his gifts.

This is my dad feeding Logan whip cream. He loved it.

Landen's Mom made this cake for Logan. It turned out so cute!!!!

Logan is so attatched to a blue blanket similar to this one. Landen's Mom made Logan this green one so he could have one while I washed his blue one and he would still be able to take his nap.

Kai's hair was so funny. It was sticking to that balloon.

Digging in

I can't believe that a whole year has passed since he was born. He has brought so much joy to our family. I love my little man so much. He was such a good baby and is still a good little boy. We are so blessed to be able to have him in our family! I Love you my little man.

Mothers Day

2010-05-09T15:27:00.000-06:00

This Mothers Day my family decided to make and serve dinner to the families that are staying at the Ronald McDonald house while their children receive treatment at the childrens hospital. My parents stayed at a home that was for people rececing cancer treatments in Georgia while my Dad received his. They received MANY meals while they were staying there and this was one way to give back. We made ham and cheesy potato's with lots of different sides and gave all of the mothers some chocolate dipped strawberries for mothers day. It was so sad to see what some of these kids were going through. Many of the family shared their story with us and why they were there. All of the families were so thankful for the dinner we made for them on such a special day. It was the best Mothers Day I have had so far. I am so happy we decided to do it on that day. It was good to see the Mothers smile. We are going to make it a tradition to go up there every year. Next year we are thinking Fathers Day.

I had to put this picture on here. While we were at the Ronald McDonald house Landen's parents watched our kids. I forgot to pack some PJ's for Logan so his Mom made due with what she had. Girl PJ's. It was funny.

If you are interested in making a meal here is the link. http://rmhslc.org/content/Adopt_A_Meal I highly reccomend it. It was such a good experience. It let me see what others were doing for my parents for the two months they were in Atlanta.

Dinosaur Museum

2010-05-07T14:55:00.000-06:00

My friend Brittney lives in Logan so I don't get to see her very often. She was in town so we decided to take the kids to the Dinosaur Museum. It was good to see her and her two kids. They had so much fun. I didn't realize all the fun stuff that was there.

April

2010-04-25T13:20:00.000-06:00

We went up to hobble creek canyon to have a bbq. Landen's brother Bryce and his wife Marie came along. It was fun but cold. Andie had so much fun. She loved helping Bryce start a fire so we could attempt to roast some marshmellows.

At this point she was being so silly and laughing at everything.

This is a picture of Andie. She was getting dressed and she thought these were her pants. I came in and I thought something looked a little off. I realized she was wearing logan pants!! These are logans 3 month old pants. They fit her like shorts just fine. I was pretty surprised.

Betta Gamma Sigma

2010-04-24T13:00:00.000-06:00

Landen is in the top 10 percent of all the business students at Utah Valley University. He was invited to join Betta Gamma Sigma. I am so proud of him. He works full time, attends school full time and still faithfully serves in his church calling and manages to squeeze in some family time. With all of these responsiblities he still manages to get good grades. I am not so sure I would be able to do it all and I don't know how he does it.

This is him receiving his award.

It was such a good night. He deserved to be recognized for all of his hard work.

Easter

2010-04-05T10:53:00.000-06:00

On Saturday we went out to Grandma Garners house for an easter egg hunt. This year Andie was able to do it by herself and understand what was going on. It was cold out side but that didn't seem to bother the kids. Andie got lots of candy and a couple prizes. She had a lot of fun. Logan had no idea what was going on but we had fun carrying him around to find different eggs and he definatly had fun eating the candy.

Easter morning the Easter bunny left a trail of eggs from the kids beds to the front room. When Andie saw that she got SO EXCITED. She ran out and found what the easter bunny left her and quickly started looking for the eggs. Logan just started getting into the candy and eating it. He remembered how good it was from the day before. It was so cute to see how excited Andie got. I made breakfast and had my parents, my sister Lisa and Brett and Tara over for breakfast.

We did things a little backwards this year. We planned on coloring eggs the weekend of Easter but things got so busy and we always had somewhere we had to be. Landen colored eggs with Andie a couple of days after Easter instead. She didn't know the difference and she was just happy to be coloring the eggs.

Gymnastics

2010-04-01T10:39:00.000-06:00

Andie just got done with Gymnastics. She would go once a week for about 45 minutes to a hour. She looked forward to going every week. She would wake up every morning and ask if it was gymnastics today. Her friend Mae took the same class as her as well and that made it even better. All of these pictures were taken at the litte performance they did on their last day. It was so cute. Andie did so good and had so much fun.

Andie, Mae and Page

She can't wait until Gymnastics starts again.

Fun times

2010-03-25T14:48:00.000-06:00

I was in the house with Logan when I heard Andie start yelling for me. I went out and found her doing this. I asked her what she was doing and she said that she was trying to get to Dawson's house (our neighbor). They had just sprayed our grass so I told her she couldn't step on it for a while. She was determined to find a way to get to the cement on the other side of the deck. She got that far and couldn't go anymore and she couldn't get down either.

Andie right before church. She begged for me to take her picture

What a little posser. She told me she was going to lay down and then i needed to take a picture. What a funny girl. I was at the 2rd grocery store for the the day about to leave for the 3rd one. Andie was starting to get a little crazy so I told her if she would stay in the car part of the cart with Logan at the next store I would get her a ring pop. I got her a ring pop and she was eating it in the cart when Logan reached over and took it from her. He would NOT give it back. He sucked on it like a binki and I couldn't even get it from him. That was his first real experience with sugar and he couldn't get enough. I decided to let him keep and I and I got Andie another one. By the time we got home both my kids were covered in blue. At least my long day of shopping was good.

March

2010-03-06T11:13:00.000-07:00

Logan is 9 months here and he is standing and starting to take small steps. He is happy he can get around better so he can play with Andie a little bit more. He loves to stand at Andie's piano and play with it it.

Logan and Andie like to play the piano together

Andie and Logan before church. Andie always asks me to take her picture before church. It is so funny.

Las Vegas

2010-02-28T11:06:00.000-07:00

After Brett and Tara were sealed we spent an extra day in Vegas. Landen and I walked the strip for hours. We love to go in all the stores and look around. It was cold and rainy while we were there and I had a sinus infection but we still had fun. The rain didn't stop us from walking the strip but we did get wet. It was Nascar weekend while we were there so there were a lot of people there. Brett and Landen trying to be cool

Brett and Tara

2010-02-28T10:57:00.000-07:00

My brother Brett and his wife were sealed in the Las Vegas Temple on the 27th. It was so amazing to be there. Little Evan was sealed to them too. All my siblings and my parents were able to be there. Tara looked beautiful and Evan and Brett were good looking too. We are so happy for them!!

These are the only pictures we took on our camera.

Soilders Hollow

2010-02-20T10:43:00.000-07:00

Landen's work gave us tickets to take our family up to Soilders Hollow to go tubing. Andie was a little nervous the first time going down but after that she couldn't get enough. Logan and I hung out in the nice warm lodge while Landen and Andie went tubing. It was a fun day.

February 4th-12th

2010-02-12T10:01:00.000-07:00

Andie went to Jump on it for Aubrey's birthday party. She had so much fun!! She was following these older boys around the whole night. Landen said it was so funny. My Mom and Dad came over for dinner one night. This is my Dad reading Andie a story before bed. She didn't want Papa to leave.

Landen and I took the kids to the park to play. It was still cold but they didn't care. Andie LOVES the park. Logan had fun on the swings. He didn't stay on there for to long becuase it was a little too cold for him.

Owlz Dinner

2010-01-30T09:52:00.000-07:00

Every year the Owlz baseball team puts on a dinner for the fans before the season starts. This year the speaker was Mike Sciosca. He is the manager of the Angels baseball team. Landen and his family were really excited to go and listen to him speak. He did a really good job and the food was good. I think Landen really liked seeing everybody he used to work with and all the fans that he got to know while he worked there. It was a good night.

Me and Landen with Mike Sciosca

Andie

2010-01-19T14:23:00.000-07:00

Andie had tubes put in her ears today for the 2nd time. She got her first set 2 years ago. Her left ear was constantly infected and would drain thick infected fluid all the time. I couldn't keep her ear clean since it was always leaking. The doctor thought it would be best to put a 2nd pair of tubes in. After Landen and I talked about it and gave it 3-4 months to see if it would get better we decided that it would be best to get tubes again. The procedure was only suposed to take 15 minutes but it ended up taking a little more than 40 mintues. I was getting a little worried that something wasn't going right. Finally after 45 minutes the doctor came out and said everything went well. He said that he found a polyp on her ear drum and he had to remove it. He didn't really go into detail about the polyp except that he would need to keep a closer eye on her then normal and see her more often for follow up visits. When they brought her out to me she was crying and I could tell she was scared. About 5 minutes after they brought her out Landen had to leave to go to school. Andie REALLY didn't want her Dad to leave her but he had to go. She started screaming and crying even harder. She never did stop crying at the hosipital. She just kept saying she wanted to give dad a hug. She finally stopped crying when we got home. She layed down and I turned one of her favorite movie's "Thumbilina". She layed there for the whole movie and then my parents came over and gave her some little toys and coloring books (which she loves)and she has been up and playing with it ever since. She seems to be doing a lot better and hasn't complained of her ears hurting for a couple of hours. These are pictures of her before the surgery. She didn't really know what was going to happen. She was happy with the things the nurses gave her. She colored the whole time we were waiting.

I am thankful everything went well. I am SO HAPPY that it is over with. Thank you to my Mom for coming over in the morning and taking Logan to my sister Anjali's house. Thanks Anjali for watching him!!!!!

Logan's first tooth

2010-01-18T14:16:00.000-07:00

Logan got his first tooth today, on his 8 month birthday. That explains why he has been so fussy. He usually is a very good baby and doesn't fuss much. He is doing good with is helmet. He is wearing it 24 hours a day now. It just makes him SO HOT. Good thing he has it in the winter and not the summer. That would be aweful. Here are some pictures of his decorated helmet courtesy of his Dad.

Space baby

2010-01-15T11:07:00.000-07:00

Logan got his helmet on the 12th of this month. He started out wearing it every other hour and the amount of time that he wears it is doubled every day. Today is wearing it for 8 hours and off for one hour and on again for 8 hours. Tomorrow he will be wearing it 23 hours a day. He has adjust really well. He has been a lot more fussy and I think that is because he probably has a headache trying to get used to the helmet kinda smashing his head a little bit. He hasn't tried to take it off or anything so he doesn't seem to mind it. He should only have to wear it for 2-4 months. His head wasn't too bad to begin with so I don't think it will be on for to long. It will be worth him looking silly for a couple of months so he won't have a flat or bulging head. I still think he is super cute even if he looks like he is going to space. So much for the cute hair cut....ha ha.

Family Journal

2010-01-13T14:16:00.000-07:00

My friend Tawnya showed me her blog book that she just complete for 2008 because I have been looking for a good website to do mine on. I love how hers turned out and I liked it a lot better than the other websites I had seen. I decided to use that website and started my own. I just finished today. As I was going through each post for 2008 and making my book it made me realize that I need to start blogging more and writing more things that we do as a family. I decided that it doesn't really matter if it is interesting to anybody else or not. When I was reading some post I had totally forgotton about a lot of it. I remembered the pictures but not all the details of what was going on in the picture. It is such a great way to do a yearly journal for my family that can be printed out into a book so when my kids are older they can sit down and read through them if they would like. I am going to try to be a lot better at just writing about day to day things that my kids do and about what is going on. There will probably be plenty of posts that you might want to skip over because they won't be that exciting. I still have a lot to catch up on so I will be back dating a lot of my next post about christmas and some other things so you might not see them. If you are interested in making a book out of your blog this is the website that Tawnya gave me (thanks Tawnya!!)http://blog.blurb.com/

The things Andie remembers....

2010-01-11T11:16:00.000-07:00

The other day we went to the Orem mall with my sister Lisa to get a few things for Landen's birthday. I wanted to get him some calogne from Victoria Secret so we went into the store to look at it. The FIRST thing Andie says is " Daddy comes in this store." I just started laughing so hard. Then i had to sit and think of when Landen would have gone in that store. He got me some lotion from there for christmas so that must have been it. It just was so funny that she rememberd and it sounded so funny they way she said it and when she said it.

Happy baby

2010-01-11T11:00:00.000-07:00

Logan LOVES to eat. It makes me so so so happy because Andie was the exact opposit! I had to force her to eat and she screamed the WHOLE time. She still is a picky eater. Eating food has ALWAYS been a battle with her but little Logan get so excited when he can see me getting his food ready. I just barely let him try out this wonderful mesh binki....thing. Not sure what it is called. You can put fruit or veggie's inside it or anything really and he sucks and chews on it getting all the juices out. He LOVED it. I put manderin oragnes in for his first time and he couldn't get enough. He was pretty sticky by the time he was done which is why I let him have it right before his bath time.

Good morning

2010-01-09T10:50:00.000-07:00

I woke up this morning and I could hear Logan laughing. He usually isn't laughing when he wakes up so I went to go see why he was so giggly and this is what I found.

Andie must have heard him crying so she climbed into his crib and was playing with him. Logan LOVES when Andie plays with him. No one can make him laugh as hard and she can. It is so cute. These are the moments that I look forward to.

Yes, my almost 8 month old still likes to be swaddled.

Logan's first hair cut

2010-01-07T10:18:00.000-07:00

I FINALLY had Logan get his first hair cut. It was long overdue but for some reason I just couldn't do it. It was SO LONG by the time it got cut I was more than ready. After he would have a bath I could comb his hair into his eyes. It was way to long and started to look silly. I had my Mom come one night and she cut it.
Before

After

It turned out so CUTE. He looked so handsome and not like a little baby anymore. My Mom did such a good job even though he was moving around.

We cut it on Landen's birthday so it was a good surprise for him.

Andie and Reese

2010-01-06T10:06:00.000-07:00

I have been taking a lot more pictures of Andie and Reese than usual because they are moving this month (sniffle). I want Andie to have pictures of her little friend that she played with almost everyday.

Logan is laughing at these two girls. He loves to just sit and watch them play

These girls have so much fun together. Andie doesn't really understand that Reese won't live here anymore come the end of the month. We will miss the Kesler family so much. I get teary eyed thinking about it.

Kangaroo Zoo

2010-01-02T09:09:00.000-07:00

We went to kangaroo zoo on New Years Day. It was so fun. Andie and landen did a lot together and Andie had fun going on her own to.If Logan look terrified in this picture it is because he is! He hated it. Landen just kept taking him down anyway. After 3 times I wouldn't let him anymore.

Look close Andie is right behind Landen.

When we were getting ready to leave we told Andie she could go on two more things and then we had to go. She said ok and ran as fast as she could. We were taking our time walking so we didn't see where she went. We started looking on all the slides. We couldn't find her anywhere! This is the only slide that we couldn't see the top. I told Landen that she is probably at the top of that slide just sitting there because she knew she was going to have to leave when she came down. He went up there to check and sure enough she was just sitting at the top. When she saw Landen she told him she didn't want to go down. ha ha h. When they came down the slide together I just started laughing. She is a smart girl.

It was such a fun day. We stayed for 3 hours because Andie was having so much fun. We didn't realy do anything on New years eve. We went to our new neighbors house at around 5 to talk with them and have a yummy dessert. We came home and I did Ashly's hair for her dance. Andie ended up burning her hand on my straigtner so we didn't go to our friends house like we had planned. We ended up going to my parents house to see my Dad. He had surgery the day before on his back. He was doing really well and happy he had the surgery. We stayed for about 45 minutes and then came home and went to bed. I think that is the first year I didn't stay up until midnight.

Sledding

2009-12-29T08:53:00.000-07:00

The day after Christmas my family went up hoble creek and went sledding. My parents wanted to do a family activity before my dad went in for surgery. Landen and Andie went down the hill a lot and Andie loved it. She hated it last year so I was happy that she like it this year. Landen took Logan down once. It was so cold I didn't want him going down to much. Logan and I mostly just hung out by the fire they had at the pavillion and I drank hot chocolate. It was so cold that day but it was fun to watch everyone go sledding.

Andie is trying to help landen clean the snow off the car

She was attempting to ride her bike in the snow and then she gave up.

Christmas at the Garners

2009-12-29T08:20:00.000-07:00

Afer we were done at my parents house we headed over to Landen's parents. Landen's youngest sister is 8 so it is fun to his younger sisters get excited about Christmas. We opened presents when we got there. We spent the rest of the day watching movies, talking, playing games and just sitting around. Andie spent the day playing with her Aunts. She LOVES going out there because her Aunt Sammy will play with her for hours and hours.

Landen wanted to take this crate home with us. He liked the idea of Logan staying in one spot. He doesn't like it when he gets on his belly and starts to get mad because he can't sit back up yet.

We spent the rest of the day there until it was time for the kids to go to bed. It was good to just sit and relax with family.

Christmas morning at the Tipton's

2009-12-28T15:32:00.000-07:00

After we were done opening presents at our house we made our way over to my parents house to have breakfast and open some gifts. We had some delicious apple cider pankcakes and syrup that Michelle made and we always have a breakfast quiche made by my Mom which is always yummy. We opened gifts from my parents and the grandkids did to. Logan got lots of clothes which he really needed and they were so cute. Andie got a cabage patch doll from the cabage patch hospital in Georgia. My parents took a tour of the hospital when they were there for my Dad's cancer treatments. They watched some dolls be born and they got to name one of them. They named her Andie. They thought it would be cute to get Andie a doll from there. They got adoption papers and everything and they named the doll they got her Andie Laurie. It is a really big doll and it is so cute. It smells like baby powder. Andie loves it.

Logan and Kai in their matching Pj's from Grandpa and Grandma Tipton

Andie opeing her Cabbage Patch Doll.

This year we were all at my parents house at the same time to have breakfast. That is the first year in a long time that has happened. It was fun the whole family could be there together.

Christmas morning at our house

2009-12-27T21:14:00.000-07:00

Christmas was so much fun this year. Logan woke up at 7:30 so we woke Andie up and my parents came over to watch her open her presents. Let me just say that Andie does NOT like to be woken up. When I brought her out she just stared at everything and wanted to go back to bed. It took her about 5 minutes to realize what was going on and that she could actually open all of her presents that we have been telling her for weeks that she couldn't open. She had fun opening them. It was fun to watch her reaction to each one.

She was laying all of her candy from her stocking out.

Logan happy as can be while Grandma T is helping him.

When she opened this present she put her hand over her mouth and in a shocked voice she said "O H M Y G O S H! We had got her something she really like at garner village and she must have been shocked that it was at her house. I don't know but it was so funny.

She LOVES curious george

She was still waking up in the picture

Opening her first present

This is when she first came out and just stared at everything. She wasn't too sure if she could play with it or not.

We had been telling Andie for about a month that Jesus's birthday was coming and we call it Christmas. We told her that she gets to open presents on his birthday to celebrate. I didn't know how else to explain it to a 3 year old. Well Landen birthday is on the 7th of January and a couple of days after Christmas I was telling her that Dad's birthday is coming up and she kept asking me if she gets to open some presents. Now she thinks she gets presents for other peoples birthdays. She makes me laugh every day.

Christmas Eve

2009-12-26T15:47:00.000-07:00

My family has a tradition every year where we have a party on Christmas Eve. We have a yummy dinner and a program where each family does a musical number or shares a christmas story....they pretty much can do whatever they want. This year Aubrey played some christmas songs on the piano, Landen read some scriptures, Brandon shared some thoughts and feelings and my Mom shared a little lesson. We also sang some christmas carols. We do the Nativity every year. I love doing this. We have done it ever since I can remember and it is a tradition we will always do. It helps us remember why we celebrate Christmas. We opened our gifts that we drew names for (on Christmas we are not all at my parents house at the same time). The kids opened their new Pj's from Grandma and Grandpa Tipton. They were so cute. Then santa came. We just hung around and talked with everyone until it was time to go to bed and Santa to come.

I had to take a picture of these two girls videoing the nativity

Jaydon was Joseph, Alli is Mary and kai is baby Jesus

Evan is a shephard

Andie is the Angel

Aubrey is a shepherd

Landen read the story from the bible

I had to take this picture. She was making me laugh so hard.

The kids opening their Pj's

Logan did not like sitting on his lap. It is 3rd time sitting on his lap and the only time he cried.

Andie told Santa she wanted a baby doll

We had a really fun evening together. One of the best parts of Christmas is spending time with our families.

I'm back

2009-11-29T09:46:00.000-07:00

It has been a very long time since I have posted anything. We have been really busy at our house and I haven't worried about the blog. I decided to finally just post a ton of pictures of what has been going on and let that be my catch up post. This will be the longest post I have ever done but probably one of my favorite because so much fun stuff happened in these pictures. They aren't in order so enjoy.

Reese and Andie playing outside with their strollers.

Santa was at walmart so the kids got pictures taken with him.

Andie was eating a cup cake while she was sitting right next to Logan. Logan reached over and grabbed all the frosting off the top and ate most of it before I noticed what was going on. He had a tummy ache for two days.

Andie thought it was really funny

Andie, Reese, Aubrey and Alli playing bed time. They were being so funny.

My first fondant cake that I made at the spur of the moment and I did it in only about 3 hours. Andie loved helping me out if you can't tell.

Andie and Reese playing out side

Andie fell asleep reading this book one night. It was so cute. I love the nights when she falls asleep in random places before bed time.

Andie and Reese making some sugar cookies. They liked eating the frosting more than putting it on the cookies. Andie, Aunt Lisa and Logan at my parents ward trunk or treat

Andie after Landens halloween work party. She had to get her teeth taken out so she is missing her teeth in this picture.

Andie and Evan making a craft at story time at the Library.

Andie and Logan at heehaws (I think that is what it is called)

Andie sitting in the fire truck that uncle Wes uses at work.

Logan and Andie playing while I am folding laundry.

Logan being pulled around at Grandma and Grandpa Garners.

Andie helping give logan a bath.

Grandpa G, Logan and Sammy.

Grandma G. and Logan.

Andie playing at Grandma and Grandpa G's with her Aunts.

Logan and Troy hanging out.

Andie playing with her little brother.

Gardner Village

Uncle Brian and Logan

Andie reading to Logan

Andie riding her bike

Andie and Reese playing in Andie's room

Little Logan

Christmas stuff still to come.

Random Pictures from the past 3-4 months

2009-09-20T14:32:00.000-06:00

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

2009-09-15T09:36:00.000-06:00

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

2009-09-14T21:13:00.001-06:00

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

2009-09-14T20:42:00.000-06:00

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

2009-09-14T20:29:00.000-06:00

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

2009-09-14T20:10:00.001-06:00

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

2009-08-06T11:51:00.000-06:00

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!!!

2009-08-01T11:39:00.000-06:00

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

2009-06-28T15:16:00.000-06:00

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

2009-06-28T13:55:00.000-06:00

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

2009-06-28T13:50:00.000-06:00

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

2009-06-28T13:38:00.000-06:00

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

2009-06-28T13:16:00.000-06:00

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.....

2009-06-02T17:16:00.000-06:00

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

2009-06-02T16:28:00.000-06:00

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

2009-06-02T16:13:00.000-06:00

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

2009-06-02T16:05:00.000-06:00

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)

2009-06-02T15:44:00.000-06:00

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....

2009-03-26T10:00:00.001-06:00

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

2009-02-19T15:54:00.000-07:00

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.

The Circus

2009-02-07T10:25:00.001-07:00

Landen had gotten some free tickets to the circus so on Tuesday night Landen got off of work early and we took Andie and my niece Aubrey to the Circus. It was Aubrey's birthday the next day so this was her presant from us. We took Andie to it last year. She was interested for a little bit but she couldn't sit still for the whole thing. This year she sat and watched the whole thing and loved it. It was so fun watching her reactions to everything and watching her get excited. Before the circus started took them down to see the animals. All of us ended up riding the elephant and Aubrey and Andie rode the ponies. Andie really liked riding them both. I think she might have like the ponies a little bit more because she could actually see what she was on. Durring the whole show if the elephants or ponies came out she would ask if she could go ride them. She got really worried when they would take them off the stage. Some of Andie's favorite parts were the lions and tigers. She wanted to go down and pet them. She also really like the dogs and anytime there was fire she loved it.

All of us right before it started

Riding the elephant

All of us on the elephant (yes, I am aware of how big I am getting )

Andie on the pony

Aubrey riding the pony

She was really into it
She loved when she got to clap and had to make sure we were clapping
Clapping at the end of the show. She just kept on going

We had so much fun. It was really good to spend time as a family. I am so glad Landen took time off of work so we could do this together.

February Birthdays:

Aubrey T: 4th

Brandon T: 5th

Aubrey G: 15th

Amy G:19th

Baby Boden Due: 19th

Garrett B: 24th

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Where did january go?

2009-02-03T08:24:00.000-07:00

Wow! I just realized I haven't posted anything this year yet. Time sure does go by fast when you are busy!!

Landen turned 27 on January 7th. He ended up getting off work a little early that night and we went and saw the new james bond movie. We celebrated some more the Saturday after his birthday. We went bowling with some friends, went to dinner with my family and went to another movie. Andie spent the weekend in Elberta with her grandma and grandpa so we did as much as we could while she was having fun there. On Sunday we had both of our families over for pie and ice cream. It was really yummy and fun to have everyone over. Andie LOVED eating just plain whip cream. It was funny.

Andie is enjoying her her whip cream

Everybody

Samantha & Aubrey hanging out in Andie's room

Andie cleaning out the cream bowl after everyone left

Doesn't he look so excited

Here are some random pictures from January:

Andie is always dressing up in this. She loves it.

This is at our neighbors house, Landon and Tawnya. They invited us over for a bbq. It was so yummy. I ate way too much! Andie and Reese were watching the ice cream being scooped. We finished the night off playing rock band and another really fun game on the wii. It was so fun!! Thanks for the fun night Tawyna and Landon!!On the 31st Landen's sister Samantha got baptised (forgot camera). She had the prettiest white dress. She looked beautiful! Later that day was my sister Anjali's baby shower (once again I forgot my camera). She is the cutest little prego mama!! Her due date is on the 19th of this month. I can't wait to meet the little guy!
Other than that not anything too exciting happened in January. Tonight we are going to the Circus. We are excited to see how Andie likes it this year.

Exciting News.....

2008-12-31T12:00:00.001-07:00

Yesterday Landen and I found out some exciting news!!! I went and got my 5 month ultra sound and we found out the sex of the baby!

IT'S A BOY!! We are so excited. Andie is going to be a great older sister to her little brother!

Well.... that is pretty much it!
Happy New year!!!

Christmas Fun

2008-12-31T11:10:00.000-07:00

Wow....time goes by so fast. I am so far behind. We had a good Christmas and we are looking forward to a new year.

At the begining of December Andie had to have her 4 top teeth pulled!!! It was so sad. A couple of months before that me and my brother Brett took Andie and he took his son Evan to McDonalds so they could play in that play house thing. Andie was going up the stairs and fell forward hitting her mouth right on the edge of a stair. Her mouth was bleeding and she broke some teeth. I called the dentist and asked if I needed to bring her in. He said not to worry because they were baby teeth and to only bring her in if she was in a lot of pain. She seemed to be fine after a day or two. Little did I know she had knocked her 4 top teeth loose (not loose enough that it was noticeable) after a couple of months her teeth started turning a grey color (like they were dieing) and one day I was brushing her teeth and one of her top middle teeth broke making a gap between her two front teeth. Immedialty I made an appointment with the dentist. Baby teeth or not that was not normal and she shouldn't have three broken teeth at the age of 2. I took her in and after looking at her teeth he just looked at me and said "this is really bad". I was like DUH! He said they got knocked loose and an infection got up in them so it was killing them. He said they had to come out soon so the infection wouldn't spread to her permanent teeth. The following tuesday I took her in and they pulled all four top teeth. It was a very tramatic experience for the both of us. After about an hour of them pulling her teeth she acted like nothing had even happened. She has adapted well to not having them. She will be getting fake teeth to replace them but we have to wait until her molers grow out more because that is what they will attach to. I haven't taken any pictures of her mouth but you can tell in some of the pictures that I am going to post about other things. She is still cute as ever. My family likes to call her a little Vampire.

We had a really good Christmas. On Christmas Eve my family has a party every year. We have a big dinner, Santa comes and all the kids sit on his lap, we do a little program and then the little kids act out the Nativity scene while someone reads it from the bible. At the end of the night my parents give all of the grandkids new PJ's to wear that night. Andie got curious George ones.

Evan and Andie were entertaining us all by singing Jingle bells and then clapping for a couple of minutes. They just kept doing that over and over again and it made us all laugh every time.

They decided they would jump off every once and awhile and then get back on. Kids are so funny.
The Saturday after Christmas we decided to take Evan and Andie Sledding down in Payson. It was really cold. Evan really like it a lot. Andie....not so much. Snow kept on going in her face and she didn't like that.

She really like swinging and going down the slides

Not so happy after dad took her down the hill

Andie and Landen going down the hill

Christmas Day at Grandma & Grandpa Garners. She didn't like that too much.

Christmas morning at Grandpa & Grandma Tiptons she was playing with Alli's new tea set. Evan was even joining in on the fun.

This was when she opended her dog on Christmas morning. She was SO EXCITED!! She takes that dog everywhere we go!

Opeing her Baby. She loved it.

Right when she woke up. (She wasn't very happy that mom woke her up) She is checking out her new bike and the horn that goes to it!

We had such a fun Christmas spending time with family. It was also fun knowing that Andie knew what what going on this year. Having kids is so much fun. Watching them get excited makes me happy and excited! It was nice to have landen hone for 4 days in a row without school or work. Too bad every day can't be like that :)

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas spending time with the ones they love.

Tonight we are going up to my brother-in-law Garett's, cabin to ring in the new year. We are looking forward to that!

Catching up...

2008-12-03T09:01:00.000-07:00

Things have been pretty crazy around here so I haven't really been on here too much. I just wanted update with a few things.

Andie has moved on from her crib and now has a toddler bed. I don't know why I waited so long to make the switch but I finally did. She was getting out of her crib in the middle of the night and hurting herself because she was so tired. She wanted to come and sleep with us. I am not a fan of her sleeping in our bed. I decided to try the toddler bed and get her some bedding that she would be excited about and want to be in her own bed. SHE LOVES IT!!! The first couple night she still came to our bed at least once in the night and when she fell asleep I took her back to her bed. After a couple nights of that she has been staying in her bed the whole night and I LOVE IT!!

Sitting on her new bed with her new princess P.J's
She was pretty excited if you can't tell

On Saturday morgning we decided to put our Christmas stuff up since Landen didn't have work. Andie LOVED it when we pulled the tree out and pluged the lights in. She wanted to help Dad set it up.

Andie giving Dad some pointers on how it is done

On Monday it was my Dad's party at his work. They invite the whole family. I loved going to these when I was little because we got to see SANTA. Andie pretty much loved it.

Andie two of her cousins and some other kids listening closely to the program. (They were being so funny. Nothing interesting was even going on)

When Santa walked in the room Andie immediatly jumped to her feet and ran over to him. She was the first one to sit on his lap. She was so excited. It was cute.

I wasn't so sure that was going to be her reaction because last year it was the exact opposit. I am thinking that it was because the santa last year really was scary and I would have cried too!!
Christmas 2007
His beard was so yellow it looked like he smoked a couple of cartons of cigaretts right before he got there.

Change of date in opening of the Jerk Shack

2008-11-23T21:14:00.000-07:00

In my last post I said that Brandon was opening the Jerk Shack Tomorrow. It has been changed. The company that is doing there menues has not got them done. They are hoping that they will be able to open on Tuesday. I will keep you posted!

A shout out for my Bro!!

2008-11-23T12:36:00.000-07:00

Tuesday my brother Brandon is opening a food joint called "The Jerk Shack"
He served his mission in Jamaica and ever since he has gotten home 8 years ago he has wanted to start some kind of Jamaican restaurant. He finally is doing it. Tuesday is the day. It is yummy Jamaican food spiced with the Jamaican Jerk Spice. It is located in Orem across the street from target in the Sprinkler World parking lot. It is a little colorful building that you either walk up and order or go through a drive through. If you live in the area stop by and try it out.

I am so proud of him for not giving up and doing what he really wants to do. I hope it is very sucessful and people just can't get enough of it!
Love you Brandon!!!

EASY Pumpkin Choclate Chip Cookies!

2008-11-18T11:10:00.000-07:00

These are the easiest and fastest cookies I have ever made. It will be hard to make any other kind of cookie! I got this from my sister-in-law Marcea. Here is what you need.

1 Spice Cake Mix

1 Small Can of Pumpkin

1 Bag of Choclate Chips

Mix all three together

Put dough on Cookie sheet

(however the dough is on the cookie sheet is how the cookie will come out)

Bake on 350 degree's for 15 minutes

All I can say is YUMMY!

No More LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-11-06T10:50:00.000-07:00

Okay......so there has been some lieing going on......by me. I have been lieing to family and friends and even some ward members. I have decided to come clean and finally tell the truth. Enough is enough. Yes, Andie is going to be a big sister! I know I started that off a little dramatic....hehehe. We are so excited! It has been hard to keep it a seceret for as long as I did. For some reason people have been asking me like crazy or we get into the converstation of wanting to have another baby. I usually start telling everyone the seconed I find something exciting like this out. I told everyone very early with Andie. This time we decided it would be better to wait. I am 3 months. The little peanuts due date is May 25th. I have had my fair share of being sick and that would be the REAL reason for the lack of blogging. I think I have been twice as sick with this one than I was with Andie. My wonderful husband has been putting up with a disaster for a house and the dishes never done (they make me throw up). He is the busiest most hard working person I know, and when he got a chance yesterday after school to come and take a quick nap before work he did the mountain of dishes for me and cleaned up a little bit! To him he was just probably glad he could finally see the sink again but for me I almost cried. He did a wonderful service to me.
I hope that the sickeness will be over with in a couple of weeks. I don't know how people can deal with it through there whole pregnancy. yuck!
We are so excited for our new addition to the family and hope everything continues to go well with this pregnancy! I am sure from here on out there will plenty of pregnancy posts.

Fun in California!!!!

2008-11-05T15:09:00.000-07:00

We had so much fun spending 6 days in Cali! It was nice to spend some time with Landen and I know that Andie loved seeing her Daddy more then just on the weekends. This is what we did:

Day One

We flew out of SLC at 8:15 a.m. When we arrieve to Long Beach airport and checked into our hotel we were off to Universal studios. Without realizing it we left our camera in one of the bags we left at the hotel. We had no camera for the whole first day. My sister took some for us though so when we get those from her I will post them. One of Andie's FAVORITE things that we did there was see Curious George. Right when she saw him walking around she ran right up to him and started hugging his leg. It was so cute. She loves George. It is so cute how she says his name.

Day Two, Three & Four

We spent those three days in Disneyland and California Andventure. Right when we walked into Disneyland and saw the castle Andie said, "Princess" Oh how she loves the princesses and tinkerbell. She had so much fun on all of the rides. We weren't sure if she would get scared on any or them or not. The first ride we decided to go on (because we were walking by and there was NOBODY in line) was pirates. Andie didn't get scared at all. She just sat there and watched things as they went by. She didn't even get scared on the big drop at the begining. After that ride we pretty much knew that none of the other rides were going to scare her, and none of them did. We mostly stuck with all of the kids rides, except for pirates and the haunted house ride ( which also didn't scare her). She had a lot of fun seeing all of the different characters and going on the different rides. On the third day they closed California adventure early and did a trick-or-treat thing with the characters. We went to that and Andie had a blast. She was dancing all over the place and just having a good time. We did so much those three days that I can't even remember it all.

Day Five

We spent the day at Sea World. The shows were really fun to go to and Andie can't get enough anykind of fish. She liked seeing the Dolphins jump in the air. By the end of the day I was SO EXAUSTED!!! This whole week it was SO HOT there. I was not expecting it to be so hot. All the people that worked at the different places that we went to kept saying that it is too hot to be October. I packed clothes for milder weather. I had to keep wearing the same couple of shorts or I would have died in the heat!

Day Six

We packed up all of our stuff and headed down to Huntington Beach. Of course right when we get there Andie falls into a dead sleep. There was no way the stroller was going on the sand so we just walked out on the pier while the rest of the family played in the water. We ate at some yummy place right by the pier and by the time we were done it was time to head back to the airport for our 7:00p.m flight home.

We have so many pictures and I have no idea what pictures go to what days so I am just putting them all at the end.

We stayed at Landens Grandparents house for two nights and spent the rest of the nights at the disneyland hotel. We are so greatful for all they did for us while we stayed with them. They made us some wonderful dinners and breakfasts. They did way too much for us but we really appreciate all that they did.

She is ready to go have fun on the new toy story ride! (it was such a fun ride)
She got so hot that day she just started laying in the shade!

She loved playing with these goats at Disneyland.

Minnie!
Andie and Evan in jail
Evan and Andie on Grandpa's lap.

watching the princesses dance

Me and Anjali on the Merry-go-round

Mickey!

Running across Tarzans bridge
ELMO!!!

Grandma & Grandpa Patten

Our flight to California. She wasn't too happy when she had to be seat belted. Our flight home. Notice all the new princess toys

So many pictures and so much fun. We love pictures if you can't tell. If I didn't think I was already boring everybody I would have put more on here. Good thing I am using this as a type of history/journal for my family.

A very needed VACATION!!!!

2008-10-18T10:48:00.000-06:00

I haven't posted anything exciting for awhile. That's not because I haven't had time to it, it is because nothing exciting has happened and if something exciting did happen I forgot my camera or the batteries were dead.
We are flying out early Monday morning to California. Andie's first plane ride.......Andie's first for a lot of things. We will be leaving late Saturday night. We are planning on going to Disneyland for 3 days, Sea world, Universal Studio's and the Sandiego Zoo. Hopefully everything goes as planned and we have lots of pictures and stories to tell. We are going with my whole family (Except for a couple of people) and I am so excited! It will be a lot of fun. The last time we went on a vacation with my family was to Hawaii and it was a couple of months after we got married. Lots of fun.
We are so excited!! It is definatly long over do and needed very much. Landen needs a break from school and work. We just need time to spend together as a family and this is the perfect way to do it.

The most delicious salad!!

2008-10-04T12:16:00.000-06:00

My friend Heidi linked my blog to her blog for a salad I made. I decided to put it on here so everyone can try it!! My Mother-in-law Melanie gave me this recipee. This is the BEST salad I have ever tried.

Strawberry Salad

1 large head red leaf lettuce

1 package fresh spinach

1/3 cup crumbled bacon

1/2 cup red bell pepper chopped

1 red onion thinly sliced

1cup strawberries sliced

1/3 cup sugar

1 cup cashews

15 wontons

Pull lettuce apart. Fry bacon and chop into tiny bits. Chop red pepper, slice onion and strawberries. Put cashews in frying pan with sugar and cook until sugar has coated nuts. Cut wontons in to strips (each wonton about 3 strips) and fry in oil. Add everything to the red leaf lettuce and spinach and toss.

Dressing

1 TBs red wine vinegar

3 TBs sugar

1/2 cup canola oil

1/2 tsp dry mustard

1/2 tsp Salt

1/2 cup strawberry jam

Add dressing to salad and toss or serve on the side

10-12 Servings

So easy but so Yummy.........

2008-10-02T11:51:00.000-06:00

I made this delicious.........well I don't even know what the name for it is but it is yummy no matter what the name is. Kacy gave me the recipee and it was so easy to make. Some people were asking me for the recipee and I never got it to them. I am going to put in on here because it will be easier that way.

You will need:

-1 cup butter

-1 cup brown sugar

-Pecans (as much as you want)

-1/2 cup caro syrup

-Big brown bag or two big mixing bowls (one of the bowls has to be able to fit in your microwave)

-1 box of Crispix cereal (if you can't find crispix you can use half a box of rice chex ceral and half a box of corn chex ceral)

Put butter, brown sugar and caro syrup in a pan and bring to a boil. Let it boil for 2 mintues. Do not over boil.

Put ceral in brown paper bag or big mixing bowl.

Pour sauce over ceral and pecans and shake the bag.

If you are using mixing bowls then put the other mixing bowl over the top of the other one so there is a tight seal and shake the bowls so the cereal is being tossed and mixed.

Microwave one minute

Shake again

Microwave for another minute

Serve

I didn't put pecans in it when I made it.

I just used mixing bowls because I didn't have a brown bag.

I couldn't find the crispix cereal so I used chex, half a box of corn and half a box of rice.

I am blessed to have two sisters

2008-09-17T22:16:00.000-06:00

I have been thinking of my sister Anjali a lot today. Probably because her birthday is today. I have been thinking about how blessed I have been to be able to call her my sister. Growing up I only had one sister, Lisa, who I love SO MUCH. I never thought I would have another sister. My parents made it clear they were done having children. Me and Lisa were out numbered having three older brothers, which was ok because we had good relationships with them.

When I was in high school our family was blessed by our Heavenly Father to trust our family with one of his precious daughters. Anjali lived with us for 3-4 years and was as much a part of the family as I was. We called her our sister even though by law she wasn't. In 2007 she was offically and legally a member of our family. My parents adopted her after a long but well worth it process. On February 16th 2008 she was sealed to our family in the Manti Temple!!! That was an amazing experience and made our sisterly relationship eternal.

When I got home tonight from visiting my family I just couldn't stop thinking about her and the love I have for her to the point I was getting emotional. I don't know where this was coming from. To have my thoughts so overwhelming and powerful. The spirit was touching me and I know that Heavenly Father loves her and I could feel that love.

I feel very blessed to have Anjali as my sister and that I am able to learn from her and share life with her. She added such wonderful things and qualities to our family that no one else could.

I used to have one sister but now I have two and she makes our family complete.

She is expecting her first baby in February and I am SO EXCITED for her and Garrett. I am happy to be able to share this experience with her.

Well I guess what I am trying to say is that I love Anjali very much and our family wouldn't be complete without her. I just wanted her to know that!!! I know that the rest of my family feels the same way.

I LOVE YOU ANJ!! Happy birthday!

Reflecting........

2008-09-15T17:02:00.000-06:00

The past two years have gone by really fast! I can't believe that Andie just had her 2nd birthday!!!! She is growing up way too fast. It goes by faster and faster. I love her so much. I was just looking at some pictures of her when she was born. She doesn't even look the same. She looked so much like Landen and now she looks more like me. She had dark hair and it was straight. Now she had curly blond hair. She was 6 pounds 10 ounces and was 21 inches long. She was born on her due date september 11th. Which I was very happy about. I was not looking forward to going over my due date.

Andie one day old

I thought she looked so much like Landen when she was born

One year birthday

September Birthdays~ Happy Birthday

Andie 11th

Anjali 17th

Jayden 23rd

Andie's Birthday

2008-09-15T09:42:00.000-06:00

We had a great weekend celebrating Andie's birthday. On saturday she had a little party with her friends from nursery. She loves nursery so much. I don't think she realized what was going on but she liked having all of her friends over. The girls decorated little foam princess hats and little purses. The boys decorated foam pirate hats and foam pirate swords. Andie decorated for a little bit and then decided that other things were more exciting. They all looked so cute when they were done. I pute butcher paper up on the wall and my Dad drew little animal caracters on it so that they could color.I think Andie had more fun coloring then decorating. I still have the paper up and she has been coloring on it all weekend. It will probably be coming down today so I can get into my laundry room. Here are some pictures from the day.

After they got done decorating their crowns. Not everybody wanted (or would sit still) to be in the picture. They are only two year olds after all.

Ok. So that was a lot of pictures but I just couldn't choose which ones to leave out.

On Sunday night we celebreated Andie's birthday with our family. We had every kind of pie you could think of and ice cream. It was yummy. Here are some pictures from that.

We had such a fun weekend celebrating Andie's birthday. We loved having friends and family spend time with us. Andie got way too much stuff but she has been having so much fun playing with it all. She got enough princess shoes she can wear a different pair for almost two weeks (at least she will leave my shoes alone now!!!!!). We are just so thankful for our families and all that they do for the three of us. We are so blessed to have such a loving family.

A big Thank you to:

Mom for helping me make all of those pies and everything else you helped with!

Melanie for making some pies!

Anjali and Garrett and Amy and Aubrey for helping me so much this past weekend! Thank you

DAD for also helping me with so much! The butcher paper turned out so cute!

Everyone that came and celebrated Andie's birthday!

Changes

2008-09-10T21:30:00.001-06:00

ok....so it has been a little while since my last post. I will probably be posting less than I have been. Landen started school a couple of weeks ago and he takes his lap top with him and then he goes straight to work until about midnight. I only have the weekends or sometimes he leaves his lap top home and sometimes I go to my parents house to use their computer.
Landen got a new job at U.S Sythetic. He started on Monday. He works the 3-11 shift and goes to school in the morning until about an hour -to a hour and a half before he has to go to work. He has worked there once before. It is a good job and has WONDERFUL benefits. It will be a good job while he is finishing school. The only downfall is that Andie and I will never see him and Landen will always be exausted. We feel very blessed though that he got this job and he got it when he did. We know that the lord is blessing our lives.
Andie has gone two weeks not wearing diapers. It hasn't been perfect but she has done pretty well. She has had a couple of accidents but the amount of times she makes to the potty outweighs the accidents. It has definatly helped on saving money. No more buying diapers and wipes. BIG MONEY SAVER!!!!
Tomorrow is Andie's two year birthday. I can't believe how fast the time went by! My little baby girl isn't a baby anymore.
Hopefully I will be able to post about her birthday and all the fun that we have!

Big Girl

2008-08-27T14:04:00.001-06:00

SHE DID IT! Andie is now officially wearing panties and NO MORE diapers! It has only been two days but a good two days. She has been very good at telling me and making it there. Today was the first day that I took her somewhere in just her panties and she did great. We were in the car and she told me she had to go potty and she held it until we got home. She is doing so well!!! I can't believe how well she is doing. She is only 23 months old! The first time I put panties on her she thought they were diapers so she started to go and then instantly stopped and ran to the potty and finished. Now that she knows they are not diapers she has been golden! I was so excited I had to share my news. I will let you know how the next week goes. Hopefully it will be successful