Snow Roomies

Monica lives in Arizona and was visiting Utah, so we all had lunch together and brought a few of our kids. I think the last time we all were able to get together was for Becky's wedding when I was prego with Chase. These girls were my roomies at Snow College my last year (minus 2 that couldn't come). It was fun to catch up again! I miss you guys! 

You decide!

Help me decide! I really don't want to wait the 3 or so years it's going to take me to grow my hair as long as I really want it. I've been growing it out from all my previous short styles for about 3 years now. I'm actually not even sure I can get it all that long. I've been stuck at this length for awhile now. I'm just bored of it. So I found a few styles I like, the top one is a little bit longer. I'm not a fan of wearing my bangs to the side, but I think with the right product, I could get it to where it wouldn't bug me so much. 

These next 2 are the same style, and I'm not dying it blond.

I don't know, if anyone finds any other styles that are cute, let me know. I think I'm just ready to cut it all off!

Another 1st birthday

I just don't know where the time goes. I think first birthdays are my favorite! They are so stinkin cute, and I LOVE the cake part! 

I attempted to make a bumble bee cake this year for her 1st birthday. Not that she really knows, but it was fun anyway.

I should have made different frosting for the green to actually ICE the cake, but I was lazy and didn't want to, so I'm not to happy with that part of the cake. Kardyn seemed to really like it though.

Of course I wasn't going to let her dive into that one, so she had her own little one, chocolate of course, makes for a better mess!

Yes it ended up all over her hair, she loves to play with her hair, this is why she no longer keeps headbands in much longer than 5 minutes. Hopefully that will change soon.

I think she had a great party! She's walking around now, but only with assistance. She can say Momma and Dadda and Puppy Dog. We are so happy to have Kardyn as part of our family, we love her so much! Happy Birthday baby girl!

Lagoon Day

We went to Lagoon this past Friday for Depot Days. Tim can get discounted tickets through work, so we took the kids, Staci's family came, and Grandma & Grandpa. The kids had so much fun! They've added a lot more rides for kids since the last time I was there. The kids were able to ride almost every ride.

Kardyn started walking the day before, so now all she wants to do is walk. She really not very balanced yet though, so you still pretty much have to hold her hand. She insisted on walking with Uncle Jason around the park. 

Chase hasn't stopped talking about Lagoon since we left. He had so much fun, I'm glad we were able to go this summer. I have a feeling he's going to be pretty adventurous as he get's older! 

P.S.---pictures of Kardyn's birthday are coming soon. I just need to get the pictures off of my brother-in-laws camera! 

bits and pieces

I just know this picture is going to be around a long time! We went to SLC to see our friends Tim and Amy this weekend. We had dinner and afterwards the boys kept saying they wanted bunny treats. Until they pointed them out to us, we couldn't figure out what they heck they wanted. They pointed to a yellow box on top of the fridge of dog treats, shaped like animals. So, they got one! Chase said "I LOVE IT!" I don't think he really knew what it was, but boy he and Jack loved them!

We put Kardyn in her new car seat this weekend, she'll be one on Friday. I don't know how these kids can stay in those infant seats this long anyway, they are so big in them once they get to be this old! Anyway, we had a long day into SLC this Saturday. There was a huge wreck on

 I-80 and they had it closed both directions. Well, we left our house at about 12:30pm to go into Park City to do some shopping before we met up with Tim and Amy. We get to about Stansbury (about 10 miles away from I-80) and policemen were turning us around. So we decided to try the canyon road that can take us into town, it's just not paved the whole way. Apparently lots of people thought they could do the same thing. Well, we got about 6 miles up and people were turning around telling us that someone had gotten their trailor stuck and we couldn't get through. So we turn around again. By this time it's like 2pm. Now I have to go to the bathroom and seeing as how we were still in Tooele, we go back home. Of course my kids wake up so they've slept for 2 hours while we were still in Tooele. Now the only way that's left out of Tooele is through Lehi, which takes longer. So we start again and take a detour around some more traffic and finally make it into SLC after 4pm. What a crazy day. Turns out that the didn't even open the freeways until about 9 or 10. Luckily we headed back home after that time and had no problems getting through. 

I also had some fun with some old friends of mine this week. I've known Candace and Susie forever, OK well, I met them when I lived in Pennsylvania, which I moved away from there after my freshman year of high school. So it's been a while since I've seen these girls! We took lunch to the park and let our kids play for awhile. We had fun and it was nice to see them! And yes I know I look like an idiot because I'm taking the picture, get over it!

This week we also went to the Zoo. Just a quick trip in after Tim and Jason got home from work. It was a great day because it had rained a lot, but not while we were there. It was pretty cool outside and that meant that a lot of the animals were out as well. I love the Zoo so I can use my kids as an excuse to go now! They had fun. This is a quick shot of them on the new carousel there. I'll spare you the pictures of the animals.

Parks & Puppies

Our family has been anticipating a visit from the Woods since we've moved to Utah, so you can imagine how much fun we had when they finally arrived! We were able to take the kids to the park and then go out to dinner. The kids had a blast, Chase couldn't wait to see them! I just love this picture of Jordan staring at "his girlfriend." We just say that because we want them to get married so our families can be around together all the time.....hehehe.

Chase and Parker had so much fun playing and laughing, just like old times...but this time, no fighting, that was nice!

This weekend we went camping and we helped out at the archery shoot as well. Since we are club members, we have to help set up targets and things like that, so we were pretty busy. But Rich and Kjerstin got a new puppy, Ellie. She's a 6 week old boxer and she LOVES Kardyn. I think it's because she's small, but Kardyn sure loves her too!

We had a lot of fun, despite the freezing cold weather on the mountain which was odd for June, but it was still fun.

I just got chills!

So I guess I had the wrong trailer, here is the right one!! I guess it wasn't out yet when I posted the first time because I couldn't find this one! Enjoy!

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this and that

Things have been pretty crazy around here....my father-in-law turned 50....he wasn't so happy about that, but we had fun.

Kardyn had some "virus in her mouth" is what the doctor told me. Poor little girl had a fever up to 103 while we were camping. 

Here she is the next weekend all better and happy to let grandpa hold her, which doesn't happen often!

Apparently you don't have to be a really little baby to still swing! She still had a fever at this point and was just pretty fussy, so I put her in the swing, and she fell right to sleep. It was pretty stinkin' cute!

I think Kardyn could probably see Pepper (the dog) in this shot. She is soooo funny when she can see an animal. She makes this monkey face and and sound and flaps her arms like she's going to fly or something. It's sooo funny. She loves Staci's cat Lilly (who Chase calls Wuwy)

Here we are at our first archery shoot of the year. Tim and I (and his family) belong to an archery club, where we can go out and shoot at 3-D targets with bows. The kids love it, and they have their own little target, so we got Chase a little bow this year, and grandpa and grandma are trying to teach him how to shoot it. It's hard to get a shot of him actually DOING it, because he's too fast! After this weekend, he walks around telling Tim and I that he wants to shoot a deer...NICE.

Grandpa and Tim took the kids on a hike while we were camping over the holiday weekend. They had lots of fun. We just went up a canyon here in Tooele and it was a pretty crazy weekend. We saw a guy hit a deer on his four wheeler right at our camp. That was crazy because the poor deer didn't even die, so that was a whole thing. I went down the canyon to call animal control so they could come take care of the poor thing. Later that night a police man came up so he could put the thing out of it's misery....well we were watching and we thought he had just a 22 to kill it with, until he fired his gun...it was a shotgun. It was so loud up there. Anyway, here are some pictures of the kids on their hike.

Here is Staci's new baby boy, Brandt. He's a cutie! He's just a few weeks old now, but he's a spitting image of his dad. 

Tim holding his new nephew

Staci and Kjerstin with him too

How can you not love that squishy little face!

Worthy of note

Have you ever seen these handbags? They are called Miche. Who ever came up with this idea must be super rich because they are so cool! I was able to go to a purse party and get one last night....I absolutely love this thing. The bag can be replaced if anything ever happens to it, and all you have to do is get the outside "shells" when you want a new look. They have deals and stuff on those once you already have the bag. So much fun, and super cute



These are the shells I got, how much fun is this!
Ok, one other cool thing I wanted to mention. My mom and dad have been telling me about this sleep aid that they are taking.
My dad started taking it because his Parkinson's was affecting his sleep. It doesn't help you to fall asleep at night, but it makes me feel like I slept sounder when I wake up in the morning. I don't know, it's kinda hard to explain, but I feel less groggy when I wake up. You can buy it at Wal-mart, and the directions say to take 3 pills, but I've only been taking one, I think Tim may be taking 2, but it's really helped a lot, especially getting over just having a baby and waking up so much in the night, I really like it! Thanks mom and dad for the suggestion!

SUN

Tim's company sent him out to Maryland for some training last week, so I thought I would take advantage of the free time and take the kids to visit my parents in Arizona. Which by the way we drove and I didn't get lost, and found it all by myself! I was very proud! The drive wasn't even that bad, we stayed the night in St. George with my Uncle and drove the rest of the 7 hours the next day. Not bad!

We had lots of fun, it was already super hot there though, like in 100's. Don't know why anyone would ever choose to live in that hot place, but WHATEVER! Eve and Chase had lots of fun playing though, my mom bought this sand and water table for them to play with outside. We only put water in it for them. It's funny to hear these two talk, they go on and on about so many funny things. It's hard to see Chase growing up and having his own imagination!

I also was able to see my dear friends the Spindles while visiting. They came up to take family to the airport so I had to steal some of there time and we went to brunch. The kids had a blast! Kardyn LOVED "baby Bryce" (even though he's older than her, I still call him that!)

Dan and Kardyn...we are so excited for Dan because they might have an opportunity to move closer to us, I hope you get the job Dan!

My sister and her husband Jardan took me rock climbing! It was so fun! I have to say I've never actually climbed on the mountain, it's always been a rock wall in the gym type of a thing. This was soooo much better! I really had a lot of fun, and was pretty impressed with myself! This is Jardan at the top getting ready to repel down to us.

Here is a view from up where we were climbing. I sure do miss Oregon! I'm not such a big fan of these dry, hot, desert places!

Here's me! I didn't go up much more than this, but it was really fun and I can't wait until I can go with them again next time I visit.

Aubrey and I took the kids to this local Mall that has this splash pad. It's really fun for the kids and it's nice and shady! 

I was also able to see one of my friends from high school that lives near my parents. Jon and his family met up with us at a splash pad and we let the kids play. It was nice to see a familiar face, especially since we've moved, I need more of those!

Jill just had her ADORABLE baby 2 months ago, her name is Mia. She's so cute!

Chase wasn't too excited about getting in the water that day, oh well! He had fun playing at the park though.

Oh, random last shot, I should have zoomed in more, sorry! But I wish the Kohl's by me when we lived in Medford had deals like the one by my mom in Arizona. I got these jeans for $11, normally like 58 or something like that. I love them

Parson's Bakery

So I've been going into SL with my sister-in-law Staci (who is prego) for her doctors appointments, and we've been going to this yummy bakery in Bountiful. 

This is my favorite cookie, german chocolate! Doesn't that just make your mouth water! Yumm

Randomness

I have some left over random pictures, I love this face!

Helping Daddy

This picture speaks for itself, I have no idea how that happened, nor did I notice it until I looked at the picture on my computer. My daughter is super flexible!

Sneaking a drink from Chase's sippy cup

Tanner and Kardyn before we moved

Lidia and I before we left

and Tamara and I

Michelle and Debbie

Grandma Eisenbrandt and Karydn on Easter 

Easter

The kids had fun on Easter. An egg hunt with all the cousins! My oldest niece adores Kardyn.

My favorite shot...OPEN THIS EGG MOM!

Jason smoked our Ham, it was Yummy!

Chase showing me what the Easter Bunny brought him.

The Drive

Here's a few pictures from the road. Here is our tire that shredded on the trailer that was hauling my entire life in it! Shortly after this was replaced, the rim broke off of the new tire, and had to be jimmy rigged to make it the last 60 miles or so. That was nice!

Long and boring with no one to talk to but myself and sleeping babies!

We stayed the night in Reno and drove the rest of the way on Sunday night. I took the kids and went ahead of the trailers and stuff, they arrived about 5 hours after us because of all the tire problems.

Leaving

I know I know...I'm sure you all want to know if we made it to Utah or not! Well, we did, and now I have a million things to post on my blog. Tim just was able to get our computer set up a few days ago, and since then, I've been trying to find time to put my pictures on here. Of course it doesn't help when we've been deathly sick, so now that we are over that (fingers crossed) I can get back to business! These are random pictures from the day we moved out, which was on the 4th. We had lots of help loading up our 27 foot trailer, which was huge, and we didn't think we'd fill it, but we did, to the brim! 

Here's Ty checking out the babies! I never got a picture with Katie! How did that happen?!

Overall it was a sad day, and since I had to drive my own car, it was even harder! I'm not sure how I got out of town I was bawling so hard! We love you all and miss you lots!