Happy Birthday!!!!

My sweet little Tad turned 2 today!!!! I can't believe how fast the time has gone by. I couldn't help but spend the day thinking back 2 years ago. I would think at this time 2 years ago I was just being induced and at this time 2 years ago, he was only 45 min. old. It is bitter sweet. I love to watch all of the new things he is learning! He is so fascinated with learning letters and numbers. He has been a joy to have in our home and I can't wait to see what the next 16 years brings!!!! I love him to pieces and can't imagine life without him. Happy birthday Tadlet!

This was just after they weighed him and measured him. Minutes old.

Tad at about 2 weeks old. He's my little Tadlito.

This is him at 2 years. I love those eyes!

I LOVE IT!!!!!

It has been a while since I have posted anything so I thought I would need to do something drastic to make up for lost time. Just kidding. No really, I got sick of my hair. All I did was pull it up in a bun, every single day. I looked like an old librarian. So I decided to go with a newer more updated look. I will get better pictures later but I am to excited about how it turned out that I can't help but post tonight.

 This is me before. This is my everyday look! Very bland and very boring. Hair pulled back into a bun.

This is my new hair cut. A lot more updated and even it I don't spend hours on fixing it, it still    looks nice and done! I love it!!!!

INTRODUCING . . . .

Our new baby! Ella Bleu. She was a doogie calf that a local rancher had and didn't want so we took her. I'll spare you the details of what will happen to her, but for now we will enjoy having her as a pet. Darrell and Tad go nuts over her. They want to climb in the pen with her and play. I think they think she is a big ol' dog.

Rain, Rain, come to stay!!!!

My old post was driving me crazy because, I am not a negative person or at least I try not to be and my last post was very negative. So I am posting a much more positive post today. It rained like crazy yesterday and we all absolutely loved it!!!! I hate the song," Rain Rain go away, come again another day." Who says you can't go play out in the rain? I can't keep my boys out of the rain or the mud, they LOVE IT!!!! I have to admit I love it too. Here are a few pictures of them playing out in the mud after the storm.

Thumbs up for playing in the MUD!!!!!! We bought these little rain boots for Darrell and he wouldn't have anything to do with them but Tad, we can't keep them off of him! He is a crack up! Don't mind Encino Man in the background.



 Darrell had so much fun playing in the mud. He just happened to rub his eyes right and it gave him a mask. He is my little raccoon! 

When it rains, it pours!!

I haven't had a post where I just tell about all the crazy things that happen in OUR everyday life, so I am going to share the last 2 days with you. Yesterday, I was getting ready to go help my friend babysit and have a little play group. I had just gotten the boys ready and I was getting ready myself back in our bathroom. When I opened the door to leave I found a trail of shaving cream that went from the bathroom, through the laundry room, through the kitchen, into the front room. That is where I found them playing slip and slide across the room in shaving cream. They were slapping their hands together and it was flying everywhere!!! They were having a blast. I was trying to figure out how to clean this up! I got it clean and we were on our way after showers again! Darrell had a few accidents ( we are attempting to potty train ) but for the most part, the evening was good. Sometime in the night, Darrell climbed in bed with us. At about 3:30, Darrell wet the bed! So I got up and got everything and everyone clean and Darrell back to bed. Joe got up at around 5:00 this morning to get ready for work. He hollers out for me and when I go to the back room, I walk into about 2 inches of WATER!!! At some point the hose blew off our washing machine and water went EVERYWHERE. Our back room and bathroom was flooded! We hurried to mop it up and we got enough up that Joe could get in the shower and get off to work. He left and I finished cleaning up the water. Just in time before the boys woke up. Darrell did not do very well at all with potty training today. I was moping up little accidents all day and Tad fussed over EVERYTHING!

But at the end of today I was able to sing Tadlet to sleep, lay Darrell in his bed with his trains, tell him I loved him and without a fight, he went to sleep, Joe crashed on the couch and I have some time to myself! It wasn't that bad. Just another crazy day at our house! I LOVE MY LIFE!!!! (seriously)

I know a few of you are wondering about the house so I will give a little update. We have the kitchen/living room painted and half of the upper cabinets hung. Joe and I are going to finish putting cabinets in tomorrow and ceiling fans and light fixtures. We are very excited!!! I can't wait to get this project behind us.

Fun in SAN JUAN!!

I have gotten a little behind on my blogging but I am going to play catch up. Darrell and Tad and I got to go on vacation to ST.Johns for 10 DAYS!!!! It was so nice. The weather was perfect. It wasn't to hot and we even got rain on one of the days. The best part was that we didn't have to do anything. We were able to just sit around and chat all day with my brothers and sisters and cousins! On Saturday the 28th of June I had a wonderful invitation to go through the temple with one of my really good friends from high school. She is going on a mission to Canada and I got to go through with her to get her endowments. When we got to St. Johns, we found my dads latest project on his lawn. He is building a little airplane and was almost finished with it when we got there. Darrell was in heaven!!! He loved playing on it and Tad couldn't get enough of all of the motorcycles my family has. It was a little boys heaven there! It was nice and I just thought I would share some of the pictures with you guys!








On one of the days I took my little brother Dylan to Luna to get some fireworks. These elk were in Alpine and we got a little more than a cars length away from them!!!! AMAZING! They were so cool looking we just sat there and stared. The one picture is just of the sky there. I love Alpine it is so pretty!

I couldn't resist!

I have to admit, I was getting jealous of everyones very very cute aprons so I had to have one too. I cheated though, I bought mine instead of making one. And it wasn't with an apron swap our anything. But I got it for cheaper than it would have cost to make it. Anyway, I LOVE IT!! I am very excited to finally have a cute girly apron. Now all I have to do is get my kitchen finished to wear it in. Hopefully I get to use it soon.