What's New

Time is just flying by...both of the boys are growing up way too fast. Aaron will be one in another couple weeks and Ian just seems to be getting older with each passing day. Aaron has been crawling around at lightning speed. He definitely has the control and strength to walk but could really care less. We have done all we can to encourage walking (ice cream, toys, food, food, and more food) but he will take a couple steps, stand there, and then drop and take off. He also loves crawling straight through things (maybe he has been listening to the bear hunt song too much).

As always he is one super happy baby.
Again -crawling through things.
He has also been loving "organizing" his drawers. We have been transitioning and getting out all the fall clothes, to be followed a week later by the winter clothes.Ian has been loving getting himself ready in the morning. He does not want my help whatsoever. I am quite impressed by this picture because his shirt and pants are on the correct direction :) Gotta love the tie as well. Plus the gel in the hair. He is definitely styling! Such an independent boy. This picture was taken after school and after his "naptime." Yes it has been a little sad around here. Ian no longer wants to take naps (although if he does not take a nap he will usually head to bed between 6 - 7 pm). Though he still needs a nap he will stay in his room for what is supposed to be quiet time. The other day he decided to completely destroy his room. I inform him that "If you make the mess, you can clean it up." The first day it took him 3 hours to clean his room. All clothes had been pulled out the the dresser, toys were all unorganized all over the floor and bed, clothes hung in the closet were off the hangers and all over the place, not to mention books were everywhere. I did not touch a thing! He made the mess, he can clean it up. He had to organize his clothes back into there corresponding drawers, plus put them on a hanger and hang them, not to mention reorganize toys, books, and so on. If he did it incorrectly I dumped it out and he did it again. It was actually very challenging for me to do absolutely nothing. However since then we have had many quiet times and his room has been left in order when quiet time is over. Let's hope it lasts !
Aaron absolutely loves his blanket. Between 10 and 11 months Aaron got three new teeth. His bottom one on the left and his top two teeth. The poor child, he was cursed with my big teeth and Tim's gap.He is still a keeper :)
He has started getting into a little bit of trouble lately and thinks it is hilarious. Notice the cheerios all over the floor. Both the boys have been loving Aaron's early birthday present! You may think it is a little big but I wanted something that both the boys would enjoy. Oh do they! Aaron is now a pro at it as well. He will climb up the stairs, sit down on his bum, and slide on down with a huge grin the whole way! As for Ian he loves to find new creative ways to go down the slide. Yesterday it was the Chinese splits down the slide, don't worry he decided that hurt too much.
The slide has been great! I am not sure I want to move it down do the playroom, it provides hours of entertainment up here. It will be great when the winter months come and we can still enjoy playing on the slide. Oh wait....it already snowed :(

I still am in denial but our home is sold. As of September 26th we no long own our beautiful townhome in Smithfield. It was a long and sad process but after the sixth closing date everything finally went through. I absolutely loved our townhome. Don't get me wrong, I love our new home but it just doesn't have that "home" fill yet. I wanted to post some pictures of our home since there were so many memories created there, traditions started, and life long friends made.

Lets start with upstairs. Our master bedroom. Tim and I had picked out the bedding and decor while we were engaged. When was pregnant with Aaron I thought it would be fun to paint stripes on the wall. Let's just say the blue wasn't quite the right color of blue (although this picture makes it look much brighter than it really was). Since I was pregnant Tim had to do the painting. You can faintly see the glazed vertical stripes in the picture. After it was all done I decided we should do a different shade of blue. Tim said "Heck No." Apparently he did not like painting that much :) So, it stayed!
Ian's bedroom: Ian's room overlooked the mountains on the East side of the valley it was also were we parked our cars. Occasionally Ian would struggle with naps in the afternoon and ask Tim, "Wake time now?" His response would be, "Not until mommy gets home." The moment I would pull in Ian would be jumping in the window shouting, "Mommy's home, wake time!" Not to mention the curtains. We could not figure out why they made those short curtain's aren't they weird. Nope!!! Love them. Ian would lie in bed and pull the long ones, or try and roll up in them. Short ones solved the problem and blocked out all the light.Aaron's room: While Aaron did not get to enjoy his room as much (maybe the first 8 months of his life) he did love to look out the window while I was changing his diaper. Ian thought it was so fun to be able to stand on the chair and help hand me things while getting Aaron dressed or changing his diaper.
Upstairs Bathroom: Where the boys had their first baths and showers. Where we discovered that Ian had some wicked climbing skills (Robitussin incident).
View from the master bedroom and living room. Who would not love to wake up looking at the Wellsville Mountains. Gorgeous!Also out the master bedroom and living room. Park and Pavilion. Where we had Ian's blessing, birthday parties, and many fun neighborhood and ward activities. Living Room
KitchenDining and Kitchen
Back porch and shed (which Tim built himself).Basement: I still remember we (My dad, Tim, and Andrew) finished the basement the beginning February of 2008. We wanted to finish the basement before I had Ian. Many hours were spent building everything just perfect! Tim got the couches as a surprise for me for valentines day.

Family Room: Who can forget the projection system and screen. I was pregnant with Ian and Tim got this random idea that it would be great to have a screen and projection system. He brought the idea to me which I immediately shot down. After much begging and him saying that it would be under $100 for the screen and wiring. We already had enough things to do before the baby arrived. So I said if he deep cleaned the whole house which meant cleaning all baseboards, walls, bathroom, furniture, you name it! Then and only then would I agree -I can count on one hand the number of times time has cleaned our bathroom still to this day. We went to bed and apparently once I had fallen asleep he began working. The next morning I woke up to him still cleaning. Upon finishing cleaning he said he was going to go and purchase the supplies he needed. What was I to do a deal is a deal, and he did an amazing job cleaning. A couple weeks later I was put on bedrest while pregnant with Ian, which meant lots of mariocart and nintendo on a very big screen!
Guest Bathroom.
Guest Bedroom/Office
We headed up to Smithfield to clear out all of our furniture a few weeks ago. We were able to hang out with some wonderful friends, plus stop and visit some of the places that we love. Well as much as you can do with trying to move.

Anthony snapped a picture of the four of us sitting on the porch of our first home. As you can see the boys were not into having their pictures taken -surprise surprise. It is still baffling to think that another family is now living in our home and creating their own memories and traditions. Besides the month and a half that Tim and I lived in my parents basement while waiting for our townhome to finish being built, this was our home for nearly six years. I can only hope that the new family loves and takes care of it as much as we did.
Ian snapped this picture of me getting Aaron in his carseat just as we were leaving. I thought he did a pretty good job.

Family Pictures

We were lucky enough to have Lindsay take our family pictures again this year. I am not sure she would consider herself luckily given my two grumpy boys -but we knew with her talent she would still be able to get some amazing pictures. I will admit I did have my doubts because Ian did not want anything to do with getting his pictures taken (unless you were trying to take pictures of Aaron alone then he was all for getting in the way and pulling faces). Aaron was having non of it. You can tell by looking at our blog that Aaron is a super happy baby. He is always smiling from ear to ear. We could not get him to even crack one smile. It did not help that is was over a hundred degrees outside that evening but he was still unusually grumpy. Wouldn't you know the next morning Aaron woke up with a brand new tooth. By some miracle Lindsay was still able to capture a few good shots!

This one is my absolute favorite! Ian is hugging all of us which clearly Aaron is a little concerned. I love the shot a perfect representation of our family :)
Tim and Aaron

Ian trying to decide what devious thing he will do next

Wild boy!

Can't you just see him plotting his plan

The boys together

Had to post a couple of these ones because they made me laugh
Ian is done with pictures while Aaron is wondering what stunt he is going to do next

That's a wrap! Can you tell I am literally holding him down.
Tim's parents were visiting at the time so we thought it would be great to get some picture with them and the boys as well.

There are a few other group shots of all of us but these are my favorite!

I can't believe how fast our family is changing. It seems like the boys are growing up overnight. Aaron will be a year old in a few weeks, and Ian is three and thinks that he is five. I can still remember back to when we were "dink's" -double income no kids. There were no sleepless nights. Not to mention we could go and do whatever we wanted at any given moment. Now we count our blessings for each night that we do not hear a child wake up hollering for one of us. We can go anywhere but only between 10-12:30 and 3:30 -5:30 -but be sure all of the essentials are packed like snacks, toys, diapers, clothes, and a few more toys, and better throw in a few more snacks and drinks. However, neither of us would trade it for the world! We absolutely love our boys they have brought so much joy, excitement, and laughter to our lives. I look forward to watching them learn and grow each new day!

logan visit

For Labor Day weekend we decided to head to my parents house. Tim was working and Ian had the day off of school. Plus let's be honest -we love Logan! The kids slept the whole way as usual. When we arrived at my parents home Aaron was hungry. I gave him a bottle then passed him off to grandpa. Aaron was all giggles until he puked all down his face -you can still see some leftover puke still on him that I was able to capture before he was completely cleaned up. Clearly Aaron thought it was hilarious and was still full of giggles, grandpa not so much :)Ian & Hunter were begging to go for a four wheeler ride. Since the four wheeler helmets are way too heavy for Ian to actually be able to hold his head up, he wore his bike helmet.

Andrew, Hunter, Ian, and I then decided to head up Providence Canyon for a ride. Aaron stayed home with grandma and grandpa. Ian loved riding on the four wheeler much more with Andrew than with me.We stopped a couple of times to throw rocks in the water and feel how cold it was. Very cold!


Later that night we headed to the neighbors house (in Providence) for a bar-b-que and movie. Ian had a blast playing with his new friend Maya and there conversations were quite hilarious....

Maya: Ian you be the daddy, and I'll be the mommy
Ian: No, I am the bad guy, I'm evil
Maya: No, you are the daddy
Ian: Fine, I am a bad daddy

Ian would also push Maya on the swing. Then later that night Ian was swinging by himself when I heard him saying mom help me. I looked up to see nothing but a completely bare bottom. He was swinging and slipped backwards. However when slipping the chain caught his pants, which caught his underwear. It was hilarious. Good thing he is still little because he was laughing too! We had a wonderful time with family and friends, and will be back in another week maybe?!?!?! Our house is supposed to be closing that weekend. I think this will be the third closing date...the whole process is super annoying. Fingers crossed!

macnair visit

Tim's parents were able to come out and visit the end of August. Ian has not stopped talking about it. A day does not go by where Ian has not asked, "Can we go to Bumdots?" Allow me to explain. "Bumdots" is actually known to most people as Boondocks. It is about a 15-20 minute drive from our home and provides hours of countless entertainment. While Ian is not tall enough to ride the go karts he does love to ride the bumper boats. We quickly found out that this is not just "bumper" boats. More like water fighting boats equip with powerful squirt guns. Needless to say Ian was always good at picking best boat. If you notice Papa and Nana are very very very wet -Tim and Ian are fairly dry. Do you want to guess who won that round? He also loved playing in the soft play and the various arcade games they had.
While they were here we were able to show them some of the things we have enjoyed doing in our new area. We made it to the zoo before the dinosaur models where taken down. I think the picture below is my favorite picture of Ian and Tim together. We enjoyed the bird show where a raven landed on nan's hand and an owl brushed the back of papa's hat while in flight.We also headed to the aquarium. We may have forgotten to tell papa about all of the snakes there :) He was a good sport! Ian got a superhero costume while at the aquarium. He did not want to take it offWe got a free family pass to the discovery museum at the gateway from a lady in our ward. So we decided to try that out one day as well. Ian and Aaron loved the beehive ball exhibit. If you notice I mostly have pictures of Aaron here because Ian was to busy running around and looking at all the different things.
Aaron loved playing in the water exhibitTim in love with the life flight helicopter -his dream job! Ian having fun pretending to be a pilot.
We were also able to have fun in the front yard playing on the slip n' slide and in the pool. Ian takes off at a full speed run about 20 feet back and then dives and slides on down. Lately he now spins himself when he begins to slide so that he does spins all the way down. Aaron also loves to be pushed down the slip n' slide and attempt it himself as well. I am not sure an 11 month old is supposed to love being pushed down the slip n' slide straight into the puddle of water at the bottom -but he does!Before coming to our house Tim's parents were visiting Jimmer and Amy in Oregon. While they were there Amy and Nan were able to finish this quilt for Ian's bed. It looks absolutely darling in his room -pictures to come soon! Thanks so much for the beautiful quilt. We all absolutely love it. Ian has also enjoyed driving his matchbox cars along the "roads" -between all the squares on his bed. We were also able to have family pictures taken while his parents were here. Can you tell that both boys are loving waiting for grandma to find a new outfit? Pictures to come soon!
Aaron showed them that he is just as big of an eater as Ian.Nan always brings along a few puppets when she visits. The boys love watching, listening, and helping with all the puppet shows.
Nan, Aaron, and Ian
We had so much fun while you were here. We are still recovering and listening to Ian beg to go to "bumdots." Hopefully we will get to see you again soon in November. Thanks for visiting!