Lyxi Lou Who!!!

Tayahna and Lyxi's feet!

Here is Lyxi's 2 year pictures! They turned out soooo adorable, I was very happy with them! She looks so grown up in them! I can't believe that she is 2 already. I think she is two going on 15! She acts like it anyway!

My little Lyxi is the most sweetest girl, she can give the best loves around! She is very independent and strong willed, which is a great trait to have! She will tell you HOW IT IS! It is like their is no middle ground with her, you either want to cuddle her up, always making you smile, or it is exactly the opposite................ you can imagine!!! She has a great heart!

She always asks, "Is that funny?" And she will not laugh until you tell her it is funny! She cracks me up! She knows all of her colors and shapes, and most of the ABC's! She loves to sing and dance! She always says, "Lyxi go dancing!" She started a little dance class that she loves! It is so cute to watch her, she LOVES it!

She is definitely a GIRL, because she changes outfits at least 3 times a day!! I can't keep up with the laundry!

Tayahna's 6 Month Pictures

Tayahna is 6 months already! I can't believe how time flies! She is such a fun, adorable, sweet little girl! Tayahna has a smile that will just brighten your day! She can just melt your heart with a smile! She loves to sit and watch her brother and sister, she will be crying and all they have to do is walk in the room and she stops crying!

She can sit up really well now and is LOVING that she can see everything now! She looks so much like Jaden in his baby pictures! The older she gets, the more she starts to look like him! They have the same head shape and mouth. Jaden and Alyxis adore her and love to sit and play with her! They like to pick her up and cary her around, but that was NOT OK with mommy, so now they just talk to her!

Brad is the first one to make her laugh! It was the cutest thing! She already has Daddy wrapped around her little finger. Since then Jaden and especially Lyxi can really make her giggle. She is so fun to have in our family and are so glad to have enough girls to out number the boys :)

She is now 8 months old and can clap, wave bye-bye, and almost has a tooth in. I can feel it popping up, she is not very happy at the moment! Tayahna can almost crawl! She can go from a sitting position to her knees and rocks back and forth, but then plops over when she tries to move forward! She will have it before we know it! We love you SWEETIE!!!!

Gross!

Brad has always had the worst ingrown toenails I have ever seen! He will do a mini surgery on them every time he would get an ingrown, he literally dug at them to the point he was bleeding and would tear all of the skin back to get to the ingrown and get it out. At least once a month he would do this and I don't know how he would stand all of that pain, cause it looked like it hurt! So I finally talked him into going and getting this problem fixed once and for all! So we get to the doctors office and he mentioned that he could just take off Brads toenails completely! It grossed me out, but Brad instantly said, yes that is what I want! So the doctor took off his tow big toenails! It was the most nasty thing I have ever seen! He numbed Brads toes, put a tourniquet on them, grabbed some scissors with sharp ends on then and just ripped the toenails off! It took 5 minutes and it was done! Brad said the worst part was the numbing! But it took a long time to heal and Brad was on them the next day pouring concrete. He is one tough cookie and was ready for them to heal faster than they did, but now it looks great!

His toes actually look like there is a healthy nail on the big toe! His nails have Never looked that good! And the best part is he will never have another ingrown again!

1/2 Marathon!

A good friend of mine, Tamara, talked me and some other girls into doing a 1/2 marathon! And we all decided it would be worth it to try! WHAT WAS I THINKING!!! Just kidding, actually the overall experience was awesome! We trained for 10 weeks and I wanted to work hard to at least get a decent time! So I trained and only missed 4 days of training because of a knee injury! But I was excited to actually attempt it! So it came time for the race and Tamara who worked so hard to train was not able to run because of a family emergency! So Mandy, Sarah and I wanted to quit because she was our motivator! But we decided we worked so hard and wanted to say we DID IT!

So we ran and it was probably the hardest thing I have done in a while but it was the most rewarding thing i have done in a long time! I was glad to say I did it! Mandy and Sarah did such a good job too! I was glad they were there with me! Plus I haven't seen Sarah in FOREVER so it was great to reconnect with an old college roomie! She is such a stud!

My official time was 1:55:38. I was so happy with the results and grateful Icould have done it! Although I have NO desire to do it any time soon! I had a great weekend(KID FREE) and had a fun girls weekend!

But I could NOT MOVE for three day afterwards! Seriously, it was rough, but worth it!

The pictures aren't the best :( I couldn't figure out how to make them bigger!

STUD!!

We are going to play catch up with Jaden and the fun things that he has done this past summer! We have been so busy playing that there would be picture overload if we did each one! My computer was not cooperating so I don't have the pictures that I wanted, go figure! But jaden is such a little stud muffin! (At least I think so)!!
This summer he started off with swim lessons and had so much fun! He is a little FISH!!! He loves the water and is not afraid of anything! His teacher said he should have been in level one swim lessons, but law requires that he be 5! He is only 3 and is such a great swimmer! We got him to get up with me on the wake board, just like his cousin Austin! He LOVED it! He held on and would wave to everyone! He also loved the tube, that kid has no fear and would try to stand up and be silly! It made me so nervous, I am yelling at him from the boat to SIT DOWN! He did a little cliff jumping as well! If it has anything to do with water he is THERE!

Other than that he is such a good boy! I hardly have to "get on him" about much of anything. Every once and while he needs his attitude adjusted, but other than that, he is a great brother! He protects his sisters and takes good care of them! We couldn't have asked for a better son! He is happy all the time and his raspy little voice makes people laugh all the time!

This picture of his eye was the grossest thing we have ever seen! Brad and I played on a softball team and just got home from the game and Jadens eye was literally swollen and looked like it was going to explode! The white part of his eye protruded out over the colored part! It was gross! He looked so scary! I FREAKED OUT and went to the emergency room, I don't think you should mess with kids and their eyes! But it ended up being that he has major allergies to something up at the baseball field and he irritated it enough that it swelled up terribly! And come to find out, we didn't even need to take him to the ER because it would have been better in the morning! They did give us steroid drops though!

Jaden got to wrestle this past year and it was about the cutest thing you will ever see! He was too little to compete but he got some good practice for this next year! The smallest singlet didn't even fit him! It was a site to see!

We have had a fun summer and are glad that we could make such fun memories! We spent the summer on Zane's house boat and camped out hearts out! We are so grateful for such fun friends and family to spend it with!

Bear World!

At the beginning of the summer Sheri, Katie and I and of course all of the kids, had a chance togo to Bear World and the Zoo in Idaho Falls! It was a blast! The kids had a great time and loved seeing all of the bears. I didn't get any pictures at the zoo but these are all from Bear World!

It was kind of a fun girls weekend! We had sushi, which is our favorite, and just played with the kids! The kids had fun swimming in the hotel, loved seeing all of the animals at the zoo, and eating lots of junk food!

Sheri, Katie and I as Bears! I think I woul make the best bear, what do you think :)

Jaden and Lyxi feeding the ducks!

Me and Nana, as Lyxi would call her! Tayahna is a great trooper! She just tagged along and enjoyed the ride!

Jaden and Lyxi as bears! Aren't they scary!

This is a deer that just had her baby, it was so cute!

Thanks Sheri and Katie for a fun weekend to get the summer started!

The Best 6 Years!

Happy Anniversary Babe!!! It has been six years and have been the best years of my life!

For the years past for our anniversary we have done the dinner and movie type deal, which is really great and wonderful, but this year was fun! Brad actually planned this all by himself and had everything ready for me to just get out of town! Thanks to my sister for watching my 2 little ones! So Brad planned it so we could go down to Flaming Gorge and stay on his dads yacht for 3 days! It was so much fun and great to have time alone! It was as if we were dating again! We both needed it and had a fantastic time!

So we fished, barbecued on the lake, enjoyed the little sunshine that we had, and laughed like crazy! It is the little things that Brad does that makes him such a good husband! He will never know how much I LOVED that he planned and arranged this all by himself and that I didn't have to "nag" (as he would put it :) I just love my man so much and can't say enough good things about him! Every year we grow closer and our love gets stronger and I am so grateful to have a man that takes care of ME!! I love you babe!