FALL

It has been another week of not much exciting happening.
As of Monday the boat is retireing for the year. It is so sad. We have thouroughly enjoyed that boat this summer. It will be greatly missed. Jared and the kids have snowboarding to look forward to, I'll just have a sore bum. You see, this year is the year I am going to attempt to snowboard. I conquered the wakeboard, hopeing that might help me out a bit this winter. I just don't want to break anything. It will be exciting though. I'm sure the kids will get a good laugh.
I am looking forward to Fall. I love Halloween, the season for homemade rootbeer.MMMMM. And who wouldn't love seeing all the kids in their costumes. I love going out with my kids trick-or-treating, who knows, this might be the year I returned to my costume days.
Yep, the holidays are comming and I'm getting excited. Enought of my rambling ....

Now for what's been going on here. Berek's team won their game last week, 24 to 6. I love football and watching him play. It was the highlight of my birthday. This week they play a pretty good team. We're excited about it.
Makenna had her interview with the Bishop on Sunday for her Baptism. For those of you that don't know and would like to come, it is Oct 13 @ 4:00. She is very excited. We have lots of family coming up for it. It should be lots of fun.
Bailey has not been feeling to good this week. I'm starting to wonder if maybe she may have a milk allergy. She has vomited once a day since Sunday, right after a bottle of milk, and usually in the evening. She still drinks one or two other bottles during the day and nothing happens so who knows. I guess we'll just wait and see.
Tayler hasn't been up to much. She needs something to do though. That girl has way too much Energy bottled up inside her. I'm hoping next year to get her in soccer, I think she would love it.
Well that's all folks........

Happy Birthday John

Most recent picture I took of John

Today is my big brother, John, birthday. I figured he needed someone to blog about him 'cause he's a pretty cool guy. John is a very good brother! Jared and I have moved more times than I want to count and John has been there with 95% of them, and not only ours, but the rest of my families. Don't ask me why, I would try to make up an excuse after the first few, but he always helps. He is good hearted too. John has always tried to help every one of us out when he knew we needed it. He is alot like my mom in the sense, he will never buy himself something new but has no problem getting something for the rest of us. He is an awesome uncle. My kids love him! They get so excited when he comes to visit and try to think of ways to keep him here when it is time to go. Tayler even said if he would live with us she would be willing to give up her room. He really loves all his nieces and nephews and they love him. He is so patient and good to them. John also takes a lot of crap from all his brothers and sisters. We all have this habit of teasing, sometimes too much, and John seems to be the funnest one to tease. He takes it real well. If it were me, let's just say by now I'd be an only child.

I have some real fun memories with him but my favorite is after I had Tayler. I get post partum depression real bad so the month after I had Tayler, John & Mom would drive 40 min. to come see me and visit or take me on a little road trip to keep me company. They were so fun!! We even got lost one time, or thought we were. There is one other, when we went rafting in Jackson, but that's another story, right John!!!

I hope you had a happy birthday John. We all love you.

Happy #12 (a week late)

It been 12 years since I married my sweetheart, Jared. He is my best friend. My funnest times are with him. I laugh the hardest with him. He knows how to melt my heart-which sometimes isn't easy. All of the hardest times of my life he has been there holding my hand, walking with me through every minute. He has been there with me with my highest of highs and my lowest of lows. The things that were and are important to me, he has always supported me in them. We spent a lot of time going to Pocatello to see Mom, even when we could have been going on other vacations, but I wanted to spend time with her and he was there with me. I'm so thankful for all of the Christmas Eves and mornings we were there. He never complained. Now I have wonderful, fun memories with her and my family I don't think I would of had if he hadn't been so supportive of them then. That is something priceless that means more to me than anything I could ever have. Thank you for that Jared. I am so proud to say your mine.

He is such a good person. Jared has the qualities that you don't see in many people. He is very giving person. This isn't always easy for some people. He has never had a second thought about helping someone out. It in not even a question for him, if he sees someone in need he helps. He is a good father. He has never missed a game, play, or any activity that they have been in. He always wants them to know he is there, even if it means missing out on some fun himself or taking off of work early. They know that and love him for it too. He is a good person all around. I love going into his office and hearing the people that work for him saying how much they enjoy working for him, how he treats them.

Our anniversary was September 8 but we ended up going out the night before. We went and got massages. Love them!!! I wish I could get one everyday. I think when we both were done we were ready to snooze. After that was an awesome dinner at Bonefish Grill. I love that place. It's not very cheap but for special occasions it is just right. They have an appetizer called Bang Bang shrimp that is awesome. I am never a shrimp eater, hate it actually, but this stuff is a killer. I could eat all of it myself. We finished the night off with a movie and then went home. Almost 6 hours away with NO KIDS! We came home to Bailey asleep in Johns arms, Tayler on the other side snuggled up, Makenna right next to Bailey leaning against John, and Berek on the floor right in front of them.

On our actual anniversary we went to Bereks football game, went boating-Jared rocked at his backroll, and the kids went shopping and made us a real yummy dinner. And they even fed us in front of the TV with their TV trays. How cool is that!

I love you Jared!

Johns Visit

Uncle John came to visit us for a week and the kids loved it. He spent a lot of time with them and spoiled them with too much CANDY! He even watched the kids for us on Friday night so we could go out. Now here is the reason I now believe in miracles, he changed not one, but two poopy diapers. John, I am proud of you.

We had a lot of fun playing jokes on John. I wanted to help him quite drinking too much pop so I put "STOPS IT" for nail biting and thumb sucking, on his straw without him noticeing. It was hilarious seeing his face. He didn't think so, but I loved it. It was all out of love.

Before he came, Makenna and I saw a huge 100 oz. mug at the gas station that was calling Johns name, so once he got here we surprised him with it. As you can see in the pictures, Bailey loved it too. I've never seen a mug so big before.

We really enjoyed having John come visit and are excited to see him again.

ALL WRAPPED INTO ONE

It's been a bit since I've blogged so I'm just putting up a bunch of pictures and then filling in the blanks.
On Saturday, September 1 was Berek's "BIG 10th) birthday. He chose to go boating, imagine that. These kids are such water bugs. Anyway, we saw one of his friends there so we had him come on the boat with us. It was a day full of wakeboarding and tubing. The Thursday before his birthday we had a party with his friends, and what did we do? Take a wild guess. There were 5 boys he invited but they all were awesome on the boat. They were so funny, we were listening to the radio and the "Delila" song came on and every one of those boys were singing. These were the tough, sports playing boys and I couldn't believe they were singing. It was hilarious. It was tons of fun and would love to take them all out again. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEAR!

Monday, September 3 was Makenna's birthday. We went boating for her birthday too, that's what she wanted. We had a lot of fun. Makenna was jumping a little on her wakeboard, all around we all had a good day. Then on Tuesday she had a party with her friends. She chose Chuck E. Cheese of all places. The girls all loved it, I hardly saw any of them until cake and present time. She was a bit spoiled this year and got a cake from Dairy Queen. Makenna is now 8 and will be getting baptized on Oct. 13th. She barely missed the Sept. baptism date by 2 days, darn it. She is so excited. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAK!

Now to Tayler's first day of school. She started school on Thursday, September 6. This was a long awaited day for her. We even had to go school supply shopping for her even though she didn't need them. Tayler even pick out a Tinker Bell messenger bag instead of the normal backpack this year. She loves preschool, loves Mrs. Yolanda, and loves her friends. It is a class of 8 girls and 1 boy. Poor little guy. This was the most excited part because all boys have cooties except for Connor who she says is her boyfriend, and has been for the last year. She loved her day and is very excited that her first treat day is on her Uncle Johns birthday. Tayler is becoming such a big girl. She has grown so much from last year.

Now brings us to this last Saturday, our anniversary and Bereks first offical football game of the year. It was so excited. He started out just on offense as the center. They decided to put him in a few plays when we were on defense and after that, he played the whole game, offense and defense, and let me say---HE ROCKED IT! Not just because he is my kid and all, but he did so well. It was so exciting to watch him and see him really go at it. I'm really starting to enjoy football, which I wasn't ever sure that would be possible. We taped the whole game and even watched it again later that night. I will try to post a bit of video later.

That has been our last couple weeks. Hopefully now I will keep up on it now the kids are in school.