My friend Lynsee and her friend started an etsy shop The Pretty Poppy. They also have a blog where they show how to do and make all sorts of cool stuff. Right now they are giving away a necklace and earrings and possibly a $50 gift certificate to Antropolgie. So hurry and go check it out NOW!!
http://www.theprettypoppy1.blogspot.com/
or go to Etsy and look at ThePrettyPoppy
Okay Bye.
I am now caught up on our summer's worth of blog posts. Be sure to go back and read about all our adventures.
Hey Tyson you can get off my back now.
P.S. Don't you have a swingset to build? What has it been like 4 years?
Love, Wifey
I heard the front door slam, and that big yellow school bus took my boy away. Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got til it's gone.
I snuck over with a friend to make sure he was ok. He was, I wasn't.....
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| Also known as POOP. |
In January of this year I registered to participate in the Burley Spudman Triathlon. The race is a 1 mile swim, 25 mile bike, and 6 mile run. I started to train in February. Having never swam or rode a bike more than a few miles at a time, I was a bit freaked. And so began my everyday journey to the rec center. All other priorities were put on the back burner until my training was done for the day. On July 31 at 7:30 am I was treading water in the Snake river with about 300 other women in my heat. Overcome by panic, I flipped on my back and floated the first ten minutes of race on my back. Thanks to the current I finished with an okay time despite me thinking I was going to die. The bike was cake, the run was horrible and I finished beating my goal of 3 hours. Official time 2:58:51. I couldn't walk for about a week after.
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| Looking pretty fly in the bike shorts. |
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| My family that didn't even get to see me cross the finish line:( |
I turned 30 on May 5th. It was stupid. I am old, have stretch marks, no college degree, mom boobs, and drive a mini-van. I got no presents and got no cake. GOOOOO 30. Booooooooooooo.
On July 3rd we went to a Boise Hawks baseball game. We had awesome seats. The fireworks after the game were pretty sweet. On the fourth we shot off fireworks at our house and tried our best to annoy all our neighbors.
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At the game. It was all a dream.......  |
One of Ledger's favorite things to do outside! Ride on the back of the trike with Trey.
What do ya know Nixon pulling Ledge's hair.
On July1, Nixon turned 4!! He is a funny lil guy. Still barely weighing in at 30 lb. He loves to play games with Trey. His best friends are the same as Trey's whoever that might be for the day. He likes to help me cook. He likes to read books to his favorite toys, and lines them up to watch cartoons with him. He loves animals, especially his kitty :( He wakes up everyday and asks if he can get a puppy. He is a pest to Ledger and is often caught taking cheap shots at him, whether it is pulling his hair, tripping him, and whatever else I haven't caught him doing yet! He misses Trey terribly when he is at school, and is very anxious to start preschool on September 9th. He loves to read books. He loves to go swimming at the rec center. He gets shy and embarassed easy, and when he does he sticks his tongue in his check and looks down. He is on prayer patrol at our house, and not a meal is skipped with a blessing being said. He is also obsessed with taking his vitamins, and reminds me everyday that he needs to take them. We sure love him a lot with his cute little dimples and sweet laugh.
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| Opening the gifts from Grandma Nancy. She always spoils them rotten! |
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| If you zoom you can see Nixon's tongue in his cheek. He does this when he gets shy, or embarassed. |
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L-R Porter, Asher, Shaydon,Ethan, Trey He wanted a Lightning McQueen Birthday. |
On some of his longer work trips Tyson takes the pop-up trailor to sleep in. Fun stuff. He finished up some projects in Nevada. On one of his trips there he was able to take Trey and Nixon with him. The had fun fishing with the customer's boys, and camping with Dad.
Remember that stupid stray cat. She is a gypsy. She just comes and goes as she pleases. Uses and abuses us. She left in February and came back beginning of May. Big, fat, and pregnant. Great. We ignored her. I know very Christ like. On Mother's Day the boys and I were enjoying the warm weather. We continued our evening just like any other. Put Ledge down to sleep around 8, closed his door nice and tight so the others wouldn't wake him. Tyson arrived home from Nevada around 12 that night. We are all snug in our beds until around 3 am. Ledger is screaming bloody murder. I give Tyson the hello, get up and get your kid, kick. A few minutes later Tyson comes screaming back into our bedroom. "Can't you hear me?" "That damn cat had kitties under Ledger's crib!" Frick. I spent the next 45 minutes cleaning up you know what underneath the crib and relocating them to a comfy cardboard box. We raised all 6 of them, and got rid of them thru craigslist. Excpet one that Tyson ran over (it's okay), and who Nixon thought would be cool to throw in the air and make do a flip. Yeah, she got a bloody face from that. Nixon named here Sally. Fastforward to today September 5, and know that we don't have either. Both ran away. Momma stopped by the other day. All nice and plump. I hate cats.
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| Ledger, the proud papa! |
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| I really do feel bad for Nixon, he loves baby kitty and misses her:( |
Another successful year of preschool. If you consider success telling a girl you don't like her, and don't want to sit by her making her cry. ( I wouldn't either, she was annoying.) Then telling another girl she was poopy and making her cry too. What can I say, the kid doesn't like girls..
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| Trey as shepherd boy 1. |
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| Trey receiving his diplioma from Mrs. Haro. |
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| Trey and his best friends. L-R Nixon, Trey, Asher, Jonah |
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I never thought this day would come. |
Tyson's parents were called to serve a mission at Heber Valley Camp, in Heber, Utah. They serve a six month mission, come home for 6 months, and then return again next spring. It's pretty amazing. Check it out here www.hebervalleycamp.org/. They are the camp host at the Lucy Mack Smith campsite. Over Memorial Day weekend we were able to go and visit them. Tyson's mom was able to get us tickets to go see Day Out With Thomas.
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| On a hike. |
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Tyson on the swing thingy. It's snowing on May 31! Welcome to Utah.  |
