My Hard Working Husband

I just want Ryan to know how much I love and appreciate all that he does for our family!! He is the most amazing man I know- next to my dad!! He has so much on his plate right now and I don't know how he does it all. He currently is doing shift work at SRP working 12 hour shifts and doing nights right now, went to work late tonight because he spoke at a stake training meeting where they asked him to take the night off or go in late, has been working on starting a food storage program for our ward- they are meeting with every elder's family in our ward, oh yea and he is the elder's quorum president.

Along with all that, he is such an awesome Dad and husband. He loves to come home from work and play with the kids. Even though he gets up at 4 am and gets home after 5 he will wrestle with the boys, help make dinner, and make a cute 1 year old smile all night long. He is always so kind and thoughtful. He tells me he loves me all the time and tells me how beautiful I am. He even still opens my door for me. I am so thankful and blessed to be able to spend eternity with this man. He was worth every minute of the 27 years it took me to find him.

I love you so much Ryan Gary always and forever!! I am so proud of you and all that you do. I just want you to know how much I appreciate you!! Thanks for being you!!!

1st Birthday

I can't believe Hannah is already 1. Time sure is flying and we are having fun! Hannah- the Princess- has always been such an easy going, good girl. She is such a laid back Princess!! She has been a good girl even way back at 8 weeks going 10 hours at night and never looking back. That was the greatest present for me. She is so easy going that she didn't care about crawling until 8 months and doesn't have a huge interest in walking. It will come when she is ready. She will walk everywhere while holding onto just 1 finger but as soon as I let go she just drops to her knees and crawls off. She does walk along everything. One day soon she will be off running with her brothers. She has 4 teeth- 2 top and 2 bottom. It was cute- for a while she had only 1 tooth on top. It was precious when she would give us huge smiles with 1 top tooth shining through. I think another top one is close but we will see when it decides to break through. She loves to play with her brothers, play with Daddy, be outside, take baths, watch Baby Einstein, her blankets, and playing with your eyes and nose. Hannah is such a sweet, loving girl! I am so thankful she is in our family!!! We love you so much Hannah Nicole!!


Poor Hannah! She even had to get shots today but got a yummy sucker!


Hannah loves her blanket!!

Hannah found the mud one day and got really dirty but had lots of fun!!



Hannah loves Baby Einstein! She will sit and watch it for a long time!!

We love you Hannah our sweet, precious Princess!! Thanks for blessing our family and for your cute, infectious smile and laugh!

First Day of Preschool

Dallin could hardly wait for today!! It was the first day of preschool! He was even more excited for this year because one of his best friend's, Clara, is in his class. She also is in his primary class. Her mom and I are crossing fingers they get in the same kindergarten class. He has talked about preschool for the last couple of days. So when he got up this morning, of course, the first thing he said was "It's preschool day!!!" It wasn't even a big deal for me to leave him. I can't wait to hear all about his fun, first day of preschool!!




We love you Dallin Gary!!! Don't grow up too fast!

One Fun Vacation

Last Tuesday we headed off as a family to Flagstaff to have some fun. We got a good, cheap hotel for 1 night. I was ready to do whatever we decided to do as a family. A little into our drive, Ryan and I started to talk about Vegas. I thought it would be so much fun and the boys would love Circus Circus. Well after talking about it for a little bit we decided to turn our 1 night Flagstaff fun into 1 night in Flagstaff and 2 nights in Laughlin. We decided to do Laughlin because it was 2 and half hours from Flag and cheaper than Vegas. We hadn't been there but was hoping it would be as much fun as Vegas. We never do anything like this and we were excited!!! While in Flagstaff, we all got new swimsuits. The best part was finding great deals since it's the end of summer. We booked our room at Harrah's in Lauglin and both of us laughed and kept saying we never do this. While in Flagstaff, we had heard about this cool deer farm. You can feed the deer and we knew the boys would love this. It was really fun and neat to be so upclose to some animals. Jacob was scared of the deer coming near him. He kept saying "Go away deer farm" to all the deer. Ryan and I just kept laughing.






There was cool bird in this cage that kept talking to the kids. Dallin was very unsure of it at the beginning. But he warmed up to it and kept saying hello to it.

Hannah loved the mirror in the hotel. That was her favorite thing to do while in the room. She would get so excited. We need to find a place at our house to put a mirror on the wall. She loved it that much!

Happy kiddos!!

Hannah sleeping!



Harrah's had a little beach you could get to from the hotel. It was lots of fun but the water was freezing.




Hannah loved the sand. She was in heaven putting her hands in it and playing.



Ryan was so excited to go see the London Bridge. It took us about an hour and a half to get there but it was neat to see. It was a hot day so we didn't stay as long as thought we would.

Us by the London Bridge!

After we got back from seeing the bridge, Dallin was so excited to ride a boat. This is the boys feeding ducks waiting for the boat.

The boat ride was super fun. Dallin had to sit right next to me and wanted my arm around him. He was a little unsure but he loved it. He kept talking about the boat ride the rest of the day.

This might have been one of the boys favorite things we did. They called it bowling. It was fun watching them because half of the time the ball never made it up. They could have bowled all day long.

We ate at Chili's 2 nights in a row. We all LOVE Chili's. The boys were really good at dinner. Dallin got a hamburger and orange slices both nights and ate it all. Jacob got a pizza with fries both nights. They didn't want anything different. They were happy and so were we!!!



This was a fun, memorable vacation. Our kids traveled so well. I was always worried to do this, but I have to say it wasn't a big deal for our kids. Hannah was a trooper and took her naps in her carseat or stroller but it never seemed to bother her. She proved again she is an easy going, good girl! We all had so much fun and decided Vegas was next on our vacation list!!!

11 Months

Our cute Princess is 11 months today!! She has really grown this last month. Last month started out not fun- she was teething and had a cold probably from teething. But once we got out the humidifier and rubbed her down with mentholatum every night, she got better and our happy girl came back. She now has 2 bottom teeth and 1 top tooth although her 2nd top one is so close. I thought it was coming through but it changed its mind. It is still swollen so probably any day. Her hair has also grown this last month. She has these cute curls that everyone always tells us is cute. Hannah is so close to walking. If she holds our fingers she will walk everywhere. She just needs confidence and she will be running. She loves her brothers. If they just look at her she will give them huge smiles and will laugh at them. My favorite is when Jacob isn't really doing anything- not even looking at her- but she laughs and laughs and laughs at him. She really is such an easy going, fun little girl!! She loves life and we love her so very much!!!


This is so gross but Hannah loves the toilet. I try to keep the door closed but if I forget she will find it and play in the water.

Hannah all ready for church! I love her dresses!

Hannah loves to stand. She is helping herself in our pantry.

Hannah is feasting upon the scriptures literally. I found her eating a page. Those got moved fast.

Hannah loves her blanket. All of our kids love their blanket. All she needs is her blanket to make it all better.

Again, standing and playing!

She loves to eat Top Ramen noodles. She gets those every now and then for lunch. It's so fun to watch her eat them. She can slurp them up.

Hannah's big smile I love!!

This is so cute!!!

She got oranges for the first time and yes loved them. She is like her mom- loves fruit!!

The poor flowers- Hannah got to them. I was sad because they were all blooming.

Hannah loving cantaloup for the first time!

Our Kiddos

Our cute kiddos have been so much fun lately. We are getting on a routine with Ryan's crazy work schedule and we seem to be doing pretty well. Dallin starts preschool and speech in a month so back to the fun of running around. I thought this summer would be long and boring especially with Ryan's schedule and having to adjust to that. But I have to say it has been a fun, relaxful summer. We have enjoyed taking care of our garden, going on nightly walks, watering our flowers, and playing together as a family!!


We went to our friend's house for dinner last Sunday. Hannah is getting her 2 top front teeth so she was a little grumpy. I gave her Jacob's orange juice sippy cup to make her happy. She has played with it before and kind of just chewed on the straw. This time she got oj out. I was shocked. We rarely have straws. I was surprised she figured this out so fast. She now has her own sippy cup with watered down oj.

Our garden isn't doing as well as we would like. This has been a learning year for us. The soil isn't great. We have done garden boxes the last 2 years but Ryan wanted to do a big garden. We are excited to now be getting green peppers, tomatoes, and chili peppers right now. We have been working on it a lot lately. Jacob loves to follow behind Ryan and be has big helper.

Our Dallin is our creative one right now. Whenever he sees tape he grabes it and sets to work on his masterpiece on our window door. He will even grab a chair to get it just where he wants. He would use the whole roll of tape if I let him. At least tape is pretty cheap.

Diamonds

We have had a few problems with Hannah's earrings lately. One of the backs doesn't want to stay on right. Last Sunday I got Hannah up from her nap, threw her dress on, and headed to 11 oclock church. I didn't notice til almost the end of sacrament that she was missing an earring. I decided to run home and see if I could find the earring so it didn't close up on us and be really hard to put back in. I also needed to get a paper for a YW leader I had forgotten. I searched everywhere. I was shocked to find the back but not the front. I still haven't even vacuumed with hopes I can still find it. So, I looked at my earrings. I don't really wear little studs and saw these. Hannah isn't too young to wear diamonds is she? These are special to me beacuse Ryan gave them to me for our first Christmas! Hannah dazzled the rest of church with these on! Yes, she did get compliments for all her jewelry. She usually has a necklace on for church.