Kody and Kurliston

2011-02-22T21:42:00.000-08:00

I am such a slacker! Here are a few pictures of what has been going on with us the past few months. I did it newest to oldest, which I always do so here they are:

2011-02-22T21:23:00.000-08:00

So one day while we were staying at my parents house all of the boys wanted to take a bath in grandmas big bathtub (which they always get to, just have never done it with all of them in there at once). Anyway, Maisie wanted to get into there too, but you all know how that would have turned out :) but she got her turn after them. I just didn't show it because there's not as many bubbles as the boys had (if you know what I mean).

So for Maisies birthday we sort of threw a party for her and got Kris and Joe(even though he had been so sick that whole week) to go with us. I had bought this bowling deal from groupons months earlier, which is so totally awesome, anyway it was for up to 6 people 2 pizzas and 2 pitchers of drinks for $25. It was so awesome! And Kris is about ready to pop here with their 2nd child, she looked like she had a bowling ball under her shirt, which some kids next to us were making "light" of, anyway she threw a strike once and jumped higher then I can and I'm not pregnant. She is so crazy, but I LOVE her tons!!!

Don't you just love how my kids pose? They are sure not camera shy!

2011-02-22T21:10:00.000-08:00

So santa found us this year at my parents house because he knew that we slept there so that we could wake up and talk with my brother from his mission. It was lots of fun and the kids didn't even ask how santa got there which was weird. I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing? Anyway, Maisie had so much fun unwrapping her stuff (and some of brothers too)!
So every year for the Vance side we always get together and have a fun time and Grandpa Vance is santas helper because santa is too busy. It's always fun, but here is my great grandmother on his lap. She is so funny!

So this year Kaden has had the opportunity to be in a preschool that our bishops wife has done for 20+ years and so we were really excited, well I think me more than him because she is so amazing, but anyway, here is their christmas program that they did for a retirement home and they had made some lap blankets for the people there too. It was lots of fun watching. Kids are growing up way too fast!

2011-02-22T20:37:00.000-08:00

Here is Kaden when he had his lovely stay at the hospital. They were really awesome to him so I'm grateful for that!

Because Kaden had been in the hospital I didn't want him walking around everywhere and hurting his leg again, so I took Talbot out and me and some neighbors had fun (even though I wished that we as a family could be all together).

But we all did go to the city trunk or treat! Oh and I got my costume brand new (it was on clearance) for $7! That makes it even better! Kaden was his fire truck that he has worn for that past 3 years I think. Hey, as long as he'll wear it! Talbot was our little hunter, Kody was himself, and Maisie was a ladybug(curtesy of her aunt!)

So this next picture is from yw in excellence that we did. We as leaders just did the decorating because we were put in as a presidency just a few weeks before and there wasn't anything planned for it, so we just did it for this time. I took my christmas lights and we hung them up with tule wrapped around it and had it all coming together at the lighthouse that was made for us because our theme was Keepers of His Light. It was so cool.

So Kody and I went on one of his runs to California and on the way back for his reload they sent us this close to Kolter. Ya, if we would have had time there would have been some lunch or dinner involved. Kody tried to stop at his apartment that next week, but the truck is too big, no place to park and we didn't have a phone number to get a hold of him anyway, but it was fun to see. Kolter always talks about how there are so many rocks there. Ya, that is for sure! Anyway this picture that I'm in here, we are 104 miles away from Kolter. The other picture that we have is a sign that says Brothers 62miles and right underneath it it says Bend 104 miles. So my "brother" is in "bend" do you get it?

Our Family Horse Story

2010-11-23T22:11:00.000-08:00

Just got done reading stories to the boys and then scriptures. We are in the part in 1Nephi 17 (the same chapter that we've been in for about a month now lol) where Nephi is building the ship and I started explaining to them the things that Nephi was telling his brothers about Moses and all of the things that Heavenly Father had done for the people of Israel. I told them that they can have their prayers answered and that Heavenly Father does answer prayers. Then I told them a story that happened to my family when I was about 10-11 years old. We were camping one year and it was down south somewhere (somewhere in southern Utah I think) and we were all of the way at the top of this mountain and we had just unloaded the horses and my dad had put hobbles on the horses feet so that they could walk around but they couldn't get away. Kinda like handcuffs for horses.
Anyway, the horses were wondering like they always do when we would go camping and we would just set up camp. Then we realized that one of our horses was gone. My dad starting whistling for him, but he never came back. We looked everywhere for that horse, he was such a terrible horse too, but he was our horse and all of us kids were heart broken that we couldn't find the horse. So we decided to pray and ask Heavenly Father to help us find the horse. Well, we had stayed there for about a week and couldn't find that horse. My brother Kurtis (who I think was 3 or 4 at the time) kept telling us to pray so we could find the horse. My other brother Kris( from what my dad had told me many years later) who was about 9 or 10 at the time kept saying that we wouldn't find that horse because he didn't believe that there was a Heavenly Father and if there was, why would he answer our prayer to find that horse. It's just a horse. My dad said that he told him that we were going to find that horse so that he knew that there is a Heavenly Father who does listen to and answers our prayers.
Well, a few days went by and we had packed up everything and was heading down the canyon. My dad and Kris were in the truck in front of us pulling the horses and me and my mom and I don't remember exactley where every one of the other kids were, but my mom and I were in the car behind my dad and we were pulling the tent trailer. Anyway I remember talking to my mom about not finding the horse and I remember her saying that we just needed to keep an eye out for him as we were driving down the canyon. Well I kept looking everywhere. We needed to find that horse. As I was looking out the front windshield I could see up a head of us some movement in a grove. Then I saw a bunch of sheep in this grove. I was a little disappointed that it wasn't our horse Wind. But then all of a sudden I saw him running, he was running towards my dad with the horse trailer.
I can't even begin to tell you the joy and relief that I felt to have found him. I was so worried that we weren't going to find him and that he would die somewhere out there alone. Well, my mom caught up to my dad and got him to stop and I can't remember if they had seen him too or not but I just remember all of us getting out of our vehicles and looking to our left up the hill a little ways and seeing Wind standing at the top. My dad got one of the other horses out to get Wind to come down to us, because they always seemed to want to stay together so my dad figured that if he got the other horse back that maybe we could get Wind to come down to us, because if anyone who knows horses, they see a rope and start running the other way and we really didn't want that to happen. But as soon as my dad opened the horse trailer Wind came running down and just hopped right in like nothing ever had happened. And he NEVER had been so easy to get into the trailer and he never had come right to us like that before.
That was the only place that we could have found him that day because as soon as you went any further we went over a cattle gaurd and there was a fence line that ran for miles in either direction. As soon as we would have passed that, the chances of finding him would have been zero unless he had jumped the fence. I remember praying as a family and thanking Heavenly Father for helping us find the horse. My dad years later had said that he was also very grateful because he just kept praying that we would find that horse to prove that there is a Father in Heaven to us kids. I am so grateful for the faith that my parents had. Many may think that it was a coinsedence that we were there and the horse there at the same time. I have no doubt that it was an answer to prayer.
My boys, as I was telling them that story, were so involved in what I was telling them. I never think that my kids would remember things like that or even care to know those stories, but now after I was thinking of it and praying myself and thanking Him for the chance to have shared that story with them in that setting, that I felt the love that He has not only for me but for all of those that have the responsiblility to take care of His children on this earth and that He entrusted me with these children and how awesome they are. They seem like they can't get enough of these kind of stories and the scriptures. I also felt that it was as if He was "saying Thank You, Thank You for reminding them of me, because you were just yelling at them and I really didn't want them to feel that way." Ya, I've really got to work on that one a lot more.
What an awesome responsiblitly we have in raising these children while we are here on this earth, even though some days it is a "home that is not a heaven on earth", which was that way just about 30 minutes before telling them the story, which made me feel even worse about yelling at them, I hate that. Oh well, I guess we just have to keep on trying right?

Life and we'll leave it at that

2010-11-15T22:10:00.000-08:00

Well, just a brief hello to everyone and a quick update. Yes I am so terrible at doing this, but at least I get to keep up on ya'lls blogs. Anyway, Maisie is growing up real quick, like most kids do. She has Talbots stubborness. Way more than he ever did at that age. I'm really in trouble. She even has the boys trained. Anytime she wants something they'll get it for her. And if there is something that they want that she has and she knows it and they start to get close to her to take it away and she will just start screaming. But as soon as they will back away and let her have whatever it was that they wanted then she'll just keep playing like nothing ever was wrong, but as soon as they try again she is all sorts of mad again. I am in real trouble.
As for the rest of us, Talbot we found out has an allergy to cashews. We were getting ready to walk out the door to go to church and I was so excited because we were actually going to get to church on time(and we have church at 1pm, how lame is that). Anyway, Talbot comes in and he looked all nice and dressed up. We had him in Kadens church suit cause he had grown out of it. And it had been a while since Kaden had worn it so we pulled it out and put it on Talbot. Anyway, he comes in just a sneezing. I have never seen anyone sneeze like that before. One right after the other and he just didn't stop. Then he started rubbing his eyes and his face started to get kinda red like a rash and then he started getting hives on them, and on his hands but not really anywhere else. I didn't know that he had eaten anything and so I thought that it might have been from the dust from the suit jacket (ok, it wasn't dusty, but it hadn't been worn for a few months so it was sorta dusty) so we ripped that off and then his shirt cause it just kept going. Then I thought that he might have sprayed some of Kodys cologne in his eyes or something, which wouldn't have been the first time. And he kept saying that he didn't. And he didn't smell like it. I asked him what he ate and he couldn't tell me. I knew that I had to get some benedryl in him soon cause I was afraid that he would start having a hard time breathing because we had just found out that month that he has asthma too. So I'm trying to figure out what dose to give for the benedryl (while debating with myself whether or not we should just take him to the doctor) and I asked Kody "was there anything that you know of that he could have eaten" (as he has been holding him this whole time helping me figure out what was happening to him). And he said "well he was eating some cashews". Well, that would have been nice to know like 10 minutes before that so I wasn't trying to figure out dosing and what was going on with the poor kid. By the time we got the benedryl in him his face was all swollen and his eyes were almost swollen shut. Poor kid. He looked like Quasimodo from the Hunchback of Notre Dame, just without the hump on his back. One eye was swollen more than the other. Anyway, so we kept him on benedryl and went to church, missed sacrament meeting, but made it for the rest of the stuff.
Later that night we were at my in laws and Talbot was on a chair waiting for everyone so we could eat and he started to swell up again and was sneezing and getting hives again. So I gave him some more benedryl. Anyway, all of the family had been talking about what happened that day and I don't know where my father in law was when we were talking about it but he looked over at Talbot and said "what's wrong with his face?". Really? Poor Talbot just kinda looked at me like "is there something wrong with my face"? I just had to laugh. My father in law makes me laugh, well most of the time anyway :) . So anyway, that is how we found out that he is allergic to cashews. I took him to an allergist that also deals with asthma and turns out that the cashew thing and asthma thing is a lot worse than I had thought. I have to carry around an epipen with me now for the cashew allergy and had to get a nebulizer along with inhalers for the asthma. Poor kid.
Well, I finally got used to that (a whole week of it) and Kaden then ends up in the hospital because he couldn't walk on his leg. They kept him over night and pumped him full of antibiotics and stuff and then sent us home the next day with the iv still in and I had to give him the antibiotics through the iv for a few days. Then the day after he is done with the antibiotics he can't move his arm. I at first was like, ok whatever, but I was talking on the phone with my mom on the way home from willard after trick or treating and I was telling her about his arm and that I was going to see if we have to go back into the doctors again. Well, I guess that Kaden didn't like that idea, I had asked him just before that to lift his arm up and he would only do it so far. After he heard me talking with my mom, Kody turns the light on in the car for a second. I said "what are you doing". Kody said that he saw Kadens arm up and he then asked him why his arm was up. He said he can get it high in the air now. So Kody turns the light off and we just keep driving down the road and Kaden starts to cry. I turned around to see what was wrong and he still had his arm straight up. I asked him what was wrong and he said that he couldn't get his arm to go back down. Poor kid. So we don't know what it wrong with him. In the hospital they thought that is was an infection in the hip because he had had an ear infection just about a week before that and he was allergic to the medicine so I didn't give him like the last couple of days of the antibiotic, so that is what they were thinking it was, but then with the arm thing they have no idea, so they are sending us down to primary childrens to see a rhuemitologist? Sorry don't know how to spell that one. Anyway, so we will see how that one goes.
So Friday the 12th I took Maisie into the doctor because I figured that she had an ear infection, which she did. So more antibiotics. Hopefully she isn't like Kaden and is allergic to 4 different antibiotics like him. The only side effect so far on this one is that she has red poo. Yes red. I freaked out at first, but then read the information stuff they give ya for each med, and it said that that could be a side effect. Interesting.
Well, that has been the last few weeks for us. It sucked and medical bills suck, but it could be way worse. As I read your blogs and see the medical things that some of you go through all of the time, I hope you know that we think about you and pray for you and I really enjoy seeing the updates of everyone. I should be a lot better at it. I have often wondered why we've had to go through this stuff. I already know that there is a Heavenly Father and I have no doubt about that, so why does it have to all come at once? Then my mom helped me remember how I had gained my testimony. There was a lot that we went through as a family between all of the "could have been deaths" ,like the time down south which was supposed to be a joy ride turned into a hell ride with dirt roads turning into slick roads with cliffs everywhere we turned because it had started to snow like no other and then loosing the transmition at the same time (which if I remember right my dad put dish soap in where the transmition fluid is supposed to go so that we could get out of the canyon?), then there was all of the medical things like Kris falling out of the tree breaking his hip pelvis and femur and then Kuris getting a third degree burn on his hand just a few weeks after that and having to have skin grafts (while Kris was still in the hospital because of the fall) , while half of our house didn't have power and the roof leaked like no other. Or the time that the wheel came off (all at different times) of the jeep and the truck and the trailer, or starting the trailer on fire because of brakes not working right or the horse almost falling through the floor of the horse trailer, or having the horse trailer coming off of the hitch as my dad was driving down the road and it flipping and my dad not even knowing it because of a huge camper they had on the truck. Luckily the horses were ok. There was many many more things like all of these things that happened, which I ought to take the time and write them all down, I could certainly make a book out of that. Anyway through all of those experiences I had come to know without a doubt that the gospel is true, that there is a Heavenly Father who loves us and our Savior, our brother, that sacrificed everything so that we can return to Heavenly Father lives. As I prayed and thought about all of that I had come to realize that yes, I do know that there is a Heavenly Father, and my kids do too, but through these things they will be able to have that firm testimony that they need to withstand those things of which the prophets have testified of that are coming to past all around us in these the latter days. I just hope that in all of the bustling of these trials and life that I will remember to teach my children, like my parents did, that Heavenly Father does love us and that everything that we went through could always have been worse, and that through those things we see the little miracles that take place in our lives everyday.
I am so grateful for all that I have come to know and for a loving Heavenly Father who does give us these trials so that we can prove to him and ourselves that we can do these things. I am so grateful to my parents that taught me the gospel daily, even when there was those times that as Elder Bednar described in a conference talk about their family gatherings "mom he's looking at me, mom she touched me" or my personal favorite that Elder Bednar said "mom he's breathing my air!" Oh good old times and in those things I am grateful for! Love you all!

Kids and doctors

2010-10-27T23:38:00.001-07:00

Hospitals, doctors and iv's oh my! Hopefully I will update here soon to show our last 3 week adventures of kids and doctors and/or hospital stays :( poor kids.

Maisie is here!!!

2010-01-28T21:30:00.000-08:00

She's here! Maisie was born January 20th. She was 7lbs. 8oz. and 18 1/2 inches long! I went in for the 3rd time that week because I kept having contractions, but the doctor was being kind of stubborn about taking her because he said the due date wasn't until February 11th. I kept telling him that is was supposed to be January 30th, but he just wouldn't listen to me. He said that the ultrasound is more acurate than by the menstral cycle. Whatever! Anyway, after a very persistant nurse which I was so grateful for and the fact that nothing was helping with the contractions he finally decided to do the c-section. They had given me morphin and some other drugs, but nothing was helping. It sucked! I'm so glad that she was finally able to come. When the doctor was pulling her out he said " I think that we may have had your due date wrong". Ya think! He then said "how did we get it so far off?" Anyway, at least he was a little apologetic. I am still so grateful for that nurse. She was awesome! I would have had her that day anyway, but she just got the ball rolling a lot faster so I didn't have to suffer for forever. Anyway, she is here and we're all doing great so far! I just wish Kody didn't have to go to work next week. It has been way too nice having him home this week and the boys have loved it too!

2009-12-17T09:12:00.000-08:00

Ok, I know it has been a while, but I just wanted to say how grateful I am for my family and friends and everything that they do for me!

Stupid Hair

2009-07-24T10:35:00.000-07:00

So when I do my hair I get frustrated at times and yell "oh I hate my stupid hair!" So the other day I was combing through my hair and Kaden comes in and says "mom, is that your stupid hair?" I can't believe he said that. I almost died laughing. I really need to pay more attention to what I say!

Tornado

2009-05-04T10:39:00.000-07:00

So when we were eating sunday dinner last night we saw what appeared to be a tornado! Clouds were circling and it was over the bay. Then there was hail and the sky was just going crazy with lightning! It totally reminded me of the tornados that I went through when I was in Alabama! I thought, "I can't believe this is happening!" Of course we were all just standing there and not getting our cameras! Then the wind started heading in our direction (in a tornado like cloud) and was picking things up and swirling them in a circle. We saw a trampoline from the neighborhood below get picked up and flown clear to the other field. Then it went off to the left of us. Right after grandma called and was crying and told us she needed some help with her roof tiles. (Didn't know that the whole back yard was destroyed). A couple went over to help and called us to get our cameras. So we did and this is what we saw! Poor grandma. Your heart just sank! It can all be replaced, but it still sucks! We saw police cars going up the street so we went to go check that out and a camping trailer had been picked up and flipped on its side in the middle of the street. Some of the family talked with others who said that some had a deck ripped off and there was trees and other things all over the place. So crazy!!!

Tornado Damage

2009-05-04T10:35:00.000-07:00

So this is the damage done to grandmas house. I still can't believe it!

Posts

2009-04-14T11:37:00.000-07:00

Hello friends and family, so I took some time and finally got some more posts up! I hope you can take some time to look at all of them and see how our fun little life is going. Which for the most part is going well! I can't complain too much because there are many who are going through things way worse than me, but I've been trying to go off of my bipolar medicine so that Kody and I can try and have another baby! I'm so grateful for family and friends who are there to support me. I can't imagine having to go through this myself! It has been difficult because I finally felt great, but it's not as bad as I thought that is was going to be, well so far anyway. I've only come off of one medicine, I have one more to go. I just have to take one day at a time. The first month and a half or so is the worst. I hate anxiety more than anything and I'd rather die than have to go through that, but at the same time I can't wait to have another baby! I guess that you really appreciate things when you have to go through these trials, even though somedays I just want to give up, I'm so glad to know that I don't have to do this alone! I appreciate what was said in conference this last month about the things that our Savior went through, at least we have him to lean on, but even our Heavenly Father left him for a small moment so that He would know what it is like to be completely alone. I can't even imagine that! I'm so grateful for the knowledge that no matter what we have to go through, we aren't completely alone, even though it may feel like it at times, a lot of times. How grateful I am!

2009-04-14T11:27:00.000-07:00

So for easter this year we went to the city egg hunt, which was very disapointing, so my friend and I did one for our kids in our backyard. And then of course the easter bunny came on Sunday. Sunday night we did one with Kodys siblings and then Monday we did another one with Kodys aunts, uncles and cousins at his grandparents house. I think I'm about easter egged out!! It was so much fun though! Hope you all had a very Happy Easter!!!

Naked cowboy

2009-04-14T11:24:00.000-07:00

Kaden got some cowboy boots from his cousin Kendon. Talbot has to do everything that Kaden does, so he HAD to wear the cowboy boots too. They kept falling off which made Talbot so mad, but I managed to get a couple of pictures of him!

Birthday

2009-04-14T11:22:00.000-07:00

So Kodys birthday was April 1st and we celebrated it mostly all week between both families. It was so much fun. Happy 27th Birthday Kody!!!

Camping

2009-04-14T11:18:00.000-07:00

So every conference weekend the Ashtons(my dads grandma and all his aunts and cousins and all my family) get together in Lehi and camp. This year it snowed on us. Thank goodness for trailers and generators. The boys had fun with aunt Mandy!

Boots

2009-04-14T11:16:00.000-07:00

This was my favorite picture of the night. Kurtis and Mandy went and bought her some cowboy boots to wear for the reception. I loved it!

Reception

2009-04-14T11:11:00.000-07:00

Here is Kurtis and Mandys reception. The arch and ice sculptures is what I did. I had so much fun doing them. The ice scupture has a rose frozen in the center of it. The picture is of our side of the family with grandparents too.

2009-04-14T11:07:00.000-07:00

Here is Kurtis and Mandy when they got married in the Jordan River Temple. With pictures of our family and the boys playing in the water.

Carpet

2009-04-14T10:59:00.000-07:00

So I finally got new carpet in my house! I cleaned to old carpet and nothing came out, so I went and got me some new carpet! I love it. The old carpet was a gray and our new carpet is brown, which matches our new tile too. It's so nice!

Draper Temple

2009-02-22T07:19:00.000-08:00

We had the opportunity to go to the Draper Temple open house! My brother had gotten some tickets and I wanted to take a family with us (Aaron, Noemi and Kiyoshi) to show them what the temple is like and why we have temples. The whole week I told Kaden that we were going to the temple.

He said "JESUS"?

I said " Yes, we are going to JESUS' house".

He was so excited. We had to leave our house at 7am to get there on time. Even though we were so tired(because we were retarted and stayed up late) and we found out while we were there that Talbot had stuff coming out of his ear(so he was a little more awnry then usual) we were so happy to be there.

It was so much fun to see the look on Kadens face and he was way too excited to go from room to room. He kept trying to get in front of everyone and kept telling us Come on!!! It was awesome to go into the sealing rooms, they had us sit down and they explained more about the temple and the importance of the rooms. Then, of course, they had us look in the mirrors, to see what eternity would look like. Aaron and Noemi were so amazed at everything. It was so awesome to have had this experience. Hopefully we can go to the Oquirre Mountain temple open house here in a couple of months. Everyone start planning. The tickets go quick! I'm so glad that my brother planned so early and got these tickets for us! Pictured here is Kody, Kurliston, Talbot, and Kaden . Then my brother Kolter. Then Aaron, Noemi and Kiyoshi.

Bullriding

2009-02-17T20:39:00.000-08:00

Here is some of the fam.

Kurtis Bullriding

2009-02-17T20:31:00.000-08:00

Kurtis, my bro, decided to ride some bulls one day and has been doing it now for a couple of months. Kody and I finally were able to go and see him. In these pictures Kurtis is getting ready to get on the bull. He is the one in the blue shirt with the helmet on and a protective vest(at least he was thinking of safety). It was so much fun! Kaden and Talbot and all of my siblings and my grandma and grandpa Vance and some other aunts and uncles and cousins came and watched him too. He did really good. I was amazed!

Temple

2009-02-16T09:29:00.000-08:00

I can't believe how much kids learn so fast. The other day we were driving past the Ogden Temple and every time we pass I say "What is that?" And the boys yell "TEMPLE!!!" So I was playing on the computer one day and we have the Bountiful temple as our screen saver(thanks to my brother Kolter). Talbot walks into the room and points at the computer and says "TEMPLE!!!!". I almost started crying.

Then a few days later we were driving past the temple again and of course the boys yelled TEMPLE and I said that is where mommies and daddies can get married. So a few days after that I was going through my photo album of my wedding and Kaden was looking at some of the pictures from the reception. I said " That is when mommy and daddy got married" And Kaden said TEMPLE? and I said YA! And of course Talbot had to chime in too and say temple! I love watching them grow and learn!

2009-02-05T13:03:00.000-08:00

So I did a lot more posts then I thought that I had time for. Hope that you have enough time to view them all! Hope your days are going well!

Sock

2009-02-05T12:44:00.000-08:00

So Talbot does this really weird thing with his socks. He loves to wear them on his hands. It is so funny! He'll come running into the room and have them on his hands and run around the house all day with them on. I love it!

Cruise

2009-02-05T12:41:00.000-08:00

So my in-laws, Pam and Kirk, went on a cruise with Kirks mom and siblings. They went to Cabo. They brought back a few things for all of us including these hats and ponchos for the kids. The kids have had so much fun playing with all of the stuff.

Stitches

2009-02-05T12:34:00.000-08:00

So I was doing my hair one day and Talbot was walking out of the bathroom and fell. On what? I have no idea, but we ended up with a few stitches. He has his eye open in these pictures, but the poor thing was swollen. He did really good when they put the stitches in and you can't even tell that he had any at all!

Sledding

2009-02-05T12:30:00.000-08:00

So we went sledding! Kaden had so much fun doing it himself. He even went back up the hill himself, with the sled string around is foot. Then Kaden took Talbot himself, which he was just fine until they stopped at the bottom. It was so much fun!!!

New Years

2009-02-05T12:26:00.000-08:00

This year for new years we were at the Braeggers. Kaden had fun blowing the noise makers, but Talbot didn't like them too much. Here pictured is Kaden Talbot and my mother in law, Pam.

Lights

2009-02-05T12:22:00.000-08:00

So we finally made it to downtown Ogden to their light display. They have little houses with all kinds of stuff

inside of them. They also have these trains and the big moose!

Snowy Road

2009-02-05T12:18:00.000-08:00

So after the Stucki christmas party it had snowed 4-6 inches in the 3 hours that we were there. The first two pictures are of the highway and the other one is the side road to our house. We could barely even tell where the road was!

Sleighs

2009-02-05T12:15:00.000-08:00

I love going to Kodys grandma and grandpa Stuckis house and see the sleighs he makes for all of the kids, grandkids and great-grandkids!

Christmas Tree

2009-02-05T12:12:00.000-08:00

Here is what our living room looked like for christmas. I love my piano. I got it for free and then painted it black. It was a lot of fun!

Presents

2009-02-05T12:08:00.000-08:00

Here is Kaden after opening his present and my nephew Ty and Kody. He got a semi truck and trailers. I don't know who was more excited, Kaden or Kody! Talbot got one too.

Vance Party

2009-02-05T12:06:00.000-08:00

so I'm waaaay behind, but here is pictures from Christmas. It is at the Vance family party. Here is Kaden and my Grandma and Grandpa Vance.

Whats new

2009-02-05T11:49:00.001-08:00

Well just to let everyone know what is going on so far. I had my gallbladder out January 9th. It was great. I was really treated nice at the hospital and didn't want to leave, but of course you have to when you are doing outpatient only. Kody took the day off and my mom took care of me the next week. Cleaned my house and everything like she always does when she comes. Same with my mother in law Pam. It's nice to count on family to do everything. And I learned a long time ago to let everyone do everything while a recoup so that my recovery is quicker.
Well on a side note, my little bro Kurtis is getting married. He got off of his mission in September. Met Mandy a couple of months later and got engaged this last week. He is getting married March 7th. Very quick for sure! But they are so happy and just want to get married. They are going to live up in Logan until she finishes school and they need a cheap place to stay. If anyone knows of a place for them could you let me know, that would be great! So because of the wedding coming up so soon and so much to plan I haven't really had time to get on here. I get to help with a lot of the wedding, which I'm so excited for, so I will be really busy and when it is all done I will post pictures. I'm so excited for the center pieces, I'm putting roses in ice sculpures. It looks awesome! So until I post again, have a fabulous Valentines Day!!!!

Ok,ok!

2008-12-18T10:39:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I had a few people tell me to update my blog, so here it is, a whole couple of months worth! Hope you all like the updates! Sure love you all and if I don't get to blogging again before christmas(which is most likely) I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Hammer

2008-12-18T10:35:00.000-08:00

Kaden is being such a big helper! We made pepperment bark and had to smash candy canes. We tried to blend them but that didn't work so much, so we smashed them with a hammer (while they were still in the plastic so they didn't get all over). We had so much fun! Kaden is so good. He only hit his hand once!!!

Eggs

2008-12-18T10:32:00.000-08:00

Kaden is always being so helpful. He gave Talbot way to much though and a few minutes later Talbot threw it all up. Gross!!! But at least he tries to be helpful!

Diaper

2008-12-18T10:30:00.000-08:00

I don't know what Talbots problem is, but he thinks that this is so fun to stick his hand down his diaper!!!

Flower

2008-12-18T10:24:00.000-08:00

This is a floral arrangment I did for a friend.

Slide

2008-12-18T10:21:00.001-08:00

Kaden and Talbot at the mall having fun on the slide.

Fire Truck

2008-12-18T10:13:00.000-08:00

Kaden was a fire truck for Halloween

Tigger

2008-12-18T10:10:00.000-08:00

Talbot was Tigger for Halloween

Fall Leaves

2008-12-18T10:05:00.000-08:00

Leaves

2008-12-18T10:04:00.000-08:00

Talbot and Kaden having so much fun with the falling leaves in our backyard!

More leaves

2008-12-18T10:03:00.001-08:00

Having fun playing in the leaves!!!

The Larsen Family Fundraiser

2008-11-02T14:13:00.000-08:00

Some of you know Daryl and Ashley Larsen. For those of you who don't, they are a young couple here in Perry, who just lost their baby to a rare lung disorder. Their loss is truly a tragedy. They are now experiencing the beginnings of what will be a land slide of medical bills. In an effort to aide them, there will be a one day fundraiser at the Maddox Steak House. On November 5, you can call Maddox at 723-2916 and order the Turkey Steak dinner. You can choose the 2 or 4 family meal at the regular price. All proceeds will then be donated to the Larsen family. You do need to remember to mention the Larsen family name when ordering. You can then pick up your meal at the take out window in the back of Maddox. It will be for lunch and dinner. Please spread the word. Feel free to copy and paste this post on your blog.

Here we go a hunting

2008-10-30T19:25:00.000-07:00

Here we go a hunting! Not like we got anything, but it was still fun to get out, go camping and be together!!!

Kaden and hunting

2008-10-30T19:23:00.000-07:00

Having fun while we were camping!

on the fence

2008-10-30T19:21:00.000-07:00

Kaden wanted on the fence, so I put him on there and of course Talbot wanted to follow.

Being bored

2008-10-30T19:15:00.000-07:00

Playing in holes or being bored, whichever one you want!

Trailer

2008-10-30T19:12:00.000-07:00

In the trailer and by the fire.

Blown' flames

2008-10-30T19:06:00.000-07:00

Kaden and Talbot here are trying to blow out the fire.

praying mantis

2008-10-20T09:33:00.000-07:00

We found a prayin mantis outside and Kaden had so much fun with it, except when it was on his neck. Talbot tried squishing it, but it was fun to see them with it

Kadens foot

2008-10-20T09:31:00.000-07:00

I don't know why, but Kaden wanted me to take a picture of his foot. Weirdo!!

Day out with daddy

2008-10-20T09:26:00.001-07:00

Kaden and Talbot both got to ride with daddy in the big semi truck. They both had so much fun!

blog

2008-10-09T14:25:00.001-07:00

All about me

2008-10-07T11:23:00.000-07:00

Well, I decided to really try this thing out! What fun it is to see everyone on the web! Well, life has been so much fun so far. Kody and I met while we were on our missions in Alabama. He was my district leader(and no it wasn't like what you think). We did our mission thing and didn't think much of each other. After we both came home a bunch of mission buddies wanted to get together. They put me in charge(for some reason) and I tried to get as many people together as I could. The plan was for everyone to meet at a bowling alley in Salt Lake, but it was a blizzard and not very many people showed up(including Kody). It didn't hurt me much and I didn't think much about it until I got a letter from him a few weeks later. He said he was sorry for not coming and had lost my phone number so he couldn't call me. So we tried again to hang out. That was January of 2004. By April we were engaged and married on August 5th, 2004. When we were moving into our apartment we came across a box that had my phone number on it. No wonder why he couldn't find it. I can't believe how time just flies by! We had our first kid, Kaden Kody on August 20th, 2005( a day before Kerianda had her first). Our second child, Talbot D. was born April 23rd, 2007(10 days after Keriandas second kid). Ya, we planned that. Why does everyone ask that? We just call each other up and say "it's time"!! I think that is so funny that everyone says that.
Kody works for a trucking company "Tramcor". His dads distant cousins own the company, which makes it nice for him to work with family. His dad also drives for the company and his brother Kacey is one of the mechanics for the company. It has always been his dream to drive truck. And it's nice for him to love what he does because he always comes home with a smile on his face! He is usually home every night and that makes it nice.
I just stay home and take care of the kids. That has always been my dream. And it is so much fun. Earlier this year I was diagnosed as being bipolar. It has been a pretty rough road the last few months trying to adjust to the medicine, but if it weren't for family and friends and ward members who are always willing to help, I wouldn't be doing as well as I have. I am so grateful for that.
Well, that's us in a nutshell. Living and loving life!!

Pancakes!

2008-10-07T10:53:00.000-07:00

Kaden loves his pancakes. That is about the only thing that he will eat. At least the are whole wheat ones, so they are somewhat healthy. He has to be the one that makes them though. He pours the mix, mixes it up, sprays the pan, pours the batter in the pan, and turns the pancakes(with a little of moms help). Pretty soon he'll be making me breakfast in bed(at least I hope, he he)

Last Day

2008-10-07T10:50:00.000-07:00

This was the last full day we had in Florida. We loved the ocean so much that we went again. It was so much fun! Here's Kody, Talbot and Kaden enjoying the sun and sand!!

upside down

2008-10-07T10:46:00.000-07:00

Take a close look. Yes, the building is upside down!! And it was actually built this way!! It surely made you take a second glance as you were driving past it.

hotel

2008-10-07T10:42:00.000-07:00

Kaden and Talbot had so much fun at the hotel too. We stayed at a resort, which was so nice because we were able to relax even more!! Universal Studios also had Dr. Suess theme rides.

universal studios

2008-10-07T10:36:00.000-07:00

We had so much fun at universal studios in Orlando, Florida. Pictured are Kody, Kurliston, Kaden and Talbot in front of the universal studios sign. Kaden got to meet curios george!! He loved that a lot. Talbot not so much, but they both had lot's of fun.

ocean

2008-10-07T10:30:00.000-07:00

Here we are at the ocean in Florida. Kaden and Talbot loved playing in the sand. Kaden also loved playing in the water. It was so warm!! Talbot got tired of the ocean real quick though and fell asleep in the sand!! Poor kid! Kolter also had fun in the water!!

FLORIDA

2008-10-07T10:24:00.000-07:00

This year we went to Florida on vacation. We spent 8 days there. It was such a blast!! Here is Kaden in the plane, which he just loved!! The day after we got there we went to the ocean. I think that was probably the best part of the whole vacation!! At least for me!

Fair

2008-10-07T10:10:00.000-07:00

Here we are at the Weber County fair. Kaden loved riding the rides, the horses and seeing the animals. He even got to milk a cow!! At the fair this year they had horseshoe crabs and stingrays!! They even got to touch them!!

Hats

2008-10-07T09:50:00.000-07:00

Kaden and Talbot are always into mommy and daddys hats. And they are always trying on everybodys shoes!! This is what makes life fun!!

Widow Maker

2008-10-07T09:40:00.000-07:00

Every year in June Kodys brother Kirby does the widow maker, well the trophy hill at the widow maker. They don't call it the widow maker for nothing!! The kids like to watch their uncle ride his bike and they like to have fun with his bike too, hopefully they don't want to be like their uncle though. I would have a heart attack watching!!

Camping

2008-10-07T09:32:00.000-07:00

Memorial Weekend is always so much fun with the family!! Kaden and Talbot can play in the dirt all they want. Sometimes they even eat a little cow manure. Hasn't killed them yet(I just have to keep reminding myself that when I want to puke). The deer are always near by, which makes it even more fun for the kids(and big kids, if you know what I mean).

Thomas

2008-10-06T21:40:00.000-07:00

The three musketeers had some fun riding on Thomas the tank engine. They got tatoos put on their faces of their favorite train and had lots of fun playing with the trains and hearing stories of thomas and his friends!!

Washing Truck

2008-10-06T21:19:00.000-07:00

Kody sure loves driving truck. He works for Tramcor, which is family owned, so it is a nice family environment(for the most part). You can't really control what comes on the CB. Kaden loves helping his dad wash the truck(and so does mommy). What a good helper!!

Little helper

2008-10-06T20:51:00.000-07:00

Kaden is always helping mommy do all the chores!!

playn around

2008-06-28T22:01:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, learning how to do this and havn' fun!