5 Years!!

Aadventurous, Adrian loves going on adventures, and taking me with him! Instead of just going for a Sunday drive we head up to the hills and explore some back country that we have never seen. Life is always an adventure when it comes to Adrian he sure is not boring! He loves having fun!
Ddedicated, Adrian is a very dedicated person. He is a dedicated church member, a dedicated worker, and a dedicated father and husband. Just last night Adrian played with the kids, helped put them down and started to work from home. Cade has been sick and woke up crying at about 10:00, before I could go in and get Cade, Adrian had already quit working and got Cade and quieted him down. Adrian worked until about 1:15am then came to bed. Around 2am Cal woke up screaming. Once again before i could get up and get cal. Adrian was already in his room and quieting him down. Cade then woke up at 4am, this time I was ready and jumped out of bed quickly to beat Adrian because I knew he hadn't got a lot of sleep and had to go to work early. I was in with Cade and he just would not stop crying, and here comes Adrian to help calm him down. I am so grateful for a dedicated husband and daddy to our boys!
Rough, I say that in a nice way! I love that Adrian is rough and tough! He likes guns and 4 wheeling, sports and boating. I like how he rough houses with the boys!
Intelligent, I tease Adrian about this because I tell him that he knows EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING! But the Truth is, he pretty much does!! He loves to learn knew things. He also knows so much about the doctrine of our church, he is always teaching me knew things!
Always Outgoing, Unlike myself, Adrian can talk to anyone and befriend them just like that! In the hot tub, on the plane at the store, everywhere we go he can chat up a storm with anyone. I am so grateful for this, because of it, we have met all kinds of people and we have friends, because I am the quiet type.
Nice, I know it sounds simple. But Adrian is a genuine nice person. He makes friends with almost everyone, he looks past those quirks that others might see, and sees their true colors. He has so many different types of friends because of this quality and is one of the many things I love about him!

Happy Anniversary Age! Thanks for making me so happy and giving me 2 handsome little boys!
I LOVE YOU!!



Our Honeymoon in San Diego!

Our 2 year anniversary! Adrian has known that I have always wanted a fruit tree so he surprised
me with a lemon tree all planted in our back yard! I had been away for a few days, so I had no idea! He was so cute, he bought some lemons and hung them on the tree for me since it of course had not grown lemons yet. I loved it!!

2009

My sister Tanya and her cute little family came to visit, they were here for New Year's Eve and New Years Day which is also Tanya's B-day. The kids, Tanya and I made these little 2009 masks earlier in the day with crayons and glitter (they say 2009 in case you can't see) anyways, I thought it was a cute idea but as you can see the circles for the eyes didn't match up with the eyes all that well, we thought they were pretty funny! We decided to have a little party and bang some pots and pans around, say "Happy New Year!" and wear the masks before midnight with the kids before they went to bed. So here is Spencer, Cal, and Kendra with their masks! The adults played a game called Ticket to Ride (super fun game!) It was fun hanging out with them as always! We love you Elzingas!!

Christmas

As a child one of my favorite traditions was having Santa come and visit us on Christmas Eve and give us 1 present to open. This is the 1st year that Adrian has been Santa (because of visiting family and somebody else was always Santa). He thought it was pretty fun. Cal was way into Santa this year, it was so cute to see him get so excited whenever we saw Santa (we went a bunch of times to the mall and saw him) Cade kindof liked Santa too. The boys and Santa


Our neighbor Joe and Santa. (Joe had broke his hip earlier and was suppose to fly out to Maryland for the Holidays but instead was in a rehab center so he spent the Holidays with us. It was fun to spend it with him and to share our Holiday traditions with him and to hear of his holiday traditions. We were also able to use his and Willy's Christmas dishes for the 1st time. It was the first thing Joe noticed when he came in were the dishes.


Putting the reindeer food out to help guide the reindeer to our house and have something to eat while Santa is inside. We made this in Joy school.


Cade taken a break from everything to enjoy some milk. Isn't he so cute?!

The boys Christmas morning with their new pj's!

Cade's Birthday Party

I made a post earlier about Cade's 1st birthday, I thought I would add some of the pictures from that day.Opening presents!

Playing with his new bath toys!

Cade's Winnie the Pooh cake!


Our little friend Corynn and her family brought over balloons and a fun book!


Mom and Cal helping blow out the candle!

Trying out the cake!

I think he liked it!

We had a fun day with Cade! I still can't believe he is 1! A few weeks later, his army crawl that we grew to love so much is gone and he is almost running he is so fast at walking! We love him so much!!

Last of Our Trip to Kansas

These are the last photos of our trip to Kansas to visit my Uncle Arnold. My boys sure like playing with their great great uncle, and I think Uncle Arnold liked them also!

Cal playing on one of the tractors, he sure did like being at the farm with all the tractors.

One night we decided to go to the lighted horse parade with my Uncle. They decorate all the horses with lights. This is the second time we have been to it, they do it every Thanksgiving. Cal like the horses as always.

My dad and Uncle Arnold watching from the car with Cade, after a few minutes of being outside we had to join them in the car as well, like I said before it was freezing there!


On our way back to Colorado, we stopped by my Uncle Jerry's and Aunt Laura's house and ate some yummy chile and visited with them for awhile. My Uncle Jerry has a pigeon loft so Cal had to go check out the pigeons! I wish I would have got some pictures with my Aunt and Uncle, I don't know what I was thinking.
We had a great visit and did lots of fun things. Unfortunately, Adrian took the camera back to St. George early, so I don't have any pictures of Colorado, but we had a great time at the Denver Zoo, and playing with Grandpa! We miss everyone we saw and love you all!

More of the Farm

These are just some cute pictures that we took of the boys. We were out for a short walk (because it was freezing) when Cal climbed up on this old truck at the farm. This truck has been there for as long as I can remember, I don't know the story of it, who did it belong to I wonder?! I should have asked my Uncle while I was there. I think it is pretty cool next time I am there, I will have to dress them up cute and take some cute pictures of them on it, especially if it belonged to someone in the family, I am assuming it is an old family car? Dad, Kristie, Wayne, anyone know??

Cade's 1st Birthday!!

I can't believe my baby boy is 1!! This year went by so fast! I feel like I was just in the hospital telling Adrian that he needed to go buy Cade a Christmas present because we weren't expecting him until after Christmas in 2 weeks! He was the best little surprise Christmas present for out family! He had a tough little start at the beginning with being jaundice and being under lights for 2 weeks and then having RSV and having to go to the hospital twice a day for 2 months to get treatments and having to do treatments at home with him as well, it broke my heart, but so thankful it was nothing too big and that our happy healthy little one year old is running around now!!

A little bit about Cade:
He loves food!
He will not drink a cold bottle, it has to be warm!
He likes to walk, but does the army crawl like a pro. If he needs to be somewhere fast he will forget walking and do the army crawl!
He likes to play with balls and cars, he chases them all around.
He loves playing with his brother, but likes it when it is supervised so Cal doesn't get too rough with him.
He loves to be thrown around and rough housed with!
He loves to jump on his daddy and mom but won't jump on Cal.
He is such a sweet easy little boy, he goes to sleep so easily and is happy most of the time!
He has 2 bottom teeth, but working on his top 2!
He is such a joy to our family!! We love you Cade!! Happy Birthday!!

Joy School Christmas Party

Our little class had a fun little Christmas party this last week. Our friend Joe from Adrian's work dressed up as Santa for us and visited with the kids, they thought it was pretty cool! Thanks Joe you did an awesome job!! We also made reindeer food and other crafts, had lunch and had a gift exchange! I think the kids had a fun time!!


Santa and Taylee

Cal and Santa. Cal loves Santa!!

Hunter and Santa


Amber, her mom (Christina) and Santa

Cal and Hunter checking out their gifts. Cal loves his friends from school, but especially Hunter, they are in the same nursery, and Cal can not get enough of him!

Hay Stacks

When I was younger, one of my favorite things to do as a kid was to jump the hay stacks at the farm. We would have all kinds of races and fun! Well Cal and Cade's little legs were not quite long enough to jump so mostly they just sat and climbed around on them the best they could, plus it was freezing!! Cal did attempt to jump one but didn't quite make it. By the big smile on his face you can tell that he still was having fun!

Driving the Tractor!!

The Boys loved being at the farm, they love being outside and having new adventures.
Cal loves tractors, so he was in heaven when he was able to ride on the back of the tractor!

And even more excited to be able to DRIVE the tractor with Grandpa!
Even little Cade got a turn driving the tractor with Grandpa.

Gingerbread House for Uncle Arnold

While in Kansas at my Uncles farm, it was raining and too cold to play outside so, we decided to build a ginger bread house to give to my great Uncle Arnold. He doesn't live at the farm anymore, but in a nursing home. It was a little different being at the farm without him, but we still had a good time going and seeing him and bringing him back to his home. We thought a Gingerbread house would look good in his room. Cal and Grandpa working on the Gingerbread house.

Cal and the finished project!

Cal and his Great Great Uncle Arnold with the gingerbread house! We love you Uncle Arnold!

Shooting Grandpa's "Shoot Gun"

So as many of you know my little Cal is obsessed with guns, (or as he calls them "shoot guns"). For Thanksgiving we decided to go to my Uncle Arnold's farm in Kansas. While we there, Cal was in heaven shooting Grandpa's "shoot gun". The guns Adrian brought were a little too powerful for Cal so my dad decided to bring a BB Gun for Cal to shoot. Cal thought it was pretty cool, he also got to shoot Grandpa's 22 Rifle. He takes after his dad, as my dad would say, "he'se a real gunnie!"Cal and Grandpa shooting the BB gun on the bridge!

Cal giving a big thumbs up after shooting!!

Cal and daddy shooting!


Cal a little excited after he got done shooting!

The 3 Gunnies! Grandpa, Adrian and Cal!

Grandpa's visit from New Zealand

This is long overdue, but we have been so busy! Back in October Adrian's dad came and visited us. We had fun seeing him again and miss him! We wish we could see Adrian's side of the family more! We didn't do anything too big this visit because of Adrian's work but we still had fun with him. We went trick or treating, carved pumpkins, went to see Thriller at Tuachan, put him to work at the warehouse and relaxed.

We had to take Grandpa to the park because it is one of Cal's favorite places to go.

We also went to the Grand Canyon for a day, attempted to take some family pictures, hiked around a little, took lots of pictures of the great view and had a picnic dinner.