Zoo Birthday and Memorial Day!

Jarrett, Ryder and Max at the zoo. The boys loved the giraffe


Lovely family picture. The boys look so thrilled!

Max and Ryder are the best of buds!

Ryder with my dad. He is checking out the monkeys.

He was a little scared of them!

Ryder on his new 4-wheeler. He pushes this everywhere!

Ryder was pumped about his new bike. Here he is on the track.

Testing it out.

Max and Ryder blowing out the candle for like the 30th time!

Mickey cake. Kind of special looking but Ryder loved it!

Uncle Jake enjoying the celebration!

Family picture rocking the Mickey ears!

Cousin Max

My mom and dad

Ready to hit the trail!

I forgot to turn this picture obviously. But it's Jake and Ryder

The group! Colby McClellen, Me, Ryan Frandsen, Jake, Taylor

Bumgardner, Sean Olsen, Jarrett, Ryder, Dad and Mom.

So this is a super long post I know and I did it backwards and not is chronological order but oh well. For Memorial Day we didn't do anything to fabulous, but Monday we kept with tradition and went 4-wheeling up 12 mile to battle the mud. This is always my favorite ride of the year and this year was the snowiest, muddiest one yet. We went with my mom and dad, my little brother Jake, 2 cousins Colby and Taylor and 2 of Jake's friends Ryan and Sean (we refere to them and Aunt Ryan and Aunt Sean at my house, cause they are always with Jake and Ryder loves them!). It was way fun to go riding we had to go through tons of snow drifts and we weren't able to make it up very far. Deep Lake was still frozen solid which was crazy for the last day of May.

On June 3 my baby turned 2. Well I guess he doesn't act like a baby anymore so I really shouldn't call him that. We just had a little BBQ for his big day at our house with Jarrett's mom and dad and my mom and dad, cousin Max and uncle Jake. Ryder is in love with Mickey Mouse (well really Minnie and Daisey) lately so I attempted to make a Mickey cake. It was kind of special but it worked. He got tons of great stuff. We got him a little bike. It is so small it is the cutest thing ever. We have this empty lot next to us. All the neighborhood kids love to ride their bikes on it (they call it the track) and Jarrett has make a few jumps for them out their. Ryder loves to watch them ride and always goes and hangs out with them. He thinks he is so big. As soon as he saw his bike he took it over to the track to ride his bike. It was cute.

The Saturday after Ryder's birthday we took him to the zoo. My mom and dad and Jarrett's parents and his nephew Max came with us. It was so fun to see the little boys get so excited about the animals. Max and Ryder are only 6 months apart and love to hang out with each other. It was a great day, topped off with a little shopping for our nameless little girl!

It's A GIRL!

So on Monday I had an ultrasound at 16 weeks with the soul purpose to find out the gender of our baby (I think I would have died if I had to wait any longer). To all of our surprise we found out that it was a GIRL! I think it still hasn't really set in yet. Both Jarrett and I were sure that it was going to be another boy and we were totally fine with that. I know what to do with boys, I have boy toys, blankets, clothes, my entire house is boy stuff. So we were very shocked when she said it was a girl. Jarrett just sat there and said are you sure? We very excited though. I nervous about a girl though. There are so many cute girl things out there that I'm never going to have money anymore! I could spend my whole paycheck on clothes for this baby. We don't know about names yet. I should have known it would be a girl just for that reason. When I was pregnant with Ryder we knew exactly what the name would be if it was a girl, and now we have boy names, but no girl names. I still have 23 weeks to pick a name so it will be alright. We just can't wait to meet our cute girl!

Very Long Overdo!

We finally got our extra bathroom redone so I thought maybe we would try our hand at potty training. I bought Ryder this little seat that goes on the normal seat. He loves it and uses it daily, but not the way I wish he would. He thinks it makes a perfect hat. I guess it's a good thing that he hasn't ever used it with its intended purpose.


So Ryder was out side playing and I heard a little knock at the door. When I opened it Ryder was standing there with a bunch of flowers. I was so sad! I planted over 60 bulbs last fall. I now have not one flower to show for it. Some of them just didn't make it, but those that did fell victim to Ryder.

Ryder helping his dad build something. He loves his dad

and has to do everything that his dad does.

Ryder in his cute Easter outfit. He looked so dang handsome.

This is one of the saddles that Jarrett won back in the day and we have to display in our family room. Ryder loves it though. Everyday he climbs up there with his rope and hat and pretends to rope things for hours and yell "yee haw". Its quite entertaining to watch and listen to him. He is a funny boy.

Things for us are pretty much the say. We just seem to stay busy with work, church calling, cows, family and friends. Jarrett spends all of his extra time outside creating and constructing stuff. He has been building horse stalls in our back yard lately. Ryder is busy as ever. Always finding something to get into. He has gotten really good at throwing fits. I guess this is what the terrible two's are all about (love it!) Jarrett, Ryder and I were able to go through the temple May 1 and be sealed as a family. It was a really awesome day! And lastly Jarrett and I are expecting our 2nd child Nov. 7. We are really excited, but even more scared! Most days I wonder what we have gotten ourselves into. It will be fun though and my cousing Morgan and his wife are due 2 days after me. I will have to have another c-section so I will have that Oct 29 so we will have a fun little halloween baby. We go to find out what we are having on Monday the 24. I can't wait to start making and buying things.

18 Months Old

We took Ryder to Kiddie Kandids to get his pictures done for Christmas. Jarrett

had got him a new cowboy hat and rope that he his obsessed with so we thought

we would do cowboy pictures. He was such a good boy and smiled really good.

I thought they turned out pretty good. I am sad that Kiddie Kandids is now gone.

It was nice to just hurry and get some cute quick pictures.

A Few Random Pictures

This is one of Ryder's favorite outfits. When he wakes up in the morning he will usually

come out of his room carring his boots and hat. This is him around 9am waiting for

his breakfast decked out in his PJ's acsented with his cowboy boots and hat.

My son is all boy. This is him doing one of his favorite things (riding his bull). He spends

hours on this thing, and he really gets after it. He usually has at least 4 ropes tied around

the bull and one in his hand. Also note he is wearing his favorite outfit again.

The middle of Nov. my friend Angie, cousins: Marci, Jessica (7 days before she had her baby), and Cheyenne and I went to Good Things Utah (I'm pretty much addicted to the show). It was way fun! Before we left we were already planning our next trip. After the show we went to lunch and spent the rest of the day shopping. It was a great girls day!

Family Pictures

Ryder loves playing with the steering wheel. He got so excited when we

stuck him in this old truck.

So I'm playing catch up again, but I'm hoping that now that life is some what back to normal with the holidays over I can stay a little more on top of things. The middle of Nov. I had my dad take some family pictures for me. We just went out west and found a few spots. I think they turned out pretty good. Ryder was way good so that made it a little easier. I haven't got all of them edited yet, but hopefully one day.

Halloween

The Boys! Don't they look so excited? Ryder, Kyler,

Keaton (Angie's boys) and PJ (Angie's nephew)

I look retarded by I was a witch

I got him a cute little skeleton bag from Pottery Barn with his name on it.

He has been in love with it for weeks.

For halloween Ryder was the cutest little zebra. He didn't so much enjoy the holiday. All day long I tried to get him to take a nap with no sucess. So when it was time to dress up and go out he was so dang tired and ornery. We got a few pictures, then decided to go out to my great grandma's and before we even made it a block he was out. So no trick or treating for Rydie.

We also had a little get together at my friend Angie's house. We had soup bowls and played games. It was fun!