Our cute boys!

Love Tanner's eyes in this pic! He loves to take pictures when we remember....

Parker is over 5 months old already! he is so much fun and of course I think he is the cutest baby ever! hehe. He isn't crawling yet but he makes his way around the living room by rolling. He is so fast too, I put him down in the middle of the room and he makes it to the wall in a minute. I'm sure he'll be fun to chase around when he is crawling.

Look at those baby blues. His eyes get really big right before the picture bc he sees the red light.

Parker got a new high chair from my parents and he loves it. He doesn't eat baby food yet but he just loves being up at the table with us. He laughs and talks the whole time.

Christmas Time.....a little late X-)

Finally, I am so excited I can actually blog! Seriously everytime I logged on to my blog or anybody elses my computer froze! So annoying! Anyways, here's a few pics. Christmas Eve at my parents was such a marathon we didn't take very many pictures. The kids all had so much fun and so did we. Of course my dad made an amazing prime rib that we all inhaled, followed by pirette pie and opening presents. My mom always goes overboard with gifts, but the kids love it. Tanner and Parker got lots of fun stuff and were so tired afterwards. Tanner actually slept in on Christmas morning....well 7 oclock is sleeping in for Tanner.

Ross and Christin got Parker this stuffed monkey and he loves it...it's so cute watching him try to eat it!

We took some family pics finally, I liked the one on our header the best, but Parker's little smile in this one is super cute too. He is getting so big. I can't believe he's 5 months old already!

This is a picture from last year with our cute little tree before we decorated. I came home from running some errands and Jared was so proud of himself for putting the tree up and surprising me! It was our first christmas together and was very special. You can't tell but Parker was in my belly in this picture too!

OOPS! I don't know how too flip this pic....I know it's probably really easy. We went and saw Santa at Bass Pro Shops in Mesa. Tanner was a little skeptical about his beard, but we talked about how Santa has lots of helpers too. X-) All his doubts were erased when he opened the camo crocs that he asked Santa for!

Technical Difficulties

I am sorry that it has been so long since I have posted something...however it is not my fault. I have tried a few times and the computer, or the website, or something wasn't working right and I could never finish my posts. This post is an attempt to see if it will work, Jared is helping me...
So, hopefully there will be a meaningful post up soon. I hope you enjoyed this one though:)

BIG BULL DOWN!!

Ok, Ok, it's not that big as far as the antlers go, but we have a lot of meat coming our way. Jared shot this bull elk on his hunt on saturday. Jared went with his brother, Justin, and his dad who also had tags and his brother, Ryan, and Reggie(a friend) to hunt elk. Long story short- they didn't see a lot of elk but on saturday morning Jared spotted this elk across the canyon and shot him. It was a 575 yard shot. He shot it at 8:15 in the morning and they didn't get back to camp until 4:00 pm. Jared was very thankful that Reggie came with his horses to help pack the meat out. Here are some pics:

Family fun!

Finally I am posting something! I haven't been very good about taking pics lately but last night Jared busted out the camera. Jared read a story from the ensign for FHE. It was about having the true spirit of Christmas. It was so good and I of course was fighting back the tears until finally I couldn't stop them from falling. All of the sudden Jared starts laughing. I said why are you laughing. He said he was trying not to cry and I wasn't helping by starting to cry. Anyways, Tanner liked the story and we talked about the gift of giving. even if we don't give presents we can give service and friendship to anyone. After our lesson, we got to decorate the tree. We didn't have a tree and didn't think we would have one this year. Jared's parents gave us their old one, which is awesome, and we are so thankful for their love. They are a great example to us, and we see the spirit of Christmas in their home each time we visit.

Jared is such a good daddy, I know I say it alot but look how cute he is with our smiley,chubby baby!
Tanner makes the funniest faces sometimes, he had so much fun hanging "his" ornaments.

Tada! I guess I should have posted the other pics before this one. Oh well!

Parker was such a good boy too! He sat and watched us the whole time. He is getting so talkative and smiley. Sometimes we even get a little giggle out of him. Sooo Cute. X-)

Hope your season is filled with the Christmas spirit!

Picture Tag

On our way to Utah for the October 2007 general conference we stopped at the Hoover Dam. Jared took a panoramic (or a bunch of pics that he stiched together) of the dam. Whooo. Now I tag back Jenna. HAHA! (3rd folder 10th picture)

Dollar!

Dollar got his head stuck in this little hole in the fence, Jared had to get him out and then put some wire across it so he couldn't do it again.

Dollar is our dog that we got from Justin and Ginger. Tanner named him and is so proud. Dollar loves playing catch and just going nuts like puppies do. He is 4 months old and weighs 30 pounds.