Snow Bird

Once again we were out of town for the weekend thanks to the army. We have been gone every weekend for a month straight. This time it was up at Snow Bird. It was really pretty, I've never been there before. We had to go to a few seminars on what to expect now that the soldier is home. It was pretty boring because we have heard everything they told us before. Can't complain about a free hotel and food for two nights though.


The view


Texas Roadhouse


Micah was a good sport when everyone surprised him by saying it was his birthday
When Micah was in Iraq these were the guys who kept each other sane. They were practically the only LDS guys there. The two in the middle are from salina and had just received their mission calls when they got called to Iraq. Micah did a good job keeping them headed in the right direction while they were there because there wasn't much "good" going on around them everyday. On Sunday we went to their farewells. Rob on the end was Micah's "best friend" (I don't know the guy term for best friend) while he was over there. They shared a pod together. He is hilarious.

CrAzY MyA

Mya cracks me up so much latey. She is so cute especially towards Tay. She talks to him in a high voice and is quite the little mother and very protective of him. I can't wait for her to have a new baby to take "care"of. One of my favorite things about her is that she is always making up songs and singing everywhere she goes. She also talks to all of her toys in a motherly voice. She has a bunch of care bears that she treats like her babies, she gets pillows ready for them at night and they sleep with her on her bed and take up most of the room, she is always right on the edge about to fall off. It is so cute to just listen to her play in her room because she talks to herself saying the cutest things.
Here is a pic of her getting all dressed up and in her own little world. After I took the picture she had to look at it and said, "I know Grandma and Daddy will love this picture, can we take it and show her?" (Don't ask me what she is wearing, that's Mya for you.) She comes up to me and says, "Why, hello my lady" and "thank you my mam" She puts on shows and always starts out by saying "Ladies and gentleladies Introducing next on the Disney channel" She reminds me of me so much but the defining moment when I knew she was a little mini me, a drama queen, was when I was combing her hair and she looked in the mirror and started talking to herself as being another person in the mirror. I use to do that when I was little too. Just ask Beth and Tina.


Mya sometimes lacks the ability to focus on something for more than two minutes. In this video she told me to record her singing Mary Had A Little Lamb and she got a little distracted. She decided she better clean the sink instead of sing. In the end she forgets what song she was singing to begin with and starts singing three little speckled frogs instead.

SWIMMING

Our friends were watching some of their friends kids while they were on vacation for a couple weeks and they got to stay at the couple's house and invited us over for some swimming! It was so much fun. They had an indoor swimming pool that was so awesome. It had an indoor grill and a hot tub. it makes me want one in my house someday (I wish)

Here is Micah "diving" into the pool, the pics are kind of dark.
They had a bridge going over the pool. It was sooo pretty!


Here is a video of Micah swinging on the rope they had. Sorry it is sideways. I was holding the camera longways and I guess videos can't be taken that way.

Park City

We had a chance to go up to Park City last weekend thanks to the Army. After the soldiers get back from Iraq they put together a marriage seminar for the couples in hopes that they can help save any marriages that have been affected because of the deployment and being apart. Well, good to say, we are doing fine, so for us it was more a weekend get away. We stayed at the Yarrow resort where the army paid for our rooms for two nights and had our breakfast and lunch provided for us. After the seminars we had a chance to go to the Olympic park and ride the zip lines and Alpine slide. I love Park City, it is so pretty. We had a great time.

Tay and Tank playing together

In the summertime Tay lives outside. All I have to do is keep the screen door open and he will play out there all day. The other day I could hear Tay screaming and laughing hysterically and when I went out I saw Tay and Tank playing together. I was a little late getting the video of it so Tay isn't laughing as much as he was at first, but I thought it was pretty cute.

SERIOUSLY?!?!?!

Okay... first of all, I want everyone to look at the time at which I posted this. (It says two but I must have it set in the wrong time zone) It is 3 AM Alright now, why you are asking am I up at THREE AM???? Well I get the pleasure of experiencing no sleep thanks to blasted non stop absurd did i mention NON STOP BARKING DOGS?!?!?!? I am sick of laying here trying to keep my eyes closed hoping somehow someway I can just go back to sleep. I could be dreaming the night away, while visions of sugar plums dance through my head, BUT..... NO, instead I get to listen to repetitive barking over and over for what has been at least two dreadful hours and who knows how much longer it will go on. Come on now, do the owners of these mangy dogs just somehow sleep like logs and seriously can't hear how their dogs are keeping people up at all hours of the night? I am tempted to go start playing loud music, banging pans, riding a 4wheeler.... oh, I could go on and on and try and make them WAKE UP and SHUT UP their DANG DOGS! I mean yes I know dogs bark, that is fine but what is not fine it when they bark all hours of the night. In case the owners of the dogs were wondering, there are things you can buy to stop this atrocity. First, maybe a shock collar, second, maybe a muzzle, third... Oh I don't know maybe you could open the door and YELL at the dang things, and last, well....I won't say the last one but someone might be thinking it and do it if this keeps up! Oh, and if you were wondering, yes, they are still barking. GRRRRRRRRR!
Well, I guess I will go back to tossing and turning some more and hope the dogs will decide to go to sleep or something else happens to it to make them stop. I wish I had some ear plugs or was a sound sleeper right about now.
Oh and another thing that is just not right that I just saw on yahoo, is that People magazine reportedly spent $14 MILLION for the first pics of Brad and Angelina Jolie's babies. Come on now people that money could be spent helping out starving kids in Africa or saving the whales or something.
Yes, the dogs are STILL barking, and it is now 3:38 AM

STILL just a little guy

Tay had his 15 month well check yesterday and I was thinking for sure he would weigh at least 19 lbs. Well, I was wrong. We weighs a whopping 17 lbs 10 oz! the average one year old weighs at least 20 pounds. Poor little Tay is in the 0.08 percentile. I'm afraid he doesn't have a chance at being big. I would be worried if he never ate but it is the opposite. He eats and eats and does well at drinking milk so the doctor said he just must be built little. (Sorry Micah, I hope you weren't wanting a little football star!)He sure is a sweet boy and cracks me up everyday. I was getting mad at Mya one day and I give her to the count of three to respond and Tay must be use to hearing it because I started out holding up my finger and said "ONE" and Tay held up his finger and said "TEEEUUUU" It was soo funny. He is getting to be so big. Well....not so much big, but older. Mya is getting better at listening too. The other day in the bathtub she started splashing and I just looked at her and she sighed and put her head down and said "aah, I know better than to do that" She is being so sweet lately. It kind of has me thinking what is going on? Who would have thought that our little "angel of darkness" as Tyce calls her is no longer living up to her name! I'm just crossing my fingers that it will stay that way.

I'm pregnant!

Yes...We are expecting baby number three!!!! People may think we're crazy and they are probably right but hey, what do you expect after being apart for a year. You can just start calling me fertile Myrtle. I figure if I can take care of a newborn and a two year old for a year by myself then I can take care of three with my husband home right? (haha) I hear three is a whole different ballgame. Hope I'm ready cause I kind of have to be now. I am due Feb 25th and can't wait to see what we are going to have this time and what it will look like!

Babies babies everywhere!!

Today I went up north to my old roommate Robyn's baby shower. It was so much fun to see her again. And Micah is so sweet to stay at home all day with the kids and just let me have a day away!




This is a pic of all the girls at the shower who are pregnant in order of due date.

Lunch with old friends

I was so excited to get a phone call from my friend Rachel saying Tasha was in town! We all went to college together and it was so fun to get together again. We need to do it more often! It is so crazy to see how everyone's lives have changed. We all have kids now which is crazy because when we get together, we kind of act like kids ourselves and to think we are moms now.... Wow how times change.

A day at the salon

Mya's new hair



So lately Mya has been obsessed with being a "hair styler" as she calls it and plays with my hair every day. It is so funny to hear her while she does it because she copies what I tell her when I do her hair every day. My favorite is when she tells me to be patient and if I don't hold still it will take longer. Anyway, I usually cut her and Tay's hair but I thought it would be fun for her to see what it was like in a real salon. She was so cute. She had a grin ear to ear seriously the whole time she was there and for only eight dollars, it was totally worth it.

Memory Tag

Here is a fun memory tag
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.