Walking, Talking, Running, Flushing, and so much more!!

Okay so first let me apologize again for being out of the loop for a while but let me give you a run down of the last month. A very special family came into my life and our time has been priceless! Well then their house burnt down and we have clothed them and housed them and they are not gone and it's bitter sweet. I love them so much and they loved us so much and our little tavis they have given him books and toys and love and laughter and a 4-wheeler! Yes he has a 4-wheeler that they had to leave behind. Oh I miss them! Well School has been a bit tougher then I once thought it would be. I have forgotten how to read to retain but it's going good and hopefully I will at least end up with a B. I love my young women calling we made apron last week and we are sowing pillows tonight and I love my girls! They have brought back the eagerness we all had at that age for new and exciting things. They love the gospel and it bring me back to the feelings that we all should have and the pure love of knowing the gospel principles! I love it! Oh yeah I made a mad dash to Ca to see Brad and my parent and grandparents and it was so fun! And we have snow on Oct. 11th CRAZY!!!!

Well now to more important things. . .Tavis! Our little man. He finally walks/runs everywhere and it is so fun! He get's going so fast his little legs can't keep up and he falls and we cheer and he gets back up to do it again. He puts his little arms up in the air to balance himself and it's the cutest thing ever! He is now down to one arm in the air and the other is to keep dad from getting him:) Nathan is loving this stage and all I hear when it's nathan's time with Tavis is laughter and I feel so blessed! Tavis has a little tent in his room he won't let anybody in. He opens and closes the door like nobody's business hee hee. He has figured out how to push himself on his elmo truck. If there is a botton to be pushed he will find it! He loves loves loves oreos and sometimes he becomes my little black baby I've always wanted. He has learned to flush the toilet so while I am doing dishes and need five minutes I stick him in the bathroom and he goes to town on the flushing. He is doing so good at signing and we now excatly what he wants except for the times he feels he's entitled to just be given what he wants and we go back to square one which I also love! He is outting stuff on his nose and thinks he is so funny which he is! :)

As for Nathan, Well it's hunting season and between elk, duck, geese, and deer, and oh yeah and work, he's busy. I love him so much my teeth ache. We have grown so much as a family this last little while and I feel like everyday it just gets better and better! Nathan bore his testimony on Sunday and while he was talking Tavis went crazy! DADDY DADDY DADDY! It was so cute. He is a total daddy's boy. Of course I felt compelled to say something as well and Tavis didn't even know I was gone. . he was so happy to be sitting with dad, they sure are funny!

Here is a ton of pictures. . .

Bear Lake Parade of Homes 2008 People's Choice Award Goes To. . .

Epic Construction for Bear Hollow Lodge!

Bear Hollow Lodge Lake View

Drive Way and Entry

Great RoomMaster Suite
Master Bathroom
Kitchen

Butler Pantry

Outside Living and Fireplace

Dinning Room
Timber Work

Grand Stair Case

Lake View and Covered Deck

Covered Deck

Guest Suite

Upstairs Bedroom

Great Room Down Stairs

Loft Living Area

Recreation Room ( Wired for Projector System)

Bedroom

Wine Cellar

Guest Bathroom

Bunk Room

Wow it's been a while . . .

So I just realized how long it has been since i participated in the blogging world and I am so sorry. Let me give a quick update. First I put another post in before this one so scroll down to see it! it's long but you will enjoy the update i promise!

* Alex is now gone but while he was here he basically worked and slept ans ate! Really that's all he did. However while he was working he cut his finger open on a skill saw and basically it looked a little bit of spaghetti. They were going to give him stitches but there wasn't much they could stitch it too so it healed on it's own. Just so you know drugs were a wonderful healing power!

* Nathan built a home for the Bear Lake Parade of Homes of which he WON THE PEOPLE"S CHOICE award! I am so proud of him!!!! It's a beautiful home that we were so blessed to build because we have really met and made some pretty special friends. I will post on this a little later.

* I am going back to school to finish my degree in Elementary Education! I am loving it!

* My pool project isn't going like i thought it would but a little at a time. I am almost at $10,000 which is a start. I need much much more than that so if you know of any companies that need to make donations please let me know! Or if you know of any grants that I may obtain somehow please let me know!

* Tavis has found the new love in his life! TRUCKS TRUCKS AND TRUCKS. He makes the driving sound and drives them all over his body and all over everyone else. It's so funny to watch. He has taught himself to put things in the bucket of the trackhoe and skidster and hull them around. I did not teach him this but I think he got it from his watching his dad drive all the equipment around. He recently started putting food in the buckets and feeding himself from the trucks. It must be in his blood!

* His first word is of course DAD! :( and the 2nd word is Dog. There is no mom, infact he's not even close. He won't even make the sounds. I am so sad. He loves our dogs and points everday out the window at them and dog dog dog. . . he'll point at Nate's truck and say Dad Dad Dad. I have tried everything but there is not mom.

* Tavis has taught himself how to use a fork. He will not let me feed him to save my life. I tried the kid forks but they are not sharp enough for him to pick anything up so he won't eat unless he has a big people fork of which h is amazingly accurate and feeds himself very well.

* We finally got grass! Well kind of. it's in quite the fragile state but i'll take pictures to show you later when it' doesn't look soo umm well fragile.

Raspberry Days Parade

I was asked by the Home Builder Association to help decorate the float for the home builders. Every year there is a craft fair and a fun parade and a fun run (5k) which i have never done, and there are rides and candy and tons of food. Well this year we a had to pull and decorate the float which was so fun. Tavis loved all the candy even though he didn't really know what it was. Tavis loved chasing the balloons around, he couldn't even pin one down to play with, they all just kept popping out of his grip; It was so funny! We had all of Nathan's guys (employee's) ride on the float and throw hats and shirts and candy and beads! We had a blast!

I'm Tagged by Yvonne Welch

8 Things I am passionate about
1. Being a Wife
2. Being a Mom
3. Feeling the Love of My Savior and Sharing it with others
4. My Young Womens Calling
5. As of Lately my Garden City Public Pool Project
6. Getting My Husband to Play a Little more
7. Friends. . I love friends, I love letting people know they are important and i love them.
8. Getting Tavis to Walk. . . he is so close! His muscles are finally strong enough so that he can pull himself up to anything and everything. It's so fun to see he take the learning leap! I love it!

8 things I want to do before i die
1. Travel around the world for a year
2. Create relationships that will last long after I pass away
3. make a memory journal for tavis and nathan so they will always have me with them. (I want to write letters of advice and encouragement for them over the years ) I know that sounds wierd but you never know when it's your turn. Life is so not in our hands...
4. Do something huge like run a marathon or swim across the lake or something like that.
5. adopt a child
6. work at an orphanage
7. look into the prophets eyes
8. read the bible

8 things i say a lot
1. love (nathan) can you/we. . .
2. Tavis let me help you
3. Whatever
4. Sure Nathan I will
5. Just let me do it
6. Um No.
7. Hey (name) what are you doing to day?
8. I really need to get a hobby . . .

8 Books i have read as of lately
1. Pillars of the earth
2. Just Hold Me
3. When Your Prayers Seem Unanswered
4. The Peacegiver
5. Goodnight Moon
6. What to Expect in the toddler years
7. Oh The Places You Will Go
8. Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes

8 Movies I have watched
1. The Dark Kinght . . it was so good
2. P.S. I love you . . I cried like a baby, also so good!
3. 10 things i have about you
4. Lucky 7
5. Defenitely, maybe. . .not that good
6. 10,000 B.C. ahh pretty good
7. 27 Dressess
8. Fools Gold. . .DON"T WATCH THIS I HAD TO TURN IT OFF

8 Bloggers I tag
1. Jennifer Hurdsman
2. Amber Lee
3. Katie Reid
4.Violet Lufkin
5. Jeanine Crane
6. Bethany Tomseth
7. Carrie Mamberg
8. Nicole Long

Top Ten Events in the Last Month!

1. Forth of July was fun and we went to Paris Id. to watch the parade and get candy.
2. I cut Tavis' hair again and I hate it. I love longer hair.
3. We play at the beach all the time and Tavis is getting a beautiful tan!
4. Tavis, I think really has a girlfriend. . . McKenna.
5. He loves the bath and water. We had Mom and baby swim lessons and he love it!!
6. He is close to walking but he's chicken.
7. He all the sudden hates to go to sleep!!! Ahh it's driving me crazy . . .
8. Alex is living with us and we love it!
9. I am heading up a swimming pool project for our community and it's stressful!
10. The home show is coming up and Nathan's Cabins is looking awesome!
11. Oh Yeah i cute my Head open on our granite counter tops. . i don't recommend doing it!