A Little Update

Wow, I know it's been a while since I have did anything with my blog, but I didn't realize just how long it's been. My nephew, Nate, did receive his mission call to Chili, which is where my dad served his mission. He just went into the MTC last Wednesday. I need to find some pictures of my nephews and add them on here. On Thanksgiving my brother took pictures of each of our families. Oh yeah, also, I am expecting. This picture of my ultrasound is at 4 months. My due date is May 4th and so far it's a girl. Next Monday, the 21st, I will have my 20 week ultrasound.

It's really hard to take family pictures. Andrew - 11

Dallin - 9

Tanner - 5

Shaely - 3 with her chopped hair, I tried to even it out the best I could (she cut it two different times in just over a month)

Lydia - 19 months

My nephews are growing up!

OK, Mitchell is in the MTC now. I haven't heard from him since Monday night, when I told him my final goodbye and that he better write to me. Now my nephew, Nathan Tanner, is getting ready for his mission. As of Sunday July 19th his papers are in and now is waiting for his 'call'. He turns 19 in September. I didn't even know he could turn his papers in before his birthday. He is 3 days short of being 1 year younger than Mitchell. Now they'll both be out on their missions. Wow, is that cool or what? I am so proud of you guys and for the example that you are setting for your younger brothers and cousins.

Also, July 19th was our 12th wedding anniversary. This morning while at the temple, I saw a couple seated across from me waiting to get married. They were young and talking quietly back and forth. I couldn't help but think back to the day when I was sitting in that same spot with my soon to be husband, whispering back and forth hand in hand. Thoughts came to mind of how little I knew back then and how much I have grown since then. I am thankful for Jakob, for being such a patient and caring guy. I am thankful for those 12 wonderful, maybe a little challenging at times, but wonderful years with him.

The Call

My nephew received his mission call in the mail yesterday. He is going to the Arizona Phoenix Mission. He will report to the MTC on Wednesday July 22. I am so excited for him.

Free Princess DVD

My brother sent me this link for a free Fisher Price Precious Places DVD. It is episode 1 the Princess saves the ball. There's no cost at all for the DVD or shipping and handling so you don't have to enter any credit card info. I went a head and ordered one. Here is the link:

https://store.mattel.com/transition.aspx?TransitionID=153

Mitchell's papers are in

My nephew Mitchell Tanner is getting ready to go on a mission. As of last Sunday, April 12th, all of his paper work and everything was completed so now is the wait for 'the call'. I am excited for him and to see where he will be going.

Trip to St. George, The Funeral

On Monday was the funeral of my Aunt, Velda Cox Lang. It was also Shaely's 3rd birthday. After the funeral we headed for home. I got home about 11:30 that night. I know a funeral isn't the most exciting thing to post, but it was a part of my trip so I need to post it too. I am going to just post the pictures without naming everyone, because I don't know all their names.

This is Aunt LaRue, she just had a stroke recently that she is recovering from.

Uncle Delmar, in the blue shirt, is Aunt Velda's husband. Behind him is his daughter Lorretta and her husband.

This lady is my mom's cousin whom she hasn't seen for many years and her birthday was also on that day, so I took a picture of the two birthday girls.

Uncle George, Aunt Melva, their cousin, and Aunt Rita

Aunt Melva, Densel Lang to the left, Marion Cox on the right (my cousins)

Back of Aunt Rita, Densel and his family

Uncle Grant, Aunt LaRue, and Uncle Chester (two of my mom's brothers)

Shaely entertaining herself

Uncle George

I took this picture out the front windshield of our car without the flash just before Burley.

Trip to St. George, Part 2

On Sunday after church we went to a place kind of like a green belt. It had trails that you can walk on, ride a bike, or a horse. It was perfect. If we walked a few more miles than what we did we could've saw indian writings, but we didn't have the time and we have already seen them before. After our walk we picked my mom up then headed for Bunkerville, Nevada, to visit with more family.

Gary taking his turn holding Lydia

Makayla and Shaely hand in hand, way ahead of us.

Shaely, Lydia, and I posing for a picture. I had to have some proof that I was really there. :)

I took a picture of this lizard mostly to show my boys back at home.

This is my cousin Oscar, in Bunkerville, holding Lydia. She wasn't feeling well and he was giving her a drink of water, which she loved.

Another cousin, Heather, that lives close by, in Mesquite, came over with her son to visit with us. This is Trevor and Shaely finally being buddies when we were getting ready to leave. They're about a week a part in age.

The kids waiting by the car while the adults kept talking. Trevor thought that he was going home with us. He wasn't very happy when he found that he wasn't.

Oscar and Gary

Shaely and Lydia buckled up and ready to go back to St. George.

This is back at Deanna's house. Shaely just loved Deanna and Craig.

Trip to St. George

Last Tuesday, March 10, one of my mom's sisters passed away in St. George. On Thursday my mom, my brother Gary, his daughter Makayla, my two daughters and myself headed that way on a road trip. We stayed at my brother Keith's house in Farmington, Utah on Thursday night. Then Friday we stopped in Cedar City to visit my Uncle Guy and Aunt Annabelle (my dad's younger brother - the only brother still living). Then we headed to St. George. We dropped my mom off at her sister Rita's house, then we went to our cousin Deanna's house to unload our stuff because that was where we stayed.

Lydia with her Great Uncle Guy Tanner

Aunt Annabelle, Uncle Guy, Lydia, and Shaely

I'm not sure what this place is called. You can hike around on these rocks. There is the 'narrows' for people to squeeze through if they are daring enough. We didn't go over there. We just hiked around, enjoying the beautiful weather and scenery.

Lydia with her Uncle Gary, we passed her back and forth

View of the St. George Temple

Shaely and Makayla

Shaely

Lydia

The sun was setting. Notice the lighted 'D' (for Dixie) in the background

Here is another place we went to, on Saturday, over by hurricane somewhere. We came here to hike around and to look for fossils by the river.

Gary and makayla planning the best way to get down there.

We hiked to the right of the last picture until we came to the ledge again, where I took this picture. Lydia saw me and got all excited.

Shaely with her second cousins, Mallory and Makayle. I'm not sure how they spell there names.

Gary, Makayla, Craig, and Mallory ended up going down to the water and found lots of fossils. The rest of us went back to the car.

That evening we went to visit my Aunt Melva and Uncle George.

Crazy Animals

February 21, 2009
I got a picture of our 8 month old male kitten (Babe) nursing on our dog (Shadow). The funny thing is Shadow, for a while, wouldn't let the 'mom' cat come near them without grawling and snapping at her. Anyone want a free, cute and cuddly little kitten? Or maybe a dog? ha ha

Pinewood Derby

February 19,2009
The pinewood derby. Andrew's car got an award for the 'best hotrod', and Dallin's car got 'blue lightning'. They had a good time.

Dallin's car is on the left and Andrew's is on the right.

Andrew and Dallin showing off their cars, and Shaely ready to play with them (the cars).


Andrew, Dallin, and Brian Sanford ready to race them on the floor. They didn't need the track anymore. :)
Bruce and Patty Muir are Dallin's Wolf Den Leaders. This is them putting Dallin's bead on his shirt pocket (you can see it dangling down in the other pictures).

Here's Shaely running around with the big kids.

Here's Lydia chilling out on the floor eating animal crackers.

And here is Tanner eating yet another hot dog. I'm not sure which number this one is, but he had quite a few of them.

Shaely Cuts Her Hair

Well, Shaely decided to cut her own hair yesterday. Apparently, she decided to whack at the toothpaste first because she had a little in her hair.

Here is some of the hair that she cut off. This is definitely not a very fixable haircut. It will be interesting to see how it grows back. She might have spiky hair on top for a while.

Luckily, her long hair covers most of it some what.