Painting Doors

We were actually in town this past weekend. But that doesn't mean that we were not busy. We turned the garage into a painting factory and painted doors for the condo all day on Saturday.

We decided not to go out of town this weekend for the 4th of July and will be painting more doors this weekend too. We will still make time for the holiday festivities though.

The condo is coming along great. We have not worked on it for a few weeks but now are back to working hard and will hopefully get it finished by the end of the month to rent it out.

Last Day

Today was my last day of work. I know that I quit way early before the baby is born, but with my July schedule, then school starting the beginning of Aug., and time to get really ready for baby to come, I think that it is going to work out perfect.

I am going to Utah next week for practically the whole month and I can't wait to spend time with my family and my mom to get caught up on baby stuff and just be with my family. So many projects to work on up there and so many fun things planned to do with my family.

I feel so grateful to have had such a great job, with such wonderful people surrounding me. The Dr.'s were so patient and kind and I really enjoyed working with them. It was blessing 2 years ago when the job was just offered to me. I wasn't planning on working. I was just helping out for one of the Dr.'s in my ward for a couple weeks while Tage was in Utah. Then they just asked if I wanted to work 3 days a week. Tage was just entering Kindergarten, (it's full days here) so I thought that since he would be gone the majority of the day, I could work to make a little extra money. So I accepted the job. It has been a great 2 years and like I said, I have really enjoyed working with such great people. But I am so excited to start this new chapter in my life and be a stay at home mom.

I'ts been 4 weeks.....

Baby is moving a lot. I love it. Tage can feel her now and always asks if she is moving so he could feel her. Sometimes if she is not moving he jiggles my belly in hopes to wake her up. But really that just makes me feel fat and we laugh. I could see her little movements too sometimes. I really like just to stare at my belly and watch for her movements. I have had no problems at all with this pregnancy (knock on wood) and so far I love it. No complaints here.

I have been so crazy busy with everything within this past month and have not even thought about "baby". I'm ready to start thinking more about her now. I have not done ANYTHING to get ready for her. I got a lot to do.

I'm Back

Once again, back in town. I spent the last 3 days in Pine, AZ at Camp Lo Mia for our wards Stake girls camp. And once again I have loads of laundry to catch up on and the house to clean (not that it was spic and span before I left, but still needs cleaning).

More updates on girls camp later. I just wanted to tell Ty thanks for covering the fort alone while I was gone. Tyson, Tage and Zeus were just fine without me. Tage said that he didn't even miss me. How sad, I know! But I also know he was telling a big fat lie too! Zeus on the other hand did. He has not left my sight today, so I know he definitely missed me.

Glad to be home. Hopefully now I can get caught up on my life. Hopefully.

Lake Powell

Alright, here is my Powell update!

This was totally a last minute trip. One of Tyson's friends from work was going to Powell and invited us 2 days before. We didn't leave until Thursday night, which made us pull into Wahweap campground at about 1:00am. Ugh! I was so tired! I couldn't sleep in the car because the road was so bumpy from Flagstaff to Page. At 1am I wished we had a motor home so all we had to do was turn the key at hit the sack. But, lucky for us we had our good ol' tent! Yippee! By the time we got everything situated and in bed it was about 2:00am. Then our morning started at about 6:00am with the sun blaring and it got too hot in the tent to sleep any longer (not that it was a comfortable sleep, but hey, I was tired so any sleep was great!).

Friday was a perfect day! Water was great and the scenery was so beautiful. Ty has never been to Powell, and it has been a really long time since I had so we were both thoroughly enjoying it! We did a lot of just cruising around, stopping every little bit to get our for a swim and play for a bit.

Tyson's friend,Tom, had a little scare with his boat just all of a sudden stopping. After a good 10 minutes of trying to figure out what was going on and practically taking apart everything, he realized that he accidentally hit the emergency turn off button. Oops! We had a good laugh over that.

Saturday was really windy and not good water for wake boarding. I couldn't board anyway because of my buddha belly, but I felt bad for Ty. We should have done wake boarding Friday.

I know I wasn't suppose to tube, but I did anyway. Promise it was really slow! I figure the bumpy ride in the car down was worse than the tube ride! I only went for about 3-5 minutes and then told Ty to pull me in. No whipping around or even going outside the wake for me. Slow goin' only. But it was still fun.


On Saturday we went to sand hill to play around for a little bit.

Tage wanted to go up into a little cave. He finally made it up into it with Dads help.

Tage and Carson went all the way up to the top of sand hill and ran down. Tage's little legs got carried away and he face planted it on the way down. It was one of those moments off America's Funniest Home Videos that you couldn't help but to laugh a little bit, even though you know it had to have hurt. I wish that I got it on video.

We had a fun filled 2 days on the water and came home yesterday about lunch time. We were all tired so Tyson didn't even get a nice Fathers Day dinner. It was just pizza. Oh well, he didn't mind.

But Happy Fathers Day to you hon! I love you so much. You are the best father and the best hubby! I will make up the not-so-exciting Fathers Day you had to you next Sunday. Just let me get this week with girls camp over with.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

Me

Home Today, Gone Tomorrow

That is exactly how I have felt. Go, go, go! I have been out of town playing the past 3 weekends in a row! Totally loving it, but totally feeling behind on a million things.
We just got back from Lake Powell today and I leave for our stake girls camp on Tuesday. Oh, and lets add work in the mix for tomorrow. I'm pretty much on overload and my house is a disaster.
When am I ever going to feel caught up?!

Lake Powell details coming soon. So much fun!

Rocky Point

We hit the road again this past weekend. Except this time, Tyson came with us! We left Friday after lunch and came back Sunday afternoon (in time to watch The Finals Celtics and Lakers game).

This was suppose to be a relaxing alone vacation with Tyson, but with the change in the summer plans with Tage, he joined us. It was still relaxing, but there was some moments with a little attitude from him. Kids. Gotta love it.

I didn't take as many pictures as I usually do. I guess I was really in the mind set of

r-e-l-a-x-a-t-i-o-n! Just what I wanted and needed!

The weather was great! It was windy when we got in on Friday but Saturday it wasn't as bad. The slight breeze was actually very nice. Tage was such a little fish. We did a night swim after dinner on Friday and he was practically in either the pool or ocean all day on Saturday! I thought he was growing fins! We did get him to break away for lunch and take a short trip in town. We walked along fish market row and Tage bought a Monster shirt. Then we stopped at Thriftys for some ice cream! Yum! Nice and refreshing!

So here are a few pictures.......

Being fully entertained by his movie on the way down

My little fish named Tage

The view I got to look at alot . My buddha belly.

Ty relaxing on the balcony of our room

The view from our room

Got to have a family picture!

San Diego

Friday, June 4th - Monday, June 7th

Ty was going to be working on the condo all weekend putting in new baseboards and getting a few other things ready for the painters to come. So I thought that it would be fun for Tage and I to have a little get away to the beach. We hit the road after lunch on Friday and came home the following Monday. What a great break!

We stayed with my Aunt Valerie on Friday night. It was a late night for us all. Brayden and Tage played, played, played, while Val and I got in some good girl talking.

Saturday we went over to La Jolla Beach (we called it seal beach) and played around on several different spots along the coast.

"Seal Beach" Spots where you can observe the seals. It was fun to see them in their natural habitat.

Seriously so beautiful!

Me, Val, Tage and Brayden

We found lots of crabs, looked at sea creatures, got in water fights, and had fun pulling sea weed and other odd looking things out of the water




Tage loved playing in the ocean!

Saturday afternoon we said goodbye to Val and Brayden and met up with my friend Trina and her family at another beach farther up north near Carlsbad. (Trina moved to San Diego almost a year ago, and I hadn't been out to see her yet, so this was a great trip to do so!) We played some more on the beach then stayed at her house for the night. Tage and I we beat from a long 2 days so we hit the hay by 10:00pm. Exhausted.

Sunday we went to church. It is always comforting to know that no matter where you are in the world, you will find the gospel of Jesus Christ. I believe in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It is the one and only true church of God.
Sunday was a very relaxing day. Not much happened but relaxing and talking. Perfect!

Tage and I left after breakfast Monday morning. The GPS took us some random way home. We were on the back highways for a few hours until I saw a sign to the freeway when we were passing through a city. I ignored the GPS and took the freeway the rest of the way home. Our car was having trouble overheating so I had to constantly watch the gauge. I would roll down the windows until it went back down. It was horrible the last 30 min from home. It hit the RED! Windows were down and it was 108* outside. UGH!! So hot! I wanted to go back to San Diego were the weather was perfect! We made it home safe, thank goodness, and the car has been sitting in the garage since. We need to fix it. It wouldn't even make it 2 miles the next day without almost immediately going to the red. I feel so blessed to make it home safe! Tage and I said many many prayers on the way home. It practically turned into a game of watching the meter go up and down. Not my type of car game! I would rather play the alphabet game!

Overall, Tage and I had a great little weekend trip! Tyson on the other hand worked his little hiney off at the condo every night until midnight. That man was so tired and sore by the end of the weekend.