Thanksgiving weekend

For Thanksgiving we went to St. George and had lunch with Jared's parents, Jared's grandma, and Nick, Erica and Kyri. It was a small group but it was fun. And of course the food was amazing! We went down Wednesday night so we could help Sandra with food on Thursday. On Friday Jared wanted to go wheeling, but me being the mean wife that I am, wouldn't let him. Ok, here's how it really happened. We were going to go wheeling Saturday with the club Jared's a part of. On Friday they were going to a place called the squeeze that will give everyone body damage, so with Jared's rig being full size, he wasn't going to fit. I wanted him to spend more time with his family instead of wheeling the entire time and leaving me with the boys. Then I decided that since I was planning on going to a few stores I'd rather have him go wheeling because he'd be ornery because he wasn't wheeling and I made him come with us, and he hates shopping (as do I but I'm ok if I'm getting things I was planning on). He didn't believe me that I wouldn't be mad at him for not coming with us so he came with us. It was nice because we went to the temple that afternoon which we haven't done for a while. I did find the towels I was looking for (for Christmas presents) but the sheets I was hoping to get were all gone. Go figure. It was an awesome black Friday deal and we didn't make it to the store until around lunchtime. Oh well.
On Saturday we went wheeling in the blazer. We decided that Cooper could go so I got to go this time. It was really fun. I haven't been in so long. On one hill near the beginning Jared got stuck. His blazer had a carburetor and while I don't know all about it, I know if it goes at too much of an angle, the fuel goes out of it and the engine dies (or something like that). He would have just had people push him back off the rock so he could start it and go around it but his hitch was in the ground so he was stuck. Kyle tried pulling him up with his jeep and ended up breaking his ring gears. They finally took Kyle's jeep and another jeep and put them against a little bit of a rock and hooked their winches up to the blazer and pulled him up (you know it's a heavy blazer if it takes two winches). The rest of the time we didn't have any problems. We had to take a few bypasses because of stuff that he would need lockers for (future modification) or one place that he was too big for. It was a really fun trip and it makes me excited for more. The guys in the club that I met and their wives/families are pretty cool. They're doing a big trip with guys from up north too in February so that'll be really fun. I'd post pictures but they take a long time to load and I've got more posts to do. Jared loaded them on to Facebook so you can go check them out there. We headed home Saturday so that was the end of our fun weekend.
I found some pictures after we were wheeling that Jared doesn't have on Facebook so here you go.

The blazer - on our way home after wheeling.

Wheeling is hard work! He falls asleep every time. I love that his hands are in the bag of pretzels and you can tell he was holding on to his cup before he fell asleep.

What a cute boy! Love those big blue eyes. He did really good for his first time wheeling.

We saw this rainbow on our way home.

Crue asleep on the way home from wheeling. Love the glasses and hand behind his head!

Christmas gift idea

I have a cousin that is amazing with crafts. She also happens to make some awesome clocks. She started making new tin square clocks. Check them out here. Any of her clocks would make a great Christmas gift (I'll let you know what colors I want so you can order me one:)). She is offering deals if you order soon. She's also doing a giveaway so check that out on her blog as well. Good luck!

Blazer gets a face lift

There was some extra white paint left over from body shop jobs so Jared was able to use it to paint parts of the Blazer. If you click here you can see how bad the Blazer was before. He didn't get the roof painted but they did do the hood, both front fenders and the passenger door. It looks so much better!
I don't have a picture of it but Jared also got a different grill. He finally has his Chevy grill instead of the GMC. He was pretty excited about it.

Halloween

My mom found some really cute costumes for the boys at Old Navy. Crue was a tiger and Cooper was a skeleton. Cooper's costume glows in the dark. They were so cute. Jared took Crue trick or treating to a few houses before we went to our ward party. A lady up the street thought he was so dang cute. She called her husband to come see him. Her husband told me about it Sunday so I was asking her about it later and she said Crue was probably her favorite. I can't blame her!


We went to my parent's house last. Crue loved his costume and didn't want to take it off, even though he was sweating like crazy. Lex and Shanna had come over after their ward party too. My dad and Lex had fun pulling Crue's hood off. He would scream "NO!!" and then come to me to put it back on. He finally did let us take off the top later, but wanted the pants on for a while. It was pretty funny.

Cooper

Just some fun pictures of Cooper.

First feeding. He wasn't too sure about it but he's figured out to open his mouth now for more!

He was being grumpy so Jared tried putting him in the walker. His feet don't quite reach the floor - sometimes one will a little - but he does pretty good.

He finally fits in his Sunday outfit (size 9 months). He is so cute in it!

He is so precious when he sleeps (aren't all kids?). I just had to get a picture. He is such a sweet boy. He has the biggest, cutest smile that lifts his big cheeks. It's so cute! I love this boy!

Family Pictures

A friend of ours, Mike (he is Jared's sister-in-law's brother-in-law, he's married to Molly's sister), does photography. He took some family pictures for us while we were in St. George one day. He did an amazing job. Here's our pictures.

This is my favorite one of the two boys.

This is my favorite family one - I just wish Crue was smiling!

What cute brothers!

I think this last one is probably our favorite. Mike did an awesome job. He got Crue to laugh and he got some great shots. Thanks Mike!!

His business is Michael Klunker Photography. You can reach him at (435) 619-3165 if you would like pictures.

Wheeling

We went to St. George to go four-wheeling. Jared is part of the Utah 4x4 Club and they had been planning a trip to an area down Washington Dam Road. They were going to have the Lt. Governor come until he became the Governor and couldn't anymore so a guy from the Division of Natural Resources came. There are some people in Washington trying to close 9 million acres of land to vehicles and the club wanted to show the guys in Washington that they aren't destroying the land and that they shouldn't close it down. The guy was pretty impressed. He said he never imagined using four-wheel drive for the stuff they were doing. He's only used it to get him out when he's stuck! So hopefully it went well and stupid Washington won't shut the land down. Jared's mom had to work so she wasn't able to watch Cooper. I stayed home with Cooper while Jared and Crue took the Blazer out. They had a lot of fun. Hopefully next time I'll be able to go. Here's a few pictures and videos.

Jared said Crue did really good.

Crue's ready to ride with his sunglasses and car.

This is probably the best picture I have of Jared going up or down anything big since I wasn't there to help take pictures.

This is everyone that came. They're stopped for lunch. You can see Jared's big white Blazer. There were only 4 vehicles that weren't Jeeps. I think two were Toyotas, one was an Explorer (which did terrible I'm told) and then Jared's Blazer.

Here's some videos of Jared:

This was the only time Jared bounced going up anything.

Well checks

Crue and Cooper had their check ups and Cooper got a few vaccinations. My mom came with me to help with the boys because I thought Crue was going to get shots too. They both did really well. They are both very healthy. The only problem was that Cooper had thrush but the doctor gave us something for it.

Crue's 2 year stats:
Weight 32 lbs 88%
Height 35 inches 64%
Head 21 inches 99% (he's always had a big head)

Cooper's 4 month stats:
Weight 18 lbs 9 oz 97%
Height 26 inches 87%
Head 17 1/2 inches 95%

Crue waiting for the doctor.

First Laugh

Jared's parents came up for Crue's birthday and spent the night that night so they could go to a farewell the next day in Cedar. Jared's dad got Cooper to laugh for the first time. It was hilarious! I caught it at the end but was still able to catch it. He would fake a cough and Cooper loved it.

Happy Birthday Crue!

Crue turned 2 today so we had a fun party at the park. The first park we went to ended up getting taken right before we got there so after some trouble, we finally found another park. It worked out great.

Jared and Max had fun talking while they watched the kids on the toys.

Birthday Boy! Gotta love the belly and the twisted shorts. He sure is cute!

Grandma and Grandpa guarding the gifts.

Crue waiting to blow out his candles and eat his cake (it was a sad attempt at making him his own small cake by using two Bugs Bunny cake pans to make small cakes and accidentally making the frosting too thin).

Brian (Max & Jenny's) sure loved the cupcake!

Dylan (Jeremy & Molly's) enjoying his cupcake too.

My mom found a Black and Decker workbench at DI for $2 so we got him a set of tools to go with it.

Crue sure loves cars (and he got lots for his birthday!). James (Christian & Tamara's) helped Crue unwrap presents, along with all the other kids.

More cars.

Grandma and Grandpa Little gave him a four-wheeler (since his other one is pretty small - click here to see him try and ride it). His favorite part is the buttons.

Crue playing with his new wheelbarrow. Dylan is riding the four-wheeler and Bret playing with Crue. It was a fun time. Thank you to everyone that came.

Skyfest

We got up early to go to Skyfest again this year. We got my parents to go too, along with Desiree and Loni. We thought the balloons weren't going to be able to take off because of wind but luckily they did. On Friday I looked out my kitchen window and saw a balloon so I took Crue, Lara, amd Halee on the back deck and there were a bunch more. They were flying pretty low and were so close to our house that you could see the people in the baskets. Here are some pictures from Saturday.

Dad and Jared watching the balloons inflate. (Jared loves to have his picture taken.)

A bunch of balloons. There's two guys in the bottom right of the picture. It took both of them using everything they had it seemed, to hold the rope attached to the top of the balloon on the left. Probably to keep it from bumping the others too much.

Goodbye party. Crue still says bye-bye every time he sees pictures of hot air balloons.

There was a flying school that had a booth with this plane set up that the kids were allowed to climb in. We let Crue in long enough to get a picture and play with the controls for a minute because there was a bunch of other kids waiting.

Loni helped get Crue in and out of the plane while I got the pictures. I love Crue's expression in this one! I have no idea what he was doing or looking at.

There's an RC airplane club that flies their planes after the balloons take off. We watched it a little this year. It was pretty cool. The red and yellow plane in the picture above is huge - the wings are about 8 ft across!

More of the planes.

Jared and Crue watching them fly the planes.

Crue took Desiree's camera and was "taking pictures" of everyone. It was hilarious! His face in this picture is about what it looked like every time he took one (or thought he did).

I'm shocked too - Grandma holding Cooper. Okay, not really. I'm not always the best at taking pictures of Cooper (I was the same way with Crue when he was a baby) so I made sure I got one of him having fun too!