Oregon Trip

In the beginning of June we went caravaning with Nate's family: Mom and Dad, David and Acacia and kid, Liz and kids and D.J. up to Oregon to visit his sister Sarah and invade her new house/yard!


Here's Sarah with 3 out of 4 kids, (one you can't actually see because she's in her belly!) cute toe head kids, Ethan and Sylvia.


Here's our tent in her front yard on the top of a mountainside, seriously! She has the steepest driveway I've ever seen, and the coolest backyard the boys had been in! They loved catching tadpoles in her pond, and I think Nate did too.



Grandma and Grandpa Great Tanner joined the trip a bit later, here's 2 of our group shots, a happy and a realistic shot!



We left the group for a couple nights and found a campsite near the beach. The whole group met up with us there later and we had a very fun, cold-ish beach day that ended with lots of seafood eating, some good and some not so good, sorry Paul!



One of D.J.'s many discoveries, a purple starfish eating a clam, gross and cool at the same time! Cute boys walking in the beach!



We stopped at Glacer Lake, very cool and very cold! Had lunch in the top of the gift shop were the boys made a new friend, then started on the very, very long drive home! We miss Sarah, but it's nice to be back home.

Spring 2010

Yeah, finally a new post! I'm going to flash through spring so I can get to our fun and crazy summer. At least that's the plan, we'll see...


At the beginning of April Neil turned 3 and got big boy underwear, which is still a work in progress! Cody made him a hat, inspired by an episode of Curious George, any other C.G. aficionados may recognize this hat?!


In May we had a baby shower for Brittney, who's due exactly 2 weeks after me. It was too bad Sarah couldn't drive out from Oregon, (or was she still in Cali at this time?) for the shower for a triple baby belly shot, she's due about 2 1/2 weeks before me! JoAnn's been in baby blanket making overload! Acacia made beautiful decorations and cupcakes and Liz did some fun shower games, we had a great time!


Nate and I went on a fun long weekend- spring vacation- Mother's day- get out of the long winter cold trip to Las Vegas with our fun neighbors! We stayed off the strip just below the red rock canyon, this is a hike we took one morning in the canyon, it was fun and beautiful! Big thanks to my sister Kim for watching our boys the whole time so we could go!

One last picture I had to add of another hat/creation made by Cody inspired by the cardboard ring that comes around the package of Costco grapes. Yes that pen is dangling from the hat by a string, because you'll never know when you need a pen, or a fuzzy propeller.

Winter Trips!

The best way to beat winter blahs is to go on a trip! The first one we went on was in the middle of January to Island park with Nate's family. We went cross country skiing, played games and more cross country skiing, it was fun and really pretty!





This is the little frozen river right behind our cabin we shared with Liz and Rex's family. Paul and Joann shared a yurt with D.J., David and Acacia and little Evia.



Over Valentine's/ President's Day weekend we escaped the cold and took a 16 hour drive down to Tucson Arizona to visit Nate's brother Chris and his wife Brittany. It was a long drive but D.j. came with us and helped A LOT with the boys in the back, and their occasional puke!



It was sunny and warm and the boys were fascinated with the red dirt and ALL the cactus!



We spent a day at "Old Tucson" which was all about cowboys and the wild west, it was fun "driving" old fashioned cars, eating pricey pizza and watching gun shows and stunt shows.



Neil wore his sunglasses like that in purpose, the whole day, he said he was a surfer!





We rode on and old fashioned carousel Cody loved it, but Neil spent the whole ride staring at the scary looking horse behind him, wondering when it was going to catch up to him!



The boys wanted to ride the train first thing when we got there and not many people where there yet, so no one else was on the train, it was like our own private ride, and the boys loved it! They thought the conductor was pretty cool too!





It was so warm and so fun to be with family that it was hard to leave, especially coming back home to more snow!

Cody Turns 5!

At the January Sunday dinner with my family we celebrated my Dad and Cody's birthdays:



Jaron had made the cutest map for Cody to follow to his birthday presents!




On his actual birthday Cody had both sets of Grandparents over for his favorite dinner of shrimp shish-ka-bobs, rice and edemame, followed by his request for Dinosaur Train birthday cake! We decorated with his favorite color-green, and he even shared one of his presents with Neil, some tongue-color-changing fruit roll up, so nice.

Our new-ish house!

Another thing I forgot to mention from December is the best present of all, our house! Although we'd been living here since the end of June, we finally closed on it the end of December and we became official mortgage owners again. Renting was kind of nice, but security is better!

Cody on his new bike out front.

Christmas 2009 and New YearsDay 2010!

Pictures from winter, during winter, even though most are technically from last year, it really wasn't that long ago!

This was "Santa" at our ward Christmas party, Cody was excited, Neil was not convinced!


This was the annual Great Grandma Tanner Christmas Eve party, complete with the grand-kid Nativity production and an appearance from Great Grandpa Santa!


CHRISTMAS DAY! Cody got a brand new big boy bike, finally upgrading from a tricycle. Is it technically an upgrade if he's going from 3 wheels to 4?


The boys and their shark slippers from "Santa" the only thing they actually asked for, besides a cat. The shark and the uncle are Bruce!


The new cat Santa brought about 2 weeks before Christmas and left in a box on our doorstep! Mysteriously after we'd taken a drive to Layton where a family was giving away free kittens, sometimes Santa's timing is just right. We watched Muppet's Christmas Carol that night and decided to name the cat Gonzo!


NEW YEAR'S DAY! The annual Tanner family cross country ski day up near the old house in Eden, a beautiful day but really sticky snow! We were excited to get back to Joann's yummy taco soup, sandwiches and letting Rex win at boggle!

Pictures From Fall...

One's again, one season behind! Here are pictures from October and November, with a promise that winter pictures will come before winter is over!




Our cute little boys at the Farmington pumpkin patch.



The cousin costume parade at Grandpa and Grandma Tanners, along with Grandma's infamous spud-nuts and Acacia's (funny?) Halloween cupcakes!



Our amazingly carved pumpkins with our neighbors and our even more amazing cell-phone message effect!




HALLOWEEN NIGHT! One cute and happy pirate and one sad dragon.



Thanksgiving, the big fancy table and the little crazy table, and the whole fancy/crazy group!