I love October

It's sad to see summer go, but I love the bright fall leaves! We tried to do some family photos up Farmington canyon's beautiful backdrop. The One that kind of turned out is on the right side of the page as our family photo, but here are some of my favorites:


Candid and more realistic depictions of our boys and us!


The red leaves were really that bright, it was really pretty!

We went with some of the cousins, Aunts and Grandma Watt on a hayride/pumpkin picking excursion at J&J's. So much fun!


Nate took the boys fishing frequently.


HALLOWEEN! I love this holiday, Nate does not. So I made the boys costumes solo, dressing them up according to one of their new favorite shows as well something suitable to their personalities! Thing One and Thing 2 from The Cat in the Hat:

Can you see my awesome pumpkin behind Cody/Thing 1?!


I made Baylee this cute Halloween bow/headband to go with this shirt I got at Target. We stayed out of the rain and passed out the candy while Nate took the boys trick-or-treating. They came back soggy but satisfied with their candy conquest. Their fun wigs had shriveled in the rain, and they looked SO funny!

September was kind of Big...

Nate turned 31 on September 15th and did not get a daughter for his birthday. He did get grasshopper pie!



Here is my before shot of my giant belly, and Neil's head, in the bathroom mirror. It's true what they say about horizontal stripes...


After shot. I was induced a couple days past due, on September 16th, 1:30 p.m. My best delivery ever, 4 good pushes and here she is Baylee Jo Tanner, 8 lbs. 9 oz. 20 inches long, chubby cheeks and lots of dark hair!


In her going home from the hospital outfit.


Got a picture with her eyes open, not too common in those first few days.


I LOVE the sleeping smiles, makes me wonder what she's dreaming about!

So cute!

2010 Summer Synopsis

I know, I'm terrible. I started doing a post to catch up the last 6 months, but it was way too long! So I'm going to do this in sections, at least that's my plan, starting with summer:

Cody and Uncle D.J. having fun on the dragon coaster, Nate fun, Neil not so much.


D.J., Cody and Nate having fun on the egg drop, Neil not at all!


Everyone having fun on Rattlesnake rapids.


I won tickets to the dinosaur park:


Snowbird: Grandma and Grandpa Watt on the zip line, the mama and baby moose walking around the condos this year, Cody with uncle Daniel about to go down the alpine slide.


We rode the tram to the top and got some fun photos.


Neil trapped, not really, in the bounce house.


Nate bought a watering trough/ "swimming pool" while I was at girls camp. The boys, big and small, loved it!


Cody started Kindergarten!!!

Baylee is Growing Fast

Everyday our children grown up and get a little older a little taller and a little different. With Baylee the change is so rapid that she really looks different to me everyday. Knowing how fast our kids grow, Catherine and I decided to take some photos to remember her at this stage.

I just cant believe how adorable and sweet she is. I feel so happy when I come home and get a minute to snuggle and hold her.

Catherine was cuddling Baylee and said "Your so cute I could just eat you up". Cody burst into tears and said "Dont eat Baylee!!!"

It was a tender moment and made us stop and realize that kids take what we say so literally.

Christmas is quickly approaching and its always fun to give gifts to our boys. Cody usually has strange requests and this year was not the exception. The prior year he asked Santa for three rubber balls made out of rubber bands. I kid you not thats the one thing he asked for. This year he asked for an umbrella? I tried to convince him he wants a new ps3 or flat screen tv but he still thinks an umbrella would be the perfect gift?

In one week Cody lost both of his bottom teeth he was so proud of them he didn't want the tooth fairy to take his teeth so he wrote a funny little note asking the tooth fairy to leave the teeth.

For a little Christmas program at my parents Catherine and I used raisins to cover our front teeth to match Cody and we sang "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth."

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.