Finally an update!

So my blogging skills have been horrible but I have taken lots of pictures and have lots to update. I love reading everyone's blogs. all of you that blog are big examples to me of how I need to be and keeping up with my family! So lots has happened the past couple of months....First of all Hogan turned one. We had a big birthday bash for him with both families. We got a cake for him and he had fun smashing it in his face!




I got to go with Hunter to his preschool fieldtrip to the fire station in Tooele. The fireman was pretending to rescue the kids in this picture. I love being part of my kids' lives!
Bry and his dad helped us finish the bathroom downstairs in the tooele house. It turned out SUPER nice. I was so proud of my amazing husband and how hard he works to make things look nice. We are super grateful for everyone that helped us...bro broderick for his plumbing skills, eric with the electrical stuff and grandpa call!!
Huntere cute preschool class with the firemen at their fieldtrip!

Last but not least....we of course moved back to murray and sold our house in tooele. We have tons of pics of our moving day which we haven't loaded onto the computer yet. I love love love that house and will miss it tons. I know the Lord is watching out for us and is aware of our situation right now. I will post more later. I'm grateful to be closer to family, shopping, and good schools for my kids too. they are good people everywhere you go!

soccer last time

My awesome hubby got to coach hunter's last game. He was high fiving the boys when they did a good job. Hunter's team was the Dragonflies. Those little boys were so funny and thanks to bry they learned a lot about keeping the ball in the middle of the field and trying to get it to the right goal!! Bry was super cute with those boys!


Bubs got an awesome kick!!
Then here is Mayley's Team: THE DRAGONS! What a fun group of kids! May scored a goal her very last game! We were so proud of her even though we didn't even get to see her kick it in...DARN IT.

We love this boy!

This little man is sooo independent. Even though he isn't walking yet he loves to EAT EVERYTHING. He has to do it by himself! He shakes his head no at us if we try to feed him! The other night we were playing at the calls house and grandma brought back a plate of brownies and cookies from a wedding. He went straight for the plate and grabbed a big brownie and was going to town! The funniest part was that he stuck the heel of his foot in a jam cookie! I thought I was funny when I said he got "Toe JAM" literally!! The kids laughed hysterically at little hogi! We made brownies the other night because I was craving something SWEET so badly! these were some darn cute pics bry took of Hogan licking the spatula!

the little gymnsist

May is learning so much right now in gymnastics! She is awesome and is loving it! She is in Level 2 and is doing everything. She is working on her backwards rolls here!She is doing her forward rolls here!
Cool sign on the wall!
Jumping on the beam! She has learned the proper way to get on and off the beam too! It's seriously so fun to watch her in action!

Happy 30th!!

Bry turned 30 and we celebrated with his parents the night before! He got a bag of carrots (so that he wouldn't start loosing his eye sight), money, some mexican cookies, and a funny face from May!

Bry hanging out with his parents on the deck!!

Oh a pic of the Mexican cookies bry opened from his parents!! They represented that he could look back and remember how young he was as a missionary in Mexico!!

Monday morning Hogan woke me up at 6:55! He was ready to help me make Breakfast (at the table) for Bry! The kids had fun helping me get ready to give bry his breakfast. Hunter probably had more fun playing with the little green light he is holding! We made him french toast, a bowl of fruit, and sausage!

That night we had a yummy gourmet lemon cake (thanks to some nice people that Bry works with!) With bry's favorite ice cream!I LOVE THIS PIC OF ALL OF THEIR FACES!!

Midway Getaway!!

So what do you do when you have a birthday to celebrate?!?! Go to a bed and breakfast in Midway!! Bry turned 30 a couple weeks ago! This was such a fun getaway!! I wish it was longer but it was SOOOO Super nice to have alone time with Bryan!


This is kind of a cool house because it used to belong to Bry's Mom's Cousin, Max Gertsch, but then an older couple came in and bought the little house and turned it into this amazing bed and breakfast place. It's called INVITED INN.
They had a sauna, steam room, and a jetted tub in the bathroom! Super fun!!


Susi, the cute little owner, gave us a tour of the house. We are sitting in the sun room and they have a cute little table where she served us appetizers. Homemade Guacamole, nachos, quesadillas with 2 kinds of yummy salsa, Italian sodas, and, yummy cream puffs with chocolate!We got there early so we went for a drive up the snake creek canyon!! Holy beautiful right now!! This was my favorite tree that I found up there!


A pic of the room we stayed in!
We went out to eat at this yummy restaurant called Tarahumara. They had the best salsa bar we have ever tasted. I was soooo stuffed from eating so many chips and trying all their different kinds of salsas!!!

Night time pic of the house! When we got back from dinner there were a bunch of deer on the lawn outside of the house!
The next morning we went for a drive around where Bry's mom grew up! I made bry go into Uncle Lyle's Barn! I told him to take a bunch of pictures of me by the barn because he is a good photographer!! This is the cute house that Bry's Grandpa Gertsch made and the house that Lynda grew up in!!
We drove out to the provo canyon and decided to hike up Bridal Veil Falls! We both had never made a hike up there. We had no idea where we going when we got there and we guessed of where the trail was. I had told bry that I had seen people hike right up close to the falls! So we randomly found a trail and followed it and this is where we ended up......

Miss May is in Kindergarten

Everyone always says your kids grow up fast. I never believed them until this day hit. I remember May being a baby and I would take her for walks when she was a baby and would go to the parks while I would see all the other moms coming and going from taking their kids to school. I couldn't wait for the day to see my kids be in school and be one of those moms. That time arrived and I cried my eyes out. May looked beautiful and Mrs. Adams is such a good teacher to her students!!


Her best friend Hailey is in her class. They have been doing fabulous together and they love playing at recess together too! They both have the same Barbie backpack and wear Hello Kitty shoes!!

I had to give her one more hug before I left her. With Tears in my eyes I told her she was going to have so much fun!! We have had our ups and downs with kindergarten but she has LOVED it so far. We had her first parent Teacher conference abt 2 weeks ago and she is doing amazing! Mrs. Adams loves miss mayley!
This is the door step pic before we rushed her off to school!!
PS May was so excited to have her first day of eating lunch in the cafeteria last thursday!!
She got to have her favorite food : Cheese Pizza! She ate it ALL Up!

ride of his life

Ok so he REALLY is going for a ride of his life because he is starting school!! What??! Our kids are getting old tooooo fast! I would have to say thats a good start in life to have an amazing preschool to go to!! He was cheesin it up and taking funny faced pictures before we went to his first day of school!

Miss Pateresa is such a fun teacher. She loves the kids. They have snack every day and she is helping Hunter improve on his name writing skills. She is even good at disciplining him when he needs it! She is the most positive, fun, outgoing lady I know! Emily is Hunter's little friend that is our neighbor that goes to school with him too. He is doing fabulous and loved making a platypus, and learning about taking care of his body the month of September. He has learned how to say "Criss Cross Applesauce give yourself a hug and talk no more!" And "You get what you get and you don't throw a fit"
May loves to talk to him about preschool!! Her face just lights up! I'm so glad he is having fun.

Zoorassic Fantastic!!!

My awesome friends and I took all of our kids to the zoo right before school started. This was our favorite dinosaur that squirted water out of his mouth!!The fun part was the BIRD SHOW!! We have never seen it before and Noriko raved about how awesome it is!! and it was the kids' favorite part!!
I learned that this owl can sense the smallest sounds! They have an amazing sense of hearing!!
Hailey and Mayley having fun inside!!


The big T Rex! It was actual size! its kind of a crazy picture cause I had the huge lense on and I was standing way far away!! this new camera is crazy and amazingly fun to do things with!!
More pics of the bird show! The Macaws are some of my favorite birds!
Kids being cute taking a rest on the bench!
The bald eagle!
Ethan would NOT loook at me for the life of him in any of these pics! The kids were too interested in the tiger statue they were playing on!

Going for a train ride. May hurt herself in the line...I felt so bad for her. Hunter never looks at the camera!!! I love him to death though!
I asked Hunter if the gorilla looked like dad and he nodded his head Yes!!!

I'm so super grateful for fun friends. Heidi, Noriko, and Celesta came with us. I'm glad we got to go to the zoo one more time before school started!! I was sad that we didn't get to see the orangutans or the meerkats!! Our kids love the MEERKATS!! We found them at the San Diego zoo a couple years ago and have loved to go see them ever since!!