Birthdays in Phoenix

Our birthdays were a while ago, but I am a little behind and still trying to get caught up! Yes, I said OUR birthday because Gary and I have the same birthday and it is a lot of fun to celebrate together!

This is Josh wanting to try out our gift to each other. We bought a 2006 Toyota Sienna for our birthday gift to each other. We broke it in by driving it to Phoenix. Josh would have been content to stay in Grammy's pool the entire time we were there. Josh enjoyed shooting everyone with the water gun and didn't even really get scared when he fell off the toy and Grampy had to pull him out of the water.

We took Josh to the ostrich farm. Grampy Mark was the brave one to feed the ostriches first.

Feeding the deer.

Feeding the birds with Grammy. Gary feeding the birds.

One of the birds decided to nibble on my neck.

Josh and Grammy sharing an ice cream cone.

He looked a little more like Grampy by the time he was done. Rocking with Grammy after a fun filled day.

Doing a little shopping at the mall.

Aunt Kimi took Josh to Build-A-Bear. Every night he sleeps with the dog he made at Build-A-Bear, his Snoopy, and a Bear Gary gave him.

Grammy, Kimi, and Josh looking at the gator outside Rain Forest Cafe.

Checking out the elephants at the Rain Forest Cafe.

Just the guys.

Wedding Bells

I've really been slacking on my postings to this blog. We've been keeping busy and it has been a little crazy trying to get back to normal life now that Gary is back. Over the next couple weeks I will try and get caught up with my blogging.

On May 23 my youngest sister, Andrea got married. She and Jordan were married in the Mount Timpanogos Temple. Congrats Jordan and Andrea!!

The whole family outside the temple.

The whole family at the reception.

Josh and Grandpa Paul. Melissa and Dad

Jared and Carrie moved to Illinois a few months ago. They flew in for the wedding and stayed with us. It was fun to have them at our house visiting.

Travis & Kristy's family. Just us girls.

Mom & Dad.

All the grand kids.

The bride. The groom.

Andrea and all the kids.

Formatting Issues

I am having issues with formatting posts on this blog in case you didn't notice from the previous posting. In the screen I type stuff it looks right, and when I preview it before I post it looks right, but then I post it and it looks different. Does anyone know how to fix it?

Double Tagged

I have never been tagged before and then got tagged twice, so here it goes: Tag #1 Five things on my to do list... 1. Buy a van 2. Straighten up the house 3. laundry 4. buy & plant flowers & catch up on yard work 5. grocery shopping Five places I've worked... 1. Nu Skin (my current job and I started two weeks before getting married) 2. H&R Block preparing tax returns 3. AccountTemps (while looking for a good job) 4. Flowserve (my first accounting job and my brother trained me!) 5. Nature's Sunshine Five favorite foods... 1. Lasagna 2. Cafe Rio chicken salad 3. fruit 4. fajitas 5. pasta Five places I've lived... 1. Monticello, UT 2. Richfield, UT 3. Provo/Orem, UT 4. Spanish Fork, UT 5. Payson, UT Five things you may not know about me... 1. I'm not sure what you don't know, my mind is blank on this one. 2. 3. 4. 5. Five things I would do if I was a billionaire... 1. Quit my job 2. Build a new house 3. Buy new vehicles 4. Go on a very nice, very long vacation 5. Share the wealth! I tag...now you're supposed to answer all of these questions on your blog--anyone who is reading this that has never been tagged!! Tag #2 A- Attached or Single?- Attached--four years now! B- Best Friend? – Gary C- Cake or Pie? - Cake, I'm not much of a pie person D-Day of choice? - any day I'm not at work E- Essential item?- Internet F- Favorite color?- Green G- Gummy bears or worms? both and any other candy to go with it H-Hometown? Richfield I- Indulgence(s)?- a nice hot bubble bath in a jetted tub J- January or July? –Something in between that isn't too hot and isn't too cold! K-Kids?- just Josh for now! L- Life is incomplete without?- my family M- Marriage date?- January 31, 2004 N- Number of siblings?- 4-Kristy, Jared, Melissa, Andrea, and I'm right in the middle. O- Oranges or apples?- both P- Phobias or fears -more things going wrong or breaking around the house Q- Quotes? - ask grandma Wood, she's always got one! R- Reasons to smile? - Gary is home and he is safe!!! S-Season? -Spring T-Tag 5 people?- Anyone who hasn't been tagged U- Unknown fact?- ??? V- Very Favorite store?- Walmart-it is close to my house and I can get about anything I need there! W- Worst Habit?- Gary could probably tell you better than I could X- X-ray or ultrasound? – Ultrasounds are fun if you're pregnant, but I'd prefer an X-ray if I wasn't! Y-Your favorite food?- Lasagna Z- Zodiac?- Gemini.

Weekend of Celebration

Josh and I are very glad to have Gary home again! Josh steals his dad's hat every day when he gets home from the base, so Gary found one that he could keep and he loves to wear it everywhere. He is doing great adjusting to having his dad home again!

He was pretty worn out from all the excitement of his Dad's return and fell asleep playing in the head board of his bed.

He also fell asleep like this after finishing a Popsicle while watching cartoons.

Last weekend Gary didn't have to be at Camp Williams so we went to Richfield to spend the weekend with my mom and dad. Friday night we celebrated Josh's birthday, Saturday night we celebrated my sister Andrea's birthday, and Sunday was Mother's Day. We made Josh a choo-choo train cake and he had a good time blowing out candles. He blew them out several times. Daddy helping Josh open presents.

Grammy Debbie got Josh a new bike. Josh and Gary had fun putting it together. Andrea helping Josh get ready for his first 4-wheeler ride.

Grandpa Glen and Josh on the 4-wheeler. He had a lot of fun with grandpa!

Grandpa Glen put in a new dishwasher for us. Josh gets the tools out and fixes the dishwasher just like grandpa did. He even grunts while he's doing it and it's pretty funny to watch.

I made the mistake of leaving my checkbook sitting out on the desk. Josh picked up the pen and started doing exactly what he sees mom do with the checkbook!

Welcome Home!!!

Gary is home!!! Josh and I picked him up at Camp Williams last night and we are very excited to have him home! It was neat to have the scouts come put flags all over our lawn for Gary. If you'd like to see the news stories on their arrival there are lots to choose from, but you won't see us in any of them! Here are some links:

Fox 13 News http://www.myfoxutah.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=6445315&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1

KSL http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=3210656

Deseret News http://www.deseretnews.com/photo/gallery/story/1,5417,695275748,00.html

Daily Herald http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/264835/17/

Salt Lake Tribune http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9125237

Birthday Boy

Yesterday was Josh's birthday. I can't believe he is already 2! I actually decided to postpone his birthday this year, since Gary will only miss it by a couple weeks. We will do a real celebration when he gets home. Yesterday I let him open a few presents to get him warmed up for the real celebration, and the rest will wait until his dad is home. It is a good thing I decided to postpone the real party because he got sick yesterday in the afternoon and it wasn't much fun.

Playing with the golf clubs Grammy Debbie sent.

Josh will have lots of fun playing catch with his daddy when he gets home.

Instead of eating cake, he got a doughnut and chocolate milk. We're saving the cake for later! He ate the frosting and didn't touch the rest of the doughnut.

Josh's cousins came over and helped him open the presents!

Easter was a while ago, but here's Josh with his Easter stuff. Grammy Debbie sent this chick that sings a song and flaps its wings. He was like that for a long time watching it sing the song.