Trip to Colorado

We were able to go to another baby blessing in Colorado this time. It was so great to see Scott, Alisha and Ada again and be able to welcome Brayden to the family. While we were there we did lots of fun activities to keep the kids and the adults entertained and sane.

We went to the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs on Friday. That was a really cool place to visit. It was cold that day but we were determined to see some of the main sites. Colton wanted to walk to entire time so we let him. He was much happier that way.







On Saturday we went on base and went bowling with everyone. It was Colton's first time really bowling and I think he had a great time! Although he didn't win he was one of the top scorers.... helps when you have bumpers! He liked all of the colored bowling balls but hated that he couldn't pick them up because they were too heavy! It was funny!






After bowling, and during nap time, Alisha and I went to the gym. It was great to have someone to go to the gym with. I am sure that if I was able to live closer to Alisha I would be in much better shape. She is a great motivator. After a good dinner we colored eggs. Colton wanted so badly to stick his hands in the dye.... I could only imagine how that would have turned out had I let him. He was very eager to put the eggs in and I would let him just look at them while they were being dyed.





Sunday was the baby blessing. Scott and Alisha have a very nice ward and the baby blessing was so sweet, it almost made me cry. I love sweet little innocent babies! Thank you Scott and Alisha for letting us stay at your home and for all of the good times!

Walking....

Colton took his first steps on Sunday February 21st at 7:30 PM. YEAH! Although he still prefers crawling he will now stand up and take a few steps before deciding the crawl! Horray for my big boy!

Where we have been....Where we are now.

Yes, it has been a LONG time since I have posted last. I have not been motivated with so many things going on. Once Christmas hit we just got very busy. So this is going to be a very long post! Colton had a great Christmas. He slept in which was great! Then we spent the afternoon and evening with my family. We had good food, the little ones played dressed up in The Nativity Scene outfits while Grandpa read the scriptures of Christ's birth. They were all so cute! After we played some songs on the chime set my parents have. I think we should become a traveling family band, just kidding. Later we set up the bounce house for the kids while the adults got to play volleyball. It was so nice to spend Christmas together as a family. New Year's Eve was a big party at our house. We played games, watched movies, ate pizza and junk food and of course went outside and lit fireworks and made lots of noise at midnight. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

December Pictures

-I don't know what happened to a lot of my december photos, I hoped they got saved on Will's computer so these are what you get for Christmas and New Years.


January flew by faster than I can remember. Not much happened in January other than it is still winter and cold. Colton did get rather sick in January.... That was not fun. For over a week we kept him home because of diarrhea and the worst diaper rash I had ever seen!! The doctor's checked him out to make sure he wasn't getting dehydrated and the poor kid was getting awfully tired of bananas, rice, apple sauce, and toast! I let him run around the house naked to help out his skin after his baths. He loves looking out the front room window and I couldn't help not taking such a cute picture. He has also figured out that doorknobs open doors and he tries so hard to reach them..... and gets mad when he can't. He is getting closer and I know when that happens I will be in big trouble. Back in November both of my sisters had babies, one girl and one boy. I decided to be ambitious and make them both blankets, I acutally started these in October but in January I finally finished them. The picture is the one for Ashley and the one for Oliver looks just like it only blue of course. These were done by knitting and they turned out really cute. I am so proud of myself that I actually finished them!!! One day James and Tara came over to visit. Colton has started to become very expressive with his face. This was the face he was making at Aunt Tara. It was so funny!!

January Pictures



Now it is February. This has been a busy month. Will's brother Brian was blessing his baby so most of the family made a trip out to California to attend. While there will and I made several stops to see some of my family too that lives out there. We left on thursday night and carpooled with James and Tara. We drove all night..... When we hit Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada's there was a massive blizzard!!!! It was not the funnest thing to drive in and it slowed us way down but we made it safely to Marysville at about 5:00 AM. We got a little sleep before heading to go meet up with Will's family for breakfast. After breakfast James and Tara announced that they were expecting! Horray! Congrats to them! We left shortly after to go to Sacramento wbout 40 minutes away to go see my Grandma and Grandpa Shular. We stayed and visited and has lunch while Colton put on a show for them. Grandpa gave him Oreos and spoon to play with after lunch. He couldn't have been happier! After or visit there we headed 2 and a half hours south the visit Jeremy and Amy who just welcomed little Ashley in November. Shelby loves her little sister very much! Saturday was Will's birthday. Amy helped me make frach toast and sausage for breakfast while he and Shelby played Mario Kart. Colton wanted in on that action too. It was great to see Amy's family and to meet little Ashley! After breakfast we headed to San Fransisco to meet up with Will's family again at Fishermen's Wharf. We went on an old battle ship from World War II and got to go exploring. There were some great views of the city, the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz from the deck of the ship. The kids had a blast going around and exploring. Colton was a little trooper. He stayed in the back pack all day and never once creid or complained. He is such a good kid. Will's mom bought him his birthday dinner from some of the street vendors... Really good clam chowder and crab legs on the side. Before leaving we went to Ghiradeli square and got some hot chocolate. It was the perfect day to go to San Fransisco, the sun shined all day but the breeze kept is nice. We returned to Beale for Will's party. We decorated the condo and blew up balloons while James and Will played ping pong of the kitchen table. Had cake and icecream and then called it a night! It was a great day! Sunday was the baby blessing. Brian did a wonderful job. We took pictures after church and then packed up the cars and made the trek home.

February Pictures

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

One day when James and Tara were visiting it had snowed. Jen and Drew let us use one of their little snow suites for Colton but we hadn't taken him out yet. James and Tara were more than happy to get him all dressed up and ready to go out in the snow!

I'm ready to go!

He has a very intense stare. What is this stuff?



I think he likes it....



Ok, he's done.

Hooray for snow!

Oh Christmas Tree Oh Christmas Tree...

We bought a real Christmas tree this year to have at the new house. We decorated on Sunday together. Colton wasn't too interested until we let him hold an ornament but he didn't get the part about putting it on the tree he just wanted to hold onto it. Here he is decorating it with Daddy.

And here is the finished tree.

I love real Christmas trees!

Oh my Stairs!!!

It is official..... We have a stair climber and he is so very proud of himself... I won't lie it was a little terrifying the first time I turned around to see what he was doing and he was three stairs up. I didn't want to scare him and make him fall so I had to catch myself and not scream....He is a very funny boy. When he decides he wants to do something and he is ready he just takes off. He never really climbed a stair until he climbed all of them. When he gets to the top, he smiles, claps and looks to see if anyone is watching....so very proud of himself! And here is the cute evidence!

Now that he can climb the stairs it means all the more things he can get into. For the most part he is very good. He really likes to climb the stairs to his room and he will just stay up there and play with his toys and pull all of diapers out of the changing table. So cute!

October Happenings

Well another month has come and gone and I can hardly believe it! We had a very busy month with a lot of fun times! Colton decided he preferred his cereal out of his hair rather than off his tray.

We stayed with Mom and Dad while we were waiting for the Taylorsville house to close. Colton loved having more dogs to play with and having Grandma so close!

Colton finally decided it was time to start crawling, only one week before his first birthday. He decided Grandmas cuboards were way too interesting to just sit there and stare at them. As you can see he is off to the kitchen!


October is a month full of birthdays. We started by celebrating with Cousin Gavin and Cousin Jacob. What fun it is to have family get togethers. We all like to see the boys grow and start playing with eachother. In this picture we have the 3 youngest boys posing together. Jacob, the littlest of the 3 is the oldest at 1 year old, followed by Colton who would be turing 1 in two weeks and the closely followed by Daxton who is 4 1/2 months. These boys will sure have fun when they start running amuck.


Next we celebrated Colton's first birthday! Hooray for 1 year! He had fun seeing all of his cousins again and being able to open presents although he didn't really like to tear the paper off of the presents. We made him his own personal cupcake cake. He started just eating the frosting and then decided to really dig in. Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate with us!






Mom's birthday was on October 27th, a tuesday I had off work so Colton and I took her some Panda for lunch at her work and brought her the birthday present we bought too. It was a good time. We celebrated her birthday with the family on friday night at the Halloween party she had at her house. We carved pumpkins, everyone dressed up in great costumes, ate good soup and bread bowls then sang happy birthday and ate cake. Jenny set up some fun games for the kids to play. I think they really liked the donut game, even the big kids like Kelly and Carl and Alan. Thanks for a great party everyone! Will and I were playing double duty that day as we moved into the new Taylorsville house that day also. Sorry no pictures yet, it isn't clean enough for pictures..... Too many boxes of stuff to still go through and decide what I really need and where to put it...... And all that was October.....