Things I've learned this week....

1.

Wife: (Wakes up at 4am, runs to the bathroom, no time to turn the light on....SPLASH! Curse Words...)DEVIN!!! Your forgot to put the toilet seat down! AGAIN!!!

Husband: No, honey, sweetie, baby, YOU forgot to put the toilet seat up!

Wife: EXCUSE ME!

Husband: What? Why is it that guys always have to put the lid back down. Why can't the girls put the lid up after they're done. See Problem solved. You put the lid up from now on.

Wife: I DONT THINK SO!!! When you start cleaning the toilet seat EVERY SINGLE DAY because it seems impossible for men to hit only the INSIDE of the toilet, then I'll put the lid up.

Husband: WHAT! I ain't cleaning no toilet. EVERY DAY OR EVER!

Wife: Then it's settled. Put the lid down.

Husband: Why do you have to be smart at 4 freakin am.....(Snoring begins.....AGAIN)

I love my husband. He definately knows how to make me laugh

Pictures of Clean Bathroom and infamous toilet seat

2.

Since before we ever got married I have asked my husband why he loves me. He has a very very very hard time ever answering this. Usually it's the same answer. Cuz. Cuz why. Cuz your nice. Only nice? Well ya nice and cute and selfless, and you make good brownies. Hmm okay honey. So yesterday morning my husband leaves for work, which after he leaves he always tells me, Iloyou, his special way. I of course say ya? why? and he answers.....You make me whole. Fill in all my cracks. Your Love. Your Laugh. Smile. Your Touch. I can't get enough ;) you are the open arms I want to fill.

I don't care who you are but this broke me down and I cried!!! I don't care if this is song lyrics he stole. I've never heard them and I can't believe he actually came up with something so fast to tell me. I love him with all my heart, cracks and all. I could never tell him the million reason I love him or how he makes me feel but I am so lucky to have such an amazing person to hold my hand and kiss me goodnight for the rest of eternity. Devin, I love you baby.

Rach and Devin sitting in the back of the bus headed to Gearge Straight concert from the parking field.

3.
Elephant Ears are very very very good. I hate that the fair only happens once a year. Though the fair here is Wy is nothing compared to the fair where I grew up in Puyallup, WA.

Yummiest food ever.

4.

No matter if you spent 5 hours in the sun one day and didn't get an ounce of color, you can sit in the sun for less than ten minutes and look like this....

My husband calls me Little Red Stocking Girl.

5.

Emry Doesn't much care for Green Beans....But I do so much enjoy feeding them to him!

6.

Having your own business is a lot lot lot of work and for the most part is not worth is unless you make a hundred bucks and hour and don't have to provide materials....hmmmm

7.

Emry has too many bibs....He's growing so dang fast that I had to dip into his big outfit bin and pull out even more clothes and deposit all those that don't fit him. During this time I found even MORE bibs! I have particular favorites of which you will find photos of Emry wearing them below. But it's going to take a while before they all get posted. Emry is now i 9-12 month clothing. He weighed 16 lbs 4 ounces I believe last week at the Dr's here in WY. He had a bad rash so I took him in which ended up being nothing. Love that I waste money :(

Bibs respectively....from Lacie and Saylor, Barbara, and Liesel and inside tummy Cade

8.

When you ignore your child all day long you force the father to get down on the ground and play. You usually end up with some very entertaining moments along with photo's for blackmail purposes. Emry loves his daddy very much and only Devin can get Emry to laugh for minutes on end. I love to hide around the corner and just watch them play. Fills my heart to the exploding limit. SO GREAT! So what was I doing ignoring my child? Well since we've been off having fun the last three weeks I have been neglecting my home duties. I woke up at 7am and took a shower. If you're a mom then you know how awesome this simple thing is. I believe it was the fourth day and I was desperate. So while the boys slept, I washed my hair, and shaved. The most peaceful and quiet time I've had to myself in months!!! So after my shower, I made myself breakfast. Then got down to business. I rearranged furniture. Emry's crib is now in the Dining room. We had a dresser in the bathroom that is finally bedside where it belongs. The playpen is in the bathroom so I have a place to put Emry. Wall's are very very nice to have now that Emry flips and rolls and wiggles away from you. I got the rest of my bin's of storage organized. Books on the bookshelf. Rubbish thrown away. Arts and Crafts into their own bin. Tools into their own bin. etc etc. Lot and lots of organizing. I got the rest of Emry's wall painted though it still needs to be hung up. I got the bathroom cleaned and floors hand washed. I got the kitchen cleaned and dishes cleaned. I did a lot more but I can't believe I've already put this much into my blog. I finally sat down and played with the boys.

Kitchen Cleaned


Boys Having Fun


Chillin before Swimmin

9.

No matter how much work YOU do, your man will still try and steal the credit.

Devin gets a text from his brother asking what he's been doing. He says oh cleaning and moving furniture and organizing the house and cooking. I see this, grab my own phone, and text back I have been cleaning, and organizing and moving furniture. Devin is sitting on the couch watching his 4th movie of the day holding a sleeping Emry that Mommy got to sleep. I was annoyed and told Devin to cook his own dinner. Which of course I still ended up doing.

10.

If you refuse to move, at some point your husband will actually get up and make food. On sunday everytime Devin asked whats for.....insert time of day meal. I said I dunno what you making? I want bla bla bla and his response every time is I don't know how even though he does.

Suffice to say he made all three meals Sunday for me. I also had my first lesson in Relief Society this day so I was extra ansy before and onery after church. So Thanks Honey

11. When you clean and organize, you find the darndest things....

Remember this Barbs! It was taped to my door one when i came back to my dorm....what boy???

same goes with organizing computer files. This is the day we came home from the hospital with his Grandpa Anderson

12.

I believe I have the best ideas when I'm dream sleeping. Let me explain. It's the period of sleep where you know you're dreaming or thinking while you're asleep but you can't quite convince yourself to really be awake even though you know you're pretty much awake but sleeping still. Get it? Anyway during this time I decided that I want to do a blog that has pictures of Emry on the 25th of every month to see how big he's getting. Also My Christmas plans for presents for Grandparents, and last but most imprtant Emry's Birthday Party. In my sleep I figured if I gave all my fellow Utahn's 7 months Notice there's no reason in the world you won't be able to make it to the party seeing as We never get to see anyone anymore.......details will come later but for now......

February 27th Saturday Afternoonish in Clearfield(Layton)

I expect RSVP's in the comment section hehe and I'm serious!!!

We love and miss you all so so much!

I'm Sure I learned a ton more this week but this is too long to start with!

Too Long!!

So I've been a mighty big slacker when it comes to bloging. In the beginning I felt like I had nothing to talk about and tons of pictures. I'll tell you what! That's all. I just told you. JK we've been listening to Bill Ingoll lately. Sorry. Anyway When you think you have nothing to write about then one thing happens and then another and another and pretty soon you have a month's worth of things to write about and show. Then trying to remember everything that happened!

Well I'll just start with Fourth of July weekend since it's the last thing I remember. We went to Logan to spend time with both our Families. We spent the weekend going water skiing, watching fireworks, and going to the Cruise In, which is a big car show there. We spent Friday night with my mom in her new tent trailer then Saturday night we stayed at his parents house before we left to go back to Wyoming. We had a fun weekend and were really sore after skiing.

The next weekend Devin's father brought the boat over to Wyoming so we all went down to Flaming Gorge and went Skiing and Tubing at the lake. It was incredibly windy so it wasn't as fun as we had hoped and we didn't get too much skiing in. There will always be other weekends we hope....

This last weekend was the company party. Devin's father got us all tickets to see George Strait and Julianne Hough out in Cheyenne. So we took our babies to Utah to be watched by Grandma's then drove across the whole state of Wyoming to Cheyenne and watched the show. We had dinner at Applebee's which was so yummy. Then we drove back home on Sunday and went to get out little Tyke! It was such a nice break to not have to worry about Emry for a day, but boy did we miss him. Originally I wasn't planning on being able to go to the Concert because Emry has been refusing a bottle for about a month now. But I finally just had to let him cry till he was starving enough to take one, then he decided not to have a problem anymore so I was able to go. It was definitely hard to be away from your baby when you're breastfeeding. It definitely got in the way of all the fun that could of been had.

So that's a catch up of all the weekend fun we've been having.

During the week we spend most of our time hanging out with each other, playing Mario kart with Barbs and Jers and doing things with friends from our ward. There are a bunch of crazy kids that we just love to hang out with out here. Our pool finally opened up out here so we had a group FHE last Monday so all the kids got to come and play. Hey there's a great enticement for all our friends in Utah to come visit us out here!!! Anyone like Emerson Drive?? They're coming here in two weeks and it's only 8 bucks!!! Come play with us!!

Also Devin was called to the Second Counselor in the Elders quorum so he's been a busy bee working on all his duties. I was called to teach in Relief Society. Definitely a scary calling for me but maybe it'll turn out to be really fun. Na, I'm deathly afraid!!! I have to teach this Sunday.

Friday nights we started doing a paper route. It's actually kind of fun. We take turns. Devin does one section then I do our apartment building. So we do about two hundred and fifty and it goes super fast.

We also are starting up our business finally. I'll be doing the cleaning for the apartment complex we live in. I'm mulling it over whether I want to do some marketing and get a little more business from the surrounding area. I don't know how much work I actually want to do thought. It's pretty much just to pay off all my old stupid school loans so we'll keep ya updated.

Emry is Almost FIVE MONTHS OLD!!! He's such a fun baby with such a growing personality. He now rolls over, scoots across the floor, throws up a ton since he's moving so much and being active! and sometimes sleeps through the night. We finally started letting him cry himself to sleep and after only two nights he no longer cries. We just lay him in his crib and he rolls over and goes to sleep. It's great!!! He had a few weeks that were really terrible. We thought he was teething so he was just cranky and grumpy all the time. Then he went to his Dr and got his tongue clipped so he was even more grumpy and bleeding. Then he got his shots so he was even more cranky, grumpy, bleeding, AND had a 103 degree fever. Poor little man and poor little Mommy who got no sleep at all. But he's doing better now so fingers crossed he keeps it up.

Now for all the pictures.


Emry Found his feet. It's also very warm here and we don't use our AC so our baby is naked A LOT!

His lips looked really cute and red. I had to take a picture of him kissing is Dream Love Lol

He doesn't really sleep that much but it seems to be the best pictures we can get of him.

Sitting on the couch and giggling at Mommy's funny faces.

Emry with his Grandpa Hovik when we were out in Seattle visiting for his cousin's 5Th Birthday

Me and Devin waiting for Fireworks to start. Oh I had cut 4 inches off my hair this day. I think I look like I'm in high school again.

Jer's and Barb's holding Emry waiting for Fireworks

Darren and Emry and Devin and Tray in the pool at our Group FHE

Tray and Emry lounging around. They loved the pool!

Mandi and Tray again at the pool. And our friend Ali in the background.

Tray and Emry sitting up on his own!!!

Tray has the biggest mouth I've ever seen. He's gonna grow up and be in AeroSmith!!!
Big Beautiful Blue Baby Eyes

Emry and his Grandpa Anderson Taking a snooze after a Long 4Th of July weekend

Emry flying high at the cruise in.

Tray and My mom.

Emry Loves Loves Loves to Jump!!! He was missing his Jumperoo this weekend so he jumped on Auntie's Lap instead.

Devin being a goofball

Devin's Mom eating Cotton Candy

We matched this day....not on purpose

Auntie Mandi and Emry

Devin had a truck just like this but sold it last week.....granted it was definitely not this pretty....

Just another pretty Car....a Chevelle

Every year Devin sees this car and says he wants to build one. Ugliest thing I've ever seen.

Emry Playing on the couch for tummy time

Emry wondering what he can get away with next.......I think I'll just throw up instead

There's my boys beautiful smile

Emry on the Couch in our Living room.

Emry's Crib it's in our living room next to the front door. The couch is where I'm taking the picture from.

Just some random pictures and decorations I painted. They are supposed to be cherry blossom tree's or pussy willow tree's can't make up my mind.

Emry's corner. It's really the dining room but It's the only wall left for Emry's stuff. I have some stars that I haven't painted and put up yet.

Emry asleep in his jumperoo

Emry blowing bubbles video

Hope you all enjoyed the pictures. I hope I'll be able to post more often now that I'm mostly caught up. I still have lots more pictures I want to take of my apartment I'm just waiting till I actually have a room clean so I can take them Lol Hope you all are doing well. We miss you so come see us!