The Aquarium

Grandpa and Nana Bates took us to the aquarium in Salt Lake. The kids were so excited and had a great time! It's always fun to spend time with grandparents and cousins. We all went to Sweet tomatoes for dinner and met more relatives. :)

On Sunday we went to show Nana and Grandpa where the kids go to school and to see the Rexburg Temple.

On Monday, we ate breakfast at IHOP (thanks Grandpa) and then went fishing at the Roberts Gravel Pit. The fish weren't biting but the kids loved being there with Nana and Grandpa and Aunt Krissy and Easton loved the water.

Saturday

Matt's parents and his sister, Krissy, came to visit us for the weekend. We had a great time and the guys worked really hard! Dad, Matt, and Andrew worked on installing the sprinklers in the backyard and Easton and Brandon made sure all the dirt was played with. Saturday night we had all-you-can-eat gourmet pizza at Craigo's. YUM!! YUM!! We are so glad they came and miss them already!!!!!!

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Pictures of our family after church on Sunday!

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Easton Baby climbed on a chair,

(Easton baby leaned back on that chair)

Easton Baby had a great fall,

Momma couldn't put Easton together again...

(So we went to the doctor again)

So Easton has staples in his head,

Now Momma is glad that he's in bed.

With two brothers cracking their heads open in less than a month, Ady is very worried that our house is cursed. She is afraid that she will be next. She thinks we should move so no one else gets hurt. I keep telling them if they would do everything I say, no one would get hurt. lol It doesn't seem to work! Unfortunately, Easton didn't learn his lesson. He kept trying to climb up on a chair in the waiting room at the doctor's office so I just held him the rest of the time.

Groovin Booboos

Brandon loves to dance. This is one of our favorite videos so I want to share it with everyone!

Easton's First Beatboxing Lesson, 2008, (15 mos. old)

I think he has a promising future! LOL

Good Things UT

So...I went with some friends last year to appear on Good Things UT as the best audience ever. LOL!! I haven't sent these pictures to them so I thought I'd put them on my blog so they can get them. We had such a great time and went out to lunch afterwards. I was happy to be one of only two in the group who weren't prego. We thought we were so cool and according to the GTU girls we were the loudest audience ever. (Thanks to MaRtI)

We live in a DOT COM world...

B 4 Bwandon just said to me..."Mommy, I went to BAD.COM" I asked him what bad.com said and he said it told him to be bad. (He had been getting in the bathroom and turning on the sink to fill up a water gun over and over and over.) I laughed so hard!! We live in a dot com world. We go to the internet for almost everything. After I stopped laughing, my first thought was that I had to put this story on my blog. LOL I think he mostly hears ".com" from his big sister. She is always asking to go to anything she can think of .com.....pigs.com, Hannah Montana.com, toys.com, etc.

Saying goodbye to cousins...

Oh man, I am so busted!
Brandon made me do it!

A couple of rascals!

Ady and Tall Tatym

Ashley and Ady

Cassie and Andrew

Motel Mania

Our motel was really cool. There is an indoor pool in the middle of the motel. All the rooms are around it so when you walk out the sliding glass door you're at the pool. The kids and I spent lots of time at the pool to avoid sitting in the room.

I'm Back!

So... it's been a busy month for our family. On Tuesday Ady asked how long we have lived in our new home. I told her it was one month exactly and she said it feels like we've been here for two years. So much has happened. We stayed in a motel for a week then moved into the house on January 3. (We actually slept there on the 2nd and the movers brought our stuff on te 3rd.) We celebrated Christmas on the 4th. Matt and I stayed up late trying to find all the boxes marked Christmas presents. Luckily Santa had everything wrapped and ready to go. Matt even got us a tree. The older kids started school on the 6th. Matt is loving his job. I know he really misses his Tooele coworkers but is enjoying the new ones. We went bowling with his coworkers and spouses, no kids, last week. WE ate pizza and bowled three games. It was soooo fun to get out.
We spoke in church a couple weeks ago and feel like part of the ward now. We are both anxious to get new callings and meet people. Ady and I went to a cookie decorating class at the Pampered Pantry on Wed. We went with her friend and her Mom. We had a great time. We each painted a dozen sugar cookies with fondant on top. The boys were so happy to see us, I mean our cookies, when we got home. The Pampered Pantry is right by our house. I think it may be my new favorite cooking store. Brother Weaver in our Ward owns it.
I know this is choppy but I just wanted to catch up on what we've been doing lately.