The JOY in our Journey

The Aquarium

2009-12-23T18:14:00.000-08:00

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. :)

2009-05-29T15:23:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-27T19:12:00.000-07:00

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!!!!!!

Pictures of our family after church on Sunday!

2009-05-27T19:01:00.000-07:00

ayeyieyie

2009-04-13T22:19:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-12T20:24:00.000-07:00

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)

2009-03-31T19:32:00.000-07:00

I think he has a promising future! LOL

Good Things UT

2009-02-24T18:57:00.000-08:00

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...

2009-02-17T11:41:00.001-08:00

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...

2009-02-07T12:30:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-07T12:01:00.000-08:00

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!

2009-02-07T11:46:00.000-08:00

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.

Easton is growing too fast!

2008-12-16T17:31:00.000-08:00

Easton is now 18 months and got to go to nursery on Sunday. He went right in and didn't even notice I wasn't there. His teachers said he did great! Easton will be in nursery with his big brother, Brandon, for 3 weeks. Then, Brandon will go to Sunbeams. He is so stinkin cute. He smiles and poses whenever we get the camera now.

We finally had leaves in our front yard this year!

2008-12-11T13:03:00.000-08:00

Ward Christmas Party

2008-12-11T12:40:00.001-08:00

Brandon went to each table and told everyone that Santa was giving him a giant R/C monster truck. He was very disappointed when he found out that Santa wasn't giving it to him that night.

2008-12-10T09:35:00.000-08:00

It is fully fenced, auto sprinklers, landscaped and on a half acre. It also has

a huge food storage room.

2008-12-10T09:33:00.000-08:00

More house pics

2008-12-10T09:08:00.000-08:00

First picture is of the great room, next-Kitchen, formal living room, formal dining room

Hopefully our new home...

2008-12-10T09:01:00.001-08:00

So this is the home we fell in love with in Rigby. The top picture is of the play room upstairs. There are four bedrooms, 2 baths and the bonus room (aka play room) upstairs. The next picture is of the master bed (half of it.) Then the hallway upstairs, and of course the outside. It is a foreclosure so it may take longer to get. The red floor is not carpet! It is the pad and the entire house is being recarpeted and painted. It kind of reminds us of a victorian dollhouse on the outside. It makes me want to put up a white picket fence in the front yard.

Modbe Coupon

2008-11-04T17:55:00.001-08:00

I have an online coupon code for Modbe Clothing to share with everyone. It is 30% off your entire order.
Go to www.modbeclothing.com/sarabates enter code: MSHM69DF

One Month

2008-10-23T12:22:00.000-07:00

Ady has a lot to be smiling about. Her birthday is in one month from today. She's been counting down for 334 days. She wants to tell the world how excited she is. She has a hard time having the last birthday of the year.

The Joys of Boys

2008-10-23T12:09:00.000-07:00

Here are just a few pics to show you the joy of my summer! LOL I couldn't believe Booboos fell asleep after eating Nesquick. I want you to know that Easton was inocent everytime. Booboos would bring the goods to him. Easton benefits greatly by having such a kind big brother who is always willing to share. The evidence contained in these pics was almost a daily occurance a few months ago. lol

The JOY in our journey

2008-10-17T21:32:00.000-07:00

Matt and I learned so much from general conference last week. I was especially touched by President Monson's Sunday morning talk, "Finding JOY in the Journey." It is so important to find joy in many moments throughout each day. (Including when your 3 year old has covered his entire body with black permanent marker.) The joy in that is that it wasn't on the wall and that it was Monday so it was pretty much gone before Sunday. (Yes it took the whole week of baths to fade.)lol
I wanted to start a blog so that we could share the "JOY in our journey" with those we love (and whatever strangers are reading this until I figure out how to make it private.) I probably won't write on this much until we get moved, whenever that may be... When I get organized, whether it's this decade or the next, I will ad pics and regular posts. Joy Out!