Tyson and Davis.

Tyson started baseball last week. it's so cute to watch him. he loves to catch the grounders. I've been trying to practice with him. But I obviously have no clue what I'm doing. and I think he hates to practice with me. He loves to with Ryan or his buddy Stockton.
Tonight he hit the ball twice and caught it and threw it to a base. Go Tyson.


Here's cute little Davis. he's been crawling on everything. He loves to climb up on Bailee's bed, and even on her dresser next to her bed. and one of his favorite toys is the laundry baskets. He LOVES to get in and play with the laundry. it so cute unless I'm trying to fold clean laundry then it's not so cute. He's getting so cute and getting such a cute little personality. today I was laying on the couch and he came up and gave me a kiss.
Davis is a little delayed in walking and talking. We've got someone coming to work with him and help us to know what to do. he's so close to walking but not quiet there. and he loves to make all kinds of sounds, like a dog barking, or he likes to whistle, he just isn't saying words yet. He's so cute at prayer time. He loves to fold his arms for the prayer, I'd say he's the most reverent of all the kids. I sure love this little buddy.
Davis loves Spaghetti.

Do I even need to say APRIL FOOLS!!!

So I don't know if my adventurous side can go beyond Spokane Washington. But thanks for going along with my joke. This is definitely one of my favorite holidays. Here are a few more pranks we tried to pull today.

Last night I poured a bowel of cereal with milk in it and then stuck it in the freezer. then this morning when they woke up I just poured some milk on top of it to make it look fresh. They were so confused. Tyson kept yelling that his cereal was stuck in the bowel. it was funny. they were a little upset that they got April fooled but I think later they could laugh at it. (thanks Jen for the idea)

Bailee pretended she broke her arm while jumping on the trampoline. but she never told her class April fools and now she is begging me to let her wear the cast tomorrow she she can keep up the story. ( I think she loved all the attention she got)


Last but not least. I was going try and trick the kids but instead I let them help me and make one for their dad. doesn't this look like a real pizza? well it's just happens to be a sugar cookie with strawberry jam, white chocolate, black licorice, cashews, and fruit roll up's can you believe it. I think it looks pretty real.
My best prank of all I couldn't pull off. No one would fall for it. I put some Ice in the blender and then told both Ryan's dad and Alex that the garbage disposal was broken and see if they could fix it. then when they put their hand down there I was going to turn on the blender with ice in it. It makes me laugh every time I think about it. I'm so sad it didn't work out.
Thanks to everyone who believed my Tonga blog. you made my April Fools.

HUGE NEWS!!!!!

So a couple of weeks ago Ryan decided to apply for this job with the Church. it was a total long shot but he just decided to go for it. Anyways. last night they called him and offered him a job in
Tonga!!!!!!!!!
we've really been thinking and praying about and feel like it will be a great move for our family. the scary thing is we leave in 2 WEEKS!!!!! Here is a map to show you where we will be going. CRAZY!!! but we are very excited for this new adventure.
we're not exactly sure how long we will be there but they at least want a 3 year commitment.

What have we been up to.

So I didn't think we had been up to much of anything lately (at least anything blog worthy)but I looked at my camera and found some "blog worthy pictures."
This first picture I know is bad quality but I wanted to show poor Davis's battle wounds. he's been falling and tripping all over the place. I always feel so bad for my babies at this stage, and I'm always worried someone is going to call social services on me because my poor babies look so beat up.


This next picture I just took because I thought it was so funny. Bailee's friend Alyssa came over the other day and they were trying to find something to do. So next thing I know they are playing "dolly's" with poor Davis. They were very quietly changing his diaper (I see Bailee being all sneaky with the dirty diaper, because she knows she's not supposed the change it, and yet at the same time how could I complain, that just means no diaper changing for me) and then changed his out-fit a couple of times. then they did his hair. of course Davis just went along with the whole thing. it totally made me laugh. typical Bailee (mother Junior) and typical Davis (going along with what ever)

I was so happy for the nice weather last week. we even made it to the park. which made me realize that I'm at a pretty good stage with my kids. I just sat on a blanked and watched everyone run and play. While my poor sister chased her kids all over the place. Her little boy is SO much busier than Davis. she went to push her little girl (Ashlynn) on the swings and turned back around to find Austin had climbed all the way to the top of that twisty slide (in the picture below. you can't tell from the picture but it's a ways up.)


here is Bailee and her school buddy Cali.

and cute content Davis just chilling by the the food.

Last week Tyson was star of the week at school. it was fun to go and see him in his class and tell them how important he is to our family. we sure love him. He's also so good to go with the flow. and he's very easy to please.

here's Tyson holding his poster of things he likes to do. we told them how he loves to camp, ride his bike, go to the BYU games of course I couldn't leave out playing the x box.

last week we also got free tickets to the jazz game. I think they were row 17? it was really fun. I love watching the games. My sister was ticked that I got to sit in the lower bowel and I can only name 3 of the players. I was pretty impressed that I could do that.



Last but not least, last week me and my sister took the kids to the open house at the Draper Temple. I was so surprised at how reverent they were. It was fun to show them everything and try and explain it to them.


I guess we have been up to a lot lately. and now that I'm caught up I can keep you posted with all of the AMAZING excitement of our day to day lives.

There is sunshine in my soul today

I was so happy to see the sun this week. I can't believe how happy it can make you feel. It was so nice to let the kids go play outside. Davis loved it.



Here's what Tyson spends most of the day doing when it's cold outside. The X-box is such a blessing and a curse. I like it because it does give Tyson something to do and it's good motivation to get him to do things like clean his room or get dressed and eat breakfast quickly. but honestly it's like he doesn't have a concept of time while he's on there. he could play for hours and think it was 10 minutes. I honestly have to pry him off of it. it's so nice when I can make him go play outside and run around.

smoking deals

Ok girls. so I have to show you my awesome deals. I'm so excited about this.
6 boxes of brownies.
9 boxes of cereal
3 cookie mixes
3 frostings
5 warm delight (cake mixes)
6 boxes of gushers
6 Grands rolls
3 crescent rolls
6 progresso soups
3 boxes of toaster strudels
50 items total
all for a grand total of ..........................
$31.00 and I also get $12.50 back in instore credit so really it's like I spent $18.50 (which is under $.50 cents an item)
let me explain... Albertsons is doing that same deal (look in there add)where you buy any 10 items (certain items out of 250 different selected ones) and you get $10.00 back of in store credit. so I just had to do 5 different transactions so I could use my $10.00 off coupon and still get a new $10.00 off coupon. (I hope that makes sense.) plus I also got extra coupons from the paper. if you don't get the paper go to the link below and it will take you to coupons you can print off.
http://www.pinchingyourpennies.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114546
BoxTops4Education.com
Pillsbury.com
BettyCrocker.com

it's kind of confusing but once you go and do it, it totally makes sense. I'm trying to figure this whole coupon thing out. if any of you have any advice or know any good web sights let me know. I want to figure out how to get all of Walgreens good deals. Let me know if any of you know anything.

Davis's smile

So whenever I go to take a picture of Davis he gives us the cutest, funniest smile where he scrunches his nose and closes his eyes. I love it. it's funny because he will just have a straight face and the second he sees the camera he gives us this cheezer grin. He is so cute and busy lately. he has been getting into and exploring everything. He now loves to crawl up the stairs but makes me so nervous because he can't get down them.

Happy Birthday Katie!

Well I had to stay up til midnight so this would post on Katie's real birthday. She's the big 28! I just wanted to say Happy Birthday to Katie. She is an awesome wife and and even more amazing Mom. All of you who know Katie know that she is an unselfish, loving, kind, thoughtful, fun, happy, exciting, out-going, sweet, beautiful, amazing, cheerful, positive...(fill in any great adjective here), woman. I am a lucky man to have her as a wife and the mother of our kids. She is always thinking of something fun and exciting to do with the kids. She is always thinking of how she can help somebody else or do something nice for someone. She always works hard at being the best mom she can be. She doesn't complain about me not helping with laundry, unloading the dishwasher, not getting up with the kids in the morning, me sleeping in, me not hanging my clothes up, etc. etc. She just works hard and doesn't get very much credit for it and I just want to say thanks for that. I sure appreciate everything she does.

For Katie every single holiday is the best holiday of the year, not matter how insignificant it may seem. She loves to get the kids excited about the holidays too and they just can't get enough of all the fun things she plans. She is the life of the party and always brings a funny story, usually involving something dumb that I did, or excitement to anything she talks about. People love to be around her because she is fun and happy and is always positive.

She still looks amazing after having three kids and is still the hottest babe in the world. She actually is hotter than the day I met her and that is not easy to do. I love that she is so easy going and is not high maintenance at all. I don't have to shower her with gifts or lots of money, probably because we don't have it, but with a simple card or a chance to sleep in she is happy.

She always strives to be a better person or work on an aspect in her life that she feels needs improvement. She is a loyal and great friend and always loves to talk and support people in any way she can.

She lets me take time to do things that I like to do like golf, run, bike, swim, play xbox, shoot guns. These things to take up a lot of time and I'm sure it gets really annoying when I am gone but she never complains and never says no. She put up with me through three years of law school and actually still talks to me. Best. Wife. Ever.

Anyway, I just want to say I love Katie will all my heart and I am so thankful that she is my wife and friend. Happy Birthday Katie you are the Best. I love you.