Hired Help

... And this is why you have kids :)

Like Father Like Son

Tray loves helping his Daddy work on ANYTHING. Darren is my Handy Man and fixes anything and everything that I need fixed. My adorable little mini handy man loves to be right along side of him. This usually makes any task take a million times longer but how can you resist such a cute moment? :)

I love these boys!

Darrens task for the day = Put together the entertainment center.

Trays task for the day = Show daddy how :)

Yay for BOYS!!

Here are some pics of my new nephews... Aren't they darling??

Mason Stuart Young

Born Dec 9 at 12:05 am

9lbs 1oz 21.5 inch

Cooper Lon Swainston

Born Nover 22 at 10 pm

7lbs 7oz 20.5 inches

They are both just so stinkin cute and absolutely perfect! Congrats to my wonderful sisters and their cute husbands!

Tray holding baby Mason. Tray is SUPER jealous around the babies. He wants to be holding them or be the one being held ha ha Classic first child, I suppose. :)

How much of a Mom am I?!!

Our Christmas this year was wonderful! I got to really help Santa for the first time which was really fun. Tray got to rip open his presents which he loved, and he had a blast with his new toys. And I for Christmas got a new car! Well not exactly new... and not exactly a car... I got a minivan! Ha ha How much of a Mom am I?!? I absolutely love it. Tray is just so much happier not being crammed in our little tin can of a car and its automatic! I love it! I named her Matilda... :)

Tray opening presents

Trays doll that he got :) Darren had a hard time with it at first.. but we made sure to get a BOY doll lol Tray loves it.

This picture says it all! Pure happiness! :)

Ah, my minivan. Contrary to its appearance we had just had it washed so I could take a picture of it.. but then drove it through the snow and slush. Anyways.. Love it! Best feature for sure is the automatic sliding door.. whoever came up with that is a genius!

We spent the morning opeing presents and eating a super yummy breakfast, we then went to see Grand parents and ate lots of good food :)

Merry Christmas!!

Our new years wasn't quite as glamerous.. Tray was pretty sick then gave it to me. So I spent new years eve either curled up in a ball or hugging the toilet. We then celebrated with Saltines and 7-UP lol We did however come up with some great new years resolutions, including getting our food storge together this year! YIKES! If anyone has any lists and/tips that'll help I would surely appreciate it!

Hope everyones holidays were as wonderful and full of love as ours :)

Uncle BOO!

My little brother Quinton holds a special place in my little Trayden's heart. Everytime they see each other they play a never ending game of Peak-a-Boo. So now Tray calls Uncle Quinny "Boo". He walks around my Mom's house calling "Boo! Boo!", trying to find Quinton. It is really cute. I actually hope the nick-name will stick. :)

Tray and Uncle Boo

(It looks like they're making a mad face, but this is actually the face Tray makes when he's trying to smell something. Or whenever he see's any flowers he makes this face cause he know hes supposed to smell them ha ha)

As for an update on our moving around situation... We got everything packed up and moved out of our apartment. Man it was a LOT of work.. and it was a little apartment.. I cant imagine packing a house! We found a town home in Logan that we really love! We will be signing the lease soon. I cant wait. Its SOO much bigger than our little tiny apartment. And thanks to Logans awesome living prices, its hundreds of dollars cheaper a month! :) Gotta love that. We are still waiting to hear back on Darren's job. They will know for sure if they have a spot open for him soon though. Once we know about that everything will feel a lot more settled. Until then Tray and I will be in Logan during the week and Darren will come to us on the weekends until he can switch over to a job there. 

Here is me and Tray in our empty apartment.. So sad.. I always have a hard time leaving places we've lived.. Its hard to leave all the memories...

I was sad to leave but Tray was ready to go! Lol

More exciting news.. I have TWO new NEPHEWS!! I can't believe how lucky we are to have two new boys in the family :) Tray is the first boy so its nice to get a few more. Pictures and more info to come!!

AGAIN??

Well everyone.. its happening again... Were MOVING!

UGH!

Have I ever mentioned that I hate moving? I hate it. I truly hate it. I hate packing. I hate unpacking. I hate the mess. I hate everything about it. But I guess sometimes it has to happen. It probably seems kind of sudden.. but its been in the works for a while now.

REASON: My darling husband has started school again! Yay! I am so very proud of him! He is officially a full time student at Steven Henegar College, majoring in Business Administration. :) And he is just so excited about it. We had been brainstorming for a veeery long time trying to decide what he WANTS to do. I told him I didn't care what we needed to do to make it happen, I wanted him to figure out what he wanted to do and work toward something he will love. Business is Darren's passion and he's loving his school work. (As much as you CAN love school work anyways) :) He has been taking classes online for a little while now but we want him to be able to go to a campus and interact with his professors. SO..

MASTER PLAN: Our apartment lease is up the end of this month and the management gave us two options. Either sign a new lease, minimum 10 months, or go month to month and pay an EXTRA hundred bucks a month! Can you believe it? That would be close to a thousand bucks a month for a ONE bedroom! No thank you! So we are packing up our few possessions and moving over to a neighborhood on the other side of town. Darren's parents have a home out there and we'll be staying there till the end of the year at least. We will still be attending our ward though, thank goodness. Which means at least another month of friends, fun, and volleyball Fridays :) I'm not at all ready to say goodbye yet. So we'll stay there and save that rent money, which will be super nice, then we'll pack up again and be heading to LOGAN, UT!

I am so bummed to be moving again.. its always hard for me to move. And its especially hard this time around because we have made so many great friends here who we will miss very much. Its going to be tough making the transition, it always is, but I know its going to be worth it. We knew at the beginning of the year that we were supposed to come to WY, and we were very blessed for doing so. We have made a lot of friends and memories that we'll cherish forever. But now we feel we need to be in Logan, so that is where we are headed. I am actually very excited to be going back to Logan. We both are. That is where Darren and I met and we just love it over there. The temple, the stores, the food, the mountains, the camping, the dancing, the closeness to our favorite recreation spots... and of course now Darren's school :) We are so excited to be moving back. We have been job searching over there and will hopefully be hearing from our preferred prospect today. *Fingers Crossed* Then once we have a job lined out we will find an apartment and get things situated.

This week is going to be a crazy one! I will post an update on everything in a few days. :)

Family Pics

A few weeks ago we decided to finally get out and attempt some family pictures :) Our friend Jen was super great and took them for us. I think they turned out way cute. We were racing against the sun, trying to get a few in with the little light there was left (due to my awful planning skills) So they re kind of night time pictures. Maybe we'll get out again and get some with the sun out lol But here are some that I really liked.

Thanks Jen! You talented woman, you!