Oil

Oh wow... yesterday was fun....or not. Ben was gone with a friend so me and Hunter were just hanging out last night. I decided to make a frozen pizza for dinner, it's quick and easy and sadly enough I could totally eat frozen pizza every day! Hunter was getting kind of tired and grumpy so I opened the garage door and let him go out there and play, he has a thing with cars and could stay out there all day just trying to open the car doors. I was inside cleaning the kitchen counters which is just a few steps away from our garage door which I had open so I could hear him. I looked on the oven timer and there was about 2 min left so I decided I better get Hunter inside, I turn towards the garage and there he is just coming inside. When I see him I start laughing so hard cuz he has a bucket on his head and is running into the walls. My laughter stopped pretty quick when I took the bucket off his head and this is what I found:


Apparently Ben uses this bucket when changing the oil in the car, and last time he cleaned it out you can tell not all of it came out. Hunter was crying only because I was making him hold still for the pic, he didn't care at all the oil was all over him. I started to take his shirt off then of course had to take a quick picture, so sorry it's so fuzzy these were all on my phone since I was in a hurry to get him cleaned.


Here he is in the bath... now he finally was realizing that the oil was not so fun. I ended up having to use dish soap to really get it off of him, and by the end of the bath the water was brown.


Here is my tub afterwards. The toy phone ended up getting thrown away since it was so stinky. And I promise my tubs actual color is white. After his bath I just left him in his diaper and we went and ate our now cold pizza. While he was finishing his pizza I cleaned the tub to sparkling white again. But I could tell I hadn't gotten it all out of his hair, so after dinner he went in the bath again (by this time Ben had gotten home and gave him his second bath), which ended up leaving another brown ring around my tub... definitely not as bad as the first time though.


So I had cleaned up all his little greasy foot prints on my floor while he was eating, then this morning when we headed to church I noticed my wall where he had bumped into it. Luckily I have some good cleaner that took it off pretty easy.


I had originally thought that the bucket had been by the stairs into the house until I went to get into the car to go to church. Here our some cute little footprints (he had white socks on that are now brown.)


Following the trail of footprints I found where he had originally been with the oil. Notice he decided it needed to go on the wall too, probably similar thoughts were going through his head as when he decided to write on my walls with pen wall I was in the shower... in 4 different places.

This picture I had to put just to remind everyone of how cute and blond he really is. He looks so innocent... who would have every thought he had it in him.

Internet...is it really worth it???

We have finally gotten internet at our house! It has been a huge pain, first they came to set it up at the beginning of the month and we found out that for some odd reason when all our other electrical wires were run our one for internet wasn't. So Ben ended up having to dig a trench so they could come lay the wire... when the first guy came to lay the wire he apparently put in someone else's trench. I think he thought we were just building our house or something, we have a neighbor building a house right now so I'm guessing they probably got the wire in one of their trenches. Luckily when the other guy came to turn the connection on he had wire on his truck and laid it at the same time. After that we still couldn't get the internet to work inside... after me struggling to figure it out I finally sucked up my pride and called technical support. It turned out we bought the wrong kind of modem, which we can't find the receipt to so they won't let us return or exchange it...bummer! Last night we went and bought the right kind of modem.... and it still wouldn't work, so I ended up having to call technical support again! Which was a total waste of time, after being on the phone doing a bunch of stuff to my computer for 45 minutes the tech told me our computer was broken and I needed to take it in. His reasoning for it was that our IP address wasn't showing up, which I was really mad about because it had showed up the day before when we had the wrong modem, after 45 min I was too annoyed to argue so just said thanks and I would get it fixed. I was telling Ben about it and told him that I thought there was a problem with our ethernet connection cuz on the 1st modem I couldn't get it to work with that I had to do the USB. He of course stated the obvious solution... to hook the new one up with the USB. Since it didn't come with a USB cable I hadn't even noticed the new one had that option! So this morning I took the USB cable from the 1st modem and used it to hook up this one... and wouldn't you know it it worked!!!! So in the end after several hours of frustration and buying a $65.00 modem just to use the USB cable out of it's box since no one would take it back, we finally have internet! It better be worth it!! Now that we finally have internet at home I hope to keep this more up to date, I have some really cute pics of Hunter that I have been wanting to post, so look for those in the future... today I think I need a rest from the computer!

Still the Same!

So we are pretty much doing all the same things, not much has changed, Hunter just keeps getting bigger and bigger it's crazy!! I did just get a newish calling today, I was already called to nursery but they just released Bro Mangum who was in charge of nursery and they had me replace him. It's kind of exciting I'm guessing that means that I will be staying in nursery for a while, which I'm excited about... Lessons are just so much easier in nursery and you get to play with toys and have snacks!! Since the new year all the kids still in nursery are so little that the couple of them that can talk you can barely understand so we are lucky if lesson time lasts 5 minutes!! It's so fun!

This weekend my parents, Brandi and me went up to watch Kira dance at state dance competition. She did awesome! They took 3rd overall! We wanted to do something special for her since it's her senior year, so we thought flowers would be a good idea... But flowers wilt so fast that we decided to make our own flowers! Here they are:

They are the best flowers every! There are 2 shirts, a dance hat, flip flop slippers, suckers, and several bracelets to hold it all together!! They didn't look like flowers as much as we had hoped but they were still pretty cute!


We got some stickers in the mail which I'm sure just about everybody did, but they ended up entertaining Hunter for so long, it was awesome! He first was putting them on another paper until I put one on his forehead and I guess he thought that was what he was supposed to do with them cuz then he just kept putting more and more on! This is after several fell off, at one point he even had a couple over his eye! It was hilarious!

Her are the crazy kids! Every Wednesday I get to go help Brandi by watching her kids while she helps in her older two boys classes at school. Hunter loves being over there and loves all her kids! They are so good to him too! He is pretty much just part of the family over there since Brandi watches Hunter quite often for me when I go to work, (He also gets to go over to Jaylene's, Joslyn's and Morgan's quite often too. I don't know what I would do with out all of you helping me so much!!)

Still no internet!!

Well we still don't have the internet, but it has been so long since I have posted that I decided I better used my in-laws interenet cause Hunter is getting HUGE!! Nothing much in our life's have changed, we are both still working and trying to be parents. We are both playing softball and they happen to be on the same night this season so we usually spend our entire thursday night at the fields, but we both love it!! I am back on the schedule at work which has been fun, it is a lot funner to work with the other girls than to be there by myself, and I'm still just part time so I still get to be with Hunter most of the morning. Now that hunting season is around Ben has gotten a few more deer to mount so that's good! Well enough about me and Ben, the real star of the show is Hunter!! He now has 8 teeth, and is right on track with his weight and height!! He still isn't walking but it's not slowing him down at all!! Here's the proof:

Here his is inside one of our cupboards!!

Here he is in the shelf part of our table.

In the fridge!!!

On his birthday with his new car!

And just being a cheeseball!!

New tooth and we moved in!!

So I had been thinking that Hunter's gums looked a bit sore so we were wondering if he was teething...and today at church I noticed that they were a little white so I felt it and one of his teeth did break through!! It's crazy he's only 6 months, but Ben's sisters boys got their teeth at like 2 or 3 months, my sisters kids didn't get theirs until they were 1, I was really hoping for that but oh well. Well we have now moved into our new house!!! Last night was our second night there. Ben came home on Friday at like 2 in the afternoon and said he was going to put the blinds up at the house and when he got back we were going to move in.....CRAZY!! We hadn't really packed much up so we basically just tossed anything we saw into boxes and took it over! It's still quite messy but we are getting there, we got our kitchen stuff all unpacked and cleaned so at least we have one room done. I'm so excited to be there, and will be even more excited once we have everything put away. Ben's family has been so helpful with everything, letting us stay at their house for a year, eating their food...the whole bit! We couldn't have done it without them! And my family has been soooo supportive, my dad and uncle came down several times to help build the house! We have had tons of help from all of our brothers and sisters too!! And my parents are so awesome when I called them on Friday to tell them that we moved in they were awesome and volunteered to bring their coaches down on Saturday for us!! They also brought down a bunch of my stuff that I still had stored there, and some really cute wall hangings that my mom and Kira made for me, which just happen to match perfectly with a Christmas present I got from Ben's mom, so I am so excited to put them up!! Well we don't have internet yet so we left our computer at Ben's parents house with his brother for now, so who knows when a will be able to post again, so I thought I better put a few pictures of Hunter since he just won't stop growing!!

His new favorite thing to do right after waking up from a nap was to play with the hangers that I had hung on his crib (those are now in his closet, so he doesn't get to play with them anymore) He somehow always managed to get his legs stuck out the side of the crib!! So funny!

I was changing him into his PJ's one night and his shirt got stuck on his head... he thought he was so funny!

Here's Hunter playing with his dad!! Ben's dad used to have all of them stand on his hands when they were kids, so of course Ben has to do it too. It really scared me at first, but I've gotten used to it!

Here are some really funny pictures of him sleeping!! On his belly he goes to rub his eyes on ends up falling asleep like that, and now on his back he has decided that he would rather sleep on his side, it's so funny!

Finally!

I'm finally getting the pictures from our weekend to Richfield for Kira's dance competition on here and a few of the house too! We had so much fun at Kira's dance competition it was at the begining of January, so it's been like a month! Brandi and I shared a room at the hotel together, so we had to get a picture of Talee and Hunter sleeping next to each other again, so this one is when they are 4 months and 6 months, the picture from my first post they were 2 weeks and 2 months.

How cute are they, earlier that day we had them laying next to each other on the bed and they ended up holding hands and both with their fingers in their mouths!! So cute!!

Here they are at dinner with Grandma and Grandpa, and Hunter showing off his cool new beanie, which is half off his head :)

While we were at dinner Brandi fed Hunter the rest of Talee's baby food, he loved it so much that he started screaming when it was all gone!

And I couldn't resist, I really wanted them to take a bath together! It was so funny, I think Talee was quite annoyed that Hunter was in there with her, and of course Hunter was just relaxing and thinking he was so cool! (But then splashed himself in the face in the last pic)

Here is a pic of the front of our house, it's actually kind of an older pic though, the roof is now done, as well as the front porch, side walk and drive way. The inside is getting really close to done as well, basically the carpet, the sinks, and few other little things are about all that's left!!

Here is my dad and Uncle Al putting our railing together, it looks really good all put together!

Here is our Kitchen, I love our cabinets and countertops!! In this pic the countertops aren't installed yet they are just set there.

That's my mom holding Hunter, and she thought the sun was too bright for him so she decided to put her sunglasses on him....

I thought it was hilarious so of course had to take pictures.... Then we both were kind of wondering why he was being so still, so we took the glasses off and here's what we found:

He had fallen asleep!! He almost always has to have his binki to fall asleep and either rocked or put on his belly. So it was SO funny that just putting the sunglasses on him made him fall asleep!

We are so Blessed!!

For those of you who haven't heard we rolled our truck last monday. :( It wasn't so fun, but we all walked away with barely a scratch, in fact I was the only one with even a scratch!!! Amazing!! There was barely any snow on the road but apparently just enough. We were on our way home from St. George, we had gone to Hunter's 4 month doctor appointment and also gotten all the lights for our house (which were in the back). We were coming around a very slight turn, changed lanes and started to slide. We slid into the ditch rolled onto my side, went onto the hood, started to go onto Ben's side, but the hill was in the way so we rocked back and ended on my side. All I could think about through the whole thing was Hunter, and he managed to sleep through the whole thing!! He was secure in his car seat which was still hooked to its base, when Ben climbed out the back window. He woke up sideways and Ben put him upright, then just seconds later people were there to help. Hunter and I sat in the ambulance while Ben and his family who also came very quickly picked up our lights (only one had anything wrong with it, one of the covering casing broke so we just put that light outside for the porch light where nobody really notices it) and stuff out of the car. The EMT's scared me to death though, they cut Hunter's pants off to check him out and they wouldn't pick him up in case something was wrong, so it made me really nervous to pick him up. They told us that we were very lucky that we didn't get hurt, they said that they guess how the people are going to look when they pull up to the vehicle and were very surprised that we were just fine. They also told us to take him and get him checked out the next day to make sure he was ok. The poor little guy had to go to the doctor 2 days in a row, but everything checked out ok and he seems just as happy as usual! They towed our truck to the mechanics where I went and took a few pics, so here they are (If you look close at the last one you can see glass all over):

***Added 12-18-14:   I have come to realize how much of a blessing this accident really was!  Shortly after this the Ben was out of work and there would have been no way we could have paid for our house and our truck!  I really believe that this wreck happened so that we would be able to survive the next year of barely being able to pay our bills.  The insurance ended up totaling our truck, it had a salvage title on it already, so they could have only paid us a portion of what they normally would, but they ended up paying us the full amount it was worth!  It really was truly amazing that we came out of this completely unharmed, and the lights all intact!  Definitely a blessing, even though it didn't seem like one at the time.***

Well on a happier note here are some pictures from Christmas!!

I knew it had snowed a lot in Kanab so I wanted some long socks for Hunter, but these were the only long ones I could find, which as you can tell are WAY to big for him!!

We got to spend Christmas with my brothers kids while him and his wife and family got to go to Hawaii!! So here are the kids in their new PJ's.

And us as a family in our PJ's.

I think Hunter liked his!

Christmas morning, my men look pretty tired!

You can see my mom on the coach, my dad on the right side with his hand on Casey's head and I think Sophie is hidden by the pile of wrapping paper.

Here's Hunter eating a present sitting in his new Bumbo chair Santa brought him and wearing his new cowby hat from my parents!!

Eating another present with his dad.

Trying so hard to get that ribbon to his mouth!

Oh, he got it!

Just a shirt...

I think he liked the wrapping paper better.

And to end the fun of the morning he crashed on my parents bed!!

We had SO much fun, Hunter liked it a lot more than I thought he was going to, he even sort of opened one of his presents. I can't wait til next year when he really can open them!