One Word

Kelly challenged me to try this so here it goes. I challenge Lauren, Katie, and Laurel.

This is definitely a challenge to try-- You can only type *One Word!*Not as easy as you might think. It's really hard to only use one word answers. You can only type one word.

1. Where is your cell phone? Pocket
2. Where is your significant other? cooking
3. Your hair? short
4. Your mother? amazing
5. Your favorite thing? lasanga
6. Your dream last night? unknown
7. Your dream/goal? France
8. The room you're in? Nice
9. Your hobby? Reading
10. Your fear? Insects
11. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Oregon
12. Where were you last night? home
13. What you're not? lonely
14. Muffins? lemon
15. One of your wish list items? vacation
16. Where you grew up? Nipomo
17. The last thing you did? ate
18. What are you wearing? capris
19. Your TV? big
20. Your pets? nonexistant
21. Your computer? compaq
22. Your life? amazing
23. Your mood? happy
24. Missing someone? Family
25. Your car? old
26. Something you're not wearing? jewlry
27. Favorite store? payless
28. Your summer? Sizzling
30. Your favorite color? Purple
31. When is the last time you laughed? Today
32. Last time you cried? yesterday

My Boys

Here are a couple of pictures of my boys. Kaeden is still playing camera shy...hee hee. He is smiling a ton but never when I have the camera out. But here is my little cutie!!



Avery has taken to hanging out in his highchair. I left it out after breakfast and he went right for it. lol. He is too funny.

OUCH!!!!!!!!

So, for the past couple of weeks I have been thinking that I need to start doing something to get my body back into better shape. I have pretty much lost most of the weight that I gained with Kaeden and Avery, but my body is quite baggy/saggy in places. lol. The things we do for our babies. Anyway, I was excited to find out that some ladies in the ward do an exercise/stretching class on Tues and Thurs morning. The best part is they are free and I can bring the kids with me. So, I went yesterday morning. I made it all the way through the class without sweating, granted it wasn't really that hard of a class. There were a couple of moves that I had a little trouble with, mainly the chair sits. Now, let me just put this in perspective....I did 10 chair sits at the beginning of class and 10 at the end. OH MY GOSH!!! Let me just tell you how upset my thighs are at me right now. lol. I can hardly stand up it hurts soo bad! Hee hee. Personally I think this is ridiculous. It will be a good motivating factor, because I can't believe my thighs would hurt so bad just from sitting in a chair 20 times. Wish me luck for class tomorrow. Hopefully I will survive. ha ha ha. :)

I've been tagged

I was tagged by Miss Kelly.. so here goes:
3 JOYS
1. My family
2. Catching up with old friends
3. Not being pregnant!!!! :)

3 FEARS
1. Spiders (or any kind of bug really!)
2. never leaving Las Vegas
3. something happening to my boys

3 GOALS
1. Go to France
2. Have a house w/backyard
3. Lose 50lbs

3 CURRENT OBSESSIONS/COLLECTIONS
1. Babies...need I say more? lol
2. Going to the temple 2x a month
3. reading children of the promise - thanx Laurel!!

3 RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME
1. I was born in Wyoming
2. I have had lasagna on my birthday every year since I was 13. i love it!!!!
3. I am scared of the ocean and lakes - love pools though.

I tag Laurel, Lauren, and Emily

Pool Time!!

Family Reunion in California!!!!

So, Wednesday night we left California about 6:30pm to head to California for a family reunion. We had planned to drive to Arroyo Grande and stop there for the night at my brothers house, get some sleep and then leave early in the morning to come the rest of the way to El Dorado Hills. Unfortunately when we reached my brother's house in Arroyo Grande, Avery had woken up and was talking and giggling up a storm. The decision was made that we would go ahead and continue up to El Dorado Hills being that Avery was not likely to go back to sleep if we pulled him out of the car. So, we called my brother Gregory at 2am and told him that we were gonna go ahead and continue the drive. And, after 12 hours in the car and surviving horrible wind, we finally made it to El Dorado Hills at 9 am. With a cranky 6 week old and a 13 month old that had peed out of his diaper all the way up his back and front. But none the less we were very excited for the weekend. The first order of business was Alex's graduation. It started at 7:30 pm on Friday night. It was FREEZING!!! Not to mention drizzling a little bit and we had no coats for the boys. I had called my mom to check and see what the temperature was supposed to be and she said it was supposed to be 70-80's. So we didn't bring anything. So, we waited to see Alex cross the stage and then we took the boys home. Needless to say, mom and dad and the kids didn't get home until almost 10pm!! Crazy! Here is a picture of Alex and my parent's right after graduation.
Then Saturday at 10am Amanda went through the Sacramento Temple for the first time. It was amazing to be there to see her go through. We took a couple of family pictures at the temple that day, but I will have to wait for Katie to send them to me so that I can put them up on here. Saturday afternoon, Nana and Poppa had bought a kiddie pool for Avery and Tyler to play in, so we set it up in their foyer and let the boys go for it. It was soo amusing watching the two of them play together. Here is one picture of the fun, but in another post I will put up a slideshow of more pictures. There are also a couple of videos, but I am not sure if I will be able to get those to load.

Sunday night three of my sisters - Kelly, Riley, and Kaitlin - received their young women recognition award. It is so wonderful that they were able to get it!! Kelly and Riley are Laurels and Kaitlin is a Mia Maid. We are so proud of Kelly, as she was able to recite The Living Christ from memory in front of everyone. Which is a huge feat for her. To see the projects that they had done was really cool also. Here are a couple of pictures of me, Riley and Kelly.

Then, today we went white water rafting down the southern fork of the american river. It was soo much fun. I have to admit that I was very nervous......well, to be honest, scared to death is probably a more accurate description. Hee hee. But once we got there and got on the river, I was excited. It started out pretty slow with just a couple of little rapids, that I thought were pretty, bad, but at lunch I was informed that they only were going to get worse, much to my displeasure. lol. The rapids at the end of the run have such names as - satans cespool, ambulance chaser, and hospital bar. Needless to say, I would have rather just stayed at the lunch point. But, we got back in the boats and headed on down the river. As you can tell, I successfully made it through all of the rapids alive. Luckily we had an awesome guide and I was able to stay in the boat the entire way. There were a couple of rapids where I ended up in the middle of the raft instead of the side, but I was happy to be in the raft and not out. Once again, I will have to wait to get the pictures to put on here, as they were taken on waterproof disposable cameras. As you can tell, it was an absolutley amazing weekend. Really busy, but lots of fun. It was really cool because all of my siblings were there. The only person missing was Gregory's fiancee Carinna. It was amazing to have all of the family together for the weekend. We always have lots of fun when we get together. Here is one finally picture of Avery, Tyler, and Great-Grandpa Johnston.

Cutest Boy on the block

This picture was taken by my mom when she was out here. I have to say that I do believe I have the cutest boy on the block. He is such a little character. We are truly blessed to be his parents.

Just a quick update on Mr. Kaeden. He is doing really well. Growing like a weed!! We just had his 6 week check up and he is 10lb 2oz and 22 inches long. He has been smiling lately, but you have to coax it out of him. Oh, and we have officially figured out the whole breastfeeding thing!! I am so excited to be able to do this. It was a lot of hard work, but hopefully it will be easier next time around. Over all, life is great!!!