The Burgon Bulletin...

Jackson's Christmas Program

2011-12-15T15:31:00.009-05:00

Jackson had a Christmas Program for school. He did such a great job. He was a goat, and he made a pretty cute one if you ask me. :) His buddy Tyler was a cow.Great job Jackson. Mom and Dad and Ty are so proud of you!

Supper with Santa

2011-12-09T14:54:00.008-05:00

Jackson's preschool did a Supper with Santa. We ate our dinners very quickly so they could get in line to meet Santa :) My boys brought their letters for Santa so they could give it to him instead of mailing them to the North Pole. The boys were so excited to meet Santa. Here are their letters before giving them to Santa.Patiently waiting in line...Giving their letters to Santa.Jackson kept staring at Santa (I'll be honest, he wasn't the best Santa) and he asked "is that the real Santa?" So we had to explain that sometimes Santa has helpers because he can't be everywhere. So then he said, "so is this Santa just a bunch of little elves to make one big Santa?" Something like that. :)

Decoratating the Tree

2011-11-26T15:01:00.008-05:00

After Thanksgiving we put up the tree to get ready for Christmas. My boys are so excited for Christmas to get here. This is a fun tradition that helps jump start the season. Soup for dinner, and then sweet-rolls and egg-nog after the tree is all done.

Thanksgiving

2011-11-24T02:08:00.010-05:00

For Thanksgiving we went to Mark and Aimee Hansen's home in Durham. Mark and Aimee are like family to us so it made our first Thanksgiving away from family in Utah, like being at home. They invited a few other families and it was so much fun. Here we are making our Thankful Turkey's.
5 families, and lots of kids running around.... Aimee did such a great job at the tables and making it such a special Thanksgiving meal.Cute boys with their name tags!

Our little family at Thanksgiving!We had such a great Thanksgiving. Aimee, great job on your first turkey.....it was delicious. All the food was amazing and we were so lucky to spend it with such great people. We have so much to be grateful for...family, friends, and most importantly the Savior. Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Grandma Burgon Comes to Visit

2011-11-19T01:51:00.010-05:00

Grandma Burgon came to visit us for a few days. It was so fun having her here. We didn't do too much as I am 8 months pregnant and not feeling up to much, but she got to see our everyday life here in NC. I didn't take too many pictures, but here is one at one of our favorite restaurants the Penguin Drive-In diner. This place was featured on Diners, Drive-In's, and Dives. Come visit us and we'll bring you here for some southern diner food. :)
Dad and Ty eating the yummy fried pickles. Lots of fried food here...Now the yummy pimento cheese Penguin burger... Mmmmm mmm good!Don't mind the beautiful preggo chubby cheeks in the picture that really shouldn't go outside without makeup, but seems to anyways. :) That's one yummy burger! Next week is Grandma's birthday so we had a little party of cake and ice-cream for her here. Happy Birthday Grandma!!! We hope you had fun.....we sure loved having you here!Come visit us again soon!

Jackson's Thanksgiving Program

2011-11-17T01:32:00.006-05:00

Jackson had a Thanksgiving program at school and he was a grape! He did such a great job and luckily Grandma Burgon was visiting us so she got to see him live in action.The kids made centerpieces for the luncheon afterwards. Jackson loved that Grandma Burgon was here to see his program. Great job Jackson!!!

Halloween Day

2011-10-31T01:10:00.009-04:00

While Jackson was at school Ty and I went to the library for some Halloween trick or treating and games. Ty loved having something special for him to go to while Jackson got to have fun at school. Here he is with his best buddy Mac both as Bumblebee Transformers.
Intensely listening to story-time with his buddies.After the party he got to play some games on the computer. This is how almost every picture is... not looking at the camera, but smiling :)We went to some of our friends house that night for a Halloween party and some trick or treating, but of course I took no pictures. :( Our kiddos had such a fun Halloween.

Ward Halloween Party

2011-10-23T16:06:00.010-04:00

We had so much fun at our ward Trunk or Treat Halloween Party. The boys loved trick or treating in the parking lot and then were in heaven with all of the games and treats.Waiting patiently in line to pin the nose on the witch. Such good boys...Our little superhero family!

Preschool Fall Festival

2011-10-18T22:08:00.009-04:00

Jackson's preschool had a Fall Festival. Jackson and Ty had so much fun. Jackson's preschool is so great.....we are so lucky we got in last minute. The boys couldn't look at me, but at least they smiled! :) Waiting their turn to play some games...In line with their buddies...On the wagon ride to go pick some pumpkins.All the kids with their pumpkins. The boys had such a fun day!

Fun at Hall Family Farm

2011-10-15T20:24:00.003-04:00

We went to a pumpkin patch last weekend and had so much fun. We started out with a wagon ride around the property that the boys just loved. Excited for the ride...Then they pumped some water for some rubber ducky races. Jackson was all about the race!Then it was time for the fun corn, I mean string-maze!Bouncy Ball races....The boys kept falling off and into the mud, but they still loved it.Now off to find some pumpkins... Found some...they're in the wagon, you just can't see them! After the pumpkin patch we then went to get some lunch at Bad Daddy's Burger Bar......so yummy! After lunch Jackson asked if we could eat there for dinner too. :) Such a fun family day. I love spending time with my 3 favorite people!

Mom's first Boy Haircut!

2011-10-09T20:06:00.001-04:00

Mom gave her first boy haircut. I was proud of myself and then I told my sister and realized she had been cutting her boy's hair the whole time and my other sister had been cutting all 3 of her girls hair and son's hair from the beginning. Nonetheless, we always had Grandma Burgon for free haircuts, so I guess I never had to. Ty does look pretty cute, but maybe its just him instead of the haircut! :) Treat for sitting still.... Ty will do almost anything for a treat!Here's to more haircuts that can save us a little money! :)

Ty's last soccer class

2011-10-01T22:31:00.000-04:00

Ty liked soccer, but this 3 year old class was kind of a joke. They never played a real game and just dribbled it a few times, but he still had fun and enjoyed being able to say he played soccer like his big brother Jackson. It got really cold for his last couple of classes so we pulled out the soccer warm-ups. The coach kept calling him the best dressed player. We think he looks pretty cute too!I think they sat on the ball more than they kicked it.Coming in for a water break...Ty waiting his turn to make his goal... Watch me score! (too bad the coach is in the way)Ty LOVED the trophy he got at the end! The $65 we spent was pretty much worth it for the t-shirt and trophy to make him feel special (next time we may just have dad play with him in the backyard and go buy our own trophy) :) Nice job Ty!

Preggo Pic!

2011-09-24T19:45:00.003-04:00

Some friends and family have been bugging me to put up more preggo pics since I haven't been able to show my belly in person. I am definitely growing and getting bigger every day. Here I am at 24 1/2 weeks (again the 1/2 is important). I hate taking pictures of me getting all big and preggo, but I figured once I am back to normal (hopefully) I can show this little girl a picture of me with her in my tummy. Me at 6 months!

Jackson's first Field Trip

2011-09-19T12:16:00.012-04:00

For Jackson's school he had his first field trip to "Triple Play Farms". Mom's had to go and younger kids were welcome so Ty was excited to join in. Jackson was such a good brother keeping Ty close to him and helping him. Here they are looking at the horses in their stalls. (notice Jackson putting his arm around Ty) :)The boys in the chicken coup petting and feeding the chickens.Jackson was so excited he caught one and got to hold it. Ty was afraid of them if they got too close to him. :)After the chickens the boys made a horseshoe craft, putting their name in beads on them. Unfortunately no pic of them! Then the boys all got to ride the horses. My boys LOVED it. Jackson kept asking for another ride please? Ty was the last boy to go and he didn't want to get off. He is my shy boy, so this was the biggest smile I got. Ty's horse just started his lap around, then decided he needed a quick bathroom stop before he could continue. Ty just sat there patiently waiting for the horse to do his business :)Both boys loved visiting this farm and especially riding the horses. They were excited that they rode the horses bareback like real cowboys! After the field trip I unfortunately was pretty miserable. I am extremely allergic to horses, and I didn't touch any, but just being around them put me in a sneezing, puffy eyed, allergy craze for the rest of the day. Next farm trip will have to be with dad! :)

Soccer

2011-09-10T22:06:00.008-04:00

Jackson and Ty both started soccer this month. They both love it. Ty's program isn't much as he is only 3, but he really wanted to do soccer and be like his older brother. Go Ty-Ty...Working hard.....time for a water break!Making a goal! Nice work Ty...Jackson at soccer practice waiting his turn to dribble and score!Jackson's first game. He was excited he got green/teal uniforms (green is his favorite color) and he is number 5 ("Mom, that's how old I am!")Jackson loves to play defender. Even if he's not the goalie he tends to stay in the box to protect the goal.
Mom, I need water!!! By the end of a game he is so tired and worn out. It's nice for bedtime as he doesn't fight bedtime and just crashes. :)

Jackson's first day of school...

2011-09-06T21:47:00.002-04:00

Jackson started his T-K preschool (transitional Kindergarten) class today. We are holding him back from Kindergarten this year, even though he is already 5. This is an older class of kids that are almost all 5 but waiting to do all-day Kindergarten til next year. He goes M-Th from 9-1 so it is definitely an adjustment from his last year preschool of 2 days a week for 2 1/2 hours. I totally cried on my way home from dropping him off just knowing I would miss him so much, and realizing that it only gets worse from here. Soon his teacher's will see him more than I do, and that makes me so sad. :( I still see him as my baby sometimes, but he sure looks grown up to me...Jackson you are such a good boy, and Mom and Dad are so proud of you. We are excited for Jackson to learn new things, but Mom and Ty will miss you like crazy for the 4 hours a day while your gone. :(

Ty turns 3!

2011-08-27T20:53:00.007-04:00

I can't believe our baby is 3. Ty's birthday was on Saturday so we had to go to soccer for Jackson in the morning and then we headed home for lunch to open up some presents. Jackson loves his brother Ty-Ty. They are best buds, and Jackson wanted to give Ty some more tracks for his Hot Wheels. Thanks Jackson...Ty got a Batmobile and Mater lawn mower from Mom and Dad. He loves Batman and superhero's just like his big brother.Grandma and Papa Weichers gave Ty a Leap Frog magnetic speller for the fridge. Hopefully he'll keep learning his letters so eventually he can read... :) Thanks Grandma and Papa...So we let Ty play with a few of his toys and then then we were going to open the box from Jeremy's family. Unfortunately he started opening presents and I didn't get any pictures of them. He got so spoiled from his aunts, uncles, and Grandma. He sure felt special after all of the presents. I didn't realize I didn't get any pictures til I started this post. :( I'm sad we didn't get any pictures of him opening them, especially because he loved them so much. Thanks Crow's, Burgon's, Rosevear's and Grandma Burgon...

Later that night we went to a fun ice cream place called Bruester's for Ty's birthday cake/treat....since he loves ice-cream. We will do a friend party for him in a few weeks to give mom a short break :) We love you Ty-Ty and are so happy you came to our family 3 years ago!

Jackson's Friend Bday Party

2011-08-13T19:57:00.009-04:00

Jackson had a friend Birthday party, and he had such a great party. He had about 10 friends come, and they all had tons of fun. Here they are having pizza!We had an Olympics of about 10 games (so they all got a chance to win a medal), and we did video during the games instead of pictures so I don't have any pictures. Here was one of the games Jackson and Ty kept playing for a few days after....parachute launch!Cake Time!!! Jackson wanted a Cars 2 cake, but they didn't have any designs, so I figured a regular Cars theme would work. :) When he saw the Cars 2 movie he fell in love with being a special agent. Even though there wasn't a Finn McMissile on it, he still loved it...I love that Ella and Madeline are puckered up to help Jackson blow out his candle! :)Thanks to everyone who came and made Jackson feel so special. He loves his friends and had such a fun day!

Jackson is 5!

2011-07-27T20:37:00.012-04:00

I can't believe my first baby is 5. He has been such a joy to Jeremy and I. He is such a great brother to Ty....these boys are best friends and I love it. Here they are anxiously awaiting Jackson's presents from mom and dad, grandma's and grandpa's, and aunts and uncles.Jackson loves Iron Man! Thank you Crows... Jackson loved his little semi truck! Anything trucks, cars, and superheros! Thanks Burgons...Jackson's excited to learn how to read with this Tag Leap Frog pen and books. Thanks Grandma and Papa Weichers...Jackson got some fun clothes and this recordable book from Grandma Burgon. Its so fun that anytime he misses his Grandma Burgon he can open this book and hear her voice. Thanks Grandma Burgon...Ty gave Jackson a Finn McMissile car. Jackson loved the Cars 2 movie and has been obsessed with secret agents ever since! Thanks brother Ty-Ty...Jackson opened his eyes and he see's his new Cars bike! He was very excited to finally get a bike that fit him. Mom's excited we finally live at the end of a cul-de-sac for him to ride it in.Mom didn't go all out with a cake as he wants a Cars 2 cake for his friend birthday party that he'll have in a few weeks. Chocolate cake is still yummy even if it doesn't look fancy :)We had a fun birthday party with just our little family. We missed celebrating with Grandparents, Aunt and Uncles, and cousins. Thanks to all of those that sent presents to Jackson to help make him feel so loved and special!

It's a...

2011-07-25T12:00:00.001-04:00

Dresses, Bows, & little Pink Toys
We're adding a GIRL to our House full of Boys!

Yeah, we are so excited to be having a girl!Here I am at 16 1/2 weeks (that 1/2 is important when your preggo). So happy to finally get a girl!

Our new house!

2011-07-01T17:02:00.004-04:00

We moved into our new house in Huntersville, North Carolina. We are just renting this house and actually had never even seen it before the day we met the landlord. Some friends of ours that did a house hunting trip looked at it for us and we figured it would work for a year or so until we decided if we wanted to buy or keep renting. We were pleasantly happy with the house. It isn't our ideal perfect house, but it is great for us right now. One of the big reasons we loved this house was the backyard. Flat, fully fenced, and a playset. My boys haven't had a backyard for 2 years, and never a fenced yard. It is really hot so we may not play outside for a few months, but I'm sure we'll enjoy it once it cools down.I'll post more pictures (for family that is asking) of our house and area we live once we get moved in and settled.

Pit Stop at Nauvoo

2011-06-28T16:27:00.001-04:00

It took us 5 days to get to North Carolina (we took our time for our boys, but mostly me....I didn't know if I could drive all day being nauseous and sick) but on day 3 we stopped in Nauvoo for a few hours. It was a fun stop and wish we could have stayed longer. On the Nauvoo temple grounds. Such a beautiful temple.At the statue's of Joseph and Hyrum. Brothers are best friends...At the family games... At the grave of Joseph, Hyrum, and Emma Smith.Last stop was the Nauvoo store to get a cold root beer. Man it tasted great on such a hot day.

Saying Goodbye - Off to NC!

2011-06-25T16:11:00.007-04:00

The night before we left for North Carolina a bunch of our family came over to say good-bye one last time. :( It was so sad for me to say good-bye to everyone.

Saying good-bye to Grandma Coleman. It was so hard to say good-bye to my parents. My boys didn't quite get it as I'm sure they thought we'd see them next week. :)Boston, Elsie, Jackson, and Ty. My kids love Angie's kids. Sweet Elsie and Jackson hugging :)Adrianna, Sophia, Taylor, Jackson, Arin, and Ty. We are sure going to miss The Crow and Rosevear cousins. :(When Jeremy and I drove away the next morning I don't think I've cried that hard in a long time. It finally hit us that we were driving away and not going to be back for a long time. We will miss Utah and all of our friends and family here.

Playing with cousins in Utah

2011-06-17T15:31:00.000-04:00

We spent the next week or so playing with my family who lived in Utah and my brother's kids and sister's kids who were in town. We did lots of fun things like splash parks, Pirate's Island, Alpine Slide in Park City, BYU bookstore and creamery, and of course lots of playing and eating at Grandma and Grandpa's.Jackson and Lance are such good buddies. We hate that they only get to play for a few weeks a year. :(Most of the kids got lucky that the lady at the ticket station gave all of the cousins a sword and eye patch even though they all didn't have enough tickets to buy them.Arrrghh!! The kids giving their best Pirate growl. :)Lots of my family at the Alpine Slide in Park City. This was so much fun!On the tram on the way up. It was a little nerve racking having my boys on the tram with us. I hardly let them move :)Mom and Ty before we went down the slide. Ty LOVED it!Jackson and Dad at the top of the slide....so excited!At the bottom, and asking to go again!Jackson and Ty wanted BYU Jimmer jersey's like their cousins. Earlier that day we went to the creamery and bookstore. They only had them in Jackson's size so Ty got a t-shirt. Jackson and Lance had so much fun playing this week.Jackson loves his cousin Josh. They've become such great friends.All three singing "teach me how to Jimmer".We had such a great week playing with my family. It was sad to say good-bye to them. Jackson got teary-eyed saying good-bye to both Lance and Josh. :(

Expanding

2011-06-14T15:24:00.002-04:00

We are excited that Jackson and Ty both get to be big brothers now. We are expecting a baby January 12, 2012. I am about 10 weeks and have been sooo sick and tired. The last month has been a hard one, but we are still excited. Moving was pretty miserable being sick and tired, and even traveling was pretty hard. You'll notice I wasn't in much pictures because I didn't ride many of the rides in fear of throwing up all over everyone. :) Oh the joys of pregnancy...

Travel time - Disneyland Day #2

2011-06-09T16:09:00.015-04:00

My boys were so excited to be going back to Disneyland for a second day. It really is the happiest place on earth for an almost 5 and 3 year old. The classic family pic...
Now with Grandma Burgon...
My boys were excited to see Minnie Mouse. I was surprised Ty wasn't afraid of all the characters.Jackson and Dad went to the ride Soarin' over California, and since Ty wasn't big enough we went and saw Mater and McQueen. Ty loved it...All the boys on the rocket ride. Ty was so excited for this ride.Dad and Ty on the cars...Mom and Jackson on the car ride. Mom did the pedal and Jackson took the wheel. He's a crazy driver, I'm a little nervous for when he turns 16 :)At the end of the night we went to the light show World of Color. That was a fun way to end our last day at Disney.

Travel time - Sea World

2011-06-08T16:08:00.011-04:00

We went to Sea World and our first show was Shamu. That was so much fun. My boys LOVED it. They just sat amazed the whole time. Ty was so funny, he would freak out every time Shamu jumped.Then we went to the Dolphin show. So fun!The Cat and Dog show. My boys loved it, even thought we got there a little late and only saw half of it.Waiting for the Sesame Street 3D movie. Such cute studs...Another great day....now tomorrow is another day at Disneyland.

Travel time - Disneyland Day #1

2011-06-07T16:05:00.013-04:00

We drove on to California with Jeremy's family....Becky and Blake joined us in St. George and Tammy and John went back home since they had just done Disney World the month before. Funny that we went on this vacation with Jeremy's family, but I don't have hardly any pictures with anyone so you wouldn't know that we did. :) I need to be better at getting group pictures and not just of my kids.

Our first day at Disneyland. The boys were so excited. So funny, they couldn't even see, but still smiled... :)Waiting in line is the hardest part... I only have 2 pictures of cousin Sophia, and she's not even looking in this one. :)On the train...Saying hi to Pluto. It was fun to see Ty's face just calculate meeting all these characters. So are they really real?Meeting Mickey Mouse!My boys love cars!The parade was Ty's favorite part. He just sat in awe, waving to all the characters. Captain Hook grabbed his nose and he was so excited he came over to him. He kept saying "the pirate got my nose".Such a fun day! Now tomorrow is Sea World...

Travel time - St. George

2011-06-04T15:48:00.009-04:00

Our first stop on our vacation was to St. George with most of Jeremy's family for a weekend. It was a ton of fun hanging out, eating yummy good, swimming, and hiking. Unfortunately the only pictures I took was hiking the last night we were there. :) The cousins had so much fun together. Cute group of kids!Dad got a little adventurous....but not too adventurous, cause he's a little afraid of heights. :)Ty-Ty loves his uncle John. He didn't want to hold anyone's hand, but John's.Now its off to California!

Leaving Provo!

2011-06-02T15:37:00.000-04:00

We packed up our stuff today! It was actually more sad than I thought it would be. We don't move to NC til the end of June so we will be traveling and staying in Utah with family for the next month or so. Here are our pods and townhome!This townhome wasn't our ideal house, but it was our home for the last 2 years. We had a lot of fun memories in there and will miss this time in our life! :(

Preschool Graduation - at least til next year!

2011-05-26T18:15:00.012-04:00

Jackson had his preschool graduation from Ms. Roper's Bee Ready Preschool. This is his 2nd year at her preschool and he has just loved her. He will still do another year of preschool in NC because we are holding him back even thought he'll be 5 in July.....so its a graduation for this year anyways.Jackson did great on his little part. He is such a cute little graduate!Pictures with friends. Jackson was great buddies with Taylor and MJ, but MJ had already left for Texas so wasn't here for graduation. :( Such great friends he will miss!Jackson and Ezamae. He told me one day that he was going to marry Ezamae in the temple. He used to tell me he was going to marry me in the temple, so I was a little sad that he moved on to girls his own age. :)Jackson and Olivia. He's going to miss all of these great friends.Jackson and Ms. Roper. She was a great teacher and Jackson was lucky to be in her class.Best buddies! Its fun to see Ty look up to Jackson and want to do what he does.We went and celebrated with some ice-cream! Way to go Jackson, we are proud of you!

Love these girls...

2011-05-11T18:09:00.000-04:00

One of our last GNO's getting yogurt before saying goodbye to some of these girls. Of course we're not all here, but missed those that were still on Graduation trips or already left. It has been such a fun 2 years! Love and miss you all!

Saying Goodbye to Friends

2011-05-10T17:07:00.000-04:00

This has been the greatest 2 years at BYU and all of us have made such good friends while at here. My boys especially had the greatest group of buddies. It was sad to say good-bye to them. :(

Ty, Taylor, Jackson, and Brayden. My boys sure love these Conran boys and will miss them a ton!Jackson, Cayman, Ty, and Hudson. We will miss these Orme boys...Jackson and MJ on the last day of preschool. They are such good buddies!The 3 amigos on their last day of preschool at Ms. Roper's class. I'm sure these 3 boys upped the craziness for Ms. Roper big time. Such great friends...Ty, Ava, and Jackson. Ava was like their little sister. Our families shared babysitters everytime we had an MBA activity so they spent lots of time with her.There are still a bunch of their friends that I didn't get pictures of....Josh and Wes, Jack and Ethan, and of course little Josie (the only little girl in our babysitting swap). We will miss our friends, but remember them always!

Jackson's Mother's Day Program

2011-05-06T00:46:00.006-04:00

For Jackson's preschool they had a Mother's Day program. He did such a good job and looked so handsome for mom. I sure love this kid and he makes being a mom the best job in the world.

Each child gave their mom a rose! Thanks Jackson, it was so pretty...I loved it!

Graduation Trip

2011-04-30T21:29:00.017-04:00

For our graduation trip we went to Scottsdale AZ with 5 other couples, and most importantly NO kids. It was such a blast. We stayed at the Kierland Westin Resort and it was fabulous! The resort was beautiful, and one of the best parts was the complimentary breakfast buffet of omelets, muffins, fruit, sausage, and fresh squeezed juice every morning. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures every day, but we did lots of shopping, laying out, swimming in the lazy river, and fun dinners. We laid out and swam everyday, but didn't get one picture of that. :( No one wants to see me in a swimsuit anyways, so its probably better!

Here we are at dinner at a Mexican Restaurant.Waiting for the Cleggs(they stayed at a different hotel they had a timeshare at), to go shopping and then dinner!At Old Navy, Cody wanted to look like Patrick. "We are the same!"At dinner at Cheesecake Factory....yum!I love these girls, we had so much fun together!Our fresh pedi toes... Shopping and pedi's, seriously the best!The guys surprised us girls after our shopping and pedi's with these acid-wash cut-off shorts they got at Nordstrom's Last Chance for $2. We walk into Grimaldi's Pizzeria and they all stand up... Seriously one of the funniest moments ever! Cody was definitely working these shorts.We told them to all pose, and it was the funniest thing..... The boys went all out!We did not want to walk back to the hotel with these guys so we went beforehand so we could take pictures and see people's reaction. Hilarious!We went to an Arizona Diamondbacks game. The game was okay, to be honest I didn't watch much of it. It was just fun to be there and hang out with all the girls and guys. They played the Cubs so the guys probably watched the game more than the girls did, but it was still fun to go.Our last day! :( This was our last buffett breakfast and last pool day before returning home to our little ones. We missed our boys a ton, but we did have lots of fun. Thanks Thelma for watching them for us!

Easter

2011-04-25T00:02:00.016-04:00

Easter morning the boys woke up to an Easter basket and a "small" Easter egg hunt in the family room. We had to put the gate up the night before so they couldn't go downstairs without waking us up first (yes they are our alarm clocks, well mine anyways) :)Man, the Easter Bunny is a good hider...They boys showing off their loot! Each got a new Easter shirt, new car launcher with 4 or 5 cars, and of course lots of treats! Ty has been doing this "chin lift" smiling thing lately. Still cute, but I love his smile so I would love for him to figure out how to get his regular smile back. :)Thanks Easter Bunny for a fun morning, now its off to get ready for church and have a special Easter Sunday at church which is the main reason why we celebrate Easter. Here are some hurried pics before church. My boys need haircuts in a major way....their hair won't spike or do much at all, so hopefully next week we'll get to the haircuts! I just love these 2 little boys so much!And these 3 boys more than anything in the world!It is impossible to get a good family pic with a timer as well as a 4 and 2 year old in that picture. Oh well, they are both looking, right! :)

Graduation Day!

2011-04-22T21:58:00.030-04:00

Jeremy officially graduates today from BYU with his MBA. He did such a great job these last couple years it was fun to have a day to celebrate. There is dad with all the grads!The boys did so great! It was 3 hours long and I was super worried about it, but they had movies, books, and lots of grandparents there to help entertain them. Cute boys...After the convocation was just a party of saying hello and good-bye to all of our friends. It was fun to have so many friends and family around. Such a fun day!Jeremy's mom...Jeremy's dad...Oh Patrick.....where is your robe? He was ready to be graduated and returned it before all the pictures. Our future grad with chocolate cake on his face! Thanks Grandma and Papa Weichers and Grandma Burgon for playing with the boys while we chatted and took pictures. :)Jackson and his buddies always have such a great time!My 3 favorite boys! Could they be any cuter?

MBA Closing Social

2011-04-15T20:54:00.011-04:00

I can't believe our two years here at BYU are almost over. It has been such an amazing 2 years, and I am extremely sad to see it come to an end. Jeremy and I have made such great friends and I can't believe we are all going our separate ways in a few weeks. The party was fun, but they definitely did not plan well and kept running out of food. I think we went out for ice-cream too! Fun times...The guys (most of them...its hard to round up everyone for a pic when everyone is busy chatting)Love all of these girls. Still missing a bunch of them though...

Nice Work babe!!!

2011-03-23T18:02:00.006-04:00

Jeremy has done such a great job in the MBA program at BYU, and its fun to see some of his hard work recognized. I thought I'd embarrass Jeremy for a little post because I wanted to brag about my hubby and let him know how proud of him I am. Jeremy was awarded the Stoddard Scholar! A group of Finance MBA students receive the Scholarship that finished the Finance emphasis and excelled in the program. Each of the students had their picture up and a little bio about them. I wanted my boys to remember how hard their Dad worked, and see him recognized. Here is Jeremy's:
"Originally from Midvale, Utah, Jeremy Burgon is no stranger to leadership positions. Since earning his undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Utah in 2005, he has served as associate director of Cougar Capital, vice president of activities for the Graduate Finance Association and section president of the MBAA Executive Council at BYU. His hobbies include playing sports, reading and traveling with his family. Burgon says his MBA experience has exceeded his expectations and that he is grateful for the family focus of the Marriott School. After graduation, he will be moving with his wife, Jenn, and two young sons to Charlotte, N.C., to work for Wells Fargo Securities. "I have been amazed how prepared I feel to enter the workforce based on the interactions and opportunities afforded me during the past two years," he says."

Here is the picture of the whole group:
Here is the link to the article that was on the main MBA website. But in case the link doesn't work in the future I wanted to remember, so I'm posting the rest of the article below. :)

Seven MBA Students Win Stoddard Prize
PROVO, Utah – Mar 23, 2011 – Seven Brigham Young University MBA finance students have been named recipients of the George E. Stoddard Jr. Prize, giving them each an opportunity to apply their financial savvy to the honor's $2,000 cash award.

The Stoddard Prize is awarded to a handful of second-year finance MBA students each year who demonstrate their academic diligence and commitment to the finance program, based on review by a faculty panel.

"These prizes come at a perfect time for students who are preparing to graduate and relocate to cities around the country," says Grant McQueen, a finance professor who oversees the awards. "The prize is a vote of confidence in students whose professional careers and church service will reflect favorably on BYU, the MBA program and the finance major."

The 2011 Prize Winners –also called Stoddard Scholars—are Pete Boehme from Issaquah, Wash.; Justin B. Bradshaw from Salt Lake City; Jeremy Burgon from Midvale, Utah; Britt Chapman from Asheville, North Carolina; Shilpa Manjeshwar from Mangalore, India; Jeremy Reese from Las Vegas; and Rich Wilcox from Ojai, Calif.

"I feel fortunate to be named a Stoddard Scholar and know many of my fellow classmates are equally deserving of this honor," Burgon says. "This award instills a deeper desire within me to do all I can to give back and strengthen the Marriott School brand."

The Stoddard Prize was established in 1985 by George E. Stoddard, a 1937 BYU alumnus. His numerous credentials include acting as senior managing director of the W.P. Carey & Co., a leading global real estate investment firm in New York. He was a pioneer in the use of real estate transactions known as sale-leasebacks to provide financing to companies having trouble gaining access to traditional sources of capital. The firm specializes in buying property from corporations which them continue to occupy the space as tenants. Prior to joining W.P. Carey & Company, Mr. Stoddard was also head of the multi-billion dollar Direct Placement Department of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.

The Marriott School is located at Brigham Young University, the largest privately owned, church-sponsored university in the United States. The school has nationally recognized programs in accounting, business management, public management, information systems and entrepreneurship. The school's mission is to prepare men and women of faith, character and professional ability for positions of leadership throughout the world. Approximately 3,000 students are enrolled in the Marriott School's graduate and undergraduate programs.

St. Patrick's Day!

2011-03-17T13:16:00.000-04:00

Happy St. Patty's Day!!! For St. Patrick's Day we had "green" food all day. Anything I could add coloring to, got dyed. The boys loved all the green...especially Jackson since green is his favorite color.After dinner, the boys found a rainbow a leprechaun left......and there was some gold at the end of it!I had to be creative with the gold, since Ty can't have chocolate. So pretty much any gold/yellow candy or treat I could find. I even bought a big bag of skittles and pulled out all of the yellow and orange skittles, and then I got the rest. :) Man I must love my boys!

Jackson's First Swimming Lessons

2011-03-05T12:55:00.000-05:00

So we finally put Jackson in some swimming lessons. He absolutely loved it and had a blast every week.Cutest kid ever...he is so happy when he's having fun!

Valentine's Day

2011-02-14T12:39:00.001-05:00

We had a Valentine's exchange party for my boys with all of their friends. They had so much fun getting and giving Valentines. Thanks Rhandi for hosting. Here are all of the kiddos (Ty is blocking Jackson).Jeremy surprised me with a fun surprise. Love the color...Thanks babe! Happy Valentine's Day to my 3 wonderful boys!

Happy Birthday Jeremy!

2011-02-06T12:24:00.001-05:00

Jeremy turned 31 today! Happy Birthday babe! You are the love of my life and me and the boys are so lucky to have you. We invited some friends over for cake and ice-cream to celebrate Jeremy's birthday. Hope you had a wonderful day. Love you!!!

Krispy Kreme Field Trip

2011-02-02T12:10:00.005-05:00

My boys loved free donuts and being able to see them on the conveyer belt.
My boys have such great friends! They are going to be sad once we leave Provo!

North Carolina Here We Come!

2011-01-15T13:02:00.000-05:00

We decided on a job......we will be moving to Charlotte NC this summer for a full-time job starting in July. Jeremy had an offer to go back to Bank of America in the Investment Banking group of Technology in New York, but he also got an offer to do Investment Banking at Wells Fargo Securities in the Energy and Power group in Charlotte, NC. This was a tough decision for us, but we are excited to have the same job but in a more family friendly environment. I'm excited that I can have a car, a house, a backyard for my boys, and some good weather. We both really enjoyed NY, but we feel like it will be easier for me to live with kids in NC. The skyline of Charlotte doesn't quite compare to that of NY, but we are still excited!

MBA Holiday Party - After Party

2011-01-08T11:38:00.001-05:00

We had our MBA Holiday Party tonight. It was so much fun. Good food, good friends, and good times! After the party we figured we all had babysitters we needed to take advantage of it, so a few couples went to our house for some Just Dance 2 action! :) The boys are the funnest to watch...Fun times! I haven't laughed that hard for a while.

Fun at Incredible Pizza!

2010-12-28T11:31:00.003-05:00

Some of my family went to Incredible Pizza one night. The boys always have so much fun there. I loved this picture, so I just had to post them. :)Thanks Mom and Dad for a fun dinner again!

Christmas Night at the Weichers

2010-12-25T21:01:00.000-05:00

We went to my parents house Christmas night for the Weichers Xmas party. We all had so much fun....especially the kiddos. They love anytime they get to play with cousins. I didn't take any pictures, except for present time. Both of my boys got Leapsters from Grandma and Papa. So fun...They they both got a R/C truck. Thanks Grandma and Papa!!!Jackson was so excited for this HUGE monster truck!Such a fun Christmas day! Me and Jeremy got a Blendtec blender from my parents. I can't wait to start making smoothies. Thanks again Mom and Dad!

Christmas Morning

2010-12-25T16:37:00.022-05:00

Jeremy and I got home last night from a fun Xmas Eve, and then had the rest of the night to help Santa wrap pretty much ALL of the presents! We got home and both of our stomachs were hurting. Jeremy kept saying he felt like he was going to throw up. So while I am wrapping, Jeremy is sitting by the white thrown and eventually throws 5 or 6 times and then feels much better! So after I finish pretty much all of the presents, I start to feel really sick too. I end up joining him and throw up 7 to 8 times and having the big "D" through the night til I have not one ounce of liquid in me. We figured we had food poisoning since it was pretty violent and we felt better after. What a fun way to start Christmas, eh? We were so nervous our kids were going to throw up through the night, and then they'd be sick on Christmas, but they never did. Just Jeremy and I were the lucky ones I guess. We were both exhausted, but in the morning our kids were so excited Santa had come.....so Christmas went on as usual. :)

The boys looking down at what Santa brought. Of course I didn't catch the first look.....this was a little staged. :)The boys found their stockings first. Jackson loved his new sippy and of course the skittles. :)Santa brought the boys pillow pets...We open presents youngest to oldest.....and yes, I'm the oldest!The boys specifically asked for Geo Trax trains for Xmas, I guess they were good this year!!!! Thanks Santa!The boys opened together two big boxes of the rest of the GeoTrax stuff Santa got from the Eckel house. Thanks sis!Dad's Utah jacket in a medium (he need's an XL, but they didn't have any more left), so it looks a little small.....but we'll get the right size after Christmas.Mom got new " sterling silver - fake diamond" earrings to replace her $3 ones. :)Dad surprised our family with a "family" gift. He said he decided to splurge because he just found out he received a scholarship from his program (more on that in a future post). Dad got NBA jams, Jackson got Batman, Ty got Mario Cart, and mom got Just Dance. Thanks Dad!!!Fun morning! Man, we must have been good this year....and spoiled! Dad is pooped on the couch......long night, now time for a nap!

Christmas Eve at Grandma Burgon's

2010-12-24T16:12:00.000-05:00

Don't you just love cousin Eddy....Jeremy thought it would be funny to show up at his mom's with his sweet woman's sweater and dicky on. :)After a fabulous dinner, my two cute boys showing me their cheeser! My boys LOVE playing with all of their cousins. They had so much fun...Jackson opening up some presents from Grandma! So exciting...Ty's turn for presents! My boys got ZuZu pets from their cousins for Christmas. They thought they were the coolest toys ever. Such a fun night. My boys got spoiled from their grandma Burgon and cousins. Now off to sleep for Santa to come!

Playing in the Snow

2010-12-21T16:01:00.005-05:00

We had a big storm and the boys wanted to help dad shovel. We ended up playing for a bit, making a snowman, and then going across the street and try out sleds out down the hill. The boys were in heaven...and mom and dad had fun too!

Riverwoods with Friends

2010-12-18T15:42:00.005-05:00

We went to the Riverwoods in Provo with some friends. They were giving free wagon rides during Christmas time. It was lightly raining, but the kids didn't seem to care. They just love being outside, especially when friends are there.On the wagon ride....Jackson had to sit by Josh.Santa was out for the night, but the kids still had fun in his house!Can't believe we "mostly" got all of the kids to stand still for a group picture!

Ugly Sweater Party

2010-12-16T21:59:00.008-05:00

Today was the last day of finals for the fall semester, so we celebrated with an Ugly Sweater Party with some of our MBA friends. We had sooooo much fun, and loved seeing all the great sweaters. :) We were going for cousin Eddy and Catherin from Christmas Vacation.
Luke and John, for sure were ugly....I mean their sweaters, of course. :)They guys chillin' on the couch, while the girls were eating in the kitchen.
Definitely some of the winners. Holly embellished both John's sweater and her shirt. It was awesome, she gets extra points for doing it herself.Close up of cousin Eddy in a cut turtleneck to look like a "Dicky" and a see-through woman's sweater! I only found an ugly turtleneck for me...but we tried! :)I wish we took more pictures of people's sweaters, but I was busy doing the food and chatting of course. Every inch of our tiny apartment was crammed with people, but it was so fun to see everyone before we all left for Christmas break. We have such a great group of friends in the MBA program.

Jackson's Christmas Program

2010-12-15T21:47:00.000-05:00

Jackson had his preschool Christmas program. He did such a great job, and I was so proud of him. He is such a great little singer. He wore his Santa hat and looked pretty dang cute.Jackson and his friend Olivia. She loves to give hugs... :)

Decoratating the tree

2010-12-01T21:34:00.001-05:00

We decided to officially get ready for Christmas and decorate the Christmas tree. The boys loved helping...but don't tell them I moved most of their ornaments they placed once they were in bed. :)

Jackson's Thanksgiving Program

2010-11-25T22:41:00.000-05:00

For Jackson's preschool Thanksgiving program they could be a pilgrim or an Indian. We chose pilgrim as we figured most would do Indian (and he did end up being the only pilgrim). He was a little hesitant to wear Ty's sweats, but I thought it turned out pretty good if I say so myself...Jackson loved the hat I made and kept it safe in his room for a long time and wouldn't let anyone play with it. :)

Love these Boys!!!

2010-11-19T22:34:00.001-05:00

Some bath nights are stressful, and some are just fun. Something about a bath that makes them look so sweet! :0

Halloween 2010

2010-10-31T21:53:00.001-04:00

For Halloween my boys of course had to be superhero's. So Jackson chose superman and Ty chose Batman! Here is Jackson with some of his friends at his pre-school Halloween party.On the way home from preschool. Of course Ty had to dress up as Batman since Jackson got to dress up. :)We had a MBA Halloween party. Here are some of our best friends going Grease...Natalie, Patrick, and little Ava.Don't mess with Lori! She gonna get your husband... :)Talk about a cute couple. Hopefully in 20 years it will happen! :)My superhero boys waiting patiently in line to play games.Superman dad helping his boys play the games. Nice undies boys (Ty has a black pair on too, but not as easy to see with his black sweats)!My 3 underwear superhero's! Too cute...Our little family at the party. The superhero's and don't really know what I was.....Spider-woman with a tu-tu!Trick-or-Treating...

Bear Lake with Friends

2010-10-20T20:40:00.000-04:00

We went to Bear Lake with a few other couples from the MBA program. Jeremy's brother has a cabin up there so we got a good discount and it was fun to just hang out with some friends for a few days. We played at the park, went on walks, ate lots of good food, watched movies, played games, and then ate some more. We also went to the beach (even thought it was pretty cold) to let the kids play in the sand and see the water. Here's our little family at the beach.Ty loved playing with all the little seashells.The girls (minus Nat, as she was in the car with sleeping Ava)The boys (minus Patrick) :)Some of the cute kids holding piles of shells. The kids completely focused on the movie while the mama's made dinner.The dad's also focused on the movie (except for Ben) while the mama's made dinner.Holly made sugar cookies with the kids. They LOVED it! The cutting, decorating, and especially the eating part.The 3 superman's making cookies. My boys usually are dressed the same or similar, and not because I make them, but because once one of them chooses spiderman, superman, or batman, then the other one has to wear it too. Luckily Josh had a superman shirt too, so we had 3. :)The next day was batman! The sweet Ava princess between 2 batmans! My boys LOVE Ava. She is like their little sister.The big kids...Holly is the best at always doing little activities for the kids. The dad's went golfing so the mom's did play-do with the kids. (doesn't seem so fair to me, we'll get a GNO later for it) :)We took a picture of the group with Lisa's camera (so we didn't have to do 5 camera's all with an automatic timer), and I forgot to get that from her. But we had so much fun with these families and hope to have more trips in the future. Here's our little fam right before leaving.

My BYU Girls Weekend!

2010-10-09T14:32:00.006-04:00

Every year me and my freshman BYU girlfriends plan a 'Girls Weekend' getaway. There are 12 of us and this year 11 of us went (Mariah was home having baby boy #3) to New Port Beach. We missed her greatly, but the 11 of us had a great time and had her there in spirit. I didn't take lots of pictures because we have a professional photographer in the group(Elizabeth) so she did most of them. It was such a great break. Its never long enough, but it reinvigorates us to be better moms and wives once we get back. We got mani-pedi's, ate lots of good food, went to the beach, shopping, and ate some more. I miss these girls already. The first night Elizabeth and Rachel gave all the girls matching t-shirts they made. Here we are at the beach wearing them...Me and Shauna before dinner. She was my freshman suite-mate in David John Hall.We had to get two tables at dinner so we didn't have to wait 2 hours. Here is half of us...Sadly, that's all the pictures I took of this trip. We mostly sat around and talked, laughed, and talked. Which is what makes these trips so fun. :) Til next year!

Our first babysitting swap!

2010-10-01T14:26:00.001-04:00

We started a babysitting swap for every Friday night with 3 other families. We all have 2 kids about the same age and 7 of the kids are boys, but Josie holds her own with the girls. :) This night we only had 6 kids, but our house was pretty crazy for the 4 hours. We are excited to now have 3 weeks of free babysitting. :) The kids have so much fun and look forward to every Friday night with their best buddies!

Ty-Ty turns 2!

2010-08-27T23:03:00.016-04:00

Tyler turns 2 today. For his birthday we started out the day by taking him to breakfast at Magelby's Fresh for unlimited french toast (yum....so good).That night we did presents with just our little family and then had some cupcakes and ice-cream. I sure love that little 2 year old.A few days later we did a big birthday party with all of our family. Ty had so much fun with cousins and grandma's and grandpa's. Here's Ty playing soccer at his party.I felt bad that I had made Jackson's first 3 birthday cakes, but didn't make Ty's first birthday cake (we were moving to Provo). So I felt I had to make one for Ty. It was so hot that day that the frosting was melting and wouldn't stay, but at least I made him a cake! :)Jackson was so excited for Ty to get Hungry Hippos!Thanks family for coming to celebrate Ty and his birthday. He had such a fun day, and we just adore that little boy soooo much!

Jackson's First Day of Preschool

2010-08-24T22:41:00.000-04:00

On our way to Ms. Roper's pre-school. Jackson loves Ms. Roper and will have 3 or 4 friends that he already knows in his class.

Back to NY......just me!

2010-08-21T21:28:00.006-04:00

Jeremy surprised me for our anniversary in June to come back without the boys to NY once he finished his internship. Jeremy did really well at Bank of America in the Investment Baking group and received an offer for a full-time job next summer in the Technology group. We were just so relieved to get the offer and that all of Jeremy's hard work paid off. This trip was a fun celebration w/0 kids, and we got to enjoy more of NY that we didn't do while we were here.

The first day we went to a Yankee's game. We both bought t-shirts so we could look like real New Yorkers. Here is Jeremy eating his monster dog. We did lots of shopping, shopping, and walking. Friday night we had a celebration dinner for Jeremy's job offer at Del Frisco's Steakhouse, and then the highlight of the trip was to FINALLY see 'Wicked' on Saturday night. It was more fantastic than I even expected it to be. That musical is genius and I loved it. It was fun to be on a date with my hubby.

Playing with cousins

2010-08-14T21:14:00.001-04:00

We've had lots of fun playing with family and cousins this summer. Here are some pictures from the Draper swimming pool. Ty-Ty loves his aunt Alison!Ty and cute cousin Taelor, who all the little kids adore.My little Steve Erkel (sp?) This was the first pool we had been to all summer since we were in splash parks all summer in NY. My boys were loving it!My boys hanging out at grandma's with the Eckel cousins. Sad we only see them once a year :(We did our usual Brighton hike with my family. Here is Jackson and Lance....best buddies!The cute Eckel girls...Me and my favorite boys....minus 1 boy in NY. :)Our last day seeing the Eckel's before they go back to California. :( Ty-Ty loved Xani...as we all do of course.

Thanks Grandma Burgon

2010-07-31T21:06:00.000-04:00

The boys and I have been staying with Jeremy's mom while we are in Utah (we are sub-letting our apartment in Provo) for the next couple weeks til Jeremy comes back from NY. Grandma Burgon gave my boys this Tiger and Poo. I loved the picture, so I wanted Grandma to see it. Thanks Grandma!

Jackson turns 4!

2010-07-27T22:01:00.001-04:00

Dad was still in NY for Jackson's birthday so my mom and dad watched Ty for me so I could take Jackson to 'Toy Story 3'. He loved the movie, but he did get a little scared in the movie and even cried for a minute because he didn't like it......but then he got right back into it. It was a fun mom and Jackson date, and I loved being with my big 4 year old. Here we are in the movie theater...That night we had a birthday part at my mom and dads house with some of his cousins. He wanted a Batman birthday! Here we are right before opening presents!
Cutest 4 year old ever!Jackson was so excited to get a new scooter and helmet. Showing he's 4!What a fun night of presents! Ty was just as excited to play with all of Jackson's toys as he was.Jackson wanted a batman cake for his birthday. This time I wasn't going to make the cake, so thank you Target for a great cake! :)One last ride on his new toy in his pj's before bedtime! He had such a fun birthday! Happy Birthday my cutest little boy! Mom and dad love you so much....

Weichers Family 2010 reunion - Heber Camp

2010-07-23T23:15:00.006-04:00

My family went up to the Heber Valley Camp for a few days for part of our family reunion and it was so much fun. The first day each individual family was suppose to plan a family skit. I knew mine was going to be a challenge with a 2 and 4 year old cooperating, but I tried. Since we had just gotten back from New York we all wore our New York t-shirts and did a little dance to "Empire State of Mind-(Concrete Jungle)". Jackson became shy so it was just me dancing with Ty pretty much, but it was still fun.Everyone's skits were so good. I was very impressed with all of my family. I wish I had taken more pictures of everyone's skits. :( We had so much fun up at this camp. We had a great family dinner that night with some smores later on, and some fun stories around the fire. The next morning we went canoeing with our whole family. My dad went with me and my boys and they loved it!Jackson playing horseshoe, and then the Jackson eating lunch with Angie and her kids.The cousins playing games and having so much fun! We were sad to have it end...

Weichers Family 2010 reunion - Lagoon

2010-07-22T21:10:00.005-04:00

So we got home from NY and then the next day went to Lagoon with my family for the start of a 5 day reunion. It was so much fun and my boys had a blast. They loved seeing their cousins and grandma and grandpa. Here's my cute boys in the cars...Jackson and one of his favorite cousins Lance. They had so much fun together. They only see each other once a year, so they were loving being together.4 cousin boys. Josh, Jantzen, Lance, and JacksonJackson loved the swings!Ty loved the boats!Mom and Ty on the train!Action Jackson!!!
We went all day long, but the boys enjoyed every minute of it! Here they are 10 o'clock at night, and they are still going strong! Such a fun day.

On our way home...

2010-07-21T21:48:00.000-04:00

One of the worst flights of my life! The only thing that got me through was knowing that it had to end, right... We only bought two tickets since it was a month til Ty turned 2 so he was still free (bad idea). So this poor young guy is on the isle seat and me and my boys are squished in two seats. He was really nice at first, but then he just tuned out and was probably counting the minutes til the flight landed.Jackson did "pretty" good, but Ty was struggling, and I finally held him tight so he would have to relax and then he FINALLY fell asleep. 15 minutes later Jackson says he has to go potty. I was seriously about to ask the guy next to me of he would take him so Ty wouldn't have to wake up, but then I realized that could be scarey to ask a stranger to do something like that. When an almost 4 year old asks to go pee, you have to go immediately. So I had to wake up Ty and from then on the last two and a half hours were a nightmare. So glad its over, and that we got back to Utah safe.

Haircut Time

2010-07-19T21:19:00.001-04:00

So Jeremy kept bugging me to get Jackson's haircut. I knew he needed one, but I loved his longer hair and his wave and curls. But he was sweating to death here in NY with it, so I just walked into a salon and cut it all off. Luckily he still looked cute...All done... Still cute, but i did miss his long hair after! :(

Central Park

2010-07-17T20:59:00.000-04:00

We had 4 days left til we had to go home from NY and this was our last Saturday before we left daddy for 3 weeks (me and the boys were flying home for my families reunion). It was sooo hot this day, and we decided to do a bike tour through Central Park and this was one of our stops. This lake is in tons of movies, and you can take boat and gondola rides. The John Lennon memorial... This was cool to see and you could see the building where he lived and where he was shot. Not as exciting for our boys, but still interesting.
The subway ride home.....so hot!!!

Merry Go-Round Fun!

2010-07-12T20:43:00.001-04:00

My boys loved the merry-go-rounds in NY and Ty LOVED them. He flipped every time he had to get off. This merry-go-round was right across the street from Jeremy's building.

Playing catch up again...

2010-07-11T20:41:00.000-04:00

So I know I've said this before, but I'm going to try play catch up again. We have had a lot happen over the last year that I don't want to forget....so bear with me. :)

Playing in NY parks

2010-07-11T01:16:00.010-04:00

New York has the coolest parks. Here are just some pics of my boys playing

July 4th

2010-07-05T20:09:00.009-04:00

We had a fun July 4th. After church we took a picnic dinner and met a bunch of friends down on the pier to watch the Macy's fireworks. We didn't go super close as we didn't want to deal with the crowds, but there were still tons of people everywhere. My boys loved seeing all the boats, people, and of course fireworks.Eating our picnic dinner, watching the sunset on the pier. It was such a fun night, and we especially loved hanging out with Dad. :)Such cute boys..... Mac, Jackson, Tyler, Ryder, and Ty Eating their dessert....powdered doughnuts! Mmmmm mom's favorite...

5 Amazing Years!

2010-07-01T23:44:00.001-04:00

Jeremy and I were married 5 years ago on June 24, 2005. I can't believe its only been 5 years (and not in a bad way). We've already done so much together and I can't imagine my life without him in it. After several jobs, houses, and 2 kids later, I still fall in love with him more every day! I'm the luckiest girl in the world to be married to my best friend... Happy Anniversary Babe!

For our actual anniversay this year Jeremy worked til 2am so I didn't even see him on it. We celebrated a week and a half later once Jeremy could get some time off work and we could get a babysitter out here. We went to dinner at a Mexican place called Suenos. Seriously.....the best Mexican food I have ever had. I didn't even know that you could make Mexican food fine dining, but they sure did. I definitely recommend it if you ever go to Manhattan.Then while we are at dinner Jeremy asks if I want my presents....and of course I say yes. He gives me a box and in it is 2 tickets to "Wicked". Remind you that we tried to see Wicked last summer and got in our rollover accident on the way so we missed the show. Then I notice it is for August 20th and I leave to come back to Utah on July 21st, and he says "oh no, I must have booked the wrong dates". Then there is another envelope for me to open, and it has an itinerary for me to fly back to New York on August 18th and there are no kids on the itinerary. So being the cute husband he is, he asked his mom to watch our kids and I get to fly back to NY so we can enjoy a few days here without kids and Jeremy will be done with his internship. I can't even tell you how great of a present that was for me. I was in heaven.... The night was great first of all because I finally got a break from my kids and then knowing that I get to come back and enjoy New York without kids for a few days made my whole summer. :) Not that I don't love my kids, but its been hard to never really get a break from them with Jeremy working so much......AND it will be so fun to enjoy the night life and stress free life of no kids for a few days. :)
Thanks babe for always loving to surprise me! I love it too!Walking around Time Square after dinner. I didn't want to go home and have our fun night end... :) Such a perfect night to celebrate our 5 Amazing years together.

Magic Show and Splash Parks

2010-06-29T22:38:00.000-04:00

So we've been trying to get out and enjoy all of the fun things here in the city. We are here in Manhattan with about 5 or so families from BYU's MBA program. It's a lot of fun to have company and friends to enjoy all the fun things in this city with.

Bryant Park(which is right by Jeremy's building) has fun things every Saturday. We went to a little magic show with Rachel and her 3 kids. Both of our husbands are at Bank of America doing Investment Banking internships so its been nice to commiserate together at how we never see our husbands...so instead we do fun stuff together. :) It wasn't anything too spectacular, but the boys liked it, especially when the woman caught a rainbow and the rainbow turned into colorful starbursts for all of the kids. Trying to get Ty-Ty to smile at the magic show, and this is what I got. Too funny....I love this kid.

We've been doing some serious splash parking....its so stinking hot here that we just hop from splash park to splash park. There are so many in this city that we could go to a different one every day and never hit them all.
At the splash park at the Museum of Natural History. So much fun. It's just plain fountains on cement tile, but the kids have a blast. It is very slightly slanted so all the water runs down and the kids can play in the little river below. There is a dinosaur splash park in Riverside Park that was sooo great. Fun little dinosaur statues, 3 or four playground areas, a sandbox and huge water area. Here is Jackson and Ty with "big Tyler" as Jackson calls him.Mack, big Tyler, Ty, and Jackson in the back just playing and having a ball. Mac and Tyler are some of my boys best friends here. Luckily my boys can continue the friendship as they'll go back to Provo with us once the internships are over.Ty splashing in the puddles. He doesn't really like the spray part so just splashes in puddles where he is safe.Jackson and Tyler Andersen have such a blast together. They are so much alike.....crazy, and hyper! I'm so glad I have Amber here to understand what its like to have two crazy boys. :)Isn't he the cutest? I have to apologize for Ty's hat. Sorry fellow BYU friends.....I'm a BYUer, but the hubby is still a Ute even though he goes to BYU. :( Don't worry our boys will have hats and t-shirts to both schools. The nice thing with Jeremy going to BYU, he now admits there are normal people there and that it is a GREAT school :)

Sad to say Good-bye...

2010-06-22T16:04:00.000-04:00

We were so sad to have Jeremy's family go home. We had so much fun and my boys loved having a grandma, aunt and uncle, and cousin here. We hope they had fun too...although, I think they were all ready to have a car and not live in a 1 bedroom, 1 bath with 8 people. :) Jackson was so cute. He was really upset to say goodbye to them. I think he really started to grasp that we wouldn't see them for a while til we get back to Utah.My boys loved their little cousin Sophia. She is the sweetest, cutest little thing. I just gotta figure out how to get one of her for next time :)My boys love Grandma Burgon. She was so great to help me since dad was working all the time. Me and my boys already miss her. Thanks Grandma for the New York t-shirts!
We sure love and miss you guys! Thanks for coming to visit us!

Who's next?

Statue of Liberty and Ferry Ride!

2010-06-21T15:39:00.001-04:00

Monday morning we took the South Ferry to Staten Island and it goes right by the Statue of Liberty. The best part was the ferry is free and we still got to get pretty close to get some pictures. My boys loved the boat ride. You can see the whole south side of Manhattan, the Brooklyn Bridge, and of course all the boats for my boys. Picture from the Ferry ride. Not bad for free! It was just hard to get my boys in the picture while not worrying they were going to fall out the window into the water.
My handsome boy....with a scraped up face! :)I could not get a good picture of Ty-Ty. My camera couldn't decide if we were inside or outside.
On our way back to Manhattan...

Later that day we did Wall St. for Blake, Ground Zero (which is mostly just construction now), Century 21 shopping, and then some SoHo shopping. I love SoHo. Lots of shops, boutiques, and cute cobblestone streets. We were all exhausted by the end of the day. We had walked for 5 days and all of us were ready to go home and rest.

Marionette Puppet Show and Serendipity!

2010-06-21T00:20:00.000-04:00

We went to church in the morning and then went to the Swedish Cottage for the Marionette Puppet Show. Seriously, it was like a puppet show on Broadway. My boys were entranced...well mostly Jackson. Ty was for 2o minutes and then the 2 year old attention span kicked in.
Jackson with Grandma before the puppet show started. He was so excited.Our fam after the puppet show. It was so much fun. If anyone visits New York, this is a definite must. It was one of my favorite things here.

We then walked through Central Park. I love Central Park. There is something about that place. You truly feel like you are not in a city and I wish we lived closer to it. Our next stop was to eat an early dinner at Patsy's Pizzeria and then Serendipity for dessert. Both places are heavenly. Love, love love Patsy's margarita pizza and the Alla Vodka pasta(or something like that). I literally lick the plate(with their yummy rolls) of my pasta when I'm done. The wait for Serendipity was only 1 1/2 hours so we went and ate dinner and then were done right in time for our dessert reservation. Jackson through a tantrum at Serendipity so Dad and Jackson went outside to wait :( Ty LOVED the frozen hot chocolate. If I even tried to have a drink myself he would scream. I even tried to get him to stop so he wouldn't get a brain freeze, but we was not going to stop drinking for anything.
This kid loves himself some chocolate!Happy mom and Ty after a yummy dinner and dessert. We got a frozen hot chocolate "to go" for dad and Jackson to share. Jackson got some daddy time on the stairs while he cooled down. :)
My fam is cute, but I hate this picture of me. We had walked too much in the heat and well, I just look lovely :)

The rest of the night continued to be great. The men took the kiddos home and the girls got to go shopping at H & M and Zara's. I love me-self some shopping...and especially when there aren't kids there.

Museum of Natural History

2010-06-18T23:58:00.000-04:00

The next day we decided to go to the Museum of Natural History, Shake Shack for lunch, and then a splash park after that. Before the museum we went to Shake Shack for lunch, and it was so delicious! Burgers, shakes, fries......oh my! :)
The boys loved the museum! Classic... No words even need to explain! :)
Lions...Elephants...Dinosaurs... Oh my!!!
Just plain cute boys! Unfortunately we didn't go to the splash park because it was closed. Still a fun day.

Some Visitors!

2010-06-17T09:27:00.000-04:00

We were so excited to have Thelma, Becky, Blake, and Sophia (Jeremy's mom, sister, brother-in-law, and our niece) come stay with us for a few days here in New York. Luckily we got our apartment just in time for them to come. I moved in Tuesday night and they got here on Thursday.

They came in on a red-eye so they were extremely tired but we hit the town anyway. First we headed to the subway to go see Grand Central Station and then FAO Schwartz. After that we walked to Bed Bath & Beyond to get some extra pillows and a fan. I think Blake fell asleep standing up a few times, so indeed it was a long day for them.

The next day we went to the Children's Museum. It is such a fun museum. We need to definitely go back as we didn't get to see the whole thing.Jackson was in heaven at the Children's Museum. Here he is with Grandma. Thelma was so great to help me out with the boys. (Notice the scab over his lip. The night before he was being his hyper self and showing off for our visitors and tried to drive his car on the sidewalk while running and face planted. It was so sad. He has scabs on his nose, above his lip, his hand, and knee. That kid seriously can't slow down for anything. And when visitors are in town.....he will put on a show for you! :)The Dora Exhibit (floor) was so cute. My boys looked like they were going to explode with excitement. I love seeing them so happy. For the next 20 pictures, do you think my boys like cars?Car, bus, firetruck.....if my boys can drive it, my boys love it!Jackson makes the cutest fireman I've ever seen! It took 4 pictures for him to finally look at the camera for this one. :) He was in heaven being a fireman. He was really acting it all out. He would run and turn on the lights and siren and then run to the fire pole and slide down it and then pretend he was calling people that he was on his way to put out the fire. Too cute!And I couldn't resist putting this picture up. Just, too too cute!

Central Park Zoo

2010-06-16T17:54:00.001-04:00

Our last Saturday before Jeremy started his crazy hours with his group we went to Central Park Zoo and then went and ate at Patsy's Pizzeria after. That place is so fabulous....a must when visiting New York.This was where the birds were. Definitely isn't the most exciting zoo, but it was still fun for my boys. We did the whole zoo in an hour... its not very big at all.The boys eating their lunch. It is a pretty zoo, but not many exciting animals to see.
The most exciting exhibit was the polar bears. They were actually pretty cool. They were huge...although it doesn't look like it from these pictures. Ty kept roaring at them... :)
Outside the zoo, there is a little children's zoo (small petting zoo). There were tons of little things for the kids to play on. The boys loved being able to run around and not just look at things.

First Subway ride and FAO Schwartz

2010-06-16T17:22:00.001-04:00

Pictures of the boys first subway ride. We decided to go on the subway before Jeremy started work so I could figure it out for when I was by myself. We went downtown to see Time Square and then go to the toy store FAO Schwartz.The boys absolutely LOVE New York and they absolutely LOVE the subway. The cry every time we pass a subway entrance if we don't go down it. The love being on the trains.
Of course the boys loved finding this Thomas train display. Ty flipped when I had to rip the train out of his hand so we could leave.
There were Toy Story 3 displays everywhere. Hopefully we can go while we are here....if I dare brave it by myself. :)
This is a picture of when we came the second time with Jeremy's family. We forgot to get a picture with the soldier the first time we came. Such a fun toy store. One day I want to afford all those huge stuffed animals for my kids playroom.

Our New York Apartment

2010-06-15T16:58:00.005-04:00

Here are some pictures of our apartment. Its a 1 BR/1BA, and it was pretty nice. A lot nicer than a lot of things we had been seeing. It was at W 112th street and Broadway. It was in a great location...close to parks, 2 grocery stores, Rite Aid, a couple blocks from Columbia, and good restaurants and bakeries. Actually the diner from Seinfield is on the same corner as our apartment.
Here is our bedroom. All four of us sleep in here. We have Ty in the corner in his pack n' play, we are on the FULL bed (he said it was a queen, i don't think people here know the difference), and then Jackson was on the floor on a comforter.
Here is the living room. We have a nice TV, a couch that pulls out, a futon, and a desk. This room is where our visitors will stay. :) It's open for anyone else wanting a New York vacation! :)The door to our building...see Jackson and Ty at the door? They love saying hi to the security guard everytime we come in and out.
Our street. It is a really pretty street. There is a huge, old cathedral at the end of our street that is such a pretty building.
This is a picture out our front door. Its the Seinfeld diner... We haven't eaten there yet, but that's on our list!

Blessings o' Blessings - The Garff's

2010-06-14T15:57:00.000-04:00

Saturday night we are at the hotel and I call my friend Elizabeth who grew up in Scarsdale, NY to ask her about church in the area. I knew her parents lived close by and they would know where to go to church. Well she tells me that her parents moved to White Plains, which was where we were staying, and they were 5 minutes away from us. She called her parents and then called us back to give me her parents number. We returned our car already and were planning on taking the hotel shuttle to the train station to go to church. So her parents, Blair and Sue Garff, offer to pick us up for church the next morning and invite us over for dinner afterward. They were so sweet to help us out and even brought car seats for us in their car. The Garff's are the kind of people that help everyone and anyone they meet. They are the most amazing people. My boys absolutely LOVED them. My boys called them Papa Blair and Grandma Sue. And then they acted like grandparents to my boys. It was nice for my boys to feel loved and more at home with people even though it was the first time they met my boys.

The Garff's then offered for us to use their car and stay with them until we found a place. Well, they actually offered for us to stay with them the whole summer, but we didn't want to overdo our welcome. They left a few days later for a month and a half so we stayed in their master bedroom. I was amazed at how giving and willing they are to help people. There was already a couple (Lindsay and Pat) and their neice (Patty) staying with them before we got there. So they had a full house of people while they weren't there.

The Garff's were such a blessing for us. We were able to use their car and stay there while we tried to find a place to live. Jeremy started work on June 7th so he just took the train into the city while we were there. It took him about an hour and a half, so it was a long commute for him each way. The car was so nice to have so we could check out places to live. We found a place that strung us along for a few weeks and we thought we were moving in the next day and then he emails and says his wife is worried they are going to get caught because they aren't suppose to sublet. We had been dealing with this guy for over 2 weeks trying to make his place work. It was a lot nicer than what we had been seeing so we were hoping it would work out. Anyways, it didn't work out, and then a few days later we found a different place but we couldn't move in until Tuesday June 15th. We wanted to move in over the weekend because Jeremy would start working with his group on monday and the long hours would begin so he wouldn't be able to help move. We also had visitors (Jeremy's mom, sister and brother-in-law) coming on Thursday the 17th so we needed a place for them to come to.

Well we didn't have many other options so we took this new 1 BR place and I had to do all the loading, moving, cleaning, and then unloading by myself. I think it was the longest day of my life, and I was so exhausted at the end of the day.....but we finally are in the city and excited to have visitors and now get to enjoy New York City. Our boys playing at a park by the Garff's house. The boys hadn't been having much fun with the stress of finding a place to stay so we tried to do a couple of play days for the boys.
They boys helped Patty (the Garff's neice) wash the Garff's car. My boys loved playing in the soapy water.
Patty was so sweet to my boys. All Jackson wanted to do was play with Patty, but she is doing her masters and so usually had to study. I think Jackson had his first crush! :)My boys saying good-bye to Patty. Jackson was so sad to say bye to her.

New York - First week!

2010-06-05T14:53:00.000-04:00

We flew to New York on May 27th, and we thought we would play for a week and a half til Jeremy had to actually go to work. Jeremy will be doing investment banking, and the hours are pretty bad so we thought we would get our playing in before he starts work on June 7th.

So, the nightmare begins... We first of all take a red-eye there. Not a good idea with young kids that love sleeping in their cribs. Jackson did great, he played the first hour and slept the rest of the time. He is a deep sleeper and can sleep anywhere once he's out. Ty on the other hand doesn't really sleep in the car (unless he's absolutely exhausted) and especially not planes. So I had to walk around and rock him til he eventually fell asleep. He slept for an hour of the 4 1/2 hour flight, but was still so exhausted he would scream and couldn't even play because he was so tired. Once we get there, we have sooooo much stuff and finally get our rental car. We get to our 1 BR apartment we found to rent on W 86th street right off Central Park West. It was horrible.... I don't know why we have such poor luck on apartments, but the kitchen was pretty much the size of a closet. The fridge was a 70 year old mini fridge that wasn't even cleaned out for us. The microwave and oven were the size of an easy bake oven. I knew everything would be old, but i was grossed out to even put our cups or anything in the kitchen. The bathroom was old and gross and the worse part was it was part of the bedroom. We were planning on sleeping in the living room and the kids were going to be in the bedroom, but if we wanted to use the bathroom once they kids went to sleep they would wake up. This was a huge issue for us since we were having visitors come stay with us. "Sorry, after 8pm you can't use the bathroom." :) The tv didn't work, the bed was suppose to be a queen and it was a full, and the final straw was that there were big french door type windows with no screen in the living room that couldn't have child locks on them and we were on the 8th floor and it just freaked me out to worry about my kids opening the windows and falling out.

To say the least, we hated the apartment and i didn't sleep that whole night even though we were exhausted from the red-eye the night before. I ended up getting up at 5am to start packing up our stuff. Luckily we didn't sign a contract yet and so paid the guy $300 for his time and for the one night we stayed. We had rented a car so we could go get some things we needed so it was nice to have the car to keep all our stuff in. We then drove to a hotel in White Plains that night so we could drop the car off at a return place near by. Since it was memorial day weekend the hotels were pretty expensive in the city so we went 30 minutes north. And the car was killing us at over $200 a day with it being memorial day weeekend. So we returned the car and stayed at a Hyatt Summerfield Suites for 3 nights. It was so nice to finally be somewhere clean and nice and have normal beds and fridges and bathrooms. :) As to our luck we booked a 1 BR suite and it was a handicap room, so they upgraded us to a 2 bedroom suite. Jackson got to sleep in a huge keep size bed.
The kids are happy to finally have a nice room and a place to call home (for a few days, anyways). The boys enjoyed watching some tv on their huge king size bed.

New York!!!

2010-04-25T14:47:00.000-04:00

Jeremy will be doing his internship with Bank of America in New York for the summer. We are so excited to play there for the whole summer. I can hardly wait...

Halloween

2010-04-15T21:51:00.000-04:00

Still catching up...

Halloween 2009

We went to a Pumpkin Patch with the MBA Spouse Group. The boys loved it and especially that they each got to pick out their own little pumpkin.
Both boys got a buzz cut the weekend before so with their blonde hair it looks like they don't have any! :)

We had a Halloween Party with my family and our little fam went with a super-hero theme. We had Spiderman, Batman, and Catwoman... Dad was MIA in New York doing one of his many networking trips :)

Jackson had already taken his costume off so I don't have many picture of him in it from this night. I think a cousin made fun of him saying he didn't like Batman, so Jackson came upstairs and wanted to take it off :( Which was so interesting because at home, he wouldn't take it off! Sad to see the first time your kid gets teased...I wish I could protect him from that ever happening, but I guess that means he is just growing up and that is life, sadly enough.

Moving to Provo

2010-04-14T14:38:00.004-04:00

Still catching up...

August 2009 - Our move to Provo
Jeremy started the BYU MBA program this fall (2009) and so we moved to good ol' P-town. Yes I became a Provo resident once again. We were really excited for this new change. Jeremy has been wanting to go back to school for a few years now, and so we finally did it. It has been a rough transition in some ways for Jeremy to humble himself to wear blue......but he finally recognized its the best school in the state and changed his ways (it's nice to have the power when blogging to write whatever I want). No really, he still doesn't wear blue much (unless it has BYU MBA on it), but the nice thing is that he has realized what a good school BYU is and that there are a lot of normal people here :)

So we moved to Provo in August before school started, even though we still hadn't sold our house in Herriman. It was hard to be paying mortgage and rent payments, but we had "faith" that we would sell our house. We were starting to worry and figured if we didn't get an offer soon, we would have to try rent it out. We decided to fast and pray and the next day we received an offer. It's amazing what a little bit of effort shows to Heavenly Father. We were lucky to close on our house by September 24th, and no longer owned a home, and were now just renters. It definitely was a sad time for me. I didn't think I would be sad, because I liked my house, but I didn't necessarily love my house. I just knew I didn't want to stay in it long term. When we were walking through for the last time I was so sad. We started our marriage in this house, had both of our boys in this house, and had so many memories here.....and now it was someone else's. It is such a weird feeling to own something and then the next day you no longer have it.I actually get sad just looking at this picture. But I'm not sad to not have to do yard work anymore! :)

Ty's 1st Birthday!

2010-04-05T00:16:00.009-04:00

Catching up...
August 27th, 2009

Our baby boy turned 1! I can't believe how time flies and our little Tyler turned 1 already. We had a fun party for him and he of course loved the attention, presents, and cake! :)

One of his favorite toys from his birthday. Now he has a car like Jackson got for his first birthday, and there is no more fighting...For Ty's birthday it was a stressful time with moving to Provo, trying to sell our house, and so I didn't make a cake for Ty-Ty. I hope he forgives me, and I promise to make him a cute cake for number 2.
He still loved the cake the same....homemade or not, frosting is still frosting!

We love you Ty-Ty and are grateful for all you bring to our family!!!!

Our miraculous blessing!

2010-04-04T23:53:00.006-04:00

July 30th, 2009

I never thought I would say that I've been in two rollover accidents but now unfortunately I can (my first was when I was a freshman in college). Our family was driving to Cali for my brothers wedding and we had lots to do before we left and both Jeremy and I hadn't gotten much sleep the last week or so. We got up at 4:30 Thursday July 30th and left at 6:30 am, we were trying to make the broadway play "Wicked" by that night in San Diego. We had only been driving 2 1/2 hours and then Jeremy fell asleep around Beaver. I had just talked to him ten minutes earlier and we were going to try make it to cedar city and then I was going to drive. Jeremy fell asleep and veered towards the center median. I woke up from the noisy groove things and yelled Jeremy which woke him up. He over-corrected and we spun through both lanes of traffic missing all the cars and then rolled when we got to the dirt on the other side. Gratefully we were all ok. Both boys were sleeping and were just a little scared but are totally fine. Luckily we turned Tyler forward for this trip since he was 11+ months. When we rolled, the back windshield blew out so dirt and glass poured in our car. If Tyler had still been backwards he would have gotten a face full of dirt and glass. We were extremely blessed and watched over in so many ways. I didn't know my older brother Greg was an exit behind in beaver eating breakfast. My mom called him and he met us at the hospital. I was strapped down to a board as my neck was already hurting. So Jeremy was left to deal with both boys by himself. Luckily my sister-in-law helped out giving Jackson a shower and entertaining him and Ty. Jeremy said he probably would have lost it if they hadn't been there. After we were done at the hospital they gave us a ride to cedar city to rent a car. We the drove back to beaver to get our stuff and clean out our car. It was definitely overwhelming to see our car and see what we survived. The rest of the trip I constantly thought about what I could have lost and feel so grateful that my whole family was protected. Anyways, I thought I would just give a little personal reminder to NEVER drive drowsy and for me I will not sleep as a passenger ever again either. Our Camry held up well as far as safety but was totaled. So if anything good will came of this we got to get a new car. We wanted to sell our camry so we could get a bigger car, and now we didn't have to deal with selling it and got more for it being totaled than we could have trying to sell it in this market.

New Year's Resolution - 3 months later!

2010-03-28T23:09:00.003-04:00

Okay, so I have been WAY out of the blogging world. My last post was July for Jackson's b-day, and so much I would have liked to blog about has happened (Ty's b-day, selling our house, moving to Provo, Jeremy starting school, all the holiday's, Jackson in pre-school, and the list goes on and on). So I decided I want to get back into posting more often for our family memories for our scrapbook. With that said, I have a new NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION (3 months late), but to start blogging more often.

I may try post some significant things that happened previously so I at least have them for our scrapbook I want to make. So bare with me if things I post may have happened 6 months ago.

Anyways, here's to keeping New Year's Resolutions! :)

Happy Birthday Jackson!!!

2009-07-28T00:42:00.001-04:00

I can't believe my little boy turned 3 today!!! It is crazy how fast time goes. Jackson is the greatest little boy and I love every ounce of his being (even his tantrums) :) I am so lucky to be his mom and laugh every day at this little kid. He is so full of personality and ENERGY!!!! He loves everyone and is my little social butterfly. We had a fun family birthday party for him yesterday and he loved every minute of it. He kept saying "Thanks mom for making me have a special day" gotta love that kid! :) Jackson was in heaven opening presents and kept saying, where's my next present mom?Anxiously awaiting presents... Look how patient he looks!
This is the smile we get every time lately. His face is towards the camera, but not the eyes... Like the black teeth and lips, he was licking the cake before we even started the party! :) Jeremy and I love this kid so much and are so lucky to be his parents.