Summer Fun

So, I understand that I'm a slacker and should have had these photos on the blog a long time ago, but as you can see by the pics, it's been a pretty busy summer. I guess I should say busy year because not all of these were this summer. I think the earliest of these are from about February. They are in no order except by the activity, but at least they made it. Enjoy!

Becky & Zack on the merry go round at the Zoo

Our favorite huge animals at the zoo, besides the elephants

Zack & Paul on the merry go round at the zoo
Zack before the train ride

Zack signing train to Paul, he's so excited to go on it

Watching the Incredible Mr. Limpet in our fort

Zack and Cam playing at McDonalds after breakfast

Zack getting ready for the bike ride with dadPaul taking Zack on a ride

Playing basketball with the cousins - Brayden, Jaxon, Skyler, & Jordan

Zack at Kangaroo Zoo - this was his first attempt at climbing the long stairs to the slide. didn't make it all the way up.

so he stuck to the kiddie slides

Camden, Jordan, & Brayden at K.Z.

Zack's favorite thing at K.Z...BASEBALL

Zack & Becky making smores up the canyon

Paul roasting the mollows

Zack after eating his first smore

Paul & Zack at the Grizzlies game

Jordan & Zack at the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point

digging for bones

the reason Zack is in love with elephants...the circus at UVU

all these people started to fall off the elephant. it was pretty hilarious to watch

Zack with mom at the circus

Zack with dad at the circus

Holly, Hootz, Zack & Dad before the Owls game

Jordie is below

Zack watching the Bee's game
I guess baseball can wear a kid out
Paul lighting the 4th of July fireworks at the grandparents house

Jeff and Isabella watching the fireworks

Grandpa Bob, Becky, & Grandma Shauna watching the fireworks

Zack with Angie watching the show

Projects going on at our home this summer

We have been very busy with projects this summer around our house. We started with cement and have just put in sod in the front and back yards. Our projects in the house have continued as well as we are getting ready for the new baby in October. We moved Zack into his own room with a bunk bed and are going to begin working on the nursery as we get the chance. We changed the front room from the office to a living room and our loft from a sitting room into the exercise room and we moved the office into our room. We will be working on all this throughout the next couple months and then take a break when the baby comes. Next summer we hope to be able to put in a sprinkler system and a fence so Zack will be staying in the backyard to play instead of him running out in the street all the time. I am just so glad that we live on a fairly quiet street with minimal traffic, but that too will change when our new church (stake center) that is being built just a house away from us will be done next year. Sorry for the delay in posting this info and for all the ones to come. I just haven't had a whole lot of time with all the projects. The following are pics that we took for some of the above mentioned projects. Still a work in progress, but we'll eventually have a finished project:

laying cement in the driveway

Paul's grandpa smoothing out the cement on the side of the house

Zack watching it all happen from inside the house

front yard after sod is in

back yard after sod is in

Paul mowing the back yard for the first time

Zack's new bed

Zack sleeping in his new bed for the first time

Zack 2 Years Old

I know, I'm about 2 months late with this, but it's better late than never. I just wanted to share Zack's 2 year pictures since he looks about 5 in these. He turned two on June 7th so I am really about a month and a half late. I also included pictures from his actual birthday. Enjoy.

the morning of his birthday
opening his present from mom and dad (a pool)
eating his birthday cupcakes made by his aunt angie
what a mess these wonderful cupcakes make

dad cleaning up the messy cupcakes

The Joys of Potty Training

Today is the first day of potty training and I'm about to quit. We have a potty training watch that goes off every 30 minutes and we also check with him every 15 minutes to see if he's ready to try again. It is a fight every time. He is always tearing the toilet paper off and trying to wipe even before he goes, which he hasn't yet in the toilet.

We think he's ready because he tells us right after when we need to change his diaper and he has even told us once that he needed to go so we rushed him to the bathroom and he did it. What's the deal?

We are not using Pull-Ups because we have been told that doesn't help at all and is basically just like a diaper so we are just using underware. Then at night we'll put on a diaper until he wakes up with a dry one. We're also moving him into his new room with a big boy bed and taking away the binkie at night and not giving him milk. We're doing it all at once. BIG CHANGE!

Any suggestions from parent's who have had success with potty training?

It's A......

Well, it's been forever. Still don't have internet at home so when I get the chance, I check my email and facebook at my mom's. And if I have a little extra time I checkup on my friend's blogs. Thought I would update mine now since I have a couple extra minutes.

We had the ultrasound on June 4th and as many of you have heard already, we're having a....

GIRL

We are still trying to decide on names, but we've got some time so no hurry. We are really excited and can't wait for Zack to have a little sister.

Hope all is well with everyone and are enjoying somewhat of a sunny/rainy June.

Long Time No Update

Sorry for the huge gap in updates. We don't have internet at our house and I never remember to take my computer to my mom's to do any updating. When I do, we just don't have time with checking our email and everything.

First, Paul got a temporary job. We're still looking so if anything comes available that any of you might think Paul may like, please let us know. I think the big thing with this job right now is that he's been off for 3 months and kinda felt like he was retired so he didn't really want to go back. Can't say I blame him.

Second, I'm pregnant. We are expecting a new little bundle of joy around October 23rd. I'm only about 11 weeks along and I already feel and sometimes look like I'm about 5 months. I'm told that with the second child your body already knows what to do when it's pregnant so it just does what it needs to do. Kinda funny, but my two sisters-in-law are also pregnant. Adri due in July with a little girl (FINALLY)and Susan due in November. I'm sure family parties will be so much fun with all those extra sensitive hormones ;) .

I guess I don't have any more news, but I think those two announcements were pretty big so I'll leave it at that.

Car Show

This is the third year we've attended the car show at the Expo Center. We thought we would share these photos with you of our fun day together.

Zack loving being able to try out all the cars

Paul driving the Corvette

Zack driving the Corvette

Paul wishing for his dream car, Chev Camero

Paul & Zack next to the Chev Camero

This funny looking bike is made by Dodge and has the same engine as the Dodge Viper. Notice it has 4 wheels

Christmas 2008

This Christmas was very nice. First, for being in our own home and second, for Zack being old enough to enjoy his gifts. He was so fun to watch open his presents and have fun with them all. We thought we would show some of our pictures from our wonderful day/week with our wonderful family.

Zack Christmas morning playing with his new cell phone

Paul's new tools to start his home shop.

Zack with his bowling ball and pins that moo.

Zack next to his train and car canyon

Zack on his horse that is posessed. It makes noise when no one is around it. Quite scary when you're home alone

Zack w/ cousin, Thatch, opening presents

Jordan playing the wii guitar as if he were a rocker

Some of the handsome boys in my life
Zack, Steve, Jaxon, Brayden, Skler, & Jordan

My wonderful gifts from Paul. I've always wanted the waffle iron that you flip. And our family gift, the dyson vacuum

Paul's gift to himself, his first snowboard

Grandpa Bob and Zack

Grandma Shauna and Zack

Zack & Uncle Steve

Thanks to all for a wonderful Christmas. We love you!