24th of July

The parade in Monticello-My family came for Cloe's blessing and got to celebrate the 24th of July with us. Tyler's brother was Citizen of the year.


































All of these children stayed at my house for the weekend! 8 girls ( including Cloe) and two boys all came from these three women!

Mother/Daughter night in Monticello

This is Sally, Clarissa, and Janelle. Tyler's Oldest Brother's wife and daughters. It was a great night.

Leaving Winnemucca

We are here...

Monticello UT is now our home sweet home. Last Friday we arrived looking like a ragged bunch. My Aunt Tammy and Uncle Jim helped us with our move, and thank goodness they did. Moving with the three little girls two weeks after having Cloe was a little crazy. We made it though, and were welcomed by a group of wonderful Elders who had all of our "crap" unpacked in an hour! Now that's good. We even had a dinner waiting for us. I love the church! I swear I am never moving again! I love the house, and can hardly believe we have family right at our finger tips. They cleaned our house for us so that it would be ready for us to move in, they have given us meals and endless options for entertainment, it has been great. The best thing about this move is that we live five blocks from the temple! I never thought we would ever live so close, in fact we are on the same street. Tyler and I were able to take turns going yesterday, which was a welcome retreat. We are grateful for the many blessings that have come with this move. It has been humbling to see how much we need the help of others in order to accomplish anything.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD CLOE!

Here I am in all of my full blown glory right before we left for the hospital.
















Our first family picture, the girls love her!























I have a feeling Tyler doesn't mind being a dad to all girls.























We love little Cloe.

Our new home

This is our new house in Monticello. I am pretty excited about it. We are moving on July 16th. It will be bittersweet considering we have loved living in Winnemucca. We should be use to change by now considering all of the moving we've done. I think this move may be our last for a long, long, time. I'll post more pics after we get there-My next post will be about baby! I'm being induced tomorrow! YEA

Good one...

We had a lovely visit from some of our young men. Tyler caught them in the act, and then when he realized who it was, let them continue!? "All in the name of fun". They left us little bags of candy on our door step...how thoughtful...haha

Helpin'

I don't know how we get anything done with all of this "help":)

What a Man!

Happy Birthday/Father's Day Tyler! He just turned 29! I tease him about being "almost 30", I remember when that sounded so old:0 His Birthday was on Father's Day, which he liked this year...as for me, I like to celebrate my holidays one at a time:) He's such a great guy. I brag about him a lot, but I feel pretty blessed to have him. There isn't anything he can't fix, he loves his girls and makes them top priority, he never complains, and is patient when I do. He goes without Television and PG13 movies just because he knows I appreciate it, and was willing to see my side of things...need I say more? We love ya babe!

Blanding

We went to Blanding/Monticello this last week for Tyler's parents' homecoming. The girls have been so good to travel, considering we just got back from Washington to go through the temple with my Aunt and Uncle. We are getting really good at packing the car:)














My sister gave us the brilliant idea of "snack boxes". It cuts back on the bulk of endless cracker boxes and bags that get ripped and spill all over. It is so great. I just individualize each box according the person and everyone is happy.


















Alta came with us to "help with the girls" She was incredibly helpful, but really I just wanted to spend more time with her and hook her up with my nephew who is leaving on his mission in November. She has become like a sister to me, so I'm trying to keep her in the family. It was a successful match if I do say so myself:) .


















Tyler's parents are so dang cute. We are sure excited to live closer to them .

Good Byes

Tyler's work crew threw us a little goodbye BBQ, we all became pretty close over the last couple of years here. It isn't often that you LOVE the people you work with, but these guys are awesome, and feel like family.

Jake's last trip with us

We went camping for Jake's last weekend with us. It was a great way to spend the time together and to get away. We went on a really pretty hike up to a water fall. I looked pretty funny on the trail, but oh well. The girls loved it, and Tyler was in his element.

Before

















After

Spiritual Feast

This week has been full of projects in order to get our house ready to sell, but also I have had the opportunity to be spiritualy fed at several meetings that happened to be in the same week. Tyler teaches Seminary and the director came from Reno for an appreciation dinner/meeting. It was a great night with so many good things said. We then had the opportunity to go to Reno for a Special CES conference in which Elder David E. Bednar, Neil A. Anderson, and Elder Zwick of the Seventy addressed us. They opened the night up to a Q/A session which surprised me, but ended up being amazing! This has been a pretty stressful time for our little family with the move and everything else that is going on in our lives, but Tyler and I want to be able to enjoy our summer despite the craziness. Some of the counsel we received was just what we needed to hear and feel. I am posting some of our before and after pictures of the house- I'm not even going to list what we've done, because it is all in the details you most likely can't see in the picture, but man have we worked!

Here we go again...

We have been pretty busy around here lately. Over Spring Break two weeks ago, we heard about a job opening in Blanding UT (Tyler's home town). We have never really considered it as an option before, but for some reason it hit a nerve. Even though Tyler loves his job here, and we have felt pretty settled, thde temptation to live closer to family was too strong to resist. Tyler applied a day after the job "closed" and we found ourselves in Blanding for an interview this week. It has all happened so fast, that I'm still reeling a little from the news. We have decided to take the job and move this summer. My baby is due July 9th, and we have our house to sell and another house to buy when we get there, but oh well...bring it on. We have decided we will most likely live in Monticello which is in the school district. There is a temple there and I am so excited for that. What a crazy summer we are going to have, but we feel like it is the right thing for our family right now, and we are trusting that things will work out.