Family and 40 years!

Over Labor Day Weekend all of Brandon's family were able to head to Colorado and visit Brandon's oldest Brother Derek and his family. It was a great weekend, we got to be a part of Chandler (the oldest grandchild) being ordained a Deacon.

We visited a miniature train museum, and spend a lot of time relaxing and hanging out and letting the kids play until they dropped!

Since all of us were together we took advantage and had an all grandchildren picture!

All of them with their Nana and Papa!

It was a little stressful, but we also were able to get a family picture!

This is really how the family is most of the time!!

Cute Lily! She is a stinker/drama queen, but we still love her!

Macy and Dad watching the kids dance!

Tyson, Brinley, Addie and Paige playing the dancing game on the Wii!

They played non-stop! I didn't even know where Tyson was half the time, but I knew he was having a great time! I wish everyone lived in Utah so we could see them more often!

Tyson can't wait to go to Colorado or Arizona again, he asks us quite often when we are going....I have no idea, but sometime within the next year!

Lily talks about her cousins all the time and always wants to wear her blue shirt that match her cousins!

While we were in Colorado, we surprised Brandon's parents with a little tribute to them and their 40 years of marriage! (Thanks to Andrea for putting it all together!)

Here they are on their actual anniversary at home!

How cute are they!

Happy 40 years you two!

Here's how Tyson and Lily celebrated their 40 years....

Our crazy kids!

(P.S. Brandon's birthday is on their anniversary, so a little shout out to B! Happy Birthday! Happy 33 years! We love you too!)

Macy is 4 months old

Our little Macy turned 4 months on September 5th.

She is getting to be such a big girl!

On Sept 1st she officially rolled from her tummy to her back, and on Sept 4th she rolled from her back to her tummy and we happened to be in Colorado with Brandon's family and got it on video! (Down below!)

Macy loves to smile at EVERYONE! She is the happiest baby there is! She only cries when she is tired and hungry! I can handle that!

She loves to roll over, talk and eat her hands and feet!

She loves grabbing toys so I feel she may start army crawling in no time!

She thinks her brother and sister are the most entertaining people in the world! Tyson can get her giggling pretty good! (Her first official giggle was 8/24)

We sure love our little Macy baby!

Macy's 4 month stats:

Weight: 12lbs 9oz...25%

Length: 25in...75%

Head: 16.5in...75%

Tyson is growing up!

The first part of August, Tyson came to me and showed me his wiggly tooth! I thought he was going to be worried about it, but he was rather excited!

On August 17th after eating breakfast he said, "Mom I have some great news! I was making sure my teeth weren't dirty and I found my tooth on my tongue!"

About an hour later he came to me crying and told me he didn't want to loose his tooth because that meant he was growing up and he would have to move away from me and Dad soon!

I explained that he still had a looooong time before he moved out and he was cool with it again!

That night we talked about how excited he was for the tooth fairy to come and he wondered if she was going to bring money or a prize!

He went to bed with the tooth in a plastic bag under his pillow and the tooth fairy left him a whole dollar!

That morning he came into our room crying because he missed his tooth!

We explained to him that with each tooth he could add up his dollars and when he got 5 he could trade it for a 5 dollar bill and so on and so on! He got super excited again and now wants to do any chores so he can speed up the money making process!

Man who knew losing a tooth could be such an emotional roller coaster!

Lily had to be part of the fun to!

Tyson the kindergartner!

Well, with moving came Tyson going to a brand new school for kindergarten!

He has been such a great little kindergartner! He has made new friends! (he has already been invited to a birthday party from a little boy in the ward but he is in another kindergarten class, but Tyson says they play together at recess!)

When I drop him off, he always seems to be playing tag with someone! He is such a social kid!

So far he loves kindergarten and is so smart!

What a big kid Tyson is!

We love you buddy!

Moving!

So Brandon started a new job back in July and one of the perks of this job is that he can work from home! We did not have the home that could accommodate this perk (he was working in the rocking chair in Macy's nursery!) So we felt with all of the criteria we had set for our decision making on when we would move were all met...(ie., how much Brandon was making, our expenses, our savings....etc) We put the house up on the market. Two years ago when we tried to move we had a few people walk thru and only one really low offer after about 3 months so we felt the time was not right for us then, but this time things were hugely different! We had the house up for a week, (with multiple walk thrus almost every day) and by day 7 the lady that bought it had walked thru and was working up an offer! 3 weeks later we moved!

We (mostly me and Tyson) were sad since we had been there for 5 1/2years. (Tyson was 4 months when we moved in) We have some really great friends from that neighborhood, but it is also exciting to move on to our next "chapter" in life!

Amongst all the chaos, the kids did well at entertaining themselves!

Lily took off her pants and climbed in the water table with just her undies! Tyson thought it was hilarious so he climbed in too! (We made him keep his pants on!) Got to love Lily's goggles too!

While preparing to move, I got behind on laundry so the kids had to wear Dad's shirts to bed! They thought it was awesome!

So, We are now living with Brandon's parents until we find a house! We currently have an offer on a short sale in Lehi at Traverse Mountain, but short sales take FOREVER! so we are still looking in Herriman, Riverton, So. Jordan, Sandy, Draper, Lehi....If you know of any good homes let us know! Wish us luck!

(My back up plan is to actually outlast Brandon's parents and drive them crazy enough that they move out and we get their house!! ;)