1 Year Old!

Our little Kai is one!! How a year flies by!

We celebrated with the grandparents as he demolished his own personal birthday cake.

He was timid at first but when I cut it open and he realized it was cake he dug in.

Talon wanted Kai's cake soo bad, he kept stealing finger fulls of it. Luckily grandma made him his own little cake.  

I love Kai's face in this picture, definitely feeling the effects of too much sugar but still going at it. He played in it for a really long time.

Kai is a very determined, happy, friendly little boy. He will go to anyone that puts there arms out to hold him.

He is such a goof, just thinking about him makes me laugh.  

He is also my cuddle bug.  I love it when he holds his arms up to me and I pick him up and lays his head of my shoulder and lets me cuddle with him.  

He loves dancing, playing the piano, playing with pots and pans, watching me cook, pretending to cook and attempting to play with his big brother.

He also LOVES the mud and water.  If there is anything that looks like he two he is over there before you know it.  There is no point in putting clothes him when I know I am watering the yard or garden.

 

 This kid also loves to eat.  He usually eats his food and Talon's leftovers.  It shows to because he is catching up really fast to his brother.

How much he has changed in just one year.

My blonde hair, blue eyed boy.

Always on the go and Always smiling.

Bringing a smile to everyone else.

 Being a mom has it's ups and downs.

Looking at this picture puts it all into perspective.

These are Children of God that my Heavenly Father has entrusted to me to show them the beauty in life and to teach them that they can do and be anything they want.  

They were sent to me because I am the one who can teach them right from wrong, to share God's love, and be a light to the world.

What a huge responsibility, it is almost overwhelming at times, but I know I am not alone in my efforts.

I love my boys and am so grateful for the mission of motherhood.

Talon's 3rd Birthday!

 Are little Talon is now 3!!! 

We had such a fun Birthday.  We made a dragon cake this year for him.  He loved it! When he saw it he just stared at it.  After opening each present he would say "wow! this is cool!"  It was so precious. 

Some of his presents.  Some cool sun glasses and a fishing pole.  He was so excited for his fishing pole and so was Grandpa Poole, he couldn't wait to show his grandson how to use it.

Here is Talon using his fishing pole for the first time. He went fishing with Grandpa and caught 6 fish!

He was pretty excited.  

Talon is full of energy and imagination.  He will turn anything into a truck or a gun and there are always monsters lurking around every corner in our home.

 Talon loves playing at the park and playing with other kids.  He will make fast friends with any kids he sees no matter their age.  

Some of his favorite foods are grapefruit, blueberry bagels, grapes, mac n cheese, marshmallows and chocolate.

He still loves watching cars and planes, and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer (yes, the christmas classic)

He loves to play in his "sand castle" in our backyard digging with his bulldozers, tractors and dump trucks,

he loves helping grandma and grandpa with the baby sheep and chasing them everywhere, he even got to help grandma give them shots!  He loves going to G&G Pooles and playing with the big train.  And he still loves camping, rock climbing, and roasting marshmallows around the fire.  

He also loves riding his bike.  This was a fun day when we had some balloons, he had me tie them to his wrist and he rode his bike all around like that.  It was great to see the smile on peoples faces when they would pass him.

 I love my Talon! 

I am always excited to hear and see what he will do next (most of the time.)

He reminds me to be happy with the simple things in life and that anything can be fun.

2014 So Far

 It's amazing how winter went by so fast and now it is almost summer!  

January passed by with lots of innovative playing.  

This is Talon making an awesome jeep trail with the couch cushions.

Kai turned 9 months!

And Talon was almost 2 and loves being in the pictures and torturing his brother.

 

Kai learning how to walk.  he started walking on his own in February at 10 1/2 months!  

We were at church in nursery and I set him down to help a kid and he got up and took 10 steps like it nothing.  

 February Tyler turned 29!  

Talon thought the garbage can was a great hiding place one night while we were playing.

 Tyler at midnight working on one of his many projects.  

This one is a gear bag to take to Denali.   It turned out awesome.

 playing out in the yard on a great warm day.

We took Talon skiing at Pomerelle.  He loved it, didn't really get the technique down but that's ok.

On our way to see are cousins in Washington.

Playing at the park

 Talon and his cousin maely playing frozen.  Doesn't Talon make a great Elsa? 

In April we got chickens and ducks.  This is Black Shadow and it goes everywhere with us.   Here we are taking him to the park. So far we have had 2 ducks die because he has loved them too much.  

New Year's in SLC

 For New Year's we went down to Salt Lake and met up with my family.  They were doing a whole bunch of thing in the city that you could do and it was really fun.  

Here is Jack and Talon with Grandpa celebrating the New Year on the train watching the fireworks!

The had a room full of bounce houses at the Salt Palace that the kids played on and LOVED.

"ya that trip down that last slide was crazy, hold it in, don't throw up!"

We went to a Japanese drumming show which was really cool.  Kai Loved it and got so excited when the music would start.

And yes, Kai stayed up for his first New Year, At 2 am he decided it was time to go to bed.

 The next day we left the kids with my parents and took Tyler and Talia Ice Climbing.  It was fun going with them.  They had never done it before and liked it a lot. 

Here is my brother Tyler climbing, and Tyler my hubby belaying.

 Looking down to see how far he's made it! ha, Keep going!

Talia showing off her skills climbing in her boots from American Eagle.  Good thing the ice was stepped out.

 Tyler setting up the climb

 Watch out! Wild Axe Women!! WAW!

I try to always look my sexiest while belaying, you never know when someone from Rock and Ice magazine might show up.

 Me Climbing.

Island Park

For part of our Christmas present from Tyler's parents they rented a cabin in Island park for three days. We didn't get too many pictures cuz we were too busy playing. It was soo much fun to be up there with everyone.  Talon was spoiled being there with all his uncles.  

One of the days, Tyler, Taya, Mark and I drove to Bozeman and went ice climbing in Hyalite Canyon.  It was really fun to get out.  

 Talons favorite thing to do besides riding the snowmobiles.

Kai loved exploring the cabin.  He crawled everywhere as fast as he could.

Talon getting ready to go snowmobiling.  That's all he wanted to do.  He would get so excited when he heard them outside.  He would say "mom, its snowmobiles, we should go ride them!"

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning was at our house this year.   The boys had a late night playing with all there Uncles and Aunt at G&G Wheeler's house so they slept in pretty late.  My parents came up that morning to watch the kids open there presents.

 It took awhile to open all the presents because Talon had to play with each one after he opened it.  

Trying out the new sled from santa in our snowless yard.

Kai was not sure about driving the sled.

Talon wouldn't ride the sled without a helmet.  

Talon woke up and came out and sat on the sled for awhile looking around not saying anything.  He finally woke up and realized santa came and brought him presents!