May

Forget the stuffed animals or blankets this boy likes to snuggle with his tractors at night.

MOM! Something is wrong here!

So I belong to this group on facebook called "Vernal Mom Group." They do weekly activities together with kids and then try to itleast once a month do something with just the Moms. I've never been to any of the activities because going to something where I don't know a soul is WAY out of my comfort zone. I've gotten a lot better over the past few years with being more outgoing. I've really put myself out there though with the ladies in my ward and I have made a lot of really good friends. Anyways they posted a new activity online called "Mystery Moms", where you are assigned a lady to be a secret sister too. You are a given a form with things about this person and then you bring them a gift once a week (secretly, so they don't know who you are). There was like 40-50 ladies signed up to do it, so I figured it sounded fun and at the reveal I'd be able to meet lots of ladies all at once. Might as well dive right in, right? It was actually fun to deliver gifts to somebody I didn't know and to try and drop them off without them seeing you. The reveal was the first weekend in May at a little diner. We had assigned seating at this super long table. We didn't know that they had all sat us around the ladies we had and the ones who had us. I visited with the ladies around me and they were nice. It was about a half and half mix of members and nonmembers. I really hit it off with the lady who was delivering gifts to me, which was kind of cool. I had 2 different ladies tell me that if I was going to be friends with this group I had to stop being so quiet. That didn't make me feel too great. Its easy to say for people who know every person in the room. Well enough about that. The next day was Olivia's baptism (the little girl who has had lessons in our home). Tyrel and I both spoke at it. Tyrel spoke about baptism and I spoke about the Holy Ghost. I haven't been to a baptism in a long time, it was neat to see that ordinance performed after going through all the lessons with her. Right after the baptism we left for Logan, Utah where Tyrel's cousin was getting married in the temple there. Then we drove to Blackfoot afterwards and had a baby blessing of one of our friends the next morning. Then that Monday (the 6th) was Tytyn's 3rd birthday! We had a little celebration the night before with Tyrel's parents and siblings. On his actual birthday we had to drive back to Salt Lake where I had my first appointment with a fertility specialist. I felt bad that it ended up being on his birthday, but it was the only day it worked out. Then we drove home afterwards, so basically he spent his whole birthday riding in the car. We made it up to him that next weekend though. We had a big BBQ with all of our neighbors and friends invited and that was a blast. Two weeks later we drove to Blackfoot again for Memorial Day weekend. And Tyrel was asked to be a best man at a wedding. So we attended the wedding in Idaho Falls on that Friday and then the reception in Pocatello on Saturday. It also was the weekend that Tyrel's dad had to have surgery. He had one of his kidneys removed because there was a big tumor in it filled with cancer. They got it removed and everything around it and are saying that its all gone and he shouldn't have to have any treatments or anything. So that was a relief. It was a busy weekend, but we were glad to be there to help out around the farm and I did all the cooking for the boys. Plus we got to hang out with some old friends so it was fun.

This was at Tytyn's Bday BBQ, we did the watermelon game. You see how many rubber bands you can get around it before it literally explodes in half. Its pretty cool. The kids had a ton of fun doing it. This watermelon took over 200 rubber bands before it exploded. I did stand there with the video camera for about a half hour hoping to get it on video, but I got tired of standing there. I didn't even get to see it explode I was in the house doing some cleaning up. Thats ok though the kids had a blast doing it. 

Its mostly sand underneath our deck and the kids were having fun under there digging around.

This is an after pic of the watermelon. Nobody did any cutting of any kind it just explodes right in half like that. 

We had a big pinata which I failed to get any pictures of because I was doing some video instead. This is Tytyn enjoying some of the loot. Can't believe my baby boy is 3! The time is just going by way too fast, but I am so grateful to have him in my life and to have been entrusted to be his Mother here on earth. We have our challenging days, but they are outweighed by the special moments we have together.

Alot of our friends brought Tytyn a present, we have the greatest friends here. He was ecstatic about it!

This is Matilda, she is such a sweet girl and had gotten fixed a few days before. Fortunately one of our friends who was at the BBQ is our vet. She wasn't doing well the few days after her surgery so I had him look at her when he was over and he was shocked. She was lactating! He said it only happens about 1 in every 100 dogs he fixes. Something to do with it messing with their hormones. I thought it odd that she had breasts all the sudden and that's why I wanted him to look at her. So she had to wear this lovely cone because she wasn't leaving her stitches alone either. She is back to her normal happy and energetic self now. 

This is the dog run we built to keep them out of the lawn we planted. We connected it the the old chicken coop which we cleaned out so that they would have someone place to sleep that's covered. 

We drove up this mountain one night and had a picnic for dinner. It was a little chilly, but beautiful scenery. 

                                     

Do you see the deer?

This was the face he was making when we told him it was time to go home. He LOVES being out and doing anything, he is one active boy let me tell you!