Hello, is there anyone out there?

I haven't blogged for awhile so here are my posts that I have been holding for weeks. I have been out town and out of it. Between illness and packing and unpacking, I just didn't take the time. I have to say I missed my blogging world. Anne showed up at my house yesterday with Cinnamon rolls and asked if I was okay because she heard I had been sick and I haven't blogged.....I think I'll take a break again so that I get some more of her yummy treats!
I am preparing for Tucker's baptism, putting up Christmas, and watching my little Gil walk all over the place. He finally started walking a week and a half ago. The funny thing is that he is good at it. He doesn't fall much or bang his head, it's like he kind of walked for 2 months until he said, that's it I am ready, I'll walk all the time now. He is so fun right now.
Tonight Bob was as bishopric meeting and called after about an hour and asked if the babies were asleep and if I minded if he took Tucker out for awhile. He came home and got Tucker and an hour later they came home with ice cream. After Tucker was in bed Bob told me he took him to the stake center down to the font to show Tucker how it will all go, they talked about it and then went for ice cream. He then told me that is what his dad did with him.....yeah I feel a little emotional. I am grateful to have such a wonderful husband and father, and I am grateful for his dad's example. The little things, you know. I can't believe Tuck is being baptized already... Staci took some AWESOME pictures of him, I will post some when I get them. Feels good to be back in blog world.

Thanksgiving 2007

Kennan and Trevan with their sweet Jude.

Thanksgiving was great this year! It was a smaller group than what we usually have at my mom's, but I thought it was delightful. The food was wonderful and the conversation fun and a little more cozy.

Bob did the honors of carving the Turkey.
My Grandma JB who is almost 87 was with us and helping as much as we would let her! Crazy lady, she is so young at heart. I feel I should state her age because I never think of her as really old.
Gilly bear on dad's shoulders so he wouldn't get into the food right before we ate.


Me and my Mom.
I had such a great time cooking with my Mom. She is a great cook and time with her is always well spent. Vanessa was also cooking with us and also great conversation and a side note; she can peel potatoes really fast.
Before the feast.
Eileen and Gwyn.....My kids love "Aunt Leen".
Brad, Vanessa, and Gabi. I love this little family. I was glad to spend the day with them. Could my niece be any cuter?
Dinner is served....


Gil thought that an Oreo Cookie and green bean salad went great together.
Mr. Abe (he did have 6 pieces of pumpkin pie)
Tucker and his 2nd helping of potatoes.

Gwyn and Jude waiting for the feast to appear.

Fairy Girl

The Fairy Dress! While up visiting my family Kennan hooked us up at Naartjie. Kennan brought outfit after outfit into the dressing room for Gwyn to try on. She fell in love with this "fairy dress" immediately.
Once she got it on she told us she was "going to fly away now". Thanks Aunt Kennan, we will be sad when you don't work there anymore.
The pearls are a nice touch huh?

Trip # 1

We took a trip up to my mom and dad's for my Aunt Eileen's Surprise 50th birthday. I love my Aunt dearly and couldn't imagine my life with out her in it. When my mom told me she and Eileen's best friend Susan were going to put this together, I knew I couldn't miss it.
Pam, Eileen, and Susan

She was definitely surprised and she had a very large room filled with TONS of her dearest friends. I knew most all of her friends because we grew up with Eileen just down the street. What a fun night! What an incredible woman.

I stayed up at my parents and Bob flew home Sunday night. One of the days there my friend Ally and I went to a awesome place called Kangaroo Zoo. My kids had a blast, even Gil who is just barely one. This is Gil and and Adam they are 1 month apart. They really enjoyed this inflatable place!
Gwyn could run around here for hours. She made a little friend in the obstacle course seeing that my boys adopted Ben as there own friend even though he is Gwynnie's age.
Abe

Tucker was to busy going down the slides and all the other things that I didn't get a picture of him.
All in all this was a pretty fun trip, my last day there I got really sick, as did Gwyn and Abe. When I say I got sick, I mean I don't remember being this sick since I was 12 years old. Thursday I was suppose to drive home,(so I could make it back for book group) and about 1 am Thursday morning I couldn't stop shaking and it hurt to swallow. I kept thinking where is Bob? Why do I do this to myself, I should never stay with out Bob? How on earth am I going to drive me and my 4 children home when I am shaking this bad? At 8 am I had Gwyn and I at the Insta Care and 45 minutes later Gwyn had gotten a shot for Strep throat and I got some antibiotics for my Strep throat. My dad offered to drive us home, but seeing that he had his cancer removal surgery planned for Monday, I couldn't let him do it, and get himself sick (I am pretty sure a 4 hour drive with me and my children would have infected him). So Bob tried to get a flight back to SLC but he didn't make the flight so I pulled my self off my mom's couch (she had a huge bridal shower at her house that night for my soon to be cousins wife.) And with my mom's help loaded my children and bags and drove home. I honestly don't remember much of the drive, and the minute I walked in the door, at 6:30pm I climbed in bed for the night and missed my beloved book group. I told Bob I will never go and stay with out him again. He told me that's great and until I tell him in six months I am going up to my mom's with out him........Thus my vicious cycle.......

Laser Mania.....

Tucker has been waiting for two years to have a birthday party at Laser Mania. So we brought in some Pizza and......
a little birthday cake, and Tuck and his friends had a smashing time!
Gwyn kept stealing tastes of the cake!
Bob's cute sister Laura and her beautiful baby Gage came down to visit and help with the party. Laura brought Hunter down with her for Tucker's party, he kept her company. It was fun to see Gage and Gil playing around each other. Gage and Gil are 11 days apart. The two littles were playing on the car video games the whole time, I think Gage even did a header off of one of them.

Here are the scores after their first game of Laser Tag.
Tuck blowing out his candles.
The boys waiting for the rest of the group to arrive. I have to say, Tucker chose his own list of friends and some of them I did not know from school. I was so pleasantly surprised at how many great kids Tucker has as friends. Not one of those boys were any trouble, and all of them were extremely polite. I was so glad to see who my boy spends his time with. My dad always says,"if you want to know what your child is like just look at his friends."
Abe gave him his first chemistry kit......he was very excited, anything to do with science is awesome in Tucker's book. (He does not get that from me.)
A few of the party shots. We were so glad to have Hunter come down for Tucker's birthday party. He is one of Tucker's favorite people.

How Is He 8 Already?

Bob's journal entry soon after Tucker's birth:

"It was simply amazing when his little blue body came out. I could not believe how big he was when the head had finally popped out. I instantly fell in love with his little whimpering voice, and I could not hold back my tears. I was very emotional, and it was so much fun to have this person, who was just an idea, finally be a reality......I was also happy that this step was all over because it had taken over twenty hours!"

My journal entry right before his birth:

"....I can't wait to watch you grow. I want to play with you. I want to throw snowballs, and build snowmen, and fish with you. I want to be friends with you. I want to watch you play ball with your dad. I want to see you hunt with your dad. I want you to see what a good man should be like. I want you to be an honest and loving, child, teenager, and man."

When we brought Tucker home from the hospital Bob was worried about Tuck sleeping by himself. I thought he was probably right so Tuck slept right in between the two of us, and there he slept until he was 3 yrs old. Truth be told he still tries to come and sleep right in between us nightly...it's not as cute anymore.

This boy was the happiest little baby. He was and still is very busy but his temperament was so kind and sweet. He is very much like his dad.

He has a very tender heart and at age one he would cry when balloons would fly away or pop. By the time he was 3 he couldn't watch the Prince of Egypt because it made him to sad to watch baby Moses leaving his mother and floating down the river.

Tuck came out loving the water, at two weeks of age you could put him in the bath and he would get his legs kicking so hard that you would think he was trying to swim away. Being that he was my first baby I had no idea this wasn't the norm. I have never had a baby since that has done that.

(Tuck's 1st Birthday)

Tucker came out with one huge dimple on his right cheek. I know when he is really happy, because that dimple is really prominent.

When Abe was born Tucker didn't seem to mind at all. He was ALWAYS gentle to his baby brother. He liked to hold him sometimes but really he just liked to know he was in the room with us. They were buddies.

When Tucker learned to talk he talked fast...really fast and high. He couldn't say his "s" and we loved to hear him say anything that needed "s"es in them.
When the mail would come he would watch for any kind of magazines, he thought that they were books just sent to him.
Tucker eats more healthy than any other kid I know. His idea of a treat would be a vegetable platter. We had a garden in our PG house and his favorite treat was to eat tomatoes right off the vine.
First little people, and then trains, and then BOB THE BUILDER! His love for Bob the Builder made us laugh. In the car he would name every tractor or building machine he could see. He would talk non-stop. Once when my mom was with me, I told her just to ignore the incessant talking and that he would eventually fall asleep. She thought that that was mean, but she soon learned it was the only way to get him to sleep. The boy who slept so little.
Tucker has a great love for his Papa Lyle and his garden. When ever Tuck visits they check the garden to see what they might be able to find. Potatoes are really fun to dig up, and he wouldn't mind digging for them all day.


Tucker and Hunter are a year apart, but they are the best of friends. Cousins are really important to Tucker. Someone, somewhere instilled in Tucker a love and intense devotion to his family. He once asked if Nannie (Grandma Williams) could be a Lamoreaux too. I think for a time Tucker really truly believed that Aunt Kennan was and would always be his very best friend.
Tucker could swim very well at a young age....like I said it came really naturally to him. This is him at the age of three.
When I lost my third baby Tucker was over at his friends Dax's house. We picked them up and told Tuck and Abe that our baby had died in my tummy. Tucker asked how and Bob explained that the babies heart beat had gone away. Later that day when we were dropping him off at Dax's again (I had another ultra sound) he said to me, "mom, I think the Doctors are wrong and that they will find our baby's heartbeat again, I just know it." As much as Bob and I knew that this was not true, we wanted to believe because he did so much.
Tucker is tough, the neighbor kids are all older than him, and yet he is the one they want on their team. Nick his buddy always talks about how he can take a hit like none of the other kids. He hates to be apart of any contention and will always try to be the peace maker. He is passionate about, sports, science, math, reading, and his Wii. you start talking Pokemon and he will chat with you for hours.

Tucker and Abe are quite the duo. I often say that if Abe had come first things would be really different at our house. That is not to say that Tucker doesn't tease Abe because he really does. But he loves his little brother. When Bob's brother Tim died, Tucker was so sad. The night we found out, Bob went to work to get things ready for us to be gone for a while. Also he was trying to grieve in his own way, take a little time to wrap his brain around what had just happened. Tucker could not fall asleep that night, and he just kept on crying. He told me he was waiting for Dad to get home. When he finally got home Tucker told us what his tears were for. His tears were for dad, because he thought how sad he would have been to lose his brother, and that made him so sad for dad.

I cannot believe my baby is eight. He is my pride and joy. I am so grateful he is ours. I am proud of him everyday.You are everything I hoped you would be and more. Thank you for being such a good boy. I need time to slow down a bit, I'm not quite ready for the next eight to go as fast as the last eight. Happy Birthday to my very handsome boy. We love you Boo!

juDe.....

Happy 2nd Birthday little man!!!!! We love you and think you are amazing. Can't wait to see you.