another letter!

GOT ANOTHER letter today and it was such a great one. My day gets so much better when I hear from Dalin. I love knowing that he is doing okay and is still loving boot camp. In this letter he talked about how he is RIFLE EXPERT, which is the highest class of marksmanship. They talked to him about being a sniper...which freaks me out...but pretty amazing that he is so good at it. He was hitting keyhole bulls eyes from 500 yards away (5 football fields). Pretty amazing for someone who never grew up with guns. I'm so proud of him. He is excited to shoot using a machine gun as well and then for a whole week they have field week, which is living off of the land. He is SUPER excited about that and getting all camied up, face painted and all, leading his recruits to take others out. He says HE CAN'T WAIT.
Then he goes on to say that he is so excited that he only has 5 weeks left:) and how they had a surprise Christian Rock Band come and perform for them as well as a guest speaker; Major Bruce Bender speak to them. He loved them both.
He told me to read 2 stories from the Aug Ensign as well: "Our Parental Duty to God" and then "The Rising Generation". So i'm excited to read those talks.
I LOVE MY HUSBAND SO MUCH and I'm so happy that he is doing so well and is loving boot camp. I can feel the Lord blessing him, Taelin, and I everyday. Only 33 more days to go:)

YAY for the BOYLES

SO HAPPY!!!
Our friends Rachel and Layne just found out that they are having a baby girl! CONGRATS guys!
Now to plan Taelin and Nora's wedding:)

Sand

Mel has this cool little sand pile on the side of her house that the boys LOVE to play in. This was Taelin's FIRST time in the sand........

Sniffin' it to see if it will taste good...

Scooping it up, and some got flicked in his eyes

But he still wants to play with it...Macie was checking it out too

We filled the whole dump truck full of sand, Taelin was LOVING this!

Finger painting

Last Monday the 19th for our Family Home Evening Game we decided to do Finger Painting. I was looking forward to this so bad, cuz I wanted Taelin to try it so bad. Of course, Taelin fell asleep about 20 min before we started the activity....BUT luckily woke up before we had cleaned up and put it away. Jaden and Kyler LOVED it and totally went to town. Jaden would write his name in the paint and then erase it, and then draw a picture and then erase it. Kyler liked to mix the colors all around his paper. Taelin I think really liked it too. He loves to get messy, so when mommy lets him he is one happy boy (what boy doesn't like to be messy?) We decided to draw a pretty picture to send to Dalin. We did his hand prints, (but on one of his hands i didn't press down his pinkie, so we joked that Macie had bit it off), and just mixed the colors. It was a great FHE activity.

Mel getting it already, and the boys being so patient

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

so cool!

Painting bodies, guess they forgot where the paper went.

This is slimy and feels so cool

mom come on, let me do it myself

Watching so closely to learn how it all works.


The finished project for Dad:)

Such a Little Helper

Taelin is seriously like the best helper! He proved yesterday that he can help me out with anything...what a good boy:) He helped me with the laundry....pulling the clothes out of the laundry basket and putting them on the couch for me to fold....he helped me get the laundry out of the dryer too. Later I had to run 5 errands. We would be gone for quite sometime, but I knew that Taelin would be a good helper. Macie came in the car too, cuz it was storming outside and I didn't want her to be in the garage. Taelin was laughing so hard when Macie would eat food out of his hand. It was so funny. We had to go get a shot for Macie, then go to Verizon Wireless, the post office, wal mart, and allied graphics. Taelin helped me everywhere I went and only cried for a little. I was so proud of him. When we came home Mel was making this AMAZING surprise dinner that smelled so good. It was Chicken Cour Don Blue (SP) with fresh GREEN BEANS from her garden (yes i eat green beans now:), and some corn. MEL IS SUCH A GREAT COOK! I love having such good meals every night. She is teaching me so much and is teaching me how to make things from scratch. It's so much fun.
I just love my baby boy! He is learning so much everyday. He is getting so much better at sitting still when I change his diaper too. I just have to sing a song to him and that makes him happy. Still learning this whole parent thing, AND I LOVE IT!


Who couldn't LOVE this baby boy, i mean look at how CUTE he is! I LOVE HIM

MISS MY HUSBAND!

i miss him and can't wait to see him! i LOVE my husband!!!

Taelin is WALKING

JULY 26, 2010 TAELIN IS FINALLY WALKING!!!!! IT IS SO MUCH FUN.

walk to cousin Jaden

Come back to Mommy


YAY for Taelin! You are growing up so fast, to fast for mom could you please slow it down a little bit:) Daddy is going to be so proud of you!

Taelin loves to push this around the room. He knows when to turn it too, or if he bonks into something he knows how to turn it and keep going. He is getting SO SMART!! sometimes way to smart for his mommy!

Jaden and Taelin

I love being around 2 of my nephews everyday. Jaden LOVES to help me with Taelin. If Taelin is crying he always asks me why he is crying, and tells me that if i feed him it will make him stop. He reminds Taelin how to say 'More' in sign language, and loves to help me feed him during dinner time and snack time. If I'm feeding Taelin the snacks and Jaden see's me, he comes over and says "can i feed it to him?" One morning he wanted to hold Taelin and watch TV.



Today (July 20, 2010) when Jaden came home from the store he came in shouting, "Taelin, Tealin, Taelin" and then when he saw us he got this huge smile on his face and said, "hi Taelin!" Taelin was so happy that Jaden was home. Jaden is such a nice older cousin to him. Mel always says that she wishes Jaden could play nice with Kyler like he does Taelin...but i guess brothers will be brothers and beat on each other every once in awhile....who knows.....

Bake Sale

Saturday July 10th Mel's neighborhood had a garage sale and since we didn't have anything to sell, Mel thought it would be fun to do a bake sale. So we cooked over 141 cookies and made some Gatorade "lemonade." The boys loved selling the cookies. We made Chocolate Crinkles, Snickerdoodles, and Chocolate Chip (my favorite).

Reunited with Apex

Friday July 9th, Taelin and I got to go say hello to some old friends of mine at APEX ALARM. I love these girls. Annette was so kind and saved a food ticket so we could have lunch as well. Thanks sis, it was so fun!

Start from the left side and go around the table:
Lita, Valerie, a girl i didn't know, Karlie, Annette, Jennie, Taelin, Alisa, and Rachel

Rachel and I! Love you girl.

SISTERS!!!!!!

First

TAELIN TOOK 4 STEPS YESTERDAY! good job buddy!
7-11-10

swimming and SPAGHETTI

Thursday we went to this awesome Water Fountain park in Alpine Utah. Taelin wasn't a big fan of it because the water was really cold. Jaden and Kyler really liked it though. It was a hot day, so we had a good time. At least Taelin let me hold him while I was still sitting in the water and getting sun. I LOVE BEING OUTSIDE!

Taelin not being a huge fan of it....

Happy if i hold him:)

Jaden and Kyler wondering what to do...Jaden liked to step on the fountain.

What the park looked like

After we were done, we went home and had SPAGHETTI! this was Taelin's first time eating it and he REALLY liked it! It was all over. Here are some pics of it.

So happy to try new food!:)

LOVED IT!

testing it out with his fingers....

WHOOPS...dropped it!


it got in his hair



I'M SO HAPPY THAT HE LOVED IT!:)

APT

So Taelin went to an apt and he is FINALLY AT 17 LBS! what a little guy. He is 27 5/8 in tall, and so that makes him in the 5% for it all. They had to prick his finger to test his iron, and he was a champ the whole way though. He was more interested in just watching the lady, and absolutley LOVED THE BAND-AID! He didn't cry one time..except when i told him that he couldn't eat the band-aid. What a silly little guy.

He was eating the band-aid....i told him no...so this happened....

what a sad little boy

but then he was happy, and STOOD ALL BY HIMSELF! go TAELIN

He is growing up way to fast for me!

Random pics and Videos in UTAH

This was Taelin's first time playing in a little kiddie pool, it took him awhile to get use to the water, but once he did he LOVED it. it was fun with Jaden and Kyler too. They really liked to tease Macie and chase her around the yard. We had a great time!

He loves to climb, so of course he wanted to climb out of the pool

He did pretty good.

taelin loved to try and give Macie a toy

All of them swimming, even Macie wanted to join them. :)

Aunt Mel feeding Taelin some dinner.

Taelin's crazy hair after swimming

Giving kisses to his Daddy! I love this!

All of us going swimming at Annette's pool. It was a lot of fun!

Mel and Kyler

Jaden learning how to Dive...pretty good huh?:)

Annette hanging out with Taelin.

Jaden holding Taelin. They are best buds.

Jaden LOVES to play and hold Macie. It's so stinking cute!

Cousins playing in the bath together!