Happy Thanksgiving

Our crew at mimi's house

aawww!!

talking to grandma and grandpa gerratt on skype for the 1st time

Hinkley & Slater only 1 month apart

Spending time with grandam great

boys vs. girls ~nice forts....

"Frosty pinata"

getting the prizes..... Aunt Brenda spoiled them rotten with crafts and candy!!

shopping the day after Thanksgiving

glasses from the movie Tangled he crashed on the way home after 5 days straight of no naps!!

What a great long weekend. It is so fun to spend time with family!!

Road Trip

1st stop SLC, Utah


1st time at temple Square

I made a flip book for Shaydon to look at during the passing of the sacrament it has pictures of the new and old testament, book of Mormon and church pictures. His favorite one was this statue of Jesus. It did make him a little nervous at how tall it was and finally go him to take a pix with it. A lot of those same pictures are all over the temple visitor center. He would run up to each picture using his outdoor voice and say I know that picture and tell me what was in it. What a wonderful feeling it was for me to see him so excited that he knew these pictures.


Giving loves to his cousin Bailey.....

Thanks to Ben and Alisa and Wendy & Dave (also for there house for the night) for meeting us for dinner at that Mexican restaurant. It was delicious. Wish I knew the name of it?

Next Stop?????

Garner Family Reunion

Never heard of this camp until the reunion, but what a pretty drive to get there.

And this is the view once we got there. BEAUTIFUL

Shaydon missed out on some of the scenery from snoozing, but wouldn't take off his new shades from the GAP outlet in park city!!

Grandpa Gerratt out hiking and exploring with Bailey and Shaydon

Loving his grandchildren.....

Thanks to Aunt Louise and her family for organizing the reunion and everyone who came to make it a success. Thanks to Leslie and her family for the cabin to stay in. We left on Thursday night and drove to Logan with a pit stop in Burley. Friday we headed to Heber for the reunion. We stoped in Park City for another pit stop and shopping. Saturday we stayed with Wendy in Sandy and left back to Boise on Sunday. Thanks to Todd and Brenda for the pit stop in Burley for the kids to let off some steam. Sorry Jake for the poopy diaper from Slater. Hee Hee.

This trip to Heber was also going to be the last time to see Larry and Barbara before they go on there mission to Germany. I guess they as a couple missionary they get to leave the MTC on Saturday and Sunday (back for fireside on Sunday night) So it was hard to say good bye. Barbara broke down when Shaydon day i love you and miss you grandma. he doesn't realize that the next time he sees them will be 18 months. We have started the Germany Jar to save money to go and visit them. I have a feeling we will be saving for a while. Although Shaydon found .10 cents on the ground at Costco and said lets put it in the jar for grandma and grandpa Gerratt!! It was really cute. It was a GREAT weekend and are sad to see them go, but excited for them to do the Lords work. Hopefully they have figured out how to look at the blog and are keeping in touch. We love you and miss you!!

boating & fireworks

todd, shaydon & scott

we sure love being on the snake river, thanks uncle todd

slater and shaydon ~ bailer and hinkley
hanging out under the boat

waiting for dinner at uncle todds. BBQ was delicious

pluging his ears when the fireworks were going off.

uncle todd is soooo cool!!! We love the boat and the firework show was AWESOME. We had straight fire works for 15 minutes. you should of seen the set up they had. i think they might be fire junkys!!! i think he might need to take out a loan for all those fireworks. the kids love uncle todd & aunt brenda, kiki and cousion jake and kristi. they keep the kids busy on the tramp or maybe it's the other way around. Thanks for such a fun 4th of July!!

Burley

luven our new little one


slater 6 weeks, shaydon 2.5, bailey 2.5, hinkley 2 months

our boyz


headed to the farm with dad and grandpa gerratt

looken at the baby cows

checking water

shaydon wanted to hold bailey after a wrestling match one grandma's bed

What a fun weekend in Burley!! Alisa and her kids stayed all week to help them get ready to leave for their mission. We crashed the party on Friday!! I don't know if they got much done with us here, but the kids sure loved it. Bailey is starting to talk so much with the influence of Shaydon (good and bad) Shaydon doesn't stop talking!!! Hinkley is sleeping through the night. Spent time with them on the computer to help teach them on to get on and off the Internet and check email. Saved Pix on the computer so they can see the kids and grand kids. We were sent home with lots of food. It's a tight squeeze with two kids and the dog in our little Honda accord. It was hard to say goodbye, but we will get to see them in two weeks at the garner reunion. Good Luck in the MTC! We did get to see my dad and mimi for a little bit. They sure love their grand kids and great grand kids.

Fairwell to Larry and Barbara

Their off to Frankfurt, Germany

Alisa, Jan and Hinkley at the farewell luncheon

Grandma Great Garner with Slater

Our Family, We love you Grandma Great!!!

Zack and Shaydon playing football at Grandma Gerratts house

Shaydon and Nic trading helmets

Uncle Dave meeting Slater for the 1st time

Thanks to Lexie for helping with the kids, she is the BEST EVER!!

(we wish you lived closer)

We had such a GREAT weekend with the Gerratt family. It was busy, fun and relaxing. It was our 1st trip since we had Slater and we had to drive the truck to fit everything. I forget how much stuff you have with a little one. We got Gerratt family pictures which i hope turned out good. It's been 3 years since we had one taken before there are 6 new additions to our family since. Slater had a blow out during the pix's. The kids (cousins) love to play with each other and love to have "papa gerratt" play with them. He is good with them chasing them around, playing tractors and hauling dirt visiting the farm (which Shaydon loves). If it's not papa gerratt then it's Logan and Lexie. They are such wonderful cousins to the younger ones. We love you guys. We had pulled pork which was fabulous for the luncheon, best I've ever had.

We also got to attend the blessing of Hinkley Brown.

Ben did a good job and we are so excited to have Hinkley with us.

Thanks to Larry and Barbara for falling in love and having such wonderful kids.

We love you and will miss you, but know you are where you are suppose to be.

GOOD LUCK!!!!

Hinkley Lanae Brown

Was Born on Tuesday April 20th at 9:11 am

She weighed 8 lbs 1 oz and was 19 inches long

We are very excited for Hinkley to be here

Christmas Night

In his new football gear
Shaydon & Zack playing catch in the football helmets

How lucky we were to have Bailey in town too, they sure love each other!!

Zack with his Lion pillow

Lily and her giraffe pillow

Shaydon loving his neigh (horse) thanks Gma Gpa Gerratt

Shaydon watching Zack open his presents, love his expression they have such a special bond I love it. He is so good to my little Shaydon.

Tonight broke another recorded for Shaydon. We brought PJ's thinking we would lay him down at his cousin, but instead they tried to have a slumper party in Zack's room. All was going well until it was time to get a drink of water. Zack was handing the glass to Shaydon who was laying down and Shaydon thought it was a sippy and the ice cold water went right in his face, all of it!! Needless to say he was awake and it was already 10:30pm. Shaydon was keeping the others up (who went right to bed after he left) so we ended up putting him in Lily's room and by 12:00pm he came down the stairs eating a candy cane he found and said " candy cane" so we went home. He is just crib trained and won't sleep anywhere else. He fell asleep on the drive home quickly.