utah bound

dad and shaydon coming down the hill

the kids being pulled by the machine

one of my snow bunny slater

slater and i watching

our sledding clan

shaydon loves brandon's building expertise..


learning to play the Wii

shaydon's new best friend, brandon. the last time he saw him he was the age of slater, 6 months!! shaydon wouldn't let him out of his sight. logan was excited!!

love their rooster tails!! made brandon hold slater he was a little nervous, but looks like a natural.

(Oh, by the way brandon will kill me

but he is available and looking for a nice girl)

we had such a fun time in utah. thanks for letting us crash the party of brandon being in town. the kids had such a fun time and wore him out i am sure of it. wendy and dave spoiled the kids rotten, logan played with shaydon, scott relaxed, i enjoyed a trip to ikea and didn't get sick. yeah... we love our late night visits and are very grateful for such great family.

we love you!!!

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?????

Burley Pumpkin Patch

king of the haystack!!!


wendy and lexie watching shaydon show off.

you choose or go to the fields and choose

do you think i could get them to both look at the camera, NO!!

trying to decide on a pumpkin

thanks to mimi, wendy and lexie for coming with us to the pumpkin patch. what a fun time. not quite the Boise one, but pretty good. shaydon just kept saying WOW look at this one or this one. it was hard to just pick a few. what a beautiful day though. i love hanging out with family! sure appreciate them lately thanks for all the kind thoughts and deeds. wendy and lexie surprised shaydon and slater with halloween PJ's!! shaydon is a glow in the dark skeleton and slater is a black and orange bat. they look so cute. thanks gals.

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!!

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!!!!

Burley Trip

Our trip to Burley this weekend is because Scott's dad has been in the Stake Presidency for 18 years. He was called as the first counselor and when his 9 years were over they called him to be the Stake President. Any way his 9 years as Stake President were up and everyone headed to Burley to see him get released by Elder Dallin H. Oaks (his wife even came). He & his wife stayed at Barbara and Larry's house for the weekend. We stayed at my dad's house. Larry did a great job on his talk on Sunday and it's going to be a real change for him & Barbara. After 18 years of church meetings it's going to take a little getting use to all the time on thier hands! As we were sitting down for stake conference to start Elder Oaks was going around shaking every one's hands. I was so busy getting Shaydon's coat off and toys and snacks ready I didn't see him coming around. So it caught me off guard, but we all got to shake his hand multiple time before the day was over. We were all able to meet Elder Oaks and his wife on Sunday after lunch. They were very nice to take the time to meet all of us and ask if we had any questions for him? No one asked a single question. To nervous I guess. Elder Oaks is a very deep speaker but today seem to speak very warm and loving & on our level. He did a GREAT job. This was the 1st time any of us have meet a general authority. What a amazing opportunity.

sandy, utah

we love aunt wendy's house. they are so good to us!! lots of action between ikea, tai-pan, the mall (they helped me pick some new jeans i only tried on about 50 pair, they were great and honest :0) we also had time to watch football, relax and enjoy our weekend. dave made awesome chicken on the BBQ for dinner. thanks to jason and leslie for coming and visiting us too. lexie is so good with shaydon thanks for entertaining and playing with him we are so lucky to have you.

thanks for such a great weekend everyone!!

on the way home from maggie moo's ice cream we miss ours in boise!

can you tell shaydon is on a sugar high!! maybe scott too. CHEESY

poising for the camera

shaydon and crew playing while shopping at ikea!! who knew a bathroom brush would be so fun!!

shaydon loving his aunt wendy

sleepy

he slept the whole 3 hours to burley