funeral weekday

the flowers were beautiful

the casket was beautiful

at the burial site

saying bye bye to mimi

this one is crashed out while having a snack before we head back to boise for the night

it is always sad to have to meet with family (sometime it seems like the only time we get to see them) on such a sad moment in time, but we are so grateful for our plan of salvation to see grandma great again!! shaydon did so well with all aspects of his 1st death in either of our family's. we showed him pix of them together and talked about seeing her in heaven some day. "jesus is taking care of her right now" he wanted to see her in the casket and asked why her eyes were closed? he said he will miss her as we all will. happy she gets to see her husband again!! since i am posting this sooo long after the fact i can tell you a story of when shaydon went in to get his 1st cast off. we got there a little early and we were sitting in the truck he said in a really sad low voice "i wish grandma great would be here with me? i said she is sweet heart she is looking at you from heaven. he said to me but her eyes were closed, MOM?!!! so we talked about how the body is here on earth and the spirit goes to heaven and he was okay with it and new she was going to help him be soo brave!! i just love the sweetness of shaydon's personality. i love you!!

Gladys Garner

Scott's grandmother passed away today, barbara's mother. She was a wonderful lady and great example to everyone! We will miss her, but know she is excited to see her husband!

We are greatful for all she had done for us!

read more about her life here:

http://www.magicvalley.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/article_3ef3e7cb-4159-5757-a96b-68acef8744bb.html

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!!

Our Easter!!!

Yvonne made this delicious cake for Barbara's birthday the flowers were made of laffy taffy she is such a good baker and creative. Thanks to Larry and Barbara for coming down & bringing Alisa and Bailey it was fun to see them and catch up. Shaydon loved his Easter basket from grandma and grandpa Gerratt. We always eat too much when we get together, but the food is always so good. Thanks for every ones hard work. See you soon. Thanks Rebecca for Shaydon's Easter Basket he, we love it!

Hoppy EASTER!!!

Thank you Zack Lily and Nic for my new bunny....

We are really excited to have someone to share the holiday's with. Easter is no different!! Shaydon has been such a blessing in our life. His happy go lucky personality is coming out & I just love it!! He is such a scheduled baby!! Clock work as Scott would say. Down for bed at 8:00pm and up at 7:30am and ready to eat. I enjoy my evenings getting stuff done, but find myself checking on him every 15 minutes. I am always watching him sleep tucking his bear around his head and giving him kisses hoping he doesn't wake up, but oh well if he does. We just LOVE him...

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all of this is possible because our heavenly father gave us the opportunity to start a family we owe all of this to him. We are forever indebited to him. We love our savior and are so GRATEFUL for his sacrifice for us.

Logan, Utah

Bailey Brown Blessing
Sunday 2, 2008 9:00am


This is the little gift we gave Bailey! It's a silky pink Bear blanket. Larry gave one to Shaydon because Nic loves his & thought Shaydon should have one too, so we thought Bailey should have a pink one.



We had a Fun weekend with Family. It started off by dropping off Roxy to my parents in Burley on Friday night and then leaving for Logan on Saturday morning. Shaydon is such a good traveler he just slept the whole way there. As soon as we checked into the Hotel we went swimming with all the cousins!! It was Shaydon's 1st time in a pool, he loves his baths so I knew he would love the pool. For Christmas Scott got me a pass to Roaring Springs and It is going to get used this summer. That afternoon we just hung out, snaked & took naps. That night we ate a the Blue Bird Restaurant with all the Gerratt and the Brown families there were about 35 of us. It was fun having everyone there. That night we did a little shopping at DownEast, Wal-mart and the SEI outlet. I could of spent hours more at the scrapbook store. I'll be back. Ben did a GREAT job blessing Bailey, it was a full circle. There is sure lots of love for her. After we went to Alisa's for a Brunch. We just visited and then everyone headed home. Look at the pix of our fun weekend.

SUPER BOWL

We really didn't care who won because neither of them are our team, but if we had to choose it would be the GIANTS!!! Congrats New York. We spent the weekend with the Gerratt's, Barbara & Larry came down to watch the game. Larry wanted to watch it with his boys. We had a good weekend visiting, eating and playing with the kids. Thanks Yvonne and Eric for letting us be at your house which is always fun. Here are a few photos from the big day!!

Sommers & Shaydon Grandma, Shaydon & Lily

Nic Shaydon & Zack

Baby Legs

My sister-in-law Yvonne is the BEST Aunt ever!! She got these cute little legwarmers for Shaydon and her kids, aren't they so cute. They are little skeleton pirates. They are the cutest cousins ever. Baby legs is a brand & they have the cutest styles to choose from. Check it out if you like them.

http://store.babylegs.net/

The Gerratt Christmas

Yea.... it's Christmas time and we are so excited. I am excited to see and spend time with both our families. Scott is excited to not work for a while, Shaydon and Roxy are just excited to have us both around.

We started our drive to Utah on Thursday night after Scott got off work. We stopped in Burley because I had a dentist appointment on Friday morning. After visiting with grandma and grandpa Hunt & Gerratt we had lunch at Al's (we both love the chicken wraps and salad bar) and we were off to Sandy, Utah. We try to time it so Shaydon had just ate and hopefully will sleep most of the drive, he really is a good traveller. We made it to Ogden and stop ed for fuel and gave Shaydon a break from the car seat. Our or MY first stop was ikea!! I wanted to shop, but I also had a list of things to get. Scott was not looking forward to this trip. The last time we went was opening weekend and it was a mad house. Today there was no one there, so calm. Scott enjoyed this trip much better. We made it to Scott's sisters house by 6:00pm and she made us a delicious soup for dinner.

Saturday Scott went snowboarding with his nephews Jason & Logan at Snowbird resort. I stayed back with Shaydon & Wendy and we did some last minute shopping. I think I went to Target 5 times just this week. We went to the South Town Mall and it was so cool they have a mothers lounge!!! Maybe you have heard of it, but they have a separate place for you to take kids to the bathroom, a changing area for diapers and a mothers nursing area. I was really excited for this 1st moment. Later that night we had a visitor from SANTA!!! The kids were soooo excited and a little nervous but we very thrilled that he came to see them. We sang jingle bells received candy canes and took pictures with Santa. The Hardings sure out did themselves this year.

Sunday was the day we all did present with his family, now everyone (Scott's brothers & sisters) have arrived. We draw names and to a family gift. It is so fun to watch the kids open there presents. We were suppose to leave in the morning, but there was a really bad snow storm and we decided to stay and head to Burley on Christmas morning.

We just hung out and visited most of the day all though we did make one last trip to Target. We always eat too much and continually graze all day, but the food is so good & it is the holidays. Wendy bought everyone pajamas for Christmas eve. We had a PJ parade followed by a dice game with treats as prizes. We were up late putting together "toys" for the kids from _A__ta. Oh, all the girls did a mask once the kids went to bed. We were the Ghosts from Christmas past.

We headed out of Sandy by 10:00am and hit wall to wall traffic in SLC, there was an accident on the freeway with the snowy roads. I didn't know Christmas Day was a big travel day. We were at a stand still for 40 minutes with a crying baby. Shaydon loves the car, but only when it's moving. We made it to Burley just in time for dinner at my grandma Twylla's.

Bailey Ann Brown

Congratulations

We are so happy for you both

Ben & Alisa Brown

5.11 lbs 18 inches long