Gerratt Hotel

The Boise Hotel was up and running this weekend! Not only did we have Aunt Connie here, but two of here brother's Jeff and Steve came through on there way back from WY. So we had a house full. We love it when family comes to visit. You are welcome anytime!!!
All the boy's
(Jared, Steve, Sam, Shaydon, Levi, Steve, Jeff and Scott)


Scott, Steven, Connie, Sommers, Shaydon, Levi, Jared & Jeff


Sam and Shaydon


Steven and Shaydon


Uncle Steve

Uncle Jeff

8.8.08

We got to watch Trey so Rebecca could go to a wedding at the Boise temple!

We had a lot of fun and can't wait until Trey gets to come back to our house.

We ........

• went for a walk
• put puzzles together
• got messy with an art project (shaving cream)
• played fetch outside with Roxy
• had snacks

We loving have Trey over to play!!!

When can he come back, mom?

Jogging Stroller

(I must of been running hard, look how out of breath Roxy is too)
Finally I got my Phil & Teds Sport!!

Yea it's been a long time coming, but it is so awesome.

To make a long story short I ordered it off of ebay and the lady ended up being a crook!! So I filed a complaint with paypal which is how I paid and I WON. She had to give me my money back so then I bought it from strollermama.com. They were so easy to work with and I got it in a week. The day it came Scott put it together that night and we put it up and took it down a dozen times and I still have a little trouble. Not because it's hard it's just that I am use to the super easy GRACO. So like promised I took it out the next morning and the rest is history. I have been going almost every morning and I love it!! It took a little to get back into it since Shaydon & because I was sore, but it's been GREAT!!



Thanks Scott your the BEST!

Twin Falls Temple

We took our YW and leaders (48) to the open house of the Twin Falls Temple Today!!! We have been preparing for this for months by teaching our Sunday lessons about temples. The girls were so excited to go. Most of them it was there 1st open house. They even left their cell phones and ipods home. What a GREAT experience to tell their family's about.

Are tickets were for 11:30am. Just so you know you don't really even need a ticket, but they try to keep a steady stream of people.

My parents were also able to come and go through with us what an amazing experience. I felt the spirit and I hope they did too. Thanks for coming and being there with Shaydon and I. We love you so much.

To start you watch a little video about temples and info about the TF Temple, then your tour guide takes you though the temple, the tour is about an hour long and you end up back in the stake center with some beautiful displays of Christ, a HUGE map of all the temple in the world and one about the progression of temples. There were also cookies and water for refreshment and representatives to answer questions.

• We were 900th person for the day
• As of today 100,000 people have gone through the TF Temple
• The temple will be dedicated on August 24th (My birthday)

We had lunch at my uncle Tim and Debi's house down in the canyon by the river. It was BEAUTIFUL. It's been a long time since I've been there! It was a perfect place to change clothes relax and eat lunch. We bought Costco pizza, soda and candy for lunch.

Thanks Uncle Tim & Aunt Debi

Lewiston Cousions

Steven aka bubby, Sam, Shaydon, Jared, Levi Madison came in late on Sunday night on their way through to WY to their grandma's funeral. We were so sorry to here about Fran's death and hope they know how much we love and are praying for them and their family.

We don't get to see them very often so we will take what we can get. You guys are welcome anytime even if it is only for a few hours. LOVE YOU!!! How was the basketball game?

HaPPy BiRThdaY

Alisa

We love you and hope you have a GREAT DAY!!

See you at the fair

Grandma & Me

Grandpa & Grandma Hunt came to visit me and mom & grandma went to get pedicures and took me! I wanted to go with he boy's but they were doing big boy stuff an I am still too small to help fix the boat. So okay I didn't get a pedicure, but mom & grandma kept busy keeping me entertained. Oh, thanks for the snoopy fishing pole and tackle box grandpa! I can't wait for you to take me fishing. Thanks for coming a visiting me and helping mom and dad fix things around the house.

Bureau of Land Management

I haven't done a post with out pix for a long time so I thought it was time.

When I had Shaydon last August I had to make a decision by February if I was going to return for my 12 season with BLM. Well to make a long story short I decided not to return and start my career as a stay-at-home mother. I was very excited to enter into this stage of our life together, but hard to leave all the friends I have made over the last 11 years. Well I have decided to return and help out on a temporary bases. I only work 1-2 days a week for a few hours at a time and I can even take work home or bring Shaydon with me. What could be better! It's a perfect fit for our family. The extra money is nice too. I input travel information into their NEW not so improved system to help them get reimbursed faster? (HAA) There are lots of hiccups, but in the long run once the bugs are worked out it will be faster. It's been a learning experience. It's nice to see all my friends and co-workers again, but love the fact that I get to go home every night. Fire wise it's been a very slow year local, but they have been helping out other states in need.

Thanks to the Boise District for bringing me back to help out!

Uncle Tyson

Shaydon sure loves his Uncle Tyson!!!




When can Landon come over to play?

11 Months

My baby is almost 1 Year Old.

These Photos were taken by Ashley @ Jon Ball Photography last month

• He is pointing to things
• Being a copy cat
• Say's mama, dada, papa, baba and babbles and screams (trying to break him of that one)
• Is a world travel
• Eats solid food, loves applesauce and apple juice out of his sippy cup
• Loves to smile and flirt with everyone especially strangers
• Starting to crawl, but love to roll everywhere
• Goes from tummy to sitting
• Scott moved the crib mattress down because he is pulling himself up
• When you lay him down for a nap nothing can be in the crib or he will play with it (It gets quite and you think he's asleep, but when you poke your head in he is wide awake with a huge smile on his face.
• Loves to rip the pages out of books while helping to turn the page
• Loves to shop with mom
• Hates it when you leave the room without him
• Loves to take baths and play in the water at Roaring Springs or in the Boat

What a day....

It started off GREAT with a morning at Roaring Springs. Other than Shaydon took a digger off the chair and has some road rash on his nose and forehead.

So on the way home I stopped at Tyson's to pick up the boat to go up to Lucky Peak on Saturday. Well the jack that holds the boat up is broken and is in the middle of getting fixed so it was a little difficult to hook up to, but his roommate was there and help me. So a 5 minute job took about 20 minutes. Then I had to meet Scott down town which meant I had to tow the boat with me. Parking took awhile to find a place big enough. On the way home we wanted to stop by Water Ski Pro Shop and get a few thing for tomorrow, buton the way there I got a flat tire on the boat trailer on the connector. So after calling Les Schwab to come to the rescue us because we didn't not have a spare tire on the trailer; so $135.00 later we were off to WSPS! Arrived just in to for them to be CLOSED! 5:00pm. It just so happened that they let us in and stayed until 5:30 to help us. THANKS WSPS!!!!

That's a blow out!!

Halloween in July

babystyle.com has there sneak peak of Halloween costumes

They are so adorable I love this turtle for Shaydon

It's not to soon to start thinking about Halloween? Is it?..

Jason & Leslie Harding

Congratulations

Married in the SLC Temple

Luncheon at the Boulevard

Reception at the Woods

Honeymoon in Mexico

We drove down to SLC on Monday night and stayed in the Kimble. We stopped in Burley to drop off Roxy with my parents and picked up Larry. Went to the sealing on Tuesday morning (only our 3 one), the luncheon next and then to Wendy's to hangout until the reception at 6:30pm. The food was delicious (fresh fruit, croissant sandwiches, salad and fresh raspberry cake). Wednesday we slept in and left for Burley by 1:00pm. Had Subway in the car with a Dr. Pepper (didn't have one for 2 weeks Europe only has Coke & Sprite). Arrived in Burley long enough to said hello and good-bye in 1 hour and headed back to Boise.

We are excited to have Leslie apart of the family. We love you!!

Family Photo at the SLC Temple

The cutest guys I know!!!

We didn't even plan the green outfits... They are so cute!!!

5 countries in 11 days......

WOW...

We had such a GREAT time in Europe. Shaydon did so well on the 11 hour plane ride he even had his own seat. He slept 6 of the 11 hours and hardly fussed. I had to pull lots of tricks out of my bag though. It was nice to have so many nice people around us as well who were understanding and have been in my shoes! We had lots of complements on how well he did.
(Boise to SLC to Paris)

On the way home Shaydon was not as lucky to have his own seat, but we were seated in a block head with more leg room. So we made the best of it even though he only slept 2 of the 10 hours and man were we grateful for grandparents to which off with. Just like any trip it's bitter sweet we don't want to leave, but are excited to get home and that's no different for Shaydon. He totally knew we were on our way home and couldn't wait.
(Frankfurt to Paris to SLC to Boise)

The hardest thing about bringing a baby is the time change, it was 8 hours different and he is a very scheduled baby. Eat, play, sleep... repeat!! So the trip changed his schedule, but sooo worth it. We have gotten back into the swing of things and were so grateful for the opportunity to go to Europe with my family. Thanks dad for letting us go. We missed you though...


The exchange rate was $1.58 to 1 Euro. So the dollar is very weak. You would get a better exchange rate if you used your credit card and then when we got to Luxembourg Franck deposited our money into his bank and then with drew euros because he gets a better rate.

I have some pix I want to post, but they are on my mom and dad's camera and they don't know how to email them.

Frankfurt, Germany

7.10.08

• Checked into the hotel
• Had lunch at McDonald's so we could use the restroom for free and in Germany you can get free refills on your soda.
• Went to the Frankfurt, Germany Temple arrive at 3:35pm and it closed at 3:30pm so we just took pix from the outside
• Headed downtown for shopping and site seeing. Walked around for about 2 hours
• Ate dinner at the Chinese/Thai restaurant.
• This was one of the warmest days we had 80 degrees

Since I have been in the market for a stroller I was on the lookout to see what styles and brands they use and I only took pix of some of them. Quinny, McClaren, Storke, Bugaboo and some I didn't recognize. I did see one Phil and Teds sport which is the one I am getting (which is on order YEA!!!)




7.11.08

• Woke up at 5:00am to check the shuttle to the airport
• Had warm chocolate crescent rolls with OJ for breakfast
• Walked a mile and half just to get to the gate to check in our luggage. Mimi Shaydon and I were together and lost mom and dad for about 30 minutes. Frankfurt airport might be the largest airport in the world?

Germany

Sluis, Holland

7.6.08

• This was just a day trip, but fun. Loved the tulip fields and Windmills
• We ate lunch 1st thing it was sort of like a fast food joint, we had snitchel (SP) and french fries. They eat the FF with a small little fork
• Walked to the beach. The tide was really low so we collected sea shells
• Shopping of course! There was a cute little area for just shopping everything closes early though.
• Mimi had a little fall right before she bought her nativity scene hummel's, good thing she didn't have those in her hands
• Walked to the Windmill and had a break and a drink
• Dinner was on me tonight. I tried something similar to a deep fried cheese stick and a snitchel (SP)
• Soft Server Ice Cream at a local spot for dessert

Sluis, Holland

Nieuwpoort, Belgium

7.5.08

• On the Drive there we stopped and got gas which was interesting. There gas stations are literally on the freeway. A very quick in and out.
• Oh and you have to pay for the restroom around .50-.75 cents
• We stayed at the Cosmopolite Hotel which was very nice and close to the North Sea and boardwalk.
• Dinner was on the Boardwalk I had pasta that was pretty good. Lunch was on the road
• We just walked around and window shopped because the stores were closed. The were having a festival, something to do with "witches" so there was a big bonfire and social gathering on the beach. So Pretty. They had fireworks once it got dark.
• The weather was perfect mid 70's and over cast
• Shaydon had a rough night and wouldn't stop crying, not like him. My dad ended up taking a walk with him down to the Beach and watched the fireworks and then came back and he was asleep in him arms. Although when he left he didn't take a key and so my mom thought he had been gone awhile and went outside and found him sitting on the bench hoping someone would come and let him in. Such a nice Grandpa. I was so tired I slept right through it.

7.6.08

• Had Breakfast in the Hotel discovered Nutella, love it. It even comes in little 1 time servings like butter. I also love the hot coco, it's real chocolate and so rich makes ours in the states taste watered down.
• Then traveled to Holland for the day
• Had Breakfast in the Hotel quick, easy and good. Breakfast is only served until 9:30 am.

7.7.08

• Shopped until 2:00pm bought mostly for Shaydon and Landon such cute kids clothes got him a new swim suite for next summer.
• Traveled back to Lexumburge
• Stopped at IKEA on the way home, it's my favorite place. Now I have been to one in Belgium, Seattle and SLC.

Nieuwpoort, Belgium