Ty Jo Anna

Random things Anna is up too!

2011-12-01T11:01:00.002-07:00

There is a pet store here that has goats, llamas, pigs, dogs, and many more animals. You can walk around out back and feed them, so we go there occasionally with friends :)

This last time we went, we noticed that the goats learned how to open the gate. haha

Anna and Sarah!

She was so excited about the snow. She kept saying " lets go snowing" which means skiing or sledding. ha

Ty is going to teach her how to ski this year :)
pretty girl

Anna and Anessa

One of their favorite things to do at our house is watch "Barbie and the 12 dancing princesses", and dance whenever the barbies do.

Grandma Pat made Anna a twirly skirt and mailed it to her. Anna LOVES getting mail. She wore this outfit for 4 days straight and it's still the first outfit she puts on whenever its clean.

This summer Anna decided earth worms were pretty fun!

I love my Anna Banana!

Thanksgiving!

2011-11-26T10:44:00.000-07:00

For thanksgiving this year we stayed home. However, on Saturday we went to Logan to see my niece Julia in the Nutcracker and spent the day with my family! Julia did so good!

Anna and I made these corn cookies for her Thanksgiving party at preschool.

They look cool but were way too sugary for me. The kids liked them though!

Anna and Lily at the ballet. These girls were constantly hugging all day!

They sure love each other.

After the ballet, Kris, Danny, Ty & I went out to eat. Later we talked and Kris and I played "just dance" which was so fun! Anna and lily did it with us. Ty took a video and put it on Facebook. Little embarrassing...yes, but the girls were so cute!

I love my family :)

Halloween!

2011-10-31T10:05:00.001-06:00

This Halloween was actually not that cold, which was nice. At Anna's preschool they went on a field trip to a pumpkin farm. At the farm they went through a kid friendly corn maze, and then picked a pumpkin. Anna thought it was pretty fun.

One night we carved pumpkins!

She thought it was pretty fun turning off the lights and making ghost sounds!

This was the pumpkin she picked.

She wrote her name all over it and drew pictures.

Leaving for her Halloween party at preschool!

Barbie princess Anna, and ladybug nessa!
Anessa's birthday in Halloween, so she had a fun birthday party.
Happy 5 years Anessa :)

We trick-or-treated our neighborhood first and then most of Anessa's. I left a bowl of candy on our porch when we weren't home. I'm sure it only lasted 5 minutes. Then Ty's dad got here, so Anna, Ty, and I came back home. He got a job at Hoku, where Ty works, and will be staying in our basement!

Anna got tons of candy!

Apple Picking!

2011-10-07T21:52:00.004-06:00

My friend Britni and I took our girls to an apple farm in Blackfoot to let them pick their own apples. In the tiny towns of Idaho, some places still believe in the Honor system. Isams Apple farm is one of those places. Following the instructions provided, we grabbed a walmart sack from their shed, went into the orchard, picked apples, went back to the shed, weighed our apples, added the total, put our money in the box, and went home.

haha

Anna and Anessa!

It was such a beautiful day...cloudy, overcast, and it smelled like rain.
Best friends!
These girls do EVERYTHING together!

We all had a lot of fun!

Now I have 20 jars of apple pie filling canned, and a 4 year old who often says "Mom, remember that we can go pick apples? we should go get nessa and do that again."

haha

Crafts!

2011-10-07T10:35:00.000-06:00

I thought these pumpkins were pretty fun.

My friend Britni told me how to make them.

I sent Ty to home depot one day to get wood and spray paint for me.

They were fun to make!

Our laundry room is the first room off the garage, so I wanted some hooks to hang our coats on.

This was the result!

random things!

2011-09-12T08:27:00.004-06:00

I asked Anna to clean her room the other day...

This is how she did it!

Apparently shoving everything in your doll house counts as cleaning. Haha My little preschooler

My friend Shae did my hair again and I love it!!!

Tea party

Doing tricks

Preschool!

2011-09-07T22:48:00.001-06:00

Anna started preschool this year! I tried putting her in preschool last year when we lived in Casper but chickened out at the last minute. Apparently I'm a helicopter parent(according to my sister. ha)! She was so excited to start school. We bought a cute backpack and an outfit for her first day, plus all her school supplies. I made her breakfast that morning, took her to school, got back in my car and seriously wanted to go back in and bring her home with me. I cried (not hard). How will I ever handle Kindergarten??? I'd probably home school her if I thought I could actually do it. Teachers are amazing! They deserve so much more credit!

When Ty came home for lunch, the first thing he said (jokingly) was " So did she survive?" Yes she did, and so did I. She loves preschool and loves her teacher Miss Jen. I knew after that first day I'd be okay, and I really am now. It's amazing how much cleaning you can get done in a few hours, childless!!! Haha

She's just so beautiful! I love my big girl!
And yes I drill her like crazy after I pick her up.
I'll ask her what she did and she'll say "I don't know." I have to drill it out of her, but its fun to hear what her day is like from her point of view.
4 year old minds sure are wild!

Soccer!

2011-08-26T21:21:00.006-06:00

Anna started soccer and had her first game! Honestly, she probably isn't going to be a very sporty kid. She has fun and wants to do it, but I can tell she doesn't really love it. Perhaps its how she lays down on the grass to look at the clouds in the middle of the game, or how she concentrates more on the flowers and butterflies then she does the ball, I don't know HAHA Some games are better than others. She is so funny to watch though. When she runs, her swinging arms are so exaggerated it's hilarious. During practice when she kicks the ball into the goal she cheers and does the funniest little dance I've ever seen! I need to record her doing it!!! She really is just in her own little world and though I sometimes wish she'd come out of it more often, I still love her carefree spirit.

Anna and Anessa are on the same team and Jared is their coach :)

Friends
During the first game, Anna went to kick the ball and her shoe went flying. Pretty funny!

After that first game we went to Salt Lake City to pick up the couch I bought. We went through Logan and stopped to see my sister for just a minute. We watched Jacob's football game and then had a late lunch in SLC with our old friends Adam, Carolyn, Dave, Shelley, and all our kids. It was fun to catch up.

On our way home we stopped at Smith and Edwards to look around. At one point this happened...

Anna rides bull...

Ty rides Anna!

Oh dear!

They thought they were pretty funny. Anna kept telling Ty to jump on her back while we were walking around the store.

My crazy kids!!!

Weekend Fun!

2011-08-13T20:36:00.002-06:00

One day after Ty was done with work we decided to go to the fair with a friend of his. We mostly just ate food, let Anna play, looked at animals, watched rodeo stuff and a motorcycle show. We had a good time :)

watching the show

Aren't they cute!

I played against Ty also...he won of course.

Anna thought these goats we hilarious.

Every time of of them made a noise she's start laughing as hard as she could.

On Saturday we went down to Idaho falls to see The bodies exhibit and really had a good time. The exhibit was quite amazing! The way they were able to create and show every detail of real human bodies was incredible. I'm sure Anna didn't love it as much as we did but she still did a good job letting us enjoy it.

The museum had this little kids corner area for them to play at so I took a picture of her on a wooded horse. :) Afterwards we went to Johnny Corinos for lunch. I love their Italian sodas. Then we walked around a farmer's market for a bit before heading to Blackfoot. Ty played with Anna at the park for a while and then we went to his cousins reception before going home. It was probably one of my most favorite weekends this summer!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNA!

2011-07-25T15:29:00.000-06:00

I can't believe my baby girl is 4 years old! She was so excited about her birthday this year and told me she wanted a Rapunzel cake. I really wanted to throw her a birthday party but because we just moved (again) she really hasn't had much time to make a lot friends in Pocatello yet (aside from Anessa and Sarah). Lucky for us my sister Kristi and her family came down for a visit. Anna was so excited that lily was coming to our house and talked about it constantly. We had gone up to Logan a few days before to see them on Kristi's birthday and Anna just loved playing with all the kids. Her and Lily are just such good little friends and they play so well together! They're just the cutest little girls :)

I spent the night before making Anna's birthday cake.....it was a lot of work!!! I was up really late finishing it and decorating the house. The next morning I heard Anna wake up and walk around the house checking everything out (she sounded pretty excited). She came into my room and said "Mom, look what my dad did to the house for my birthday!"

WHAT?

Ty....why does he get the credit????? he didn't do it!!!!!!! hahaha

Anyway...

I let her open a present. An outfit, then we went to the store to get her a balloon. When we got home we played some games until my sister got to town and we met them and Ty at 5 guys for lunch. Anna wanted a hot dog but she eats like a bird so of course she didn't eat it and we didn't make her because it was her birthday.

Afterwards, we went to outer limits to play in their big soft play and do arcade games. Britni and Anessa came too:) Jacob won over 1000 tickets and he bought Anna a stuffed wolf. It was so sweet. He's such a good kid :) I can't believe how big he has gotten. All of the kids were so fun with Anna. I'm so glad we live close to them again. They're such fun kids. I love them all :)

For dinner I made Chicken Alfredo which the kids loved and then we opened presents. (Jared and Britni came over too.) Ty and I got Anna some play make-up for miniplaymakup.com (she LOVES IT!) games,movies and tangled Polly pockets. My sister gave her a strawberry shortcake doll and candy, and Anessa gave her a crown with Rapunzel hair and a way fun sticker book. My mom also sent money for her birthday so anna bought a princess barbie. I also took her to a hair salon and she picked a blue hair extension for her hair.

She was soooo tired my the end of the day. Every spare moment at the house, she, lily, Kira, and Julia were playing barbies in Anna's room.

I'm so glad she had a good birthday. She is defiantly very very loved!

She looks SO BEAUTIFUL!

Anna and Julia!

Joshua...he's so cute :)

Anna-she looks kind of funny :)

She loves this wolf though. Thanks Jacob!

Cute girls!

I love my family!

What a good dad! She even put lip gloss on him :)

HAHA

poor boys :)

Anna loves this stuff. She was always getting into my make-up so i was glad I found this fake make-up that actually looks and feels like the real stuff.

Hair extension. She loves it :)

Rapunzel! Let down your hair!!!!!!

Happy Birthday Anna!

We'll forgive you for not turn 1 instead of 4 like we asked you ;)

We love you!

Boating and Camping!

2011-07-24T15:07:00.001-06:00

Our Friends Jared, Britni, and Anessa have a boat so we spend a lot of time boating with them. Sometimes we go after Ty and Jared get done at work, but the other weekend we went over to Lake Walcott and camped for a few days. Of course we boated too :)

Anna surfing with her dad.

She was so brave! I'm glad she liked it:)

Anna and Anessa a good buddies!

Swimming around. I'm so proud of how brave she's getting.

Camping!

They didn't have their barbie's so they used sticks instead to play with.

Fun Fun!

B-NAP BUST!

2011-07-10T09:27:00.000-06:00

The annual Belnap family Reunion this year was in Aberdeen Idaho. (Right by Pocatello.) We basically camp, boated, and eat the whole time :) ETYP it our motto. Eat till you puke. There was even a banner. ha

This is a picture of Shauna, Blair (Ty's dad) and Brian. They look so cute. Grandma Belnap (Veora) came to the reunion too. She's over 90 now and still comes to every get together. She's an awesome lady.

Blair emailing Kason sunday afternoon.

We brought our bikes with us. Anna had fun riding around with her cousins and Ty and I went for rides around the Fields.

The weather was pretty windy but we did get some boating in.

Anna and Kaitlyn wanted to tube by themselves. They were to light, so when the boat stopped they went head first into the water. Anna held on and I was so proud of her for not freaking out. I guess swim lessons are paying off :)

We had a good time camping and catching up with family we hadn't seen in a long time.

One morning , RaeAnna, Tristen, Brianna, and I went running. We ended up going about 8 miles. We didn't mean to go so far. I was VERY VERY soar! I hadn't ran in a long time.

Also, Anna told Ty's uncle once that his belly was very full! nice huh? I guess Anna and Ty should stop comparing how far they can push out their bellies after they eat. haha

4th of July Weekend!

2011-07-04T22:31:00.008-06:00

We had a pretty easy-going weekend.

On Friday we some friends come over for dinner.

Saturday, we took turns watching kids with Jack and Allison and went biking.

Anna and Sarah had a blast on the slip in slide!

Saturday night we went camping and came home Sunday afternoon. We drove around in Caribou national forest until we found a campsite we didn't have to pay for.

We played A LOT of i spy. Anna really loves that game.

We roaster starbursts and had banana boats.

We also went on a little hike and Ty caught a butterfly for Anna with her net. As you can imagine, she was was thrilled. I can't remember what she named it, but it was great seeing Ty frolic through the flowers holding a net :) hehe

Tinfoil dinners! Anna really liked them :)

Tired girl!

Anna thought it was fun to find little tiny sticks for Ty to through in the fire.

She hates the smoke.

Monday was the 4th of July.

Ty grilled a steak. I don't really like steak, so Anna and I had hamburgers. He really likes his new grill. He bought it for Father's day. (Anna and I were in Wisconsin.)

This was the first time Anna has seen the fireworks. In the past she's never been able to stay awake long enough. We've tried waking her up before but it doesn't work very well. However, this year, despite being sick, she saw the fireworks and thought they were AWESOME! I think she was super hyper from her cold medicine because she was bouncing off the walls (more than usual anyway). Plus she was talking our ears off. I'm glad she stayed awake this time and loved it so much!

She really likes doing her own hair these days, note all the clips in her hair :)

Wisconsin!

2011-06-30T21:46:00.001-06:00

I wasn't planning on going on this family trip because Ty couldn't go (no vacation time built up yet) However, last minute I drove to Evanston and hopped in the motor home for two weeks. It was Vicky, Tristen, Kennadee, Ashton, Anna, and I for a totally of 3600 miles. We drove through Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin.....then back through Wisconsin to north Dakota and Montana on our way back home.

Ty's grandmother had a time share in Egg harbor Wisconsin so a family vacation was planed. At the condo we went swimming, shopping, biking, hiking, played games, and fished. The Texans brought their fishing boat and of course...no one caught anything. We were right by lake Michigan.

This was the time share.

Little Sweden

The girls climbing on Justin!

The forest was beautiful!

Tilden :)

Ashton:)

Light house

An inch worm fell on Anna once when we were stopped at a rest stop. She was pretty excited about it. Her and Kennadee we always trying to catch things with their nets.....mostly Asthton was their main target however ;)

It was good to visit with family and see new places. Grandma Pat also had a lot of fun things for everyone...quilts are the best :) We stopped at a lot of RV parks along the way and played at an indoor amusement park as well. The girls had a lot of fun and I'm glad we got to spend time together.

Race!

2011-06-04T21:53:00.000-06:00

Last minute, Ty and Jack decided to do a bike race. It was a 16 mile race and Ty hadn't had his bike for very long so I was excited for him. He has really loved biking with jack and they go pretty often.

Ty about to finish!

Anna and Sarah waiting for their dads!

Lately!

2011-06-03T21:20:00.000-06:00

We are starting to get use to our new lives. For me... it doesn't seem like home yet but that's okay. I really like being closer to family and having our friends around. We play a lot of disk golf and fly kites. Britni and I go shopping and do a lot of thing with the girls. Jack and Allison and their girls are so much fun too. I love it.

The library here is really small but they try to do fun things. Anna loves story time and the other day that had all these animals everywhere. Anna, Sarah, and Anessa all thought it was awesome.

I know this sounds lame, but I really though zebra's were bigger...and lions.

Ha I'm a dork

I pulled two garbage bags worth of dandelions in the back yard. Not fun.

Anna and Ty are funny...I sure can't mow with her on my shoulders :)

We all got new bikes so we've been doing that a lot lately.

I also got Anna a foil kite. We like to ride to the park and fly it.

Anna and Anessa really like to dress up and dance to barbie movies. Its pretty hilarious. I love that they're good friends.

I made this for Anna's bathroom. I'm pretty excited to start painting and decorating our new house. I really love it.

Getting settled in a new house is a lot of work but I'm glad it's summer now and that we'll be able to get out and play. Ty is dying to go camping...even if its just in our backyard :)

Taking off!

2011-05-30T19:59:00.006-06:00

Eventually we moved.

As soon as I finished my finals we left for Pocatello. Ty packed most of what he could before he left (the basement, his office, and his tools) and I packed the rest. We still were waiting to close on our new house so we stayed with our friends Jared and Britni for probably a lot longer than any of us wanted us too. Lets just say our loan officer wasn't the best and we'll never do anything through this bank again. Not having a home can be difficult. However, it was nice to be with Ty again, and Jared and Britni were great to us. They are really go friends.

At one point when we thought we'd being closing on our house in time, we drove back to Casper, got our things and came back. However, we didn't close and had to park the moving truck in front of the new house for a little less than a week. Lucky for us, our new neighbors we wonderful and helped us a lot with our move.

Anna though riding up front in the moving truck with Ty was pretty cool. She showed me how she could roll down the window with her toes. haha

I am so glad it is finally over and that we have a nice new house in a good neighborhood. I missed Ty a lot while we were apart and I pretty much NEVER want to do that again. I am grateful everything eventually worked out!

One day britni had the girls try this out.

You pour some milk on a plate and put a few drops of food coloring in it. Then you put some soap on a toothpick and when you stick the end of it in the milk it swirls around and makes really cool colors.

Anessa and Anna!

We thought this was pretty funny. They are way to big for it.

Anna and Sarah

Easter!

2011-04-24T19:37:00.000-06:00

Easter really hasn't ever been our best holiday. Don't get me wrong, Easter is still fun and nothing bad ever happens, but the last two yrs have been kind of...different and honestly I don't remember any of the Easter's before that. Last Easter we were living in a hotel so we couldn't dye Easter eggs and we went out to eat for dinner instead of the standard family meal. Ha. I can remember Anna bouncing off the walls at the restaurant because she was so high on candy. Like I said...not a bad Easter, just a little different.

Then this year, Ty was 8 hours away. It was nice to have my mom here, but having your husband gone for that long just makes everything feel a little off. At least that's how I felt.

Anna had a good Easter and was very spoiled.

These pictures I took of her all make me laugh because she looks SO out of control. He eye's are huge and her hair is super crazy. The candy is getting to her. HAHA
She was pretty excited to get this movie!

Her pink hippo. She slept in this for about a week after she got it :)

I love how excited Anna gets about everything! She's such a sweetheart and I love her to pieces!!!!!!

Easter activities!

2011-04-23T19:06:00.000-06:00

My brother glen and his family came up to see us before the moved. It was his birthday so mom took us out to eat. Because it was the day before Easter we also dyed eggs with the little punks. They has a lot of fun.

Kairi, Anna, Carter!

Cristina and Kairi!

I took this picture on my phone and sent it to Ty

It sucked having him gone:(

Also, about a week before Easter, I found this bunny craft to do with Anna. I need to be better about doing crafts with her because she really enjoys it.

This is the first bunny she made.

I didn't think she'd want to make more than one bunny but in the end she made three. I made two...

and my mom made one. Guess she didn't find it as fun as Anna did ;) haha

April!

2011-04-18T17:10:00.002-06:00

April was a long month!

Ty left to start his new job in Pocatello while Anna and I stayed in Casper to finish packing. My mom came to stay with me for those three weeks so I could finish up school and pack. She made sure my child wasn't neglected and of course.....spoiled her like crazy :)

Anna's new bike!

Thanks Grandma!

I'm glad my mom was able to come help and spend time with Anna.

Also while my mom was visiting we went to Billings Montana for my nephew Cameron's endowment. He is leaving for his mission soon and I wanted to see him before he leaves.

Moving!

2011-03-31T20:42:00.008-06:00

Our New House!!!

We are moving to Pocatello Idaho!

Our good friends, Jared and Britni, convinced Ty to apply for a job at Hoku materials (Jared works there now). We really weren't thinking about moving away from Casper and honestly didn't think we'd actually do it, but it turned out to be a good opportunity for us. We're pretty excited! Now we'll live closer to family and friends.

Huku gave Ty an offer but he wouldn't accept it until he could visit the facility and meet everyone. Anna and I went with him and we looked all week for a house. I had my heart set on this one and even though it wasn't Ty's absolute favorite, we got it anyway!

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!

We spent about a week going back and forth with offers until they accepted,

The master bedroom rocks. Ty calls it the south wing, or master suite :)

I love the little covered porch. We plan on buying a grill real soon!

Also the whole thing is landscaped...YAY!!!!! I really didn't want to have to do that again. NOT FUN, though Ty thinks otherwise. He can just work on the basement instead :)

The week before we went to Pocatello, We spent a week in Salt Lake City because Ty had a work training called 7 habits for highly affective people. He really enjoyed it, and I enjoyed hanging out with my friend Shae during the day! We had a good time and Anna and Kin were pretty cute together.

Anna at the temple. She just thought everything was so pretty!

I love my cute girl!

When we were at Britni and Jared's house, Britni showed me how to make these cute shamrocks!!! We just thought they were the cutest things ever. St. Patricks Day was already over but we couldn't help ourselves. They were so fun!

Eventually we had to go home. It was a long time to be away. Britni and Jared were SOOOO great to watch Anna for us while we house shopped and for letting us crash at their place, I'm so excited to see them more. We took them with us after we had narrowed our house search down and our realtor was the nicest women . She just played with our girls while we looked around and was seriously the best realtor ever!

This is Anna head banging in the car....she fell asleep right after so she must have been trying to keeps herself awake.

Overall, moving and house hunting is pretty stressful but we are very excited. It's a little scary too, but we're grateful to have such great friends and family to help us out.

Casper isn't my favorite place in the world, but there are many things I will miss.

I will miss teaching dance. I've been so lucky to have the opportunity and I'll miss all the kids and people I've met.

I'll miss my house a lot. It was our first house and that holds a lot of meaning. I cried over leaving our 1 and 2 bedroom cider block apartments, so i assume leaving this house will be hard on me.

I'll miss my new friends and all the fun we've made.

I'll miss our exercise group.

I'll miss my dance classes at the college

And I'll miss many more things.

However, I look forward to this new life and love the idea of our progression.

Life is a journey!

Valentine's Day!

2011-02-14T19:22:00.000-07:00

I love Valentines day!

Now that we have a daughter, Valentine's day isn't just for Ty and I. It's for all three of us which is so fun. I love experiencing holidays as a parent and seeing that child-like love for everything.

I did have class that night (lame) so we had our Valentine's day dinner at lunch time and opened presents. I made strawberry cream muffins for breakfast and a Cajun pasta for dinner with raspberry limeade to drink. I also made oreos with pink cream in the middle. Everything has to be pink around Valentine's day ;)

These are the flowers Ty got me. So pretty.

And can I just say that I had no idea how much flowers really cost....WOW!!!!

Because Pinkalicious is Anna's favorite book and she loves making pink cupcakes, I thought we should make some more before Valentine's day.

TY!

This is the jacket I got him. I think he looks pretty hot!

Like I said, Anna loves Pinkalicious. However we didn't own it and had to keep checking it out at the library over and over again. So for Valentine's day I decided she should get the whole series.

She was so excited while opening them. At first she thought they were from Santa. I had to straighten that out. He can't always get credit for everything ;)
I love making her happy :)

Silverlicious had just came out. It's super cute!!!

She asked me to read them right away but we had to wait till Ty opened his presents, so she just flipped through the pages.

Later that day we took Valentines and candy to Anna's friends which she thought was pretty fun.

My sister and I also sent each other Valentine's day packages the week before. It was so exciting! Such a fun idea. We love getting packages. Anna got a lot of valentines from her cousins and 4 barbie books. I think books are a great Valentine's presents (which is why Anna always gets them on V day). I adopted the idea from Kristi :)

Also, that morning I had Anna give Ty a Valentine. It was so Adorable!!! She found Ty getting ready for work in the bathroom, went over to him and said with much enthusiasm. "look...this is my valentine for you!" We both were laughing. Just the way she said it and how she handed it to him was SO sweet. She'll always be our little Valentine!

January!

2011-02-04T17:55:00.002-07:00

January is probably my least favorite month of the year. I find it kind of depressing which is never a good thing. However, we have tried to find things to do like go visit my niece, and play at the pool. Still, you can only enjoy playing at the mall and McDonald's for so long. We miss the sun.

Lucky for us we have a few friends to do play dates with. One of them is Maren. Anna loved having another princess at our house! They had to keep hiding from the scary monsters. So dramatic :)

In January... it's not as easy as you might think to go sledding in Casper. It snowed pretty hard the day before but the wind blew most of it away. Actually, I was surprised by the lack of snow in my front yard for most the month(and at Christmas). weird!

We must be lame parents because I'm pretty sure this was the first time we took Anna sledding. She absolutely had a blast. I had to trick her into sledding down the hill by herself, but after that she had to go by herself every time.

She loves eating the snow.
I made her stop because I didn't want her eating snow that very likely had deer poop under it. In January...we bake a lot.
Anna helps which is fun but can be difficult at times. Like when she adds ingredients she shouldn't or tries to eat all my dough. haha
We got a deep freeze to hold the 1/2 a beef we bought, so now I have room to make and freeze loaves of bread:)
I also bought new bread pans that are 14 inches long instead of the standard 8-9 inches. I think they rock!

In January...Anna is ALWAYS in a dress up dress because we're inside so much. One day while Bj was down here(on a bus trip) he brought Anna a dress that Grandma had made for her. She put it on over her clothes, then Ty convinced her to put on all her dress up clothes at the same time.....this was the result.

The order goes...normal clothes, dress G-ma made, pink poodle, Bell, Cinderella, Barbie(can't see it very well), Sleeping beauty, and Tinkerbell. THAT"S 8 OUTFITS!!!! She looked so funny :) It was quite Hilarious.

My sweet little baby(who insists she is not).

I thought it was cute how she was sleeping on her hands. I always thought it seemed so unnatural to sleep that way, but I guess not for little ones. I find her like that a lot.

The other day while I was making lunch, Anna got her coat and hat on, wanting to go play in the backyard. The snow was melted and the sun was out, but it was still windy and chilly. The poor kid sat out there playing in the half frozen dirt and trying not to blow away for about 40 minutes. If that doesn't scream I'm sick of winter, then I don't know what does!

Christmas 2010!

2010-12-25T21:53:00.001-07:00

Without a doubt, Anna brings Christmas alive. She definitely puts the magic back in Christmas and makes every holiday even more fun (not that they weren't fun before). This year we celebrated Christmas in our new home and in our new lives. Excitement is contagious and Anna was SO excited about EVERYTHING! She had to hug Santa every time we went to the mall and loved playing with all the Christmas decoration around the house (mostly the nativity). There is a lot of things about Christmas she doesn't understand yet, but I love it that she thinks she does.

The weeks leading up to Christmas were crazy. I was finishing up a semester of school and trying to figure out Christmas things. After MANY MANY MANY long hours and weeks, I managed to finish Anna's stocking. I wanted to make us all new ones, but Ty is very attached to the one his mom made for him, so I bought a felt stocking kit like his to match. It took forever. I'm pretty proud of it though and I hope Anna loves it forever!

I had to cut and sew every little detail...every little candy cane stripe...everything!
On Christmas morning, Anna crawled in bed with us like she does every morning. The night before, Ty had put together the doll house so when we got up and went to the Christmas tree, she ran right up to it, stopped, starred, and then the little princess doll she was holding fell to the ground. It was so funny! She was in awe!!!!
The locket Grandma Cox gave her. She got one for all her grand daughters. I thought it was so sweet. She's lucky to have grandparents on both sides of the family who love her so much.
Our spoiled girly!
She got lots of toys like games, slippers, barbies, another zhu zhu pets and a castle and fun house to go with it. She also really loves the strawberry shortcake doll she got from tucker and Owen .

Putting toys together

This is what Anna wanted from Santa. She told everyone this. The first time Anna saw Santa she told him all about her dad and then said she wanted a pink pony for Christmas. she was hugging his belly the whole while.

Christmas day we had a big Christmas dinner and had Greg, Shannon and their two boys Owen and Tucker over. Ty and Greg work together and Ty had been helping them move and remodel their new house. They didn't have a working kitchen at this time so we were very excited to have them over for dinner on Christmas. Ty helped me cook A LOT. I did the ham, rolls, and baked beans. He did the pasta salad, Au gratins, and sweet potatoes. Anna played with her toys while we cooked. Her and Ty were so funny while we were cooking. Anna said their was magic powers in her heart necklace so her and Ty kept pretending with it. They kept yelling everything they said to each other.

Anna-" TY, I NEED AN OLIVE"

Ty- " FINE, I LOVE YOU

Anna-" I LOVE YOU TOO, YOU CAN'T HAVE MY POWERS"

We all were laughing the whole time.

Getting ready to watch Anna's new movie.

Making Christmas cookies. I love my little helper.

Our Christmas toes.

I Love our family!

Anna's first hair cut!

2010-12-06T22:41:00.000-07:00

I couldn't ever bring myself to cut Anna's hair. She has such beautiful curls and I was afraid that if we cut it she'd loose it. However, the ends of her hair were hard to brush, I decided it had to go.

I had Ty cut her hair. There is a reason I never went to beauty school (just look at my middle school pictures and you'll know why). Ty also cuts my bangs because whenever I do it...it's aweful. He did a really good job on Anna's hair and chopped off as little as he could. In fact only a few people noticed she had a hair cut, and it was so much easier to brush. She looks adorable. What would we do without Ty;)

Isn't her hair so cute. Now if I could get her to stop putting this outfit on. It's like 2 degrees outside and the shirt is too small. Her whole world might end if if she can't wear it though :)

This is what curl is left

Princess Anna!

Thanksgiving 2010!

2010-11-25T22:07:00.000-07:00

Thanksgiving this year was spent in Evanston. We spent time with family and friends and also did some black Friday shopping in Salt Lake City. The day before Thanksgiving we went to see Tangled in the movie theater with my mom,Tristen, Britni and her family.

Such a good movie! We loved it!

Anna had listened to the book on CD practically the whole way to Evanston so when she actually saw it she kept exclaiming things like "It's Mother Gothel, she's scary" and "Flynn's going to save her."

I love my little punk.

Anna, on our way to go play with our friends!

Anna riding Duke

When we left Evanston, Anna had to have her pony in a blanket and then fell asleep before we even made it out of town.
We bought a Christmas tree on black Friday and set it up when we got home. I was so excited because in our old apartment we couldn't fit a big tree. Now the little 3 ft tree we used before sits nicely in Anna's room :)
I love our little family and our house and our big Christmas tree. I'm so happy Ty isn't in school anymore and he can spend so much more time with us. I love the pure excitement Anna carries with her very day and how much she loves us. And of course I love how much more we love her!

Now I just need to make Anna's stocking!

Friends!

2010-11-12T21:47:00.000-07:00

Jack, Allison, and their two girls came up to visit for a couple days! Anna and Sarah are close in age and have always played really well together. They stayed the night so we decided to have the girls do a sleepover...didn't work out. They were so excited to sleep together in the tepee, but as the hours went on and Anna got more and more emotional, we had to split them.

No matter how late Anna goes to be she always wakes up around 7:00 A.M. So we made breakfast and later the Dora-loving girls watched an episode before we went to the pool. It was so great to spend time with good friends we don't see very often.

Ty and Anna riding the snake

Cute girls

Playing in the window...they were getting very tired.

Halloween!

2010-10-31T22:30:00.001-06:00

I was so excited for Halloween this year. Anna is getting to the age where even though she doesn't understand holiday's that well, she still really loves them!!!!!!! It is so fun to have this little girl! When we were decorating for Halloween, I hung a witch from the ceiling fan. Anna discovered that when you turn the fan on, the witch would "fly" around in a small circle. The fan always had to be on after that and she showed everyone who came to our house.

We also made ghosts and Vampires to hang outside. Three of each to make a Ty, mama, and Anna ghosts/vampires. We went to the library and checked out Halloween books and she asked me what I wanted to be for Halloween at least once a day.

When I would ask her what she wanted to be she'd say The princess and the frog. I thought that was funny. Then she wanted to be Pinkalicious. Eventually she decided to be Cinderella when we found the dress at the salvation army and she bought it with her money from her piggy bank. I still asked her all the time what she wanted to be for Halloween and she gave me different answers every time. She's so funny.

I just love her so much!

Getting ready to go Trick or Treating!

She had to have her nails painted, her Cinderella socks on, her stick-on earrings on, and Cinderella tattoo. Heaven forbid we forget any of this girly stuff ;) It's like this almost every day! She loves princess, and I love it that she loves it.

My beautiful Cinderella!

I made a Halloween Cake. Anna gets excited when I make a cake but only eats the fondant. Just what she needs...straight sugar :)

Shifting the candy she got at the ward Halloween party to the big candy bowl.

Halloween has past now and she still asks me all the time if she can go Trick or Treating again :)

Carving Pumpkins!

2010-10-28T08:03:00.003-06:00

Anna and I picked out three pumpkins for us to carve that night with Ty. Anna is such a sweet girl. We asked her if she wanted a happy, sad, scary, funny, or crazy face on her pumpkin, and she said happy. I know most kids would say that, but there's just something about the way she said it and her personality that makes me so grateful to have this fun, happy girl in our lives. She lives in her own make believe world full of princesses and pretty things, hugs and kisses, and happy things. I love that she sees beauty in the strangest places and thinks that everything is so amazing!!!! A child's love for life it truly amazing!!!

I love these two!

Ty and Anna both had to have these funny noses on their pumpkins.

Cody Farm!

2010-10-19T22:05:00.002-06:00

I went up to Cody for my mother's book signing and stayed the night with my brother and his family. We had a really nice visit. I'm glad they are living there right now because I really don't like Cody. My sister-in-law Tonya took us to her families farm so Anna could see the animals. Lucky for us they hadn't fed the baby calves yet so we got to help. Anna even let them suck on her fingers which surprised me.

When I was little and my mom brought us to Cody to visit her family, sometimes Mike and Tonya were up too visiting her parents so she'd take me to the farm. It's a good memory I think most my siblings have. We all loved jumping in the cotton seeds.

I'm glad Anna got to see it even if they don't have cotton seeds anymore.

She also got to see them milk the cows. I asked her if she wanted a drink and she said that's disgusting! haha
She's so beautiful!

Swim Lessons!

2010-10-10T14:50:00.006-06:00

Aside from dance, Anna is also doing swim Lessons. I need a new battery for my camera so we only have a few pictures Ty took with his phone. Anna really loves swimming and it's good for her to get use to putting her head under the water. She doesn't like that. The first day she was pretty happy but didn't want to do anything the teacher asked her. She would yell "NEVER" to her teacher and then start laughing. She is such a little punk. I went over to her in the pool and told her to be nice or we'd have to go home and that she didn't have to do swim lessons if she didn't want to. She looked at me,then she turned to her teacher and said sorry. After that she was very obedient and she loves her teacher!!!

Hiking!

2010-10-10T14:44:00.004-06:00

A few months ago We went on a little hike up Casper Mountain.

Anna's only concern during our hike was finding the princess and going to

"Anna's castle"

"Mama's castle"

and

"My Ty's Castle"

What a fun toddler!

Pinkalicious!!!!

2010-10-09T19:00:00.005-06:00

Anna's FAVORITE book right now is Pinkalicious. We always have to check it out when we go to the library. So one day Anna and I made pink cupcakes!

She loves to crack the eggs when we cook!

And she has to lick everything!!! I don't blame her;)
What a sweet girl.
She is definitely my Pinkalicious!!!

Painting Pumkins

2010-09-30T19:08:00.000-06:00

Aurora and I painted pumpkins the other day. It was kind of a weird thing to try but Anna Loved it!

Birthday Cake!

2010-09-19T14:28:00.001-06:00

I know some people think this is terrible, but I made my birthday cake this year. I've been looking for excuses to make cakes and I thought my birthday was a good one. It is definatly a work in progress and it didn't turn out quite how I wanted but that's okay! It was a good try.

We went out to dinner and then saw a movie for my birthday. It was pretty fun and I'm glad Anna did okay at the theater since we weren't seeing a kid movie. We saw The Last Airbender which isn't really her type of movie. But she was good. I love my family

Concussion!

2010-09-11T20:03:00.003-06:00

Ty decided he wanted to try kite boarding so he bought a kite. On the weekends we would go to the park so he could practice flying it before actually getting on a board with it. So on this particular day, we packed a lunch and went to the dead squirrel park. I guess the wind speed was too high and Ty should have put his helmet on because a gust of wind came and threw the kite causing Ty to hit the ground and get a concussion. The fall actually didn't look that bad and he got right up a went over to the kite which had blown into a bush. After a few minutes I decided he must need help because he was just standing there, so I went over. He said he was fine and just needed a minute before trying it again. I got the kite out of the bush and suggested putting it away when he said he couldn't remember what happened. The more he thought about it, the more he realized he didn't remember anything at all (short term). I packed the kite up (Ty was pretty dazed) and told him I wanted to take him to the hospital. Suddenly He snaps back to life and tells me over and over and over again

"Hey Jo, I think I got a concussion! What is the standard procedure for a concussion? Don't go to sleep and drink lots of water".

And

"Hey, I think I got a concussion! I'm back now, I'm back. I have my cognitive reasoning back"

He wouldn't let me take him to the Hospital and Anna was crying because she wanted to go play at the park, so Ty said we should go let her play while he sits a minute.

The problem was that he couldn't remember ANYTHING short term and would forget everything that we talked about almost immediately....so we're walking to the park and he'd say he thinks he has a concussion, and that we should go home. So we'd start walking to the car and he'd forget and ask why Anna is crying. I'd tell him and he'd say oh okay, lets go let her play. Then he'd forget, say we should go home, Anna would start crying, and we'd start back toward the park again. Repeat.

It was very exhausting!!!!!

Eventually we made it to the park and things got really humorous and annoying at the same time. Ty was in a very good mood and we continuously cycled through a handful of questions. What happened? Was I wearing a helmet? What did we do today/ this week?, the date?

He kept complaining about his back and couldn't remember why it was sore( not from the kite). He didn't recognize the park or where in Casper we were. He couldn't remember living in the hotel or motor home and was still constantly telling me that he was all better now and had his cognitive reasoning back! He would also look at his phone to remember the date, put it back in his pocket, and take it out again in about 15 seconds. He would also say things like "I might have asked you this like 12 times already but......". The funny part was that he always used the number 12. Kind of a random number to keeps using when you keep forgetting.

He wouldn't let me take him to the hospital. It's not easy arguing with someone who can't remember what was said 5 minutes before, and asks questions faster then you can answer them. After some debate I drove us home even though he's "cognitive reasoning was back" (yeah...i believe you) So we finally get home and he's sick to his stomach. I ran across the street to talk to our neighbor who told me what I needed to do and what to look for. When I came back Ty was sitting at the kitchen bar, starring around the room. I asked if he threw up and he said he didn't know...

after that he pretty much lost it.

He walked around the whole house continuously freaking out because he couldn't remember a lot of stuff. He remembered our house and his job, but not all the painting we'd done the weeks before and kept asking me how much money he makes (with a different reaction every time). He kept asking what we did that day. I told him he painted while I did homework. Then he'd start freaking out because he didn't know what homework he had to finish which lead to him realizing he's not in school anymore but I am, which upset him because he can't remember any of it. He kept hugging Anna and I both to death and asking Anna how old she was(afraid she'd say 5 instead of 3). Whenever he saw my net book in the office he'd freak out because he couldn't remember giving it to me the day before.

He eventually sits down to read Anna a book, who is absolutely loving all the attention and repetitive questions, when I noticed he was starting to calm down. He was only forgetting things about every 15 minutes and wasn't as scared anymore. This was about 4 hours after the concussion and for the next few hours we just talked. He was in a good mood again so I started playing tricks to see his reactions. I asked him once if he remembered that I was pregnant(I'm not) and I told him we bought all this furniture that we wanted. He was actually the one who suggested that if he was me he'd play tricks on him...then he forgot...so I did :)

Eventually Anna went to bed and late that night I let him go to sleep too. He was pretty tired. I set an alarm for every two hours just to make sure he was okay and could be woken up.

He was a lot better the next day and slowly started to get his memory back. However, that entire day and some of the day before is completely gone from his mind.

He's concussion was pretty scary at times, and I don't want it to ever happen again...He wears a helmet now for sure!

It's so weird to spend such a crazy day with someone who can't remember any of it.

Anna is always wearing a princess dress!

Labor day weekend!

2010-09-10T21:55:00.007-06:00

We stayed home for Labor day had a pretty nice,relaxing weekend. Saturday we went to the state park here in Casper for a little get together with a friend from Ty's work. My camera needs a new battery so I wasn't able to take any pictures, but we had a really nice time. We grilled burgers and the kids played in the water all day long. Ty was so cute with Anna in the water, I'm sad I couldn't take pictures. Ty also tried to fly his kite but the wind kept dying down. It was so fun to talk and relax with other women. They were all older then me and it was nice to feel so comfortable around people I didn't know. Because I'm young and look even younger, I'm sometimes treated as if I don't understand anything and can't relate to a lot of things . I am very grateful these women never treated me like that. I loved talking with them and hope we'll see them again.

The rest of the weekend was spent painting. Our living room/kitchen/dining area is kind of one big room. We are painting it three different shades of blue-ish grey. I hope it turns our good!

Some pictures of Anna!

2010-08-30T14:12:00.007-06:00

These are just some random pictures of the little miss! We love her so much.

We like to dress up, have a tea party and dance the night away ;)

Park

Anna the pig

Her favorite shoes. She wears them everywhere.

Anna started another dance class the other day.

Coloring at her princess table!

Scratches on her face.

Dress up!

Coloring in her Tepee outside.

Some of our favortie things to do with Anna lately are...

Going to the movie theater

playing soccer in the front yard

Bowling

getting ice cream

playing at the park

Flying Ty's kite at the park

family movie night

ect...

She's such a sweet girl...most the time;)

ouch!

2010-08-27T14:32:00.004-06:00

I did NOT want Ty to take a picture...I look terrible!

Someday it will be funny.

It was a long time coming, but I finally had 4 wisdom teeth removed. We waited so long because we didn't have insurance before we moved to Casper. Ty took care of me :) Anna was so good too. I wasn't a very fun mom for a few days. I HATED being numb and am so glad I don't have to do that ever again. At least it's over with.

Flaming Gorge!

2010-08-13T19:27:00.009-06:00

Flaming Gorge is wonderful every year! Family, friends,camping, great food, games, prizes, and boating all day long. It's grreat!!! We almost always happen to be at the gorge on Ty's birthday, and this year his birthday was the best day of boating all week! lucky guy:) We even made him a carrot cake. His favorite!

We had family from Boise Idaho come up this year, and our good friends Jared and Britni came too. Jared brought his boat which was way fun until it started having problems. They got it fixed though. Their girl Anessa is one of Anna's best friends and all the girls (Anna, Kennadee, and Anessa) played really good together.

The three girls in their matching chairs.

Kennadee, Anna, Anessa

Anna and Mama on the tube!
Anna playing with Anessa's dog rush!

Friends

Anna sleeping on the boat

Ty on the wake board

Silly girls

Anessa surfing with her dad...pretty awesome. surfing is way fun:)

rolling around the boat

Playing with Ty.

It takes a little while for Anna to warm up to the cold water.

Britni, Anessa, Anna, & Ty

Anna and Ty on the jet ski. Anna loved this and refused to get off!

Tubing with Ty

They're doing the "okay" sign

Ty surfing.

We had some rainy days. The girls just played in the dirt and took "showers" as they called it, in the rain pooring off the motor home awning. They were cold, wet, and covered in mud, and didn't care at all!!!!

relaxing

Ty and Anna. I love her french braids!

Tristen and Emily dunking the girls

Anna soaking wet.

She didn't mind getting wet but was VERY upset when she had to go potty and didn't want to go in the water. she's funny.

She looks huge!!!

Cute girls!!!

Bj RaeAnne and Ashton came up for a short while with their new puppies.

Anna is giving it a kiss, but it looks like she's biting it.

This one is baby duke:)

Anna putting on sun screen. HAHA

Playing at the beach

At night Anna was so tired and would ask to go home or to bed. Then when we got home she cried because she wanted to go back to camp. She wouldn't let me get her out of her car seat. It was pretty funny.

We love Flaming Gorge!

Tepee!

2010-08-05T15:02:00.004-06:00

Ty's Grandma Pat and Grandpa Fred came to visit on their way back home to Montana and took us out to dinner. For Anna's birthday Pat made her a Tepee and sleeping pad. It's really cute and

ANNA LOVES IT!!!

Great grandma
Fred

Anna has been sleeping in her tepee the last few nights...

And watching movies in it!

I'm so glad Anna gets to see her grandparents and spend time with them.

More presents!

2010-07-26T17:06:00.004-06:00

Anna had some birthday money from my mom. So we went to the store today so she could spend it and this is what she picked out!

A Barbie Movie!!!!!

She loves barbie movies (so do I) and as you can she, she was excited!

We also decided to get Anna a diffrent birthday present because even though she was super excited when she got her roller skates, she doesn't really like them anymore and can't skate on them much at all. She couldn't even stand up in the kitchen!

So we decided to get her a princess table and a tea set instead!

And she LOVES it!

Tea party with the cat she named Kitty!

Anna, the cat, and I playing Elefun.
We gave her this game yesterday!
She thinks it's pretty fun!

Ty tried playing this with her last night but the batteries we had didn't last long. I think they had been in some other toy or something, but she had fun anyway. They are so cute when they play together!

Happy Birthday Anna!

2010-07-25T09:24:00.001-06:00

Anna's birthday was on Sunday. Some friends from Salt Lake blessed their baby here in Casper and it was so fun to see them. Sacrament meeting probably wasn't the best place to reunite them, but Anna was so happy to see them. After church we ate dinner and opened presents. Then we had cake and played with her new toys till bedtime. It was a fun day!

Anna's birthday cake didn't turn out how I'd planned but It was pretty cute and Anna LOVED it!
The flower is a hair clip

Anna kept digging her fingers in it and eating all the balls. It was driving me nuts but it's her cake.

my girl!

Anna and her presents

Anna got Pj's from both us and grandma and grandpa Belnap. They also gave her a princess towel and a coloring book which we don't have pictures of because we took a video when she opened it.

Cat from grandma and grandpa Cox

She loves the cat!

We got her a helmet to go with her roller skates and the first thing she did was put it on the cat! Haha

Lookin' awesome. She was excited about the Tinkerbell skates

She can barely stand in the skates. I think she might not be ready for them yet!

That night Anna had to sleep with the cat! she's a funny girl!

I can't believe my baby is 3 years old now! She's growing up so fast and I love watching her. She was so excited about her birthday and her cake and kept telling us happy birthday!!!! We love our sweet girl!
Happy Birthday Anna!

Denver Aquarium!

2010-07-24T10:17:00.005-06:00

For Anna's birthday this year we decided to take her to the aquarium in Denver! It was a 4 hour drive just to get there but we had a fun day! We got to Denver around noon and had lunch at the Old spaghetti factory. I had a cute picture of Ty and Anna at lunch but for some reason I can't download it :(

After Lunch we went to the aquarium which was really cool! We were there for about 2 hours and Anna was very tired by the time we got out!

They had a mermaid show and Anna Loved it!!!!

She couldn't take her eyes off them:)
Durring the show the mermaids kept running in to the turtles. It was pretty funny!
Ty and AnnaBig fish!

There was a flash flood area and Anna did not like the noise!

Flash flood

Cheesy

There were some people cleaning the tanks and Anna thought they were very interesting. I think she was a little afraid of them at first but they started waving to her and she liked that a lot!

Anna was quite mesmerized by the sharks. She kept saying " look mom/Ty it's scary...Nemo better swim away" HAHA

After the aquarium we started toward home and stopped in Cheyenne to see my brother Glen and his family. We couldn't stay long but it was good to see them!

We had a really good trip and I'm glad we got to do something fun for Anna's birthday and spend some time together as a family!

And then there was grass!

2010-07-13T08:15:00.006-06:00

Laying down sod is a lot of work. We spent about 3-4 weeks landscaping and it's just barely starting to look like we've done anything. It's so nice to see grass instead of dirt and though I never want to do this again, I'm sure glad we did.

Anna playing outside while we work.

First we hired someone to come regrade our dirt. I had called our contractors and they referred me to someone who'd do it as a side job.They were really nice and Ty had Anna give them a bag of cookies. He said he remembers his mom having him do the same thing for people when he was little. I thought it was sweet.
Then we put rocks around the house. Anna and I picked up about 5 truck loads of rocks and hauled them back to our house. we needed some for the RV pad too. Shoveling the rocks out of the truck was not easy. Poor Ty...I'm not much help. I try though!

Then we hauled truck loads of compost from the dump. Our dirt is mostly clay so we thought it would be a good idea. Good thing Ty's parents left their truck with us for a while. This would have been a lot harder without it.

I picked up the rototiller we rented and Ty went to work. I did if for a little while too but i'm a total sissy. Made my hands itch like crazy!

I love these two!

Anna doesn't like loud noises (unless she's making it) so she spent most the time sitting on Ty's shoulders or inside the house while the rototiller was running. She liked being on his shoulders the most :)

At first we weren't going to install a sprinkler systems because we didn't want to put the money into it but then decide we better. Sod has to be watered about 5 times a day for the first little while and we noticed that most house without sprinkler systems had pretty sad looking grass, so Ty designed and installed the whole thing. I was very impressed. He's never none it before.

We didn't rent a trencher because they were $200 per day so we just dug the trenches ourselves. NOT FUN AT ALL!!!! I hated it. Our dirt (or should I say clay) was so compacted in places that we had to use a pick to loosen it up. I was so slow at digging. Ty was much faster!

Anna however liked standing on the stool and smoothing her hair with her hands saying " I'm making pretties mom" and wanting me to do it with her. HAHA

What a beautiful girl. I can't believe she's going to be 3 soon!

After we finished installing our sprinklers some of our sod came and we layed it down. One of our neighbors came and helped us and that night some kids across the street started playing with Anna. They are a lot older then Anna but have been hanging around our house lately. Ty told me they came over the other day to see if Anna could play but we were gone. I thought it was sweet!

We had to go buy more sod to finish the side of the house and the two kids helped us lay it down, then we feed them lunch. We kind of worry about them. Seems like they've had a hard life.

So now we have grass YEAH!!!!!!! but still a lot of work left. We haven't done much to the back yard yet and still want to plant trees and fill the flower beds. I don't really love landscaping but Ty seems to like it and I like working with him!

Forth of july

2010-07-04T09:56:00.003-06:00

For the Forth of July we stayed home finishing up our sprinkler system. Fun huh? It actually was a pretty good day.We went to church and then had hamburgers for dinner with lots of sides and chocolate cream pie. We tried to keep Anna awake until the fireworks display at 10 but she fell asleep on Ty. He fell asleep too but when it was time I woke him up. We tried to wake Anna up but she was to tired to even go potty and kept falling over. We quit trying when she crawled into her bed so we just watched the display from our driveway. It was a nice day.

Workin' girl!

2010-06-20T11:27:00.004-06:00

We started a chore chart for Anna the other day. We thought it would be fun for her if she got a reward for doing her little chores around the house. So we went to walmart and after much eliminating Anna chose a Zhu zhu pet to be the reward (she loves those things). She could put a sticker on her chart for every chore she did such as picking up her room every night, helping me unload the dishwasher, putting her plate in the sink after meals, putting her clothes away on laundry day, and things like that. She thought It was so fun and was so excited when she got her Zhu zhu pet! Everyday she was constantly asking me if she could help :)

Her next chart needs to be a little longer. I just wanted her to get the hang of it the first time. We can't buy a Zhu zhu pet every week ;)

Silly girl report!

2010-06-19T17:48:00.009-06:00

This post is just about the funny things Anna Say's and does that I don't want to forget. It's probably pretty boring for other people so it's mostly just for me!

The other day Anna and I were going for a walk when she saw a cement truck and got scared. She told me we had to hurry and she booked it back down the street so fast!!! It was so funny. she said

"we made it go away"

me-"yep!"

Anna- "It was kind of fun huh mom."

she sounded so big to me.

Walking back from getting the mail Anna said

"mom I'm sick"

me- "you're sick?"

Anna- "Yeah I'm sick but I swallowed my sick. I'm all better now!"

One sunny day the three of us were driving around Alcova with our windows down. Anna and I were trying to touch the trees when she started screaming hysterically. Ty and I flipped around so fast thinking she was in danger to find a little white feather laying on her arm!! she about gave us both a heart attack. It was so funny though! That little white feather had been stuck to her car seat for the last week and she never noticed. I don't know when she started thinking some things are scary.

One day recently after we moved into our house Anna and I were playing on the floor when she saw a piece of carpet on her pants. she said "Mama Look" in a very distressed voice and I, being the mean mom I am said "ohhhhh." Of course she then decided it was scary and started scream. I had to tell her it was okay and started playing with it so she'd see it wasn't scary.

The same thing happens with flies. I'm not sure why but she says they try to bite her. The first time I noticed she was scared of them she came our of her room saying a butterfly was in her room and she wouldn't go back in. Then when she was sitting at the table a fly was by her and she started screaming.

she's getting better about them. I bought a fly swatter and she thinks it's fun to try and get it. When they fly around her and she starts freaking out I tell her that the fly is just trying to play with her and she had to say shew fly. she's pretty funny. Every time she sees a bug now she says " he's playing with me mom"

One day Ty was pretending to eat Anna's Zhu Zhu pet and Anna said: Ty that's disgusting!"

Anna's favorite games right now are Hide and seek (she's finally starting to get it) and the whole " high five" " too slow" thing. She thinks it's hilarious!

Sometimes I will ask Anna if she wants me to hold her when. Now whenever she wants someone to pick her up she says " hold you..hold you"

Anna's imagination has really taken off lately. We've been at home depot a lot and she likes to pretend she has all these babies and puts them to bed in places all over the store. One day she was being super naughty and I had to take he to the car for time out while Ty finished getting what he needed. The whole way to the car Anna was kicking and screaming because we left her pretend babies in the store. She was seriously panicking!!!! HOLY COW

I Love my girl

Anna's room!

2010-06-19T16:55:00.005-06:00

The night before our movers came Ty and I painted Anna's room. The paint was called ocean cruise and when we got done I thought " what did we just do?" It seems very overwhelming but now with her furniture and things all set up I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!!!! It looks a little darker in these pictures then it really is. I had my dad pick up Anna's bed for me at Ikea and I bought her bedding on Amazon. Anna is getting so big. It was fun getting her big girl room put together.

Closet

Anna's coat rack :)

Animals!

2010-06-16T17:34:00.001-06:00

They have two pet stores in the Casper mall that we visit often. Anna is always asking me if I want to go see the alligator with her! They have pigs, bunnies, birds, snakes,etc.. she loves it when she can hold the bunnies. she says " can I be soft mama, can I be soft?" haha

I Fell in love with this puppy one day when Vicky and Tristen and I were at the mall. He's a Great Pyrenees. Even if I could have convinced Ty to let me get a dog I wouldn't have been able to buy him.First off...we don't have a yard yet, and no fence. Plus he cost $1,000....HOLY COW. I couldn't believe it. He was such a sweet dog though. I even showed him to my parents when they came to visit. I was so sad when he was sold and we couldn't go visit him anymore :(

Casper Mountain!

2010-06-16T17:18:00.002-06:00

We've spent some time with Ty's co-worker Frank and his family (we lived on their RV pad) and the other day his wife Karen asked if Anna and I wanted to go to this bird watching place (can't remember then name) up on Casper Mt. with her and her granddaughter and some people from her church. So we went and I took a few pictures of Anna looking for bugs and birds with her binoculars. she didn't understand much of what the guide had to say but liked playing around and looking at all the nests. It was a fun little outing!

pictures!

2010-06-15T16:39:00.004-06:00

Our new home! I love my kitchen. Someday we'll get new furniture :) I do feel very spoiled with a brand new house and all brand new appliances. We had to buy our own refrigerator which we got at an RC Willey clearance center for way cheap. We even bought a new washer and dryer which I absolutely love!

Sometime we'll paint
Anna's room
She fell asleep while eating lunch. She hasn't done that in so long. haha
We spend a lot of time working on the house...picking out blinds, painting, installing garage door openers and shower doors and stuff like that. Good thing I have Ty! There is much more to do. I like being homeowners

finally!

2010-05-18T15:56:00.006-06:00

After one month in a hotel and one month in a motor home we finally have a house! We closed on our house on May 18th (my mom's birthday) and moved in about a week later when our moving truck could come. Before the move we had been staying on Ty's co-workers RV pad for a couple weeks and their family was great to us. It been wonderful having a house and Anna loves having so much space. Now we have much landscaping to do.

Ty's man cave...haha

This is the living room right when you walk through the front door. Having movers was awesome but it took me forever to break down all these boxes and take them to recycling. Unpacking took forever but it was so nice to have our things again!!!

Anna's first nap in our new house. The movers had just finished
Anna was so happy to see her room and toys being unloaded! she was wonderful during the whole unpacking process because she just played for hours!

She's such a good girl...most the time ;)

I've been pretty busy and haven't taken many pictures lately but we've had family come visit and see our new home. My sister Kris and her husband dropped by for a couple hour one weekend when they were visiting family. It was fun to see them!

Ty's parents, Tristen, Kennadee, and Ashton came and stayed one weekend and we have a fun visit! They brought us some of our things we'd left in Evanston and also the bed I had my dad pick up for me in Salt Lake. It's so cute. Anna loves it.
My parents also stopped by and stayed the night June 12th which was nice. We had a good visit! I was glad they could come by.
Vicky and Tristen stayed another night too when passing though. I love having family come visit. We went and walked to the water fall in Rotary park and had a good time. Ty and I went to see a movie which was nice because we haven't been able to go on a date the last few months. I'm glad Anna has the opportunity to be close to her grandparents and family.

Exploring!

2010-05-16T19:20:00.000-06:00

This family outing took place a long time ago. probably back in May when we were living in the motor home. To be honest I can't remember what this place is called, but it was somewhere out past Alcova. We went looking for places to rock climb and found some pretty scary canyons that made me want to pee my pants when I tried to see down. Some of the stuff people climb is INSANE. Ty likes to take random back roads and four-wheel wherever he can in the Hummer, so who knows where we ended up :) It was a pretty trip.

This wasn't the scary canyon...just a pretty view!

Dead Squarl!

2010-05-05T19:42:00.001-06:00

Before we moved into our house, Ty would take Anna to the park sometimes. One time Anna came across a dead squirrel and to this day still talks about it. She apparently was very interested in it. That park is officially known in our house as the dead squirrel park.

Bowling!!!

2010-04-26T16:19:00.003-06:00

Anna apparently is very good at bowling. We played two games and she seriously beat me both times!!!! Of course Ty won but Anna got two strikes in a row on her last frame! I obviously played bad but that's okay. I've never been good at bowling. It's fun though and Anna loves it. She asks us almost everyday if we can go bowling again. It's definitely something we all have fun doing!

Anna has her own style of bowling. Sometimes she'll push the ball with her elbow or the back of her head! Haha. Maybe I should give it a shot!

cute!

Ty. He's actually pretty good!

Flowers

2010-04-24T15:19:00.003-06:00

While I was in Logan Ty sent me 12 long stemmed roses!!!! It wasn't a special occasion or anything so I was very surprised and excited.! I love getting flowers and they were beautiful! I love him:)

Burning Time !

2010-04-24T10:00:00.009-06:00

We went to Evanston to pick up the motor home and while Ty drove it back to Casper, I stayed and spent some time with my parents. My mom spoils Anna. she's great:). Then I went to Oregon again with Vicky and Tristen to see Gordon. It's always fun to see him and Anna yells "Gordon Gordon Gordon" all the way across the room until she reaches him! It's pretty cute. Between visits we go see movies, swim at the hotel and play by the river. It's a lot of fun and Anna does pretty good with the drive.

Anna with Grandpa Belnap

Anna playing dress up in the backyard

Playing by the river in Oregon
Anna and tristen. When Anna tried to throw her stick into the water it kept getting stuck on the deck. it was pretty funny watching her try.

Then I went to Logan to see my sister and her family. I didn't get to see them before we moved so it was nice to visit! Anna Loves to see Lily and talks about her a lot!

Now we're back in Casper again. Hopefully we'll get in our house soon. I think Anna needs some consistency and we all need our space!!! It's been far to long and I miss having a kitchen to cook in. I never thought I'd say it but I'm so tired of eating out!!!!

Anna

2010-04-23T15:34:00.004-06:00

We still haven't closed on our house yet and our time in the hotel is over so we're going to stay in Ty's parents motor home until we close which we hope will be very soon!

Ty got a new camera for work which is a really nice camera. One day we took Anna to the park and Ty took some pictures of her playing. She's just such a cute girl!

This one is Ty's favorite

Anna playing at the mall

My awesome girl

She has been so funny lately. She loves Disney and Barbie movies and has started quoting them! The other day she told me to make a wish into the toilet right after watching Snow white. She also talks about loves first kiss and calls us your highness! What a funny girl!

Alcova!

2010-04-17T16:06:00.002-06:00

Over at Alcova Ty found some climbing he likes!

He just has to drive over stuff!

Ty wants to rock climb here. It's mostly all natural pro

Easter in a Hotel

2010-04-11T09:43:00.005-06:00

We had hoped to be in our new house by now but it didn't happen, so this year Easter was spent in a hotel.

We couldn't boil eggs, so we put stickers on plastic eggs instead of dying them.

The Easter bunny came

Anna found all the eggs

We spent some time looking around our new house then came back to the hotel and went swimming.

Then we had dinner at a pizza place called Old Chicago. Anna was so hyper(too much Easter candy) and was bouncing off the walls. We couldn't control her :)

Happy Easter

Hotel Living

2010-03-22T10:06:00.001-06:00

Casper is 5 hours from Evanston. she was so tired and slept almost the whole way.

Ty

Anna's fovorite thing to do. She LOVES swimming

Anna's bed. night night

Village Friends

2010-03-17T20:30:00.001-06:00

I took these pictures from Jana. Thanks for always having a camera at girls night out :)

I'm grateful to have always had good friends in my life. Though I've never been miss popular(not even close) where ever I've been there has always been a friend or two who probably very unknowingly played a big part in my life. I've never been very good at portraying my emotions but all these people I love very much!

This time...moving from Salt Lake and saying goodbye was hard. My good friends Jana and Shae did a lot for me...haircuts, pictures, and watching Anna a lot for me. They also had a big lunch for me and had many people pitch in to get me a house warming gift. THANK YOU!!!!

Thanks to all of my dear friends for taking care of me and being the friends I needed at just the right time. Thank you for loving Anna and being such beautiful examples to me. For being there when I needed some girl time and inviting me to everything that was going on. For all the movie nights, food, and books we've shared. And for sharing your lives and kids with me. I hope we all still stay close.

New house!

2010-03-08T15:22:00.003-07:00

After we got home from Oregon we went to Casper Wyoming to do some house shopping. This is the one we ended up choosing because it's brand new, in our price range, close to Ty's work, and we like the part of town ...so far anyway:) The basement is unfinished which we're very excited about. It will be a fun project for us! This isn't the best picture but at the time when it was taken we didn't know we were going to make an offer on it. It was the 3rd house we looked at.

Ty starts work at his new job on the 22nd so we will be living in a hotel suite until we close on the house. Fortunately for us, Ty's company has a wonderful relocation package so we don't pay for anything:)

I'm so excited to have my own house!!!

Casper!

2010-02-26T15:39:00.002-07:00

Ty got a job offer in Casper Wyoming with the company he interns at(Rocky Mountain Power). He had one other job offer but it was a temporary job that didn't pay much, so being that Ty's done with school and needs a new job...Casper it is. I am NOT happy about moving to Casper. He applied for so many jobs all over the place but I guess because of the economy it's just hard to get one. This Casper job however is a really good job for Ty. It makes good money and he'll be doing what he wants to do. I just hate the location. Ty told me that if I really didn't want to go he wouldn't take the job, However, as much as I hate moving to a place in Wyoming that's not close to friends and family I feel like we should go. Sometimes I really hate doing the right thing. I just need to be happy that Ty has a job.

We'd be stupid if we didn't take it!!! It's just going to be hard for me!
I am very proud of Ty. He's worked hard for our little family!!!!

Tinkerbell

2010-02-25T09:16:00.004-07:00

My mom came down to visit a couple days ago. She didn't stay long because the weather was turning bad. While she was here was did a lot of shopping and Anna picked out this Tinkerbell dress at toys r us! She likes to put it on and watch the movie. She's so cute! It was a fun little visit with my mom and we love her!

Watching Tinkerbell in Anna's room

I got Anna this I love Soccer outfit for Ty. He loves soccer :)

Our Mini Artist

2010-02-20T17:02:00.001-07:00

With it being winter I've had a hard time finding ways to occupy a 2 year old in a 600 square foot surrounding. Recently she had discovered that painting is lots of fun and loves to paint tons of pictures every day and display them on the door and walls in her room. I love how excited she gets over her pretty pictures and "scary" colors. I have to try really hard to not care about how messy her paints get when she doesn't clean the brush before changing colors. she's only 2 :)

Valentine's weekend!

2010-02-14T08:55:00.004-07:00

For us Valentine's day took place on Saturday and Sunday this year.

Saturday Ty and I took Anna to see the Princess and the Frog at the dollar theater. cute movie! Then it seems like every Valentine's day we get a heart shaped pizza from Papa Murphy's, so this year we did the same:) We usually buy around three of them and freeze the others for later! Anna and I also made our Valentine's card for Ty.

Anna putting stickers on Ty's card. Anna always say's she loves us soooooo much!. it's really cute.

Anna's favorite part... putting lipstick on and kissing the card!!!

Painting

We made some play dough to go with the Valentine's to her little friends.

She helped make it!

signing her scribbles :)

Sunday we opened our gifts. Anna got a princess book with a drawing thing...

And some Ariel panties. Ariel being her favorite princess right now :)

Then for dinner we had sweet pork burritos and a white chocolate raspberry cheesecake that actually turn out good despite our retarded oven:)

Valentine's day is so much fun with Ty and Anna. I love my little family!

Princess Castle!

2010-02-11T08:37:00.004-07:00

Anna's friend Sophia (and her mom) had us over to build a princess castle!!! It turned out really cute and the girls had a blast playing princesses. They were so cute dancing around in their costumes!

Eating snacks in their castle

Anna loves Ariel

Someday my prince will come

Their hand prints...and Brock's too :)

Anna after dance one day :)

I'm so glad Anna has such great friends. Hopefully it will always be that way.

Little Ballerina

2010-01-14T15:25:00.002-07:00

Anna started her first Dance Class!!! It's a mommy and me class so I get to be with her the whole time:) The first week we went she did all the dancing but was so serious and didn't play around at all. The next week she was really tired and grumpy so she only danced with the scarfs. She's so fun to watch, and every time we get home she reenacts everything we did in class! She wants to wear a leotard nearly everyday and gets mad at me when I won't let her wear them to church. She tells me all the time she wants to play dancer. It's so fun!!!!!

temple Lights

2010-01-13T18:44:00.003-07:00

Around Christmas time we took Anna to see the Lights at temple square. It was very cold but she had a good time. She kept saying " look mom...Christmas right there". What a cute girl We have!!!

Christmas

2010-01-06T22:15:00.007-07:00

This year we spent Christmas in Evanston with our families. We opened presents at home in Salt Lake and then opened more when we got to Evanston. Anna was so fun to watch. She just wanted to keep opening present after present and no matter how boring it look she was ecstatic about it (example: the space heater for her room). We ate lots of food spent some time with my parents and played lots of games. Of course Ty and kason played xbox ;) We also saw Sherlock Holmes the day after Christmas and thought it was a good movie. I was reminder to NEVER complain about the dollar theater in Salt Lake again. The theater in Evanston is so gross!!!!!!! My mom and I didn't even put our purses down. Sounds prissy I know but Trust me...it's bad!

This was our last Christmas with Kason before he leaves on a mission and that weekend was his farewell. He's going to the Philippians. They had a lunch-in after and it was fun to visit with family and friends. My mom ran into a bunch of people she new and was very excited about that as well. Anna was just the CUTEST thing ever in the dress Vicky(Grandma) made for her which also had a matching doll dress that "Duke" her stuffed puppy was wearing.

I have no doubts that Kason will be an amazing missionary and even though we'll miss him a lot we're very proud of him. It's amazing now that I'm a little older to be able to see some of the people I love growing up. Kason wasn't even in high school when I started dating Ty and now he'll be 21 before we see him again. He reminds me a lot of Ty in some ways and I hope he know how much we love him. I look at the people in both mine and Ty family and feel very blessed to be so loved. I love learning from Vicky and sharing the books we love with each other. I love it when Ty's dad hugs me and I love having an even bigger family. I love having Grandma's now. They don't even know how special they are to me. I love my parents so much and wish I was a better daughter. I have wonderful siblings and my nieces and nephews seem to be growing up so much faster now. I love them all so much! our families are both pretty big but I love them all.

I didn't make a big effort when it came to taking pictures this Christmas. I probably should have but was lazy, so the ones I have aren't the best. Anna still always looks adorable!

Blankets for her puppies

Anna basking in the heat. Now that this heater is in her room at night I can't keep her in her bed. She'd rather sleep on the floor in front of it. I have to tell myself that it's okay because Ty slept in front of a fire growing up and I slept over a heater, so if she want to sleep there it's fine

AHHHH

Princess rings

Grandma Belnap, Tilden, and Anna

Doll from Tanya. Anna loves it

Anna and her best bud Duke. She named her stuffed puppy after him.

Puppy from Kristi and family!!

sleeping on Tilden

and Grandpa

Tristen!

Anna and Kason attacking Tristen:)

Baby Ashton's jumper. Anna almost got sick from playing in it.

I wish I had taken picture's of Anna in the dress Vicky made her and pictures of Anna with my parents but like I said i didn't do so hot this Christmas with pictures. I'll have to post some another time.

Merry Christmas

~That's my girl ~

2010-01-06T17:08:00.004-07:00

Anna found my very first pair of pointe shoes the other day. They were hanging on the wall and she climbed up and got them down. I showed her how to go up on her toes and she thought it was so fun. She would do it and then tell me it was my turn. I love her so much!!! Even if she never wants to dance when she's older I couldn't be more proud. I just want her to find something good that she loves and is passionate about. I think we all need that in our lives and I wonder what hers will be. Of course I'll be thrilled if it's dancing ;)

Now she walks around the house like this all the time. I think it's so funny

That's my girl:)

Aquarium visits!

2010-01-06T16:12:00.006-07:00

One of our favorite places to go is to the Aquarium. We got season passes because they were very inexpensive and would give us a place to go during the winter season. Anna loves to go! They have story time every day at noon and you can touch the sting rays which of course is Anna's favorite thing to do. The last few times we've gone the sting rays were being exceptionally friendly (I think because they were being feed) and would flap around the edges of their pool giving you the chance to really feel them. I would hold Anna and walk around the pool when they would do that so she could touch them for a long time. She was laughing so hard. I love it when she's so happy!!!

Anna with the octopus. It's kind of hard to see at the bottom of the tank. I love it when it moves around. It's really creepy

I find it really hard to take pictures at the Aquarium. I don't know why but I either forget the camera or Anna just can't hold still.

Story time. She sits on the floor for a little while then ends up on my lap:)

I never thought a big frog would keep her so entertained

Anna and Momma

She likes looking for Nemo. currently her favorite movie

I don't know what this is but we like it

There are some big fish in this tank but their hard to see

Sea horses

We go quite often. Sometimes with Ty or friends. Kennadee came once with her mom and dad and Grandma too. I can't wait till they get the Gentoo penguins in March!!!!

Big Girl!!!

2009-12-17T18:13:00.004-07:00

Less than a week ago Anna told me she wanted to go potty. She would always say this but never would go when we'd take her and she just wanted candy. This time when she asked I just gave her some candy because I didn't want to sit in the bathroom forever with her, but she still wanted to go and actually did! I don't know if it was all intentional or if she just happened to go and decided then to do it all the time, but she's been doing it ever sense!!! She'll have an accident sometimes but for the most part she's doing really good!!! I'm so proud of her. She seems like such a big girl.

This is how she has to flush the toilet...silly girl

Santa Clause

2009-12-17T18:01:00.002-07:00

Anna met Santa Clause for the second time this season. She's always talking about him and wanting to show off the pictures she had with him. It's so fun that Anna's excited about Christmas even though she doesn't completely understand it. She really helps make this season wonderful!!!

Baby Cave!

2009-12-05T16:14:00.009-07:00

We went to see our friends in Pocatello this weekend for Jared's birthday. Jack, Allison, Jared, and britni live there and we decided to go walk through what the little girls call the "baby cave" (named by Anessa). It was really snowy and cold that day but we went anyway and had a lot of fun. The cave was perfect for taking little kids and had only one tight squeeze to go through. Anna and Sarah liked holding hands as they walked. Anessa liked it when we'd turn all our flashlights off, Sarah loved playing in the dirt, and Anna took a nap:) They were all so cute and it was so fun to watch them explore!

Cave opening

Inside the cave

Getting ready to explore:)

Anna- 2 years old

Sarah- almost 2 years old

Anessa-3 years old

Ty and Anna

Walkin' around

Jack, sarah, Anna, Ty

Anna and Anessa

After we walked around most the cave Anna got tired and fell asleep on Ty. To much walking for her little legs I guess ;)

Ty just sat down with her while the girls played and we took pictures

Jack, Allison, Sarah, Jared, Britni, Anessa

Coming out of the cave

Thanksgiving and Christmas decorating

2009-11-26T10:50:00.000-07:00

This year we spent Thanksgiving at home with just us three for the first time.Lots of people find this weird but it was really needed. We're all so busy that it was great to have a stress free day with no other responsibilities or distractions. It was great making dinner together and just being together!

Ty cutting the Ham.

cutie!

Yummy punch. I love wine glasses!

our dancin' girly

The day after thanksgiving we decorated for Christmas. Anna wasn't too much help but she liked playing with all the new things around the house. She got her picture taken with Santa a few weeks back and absolutely loves it. She was so excited that for the week after every time Ty came home from work/school she'd grab the pictures and ask him if he wanted to see it. Also whenever she looks at our nativity she tells me that they are baby Jesus, Mary, and Santa. She's so funny:)

Decorating the tree. she put everything in the same spot:)

Santa

looking at baby Jesus. I think she was a little confused that he's a baby now.

Random

2009-11-24T11:06:00.004-07:00

This is Anna watching a movie in the Hummer. The head phones are to big for her head but Kason was watching a movie next to her on the other side so she wanted to do what he was doing. She looks so cute!

This is Anna pretending that the tub is a car seat. She thinks it's pretty cool.

This is Anna practicing for Thanksgiving. I think ever kid does this.

I don't think Anna likes her bed much because whenever she goes down I always find her somewhere else.

She got her pillow and everything to sleep on the floor instead of her bed...I don't get it.

After she goes to bed we check on her and this is usually how we find her. We just put her back in bed but a lot of the time she'll wake me up at in the middle of the night telling me that her and her puppies are hungry. It's pretty funny. Ty said the other night he found her laying on the love sac. I don't know why she's so crazy at night!!!

Getting tired on the couch

Anna is getting so big I just can't believe it sometimes. She's talking more and doing such funny things. Before we know it she'll be in school. I hope the time don't go by to fast. We just love her!!!

Halloween pup!

2009-10-31T16:56:00.000-06:00

For Halloween Anna was a pink poodle. It wasn't what I had in mind for her to be but it was her cousins old costume and she LOVES IT! I couldn't get it off her the first time she tried it on. It was so adorable.

During Halloween we had a ward Party where all the kids got to play games and do a trunk or treat. Anna was so cute!

Anna's favorite game at the party was the one where you throw bean bags through the loops. she won some stickers and this is what she did with them

Halloween day some of us had a little party for the kids. They made Halloween pizza's and played around.

This is Anna all ready to go-with her puppy purse and all:)

We took our little puppy Trick or Treating that night after it started to get dark. For some reason I think it's better when it's dark! Anna has so much fun!!!!! She could never decide what candy she wanted when they let her pick and she'd also say "Trick or Treat" to the people we'd pass on the sidewalk. It's was pretty funny. We took her across the street to the residential houses to trick or treat because I thought doing it around our apartments felt kind of weird. It's more fun to go to the decorated houses:)

She's the cutest puppy I've EVER seen!!!!!

Leaving our house

Funny girl. i loved the dots on her cheeks!

snowy day

2009-10-27T10:45:00.001-06:00

The next day after our picnic it snowed! This was the first time this season that Anna got to play in the snow. It had snowed before but it never stayed and Anna would cry about her shoes getting wet while walking to the car! ha.

First glance at the new snow.

All bundled up.

She love to eat snow!

This is Anna and Jovie. They play together a lot and are so cute.

At first she wouldn't pick the snow up by herself and wanted me to hand it to her but she finally did it on her own. she kept taking her gloves off so she could play easier.

Such a cute snow bunny.

Anna and Jovie.

Picnic

2009-10-26T10:28:00.000-06:00

At the end of October Anna and I went up to This is the Place and had a picnic. Anna loves to look at the horses and whatever animal she can see. She kept telling me she saw bears and turkeys!!! I can assure you that neither of those are at the park. hahaha she's such a fun little girl and I love getting to spend so much time with her!

She thought these horse statues were pretty cool!

Hug

lookin' pretty

Halloween pumpkins!

2009-10-20T10:49:00.001-06:00

We carved pumpkins with Anna and she really had fun. I had to do the faces but Anna liked trying to cut the lids off and taking the seeds out. When we light the candles inside she always tells us over and over again that they're too hot! haha

Halo

2009-10-19T10:37:00.000-06:00

Anna likes to copy Ty a lot and try to play Halo. We have to watch her though because she'll try to eat the head set...I don't know why

This is just cute:)

This picture is random but I just wanted to show that Anna does have a Kooshie of her own!!!!!!

Tea Party!

2009-10-19T10:30:00.000-06:00

The other day Anna wanted to put bibs on some of her stuffed animals...so we did and had a tea party. Anna thought it was so fun!

Big girl bed

2009-10-19T10:01:00.001-06:00

When Anna started climbing out of her crib it became quite the pain so we decided to take her out of it. It was a LONG LONG few week trying to get nap time and bed time down. she wouldn't stay in her bed and didn't think nap time was necessary anymore. Eventually we got it down...thankfully!!!!

We didn't buy a toddler bed. we just put her crib mattress on the TV box that i was storing Anna's old clothes in. We'll get her a real bed when we move!!!

One night Ty went to check on Anna before we went to bed and this is how he found her!!! We got a pretty good laugh.

Night Night Anna

Cousins

2009-10-19T09:40:00.001-06:00

Anna got two new cousins this summer. Joshua and Ashton. We have spent some time visiting both and Anna has loved playing with Kenadee and Lily when we do!

Anna also LOVES babies!!! she wants to hold them all the time and will scream "my turn" when you come near her. She'll kiss and try to tickle them too!

This is baby Ashton..so cute:)

Anna plays a lot with Lily. They like to jump together

What cute little girls

Anna is alway wanting to hold Joshua. she doesn't like her turn to be over