3 years old...

How do you begin to talk about something you are so grateful for it makes you cry every time you think about it? Well… That’s how I feel about my little buddy. Logan turned 3 yesterday and I know mom’s always say they can’t believe how fast their children are growing up, but Logan seriously has grown up so much over the past year. He is such a little boy now and I love it. He loves playing sports with his daddy, especially baseball and golf. He is one picky eater but when he gets what he wants he is so excited. He loves his little sister- “Shelby Belles” and is concerned about her all the time. He gets excited about the smallest things and finds joy in being active and being with his friends. He is so smart and loves watching shows where he learns new things. He loves his nana. He is obsessed with Dinosaurs and Transformers. He loves pretending like he is a superhero (especially a transformer or spider man.) He brings so much joy into my life. Hearing “I Love You Mom” every night is seriously the greatest thing a mom could ask for. Logan is so loving and loves to be by mommy. He will come and sit by me and just lay his head on my shoulder or hold my hand. I love my angel boy so much and am so grateful to have him in my life.

For Logan's birthday this week he has had 3 days of fun. Wednesday night we went to the McDonald's play place for dinner with our little family and then to Walmart where he could pick and toy he wanted. He went straight to the transformers but decided to get a couple little cars instead. (P.S. I'm trying out being a brunette right now if you didn't notice. Thursday was his actual Birthday and he was with just mommy during the day. We went to the Little Gym, the Dinosaur Museum, and to lunch together. On Thursday night he was with just daddy and they went to Café Rio, worked in the garage, played some video games, and watched Transformers. Tonight (Friday) we had a Birthday part with his little friends at the Aquarium. He absolutely loved it and loved having all his friends come and play with him. Thank you for everyone that was able to come!
















Here are some of the other pictures we have taken lately… I got Shelby's hair in a tiny pony tail. Halloween was fabulous. Logan actually understood it this year and loved being spider man and trick-or-treating. Shelby had 2 outfits. Inside she was a ballerina and outside she was the cutest lady bug ever. We had my family over Halloween night which was really nice!










P.S. I looked in Shelby’s mouth today and found her 2 bottom teeth poking out. Who knew she was teething??? Not me, because she is seriously the best baby ever!

family pictures etc...

We had our family pictures taken when we got Shelby's baby picture taken.. I am finally now posting them. We got them taken at Peekaboo Photo's who did Logan's photo shoot when he was a baby. They do such a great job! I love me children!









A few other things that have been happening...
We went to Mantua just with our little family for our first family "vacation." We only went up for 1 night and it was just perfect. We stayed in a little pop-up trailer which Logan absolutely loved. Logan's favorite part was fishing with daddy!






Bry went hunting last week with his dad and brothers and got an Elk, which he is really excited about. I had to post a picture even though I don't really like dead animals on my blog, my hubby would want this documented. So here you go babe!

I didn't want to stay home by myself all week while Bry was hunting so I went up to St. George with my parents and sister and relaxed there. Logan loves being in St. George at Nana & Papa's house. He is obsessed with dinosaurs right now so he wanted to take some pictures with his dinosaur friends.





Shelby is growing up so fast, and she is still just as sweet as ever. She is rolling over now and gets stuck on her stomach and gets so frustrated (Shelby style, as in just a small yell) I love this little angel so much.




We went to Gardner Village with Logan's little friends and Logan rode on a horse all by himself! He has the cutest friends ever!







Here is our morning ritual picture that Logan likes to take with Shelby Belle. He asks to hold Shelby and then tells me to "take a picture mom" So we are usually in our pajamas when these pictures take place, but I love it.


Alexa's birthday was yesterday and it really has gotten easier for me as time has gone by. Of course tears were shed and I miss her greatly, but yesterday a lot of my tears were just because I am so grateful to have the children I have. I seriously couldn't be more blessed than with the children I have. People always say you will never know a mother's love until you are a mother and that is so true. When we were at Alexa’s grave yesterday Logan looked at me and said “mom I want to hugs you.” I picked him up and he put his head on my shoulder and just squeezed me the whole time we were there. Seriously? Children are so intuitive. I am so grateful to be a mom to Alexa, Logan, and Shelby.

Alexa's tree...

As most of you know our angel Alexa was stillborn on her due date 4 years ago this October. Every year in her honor we do a service project in her name. This year, along with a friend of mine that had a stillborn baby this year, we are decorating a tree for the festival of trees. I have wanted to do this for a couple of years and this year it is finally happening. We have actually already been working on it for almost a year now. If anyone would like to donate to helping make our booth fabulous I would love it. Just contact me by phone or email if you would like to help. If not, that is great, but make sure to look for our tree if you go to the festival this year. The name and theme of the tree is “Breath of Heaven.” I am already so excited with how everything is turning out and I want to thank everyone who has already helped out.

happenings...

We went up Mount Nebo loop last week… it was beautiful. Rides like this I affectionately call “Bryan rides.” He has seriously been everywhere in the valley and he takes me on these little excursions. We ended at this adorable little lake where we had lunch and Logan fed the ducks. We actually might go camping up there with our little family.



Every other year we go on an adult only vacation with the Nordhoff family. This year we made it short and sweet and went to Zermatt resort in Heber. What a fabulous little place. We went to the spa, sat at the pool and ate great food. It was a nice needed little getaway with my hubby. In the rooms they had water that you could buy and it was $7. Bry just couldn’t help himself and had to buy it to see what this $7 water tasted like.



Logan is trying to go on a napping strike like I said in my last post. Usually on those days this is what happens at dinner time…


Our favorite little picture time…


I just love these pictures… it shows the personality of my children perfectly.




I started feeding my little Shelby Belle food the other day. She did pretty good with it. Didn't love it, but was just her happy little self during the experience. I love this girl.