Rady vs. Marker: Marker-1 Rady-0

Ya know when your kids are playing and after a while you discover all is quiet and you know their up to no good...When I discovered Rady, the walls, furniture and him were covered in black marker...As you can see by the picture Rady lost the fight with the marker!!!

Remodeling Rady's/Guest Bathroom

We decided to remodel one of our bathrooms...I didn't take a before/after picture...but anyways, the walls used to be blue and the tile on the floor is blue...whoever put the sink and cupboard in scratched the floor, and it didn't match the shower tile either...I painted the walls an off white while Rady was gone to his dads and this is Jared and Rady taking the old floor out...Rady loves to help Jared when he is using tools:)...I'm sure you're probably thinking oh, how boring, but if you've seen our bathroom before you'll know why we did it...and its nice to have Rady back home...:)

For the holiday weekend my sisters Tara and Tiffany came to visit...We had a sister bonding weekend...We sewed halloween costumes (pictures will come later), went shopping, and ate like piggies...Anyways these are some pictures of Rady and his cousin Chandler...the first one is them posing in front of the tent that Jared set up in our family room...Jared and the boys were going to camp out in the backyard but it rained so they camped out in the family room...Look at their little beer bellies, so cute? The second picture is them with cowboy hats and stick horses...We had a fun weekend

Rady's Personal Car Wash

This is Rady on the trampoline...I set the sprinkler on underneath...I wonder if he got dizzy...hopefully that car has good shocks!!!

What we do when the kids are away??!!

On Wednesday night Jared wanted to go for a ride...and for those who don't remember, Jared sold his nice yamaha motorcycle to buy my wedding ring and our honeymoon...but the nice thing about it was that he sold it to his boss...he told us we could take it for a ride anytime...Poor Jared was talking to the motorcycle like he had found his long lost friend :)...anyways we went for a ride around the alpine loop and ended up in American Fork...we stopped at Del Taco for dinner...It was lots of fun and the weather had cooled off just enough to feel good...Jared's boss thinks I'm "the biker mama" now, haha...Then on Thursday afternoon for Pioneer Day we took the wave runners out onto Utah Lake and got soaked and sunbunt...On Saturday we took them out again, but this time we took Rady with us...Stupid mom puts sunscreen on Rady, but doesn't put any on her so now I look like a lobster...Rady had a blast...he was nervous at first, cause he thought the lake had monsters and sharks in it, but after a while, he was yelling "go faster, MOM!!" & "Hit it, MOM!!!"Sorry there are no pictures, I didn't want to bring my camera on the wave runners and get it all wet, and besides, if you saw my sexy albino legs, it would make a blind man laugh:)

Jared's Birthday

It was Jared's birthday a few days ago...I wanted to tease him by thinking everyone forgot his birthday, so I called his mom and a few friends the day before and asked them not to mention anything about his birthday til that night...That morning I got up and made his lunch for him and told him have a good day and that I was going back to bed(it was 5:30 AM), and he said, "Is there anything else you want to say to me", and nonchalantly I said no...come to find out the whole day he was fuming cause he thought I had forgotten...When he got home from work, some of our friends who I had called the day before and invited over for cake and games, showed up right after him...he thought they were just there to see the new house, ha ha...I had his favorite dinner cooked(pork chops) and all his presents on the table(I hid some that came in the mail the day before)...needless to say he wasn't mad anymore...I got him, hee hee!!!:) This picture is the cake I made him...it is supposed to be up in the hills with a dirt bike on it...

On the 4th of July we went over to Lehi and watched the fireworks... Rady was excited til we got there and insisted that he stay inside the truck and watch the fireworks even though they were two miles away and way up in the sky... then we went home and played with sparklers it took alot of coaxing to get Rady to hold a sparkler...now he wants to get them all the time...Jared is just a pyro, ha ha...

These family pictures were taken in front of our new house...The girl in the red shirt is Jared's daughter Kelsi...she came and stayed with us for a couple of days...

A New House

It looks like we will finally be getting a house and moving the end of this month...All is going well so far...everybody cross your fingers!!! The house is in Orem and we are all excited...It's got lots of storage for all of Jared's toys, an inground trampoline for Rady the little monkey, and lots of other cool stuff for mom...I told Jared this could count for my birthday present in three weeks:)

Cookie Monster

I think this little cookie monster licked the frosting knife more than he frosted the cookies...but MOM that's no fun!!!

The other day my awesome husband bought me these flowers (and just in case you're wondering, no he was not in the dog house). He is always doing nice things for me and is Mr. Fix-it around the house...and he always gives me compliments...Love my Big Stud!!!

Update on the Potty Training

Yea, I think we finally did it...Rady still wasn't doing too well with the potty training, so the other day when I discovered there was only a few pull-ups left, I told Rady that there would be no more diapers and he watched me take them away...After pooing on my bedroom floor and in the bathtub, and me making him pick them up with his bare hands(hopefully that isn't chalked up as being cruel) he has been dry for a few days!!!