Happy Anniversary 7 years!

February 8, 2007 I married my best friend! I can't believe how fast time goes by! I am so grateful to have such a wonderful, fun, hard-working, funny, patient, and loving husband! It has been quite the adventure in these short 7 years! I can't wait to see what else life has in store for us!  We have many more adventures to come and I am so glad I get to share them with my best friend! Being away from family is hard sometimes, but I am so glad I have Jason to love and support me! He does such a good job of balancing work and family! I don't think I will ever fully understand what he sacrifices for us! All I know is that we are well taken care of and loved so much!  I am grateful that his parents raised such an amazing son! And I am especially grateful that I get to spend eternity with him! Our kids are so lucky to have him as their dad! I don't normally write lovey-dovey stuff, but I just feel so blessed to have a happy and healthy little family that is held together by the love of my life:) Here are a some pictures of the past few years!

34 weeks 4 days!!!

Well I am now almost 35 weeks pregnant! I can't believe how fast this pregnancy has gone! It is crazy how close I am to having 3 kids! It makes me feel old!  I am really excited to meet this new baby! Amazingly Jason and I have had enough will power to NOT find out what we are having! Mostly Jason because I would have found out a few times by now if it weren't for him! I am such an impatient person and want to know stuff right away! I think it will be fun to be surprised day of delivery though. As of now I think it is a girl, but it changes and it drives me crazy trying to think of good names for each! Soon enough I will know and I will be holding my sweet baby in my arms! Just for the record Zoey and Beck say its a girl and Jason thinks it's a boy:) Here is a picture since I never take them of my growing belly! At this point I am having a hard time sleeping well through the night and just feel uncomfortable! All worth it in the end:)

34 weeks 4 days... Almost there!

Carnegie Science Center

Jason had a little time off so we decided to take the kids up to Pittsburgh to the Carnegie Science Center.  It was SO fun! It was a great place for kids and adults!

I love how much Zoey helps Beck to do simple things! She loves him...most of the time:)

Jason enjoying being a kid

Of course the giant fish tank was a hit

Jason playing air hockey with a robot. The robot was almost impossible to score on! 

There was a separate building called Sports works. We spent most of our time here because it was so fun! Here is Zoey racing a random little boy! She loves to run/race whenever she can! She did this over and over and over again!

I love her form out of the blocks here:) 

Beck trying out the you-yo

Dad having a little fun too!

Zoey loved the trampoline!

Two thumbs up for rock climbing

 I think we will have to go here at least one more time before we move in June!

A New Year!

Once we got back from our long vacation to Utah it's been a little crazy! We had a full week of unpacking and organizing all of our stuff! It was like moving all over again (on a way smaller scale of course!) Then our Zoey girl had a birthday! I can't believe she is 4! She seems so grown up! She is our little helper, singer, dancer, loving, caring, stubborn, playful, smart, thoughtful, little (BIG) girl! She got spoiled as usual for her birthday. She is so loved and blessed to have such amazing grandparents and great-grandparents who send packages for her to open! It makes her day when she gets any piece of mail! We celebrated her birthday at least 4 days straight! Jason and I decided that it would be fun to get her a Beta fish for her birthday. In my mind I was thinking like a small bowl with a plant and gravel. This is what we got...

A 20 Gallon fish tank!

And a stand to put it on

A 4 year old fish present became Jason's new hobby:) He sure did do his research! We now have 2 Beta fish, 7 Neon Tetras, snails, shrimp, blue rams, Pleckos (?), some sort of other bottom feeders, Beta hammocks, a thermometer, a divider, a heater, a filter, lots of live plants, gravel, decor and multiple kinds of fish food! I don't know how I let this happen! Even if it is way more money than I would personally ever spend on fish, I like it:) It is also fun to see how much the kids enjoy feeding their fish (Zoey has Carolina and Beck has Sully). However, it is one more thing that takes my husband away from me! I catch him fish watching quite often! I have to give him a hard time about it! It is entertaining to me to watch him fuss over how awesome the fish are! I think that is enough about the fish!

Here are some other pictures of Zoey's birthday!

A Willow Tree "Birthday Girl" and puzzle from great grandma and grandpa Hyde

Dr. Seuss books

Clip-on earrings

Dad reading her one of her new books. Also wearing a pair of her new shoes

A FuReal Puppy from Grandma Lisa and Grandpa Wallace to go along with the kitty she got from the Hyde's for Christmas!

Grandma Rose and Grandpa Dave also sent her a fun package with stickers and a stain-glass picture!  Great-Grandma Bon contributed to our elaborate fish set up! We didn't get pictures of some of her other gifts and clothes! She sure loved her birthday!

Other than Zoey's birthday and getting back into a routine, we have had lots of Doctors appointments for me and the kids! I am now 33 weeks along! Luckily I have gone this far without feeling too uncomfortable! Now that the baby is so big, it's getting harder to breathe, sleep, and have energy period!  I am so excited to meet our new little baby! I can't wait to find out what the gender is either! Even though I am SO SO excited for this baby, I am also nervous to have 3 kids!

A long update!

Since I last posted in June a LOT has happened! We had a fun rest of the summer swimming a ton, going mini golfing, fireworks, going to Good Zoo (in wheeling) and the DC Zoo, Playing with friends,   sending dad off on rotations for 3 months, and finding out we are having baby #3!

Best way to watch fireworks:)

                                       

Baby #3 Due March 17th, 2014

Grandma Lisa came out to visit at the end of August! We took her to Pittsburgh, swam with her, took her to Barkcamp state park, took her to get a famous Coleman's fish sandwich, Played at the park by our house and played a lot at home too!

At the top of Mt. Washington in Pittsburgh

At the beginning of September we flew home with Grandma Lisa to Utah!  Jason started an Army rotation in Hawaii that same time.  I stayed a few weeks in Utah to get the kids settled and then I met up with Jason in Hawaii for 10 days. Our friends Cole, Misty and Logan joined us. We both really missed the kids, but we skyped everyday and it was nice to have time just with each other.

The crew- Shay, Jason, Cole, Misty, and Logan

Maunawili Falls- typical Shaylee getting mad at Jason for ruining the picture just before this one:)

Cole and Misty

Makapuu Beach

Laie Temple

The boys body surfing

                                      

                                      

After Hawaii we stayed in Utah until the day after Christmas! Lots of time to spend with family and friends! We had SO much fun being there! The kids got so spoiled and Jason and I got to do a lot of things we don't normally get to a lot of (dates, temple, etc...) thanks to our families watching the kids.  I will just try and list all the notable things we did and then put pictures... Pictures explain more anyway:)  Zoey started preschool with Miss Krystal! She LOVED it! She got to go on field trips to Papa murphy's to make Pizza, Dinosaur Park, Get Air, and to Christmas Village! She learned a lot and made some good friends.

We played a lot in both grandparents backyard's! The kids got to swing, have wagon rides, jump on the trampoline, play with the dogs, play baseball, and many many more! The kids got lots of time with the grandparents and great-grandparents.

 They got to swim at Aunt "she she's" house, go to Fat Cats to bowl and play games, The Tree House Museum, Hikes, Pineview Reservoir with Grandpa Wallace, a drive to Powder Mountain, Kangaroo Zoo, the Beus Pond, Jason's family farm to cut wood, ride horses, and have smores, Get air for Beck's 2nd birthday, the farm up in Paradise, park city condo and alpine slide, Heber Creeper halloween ride, Dairy Keen, lots of park dates, Carving pumpkins with Grandpa Wallace, Trunk or Treat, making cookies with Grandma Lisa, Halloween fun with both families and Zoey's preschool class, Thanksgiving with Stegen's and then again with the Hyde's in St. george, Zion, Pickleball, Hiking, visited Curtis, Rachel, Lily, and Boston, Yoga with Grandma Rose, Lindsey's baby shower, Christmas Bingo with the Stegen's, Sledding, making a snowman, Temple square, Brigham City Temple, lots of movies, lots of eating out (chik-fil-a our fav) Christmas Jammies, Christmas day talking to Quincy on her mission, opening lots of gifts!

That is a VERY unorganized and very condensed list of the things we did while in Utah!!! Here are the pictures to explain a little more about our time there!

1st day of Preschool

                           

Beck turned 2! Get air in Kaysville

Tractor ride with Great Grandpa Kendell at farm in Paradise

Dairy Keen in Heber

Heber Creeper

Getting together with good friends

Carving pumpkins with Grandpa Wallace

He loves his Grandpa

RIding horses in Liberty at the farm

Woody

making cookies with Grandma Lisa

Preschool hayride before trunk or treat

Woody, Jessie, and Bullseye

Ready to go trick or treating

Trick or Treat Great Grandma "Bot"

The kids at Great-Grandma Bonnie's house

St. George

"The Crack" in St. George

Tuachan Christmas adventure

Zion

Going to Fat Cats and The Tree House Museum with Grandma Lisa

Throwing rocks into Pineview with Grandpa

Powder mountain snowball fight

Christmas Village fieldtrip

Yoga with Grandma Rose

Kangaroo Zoo

At Lindsey's baby shower

They loved playing the piano at GGrandma Bon's house

Both kids loved Ruby and her "paw paw" dance

BINGO

Hiking- Looking out over El Monte

Beus Pond- Feeding the ducks

Tree House Museum

                             

Cutting wood at the farm in Liberty

                           

                           

                            

Christmas Village

Sledding at Taylor School

New Jammies- "Bear cheeks"

Ready to leave Santa cookies and milk

                            

Now that we are finally back home maybe I can try and keep up with the blog! One more bit of news... Jason matched family medicine residency at Fort Bragg in North Carolina! We are very excited! He Graduates May 31st and then we head straight to NC! Before all that we have a new baby on the way (not finding out gender) and a graduation trip to Outerbanks NC with our friends from med school! Lots to look forward to this year!