Hanging Out

Monte and the kids enjoying some cuddle time!

It's that time of year where we are back into our long sleeves and long pants and getting warm with soft blankets.

I think Wyatt was born to be a football player! Here he is with his game face on!

Silly Megan!

Wyatt is pretending to talk to his Aunt Jenny on the phone! He misses her so much and talks about going to Las Vegas to see Jenny and Cody all the time!

Nathan Hurrle curled up on the chair like a little kitty cat! Yes, he is sound asleep!

I moved him after I took the picture onto one of the two empty couches that he could have more easily fallen asleep on! Too funny!

Wyatt fell asleep while looking at books. I tend to do the same thing! It's cuter when Wyatt does it though!

I think this was the same night as the picture of Wyatt above! She wanted to stay up and play and refused to get into her bed. So she played until she crashed!

Monte made this chair out of the legos that we have! He can pretty much make anything you ask him too! The kids thought this was really fun!

It's too bad this only lasted a few minutes.....it was broken into over 100 pieces not long after this picture was taken!

SUMMER 2009 RECAP

We absolutely love the summer months around our house for a million and one reasons: lots of fun outside and in the water, day trips to Tahoe, cheap power bills!, BBQ, lots of daylight, popsicles, lots of green, flowers, fresh food from the gardens, nothing but swimsuits and flipflops, trips to the local pool, watermelon, hanging out outside, waterballoons, and so many other things that would take hours to list! WE LOVE THE SUMMER!!!

First trip to Kings Beach....our favorite beach in Tahoe! We didn't bring swimsuits because we weren't planning on playing in the water. We were just planning on having dinner with the family, and of course we just couldn't resist going to the beach too!

Our handsome boy forcing a smile for the camera just to get it over with so he could get back to playing in the dirt and water.

Annacy, Maxxwell, and Chris.

Hey Chris, I love the beach attire....church boy!

Wyatt enjoying an ice cream cone at the roller derby in downtown Reno

Wyatt sharing his ice cream with Megan.

I love that Wyatt is finally to the point where he will actually stand still and look at the camera so that I can get a good picture of him! This was most definately an impossible feat for me when he was younger.

Isn't he cute!

Bodie, Allie, Jeffery, Evan, and Nathan enjoying the cool pool!

This was a daily thing at our house this summer!

Megan drying off after playing in the fountains at the Lazy Five Park in Sparks. She had a blast getting wet and palying in the water....Wyatt just sat on the bench and pouted the whole time we were there!

Happy Birthday to Megan!

We celebrated Megan's first birthday with lots of family and really great friends!

Meg's first piece of birthday cake! She wasn't quite sure what do to with it!

The classic "cake all over your face and head" picture that most parents live for when their kid turns one!

Cute Allie and Silly Wyatt enjoying a piece of the birthday cake!

Best Friends Forever!!!

Flip Flop Cake!

I chose to do this cake because Megan is ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED with SHOES!!! She has what we call SHOE-DAR! We can no longer wear shoes in our house because she will find them whether they are on someone feet of not and try to chew on them! I am so grossed out by it and afraid that she is going to get sick from it. We thought this shoe would be safe to eat and one that we wouldn't have to take away from her!

Another shot of the cake. If you look closely, I accidentally cut two right feet! OOPS!

HAAPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!

This is my ever so popular white jello....isn't it beautiful!

Looks beautiful and tastes amazing too!!!

Monte holding Megan and Ezra before the fireworks

Not only is Megan crazy about shoes....she loves any accessory she can add to her outfit! She loves any kind of hat, necklace, bracelet, just anything too add to her outfit! She is truely a girly-girl!

This picture will probably come back to haunt Megan, but I think it is too funny not to share! It ended up being on half of my family's screensavers for awhile! Yo can't look at this picture without laughing a little!!!

Future driver!.......

Just don't get in his way....someone could get hurt!

Gotta love that smile!!

Wyatt absolutely loves his little sister! He was changed into a different boy the very day she was born. He fell in love with her instantly and became a happier boy! Which was something we WERE NOT expecting at all from him! He loves kissing and hugging her, and still asks to hold her even though she is getting too big for that! It's a good thing she is tolerant of him and doesn't get upset when he forces sweet kisses on her!

Making noise for the neighbors in the back of Monte's truck!

Wyatt and Allie at Kings Beach Lake Tahoe

Nathan Hurrle and Wyatt

Megan and Allie Hurrle

Jeffrey, Annacy, Megan, and Allie

Ezra loved putting his face in the water....he couldn't get enough of the water and the dirt!

Jami loved bringing Ezra to the beach! :)

Somebody needs a haircut!

This picture was almost a daily thing for Megan and all the other kids at our house. We found that if you got sidewalk chalk wet it would turn into paint! So we would paint the sidewalk and our bodies, and the kids absolutely loved doing it!

Caught red handed! Gotta love having a one year old who is into everything!

Ride to defeat ALS in Reno/Verdi

My first organized bike ride

I stopped to say Hi to Monte and the kids who surprised me at a handful of places on the ride! It was fun to see them in randome places on the ride, because I was never expecting to see them! I just gotta say that I am impressed with how well Monte knows his way around, because we rode in places I never even knew existed!

My little cheerleaders!

Wyatt and Megan are waiting to cheer me on when I ride by near Boomtown!

Chanika, Brian, and me

Brian and Chanika did the longer ride that went up Geiger Grade, and I did the shorter ride which was about half of what they did! It was a good first ride for me. We started and ended in Somersett, and had the most delicious and amazing meal after the ride!

Bathroom makeover!!!

We have lived in our house for almost four years now and we have done alot of improvements in the short time that we have lived here. I hated EVERYTHING about the only bathroom that we have! So I decided to make it a little nicer by taking off the hideous wallpaper and giving it a new coat of paint to make it a little more enjoyable until we could get it remodeled. So my wonderful mom came over to help get the wallpaper off so that I could paint...and of course that was a long, hot, and messy job! I hate wallpaper! When Monte came home and saw what I had been up to he told me not to waste my time painting becasue he was going to have to rip everything out down to the studs when he decides to remodel the bathroom. I told him that I didn't want to wait any longer because we didn't know when that was ever going to happen. After that I went to go and visit my sister in Las Vegas with the kids and before I left I jokingly left Monte a note to paint the bathroom while we were gone. When we came home he had torn out the shower and most of the drywall in the bathroom! Then I had a flashback....what was I thinking when I asked him to paint the bathroom? The last time I asked him to paint a wall...he just tore them out instead! I guess I can take all of this two ways...1) Never ask him to paint again and if I do...make sure I hide his power tools or 2) When I want something done I know how to get him started.

This is how we bathe our kids because our bathroom has only a VERY small shower! One of the many reasons I HATED our bathroom!!
Here is a picture of the "shower room" and a wall before Monte tore them both out!

This is a picture of where the shower used to be

Monte working on the electrical! I didn't know that my husband was an electrician! He has turned into quite the do-it-yourselfer! Which saved us a ton of money but ended up taking alot longer!

He even did all the plumbing as well....! I am totally impressed!!

At this point on the bathroom remodel we were still living in our house but having to shower over at my parents house

Once Monte took the toilet out we had to move out until the bathroom was pretty much finished! So we moved into my parents house and ended up staying there for 6 whole weeks! It was a little crazy but also very enjoyable! Thank goodness my parents are easy to live with! And that's not just me talking...Monte liked staying there probably more than I did!

Monte's dad came over to help with the tile in the bathroom! Monte gave him a quick lesson on the tile saw and he went right to it....and he did a great job!

Monte is just starting to tile the shower and Wyatt insisted on being his helper!

Notice all of Wyatt's tools that he lined out on the floor of the bathroom all by himself!

He is so darn cute!

They make the best and cutest father - son team!

Here is Monte showing Wyatt how to put the knobs on the medicine cabinet.

Wyatt is really focusing on getting his thunb up for the picture!

We ABSOLUTELY LOVE our new bathroom!!!

The kids first bath in their very own full size bathtub!

What an exciting moment!

From the beginning to the end, our bathroom was under construction for about three months! It was a long three months, but sooooo worth it all in the end!

Monte is an amazing handy man and he did such a beautiful and thorough job!