Mike and Heidi and Boys

Christmas 2011

2011-12-31T10:18:00.016-07:00

Christmas was so much fun this year! We had the Olson Christmas party first this year. Grandma Olson made all the kids minky pillow cases. They also got a movie and pajamas. We also got a basket full of books from Alicia's family. We love books and now we have a ton. It's great!

We then had the Custer Christmas party. Porter, Ryker and Kyler got fishing poles from their cousins which were a huge hit. That is probably one of their favorite presents. Bridger got a fun steering wheel from his cousin.

Then we had Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandpa Lowry's with Charlie. We always love going to their house. We love seeing Charlie. It was Bridger's first time meeting Charlie. He wasn't sure what to think.

Then Christmas Day was the best. I was so excited. Bridger woke up at 5 so I woke Mike up and asked if we could open presents. He told me no. Then I was up again at 6 and asked him again. He told me no again. Then I was up and fed Bridger at 6:30. After I asked Mike again. He said, "What are you going to do? Wake the boys up?" So, I had to wait for them to wake up. They got up about 7 or 7:30. We went and opened presents. Then the boys exchanged their gifts to each other. They got pajamas, critter hats, movies, cars and toothbrushes.

I got my Kindle Fire. That's all I wanted. I was so excited!

Mike got some shirts, scrubs, remote control helicopter and stuff for his Kindle Fire.

Then we were asking the boys where Santa's presents were. They checked and the cookies were gone and so was their note to Santa so they knew he came. They were looking all over. They kept looking outside to see if the raindeer ate the raindeer food but they didn't see the presents anywhere. Kyler kept saying, "there are big presents outside." Porter and Ryker didn't see them. Kyler had to tell them and show them. This is what Santa left.

They were so funny when they opened them. They just looked at them not sure what to think. They acted like they didn't know if they were real or not. Then we went and rode them and the boys had a ball. They love these little wheelers. We had a blast watching them too.

They were a little cautious at first when they started riding. Now they are kind of crazy on them. It's great watching them.

Grandma and Grandpa Custer stopped by on Christmas to see what we got and to give us our presents. They gave Porter, Ryker and Kyler Quillows, slippers and books. Bridger got a blanket, books and outfits. The boys have wanted their own quillows for months. They are so excited for them. Every morning they bring their pillows and quillows out to watch TV with.

We were very spoiled this year and had a blast!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Crazy Boys!!!

2011-12-30T21:50:00.006-07:00

We seriously have the craziest boys! They are always up to something. Making a big mess or something. Here are a few pictures that we have captured of them doing funny crazy things!

Porter and Ryker were playing in their room one day. Ryker comes walking out and he has every shirt in his drawer on. He only had 2 clean pair of pants which he had on as well. Probably would have had more on but that was all that was in his drawer. He came out just giggling. Mike and I couldn't help but laugh. Here he has 10 shirts on.

The picture doesn't do much justice but he looked like a marshmallow!

There was one week that the boys did something pretty much everyday. One morning I was getting ready for work and Mike walks in the living room and I hear him yell, "Ugh, what are you guys doing?" I walk out to see our living room completely covered in styrofoam. They had gotten some styrofoam and broken it apart so we had tiny styrofoam balls all over our house. Mike goes and gets the shop vac as I laugh and say have fun and walk out the door for work. We unfortunately didn't get a picture of that.

Well, that night I come home from work and I hear Ryker and Kyler in the other room crying. Porter grabs my hand and says, "Mom, come see." I kept asking what's wrong. He would just say, come see. I walk in Kyler and Bridger's room and I was speechless. They had totally emptied the closet out in a big pile in the middle of the floor. All the books, clothes, sheets, everything was thrown on the floor. They had climbed up the shelves and even got the very top shelves. I couldn't believe it. Not sure why but they decided to take their clothes off and add to the pile. That's why they don't have any clothes on. Dad sent them in there to clean up their mess. We realized that the mess wasn't really getting cleaned up though it was just getting worse with them in there so we had to take over. This one wasn't so funny to me because I had to clean it up which took Mike and me 2 days to get it all clean. As we were cleaning up we noticed that they had taken games that we had in there and opened the boxes and thrown all the pieces of the games everywhere too. I don't know if we even found all the pieces for the games either. Not very fun cleaning it all up.

Then later that week I get this picture sent to me at work.

It's Ryker with permanent marker all over his face. This is even after he had tried washing it off. Yes, him and his little accomplice, Kyler had drawn all over their faces. Kyler wasn't nearly as bad. Their poor faces were scrubbed raw trying to get it all off.

They also do the cutest things. Ryker loves little Bridger. He totes that kid around everywhere with him. One morning I was getting ready for work. Bridger was in his swing and the other boys were just watching cartoons. I came out to find this.

Ryker had to get Bridger out of his swing to watch TV with him and Kyler. It was just too cute!

Another funny picture of them when we were doing family pictures!

I LOVE MY BOYS!!!!

Graduation

2011-12-13T23:29:00.004-07:00

WAAAHOOOOO!!!!!!! Mike graduated from Weber State University with a Bachelor Degree in Respiratory Therapy on December 9th! He graduated with high honors too. A GPA of 3.98! It was such a great day! Everybody is so proud of Mike! Such a big accomplishment. All the hard work has finally paid off. We took all the boys up to the graduation too. We wanted to get pictures with them and to share the day with them. It made it a really long day for them but they were troopers. They were pretty much done by the end of the ceremony, as you can see from the picture! Such a great family picture!

Mike and 2 friends that he went to school with, Garrett and Kassidy, had their picture taken and was in the newspaper too.

After the ceremony, Ryan and Andrea were nice enough to take Porter, Ryker and Kyler for a sleepover. Mike and I went to dinner with his parents and Alicia and Kirk. We went and ate at Texas Roadhouse! Yummy! Overall it was a great day! So proud of you, Mike!

Porter Turns 5

2011-12-13T23:10:00.004-07:00

We celebrated Porter's 5th birthday last week. I can't believe that he's 5! He is growing up so much. We gave him a Nintendo DS and a game. We made all the boys eat breakfast and then gave Porter his presents before Mom went to work. He played the DS all day! He loved it! We asked him what he wanted to eat for dinner for his birthday. He said that he wanted to go out and eat tacos and rice and beans. So, we went to Mi Ranchito with Grandma and Grandpa Olson for dinner. He got some fried ice cream for his birthday, which his brothers helped him eat.

The Custer family party he got to celebrate his birthday with his cousin Adam. Aunt Andrea made a really cool fish cake. He got another game for the DS, some planes, a toy garbage truck and new bigger bike.

For the Olson party he wanted the white cake with strawberries on top again. Just like last year. Guess he really likes that cake! They gave him more games for the DS. He loves playing all of the games and is catching on so fast and getting pretty good at them.

Porter has been asking all year when he gets to go to the big school. I've been telling him that he has to be 5 to go to the big school. The morning after his birthday as we were getting ready for school he asked me if he got to go to the big school today? I was so surprised that he remembered that. It made me laugh! He is just so excited to go to the big school!

Fall

2011-12-01T22:15:00.007-07:00

I love this time of year. The weather is great and the mountains are gorgous with the changing leaves. We wanted to take advantage of the beautiful weather before it started getting cold. So a few weeks ago we went for a couple little hikes. We had a great time. We hiked up to the Grotto first. Then we went to Maple Lake and walked around it. It was a lot of fun!

We also made it up to the cabin one more time. It was cold!! There was actually snow on the ground too. We still had a lot of fun.

The boys helped Dad chop fire wood to keep us warm.

The boys had a great time shooting BB guns.

Bridger hanging out inside the warm cabin with mom.

Another great thing of Fall is FOOTBALL!!! The boys have really gotten into watching football with their mom and dad. Especially Kyler. Every time the TV is turned on, he thinks football should be on. Here are the boys decked out in their BYU attire for the big BYU Utah game. BYU got killed. A very big disappointment. But then again, they have been one big disappointment this year!

Halloween 2011

2011-11-09T19:54:00.002-07:00

Halloween gets more and more fun the more kids I have! A lot of work but fun! I love dressing them up and seeing how excited they are to go trick or treating. I was trying to figure out some fun costumes this year. My boys love watching Cat in the Hat. So, I was thinking that it would be cute to have Porter be Cat in the Hat, Ryker and Kyler be Thing 1 and Thing 2 and Bridger be the fish. When I told them they loved the idea. I spent all this time trying to find the costumes online in the sizes that I needed. The day I was going to order them, Mike calls me at work and says is Porter being a dragon for Halloween? When he went to pick Porter up from preschool a kids mom was saying that Porter was telling her kid that he was going to be a dragon. Come to find out he was telling his whole class he was going to be a dragon. Ryker was telling his class that he was going to be an alligator. I was glad that I didn't order the Cat in the Hat costumes. I learned my lesson, ask your kids what they are going to be.

So, Porter was a dragon, Ryker decided he would be a dinosaur, Kyler was a monkey and Bridger was a chicken. They were all so cute! We had a fun day too. This was the first year that I was able to have my kids come into my work. Mike brought them over and they trick or treated at my work. Then that night we went to the trunk or treat at the church. Between the 2 places my kids got so much candy. It will last us for months! We all had a lot of fun and can't wait for next year!

RRT

2011-11-06T13:58:00.002-07:00

Wahoo!!!! Mike passed his final boards on October 13th! He is now a Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT)! We are so excited! Now we just need to find a full time job!

Preschool

2011-09-17T10:31:00.003-06:00

Porter and Ryker started preschool this week. It's crazy having 2 kids in preschool. They aren't in the same class so it's either take one of them every morning or run back and forth taking them on the same day. We decided to do it on the same day. So Ryker goes Tuesday and Thursday morning and Porter goes Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoon. Their first day we also had dentist appointments. While Ryker was at school Mike and Porter went to the dentist and while Porter was at school Ryker and me went to the dentist. Poor Kyler was so lost that day without his brothers. He just kept asking where they were. The next time they had school he wasn't quite so lost because one of them was home with him. I love how much they all love playing together. It's going to be a crazy and expensive year running them to and from preschool but they love it!

Summer Fun!!

2011-09-10T11:41:00.010-06:00

This summer was so much fun! I was on maternity leave and was able to be home all summer. I'm so glad I was too because it seems like so many little things happened that would have been sad to miss. Porter learned to tie his shoes, Ryker learned to ride a bike without training wheels, Kyler got potty trained and Bridger just grew like a weed. We made it up to the cabin a couple times, out camping a couple times, rode 4 wheelers, played in the sprinklers, swimming pool and jumped on the trampoline lots. We rode our bikes practically everyday and Dad even made a jump. The boys caught lots of bugs and toads too. Had to show them all to mom. They thought I would love them! Now summer is ending. Porter and Ryker start preschool next week and I have to go back to work the end of this month. I will miss my boys and can't wait till I can be home with them all the time!

Toad!!!

One day the boys came inside and wanted their shirts off. I said, why, what are you doing? They said, we want to box! It is so funny how they think when they box they have to have their shirts off. That's what they do in the movies! Kyler doesn't have any boxing gloves so we had to put socks on his hands. He was happy with that. I just had to get some pictures of them cause it was too cute.

Alright, I knocked both my older brothers out!!

When we went camping, my brother had a little 4 wheeler that the boys had a ball riding. We went up to the cabin and my sister in laws family had one too. I only got a couple pictures of the boys on it though. We're thinking that we need to get the boys one!

Fun in the sun!

Bike Jump

When Dad first made the jump Ryker still had training wheels on.

A week later!

Ryker riding his bike!

Kyler's 2nd Birthday!

2011-08-30T12:52:00.007-06:00

I can't believe this little man is only 2. He seems so much older than that to me. He thinks he's just as big and old as his older brothers too.

We had a fun birthday with Kyler this year. The Saturday before his birthday, Grandma and Grandpa Custer took him to Build a Bear. They said that he wasn't into it at all. He did end up picking out a dog but his most favorite thing was the stroller. He wanted that to push his dog around in. He loves that dog. He was so excited to get it home and show his brothers. He slept with it and had to show it how he went potty and everything. It's really cute!

The Sunday before his birthday he got to share his celebration with me, with the Custers. He got spoiled as always!

Then on his actual birthday he got to go to lunch with mom and her friends at Red Robin, then played with his brothers all day. They gave him a backpack just like theirs. We made a cake that Porter and Ryker picked out for him and had some before we went to bed.

Mom and Dad got him a big bed for his birthday. We needed to get him in a bed so we can get Bridger in the crib. He loves his big bed too. He has to tell everyone that it's HIS bed!

Then the Sunday after his birthday we celebrated his birthday with the Olsons. Got more spoiled!

When we were at Red Robin the nicest thing happened. Kyler got a balloon and everything while we were there since it was his birthday. There was a couple sitting by us and when they got up to leave the guy walks over to us and asks Kyler if it's his birthday. He said, yep! The guy hands him a dollar bill and tells him happy birthday and to go get himself something for his birthday. Kyler tells him thanks and thought that dollar bill was the best thing ever. He had to carry it around with him and wouldn't let me take it. We went and picked out a car that he got with it. He loves that car too! Such a nice couple! Sure made Kyler's day!

Happy birthday Kyler! We love you!

Bridger's Blessing

2011-08-19T16:49:00.003-06:00

We blessed Bridger on August 7th. Mike did an awesome job like always! He's such a great dad! After the blessing we had a luncheon in my sister in law, Alicia's backyard. She has a way nice big backyard. It was a great place for everyone. Things were good until we put all the food out on the table and then the flies all came. There were so many, it was crazy! Mike and I didn't think of flies when we decided to have the luncheon outside. We all ate and just had to keep the food covered. It worked out. The worst thing is, I didn't get any pictures of anything. Mike and I were so busy trying to get the food all ready and then we ate and everyone was gone and I didn't get any pictures. My sister in law, Andrea did make a way cute cake that she sent me some pictures of. All and all it was a great day even though we didn't get any pictures!

Fun at the cabin!

2011-08-10T11:16:00.007-06:00

Mike and I have been wanting to go up the cabin all summer. Seems like with Mike's work and school, there was always something and we never made it up. We finally were able to go up last week. We never go up during the week cause we're usually working but we were able to go up during the week this time. I love being on maternity leave! It was so nice up there during the week. So quiet and not hardly anyone up there. We had so much fun too! We really didn't want to come home. Definitely will need to plan another trip up there before I go off of maternity leave.

We took up Porter's BB gun and the boys' bows. They were out shooting those the whole time we were up there. We saw some deer and Porter was determined to shoot one. It was really funny! He kept telling Dad that it needed to be deer season so he could shoot a deer.

Watch as Porter and Ryker try to sneak up on the deer!

We took up the 4 wheelers too and went on some rides. It was cooler than I was expecting and you really had to bundle up for rides. We had to put on all the jackets up at the cabin. So poor Kyler had to wear a pink jacket. Atleast he was warm!

We also had a fire and made some smores. They were delicious! Mike and I heard of a new way to make smores, with a Reese's peanut butter cup. Very good! Best way to make smores for sure!

We had a lot of fun and can't wait to go up again! Such a nice, relaxing, much needed little vacation!

Pictures

2011-08-02T13:18:00.005-06:00

I finally got my boys pictures done! And of course they are so cute! I love these little boys!

Bridger 4 weeks

Kyler 2 years

Ryker 3 years

Porter 4 years

Stationery card

2011-07-22T14:16:00.001-06:00

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4th of July

2011-07-14T18:46:00.007-06:00

The 4th of July is always so much fun. One of my favorite holidays. It's always a busy holiday but tons of fun. We went to the balloon festival first thing in the morning on Saturday. Mike worked at the hospital the night before and got off just in time for it. So, I loaded all the boys up and met him there. We have kind of made it a family tradition of going every year. The boys love it too!

We had a BBQ at my parent's house with everybody on Sunday. Then of course we did fireworks. Usually it's complete chaos of fireworks for about 15 minutes and then that's it. This year was a little more mild. The kids all wanted to light them. So, they would line up and Kristy would hand them a firework and then the Dad's helped them light them off. Then Jared bought some arial fireworks that were pretty cool. We played games of course too. The funniest was doing the wheel barrel races. Too bad it's kind of dark in the pictures.

On Monday we took the boys to the splash pad. We wanted to do something fun as a family on the actual holiday. Mike had clinicals that night so we played during the day. We have only been to the splash pad one other time but the boys love it. I might have to take them there more often. I thought of getting fireworks to light off with the boys that night but with Mike working, I decided not too. We'll have to get some fireworks to light off on the 24th.

All and all it was a lot of fun! My boys were pretty tired by the end of the weekend!

Bridger is here!!

2011-06-30T14:01:00.005-06:00

Bridger Shaun Olson
June 19, 2011
6 lbs 5 ozs
19 1/2 inches

So, I went in for a doctor appointment on the 13th and my doctor said that he would induce me on the 19th. I was in shock that he would induce me on a weekend. Didn't think that they would want to do that. He said that he was at the hospital all day that day so lets give him something to do. I never got really miserable with this pregnancy so I didn't know what to do. I wasn't dying to get the kid out of me. I came home and talked to Mike. We decided to just go ahead and do it. I was looking at the calendar that night and I realized that the 19th was Father's Day. I didn't know if that was what Mike would want to do on Father's Day or not. He said that he thought it would be cool. So, I called my doctor the next day and said to go ahead and schedule me for an induction.

They called us about 6:15 am and said to come in. We got there about 7:00. They said that it was a good thing that we got there when we did because they got really busy and if we would have called they probably wouldn't have taken me. We had the little guy at 4:00 on the dot. I thought the process would have gone quicker since it was so fast with Kyler but it seemed to take forever. We got him here though nice and healthy.

I can't believe how tiny the little guy is. Mike and I were thinking that he would be our biggest baby but he's actually the smallest. We need to fatten him up since he has 3 older brothers!

We are so happy to have Bridger as part of our family!!

Porter's Preschool Graduation

2011-05-28T14:07:00.004-06:00

I didn't realize that we had a graduation after each year of preschool. I thought it was just when you were done with preschool that you had a graduation. Nope, we get one every year. Porter graduated from his first year of preschool this week. His preschool is at a gym and they have gymnastics and preschool together. Porter loved preschool this year. He had so much fun and learned so much. He can write his name now and is very proud of that. He was so excited to have his whole family and his grandparents come to his school for graduation. We all loved watching him too! They first showed us what they do in gym time. Then they had a little program where they sang songs and showed off how much they learned. Then the teacher talked a little bit about each child and they got a trophy and a certificate. She said that Porter is a very sensitive kid. One of the most sensitive kids she has come across. He is always saying sorry, oh sorry! And, he can write his name and she is so proud of him! Good job Porter! We are proud of you too!

Poter with Mom and Dad. Mom looking nice and pregnant!

Porter with Grandma and Grandpa Olson

Porter with Grandma and Grandpa Custer

Porter and Miss Saneh

Porter Gets a Tooth Pulled

2011-05-14T10:57:00.004-06:00

A couple days before we went on our trip, Porter was complaining that his tooth hurt. I didn't think much of it and just brushed it off. When we went on our trip Porter was complaining about his tooth the whole time. We had to keep medicine in him the whole time to help it not hurt so bad. We looked at it and it was starting to turn black. So, when we got back from our trip we called the dentist to have him look at it. Mike took Porter over to the dentist after Ryker's surgery. They ended up pulling his tooth. It was a tooth that he had a cavity filled on and it was so deep that it probably didn't get filled all the way. If it would have been an adult, they would have done a root canal. Since he's going to lose the tooth anyway, they just decided to pull it. He was so brave and so good. They didn't even give him the gas. He just took the pain! What a tough boy!

He was so excited to have the tooth fairy come. He wanted to keep his tooth though. He didn't want the tooth fairy to take it. So, we wrote a note asking the tooth fairy to leave his tooth. The next morning he woke up and asked if the tooth fairy came. I told him to go look under his pillow. He comes running out of his room yelling that he got a $2 bill and the tooth fairy left his tooth for him too. He was so excited!

He has to go back now and get a spacer put in so that his teeth don't grow all funny with a big space. We're really hoping that all this work isn't going to make him hate the dentist now. He loves going and is always so good. Cross our fingers it stays that way!

Ryker gets his tonsils out!

2011-05-02T21:19:00.003-06:00

Ryker has the hardest time breathing when he sleeps. Plus he is really picky about things he will eat and has a hard time swallowing things. So, at his 3 year check up I talked to the doctor about this. He looked at his tonsils and said they were very large. He referred us to an ENT for a consultation about getting the tonsils and adenoids taken out. The ENT agreed that he was a good candidate to get them removed. He said that we would notice a huge difference in his sleeping and eating if we did it.

So on April 28th, Ryker go his tonsils and adenoids taken out. He was so brave and did so good. I think it was harder on Mom than it was on him. The doctor told us that he did really well during the surgery. He said that he had some big tonsils and some huge adenoids. Hopefully that means this will help the little guy now. After the surgery they go into a recovery area with 2 nurses watching them. They are in there until they wake up. Ryker was just sleeping away for about an hour. They just kept telling us that as soon as he woke up, they would bring him out. When he woke up, he was so mad about the IV that was in his hand. We could hear him just screaming and yelling at the nurses. He wanted that thing out. He was more mad about that than anything. It was kind of funny!

I was so shocked how well he was doing the first 2-3 days. He was eating and acting like nothing. Then the 4th day he was acting like it was starting to hurt more. They told us day 4-6 would be the worst. We are on day 5 today and it started out rough but then he was doing great by tonight. the hardest thing is getting him up in the night to take his medicine. It's a fight but then I think it makes the mornings not so bad. He really has done a lot better than I was expecting. What a brave little boy!

The Beach!!

2011-04-30T16:28:00.005-06:00

We spent one day at the beach on our trip. It was firt time the boys have ever been to the ocean or the beach. They LOVED it! Porter had so much fun in the water with Dad. We even got Ryker and Kyler to go in it a little bit with Dad too. They didn't like it nearly as much as Porter. These boys were covered from head to toe with sand when we left. Mike and I were too. A day at the beach with kids = sand EVERYWHERE!!! It was a lot of fun though. The boys had a ball.

After we spent the day at the beach, went to La Jolla Cove to see all the sea lions. Like we didn't see enough sea animals at Sea World, huh?

Sea World!!

2011-04-30T15:24:00.008-06:00

Mike had a couple weeks off between semesters so we wanted to do something fun as a family. We were just going to take the trailer and go camping. Somehow that turned into going to Sea World! It was such a last minute trip but it was so worth it. We found a really good package deal that included our hotel and Sea World so we just went with it. We had to be back by Thursday to have Ryker's tonsils out. It was kind of a short trip. We left Friday after I got off work. We drove to Primm which is about half way and stayed the night. Got up the next morning and drove the rest of the way. When we got there, we just swam and hung out at the hotel. Then we spent 2 days at Sea World. Then we had a day at the beach. Then a drive home all in one day. It was so much fun and the boys loved it. Just forwarning that trying to get 3 little boys to all look at the camera at the same time was pretty much impossible. So, we just have what we could get!

They have rides now at Sea World. They didn't when I was there. I wasn't able to go on any since I'm pregnant but the boys had fun going with Mike.

Ryker wasn't tall enough to go on this ride but Porter was so he went on it with Dad. He kept telling Mike before he went that it was going to be awesome. They take a picture when you are going down the drop off and Porter looked scared to death. It was so funny! Mike was just watching Porter the whole ride laughing. They got soaked too. You can see them at the back of the boat in the second picture. After the ride Porter said it was so fun but he didn't want to go on it again!

Peguins!

One morning the flamingos were out. Porter wanted to go touch them so bad.

Sharks!

Both days Kyler knocked out for a little bit in the stroller. It was nice for him to take a little nap!

We got to hold some starfish. The boys thought that was so cool!

Shamu! Shamu! Shamu!

The sea lion show.

And the dolphin show. As you can see we sat in the soak zone for this show and we got soaked. The first day the boys didn't think it was that fun getting soaked. Ryker and Kyler started crying. The second day we got even more soaked at the show and that was fun for them. They knew what to expect that time!

This is after the show. You can't really tell from the picture but they are soaked.

We took a pack and play for Kyler to sleep in. It was so cute, when we would come back to the hotel, the maids would have made Kyler's bed too. Had to take a picture of it!

Mike's New Job!

2011-04-04T18:50:00.002-06:00

Mike got a job at the hospital!!!! We are very excited! Mike heard in class that they had 4 postitions available. They really wanted to hire someone from his class because they really like all the students in his class. So, they told them all to apply. Mike did and he got a phone call for an interview about a week later. He went in for his interview and was really nervous. He had no idea what to expect. He came home and wasn't that excited. He didn't feel like he did very good in the interview. We weren't really counting on a call back. Then one day when he was at his clinicals, one of the guys hiring came and got him and asked him a few questions. Mainly wanted to know what his plans were for the future and if he was planning on sticking around. A few weeks later people in his class started getting emails that they didn't get the job. That was on a Friday. He never got an email. We couldn't help but start to get our hopes up at this point. He was texting everyone in his class trying to narrow it down who was left. There were 3 of them that hadn't gotten an email. We talked about him getting the job all weekend. Monday I get up and go to work and about a half hour after I get there I get a phone call from Mike. He tells me he got the job!!! It was very unexpected but we were really excited too. It's just a PRN (as needed) position. We weren't sure how we were going to work this out with me working and the kids. Well, it ends up that most of the shifts are nights and weekends. That works out good. He had his first shift March 25th. He said it was so busy but it was a lot of fun being on his own. This is a great opportunity for Mike to get his foot in the door and get some experience. Hopefully it'll pay off and when he finishes school, he'll be able to get a full time job. Isn't he amazing? He thinks he bombs the interview and he gets the job!

I went potty!

2011-03-23T20:41:00.003-06:00

Kyler went pee in the toilet for first time on Sunday! And then again on Monday! We pulled out the little toilet a while ago because he acted like he wanted to go to the bathroom with his brothers. He didn't want anything to do with it though. We kept trying to get him to go on it but he wouldn't. Mike got him to for the first time though. Mike got all excited and made such a big deal about it that it almost scared Kyler. Kind of funny! I don't think we're anywhere near potty trained yet but it's a start!

Mike loves the picture below. Looks like a true man reading on the pot!

Ryker's 3rd Birthday

2011-03-21T20:45:00.004-06:00

So, for weeks before Ryker's birthday I kept asking him what he wanted for his birthday. All he would say is "green." Not sure what that meant. He said he wanted to eat green, he wanted green and that was it. Mike said, he's a smart kid, he wants the green stuff (money)! He finally told me that he wanted a chocolate cake with green frosting on it. He did get that at one of his parties. He got lots of fun toys. We got him a bike which he was so excited to have a big bike like Porter. He also got a toy gun, a bike helmet, green pants, big balls, green motorcycle toy, green dump truck toy, toy tent and a bow and arrow. One spoiled little boy!

It's a BOY!!!!!

2011-02-12T13:41:00.002-07:00

We found out this week that we are having another boy! Yes, 4 boys!!! We are so excited! I think everyone was more disappointed than Mike and I were. I think everyone thinks I'm sad about it too. I think it will actually be a lot of fun. Now Kyler will have a little buddy too. No one will be left out. We can just do all boy things and have all boy toys at this house! One question that I keep being asked, "are you going to try again for a girl?" Nope! I always said that I wanted more boys than girls. Guess I got what I wanted! My boys will just have to marry some really cool girls for me! Now we gotta figure out a name for this little one. We had such a hard time last time we better get started now. Any suggestions?

Running 2010

2010-12-31T13:40:00.031-07:00

Mike started running when I was pregnant with Kyler. Nothing serious, just some running here and there. About 6 months after I had Kyler I started running too. That was February of this year. My sister in law, Raylene, ran a half marathon in March in Moab that we went down to. It got me all motivated to run one. She told me that we should sign up for the Hobble Creek Half in August. Sounded good to me. That got me training. Mike was going to run it too but he was in school and wasn't sure he would have the time to train for it. During my training process we ran several other races. The first was the Homestead Run 15K over Memorial weekend. That is 9.3 miles. Mike and I had never ran that far before so that was going to be a first. Mike and I signed up for it and ran it with my brother Josh and his wife Katie. We were very happy with how we did since it was our first race and our farthest distance. Mike and I both ran it in 1:34 about a 10:11 minute mile.

The next race that I ran was Ragnar which I already did a whole post on so I won't tell you about it again!

The next race that Mike and I ran was the Speedy Spaniard 10K on July 24th. We ran it with Josh, Katie and Raylene. The only goal that Mike and I had was to be under an hour. We did even better than that and we were so happy with how we did. Mike 56:31, 9:08 minute mile and Heidi 56:45, 9:10 minute mile.

Then was my half marathon on August 21st. I had trained for this all summer and wanted to do well so bad. I was bummed that Mike wasn't running it with me. I ran it with Josh, Katie and Raylene though. I'm so glad that I trained good and hard for the race. It really paid off. I did so much better than I was even planning on. I was hoping to run it in atleast a 10 minute mile pace. I actually ran it in 2:02, 9:19 minute mile. I was so happy with that. It was such an accomplishment and I loved every minute of it.

Mike was so bummed that he didn't get to run Hobble Creek and really wanted to run a half too. So, I told him that I'd run another one with him. We signed up for the SoJo Half Marathon on September 25th. That only left about a month. I figured I could just keep up my training until the race and would be able to do it. Mike and I were the only ones that ran this race. A couple weeks after Hobble Creek my knees really started to hurt me. I just kept running and didn't think anything of it. That probably wasn't a good idea. I wanted to beat my time so bad on this race. I wanted to be under 2 hours and I think I really could have done it. About 11 1/2 miles into the race my knees just started burning. They hurt so bad. I just cried and walked and ran the rest of the race. I finished though. Mike did good for his first half. He was hoping to do better though. His time was 2:05 and Heidi's was 2:12. After the race though we realized that the race was about a half a mile longer than it should have been. Our times probably would have been better if the distance was more accurate. Oh well, we did it!

I had plans to run several races next year too. Was all signed up to run Ragnar with my family, wanted to run Hobble Creek again and was planning on running a marathon in September. Well, then I got pregnant and I don't think that I'll be doing all those runs next year, unfortunately! We'll see how busy Mike is with school and how many races he can get in next year! Running is a new love of ours and we plan on keeping it up!

Christmas 2010 was a knock out!

2010-12-28T11:45:00.010-07:00

We were up half the night Christmas Eve with Kyler throwing up. So, we were pretty tired when Porter woke up Christmas morning. He came running in our room yelling, "Santa came!" He wanted to open presents so bad. He went and woke up his brothers so we could open presents. It was so much fun with the boys this year. They got some boxing gloves that they had to put on and try out right when they opened them. Ryker learned real fast that he liked punching but didn't like being punched. So he would punch Porter and then run away. It was pretty funny! Santa brought us a big trampoline. Not sure the boys knew what it was when they opened it but they were excited about 2 huge boxes. They will be really excited when it finally warms up and we set it up for them! We spent Christmas night up with Ryker throwing up. Not so fun being sick over Christmas but we still had a lot of fun.

Porter is 4!

2010-12-22T11:34:00.015-07:00

Porter isn't going to know what to do when Christmas is over and he doesn't get any more presents. With his birthday in December and between all the family birthday parties and Christmas parties, seems like he's getting presents every other day! He loves it though!

We had a lot of fun celebrating Porter's birthday this year. We had our own little family party. I got a little cake from the store which I thought he would love. However, he told me that he wanted a white cake with strawberries on top. So, I had to make that for the Olson's birthday party. Aunt Andrea made a cute train cake for the Custer birthday party that Porter celebrated with his cousin Adam.

All Porter asked for this year for his birthday and Christmas is a gun. So, we gave him a HUGE nerf gun. Yep, it's bigger than him. He loves the thing too! It's actually 2 guns in 1 so we took it apart and he let Ryker shoot the other gun. He also got some new snow clothes and a movie.

At the Olson party he got a truck with a trailer with 2 motorcycles on it. All the kids loved it. He got some books too and a sled and movie from Grandma and Grandpa. At the Custer party he got some more books, a shirt with a dirt bike toy, a movie, a game and a puzzle. Boy, he sure got spoiled!

Halloween 2010

2010-11-06T10:39:00.004-06:00

We have been trying to figure out what the boys wanted to be for Halloween for a couple months. Porter really wanted to be Spiderman for a few weeks and then he changed his mind and wanted to be a dinosaur. They are his favorite animal. Ryker is always saying that he's a monkey so he was a monkey. Kyler really didn't have an opinion what he wanted to be. I saw this shark costume and just loved it so that's what he was.

For Halloween this year my Mom and Dad had a party that we all had fun at. Then we went to our wards trunk or treat. It was pouring rain right before it was suppose to start so we debated about going to it. It stopped raining so we ran down to it. Kyler fell in a puddle and was soaked the whole time and Ryker dropped his bag of candy in a puddle. That made it really fun! No, we did have a lot of fun. The kids loved dressing up and showing off their costumes. The Monday before Halloween I found out I was pregnant. We wanted to announce it to our families and I found the cutest way to. I found this shirt online and just wore it to all the parties and things.

No one really knew if they should believe me or if I was just in costume. They were all surprised but excited. We were pretty surprised ourselves but we are really excited too.

Porter Starts Preschool

2010-09-19T21:49:00.007-06:00

What, Porter's in preschool? I know, crazy that my little man is already in preschool! He has been so excited to start school like Dad. He gets to wear his backpack and go to school all by himself. Then he gets to study with Dad too. So cute! We wanted to put Porter in gymnastics this year too. We found a preschool close to my work that offers gymnastics with it. It worked out perfect! The first day when I take Porter we walk in and I see one of our friends there with her little boy Bridger. We had no idea that they were putting him in preschool there too and in the same class even. That will be so fun for them! After his first day I pick him up and on our way home he's telling me what he did and he says, Mom, Bridger and I got in trouble! I say, What? On you first day? He giggles and says, yeah. Come to find out, Bridger and him were jumping on the trampoline when they weren't suppose to. Naughty little boys. Their dad's say they are making their dad's proud! Coming from 2 guys that probably got into trouble together plenty when they were in school together! First thing I asked him when I picked him up the second day was, did you and Bridger get in trouble today? He told me no! I love how excited he is for school. Lets hope it stays that way! He doesn't quite understand that he only goes every other day. He wants to go everyday. He is just so stinking cute! I love it! He's just growing up so fast, I can't believe it!

Had to get a couple pictures with his little brother Ryker! They really wanted to be going together. Next year they will be!

Kyler's First Birthday

2010-09-15T22:13:00.005-06:00

So much has happened since my last post. It'll take me awhile to get caught up on all that so lets start with one of the big things that happened.....Kyler's first birthday. Yes, my baby is one! I can't believe it. Kyler started walking a couple weeks before his birthday. Porter and Ryker both started walking around their birthday but Kyler beat them there. Now that he's walking he thinks he is just as big as his big brothers and that he can do everything that they do. It's really funny! For Kyler's birthday we had a little family party with our family and he got his very own birthday cake which he loved and ate every bit of. Ok, Dad and his brothers helped! Then he got to have a party with the Custer's with Mom and Aunt Kristy. And, he got spoiled just like all kids do! And, he loved every bit of it too!

Look at him eye this cake! Just couldn't wait to dig in!

Tada!

Yes, I got really creative and made a dragon cake. Turned out ok! It was a lot more work than I was planning on but all the kids loved it!

4th of July 2010

2010-07-07T16:53:00.005-06:00

The 4th of July was a lot of fun this year. I took an extra day off work so I had a 4 day weekend. It was great to spend that many days with my boys. Unfortunately Mike was either in class or at the hospital so we didn't get to spend a lot of time with him. We did get him one night for a BBQ and fireworks though. I did have one of my scariest moments in my life this weekend though. I took my boys to the Freedom Festival with my parents Saturday afternoon. There was a bunch of the big blowup things to play on. Porter was playing on them and having a ball. Then all of a sudden I couldn't find him anywhere. HE WAS LOST!!!! I was totally freaking out! My dad and I were walking all over trying to find him while my mom sat with my other boys. Then I heard them talking on the microphone about a little 3 year old that was lost. I went running over there and there was Porter. Luckily he was only lost for 10 minutes. Not something I want to experience again! After that, I decided that we were leaving. That night my grandparents had the whole extended family over Saturday night for a BBQ and to watch the Stadium of Fire fireworks. Sunday we had a BBQ at my parents. We played BUMP, a family favorite and then lite off some fireworks. Fireworks with my family is just complete chaos. There are people everywhere just lighting tons off at the same time. It's just craziness for about 10-15 minutes and then it's over. It's a lot of fun though. My boys loved it! On Monday my parents took all the grandkids to the movie, How to Train a Dragon. Not a good idea to take a 10 month old to the movies though. I was out in the hall for the whole movie. My boys and everybody said that the movie was really good though. I'll have to rent it sometime and watch it at home when my baby is asleep!! It was a very fun filled weekend!

Ragnar 2010

2010-06-30T14:49:00.011-06:00

I'm putting 2010 at the end of that heading because I plan on having a Ragnar posting every year!! About a week and half ago I had one of the coolest experiences of my life. I was able to run Ragnar. I've heard about Ragnar the past couple of years but never had a desire to run it until this year. We talked about having team with some of my siblings but when we went to sign up, they were already full. My sister in law, Alicia was running it on a team. She told me to keep running and I could be backup on her team. A week before the race Alicia asked me if I still would want to run it. A girl on her team had gotten pnemonia and was not able to run. I said of course. I was so excited but had no idea what I was getting myself into. For those of you who don't know what Ragnar is I'll tell ya! It's a relay race, 188 miles from Logan to Park City over a 2 day period. There are 12 people on a team, 6 people in a van and someone is running the whole time. You run 3 legs. When I was first asked to run I was told I'd be runner 2. They were all pretty easy runs and I wasn't worried about it at all. I went to the final team meeting the Monday before the race and found out that I was actually runner 3. I looked at my runs. The first one was 5.4 miles with no hills. My second was 4.9 miles with no hills. My third run was 7.9 miles WITH hills. I have not been training on hills. I never run hills. I was really nervous about my last run but was willing to take the challenge. The morning of the race, my team met at 4:30 and headed up to Logan. I was in a van with 6 girls that I didn't know. It was fun though because none of us knew anybody. It was great to get to know all of them. At the start line we had to take a safety course and then get our packets. Our first runner took off at 8:45. We were off! I just kept getting more and more excited. Our first 2 runners finished and then I was off on my first run at 11:15 am. I finished and it felt great! My next run wasn't until 9:00 pm. That was a great run. It was nice and cool. I was just getting into it when my 4.9 miles was over. Our last runner finished about 12:30 am. We headed to a high school that we were suppose to rest at until our next runs. We got to the high school slept on the band room floor for about 3 hours. Then we were up and off to run our last runs. When I woke up, I felt like crap! I was so tired and exhausted. I didn't know how I was going to run 8 miles up hills. I was getting really nervous for my run. I ended up starting my run at 8:45 am. The first part of the run wasn't bad at all. Then the hill came. I hit half way in the middle of the huge hill. I was dying! I just kept telling myself, don't stop, keep running! My van was awesome and cheered me on the whole way! Somehow I made it! It felt so good when I was done. I felt such a feeling of accomplishment. I had done it. I ran 18.5 miles in 24 hours! Wow!!! Our van finished up our runs and headed to Park City to wait for the other van and go accross the finish line as a team. Our team ended up coming across the finish line about 5:45 pm. What a great feeling it was when we got our medals! I loved Ragnar and I'm looking forward to next year! We have talked about having a family team next year and I can't wait!!!

A girl on our team works for one of the newspapers and wrote an article about it too.share

Our Little Archers

2010-06-27T21:40:00.002-06:00

We got Porter a little bow last year. This year he is actually big enough to shoot it on his own. He absolutely loves that thing this summer. He takes it outside with him everyday and shoots it. Mike got his old quiver for him to put his arrows in when he shoots. He looks so cute! I just had to take some pictures! We need to get Ryker a bow now because he's always wanting to shoot Porter's. Porter is a great big brother and helps him shoot it.

Here is Porter helping Ryker shoot!

And here is Porter. Check out his awesome form!

Look at that follow through!

Stinkin' Cute Kids

2010-05-29T16:02:00.004-06:00

So, I have been trying to get my kids pictures done forever. I wanted to get Ryker's 2 years and Kyler's 6 months. With my sis in law and me both working it was hard to find a time. Plus, the weather didn't really want to cooperate whenever we actually had it planned. I finally got them done a couple weeks ago. I have a bunch of pictures but here's a couple of each of my boys. They are just so cute and I can't believe how big they are getting. I keep telling Mike it's time to have another one!!! Haha!!!

Porter - 3 1/2 years

Ryker - 2 years

Kyler - 8 months

We tried to get some with all 3 of them but we did it at the end and they didn't want anything to do with it. So, we'll have to try that again next time. Atleast I finally got them done!!

Yep......a lamb!!!

2010-05-09T23:03:00.002-06:00

So, the other day Mike gets a phone call. When he gets off the phone he says, "what do you think about getting the boys a lamb?" I said, "A WHAT?" Yep, he said lamb! His uncle that lives by us just had a lamb. The mom died and he thinks our boys are just so cute and that they would love a lamb. So, he was wondering if we wanted it. Mike said, ok. What are we going to do with? I have no idea! The boys do really like it. It follows them everywhere. Yesterday I looked out the window and they were riding their bikes up and down the road, and there was the lamb running right behind them. It is really cute!

Here's the lamb. We're thinking of naming him Chops!

Oh yeah, and since the mom died, we have to bottle feed it. It's like having a baby all over again!

Easter

2010-04-07T15:50:00.003-06:00

My boys had so much fun on Easter. I kept telling them that the Easter Bunny was going to come but they didn't seem to understand the whole thing. They were sure excited in the morning when they saw what the Easter Bunny left them. They got so much stuff but I only got a few pictures of them with some of it. We colored eggs but I don't know what I was thinking not taking any pictures. Here are some pictures of the day though.

Egg hunting

Ryker and Porter with the dinosaurs that were in their baskets.

Easter Baskets

Moab

2010-04-05T21:56:00.006-06:00

My sister in law ran a half marathon down in Moab a few weeks ago. It happened to be when Mike was on Spring Break so we decided to go down with them. We just bought my brother's old trailer so it was a great time to try it out. It was so much fun!!! We watched Raylene finish her race. Then we went on a hike. The next day we went into Arches and did some hikes in there. On the drive home, my brother ended up blowing 2 tires, at different times, on his trailer. That wasn't so much fun but atleast the rest of the weekend was fun!

Jared changing blown tire #2. You can't tell but he's not very happy in this picture!

Hiking in Arches

Hiking in Moab

Raylene finishing her race. Can you believe she went on a 4 1/2 mile hike after this?

Ryker's Birthday

2010-04-03T14:07:00.002-06:00

Ryker turned 2 on March 11th. His birthday seemed to last a week. He had a party with the Olson's the Sunday before his birthday. Then we had a little party on his birthday. Then we took him to Pirate's Island for dinner the next night. Then he had a party with the Custer's the Sunday after his birthday. He loved all the attention. The best birthday present was the one he gave to mom and dad, getting potty trained!!! Here are just a few pictures from his birthday. Mike told me I posted way too many of Porter's birthday!

What a cute kid! Look at that face!

Here's a picture from Pirate's Island. My little pirate!!

Christmas 2009

2010-04-03T13:54:00.002-06:00

Ok, I am so late on getting these posted. I almost didn't post them since it's way past but then decided to just play catch up. Christmas was a lot of fun. The boys loved it. They got spoiled, like always. Here are a few pictures of them.

Porter

Ryker

Don't you love how he has to be just like his big brother?

Kyler

Mike made them some bunk beds. They turned out so good. Porter and Ryker absolutely love climbing on them too.

Here they are with their turtles that Santa brought them. They had been telling me for a month that Santa was going to bring them turtles. Boy was that fun for Mike and me to hide them from the boys for 2 weeks. Porter just looked at me when he saw them and said, I told you Santa was going to bring me a turtle!

Porter's 3rd Birthday!!

2009-12-17T13:56:00.006-07:00

Well, I'm a little late at getting this posted. I've been meaning to get it on here for about a week now. Porter's birthday was last Monday, the 7th. He is finally 3! No longer do I have 3 kids under the age of three! He loved his birthday. He had 3 different parties and got spoiled at every one. Mom and Dad got him a bike for his birthday but when we woke up, it looked like this outside.....

So much for riding a bike outside! We went up to Grandpa Olson's shop and Porter got to ride his bike there. It took him a little while to figure out how to pedal but once he got that down, he was having so much fun riding that little bike.

Here's a picture of the whole family. In the background, you can see the bunk beds that Mike has been building the boys for Christmas.

Porter then got to pick where to go eat dinner. He wanted to go to McDonald's and play. So, he got a Happy Meal and then played. Dad was having fun playing with the boys too!

And then, of course since it was his birthday we had to get hot fudge sundaes!!!

Party #2 Porter got a helicopter from Grandma and Grandpa Olson. He loved that thing. Didn't put it down for days.

Party #3 was with the Custer's. Porter got to celebrate his birthday with his cousin Adam. He turned 1. Here are some pictures of some of the things he got.

Porter and Adam blowing out their candles together.

Here is a picture of the cake. Mom got creative and made a lego cake.

Kyler's Blessing

2009-12-08T11:46:00.003-07:00

We blessed Kyler on Sunday. I only got a couple pictures with my camera. My mom got some of all of us on her camera but it may be a while before I get those. So, here are a couple of just the little man who's day it was! Mike did an awesome job too! He's such a good little daddy and his boys love him!

Sand Dunes

2009-11-10T16:13:00.003-07:00

We went to the sand dunes last weekend. We loaded the 4 wheelers up and went down. We are wishing now that we didn't take the 4 wheelers. We didn't know until we got down there that the 4 wheelers weren't registered so we got a ticket for that. We had to stop and buy flags for them since ours are at the cabin. Then on the way home, the seat flew off of one of them. So, it ended up being kind of an expensive trip to take the wheelers. We had fun though. I only got a few pictures of us playing in the sand because my camera was dying the whole time we were there. The most eventful part of the trip was my mom getting lost. Her and my sis in law went for a ride and somehow my mom got lost. Some people ended up bringing her back right as we were about to call search and rescue. All and all it was a fun trip though. Here are some pictures of us playing in the sand. We were seriously covered from head to toe in sand after this.

Halloween 2009

2009-11-03T15:01:00.003-07:00

Halloween was busy but a lot of fun this year. We made sugar cookies, then my sister had a Halloween party and then we went trunk or treating. My boys had so much fun. This year Porter was a tiger, Ryker was a dragon and Kyler was a giraffe.

A not so happy giraffe

All my little animals!!

Porter and Ryker just wanting to hurry and go trick or treating. They didn't want anymore pictures.

It was funny because the next day Porter said, "Mommy, I want to trick or treat, thank you!" He just made me laugh! Such a cute kid!

Carving Pumpkins

2009-11-03T14:53:00.002-07:00

The night before Halloween we decided to carve pumpkins with the boys. We should've started way earlier because it took us way longer than we thought. I always forget how long it takes to carve pumpkins. The boys loved it though. They had so much fun.

Helping Dad gut the pumpkins

Helping Mom poke the pattern on her pumpkin

The finished products!

Big Snake

2009-10-25T09:32:00.003-06:00

Right after I had Kyler, my parents were watching Porter and Ryker. Porter caught a snake when he was at their house. It ended up getting away but he thought it was the coolest thing ever. He still tells me now that he caught a snake. So, a couple weeks ago a guy that Mike works with bought a big snake. We decided to take Porter and Ryker to go see it. Porter absolutely loved the thing. Ryker thought is was pretty cool too but lost interest fast. Porter would have played with the thing all day if we would have let him. I'm just hoping that one day my boys don't want a snake like this. I didn't really like the thing that much!

Oh What a Mess!!!!

2009-10-15T11:08:00.002-06:00

So, I have been working a ton the past couple of weeks. There's been so much to do with work. I feel bad because I have kind of ignored my kids while I work. They entertained themselves though. This is what your house looks like when you just let you kids entertain themselves!

Room #1

I don't know if you can tell from the pictures but there is baby powder all over this room!!! That was fun to clean up.

Room #2

They are just so stinking cute to get mad at though. I just had to laugh. That's what I get for ignoring them!

Kyler Ace Olson

2009-08-31T20:04:00.003-06:00

Kyler Ace Olson
August 26th
7 pounds 9 ounces
19 inches long

We finally had our baby!! Now we have 3 kids under the age of 3. We'll see how mom handles this. Things went great. I ended up having to be induced. It was only a 4 1/2 hour labor and only 3 pushes. He was nice and healthy and just cute as can be. Here he is:

Kyler's very proud big brothers

Mike and his boys

Very proud papa!!

What a cutie!!

The Carnival

2009-08-02T09:18:00.003-06:00

Yes, I am finally updating my blog. I have so many pictures of things we have done this summer. Now I just need to get them off my camera and update my blog some more!

The carnival was here last week so we took the boys one night and had them go on some rides. They loved it!!! They didn't want to leave. It was really cute!

Ryker wasn't tall enough to go on this ride so Porter had to go by himself. He was really sad that Ryker couldn't go with him.

Mike got to go on the carousel with the boys. He was so excited! Trying to get both the boys to look at the camera didn't work.

Exciting Times

2009-03-28T08:56:00.002-06:00

Look who is potty trained! Horray!!! I am totally loving only having one kid in diapers! We bought Porter a little toilet a few months ago and have been kind of working with him. About 3 weeks ago I went and bought some underwear and just started putting him in them. He did great. We had a few accidents but we haven't had any for a couple weeks now and I'm loving it!!! I was dreading potty training him because I heard stories about how hard it is to potty train boys. I guess I just lucked out. Good job Porter!!!

Also, look who's finally walking!!! Porter started walking right around his first birthday. Ryker would stand but didn't really take any steps. We've been waiting for him to just take off and he finally did this week. It's so fun when they start walking!

Porter loves that Ryker is walking now too. He loves to take his hands and walk him around the house. It is so cute!!

Look who turned 1!

2009-03-22T16:20:00.003-06:00

I am late at getting these pictures posted but here they finally are. Yes, my baby, Ryker turned 1! I still can't believe it! He is getting so big so fast! We sure love this cute little guy though. I only have a few pictures because my camera died. Grandma and Grandpa have all the good ones on their camera. We'll have to get those.

I really wanted to make Ryker a turtle cake. I don't know why but that was just the cake I wanted him to have. So, I got creative and made a turtle cake out of cupcakes. It was so easy and I thought it turned out cute.

Ryker's First Haircut

2009-02-17T21:18:00.005-07:00

I know, I have been a major slacker. I finally had some time to update my blog. A couple weeks ago, Ryker got his first haircut. He was really good for it too.

Before

After

What a handsome little man!!!

Porter Turns 2!!!

2008-12-11T08:47:00.005-07:00

Sunday was Porter's birthday. Yep, he is 2! I can't believe it! He loved his birthday. He was a little cautious this year of the candles. Last year he grabbed the candle and it freaked him out. That's why he looks the way he does in this picture. It was pretty funny!

He blew the candles out all by himself!!

Mike and I gave Porter a sled and all his snow clothes for his birthday. He had to put it all on and wanted to go outside. He looked pretty funny out there all bundled up with no snow. He can't wait to go sledding. So, we need some snow!!!

Heidi's New Bow

2008-11-28T19:12:00.002-07:00

Yes, it's true.....I got a new bow. I know, I'm so spoiled! It's a brand new 2009 Vantage Elite. I love it! The day that I got it, we went over to my brother Jared's house and made some pink and black stings for it. Mike also made up some new arrows for me with pink feathers. Mike and I got it all sighted in and set up for me and I love how the thing shoots.

Here's me in the yard getting the bow sighted in. Oh what a beautiful bow!!!

Bath Time

2008-11-22T10:06:00.004-07:00

My boys love playing in the tub together. Porter thinks it is so fun that Ryker can sit in there with him. They just splash and splash together. My bathroom is full of water by they time they get out. They have fun though.

Fun in the Leaves

2008-11-13T12:16:00.010-07:00

Ryker was taking a nap when I took these so unfortunately I didn't get pictures of Ryker in the leaves. Those of you who have been to our house have seen the huge trees we have in our yard. Huge trees mean tons of leaves. The other day Mike was out raking the leaves with Porter. They made a huge pile of leaves and Mike was throwing Porter into them. He would sink in the pile over his head. Then he would pop up just laughing. It was so cute! I just had to take some pictures.

Halloween

2008-11-09T11:31:00.000-07:00

Halloween this year was so much fun. Porter and Ryker loved wearing their costumes. Porter was a dinosaur and Ryker was a turtle. Grandma and Grandpa Custer took the boys to their ward's trunk or treat. Then Mike and I took them trick or treating with their cousin Brandon. They got so much candy! Mom and Dad will have to help them eat it all!

Porter the Dinosaur

Ryker the turtle

Brandon and Porter

They were both dinosaurs

All the boys