Birthday Photos

This picture was taken on his birthday before we went to the doctor. He was 30" tall, 23.11 lbs.

Tag had a great time at his birthday party. We were few in numbers, but we still had a great time. Uncle Jacob, Aunt Karen, Becca, and Jeffrey came for the festivities. We had yummy cake and ice cream, presents, and then cleaned them all off in the pool. Tag liked the balloons and LOVED the cake...it was everywhere. Here are some of the photos. I was having a hard time getting good pictures because Ty and Josh kept getting in the way! Something Tag loves to do is pick all the flowers off my plants. Here we caught him in the act, but this time he actually climbed in the flowerpot. He has never done this before. Even though I wasn't happy that all my flowers were pulled off, we had to get a picture of him because he is just so darn cute!

Happy 1st Birthday Tag!!

As I reflect upon this past year, I cannot imagine my life without little Tag! He is such a blessing to our home and always brings a smile to his mom, dad, and brothers face. Those big blue eyes melt my heart everytime! He really has been the happiest little baby and so full of life. We are excited for many more memories with you, Tag. I know his big brother, Ty, loves having him around and they have really become good buddies. They chase each other around the house, blow bubbles together in the tub, and make each other laugh. This always gladens my heart!

Tomorrow we will celebrate his birthday and I will post the pictures. I just wanted to write a quick note about how much I love my little "Taggy"!! You really do mean the world to me!

A Weekend Getaway

Two red faced boys!

Noah, Anson, and Ty

Clayton, Tag, and Grandma

Grandpa took all the boys for a jeep ride! I think he had 7 little boys in there

Uncle Rod was welding a hole in the pipe so they could lift it up with chains!

My SEXY Man

Last weekend we went to visit Grandma and Grandpa Jensen. Ty and Tag were so excited to go and Ty asked me all day long..."go to grandma's house mom" and I would say, "when your dad gets home from work." It made for a long day of questions. Some of our nephews were staying there also because therir moms went to Women's Conference. We had a great weekend and I am sure Joshs' dad was sure happy he was there to help out. On Friday the boys just played outside and went on motorcycle rides with their dad. Josh decided he wanted to go out by himself and when he came back he had a nice big Mohave Green Rattlesnack!! They are very poisionous and I couldn't believe he would tango with it, but he did. He didn't have a knife or gun on him, so he tried to run it over with the motorcycle, but it doged it twice. He could tell it was really mad, so he decided to throw rocks at it from a distant. He finally manged to kill it and brought the headless body back for all the boys to see. It was absolutely disgusting...I HATE snakes!! Of course it's nerves were still going, so it would try and rear up like it was going to strike...so eerie!! The boys thought it was great! I am just glad they finally put it in the trash because I am sure that Tag would have tried to eat the thing!

They irrigate, so he wanted to put this big pipe in so that the banks wouldn't keep washing out when the water flows through the irrigation channel or something along those lines. They started working on it Saturday morning and didn't get done until later that evening. Nothing went as planned, but they got it done. All the boys had a great time helping out and playing in the irrigation ditch. Anson and Ty thought it was so fun to put there heads in the cold water. It was pretty warm that day, so the cold water felt really good. Tag had lots of fun playing in the water too. We put sunblock on Ty at 12:00pm, but as you can see it was a little too late. We left that evening and were all very tired on the way home. The boys crashed and slept the whole way home!

Fun in the Sun!

Tag's first hair cut! Daddy couldn't stand the long hair in the back anymore...I was sooo sad to cut it off.

Ty and his friend Isaac

He loves to ride the bike!

Tag attacking daddy!

Ty loves to go down the slide and Tag loves to climb in and out of the pool

This is Tag's monkey crawl... he hates to crawl on his knees in the grass...I think it is too cute!

The weather has been in the upper 80's and lower 90's these past couple of weeks! It has been so nice outside that we decided to buy this little pool for the boys. Last year, we put up our big pool, but decided we wouldn't put it up this summer because the boys have more fun in this little pool and it is cheaper and easier to keep clean. All day long Ty was begging me to go swimming, so we finally went and got the pool without daddy. We filled it up as soon as we got home and the boys had a blast swimming in it. The water was so cold and the pool was in the shade, but they still wanted to swim. Poor tag had the goose bumps and his lips were turning purple, so we decided it was time for a nice warm bath.

A couple days later, we went over to my friend, Jill's, house and they too bought a little swimming pool. Isaac really wanted Ty to get in and swim, but he was having too much fun riding the bike. It was amazing because we have been trying to teach him how to pedal a bike, but he was having a hard time with it. When he got on the bike he did it all by himself! I was so proud of him and of course I had to capture it on video! Now he loves to ride his bike, but he has to ride it in the street and I don't like that! Too many people go flying down our street and I worry about him! He is doing great though and growing up way too fast! Tag would only get his feet in the water and enjoyed picking the flowers more than anything else! Poor Isaac was all alone in the pool, but he still had a great time!

Father and Sons was also held on Friday the 17th and Saturday the 18th of April. Josh didn't find out about it until the day of so we weren't very prepared. He wasn't too excited this year because they were camping down the road from where we live! He wasn't going to pack up all the camping equiptment to sleep down the road, so they went for Friday evening and then went back on Saturday morning. Ty had a great time, but managed to burn his fingers twice on the fire...you think he would learn the first time!! They did a service project for a lady I visit teach and that made me so happy. She really appreciated their help and I was so happy that they were able to help her. She had an old car there and I guess Ty would walk around the car saying, "My car!" Everyone thought it was really funny!

Last but not least, Josh must have captured these photos of Tag asleep on the recliner after church! We have 1:00pm church this year and we really hate it. Ty doesn't get a nap and is a "monster" during sacrament...thank goodness he goes to nursery because he LOVES it! Tag misses his afternoon nap, so Josh usually takes him home after opening exercises of priesthood for a nap! I don't like him to do this, but I am busy in primary doing the music, so he is in charge of Tag! What do ya do?

Easter in Monticello

For the past two years we have gone to Monticello for Easter. It is a long drive, but the kids (including Josh) have a great time. We left the house at 4:30am thinking that the kids would do better and sleep longer. We were a little wrong. They did sleep, but not as long as we were hoping. We always stop in Richfield, Utah. They have a Wal-Mart there with lots of fun animals and it is the halfway mark of the trip. We got to the hotel about 2:00pm and unloaded all of our stuff and headed to Great Grandma Redd's (to the kids) house. She was happy to see us and very worried that the kids needed some toys to play with. I assured her that they were okay! The boys were wild and I am sure it was from being couped up in the truck for 8 hours. We talked and the kids played. Grandma Redd can't see or hear very well, so you have to talk VERY loud and then sometimes she still doesn't hear you. Devan and Darcy came over and we chatted with them and Josh harrassed them! What a fun cousin he is! They enjoyed stealing his hat from him the entire weekend! We were exhausted on Friday and went back to the hotel. It worked out great because Josh took Ty to go find some deer in the mountains and Taggy got a shower with mom. Then I put him down for bed and finished the rest of my shower. By the time I was done he was fast asleep...thank you! I made sure to call Josh and tell him to be very quiet when they came back because Tag was asleep. Ty was very cute when they came back to the room. He said, "Mom I be quiet Taggy's sleeping!" He did so good at using his quiet voice for the rest of the night! We made Ty a special bed by the door and he was excited to sleep in his special bed! The boys must have been tired because they fell right asleep and didn't fuss about it!

On Saturday we met at Grandma's house and Uncle Reagan and Megan were there. They came all the way from South Dakota and Colorado! We were excited to see them because we haven't seen them for probably at least a couple of years! We use to go to Lake Powell with them every summer, but now Josh uses his vacation time for his hunting! I miss going to Lake Powell and hope to be able to talk him into going this summer! We sat around for awhile and then headed off to the rock! This is where all the family meets for Easter Egg Hunts, food, shooting all sorts of crazy gun, 4-wheeling, repelling, and anything else you can imagine. We were all a little disappointed because it was snowing when we woke up, then it rained, hailed, snowed, and hailed some more. I decided to go repelling and right when I got to the top it started hailing so hard! I decided to climb down and forgo the repelling. It was so cold that I had to sit in the church to get warm. They made a cave in the rock and had a fire, but I still couldn't get warm. We shot clay pigeons for awhile and that was fun. Then Uncle Reagan brought out the big guns and I couldn't pull Josh away from them. He played while I watched the kids...I wasn't too happy about that! We took the boys down to feed a baby calf some milk and they both enjoyed that. He name was "Mini" and she was so cute! Ty liked her, but Tag didn't want to be close to her. He would let mom know when I was getting too close! I have never had a baby calf suck on my fingers, but it was really neat!

After our day at the rock, we went to the hotel and took the boys swimming. We realized that Ty is not afraid of the water, which scares me to death. He would jump in and I would pull him up from the water and he would just laugh and think it was so funny! I guess this summer we will have to work really hard at teaching him to swim. Taggy wasn't so sure about the water at first, but then we couldn't keep him out of it. I was EXHAUSTED by the end of the night and so ready for bed! To get Ty excited about going to bed I told him the Easter Bunny wouldn't come until he was asleep. That did the trick. In the morning he was so excited about his Easter basket and all the chocolat he saw. The boys had a great Easter and loved all the candy they got.

Sunday morning we packed the truck and said our goodbyes and were on our way back home! The ride home was much better because the boys slept for half of it. We had a great Easter, but were glad to be home in the warm weather.

I wish I would have gotten more pictures, but my card filled up, so I only got these few! When will I learn? At least I had our movie camera there too!!

Clark County Fair

Eating lunch...my friend Jill had her baby5 days later!

Riding the train with my boys!

This year the county fair was held over Easter weekend. I was a little sad because I love the fair. I love going to the rodeo, watching the boys ride the rides, eating yummy and very unhealthy fair food, and hangin out with the family. Since we were leaving for Monticello, Utah early Friday morning, I decided to take the boys on Thursday. The fair usually isn't that busy on Thursdays, but since it was Spring Break it was a little more crowded this year. The first thing we did when we got there was wait in line to ride the train around the fair. The kids had fun and that made me happy. Then we headed to the pony ride. Most of us have horses that we can ride or know someone that have horses, but we paid the $6 anyways so our kids could ride the ponies at the fair. Ty had the biggest pony there and loved it! I should have put Tag on too, but I didn't think about it in time. Next year little Taggy!!

Our friends own the bungee jump and rock climbing wall, so we were going to let Ty have another try at the bungee jump. He loved it so much when we were in California that I couldn't help but them him go again. I couldn't decide if I wanted him to wait until daddy was there to watch him or to just let him go twice. I decided to wait. We looked at the art exhibits and all the animals and then decided it was time for lunch. Normally I would buy food at the fair, but this year I decided to save some money and bring a lunch. I did miss my normal fair food, but it saved us a lot of money that we really don't need to waste on such yummy food ( can you tell I am a bit sad about missing out on the fair food?) The kids had a blast chasing each other around and pushing each other in the stroller. I went with all of my friends, so we had 10 little kids we were trying to keep our eyes on. It stressed me out a little, but all of them made it home safely, so we must have done an OK job!

After lunch we headed home for naps, so we could come back when Josh got home. Ty and Tag were so tired, but they didn't take very good naps! What is up with that! Ty didn't sleep at all and Tag only slept for an hour! I thought they would be down and out, but I was wrong. Josh got home and showered and we headed back to the fair. The first thing we did was go to the bungee jump and Ty absolutely loved it. I only got a little on my camera I can download to the computer and the other movie camera has the rest of it. He did a flip because he went super high at one point. Don't you just love to see the laughter in their eyes and the huge grinn on your childrens' faces when they are having fun? Nothing could make me happier! We had a great time at the fair and I am happy that we had one day of fun this year.