All Because 2 People Fell in Love...

Today is my parents' 36th Anniversary and boy am I glad they got married! I'm glad my Dad was persistent, my mom moved to Fillmore, mom finally gave in and they fell in love. They now have: (this is an old picture, but it works right?)

5 children (4 girls, 1 boy)
5 children-law (4 boys, 1 girl)
11 grandchildren(5 boys, 6 girls)
and I'm sure there will be more on the say soon!

My parents are such AMAZING people! I love them both so much and I truly consider them to be some of my best friends. I love seeing how in love they are, how much they care for each other and how important family is to them. They are such a prime example of how I want my marriage to be. Yes, they have problems too, as all married couples, but they always work them out and in the end-it's the love for each other that takes over. They both have a STRONG love for the gospel and live it's principles the best they can. They both love sports and enjoy being involved. They love to work outside together, go for bike rides, visit with family and friends, go to the temple, watch movies and go on an occasional date night together. I always love the time of year when we brand cows-to see my parents working side by side to help establish their livelihood. Both my parents are very hard workers who are honest, kind and loving. I'm so grateful to have been born to such amazing individuals! I love them so much!

Love you Mom and Dad! Happy Anniversary!

Spaghetti Time!

Kyler has recently found that he loves playing with his food (doesn't every kid?) oh well.. good thing kids are washable! I can hardly believe my little man is 10 months old! Oh and you can't see it, but he is totally getting fangs! (Just in time for Halloween!)
His eye teeth are coming in and he has no other teeth on the top, but soon he will have 4 on the bottom!

16 is far away...

Kyler LOVES to drive and be behind the wheel...we literally have to pry his fingers off and of course he SCREAMS when we put him in his carseat...guess I know what I'm getting him for his birthday!

He's OUT!

Recently I have been LOVING attending my nephews' little league football games. Since Deric is in school at nights, I go almost twice a week. Kyler really loves it too. The other night, he fell asleep on our way home from a game (DANG IT!) It was like 2 hours before his normal bedtime, so when we get home, we turn the light on in his bedroom, go around doing our normal things (trying to slowly wake him) and nothing. He won't wake up. (by this time, Deric made it home)So Deric and I decide to take him out of his carseat and try to play with him on the floor. Kyler sees Dad's phones sitting on the floor and he goes to reach for them.... and.... he kept going... and going... and he fell over. Crashed! Snoring SO loud! He was TOTALLY, COMPLETELY, asleep! We COULD NOT get him to wake up! It was SO funny! haha oh I love my little man!

Turn around for one second....

I turn around for one second while Kyler is playing... and this is what I find! I think every little kid LOVES plastic bags! haha

Answered prayers

Well...to begin, as all of you know, I've had struggles deciding what to do about working. Thank goodness my prayers have FINALLY been answered! I turned down the job I was offered at the college and went to another interview yesterday for a job at the elementary school. They told me they had LOTS of applicants and would get back to me sometime next week. Well they called this morning and guess what! I GOT THE JOB! This one is totally what I am looking for! It's from 12-3 Monday through Friday being an aid for teachers, helping with kids in Chapter One. They are paying me more than the college was going to and I think it will be a great experience! I don't start until the 28th of this month, but I am excited! :) Yay for answered prayers!!! My mother in law and cousin are going to watch Kyler for me which is a HUGE blessing. I'm excited to be able to have a job and still be able to stay home with Kyler.

To work or not to work?!?

Well.. I have been searching for a job since I got laid off from Salt City in May. Since we moved to Neola, I thought FOR SURE i wanted to work-otherwise I would go crazy. I applied for a lot of jobs and only got one interview. So I figured it just wasn't meant to be and I was content with staying at home with Kyler. Last week I got a call for 2 more interviews. I just had one a few hours ago and they offered me the job! The hours would be from 8 a.m. - 3p.m. with a one hour lunch(still considered part time so no benefits). Which is more hours than I wanted to work. It's being an aid in the Business Lab at the Utah State Extension out here. We could REALLY use the money right now but I just don't know if it's right! There are so many things to look over like whether or not I should go back to school (I was thinking January but now am not sure we can afford it) if paying for day care is worth working and being away from Kyler all day or what. I have a different interview on Thursday so I really need to figure out what to do! ADVICE ANYONE?!?!

Tough Lessons Learned

As many of you know, we have been looking for a house to buy in Roosevelt. Well... an offer of ours FINALLY got accepted!!!! YAY! Right? Wrong! Let me begin from the beginning. A little while ago, Deric and I sat down to go over our finances and realized we haven't saved up as much as we would have liked....so our budget for a house went down a little bit. But we were still hopeful. One day this house dropped 30 grand overnight so we hurried real fast to go look at it. I really liked it! Deric liked it but didn't love it. Our real estate agent told us it would be gone by the end of the week for sure so we should put an offer out that night if we were going to. So we did. And it got accepted within a few days. However, the night we put an offer on it, Deric informed me that he didn't feel good about it and we immediately began to pray (we really hadn't prayed about that particular house yet). We also got to go to the temple and we felt that this was not the house for us. So we could just back out of it right? WRONG! We had a miss understanding with our real estate agent and we had put earnest money down. The only way we could get that money back was to have an inspection and find something really wrong with it. Thank goodness we had that inspection instead of taking the house! To name a few reasons would be: all the electrical was either taped to the ceiling or just hanging out (we hadn't noticed before), and it's an older home and the old sewer line had the cap blown off and there was a lot of old human waste in this little crawl space, can you say DISGUSTING!! Luckily we had Deric's cousins do the inspection for us so it didn't cost too much! All I can say is I have learned that buying a house is ALOT more than just signing papers and getting the keys. You have to be smart, look into things and completely trust in the Lord. We're still looking and we're going to an auction on Thursday... still keeping those fingers crossed! :)

Shanae's Wedding

Deric's sister, Shanae, just got married last weekend. It was so fun to be a part of planning her wedding and helping her get things all together! They only had a month engagement, so a lot was crammed into a little bit of time, but it was still great. Deric's brother, Terrell, took a lot of her bridals and wedding pictures and they turned out SO CUTE! He also took some family pictures for us! It was great to see all 10 of Deric's siblings together for their sealing in the Mt. Timanagos temple! As always, seeing people get sealed in the temple and being there reminded me of my own wedding/sealing. I have married an amazing man who loves me and our son unconditionally. He works SO hard!!! I have never met someone with such dedication to everything he is doing. He is currently working 50-60 hours a week as a salesman for Basin Wholesale, taking a full semester of classes from Utah State at night, is the Priests Quorum advisor in our ward and on top of that, he always makes time to spend with me and Kyler! How amazing is he?!? FREAKIN AMAZING in my opinion! I sure do love him! :D Well here are a few of our family pictures from the wedding-hope you enjoy!