Father's Are So Special...

Happy Father's Day to our wonderful dads. They are great men and we are definetly blessed to have them in our lives. We also have such wonderful grandpa's too. I also want Jed to know what a wonderful husband he is to me and a great dad to Lucas. We hope they had a wonderful day!!
This weekend we went down to Jed's cabin on Kolob. We had a great time. Lucas played extremely hard. He slept almost the entire way home yesterday. We went around by the lake and Jed and his dad fished while Lucas played in the water. He loves the water!! We took his shoes and socks off and let him wade in just a couple of steps. The water was cold, but that didn't seem to bother him! We start his little swimming class next week and I think he's really going to like it!!
Grandma and Grandpa Beatty came up for dinner on Saturday night. It was fun to see them and visit for awhile. My first time and the cabin, right before Jed and I were married, we carved our name in one of the trees. This picture is of what it looks like now. I always have to go find it every year so that I don't forget where we did it.


Notice Lucas's forehead...he decided to run off our back steps and landed on his head. He sure scraped it up, but he didn't cry for very long. He's such a brave little boy!

Jed has a couple of Baseball games this week and we are going up to Honeyville for my cousin's wedding. Western Star is also having a summer BBQ at 7 Peaks, which we are excited about. I think Lucas will have a fun time there. I think that's it for now...

A Week in Review...

There hasn't been much happening the last few days. Jed started his baseball league last week. The game was at 8:30 at night so I decided to go and Tawnya came with. About half way through it started to rain off an on. When we finally decided that we had had enough, we jumped in the car to head home just as it started a major down pour. We were quite glad that we had decided to leave. When Jed came home he was soaking wet and muddy!! It was fun to watch him play again. He thought he had a game on Saturday so his parents and his sister Mariann came to watch. It turned out that he was misinformed and he didn't have a game. That was okay though because we got to spend time with his parents on Saturdayand Lucas loves to see them. We tookMariann out to see where we are building our home. We found out that our home should go on the schedule in the next week or so. We are excited about that. Everything goes as planned we should be in by the end of August, first of September. While they were here we also went to visit Jed's cousin Jason, who is here in Provo for awhile.
Saturday evening we went to the driving range with our friends Chad & Alicia and little Carter. I'm not very good at all, but it's fun to hit with a driver. On Sunday, Tawnya and Landon came over and we had a little BBQ and played Sequence, and of course the girls won!!!

Summer's are so crazy, at least for us they are. This weekend we are going down to Jed's cabin on Kolob. The next weekend we have a wedding to go to up in Honeyville and the next weekend we'll be camping for a few days. It's fun to go and do things, but it's also nice when the weekends come that we don't have anything!!

More Arizona Pics...

Riding in the Walker

Nappy and Lucas

Grandma teaching him Eonk...Eonk!!!

Getting ready to board the airplane.

I'm not sure what's going on with blogger, but it's being funny so you'll have to scroll down to see the blog that goes with the pictures.

Arizona Pictures

What did I do??

Grandpa & Lucas

Swimming

Arizona

I had so much fun in Arizona. I was there from Saturday to Tuesday afternoon. It was a pretty short trip, but I'm definetly glad that I went. My mom and Nappy had flown in on Friday and they are staying until Saturday. The plane ride down Lucas did really good for the first half and the very end, but there was little part in the middle where I'm sure that the passengers on the plane did not like him! He started to cry because he wanted to get down and run. On the plane ride back, he feel asleep during take off and didn't wake up until I had to put him in the stroller to get the luggage. It was sure nice. The lady sitting next to us was especially glad, I could tell she wasn't happy that she had to sit by a baby. Flying is so fast and nice!!!
Lucas immediately fell in love with my grandpa Clouse and learned how to say "grandpa" while we were down there. They were buddy's the entire time we were there. It was so cute. Now he keeps wondering were Grandpa is. My grandpa had a mini stroke a couple of days after Mother's Day in May. He is doing really well though. When he goes outside he uses a walker, and Lucas thought it was so fun. He would sit in the seat and Grandpa would push him out to get the mail. Lucas was such a good boy. The only time he cried was when he fell head over heels down their stairs. He cried for a minute and then was ready to play some more. We took him swimming a couple of times. Both times he didn't want to get in the water because it was cold and then when he got use to it, he didn't want to get out!!
My mom and her sisters always have some project to do when they get together. Nyla had a quilt that she put on. It's a quilt that her daughter pieced, and it is very pretty. Jeanie was having them help her with bags that she was making for her school class. They turned out so cute. She ended up making more than enough so I got one. It'll make a cute church bag for Lucas.
We also did a lot of "Runs and Bunches" playing, which is always fun. And of course, Grandma always cooks such good food. We have to weigh ourselves daily to make sure we aren't gaining 5 pounds a day. On Saturday we had an evening picnic with most of my Aunt Nyla's kids and their kids, my Aunt Jeanie's family, my mom, Nappy, Lucas and I, and Grandma & Grandpa. It was so fun to see everyone, even if it was extremely hot!! We all had a good time. My grandparents live in a nice condo area, and they just took out one set of tennis courts and made a nice picnic area with grass to play on. Lucas loved hanging out with all of his cousins. He liked to follow all the big kids around and watch what they were doing.
It's always hard for me to leave down there. I have such a great relationship with my grandparents. They have been so good to me. I was able to spend two summers living with them while I was working at my uncles office.
Of course I was excited to come back and see Jed. He wasn't able to come because of work. Both Lucas and I missed him very much. I think he found a way to occupy most of his time with Baseball, Golfing, Movies, and spending time with Landon and Tawnya. When Lucas saw Jed at the airport he was so excited to see his dad, and I was too!

Happy Memorial Day...

Memorial Day is always nice because it allows you to take time to remember those who have gone before. This Memorial Day we spent up in Honeyville. It was great to be with family and have an extra day where Jed didn't have to work!! We had a great time visiting with my cousing Jessica and her husband Bryan and their cute little family, Harleigh, Connor & Riatta. They stayed the night at my parents house on Friday. They currently live in Vernal and we don't get to see them that often. On Saturday, Jed, me, Tawnya, Landon & Nappy decided to go golfing...despite the forecast for rain. It ended up raining quite hard, but we had a great time. We were all froze by the end and one golf club lighter, but it was worth it! On the only hole with water, Jed decided to toss his pitching wedge right into the water. It's a good thing he has a sense of humor, because the rest of us thought it was pretty darn funny. His hands were wet and it just slipped right out. Monday turned out to be a beautiful day and we had a BBQ at my grandparents house. My dad was lucky to have all of his siblings here this year. We had a great time visiting with aunts, uncles & cousins we don't get to see that often.
I am leaving for Arizona on Saturday morning to go visit my grandparents. I'm excited to be able to see some of my family I don't get to see that often. My mom and Nappy are flying down on Friday and then Lucas and I will fly Saturday. I found so pretty cheap tickets.
These are some pictures that Tawnya took out in our yard. We were trying to keep Lucas cooled off during the hot spell. He sure had a blast playing with the hose.

Update...

I was looking at our blog today and realized it's been over a week since I wrote anything. I thought I would do an update and I then I realized there isn't much to update you on. Jed's diploma came in the mail today... I guess that means it's official. The school has obviously decided to save money by elimiating the nice display folders that they use to come in. All he got was the piece of cardstock. Thank goodness the piece of paper means something!! We'll have to go pick out frame to display it in.
Since Tawnya has not been working, we have done quite a bit of stuff together. She went with me today to run a few errands. Last week we did the frame project. I think they turned out dang cute! I want to make some more, but I don't have any more room! It makes it fun when the picture/person is cute too.
Lucas has been wearing me out! He is so full of energy and just goes and goes and goes. I just get one room cleaned and he's off destroying another one. He's so funny. If you tell him you are going to spank his bum, he spanks it himself. I can't help but laugh. He's going to be awfully hard to discipline because he thinks everything is funny. We took him to nursery on Sunday for a little bit. He just seems so young. He hit one of the other boys in the face. It's his way of greeting people I guess... He'll go into nursery in three weeks. It'll be interesting to see how they handle him. He doesn't sit still and the whole time we were in there they wanted the kids to do puzzles!
On Sunday we had a BBQ at Tawnya and Landon's. It was a lot of fun. We have such good friends. I hope that when we move, we can still get together. We are really lucky. One of the games that we play a lot is Scum, which is quite fun when we have 10 people.
Jed and I are truly blessed to have such great people in our lives. I really believe that the Lord gives us trials and challenges only to make us stronger and better. They can definetly bring people closer together and I feel that with our family.


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Curve Balls...

Just when you think things are going good and life couldn't get any better, something always seems to happen. Well that something happened to us this past week. May 9th was our first visit to the doctor for the pregnancy, and of course we were excited. We didn't leave the doctor's office as excited though. Dr. Glenn couldn't find a heartbeat so he sent us for an ultrasound. It turned out that it was not a viable pregancy. I should have been 11 weeks along, but the baby had stopped growing about 6 weeks. Dr. Glenn scheduled me for surgery and I had that done the next day. I could have waited it out, but I probably would have still had to have the D&C. I justed wanted to be done with it. My mom came down and stayed with us for a couple of days. She was a huge help with Lucas. 25% percent of pregnancies end with a miscarriage. I didn't realize how high it was. Dr. Glenn is a wonderful doctor and I'm grateful for his help with all of this.
Mother's Day was not the easiest for me this year. I am truly blessed to have Jed and Lucas in my life. They mean so much to me. I am also thankful for our own mothers. They are wonderful moms and we appreciate everything they do for us. We are very blessed to have such a wonderful family. We love you all and appreciate all the love that has been shown to us this past week. It means a lot to us.

Junior/Senior Pictures

Jed and I took my sister Jessica's Junior/Senior pictures. She didn't have any taken this year and since senior pictures are taken in a couple of months we figured we could do it now. They turned out pretty cute. She's really pretty, especially when she's not scowling!!! Here are a few of them. My mom came and got me and Lucas on Wednesday and we went to Jessi's softball game in Tooele, which they lost, and then we went up to Honeyville. Jed came up on Friday afternoon. We had a great time. We went to Ice Age 2, which is really funny. For Jed it was really relaxing since he didn't have to hurry and get back home to write papers. Jessica's dog Mickey also had puppies a little while ago so we tried to get Lucas to like them. He's scared to death of them. They are so cute. If they would stay little, I would bring one home with me.

He did it...

Jed GRADUATED yesterday. It made for pretty busy day, but it was worth it. Jed's parents and my mom were able to be here for it. It almost feels like a dream. I'm so proud of him though. He worked really hard for this. Hopefully now Lucas and I will get to see him more!! After graduation we took his parents out to see the model home we are building and the dirt that we now own!! Then we went back to the motel they were staying and went swimming. Lucas loved it. He floated around in his little blow up tube.

One More Pic...

More Pictures...

Okay... since the weather has had its ups and downs, we have to take advantage of every minute we can get outside. Yesterday I decided to take the camera and take pictures of Lucas. Here are just a few of them. You'll have to scroll down to the second post to see the rest of them. They didn't turn out too bad. He hates to have his feet touch the grass so it makes it pretty funny to watch him. Especially because the grass is quite long right now. Lucas thought he was pretty cool with his backpack on . He's so funny.
Last night was went to dinner with Shane and Talease (Jed's sister) to P.F. Changs. It's one of our favorite places to eat. They are leaving for California within the next couple of weeks. They'll be gone for the summer. It's fun to see them, we sure love them. We hope they have a great time in California. Jed's parents are coming tomorrow for his graduation on Friday. We are excited to see them.

Pictures...

This is Lucas's face eveytime the dogs bark! It makes me laugh.

2 days and counting...

Jed has finals today and tomorrow and then he is officially done!!! He'll graduate this Friday. We are so excited. He just told me last week that he finally could see a light at the end of the tunnel. He's been so busy with papers that he thought this day would never come.
On Saturday we finalized all of the options for the home we are building in Spanish Fork. I hope we remembered everything. If not, oh well because it costs to much money to do a change order. Hopefully they'll be able to give us some kind of time frame in the next little bit.
We had an offer on our home this weekend. We counter-offered back to them. We'll see if they accept either today or tomorrow. They have written into the agreement that they would rent back to us, which would be really nice. It makes me sad to sale, but we don't really want the hassel of renting it out.
We has a BBQ with some friends yesterday. It was fun to hang out with them again. We haven't really done anything for along time. We've all been so busy, but with summer right around the corner, I think we'll be doing a lot more!!
Sorry I don't have any pictures to post today. I need to take some. I forgot to recharge the batteries so my camera is dead.

Happy Easter

Kenna & Lucas

This year we spent Easter in St. George with Jed's family. It was a lot of fun. We went out to the family ranch in Arizona. The first part of the day was a little bit chilly, but it ended up being really nice. All of the cousins hunted for easter eggs, and of course, Lucas found his share. Jed's aunt and uncle are the foster parents to the little girl in the picture above. Her name is Kenna and she's only a week older than Lucas. They hope to adopt her and we definetly want them too. She's adorable. It was fun to hang out with all the family. Lucas loves to spend time with his Grandma & Grandpa and we do too.

Easter Pictures

Lucas Hunting for Easter Eggs.

Crazy Life...

Once we decided to build a home, our lives have been come even more crazier. Jed has only 17 more days till he graduates, but has been bombarded with papers. He's a little stress out. I was doing okay until we put our home up for sale. The realtor called yesterday at 10:45 and wanted to show the home at 11:00. Of course I panicked and needless to say, they didn't come! That was okay though...I'm not sure I'm ready to sell. We've been cleaning out closets and trying to get the house ready. The photographer came today and took pictures of the outside and inside. Hopefully they won't be too bad. We have our final appointment for our new home on April 22nd. We have to have everything picked out. It's a little bit nerve racking, but I'm sure it will all work out. I'm going to go up there one more time before we finalize just so I can be sure of the colors, etc. I'm adding some pictures of Lucas from this weekend. Now that we are moving, we finally get to use the swing set that's in our backyard. He loves it. I also tried to get a picture with him since I'm usually the one behind the camera. As you can see, he didn't want to show his face!!!