Ryan Laughing

we took this video after the football game a couple weeks ago. I am just learning how to post videos. Isn't his laugh so cute??

Remodeling is completed!

So today I had my sister in law's shower at my house, this means that the remodeling is finally completed!!! It felt like it would never get done and last night Eric & I stayed up really late trying to put the finishing touches on our house. Well, we actually finished. I know that we only started 2 weeks ago, but I was so grateful to finally get back the use of our kitchen and living room without tools and saws everywhere. Before
Don't you love the saw in the background. A perfect tool with kids!
The finished product
What should we do on top of the fridge? We don't know what to do with that space.

It feels so nice to have our house back!!!!

Ryan has been growing and developing so quickly. He is now feeding himself his bottles. Which is a huge step, I think. He is getting way too close to crawling. At least now our floors are actually clean, so I don't worry about him crawling around on them. He opens his mouth wide when he is eating, at least if he isn't gagging on the peas or green beans (he hates those). He loves being sung to. He loves the song bobbing along on the beautiful briny sea (from bedknobs and broomsticks). He loves being twirled around and danced with. He is just the cutest little guy and we are so lucky to have him. I adore him so much! I am so happy to see comments from everybody on the blog. I love looking through everybodies and finding out what is going on in your lives. Keep commenting!!

First football game of the season

Today was the University of Utah's first home game. They played Air Force and it wasn't a pretty sight. They were struggling with passes and runs and the refs were calling everything against Utah and nothing against Air Force, it was truly a frustrating game. I am really concerned about next week because they are playing UCLA which is a good team. Oh dear...we'll see how it goes. We have season tickets this year so we will be at all of the home games. Ryan was startled when everybody started screaming and yelling, but he will get used to it. I felt like the mother of the year when he started crying and I kept telling him, only 2 more minutes, only 2 minutes left. It is so much fun being in the crisp air and watching football. I love it when college football season comes around. We hope to be season ticket holders for life, of course for Utah!!! Hopefully they will pick it up sometime soon. Ryan was super happy after the game was over and there weren't thousands of people all over him screaming. Also, for Kara & Haley remember Justin from 7 Brides??? He also has season tickets and sits in the row right in front of us. I will be seeing a lot of him this season. Small World?

What have we done???

Our main room floor is a red tile that is just dying. The previous owners poured acid on it to remove some stains and needless to say, it destroyed the grout, the finish on the tile and it looks like a mess. So before Ryan starts to crawl we needed to put new flooring on our main level so Ryan doesn't put grout in his mouth. So yesterday we started demolition. It is so much work!!! We pulled up the tile and then the backboard. We are now moving the fridge and the stove so we can clean up underneath there. Our main level looks like a disaster area!!! I would have taken pictures, but I didn't. I don't know that I want to remember this. We are finally ready to start laying the wood floors. Hopefully it goes smoothly and we can get lots of it done today. I am so sweaty and stink so bad!! It will be nice when we turn our gas back on and I can take a nice warm shower, I am sure that Eric would agree. I'll post some pics when our new flooring is underway. This has turned into a much bigger project than anticipated, however. The floor is going to be about 1/4 an inch lower than the tile was. So we are going to have to repaint, because underneath the baseboards isn't the right color. Then while we are at it, we may as well repaint the base boards and the doors. I want to have it done before Christina's shower, which is at my house. So Christina, if you are reading this, this is all for you!

Swiss Days

Last Saturday, Eric & I along with Kara & Andrew drove up to Midway and went to Swiss Days. We had lots of fun. I had never been up there before. Midway is such a cute little town. There is so much fun architecture, it just feels like you are in a small scandinavian town. We went to the 7-11 for lunch (since the lines for food at Swiss Days were terrifying). So, a hot dog and slurpee later we walked into the park area. There were so many booths, I wish that I had taken money with me so I could have gotten some things. All in all it was just an enjoyable day.

Ryan was getting so hot in the baby bjorn, he ended up falling asleep until we took him out and put him in the car. He is such a good little baby, he comes with me everywhere and is, most of the time, a little angel.

Wishing you were somehow here again!

So, Eric & I took Ryan on his first camping trip last night. It was a momentous occasion for us!!! We were going to go to my parents ward outing, but after hearing that my Mom's car was stuck in a ditch and they had driven around forever trying to locate the property, Eric & I took off and drove a little further East to the Uintas. We stayed at a campground called Shingle Creek. By the time we got there and got the tent set up it was dark, and yikes was it cold. Ryan was put to bed quickly and Eric & I stayed up playing cards. I missed so much Debbie & Ben, thus the title of the blog. I missed focusing the hate by myself. It works much better when there are others focusing the hate. We were woken up several times during the night with squirrels running up and down our tent, this was a first for me. There have always been squirrels while camping, but never running up and down the tent. This morning we put Ryan is some super warm clothes because it was super cold outside. He looked so darling, please don't look at me in the pics, just check out the baby. HE is so CUTE!!! While we were packing up camp today we saw some deer just up from our site walking through the forest. It doesn't get any better than this!

Boating

Today, we went super early to East Canyon Reservoir to go boating with some of Eric's co-workers. We had so much fun. Ryan wasn't too thrilled about wearing the life jacket (it squeezes his cheeks together) but what can ya do? Eric tried out some chair boarding thing??? I think he is a little too tall for it, but then he did get some good water skiing in. Way to go. Once the life jacket came off Ryan was thoroughly enjoying himself.