Saturday, November 8, 2008

This is our FIRST family picture! I am terrible at getting us to get a family picture, now it will be a yearly event! We took some outside shots with our awesome neighbor Heather and then we went to kiddie kandids for inside shots. All in all a lot of work!

Learning how to put pictures on my blog!




This is Hunter and Haley, we took their pictures on the 4th of July 2008! I just learned how to put pictures on my blog. Thanks to Marni Petersen, I went to her house on Nov. 7 and 8th and did a MY LOVABLE SHOE PARTY/FUNDRASIER for Mog's Dance team.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

About Us

Thanks Heather Barton for taking our family pictures, we were a handful! We ended up going to Kiddie Kandids and getting inside shots too.



Ryan and I have been married 9 year's. Ryan and I have been together for 12 years. We have two awesome kids Hunter who is 4 and Haley who is 19 months. Ryan and I were married about 5 years before we had Hunter! You could say we were a little set in our ways at that point. It is so fun being with him we definitely enjoy our kids, but we really love to spend time together with out them now and then.
Ryan loves to hunt but not your normal hunting(he used to, but he got a little tired of it). Now he likes to hunt caribou and bear in Canada and Alaska. So we have a lot of mounts(dead animals) in our house! I don't mind I think it is kind of cool. Ryan and I both grew up in Gunnison,Utah and both of our families still live there. We used to visit often, but after kids it got to hard to pack everything up(excuses), that is what everyone tells me oh well! Ryan also LOVES to golf, we live right next to the Gladstan Golf Course in Elk Ridge, UT. We bought a golf cart at the first yard sale we ever went to about 3 years ago. It is awesome! Ryan golfs every morning in the spring/summer and as long it is warm or not snowing in the fall. Okay, so Ryan has a lot of hobbies, I think it is great is makes him happy and he always wants to make me happy as well. Ryan then snowmobiles every Saturday he can in the winter(which usually is every Saturday) with my family! Ryan also absolutley LOVES above all spending time with his kids and me, but Haley is so much of a daddy's girl. Hunter used to be, but he is changing to mom and a little bit of independence. Ryan least likes working he would rather be with his family or doing his hobbies, he does work at NuSkin and he has been there for 10 years.
I was a dental assistant for 8 years before I had my babies, I got to stay home once I had Hunter. I love being home with my kids at first it was a little tricky, but now I don't know how I could ever work especially on someone else's schedule. My hobbies are basically doing lots of fun things with my kids obviously it depends on the season what we do for fun. I love love to shop for clothes for me and the kids. My biggest love is shoes for me and the kids therefore I started my own business just 9 months ago. I do Shoe Parties, and sell over 60 styles of women's shoes and about 30 styles of infant squeaky shoes(they squeak when they walk, so cute)! My business name is My Lovable Shoes and it is doing awesome I can't believe the response I have had. I am away from my kids just a couple of hours and they are spending that time with their dad. They go to bed at 8 and 8:30p.m. so luckily I don't miss much. A very favorite hobby of mine is running and exercising. But, since I started the business I have not exercised very much well basically not at all. I love making my husband and children happy so that is my very favorite thing to do!
Hunter is 4 and goes to preschool 3 days a week, he absolutely loves it! He is learning so much his teachers are very surprised and so am I. He loves to learn, luckily he got his dads gene for that. Hunter loves golf he asks his dad if they can go hit balls all the time. He really is pretty good too. Hunter also love to go for rides on the Rhino he loves to climb the really steep hills. Hunter has a disease known as Cystic Fibrosis(CF), this disease affects Hunters lungs and his pancrease. He was born with this it, it is genetics. We are so impressed by his happy spirit with this disease, he is our little angel sent to us from Heavenly Father. His disease is fatal, but we have HIGH hopes that is going to change before it affects him to that point. Hunter has to do a treatment twice a day for 30 minutes a time(when he is sick it is 1 hour twice a day), he takes up to 20 pills a day! He has been swollowing big pills since he was a year old. He doesn't even blink an eye to all of this he thinks it is normal and great and he loves to show people how he does treatment, because it is cool! During the summer Hunter love to spend every momemt outside, he loves to go camping, he loves playing with his friends(so does mom), and he likes to ride his motorcycle when it is working, however after he crashed a year ago into our rock wall he has been a little nervous about it, but I think he will get back on this year. Hunter has been begging me to let him play baseball or tee ball the problem is, is there is no program until they are 5. I guess he will wait!
Haley, Oh what can I say about her CRAZY and more CRAZY! She is 1, but has been a handful since she was born. She is a great kid just wild! She slept through the night between 8 and 10 weeks old it was awesome. She takes two big naps a day and goes to bed at 8p.m. and get up about 7a.m., so we don't see her much, but when we do watch out she is CRAZY HAPPY! She started crawling at 7 to 8 months and walking at 9 1/2 to 10 months! I know it was my crazy squeaky shoes that made her want to walk! They make the cutest little sound for little toddlers, she loves the sound so started walking. She absolutely loves her big brother, but he has been a little annoyed with her lately because she takes everything away from him, I think it is kind of funny! She as I mentioned before is a Daddy's girl! Hunter and her are complete opposite Hunter is mellow, has red hair and kind of fair, not to bad. Haley is wild crazy, has dark brown hair and olive skin but they both have brown eyes. I can't believe I got two kids that are so different. I LOVE MY FAMILY! I hope everybody enjoys all our pictures and stories!