Fall is Officially Here!

I have to say I am kind of ashamed at how long it has been since I have posted!! We have been coming and going and had company coming and going so we have been busy!! Here are some pics of some of our happenings this past month! First of all, Payson got some wheels!! This little car is way more fun to cruise around the block in than a stroller! Not to mention, it's way cooler! The first thing Payson does every morning is go sit in it waiting for a ride!! Payson's Great Aunt Tricia sent him a new track suit that was super darling!! Here are some pictures of Payson showing it off!

I thought it was too cute!!

Also, Cody came up and spent a couple of weeks with us!! We took a short drive to Manitou Springs for an evening!

Playing at the park!

Having a great time!!

One day we stopped at the PX and they had this hotdog place! Well Cody said he does not eat hotdogs so I got one and then when he saw mine, he quickly changed his mind!! This is him waiting in the freezing cold waiting for his lunch!!

We had to go get bacon bbq burgers from GoodTimes and decided to share a small spoon bender between the 3 of us! It was very good, but after a couple bites we were so sick we barely ate half of it! Thansk Dad for passing on those anti dairy genes!

That afternoon we decided to go check out the Focus on the Family Welcom Center because it had a SWEET giant slide. Well we got there and the slide was closed. :( But we did find a giant play place that had some neat but random things in it! But like always, we made the best of it!

This was the best part. There was a room with a random Wardrobe in it....little did we know it was going to take us into Narnia!!!! Snow and everything!!

We had to take a picture with the Lamp Post...especially since our Narnia Lamp post in Bozeman got taken down! :(

So Shayne ahs finally been able to send me a couple pictures from the good ol middle east. first one is the river that runs through where he is at.

This is my poor Soldier's face after he was hit with something while trying to recover a burning truck. Poor guy!

The infamous truck!

And this is a NASTY spider that my brave Husband, who is deathly afraid of spiders, killed all by himself! That is enough to give you nightmares for the rest of your life!!

Alright, well that is what has been going on with us lately. All is well and we are still just taking life day by day! We are now over a quarter of the way through this deployment and half way to R&R! We are so excited and cannot wait!

Bozeman Happenings!!

For those of you who don't know, Payson and I are currently in Bozeman. This will be our last trip of the Summer because I need a BREAK!!! But I could not think of a more BEAutiful place to end my Summer. For anyone who has never been here, it is a must see. I love this place and I love the way I feel when I am here! Anyway, I thought I would post about some things we have done so far before I had 100 pictures to upload when I get home! Just being here is an adventure in itself but Monday night the whole Fam took a trip up Hyalite to roast some hotdogs and Marshmallows. This was Payson's first time getting to go and I was sad Shayne missed it. Once again, thank goodness for modern technology! When we first got up there, we found some wild raspberries!! While I was attempting to get a good picture, I ended up getting both of my arms in a Stinging Nettle plant!! Both of my arms felt like fire and I had wierd bumps that appeared but thankfully the pain was gone after 30 mins or so!! But the Raspberries were beautiful and tasted pretty good too!!

The guy who was taking care of the camp brought us an old radio flyer for the boys!! I thought that was so nice! He even let them keep it! Payson was not too sure how he felt about it!

So, I had to throw this picture in here because I love this girl to death!!! It has been so fun watching her grow since she was 7 and I cannot believe she just started high school! "Tear"


Payson had taken a bite out of each of these and then took off to go play. It looks like they were set up to take a picture so I couldn't resist. His little teeth marks in both were killing me but I thought it would be a neat picture in his scrapbook! For anyone who does not know, Payson LOVES chocolate. Something he inherited from his Grandma Mary. In fact, just this afternoon he kept finding all of her stashes and just when I thought he found the last one and I put it up high, he would find another!! I think we should start calling her Grandma Hershey!!

Standing by the river! I love the way we look EXACTLY the same in this picture!!

I absolutely love this picture!! All 3 of their expressions are hilarious!!

There is a new "Dinosaur" park in Bozeman and we have been a couple times. This was Payson doing the "Ropes Course" he actually made it halfway up and then just sat down and started swinging on it!

Today Melissa and I tooka drive out to Toston to our friend Joni! I actually spent Saturday at the Temple with her when I went with the Heaps and it was great! I wanted to go out and see her again before I left though!! This is a picture of Payson and Her youngest. I know it is a back shot but they were very engrossed in the movie! the two of them played great together and it was so fun to spend a couple hours with them and catch up!!

This afternoon, Grandma got out some bubbles for the boys. But these bubbles don't pop! They are so cool! I was trying to get a good picture of them!

This was a GREAT idea of Grandpa's! He took the extenders out so the tramp was perfect size for the boys to climb up!

Payson was loving chasing the bubbles!

Payson and Grant were making each other laugh as they ran through the bubbles and chased each other!!

That has been our excitement so far!! We still have some more time here and some more fun things planned, so until then, enjoy!!!

More Fun with Payson and Momma!

This Summer has been quite an adventure and we are not done yet! Melissa came back to town so we decided to go to Manitou Springs. It was a neat town with all sorts of fun shops and what not! We had a great time exploring and felt like we were in a whole new place! Even though we were only about 10 miles from home!! In the midst of our discovering, we found an entire Christmas store!!! There was even a chair for Santa!! Apparently he was off duty though so we stole it for a minute!! Too bad it's August because it would have made a cute Christmas card!!In the middle of the town there was a giant indoor/outdoor arcade!! It was fun to just walk around and see the sites and smell the food!! Melissa took this picture and it will forever be one of my faves!!

We even found a giant bicycle!!

Payson was very concerned because there were a lot of apples down in the stream and he wanted to get them!

This was a fun toy we found in the park! he looks mad here, but he really was laughing!!

We also found this way fun disk swing!! Payson just kicked back and relaxed while he enjoyed the wind in his face!!

So this picture. Anyone who knows me knows that I can be a REALLY DUMB BLONDE sometimes!! And when I get with Melissa we both get that way. It makes life interesting! Anyway, we were in the Sonic drive thru and we were trying to read the license plate on that car! We kelp pronouncing it "Sonic Crulz"!! We could not understand what the heck it meant!! then at the same time, while making the same hand motions we were like "Sonic Rules!!" Yes we are dumb but we laughed for a LONG time!!! There is nothing better than great laughter even if you are laughing at your self!!

Trip to Farmington!

Summer is still not over and we went on another trip! This time we got to take a trip down to Farmington, NM and spend the week at Great Aunt Tricia and Uncle RJ's house! It really was a blast. We drove down with Ann and Ben, and Joyce and Lauren who came in from Washington to go down with us! We had so much fun and got to do so many fun things! The day before we left Mary, Emily Kendra, Grant and Karen all came so we were able to spend a little time with them as well!

This was Payson's little personal pool right outside the big pool!

Playing with his Great Aunts Joyce and Ann

Relaxing in the swing after a long swim!

We got the chance to go up to Durango for the day and for part of it, we went up to Purgatory and got to ride the alpine slides! (Pics of that coming soon) Funny Story, as Lauren and I were riding the Ski Lift up the mountain my cell phone started to ring! Who knew I would have service way up there?! Then to make it even better it was Shayne! So I had to tell him I was riding the lift up the mountain and he immediately knew where we were and what we were doing! After the ride, Payson was being cute and playing and he was standing by this fence looking like he was posing so I had to take a picture!

This is the whole group that came to Durango with us at the restaurant! Lauren, me, Payson, Tricia, Ben, Ann, Joyce, Alex and Grandma Weston.

So, this is a great story too..another one that Shayne was quite jealous of. His Uncle RJ has this beautiful Thunderbird and he decided to let me and Lauren drive it!!!!!!! He gave us the keys so we hit the town in style....well as much style as we could be in Farmington, but it was still a blast and I still can't believe he let us take it out!

We really had a goodtime in the convertible with our sunglasses on...

One day while we were out shopping, Lauren found a super cute purse, but didn't want it! So I decided to buy it and then everyone loved it so Me, Joyce, Lauren and Ann all got matching, but different purses!! We had to show them off!

We had such a great time this week and are so Grateful for Tricia and RJ's willingness to take care of us for a week! She cooked amazing food all week and let us eat her chocolates and make jewelry with all of her beautiful stuff!! They are so wonderful and we can't wait to come see them again!

Payson and Momma's Date Night In

Pizza for dinner, popcorn, a good Disney movie and a 19 month old date! Could the night get any better?!!! Payson wanted Popcorn after breakfast this morning so I decided that tonight we would have a movie and popcorn night! Sad story though, we had a little friend in our pantry. We will call him Remi. He got into our bag of "good" popcorn so we had to settle for microwave! It was still yummy!!

Payson was so excited that he tried to chew through the package!!

And he wanted to carry the bowl all by himself!

Getting ready for the movie! As you can tell, he was anxious to dig in to the Popcorn!

The Sword in The Stone was his movie of choice!

Stuffing his face!!!

We really had a lot of fun and I think we will make this a weekly family tradition!!

Wow!!

So I was putting all my pics from this summer into folders and I came across this one that I cannot believe I forgot to post! I took this picture in the Garden area at my Dad and Chris' house! This is a teeny tiny Hummingbird and I was actually able to get a picture of him with his wings full spread!! Not gonne lie, I was quite proud of myself!!

More Fun in the Sun!!

This summer is flying by, with no complaints from me! Everyone knows I love summer, but the faster time goes by, the sooner my Baby comes home!! We have had such a great time having Emy stay with us and we will miss her very much. We got to do lots of fun things with her. She took this picture of Payson and I before church on Sunday and I just can't get over how adorable he looks!!

The Thursday before we took Emy home, we had to go to the pool one more time! She decided to be brave and jump off the high dive! We were so proud of her. While she was doing that, Payson has having his own good time playing in the splash pool. He definitely loves the water and loves being able to play in the 2 ft. pool because he can walk around by himself!

On Thursday night we took a drive up to the Garden of the Gods. Payson loves being able to run around and climb on the rocks! His poor little legs are all bruised up, but I guess i had better get used to that. He is such a busy little guy!!

Payson was doing his monkey crawl across the rocks!

On Friday we went to the Fine Arts Center (Thanks again Sam for the VIP tickets!) On our way there, we passed a splash park and decided to check it out on our way home! i had no idea Payson was going to love it so much! But really? I should've known better!!

He kept putting his face right above the holes so when the water would splash out, he would run away cracking up laughing because he had gotten soaked!

Too bad I didn't have a change of clothes!

While we were at the splash park, there was a big festival being set up. They actually had the Budweiser Clydesdales and carriage there too! We didn't stay long enough to see the horses out of the truck, but we did get to go look at them up in the truck. As we were leaving we saw a rock climbing wall, so of course I had to do it! They guy told me that I had to let him tell me about the Army (he was a recruiter) and he would let me go for free. I told him shayne was already in the Army and that he was deployed, so he let me do it anyway! I was wearing flip flops so I took them off and went barefoot! And by the way, go Me for being the first one to make it all the way to the top!!

After the splash park, we went home to change clothes and get ready for the Sky Sox game!! We had such a great time and I hope Emy had a great last day!!! We really enjoyed having her! Now it is time to get ready for our next adventure!!


Payson had to sport his Montana Sweater at the game so everyone would know where he is from! Gotta represent!!