A long update!

Since I last posted in June a LOT has happened! We had a fun rest of the summer swimming a ton, going mini golfing, fireworks, going to Good Zoo (in wheeling) and the DC Zoo, Playing with friends,   sending dad off on rotations for 3 months, and finding out we are having baby #3!

Best way to watch fireworks:)

                                       

Baby #3 Due March 17th, 2014

Grandma Lisa came out to visit at the end of August! We took her to Pittsburgh, swam with her, took her to Barkcamp state park, took her to get a famous Coleman's fish sandwich, Played at the park by our house and played a lot at home too!

At the top of Mt. Washington in Pittsburgh

At the beginning of September we flew home with Grandma Lisa to Utah!  Jason started an Army rotation in Hawaii that same time.  I stayed a few weeks in Utah to get the kids settled and then I met up with Jason in Hawaii for 10 days. Our friends Cole, Misty and Logan joined us. We both really missed the kids, but we skyped everyday and it was nice to have time just with each other.

The crew- Shay, Jason, Cole, Misty, and Logan

Maunawili Falls- typical Shaylee getting mad at Jason for ruining the picture just before this one:)

Cole and Misty

Makapuu Beach

Laie Temple

The boys body surfing

                                      

                                      

After Hawaii we stayed in Utah until the day after Christmas! Lots of time to spend with family and friends! We had SO much fun being there! The kids got so spoiled and Jason and I got to do a lot of things we don't normally get to a lot of (dates, temple, etc...) thanks to our families watching the kids.  I will just try and list all the notable things we did and then put pictures... Pictures explain more anyway:)  Zoey started preschool with Miss Krystal! She LOVED it! She got to go on field trips to Papa murphy's to make Pizza, Dinosaur Park, Get Air, and to Christmas Village! She learned a lot and made some good friends.

We played a lot in both grandparents backyard's! The kids got to swing, have wagon rides, jump on the trampoline, play with the dogs, play baseball, and many many more! The kids got lots of time with the grandparents and great-grandparents.

 They got to swim at Aunt "she she's" house, go to Fat Cats to bowl and play games, The Tree House Museum, Hikes, Pineview Reservoir with Grandpa Wallace, a drive to Powder Mountain, Kangaroo Zoo, the Beus Pond, Jason's family farm to cut wood, ride horses, and have smores, Get air for Beck's 2nd birthday, the farm up in Paradise, park city condo and alpine slide, Heber Creeper halloween ride, Dairy Keen, lots of park dates, Carving pumpkins with Grandpa Wallace, Trunk or Treat, making cookies with Grandma Lisa, Halloween fun with both families and Zoey's preschool class, Thanksgiving with Stegen's and then again with the Hyde's in St. george, Zion, Pickleball, Hiking, visited Curtis, Rachel, Lily, and Boston, Yoga with Grandma Rose, Lindsey's baby shower, Christmas Bingo with the Stegen's, Sledding, making a snowman, Temple square, Brigham City Temple, lots of movies, lots of eating out (chik-fil-a our fav) Christmas Jammies, Christmas day talking to Quincy on her mission, opening lots of gifts!

That is a VERY unorganized and very condensed list of the things we did while in Utah!!! Here are the pictures to explain a little more about our time there!

1st day of Preschool

                           

Beck turned 2! Get air in Kaysville

Tractor ride with Great Grandpa Kendell at farm in Paradise

Dairy Keen in Heber

Heber Creeper

Getting together with good friends

Carving pumpkins with Grandpa Wallace

He loves his Grandpa

RIding horses in Liberty at the farm

Woody

making cookies with Grandma Lisa

Preschool hayride before trunk or treat

Woody, Jessie, and Bullseye

Ready to go trick or treating

Trick or Treat Great Grandma "Bot"

The kids at Great-Grandma Bonnie's house

St. George

"The Crack" in St. George

Tuachan Christmas adventure

Zion

Going to Fat Cats and The Tree House Museum with Grandma Lisa

Throwing rocks into Pineview with Grandpa

Powder mountain snowball fight

Christmas Village fieldtrip

Yoga with Grandma Rose

Kangaroo Zoo

At Lindsey's baby shower

They loved playing the piano at GGrandma Bon's house

Both kids loved Ruby and her "paw paw" dance

BINGO

Hiking- Looking out over El Monte

Beus Pond- Feeding the ducks

Tree House Museum

                             

Cutting wood at the farm in Liberty

                           

                           

                            

Christmas Village

Sledding at Taylor School

New Jammies- "Bear cheeks"

Ready to leave Santa cookies and milk

                            

Now that we are finally back home maybe I can try and keep up with the blog! One more bit of news... Jason matched family medicine residency at Fort Bragg in North Carolina! We are very excited! He Graduates May 31st and then we head straight to NC! Before all that we have a new baby on the way (not finding out gender) and a graduation trip to Outerbanks NC with our friends from med school! Lots to look forward to this year!