serious slacking going on around here....

okay ...I am so far behind I could never catch up so this picture overview will have to do. These are in no particular order. hopefully I can narrate some of the pictures.

 March 17th Crew turned 4 years old! we had a Despicable Me party. My Mom, Dad and brother Ben came down for Crews b-day and for Ben's baseball tournament. My mom made the cutest pin the eyeball on the minion game but of course we didnt get a pitcure of the kids playing it.

 Blowing out his candle

 The cake my mom and i made.

 trying sushi for the first time. he sorta likes it. he does love miso soup though.

 April easter egg hunt in town, mass chaos and over in about 12 seconds.

 with daddy

 all his boy cousins that live here in STG.

 We went to the Art Festival later that day, Crew wasn't to fond of it except for the kids area. He was nervous to get his face painted at first so we made a few crafts then walked around and looked at all the art, got a snowcone and on the way back to the car He decided to get his face painted. he wouldnt tell the girl what he wanted and wouldnt even look her in the eye. After though he thought it was the coolest thing ever.

 the baseball he finally decided on.

 easter egg hunt even later that day at The Fonnesbecks. Where the kids got more candy than they did at Halloween. it was kind of ridiculous
                                      

 showin off our bunny teeth

 haha these things are pretty hilarious

 Easter morning {please ignore is mismatched jammies it was laundry day.}

 crew and dad next to crews basket

 making eggs

the final product and a super handsome boy.

  We went to Vegas in March. We stayed at The Stratoshpere, went to The M&M factory, Bellagio Gardens, took crew down the Strip to see the lights (while trying to keep his eyes from the nasty billboards and advertising) shopping and dinner just a relaxing overnighter as a family.

 Falling asleep at the table, he has gone on strike when it comes to taking naps lately so by dinner time he is usually exhausted.

Crew played Smart Start Soccer, He really seemed to enjoy it and is getting pretty good at his soccer skills.

 Riding his first school bus with his cousins to get to the Kite Festival.

 more of the kite festival

 proof that Cody was there with us. we had a blast, this will  have to be something we go to every year for sure.

 riding on the "train" at the festival

 Crew in his soccer graduate shirt and before pic of his hair before we cut it all off.

 getting his hair cut.

May 4th : Waiting in the E.R. for his very first( and most likely not last) set of stitches. We were at town square where there is a little river for the kids to play and splash around. He tripped and went face first into a large rock. He took a nice chunk out of his bottom lip that required 3 stitches. he was so good for the doc and didn't even flinch when he gave him the shot in his lip to numb it.

 Crashed after getting home from the E.R.

 We spent a few hours watching the Iron Man here in town. We were right there at the finish line when the first place guy crossed the finish line. of course we forgot to take pics of him coming in, but i did get one of the second guy. i will have to get it off my phone and put it up later.

 got a sweet fireman's hat. gotta love the dollar store.

 our ward did an adults "minute to win it" night . it was so fun! not to many pics but i will have to put up the video of Rachelle and I doing the ping pong tissue box game. She got it in like 4 sec. I'm pretty sure her box was rigged!

We went and walked along the river by our house. This is where the trail fell into the water during the flood this winter.  Okay that is all for now I will try to put some Christmas up soon (yes I know it is july... don't judge). We put all our pictures on an external hard drive before I got around to posting them. So I will try but I promise nothing!

The Best 6 Years of my life

We Celebrated our 6th Anniversary on the 17th. So we set out for a little getaway in Sunny Las Vegas, only it was not so sunny, it was rainy, wet and kind of cold. Still lots of fun though. We stopped in Mesquite to have sushi for lunch, so tasty. We stayed at The Luxor, went shopping  I mean window shopping at the Fashion Show mall. Walked up and down Fremont street, had our "anniversary dinner" at Mc Donald's afraid we wouldn't make it in time to the Gordie Brown show at the Golden Nugget, thanks Travis and Erin for the tix, which was hilarious by the way, and probably one of the cleanest shows language wise as you can get in Vegas. We made up for dinner the next day at The Cheesecake Factory for lunch walked the forum shops at Caesar's Palace, saw the Gardens at the Bellagio, then we walked down the strip to the biggest Ross I have ever seen. It was amazing! I will defiantly be going back, but maybe next time with a bunch of girls, Cody wasn't as excited as I was about it. It was a great weekend and nice to spend a couple days with my man! love you babe!

There's a snake in my boot!

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Happy Halloween from the world's cutest Woody, even if we can't get a good pic.

Preschool

 Here is my handsome school boy ready for the day.

 Hooray for school!

 classic first day of school picture

Walking up to his school with his Lighting McQueen backpack.

Crew loves school, when I picked him up the first day he came running out gave me a big hug and said "THAT WAS SO FUN, AND NOBODY HIT ME!"

  HAHA He has been having some problems with a little boy in his nursery class hitting, and before school he was worried that the boy would be in his class, I told him he wouldn't be and he was happy to hear that.

Two Years...

We have now hit our two year mark of infertility. We are so thankful that we have our beautiful son Crew and have been so blessed to have him in our family. We also know that two years may seem like nothing to those who have suffered much longer and have no children, and my heart hurts for those that struggle with infertility. I wouldn't wish it on anyone, but still it doesn't make us want another child any less.

We are still trying and doing all that we can to make it a possiblity, while things are not getting any better ( in fact my tennis ball is now a softball) but we KNOW that we will have more children, and that it is all on the Lord's time table, but we also know that we have to do all we can to help bring it about.

I know that the Lord will not give us any trials that we cannot overcome, but we know we have to lean on him and let him strengthen us and bring us comfort and peace.

Today I came across this video and it hit home with me. It describes how I feel...

Cysts=progress?

So yesterday I had my annual visit to the "Lady Doctor", after doing the exam and adding in all of my problems with getting pregnant he decided to do an ultrasound thinking he could feel a cyst. So I waited another 10-15 minutes in the cold doctors office an then they moved me to the ultrasound room. He did and internal ultrasound and found what he suspected...CYSTS! My right ovary has two smaller cysts and on my left one that is 5.5 cm that is about as big as a ........ TENNIS BALL!!!!! 

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 I couldn't believe it... Ironically I have been taking Clomid to help get pregnant but one of the side effects of it is Cysts, so we have stopped Clomid and are going to see if they go down on their own. He said he has seen many women still get pregnant when they have cysts. So if I test positive for ovulation this month we will still go ahead withe the Artificial like we originally planned. If i don't end up pregnant and the cysts don't go down then we will move on to a Laparoscopy, to get a better look and possibly drain the cysts if possible. The plus side to that is they can also look for endometriosis while they are in there and because they went in to deal with cysts my insurance should pay for it! Two bird with one stone, and we wont have to pay, SCORE!

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{So this is just a cyst picture I found on line and I am not sure how big it really is but YUCK huh!}

Anyway so while Cysts aren't what we wanted at least now it feels like we are actually moving on. For the last 7 or so months it has just been the same story, keep on the clomid to get me ovulating regularly, and then just wait and see. At the very least we will get to figure out if I have endometriosis, a little blessing in disguise.

 Hopefully we will be able to get through all of this "progress" so that we can have another one of these...

{because I mean lets be honest we make stinking cute babies}

The Happiest Place on Earth...

{sorry all these pictures are off my phone so the quality is horrible}

At the Rainforest Cafe. The food was not great but the kids liked it.

Huntington Beach 

{ i love that place i would move there in a heartbeat}

Crew LOVED playing in the water. I think he would move there in a heartbeat too.

The lego store in Downtown Disney, these sculptures were crazy it was amazing. 

Crew and Woody

Cool Kid

The first ride of the day, Buzz lightyear. We loved it so much we went a second time later that day.

Autotopia licensed drivers {cousins Jack and Marley}

Driving with Dad

"Its a Small World after all" {sooo Creepy}

Crew and Marley in Toon Town

Lighting McQueen- Crew's Favorite Character

Cutest toy on the Shelf

Mr. Toad's wild ride

We had such a great time. It was Crew's first time to California and he loved it. He still talks about the beach and every time we get into the car he asks if we are going to California. We went down with Cody's Mom, his sister Mickelle and her three kids, Marley, Jack, and Calliope.  Jack and Crew are only 9 months apart and are the best of friends and the worst of enemies. 

We got lucky with lines for the most part, it seemed like everyone got in line just after us. The longest line we waited in with kids was 40 minutes for finding nemo. We hit a good amount of rides considering all the kids. We got the park hopper and we weren't to impressed for the little ones. They loved Lighting and some of the bugs life stuff was cute but i think it is more for older kids. Of course the line to the toy story ride there was an hour. We didn't think that the kids would last so we headed back to Disneyland.  Around 9 Grandma took the three little ones back to the hotel and Cody, Mickelle, Marley and I stayed and hit thunder mountain and space mountain, which was an hour long line. good thing i love that ride. 

The next day Grandma, Mickelle and her kids headed home, and we headed to the beach!! I love the Beach. I love the sound of the waves the sun, the water the sand everything about it. I could definitely be a California girl. If it weren't so dang expensive. It was a Great week and very hard to go back to real life after a week of  vacation.  WE CAN'T WAIT TO GO BACK!