He is One!!

Our little baby boy turned one! I can't even believe it, I swear the more children you have the faster their little lives go!! Hayes is so cute and happy and bring so much joy to our family. We celebrated the big event at the Mayan with my parents, the kids thought it was pretty neat. Then we continued the celebration at Bear lake for the rest of the weekend with the rest of the family. Thanks to Hailey and her family for having us up to have some fun in the sun. Dave sucks!!!! with that being said he does not suck at swimming!! We did a relay triathlon with Dave at the swim, Lee at the bike, and me at the run. Lets just say it was a good thing the relay category was full because we would have won, instead we settled for second in the 50-54 male age group. We rocked!! All in all it was a fun relaxing way to end the summer.

First day of school, times two!

We now have TWO kids in school, where as the time gone?? Our sweet Sloane is in the First grade and is gone all day, oh how we miss her! She is loving it so much and thinks it is pretty cool to get to take her own lunch. Our sweet Beckett doesn't know how to function without his event coordinator around, luckily two of his days are filled with his new school where he is loving to learn new songs, painting, having snacks, and playing in the sand box. There is also a sweet little thing that has already caught his eye, he tells me every school day about how " her looked beautiful today." Needless to say he is having a good time!!

Swim Lessons

We had the kids take swim lessons the summer with my cute and patient friend Melissa. The first lesson was quit the adventure, I never knew a little boy could scream as loud or as long as my sweet little Beckett did but by the end of the two weeks we couldn't keep him off the slide!! Sloane as usual was an awesome student from start to finish! She learned how to swim across the pool all by herself, way to go sister we are so proud of you!!

Flaming Gorge

It has been a long summer, we have been having too much fun so there has been no time to blog. We started the summer off with a trip to Flaming Gorge with Jeanne's family...the whole family. It was a blast, it was the first time that we spent the night in a tent as a family. The kids had a great time at the lake, by the end of the trip I had even convinced Beckett to jump of a cliff (a small cliff). While we were there we celebrated Sloane's sixth birthday by taking a trip down the river. She had a good time and after one of the rapids stated "THIS IS THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!" I would call that a success!

March

March came in like a lamb and went out like a lion at the Raulstons. Jeanne and I were privleged enough to get invited to go to Maui with our friends Brooke and Brandon. We were able to go with them a few years ago and apparently they forgot how much we owned them at Hand and Foot so they invited us back for a re-match ( this time we let them win in hopes of a invitaion next time they go). We had a really good time snorkelling and hanging at the beach. We decided to try surfing so we got a couple boards and hit the waves, we got a little ambitious and decided to track down some good size waves. None of us have ever surfed and none of us were willing to pay for lessons so the first spot we hit ended with blood and four tired hombres. We then decided to head south to a spot where the waves are perfect for "small people" and girls that weigh less than 120 lbs. neither of which Brandon and I are, so we had a hard time catching anything worth writting about. The girls though dominated those waves like they had been doing it for years. Maui was a blast it is definitley a place that I could see myself spending 10-11 months out of the year.

Now to the Lion part of March- I turned thirty. Really the only reason I mention my birthday is to give big ups to my beautiful wife and her cake baking skills. Although this cake looks like it fell off the roof onto the plate it tasted like it had fallen from the heavens.

Six Months

Our baby just turned six months old- this is the last time we will have a six month old so we are really try to enjoy every moment of him being a baby. He has started to eat solid foods and is enjoying every minute of it- sometimes he will look at us as if he is getting away with something like he is sneaking the food from our hands or the fork we are holding, he definitely has Sloane's personality. All of our kids get along so well- we can only hope this will always be the case.

Quarterly Report

Halloween- Scary
Thanksgiving- Filling
Christmas- Plentiful
Valentines day- Romantic
Beckett's Birthday- Rockin'

Beck turned three this last month and we threw him a Fresh Beat Band Party (his favorite show on the tube). We had a blast, Jeanne created a cake that looked like drums and he could not wait to play them. We turned the kitchen into the Groovie Smoothie of which Dave was in charge of the smoothies. Thanks to everyone who came to the party and for all the great gifts and even better company.