Tyler & Staci

Maternity Preview...

2012-02-10T14:39:00.000-08:00

I took my maternity pictures last week! My photographer only has a few edited so far...but I love the ones I've seen. Can't wait to see the rest.

Ward Baby Shower

2012-02-10T14:20:00.001-08:00

Ivy is not here yet and she is already so spoiled. A few women from church wanted to throw me a baby shower. I was thrilled with the idea. Ty and I teach in the primary so we do not get to interact with too many adults in the ward. So it was a fun oppurtunity to have a baby shower with all the ladies in the ward to get to know them better and to celebrate our little Ivy's arrival into the world. We had the cutiest cake! Shilene's friend made it for us. It looked awesome and tasted so yummy! I had the best helpers at my shower. Both of these girls were in my primary class last year. I guess they were so excited to come to the Baby Shower. They sat with me and helped me open all the gifts. It was pretty cute how excited they were.

February 9th

2012-02-09T09:02:00.000-08:00

Today is such a fun day....
Tyler and I meet 5 years ago on this day.
It is exactly one month til our due date.
And I'm having a baby shower today.
All fun things!

34 Weeks

2012-01-30T18:11:00.000-08:00

Time is flying by.(I was having a hard time getting a picture...my stupid camera dies every second. You can't see the bump very well, but it was the best I could do.)
I went to my 34 week appointment today and I had to schedule the rest of my appointments. The rest! I was like, okay...and then what? My dc said and then you will have the baby.
I have been feeling great. I am just all about getting things ready. Some would say I am nesting, but who wants to put a label on it? I just want everything to be perfect for our little girl. I have an ongoing "to do list" of random things, I often find myself writing reminders to update my "to do list." And slowly we are getting the things done.
The biggest project has been the nursery and it is coming along and I can not wait for it to be complete. It is going to be so dang cute!
6 more weeks! My mom told me it is too early for the count down...but I can't help it. Too excited!

The Name

2012-01-30T17:45:00.000-08:00

We decided on a name.Ty and I have had an on going list of names for a few months. The list included: Ivy, Lucy, Rose, Lexie, Chloe, Claire, Quinn & Ruby. Ivy has always been one of the favs. I think we always knew it would be Ivy but it is hard to pick a name for your child. It is their name forever (unless they are crazy like that guy on the Lakers who changed his name to Metta World Peace....really?) Anyways, we first heard the name on a website while we were looking up old fashion names. I have heard the name on a few shows and things but overall it is not too popular and that is why we were so drawn to it. We love the name Ivy and we can not wait to meet her. We love her so much already!

P.S. I made the block letter name over the weekend in Wolf Creek. It was my project while the boys were skiing. The picture is not the best...you can't see who cute it is.

Wolf Creek

2012-01-29T14:54:00.000-08:00

Over the summer Ty and I went to a cancer charity event for a friend. We entered a raffle and won day passes to Wolf Mountain for snow boarding. I have never been snow boarding or skiing, so when we won them I was really excited to go this winter. I am not a huge fan of the cold, the snow, or falling on solid ice. But I figure I live in Utah and I should take advantage of the best snow on earth. But...since I got knocked up I could not participate this time. Bummer!
Ty's sister has a time share in Wolf Creek and she was nice enough to let us stay there for a long weekend. We invited Ty's brother and his two boys to come boarding with Ty. They were so excited to be included, they are eight and five and full of energy. The boys went to the resort all day Saturday and they loved it! I just hung out at the condo. It was awesome.
We stayed three nights and I was in PJ's the whole time, minus the one evening we went to dinner. Everyone keeps telling us to enjoy our sleep while we can so that is exactly what we did. Slept in and took naps. I forgot my camera, there was not much to capture other than the beautiful outdoors. It looked like this...We had a great weekend! We will chalk it down as our last trip without a kid. Crazy!

Jazz Game

2012-01-22T15:59:00.001-08:00

Ty and I went to a Jazz game last week. A guy we work with offered us his tickets since he couldn't go. It was awesome because they were good seats. I have only ever sat in the upper bowl until this game. The Jazz played Dallas, who are the current champs. It was a close game but the Jazz lost, sad. It was still fun though. We have really been trying to go out and do fun activities before the baby come so it was a success. I enjoyed watching the coach. He was always standing in the court. See him..

32 Weeks

2012-01-21T11:27:00.000-08:00

I went to my 32 week appointment last week. Everything is right on track. My doctor told me my stomach is running out of room. I'm really sure what to do about that...

We took work off on Monday and worked in the basement. We painted the nursery! We figure it is time to get to work on our little girls room since she will be here in seven short weeks.

Room Before:

Nursery after:

Okay so we still have lots to do. But aren't the walls looking great! I really wanted to paint blue even though we are having a girl. I also figured my in-laws don't want a pink room in their basement. Kent told me he has always wanted a blue room in the house. I told him he could move into it once we leave. haha jk.

All the nursery furniture is at my parents house and they are bringing it down this week. I can not wait to get it all in there so I can start with the fun decorationg. Pictures to come soon.

30 Weeks

2012-01-05T17:28:00.000-08:00

I wanted to be really good at documenting my pregnancy. I have totally failed thus far. But I still have 10 weeks so I will see what I can do with that. Ten weeks left!

I can't believe it. Time is flying by. So a little update on the pregnacy...I am feeling great. The second trimester was awesome. I had lots of energy and really no complaints. Since entering the third trimester I have had some back pain, weight gain and the tireds. These days I am noticably pregnant. I kept waiting for the day when people could tell I was pregnant. I am not sure why because now that people comment on it, it is weird. For example, today one of our customers came into the office. He is really nice guy, kinda looks like santa, but that is besides the point. He looks at me and asks what I've been eating. At first I thought I had bad breathe or something but then I caught on. I told him I am eating for two. He proceeded to tell me I look great for how far along I am and then he asked how much weight I've gained. I dodged around the question, because really who asks that. And then he asked me again. Weird right?

Milestones/Updates as of late:

- Baby girl is moving all the time.

- Before bed we count kicks, she always makes it 10 kicks within 10 minutes.

- Her head is down, I think she is ready to come meet us.

- She has a strong heart beat.

- She is measuring in the 56% for weight.

- She is already spoiled, she took over my closet with her stuff.

- My belly button is sticking out (strange)

- My ability to bend down is limited.

- I live with & love my heating pad.

- Peanut butter is my current craving.

Rollins Family Pictures

2011-12-28T12:09:00.000-08:00

I'm not sure why both sides of the family decided to take family pictures in the middle of the winter when I'm seven months pregnant. But it happened.

We took these on Thanksgiving. It was hard to get everyone looking and smiling. But I still think they turned out great. The Rollins Clan.

My parents with all three of their grandkids. (Miley was not enjoying getting her picture taken)

Christmas

2011-12-28T12:00:00.000-08:00

Our Christmas was awesome. Pretty low key and relaxing.

Only a few of us slept over so we only had one kid in the morning. He was so tired since we stayed up late so we all slept in. I was the first one up, because lets face it, I am like a child on Christmas morning and I couldn't sleep. We all got up and ate breakfast and waited for Ty's other sister to arrive before we started opening gifts. I tried my hardest to be patient. I struggle with that, as you can see below I had to help Ty open his gift because he was too slow. The Hunt's opened most their gifts at home and then they came over the grandma and grandpa's. When they walked in Halle was so excited telling us all about her new toys. Her favorite was this doll that she did not let go of the whole day. The doll even came to church with us and sat right in between Halle and I.

We were so excited when we opened our gift from Ty's parents. They got us a Wii! Too fun!! As you can see Ty was real excited.

Us with Ash.
After all the presents were exchanged we all got ready for church. Having Christmas on Sunday was kinda weird.

I had to get a picture in front of the Christmas tree after church.

The rest of the day kinda looked like this....

Ash got her mom "Just Dance" for the Wii. She wants to do it as a work out. It is a really fun game to play and watch. Ty's sisters (and him) all just loved it.
But my favorite was when the Big Dog (Kent) took his turn. He refused to do it at first but he came around. We were suppose to close our eyes, but instead I took pictures. Haha

Tyler is a good dancer and he beats me everytime. It is very frustrating!

Merry Christmas!

Stanton Family Pictures

2011-12-27T21:33:00.000-08:00

The Stanton's have been talking about getting family pictures since....as long as I can remember. It has been hard to get everyone together and be on board for pictures. The family is growing at a rapid pace but we decided to just get pictures done anyways. They will be up to date for a whole two months before our baby girl arrives.

The whole gang! All of the grandkids, minus the one in my belly. We thought about sneaking my belly into the back ground of the picture, but I guess that may be distracting from the cute kidos.
Grandma & Grandpa with the kids.

Tyler with his parents and siblings. I thought this picture was too funny because it shows their personalities. Ty is weird!

Merry Christmas

2011-12-22T11:30:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas!!!

2011We did not sent cards or anything for Christmas. I figured we will start doing that once we have cute kids to put on the card oppose to just boring old us. Anywho...Merry Christmas to you from us!
We are really excited for Christmas this year. We love taking time off work. Since Christmas falls on Sunday we decided to close shop Friday and Monday, making for a nice long weekend. We are going to do the same thing next week too for new years and to celebrate Christmas with my family. Hollar!

Cute pic huh? Thanks to my cousin Jill!

Chargers Game

2011-12-17T22:05:00.000-08:00

Ty and I went to the Chargers game while we were in Cali. We went to a game last year around this time and we think we are going to make it a yearly event because we love going. It is so much fun going to a game live and sitting so close. I highly recommend it! It was a great game, they played the Bills and won. We got there early enough to watch the players warm up a little and get all pumped for the game. A guy sitting a few rows over from us got arrested before the game even started...that was fun to watch too. Ty in football heaven.This is where the players run out at the start of the game. The cute Weddle kids, minus the baby. It was fun sitting with Chanel and the kids. Thanks again!Ty in the parking lot while we were looking for the car. Chanel's friend spotted this sign so we had to zoom in and get a pic, "All I want for Christmas is Eric Weddle." I love that you can see her beer bottle and she is wearing a Rivers jersey...where is her loyalty?As you can see, I have sun glasses on...in December. The weather was great for a football game.Touch Down!!!!!

The babies first NFL football game...she loved it!

Baby Shower

2011-12-14T19:22:00.000-08:00

I have the best friends a girl could ask for. My family and I moved away from Rancho right after I graduated high school. Most of my friends stayed around the Rancho area. Over the years we have stayed in touch and all stayed friends. My friend Aubrey wanted to throw a shower for me when I came to Cali for a visit. It was so sweet of her!! It was kinda a last minute thing but she pulled the girls together and they threw an awesome shower. I loved every minute of it. It is always great seeing old frinds and catching up...and celebrating our little girl made it that much more special. The whole gang. Kathy, Morlene, Allison, Christyne, Aubs, me, Sheri, Carrie, Malorie & Steph.Me and Aubs. Friends since we were three! Miley loved watching and helping me open up the gifts. She was a great helper. Christyne, me and Allison

Mommy & Daddy to be.

Again, I could not ask for better friends and family. Thanks so much to everyone who came and helped plan. I am way too spoiled...or should I say our girl!! Our little girl is going to be so stylish and have a new pair of shoes for every occasion. How awesome is that?!

We can not wait to meet her!!

California

2011-12-13T19:35:00.000-08:00

Ty and I went to California last week. It was awesome! We love getting away from work and the cold weather. We kept debating whether or not we should make the trip. We thought the responsible thing would be to stay home and work and save our money and all that jazz. But hey...we can't say no to a vacation. We are so glad we made the trip. On our way down we stopped in Rancho to go to Vinces with my cousins. Vinces is my families favorite restaurant and we always make it a point to stop there. It is always fun to go without my dad and then rub it in his face that I got Vinces and he didn't. Can you feel the love?

We love going to Sheri & Ben's to hang out. They are great hosts! We just played with Miley and relaxed. Ty could not get enough of the warm weather. He went for a few runs on the beach in Decemeber!!! Can you believe that? We really live in the wrong state. Miley loves to have visitors come stay in her room. She is so dang cute! We love her.

Thanks again Sher for letting us stay with you. It was too much fun.

Wind Storm

2011-12-04T08:59:00.000-08:00

We have had a couple of very busy days. Late Wedn night there was a wind storm in our area. It started around 3am and lasted about 12 hours. We got no sleep because the wind was so loud. We lost power right away and did not get it back for 24 hours. Here are a few pics of the house and yard.
The vinyl fence on the side of the house had a little damage. You can kinda see all the crap on the lawn. There were hundreds of roof shingles blowing around along with trash and branches.We lost the mailbox.The whole back wood fence fell over. Along with the neighbors. So all this land is three yards...all with no fences up.This is the neighbor across the street. Their tree got up rooted and cracked the sidewalk. Our roof had damage too. But not anything like others in the neighborhood. The hot tub on the deck suffered as well. And something hit my mother in laws car and she has a dent.

So we had no power when we woke up on Thurs. I got ready for work and when I went to leave Ty's parents wouldn't let me drive to work alone because the winds were so strong. I got Ty up to come with me to the office and boy was I glad. The freeway and roads were crazy. Semi's were tiped over from the winds! We got to the office to find that our power was out there too.
We were able to forward our phone calls to our cells and somewhat work. Most of our customers live in Davis county so we knew we were in a very busy day. After Thurs and Friday we think we have submitted over 60 property claims. It was not a very fun day to be an insurance agent.

We were hoping things would calm down this week since we are heading out of town, but knowing our luck that wouldn't happen. It snowed a little over the weekend...meaning all those people with roof damage can now have water leaking in their homes. More claims. And now we are hearing that another wind storm is coming tonight.

Our trip to Cali this week is very well deserved after this is over.

25 weeks

2011-11-27T19:05:00.001-08:00

I can not believe that I am 25 weeks along. Time really is flying by. I have been feeling great. I have my energy back and no more morning sickness.
I have been having so much fun getting things ready for our little girl to arrive. I got a crib, rocking chair and re finished an awesome dresser/changing table. (I will post pictures later.) I have also put Ty to work on the basement. We moved in over a year ago and there were still a few things that needed to be finished. We apparently were in no hurry to get then done. But now it is a whole different story. We want everything perfect for her. I know she will appreciate the painted baseboards and grouted tile. Haha.
My belly is finally starting to show. Our little girl seems to be very active. She moves all the time. We love it! Ty and I get really excited just to feel her little movements. Tyler is too funny...he is already so protective. I can't image how he can be any more protective once she is actually here with us.
Our doctor says she is right on track and healthy so we are glad!

Three Years

2011-11-07T12:16:00.000-08:00

Tyler and I just celebrated another wedding anniversary. We have been married 3 years!! Time goes by so fast. The past year has been great. We have been working together at our Allstate office, trying to grow our business. We love working together! Other than work and getting knocked up that is about all that has happened this year.

Zoo, Spring 2007

San Diego, August 2008
Wedding, November 2008

Easter, April 2009

Ty's Garduation, January 2010

Jazz Game, November 2010

Virgina, April 2011

Happy Anniversary Ty!

The verdict is in....

2011-10-20T14:14:00.000-07:00

We are having a GIRL!

I thought it was a boy...so much for mother intuition. At our last appointment she had her legs kinda crossed so the doctor told us he did not know 100% what the sex was...but he did say he was pretty sure it was a boy. The Stanton's are filled with boys so we just figured it was a boy and after our doctor said he thought it was a boy we went with it. We have been calling her Porter the past few weeks and everything. Haha the poor girl!

But now we know it is a girl for sure. As a result I have bows, ribbons, shoes, pink, lace and glitter on the mind. So fun!

Growing Belly

2011-10-20T10:23:00.001-07:00

My belly is slowly growing!

The Dilema of Food

2011-10-05T08:22:00.000-07:00

I figure I should document my pregnancy a little bit.

The first trimester was okay...I was a little sick but nothing too rough. The hardest thing was eating. Nothing sounded good but I was hungry. It was very weird.
Poor Tyler had to be with me all day long so the responsibility of feeding me fell on him at work and at home. Between about week 6 and 12 all I wanted was KFC mashed potatoes. It hit the spot everytime.

KFC & Del Taco mix for lunch. Yum! This was a normal occurrence for me the past few months. Tyler quickly learned my order. We didn't want that situation to happen ....again.

Boy or Girl...?

2011-09-30T11:37:00.000-07:00

Well this is a great question. Ty and I went to the doctor last week and we were going to find out the sex of our baby. And....the baby had his or her legs crossed. He or she was kinda sitting like a frog. Really? Of course!
We go back in a few weeks to find out for sure.

Peach Days

2011-09-30T10:10:00.000-07:00

Peach Days is the big to do in Brigham City. Our family goes crazy for it! This year we finally went to the Peach Queen Pageant. Every year we say we are going to go and we never follow through...but not this year! We went and it was awesome. We will have to make it a yearly thing. I didn't take any picture and I should have to capture all the great things that went on. Next time... The whole family together. Yes, our shirts...I will explain below.

My mom, sisters and I made Peach Days shirts for the whole family. We wore them to the parade and also to our big family get together. Hahaha we are so cheesy! I love it. Aww...sisters! Too cute. As a side note, my shirt had a peach over my belly and it said, "Future Peach Queen."Kennedy the "Peach Kid"...she really makes this creamy look delicious.Tyler lovin' his "Got Peaches?" shirt at the parade.

Me & Sami

My grandparents both turned 80 recently so we had a big birthday party of them after the parade (and a nap). They were the king and queen for the day. We had almost the whole family there. Only a few cousins that live in Arizona couldn't make it. We missed them! My grandparents were in heaven with all the family and kids running around.
I'm not sure if anyone noticed anything weird in the family picture...I figured I should straighten it out just in case. My mom's shirt had two peaches on her chest. And then my dad's shirt said, "I'm all about the peaches!" Yes, that really happened and we were in public with them all day. It was their idea too. My parents are crazy! But most of you that know them already knew this about them. Love you mom and dad.

Fun News

2011-09-19T12:34:00.000-07:00

My ego is prego! I figured it was time to make the annoucement on the blog. We are 15 weeks along. Due March 9th.

After trying to get pregnant for a year and a half and having two miscarriages....we could not be happier to finally be pregnant! Sometimes it still does not seem real. The past few months have been crazy. We have gone through a whirlwind of emotions. The first 6 weeks were the hardest, we were really on edge to say the least. But things are going great. The baby is healthy and that is really all we are concerned about.

Tyler's 30 Birthday

2011-09-17T12:37:00.000-07:00

Wow! I can not believe I pulled this off....

I planned a surprise birthday for Tyler! It was a success and pretty awesome.

Some history on the Stanton's.... Tyler and his mom share their birthday and the day before their birthday is the twins birthday (Ty's brother and sister). So that means 4 birthday is 2 days. It has always been this way so Tyler doesn't think much of it.

But I really wanted to do something for just Tyler on his birthday. I guess it is kinda selfish for me to want the celebration to be all about Tyler...but what can I say? It was his 30th birthday.

Tyler had no idea I was planning anything, which make it so much fun. We told him to celebrate all the birthdays we were going to dinner. All the family went to Texas Road House to eat and celebrate. After dinner Tyler thought we were going to the house for cake. Tyler on the saddle at Texas Road House. But we didn't go back to the house. I asked Ty if I could drive us home, which is weird because I never drive. Tyler thought nothing of it though. I told Ty that I felt bad that we didn't do anything special for his birthday, so I planned a few surprises for him. I put a blindfold on him and started driving around. There was really no plan at this point, I had about 45 minutes to kill. I told Ty that the weather kinda messed up our plan but we would still go do our adventure. I took him to the park for a romantic walk. He loved it! It was great. So we walked around until it was time for the party. When we got back in car I told him I had one more thing planned and he asked if he should put the blindfold on. I said, "ya why not?" Haha! We pulled up at Classic and I walked him in while he was blindfolded. As soon as we got inside I ripped the blindfold off and everyone yelled "Surprise" and we sang happy birthday. It was so much fun!!!! At the party we roller skated, played laser tag, and ate treats. It was awesome to walk in and see everyone in skates, including my parents and in-laws. I didn't get any pictures of that and I'm totally bummed. Some of our nieces and nephews were there and they even got little skates and played with all of us. Tyler was too funny while he skated, he was dancing and loving his life. We all knew someone would fall down and get hurt. And of course it was my dad. He was "trying to show off" and fell on his head. Don't worry he was okay. My mom and sister helped with dessert. My mom even made individual peach cheese cakes. Tyler was in heaven! Sami and Tys came to the party without the kids and they really enjoyed that. Tyson told me I can plan his 30th birthday. Us with Jenny and Andy. Andy rented roller blades and he was loving skating with Ty.

Tyler with Kilby. It was such fun having Megan and Kilby there. He was the champ at laser tag.

I asked Tyler during the party if he had an idea where I was taking him. He thought I was taking him to a car dealership to pick up a new car! Haha this just cracks me up! He said he was getting nervous during the drive because he wasn't sure if that would be a great idea. You gotta love him for thinking so big.

But in the end he was happy with a surprise party. We can get that new car later.

We had so much fun at Classic! Thanks everyone for coming. You made Tyler's day great!

Happy Birthday Tyler! Love you!!

Pre Birthday Celebration

2011-09-04T10:37:00.000-07:00

So Tyler is turning 30 in two weeks. He is really pretty sad about being "in his thirties." A few months ago he bought concert tickets to go see Blink 182 and My Chemical Romance for his birthday, to himself from himself.

I think he is afraid his birthday is going to be a let down and depressing, so he keeps planning all these things to do. There was the concert, probably a trip, a few days off work, gifts, and possibly a surprise somethin' somethin'. I figure what the heck you only turn 30 once so I'll let him go all out.

The concert was last night in Salt Lake. Tyler asked a few friends if they wanted to go with him instead of me but he had no takers. I have been to I believe 4 concerts in my life, and 2 of them involved Tom Delonge of Blink. I love him by the way! So I figured I might give someone else a chance. But in the end I am glad I went. We had a great time.

Concerts bring a wide range of people together and it makes for some great people watching. We were in heaven watching all the freaks and hoochie mama girls. The music was good too. Haha!

I was excited to see My Chemical Romance, I really liked them in high school. It brought back some memories!

Tyler just loves Blink. We actually went and saw them two years ago for Tyler's birthday. They were great, as always. They are a little crude, a mean a lot crude. One of the first things Tom said on stage was that he was drunk. They still sounded good though...and that's whats important.

I brought my camera in and I am so glad I did. Oh hi Tom!Our seats were way on the side but still good. I love having a seat because I get tired of standing. Ty stood the whole time! I sat every once in awhile.

Happy early birthday Ty! It is going to be weeks of celebration...

Congrats!

2011-09-04T10:29:00.000-07:00

Our nephew Jake got baptised this weekend. It was so great to be able to go to his baptism and support his decision. We are so proud of Jake and can't believe how fast he is growing up!

It's great to be eight!!!

Jake took his picture of himself on my ipad the other day. I'm pretty sure I became his favorite aunt because I let him play Angry Birds for a good hour. He loved it!

Congrats again Jake! We love you!

We are alive

2011-08-31T16:45:00.000-07:00

I realized that I have not updated our blog in awhile.

This is due to a few reasons. My laptop is not working, my camera was not working for a while, and we haven't done anything too exciting.

In July we went to Bear Lake with the Stanton's for a family reunion. Apparently we have a distant relative who owns a cabin up there and she let us stay there. It was a really nice place and we had a great time. We went to the beach and watched the kids play in the water. I got to work on my tan...finally! So I was excited about that. There were about 20 of us up there and we had 7 four wheelers. So we also spent a lot of time playing on those.

Tyler made me wear the helmet, he thought it was cute.

In big news...Tyler bought me an ipad for my birthday. I have been loving it! It has been so much fun using facetime with friends and family. I can also work from anywhere...which is good and bad at the same time. I never get a break! Haha jk

My dad is in a new band, The Greg Simpson Band. They are awesome. You should check them out on facebook. We have really been enjoying going to watch them play. My dad loves playing with his friend!!

A few weeks ago we went to Island Park with a group of friends. We went last summer with them and we are trying to make it a yearly trip. Tyler's friend Gabe has a cabin up there and it is like a dream. On the lake, with a boat and dock, seadoos, and four wheelers. The boys were in their own world! Us girls loved it to. We all brought books and just relaxed. It was seriously the best! I read almost a whole book in just two days. As a side note, if you haven't read The Hunger Games, you need to. Tyler and Gabe were really excited to surf together. They had a hard time getting up to say the least. They looked so gay standing on the board together...while they sang Justin Beiber. And when I say they I mean Tyler.

This is a short recap of the past few months. We still have a few family get togethers this summer. We have a baptism, peach days, and Tyler's 30th birthday. It is going to be a busy couple of weeks.

Look who's 23....

2011-07-29T11:10:00.000-07:00

Me!

My birthday was awesome. We took Monday off for Pioneer Day, which was an early birthday treat. Our nephews (Jake & Brody) were staying at the house on Monday and they decided to throw me a party. It was so cute. They made me stay downstairs for an hour or so while they secretly decorated. They sang to me and we played with lots of baloons. It was a blast. Ty and I then ventured out to the Gateway to do some shopping. Shopping is always an adventure with Ty...he hates shopping! But it was a success because Ty got me the best birthday gift ever, an IPAD! Yay!!!!! I am loving it!

On my actual birthday we worked and then went to dinner with the family. It was awesome! My mother in law made my favorite cake and Cameron helped me blow the candle out.

Family Picture

2011-07-11T13:10:00.001-07:00

We finally got a shot of the whole family. Look at all of us in our tie-dye shirts!!! Classic.

Ford Reunion

2011-06-23T21:32:00.000-07:00

It was the year for the Ford Reunion in Paragonah.

We have been going every other summer for like six years or so. All the crazy Ford's get together at a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Sounds grand right? It really is a good time. Our family is getting huge, I believe there were around 50 people there. Almost all the cousins are married with kids and most of them were with us over the weekend. My sister Sam had this great idea to tie dye shirts on the trip. My aunt and grandma ran with the idea and we had a full on tie dying party. I am the worst picture taker. I got no pictures of the tie dye. i mainly just focused on the kid cutes. The kids were cute dirty trash balls the whole trip. It was so much fun!

The big news of the trip is that Tyler rode a horse for the first time ever! I can't believe he had never been on a horse before. He was kinda nervous about it but Kilby was a great helper.

Just as a side note, it was Kilby's first Ford Reunion and he won for the best new addition to the family. He was a champ at tie dying, he make a peace sign on his shirt! And he walked all the kids, including me, Ty and my mom on the horse. The poor guy probably walked in 100 circles. Cameron had so much fun playing with the big kids and all the boys. We spend the whole weekend outside. The weather was great. There were lots of games going on. Tyler and some of the boys even hit golf balls around. Their goal was to hit a cow. I believed they reached that goal too. The girls and I mostly just hung out and did crafts. What else could we ask for?

Tyler can't be normal in any picture.

Kennedy is too cute! She loved running around in the dirt with all the other kids.

Death By A Q-Tip

2011-06-22T16:26:00.000-07:00

You know how people say don't stick things in your ears?
They are right! And I should have listened. I stuck a q-tip too far into my ear an I ruptured my ear drum. Pretty gnarly right? I do not recommend this, especially if you are blood thinners like me because that means...well you can figure it out.
Anyways, I have this obession with having clean ears, like how gross is a dirty ear? So I clean them regularly. When I went to the doctor he did tell me that the other ear was very clean, so that was nice to hear. Although at the time I did not hear it clearly.

I'm glad to report that I am fully recovered and I will no longer be using q-tips.

Summer Check List

2011-06-07T14:43:00.000-07:00

Summer is right around the corner. Since we did not really get a spring here in Salt Lake the summer could not get here fast enough. So I made a list of things I want to do this summer. It is my "summer bucket list."

1. Spend the whole day at the beach
2. Learn to BBQ by myself
3. Take a sewing class
4. Go to a water park
5. Attend on outdoor concert
6. Talk walks/ or runs at least three times a week after dinner.
7. Sneak into a fancy hotel pool
8. Do some volunteering
9. Read a book under a tree
10. Throw a party!

I figure all of these things are pretty achievable. I can't wait to get started.

P.S. I read the list to Tyler and he said he is in. So we will tackle the list together, but I'm not sure about the sewing class for him....

Am I on an episode of Hoarders?

2011-06-02T10:52:00.000-07:00

Nope! This is just our current living situation. Crazy right?
The basement flooded over the weekend. When we got home from Mesquite I stepped in a puddle, I thought that is weird. Why is the floor wet? Tyler went up stairs right away to tell his parents the basement flooded. Haha I totally did not get it. I always pictured flooded basements to have tons of water, like you were walking around in a swimming pool. Haha how dumb am I?

Anywho, nothing was ruined. Our stuff under the beds got wet but nothing valuable was under there. We thought the water was just in the two bedrooms, so we moved eveything out of those rooms into the livingroom. Then we realized there was water around the edges of the living room so we had to then move everything again.

We are sleeping in the front room in the basement, which is the playroom. We have ALL of our stuff in that room.
For those of you that know me, you know that I am a little OCD. I have to have my things clean and organized. So it has been a rough couple of days.
This is our bedroom above. And the spare bedroom below.

I am trying to make a bad situation into a good one. I am making Ty and myself go through all our clothes and stuff. I figure we might as well since all our stuff is out and everywhere. So hopefully when we move back in we will have less things to put back.

Mesquite, NV contined...

2011-05-31T13:42:00.000-07:00

Over the weekend we went to Mequite with two other couples.

We had so much fun! Erin & I had never been there before,

only drove through. There is not much there, just casinos, hotels, and golf courses.

It is like a bigger and nicer version of Wendover.

We went with Jenny & Andy

And Jon & Erin

This is what we did:
-eat

-lay out

-gamble

-swim

-eat

-golf

-shop

-and eat.

I forgot my camera.

We headed home on Monday afternoon. We wanted to get home at a reasonable time so we could relax at home and get ready for the work week and guess what....
we came home to a flooded basement.

Mesquite, NV

2011-05-31T09:38:00.000-07:00

For the long weekend I decided to plan a trip. Tyler & I invited some friends to come along. We went to Mesquite to shop, golf, swim, gamble, and lay out.
Sounds great right?
Well, don't get me wrong. It was a ton of fun but getting there was a whole other story. It was dRaMa! I figure I should write all the details down. Plus some people may find it funny. Maybe I will too after some time...

So we booked this particular condo because they gave 50% off golf at a handful of courses. I called the day before we left for the trip to get all the golf rates and get a tee time for the boys. I talked to the lady at the front desk and she informed me that they do not offer 50% off golf. They advertised this ALL over the website, so I asked to talk to the manager. I had to leave a message for the resort manager to call me back. I just assumed the lady I talked to was an idiot and did not know what she was talking about.
About six hours later the manager calls back and I have Tyler talk to her. I did not hear most of the convo but I do hear Tyler say, "this is bad business." The manager told Tyler that they do not give discounts on golf and that their IT guy messed up. Tyler said that is okay but what can you offer us because we booked this place for the reason of the golf prices. The manager, Teresa then told Tyler that she could cancel the reservation for us. Tyler said don't do that and they went back and forth a few times and eventually she hung up on him.
I called right back to smooth things over, I did not want our reservations to get cancelled. I talked to the first lady I initailly spoke with. She informed me that the manager was gone for the day, which was weird since Tyler just spoke with her minutes before.
So I had to wait until the next day to call and striaghten everything out. Once I finally got ahold of the manager she is like, "Oh Staci Stanton, yes I know who you are, I spoke with your husband and he is very rude."
Really all we wanted was the golf rates, and she still did not have those for us. So I was really nice and apoligized for anything Tyler said, even though he was not in the wrong. She said she would honor the golf rate since it was on the website but she would have to call in some favors. I said great! Call me with the prices. And a few minutes later she called me back and we got the rate and booked the tee time. She then went on to tell me, this is all in past and there would no hard feelings between her and Tyler once we check in.

It was a headache but we got it all figured out.....or did we.

We drove down to Mesquite and go to the condo to check in. The women was going over everything and she casually said they changed our reservation. They switched us to two two bedroom condos. So they split the group up. We are like how can you change our reservation without telling us? The lady at the front desk tells us, "we did talk about this, we called Staci on Wednesday and went over this." Tyler and I just about lost it. Tyler was already pissed about the golf thing and now this! So Tyler starts getting all mad and I have to tell him to leave the room and I will figure it out. But he kept coming in to put in his two cents. This women was hating Tyler, she was having to take deep long breaths to calm down. We asked to talk to the manager, and the lady told us that if we spoke to the manager she would kick us out and make us stay at a hotel.
Tyler is a very calm and rational guy, and he was not rude to this lady. She was the biggest idiot and this palce was a joke.
Anyway, she took us to the room so we could see it, and it okay, nothing special. But she then starts telling us how we have to take inventory of everything in the condo, and that if anything is broken at the end of our stay our card would automatically be charged. They did not provide us with a check list to do this she recommended taking pictures of everthing. Really? No way are we leaving our credit card with these people.
By this time it was about 7 o'clock on Friday night and we were not gunna stay there. So we were at square one. We were all in the office of this condo using their WiFi to look for other places to stay. It was so expensive and the only rooms available were smoking only. After searching for awhile the lady at the front desk calls out for Tyler. Tyler goes into her office and she makes a few phone calls. She ended up calling another resort and booking a condo for us. At this point I think she just wanted us out of her office.

So we get to this new place, and it is awesome. Way nicer than the first place and cheaper. The man we checked in with said that every weekend he gets people sent over from "The Springs" the first place we went to. He says he benefits from their horrible managment.

Finally we had a place to stay after a few hours of stress. It really worked out for us in the end. Since Tyler & I had to deal with it the other couples gave us the master bedroom and the boys still got the golf rate.

The next day after check in the manager at "The Springs" called me because she heard there were problems at check in. I really did not care what she had to say because it was done with, we had a place to stay and never had to see these crazy liars over at "The Springs." She did not want to let it go, she kept saying she called me to change the reservation. They never called! She also started saying how we caused a scene in front of other guests in the lobby. There were no people in the lobby, ever, because no one wants to stay there! Plus she said we threatened to bring a lawsuit against them. Which also was not true. She then went on to say she was calling for two reasons: first to let us know that she was upset that we went to a competitors place to stay and that she lost the revenue from us. Second she wanted to make sure Tyler was not going to create problems at the golf course.
All her comments killed me, first off her people referred us to the competitors resort, she called them for us. Also, really Tyler creating problems? They had him all wrong.

Wow! This is realy long and that is not even all the crap we went through with "The Springs." Moral of the story....if you ever go the Mesquite do no, I repeat DO NOT stay at "TheSprings"

The End!

Reception

2011-05-11T14:18:00.000-07:00

On Saturday we headed down to Harrisonburg, Va for the wedding festivities. The reception was at a barn. I wish I would have taken more pictures because the barn was sweet. It was really old and they decorated it to look so nice. The wood boards were too far apart that my heels would fall inbetween the boards and I just about killed myself. Besides that, it was great. The reception was really small and intimate. Only a handful of people were there but it really made it special for Ryan & Sarah. We were so happy to be a part of it. Outside the barn they had a tent set up with tables. It was really simple, and I loved it. It was such a nice day too. All around the barn was open fields. They even had a horse and pony.

I told Ryan I wanted a picture of him and Tyler and he insisted that we go inside the barn for the pictures. He told me he wanted a shot like this, with their backs to the camera. I thought, weird, but whatever. I took and showed him this.....He said no get closer and no flash.

Apparently this is the shot he wanted. Their silhouette's in the window. So cute right? Ryan is so funny. I'm glad that I got to know him better during this trip. We are going to miss him. (He left for the army this week)

Whenever Tyler goes anywhere, he wants to move there. He loved living in Virgina and he was so excited to take me there. I really love how green it is there. I felt like everything was a golf course. So much open land. Now, Tyler wants to live in Virgina. What a surprise. I told him I can't move that far away without having flight benefits.

We had such a great trip visiting with our friends. We also got to see my family that lives out there. We went to my aunt and uncles, along with my cousin and his familys place. It was fun catching up with them and seeing where they live.

We love going on vacation! Now that we have successful left the office I hope we can leave more often. I'm thinking next is a cruise...

Winchester, Virgina

2011-05-10T21:12:00.001-07:00

Our friends Ryan & Sarah were nice enough to let us stay with them. Tyler & Ryan made "the plan" so I did not really know to expect...since there was no plan. I mean two men making a plan is never a good idea. Everything ended up working out though. They lived in an awesome house on a lake. We thought they lived in an apartment, so it was a fun surprise for us.
The first day we were there the weather was really nice. We thought we would take advantage of the sun and play outside. We took a walk around the neighborhood and played on the dock. Their neighborhood is awesome, it used to be a golf course so there were tons of open green fields. The grass was all over grown with wild flowers. It was so pretty!
It had been stormy the week before we were there so the lake water was really brown. It looked like a swamp, but normally it is clear.

Look I dyed my hair redish.

There was a swing hanging off the tree and Tyler was all about it. He was determined to reach it. I had a great time watching him almost fall into the freezing water. He did successfully get the swing and was pretty proud of himself.

Although, once he got it he was not sure what to do. He really wanted to swing in but it was way cold.

I'm glad to say that I fished for the first time ever. I even have pictures to prove it.

It was crazy after like one minute I catch a fish. And Tyler got a great shot of me pulling her in. Yes, apparently this hypothetical fish was a girl fish. And it latched on to the bare hook. Weird?

Tyler was so proud.

Virgina

2011-05-10T20:10:00.000-07:00

Tyler & I went to Virgina. Awesome right?

We have never left the office for more than two days or so. So we were both a little nervous about leaving but we did it and it was a success! Tyler's mom was a life saver and she helped us run the office.

So....Tyler went to Southern Virgina University to play golf right before we met. When he lived out there he became good friends with Ryan. Ryan & Tyler worked together and basically fell in love each other. After a few months Tyler moved in with Ryan. I know, their relatioship progressed fast right? Haha. No, Tyler did move in with Ryan and his girlfriend Sarah. These two guys are like kids, they sit around and giggle all day while playing xbox. Poor Sarah had the deal with them. I know that she was happy when Tyler moved back to Utah so she could get her boyfriend back.

Over the years Tyler & Ryan have stayed close. Ryan & Sarah came to our wedding so we have been planning on going to theirs. And last week they tied the knot. We are so happy for them and excited that we could be part of their special day.
Here is the happy couple.

More pictures to come...

Easter

2011-05-05T09:08:00.000-07:00

I know I am a few weeks late. But that is how I roll.

We went up to my parents on Saturday to have a huge Easter Egg hunt. There were lots of kids involved, included myself and Tyler. We are the odds ones out in the family with no kids so from time to time we are included in the children activities. There was candy involved so I was all for it.

We always love going to Brigham and hanging out with the family. Sami and Tyson's kids are too funny. Kennedy found my camera, brought it to me and said "cheese." It was so dang cute! So I ended up taking a billion pictures of her because I could not deny this face!

Kennedy loved hunting for candy. She especially loved the blue suckers. She ate one and then took a second sucker to her dad and he would not open it for her because she just ate one.

This is her right after (above), she is holding the second sucker and looking around for who she can get to open it for her.

And she is off, she found aunt Staci. And of course I open it for her. Isn't that what aunts are for? My favotite part was looking over at Tyson and he is just shaking his head at me. Classic!Yum...Thanks Aunt Staci!!!

Happy Easter from us. (haha we look slightly Asian in this picture)

One of THOSE Days

2011-05-03T10:23:00.000-07:00

I came into work today to find this.

The sticky notes are "To Do Notes."

This is what happens over vacation.

(worth it!)

Bear Lake

2011-04-02T15:45:00.000-07:00

Tyler and I went to Bear Lake a few weeks ago. We went for no apparent reason. Just wanted a little get away. I had never been up there and it is so pretty! And cold. The small city pretty much shuts down in the winter. Not much was open and there was nothing to do. We mainly just watched basketball in our condo.Tyler was the driver. As a side note, I hate driving up mountains, even just as a passenger. I get really nervous! I blame it on my dad. He used to pretend he lost control of the car and would get close to the edge of cliffs. At least that is what I remember...

Anyway moral of the story, I am so glad that Tyler was

the driver and not me. (or my dad)

Pretty place huh? I am excited because we are going back this summer for a family reunion so it will be cool to see the difference of the seasons.

Weekend Get Away.

2011-03-11T19:42:00.000-08:00

See you soon!

(I could do without the snow...but hey a get away is still a get away!)

Sad but True....

2011-02-12T18:24:00.000-08:00

So Tyler and I wanted to do something fun this weekend to celebrate Valentines day. Ty is so sweet and told me I could pick what to do. So last night (Friday night) I decided I wanted to craft. And yes Tyler really enjoyed that. He watched the Jazz game while I painted everything in site.

We slept in today, Tyler made us breakfast and then we worked out. Cute huh? I then went on to craft some more.

Anyways, I told Tyler that I wanted to go to a movie to celebrate our love. We had Ash and Louise (Ty's mom and sis) come too. And we went to see Justin Bieber Never Say Never.

OH My!!!!! I am in LOVE with Justin Bieber.

How do you not love this face and the hair. His movie was awesome! I love him.

Everyone should see it! People may think this is sad, I am twenty two years old, married and I have the biggect crush on a 16 year old....and guess what, it is sad but it is also true.

As a side note, Tyler did not watch the whole movie, he went to see a more masculan movie about half way through. But he did want to know what happened in the end.

Also, I have wrote this post in purple because it is Justin's favorite color.

Life As of Late..

2011-01-20T12:09:00.000-08:00

I realized I have not updated my blog in forever. The reason is that we have nothing exciting to report. Yes, there was the holidays, which were great. But guess what...I did not take one picture. We had a great Christmas this year. Santa was oh so kind to us! We were all geared up for New Years Eve at the Senior Center but Tyler was way sick. We ended up staying home, Tyler slept and I scrapbooked. Exciting right?

Other than that we just have been working.

Also, we have been watching a lot of Friday Night Lights. If you don't watch it you need to. No excusses. This is the best show. I don't mean the best show on right now. I mean the best show ever made..in the world. (Okay that was really dramatic, but we are in love with this show). It is in the final season, only three episodes left. We don't know what we are going to do when it ends. We get depressed when each episode ends, because that means it is closer

to the end of Friday Night Lights.

The show takes place in Dillon, TX. Last week after the show we talked about moving to Dillon, so the spirit of the show can still exist to us. But guess what, we looked it up and Dillon, TX is ghost town. So sad!

This is the newest cast. Shout out to Coach Taylor!

This is the original cast. Oh how I love you Timmy! He just made his reappearance on the final season. I cound not be happier! (He is the hottie with long hair).

I feel like these peole are friends. Scratch that....we feel like these people are our friends.

Tyler is just as crazy as I am.

All and all I think we need to get a life.

Chargers Game

2010-12-19T17:10:00.000-08:00

Over the weekend Ty, my parents, and I drove down to Cali. We meet up with Sheri and Ben and went to the Chargers game. We were all so excited to go to an NFL game and see Eric play. We got all geared up in our Chargers stuff and headed to the Chargers vs. 49ers game. We got to the game a little early so we got to watch the team warm up. None of us realized how close our seats were going to be until we actually got to them. I told my mom I could smell the players sweat!My mom and I really enjoyed the Chargers girls. They were wearing their christmas outfits. They lined up as the players ran out. Here is Eric as he came out. We loved cheering as loud as possible for him. The kickoff!Crazy Chargers fan! Got to LOVE it!Me, Sheri, and Chanel.

Official team huddle.This was the crazy guy that ran right down our isle while the usher chased him. He jumped the fence and ran across the feild. He even took his jacket off like he was going to strip. Once he got to the 49ers side one of the coaches totally took him out. It was totally great. Chanel says it happens every game. We really enjoyed it! The whole gang!The final score. Chargers killed them. (34 to 7)After the game we got to go to where the players come out. We checked out some of the players cars and waited for Eric. We got to say hi and we made Ty take a picture with him. It was awesome to say the least!

JaZz GaMe

2010-11-27T19:13:00.000-08:00

Last night Ty and I went the the Jazz game. They played the Lakers so we were so excited to go. Ty's sister gave us the tickets. She was suppose to go with some guy but last minute she cancelled on him and some how she managed to get the tickets for us. HaHa too funny.

Anyways, Ty and I hate the Lakers. Yes, I did grow up in LA but I am a trader. Jazz fan all the way! It was such an awesome game. I hope everyone watched it! We has a great time. The stadium was so loud the last few minutes and I was way nervous. The Jazz had a great come back!

GO Jazz!

Bench

2010-11-25T08:47:00.000-08:00

I am loving my latest project!

We did some rearranging in the basement last week. Since Tyler's family is coming into town we decided to move things around and make more room for the family. In doing this we had to move the piano (that no one plays) into our living room. Louise (my mother in-law) had this old bench with the piano. She told me she has had for over thirty years.

As you can see...it is really old and ugly.

BAM! Transformation. Good as new...only cutier!

TWO Years

2010-11-15T17:42:00.000-08:00

Tyler and I just celebrated out two year anniversary. We went to Park City for the weekend for a mini getaway. We just went to Park City a few months ago but we loved it so we went back. We stayed right on Main Street which was awesome.
This year we:
opened up our business
moved to Davis County
spoke in church twice
welcomed three new nieces and nephews to the family
went to California three times
suffered a great lose
and grew closer together...

Love you Tyler!

Decorating

2010-11-07T12:55:00.000-08:00

I forgot to post the rest of my new additions at home. I hung up this picture colleague in our bedroom. It adds lots of color and looks really good!
I have so many long necklaces...I really can't get enough of them. I have had them hanging on our door in our bedroom. Whenever we close the door the necklace make so much noise and it is really annoying. So I decided to made a necklace holder. I got some hooks at Home Depot and found an old picture frame. I painted and decorated the picture frame to match our bathroom. I then placed the hook on the glass of the frame. It turned out cute. (Don't mind the exposed outlet)

Halloween

2010-11-07T12:35:00.000-08:00

Our Halloween was not too eventful. We had to speak in church so that kinda put a damper on the weekend. It was fun to watch all the trick-or-trickers come to the house. A few of our kids in our primary class came by and that was way fun to see them. After church we went down to Justin & Angie's house for a little Halloween party. We ate good food and played a few games. But the main entertainment was Tyler dancing. Big Surprise there! Even Angie joined it.
It is always fun playing with the kids. Halle wanted to wear her skeleton PJ's and not her custom. She loves skeletons...it is the cutest thing!
It was kinda difficult getting a picture of the two little ones. Crew is about sitting up on his own and little Austin is only two months old.

Crafts

2010-10-25T19:35:00.000-07:00

My Grandparents were getting rid of these lovely canvases. I snatched them up as fast as a could! I have had them for a month or so while I've been deciding what to do with them.
This is what I came up with. I covered them with fabric, one with brown and the other with cream lace. The pictures don't do them justice. The mirror in the middle is fabulous right? It was originally gold and I painted it green. The mirror also came from my grandparents.

...moral of the post, don't let your grandparents throw things out!...

Ty's new best friend....

2010-10-22T11:43:00.000-07:00

Miley just fell in love with Ty while we were visting. And he just ate it up! (such a cute picture....thanks Jill)

It's so funny because I always call Tyler Tyler. All his family and friends calls him Ty. I will write "Ty" on my blog and things like that just for the sake of me being lazy. But it has always been Tyler to me.
Anyways, Miley loves to say Ty. It is so cute when she says it to! So now I find myself calling Tyler Ty.

I think Miley has a strong hold and both myself and Ty.

DI

2010-10-21T22:21:00.000-07:00

Who doesn't love the DI?
I went to the DI the other day with the intention of getting a Halloween costume. I got so into looking at everything else that I never got to the costumes. I found some great finds!
Each thing was around $1.
I fixed them up and added them with a few other fun decorations I had and came up with this.
I was needing a change in the gloomy basement.
I am really liking it!

More California

2010-10-20T09:08:00.001-07:00

Sheri and Ben took us to thier favorite beach while we were visiting them. And as an added bonus my cousin Jill, her husband and cute baby came too. The beach was awesome! The water was really cold but we all just hung and took a walk along the shore. We watched the sun set and it was beautiful. We were all enjoying the sunset while his fantastic old man ran by. Jill fell in love with him!

Jill took some way fun pictures of me and Tyler. Cute huh?We were talking about how Jill takes great pictures and Tyler wanted to be part of that. He took this pic of me, Kenny and Lola and thought it was the best picture in the world. I thought I would share it with you all.

But really I think Ty just loves the picture because Kenny is in it.

California

2010-10-20T08:27:00.000-07:00

Ty and I were so excited to go to the San Diego Temple. It is such a pretty temple and it was a perfect day for a wedding. We asked this guy to take a picture of us in front of the big T. We told him to get the temple in the picture...But that didn't really work out. I guess you kinda tell the temple is behind us. This is the happy couple. My friend and old co-worker Maggie

and her husband Ryan.

Vinces

2010-10-14T16:45:00.001-07:00

(Me, Abby, Morlene, Carrie, Aubs, Chels, and her son Tommy)

Vinces is a restaurant in Rancho that my family just loves. Ty has never been there so we had to stop on our way to San Clemente. Added bonus, we meet some of my friends from high school. Six girls and Tyler. He loved it!
We had a blast catching up. It is always great seeing them!

DisneyLand

2010-10-14T16:24:00.001-07:00

Over the weekend Ty and I went to California for a wedding. The wedding was a great excuse to go and play in Cali. We had so much fun. We did not want to come home, so we extended our trip not one but two times. Our trip started out with an evening at the happiest place on earth. We saw the world of color and it was awesome!
I was pretty lame and didn't get many pictures at Disneyland. Even though you can't tell in this picture...we are in line for Tower of Terror. Which was really long but worth it.

Old Roommates

2010-09-30T09:13:00.000-07:00

Last night my old college roommates and I got together for dinner. It is pretty sad how we don't see each other very often. But when we do get together it's like we never skipped a beat.
Haha this is us Freshman year in our dorm room. Good Times!

Boating

2010-09-28T18:14:00.000-07:00

I was looking over old posts and realized I have no boating pictures from this summer. How tragic is that? We have been out a lot but apparently I have not taken any pictures. But don't you worry! The weather has been so awesome here that we got to go out one last time this year. We went out on Saturday with the Joneses and my parents. We had a great time...as always! We were just missing Sheri and Ben.

Park City

2010-09-25T10:06:00.000-07:00

Tyler turned 29 last week.

For his birthday I surprised him with a little weekend get

away to Park City. We stayed in the Westgate Hotel

which is where we stayed after our wedding.

It is a perfect vacation spot. We went to dinner, shopped,

swam at the awesome indoor adult pool, went site seeing

and looked at all the fall colors.

Kids

2010-09-17T13:44:00.001-07:00

I love being an aunt! My sisters have cute kids.

Peach Days

2010-09-17T12:57:00.000-07:00

Oh how we love Peach Days!!!

Every year Peach Days is a huge event for our family. As Tyler always says...my family will find any excuse to get together. It is true and I love it. Sheri and some of our cousins even came from California for the weekend events.

My favorite event is of course the parade. There really are no words to describe the parade. So here are some pictures.

We named this guy Father Peach Days. He has a wicked mullet. It is always fun to spot the best mullet at the peach days parade.

The famous float belly dancers. They were Tyler's favorite and my dad joined they on the side lines.

We had lots of family around for the parade. These were just a few of the kids with us collecting candy.

This is the head honcho. You may be wondering...is he driving a toilet? YES, yes he is. One of the many great things of PeACH dAYS.

One of those mornings...

2010-09-17T11:58:00.000-07:00

I woke up this morning and was in a rush. I had to get ready for work and get all of our stuff together for our weekend get away.

Finally I was ready to go to work. I get in my car and start my drive to the office. I had my windows rolled down the whole way to the office because it is such a nice day.

Anyway, it was sunny so naturally I had my shades on.

I was just driving along minding my own business when I noticed a few people staring at me like I was crazy. I was thinking "what people?"

This is what....

So much for my $5 glasses.

I have no idea how I did not realize only one eye was covered....My bAd!

IsLaNd pArK

2010-08-16T17:54:00.001-07:00

Over the weeked Ty and I went to Island Park with some friends. Tyler's friends family has a vacation home up there and it was awesome!!! We stayed on the lake, had a boat, sea doos, four wheelers, lots of food, and fun!

The trip was all about the boys. They went four wheeling in the rain and came back covered in mud. The next day the boys went paint balling in the wilderness. Tyler had to work a little...he has been so stressed with work. The trip was very needed.

The Garns brought up their Wii. His friend Gabe was sure Ty would love Wii Dance. You pretty much miror the dancer on the TV. You can pick a song and just dance. It was so funny to watch and to play! I had to get a picture of Ty and Gabe because they were really into it.

Before and After

2010-08-06T17:33:00.000-07:00

Our office
Before

& After

The first two pictures are of our office a few weeks ago...before we took over as the owner. As you can see, the office was pretty ugly.

We were going to move the location, but the rent was too great to pass up. We decided to stay here and fix it up a little bit.

We painted the office...it is amazing what a little paint can do. We cleaned the office from top to bottom, and when I say "we" I mean me and my mom.

The old agent we bought from did not want to help us out and he took everything. We had to furnish the entire place. We bought used stuff and re-finished it. We will see how it lasts, but it looks good!

In Tyler's office we got him a nice BIG desk so he can look "in charge"...but we all know I am in charge.

In the back we have the sale's person desk. We are still in the process of hiring someone. We hired a girl and she did not show up the first day. Her mom came in instead to let us know that her daughter is in de-tox and got fired from her last job from drinking on the job. We still have not heard from her...haha! This was pretty much the story of the first day we opened.

Our first week is now complete. All and all everything went good, besides the printers not working with our systems, the phone numbers not being ported and having no employees. It was a busy week but things are really coming together.

Idaho

2010-08-03T18:57:00.000-07:00

Tyler and I were suppose to go to California for a wedding a few weeks ago. We were so excited to go with Ty's family and we had a beach house all lined up.

Things were so crazy with work that week that we decided not to go...so sad!

We still wanted to do something over the weekend so we went to Idaho to visit Tyler's brother and his family. It was way fun seeing the Stanton family in their element. They have three boys so we were very entertained.

All the boys went to the driving range on Saturday, while Nicki and I did some shopping. Nicki cooked us great food and we played with the boys.

The 4th

2010-07-14T16:54:00.000-07:00

I just love the fourth of July. Fireworks, food, sun, boat, family and friends...what more can we ask for?

Tyler had been gone for work for three straight weeks and he got back right in time for the fourth. It was awesome having him back. We had never been apart for that long since I lived in Seattle at the first of our relationship, three years ago. Crazy!

We went to Brigham to celebrate the forth. We got engaged on the forth two years ago at the B.C. park so we love going back every year.

The weekend started out with boating. The weather was perfect, not too hot but just right. The whole family was there, but apartly I did not take pictures of anyone but myself...

We did lots of eating and relazing. There were so many people around between my parents house and the crazy neighbors....my aunts house. These are just a few of the kids that were running around all weekend.

Sheri and I were loving riding around on the four wheeler. Brigham has the best people watching and the four wheeler gives us great seats. Tyler was getting jealous that I kept going on rides with Sheri and not him.

Tyler and Miley just hanging out. So cute!

Since the fouth was on Sunday it was pretty low key. Brigham had all the city celebrations on Monday. So we decided to have our own firework show. The Blaquiere's were kind enough to provide us with great fireworks. We had a huge crowd come over to watch the show. My dad, Eric and Ron shot the fireworks off and they were loving life to say the least. I tried getting a picture of them standing behind the fireworks because they stood behind them and were so proud of their work. This was that best picture I got. It was seriously too funny watching them. Miley just cracks me up. She picked up some of the fireworks and puts them up to her ear like a phone and starts walking around. If any of you know her dad, Ben you would understand why she does this. Ben talks on his phone a lot and he always walks around when he is talking. It is so cute that Miley wants to be like dad!...But using fireworks for a phone is a little dangerous. On Monday we all went to the Brigham City pool. It was real crowded but still fun. As soon as we get their my dad and Tyler disappear. This is where I found them....In line with all the kids for the water slide.

Sami with her cute little kids at the pool. Cam and Kennedy loved the water!

Monday night the city had the big firework show. My parents live across the street from where they are launched so it is always a great show.

Cam and Brooklyn are buddies. Cam wanted to sit with Gramps during the fireworks and Brooklyn wanted to sit with Cam so this is how they ended up.

Cake Stand

2010-07-03T10:56:00.001-07:00

This is my latest project. I am addicted to looking at craft blogs. I have noticed how cake stands are very popular. I made a trip to the DI and found some cheap plates and crystal candle holders. I glued them together and this is how it came out.

I put some decorations on the stands because I wanted to try them out. I really liked how they turned out!

Huntington Beach

2010-06-28T16:57:00.000-07:00

Last year at Tyler's work he won a trip to Huntington Beach. His boss rewarded the person who he thought deserved it most. The trip came at the worst possible time....

Tyler is at his Allstate training to become an official agent. His training has been going on for five weeks. And of course it ended up being during our trip to Huntington. We could either take the trip or get nothing. So I decided to go solo.

My sister lives close to Huntington so I had her come stay with me along with some friends from high school. It is always fun being with Sheri and her cute little girl Miley. We shopped and went to the beach.

These are the views from my hotel balcony.
This is me and my friend Kathy. She just graduated college so her and her boyfriend came to celebrate with me at the beach.

This is me and my good friend Chelsea. We have known each other since kindergarden. I had not seen her little boy Tommy in over a year. It was crazy to see him walking around and talking.
The view at night was so pretty!!
This is Christyne and Allie. They came and spent the last night with me. We had a total girls night...dinner, candy, chick flicks and hot chocolate.

My trip was a lot of fun. I missed Tyler though...it was so different to go on a trip without him.

Thanks for the trip Ty!

Boondocks

2010-06-03T11:01:00.000-07:00

For Ashlee's birthday the family went to Boondocks. A new one opened in Kaysville and that is what Ash wanted to do for her birthday. We had a ton of fun!
The Stanton's knew alomost all the people that were at the park that night. The Kaysville single ward was there so it made for great people watching!
We played mini golf and I beat Ty. I was too excited!!

Tyler told Ashlee that this was the best birthday party he has ever been to! We must not get out much.

Anyways...Happy Birthday Ash! We love ya!

In the picture: Tyler, me, Ging (who is 7 months pregs and you can't even tell in this pic), and Birthday girl Ash.

Mothers Day

2010-05-12T18:25:00.000-07:00

Since I have been in a crafty mood the past few weeks I decided to make a gift for my mom and mother in-law. I found this sign at "Family Dollar."

.......I did not know things were over a dollar at that store.

I painted, sanded, inked, and put some paper on the sign making the final product of this...

Cute Huh?

BIG News....

2010-05-05T12:34:00.001-07:00

.........
..........

NO! I am not pregnant....

but we are NOW currently BUSINESS OWNERS.

As most of you guys know, Tyler and I have been working for Allstate for a year and a half. We decided that this is what we want to do for a career.
We signed the paperwork last night. Tyler officially takes over as the agent in August. It is located in West Bountiful. Above is the picture of the office, we do not like the location or the building (it is ugly) so we are going to move it in August when we take over.

After we signed the paperwork we were in the car and I said, "I feel the same." And Tyler agreed. We thought we would feel different. So we went and got a smoothie at Jamba.

It will take a few days for the reality to set in. But we are both way excited to get started and work for ourselves.

P.S. Once we officially start we will bugging you guys for your business.

Project

2010-04-30T11:47:00.000-07:00

Tyler has been living and breathing the playoffs. I will watch the Jazz but I like to have a project to work on at the same time. Since we just moved into the basement I thought I would make it a little bit more homie. I put most of our decorations in storage so I just had to make something new. This is what I came up with.....
My mother in-law has a ton of old picture frames so I picked a few and painted them. I put cute paper in the frames and hung them up. It really spices up the room.

Mini Vacation...

2010-04-30T10:27:00.000-07:00

Tyler and I are a little bit crazy....we decided to move into Tyler's parents. This will be the fourth place we have lived in less than two years! So we now live in Fruit Heights. We quit our jobs...and this is why we are crazy!
We have new jobs lined up but we took TWO WEEKS OFF just for fun. Our mini vacation is almost over and I am seriously depressed. We have just been trying to relax the past two weeks. We moved the first week and Tyler went to Georgia for a golf tournament. I also have been working on a few crafts to keep myself busy.

We have loved being in Lehi for the past year. My sister in-law and her family live close by so we have really enjoyed hanging out with them. The other day we all went to the park because the weather was so nice. Ty loved being at the park with all the moms.

Easter

2010-04-30T10:16:00.000-07:00

I just found these pictures from Easter. Little Cam is so cute!!!! We spent part of the weekend up in Logan with Tyler's family. It was a fun Easter.

Old Friends

2010-04-15T08:34:00.000-07:00

Last weekend my mom, Sam, her kids and I went on a road trip to California. We had so much fun seeing family and old friends.

We stopped in Rancho for a few hours so I could see some of my friends from high school. It was great seeing them! I felt like I was in high school again.

(I'll post more pictures of us at Sheri's house soon...)

I miss....

2010-03-16T08:33:00.000-07:00

our flight benefits.

Spring break 2010...picking up more hours at the office. Sad story!

Business Man......?

2010-03-04T21:01:00.000-08:00

Business in front.....

PaRtY in back!!!!!

Tyler has been growing out his hair for the past few months.

It is seriously out of control. He told me he now understands what it means to have a bad hair day.

San Jose

2010-02-26T08:36:00.000-08:00

So last weekend Tyler and I went to San Jose for a work conference. It was quite a trip! We were all trying to make the trip as cheap as possible so we packed into a huge Mormon van and made the long trip.

We left at 3 in the morning so we could get to California in time for our first meeting. We had 12 adults in the van for 12 hours. It was a nightmare…. The conference was great! The guest speaker was Donald Trump. It was crazy to see him in person. (Donald is right there at the podium)
Our hotel was a crap hole to say the least. We called for a wakeup call for 5 in the morning and it never came. We woke up and went to the office to find the worker asleep at his desk.

We tried getting to the conference center early to get a seat each morning, because there around 18 thousand people there. The center was playing techno each morning. For those who don’t know…Tyler loves him some beats. This is him and Bonnie dancing.
On our way home we added two more people to the car. Our driver was Bob Evans, who is the Fox 13 news anchor. He is hilarious in the wee hours of the morning.
There was an inch of snow on the ground in Tahoe and the highway patrol made everyone chain up their tires. It added a few hours to the trip home.

"ACN"

Overall we had a great time. Go team!

Brigham City

2010-01-06T10:30:00.001-08:00

We went to Brigham to celebrate a late Christmas, Cam's 2nd birthday and new years. We had so much fun! Tyler and I love being an aunt and uncle. We get to play with the kids and not have to deal with the diapers, nap time and the screaming. It's great! Cam and Miley are so cute! And yes they will one day be mad at me for taking a million pictures of them in just their diapers. But I could not resist!

Family Fun

2010-01-05T13:08:00.001-08:00

This holiday season was wonderful. We spent a ton of time up at Tylers parents house in Kaysville. We did a lot of relaxing and movie watching. Tyler and I both had a week off work, and nothing is better than that!!

We had a great time with the Stanton clan on Christmas morning. We ate a huge de-lic breakfast and then we all watched little Halle open her princess and girly girl gifts. She is the first grandaughter and we all love to get her girly things. Her shirt was my favorite..."Santa thinks I'm awesome!"

Tyler and I on our second christmas as a married couple.

P.s. Tyler is growing his hair out, he has never had it this long ever!

2009-12-20T11:46:00.000-08:00

Dear Miley (Sheri & Ben):

Please come visit us! We miss you.

One Year

2009-11-08T17:57:00.000-08:00

Holy Cow!! Ty and I have been married a whole year. Time flies when you're having FUN! Since Tyler worked for the airlines for so long he thinks we have to go on a trip about once a month. That is what he was so used to doing when he was single. Usually I tell him we can't go out of town, due to work, money and responsibilities ....but I gave in and let him plan a little trip to Vegas to celebrate our LOVE. We went for a long weekend and it was so nice and relaxing to get away. We went to "Hynosis Unleased" at the Tropicana and it was hilarious. Neither of us wanted to get hypnotized but it was fun to watch the audience make fools of themselves.

This year we have:

Visited: Paris, South Carolina, Cancun, Greece, Hawaii, California, Las Vegas, Wyoming, and Idaho.

Lived in two places and are in the process of moving to our third.

Worked at five different Allstate Locations.

Received degrees (Ty got his bachelor's and I got my associate's)

Received our insurance license in the state of Utah.

And fallen more in love!!

Tyler's 28!!

2009-09-19T16:01:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Husband!!!!!! And Angie, Ryan and Louise!!

This week we celebrated Tyler's 28th birthday...he is getting old! September is full of birthdays in the Stanton family. Four birthdays in two days!!! It's nuts! Tyler shares his birthday with his mom and he loves it. He wanted to spend the day with her so we hit the movies and the whole family went out to dinner (minus Nikki and Ry...who were missed). Tyler had a great day filled with way too much peach cheese cake.

Blink Concert

2009-09-08T12:12:00.000-07:00

Tyler is a big Blink 182 fan. This summer the band has been doing a reunion tour and when Tyler found out about it he was so ExcIteD!!! I have never been a huge Blink fan, but I love Tom Delonge. He is so cute! We bought some great tickets and went to see them last night in Provo. Blink is very ....whats the word....crude! I've never heard the F word so many times in my life. It was still a good concert though. They sure know how to put on a show.

I just loved to watch all the people, Blink can pull a wide range of fans! I was fully entertained just people watching. My favorite part of the concert, besides watching Tyler jumping up and down like a little boy, was the drum solo by Travis Barker. It was awesome!! This is a picture of him, his stage was lifted in the air and tilted. So we could see him hit the surface of the drum and then he statred to spin, I don't know how he didn't throw up!

All and all it was a way fun concert and a great way to start celebrating Tyler's BiRtHdAy!

Sage Junction

2009-08-31T18:48:00.000-07:00

For those of you that don't know...my dad is in a band. His band is called Sage Junction. They are an awesome country band with the best bass player. My dad just loves it and we have so much fun going to watch him play. Over the weekend his band played at the Box Elder County Fair and we all went to watch and dance.

Stantons

2009-08-24T19:15:00.000-07:00

These pictures are long over due....

The whole Stanton clan got together for Halle's 1st birthday back in January. Angie had a great idea to take a few family pictures. Halle looks so little, she was still a baby in these pictures. And Nikki is expecting little Chase in a few weeks. It's weird to see Ginger and Cody without their little dog Snuggs. Haha! All and all we are a pretty good looking FAmiLy!

Cody, Ginger, Kent, Louise, Ashlee, me, Ty

Jake, Nikki, Brody, Ryan, Justin, Halle and Ang

It's Offical.....

2009-07-30T21:59:00.000-07:00

I'm 21!!!!!!!!
We had a little birthday party up in Island Park with the Stantons and of course we had sparklers. It was so much fun! Little Jake and Brody helped me blow out my candles. On Monday I got the day off and did some boating with the family. The water was perfect! We live for nice days on the Moomba!! I loved having Sheri and Miley in town to play with me on my special day.

Fun with the Stantons

2009-07-27T08:35:00.001-07:00

We went up to Island Park for the weekend with Tyler's family. We stayed in an old cabin...it was pretty close to roughin it if you ask me. We had so much fun relaxing and hanging out together. The boys did some fishing and we all rode the four wheeler. The family was there and we went up to Yellowstone for the day to see the sites and look for a bear. Yellowstone was beautiful and saw a bear so it was a successful day!

Ford ReUnion

2009-06-22T19:27:00.000-07:00

Every other year my moms side of the family rents out a cabin in the middle of nowhere. We all get together to eat, play games, craft, eat, four wheel, shoot guns, eat, and just hang out together. Our family is getting so big these days. Most the cousins are married and have kids...Tyler and I were the only couple without kids. We had so much fun visiting with our family and enjoying southern Utah. It was so beautiful!

Cameron loved all the animals. He walked around all weekend saying "animals" it was so dang cute. He is a busy little guy. We love him!!!!

I was looking for Tyler one afternoon and I found him and Tyson swinging together. I thought it was really funny, so I had to get a picture!

The cabin had this crazy teeter totter that is for four people and it spins. My aunts went on it (who are in their 50s) they were screaing and fell off, it was a funny site to see.

We had a ton of fun. Our family is huge and crazy and we really know how to throw a PaRty!!

Tyler's Accomplishment

2009-06-12T16:25:00.000-07:00

Tyler has been working at Allstate Insurance since we have been married and he hopes to one day open up his own agency. In order to do that he has to take lots of tests and get all sorts of licenses. He has been studying so hard to get his P&C License....the test is serioulsy killer! I took it and I hate it more than anything. It is way hard! All Tyler has been doing is reading and taking practice tests, I feel like we haven't spent time together in weeks. But his hard work paid off because yesterday he passed with flying colors. I'm so proud!!! Yay for Ty! Now he only has to get two more licenses.

Tyler is very excited about passing!!!! I thought this picture fit the mood.

Newest Member of the Family

2009-05-25T20:59:00.000-07:00

Miley Ward was born on May 22nd. Sheri and Ben's first kid and she is so cute!!! Take a look for yourself....

I can NOT wait to meet her.

My Dream....

2009-05-13T07:49:00.000-07:00

I listen to talk radio in the morning at work because I work alone and it's very quiet. Usually it's really boring and they don't have anything that great to say, BUT yesturday I was wrong.

Get this...

They were talking about Beyonce and she has so many outfits and shoes that when she moved to a new place she left her clothes in her old apartment and now she uses her apartment as a closet and lives in separate place.

Could you image renting out an apartment as a closet...and I'm sure it's a big apartment. If you haven't figured it out, I love shoes and clothes. A girl can never have too many cute outfits!!!

...PoOr TyLeR!!!.....

Hawaii

2009-05-11T17:55:00.000-07:00

Our last trip (for awhile at least).

We flew to O'ahu, Hawaii Saturday morning to celebrate Tyler's graduation. We only stayed for a day but it was awesome!!! We stayed right on the beach and it was beautiful and HoT! We drove the whole island so we got to see everything. The island it so much bigger than i thought and there is every shade of green imaginable. The water is warm and clear ...we loved every minute of it.

He DID it!!!

2009-05-05T19:15:00.000-07:00

Tyler graduated from college last week. I'm so proud of him. He got his degree in technical sales from Weber State. Now he gets to start his career....CrAzY!!!!

The whole week I was so excited for the graduation and it hadn't hit Tyler that he was finished with school FoReVeR so he didn't seem too stocked. But as soon as we picked up his gown and hat the morning of the ceremony a whole new world was opened. He was so excited, he ripped open the gown and put it on, and he wore it literally all day. He really wanted to sleep in it too. It was so funny! He noticed that lots of other graduates had ropes and sashes on their gown and Ty really wanted some. But i told him you had to earn them with honor role and things like that. Tyler is very determined...he found a purple Weber State sash in the bookstore and bought it for his gown and wore it all day as well. I loved that is was all wrinkled but he wore it with pride, saying "this is my emblem of knowledge and prestigiousness." The kid cracks me up, you got to love him!

Congrats to Tyler!!!

AtHeNs, GREECE

2009-04-29T18:07:00.001-07:00

Tyler and I decided to go BIG and head to Athens, Greece for a few days. Tyler wont be working for the airlines for too much longer so we figure we need to take advantage of the jobs perks while we can. Greece is one place that I have always wanted to go and Tyler is so amazing and totally jumped on the idea.

Athens is not what I was expecting it to be at all. Eveything is really old yet beautiful. We got to see the olympic stadium, Temple of Zeus, Hadrian Arch, Acropolis, Theatre of Dinos, the ocean, those really serious soldiers with fur balls on their shoes...I mean really what else could you ask for. We shopped, laid out, swam, ate at McDonalds, went to a karaoke club and took lots of pictures.

Things you should know before going to GrEeCe......
Europeans love to stare at you
Wear your seat belt at all times due to the crazy and insane drivers.
Be prepared to be around cigarette smoke, everyone smokes there! It's gross!!
Girls do not belive in straighteners, they all have big freezy hair.
The Greek kids love Green Day.
Cars go by kilometers NOT miles per hour...so when your husband is going 120 on the highway it is not necessary to freak out.
When you brake anywhere be aware someone will honk at you.
Stray dogs are on every street resembling death.

We had such a great time in Athens. Best vacation yet!!

Easter Fun

2009-04-18T16:25:00.000-07:00

For easter we went up to Brigham to hang out with the family. Sheri and Ben were in town so we were all there. We ate a lot as usual and had a huge easter egg hunt. There is only one grandkid and my mom went nuts with the egg hunt for little Cam. He found one egg and was happy so all the adults had to find the rest...and we loved it!

Go jAzZ!!!!

2009-04-03T21:47:00.000-07:00

I feel that I never post anything because we never do anything or have anything real exciting to share. All we ever do is work work work. But tonight we went to the jazz game and it was awesome. We bought some cheap tickets on the corner and screamed throughout the game. We tried to get closer to the court and got kicked out of four differnt seats. And after all that the jazz lost, it was depressing to say the least. But we still had fun!