Baby Showers*

 Shanettes beautiful kitchen!... The chocolate fountain was soooooooo good!

  The girls from the Salon-- Love them!

 Amee and Jo-- 2 of my favorite people... Thanks for the fun shower:)

 Brit (grew up next door to Jake and I do her hair now) she gave me that cutest tutu shown above with a bracelet and Eryn (danced with her on drill and her little sister was one of my best friends) she made me some way cute burp cloths, a big thing of baby lotion, and some head bands. Love them!

                                31 weeks-

 So freakin cute.. my cousin Stacia, Aunt Sharon, and my mom came from Kanosh and I cried .. haha but this is Stacia's little boy boston who is 5 months and she just got done feeding him and he laid like this for like 15 minutes . It was the funniest thing ever.. you would have thought he just had a thanksgiving dinner.. hahahaha

 Hollie use to work with us at the Salon and I love and miss her! Look how freakin cute that swim suit is!

 We were breakin in the new sling that Shanette gave me!

      This is my cutest Taylee-- Boston's big sister

 Asher (one of my best friends from highschool) and I at my shower up in Salt Lake-- so glad she came it made my day.. love and miss you!!

 How cute is this! Can you tell what it is?? My cousin Brad made this for the shower--so talented:)

 Cute diaper cake from my Aunt Teresa and cousin Bri-- there is a pic of me at 3 1/2 weeks old-- such a cute idea huh!!

 My aunt Sylvia, aunt Louise, Mom, and Grandma Knott ( those are my grandmas sisters) Love them!

 My aunt Ann and her girls were able to come and my aunt had some dresses of mine that I wore when i was a baby.. it was so fun to see them and get them back:) hahah I can't wait to put Paisley in them even though they are out of style-- its the meaning behind it right?

 My mom made this cutest quilt and I love it! Thanks mom!!

 These cute red shoes Asher gave me and she wasn't there when I opened it so this is for you Ash-- my reaction.. lol I love them! ( and the gift card)

 Love my Grams!!

 Whitney and I became friends down in Cedar and over the summer she moved up to Salt Lake so I was glad she could come.. it also made my day.. Love and miss you Whit!!

 These next 2 pics are out of order... There suppose to go at the top but my cousin Shanette and great friends Jo were the masterminds behind my shower in Cedar and I thank them so much! It was so fun and thanks for your hard work.. love you both!

These are my cutest neighbor friends.. I LOVE THEM! I was so glad they were able to come! Kylee made me the cutest blanket and burp cloths and Allie and Nicole gave me a basket full of bath stuff, clippers, and thermometer-- Very much needed! Thanks guys.. Love you!


I was so excited for the baby showers to begin! I have already got so much cute stuff and I still have 2 more showers to go! What would I do without awesome family and friends to take care of me.. Like I said Shanette and JoAnna put on the one for me in Cedar City and my Aunt Teresa, cousin Brianna, and Grandma Knott put on the shower for me in Sandy. I am so grateful for them and for taking the time and money that was put into them! Thanks so much guys. I love you so much!!

Happy Birthday LoVe*

How freakin RAVISHING is he!!! :)  Yes my babe had a birthday and he turned 28 on Sept 16!! Can you believe it..... ya i can't either. We weren't able to really do anything fun this year cause he was so busy with school and homework. We had some friends and family come over for some brownies and ice cream later that night and that was so fun to have them over.. Thanks to everyone who came on such short notice! I got him ( well he picked it out) a nice scope for his gun and season 6 of the Office and Paisley got him a couple of shirts. I wish I could have thrown him a huge party like when your little and parents go all out but he probably would have been more embarrassed haha.. i still like to think that birthdays are a special day. ... right? So many people get caught up in life you would think that their birthdays would be the one day where they could do whatever they want when they want but to most people its just "another day".... I don't like that! I wish Jake could have been able to go do what he wanted when he wanted but the day his birthday fell on this year it was on of his busiest school days.. BUMMER!  Anyways just a few things I wanna say about Jake is how much of a huge help he has been to me! He seriously slaves to me since I have been pregnant and is always helping me around the house, laundry, dishes, and with Paisleys crib. Sometimes I feel bad cause my "pregnancy hormones" will burst on me and I take it out on him and then I feel bad and then I cry cause I feel bad.. haha he has been so good to help me get up out of a chair (haha i sound like an old lady), put toothpaste on my tooth brush, carry me to bed ( oh wait he did that before i was pregnant to ) and I don't know how he does it but whenever i'm in a bad mood he always sets me straight and makes me laugh and he is just always bringing out the best in me.. he has just been ideal! And I thank him so much for that.. I feel so lucky to call him mine. I can't wait til he gets to be a daddy outside of the womb. I know she will be wrapped around his finger the moment he lays eyes on her.. I can BARELY stand it! Happy Birthday Babe and hopefully one of these days we will have the party of a life time.. you deserve it. I LoVe YoU!!!

Part 2 of Lake Powell*

 These are the men (minus trav) that were behind the making of the AWESOME snake...don't you just love their smiles.. They love pictures:)

 Cute little "Minnow" learning how to ride the knee board-- let me remind you ... shes 3:)

 Jennie was so good this trip to get up early every morning and go skiing and would teach her kids how to ski and knee board.. little did we know that she was/is PREGNANT!! She just told us and were so excited.. i look back now and think how awesome she was despite how sick she was (and she hid it very well) she was out their any and every second helping her kids learn!

 I know you are all probably wandering what it the meaning behind this picture.. haha well there is this zit on Jake's back that I can NEVER conquer and it pisses me off!! its so deep down in there that its just a hole and I can never get it.. well Meag tried once and she got it! That is talent my friends.. there has been times where it has takin me 6 months.. hahah WAY TO GO MEAG!!!

                                                 Jakes cute mom and dad:)

                               Gone fishin?? Easton, Hunter, Johnny, Boy, Brigham, Paul, neighbor friend, Jalen,   and Aiden..

Lake Powell with the Dyrengs* Part 1

So when lookin at this picture you would think I just took it for the scenery right because it is very beautiful!! Well little did you know that Jake and Trav decided to take a little hike so if you look very closely( and I wish I could edit a little arrow in) but if you look at that middle rock you can see 2 personages and that is them.. Freakin awesome huh!! When they came back down they were sweating major bullets!

We moved........

AND WE LOVE IT!!!!! It happened all so fast to. Since I have been pregnant Jake and I would talk about the areas in our life where we could save money. Even though we were getting a killer deal where we were at we just didnt really need to live in a place that big and of course we didnt move into the first thing we found. I just kept looking around town to see if something would come up. One Saturday we were just headed down to St.George for a couple hours and I was reading the newspaper and I saw the add for this  place. It sounded awesome so we hurried and called the number and they said we could hurry and come down and check out the house. Right when I walked in the front door I knew this was the perfect place for us. I immediatley got so excited and my hopes up before she had even told us any details or anything. We walked through it and everything just seemed so awesome. I loved that it felt so roomy. Its handicap excessible so the hallways and door ways are freakin ENOURMOUS! I asked her immediatley if we could give her a down payment to be safe. They actually had 3 other spots open also but they were waiting to hear from some people. On the way down to St. George Jake and I talked about it and thought how great it would be to be able to live there. Even though we wouldnt have our 2 car garage and Jakes work bench and our extra bedroom we really felt like we could do with out. So its 2 bedroom 2 bath with a huge storage unit underneath so that made it so nice. Plus there is a carport thats covered and its like 3 minutes away from the highschool so I was way excited for that. When we got back from St. George I told Jake we needed to start packing up the house and we didn't even know if we would be living there. Well its a dang good thing we did cause with Jake working in Gunnison for the summer I didn't have very many days where I could have his help and especially being pregnant it was hard not to lift stuff. They did call us a couple days after and they said we can move in whenever so we were so excited. We had to give a 30 day notice at Sunset Ridge and this was the middle of June so we paid for July in our new place plus half of our rent for July at Sunset Ridge.. That freakin sucked but we just felt so blessed to have found something. We had so much help moving and I can never thank those people enough. It was a little challenging trying to move while Jake was away but it all happened. Jake's mom Diane-bless her heart- came down and her and Meag cleaned basically my whole old apartment while I worked and they did awesome. I really could have done it without them. We also had help from the backporch boys, Trav, Paul and April. I was so grateful for them. If anyone knows me I HATE asking for help so to have all this help I was feeling so bad but so grateful.. THANK YOU EVERYONE! Its so nice saving a little money each month and I feel like we live in such a better place. We live in a 4plex and the other 3 couples are AMAZING! I love all of them. They are all young couples and we are actally the first one to be having a baby. We have all become such great friends and play games and I look forward to this year living next to them. Of course I will always miss Sunset Ridge cause thats where Jake and I spent the first 2 years of our life after Iraq. So much happened there and I'm so grateful for the time that we had there. We made some of the bestest friends there and will miss them so much. I feel so blessed that we were able to find this new apartment. The one where we will bring our little Paisley home to. I love making new memories and I have loved this change. Here's to a new step in life.... CHEERS!!!