Tag's turn

I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while, but I just haven't taken

many pictures. We got our cute little dog a few weeks

ago, and she's been pretty good. Except when she gets bored

and decides to chew our drip system up in the backyard.

I guess you just expect that kind of thing with a young

dog, but hopefully she learns quick! Well for Valentines Day

BJ and I didn't do much with just the two of us, since my cousin

got married that day. We went to her luncheon at a place here

in St. George, Made in Brazil. It was soo good! I would recommend it.

Then we went to Kanab to the reception. Other than that we've

just been keeping busy with our basement. BJ and his brother

have been trying to finish up the frame work so we can start

sheet rocking. We have two bedrooms a bathroom and a storage

room left to finish. I can't wait till its all done! Hopefully this summer!

We have been shopping for new living room furniture since we

moved our tv to our family room downstairs we are short on couches.

It has been so frustrating! We have looked all over town with no luck!

Everytime we find a set we like, the loveseat is unavailable. So on

Monday we decided to try Stouts in Hurricane, and YAY I think we

finally found something! Hopefully by this weekend we will have

somewhere to sit in the living room and the family room!

Well since my post is called "Tag's Turn" I will fill you in on that.

I knew that since Zander took his training wheels

off, Taggart would be soon after. He was actually ready

when Zander was, but his legs just weren't quite long enough.

On Monday he finally decided he was ready. He is so smart

and such a fast learner! I am so proud of him!

Sadie

We got a new addition to our family this last weekend.

She is an American Staffordshire Terrier mix,

ya its a mouthfull! We got her from a shelter and she

is about a year and a half. She is such a cute girl,

and the kids absolutely love her! She is going to be

a great family dog, and we are so excited to have her!

We didn't get to pick her name, but it's okay. We

can live with Sadie.

FIESTA FUN!!

Zander celebrated his 6th birthday on January 9th!

Him and a few of his friends went to FIESTA FUN!

They had a fun filled day with pizza, balloons, arcade games,

Minature golf, bumper boats, and go karts!

Time has definitely flown by. I can't believe he is growing

up so fast, but at the same time is seems like ages ago

that he was a little baby and I only had one kid! Our lives

have changed dramatically since he was born. He is such

a wonderful part of our family, I can't wait to see how he

grows in the next 6 years. Hopefully that won't come to

quickly though! At the bottom of this post I added a video

of him when he was about 2 and a half years old. He had

been playing hard all day and came inside to wait for dinner.

He was sitting in his booster seat and got a little sleepy.

The backround noise is me cooking dinner so sorry about that.

He has changed soo much since he was 2!

Happy birthday & Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone had a good Christmas! BJ's birthday is on

Christmas eve, so every year we do a christmas/

birthday party with BJ's mom and his immediate siblings.

This year we had it at our house, which worked out

really well, since the weather wasn't so nice for traveling.

We got to stay home all day christmas day too! In the 8 1/2

years we've been married, this is only the second year

we have been able to do that! I loved it! It's so

stress free to just be able to relax at your own home

and just let your kids play with their new toys. I hope

we get to stay home next year. The day after christmas

we headed to Apple Valley to BJ's Dads to visit for a little

bit, then headed over to Kanab. The kids got to play in

the snow again and see their cousins. All in all we had a good

holiday! I am truly grateful for my family.

Happy Birthday BJ!!

All the kids got PJ's from Grandma Davis

on Christmas eve!Calista was getting mad, because her pajamas were

hooked together and she couldn't get them apart!Looks like Santa found us! Tag and Zander woke

up first around 7 and snuck out to see what Santa left

for them. Tag found his new cowboy hat and rope.

Calista was so excited to see this waiting for her!Checking out their stockingsThis present was bigger than Calista, so she had

to climb on top of it to unwrap it! It was so funny.BJ was super excited to get his riding boots for his

motorcycle! He wanted these so bad, and he was

going to order some before christmas, but when I told

him they couldnt order the one's he wanted in his size

he was really bummed. Little did he know, that I lied!!

I just told him that and ordered them later without him knowing.

So he was pretty surprised when he opened this present!Calista thought her toys bins were for her to hide in,

she would get mad if I put toys in it. She would just throw

them out and then climb in it.

Calista and her new table set, and her new baby doll.Tag and his Grandpa Hunt

My brother, Ryan eating my breakfast!! He stole

my plate! Can you believe that??

All the kids and Grandpa watching Wall-E

I don't even know how to spell that!

Let it SNOW!!

I can't believe all this snow! What is even

more bizzarre is that I dreamt that they

closed all the schools today and then they

really did! We usually have to

go north to play in the snow, and we actually

went to Cedar last weekend just for the snow.

Who knew St. George of all places would get

this much! We even had more than enough to build

a snowman! I'm so mad I didn't get any pictures

from today so the pictures I posted are from Cedar.

All that would make me happier is if it snowed again

for christmas! St. George having a white christmas

is slim to none, but I can always hope! I hope everyone

got out and enjoyed all this snow because we probably won't

see anything like this again for a long long time.

She's Two!

Calista is already 2! I can't believe it! I have to

warn you, there are a lot of pictures. There are

too many cute ones of her growing up it was hard

to choose, so I apologize in advance. First of all I just

have to say how proud I am of Zander! He finally learned to ride

his bike without training wheels!! He went for the

longest time where he didn't even really like riding it

to riding it every chance he got. He's been practicing

so much and he finally did it!

I don't know where the time has gone, but Calista Autumn

Brown, born on Nov. 14, 2006 at 1:18 p.m. weighed 7 lbs 1 oz.

It has been so fun to watch her grow and develop her

personality! She was I think the easiest pregnancy

I had. I think chasing my two other boys around

all day kept my mind off everthing else. Even though she

was 3 days overdue it was a pretty smooth pregnancy.

I am so grateful for all of my kids, I am truly blessed!

It took 9 months of trying with fertility to get pregnant

with Zander. Then fertility again with Taggart and Calista,

Heavenly Father has blessed our lives. Here is a tribute to her life up to

this point.

She learned to Crawl at 9 months

Her First Birthday! She learned to walk

on her own at 12 1/2 months

She Turns Two!

Here is my attempt at making a butterfly cake

I think it turned out pretty good.

Blowing out the candles!!

FUn and Games! First they did pin the tail on

the donkey, Calista did pretty good for being

blind folded and not really knowing what she was doing.

Thats her tail on the donkey.

All the kids gathering around for fish pond prizes!

Showing off her prizes

PRESENTS!!