The Low family

Polar Express

2011-08-23T11:04:00.001-07:00

This past Christmas my sister in law Heidi invited us down to this "polar express" with her and her family. Her neighbors have this train that goes around their house and a few other houses and yards of their neighbors. It is a small train that you sit on these little seats, it is amazing, but so cool! Anyway they take you on this little ride and have Christmas themed displays and stuff. You then go see Santa at the north pole and he shares a spiritual message and the kids sit on his lap and he gives them a spiritual gift. After leaving the north pole you go on a ride with scenes from Christ's life and birth with the most amazing Christmas, spiritual music. Thanks Heidi, this really got us in the Christmas spirit!

This will probably be the only pic I will ever get of Kennady on Santa's lap! She does not like him, but for some reason she didn't mind this Santa??

Halloween

2011-08-17T10:09:00.000-07:00

For halloween this year Kennady wanted to be Princess Aurora, she wanted Ty to be prince Phillip, and me to be Maleficent (the evil witch)!! haha. I wonder what she is trying to tell me! Well I found a costume for me, and Kennady already had her princess dress from Disneyland, so we had to outfit Ty! He was such a good sport, we tried to make him look like Prince Phillip with what we had at our house, so he ended up in my old pregnant velour outfit, an old brown sweater, and my boots! haha!! The Low's have an annual halloween party every year, and it is so much fun, everyone dresses up (well the kids, and some adults :)) Then we eat crazy looking food, and play games. It is so fun we love it!

Ragnar Relay- Las Vegas 2010

2011-08-16T14:10:00.000-07:00

This crazy clown loved Caitlin!!

The 3 blonde black shirt crew!! Our refelctive gear at night

Go Kevin!! He was so fast!!

Cameron we made it on time!

Jersey Shore boys!

Fist pumping to the finish!

Cute Ang!!

Our fun girl van!!

Well this past October my sister Chelsey has a Ragnar team that she did Salt Lake with, but they had a few girls drop out for Las Vegas so she asked me and Ang to do this with her! For those of you that don't know what a Ragnar is it is where you run for 192 miles in a relay team of 12 people. We had 2 vans, a girl van and a boy van. You sleep in your van for 2 days and eat out of it too, it is crazy, but sooo fun! The girls we went with are amazing and we all were like best friends when we got done! We were not given a lot of time to train, but we ended up having a blast!!! We went to St. George Thursday night to sleep at Ty's parents house, and we met the rest of our team there! No better way to get to know each other than to play "Flick" a game with the pool table that when you get out you flick each other in the forehead! Hilarious! Kevin had no mercy on anyone!! Then Friday morning we got up early us girls we were van 1, and so we had to be in Vegas at 7:00am. We got a little lost driving down this scary road in the dark! But we found our check in point and we were off! We finished the race, not sure what our time was, but we finished!! By the end we were so tired our last legs we got a little hyper and delirous I think a little bit but our car was so hyper and we were dancing all over like crazy people! Oh the good old fist pump!! We also heard a rumor that the boy van was no different, at one point I think someone was yelling "F Ragnar!!" haha. Our goal was when we would see someone walking that we would cheer for them to get them to run, it was so fun! Sometimes we wished other vans would do that for us :) Thanks for the memories Dragins!!! Here comes quite a few pics!

Disneyland Picture overload!!

2011-07-26T12:22:00.000-07:00

Here are a bunch of pics from Disneyland. Sorry picture overload, but we had so many! This was the best trip we have ever been on! We will remember this forever!

Waiting for the World of Color to start, snacking on the best sourdough bread!! And it is so cute!

Waiting for the Pixar parade to start! This was the best parade!

Showing off our muscles to Lightning!

Princess Tiana

Kennady LOVED the roller coaster!

Toon Town

At Dinner with our little family

Woody!

haha this picture needs no words!

BUGS LIFE!

Ty with his favorite princess Belle! I look a lot like her huh?? :)

Belle

Princess Aurora

Snow White

Cinderella

Ariel's Gratto for breakfast

After the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique!

Final Touches...

Princess Kennady and her fairy godmother!

Heaven for little girls!

Day 2

Successful day 1!!

Paradise Hotel

Our photographer!

My hot hubby:)

Pirates here we come!

Too tired to wake up for Celebrate parade..it's ok Kennady it wasn't that good!

Out cold, but princesses in hand tight!

Listening and watching Cinderella tell her story

Kennady was a little afraid of Buzz, and apparently Cheryl is too :)

I love princesses too!

Sleeping Beauty

Right when we walked into Disneyland we saw our favorite princess!!! Kennady was so excited, so was I, I don't know who was screaming louder :)

THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH!!!!

2011-04-14T22:41:00.001-07:00

In August we got the amazing opportunity to go to Disneyland! Ty's parents like to take their grand kids to Disneyland when they turn 3. Ty and I did not want to miss Kennady's first time in Dinseyland so we convinced (not so much convincing) to let us tag along! I am so glad we got to go with Kennady for her first time. It is something she and we will always remember as an amazing family experience! Cheryl found this awesome deal that we got to to go to Disneyland for 5 days! We stayed at the Paradise Pier Hotel which was right in downtown Disney so we were able to go back and forth as much as liked. Kennady is in a huge princess phase and so she was so excited to meet them in person! She also got to fly for the first time! She was not scared, she loved looking out the window the whole time! She also got to do something totally awesome...she got to go the the "Bibbidy Bobbidy Boutique" which is an amazing place for little girls to go get made up like her favorite princess and be pampered like a princess. Of course Kennady chose the Sleeping Beauty dress, which is her favorite princess (mine too!!) She had her own fairy godmother who took her dress to have the "birds and mice" make it for her! They then took her to get her hair and makeup done, and she got to take pictures in a carriage! So awesome. We then got to go have breakfast with the princesses! I cried a few times during this to see her excitement and how cute she is! Prepare for picture upload!

OVER THE EDGE!!

2011-04-14T22:25:00.000-07:00

A few years ago a good friend introduced me to the Special Olympics. He was serving as Board President. It changed my life forever. This last August I had the amazing opportunity to raise $1000 dollars thanks to family and friends and I was chosen to go "Over the Edge" I got to rappel off of the Grand America hotel!!! It was so scary, but awesome! It was an amazing experience that I will never forget, and it was for a great cause also which makes it better! Thanks to everyone for making this happen!

Pugh's Yearly Cabin Trip 2010

2011-03-06T12:13:00.000-08:00

Hey blogggers I am back!! It has been a while, but prepare for many post!

Every year for the past few years we have gone to the Pugh's cabin for a camping, four wheeling trip. This year we were not expecting to have my brother and his family come since they recently had moved to Las Vegas for Chad's school, but one night late all of a sudden Chad and his cute little family showed up!!! It was the best surprise!! We are so glad they could make it! We had so much fun four wheeling, playing games, watching movies and being together as a Duke family.

Boating

2010-11-07T19:10:00.001-08:00

We got to go boating with Chelsey and her inlaws. Kevin's brother Steven's wife Kelly has a boat in her family, and they decided to take it out one day p to Rockport. They invited us to go with them. It was such a fun day! It was so nice outside and we had a ton of fun boating. Kennady loved the water and the boat, at one point she took a little nap in the boat! She went tubing with Ty, it was so fun to watch her. Thanks for a fun day Pugh's!

Kevin throwing Ty off the back of the boat, haha

Out cold!

Kennady's first time tubing!

happy baby Jeter

July 24th

2010-11-07T18:52:00.000-08:00

Well so much for updating every night! haha, but maybe once a week is good until I get caught up!

For the 24th this year we had a full day of fun! We started out with getting up early to go to the 24th of July parade downtown. Ty had to work in the morning so Kennady and I went out just us! Our family friends the Snow's go to this parade every year and wake up early to go get good seats. This year my dad went with Clayton Snow and they got up really early to save us all seats, thanks guys it was so fun! Kennady loved the parade, her and Boston sat pretty good and just watched the parade and waved at every float.

After that we had the typical swim day at the Low's house. We then had a bbq at my parent's house. Thanks dad for your delicious hamburgers, they are always a summer favorite!! We also did a few back yard fireworks, always a treat! It was a very relaxing, nice day!

Crazy Grandma Duke!! haha

Best Friends!!

Front row seats!!

Mom and Sally Snow

Dee really enjoying the parade! haha

July 4th- Scrapbook weekend

2010-10-31T20:43:00.000-07:00

Every year the Low girls go to California for national scrapbook day with Ty's Grandma Lloyd. It is usually in May, but this year with all the crazy schedules and stuff, Grandma did her scrapbook day but we decided to go to St. George over the 4th of July weekend to scrapbook for just us girls and Grandma. Megan is also included in the "Low" girls, she is basically family :) But as we started thinking we thought it would be fun to have the boys come and watch the babies and make us food and help us out. So we had it all set up, the boys would hang out in Ty's parents house while the girls all scrapbooked at Ty's Grandparents house (they are across the street from each other up by Green Valley resorts in the cottages). The boys were also given the opportunity to go golfing one morning as a break from cooking and watching kids! Well this weekend seemed perfect, but it went nothing like perfect! When we all first got there it was Kennady's actual birthday so before we left Ty and I had a little celebration with her and gave her a few presents from us. We had a little family party on Friday night with cake, Cheryl ordered this adorable Ariel cake for her! Well when we got there Thursday night Megan realized she forgot all of her pictures, so as we were figuring out to print them at Costco, I realized I forgot my pictures too! So we got online and ordered the pics.

Friday morning- Heidi started throwing up Friday morning! Race had some diarrhea, but we thought nothing of it, we thought she had acid reflux from being pregnant. Later that day Parker started throwing up! Oh no, it was the flu! We all tried to stay away and keep things clean. Friday night Ty and Trent took Cayden to go get some smoothies for everyone and on the way Cayden threw up all over in our car! Poor kid, it was every where and he was just sitting in it, it was soo sad! So they got back and we cleaned it all up and steamed our car and Kennady's car seat really well. We all hung out outside while Andrea painted the little girls toe nails and finger nails and ate popscicles. Poor Race still had bad diarrhea, he was going through diapers like crazy and Parker and Heidi were still not feeling well so everyone was pitching in helping. That night Keith started feeling sick along with Grandpa Lloyd, and Cheryl!

Saturday- The boys went golfing, things were looking up as far as we could tell with the sickness stuff. Ellyit had got sick during the night and Andrea was up all night with her. We took Skyler and Kennady, Cayden and Race to the St. George 4th of July parade, we missed it, but what we saw was not that great! Ty and I decided to go see my brother and his family in Las Vegas, they had recently moved there for school, Saturday afternoon. We headed out feeling pretty good, relieved to get out of the sick house! On the way down I started feeling weird, but thought it was car sickness. Once we got to Chad's house about an hour after we got there I started throwing up! Everyone went swimming and hung out while I was laying on Chad's living room floor trying not to get on the couch or anything to get them sick throwing up about every 45 minutes! It was awful, I have never been that sick in my entire life! This continued for about 18 hours constant throwing up every 45 minutes! They all came back and ate pizza and watched a movie instead of our normal plans to go hang out in Vegas. They decided to get the kids to bed, and they went upstairs and all of a sudden Emily comes down and Kennady had thrown up all over the floor in front of Andalynn and Porters room! GREAT! So we got all cleaned up and Chad made us sleep in his bed that night so we could sleep good. Kennady and I kept throwing up for a few hours, and finally got a few hours of sleep!
Saturday in St. George- Meanwhile in St. George Grandma Lloyd got sick, Megan got sick, Ellyit was still sick. So far out of 17 people 14 of them had already gotten sick! Crazy!

Sunday- We hung out with Chad in Vegas, had a great time. We ate dinner at my cousins house who lives in the same complex Chad does and her family, it was really fun to see them and get to hang out with them since we never see them! We did some sparklers and pops outside, the kids loved it! Ty was not feeling great, he didn't throw up but felt off. We got back to St. George and got updated on all the sickness. We missed fireworks in St. George, but got to see fireworks all through Vegas driving home!

Monday- We got up and everyone was starting to feel ok. Andrea had left Sunday morning with Keith and Cheryl's car to get her kids home. Once she got home Skyler and he friend Rylee got sick! We cleaned up the house and did a little scrapbooking then stopped at Brick Oven in St. George on the way home.

Needless to say we didn't do much scrabooking, we did a lot of cleaning, sleeping, and taking care of everyone being sick. Luckily Chad and his family didn't get sick from us! Out of the 17 people that went on this vacation 15 of us got sick! Andrea and Trent were the only lucky ones! I can't believe Andrea didn't get it, but she was so lucky, it was a quick flu but a wicked one! Over all it was nice to get away, and we love and appreciate all the Lloyd's and Keith and Cheryl did to make this a great trip, it was a bummer it ended up so crazy! Sorry long post, but here are some pics from that weekend!

At Brick Oven

Race loved this popsicle!

After Poor Cayden threw up

The fingernail painting/popsicle eating

Happy Birthday Kennady!

Her adorable Ariel cake, thanks Cheryl

Kennady 3rd Birthday! Princess Party!

2010-10-27T20:48:00.000-07:00

Prepare for my blog catch up! I am going to post one a night until I am caught up and Kennady's bday is July 1st so a lot to go!! And I can't really remember what happened in June so I need to go through my pics and figure it out!

Well Kennady is in love with the princesses right now, and so when I asked her what she wanted for her birthday cake she said she wanted a castle cake! So I attempted to make a castle cake the best that I could. Her birthday was pretty crazy, we were actually in St. George that weekend since it was the 4th of July weekend (that post to come next :)) so we celebrated her birthday the following weekend and decided to have family and a few friends over to the park by our house to have cake and ice cream. Kennady is such a smart little girl. She can talk your head off, she knows how to say everything, and sometimes when she talks I think "where did she learn how to say that?" She sings quite a few songs, many primary songs, she knew her primary part song for the program perfect, at night I sing her songs and have so since she was a little baby and she now can sing all of those songs every word, and she knows a lot of princess songs too that she can sing all the way through. She has such a cute personality, she loves being around people and is usually pretty friendly with everyone. She is not very big, she only weighs like 26 lbs. Kennady loves to dress up as princesses, and watch princess movies and play with barbies. Poor Ty grew up with all boys, and our house is pretty girly lately but he does know all the princess movies and is getting to know all the songs! He is a good sport. Well Kennady mom and dad love you so much and am so proud of what a wonderful little girl you are becoming! I can't believe she is already 3, I love her so much and we have so much fun together. It seems like yesterday we were bringing her home! Time flies so fast. I can't wait to keep watching her grow and learn! Love you lots little Dee! "I will love you forever, I will like you for always, as long as I am living my "little girl" you will be!" I say this to her every night, it is from my favorite book, but she made me change baby to little girl, cause she is not a baby anymore!

Special Olympics Summer Games

2010-10-26T19:08:00.000-07:00

This year for the Special Olympics Summer Games Bingham played soccer. The even was at BYU. The night before we all went down to the opening ceremonies to watch the torch run. They had this amazing hot air balloon that was out in the softball fields at BYU. They did a receiving line, where all the athletes walk in and parade through, just like the olympics! Our kids were so excited, it was amazing! Kennady and Ty came with me and it was such an enjoyable experience! The Jazz bear was there giving high fives through the athlete line while there was a live band playing music, it was a party! Our team during the games took the Silver Medal, they played so good and I was so proud of them, and love being apart of the Special Olympics!

Chelsey and Kevin Ragnar

2010-07-01T22:32:00.001-07:00

A few weeks ago Chelsey and Kevin ran the Wasatch Back Ragnar with some of their friends. We decided to go up the 2nd day and watch Chelsey and Kevin complete their final run, and since it was in Heber it was nice to go see our Grandma's too. I was so proud of Chelsey and Kevin, they did so good and it was fun to go support them. Good job guys!

Dog back riding!

2010-06-01T14:12:00.000-07:00

Boston and Kennady think it is really fun to sit on my parents small 125 lb black lab! Then they like him to get up and they get thrown off and laugh so hard! It is so funny. They are 2 pretty cute kids!
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More Fun Everyday Day

2010-05-18T10:13:00.000-07:00

Can I just brag that Kennady is the cutest little girl! She is so fun right now. She will be 3 July 1st and is as sassy as they come. She talks so much and doesn't stop, I wonder where she gets that??? But this past Sunday she was super tired and fell asleep while eating lunch, hilarious! So here is a cute picture of her sleeping, you can't see her other hand, but some of her sandwhich is there still holding on! I need to snap more photos of her doing her fun hilarious stuff.

Half Marathon

2010-04-22T11:57:00.000-07:00

YEAH!! It is over! haha. Chelsey, Ty, Trent, Crystal and I ran the Salt Lake Half Marathon last Saturday. We didn't train very well, none of us so it was hard on all of us. Everyone did so good, Ty and Trent did so awesome, and so did Chelsey good job everyone! It was a fun experience again, not sure why we do this to ourselves! Training is not very fun, especially in winter, but the race is really fun. I think next year we should do a different half, but this one is nice kind of kicks off the summer of races! Thanks to Chelsey who convinced us all to do it again this year, she is so motivating, she is so awesome. Thanks to everyone who came to support us in our race. My adorable family Dad, Mom, CaRynn, Christi, Kevin, Boston and Jeter. The Low side Keith, Parker, Heidi and cute little Race. Trent's family and his beautiful wife Megan and handsome boy Cayden. Also Chelsey's in laws the Pugh's we feel like they are family too! Oh yeah Chelsey's sister in law Crystal ran it too, she beat her time from last year by like 20 minutes, good job Crystal! More pictures to come once I get them all. Thanks again to everyone that came to support it really means a lot to us, and we love you guys!

Don't let that lady beat you guys!

My family and some family friends waiting to get some pics

6 years and counting!

2010-03-24T21:09:00.000-07:00

Yes March 23rd was our 6 year anniversary! Oh how the time flies when you are having so much fun with your best friend. I can't believe we have been married for 6 years! I am so lucky to marry my best friend and he continues to be my best friend more and more every day. Ty is such an amazing husband and Dad I appreciate him so much. Thanks "T" for all that you do for our little family, and for me. I love you so much! For our anniversary my sister Chelsey said she would take Kennady so on Monday we dropped her off around 2 and than we went golfing. We decided not to keep score cause it was the first time golfing for the season, but I played such a good game, I wish we would've kept score! We went to dinner and watched a movie. Tuesday we went to Color me Mine and painted some pottery, this was my idea thanks Ty for being a good sport and going! We had fun just hanging out together and Chelsey was so great to take Kennady! Thanks everyone!

Spread the word to end the word!

2010-03-06T15:53:00.000-08:00

My sisters and I supporting ending the word cause.
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Spread the word to end the word

2010-03-03T22:16:00.000-08:00

I had the opportunity to go to an exciting event tonight to support the Special Olympics of Utah. Today was national "Spread the word to end the word" day. This means that we pledge to not say the r-word anymore and encourage others not to say it either. It was great to be able to support something that I am so passionate about. I have been working with the Special Olympics for over a year for Bingham High School and have loved every minute of it. The kids have changed my life for the better and I love being around them. Well if anyone is interested in pledging to end the word, it is free and here is the website www.r-word.org. It just basically says you pledge to spread the word. Tonight we got to meet KayCee Stroh from High School Musical. She was so great and nice to sign autographs and take pictures. My sisters came with me, it was at East high, for those high school musical fans it is where they filmed the movies, anyway we found Sharpe's locker and they had to get a picture in front of it, so cute.

Bingham Basketball 09-10

2010-02-24T10:08:00.000-08:00

I will post to this more when I get all the other pictures. My JV team had a great year, we went 15-5. I am so proud of them and all that they accomplished. I had 5 freshman, 3 sophomores and 4 Juniors. They played so well together and always tried to set the tone for the Varsity team. These pictures were of our last game, I ended up getting a technical on my last game first one all year, but this guy was such a jerk I really didn't even deserve one. I wish I would have done something worse to deserve one so that is why I am sitting on some of the pictures. I love coaching and all that we teach the girls. We not only teach basketball, but many many life lessons. We really try to encourage them to be good students, friends, daughters and just all around good people. Thanks to all the girls and parents for their support! Also thanks to Ty for all the support he gives me through the season, I couldn't ask for a better husband he is truly the best and I love him so much. Also thanks to everyone that helps with Kennady it doesn't go unnoticed and I really appreciate it. The Varsity team went 17-5 which is awesome we lost 8 out of our top 10 girls from last year and the girls have pushed through every adversity that came their way. Total we had 4 Seniors, 5 Juniors, 4 Sophomores, and 5 Freshman on the jv/varsity team. I am also so proud of them too for all they have done. They have truly changed the world, and changed my life for the better! Love you guys!

Skyler's Baptism

2010-02-24T10:05:00.000-08:00

I can't believe that Skyler is 8! I met Skyler when I started dating Ty when she turned 2! Seems crazy that she is that old. She is such a beautiful girl! She is so lovable and so good with all the other grandkids. Good job Skyler, and we are so proud of you!

Andalynn Turns 4!!

2010-02-24T09:49:00.000-08:00

On the Duke side Andalynn is the oldest Grandchild. We love her so much and she just turned 4! It seems like yesterday she was born! She was the only grandchild for about a year and a half. We had a lot of fun, they came to my mom's house and we ate Pizza and cake. Chad and Emily made the cutest butterfly cakes, they were so creative. What a fun day we had with them, thanks for sharing her birthday with us!

Valentine's Day

2010-02-24T09:43:00.000-08:00

This year for Valentine's Day my sister Chelsey and I decided to trade baby sitting. She took Kennady on Friday night while Ty and I went to dinner at Ruth's Diner and a movie. Kennady had a blast, they made Valentine cards and she loves playing with Boston. So on Saturday night we took Chelsey's two kids at our house. It was so much fun, Boston and Kennady frosted sugar cookies, well more than frosted they ate the frosting! Jeter was such a fun good baby too, he was so good! Boston and Kennady got pretty messy frosting so we put them in the tub, they are so funny together. Chelsey had worked all day Saturday and was feeling tired so they just went to dinner and then came back to our house and we watched the Olympics for awhile. Thanks Chelsey for making Valentine's Day a fun weekend!

Bingham girls basketball

2010-02-24T09:33:00.000-08:00

I coach the JV/Varsity team at Bingham and it is such a joy for me to work with all the wonderful girls. Well the other day at practice a girl lost her contact and so Rand hits the floor and starts looking for it and so everyone else hit the floor too! It was such a funny scene instead of helping I got a picture on my phone! I love this team!
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Hide and Seek

2010-02-12T10:25:00.000-08:00

Kennady trying to play hide and seek in my bed while I was getting ready! She doesn't realize that you are supposed to stay hidden! Ha.
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Kennady and baby Jeter

2010-02-12T09:57:00.000-08:00

This is a cute picture. Kennady kept wanting to kiss Jeter!
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Baby Jeter's birth day!

2010-02-02T08:46:00.000-08:00

So fun! Chelsey was so awesome with this delivery. It literally took her like 3 hours to have the baby and I mean she went to the hospital at 3 30 am and had a baby at 5 26 ok so only 2 hours! I didn't even get there in time. She is amazing!
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Baby Jeter

2010-02-02T08:41:00.000-08:00

My sister had her baby January 4th and he is the cutest thing! We love him and he is such a good baby. Chelsey is such a good mom, good example for all of us! Way to go guys!
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2010-02-02T08:36:00.000-08:00

Kennady is so funny! She wanted me to go to sleep and she would sing and touch my face. She is so hilarious right now and fun.
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Christmas Day

2010-01-13T11:20:00.001-08:00

We had a great Christmas this year. Kennady doesn't like Santa and doesn't realize he brings her presents, but she loves to open presents! Here are a few pics at our house christmas morning.

Our small tree!

My favorite part of Christmas, getting out my Christmas dishes!

Santa Came!

Wake up Kennady!

In her fun Christmas P.J.'s

Kennad Loves the Princess stuff!

Parcell Party

2010-01-13T10:56:00.000-08:00

Every year my mom's family has the annual Parcell Christmas Party at my Grandma's house. We eat, give gifts and Santa always comes. Kennady is not a fan of Santa, so sorry Grandma Low but we didn't take her to see Santa this year! At the Parcell party Santa comes and she started crying the second he came downstairs! Then he gave her her present and as Ty walked her up to get it she took it from him and between tears and sobs said "Thank you Santa" it was so cute!

As Santa came downstairs!

"Thank you Santa"

Andalynn loves Santa!

Duke Family all together!

Chelsey and Kevin before they had baby Jeter

Festival of Trees

2009-12-07T20:52:00.001-08:00

So a girl in my class in Primary made a ginger bread house for the Festival of Trees so I wanted to go support her and go see her house! Ty and I decided to take Kennady with us the last night, which was so crazy busy! Kennady liked it for like a half hour, which if any of you go to the festival it takes more than that to go through it all! I love all the Christmas trees and it really gets me in the Christmas mood. Good job Breanna on your house!

Thanksgiving

2009-12-07T20:35:00.000-08:00

This year for Thanksgiving we had the awesome opportunity to be with both of our families. This year we got to eat lunch with my family, thanks mom it was so good, and I loved sharing that with you guys. We also got to go to St George and be with Ty's family. It is a tradition every year for his family to meet in St George, although only his grandparents and one uncle came from California. We had a lot of fun, the boys got to go golfing, the girls got to paint pottery, and we got to go crazy black friday shopping! Thanks for all the fun times with our families, it was a fun relaxing weekend.

Happy Thanksgiving 2009

Kennady wears her princess crown upside down!

Me looking hot after a very early morning of shopping! Thanks Keith

Heidi and I trying to wind down after shopping

The guys going golfing

Do you think they are twins??

Grandpa Lloyd still beating all the guys every year! Go Grandpa

Crystal and I painting, we were the last ones!

Skyler trying to aid things along!

The Low crew, we are missing Andrea, sorry she missed it!

Grandma and Grandpa Great with the kids!

Halloween

2009-12-07T20:17:00.000-08:00

So this is like a month and a half old, but still want to post. This year for Halloween my sister and I decided to have our kids be Pirates. I couldn't find one that I really liked anywhere for girls so I decided to make hers. In making hers I decided Ty and I should be pirates too so I made our vests too! We had a great Halloween, both of our families had a Halloween party with all the kids, it was such a fun thing and we loved both parties so much. Kennady loved trick or treating with Boston they had so much fun. Kennady would take a piece of candy for herself, and so would Boston, then Kennady would take another piece and give it to Boston! It was so cute. Here are some cute pics of them on Halloween.

Ty looked like Jack Sparo a little bit!

The Low pirate family!

Ready for eyeball spaghetti at the Low's

Kennady's and mine awesome Dora pumpkin!

Cute Duke grandkids on Halloween

Porter the "Frog"

Boston the "Pirate"

Kennady the "Pirate girl"

Andalynn the "Princess"

Skyler and Ellyit the "Cowgirls"

Kevin, Chelsey, Boston the "Hulk, Cat, Pirate"

Before Trick or Treating

After Trick or Treating

Pumpkin Walk

2009-12-07T20:08:00.000-08:00

So this year we decided to go to Logan with Lindy, Landon, Ty (Lindy's little boy), Lindsay, Reagan and Kennady! We took Lindy's in-laws astro van! Brought back so many fond and not so fond memories of my families Astro haha. We had a lot of fun. We got up there and went to Megan's cute house and got to hang out with her all day. The pumpkin walk was really fun, I think it would be fun to do every year. Thanks for the fun time ladies!!

Look at them being so good! haha

Kennady's cute smile!

Duke family cabin picture

2009-10-12T15:19:00.000-07:00

Here is our family picture from the cabin! We love doing this picture, it takes a while to get the babies our dog Cooper and everyone all set, we were sad that Chad and Emily weren't there to spend this time with us!

Boston's 2nd birthday

2009-10-12T14:46:00.000-07:00

We celebrated Boston's 2nd birthday about a month ago. It was so fun, we had so much fun. It was our family and Kevin's family, everyone had so much fun and Boston loved all his presents, he is such a boy!

Birthday Boy Boston!!

Grandma Jill (mom), CaRynn, Christi

Cute Grandma Parcell

Leslie, Jason, Logan, Steven, Kellie (Kevin's family)

Chelsey and her mother in law Jewel

Kevin's Dad Chuck and brother Darren

Why so serious boys??

Porter and Andalynn

Kevin and brother Mark

Dad cooking the BEST hamburgers (whoogs) ever!

Kevin's parents

Coloring Pumpkins

2009-10-12T14:12:00.000-07:00

For the Priesthood session we all went to my moms house with the kids and we had them paint some pumpkins, she had some old shirts for them all to wear. They had so much fun, Andalynn did a really good job at getting her pumpkin perfectly painted. Boston was also very into this, he did not like the paint on his hands. Porter was also very careful and made sure his top of pumpkin was all covered. Kennady started out good, but decided to start painting her toe nails and from there it turned into painting her whole legs and arms! It was so funny. They had so much fun, thanks to Grandma for having this fun activity!

Boston and Kennady

2009-10-12T12:40:00.000-07:00

So these two little hoodlums love to hang out with each other. We love taking pictures of them, dressing them a like so here are a few that we have done, some are from Easter, so a while ago.

Cute Kennady

2009-10-05T21:22:00.000-07:00

I know as parents we can't stop talking about our cute kids enough! And I know that Kennady is the cutest, funniest little girl! A few weeks ago she was so into playing chase, she would come try to find me in the bedroom and run to Dad out in the living room and he would throw her up in the air. She was laughing so so hard, it was so funny. She did this for like 45 minutes, amazing how little things can entertain little kids. I have more posts to come, but need the pictures! I know it has been a while!

Camping

2009-09-09T19:56:00.000-07:00

This was our first campout of the year, yes we know it is the end of the season, but we have been so crazy. We found a time to go with Trent, Megan, Cayden, Ryan and Jenna. It was a ton of fun. Kennady loved it, she loved being dirty and didn't care, she just played in the dirt. She loved watching Ryan fish, he caught quite a few fish for her to see. We had fun sleeping in our little tent with Kennady's pack and play taking up the whole tent, but we survived! I love camping and wish we would've done it more this summer. Thanks for the fun time guys!

Mom and Babies!

Wasatch Women 5K

2009-09-09T19:46:00.001-07:00

So this year Ang asked me if I wanted to run this 5K with her. It was an awesome thing for only women, there were 3500 women that ran young, old, and all types it was awesome to see all the women running. I offered this to the basketball team to see if girls wanted to run this for a last workout before school started. The girls all ran together, and Ang and I pushed Kennady in the stroller. Ty was golfing so I thought this would be a fun thing to push Kennady, I didn't realize that Sugar House Park was so crazy with big hills! We did 2 loops with the hills. Ang pushed Kennady for a little while, thanks Ang! We had fun running together, it was hard, we didn't really train for it, but we did a good job. Kennady fell asleep in the jogger, it was so cute she was holding her cereal in her hand sound asleep!

Summer, Christi, Ang, Me, Courtnee, Allie, Andi, Nicole

Random

2009-09-09T19:31:00.000-07:00

Here are some random pictures of the last little while in our lives. We said good bye to our good friend Brooke she is off to Indianapolis to support her hubby Austin Collie as he joins the Colts team! We are so excited for them, and can't wait to watch them all year. So here are some pictures of our dinner at the Olive Garden, it was a lot of fun.

We bought this bike trailer from Court and Andrea and Kennady loves sitting in it, she reads books in it, plays in it, eats in it, it is pretty cute!

When Chad got back from Chicago Chelsey and I went to Park City to meet him and Emily for lunch. They brought Porter and we had a great time. We went into the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and the kids were having so much fun together!

Ty went and played football with friends one night and after we all went to Brick Oven and Kennady loved this cute barber chair and she kept telling Dad to take her picture with mommy, it was cute.

Bountiful Triathlon

2009-08-24T15:08:00.000-07:00

On August 8th Ty and I did a triathlon together. I originally signed up for it without Ty, but later we found out that the swim was last, it went run, bike, swim and if you know me I am not a swimmer! I actually took lessons this summer, haha. So it made me nervous to have the swim be last, so Ty really wanted to do the run portion of the race so we signed up as relay team! Ty ran the 5k in 21 minutes, I did the 11.8 mile bike in 37 minutes, and the 400 meter swim in 13! The swim was slow, but crazy people were jumping in all over and there was like 10 people per lane, actually at one point a guy pushed me under the water and swam over the top of me, it freaked me out! But anyway we loved doing this together and had a lot of fun. Ty's friend Trent Vukich did the whole thing and he took 3rd in his age division, he did awesome! Afterwards the Low's and Vukich's we all went to Ihop for breakfast, it was a lot of fun. Also thanks to everyone that came and supported us!! We definitely want to do a tri separately on September 12th in Sandy.

If anyone has any advise on how to swim and breath good let me know!!

My cute sisters!

Support crew!

running to transition for bike

Here comes Trent!

Here comes Ty!

More support crew!

Dirty face and all!!

Kennady Dancing

2009-08-03T18:48:00.000-07:00

So tonight I know I am lame but I love High School musical and the 3rd one was on tv so I was watching it. And during dinner the part where Troy and Gabriella were dancing for prom Kennady wanted to dance with Ty. It was so cute she kept saying "Stand up Daddy, stand up" so she twirled around with Ty and after when they kissed she wanted to kiss her Dad. It was so cute, I am glad I had my camera close! Ty is so cute with Kennady and truly he is her first love!

Perfect tv timing too! haha

Miss Erickson

2009-08-03T18:41:00.000-07:00

I had this amazing 5th grade teacher, her name is Miss Laurie Erickson! She honestly was the best teacher. She taught us so many things, not just school subjects, but music, theatre, poetry and so many other things. She is such a kind person that cares so much about her students. She has always kept in touch with me since I left her class. She supported me through middle school, highschool, she sent me a card for graduation. She came to my wedding, and sent me a very cute bouncer when I had Kennady. So in other words she was so amazing. She was just not only nice to me she does this with many of her students. She is so full of zest and life, she is always happy. So this past Saturday she had a 50th surprise birthday party. There were probably 100 people there to support and love her! I am so glad I was able to go to support her after all she has done for me! She really is a good example to me of love and service.

The Cabin

2009-08-03T15:36:00.001-07:00

So last year and this year we went to Kevin's parents cabin up in the uintah's by the boy scout camp East Fork of the Bear. It is so beautiful up there and so quiet it is so nice just to get away. We went 4 wheeling a lot, there are so many trails to go on and explore. We also went to Provo River Falls a family tradition. Kennady loved it, it was pretty cold but she wouldn't get out of the water, it was so funny! Ty and I decided to sit in the waterfall, but I didn't get the correct memo I guess cause Ty dunked his whole body in it, I just sat in it haha. It was freezing, but really fun. We always have a lot of fun with my family up there, we have good talks and it is such a fun family bonding experience! Thanks Mom and Dad for making this year fun again! We loved it.

Me going through the mud! FUN FUN

Ty going through mud!

Kennady and I getting ready to go for a ride!

This would be such a good pretty picture if Ty's hair wasn't so poofy, and I actually had makeup on!!

My Prego sister Chelsey and her Hubby Kevin, and little boy Boston

Grandma and Grandpa Duke with babies (my parents)

My cute family CaRynn, Dad, Mom, Courtnee, Christi

The waterfall sit!

4th and 24th of July

2009-07-26T20:51:00.000-07:00

For the 4th and 24th we went 4wheeling both times! The 4th we went with my family up by Strawberry reservoir (pics to come). We went swimming on the 3rd, and for the 4th Ty's parents were nice enough to take Kennady for the day and they had a lot of fun with her, she went swimming, and watered plants, and had a bbq!

For the 24th we went down to Charron's parents house in Ephraim to go 4-wheeling. We went down Friday and went 4- wheeling behind their house while Kennady played with Charron's parents Joy Ellen, and Rick and her little boy that she nanny's Parker. They were so nice to accommodate us and take care of Kennady. By the time we left Kennady had Rick following her around everywhere! They made us a really good dutch oven dinner Friday night which was really good. That night we took Kennady and little Parker on a small ride up this dirt road to see the elk farm about 100 yards away and to see if we could see any deer, Kennady loved it! We woke up on Saturday and headed back out on the trails! Than we came home. Thanks to the Mason's for such a fun weekend! And to her brothers for making sure we didn't get lost!

Dixie Camp

2009-07-26T20:37:00.001-07:00

So as a coach of the Bingham basketball team we take the teams to Dixie camp in St George every year. It is a fun team camp and we usually take 4 teams, so about 32 girls! All of our teams did a really good job we had a Varsity A team that dominated the tournaments, a Varsity B team that did really well against top varsity teams. A JV team that also did a good job. We took our incoming 9th graders also and they rocked the Sophomore league! The coaches were Charron Mason, Me, Jenni Wright (Clough), and Jessica Willcock! Needless to say we had a blast with everyone, it was a really fun week.

Charron lifting Jenni to fix our fan!

We went bowling one night, the girls had a blast!

Kennady 2nd Birthday

2009-07-26T16:38:00.000-07:00

Kennady turned 2 on July 1st! I can't beleive she is 2 already, she is such a fun little girl. She is becoming very smart and everyday she surprises me with something hilarious and smart. We decided to have our families come to a park in South Jordan for a picnic, cake and presents. Kennady loves Dora and Spongebob, but I couldn't find any Dora stuff so we went for Spongebob, it was cute and really fun. We all had a lot of fun. Kennady loved all the presents she got. We got her a little Dora trike and when she got it Boston hopped right on it and she was like "hey that is mine" so they compromised and Kennady decided to push him around, it was so funny. We had a great time! I love Kennady so much and am so glad that she is mine and I enjoy her everyday and can't wait to see her grow more. Thanks to everyone that came and supported Kennady and for all the fun presents!

Here comes the birthday girl!!

So me and my sister Chelsey decided to make our own magnet boards (yes I know the D is missing!!) Anyway it was really fun to get the cute magnets and paint her board to match her room. This is as creative as I get!

4-wheeling

2009-07-26T16:07:00.000-07:00

So my parents bought 4-wheelers last year and we have had so much fun enjoying them with them! This year my family went to St George to stay in Keith and Cheryl's house to go 4-wheeling. Their house is perfect they have a huge canyon behind their house for lots of fun adventures. This trip Chelsey and I went solo with no hubbies and just our babies. I had forgot my long pants for the trip and so my mom had these horrible pants that she let me borrow I think she has had these for 20 years! We took some funny pictures in them (they are so not flattering)It was really fun. The first night we were there we went to Annie at the Tuachan, it was really fun and the babies did really well considering they had to sit and be quiet! They were so tired after they fell asleep before we left the Tuachan! We explored everyday on those 4-wheelers. Thanks to Chelsey who is pregnant and couldn't go on most trips so she offered to watch the babies while we went! We also went swimming and went to this fun splash park on main street. My family went and did baptisms in the temple, while Chelsey and I went to the visitors center with the kids, the kids had a hard time understanding that they had to be quiet! Anyway here are some pics..

Graduation

2009-06-04T21:49:00.000-07:00

My sister Christi graduated today! It was so crazy to think that she is that old! We went to her Seminary graduation on Sunday and her highschool graduation today. I am so proud of her and am going to miss her when she moves to Snow College. She is such a good girl, and makes such good decisions in her life. She is such a good example to me, her friends, and her younger sisters. Christi good job and I love you!!

Special Olympics Soccer

2009-06-04T21:38:00.000-07:00

So I have been helping with the Special Olympics and we just finished with the Summer Games last weekend. Bingham had 2 soccer teams and upper division and a lower division. I don't know much about soccer so I was not as much a coach this time, but more of a cheer leader and helper to make sure the kids got water and lunches and stuff. Kennady came with me all day it was down at BYU, and she loved it! We watched most of the games, but me and Charron had to leave early to get back to basketball camp, bummer. Well our upper division team took the Gold medal!!!! They even beat Riverton to get it which makes it better! The lower division took the Silver! I am so sad we had to miss the final game for both teams! But I am so proud of them and loved being apart of this and witnessing the amazing sportsmanship and wonderful kids that are just so excited to be there and be apart of something. I get emotional just talking about it, and even being there everytime they would score we would cheer so loud and I would get a little teary eyed just watching them! I have a video clip of one of the kids scoring I will upload later on! Way to go guys!!

Memorial Weekend

2009-06-04T21:31:00.000-07:00

So we had a really fun weekend planned for Memorial weekend. While us girls were in California we planned a fun camping trip to Goblin Valley. While we were gone Kennady started to kind of get sick, than when I got home on Monday she was not feeling so good so I took her to the Dr and she got her first ear infection ever!! Not bad for 2 years of life, but I felt so bad for her. We thought she was going to be well enough to go camping over the weekend, but then Thursday night I started feeling sick to my stomach and I got a 103 fever all night, I tried taking Tylenol but it wasn't working. I woke up really really sick and Ty came home from work for a few hours to help me get out of bed to take a bath. He went back to work but came home not feeling very well either. We tried to get a good night's sleep that night so we could go camping on Friday. Well we decided to not go to Goblin Valley and decided Diamond Fork would be closer and better. Anyway we woke up Friday both of with really high temps and colds, and I was sick to my stomach. Needless to say we didn't go camping and we were both really sick all weekend! I have never been that sick ever I don't think. Well on Saturday night my mom called us and me and Ty were both running a 103 fever and had all weekend, so my mom was worried and came down and we went to the hospital, it was crazy! We were there for 6 hours and got nothing out of it, it was frustrating!! But we finally started feeling better by Monday afternoon, but we are both still trying to get past this! We don't know what it was, I guess the Swine Flu!!! haha

Poor Kennady was so sad, she just sat on our laps and was so mellow not like her crazy talkative self!

Scrapbook Weekend!

2009-06-04T21:12:00.000-07:00

Every year Ty's Grandma from Huntington Beach California hosts a Creative Memory national scrapbook day at her house in California. Cheryl my mother in law has been going for a long time and I have been going since we got married. It is a really fun girl weekend and it is fun to see Ty's grandparents and spend some quality one on one time with them. The last few years Megan has been coming, and now Heidi comes too! Andrea was going to come this year, but had some family commitments here, she will be coming next year! During the same weekend my work went to a Hospitality and Design show for hotels hosted in Las Vegas so they had me fly down on Thursday morning to spend the day and night with them before the girls picked me up on Friday while they drove into California. It was really fun, me and the girl I work with Angie got there earlier than my boss Darren and Chris so we got to walk around vegas and went shopping and stuff. We went to the HD show during the day which was really fun to meet all of our manufacturers and put a face to a name! That night my work took us to the "O" it was a cirque de soleil show at the Belagio, it was amazing! It was really cool and they did a whole bunch of acrobatic stuff into water, it was amazing! On Friday morning Cheryl came and got me from Vegas and we drove to California. We scrapbook all day Saturday and help grandma make food and organize everything. After the convention we went to the Huntington Beach pier and walked around, it was so pretty made me want to live by the ocean! We saw a restaurant called Duke's so I obviously took a picture by it! While we were walking around there was a commotion and a group of people standing around, and we stopped and watched these guys do like a little comedy show, and they passed around a hat for people to give money. Than one of the guys got 6 people from the audience and had them stand bent over next to each other. He then ran and flipped over them! I am going to try to upload the video so you can see it! Anyway we had a great time and look forward to next year!

My boss Darren and Chris Me and Angie

Scrapbooking away!

The beach!! And our cute Grandpa!!

This bear was chained to this bench, kind of funny, but gross and dirty!

Tuachan

2009-06-04T21:01:00.000-07:00

Ok so I have a lot of catching up to do with this blog! Last month was pretty crazy, but really fun. Ty's friend from work got some tickets to go see Brian Reagan at the Tuachan in St. George so we went down and stayed in Ty's parents house on a Thursday night and stayed until Sunday morning. His friend's wife is pregnant and was not feeling very well so they didn't come down with us, he came on Friday with his brother in law. So me and Ty got to hang out on Friday just the 2 of us, it was really fun we went hiking behind his parents house and explored for a few hours and than just relaxed. The Tuachan was really fun, I have never been there so it was a cool experience for me. Brian Reagan was hilarious as usual! We drove home on Sunday which was Mothers Day and spent the day with my mom and Ty's mom, it was a nice day. This was a fun weekend with just me and Ty together with no Kennady, even thought we really missed her!

Grandpa

2009-04-19T22:07:00.000-07:00

So Kennady loves her Grandpa's! She always has that was one of her first words. So anytime she gets with them she loves it! After our race my dad was aerating the lawn outside and she wanted to go out with him, so he had her sit on his lap while he drove around the back yard, she loved it! Thanks to her grandparents for being so great with her and loving her so much!

Half Marathon

2009-04-19T21:07:00.000-07:00

So my awesome sister Chelsey convinced me to train and run the Salt Lake Half Marathon with her. She did it last year and it was so awesome to see her finish, that I decided to do it. I convinced Ty to run it with me, he was so nice and patient with me through the training, cause I am not as fast as he is! We started training in January, I could barely run 1 mile! I remember my first 3 mile run I threw up and it was so hard. The longest run we did was a 9 and a half mile run about a month ago! We babysat my bosses kids while they went to Rome for 10 days, so we took like 2 weeks off from training 2 weeks before the race, not a very smart idea! But we tried really hard to run a lot the last 2 weeks to get back. It was amazing how long it takes to get in shape and how easy it is to get out! So we got going in the race and we felt really good. The first 10 miles were really nice and actually kind of fun. We just took our time so we didn't get too tired and we soaked it all in all the energy that is there. Along the way there was probably 6 different groups of bands, singers, or people playing music. It was really cool. So many people stand out along the trail and cheer, it was fun I would give people high 5 and cheer back to them and say thanks! It does help to know that random people are out to support everyone! We ran from the Olympic bridge up by the University of Utah and ran down to Gateway. We ran through Sugar house neighborhoods and it was really fun, and a fun place to run. After mile 10 I had a mental break down, I actually started crying and told Ty I couldn't do it! But he was so patient and good with me and kept pushing me on! The last 2 miles were like uphill too which made it worse for me of course! But when we turned the corner by Gateway and saw Ty's family with our little Kennady it was so awesome, and then when we went down the middle of Gateway and my parents were there cheering taking pics, and Chelseys inlaws the Pughs were there cheering (and Chelsey, she beat us by like 15 minutes good job Chelsey!!) It was so awesome. We finished together with a 2 hours and 21 minute time! Kind of slow, but I wasn't in this to go fast, I just wanted to finish, and especially since we took those few weeks off, not a good idea! But we are so glad we did it. We are really sore today, and my big toenail is coming off, and a few blisters, but it was an awesome experience for me and Ty to do together. We had to help each other through it, mostly Ty helped me through it. Now I can say I have ran a half marathon! We would like to thank everyone that came, Ty's parents, Parker, Heidi, my good friend Megan Vukich and he little baby Cayden, my parents, Courtnee, CaRynn and of course our little baby Kennady! Thanks to Ty's parents for taking her and helping her through it all. Now our next feat will be a triathlon, me and Chelsey are going to start training to swim, we are not good swimmers so if anyone knows a good place to take lessons let me know. Here are some pics..

Here comes Chelsey she is fast!

Here we come finally!!

I actually am smiling!!

After we finished.

We did it!!

Our cute little families!

Thanks for making me do this Chelsey!

Happy Boston...

Mad Kennady!

EASTER!!

2009-04-19T20:47:00.000-07:00

We had a really fun Easter. We went on Saturday to the South Jordan Easter egg hunt so my parents and Ty's could all come see her. Chelsey and Kevin were out of town and Chad was in Idaho, so Kennady was the only grand kid around for my family so it was pretty fun. She loved to get all the candy she had a cute Tickerbell basket, the hunt started with the firetruck sounding off, and Kennady didn't like that, she got kind of scared and wanted Ty by her the whole time! She also didn't like the Easter bunny very much, she also didn't like Santa! So good thing we didn't take her to the mall. We then went to the little slide play area and put out our own Easter eggs for her to find and she did really well with that, but mostly loved the slide!We took some really cute pictures in her Easter dress, Ty's parents have them, but here are some of her in another cute dress. After hte hunt we went with Ty's parents to the Living Planet Aquarium, I was kind of disappointed, I thought it was supposed to be cooler, but Kennady loved it. She mostly loved the spiders! She didn't want to leave them, I was freaking out I hate spiders! So Keith and Cheryl got her a toy Spider (just everyone know, we don't want a realy spider I might have to move out!!) On Sunday we went to both parents houses and ate lunch at Ty's and dinner at mine. Ty's family has a tradition that they have creamed eggs over toast, sounds gross but we love it! We had a lot of fun that weekend even though it was pretty cold!

Staring down other kids!

5 Year Anniversary

2009-04-14T12:26:00.000-07:00

So March 23 was our 5 year anniversary. It was a really fun time. We went to Las Vegas and St. George for 4 days to celebrate. We stayed at the Stratosphere in the romance suite. We walked around vegas and went through all the casinos and went shopping and stuff. We went to dinner at the Top of the World restaurant at the Stratosphere. It was really cool it rotates 360 around the building and you can see the whole valley, it was really cool. Ty kind of got a little motion sick from it though. They had such pretty food, but it was really good! The next day we spent the whole day at the pool and I got really sunburned but didn't care cause it was such nice weather! We had a lot of fun and it was so nice to have a fun weekend away together just me and Ty. I really couldn't imagine my life without Ty, he is such an amazing husband and dad to Kennady and we both really love him more than anything. He is so good to us and works so hard, I don't know how he does everything he does and I really want him to know how much I appreciate and love him.

5 years ago

Our Room

Our pretty food!

At dinner

View from the restaurant

Special Olympics

2009-04-14T12:19:00.000-07:00

So I had an awesome experience this last month. I got to be apart of something that was such an amazing experience and something that I will definitely do again. I got to coach the special olympics volleyball team for Bingham. It was such an awesome experience to be with those kids and see how excited they get and how much they feel so involved it is really fun! We had a few practices and we went to a one day tournament. We had 2 teams, Charron coached the upper level kids, and I did the lower level kids, with both teams we had half athletes and half peer students. It was so fun, my team played 2 games and got out, which as ok, they had just enjoyed being there and they loved playing. Charron's team took the Silver medal! It was fun to see them succeed and be so proud of themselves. There were so many amazing people there and the kids would get so excited when they got to hit the ball or anything and whether it was a good hit or not everyone cheered and the kids got a huge smile on their face. It would bring tears to my eyes every time and I was so proud of them. Anyway we are hoping to put together a soccer team and a basketball team in the fall, and I am definitely going to be involved!

My mom the Big 50!!

2009-03-12T21:33:00.000-07:00

So my mom turned 50 today! She is such an amazing person and I love her so much and look up to her so much. She has been walking with her friend Shelli Densley for a really long time at 5:00 am everyday! So this year they both turned 50 this month and so they decided to walk 50 miles in one day to celebrate their birthdays! They started training a few months ago and last Wednesday they did it! It took them 15 hours total! They were so funny, my mom printed out a schedule for every lap that they did. They had a 7 mile route that they did 7 times, and then walked an extra mile in the beginning to make it 50! After each lap they would each tie a ribbon around a tree in their own yards to mark the trip! On the last lap me and all my sisters, and Shelli's family all walked it with them! We had a big sign at the finish line with the guys and the husbands waiting for them. It was such an amazing thing that she did, and she is such an amazing person, I want to be as amazing when I get older, and even now as I am now a mom, it is time to start being more like her!

Photo Tag

2009-02-28T10:28:00.000-08:00

Wow this was a long time ago! This was me playing basketball in highschool when I was a senior and we played Taylorsville in the Semi-final game. I don't know what is happening with this picture, but lets say I am steeling it from them! haha

I was tagged by Ang!

I don't usually do these, but this one seemed pretty funny!

1. Go to your documents/pictures

2. Go to your 6th folder

3. Go to your 6th picture

4. Post and blog about it

I tag Jamie, Lindsay, Lindy, Chelsey, Tiffany, Heidi

2009

2009-02-01T12:46:00.000-08:00

Well 2009 has been crazy so far and I can't believe it is already February! Basketball is in full swing and I have been so busy with that, working from home, and my family that I don't have much time for anything else. My little team is doing ok, they have struggled at first, but they are coming around and it is so amazing to me how many life lessons we learn everyday! I am not just teaching basketball, sometimes I feel like I never get to teach basketball, but life things all the time! It is really fun, but very crazy and sometimes stressful. Last night my brother came in from Idaho and we decided to take the kids to McDonalds to play in the play place while we ate, it was so fun! I didn't think that Kennady would really get that into it, but we couldn't get her away from it. We turned around and she was already up the stairs going through the tubes, she had no fear! We all had fun, and at one point all the adults went through the tubes and down the slide, well except my dad! My silly mom was so funny, she went first! Then we all had contests to see who could hang on these bars the longest, put it to us to turn something into a competition! Than we just went back to my moms and watched a movie together while Chelsey waxed all our eyebrows. It was a fun night!

Kennady Mischevious!

2009-01-28T21:59:00.001-08:00

So Kennady has this new thing that she is kind of a destroyer, that is her nick name! But she likes to take everything out of the bathroom and every room and spread it all over! It is so funny though. So here are a few pictures of her latest destructions!

Christmas

2009-01-28T21:32:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of our Christmas day at our house and Ty's parents house and my parents house. Ty and I decided to get pajamas for Christmas, I got into the Christmas pajamas for me with the red and green, Ty's were boring! We had a fun day and here are some pictures.

Our little princess!

Grandma Dukes house she got Boston and Kennady these soft chairs, they loved them!

Cheryl and Keith gave her the cutest little people house with a car to go with it and some toys and this ABC thing that goes on the fridge, it is so cute she loves it.

So many things

2009-01-28T20:14:00.000-08:00

Wow, so I am obviously not good at keeping up with this, so here we go! We had a great Christmas, I was a little bit of a scrooge for some reason, but it ended up being really fun. We didn't set up our tree cause I didn't want to fight Kennady all the time, so we set up a little tree on our table, it was still cute and Christmasy! Kennady had a lot of fun, we decided to get her a fun little kitchen for her and we were so excited to set it up on Christmas eve, but when we went to do that it didn't come with any hardware to put it together! We were really bummed, but Kenady still had some fun presents. We were very lucky to have such a fun day. To start off the holiday is of course family parties. The Duke party was first and my Dad read a story to us called the Wooden Shoes and it was really touching. The kids mostly liked to take ornaments off of Grandma's tree!

Here goes Kennady

Then all 3

Grandpa reading the book

Everyone listening!

Except Tyceson

Of course later I forgot some pj's for Kennady and my mom had these pajamas that probably I wore when I was little. They were pretty big, and old, my family kept saying that she looked homeless! It was so funny so I took pics of her when we got home.

Birthday Dinner

2008-12-07T21:17:00.000-08:00

After we got back from St George we had my brothers birthday dinner since he was in town. We had dinner at my moms and Kennady somehow got Chelseys heels on and was just walking around in them thinking she was pretty cute! She is all girl! Boston was into the balls he was playing with, he is all boy!

Thanksgiving

2008-12-07T21:05:00.000-08:00

For Thanksgiving we always go to St George with Ty's family. His moms family lives in California, and his grandparents and Ty's parents both have a house down there across the street from each other so everyone meets for Thanksgiving! We have been going since we got married, I think this was our 4th year going. It is always really fun. Dinner is always good and we love the food, thanks Grandma! Ty's grandpa has a karaoke machine, and this was a really fun thing this year. Ty and Parker loved it a little too much, look out American Idol! But we all sang and had a good time. Cheryl paid for her and her daughter in laws to all get facials at a salon down there, it was amazing! Thanks Cheryl! Also On friday we went early out to Roberts to get some cricket stuff for Cheryl and Grandma, it was really fun. On friday the boys go golfing, and the girls go to a place called Brushfire where you paint pottery. It is so much fun I look forward to it every year. This year I made a cereal bowl for Ty. I will post a picture when we get it. Here are some pics of the weekend!

Kennady and Ellyit enjoying a bath together! (kennady is having fun)

So focused!

The karaoke twins!

Kennady and Skyler hiding under the pool table

Basketball Season

2008-12-07T20:52:00.000-08:00

Basketball is now in full swing and we have played 4 games already ah. For those of you that don't know I coach the Bingham girls sophomore basketball team. It is so fun, but so busy 6 days a week! Jenny Wright (Clough) is coaching with me and she is so fun and good, I am glad to have her. But before tryouts Ty and I wanted to do something fun together before the craziest next four months came. So we decided to go on a hike. We knew there would be snow, but we didn't dress very well for it. We wore tennis shoes and not even very warm pants. So we did some research and went on this hike up the canyon and it was supposed to take us to a lake that was only 2 1/2 miles long. So we started at about 2 in the afternoon thinking this would not take us very long. So we got hiking and took a few pictures, and after about an hour and a half we kept thinking gee where is this lake! We kept thinking it was just around the next corner! And we were getting so tired, we felt so old and out of shape. But it was pretty steep and in snow (that is our excuse!)We finally ran into some hikers coming down and we asked how far away we were, little did we know we went on the wrong hike! And the lake on this trail was like another 5 miles up! We didn't bring a flashlight so we would have never made it! So we just decided to sit and eat our lunch in this meadow and went back. So not a very successful hike, but it was still fun to hang out together and just have fun!

The trail (that was all uphill and snowy)

Ty holding the backpack and my coat! What a good husband

"Where is the lake?"

This was the lake! I am just really far away zoomed in so the lake looks small! haha

Kennady's first attempt with a spoon

2008-12-07T20:44:00.000-08:00

I finally tried to give Kennady a chance to eat with a spoon by herself. She did pretty good for the first few minutes, but then it just got worse and got all over! She was having such a good time! She is much better now, and sometimes she just gives up and uses her hands instead of a spoon.

Low family pictures

2008-12-07T20:34:00.000-08:00

Finally I am going to post again, I promise I will be better at this, but here is Ty's family pictures that we took a while ago, but here they are! We also took some Christmas pictures, so I need all your addresses if you want a card! So leave a comment with your address! Thanks!

Front right: Ty, Kennady, Me, Cheryl, Skyler, Keith, Heidi, and Parker

Top right: Andrea, Court, Brayden, and Shaun

The boys: Court, Ty, Shaun, Parker, and Brayden

My cute Family!

All the grandkids: Kennady, Andon (Brayden's baby), Skyler and Ellyit

Our Christmas picture with our antlers!

Halloween

2008-11-04T22:35:00.000-08:00

Yeah Halloween is over! It is such a crazy holiday, and it is not my favorite one. But the Monday before we went and picked out a pumpkin to carve with Kennady and she just wanted to pick them up the whole time! It was funny. And we never carved them, Ty was a party pooper and we never carved it, so it is just sitting on our front porch all sad! But we went to Keith and Cheryl's Halloween ward party with Skyler and Ellyit. It was so much fun. We got to have dinner and the girls had fun playing all the games. Then on Halloween we went trick or treating at Andreas work where Kennady got a lot of candy! And that night we went to Keith and Cheryls to see them before they went to a movie. Than we went to my parents with my sister and her cute little boy Boston who was a sailor he looked so cute, I will have to get pictures from my Dad I forgot my camera. But overall it was fun. We also on Saturday had a fun birthday party for my dad, my brother Chad was here from Idaho so it was fun to see his cute little family! Than on Sunday we did a family home evening dinner at my house with my family. It was really fun to eat, and than to have a spiritual lesson together. As part of our lesson we talked about President Monsons talk in general conference about Joy in the Journey, and he told a story about a prisoner of war and he got to write home to his family in only 25 words. So we decided that all of us would think of what we would say to our family in 25 words. I think everyone should do this, it was fun and a good experience for all of us to do. Overall it was a fun weekend.

Kennady trying to pick up every pumpkin! Who wants to buy Kennady for $5!! she is so cute

Kennady had a cookie, and once she got that she wanted to do nothing else!

All 3 girls had wings, kind of funny.

2008-10-26T22:13:00.000-07:00

So Lindsay and Michelle decided to come down to Utah County to come see my house, and to see Brooke's house and so we could all talk more with Michelle's fiance Brad! Heidi my sister in law came with us too, it was so fun. They came to my house first, than we went to Brooke's, her house is so so cute, she has done such a good job decorating, it looks like a model home! We went and ate at the Brick Oven of course our typical place to go eat. Lindsay had quite a night, she forgot some formula for Reagan so she had to run to the grocery store while we were at the restaurant. Than Reagan spit up all over me, and she was just so stressed out, it was so funny! But we had fun talking to cute Brad and hearing about him and Michelle and hearing about their wedding! Thanks girls for coming down, I had so much fun! Than that Saturday we did a girls lunch at Chili's in Salt Lake with Ang, Lindy, Lindsay, Jodie and me. It was really fun too, we had no kids so that made it less stressful! Sorry no pics of that though, weird we always take pictures, but for some reason we didn't! I am so lucky to have such good friends, I know I am not perfect, but thanks guys for being so patient and nice to me! I love you guys, I don't know what I would do without you!

Conference weekend

2008-10-26T21:48:00.000-07:00

My brother and his cute family came over conference weekend to stay with us, we had so much fun. My sister Christi on Friday night went to Homecoming, and she looked so pretty! Than on Saturday during the Priesthood session we just hung out all girls and my mom gave Kennady a ring pop and she got it all over! Than we just let her run around with her shirt off, and Andalynn wanted to get in on all the fun too, so she took hers off, and her and Kennady kept sweeping and playing around it was so cute and so funny! I hope this isn't weird, but I think the pictures are so cute! We had a lot of fun listening to conference and thought this was such a good conference and I love being uplifted as we listened to conference.

Check out cute Andalynns plumber crack!

Kennady kept putting on Ty's cowboy boots, and trying to walk it was so funny, she could not do it! And she loves carrying around purses, so I let her have one of my old ones from High school and she carries it everywhere with her with her fake phone and a ball in it, she is all girl!

2008-10-26T21:44:00.000-07:00

So yesterday I had to wake Kennady up early to go to Ty's great grandmas house to help with her estate sale, and this is how I found her sleeping so funny! Her hair is the best in the morning, she has the best bed head!

2008-10-26T21:20:00.000-07:00

Wow so I have been majorly slacking on this lately! I got on here and everyone has these really cute Halloween backgrounds, sorry mine is the same and now Halloween is almost over so I won't change mine until it gets closer to Christmas! Well we have been crazy busy these past few weeks. Ty has been so busy with school, he has been having his midterms and he is studying all the time, he is gone so much me and Kennady miss him! But we are proud of him and all that he is doing to help us out in our lives! Since the last time I got on I had a birthday! I am now officially 25! My birthday was actually really stressful and not very much fun. A lot of things happened that day with work, friends and stuff. But it ended up really good. My cute sisters took me to dinner that night at my new favorite restaurant Simply Thai (Michelle's moms restaurant) cause Ty had school till late and my parents were out of town. We had a lot of fun at dinner, thanks guys! Than when I got back from South Jordan I came home to a lot of candles, rose peddles, and Ty waiting to take Kennady and he had a bubble bath going for me with candles, music so I could relax. He took Kennady and put her to bed so I could relax. Than he had a Moulton from Chilis, you know that chocolate cake thing that is to die for, for us to eat together! Than he gave me some "fake" diamond earrings that I have been wanting, and he wrote me the sweetest, cutest letter. We than watched a movie and he gave me a massage! It ended up being one of the funnest birthdays ever! It was so thoughtful and he put a lot of time and thought into it! I love Ty so much and appreciate all he does for me and for Kennady, he is the best husband and dad me or Kennady could have asked for! Here are some cute pictures of my birthday, enjoy!

My cute earings and letter!

2008-09-28T12:31:00.000-07:00

This past week has been really crazy! On Tuesday Tyceson's great grandma who is 91 past away in her sleep. His parents went to her house to mow her lawn and found her. She was such an amazing example of strength and perseverance. She was so independent and could get around really well for being 91. She lost her husband about 20 years ago and she has been alone, and I think she was mad at him for making her stay here that long! She past away on September 23, exactly 23 years to the day when her and her husband got sealed in the temple! So touching, and so cute. I know he came to get her, and I bet she hit him and asked what took him so long. But the good thing about her staying here that we were all able to be blessed by her example and love. We were able to get a 5 generation picture with Kennady this summer and I am so glad we were able to do that with her, it will be such a cool thing for Kennady to have. So Ty's moms side of the family is all from California, so they all came up and we got to have a lot of fun with them. We had a big family dinner on Friday night that Andrea and I cooked and it was really fun for everyone. The funeral and stuff was on Saturday. It was really sad, but really good she was ready to go and she lived a good full life and she pretty much had her health with her the whole time. We will miss Grandma Sutherland, but will always remember her and her legacy she left behind.

5 Generation

From right bottom: Grandma Lloyd, Grandma Sutherland, Cheryl, Me and Kennady

Top right row: Grandpa Lloyd, Keith, Tyceson

More misc pictures

2008-09-28T12:26:00.000-07:00

Here are some more pictures.

Just sleeping in the car!

My first attempt at piggy tails with all of her hair

Oh no she already loves to drive!

Kennday and Boston both love this chair that is at my moms, so they always try to get in it together! It is so funny.

Kennady misc pics in the last few weeks!

2008-09-28T12:21:00.001-07:00

Here are some pictures that we took of Kennady the last few weeks.

She loves animals!

Got tired to laid down to read!

Helping do dishes, she always tries to get on and help!

I did NOT teach her this, Dad??

Nice bed head, and grumpy face!

Kennady's Surgery

2008-09-28T12:01:00.000-07:00

When Kennady was born, she had a problem with her eyes clearing out, her tear ducts were clogged. Her left one finally cleared out about 4 months after she was born. Her right eye never fully cleared up. We had to put ointment in her eye 3 times a day for a whole year! Her eye would get infected really easy, and she always had a goopy eye. Whenever she would wake up in the morning or after her naps she always had a crusty eye, it was horrible! I hated dealing with it. Well finally at a year they do something about it, so we had to go to the eye Dr (which was a 3 hour experience waiting in a Dr's office) and they did surgery on her eye on September 4th (I know I am behind on this). It was not a very hard procedure, but she had to have anesthesia, which I was really scared and nervous about. They went in and unclogged the blockage, then they took a little balloon thing and opened up her tear duct a little more. It was scary, and she had to wait in the surgery waiting room for a long time! She could not eat or drink the whole time either. We got there at 9 and her surgery was supposed to be at 10:20, but they didn't take her until almost noon! She kept signing "drink" it was so sad, we just had to keep her busy with toys and books! She got to wear these cute hospital pajamas! When they came to get her we got to walk for a little while back to the operating room, then they took her from me and she like freaked out! I did too! She was crying so hard, I was crying, it was aweful!! But about 25 minutes later the Dr came and said it all went good, I got to go back to the recovery room, and she was not happy crying really loud, and so I got to be with her for that! Everything was good, later that day she acted like nothing was even wrong, or nothing had happened! And her eye is perfect now! No more Goop!! YEAH !! All that we went through in a whole year for it to be just perfect now! But here are some pics of her at the hospital, we forgot our camera so these are off Ty's phone.

Eating Crayons Playing ...more play

Before(the Dr had to mark her eye) After in the car

Helping Mommy!

2008-09-18T08:01:00.002-07:00

So as we have been moving, and unpacking and putting everything away, Kennady has been not our most helpful helper! She likes to put things back in boxes, and when we put stuff away she likes to get them back out. But on Tuesday night I was just cleaning some stuff up a little bit and was like wiping down marks, and stuff on the walls. Well I went back into the hall and Kennady had found a rag and was wiping the walls with it like she was cleaning! It was so funny, then she just looked at me and jabbered something, kind of like "come on mom get back to work." I have trained her well! I also tried to do her hair in pig tails, that didn't stay in too long!

New furniture (well refurbished I guess)

2008-09-18T08:01:00.001-07:00

So you all heard that we got some furniture from a garage sale, well we also got a coffee table from KSL and refinished it too! It was really cool, like the top was made out of a wood floor. Well it was a lot of fun to do these projects, but also hard! I had no idea it was so hard to sand, and stain! They are not perfect, but they look better than they did, and it saved us a lot of money. Here are some pics

Before...

After...

Moving, and crazy!

2008-09-18T08:01:00.000-07:00

So life has been crazy these past few weeks, so I have not updated in a while! We got all moved into our new place! We love it, it is really cute. I will have to post some pictures when it is all the way put together. Tyceson got to transfer his work from Salt Lake to down here, now he is only like 5 minutes from where we live, it ended up perfect! And he goes to school at Monday-Thursday nights, that sucks, but people keep telling me someday it will all pay off! Kennady is getting funnier and cuter everyday, I know I might be prejudice, but seriously she is so fun. I never thought I would love being a mom as much as I do. I just love my little family, and I am so grateful for Ty, he works more than 40 hours a week and goes to school full time, thanks Ty for making things work for our family! Me and Kennady love and miss you all the time. My work is going good, it is so nice to be able to work from home, and I love what I do.

Well anyway here is some funny pictures of Kennady at Grandma Low's house. I went to the dentist to get my new veneer! Yeah!! But anyway Grandma put on Sesame Street and Kennady took out all the books out of this basket and grabbed her blanket and sat inside for like a half hour and watched Sesame Street! So Funny!

Moving!

2008-09-03T21:53:00.000-07:00

We have decided to move! We have been looking for a place in Utah county to buy for some time now, and we have not found anything we like! Ty is finishing school at UVU, so we decided to try and buy a condo down there and live in for a few years, then use as an investment and rent out. Well we still have not found one we like, and Ty already started school, so we found a basement apartment in Lindon really close to Parker and Heidi (1.3 miles to be exact). We are really excited, the people just built the house and the basement is brand new, no one has ever lived in it. It is a 6 month thing while we keep looking for places to buy. So we are moving in a couple of weeks. We will have to post pics when we move in.

Helping Daddy!

2008-09-03T20:29:00.000-07:00

Ty and I decided (well I bought them while he was at class, so I guess I decided!!) to buy 2 dressers from this garage sale fundraiser thing in Orem for 25 dollars and fix them up! Needless to say it took a lot longer to get them how we want them than we thought! Ty and his dad sanded them, and I helped stain! Kennady helped her dad sand, and watched him intently! She is so obsessed with her dad and loves him so much. He is her first love! Every morning when she wakes up and I go get her she says "Dadda" or "Grandpa" Never mom!! She loves when he is around and just follows him around all the time! She is so lucky to have a Dad that loves her so much, thanks Ty for being such an amazing Dad! Well the dressers are still not done, but we are getting closer everyday. Don't look at the picture of me too close, I chipped my front tooth! I chipped it a long time ago when I was little, but it chipped again about 10 days ago while eating raisin bran. I am hopefully getting it fixed this Friday, I am getting a venere! So it will look better. I now have a new nick name "Chip"

Kennady's 1st Haircut!

2008-08-28T10:13:00.000-07:00

Kennady got her first hair cut from my sister Chelsey. It was so cute, she cut it into kind of a A line for babies! It was fun, Kennady did pretty good. She just kept trying to look at Chelsey when she was cutting her hair! Then Kennady and Boston got in the tub and got all clean together! They were so cute and funny in there. They are going to be the best of friends when they get older, I am so excited!

Raging Waters

2008-08-13T22:48:00.001-07:00

We went to Raging Waters for Kevins birthday with my siblings. It reminded me of highschool! Except that this time I didn't go off the scary rides! I only went on the safer ones. Chad, Ty and Kevin all went on the scary rides, while they left us to go in the wave pool!

Cabin

2008-08-13T22:34:00.000-07:00

My family bought 3 4-wheelers this summer, and so we went to my brother in laws parents cabin up in the Uintahs by Mirror Lake and we went 4-wheeling. We had a lot of fun. We rented one 4 wheeler and so 8 people could go at one time. My parents took their black lab Cooper, and my sister brought her puppy yellow lab Sam. They had fun together. This vacation Kennady decided that she could walk!! She would always take a few steps and go down, but this trip she just watched my neice Andalynn run around so I think she decided that hey I could do that! We went to Trial River falls by Trial Lake, it was so pretty. We got to hike around the falls, and play in the water. It was really cold, I didn't get in!

St. George

2008-08-13T21:51:00.000-07:00

Ty's family this year for a family vacation decided to go to their house in St. George and hang out. We rented 4 wheelers, and swam and just relaxed. We had a lot of fun playing Rock band, swimming and using the 4 wheelers. It was really hot down there so we took the 4 wheelers out more in the morning and evening. Kennady had a great time, this trip was when she really decided she liked to crawl up the stairs!