Price Family

Utah

2010-12-04T21:24:00.000-08:00

After DC we headed to Utah to see fam... we are NEVER there long enough and realize as I'm posting pictures I NEVER take enough pictures .. we usually don't do anything to exciting just shopping, eating and hangin around and chatting - which are all great- so I always forget to snap pictures here and there!

This is Wes' granma Bonnie We went to visit her on her farm and Morgan loved it... so many neat things and trinkets hangin around!

Rigdon had his first foods while we were there and was not fond of it at all

Holly, Isabelle and Riggs ... love this picture!

Wes was showing everyone our pictures of DC

We dropped Wes off at Cabelas and Mom and I took the kids to a pumpkin patch. So fun! I wish they had those things up here! Morgan was excited bout all the pumpkins!

Our little guy was happy just hanging out

I think I have few life long friends, but my friend Melanie is just one of those girls that I love so much! We met her there with her two boys that are the same age as my little ones... this is one of the reasons I wish I could stay longer... I such good friends that I never get to see, never enough time to see everyone :(

Morgan had the time of his life while we were in Utah, he napped in the car alot!

Rigdon is so funny! His legs were too big to fit in the bumbo... it was so tight! He had a blowout every time we put him in it, so he only sat in there twice... we learned out lesson! No bumbo for Riggs!

Morgan had Arza wrapped around his finger, he still talks about him... 6 weeks later... so funny!

We had a game night, I love those!

Isabelle had her birthday while we were there. That was one crazy night! Morgan remembers the party and tells me he wants a birthday! So cute!

They carved pumpkins that night and they turned out soo cool!

They have way cool parks everywhere down there.. unlike up here! Morgan had a blast!

We had so much fun while we were there. We had a girls night, Wes and I went on a date (yeah), I went down to the family history center, the food is always a highlight and Mom and OK got sealed in the temple while we were there. We are so glad we were able to be there for it. Im so thankful for being part of an eternal family. Knowing that I get to spend forever with my best friend, those sweet little ones, and being with my most favorite people.

I also got to spend alot of time with my ol' sis Holly, she's actually my step sister but I don't think I can even bring myself to call her that. She is just so stinkin' awesome and an amazing example; especially after all that her and her little family have been through this year, with my nephew Spencer. I'm already bad with words so trying to put into words how I feel about all the tiny and huge miracles that all our family has experienced this year is just not happening. So glad I got to spend time with everyone, to get to know each other even better, LOVE all of them so much.

Washington DC

2010-11-14T21:49:00.001-08:00

This post has been a long time coming.. I was dreading uploading all these pictures

but I finally did... so... Here is our DC trip!

This was at our new nieces baby blessing

This is Sienna, cute huh!

1st on our agenda was the Holocaust museum, because we have heard

so much about it. It was defiantly an emotional experience and

we both were maddened by such horrible things. There was so much

information you could spend a week in there. We were lucky that we

went the same time as Wes' parents and only took Rigdon with us, Morgan

would have been a nightmare. They took him to the Natural History museum and met up with them later; Wes had to see those dinosaurs!

In every picture we took in the dinosaur exhibits he is not looking,

to excited about everything that's

around I guess! Its so crazy how old those bones

really are... and they are real! Crazy!

Hope diamond.... so pretty

These kiddos are only 4 months apart... Rigdon was 3x her size!

She is so little 6 lbs somethin

and then Riggs 18 somethin!

Jeremy thought we put sausages in his bottles :)

Wes' bother Jeremy works for Don Young so we got a tour of his office and the capital

This totem was in Ted Stevens office and it was given to Congressman Young

when he didn't get elected.. I guess a village made it for him years ago

I don't know what its called but this mallet

was made out of a whale penis!

This sculpture of Washington

was in the Capital building, there was a cool story with it... I think it was the oldest original

piece in the capital. The picture below, is the dome of the capital.

This set of stairs, when congress in in session only congressman can go up these stairs. Pretty cool, we were there during one of their breaks. The stairs are marble and you can see the ware on the treads from hundreds of years of people walking up and down them ... really cool

We went to Arlington, which was really neat. Here is the changing of the guard that we were able to see and the tomb of the unknown soldier.

The grave of Kennedy and his wife, and the eternal flame.

Washington Memorial

Capital building

We stopped by the American history museum and they had

a bunch of cool things in there

They had a section that was all on the wars that American has

gone through... this was George Washington's sword! Cool!

They actually had a Hewie in the museum! I took this picture cause my grandpa Averett served in the Vietnam War and flew Hewies.

Jer & Jess live really close to Chesapeake Beach... Morgan LOVED it

After all the adult stuff we decided to make a kid day... and go to the zoo

both boys loved it...

The gorillas where my favorite... its so crazy

how they act like humans in so many ways.

Can you see the animal in this picture?!

We decided to do a night tour of all the monuments,

we heard it was a spiritual experience.

We were so glad we got to see everything all lit up, it is such a special place.

Korean War Memorial

Lincoln Memorial

I know the picture is blurry but it looked so cool with the capital in the background

World War II Memorial

The last day we were there we went to Mt Vernon, ended up being my favorite place of all. George Washington's Plantation. So peaceful and what view he had. Its pretty amazing how well preserved they have kept everything. Its too bad we were in such a hurry, we could have stayed there all day. Next time we go back that will defiantly be on the itinerary again.

This last picture is his tomb and behind the little black door is 25 of his posterity.

What a great trip we had, thanks so Jer and Jess for letting us invade their home when their life has been turned upside down! Thanks to Wes' parents for renting a car helping with the kiddos so we could enjoy such an fun filled trip. We are so glad we made the desicion to go. I came home so grateful for this wonderful FREE county that we live in; How truly inspired our four fathers were.

valdez

2010-09-18T22:56:00.000-07:00

We went to Valdez almost a month ago. It was a great trip, long drive.. but great trip! The weather was awesome, we actually saw the sun and the water was good the second day! This is Morgan on our way to go fishing, was so excited!

Rigdon was so good on the car ride down... it was a rough ride home towards the end! 6 hours in that car seat is no fun!
Horsetail falls
so pretty!

We drove down behind Wes parents' pulling the boat while they drove with the camper, they let us sleep in it for the weekend, which was so awesome! We got to save some mula! Morgan just thought it was so much fun.. except for the couple of times he fell off of the bed...

Captain Wes

Doesn't the water look so nice! It was awesome!

Dennis & Donna were fishing.. the morning was real slow ..

no fish... we were a little worried...

but luckily we finally found them!

Morgan was real excited to see the BIG fish but he did not want to touch them! So funny... this picture is so perfect!

We ended up catching all of the fish in about 2-3 hours,

so cool when u find a school of fish.

Rigdon was such a trooper! He has been on so many adventures already in his short little life so far; He just fits in perfect with us!

Does anybody else watch Deadliest Catch? Here's one of the boats on the show hangin out in the harbor.. its my least favorite but still pretty cool!

We ended up catching 8 silvers, which we were ecstatic about..

we thought we were going to get skunked! Rigdon was excited not to be in a life jacket and all those layers of clothes!

Morgan on the other hand was pooped!

The coolest part of our trip was all the bears we got see! They were piggin out on all of the spawned out pinks.. seriously the nastiest smell ever.. thousands of dead fish... ewwww

Here's just a peak of all those dead fish

and another on the ocean side of the road.. seagulls galore too.

This picture does not even do it justice...

Here's one of the black bears in action goin for the semi alive ones!

Then on the way back to the camper.. a momma with 2 cubs.... so cute...

We had a great trip that went by so fast.. wish we could have stayed a

couple more days... dang job and money situation! Going on trips like this just makes me fall in love with Alaska even more... although Fairbanks has no shopping, I HATE how expensive it is to travel anywhere and I miss my family out of state so bad.. I am an Alaskan girl through and through!

how sweet

2010-09-17T16:39:00.000-07:00

Morgan has definitely hit the terrible 2's! Just when I think I'm going to pull my hair out he says something really cute... like "Mom, I wanna hold you." Which I know he's trying to say "Mom I want you to hold me" Which is cute too but he gets it mixed up, and its just so sweet.. I say "you wanna hold me?" He says "Yeah!"

Then there has been cute times lately where randomly He asks to hold baby Riggs... so sweet... He tries to talk baby talk to him too ... so funny! I knew he would come around to this big brother stuff! Gotta love those sweet moments where it makes me re-think pulling out my hair!

YAY!

2010-09-06T23:13:00.001-07:00

Our little Rigdon started rollin over last week! So exciting!

He's getting so big, I can't believe how fast time is going by...

he's 3 1/ 2 months old now ... craziness.. I just love his little arms in these pic!

July & Maclaren River

2010-09-02T13:45:00.000-07:00

OK this has literally taken me for-ev-er to get these pic loaded... there are a ton!
We did so much the month of July I tried to capture most of our good times...

this picture of Morgan and Olivia is my favorite... they were so cute together!One of the many times we went to the lake :)

(this picture is supposed to be after the boat at maclaren the loader thing is being lameO)

My dad stopped by for a weekend and Morgan loves to keep him busy...

they wore each other out!

We went to Chena Lakes and it was freezing!

The big excursion was going to Maclaren River Lodge.

I have been wanting to go there for so long. It was a gorgeous drive. We drove underneath

a double rainbow on the way there! and YES that's a crack in our windshield!

We lucked out the sun was shining the first day we were there which is rare... as of then they had only seen the sun 8 times! So we were excited to get rollin! Garin, Olivia and Morgan waiting for the ride of their lives!!

Morgan didn't want to ride with his Mom and Dad.. he wanted to ride with papa and papa and Livia! They made a little seat for him in the middle so cute.. this was right before we left

Here's a shot of the trail, (and Elli) that looks alright?! Right?!

Morgan took a little cat nap on papas lap,while driving on the bumpiest trail ever!

This is when he was just wakin up

We finally made it to 7 mile lake - 5 hours later! Wes had been to the lake before and claimed it would take an hour maybe 2.. it was only 7 miles! We all think is memory is failing .. it was the lamest trail EVER.. especially with a 5 month prego lady, a 2 month only baby and 2 2 year olds!

Dennis and Katrina dreading our trip back!

Morgan and Olivia loved all the playing outside together, here they loved jumping of this rock that their sitting on. Oh the little things in life!

This old boat was sitting on the shore so we had to take advantage of the better fishing out on the water. It was to bad the wind was blowing a little harder than the paddling was! It was a funny scene from the shore!

After a hour maybe two we decided after the long trek it took to get there we better be on our way back.. after all we were running out of food! And the weather was not so sunny anymore and you can see in this picture... that's the parents with the kids and behind them

is the storm that's on the way!
(the picture that's supposed to be here is at the top.. dangit)

It was a pretty lake though

This was the 1st or 2nd time we broke down on the way back.. i can't remember... the girls and kids waitin it our by ripping leaves!

The whole track of the rhino came of one of the times

This was either the 3rd or 4th time broken down... the bolts started just falling off.. thanks to an answered prayer we found all the bolts on the trail!

Morgan was sooo dirty, this picture doesn't do it justice.. he was loving life .. he actually cried when we got home from our exciting weekend

The last time we broke down it was pouring rain and we had run out of food, it was getting dark, which says alot cause we have alot of daylight in the summer! So we left Dennis and Donna with the broken rhino and Wes and I had the 3 kids in the rhino with us and Katrina and Garin followed in the 4 wheeler. we still had probably 4 miles to go to get back to the lodge! Well we finally made it and Wes and Garin hustled back out to get Dennis and Donna. They just decided to throw in the towel and leave the rhino on the trail. Luckily, Jason was still back at home and he brought us the wheels and everything to take the tracks off. So the whole next day we "bonded" in our room and waited for J and then waited for them to get back with a working rhino! It was a great trip despite our crazy adventure, I love making memories!

Morgans pants are always falling down! Since he is always running off we thought it would be good to have a bell on him since we were in the middle of nowhere and right next to a river

Here was the view from our room

This was our view if you looked down from our room! Only in Alaska!

They had a bunch or sled dog teams out there and they would howl in the early morning when they were being fed.. so annoying!!

Here's our group picture - turned out really good!

Another one our trips to the lake

Morgan loves the boat rides!

What a fun month! So busy with family and fun! I can't wait till next year when Rigdon is bigger and we can do even more! Although we didn't shy away from much with our little trooper!

cute randoms

2010-07-17T00:32:00.000-07:00

After a long day at work and shopping....

Fred Meyer is remodeling and they have cool equipment that Morgan is soo excited about.. ignore his rats nest on the back of his head.. he needs a haircut sooo bad.. that's on next weeks agenda!
This pic you can tell how red Rigdon's hair is getting.. it looks so cute on him!

The gal I work with raises bunnies and Morgan thinks we should bring one home..

I told him to ask his dad!

Morgan is obsessed with being outside no matter the weather!

Rigdon

2010-06-29T00:17:00.000-07:00

Here's our only family picture since Rigdon has been born, it was his blessing day which turned out so great! Morgan was freaking out I had to make him sit in my lap.. there were several pictures taken but this was for sure the best one!

Our little baby boy isn't so little anymore.. well he is, but he's HUGE.. at 6 weeks he is wearing 3-6 months! This pic was taken bout a week ago its hard to tell how big he is but...

just take my word for it

Rigdon had his one month appointment a couple of weeks ago
12 lbs - 93 %tile
22 1/2 inches - 81%tile

It was after we had weighed him and the nurse is askin me all the questions and says " does he have any problems eating?" uhmm NO didn't you just weigh him... was what I was thinking... Morgan was a big baby too but not that big! This is the closest picture of him to one month with Granma Price.. cute huh.. those cheeks are huge!

See the little smile in this one..

This is one of the two pictures I have of the

brothers together... not because I haven't tried...

And this is just a sweet picture from 6 weeks ago!

Rigdon has been the perfect addition to our family! Some things about him so far... He likes t0 stand on his own feet or to be over the shoulder, he does not like the cradle position unless he's eating! He just started smiling lately and its just so cute! He loves looking at the picture of Christ we have hanging and every now and then he'll smile! I just wonder what he's thinking and what we don't know! He would suck is thumb or hand if I would let him and he rolled over from his belly when he was not even 4 weeks old! He hasn't done it since, but he did it! I'm so excited to see how he grows to see what he'll be like and for the brothers to play together! I love this little guy so much and am so glad I get to be a mom to not just one, but two!

Morgan

2010-06-28T23:44:00.000-07:00

Morgan has been the busiest little boy EVER.... if he's not watching Woody and Buzz (Toy Story) He wants to be outside constantly!! Which is great, don't get me wrong but I cannot be outside constantly! Wes finally broke down and put up a little fence around the back door so I didn't have to follow my little wanderer around or trap him inside! The backyard is a post on its own and when I can figure out how to post the videos that it won't let me post .. grrr... I'll tell some good stories... He has started to be a little chatter box... it took a while but he loves to talk now! Its so funny! We were in the backyard the other day and I looked up and there was a moose right there, Morgan was all excited and said, "Mama, gun shoot moose!! Gun shoot moose! psheww" It was so funny.. he is his fathers son! He has been such a cute big brother... it took him a while to acknowledge his presence but now is always asking about baby Rigs ... he still doesn't like to touch him unless its behind my back.. I caught him giving him kisses when I was in the bathroom... so cute... I only have 2 pictures of them together... he is so stubborn!!

Morgan loves his uncle Jay and is always talking bout him!
He recently has decided he doesn't want me to take his picture.. this his him getting
mad at me and trying to take away the camera

Morgan has decided he loves stuft animals which totally surprises me cause it was all the sudden, one morning.. now he has 10 stuft animals in his bed and has a roll call every night before bedtime to make sure their all there! It hard to tell in the picture but he was showing the puppy suft animal all the family members and he has his crocs on him too! Funny stuff!

He is also obsessed with the rhino.. Wes' parents have one too

and he loves to go for rides! He always asks for the rhino key

He had his own cone here, with the nastiest ice cream ever.. I have no idea what baskin robin flavor this was but seriously I wanted to puke when I tried it... but he loved it and polished it off!

I love this little kid so much and cant believe its been 2 1/2 years! He has made our life so full and am so glad I get to be his Mom.. Love you Morg!

1 to 2

2010-06-28T23:24:00.000-07:00

There is never a dull moment at house lately! Between all the normal infant duties that are required for a mom, all the trouble a 2 year old boy can get into, work, all the chores that are piling up, church callings and everything else that I haven't mentioned.. life is BUSY! Not extremely, but more than before 2! Morgan totally takes advantage of the times when I'm "tied" up taking care of Rigs here is one of his guilty moments..

I was feeding Rigdon and Morgan told me he wanted ice cream and brought it to me, I told him to put it back in the freezer and when I was done I would help him.. well he didn't want to wait so he helped himself! He was up to his elbows in ice cream! What a funny kid! One thing I'm still not used to after 6 weeks is referring to the 2 as "the kids"... I laugh to myself every time I say it.. its plural.. can't believe it!!

Rigdon George

2010-05-26T22:43:00.001-07:00

Now that our little man is almost 2 weeks old... Its about time for an update...

Rigdon George Price

5/13/10

3:00 pm

8 lbs 12 oz

21 1/4 inches

and just soo cute! We love his head full of dark hair and is such a

wonderful addition to our little family! Emily came and took some cute pics for us.. although I hate myself in this pic he is just too cute not to post!

This time around I was induced 3 days early so my mom would be here when I got back from the hospital and help me at home! Everything went so smooth ... I would suggest it to anyone... I wasn't worried who would watch Morgan... Wes' mom and granma came over at 6 in the morning and I was on my way to the hospital... they gave me the potosin and with in an hour I had my epidural and life was great.. we watched Lost and took a nap while we were waiting and before we knew it Riggs had made his way here! He gave us a scare the first 16 hours... they took him off to the nursery to clean him up .. and when they brought him back they told me I could only have him long enough to nurse him. He had a heart murmur and an irregular heart beat and was not getting enough oxygen! Although the doctor assured me that he would be ok they just wanted to observe him.. it totally was a scare. Morgan was a totally healthy baby with no problems... Everything turned out ok, his little body worked out the little kinks except for the irregular heart beat... he might have it forever or just for a while until he gets used to life in the world. He also lost a lot of weight by day 2 .. 12 oz.. down to 8 lbs... so they had me bring him in when he was 4 days old to get him weighed and again at 7 days. Day 4 he weighed 8.7 and by day 7 he was 9.1 so weight gain was is no longer an issue.. he is going to be a chunk!

bald guys!

2010-03-16T21:26:00.000-07:00

Here are just a few of my favorite men without hair!

Please keep reading ... :)

They are all REAL easy on the eyes!

Randy .. oh Randy (MMA fighter)

Do I even need to tell u who this is?!

OH... look... whos that?! dear dear Bruce...
cant forget about Vinny...

OK now on with the real reason for this post!!

My sweet little nephew Spencer that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, is starting to loose his famous hair (he has really thick awesome hair that is always spiked and cute) from his treatments. On Saturday there is going to be this awesome fundraiser for Spencer in Utah and a ton of people are supporting him by shaving their heads too! As you can see Wes is in on this one! I would have done it on Saturday.. the day when everyone is going to do it... but I'm going out of town for the weekend and the rest of the week is just busy... soo we did it a little early! We love you so much Spence and the whole family.. wish we could be there with everyone... just know that you have loved ones in the BIG AK that support you!

the mohawk look...just bangs

and the finished product!

I think that he looks sexy! As I was shaving his head it was emotional for me just knowing why he was doing this... please pray for Spencer.. he and his family need all the prayers they can get!

http://www.mysuperspence.blogspot.com/

Funny things

2010-03-10T21:54:00.000-08:00

Morgan is just so funny! The other day Wes was watching some show on tv and there was a car chase scene, Morgan was zoned in on it! He was so excited, grabbed Wes face and pointed it at the tv, he said " Dad, you see that, oh man!!" ! He said it a couple of times in a row! So funny, he is all boy.. I could really care less about the car chase scenes but my 2 year old doesn't want to miss it! His new phrase is o'man... he says it all the time... so funny!

Then last night I made halibut for dinner, he usually will eat it but for some reason he didn't want anything but cheese. Most of the times if we give him a bite of food from our plate he'll eat so that what Wes attempted to do... he didn't want it.. so I said "Morgan its fish, you like fish" that was not the right thing to say .. oh fishy... fishy.. fishy... he was really upset that we were eating fish! It probably doesn't help that we have fish at the office I work at, he loves watching the fish! How he put two and two together we don't know, just goes to show ya they understand way more than we think they do! So he's not eating fish anymore! Its meat! We decided we wont call stuff chicken or turkey.. its all meat! At least until he understands it a little better! Funny boy!

30 weeks

2010-03-04T22:00:00.000-08:00

So I'm not exactly 30 weeks ye,t but I will be in 2 days so lets just say 30..k.. it will make me feel better. Life in 3rd trimester is bringing back lovely memories of my last pregnancy with Morgan. Oh how I count down the days... really.. I feel alot bigger than I look in this picture... it must be the black... Retaining water.. check... heartburn.. check...charlie horse.. check... hungry at all times after 6 pm .. check... lack of sleep.. check ...oh i could go on.. other than the uncomfortable things that every pregnant lady goes through.. its all good! He seems to be doing just great! Weight gain really sucks this past month.. I was talking to one of my bestest friends Melanie (who is due a week after me with a boy!!) and she reminded me that they little guy has doubled his weight gain in the last month... Ok I haven't doubled my weight or anything but I have doubled my weight gain in the last 6 weeks... my goal was to not gain as much as I did with Morgan ... which I'm going to give it away... 55 lbs!! That's still my goal.. Ill let ya all know how that goes! Another thing I'm worried about is how big is this baby really going to be?? Morgan was 8lbs 5 oz and I thought that was big... so they say they just get bigger?? ahhh I'm scared?!

Ice Fishing

2010-03-04T21:31:00.000-08:00

We decided to go on a little ice fishing trip last weekend. Some people thought that was ambitious of me being prego and all, but I didn't have to do anything except make lunch.. I'm pretty good at that .. especially these days! We rented a hut for $15 for the day, which we thought was well worth it cause it ended up being -10 with the wind blowing. It was a shanty alright; it was 8x12 which to me sounded big.. but I was wrong.. we barely all fit in there! It did have a little wood stove that kept us pretty warm, but keeping Morg away from the stove was another thing in the tiny little hut! Granpa Price came out for a couple of hours to fish with us.. Morgan loved that! Although we were not successful on this trip we did see the fish swimming from the top of the whole! And the guy in the next hut over came and showed us his catches for the day!!:) At least Morgan got to see one right??!! Next time we're going to slay them!

See me in the background ... proof that I really was there!

I love this picture... he would sit still in the chair if he had a root beer! Funny boy!

Our cold ride to the shanty ice hut!!

workin'

2010-03-01T21:10:00.001-08:00

Morgan has been really into workin'! He has his tool sets and want to be in the garage all day long! We don't have a very big garage but have decided that is way better than nothing at all! It wouldn't be too bad except for when its below zero outside, the garage is not very warm.. so it cools of the whole house having the door open. He takes Elli in the garage with him and plays and has his little truck that he rides and tries to get into Dads tools to use.. he feeds Elli, he throws rocks and will pay in the utility sink .. u name it he has done it in the garage. He want to eat his lunch out there... everything.. we had to tape the child proof door lock on because he just rips it off and is on his way... he hates the tape on the door knob!

Elli has been shedding like crazy lately.. driving me nuts actually... so we decided to run the shop vacuum on her.. she actually liked it! Funny dog!!
Morgan has been obsessed with these safety glasses he want to wear them everywhere:)

Morgan thought that Elli needed to wear his crocs.. it was so cute!

Sweet Spencer

2010-02-22T14:38:00.000-08:00

I have been wanting to do this post for a while now and just wasn't quite sure how, so here is goes... I have a sweet nephew Spencer (Oks daughter Holly's oldest boy), who is 7 and was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma 3 weeks ago. Its a type of cancer that is rare and fast moving. Luckily it sounds like he has really good doctors trying to do whats best for him. He has already been a the ride of his life in just these last few short weeks and the next year will be so hard. Although I don't know him all that well because we live so dang far away, I know how special he and his family are! I'm so lucky to call all of them family! I wish I could be with them to help support them during this trial of a lifetime. It always seems like the best of the best have the biggest trials. I'm not sure why little Spence has to go through so much, but I do know that our Heavenly Father has a plan and am so glad to know of our purpose here on earth and especially that families can be together for all eternity. With tears in my eyes I love Spence and his family so much... so glad your part of our family! I don't have many pics of him but I dug this one up! Please remember sweet Spence in your prayers. To learn more about Spence and help the cause...
www.mysuperspence.blogspot.com

Clean Water?!

2010-02-22T14:24:00.000-08:00

We found out last week that our water is contaminated with sulfate, a chemical that makes oil into gas. Probably about 3 miles away is a refinery in North Pole, Flint Hills; they make oil into gas. They found out that the chemical was off site last October and found contamination in the drinking water for most of the people that live in North Pole city limits. A couple of weeks ago we had a water testing company stop by and let us know that the neighbors found it in their water so they wanted to test ours! So here we are not able to drink our own water! Luckily Flint Hills has been good about helping people out, they provided us with a water cooler for drinking and cooking with as far a short term solution and are working on a long term one that hopefully will be handled by next winter. The hard part about this is they don't know any side effects. We have been drinking our water since we moved here, I'm pregro and has consumed a ton of water. The state has came out with a safe(?) drinking amount in the water which is 87.5 parts per billion .. whatever that means... our water rated at 42.4 so is under what an adult can consume... but what about our little Morgan and the even littler one that has been developing for the last 6 months!! Just a little scary! It makes ya think how important water storage is... which we weren't that worried about since we have our own well we could just pump it out when and if we ever needed to. Well that's not the case anymore and I now need to go get CLEAN water storage somewhere else!! Not from my our faucet! we've actually liked having a water cooler , always have cold water that tastes really good.. no sulfate.. no iron.. Wes even drinks water now! Well just had to vent about this little crazy bump in our road!

Morgans Hair

2010-02-19T22:11:00.000-08:00

Morgan has the craziest hair! We love it!! I finally got his hair cut, it was seriously out of control.. here is the proof.. although this top one is pretty cute!!

this one is funny, notice his drool mark too!

Now his hair is short and he looks so much older, a lady thought he was 3.. NO, hes only 2! This is a cute pic of him w/ an old friend Sara from Anchorage, with her dog that Morgan thought was so cool

New car!

2010-02-19T21:48:00.000-08:00

We went down to Anchorage last weekend, looking for a new family vehicle! He sold our camo GMC which we loved and almost cried when we sold it a couple of weeks ago, but the family gettin bigger and my big ol belly is in the way of gettin Morgan in and out of a truck w/ suicide doors!! Ready for something easier to get in and out of!! So the trip was a success in terms of finding what we wanted, YEAH!! So here's what I went from :

To this:

Morgan on the trip down, the weather has been so nice here lately and the sun was shinning away on our drive! It was driving Morgan crazy, he wanted to wear Dads hat to help w/ that .. so cute!

The gas mileage we were getting in Wes new truck that we picked up about 6 weeks ago! We thought we should take a pic, so people would believe us!

We hung out w/ my Dad on Vday... went to my favorite restaurant... Moose's tooth..

cheesy breadsticks, baked turkey sandwich with a homemade cream soda to top it off!! YUM!

I miss good food!

Funny boy Morgan thought this ride would be cool until it started..

then it was all over.. he did not like it!

A little too close to the monitor watching one of his favorite shows.. UP

MOM not Casy

2010-02-02T14:33:00.000-08:00

Morgan is quite the character! He has called me Mom in the past but for some reason he doesn't think its that cool anymore?! Way back in September before his cousin Olivia moved she was calling for me in the house and Morgan caught on.. it was cute and funny at the beginning... he only called me Casy a couple times a week for a few months but now.. everyday, all day long.... remember calling for your mom or dad all the time when you were younger... well Morgan calls me Casy all day long... he's in his crib...CASY.... He wants my attention in anyway... CASY, casy, casy... after every time.. I correct him no I'm Mom to you... then he corrects me.. he'll go round and round about it... I point at a picture where's Mom he points to me and says Casy! I don't know how many kids do that but I don't know of any 2 year olds off the top of my head that constantly call their Mom by her 1st name?! I have mixed feelings about it although it is cute and funny.. I really want him to call me Mom.. since that what I am to him! He calls Wes, Dad.... why not Casy, Mom? I should really catch it on video hoping that he'll come around to Mom someday!

Our little little one

2010-01-25T13:27:00.000-08:00

We found out before Christmas that our little one on its way is a BOY!! We are really excited.. Morgan is going to have so much fun with a baby brother.. showing him all the rope of what to get into, how to ride a 4wheeler, what r the cool shows to watch and what trucks are the coolest! I just knew, even before i was pregnant that the next one was a boy... so we weren't surprised.. of course i would have totally been ok with my motherly instincts being wrong on this one but I know for sure that he was meant for our family at this time. Maybe the next one will be a little girl and I can go shopping!! Everything is going well and am getting pretty huge rather ... he is VERY active... way more than Morgan. Wes thinks I just can't remember but the other morning i woke up at 5 to go the bathroom and yeah never fell back asleep cause he was moving so much for i swear 3 1/2 hours... that's a good sign i guess that everything is going well!:) I was going to post a picture of me getting fat too fast but uhmm yeah haven't got to that! As far as names go Wes only has liked one name Dallon, which i like but there are too many of those in Utah.. i can't have too many of a name.. I just don't like that. I like plenty of names but I'm sure everyone has had this dilemma... Eldon, Gauge, Korbin, Kale, Dallas, Dalton.. anyone have any ideas let me know!

Thanksgiving in Maui

2010-01-14T00:36:00.000-08:00

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OK.. this slide show has been in the works forever.. finally got it figured out w/ a little help... so here is some of our Maui trip with my family.. we have soo many pics of this trip so here are some of the best... we were missing my sister Lindsay and Jeff.. we really wish they could have made it.. but for sure next time!! We also missed Oks kids, they're alot of fun!! Despite the missing family we had alot of fun.. Morgan just loved all the attention and when we were saying bye to everyone he was really upset.. although he is a little guy he knew what was goin on.. not knowing when he would see them all again... we wish we weren't soo dang far away!!Our trip started our w/ Morgan puking all over Wes on the 1st flight.. seriously soo gross.. the most puke ive ever seen.. so he had to go and buy the most expensive sweats in the Anchorage airport $45, it was either that or i would puke from the nasty way he smelt! I also lost my wallet for a few hours and basically had a hernia.. it was very traumatic for me... other than that uneventful.. just a grand ol time!! I'm hoping i get a few videos posted cause we have some great ones of turtles underwater!! warning... when u look at the pics u may just want to go...:)

Dancin'

2010-01-13T23:11:00.000-08:00

Morgan has been dancing for a while, it used to be only when nobody is looking... once someone noticed he would get embarrassed and stop his cute moves... he is over that phase... he knows how to get down.. he only has a couple of moves but they are really cute... ignore me in the video .. i swear i do have better moves than that.. and turn down the volume.. we are listening to the top 20 on XM so we have a little JayZ going on!

Happy Birthday Morgan!!

2009-12-15T16:26:00.000-08:00

Morgan, my handsome little boy turned 2 on December 13! He had such a good day I wanted to take a picture of him in his church outfit cause he looked so cute in his little tie and everything, but I missed my opportunity before church.. we were running late as usual... by the time we got home his hair was a mess and his white shirt wasn't quite white anymore! He was so spoiled w/ hand me down gifts from his older cousins he didn't quite know what to do w/ it all!! Wes can no longer say that he is deprived of toys!

His hair is a little crazy w/ all the static; he loved the balloons so much we really didn't need to get him anything else he was perfectly happy w/ balloons!
Here's some new tools from gma & gpa Price, that he just loves! He always wants to play w/ Wes' tools so having his own is sooo cool! He has already started fixing stuff around the house!

A cute little CAT that he got from Katrina & Garin, u can take it apart w/ tools!

He also got a workbench that is behind the boys to put his tools on!

He actually loved his birthday cake! I drew a dinosaur w/ a pond..

actually really fancy for me!

I thought this picture was funny, he looks so ecstatic! He did love the

frosting, made sure that is was all gone !!

I just can't believe how time flies once you have kids! Morgan has been such a blessing to our lives and cant wait to see what the future brings for him! We know he is just so special and feel so privileged that he got sent to our home! What a sweet boy we have.. Love u so much Morgan!

Halloween

2009-12-08T22:54:00.000-08:00

For some reason my pics are being wack so here they are backward

with my little but long story of our Halloween!

This year for Halloween we used our nephews Winnie the Pooh costume.. its actually gone through all three of Jason & Dawns boys! Morgan fit in the costume perfectly! We put the costume on backwards, and didn't even know it until Dawn pointed it out.. funny stuff... It was so cute! We took him to the Salcha schools little party they have every year so we saw some family there... he was not to sure about all the people packed into their little gym but it was fun to see him play the little games they had there! Later that night we took him up to Great gma & gpa Ronkens house and got a bunch of attention! We were debating on whether to go trick or treating.. when Wes told me he has never really been trick or treating that was the deciding factor.. we were going!We went to Doyon subdivision where we met Derek & Emily, which was alot of fun.. we defiantly don't hang out with them enough. It was so cold that night even though it was about 10 above.. I froze my rear off! Morgan had so much fun.. loved getting all the candy! His bag was getting heavy that we was carrying so I decided to stash some of the candy in my pocket so he didn't have to carry such a load, ya know trying to be a good mom, he was not happy about that, he thought I was stealing his candy or something! Then at the end we decided to run to the car because it was so friggin cold so I took his bag so we could just hurry... yeah he freaked out the whole time we ran back until I gave him his bag back once he was strapped in his care seat! One minute after heading home he was out.. so of course we had to sneak some candy! We had a fun Halloween this year!

little news

2009-12-07T13:14:00.000-08:00

We have a little bit of news but also big at the same time! ... We are expecting baby #2, May 16! We are so excited and nervous at the same time! I'm 17 weeks and doing good, the first trimester was rough and was hating life for a while trying to keep up w/ Morgan, work and the house chores - which had to suffer the most! I'm feeling so grateful to feel good again! I'm just starting to poke out a little and I'm sure by Christmas I wont fit in my pants again.. so depressing but well worth whats growing inside! I meant to write this post a month ago or so but between holiday stuff and work and vacations (pictures to come soon) I'm just know getting to it! So that's my little but big news! I guess Ill have to keep the updates coming as this pregnancy is going by way faster than it did with Morgan... which is good but bad.. i have so much to do before the next little one gets here!!

Its been a while

2009-10-12T15:13:00.000-07:00

Well what can I say... I've been a blogging rut...We were actually pretty busy the past couple of months that you haven't heard from us.. now not so much.. which is a good thing...so I'm just posting the random things from the past couple of months! I know everyone has been dying to know what we/ve been up to ... since we're so cool and al!

Wes & Morgan caught a frog out in the field and Elli had more

fun w/ it than anyone

We made it to the fair in Aug and the animals were a hit

Here is Morgan taking his first ride on a horse... he was not to happy about it

Here is is bawling....

Then he decided it was okay and actually had fun!

It was raining of course

Wes and Morg workin in the yard

Granma & Granpa Averett came up for a couple of weeks

This was one of the four wheeler trips but i can't remember when it was.. we stopped at this huge mud hole that Elli got stuck in

We picked cranberries w/ granma and granpa Price and Olivia.. it was pretty funny Morgan was eating his cheetos then he would sneak in some cranberries

Just a cute pic

Our dog is so funny.. she watches TV w/ us..

We took Jeremy and Katrina spear fishing

Do u see my little fish.. it was really small.. we think we went to early in the

season .. it needs to be colder to get the bigger ones

Katrina, Garin and Olivia moved down to Seattle to go back to school this was their last weekend here of course we don't have pics of anyone else .. am I the only one that feels like I never take enough pics?... the little ones were so cute together.. they both love 4 wheelers

Since then Morgan HAS had a hair cut.. his hair is so long in these pics!

We're going to miss the three of them ... we had some fun times while they were here!!

It won't be the same w/ out them here but i know they'll do good

on their new adventure! Love u guys!

Rainbow Mt Trip

2009-08-10T12:38:00.000-07:00

We took a bunch of pictures on this trip... we went to Rainbow Mountain camped and went exploring on 4 wheelers the next day! it was a blast... we wish we did this kinda of stuff every weekend.... this is Elli's spot on the way down

Morgan and Olivia plain on the 4 wheeler

This was the next morning, we slept in a enclosed trailer which made it nice for clean up and being out of the wind.. Morgan thought it was the coolest thing.. going to sleep was a hard one!

This was in the morning getting ready and breakfast in the camper.. we have decided the camper thing is a must.. .someday!!

Wes was drivin the new toy w/ Donna, Morgan and Elli

Garin and Olivia

Katrina and Me .... and I'm missing a pic of Dennis on his 4 wheeler w/ the trailer pulling rocks... I thought I got everyone dang it... sorry Dennis

We rode back to this little lake... it was more like a pond though.. it was pretty cute..

i think this is were we found the bear tracks

We found a perfect spot for lunch out of the wind .. this pic is funny cause

I think everyone has food in their mouth!

After lunch we went on a little hike up this little hill which kept going and going... I was the smart one and wore my rain boots.. that was not so fun

Morgan and Olivia were so cute on this trip always

huggin each other ... being such cute cousinsI know what your thinking... Morgan is seriously soo cute

Wes & Morgan w/ the glacier behind them.. you can kinda see

the blue in the top of the picture

The sun finally poked out for the rest of our trip.. it was great perfect weather... cute little fam huh?!!

The view from the top was really pretty ... the top of the glacier to the far right

This is a better one of the Glacier

I just thought this little creek was so cute.. .

Dosn't it look like a postcard or something

Monday night fun

2009-07-29T23:31:00.000-07:00

We added a toy to our family fun last week... I know what everyones thinkin.. do they think they have money of something.. well we traded.. we're sellin (one is sold already)
our 4 wheelers so that we could get one of these sweet babies!! We thought it would be cool to be able to strap down a car seat.. or One of us hold Morgan and we can actually have a conversation and snack together at the same time.. w/ the separate wheelers we didn't get that.. anyways.. we love love our 4 wheelers but it was hard to do it as a family w/ Morgan so little still we felt like we were missin 4 wheelin adventures... so for family night we took it out!!

Morgan and Olivia sharin Fritos
Garin, Katrina & Dennis is way in the back!! They went w/ us for a little trip.. it was fun we don't get to do adventures very often anymore w/ them.. hopefully we'll squeeze some more in before they leave....

I thought this was a cool shot

All geared up and ready to go!! Isn't Elli cute in the back!!

I thought this was a funny pic.. Elli strapped in the kennel for the road trip out to Salcha and Morgan screamin out of excitement... he loves our new toy!!

2009-07-29T22:48:00.000-07:00

Its been a while since I posted... a busy summer that's for sure.. so here is just a few of the things that we've been doing in the last couple of weeks.. and i forgot my camera and alot of fun things so i was bummed about that ...anyways

Morgan & I went berry picking the other day .... which was another hot day... it was pretty
funny just the two of us picking berries.. i had our little bucket on the ground and was showin Morgan what to pick... He was lovin it.. then he leaned in a little to far to put the berry in and landed on the bucket and spilled out picks for the day all on the ground.. which is not fun to pick up... needless to say we didn't come home w/ as much as I had planned.. oh well it was fun

I just thought this was a sweet pic... I think his outfit might be a little small!!

We went to the Golden Days Parade down town.. w/ my family here we are

going for a ride in the 1924 Model T

Granma, Vicki, Durand & Jesalyn at the Parade

Morgan had no problems diggin into the candy...

he knew just what to do

We made a trip to Chena Lakes w/ Emily and the kids,

Shannon and her cute little baby

Owen and Morgan eatin Cheetos on the beach... Morgan is not shy around anyone when it comes to Cheetos!

We went to Hardy Lake w/ Derek & Emily their family.. it was such a perfect day.. it was the best.. we had so much fun.. I'm not sure what I'm doing in this picture.. maybe I was trying to be sexy.. but it didn't work very well!

Morgan being the little captain

Derek & Emily gettin ready for the ride of their life!!

I think this one is me and Clair in flight..

see how perfect the water is... like glass!!

Pioneer Park w/ Granma Ronken

Morgan wanted to sit by himself on the step like a big boy or something...

didn't want to be seen w/ mom i guess... I sure hope not!!

Drivin the train

This was just funny, he likes to go in the dog kennel and

shut himself in... this time it was w/ his fire truck!!

5 Years

2009-07-21T13:36:00.000-07:00

This post is just a little late but... thats my life... Wes & I got married July 10, 2004 for time & all eternity in the Manti Temple ... it feels like it was so long ago and so much has changed since then .. we have come along way! The day we got married was such a blur... it seems like life has been moving that fast ever since.. we've had alot of fun so far and am looking forward to soo many more memories.. im so lucky i found my prince charming!! Wes - love you for eternity...
heres just a few of our memories over the years

4th of July weekend

2009-07-06T12:13:00.000-07:00

For our 4th of July Weekend Wes got Friday off, so we headed for the lake w/ the family... it was such a nice weekend the weather was perfect.. except for the smoke around, the water wasn't even that cold!

Mitch & Jami on the boat .. waitin for their turn on the tube!

Jami and I ... ready for the screamin to begin

I thought this was a cute pic of the cousins.. oldest and youngest!!

Morgan was wearing Mitch's Sunglasses.. he thought he was pretty cool

A midnight sunset w/ the smoke, it looked really cool in person

the pic doesn't do it justice

On Saturday we headed up the Salcha river w/ Wes' parents, Dillon, Katrina, Garin, Olivia and of course Elli... She loved it
Wes was fishin it up.. he caught some grayling

Our little family in the boat... Morgan loves to be at the helm.. but he seams to always fall asleep.. hell have to wait a while to take over dads spot!!

Fun Monday

2009-06-16T10:51:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was a georgeaus day so a group of us did a bike ride to Chena Lakes, it was a perfect day for it and we had a lot fun! Morgan dosn't like to get his feet dirty or his hands, he was pretty funny.. He already forgot about the beaches that he loved so much in Hawaii.. I guess we're gonna have to go back.. darn

Morgan wanted to ride the big kid bikes soo bad... Our friend Gentry is helping him

He's part of the gang

Olivia and Swazie

Morgan and Katrina

Last night we went for a family outing on the 4 wheelers .. Morgan loves the 4 wheelers u dont even know, he has the biggest smile on his face the whole time, if I pass them he waves and smiles.. just loves it... Elli loves it too, she sits on the back it is the cutest thing all three of them on all together!

Utah trip

2009-06-16T10:28:00.000-07:00

Morgan ans I went to Utah for 10 days to pend w/ my family!! It was soo much fun ... we didn't really do much of anything it was just kinda laid back which was nice for a change!! It was hard to leave but we missed Wes, Elli and our little home... and the weather!!! I didn't take nearly enough pictures as always but here's a few.... This is my nephew Gavin... really cute.. he's only 3 weeks old or so

We went to a farm that Morgan loved.. he chased around ducks and geese and loved the goats.. I'm trying to talk Wes into getting one!! He hasn't gone for it yet....

Morgan just loved his aunts and uncles.. he wanted to do whatever they were doing!!

We went to the open house of the new temple in South Jordan, it was really pretty... its right around the corner form my moms house!

We have 5 Generations in this photo.. really cool

Arza, Morgan and Great Great Granma Schnabel

Granma & Granpa Averett

Saturday Entertainment

2009-05-31T14:10:00.000-07:00

Ok so this might not be to exciting to rewatch but I swear in the moment it was so funny we played this game, with the laser light for a long time yesterday. Morgan was getting a kick out of it and Elli just loved chasin the little red dot!

Our Homer Trip

2009-05-27T23:16:00.001-07:00

We went to Homer for a long Memorial Day weekend! It was a way long drive (11-12 hrs) but a fun trip... Morgan had is episodes in the car but overall he was our little angel .. Wes family was w/ us too so it was a big family thing! Wes parents rented a house for the bunch of us to stay in so that was nice.. no tenting it this trip! The weather was awesome and the traffic was minimal .. which is just the best luck ever! im hoping to make it again to Soldotna to say hang w/ old friends but we'll see how ambitious we get! So here's just a few of the pics we took!!

to my Mom

2009-05-10T22:41:00.000-07:00

Dear Mom-
Since I couldn't send you flowers this year for Mother Day I'm just writing a little note that hopefully you'll see soon! It doesn't take getting sick for me to know how much I love and miss you but I do know that maybe I don't say it enough. You are the best... I know that I was sent down to be your daughter, we have been through so much over the past 25 years.. crazy to see where we both are now.. I mean I'm in North Pole.. honestly.. you in Salt Lake .. c'mon... I miss you guys all the time.. especially since little Morg... Thanks for being there for me always and being a crutch to lean on! You know me pretty dang well ... when i need a complement or a little bit of a nudge.. or a u can do it .. or a I don't think sooo ... Your my little hero. Your so strong and loving.. Thanks for setting the good example of being such an awesome mom.. I hope I can be 1/2 the mom you've been to me...so I know that I'm not the best at words... and its not as poetic as I would like it to be, just know how much I love ya ... your one of my best friends...I know you can make it through anything cause your the toughest mom there is .. really... love ya mom... can't wait to see you.. get better soon..
xoxo
Casy

busy week

2009-05-08T14:36:00.000-07:00

I decided to just post a bunch of pics of what we have been up to in the last

week or so.. which hasn't been anything exciting but a lot of good weather!! It has been awesome to have summer begin!! This pic of Morgan he's wearing his cousin Eden shoes.. i thought it was funny.. they just look a little girly for him...

Morgan and Elli are really the best of friends .. they just follow each other around

and its just the cutest thing

Morgan is our little 4 wheelin boy.. he just loves to sit on the 4 wheeler and make the sounds .. we just know we're in for it when he gets a little bigger!!!

I took Morgan on a little bike ride .. when I first put him in he was kicking and screaming as i buckled him up but once I got going he decided it wasn't so bad.. I'm looking forward to bike rides to come!!

The kids (we call Elli one of the kids now) just love it when Wes gets home from

work and jump all over him.. this is one of the pics.. Elli is just about to give

Morgan a big wet one!!

Morgan sweeping the driveway

rough morning

2009-05-06T14:12:00.000-07:00

So I think this is my first post w/ out a picture, but Wes thought I should wright this one down... Sunday morning Morgan decided to wake up at 6:45 which is WAY to early in my book ... for some reason he has felt the urge to wake up earlier and earlier yeah yesterday 5:30.... anyways back to the story ... so we go down stairs and start the morning routine (which I'm not fully awake for yet I'm just doing the motions.).. one of which is to let the dog out.. by this time it was 7:15 ... Wes goes to church at 6:00 bless him in his efforts.. he has a hard time w/ mornings too .. so I'm at home by myself and so I go outside w/ the dog and barley shut the door so Morgan doesn't come outside cause its still chilly... and the door latches... yeah I'm locked out and awake now... in my bath robe, bare feet and have to go to the bathroom bad (mistake for taking care of the dog first i guess), and last but not least Morgan in inside by himself.. and the gate on the stairs isn't up yet.. so i was freaking out!! For some reason we have not hidden a key since we have moved in over a year ago... and I'm really mad about in at that moment.. so i find a pair of Wes' mud boots that happen to be outside and I'm tromping around the house in my robe and big muddy boots with of course morning hair, luckily our neighbors can't see our house... so I'm trying to break in and go the back door and Morgan had turned on TV and was just standing there watching it.. so i lured him to the back of the house... so see if i could teach him how to unlock the door through the window.. didn't work.. he thought is was funny that i was stuck outside.. he played hide and seek w/ me for a while although he knew were i would be at the back door window!! He eventually got bored w/ that and moved on to the garage... i don't know how any other boys are.. but he loves loves the garage.. he would spend all day out there if we would let him so that's exactly what he did... Luckily we have windows in our garage door so i could still keep an eye on him ... I eventually had to go to the bathroom ...in the woods.. that was wonderful... Morgan was just busy w/ his fire truck and got in to dads tools.. it was pretty funny.. i would tap on the door.. "Morgan don't touch that".. he would just look at me and keep playing...so finally at 8:15 Wes showed up back at home to me sitting on a cooler in front of the garage.. i had finally gotten over the mad stage and was laughin' bout this silly incident... we showed up to church before the opening song can u believe it .. Wes was impressed... so anyways don't forget to have a spare key hidden .. just in case...

a little bit of dancing

2009-04-19T18:45:00.000-07:00

I caught a little of Morgan jamming out and it doesn't quite do it justice but it is soo stinkin cute... the reason i only got his back.. he would do anything to have the camera in his hands.. so we have to be sneaky

An addition to the family...

2009-04-14T22:45:00.000-07:00

No .. no.. not the kind of addition i have to be prego for.... this kind

she is soo cute... we brought her home on Saturday!! And so far soo good.. she is a perfect fit in out little family (so far!!) she is going to be such a good dog.. So the name.. not 100% sure yet but I've been calling her "elli" short for Duck Shot Benelli .. the whole purebred thing ya know.. anyone has an idea.. we are all up for it...
I have some funny pics.. shes only 8 weeks old so she still sleeps alot!!

this picture is soo cute.. she loves to cuddle up to Wes

Morgan wasn't quite sure at first but now he follows her around and bugs her while she trying to sleep.. he wants to play...he loves giving her hugs and taking her outside and really freaks out when it time to come in... i thought the terrible 2s weren't supposed to start until 2?! we have learned otherwise in the last week or so!! Anyways we love our new dog and look forward to been totally house broken... i can almost see it

just a few pics

2009-03-27T11:31:00.000-07:00

I know Morgan isn't the first child to go through a shoe phase.. but that is what he is in to these days.. i have a bunch of pics of him lately and he seems to either have a shoe on or is holding one, of course none of them are his... i just think its cute!!

Its been really warm (North Pole standards that is 35) here the past couple of

days so we tried to get outside.. he loves the 4 wheeler

We watched Olivia (Wes sisters little one) last weekend .. the cousins were so cute together.. (most of the time) this was one of those moments... they played in the toy corner really close together for awhile.. it was pretty cuteOur bother in law Garin was in a play last weekend, Cinderella. He was the prince.. it was pretty funny cause all the little kids wanted his autograph... i thought it was pretty funny so a had to capture the moment for him!!

This is the cutest of all... Sometimes Morgan waits for his dad to get home from work.. he just watches out the window.. and when his finally does come home he gets all excited he loves him soo much!!

Puppies!

2009-03-19T11:55:00.001-07:00

I really want to add to our little family... a puppy!? these are the ones

that we're looking at! They are 4 week old yellow labs... and soo cute...

who can say no to this face..

This is quite the debate in the family right now... Wes wants one but he doesn't if I could just get him to fall in love w/ one of these little guys or gals... this picture you might assume that the puppy won over his heart... that's what I thought too until we got home and there dog hair on his coat... we both grew up with dogs in the house so we do know they have their ups and down ... but a mans best friend ... i want one.. let me know what u guys think

2009-02-23T13:56:00.000-08:00

Way back when we first got snow we took morgan sledding in the yard and he was not a fan... so we took him out again .. its been soo warm... and this time he actually liked it.. he was laughing ohh it was soo cute he are a couple pics from the

afternoon outside

Isn't he just soo cute.... I really think he is the cutest thing out there!!!
A new thing that he just loves to do now is crawl up on the couch and just kick back and relax... its kinda nice he'll actually slow down for a few minutes but at the same time.. for a sec he kinda looks like a couch potato!! I think he learned that from his dad.. he is the champion at just kickin back... i love both of my little couch potatos!!

Wes had been busy...

2009-02-23T13:38:00.000-08:00

So the weather has been really good here latley so Wes has been taking advantage of all the new snow and going snow maching with some buddies... this is a video of him on a friends snow machine that is soo ridiculous you don't even know.. its called and apex w/ a charger on it and has 270 hsp... which in normal language ... too much for a snowmachine.. anyways so wes came home dreaming... of course... he said he felt like his snow machine was a child toy after he rode it...

Here's a picture of Summit.. its about 2 1/2 hrs away and is soo gorgeous as you can tell... You litterly feel like your on top of the world... places like this remind me why I live here... ( i need those reminders often especially in the winter) I was really bummed that I couldn't go... so i'm hoping next time we can find a baby sitter for the day!!

hawaii

2009-02-05T17:18:00.001-08:00

We went to Hawaii for 10 days in Jan. ... we had soo much fun together as a little family... it was kinda a last minute decision ... salcha electric donsn't have any work for a couple of months so he started work for miranda electric the day after we got back... he had a couple of weeks in between jobs... we're glad we decided to go... here's just a few of our adventures in paradise

Walking!!

2009-02-04T13:20:00.000-08:00

Morgan started walking about a month ago.. but just the last couple of days he is starting to take it more seriously... its just soo crazy how fast they grow up!! I love the noises he is making in this video!

Christmas Pictures

2009-01-07T12:31:00.000-08:00

We bought Morgan his new car seat for Chistmas ... it was soo funny how much he loves it... he loved taking the wraping paper off.. he has that down pat now... he loves the box we still have it out and he goes and takes his toys in there and plays.. soo cute!!

Chelsey, Joe & Morgan over at Gma Ronkens house for Christmas

This is a new outfit he got from Gma R and he loved the hood for some reason.. he even put up himself.. such a littl' cuttie

Gma & Gpa Price got him a new Tonka dump truck that is pretty fun... Wes pushes him around the house in the bed.... and he dosn't quite know what to think...

Merry Christmas everyone...I am THE worst at sending anything so my goal is... someday to send out cards...

Our little Christmas tree

2008-12-23T22:57:00.000-08:00

So we finally put up a tree.. our little one we have had since we got married ... We actually have room for a bigger one now... but i couln't fork over the $100 for a tree so I thought I would wait until after Christmas to buy one... So of course I had to break out the Christmas music while the decorating is going on ...much to Wes' dismay... Its funny.. he can only handle so much of it... I love it....

A couple of year ago I found some shot gun shell lights... so he had

to make sure Morgan checked them out....

We decided to put the tree on the counter so someone wouldn't get into

too much trouble and drive me nuts... and Wes just looks soo happy in this photo.. like Im making him be festive or something!!

Finally....

2008-11-30T20:47:00.001-08:00

So I'm finally getting to post some pictures... our computer is lame... so he's what we've been up to over the past little bit!!!

Morgan has this fetish with socks... so wierd right... but oh it is so cute... its like a security blanket almost.. but not bacuse he dosn't care what color or size it is.. he just loves socks!! He goes to the dirty clothes and will pull out socks and cart them around.. so cute!!

I got a kitchenaid mixer a couple of weeks ago and I really love it... its amazing how fast the mixing goes when its not by hand... and i got a really good deal!! So that was exciting

Wes' s brother Jeremy was into town for the election (he works for Congressman Don Young - which he won by the way!!) so we got to hang out with Jer.. he scored some points with Morgan with his blackerry.. anything electronic...

and my Dad came to town a couple of weeks ago so that was a fun weekend .. the grandpa grandson bonding was cute!! We were at a fashion show at Gottschalks that my granma Ronken was in... she is soo funny!!

So yeah nothing to really exciting here .. this week we go down to Utah for my sisters wedding.. So we'll be posint some pics from our fun little family trip!!

Spaghetti

2008-10-27T13:18:00.000-07:00

So last week I had the flew so Wes was on his own for dinner ... he mad speghetti for himself and morgan.. and man was it a hit... Morgan just loved it and really could not get enough of it... he no could toller picking the food up with his little fingers... so he picked up the plate and decided it might me faster and easier to eat of of it like so....

I guess Im one of those moms that loves taking pictures of the eating stages...

if you havn't noticed!! He's just so darn cute!!!

New Sled

2008-10-14T14:22:00.000-07:00

So I bought Morgan this cute little sled with a buckle and everything so

he won't fall out. He didn't know what to think at first... just soaking it all in ...

the snow and snowsuit (which he was soo cute in) .. and the sled
Wes pulled him around in the yard for a while
just when it looked like he was having fun ....
He decided that he had enough of being buckled in the little sled!!

SNOW!!

2008-10-02T17:08:00.000-07:00

Well its finally here ... I guess ... winter.. its not the first snow but you can defiantly tell its in the air now ...the big flakes were coming down and I just wanted to curl up under a blanket w/ hot chocolate next to the woodstove... well I tried to start a fire in our dang stove and it wouldn't start something about our house being to air tight(wes is working on some air thing to go to the woodstove)...efficient is the word... then I remembered we have hot chocolate but no mugs to put it in.. don't feel bad, we have them but unfortunately they are still packed from when we moved out to Salcha - 3 years ago ... we haven't had room for them anywhere until now and they are still in granmas basement!! uhh so sad so that killed my idea of enjoying the first snow... back to the cleaning and making dinner!!

Spear Fishing!!

2008-09-23T12:03:00.000-07:00

We went spear fishing last weekend w/ my cousin Chelsey and her hubby Joe it was thir first time! And only my second... it was soo fun... I know it sounds like back in the ice age or something but we ARE in Alaska where snow is already in the forcast!!

Joe speared the first fish of the night (and the most) and got me and

Chelsey even more determined to get one Yes, I speared this one right in the head!! oh the talentChelsey got the fatest one!
And here is our boat navigater... mighty fine job he did in directing us to the fish!!

2008-09-18T13:53:00.000-07:00

Wes worked in the yard last week trying to fix the

draining problem around the house... Morgan was helping out

Everyone now knows how much he loves popcicles

but this one was cute ... nice and blue left a stain around his mouth

for the rest of the night

new born pics

2008-09-05T12:19:00.001-07:00

I'm so excited .. i had to put these on .. I thought I had lost these pictures on a card.. so im excited to show them off... he was less one day old in these first two pics... his hands were so much bigger than the rest of his body... it was soo cute...
This WAS going to be our Christmas card but... you know how that works... didn't quite happen so Merry Late Christmas everyone!! He was 10 days old or so in this picture
We also tried to get a picture of the cousins in their little santa outfits, we got a couple but little Olivia was not too happy about it, anyways i still think that its cute.. you can just see the exprssion on his face as if he trying to tell her something!!

Its amazing how fast they grow up.. I can't beleive its already been 8 1/2 months... time flies

Our Labor Day

2008-09-05T11:45:00.000-07:00

We had a tough time deciding what to do for labor day weekend... Wes had a 4 day weekend so we were planing a big trip and at the last minute decided to not go through w/ it cause the $ thing and Wes brother was in town... so on Sunday afternoon we decide to do a one night little camp on the the Denali Hwy ... Morgan just loves the drivers seat... its as if he already knows what to do w/ the stearing wheel or something! This is just some of the scenery , its a good reminder for me.. why we do live here.. .
We went w/ wes' parents on our little jont... they had little Olivia w/ them so we had too little babies and their first adventure... it was interesting to say the least.. good thing they brought their camper other wise they would have froze and got eaten alive by the bugs... this was Dennis... stuck a couple of times!!
As you can see fall is definatley here ... its been on its way for awhile.. its just offical now... :(
Morgan always falls asleep on the boat!!

Happy Baby!!

2008-08-27T12:45:00.000-07:00

He is such a smiler.. i swear he knows your taking a picture and poses He just started waving the other day of course when you want to show it off he dosn't do but when you least expect it he does a cute little wave - i jsut happen to snap this one at the perfect ime... he is waving to granma Ronken

on all 4s

2008-08-27T12:20:00.000-07:00

This one is for granma in utah - this was almost

2 weeks ago so he is everywhere now

2008-08-18T22:24:00.000-07:00

Popsicles

2008-08-18T22:18:00.001-07:00

I know I've added alot latley but this was soo cute I had to show it off!!! He loves popsicles, he goes crazy... he really holds his mouth open like that until you put it in .. its the funniest thing
and then he's really happy and you can tell he might be having a sugar high
such a cute little guy

Chena Lake

2008-08-16T13:04:00.000-07:00

The sun finally appeared after it seems like a month of straight rain and miserable weather .. it was great so me and Donna decided to take a bike ride to Chena Lake .. I guess its about 6 miles rt or so.... Morgan was discovering grass... and thought is was pretty cool.. don't worry he had been around it before but never really that interested I bought him these cute little swim truncks and he finally got to show them off
After a fun day in the sun... he's taking a much neede nap!!

Our House

2008-08-16T12:58:00.000-07:00

There has been a couple of requests to see a picture of our house... the yard is a bit of a mess and you can see the boom truck that is on the side of the house which was supposed to be gone a long time ago... that one thing about building our oun house no yeard unitl we can afford it .. so maybe next year maybe in like 3 who knows... so the big window in front is the small little living room and the window uptop on the left is the spare bedroom for now(that is filled w/ misc stuff) the 2 windows above the garage is our lovly master suite that we both absolutly love ... anyways we love our little home and still can't beilive that we finally have one after all the hard work..... and are excited for anyone who wants to come and visit!!

Fair 2008

2008-08-07T12:18:00.000-07:00

Morgan just loves animals so we took him to see all the

farm animals and just loved it

This was so funny he really didn't know what to think of the pig sniffin his hand and snortin
Every year a country singer comes to the fair and I go and turn it to a little groupie or something like that this is my 5th year.. guess it kinda a tradition now... this year it was Steve Holy ... he not as cute as Joe Nichols but he was a riot... he was funny and man does he's got moves... last year I got a sweat towel from Emerson Drive and what do ya know ... I got one this year too!!
Theres the gang that went Kaylene, Dawn, Granma Ovie, Katrina and Donna... I think Dawn and I are converting Donna to country slowly but surly... when Dawn & I finally got brave enough to go up to the stage (on the last song)- fairbanks is different like that everyone sits and listens so running up to stage or anything crazy-i turned around and Donna was right there with us dancing away havin a good time at the COUNTRY concert!!!

cookies!

2008-08-04T12:28:00.000-07:00

We stated feeding him biscuts a couple of weeks ago.. and he loves them.. as you can see

Bath Time

2008-07-22T16:14:00.000-07:00

The first few months Morgan didn't quite know what to think of the bath; now you stick him in the jacuzzi with the jets going and just can't get enough of it!! Especially the little red cup that he hates to let go of!!

Bunnies!

2008-07-22T16:07:00.000-07:00

A gal that I work with raises bunnies and brought a bunny into work the other day... he loves them!! He gets alexcited and wants to just ripe their ears off!! Thats my cousin Chelsey holding Morgan.. he loves her too!!

July 4th pt 2

2008-07-08T13:05:00.000-07:00

Trying to keep Morgan out of the direct sun... he burns way easyDawn!!
We have a sleeper!!
Logan & Mitch tubin
I think he was tired or something!

4th of July weekend

2008-07-08T12:28:00.000-07:00

Wes & Logan in the freezing cold Harding Lake... so I was told!
Logan at the top of the Iceberg
Chillin on the bank ... Wes is trying to get rid of the nice

farmers tan that hes got goin on

Garin & Katrina decided to swim across... they're braver than me
Can hardly tell but Wes is on the jetski pulling Logan on the tube .. on the river!!

Guess it was a thrill!!

We just luv Morgan

2008-07-08T12:18:00.000-07:00

Granma Ronken & Morgan
Chelsey & Morgan ... he just loves the fish at the office, he tries to grab them at the glass!
We bought Morgan a helmet for the boat, when we go

up the river and whatever... so cute

I just thought this was such a cute picture
He's growing up so fast, he thinks he want s to crawl... hes on all fours and rocks back

and forth but dosn't get anywhere yet!!

2008-07-08T12:13:00.000-07:00

Here are cousins, they are so cute!! They are wearing matching outfits for a

Fathers Day picture for granpa Price!

2008-07-08T12:02:00.000-07:00

Here was our first bike trip of the summer, Morgan Loved it! He slept just about the whole time!!
Wes workin on the trim for the house!
Logan & Morgan on the first trip up the Salcha in our new boat!! Arnt they so cute!
Heres my boys... 4 wheelin... takin it slow of course

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

Here is a video of Morgan at 6 1/2 months.

June 2008

2008-07-07T20:38:00.000-07:00

Here is some pictures of what we have been up to so far this summer!