Sunday, January 8, 2012
I am finally back!
wow it has been a long but manageable year and a half without Internet but Santa finally decided to turn it on for me this year!It has been an amazing year and I had my beautiful, HEALTHY little boy on Sept 29. His name is Keaton James Tindall and weighed 6lbs. 9oz and was 19in long. By his 2 month apt he was 11lbs 13oz and 20 1/2 in long. He was sleeping 8 hours at 8 weeks old and slept 11 hours at 2 1/2 months old. I know I am super lucky and he is such an amazing little man! He is now 3 months old and weighs close to 16 lbs. His 4 month will be here in a few weeks and I will know for sure, but he is healthy and strong and very calm and peaceful. Mikaela LOVES him to death and is the best big sister to him. She is always willing to make Keaton smile and help with his bath and even change his diaper! I know, I have my kids trained lol. Mikaela turned 3 on November 17th and she is such a smart and beautiful 3 year old. She loves to sing and talk and make people laugh, sound like anyone ... She may look like her Daddy, but she is a mini me and I love it! She is so independent and will make you smile. I love her amazing spirit and love being able to stay at home with her and be her best friend. I went to work this past Saturday for the first time since I had Keaton and Jacob was able to stay home with the kids so I worked almost 10 hours and missed my kiddo's but was very grateful for the break. Poor Keaton does not like bottles or Binky's so he was having a hard time eating and sleeping which in turn made Jacob's day a lot longer, but we got through it and hopefully we can try again another time but only for 4 or 5 hours this next time lol. I have a lot of Beautiful new born pictures of my little man and I am so glad the delivery worked out this time. All the stress is over and I can enjoy my babies now :) I hope you all enjoy the pictures!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Florida 2010
So Jacob's family decided to go on a trip! I couldn't believe it when they said they wanted to go to Florida! It was a lot of fun and a lot of stuff in 8 days, but very much worth it. We took the red eye to Orlando on some day I don't even remember cause it was all a blur to me :). After we got in at 11 am we rented a charger cause it was the nicest car there and of course I have to look hot in my car :), then from that point on it was a lot of visiting family of Jacob's Dad because he is from Florida and then we checked out his dad's houses he lived in, that was kind of creepy and his dad kept saying "this neighborhood has changed alot." lol like in a BAD way lol and Jake was just laughing at me cause I am this little white girl from Sandy, UT and have never been to a creepy place in my life lol. So dumb I know lol anyway It was interesting to see his cute, old aunts and some cousins and his Uncle is a Baptist preacher(?) so we went to his church and that was cool :)
We had 3 or 4 different hotel stays and the first was at cocoa beach I think which was amazing! The beach was maybe a quarter mile from our door and we went there almost every night to boogie board and skim board (which I suck at lol) and then the best thing in the world happened to me one night when the family took a little stroll down the beach which ended up being about 4 miles lol and guess what I saw!!!!! I freaking sea turtle coming up on the beach to lay her eggs! I am pretty sure it was the coolest thing ever since I love sea turtles so much! What made me mad though were these beach bum punks that scared her back into the water! I was so mad, but I was blessed to see her at least once, well twice cause we saw her come back out of the water 30 min later, but anyway it was awesome.
Another sweet memory that I totally recommend is going down the Crystal River. I think that is what it was called anyway and it is this fresh water river that you can tube down, we had Jacob's Uncle Eddie come with us and he is so cool. He lives in Florida so I never met him, but I would talk to him on the phone on Thanksgiving and he sounded so fun so I couldn't wait to meet him. When I finally did meet him he was better than I thought! So chill and down to earth and really good looking like the rest of the Tindall family. Anyway Uncle Eddie hooked us up with a couple of rafts and coolers to put food in and then for 4 hours, yep 4, we just floated down this river and I got the BEST tan ever!!! It was so much fun and so relaxing, just total awesomeness!
Another day we went to the Tindall cemetery and ball park. Ya I am kinda married to a famous name in Florida, cool huh? lol the cemetery is family owned and it is all pure white sand! I might just get buried there :). We did a little service project and cleaned down the granite stones and weeded the family plot and made it all pretty again. It was a better project than anticipating to do at 10 in the morning in 100% humidity and I think it was 95 degrees lol.
I am sure I am forgetting some things or a lot of things and I will update with the names of Jacob's great aunts and the rest of the family cause I will probably never meet them again so it would be nice to remember them and pictures because I got a ton of them. It was a great trip and very tiring. Kind of one of those trips that you need a trip from :) had a great time and was grateful to bond with the Tindall family. I love you guys! Thanks for putting up with me :)
We had 3 or 4 different hotel stays and the first was at cocoa beach I think which was amazing! The beach was maybe a quarter mile from our door and we went there almost every night to boogie board and skim board (which I suck at lol) and then the best thing in the world happened to me one night when the family took a little stroll down the beach which ended up being about 4 miles lol and guess what I saw!!!!! I freaking sea turtle coming up on the beach to lay her eggs! I am pretty sure it was the coolest thing ever since I love sea turtles so much! What made me mad though were these beach bum punks that scared her back into the water! I was so mad, but I was blessed to see her at least once, well twice cause we saw her come back out of the water 30 min later, but anyway it was awesome.
Another sweet memory that I totally recommend is going down the Crystal River. I think that is what it was called anyway and it is this fresh water river that you can tube down, we had Jacob's Uncle Eddie come with us and he is so cool. He lives in Florida so I never met him, but I would talk to him on the phone on Thanksgiving and he sounded so fun so I couldn't wait to meet him. When I finally did meet him he was better than I thought! So chill and down to earth and really good looking like the rest of the Tindall family. Anyway Uncle Eddie hooked us up with a couple of rafts and coolers to put food in and then for 4 hours, yep 4, we just floated down this river and I got the BEST tan ever!!! It was so much fun and so relaxing, just total awesomeness!
Another day we went to the Tindall cemetery and ball park. Ya I am kinda married to a famous name in Florida, cool huh? lol the cemetery is family owned and it is all pure white sand! I might just get buried there :). We did a little service project and cleaned down the granite stones and weeded the family plot and made it all pretty again. It was a better project than anticipating to do at 10 in the morning in 100% humidity and I think it was 95 degrees lol.
I am sure I am forgetting some things or a lot of things and I will update with the names of Jacob's great aunts and the rest of the family cause I will probably never meet them again so it would be nice to remember them and pictures because I got a ton of them. It was a great trip and very tiring. Kind of one of those trips that you need a trip from :) had a great time and was grateful to bond with the Tindall family. I love you guys! Thanks for putting up with me :)
Thursday, January 27, 2011
I am back!!!
whoo hoo I havent had internet for 7 months! In a way I am grateful because I learned I can manage without it, but I truely missed blogging! I am not quite sure how I will attatch pitures to this yet beacause I am watching 5 kidsfor the next week and a half and I am staying at their home with my Mikaela so ya 6 kids :). They have internet so I now have access for a week and a half and I have a lot to do lol
Well according to my blog the last thing was about remodeling the house. . . that happened 7 months ago and I do have pictures to show and will get them up sometime :) so during demolition of my house we remodeled my kitchen and bathroom and did tons of yard work. I started my very own garden and put 5 rows of corn, 4 tomato plants, 3 zuccini plant, 2 rows of carrotts, and I think that is it. From my tomatoe plants I made about 50 jars of homemade salsa all season long. It was so delicous and it seemed like my husband ate them faster than I could make them lol. My corn was delicious as well and we took it on our Bear Lake trip in August of 2010.
In September of 2010 Jacob found a beautiful german shepheard mix puppy that we adopted. We named her Bella and when we got her she was 4 months old soshe is now 8 months and a healthy 40 pounds now I am hoping she doubles her size because I like big dogs, but she is at a great height now and she cant reach her head over the kitchen table yet lol.
The house has been amazing and my neighbors and ward are wonderful. There are 12 kids in the culdisac that we live in and the kids are 11 years old to 2 which is my Mikaela and she LOVES her friends! She has such a great personality and she will love everyine and cares for everyone and just wants people to laugh and have fun. I know, I know she is a mini me right ? lol I just L.O.V.E. that girl. I seriously love everything about her from her cute curly hair to her stobborn ways. She is an awesome daughter already and I cant wait to see how she as she gets older. She always wants to help clean which is an added bonus ;) I can't believe she is 2 already time has flown by so fast she is now in a toddler bed and thinks it is the best thing in the world, next step potty train and NO binkis! lol wish me luck.
My amazing husband Jacob is still at Discover Card doing everyone else's job and still seems to manage to go back with a smile. I dont know how he does it but he is amazing and I know his employees love being around his fun care free attitude. He is so awesome and I am so grateful for his hardwork and dedication to my little family to keep us happy. He would do anything in the world for me and I believe that. He loves his sweet little girl and I am happy to say he is FINALLY going to a morning shift so we can see him for more than 4 hours a day!!!!! whoo hoo! It seems like I have been waiting for this answer to my prayers for. . . let's see we have been married for almost 6 years in May so... yep almost 4 years :) I am SO EXCITED can you tell!
Jacob and I have been so blessed. I love our life and where we are right now. I love that we have a home and little girl, a dog and I can be a stay at home mom for my sweet Mikaela. We are so lucky and I am grateful to my Heavenly Father for giving us all the beautiful and wonderful blessings in our lives. I have definetly learned about patience and have a true testimony of it as well. A lot of wonderful things have come to Jacob and I because of our patience and our Love for the savior. I cant believe how much my testimony grows and the new things I find I have testimony of by other people's example. I am grateful for my independence and of who I am and that I dont need to please anyone, but myself and Jacob. I am poud to bare my testimony to others in need of it and hope it helps others. Thank you all for the examples you are to me and for helping me be who I am. I love my beautiful family. I love my parents and siblings and for the lessons they continue to teach me in life. My lifeis amazing and I hope other's that read this can say the same about their own lives! Happy 2011!
Well according to my blog the last thing was about remodeling the house. . . that happened 7 months ago and I do have pictures to show and will get them up sometime :) so during demolition of my house we remodeled my kitchen and bathroom and did tons of yard work. I started my very own garden and put 5 rows of corn, 4 tomato plants, 3 zuccini plant, 2 rows of carrotts, and I think that is it. From my tomatoe plants I made about 50 jars of homemade salsa all season long. It was so delicous and it seemed like my husband ate them faster than I could make them lol. My corn was delicious as well and we took it on our Bear Lake trip in August of 2010.
In September of 2010 Jacob found a beautiful german shepheard mix puppy that we adopted. We named her Bella and when we got her she was 4 months old soshe is now 8 months and a healthy 40 pounds now I am hoping she doubles her size because I like big dogs, but she is at a great height now and she cant reach her head over the kitchen table yet lol.
The house has been amazing and my neighbors and ward are wonderful. There are 12 kids in the culdisac that we live in and the kids are 11 years old to 2 which is my Mikaela and she LOVES her friends! She has such a great personality and she will love everyine and cares for everyone and just wants people to laugh and have fun. I know, I know she is a mini me right ? lol I just L.O.V.E. that girl. I seriously love everything about her from her cute curly hair to her stobborn ways. She is an awesome daughter already and I cant wait to see how she as she gets older. She always wants to help clean which is an added bonus ;) I can't believe she is 2 already time has flown by so fast she is now in a toddler bed and thinks it is the best thing in the world, next step potty train and NO binkis! lol wish me luck.
My amazing husband Jacob is still at Discover Card doing everyone else's job and still seems to manage to go back with a smile. I dont know how he does it but he is amazing and I know his employees love being around his fun care free attitude. He is so awesome and I am so grateful for his hardwork and dedication to my little family to keep us happy. He would do anything in the world for me and I believe that. He loves his sweet little girl and I am happy to say he is FINALLY going to a morning shift so we can see him for more than 4 hours a day!!!!! whoo hoo! It seems like I have been waiting for this answer to my prayers for. . . let's see we have been married for almost 6 years in May so... yep almost 4 years :) I am SO EXCITED can you tell!
Jacob and I have been so blessed. I love our life and where we are right now. I love that we have a home and little girl, a dog and I can be a stay at home mom for my sweet Mikaela. We are so lucky and I am grateful to my Heavenly Father for giving us all the beautiful and wonderful blessings in our lives. I have definetly learned about patience and have a true testimony of it as well. A lot of wonderful things have come to Jacob and I because of our patience and our Love for the savior. I cant believe how much my testimony grows and the new things I find I have testimony of by other people's example. I am grateful for my independence and of who I am and that I dont need to please anyone, but myself and Jacob. I am poud to bare my testimony to others in need of it and hope it helps others. Thank you all for the examples you are to me and for helping me be who I am. I love my beautiful family. I love my parents and siblings and for the lessons they continue to teach me in life. My lifeis amazing and I hope other's that read this can say the same about their own lives! Happy 2011!
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Yard work and Remodeling :)
Can I just tell you that I love having a Yard now! I am not living there which is lame, but it is still mine and I can do whatever I want to it! I have beautiful roses that are in bloom all along the front of my home and HUGE lilac bushes on the side over a gate that is completely covered. So I have projects to do all summer long and a lawn that needs to be manicured and a garden that needs to be eaten :)
I mowed the lawn for the first time since we had the home last wed and it took me about 2 hours to complete it and 17 loads of grass. I know that it will probably get old real fast which is why I am doing this now while I am still excited about it! Mikaela just sits like an angel in the pack n play out in the shade with her sippy and food and toys the whole time! I couldnt believe she was just hangin out! She is going to love playin in the yard with me and takin naps after! We have quite a few stray cats around our home and one cat had a liter of kittens but I found 2 on the lawn that didnt make it and it is sad to watch her come around and keep searching for them. Mikaela loves all the "kitty cats" and she screams at the top of her lungs when she sees one and she scares it off lol so funny! We have adopted one and named her tiger lily cuz she is gray with black tiger stripes but we dont feed her or pet her cuz we dont really like cats ha ha ha, but it entertains mikaela til we can get a puppy then we wont have cats around anymore :)
Jacob and my dad went up last Saturday and worked on the demolition of the kitchen and one of the metal sheds in the back yard. I am so glad they finished so we can move in the new kitchen next week and then move home!!! It will be wonderful to live there! I am guessing we will be done with the remodeling by the 12th and move in on the 14th YAY for moving!
I mowed the lawn for the first time since we had the home last wed and it took me about 2 hours to complete it and 17 loads of grass. I know that it will probably get old real fast which is why I am doing this now while I am still excited about it! Mikaela just sits like an angel in the pack n play out in the shade with her sippy and food and toys the whole time! I couldnt believe she was just hangin out! She is going to love playin in the yard with me and takin naps after! We have quite a few stray cats around our home and one cat had a liter of kittens but I found 2 on the lawn that didnt make it and it is sad to watch her come around and keep searching for them. Mikaela loves all the "kitty cats" and she screams at the top of her lungs when she sees one and she scares it off lol so funny! We have adopted one and named her tiger lily cuz she is gray with black tiger stripes but we dont feed her or pet her cuz we dont really like cats ha ha ha, but it entertains mikaela til we can get a puppy then we wont have cats around anymore :)
Jacob and my dad went up last Saturday and worked on the demolition of the kitchen and one of the metal sheds in the back yard. I am so glad they finished so we can move in the new kitchen next week and then move home!!! It will be wonderful to live there! I am guessing we will be done with the remodeling by the 12th and move in on the 14th YAY for moving!
Monday, May 10, 2010
Lovin life!
So Life is great! I knew that the year 2010 would be a great one, but I never knew how great so now that it is May I can tell you the first 4 months have been FAB!
Firstly baby is healthy and is so smart! She learns about 3 new words or sounds or tricks a day, she has all her teeth except 2 year molars and she loves having teeth, she is the best happy girl ever!!! I LOVE being with her and being able to spend all my time and energy on her. She is down to only 1 nap a day now so we have time to do stuff in the morning and takes a nap then we have the afternoon too. I am so blessed to have such a beautiful and happy baby girl that loves kids and dogs and people and most foods :) I am a very proud mom.
Secondly I got a little side job at Magnolia Grove Reception Center and I am working every other Saturday and love it! It is so much fun spending time with the beautiful new bride and seeing that young love all over again! I just want to take it home with me :) It is fun being on the wedding consultant side and helping engaged couples pick colors and cakes and invites. I love planning my wedding and I am hoping I can make it just as fun for the people I am helping.
Next is the new home!!!!!! L.O.V.E this idea! I cant stop thinking about colors and how to decorate and planting my garden or water flowers and eventually getting an adorable puppy for my girl! ok me too :) I am not gonna lie about the game of house hunting.. It is a nightmare and I am glad it is over with and we sign papers next week, but at the same time it is a humbling time because you see tons of homes and for me I would pretty much wait for a feeling to come that would inspire us to look at the home or maybe not even spend our time looking at it. We did come close to getting a home off 6200 S and Bangeter, but 8 days before our closing date there had been 40k of Fraudulent Liens on the home that out title company found and we are so grateful they found it or else we would have inherited the 40 k and that would have been miserable, and now we get a beautiful little rambler in Lehi and we can live there forever. I am grateful for trials and blessings we receive in our lives.
Summer has lots of fun plans for us... I have my bike ride on the 5th of June and my cousin have made it to 30 miles a day now and go 4 times a week except for the rainy days :) so we are doing great for only having 2 months to prepare and I am super excited to do it. If I could I would make road biking my new hobby :) FLORIDA is only 90 days away!!! I cant wait for the beach, it has been far to long since I have been able to smell and touch the ocean. I am so excited to spend time with Jacob's family! I love his family so much! They are always laughing and making fun of themselves and I love being with them because they make me happy. It will be great to spend a week with them without baby, but I will miss her so much!
That has been the last 4 months excitement and there are many more to come! I cant wait!
Firstly baby is healthy and is so smart! She learns about 3 new words or sounds or tricks a day, she has all her teeth except 2 year molars and she loves having teeth, she is the best happy girl ever!!! I LOVE being with her and being able to spend all my time and energy on her. She is down to only 1 nap a day now so we have time to do stuff in the morning and takes a nap then we have the afternoon too. I am so blessed to have such a beautiful and happy baby girl that loves kids and dogs and people and most foods :) I am a very proud mom.
Secondly I got a little side job at Magnolia Grove Reception Center and I am working every other Saturday and love it! It is so much fun spending time with the beautiful new bride and seeing that young love all over again! I just want to take it home with me :) It is fun being on the wedding consultant side and helping engaged couples pick colors and cakes and invites. I love planning my wedding and I am hoping I can make it just as fun for the people I am helping.
Next is the new home!!!!!! L.O.V.E this idea! I cant stop thinking about colors and how to decorate and planting my garden or water flowers and eventually getting an adorable puppy for my girl! ok me too :) I am not gonna lie about the game of house hunting.. It is a nightmare and I am glad it is over with and we sign papers next week, but at the same time it is a humbling time because you see tons of homes and for me I would pretty much wait for a feeling to come that would inspire us to look at the home or maybe not even spend our time looking at it. We did come close to getting a home off 6200 S and Bangeter, but 8 days before our closing date there had been 40k of Fraudulent Liens on the home that out title company found and we are so grateful they found it or else we would have inherited the 40 k and that would have been miserable, and now we get a beautiful little rambler in Lehi and we can live there forever. I am grateful for trials and blessings we receive in our lives.
Summer has lots of fun plans for us... I have my bike ride on the 5th of June and my cousin have made it to 30 miles a day now and go 4 times a week except for the rainy days :) so we are doing great for only having 2 months to prepare and I am super excited to do it. If I could I would make road biking my new hobby :) FLORIDA is only 90 days away!!! I cant wait for the beach, it has been far to long since I have been able to smell and touch the ocean. I am so excited to spend time with Jacob's family! I love his family so much! They are always laughing and making fun of themselves and I love being with them because they make me happy. It will be great to spend a week with them without baby, but I will miss her so much!
That has been the last 4 months excitement and there are many more to come! I cant wait!
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