Catch up

Valentines Day!


Royce and Lena are so cute! Such fun little friends! Having Lena here is so fun and very good for Royce.

Reyn Surprised me with this beautiful delicious Edible Arrangement for V-day :) I made tortilla soup which was so good ;) Good job babe!

Royce helped me make Valentines cards for the kids in Joy School they had a Valentines day party! SO cute! (The hearts are Royce's hands I traced them and then glued them together, I also had him color the pictures on the front)

I also had Royce help me make Valentines cards for his cousins and for grandma Gunnell.

CRAFTS

I learned how to make this bead bracelet! :) I lOVE IT! I have made 3 more since learning. I still haven't gotten them down yet, but I am learning.

I made this Purse photo book for Jill the gal I babysit for.

El Charro

Royce and his cousin Ridge sharing grandma Ellen's soda! (notice Royce's black eye :(, it was there for a good week and a half, the worst he has gotten ever!) *Royce tripped and fell in our closet and hit the shoe rack, instant black eye! I felt so bad. But it seems to be all better now.

COOKIES

Royce helped me make cookies for the super bowl party we had. He dipped his dinosaur tail in the dough and was licking it off.

Sunrise - Reyn and my dad coming down the slopes :)

BACK TO THE SUPER BOWL PARTY - pics got out of order haha.

Reyn and Royce enjoying some IBC cream soda.

All the kids were sent to the AZ room to watch Toy Story 3. They all had such a great time together, running around, playing, watching tv, eating......! It was a blast for the kids. We had AMAZING food too!

ROYCE LOVE THE PIANO AND MUSIC AND DANCING AND SINGING! - I've only got a piano picture to post though.

Trying to reach the pedals and play at the same time. Royce loves his music!

Collage post

We went up to Globe to visit Grannie and help her clean her house. She was so excited to teach us how to tie this quilt her way. We had a very enjoyable time with her. I love that we can take the time to spend with her. She is a very special lady! I love to sit and visit with her.

Royce LOVES to wear his daddy's shoes! He wears them all the time. He just wants to be like his daddy :)

We went up to Lakeside this last weekend. Reyn went skiing and Royce and I stayed back and hung out with my mom, Donny and Hannah. Royce loves it up there. Donny builds him blanket forts and plays basket ball with him. Hannah is great with him and plays whatever he wants to play. It was a quick and enjoyable trip.

Yesterday Royce and I went to the Zoo with a good friend and her 2 little boys. We had a lot of fun visiting and showing the boys all the animals. Royce really got into this time. He would say all the animal sounds and try to say the animal names for me. Thank you Marisa for the invite. We had a great time! :)

Catch up/random

I got a camera for Christmas! I needed one so bad! I have been using the camera on my phone for so long! But I finally got one from Doug and Ellen! (well on my christmas tag it said "to heidi love Ashton" haha) yay! I LOVE IT! Hopefully I will have better posts now. Because I have a great camera to capture the moments :)

So one night Reyn was getting all the groceries out of his car and Royce was in and out helping him. Well Reyn came in and Royce didn't so Reyn went back outside to get Royce. And he wasn't outside! And he wasn't in the garage! Reyn started to look harder and he realized that the door was shut to his car. Reyn looked in and Royce was behind the wheel! Royce climbed in the passenger side and shut the door. And was having a blast checking out all the buttons in his daddy's car. So Reyn ran inside and got me and we both got in the car. We let Royce play for probably 5 minutes. He threw a huge fit when it was time to get out. Little stinker! He LOVES cars!

Royce pushing all the buttons he could in Reyn's car.

Our truck hit 50,000 miles in Dec! I wanted to get a picture of it right when it hit 50,000. But we missed it by a mile lol. I still wanted a picture. Our truck has been so good to us the last 2 plus years.

This is just a random sign on a car. I was coming out of Hobby Lobby with Mom Ellen and this was parked by her car.

I know it is weird I took a picture of these flowers on my floor. But I wanted to get a good view of them. They are so pretty! Reyn got them for me when I was having a hard time. He is a great hubby :)

This picture is Royce and his cousin Ridge! They have their good days where they like each other and get along. So I had to capture it on camera to prove it. Most of the time Royce runs from Ridge and doesn't want anything to do with him. But this day he really enjoyed Ridge's company.

This is his new bedding he got for Christmas. When we first put it all on he wanted to stay in his room. He sat on his bed for probably 15 mins. He is very happy with his new bedding and his bed!

We just used the bedding from Royce's crib until Christmas came. He loves his new bed. :)

Also in November Reyn surprised both Royce and I with this new car bed for Royce :) Reyn was looking at all the car beds on Craigslist and showing me all the different ones. Then he showed me this one and asked me what I thought. I told him I liked it and he said "good, because it is in our garage right now"

I didn't get the whole thing covered in powdered sugar before I took the picture. But you get the idea, it was soo good ;)

This was the delicious pumpkin roll! For my first time making it, I'd say it was AMAZING!

Royce was helping me put the powdered sugar on the towel. He loved eating the powdered sugar too.

This is the pureed pumpkin, it was just barely enough for the recipe of the pumpkin roll.

So back in November I decided to take the small pumpkin we had from Halloween and chop it apart. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be. I think I was chopping and peeling and chopping and more peeling for a good hour! My hands were sore and cut up haha. I know I am a wimp. I just told Reyn that we were going to eat that pumpkin so I was determined to do just that. haha.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Papa got Royce a fire truck! Royce LOVES it! It will stay in Lakeside though because I have no where to put it here. And Royce doesn't understand how to ride it yet.

But he loved to sit in it and get pushed around. And he would put his sippy cups in the back.

Cars geo track set from Gma and gpa Gunnell! Royce loves Cars and he loves trains! Best of both worlds!

Royce got a car bed a while back. And we got him Cars Bedding! He loves it!

Every year I try to get a picture of Royce in front of the tree. Well this year he wouldn't let me do the regular sit in the rocking chair picture. Instead he was showing me the mouse he made at Joy School. And when I tried to get him to sit down in the rocking chair he yelled at me. SO no rocking chair picture this year.

We had a wonderful Christmas! We started our Christmas morning opening our gifts at our house. Then we went to Reyn's parents house for the family Christmas gathering. Which is always so nice! WE have a big breakfast and all the family is there. It is a great time :) WE did get pretty spoiled this year. After the Gunnell family Christmas we then drove up to Lakeside for the Borrego Christmas! We really enjoyed our time up there. The whole family was there too! It is just so wonderful to be surrounded by family. WE had a great dinner up there and opened our presents. WE got lots of great things up there too. We are so very blessed with great families. We didn't have a white Christmas though, it snowed after we left. I do like a white Christmas, but I do not like being cold. Royce loved hanging out with uncle Donny and Aunt Hannah. They are so good with him. I am so grateful for our wonderful families. They both take such good care of us. WE hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. And we get to welcome in 2011! SO HAPPY NEW YEAR also! Where does the time go?! Seriously ?!

These are the pictures we had taken a while back

We had Riguel Uvaldo take our pictures of us. It was mainly pictures of Royce. We didn't get many of the family. But it was pretty much Royce's photo day. Riguel spent 2 hours with us. And was so patient with us. Royce was ALL over the place! Getting him to sit still for a picture was a joke haha. But Riguel did a great job at keeping up with him. And chasing him around to get the perfect pictures! I am very happy with how they all turned out. This is just a few of them. Now I just need to get them printed so I can display them in our house! We are very pleased with Riguel's work. Thanks so much :)

Halloween 2010

here is our cute little wolfman! I finally got Royce to wear this costume. But there was some bribery used. I had to give him tic tacs and mints. But I did manage to get some very cute pictures of our guy! We love Royce so much! He brings us so much joy! We are very grateful to have him in our lives!