Eric, Karlie, Riot, & Tayvia

2009-11-10T08:45:00.000-08:00

My baby is 7 months today.

2009-10-20T18:13:00.000-07:00

Happy October. Here's some pics from Tayvia's 6 month birthday, also some halloween pics. Riot is a UPS guy and Tayvia is kind of a cat.

2009-10-06T17:56:00.000-07:00

Riot's new favorite thing is Pumpkins, so we went down to a place by our house to pick out a few for him. Here's a few pics.

2009-09-28T12:03:00.000-07:00

I just love how much my kids love eachother. I love how Riot is so helpful, always making sure Tayvia has her binky when she's sad or blowing on her belly to make her laugh. I just love these two so much. Riot loves reading to her and she just thinks he so smart and great. I love it!!! Saturday we had a shower for Alexa at my house. It turned out great. She got tons of good stuff and got to move all of it into her new place.

2009-09-21T14:17:00.000-07:00

Penny's pups are getting big so fast and both the kids just love them, they are the perfect size for them to hold and love. I just love fall and everything to do with it, I couldn't resist I just had to put the kids in their matching Halloween pj's. Aren't they cute though?? I've been super busy doing pics for Zach and Alexa's wedding. Here is a little peek at some of the pics. They are just so cute.

2009-09-03T13:25:00.001-07:00

I just love this kid!!

2009-09-01T17:11:00.000-07:00

Its always sad when summer is coming to an end it feels like everyday we better get out and do something because soon we will be stuck inside. I do love fall though. We are so glad the Toone's are home. We went to Ryan's park to play with Alex, Riot loves playing with other kids. Penny had her puppies. One boy and one girl, they are so tiny and cute. Her last litter I was so stressed about her having them, I helped her with everything cutting the sacks open and cutting their cords. This time we went to cold stone for ice cream Saturday night and came home and she had them both and everything was all done and good. She is such a good little mommy. It just amazes me that animals know exactly what to do. If anyone is wanting a little Yorkie let me know we are selling the female and I think Eric's brother is keeping the male. Yea! for dogs.

2009-08-11T15:01:00.000-07:00

This weekend was the Phipps family reunion. We had lots of fun, ate alot, went to bear lake and to swim and boat for the day.

2009-08-01T17:09:00.000-07:00

My boys

2009-07-29T15:41:00.001-07:00

We just love summer so much. We joined sports academy a couple months ago. It has been great, we love swimming at the pool. Riot really loves the water and Tayvia loves kicking her little feet in the pool as well.

2009-07-22T10:52:00.000-07:00

Just some pics from the John reunion and other random pics of the kids and dogs.

2009-07-08T16:15:00.000-07:00

We had a great 4th. My little brother Zach proposed to his girlfriend Alexa on the 3rd. It was so cute. Riot and I went to Hogle Zoo with them on Monday. Riot had so much fun looking at all the animals.

2009-07-03T14:56:00.000-07:00

Happy 4th!

2009-06-22T16:51:00.000-07:00

We had the Foy family reunion this week. The weather was so rainy so I didn't get many pictures. Riot had lots of fun with all the cousins, he doesn't care if its rainy. Penny is in heat again so now I have 3 kids in diapers, yeah!! She gets real sad having to wear it so Riot sits in her bed with her and kisses her and hugs her, its so cute. So I guess we will have more pups coming in a couple months.

2009-06-16T15:44:00.000-07:00

We had a big weekend. Eric's sister Jen baptized their boy Drew on Saturday and be blessed Tayvia on Sunday. Eric's parents came from Montana and Eric's brother and his fam came from bountiful. Lots of kids!! We had fun. Eric's mom and dad stayed the night at our house the first night, Eric's mom is the nicest lady. She wanted to stay up with the baby and feed her so I was so excited to sleep through the night. She rubbed her feet before she went to bed and little miss Tayvia decided to sleep through the night as well. She slept till 8:30. I was so happy so we rubb her feet before she goes to bed and she sleeps through the night. What a spoiled little thing she already is. But if she sleeps I will do anything. Anyway Eric's parents stayed till Monday afternoon so we got to spend lots of time with them. The blessing was great and we got to see lots of family and eat lots of food. Thanks to everyone for helping.

2009-06-01T13:44:00.001-07:00

My baby's growing. Its really a bitter sweet. I love how she looks right now and how sweet she is but I love kids. Riot is so much fun right now. He loves outside, he really loves our yard, lots to explore. I've been working on all our flower beds. It seems like we have a million , at the last house I could barely keep one looking nice now I have so many I get them all done then the first one needs help again. The joys of having a big yard.
Our neighbors have chickens and they are always at ours house. One of them had babies and she made a home for them right under our bush. They were so cute but a real pain. She would scratch all the bark out of my flower beds. She finally made her way back home. Thank goodness!! We had a yard sell on Saturday, it was great to get rid of so much junk we had stored in the garage and shed. I can't believe what crap people buy. I was glad to see everything go and make some money as well.

2009-05-09T16:49:00.001-07:00

Thanks Grandpa for the basketball hoop and balls!!

2009-05-07T14:22:00.001-07:00

Here's alot of pics for everyone

2009-04-29T12:32:00.000-07:00

Here's some new pics of the babe. Life has been crazy with two kids!! I don't know how people do it, it has been a huge adjustment for all of us. Riot is very sad that all the attention is not on him and has learned to throw huge tantrums, oh how I love them. Patience, patience patience that's all I can say. Tayvia is such a sweet girl by day but by night she becomes a screamer. We think she is getting belly aches from her formula so when have switched her to soy. I feel so sad for her when I can tell she's in pain. Thanks to everyone for all their help, all the dinners and gifts.

2009-04-14T21:57:00.000-07:00

She's here!! Tayvia Ann John born April 10th, 6 lbs. 2 oz and so cute.

2009-03-17T10:16:00.000-07:00

The puppies are finally gone. No more 4 dogs, I can barely handle 2 some days. They were so cute but I was so glad to see them go to their new families. Well I finally had my sister in law cut Riot's hair, I think its so much better. Eric was very sad to see it go. Here's a picture of Riot with Eric's socks on, he thinks it's so funny to have them on.

2009-03-05T11:54:00.001-08:00

Do you think it's time for a hair cut???

2009-03-02T13:14:00.000-08:00

February is now gone and we had a great month. Eric and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary on the 4th. I can't believe its been that long. This weekend we went up to park city with some of my cousins and family. We stayed in a huge cabin and snowboarded, shopped, ate a lot, became pros at the Wii and had a talked about everything. It was nice to get away. The puppies are getting so big and I can't wait for them to leave in two weeks. It's really a love/hate relationship, they are so cute but really allot of work. We have sold one and hopefully will sell the other one by the 16th. If anyone wants a cute little pup let me know. I am to the way uncomfortable stage in my pregnancy. I can't wait to be done. She will be here before I know it. Here are some pics from the trip, Riot has a cold so don't mind the runny nose in 95% of the pictures.

2009-01-24T22:32:00.000-08:00

Happy New Years!! It's been great for us so far. Penny had two healthy girl puppies. They have been so much fun. We plan to sell them when their 8 weeks old. It's crazy how much you can love something so small. Penny has been such a good mommy, it amazes me that animals know exactly what to do and how to take care of their babies. Her delivery was the scariest thing I've ever gone through. I had made a vet appointment to take her in to see how many puppies to expect, thinking she still had another week till they were supposed to come. She went into labor at the vets office, way in North Logan. They took the X-ray and handed her to me with one of the placenta bags hanging half way out of her. I was freaking out and they were all calm. They told me to take her home so she could give birth, they told me it shouldn't take more then a half hour for the first one to come and then a half hour to a hour for the second. So I went home thinking just that, well over an hour later the first one came and then over 2 hours after that the second came. I was so stressed the whole time. I'm so glad they are healthy and we didn't have to get a C-section. Riot is getting so smart. It seems like since he's turned one he is learning so fast and understanding so much. It's great, we are so excited for him to be a kid and not a baby anymore. Which is kind of sad for some people, but Eric & I are way better kid people than baby people, plus we will have a new one in 3 months. Well now that I've sat here and told you how great Riot is, here are some pictures to prove me wrong. Just shows how he can destroy anything in 2 seconds while you turn your back. He takes the Cheerio box out of the Cabinet and dumps it all over the floor for him and the dogs to share. I wish Eric would put child proof latches on the doors. Kids

2008-12-30T12:52:00.000-08:00

Christmas is over and I dred taking down any of the Christmas Decorations. Christmas was great we had lots of family over and tons of presents. We were diffently spoiled this year. Eric really spoiled me. He got me everything on my Christmas list plus more. Riot loved opening his pressents. I think he mostly couldn't believe I was letting him touch the presents I told him for weeks not to touch. Eric got a new 4-wheeler and had a blast shoveling all the snow and pulling all the neices and nephews on a tube behind it. We are feeling at home now and love the property of the new house. Its like our own winter wonderland. Hope everyones Christmas was good and hope everyone has a good new year!!