Family

CAPTAIN CALEB and his crew

2012-01-13T13:53:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to invite all of my fellow blogger friends and family members to join our team!!

We will be walking in the Salt Lake City MDA (muscular dystrophy association) Muscle Walk on March 31, 2012.

We are so excited to be able to give back to an association that has done so much for our family. As you know Caleb was diagonosed with DMD (duchenne muscular dystrophy) almost 2 years ago. Our first experience with the MDA was at the clinic at University Hospital, where the doctors and support staff were so kind to Caleb and so helpful and patient to Andy and I. They answered all of our questions and never gave us the feeling that we were taking too much of their time. They have treated us with the same kindness and respect at every visit and check-up. The MDA also puts together many incredible fundraisers throughout the year to make sure the families that suffer with this disease are well taken care of.

Make your muscle work for something good, please join our team or make a donation. All the money raised goes to help the families in our local area! You can donate or join online at http://www.baughs.org/. You will be redirected to our team page (Captain Caleb and His Crew) on the MDA website.

Another way you can donate is by going to my sister-in-law, Aleesa's, fabulous etsy shop and purchase the "Caleb" bracelet- all proceeds will go to our team. She is also donating 50% of all other purchases to our team, so check out her shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/Aleesa.

Our team goal is $5,000.

Thanks, love you guys!!

Halloween 2010!

2011-11-04T17:37:00.000-07:00

Meeet Darth, Iron Man, and a giant pumpkin. If the pumpkin looks familiar it's because all three boys have now worn it!

Decorating cookies that Aunt Sarah made the kids. Sarah had baby Hank one week before Halloween and still made sugar cookies and frosting for the kids, thanks Sarah!!

Luke "decorating" his cookie but mostly just eating the frosting and making a mess!

The Baugh clan

The Bruun clan. We had already done our pictures but then baby Hank woke up so we tried again, this time without much success!

MoaB

2011-10-26T08:38:00.000-07:00

The weekend before Spring Break we went to Moab with Andy's boss, Jack, his wife, Lisa, and their son Nathaniel. Since Jack likes to live in luxury we stayed at the Sorrell River Ranch (a resort 20 min outside of Moab). The resort was beautiful. This picture of the Colorado River was taken from our porch. At night there were billions of stars and everything was quiet expect for the river, it was so peaceful!

Here is Luke sitting in front of the cabin that we stayed in. The only downfall of being this close to the river is I wouldn't let the boys come out and play by themselves. I kept having nightmares of one of them falling in, luckily nothing like that happened :).

We really wanted to see Delicate Arch but we knew with Caleb we would never make the 3 mile hike. So we did the 1.5 mile hike to the viewpoint of the arch, it was still an incredible sight. I'm glad we chose the shorter hike because Caleb insisited that I carry him the whole time and wouldn''t let anyone else help. He is a little bit of a momma's boy right now, hopefully that passes soon.

We also drove up to Dead Horse Point. It is so incredible to be drving along and suddenly come to a point where you can't drive any further because there are tall cliffs all around. I had to include this picture of Caleb being "strong." Lately he has made a big deal out of the fact that he is strong, he always says, "Me's big, me's strong." And when he can't do simple things such as opening doors he cries and cries and says, "Me's not strong," it breaks my heart. I think he is really starting to get that he can't do things that everyone else can do his age.

The fam at the Dead Horse Point Viewpoint

Taking a rest after a long day in the car and hiking around.

When we were walking around Dead Horse Point we saw the biggest spider I have ever seen! This picture does not do it justice. We also thought the spiders back looked like a jack-o-lantern! Ewwwwwwww!

One of the days we were there the boys went on a five hour long razer ride with dad. Luke was too young to go so we had to entertain ourselves. We walked around the town of Moab for awhile and then went back into Arches to do a couple of small hikes. It was fun just me and him.

Taken in front of the south window arch.

Our trip was a lot of fun but we were very grateful to come back home!

Back to School...

2011-09-21T18:48:00.000-07:00

Having a first grader is sooooo different! Austin acts so much more grown up. He walks to and from school every day, he has math and reading and spelling homework. He is so much more independent, it's weird but good too! He loves it!

Caleb goes to preschool three days a week now. His favorite part is definately the bus that pulls up right in front of our house to pick him up. I can't really say what he's learning because I ask him every day how school was and he always tells me what kind of snack he ate and that's it. Oh well, he seems to be having fun. I have enjoyed having the kids back in school but I have found that Luke gets extremely bored on the days when Caleb is gone and he follows me around the house crying but other than that it's been great!

Happy 4th Birthday!

2011-08-09T15:20:00.001-07:00

I can't believe Caleb is 4! He is starting his senond year of preschool soon and getting so big! He won't let anyone help him do anything at all and with his disablility it can sometimes takes him a VERY long time to put on his shoes or get into the car but I'm glad he is willing to do it, and it is teaching his mom a LOT of patience!

Caleb loves his new cozy coop (and just for all of you out there thinking of getting one of these, it is worth the extra $15 to buy it already assembled, it took about 2 hours to put it together). But Caleb loves it and it comes with a removable bottom so Luke can sit in it and Caleb can push him around, they both love it.

The only thing Caleb asked for was a Bionicle and you can tell by the cheesy grin on his face that he was so happy to get one.

For his party we just invited all the cousins to join us at McDonalds. There are only a few play places in this area that Caleb can climb up into and this particualr McDonalds is his favorite. It has some cute musical toys that the kids can climb and play on and they play music too.

The Bruun and Baugh cousins (at least a few of them :) I'm sure McDonalds was happy to see us go!

Presents! Caleb got spoiled from everyone! These are some way cute bean bags that Aunt Aleesa made, hopefully he can now learn to spell his name :)

In the evening Caleb and I drove up to meet Daddy for a special date. Caleb wanted to eat at the Mayan but we weren't able to eat there and make our movie, so we just took pics on the snake, which he was just as excited about. We then grabbed some corn dogs and fries and went to the new Smurfs movie. It was very "smurflarious." Caleb loved it and laughed out loud many times, so it was fun to watch him.

We love you so much, Caleb. You are so funny and always make us laugh! We know that no matter how hard life treats you, you will greet each day with a smile and a lot of determination. Happy Birthday!

Bingham Copper Mine a.k.a Volcano Mountains

2011-07-25T06:01:00.000-07:00

I have been planning on taking the boys up to the copper mine forever, so I finally decided last week to take them (and then we ended up going again three days later, isn't that always how things work out:). Anyway, they had a lot of fun watching the big, huge, gigagntic dump trucks hard at work. I made the mistake of telling Caleb that the mountain looks like a volcano from the front and now he won't refer to the copper mine as a "copper mine", it's a "volcano mountain" (whoops).

Afterwards we stopped at my very favorite restaurant, Ab's Drive-In. When we lived out in West Jordan, I frequented this place, probably why I didn't lose any weight out there :), they have the best fries and shakes! Anyway, I've been wanting to go back and eat there ever since we moved back here to Orem. So in January I told myself if I lose 10 lbs then I can go (I know you should never reward yourself with food but it works for me). Well it took until June to finally decide to work hard and lose 10lbs and I did, and I was not dissapointed, it was still as delicious as I remembered it.

On the drive home I really wanted Luke to stay awake so he would have a good nap at home (you all know what I'm talking about). So I handed him a brand new box of tissues and he was enrtertained the whole ride home, it was great! Thank you Kleenex!

It's Independence Day........

2011-07-07T06:55:00.000-07:00

We started off our morning at the freedom run. I did not run but Andy did and quite a few members of his family as well. It was fun to watch and it inspired me to get my behind in gear and run next year!

Austin and Caleb waiting for daddy to run by. Austin asked about every 30 seconds, "Wheres my dad?"

After the run we headed down to the parade. We were about 30 minutes late because someone lost the keys to the car (I would never do anything like that :) Lucikily it didn''t ruin our whole day!

After some parade watching we headed over to Scera Park for the annual Baugh picnic. Here is Caleb and Micah. They followed each other around the whole time and found their way over to the bag of chips quite often, we even caught them feeding each other, they were pretty cute.

Running in the kid races. Go Caleb!

We ended the night at my brother Dallins house. I'm glad we ended up swimming there, I wasn't sure if we were going to go because the week before my nephew Jack drowned, and then was rescesitated. It was such a scary, traumatic event and I will be forever grateful that everything turned out ok!

We had a lot of fun swimming and being together as a family. I think it was good that we were all able to go back and have a lot of fun. Jack was completely fine and jumped right back into the water, no problem!

After a hot game of basketball all of the guys jumped back into the pool and had a contest to see who could make the biggest splash. I think my dad won! They were so crazy doing all kinds of tricks and flips off the diving board. It was really finmy to watch!

The four Bruun babies

Luke, Xander (Jills), and Colin & Trevin (Jakes twins)

An absolutley adorable family picture :)

We didn't end up doing fireworks because of all the rain but we had a great Independence Day together as a family!

Check out the next four posts, they are all new.

Stadium of FIRE!

2011-07-06T22:01:00.000-07:00

The Stadium of Fire was a lot of fun this year. Andy and I really like Brad Paisley so we got six tickets and had a blast! My parents came along with Andys bro, David, and sis, Katie. At the beginning some skydivers brought in the flag which was really neat. Then David Archuletta started off the show, and I was really amazed and impressed and I think I may have even developed a little crush on him:). But I was most excited for Brad Paisley. He sang most all of his great songs and I really wished that he could've sang all night! But of course, you can't go to the stadium of fire without some really awesome fireworks, which they were! All in all it was a great night and the weather was perfect!

Me, Andy, Dave, and Katie

My parents and us

Dinosaurs at the Zoo?!

2011-07-06T21:54:00.000-07:00

The boys were so exctied to see Dinosaurs all around the zoo. At first they were a little nervous,

Austin kept saying, "Are you sure they aren't real?" But after they were sure, they loved them and wanted pics by all of them. They really were cool to see.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUKE- 2 months late!

2011-07-06T21:29:00.000-07:00

Eating a birthday waffle for breakfast

Ready for the party goers to arrive!

He was not so sure about the candle

But he loved his cake

And destroyed it in the end

I can't believe my little baby Luke is already one! We celebrated in style with all the Baughs and all the Bruuns together in our house, it was pretty chaotic but also a lot of fun! Luke loved his cake and it was so much fun watching him devour and destroy it.

Some of my favorite things about Luke are: his laugh and smile, his love for food - he eats every kind of baby food and always begs for everything we are eating as well, he loves to look at books, he laughs and flaps his arms every time he sees his brothers. and he imitates everything we do.

Luke makes us laugh on a daily basis and I am so grateful and happy that he is a part of our family of boys!

Two Boys Graduate

2011-07-06T21:14:00.000-07:00

Mrs Schubert was Austins teacher helper but he had an extra special bond with her because she is also in our ward and she is so much fun. Austin loves saying, "Hi" to her in church.

Austins teacher, Miss Johnson. Austin loved Kindergarten and Miss Johnson was such a wonderful teacher. I got to come into Austins classroom every Thursday and help out and it was a lot of fun to get to know Miss Johnson and the kids in his class.

Austins best friend, Joey, who is also in our ward.

Caleb got to graduate from two preschools this year. First was from Grammy Tammys preschool, which he loved so much, probably because his teacher is Grandma and his cousin, Jayci was in his class.

Here he is at his early intervention preschool at, Lindon Elementary. His teacher was Miss Jennifer who was wonderful and has a lot of patience. Caleb loved waiting for the bus every morning to pick him up at our house for school.

Toothless!

2011-05-18T09:19:00.001-07:00

Austin has had a loose tooth for awhile now but he wouldn't let anyone touch it, he was so afraid of the pain he would be in if we pulled it out. So imagine my shock when one day during lunch he reached in and pulled it out! He was so proud of himself. Way to go Austin!

Dreaming of Summer.......

2011-05-05T19:47:00.000-07:00

Summer is in the air, especially after a day like today! We went to the park today and it was a bit breezy but so nice. This is a picture of Austin and his best friend Joey, they are in the same Kindergarten class and church class, and I watch him three days a week. They are great and have so much fun together!

This is the best one I could get of Caleb, he was all over the place, he loved the park!

Veggies always remind me of summer. This is a new recipe I found, where you roast the veggies with salt and pepper and thyme ( I added parmasan cheese). They were soooooo tasty and only 1 point (if you are on weight watchers, then you know what I'm talking about:)

Our house was so hot today but I'm not quite ready for A.C. So we pulled out the summer jammies! I love these ones that snap the shirt and pants together, I think they are so cute!

We are SO excited for summer!!!!

Almost There.....

2011-04-20T18:43:00.003-07:00

It's exciting to think that we may actually have a baby crawl before their first birthday! Don't mind the one sock, Luke loves to take them off.

Happy Birthday my 6 year old!

2011-03-10T09:12:00.000-08:00

Austin turned 6 yesterday and informed me that his was his best birthday ever, so I think he had a pretty good day! I wasn't going to do a party this year but after a little persuasion from Austin I caved. The one exception was that we would do a pirate party again because I had all the stuff.

This year he got to invite girls too. The kids had a lot of fun being pirates and going on a treasure hunt (same as last year but in a new house so no one seemed to notice)!

Decorating cupcakes and drinking pirates blood (red kool-aid)

After Austins party we headed up to the Mayan for some good food and diving. Austin loves the Mayan and now wants to be a diver when he grows up!

The best part was Austins firework candle. We go to the Mayan a lot and we always see people get these when it is their birthday so Austin was so excited that it was finally his turn!

Austin is such a good kid and such a huge help to me. Whenever Luke is crying he'll come and play with him, and he's so protective of his brothers. He loves to draw and he can build anything out of legos. I am so grateful he is my son and the oldest. It makes me so happy and yet sad that he is already 6. Time never stands still! In 6 more years Austin will be up passing the sacrament and then in 6 more he will be graduating and preparing for a mission! AAAAAHHHH, I just want to scream sometimes for time to stop. But I am learning to enjoy more little things even if they are fits or screaming or messes, because I know all too soon I will long for those things!

Anyway Happy Birthday Austin!

Haircuts and Sittin' Up, Among Other Things

2011-01-20T20:50:00.000-08:00

Austin decided to see how fun it would be to cut his own hair. I know it doesn't look too bad from this picture but he cut it in four different places! When I aksed him where he put the hair (because it wasn't in his garbage) he said he hid it under his buckets! I then preceded to laugh and he said, "It's not funny, it's naughty!" You got that right!

At least he's not a girl, I think I would have a harder time covering up the damage. Below is a pile of his hair that I found right where he told me it would be!

Luke is sitting up! He's usually on the ground after about 30 seconds, but he's getting better.

Austin still loves to draw ships and draws them everywhere! For Christmas he got a ream of paper and some tape and this is just one example of his new creations.

Forts are a new thing at our house. The boys love them. They take toys and pillows in to "decorate" the inside. They usually only last about 30 minutes before someone is crying because the other one broke it but it's good fun while it lasts!

Merry Christmas!

2010-12-28T13:18:00.001-08:00

I say this every year but Christmas this year was a lot of fun! I just love this time of year and all of the fun family traditions that we get to participate in! Here is Luke on Christmas morning:

Austin woke up at 6:00, and he was ready! So we woke up Caleb and Dad, who both weren't quite ready to wake up yet (next year we will be waiting until 7)
This is a picture of all of the Bruun cousins. My mom gets them pjs every year. This year my brother Cameron, who is on a mission in Sweden, called at 8 am, so we were all at my moms pretty early in the morning!

I had to include this close up of Luke and his twin cousins, Colin and Trevin, I think it's so funny and he looks huge sitting next to them (they are 6 months apart)

On Christmas Eve after we read the nativity and sang Christmas carols we found some Michael Jackson music videos and decided to watch them. It was a lot of fun watching all of the kids dance to Thriller, and Bad! My favorite is Matt's Christmas turtleneck!

While we were having our Christmas program, Andy put his sister Katie (who lives in West Virginia) on video phone so she still got to participate! Here everyone is looking at her new little baby Beau.

Austins favorite present was his lego castle, he worked all day on the day after Christmas to complete it!

We were in quite a state of shock to realize how stinkin' spoiled our kids were this year! But then again we spoiled each other as well! Do you ever have years where you decide you are not going to get anything for each other? Well that's what we did last year and so this year we did the opposite and got each other too many things! But who doesn't like gettting spoiled every once in a while :). My favorite thing that Andy gave me were my blog books. He made and printed two blog books from the past two years and it was a huge surprise because I had never even mentioned that I wanted them! He also got me a laptop! His favorite present for sure was his apple tv. We have spent the past three days straight watching Battlestar Galactica!

We have had a great year haging out with family and eating tons of delicious food! Now it's time to stop eating so much good food and go on a diet!

"Family Fun"

2010-12-12T14:12:00.000-08:00

On the day after Thanksgiving we headed up to Salt Lake to see the lights at Temple Square and to stay in a hotel for a night. We thought it would be a great way to spend time as a family. Well, as you might know, things don't always turn out as planned. We stopped at the Mayan to eat before heading up to SL and right when we were getting ready to leave Austin threw up all over the floor and my coat (after already taking him to the bathroom twice)! Well we just thought he had a fluke throw up experience and we continued on our way. We were just pulling up to the temple when we hear some gagging and a huge splash (we didn't think to even think to give him a barf bag)! So now Austin, his whole seat, the floor, and even the seat in front of him are covered in throw up! But determined to make to best of it we continue to the hotel, where I put Austins pjs on in the parking lot and we head up to the hotel (leaving the mess for another day and trying not to think about it:). Me, Austin and Luke stay at the hotel and rent a 15.00! movie while Caleb and dad head up to Temple Square. So while it wasn't the trip we had envisioned we still had a good time and at least we slept well-Caleb had his own queen bed while Andy and I shared the other, Austin was on a roll away and Luke in the pack n play.

Caleb refused to be in this picture with the boys

At least he got one with me

Here he is enjoying the lights with dad

These pictures are not part of the trip but I thought they were fun. Here is Caleb and Luke in 2010.

Here is Austin and Caleb in 2007. I didn't realize just how chubby Luke is until I see this picture of Caleb when he was the same age!

Luke update

2010-11-08T12:48:00.000-08:00

Luke loves to smile, sleep and eat baby food! He has been a lot of fun and the boys love him! He is 5 months old.

SNOW!

2010-11-05T13:27:00.001-07:00

It snowed a couple of days before Halloween and apparently I promised Austin that we would build a snowman. I didn't quite remember it that way but we decided to compromise and build some baby snowmen. There was hardly any snow but the boys still had tons of fun!

A Mother's Worst Nightmare

2010-10-30T12:31:00.000-07:00

As a mom you have so many hopes and dreams for your children. You want everything in the world for them and you want them to be the best and achieve all of their dreams. Well, something that I’m really starting to learn in this life is that sometimes Heavenly Father has a different plan in mind.

Yesterday, we took Caleb up to Primary Children’s Hospital, after waiting almost 3 months, to see a pediatric neurologist. We found out that our sweet, funny, happy, blue eyed boy has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, or DMD. DMD is a genetic, degenerative disease that affects all voluntary muscles, and the heart and breathing muscles. Caleb will be in a wheelchair no later than 14 and most likely not live past the age of 30.

It was such an incredibly hard thing to hear. You never want to hear that your child is the one that will be different and possibly get teased and not be able to do the things that everyone else can. You never want to hear that the hopes and dreams you had for your child may not happen. I have gone through so many emotions but mostly sadness. Every time I look at his face, I can’t help but get a little teary eyed or simply burst into tears!

But I do know, without a shadow of a doubt, that Caleb was sent to our family for a reason. He truly is so happy and content with life, ask anyone who knows him. I also know that every moment in this life matters. Family is so important! I don’t care if I ever live in that big dream house or drive a Tahoe or have fancy clothes (yes, things I wanted before :). All I care about is making every precious moment count.

I want to thank everyone that has fasted and prayed for little Caleb and for our family. We have received so many texts, emails, and phone calls. We love you all so much and I know with your awesome help and support that it will be okay and we will be able to give Caleb the best life possible!

First Day of Kindergarten.............among other things

2010-09-01T18:57:00.000-07:00

Today was Austin's first day of Kindergarten. I wasn't that sad sending him off since it's only three hours, from 8:00-10:53 (to be exact) but it was a little weird sending him off to the big school. I think the hardest adjustment will be getting him to bed early and waking him up early to be ready in time.

He was way excited to go and wear his new batman backpack. He loves his teacher, Miss Johnson. He enjoyed his first day and the only name he remembers from all the kids in his class is a girl named Megan. Should I be worried he can only remember a girl name? Hopefully not! Caleb will be starting preschool next week with Miss (Grammy) Tammy. He is excited to go.

Luke is three months now and smiles all the time. He has just started reaching out for things and he loves sucking on his hands. He refuses to take a binki, what a stinker! But he's a lot of fun and he sleeps through the night, so I can't complain!

Here is a picture I took of Caleb and Luke in matching shirts that I bought when Caleb was a baby. I have almost this exact same picture of Austin and Caleb. Maybe someday I'll post it.

Austin started playing soccer and he loves it. His cousin Jack is also on the team. They have a lot of fun chasing the ball back and forth hoping for a kick every now and then. It's pretty entertaining to watch, luckily they don't keep score yet!

Here's Austin and Jack in action. They are in the blue shirts, Jack is in red shorts and Austin in the black shorts. Austin helping Jack up, what a great teammate!

Happy Birthday Caleb!

2010-08-01T07:35:00.001-07:00

So I keep thinking that I'm going to sit down and do a huge post and catch up on the past few months, but life with 3 kids is a little crazy and it's not going to happen. So I am just starting freash with Caleb's birthday. I can't believe Caleb is 3 already, time flies! Caleb is such a happy, funny little boy, he makes me laugh all the time. I am so thankful that he is part of my family of boys. We had his party at Dallin and Sarah's house and everyone had a ton of fun! Here he is going down the slide
Sorry about this random picture of Luke, I tried to put it at the bottom but blogger is not cooperating. It's a lot of fun to see Luke smile! Now back to Caleb's party:

The party guests

Blowing out his candles, Aunt Sarah made this cake and it was so cute! Thanks Sarah!

Checking out his train table from mom and dad

Other news: For everyone who doens't know about three weeks after Luke was born, we moved into a house in Orem. We love Orem and it has been wondeful to have space again and to send the boys out into the backyard to play! Luke is now 9 weeks old and is such a good little boy and his brothers love him. My little (not so little anymore) brother, Cameron, just left to go into the MTC and in 9 weeks he will be headed off to Sweden, we will miss him. We are having a great summer spending lots of time with both Andy's fam and my fam.

Luke Franklin

2010-06-14T08:03:00.001-07:00

So I keep thinking I am going to have time to sit down and write a huge post about Luke and the story of his birth and everything, but so far time is something I don't have. Three kids is a lot of work!! But here are a few pictures. Austin and Caleb both love Luke and are very cute with him and they always tell me when the baby is crying. It has been a lot of fun, and Luke is a very good baby. He is 2 weeks old now and weighs 8lbs 9oz.

New Baby

2010-05-29T09:15:00.001-07:00

This is Luke very sleepy

This is Luke awake. Well kind of....

I'll let Kayli type something fun when she is rested.

Our Little Graduate

2010-05-21T16:19:00.000-07:00

Austin had his preschool program and graduation yesterday. He was so cute singing all of his songs and dancing with the girls, I can't believe he will be in Kindergarten soon, he is growing way too fast. I'm sure everyone feels this way when their first goes to Kindergarten, but I feel so old!

Here he is siging with his class. His class had 8 girls and only 4 boys, but he loved it!

Getting his diploma from his teacher Miss Tammy (Grandma)

Him and Jack, hanging out together as new graduates.

*One more week until baby comes. This was the last big event that I wanted to get done with before he came, so now I am just waiting and hoping he comes real soon! I am at the point where I am willing to get up in the night and deal with 3 kids, I am just sick of having him in my tummy and the sooner he comes the better, blah!!

Rare Moments

2010-05-11T20:29:00.001-07:00

After a really bad day, I won't go into details, but this day was not my proudest as a mom, and my kids were not the best behaved (you know those days), I came into the family room to find this:

I just had to smile because this is such a rare moment, and they were both being so good. I'm glad I had a good ending to a not so good day.
Here they are another day watching a movie on dad's i-pad, Austin's new favorite toy!
Love you boys!

Dear Baby,

2010-05-07T16:04:00.001-07:00

Ready when you are. Everything is set up and ready, just waiting on you. Three weeks left, although if you want to come sooner, I am perfectly okay with that!
Love, Mom

How to create michief during naptime

2010-05-03T10:50:00.000-07:00

Step 1: stand on bed and open curtains to let in the light

Step 2: empty shelves of toys, books, and pjs

Step 3: put toys, books, and pjs into pack n play (and whatever else you can find on the floor and in the closet)

Step 4: be as happy as can be even when mom is yelling at you

Step 5: repeat again the next day

Side note: The pack n play is set up in Calebs room because if he doesn't stay in his bed for naptime (never does) then he has to go into the pack n play. I guess he decided if he filled it up with a ton of crap, then he wouldn't have to go into it, and it worked for the past two days because I have been too lazy to clean it out. But his weekend fun is over, today he will be taking a nice nap in his pack n play!

We're Back

2010-04-14T14:27:00.001-07:00

I know for most of you, you didn't even know we were missing but I noticed. Two weeks ago the laptop that I was using finally broke down and I didn't realize how attatched to a computer I was. Even just to hop online to check my e-mail or my bank account or to look at my pictures or check blogs I have felt so lost and out of touch without a computer, so I am glad to have one again (thanks babe)! Anyway here is a little update with our family:The only time my boys can really get along for long periods of time is when they dress up and fight bad guys together. No matter what Caleb puts on he calls himself Dr Jones (I wonder where that came from)? It's been fun to watch them play and dress up together.

Easter was a lot of fun this year because both the boys understood it really well. They loved the easter egg hunts we had at Grandma Baughs and Grandma Bruuns and they loved dying easter eggs and looking for their easter baskets Sunday morning.
I always like to get the boys a new spring shirt for easter and a new church shirt. Here they are being nice enough to pose for mom.

This was the first year we attempted this as a family (you know how I feel about messes). But it ended up being a lot of fun and the boys loved it. Of course now I have 12 hard boiled eggs in my fridge that have yet to be eaten but, oh well.

Also: I have seven weeks left of pregnancy, hooray! I am getting induced on May 28 and can't wait to welcome boy #3 into the family!

My Boy is 5!!

2010-03-14T14:31:00.000-07:00

5 years has gone by soooo fast! I can't believe Austin is 5, and off to Kindergarten in the fall! For his birthday he got one present from us and it has been something that he has been asking for since Christmas was over. I about died when I actually looked up the price of this item on-line (hence the reason for one present) but I broke down and got it anyway. He has loved it, so it was well worth it!

Here he is opening it up. Notice Caleb saying, "Cheese" in the background.
A Lego pirate ship, with sails!

He didn't open his present until about 8:00 pm, that was a mistake because he wanted to start building it right away. Here he is about half way, I made him go to bed at 10:30, so he had to wait until morning to finish.

All finished! The next morning he didn't eat breakfast or even come out of his room until about 11:00, when he was all done. Since that day he has already taken the whole thing apart and started building it once again, I guess building it is most of the fun?

This year since Austin was turning 5, I decided it was time for a friend party. He decided on a pirate themed party and he wanted a ship cake. So I bought a ship pan but had no idea how I was going to decorate this cake, because I really can't do that kind of stuff. So, here is my awesome sister, Jill, slaving away to make Austin the perfect ship cake. She worked for about 3 hours while I supervised (ha, ha). It turned out so dang cute, so this is a huge thank you to my sis and her hard work!

It turned out so perfectly, and Austin loved it!

Here's pirate Austin and all of his pirate buddies getting ready to party!

Your classic "pin the ship on the treasure map"

The pirates searched the room and found an old treasure map that had washed ashore in a bottle, they were ready for their treasure hunt.

Scoping out the treasure.

Our first stop was the oven, for some pirate eye patches.

After stopping at the dryer and the bathtub, the pirates finally found their treasure in Austin's room. Here they are making their scariest pirate poses with their loot.

Decorating their treasure boxes.

This picture is dedicated to my mom, who saved the party. So I scheduled the party for an hour and a half, and was still wondering if that was enough time. Well when we were done with every activity and only a half an hour had gone by I started to panic. Luckliy my mom, who is also a preschool teacher, rescued us with some other fun pirate games, like Treasure, Treasure, who stole the treasure, and Pirate, Pirate, Treasure (Duck, Duck, Goose), so Thanks a million mom!

Opening presents. Austin got more legos from his friends which he loved!

Cake time!

Two pirate pals, Austin and Jack.

Happy Birthday bud, we love you so much!

A Time for Change

2010-03-04T11:38:00.000-08:00

With the new baby coming soon we knew it was time for Caleb to move out of his crib and move into a bed. We decided to purchase bunk beds and then move Austin's old bed into Caleb's room so Caleb could get used to a "big boy" bed and then hopefully if it works out when the baby comes we will have Caleb move into Austin's room. I've had many doubts about this arrangement and still do because Austin is VERY independent and loves playing in his room by himself for hours at a time. But for now everyone is happy, Caleb is doing great in his bed and Austin loves sleeping on the top bunk of his new bed.

2010-02-22T15:30:00.000-08:00

There have been quite a few things that I have wanted to post about but haven't gotten around to it. So this post is a bunch of different things that have been going on at the Baugh household lately. This first picture is of Caleb sleeping on the floor. He has suddenly decided that he doesn't want to take naps anymore, but I still lay him down every day because I am not ready for him to give up naps! This particular day he played and cryed in his bed for 2 hours (I know I'm so mean) but I was not going to get him out! Finally I gave in and got him out and then about 10 min later he was asleep in his floor, what a pill! On my previous post I talked about how much Caleb likes to copy Austin. Well Austin loves to copy his dad and dress up like his dad. So here is a pic of Austin copying dad and then, of course, Caleb had to copy Austin so they both walked around dressed as dad.

These last pictures are from Tumbling. Jill and I signed up Jack and Austin for tumbling through the community education program. They went for four weeks and then they graduated, so here they are on their last day. They had a lot of fun running around and learning tricks.

Copy Cat

2010-02-08T11:18:00.001-08:00

Caleb copies everything that Austin does and follows Austin all around the house, including dressing up (much to Austin's dismay). Now we have two "Dr. Jones's" running around the house!

DC and the "Blizzard of '09"

2010-01-28T17:20:00.000-08:00

Beware: Picture overload! I could not edit my pictures for this trip, it was too hard to choose, so I don't expect you to look at every picture, I am posting this for my own sake. Anyway, for our anniversary we decided to take one last big trip before baby #3 comes along. So we decided on Washington DC, probably our favorite place! It was a lot of fun, we have both been there twice so we got to see a lot of different things this time and we got to experience the huge blizzard, that the news there was calling "The Blizzard of '09", which we thought was pretty funny. One thing we learned, DC does not handle snow. The whole enitre city shut down for 2 days, including: all museums, buses, taxis, all above ground metro stops, and all restaurants! I mean no one was out or driving or anything. None of the roads or sidewalks were plowed so we were basically on our own. But it was a really fin experience and we still got to see almost everything we wanted.

The first day, before the snow hit. Of course we got the typical "tourist picture" of the white house

Our favorite stop this trip was Fords Theatre. I learned so much about the Lincoln assassination and we got to see a lot of official artifacts, including the actual gun that Booth shot Lincoln with.
Here is a shot of the box that Lincoln was sitting in. Booth snuck in and shot Lincoln and then jumped from this box. I never realized it was such a high jump and right in front of the whole audience who did nothing at the time. No one even realized that Lincoln got shot until a few seconds too late. Booth was already gone.

I know, I know pretty lame shot! This is the closest we got to the memorial. We didn't really walk the whole mall this time or even walk down to Lincoln. It was too far, and a little too cold.

A shot of the mall before the snow. It started snowing soon after this shot was taken.

The next morning! It really did snow a lot in a short period of time. We were one of the few that braved the snow and the walking in snow up to our knees at times! It was a little crazy but a lot of fun as well. We went to the capitol early in the morning because it was the ONLY thing open in the whole city. We decided to take a tour of the inside so we sat down with a group of people to watch the introduction video before you take the tour. As soon as the video was over the tour guide announced that we would not be able to take the tour because they were shutting down the capitol and everyone needed to leave. We were so bummed! But we happened to be the last two out of the theater and as everyone was filing out a different tour guide stopped Andy and I and secretly said she was giving the last tour of the day and to follow her. So we ended up getting a private tour of the capitol, it was us and about ten other people, and the rest of the capitol was empty! It was really neat.

Inside the capitol rotunda. It was so beautiful and grand. There was not way to get a picture to do it justice.

Heading down the marble staircase. Everything truly was incredible inside. She said that everything that looks like gold, is gold, and there was a lot of it!

Andy posing with Brigham Young. Each state has two statues, our other statue is Philo T. Farnsworth, the founder of Television (yippe)! We also got to see Congress in session, it was pretty dull actually, they were reading the health care bill, and none of the senators were there. After we left the capitol, we just hung in our hotel the rest of the day and ate in the hotel restaurant (luckily there was one). The same waitress actually served us lunch and dinner, how often does that happen?

The next day everything was basically still closed so we hit the movie theater. Here is Andy anxiously awaiting, Avatar in 3D, which he hated with a passion (just ask him)! But I talked him into movie number 2, which was The Blind Side, and we both loved that. We also hit my favorite restaurant in DC which is Potbelly, the yummiest sandwich shop, and I had been waiting to go there every day and it was just as good as I remembered it!

Me and Potbelly, I had to get a picture of it.

I love this picture! After the movies we got off the metro a couple of blocks before our hotel and just walked around the city. It was a lot of fun because no one was out and it was really quiet and peaceful.

On our last day we took the metro out to Alexandria, VA to see the Geroge Washington Masonic Memorial (anyone read The Lost Symbol lately)? It was actually a little dissapointing because I thought it would be open to look inside, but apparently it's closed in the winter (thanks for not putting that in your book, Dan Brown)! Anyway we still took the many, many flights of stairs to the very top. It was neat to see off in the distance, the landmarks in DC.

We also hit all of the remaining Smithsonians. I wanted to see Julia Childs kitchen, which was fun to see. Here I am striking a pose with Julia.

I also wanted to see the George Washington Zeus statue (to learn more about this see, The Lost Symbol). It was really neat to see in person.

Walking around the mall, we noticed tons of snowmen. There were even people having snowball fights and we noticed people sledding down the hill at the capitol! It was really fun to experience snow in DC.

On the last night I made Andy walk up to the capitol so we could get a few night shots. Our hotel was actually about two blocks from the capitol, so it was a lot of fun to be that close.

This Christmas Tree was right in front of the capitol. Every year a different state donates a tree. This was from Arizona (way to go Katie). It was a lot of fun being there around Christmas time. Sorry the picture is blurry.

This last picture is of the Union Station ceiling. Our first night in DC we ate inside of Union Station and we were in awe about how huge and grand the ceiling is. It was really fun to eat under the ceiling.

And that's that! Congrats to whoever made it this far. Also thanks to my cousin Amber and my mom for helping with the kids.

Also a little side note, Austin had his Christmas preschool program while we were gone and Grandma Baugh came and that's all he could talk about, so thanks mom Cathy for coming, Austin loved it!

Christmas take 2

2010-01-22T11:03:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas 09! Christmas was a lot of fun this year! Austin understood everything about it and maybe even too much since every single thing he saw on TV he wanted to ask Santa for! Finally he narrowed it down to a couple things and I don't think he was dissapointed. We ended up setting up our tree before Thanksgiving this year because Austin wanted to so bad. He was a lot of help getting everything set up. He loved every minute of it. Now that it's after Christmas and he sees a house that still has their lights up he asks why they haven't taken their stuff down, "Christmas is over!" It's funny to hear.

Christmas morning, Andy and I were both up wondering why the kids weren't up. Austin is generally up at 6:00 every morning but he slept in until 7:00 on Christmas. Here he is looking through his stocking.

We had to wake Caleb up, so he was a little out of it for awhile.

But he finally got excited, especially when he opened Thomas, he loves trains!

Austin kept asking for a Batman castle, which we weren't going to get, but Santa got a good "Black Friday" deal, so it was worth it.

Caleb sat and looked at his train box forvever. It would've been cheaper to just give him the box!

Austin building his "Dr Jones" lego airplane. It amazes me how fast he can build legos, I have to look at the instructions at least five times before I can find the next piece. I guess that's why he got them and not me.

For Christmas lunch we went to my moms house for more presents and yummy food. All of the kids got pj's and slippers from Grandma, they all looked so cute.
Opening presents from cousins. We draw names for both sides of the family. The kids love buying presents for each other.

Jayci, Caleb, and Lily looking at Caleb's Thomas book from Grandma.

We went to visit Grandma Baugh next. Here is Caleb opening a present there.

Caleb's loot

Austin's loot

We had a lot of fun during the holiday's visting both families and playing "Ticket to Ride" at least 25 times (no joke). I always hate to see Christmas go, but we have many memories to last until next year, including our trip to DC and making it through the "Blizzard of '09" alive (post to come later).

Christmas 2009 (Finally)

2010-01-19T19:54:00.001-08:00

Well I finally sat down to blog about Christmas and the blogger will not load any photos, so another day, perhaps? Maybe in February or March you can finally read about Christmas, since I hate posting without pictures! Sorry!

It's a.....

2010-01-13T12:56:00.000-08:00

Well, we had our ultrasound today and apparently according to the doctor, we are very good at making these, so if you haven't already guessed we are having another
BOY!
I have to admit there was a little twinge of dissapointment, but it didn't last long. After seeing your baby on the moniter and seeing how perfect they are even when they are so tiny, you can't help but love them. So bring on another boy, we are ready.
Austin is not so sure! He wanted a sister and he is not happy to have another boy, "What are we going to do when we have 10 boys, there will not be enough seats in the car!" (Trust me Austin, we will never have 10 kids, boy or girl, so it's going to be fine). Hopefully he will come around to another brother soon.

Christmas is coming soon (I hope)

Caleb is Walking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-12-01T12:15:00.000-08:00

All I can say is, it's about time!!! Yeah!!!

We got SPOOK spirit!

2009-11-02T11:08:00.000-08:00

Austin has wanted to be "Dr Jones" for Halloween for about 3 months. Then he decided 2 days before Halloween that he wanted to be Batman. He was determined to have a belt with pockets like Batman but I couldn't find one anywhere so he settled for some yellow fabric with a bat sewn on, good enough!Caleb was a dinosaur, it was easy because I already had the costume. He has started walking everywhere with his little walker, so we let him take it trick-or-treating. That lasted one house and then he just sat in the stroller and ate candy.

Here are the boys after trick-or-treating. Andy dressed up as Glenn Beck. Austin had a huge pile of candy. My kids were soooo grumpy on Sunday. I wonder if it has anything to do with eating tons of candy on Saturday!

Painting pumpkins at Grandma Bruun's house with the grandkids.
We didn't get around to carving pumpkins until the day after Halloween, but at least we did it. Austin was happy!

2009-10-26T15:56:00.000-07:00

IT'S OFFICIAL!
I had my first doctor appointment today and I am 10 weeks prego, due June 6

We are Fam-a-lee

2009-10-16T15:15:00.000-07:00

The other night my sister and I went out and took each others family pictures. We had a lot of fun and it made it even funner because they were FREE!

Our Cute Family

Jill's Cute Family

The only picture Caleb was looking in

Adorable Jayci

Best Buds, who just HAD to get a picture together

Motorcycle Spoon

2009-10-11T08:55:00.001-07:00

Caleb invented a new spoon:

Dip.

Taste.

Mmmmmmmm, let's try again

Dip.

Taste.

Yep delicious!

Snow! Feetsie Jammies! And other randomness!

2009-10-02T06:12:00.001-07:00

I can't believe there is snow already in the mountains! It turned cold so fast! But I was excited to finally get the feetsie jammies out again, I love these! Too bad Austin has grown out of them. Actually he's so big he just prefers to dress up as his dad, down to the socks and shoes, funny kid.

It feels like I haven't posted for a really long time. But nothing too big and exciting has happened at our house, just normal life. I feel like I am super busy although those of you with older kids who are in school full time and then play sports or do other after school activities are I'm sure, way busier! Here is our schedule. Mondays Austin has speech therapy at the elementary school. Tuesdays Austin has preschool and then I take Caleb to a play group at Kids on the Move, where we do a little Kindermusik. Wednesdays is a free day where I do laundry and housework. Thursdays is preschool. Friday another free day.

Okay so not really that busy, but I guess it is preparing me for a Kindergardner and a Preschooler next year, and all the years beyond! Anyway now that I've bored everyone to death I will sign off!

P.S Caleb isn't walking yet but is very, very close. Hopefully by Halloween, he will be able to trick-or-treat by himself!

The DERBY!

2009-08-18T09:40:00.000-07:00

On Saturday we went to the Demolition Derby with my friend Jessica and her family. It was so much crazy fun! Caleb even sat pretty well for three hours. So if you've never been to a Derby let me tell you what happens. There are four heats and your car has to hit a car every two minutes or you are out. The top two cars from every heat move on to the finals. After the four heats they have powder puff, which was a lot of fun, the girls were crazier than the guys! It was really cool to watch the cars, there were tires flying everywhere, bumpers off, cars stuck together or on top of each other, cars on fire, or pushed over the cement barriers.

Hangin' at the Derby

Me and Jes

I love Caleb's face in this pic

Gotta love the pink car, this was from the powder puff round

Caleb's Party

2009-08-13T16:42:00.001-07:00

I know Caleb's birthday was two weeks ago but I didn't post pics from his party so here they are are:

Enjoying yummy icecrem:

Birthday Guests: Jacob, Sam, Ben, Liz, and Austin

Lucy, Eliie, Radick, and Caleb

Caleb, Grandpa Bruun, Jill, Kelton, Cameron, and Jake

Caleb with Grandma and Grandpa Bruun (my fav pic)

For Caleb's birthday we went to Bonneville park and played, thanks to everyone that came, it was a lot of fun!

Caleb Overload!!

2009-07-29T14:36:00.001-07:00

You are my Sunshine

My only sunshine.

You make me happy

When skies are grey.

You'll never know, dear,

How much I love you.

Please don't take my sunshine away!

This song perfectly describes Caleb and his personality. He has been through some big things in his little life, and through it all that big infectious smile has never left his face! Happy Birthday buddy boy!!

WE LOVE YOU!

Busy July

2009-07-27T18:45:00.001-07:00

July has been very busy but a lot of fun! After trips to Bridal Veil Falls, the Park many times, the Zoo, the cabin, California, and Idaho we are pretty exhausted and are ready to take it easy for awhile!

We went to Idaho this past weekend for a family reunion in Heise Hot Springs, my family drove up a couple of days early to go to West Yellowstone. Here we are at Bear and Wolf world.

After we crammed all the cousins on this buffalo we read the sign that said, "Buffalo is fragile, please do not sit on it." Whoops!

We got to drive Andy's niece home from EFY. She lives in Temecula, which is about an hour away from San Diego. So we spent a few days hanging with Andy's brother Tom and his family. We had a lot of fun, thanks to Matt and Sage for watching Caleb!

At the San Diego Zoo

Chillin' at the beach

The beautiful San Diego Temple, it really looks like a castle!

Bridal Veil

The Hogle Zoo

Every Tuesday this summer we have met the Baugh cousins at a different park, it has been a lot of fun and gives us something to look foward to every week!

Happy Fourth!

2009-07-06T13:32:00.000-07:00

For the Fourth we, of course, started the day with the Parade (which we swear off every year because of crowds and the heat), and then headed to the Baugh annual picinic at Scera Park, and ended the day at Dallins house for swimming, bbq, and fireworks!

Caleb loved every minute of the parade, he waved and pointed at everything!

Austin at the Baugh Picnic with Lucy, Redick, and Ellie

Swimming at Dallin's house, Austin stayed in the pool for 3 hours straight!

Fireworks! (Don't mind my outfit, I just got out of the pool!!)

Last Week

2009-06-20T18:00:00.000-07:00

I am such a blog slacker that my posts always end up being more than one post. Here we are again with many events to blog about!

First meet "Dr Jones":

Austin wears his Dr Jones costume everywhere (to the store, out on the playground, on walks), he now refers to himself as Dr Jones and if I am mad at him if I call him Austin, he says, "I am not Austin I am Dr Jones" which generally makes me more mad! Also yesterday at the zoo he had his cousins Jack and Jayci calling him Dr Jones!

Meet Caleb Longstocking (Courtesy of my brother Jake). Yes, he needs a haircut!

Last weekend we had to opportunity to go to Idaho for a roping in memory of my Grandpa Hendricks who passed away last August. It was incredible because most of the family came and we all got to go out in the middle of the arena and honor my grandpa by giving away two scholorships in his name. It was neat to celebrate my grandpa and his life by attending something that he loved to do! Above pic is Austin and my grandpa's brother, El Ray. Below pic is me and Caleb hanging at the ropin'.

Austin just got done with Itty Bitty Ball. The city had a little sports clinic for 3-4 year olds, it was four days long and each day they learned a new sport: Football, Basketball, Soccer, and T-Ball. It was so cute to see Austin running around with a bunch of other kids trying to figure out sports. He had a lot of fun!
Soccer:

T-Ball:

Here we are at the zoo. Our zoo pass expires at the end of this month so we have been packing it in. These pics are from yesterday and we have never seen the animals this lively, it was a lot of fun! These monkeys were just hanging on the fence making the loudest noise ever, it was so funny.

You can't really tell in this pic but the two bears in the background are wrestling and playing:

I have never heard the tiger roar, he is usually hanging out in the very top corner of his hideout but this day he was pacing back and forth and roaring so loud, it was really cool to hear!

And just FYI Caleb's test results came back normal, so he just wants to take his time in the walking business. Thanks for all of your concern, we are glad that he is okay!

The Month of May

2009-05-31T09:31:00.001-07:00

It seems to be the general consensus that the month of May is busy. That is no exception for the Baugh Family. We have had a very fun but very busy month of May. Starting with Austins preschool program and graduation:

Austins class singing and acting (so cute)

Getting his diploma from Miss Tammy (grandma)

After the graduation we stopped off at Kangaroo Zoo to let all of the cousins play one last time before Emma and Braden left for the summer (some did not want to stop playing for the pic)

Caleb recently got an MRI of his brain to make sure everything is ok up there because he is still not walking and is 22 months old. We made a trip up to SL two days in a row, first to talk to a Neurologist and second to have an MRI at Primary Children's. He is sleeping off his sedation meds in this pic above.

For his MRI he had to he sedated and was pretty loopy for the rest of the day! No results yet.

For Memorial Day weekend we went up to the Baugh Family cabin in scofield. We had fun swinging, hiking, eating, roasting around the campfire, and playing endless amounts of card games!

Me and Emily on the "adults only" hike which turned out to be a lot of fun!

Lucy and Ellie finally arrived, the kids had been waiting all day!

Andrew made Austin his own walking stick.

Every time I tell Caleb to say "cheese" he literally does and cheeses so big, it is so funny!

My "little" brother Cameron graduated High School, and we are so proud of him!

And finally swimming in Grandmas pool, a summer pastime. It's amazing how much fun kids can have in a little plastic pool!

Here's to you, MOM!

2009-05-10T19:48:00.000-07:00

This past month has been a monumental one for my parents. My mom turned 50 and my parents celebrated their 30th anniversary and their last son will graduate High School!

I just wanted to pay tribute to them and the incredible people they are.

First my mom. My sister and I planned a surprise party for my mom and it was so much work but so much fun! We invited her family and close friends and they all came even some from out of state! It was such an incredbile night, my mom was surprised beyond belief, and we got to hear some wonderful memories and funny stories about her.

My mom works so hard for everyone, no matter who they are. She is my greatest example and I will always look up to her and strive to be like her. She truly fits up there with the scripture women. And she is such an incredible Grandma and the grandkids adore her. Thanks mom for all you do, I love you!

(my mom and brother Cameron)

My parents are the best, sorry if I'm biased but that's just the way it is! My parents are such incredible people! They have always worked hard for us, making sure we have whatever it is we need. Growing up we always did so many fun family things together, I have so many fond memories of road trips together with my family in the station wagon!

They are such wonderful examples to me of what marriage is all about. They work hard for each other and stick up for each other. I have never seen them fight (I'm sure they do because who doesn't) and the times I have seen my dad the maddest is when we say or do something that is disrespectful to my mom. They are fun and full of life and I love them very much! Here's to 30 years!

EWWWWWW!

2009-04-30T17:55:00.000-07:00

Since the dawn of my motherhood I have seen and cleaned up some pretty gross things but today tops the list! I was just getting out of the shower when Austin came running in my room saying, "Mom, Caleb is playing with his poop!" So I come running out and sure enough Caleb had a dirty diaper open (that I had just changed and put in a plastic sack) and had the poop in his hand and was rubbing it all over his yellow school bus. YUCK! It was also spread over the entryway floor (luckily tile). GROSS! So after two long baths (Caleb and the school bus) and a lot of scrubbing we are clean again.

Unfortunately the bus no longer sings or lights up but at least it's clean!

Who would've thought something as cute as this:

could cause so much TROUBLE!

Where's Caleb?

2009-04-18T15:24:00.000-07:00

The other day I lost Caleb (not really since we only live in a three bedroom condo with no stairs) but anyway he wasn't in any of his usual spots. Then I heard some noise from my closet and when I looked inside there was Caleb playing with a fire truck that I was hiding because the boys always fight over it! The door was shut and the light was turned off but he was enjoying himself all the same.

Happy Easter!

2009-04-15T15:54:00.000-07:00

This is a few days late but I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Easter! It seems like no matter what the weather is like the day before it is always beautiful on Easter Sunday! We had a great time spent with family, Saturday with the Baughs and Sunday with the Bruuns, doing egg hunts and eating way too much!

A Child Who Eats!

2009-03-31T06:47:00.001-07:00

Ever since Austin was about 2 years old he has eaten a hot dog for lunch and dinner every day, with the exception of Wendy's chicken nuggets occasionally (yuck)! Well, I am excited to have a child who eats something different. Caleb loves to eat and loves food and will basically eat whatever we give him, go Caleb!

My New Addiction

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

I have had my magnet board for five years now and have never found any magnets worth putting on it. Well, I saw these a while back and I'm sure many of you have too! Talk about easy, cheap, and fun (things required for me to do any sort of craft)! And I have had "girlie" scrapbook paper for at least five years as well but never really get the chance to use it, so as you can see I couldn't help myself I just kept making more! Who knew that gluing paper to rocks could be so much fun?

2009-03-08T12:14:00.001-07:00

Happy BIRTHday to you!

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday dear Austin!

Happy Birthday to you!

Here's to my:

Fun Loving,

Preschool Going,

Dr. Jones OBSESSED,

"Tella Hello" Playing,

Artist in Training,

Big brother caring

Boy!!!

We Love You!!

The Baughs are back!!

2009-03-04T08:02:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone! It has been a really long time but I'm done slacking and ready to blog once more! Here are a few highlights of the last THREE MONTHS!

Christmas: A lot of fun, our last big event in our West Jordan house. Literally the day after Christmas the house was bare and the couches moved to the dump and the house packed!

Calebs stash:

Austins stash:

Before Christmas Andy and I took a quick trip to Philadelphia for our anniversary. It was freezing cold and we walked everywhere but it was a lot of fun and neat to see the sights of where our country began.
A little rocky action:

From the top:

Reading Terminal (a really cool indoor market, also part of National Treasure was filmed in here):

Independence Hall:

Liberty Bell:

After Christmas we packed and said goodbye to our West Jordan house and a lot of wonderful friends and moved back to Pleasant Grove. Austin loves playing with his cousin Jack all the time now! And I must say I am a "happy valley" gal all the way!

After we moved we were able to take a trip to Marco Island, Florida where Andy had a conference for work. We got to catch up on some much needed r&r!

While Andy was in conference during the day I would walk out on the beach, it was really cool because there wasn't really any sand, just tons and tons of seashells!

The beautiful sunset:

We got to ride an airboat through the everglades and then we stopped off to look at Alligators:

The biggest nachos ever! This appetizer became our meal:

Now we are getting all settled in. We have lived in PG for two months and really love it! We are grateful to live close to family and enjoy getting to see them often! This last picture is us at the circus which we went to with all our cousins and our grandma, it was a lot of fun!

It SNOW Wonder

2008-12-08T14:30:00.000-08:00

AAAAAH, the wonder of snow! Today was our first major snowstorm and Austin was so excited to get out and play in the snow, now it feels like December!

Relief

2008-12-06T12:04:00.000-08:00

I am so happy because I was in charge of our Christmas enrichment and it was this morning, yeah all over! I am also happy because it went so well. It started at 9:30 and we had breakfast and everyone that signed up to bring food did, yeah, and then we went into the chapel and had an incredible program. Lauri Carrigan came and sang and talked and she did an amazing job. You should check out her website, www.lauricarrgian.com. Anyway I am relieved that it is over and now I can relax and enjoy Christmas!

Imagination

2008-12-02T06:59:00.000-08:00

"Bye Mom, I'm going to Hogwarts!"

Something I've Discovered

2008-11-17T14:52:00.001-08:00

I'm sure most of you have figured this out by now but I have just discovered that I am a HORRIBLE blogger. So I apologize for my once a month posts but they're better than nothing, right? Anyway here are some things we have been up to this past month:

Painting pumpkins at Grandma Bruuns (a heck of a lot

easier and less mess!)

Pirate or Indiana Jones?

I went to all this work piecing together a very cute

(in my opinion) pirate costume for Austin and at the

last minute he decides he'd rather be Indiana Jones, what!?

So we compromised: Preschool Party=Indiana Jones,
Halloween=Pirate.

Halloween Party at Grandma Baughs

Two cute but not-so-happy boys

(the one picture where they are both smiling

someone walked in front of so I have a nice

pic of a leg, oh well)

Halloween never left our house. Austin is either a

pirate or Indiana Jones every day and insists that

we call him "Capi Jack Sparo" or "Ieo Jones"

-funny kid!

"Mom come take our picture, we are stuck in a cage!"

Things We Have Been Up To

2008-10-19T20:27:00.001-07:00

Wow, it's been so long it took me awhile to figure out what I was even doing! Life here has been a little crazy, Andy has been going out of town quite often (twice last month and now twice this month) and Austin is now "officially" potty trained (yeah)! Austin also takes speech therapy classes on Mondays and goes to preschool on Wednesdays which requires us to drive 40 min just to get there, but it's well worth it! And I know some of you have been a heck of a lot busier than me but we're getting back into the swing of things! Here are a few things we have been up to lately:

Witches at Gardner Village with Rachel & Alex Zupan

A trip to the Zoo with all of the cousins + Grandma (an adventure)

Emma, Braden, Lily, Jack, Jayci, Caleb, and Austin

A drive up to the copper mine, I remember when I was younger

it seemed a lot higher and scarier looking down in, but it was still

really cool and Austin loved the BIG trucks!

And... yesterday before Andy left again for a trip to Florida

he decided to make me dinner, it was incredible!

Here's an appetizer of Humus and pita bread

(very tasty I might add)

Here is the first course, a beautiful green salad that he

cut up and put together!

And here is the second course, rosemary roasted

chicken, mashed potatoes and homemade gravy

(I don't even make homemade gravy) and it was

so delicious. Plus he even cleaned up. Thank you

babe, I love you!

Cabin Fever

2008-09-13T18:26:00.000-07:00

Andy and I had been wanting to do a family get away all summer but with his new job where he travels to Philadelphia quite often it never happened. Well we finally got some R&R this past labor day weekend (I'm just a little late on the posting)! We headed up to the Baugh Family Cabin on Friday morning and spent the weekend, it was a lot of fun! I also celebrated my 25th birthday on the Sunday that we were at the cabin, we ate some yummy cheesecake and I got to blow out candles this year (of course I made the cheesecake and put the candles on, as a mom if you want candles on your cake you better do it yourself, right?) but it was a great weekend and a fun time spent with family!

The Four of Us

Andy and Austin hangin' together

Eating Lunch (we actually ended up forgetting Caleb was in his chair because all the other kids got up to play he was sitting there for like 30 minutes, poor kid!)

A really pretty moth or butterfly, anyone know?

Happy 25th to me!

Andy's sis Emily tipped over and then couldn't get up, it was really funny! We love you Em!

Part of the Baugh clan enjoying smores!

Austin also started preschool a little while ago! He goes to my mom and I am so excited about it. My mom has taught for many years ever since I was young, and I always wondered if she would still be doing it when I had kids and I am so thankful that she is! She is such an incredible teacher and has ENDLESS amounts of patience, I don't know how she does it. But Austin loves it, and he gets to go with my sisters son, Jack and my cousins daughter, Gracie, and it has been a lot of fun to see them play and learn together! They were so proud of the bags they made the first day.

Tribute

2008-09-04T09:48:00.000-07:00

My Grandpa Blane Hendricks passed away this past weekend and I would like to pay tribute to the special man that he was and to his incredible steadfast wife, my grandmother. My grandparents and the most hardworking people I know. Every time we drove up to Idaho to visit we could always expect deliciously cooked meals and wonderful hospitality, my grandma would work tirelessly to make sure we were taken care of and well fed. She would always stay up to let us in no matter how late we arrived. We could always expect the horses to be saddled (or sometimes not) and ready to go on adventures with Grandpa. They always put up with us kids probably doing things we weren't supposed to such as playing in the storage room with the old clothes and roller skates and driving in grandpa's fields on the four wheelers or climbing haystacks! But I loved going into the kitchen early in the morning or late in the evening and talking to grandpa as he sat on a stool by the counter. He always remembered what was going on in my life, and he ALWAYS made me laugh! Both my grandparents have always been great examples to me. They not only are hard workers but they are incredibly strong in the gospel. They have raised 7 incredible children who are just like them. I have a wonderful legacy to live up to and I will be forever grateful for my grandparents!

What's new with the Baugh Fam!

2008-08-23T08:13:00.000-07:00

First and foremost, CALEB GOT HIS HELMET OFF! We went and saw the doc on Wednesday and he said it was a go! Yeah! Here he is helmet free!

Caleb is also mobile, but not in the way you would think. Instead of crawling he scoots on his bum, but he is fast! He has always hated his stomach and I guess this is way of getting around without having to crawl! He is into everything! And he has already taken a spill down the stairs, luckily he was fine!

Another thing we did last week for the first time was taking a visit to the Dino Museum at Thanksgiving Point. Austin, Caleb and I went with my friend, Nancy, and her kids Brannon and Cami. It was a lot of fun, and Austin really enjoyed it because there are a lot of hands on activities.

Happy 30th Andy!

2008-08-11T10:48:00.000-07:00

This year for Andy's birthday I did a surprise party and it was a lot of fun because he had no idea! Thanks to everyone that came it made his day to see all of his friends and family!

I just wanted to take a second and tell Andy what an incredible man he is, and I will be forever grateful to Brian for setting us up! Andy is such a hard worker and he always makes sure our needs are taken care of. Whenever I'm in a bad mood he always finds a way to make me laugh. He is such a wonderful dad and the kids love wrestling and

playing with him. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE!!

Where Has Summer Gone?

2008-08-01T07:41:00.001-07:00

I can't believe summer is almost over! I had all of these intentions to blog but I have been a huge slacker this summer! Here are all of my blog ideas wrapped up into one,
ENJOY!

Happy 1st Birthday Caleb!! July 29

My BEAUTIFUL german pancakes!

Scrapbooking and my LOVE of it!

Swimming in our neighborhood pool!

And our many Zoo adventures!

With Jack and Jayci

With Lucy, Ellie and Redick and a not-so-happy Austin!

A Lot of CRAZY!

2008-07-11T19:17:00.000-07:00

Wow, these last two weeks have been crazy! I got a new calling to be the second councilor in the relief society presidency, so I am over enrichment. I feel pretty overwhelmed right now, and I hope I am up for the task! Andy also started a new job where he goes to Philadelphia every other week and so that has been an adjustment as well. Last week was his first week gone so Austin, Caleb, and I set out for a four day stay at my sister Jill's. Plus we had the fourth of july weekend, where we stayed at my mom's house so we wouldn't miss any of the fun events. Here are a few things we did to enjoy our fourth:

Balloons 6:00 am

Parade with Grandma and Grandpa Bruun

BBQ with the Baughs at the Park

Fireworks at Grandma Bruuns

Caleb and Jayci

Our stay with Jill

Jack and Austin

Patriotic Toes

2008-06-30T11:34:00.000-07:00

Every year before the fourth my incredibly talented sister-in-law, Sage, paints everyone's toenails. It's always a lot of fun, this year she did 7 sets of toes! We love you Sage!

Here is a close-up of my toes, aren't they cute?

Gas Thieves No More!

2008-06-25T09:55:00.000-07:00

One day last week Andy woke up to an empty gas tank in his jeep when he had just filled up the night before! So that inspired our Saturday project!
Before:

After:

Two cars!:

Why My Hair is Never Done!

2008-06-25T09:37:00.000-07:00

Every day when I try to get ready Caleb is usually sad so I sit him up on the counter so I can get ready. Of course he is always playing with my makeup and other stuff so it makes is hard to comb my hair and get ready! Oh well, the joys of being a mom!

ooop, looks like I need a refill!

Elephant Poo!

2008-06-21T09:49:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we took our first trip to the zoo. The first animals we saw were the elephants. While we were enjoying them one of the elephants decided it was time to relieve himself. Well I guess we made a big deal out of it because the whole drive home Austin kept saying, "At the zoo, the elephant pooped." That's all he remembered about his trip to the zoo!

First Gumball

2008-06-21T09:40:00.000-07:00

I know it's horrible that my son is three years old and has never had a gumball! But I HATE messy and sticky kids. Unfortunately now Austin is the exact same! Here he is crying because his hands are sticky! What have I done?

I never even fed Austin graham crackers when he was little! Needless to say, I have mellowed out a bit, here's Caleb enjoying yummy graham crackers.

Parade!

2008-06-17T07:12:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday we walked in the Orem Summerfest Parade. My father-in-law, Steve Baugh, is running for the House of Representatives, District 58, so his kids and grandkids got to walk in the parade to support his campaign. It was a lot of fun wearing T-shirts, holding banners and cheering for our dad and grandpa! Austin loved it!

Wheeler Farm

2008-06-17T06:49:00.000-07:00

Last Friday was kids day at Wheeler Farm. So my sisters, Jill and Sarah, came down and we enjoyed a day of feeding ducks...

train rides...

looking at animals...

and much more!

It was a really fun day, and a great time spent with cousins!

Just Like Daddy

2008-06-09T19:08:00.001-07:00

Andy loves playing games on his computer and playing with his iphone, he's already talking about upgrading (courtesy of work). Well Austins two favorite things happen to be playing his Arthur game on the computer (thanks to Wendy's) and playing with Daddy's iphone or "telehello" as he would say. He can unlock the phone and play games or proceed onto itunes where he selects songs to listen to. He even used to go onto utube until Andy took that off the phone (we decided he's a little young for some of the crazy videos)! As soon as Daddy wakes up or comes home from work, Austin asks to play with his phone, Austin is just like his Daddy, what am I to do?

Cabela's

2008-06-06T08:34:00.000-07:00

Today we were supposed to go to Thanksgiving Point with all the cousins but it was cold and rainy, on June 5, it was freezing, WHERE'S SUMMER? So we all ended up at Cabela's, where the animals are dead, but what do kids care right?

It turned out to be a lot of fun, and a great way to spend a cold june day indoors!

Some things that happened to the Baughs in May

2008-06-03T14:56:00.000-07:00

May has been a crazy month for us. First I am still adjusting from our move (Pleasant Grove to West Jordan) so I drive down to Orem/Pleasant Grove about once a week to visit family. And that takes a lot of time and gas!

(West Jordan)

Also Caleb had a minor outpatient surgery this month and he also got a Helmet for his head because of "positional molding", where he favored one side of his head when he slept which caused the other side to become flat! He has to wear it 23 hrs a day for at least three months. I always feel so bad for him but he really doesn't seem to mind it!

Then for Memorial Day we went up to the Baugh Family cabin for some fun time outside! It was a lot of fun, except we had to hang inside because of all the snow!!

First Blog!

2008-06-03T14:35:00.001-07:00

Hello everyone! After months of reading so many cute blogs, I finally decided it was time to start my own. Here are my boys: Austin is three, he loves his cousins, his brother and LOVES Thomas the train or "blue choo choo". Caleb is ten months and (no joke) the happiest baby ever! He smiles at everyone and he always brightens my day! And he LOVES Austin, they have a lot of fun together!

------ train mania ------- Lily, Austin, Emma, Braden (cousins)---------- silly brothers----------

smiling Caleb