OUR DOGS!

copper baby

Yes our dogs wear clothes... it's adorable

sissy always stuck her head through the blinds

sitting on sawyers chair... in their clothes.

Daisy, sissy, sister

We love our dogs so much. We got our sweet copper in 2008 from a shelter who rescued him from a puppy mill in kansas. Horrible horrible horrible place. The people who work there and allow animals to be treated like that will for sure have karma bite them in the rear some day. Copper has always been very attached to me and very timid around others. He was abused pretty badly.  We got our sweet daisy girl in 2010. Daisy is the sweetest dog you will ever meet. She is also one of the ditziest. She is so adorable and LOVES everyone. Copper and Daisy they just love each other. Daisy brought copper out of his abused afraid shell so much. They are just the best of buddies. They sleep together every night and just are so good for each other. In 2011 Daisy had surgery on her hips and recovered very well. She is still recovering and getting stronger everyday. Our sweet dogs are so good with Sawyer. He just adores them and they love him right back. I never had to worry about the dogs with him because they are just the best dogs and the sweetest. When braydon was accepted into dental school we had every intention in the word to bring them with us to Kentucky. Well, plans changed and our loans increased and we just couldn't afford to have them... this was to say the least one of the hardest things for me to do. Find them a new home. I cried and cried all day long. I was so sad. We wouldn't give them away unless they went together. My sweet cousin linds took them and I know they are in great hands. We miss them something terrible. We love our sweet dogs so much!

 Sawyer wasn't feeling well. We spent most the day like this in our pjs

 A bunch of families in our complex went to the bats game. So fun.

 Sawyer waving to the fireworks

 Sparkler time with lily

 Sparkler time with daddy

 Snack break at the pool with best buddy George and new friend Everett

 This is how Sawyer wanted to watch his tv show

 Sawyer painting at Morgan's house. They "got married" in her castle and had a dance party with a bunch of friends!

 Shaving cream time!

                                                Playing hoops with George. This is so funny!

Messy face from his pb and j and cookies

He is obsessed with putting on shoes, but mostly his daddy's shoes

Snack time!

Hanging out with his friend lily! They are good buddies. They were supposed to be sleeping

Evening swim with daddy. Best friends.

Oh wow!

This is his new favorite spot

Hanging out with lily



We have had a lot going on with the fourth and the twenty fourth... yes you better believe we still celebrated pioneer day... UTAH style. Although, i did miss the parade and bountiful fireworks so much. Braydon is working hard in school and hardly ever around. I am having such a great time being a stay at home mom, but i do miss work and the cool things I got to do and the fun people I got to work with... I miss working with my dad so much. Do not fret though I call and face time him and my family multiple times a day. We have the greatest friend out here and i'm so grateful for them and for our friendship and the memories we are making. It does make me miss all my friends back home though. Being away makes you appreciate so much what you left behind. I am counting down the seconds until my mom and sister get here. It's going to be so fun. Hopefully we can get a lot fun girl time in, in the short time they are here. It's been extremely hot here. the highest was 116. Oh my goodness it was miserable. It's a little better today, but not by much 103. I am so sweaty it's disgusting. Sawyer still wants to be outside ALLLLLLLLLLL the time. So tomorrow we will be at the pool. SURPRISE SURPRISE. A few new things that sawyer does... he says HI DAD all the time and just today started saying Hi mom and to my mom he said Hi gama. When we hand him somthing and say "say thank you" he says "welcome." it's so funny and so adorable. He is still hitting (only mommy and daddy) we are working on that so he doesn't start to hit other people.

Today I am missing these people so much! August, October, Novemeber, and December can't come soon enough!

More adventures in Kentucky

We spend most our time at the pool so we have to bring lunch and LOTS of snacks

Eating his "ookie"

Sawyer and his buddy George. We love all our new friends we've made.

kinda hard to get them to look at the camera

Blake, Sawyer and George

Brittany, me and Jessy. I Love these girls. They have been really good to me:)

Hanging out with daddy

Funny boy and love that face he makes. He just makes me so happy

Sawyer hugging his new buddy Boston

This face just kills me. He makes it when he hears fireworks or when he is excited.

This cat sits in the window  all the time and when sawyer and I go to the park we always have to stop and talk to the kitty. He is so funny

This is how he takes naps now. We are always on the go lately and he won't nap!

                                                                                   We have now officially started dental school!! Braydon had his first day today. He said it was pretty boring. He got his name tag, scrubs, and fitted for his white coat. I think he is pretty excited to start class and get going. We have been way out of our routine and we need to get back to our life. It's been so fun having him around and we will miss him a lot, but we need a little bit of normalcy around here. I do feel so grateful for the friends i've made here. They are so darling and so fun and I just adore their kids. I am also thankful that my sweet friends back home still keep me a part of their lives even though we are all busy and we live very far away from each other. My friends and family are so supportive of this hard change in our life. Today we went to Churchill Downs with all the new dental students. It was so hot, but so much fun. I just wish my family could have been there. Especially my dad, he would have LOVED it. Sawyer got to meet some of the horses and he kept saying "OH WOW" when he would see them. We met a lot of new couples tonight and a lot of kids. I think things are looking up.

I also wanted to keep track of the things Sawyer says and the funny things he does
* He says no
* He says yes
* He pounds it and gives lots of high fives. If he doesn't want to high five he will grab your hand and make it go into a fist so you'll pound it.
* He always dances no matter if it's a slow song or fast. He loves music
* He sings to the tv to his shows and sings to me while I sing to him
* He says dragon, car, gun, swim, slide, side(for outside) pop, ookie(cookie) cracker he says binky and silky ( his blanket) water.
* He says please and thank you
* He knows the sounds of a duck, pig, horse, dog, cat, cow
* He says bike and loves to ride his bike
* He knows what shoes are mine and which ones are Braydon's and he will bring them to us. He also will pull clothes out of the dryer and whoever it belongs to he will say mama or dada
* I asked him the other day pointing to braydon who that was and he said "baydon" so funny
* He has been giving loves and kisses a lot lately.
* When we facetime my family before anyone answers he always says "gaga" ( my dad) really loud and fast
* When we take a picture of him we tell him to say cheese and he looks up smiles and says CHEESE
*  When you ask Sawyer where his eyes are he blinks really really fast and when you ask to see his teeth he bits up and down
Although, we have had a hard transition he is still my sweet boy and smiles all the time and is crazier then ever. We just love our sweet boy so much. He keeps us super busy and on our toes and we wouldn't have it any other way.

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Snuggling with daddy

                                           They have penny rides at the local grocery store and this is his favorite.

our new favorite place. The zoo is HUGE

                                            He loves to jump to his daddy. We spend all day doing this.

Sawyer and his new friend Lily

Us at the Zoo

                                       Sawyer loves the waterpark at the zoo. He went nuts.

Hanging out at home

Messy boy

Hanging out with daddy

Eating lunch after playing really hard at the zoos water park

Having icecream on a hot day

He was so tired he found a pillow and fell asleep on the floor

Our cute cowboy woody

                             He had so much fun dancing. An I think he is pretty dang good.

This is the night we got here. After a long flight we got in the car and he fell right to sleep

This is us in our shelter during the tornado. He was happy we had just givin him icecream right before we had to go in, but let me tell you after almost two hours in there with 3 couples and 4 kids he had, had it. Thank heavens everyone was ok. Prayers are answered.




It has been a crazy three weeks. we are all moved in and all our boxes are unpacked and we even have pictures hung on the walls. Sawyer is adjusting ok. He still walks around the house asking for my dad and jon. The other day he was crying and say "gama" and i felt so sad. So of course we had to call my mom right away and then he was ok after that. Thank heavens for facetime and skype. We talked to my parents and family everyday. Sawyer tonight was so funny when my dad and mom face timed us. He was dancing and he kept saying "hi hi hi hi." he is one funny boy. I am counting down the day until they come in October. He will love having them here. We have done a lot of fun things and spent a ton of money restocking on food and household items that we didn't have. ANNOYING, but necessary. We go to the pool almost everyday and Sawyer just loves it, but we always have to bring at least 3 balls and a few cars because he will walk around the whole pool deck looking for these items. We always bring lots of snacks and drinks because we are bound to be there for 3 to 5 hours... yes crazy I know. If you don't see us at the pool you will either find us at the park or the zoo. We got a season pass to the zoo. It's huge and has such a fun kids water park. Sawyer loves it so much. He runs around like a crazy person and i'm always afraid he is going to get pummeled. We usually go to the park at night. All the other dental students families who live in our complex are always there and we bbq, talk, play sand volleyball, and just hang out while the kids swing, slide and run around. It's a lot of fun. You can always find a friend at the park which is nice. We are going to start a baby sitting trade off with a few girls in August when they get back from going home for a 3 week visit. It will be nice. every six weeks you have all the kids come to your house for the night, but the other five weeks you get to take your child to someone elses house. I know it sounds crazy, but the kids love it and it's only one night. I am excited for Sawyer to play with his new little friends and it also helps him get used to other parents in case i had an emergency and had to leave him with someone he wouldn't be totally freaked out. Our ward is really great too. Everyone is so friendly and so welcoming. We have all ages, but a lot of young families so that is new and nice. We live in a very safe area... other then the scary tornado that was here last night. Besides my earlier freak out post. We are doing great and getting settled into our new life and new home. Missing all back home and saying hello to all our new friends:)