4th of July

I thought I would post pictures of last year 4Th of July and this years. It's fun to look back and see how big my boys have grown from last 4Th to this 4Th.

We went to the Kaysville parade with TJ's sister Lisa and her family. The kids had so much fun catching candy. It was really hot but at the end they always have big water trucks come through and spray everyone. After we headed over to TJ's parents house for a BBQ.

These pictures were taken last year at the Huntsville parade. Nathan and Spring use to do a booth at Huntsville days so we always got front row seats to the parade.

I can't believe how big my boys are have gotten over the last year. Baby Zack was so little then.

We love the 4Th of July and nothing better then being an American. I was watching about the hostages that were just released, one of the hostages talked about how great it was to be an American, that they were released just days before the 4Th of July, that this 4Th of July meant more then any other day. It meant so much to him to be alive an live in such a great country. As I heard this man speak all I could do was cry and agree that what a great country indeed.

One Year Pictures

Here are Zack's one year pictures I had done last week. He looks like such a big boy in these pictures. Check out his foe hawk - what a stud.


I don't know what was doing on with my scanner but it wouldn't let me scan this other picture in a bigger size.

First Time Aunt

LUKE STEPHEN

I am an Aunt for the first time. Yes TJ has his nieces and nephews, but this is the first time from my side of the family that IM AN AUNT. I couldn't be more excited. Bryan and Emily got their miracle baby last week. When we got the call I cried for days and days, and if you think I'm exaggerating ask anyone that lives around me. I couldn't stop talking and crying about how excited and happy I was for Bryan and Emily.

The sweetest thing besides baby Luke-- is this

Mom:
Brock can you tell us where baby Luke came from

Brock:
He was born from Emily's heart.

Every time I hear Brock say that it's makes me cry, not sad tears, but just straight up happy tears.

I will post more and more pictures of baby Luke as soon as I get them from Grandma's..

Donny Here I Come

........YIIIIIPPPPPEEEEE.............

I just found out that I'm going to see DONNY OSMOND in concert on July 26Th. Let me tell you how just excited I am. I'm even making a I LOVE DONNY shirt to wear. I know I know it's kinda lame, but who cares, I am going to go and LOVE EVERY minute of it.

Finally did it/What do grown men do?

I just thought this was a cute picture of Zack hanging out at Bryan and Emily's house.

I FINALLY did it... I guess in away I broke down my CLEAN GERM freakness and did the nasty thing ever. I let my kids play at McDonald's... UGH!! It was VERY VERY hard for me to watch, I thought it was better letting them play in the Summer time at McDonald's then in the Winter....BUT.... don't worry when we got home I made them both take a bath, and put on new clothes. Even though it was nasty and as a germ freak hard to watch them play, then had such a good time. I didn't get as many pictures I think do to the fact I was so freaked out we're even there.

Brock and Jaycee going down the slide.

I see you Jaycee.

It was really nice of Tara's dad to take us all the lunch at MD's then we went across the street and feed the ducks.

The babies hanging out in the stroller

Brock and Jaycee had so much fun feeding the ducks, but these two have fun no matter what their doing as long as there together. Jaycee's family just put their house up for sale and we are so sad that they will leave us. I don't know how well Jaycee and Brock will take it when they do finally move. These two kids play almost every day together. Tara and I decided that they'll get married, so we can all live happily ever after together!



So what do two GROWN men do when it's warm outside, and one wife is gone, and the other is watching the kids...... They make and shoot potato guns. I was so feared that they would hit a parked car. Since we live in town homes the odds of that happening were great, but I guess that's what made it even more exciting. We live across the street from a fire station, and they thought it would be funny to try and see who could hit the parking lot of the the fire station first... UM yes these men are 28 and 27 years old.

Rich and TJ trying to load up the gun


Also what do two grown men do when taking when putting in sprinkler systems, yep, the shoot potato guns... Rich came up and helped TJ put in my parents sprinkler system. Rich is such a good neighbor he always comes along with TJ and I to help my parents... Thanks Rich for all your wonderful and great help, your such a good friend and neighbor..

Birthday Party/Part 3

Last night we took the boys and some of our wonderful neighbors to the swimming pool. They all loved it and cried when it was time to go home. After the pool we had a BBQ. Zachary had such a great birthday weekend.

Zack and mom


Zack loved the float because he could hold himself up and walk around in the kiddie pool.


TJ and Zack hanging out in the pool.


Brock, Jaycee, Tara, Reagan, TJ and Zack


Brock going down the frog slide.


Mom and Zack- Zack had so much fun swimming but kept falling asleep from all the fun.

Happy First Birthday Zachary

Happy Birthday Zachary!

I saw this picture on another blog, and the minute I saw it reminded me of how Zachary is towards me. He loves to bite me, and ONLY ME. When he is successful he just laughes and laughes, and thinks it's so funny to watch mommy yelp in pain. Oh yes he has 9 teeth and so he get's a very good bite.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - to my baby boy!

I can't believe that my baby is one today. I'm having a hard time today knowing that my last baby that I'll have is one. They only get older from here. We love you so much
Zack- a-reto-burrito... that's Zack's nickname.

Zack's birth announcement.
Zachary John Olsen was born at 2:53 p.m on Saturday June 16,2007. Weighing in at 5 lbs and 17 3/4 inches long. 5 lbs that was huge compared to his brother who was 2.6 lbs.

Zachary spent the first 8 days in the NICU- that was a breeze since his older brother Brock was there for 63 days. Still even though it was only 8 days,it was still really hard.

Zachary was jaundice so he spent most of the time under the lights.

These pictures were taken the night before he came home- Zachary is wearing preemie size and still just drowned him, and the bink takes up most of his face.

I guess he didn't want anyone looking at him - which is funny because he still does this.

Hello... Did someone say I can go HOME.

These pictures were taken when Zachary was 3 weeks old, if we had only known that a week later mom wouldn't remember these, I would have enjoyed the moment more. Notice the red hair, that's what I get for having issues about red hair, BUT he did get blue eyes so it's all good.

Yep he is definitely Kristina's kid - giving someone the bird...lol.. Zack still wearing preemie stuff, even after 3 weeks they still drowned him.

Zachary still a year later does this smirk in his sleep.. I LOVE YOU ZACHARY.