A much needed update

Ok so it has been forever since I have posted! I have been so bad about keeping up on our blog and I apologize, but we are still alive! These past couple of months have been quite the adventure and I haven't been able to get anything posted. So I hope everyone is ready for the longest post ever!

It all started over Labor Day weekend, we traveled to Utah to perform Kody's baby blessing. Roger's Dad was battling cancer and was not able to travel, so we went up there so he could participate in the blessing. A lot of family was able to make it and it was great to see everyone. We had such a great time! Of course, pictures tell a better story so here are a few to enjoy!

This is everyone who participated in the blessing. From left to right: my dad, Roger's dad, Roger with Kody, Roger's brother-in-law Shane, Roger's sister's boyfriend Guy, and my brother Trev.

This is Roger with his Dad who is holding Kody.

This is my family with my brothers Trev, Alyx, and Kye.

This is of Roger's family with his sisters and husbands: Kim & Shane, Amy and her boyfriend Guy, and MIA is his sister Julie with her husband Nate and their 4 kids.

This is of Kody in his way cute outfit.

Then after the blessing we had a B-B-Q outside for everyone. It was so nice to see everyone and thanks to all for coming out and to the McCormick's for hosting everything at their home. What made it really special was two of my other cousins also had little ones of their own this past summer as well. So my Grandma Jones got to see all three of her great-grandsons at the same time.

She is screaming with them because they did not want to cooperate for the picture. :)

Here they all are for a close up.

And this one is my favorite of Kody and Trev.


Then Roger took me to the new Oquirrh Mountain temple. We weren't able to do a session, but we had a fun photo shoot. Although we had to wake Kody up from his nap so he wasn't too happy, but he was a trooper.

Roger brought up a ton of tomatoes from our garden and his mom and sister helped him to can...

So that was our week in Utah. When we were about ready to come home, Bill decided that he wanted to come down as well to see his grandkids. So we brought Bill & Pauline down. We enjoyed each other during their visit, and for the month of September we had a lot of family visiting with us, which was nice to see everyone! :) But of course we put them to work. Pauline, Kim and Amy helped us weed the backyard and got it looking great! Pauline & Julie were troopers and helped us can 2 boxes of peaches and 2 boxes of pears! So we have enough fruit to last us a lifetime, or at least until next year, we've been going through it pretty fast...

September was nice to see everyone and to spend some time with Bill. He was a great person and will be missed greatly. Grandkids were his favorite and we were so glad that he got to visit with Kody. He passed away 1n October and so we had another trip out to New Mexico for the funeral. It was good to see extended family that we hadn't seen in a long time.

This was just a short trip and I have to say, Kody and I will not be making a long distance trip anytime soon! Poor Kody was such a trooper and slept all the way their, but then he was pretty much in the car seat for 4 days, so by the time we came home he had had it with the car seat. And with all the stress I had been under, I came down with a head cold on the way home. So between me feeling bad, and Kody screaming all the way from Gallup we both about had our fill of car rides!!

But now we are settled down and back to normal. I have returned to work and Pauline came down last week to live with us for a few months to help take care of Kody while both Roger and I work. THANK YOU PAULINE!! Grandma and Him have too much fun during the day, but that will have to be another post. Hopefully it won't take as long next time... :)