Family Portraits

Today we took our first family portraits since Darion was born. It is amazing how much work it is to get everyone looking at the same place at the same time but after about fifty tries we got it!

Go Texas Rangers!

GO TEXAS RANGERS!
We have a lady in our ward who can get adult tickets half off for the Rangers games. This was our first one and it was a blast. We got to enjoy being surrounded by friends from our ward. The coolest part was that there was a Fireworks show afterward to the theme of Elvis, always cool, and then as soon as they were over the jumbotron came on while the Mens American swim team was in the first lap of Michael Phelps eighth gold medal race. Wow, to get to watch that at the stadium with all of the people chearing was amazing! Needless to say we are Phelps and Rangers fans now.

These are the before and after pictures of our yard this weekend. The top two were taken on Friday and the bottom ones were taken on Sunday after a 13 hour Saturday. We worked soooo hard and are so tired today but we are happy with the results. One of our neighbors came over a few days ago and helped Cory take down the old shed in the backyard. Saturday one of our nighbors took Alyssa for the day and our neighbors from next door and across the street came over toward the end of the day and helped us clean up by taking the extra sod and rock into the backyard while some others swept and hosed off the patio and driveway. They even treated us to Pizza after all the help that they were. We have great neighbors and are so thankful for the help that they are to us. We are happy with the results.

Our Baby Boy

Darion is 16 months. This picture was taken on his first birthday. He has since had a hair cut, gotten a bit taller, and Tanner but his little face is still the same. We have all enjoyed having him around so much that we can't remember what life was like without him. He LOVES his Daddy! He walks around the house all day calling for Dada and checking every room for him. He laughs at Alyssa, and he's a little afraid of Wyatt at times but loves playing cars with him. He loves me but refuses to say Mama but for a few desperate times. When we ask him to say Mama he says Dada. He is tall and thin like his father and looks just like Cory's childhood pictures.

He is talking and signing quite a bit, in fact today he asked for a Cookie and Juice. He has started enjoying Ring Around the Rosie with Daddy and The Itsy Bitsy Spider with Mommy. We can't wait to see what he will do tomorrow.

Wyatt

Wyatt is our middle child and he has Autism. Wyatt is 5 and quite the handful, but so fun to have around at the same time. Life is never dull with him around and by the look on his face you can tell he feels the same. I can tell that he is perfectly content with who he is and I hope that he never changes his mind about that. I learn more from him in a day of being his Mother than I could in any school or other profession.

In the last few months Wyatt has tarted speaking at an amazing rate. He is using sentences, making requests, and telling us how he feels. If he doesn't like something that we are doing we get a loud "stop doing that" or "don't touch me". He has even started to tell Darion not to do all of the things that not to long ago we were telling him not to do. Our family wouldn't be the same without him.

Our Wonderful Daughter

Alyssa is 7 and is such a blessing to our family. Heavenly Father knew what he was doing by giving me such a sweet spirited Girl as my oldest child. Alyssa is always so helpful to us and her 2 little brothers. She puts up with a lot and makes sacrifices for the family all the time. This picture is of her on Easter in her beautiful dress that her Uncle Richard sent to her.

I had the opportunity to got to Girls Camp with the young women for 3 days and 2 night the first week in June and I had so much fun. I was the Beehive Advisor untill the week after camp when I was called to be the Young Womens Second Councelor. I am thankful to work with these awesome drama free girls. They are so great to the leaders and to each other, I couldn't ask for a better group to serve with and for.

RATED "C" FOR CUTE

I have been wanting to create a blog for some time now and since the rest of my family (the Shaws) are together this week on vacation and we (the Hunters) are not able to be with them I thought I could atleast let them see our family in action. I have more down time now from my various body aches so I thought that I would put this time to good use. I have hours and hours of home video that I am in the process of converting to DVD so I am attempting to display it here for anyone to see. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyd making it. I could watch it a million times, but then again they are my cuties. This video was taken in April 2008. Starring: Alyssa-6, Wyatt-5, Darion-14 mos, Cory- Daddy, and Haley- Mommy