Vegas part 2

Owen is 2 months old and I thought it was time that his Uncle Tyson and Aunt Amanda finally meet him. josh and I made the long drive down to Vegas to visit my brother and his family. normally it takes about 10 hours to get there, but it took us a good 14 hours. We did stop at temple square to get out of the car and to get Owen some fresh air. I was a bad mom and got owen out of his car seat to eat and to stretch a lot!

Temple Square was gorgeous with all the tulips and other flowers in full bloom. We hadn't been there since Josh proposed in Oct of 07!

picture out of order, but this is us taking a brake while shopping.

Owen did so well considering he screams for ever when ever he is in his car seat. He travels like his mom...sleeps most of the way!

it was a beautiful day and so many weddings!

taking a pit stop to eat and change a big blow out diaper.

my little big Lukey Monster! i can't believe how much he has changed since Christmas.

Kole Buddy loved Owen. He would always get right in his face and love on him or try to calm him when he cried.

We all went to the movie in the park one night and enjoyed riding the carousal.

We always have a great time with Tyson and Amanda and can't wait for them to live closer to us again one day, hopefully.

3 years

May 10th marks our 3 year anniversary! wow... i can't believe it's already been 3 years and so much has happened in that time! most importantly the arrival of our sweet baby boy! I love Josh more today then i did when we met over 4 years ago! i'm lucky i get to spend all eternity with this man. i can't wait to see what this year brings us.

newborn baby

When Owen was 2.5 weeks we had his newborn pictures taken. he was a little pill and refused to sleep during the session and was WIDE awake and fussy. So out of a ton of pictures she snapped only like 18 turned out. The photographer did a great job and i was grateful for her patience with my baby. I think the pictures turned out beautiful and i'm happy to have the fresh baby Owen captured in pictures for ever.

if you want to see all of them go to Brookemackphotography.com

May Day what a day

beside the beautiful flowers i got for May Day my beautiful son was given a blessing by his wonderful dad and all the men that mean the world to us(Josh, Lance, my dad, cory, brent and my uncle Clyde). we did miss my brother Tyson not being there, but i know he was thinking of little Owen. I'm so grateful for the priesthood and the blessing that come from it. I love my wonderful husband and the great blessing he gave our son. Owen did so good, didn't make a peep. Me on the other side was over come by the spirit and cried like a baby.

Jill and her family made the 45 min drive to be here for owen.

I loved his sweet white outfit and the handmade shoes by his great grandma Willden.

I'm so grateful for my big family and that they were all here to help us celebrate owen being in our lives. at times he is such a struggle but i wouldn't change it. i love my sweet baby boy and the blessings he brings to all of us.

Slacker

I've been a slacker on my blog, but there are a few new post below. Enjoy ready and seeing what the willden's have been up to!

Easter Sunday

I had planned a great Easter for my little family and all my ideas went down the drain! i was bummed that owen didn't have his easter basket, but then i remembered that he probably won't ever remember that the Easter Bunny didn't come to his house this year!

(it's kinda hard to get a picture of all three of us by ourselves)

I love my son and so grateful for the wonderful blessings he brings to our family.

Softball Season

it's that time of the year again when Josh is consumed by Softball! it actually is a real fun time for us. My brother wasn't able to get a team together this season, but luckily he has friends that ask him every year to play on their team and he turns them down because he plays with my brothers, and this year he can play with his buddies! He has a game in a couple of days and he needs some batting practice. so we went to the great Wahooz and hit some softballs. it was a beautiful day on saturday and Owen loves to be outside. It was a nice family activity. I can still hit the ball like a pro!


my baseball stud!

Easter with g-ma

My mom and dad were going to have easter with my brother and his family in Vegas this year so we had Easter with g-ma and g-pa the weekend before. we did the traditional easter dinner feast, egg coloring, the egg hunt and the opening of the easter baskets the Easter bunny had left for the babies.

my mom had spotted a cool way of coloring eggs with crayon shreds! after we colored the eggs the traditional way we made crayon shavings and put them on a hot hot egg and watch the wax melt down the egg! they ended up looking so COOL!

Grant would've colored ALL the eggs if you didn't get some fast enough for yourself!

Sister finding the eggs. mom put money in some of the eggs!

owen was pretty exhausted, but the Easter Bunny had gotten him some new swim trunks, t-shirt and cute outfit and a church book!

our little family

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE

Auction Fun

Josh and I both spotted a really nice nursery was having a huge tree auction last weekend. We thought hey we might as well go down and see what it was all about. We got there with a ton of other people, watched a few trees being auctioned off and saw one guy buying a really nice tree for $35!! Josh immediately went and got an auction card, we picked the tree we wanted and waited and waited till they reached our tree. The auctioneer started and Josh was right there trying to get us first pick on the tree. We won! and got a really really nice tree for WAY cheap!

It then sat in our driveway for a week until we got a time and muscles to get that tree in our back yard! Luckily my mom came over to help and we were able to get that heavy tree in the back.

Tah-Dah!! we love and so excited to finally have a tree in our yard. it's really nice to look out the window and see a pretty tree and not just our neighbors.

one month

our sweet son turned one month last weekend! where did that month go? it went way too fast! we are loving having him with us and slowing adjusting to how he works. he is still sleeping 5-6 hours straight at night-eat and then go back down for at least 2 more hours, which has been so so wonderful! he was a super fussy baby, but we've discovered that he just was so hungry all the time. I've started to feed him more and he is a completely different baby! we have caught a few smiles from him, which have just melted my heart. He loves his baths and being swaddled and he loves being in the front pack, especially if we go for a walk!

he gets real mad in his car seat and scratches him face, so then mom puts socks on his hands and he never knows what to do with them after that!

tummy time on the boppy! he has always had real good control of his head. he's pretty strong!

my mom came over and watched him so josh and i could get out on our own for a bit. it was so nice!

i went to work and had molds made of his hand and foot. so dang precious, but he sure did hate the process!

"Mark E Mark"

Most know that my sis n law was due one month after i was. Well she ended up having her sweet boy two weeks early! Owen and his new cousin Mark are exactly two weeks apart. He's so tiny and hairy just like Owen. and just because i think my son is pretty darn cute....here's some new pictures of him.

gotta love the dream smile! things are going ok with little Owen. he eats a ton, sleeps through the night( see how long that last) and he's a little colic. But we love him and so happy to have him in our lives. not a whole lot has been happening in our lives besides taking care of our baby. josh will be starting softball soone and coaching a AAU basketball team for a few weeks. it's starting to warm up so hopefully owen and i will be getting our of the house more often. i'm exciting for summer time at the pool this year.