Been awhile...

Well its been awhile. A long while actually. We're in our own place now and making it day by day. Tyler still hasn't gotten his Inner State Transfer. It is taking FOREVER!!! Normally they don't take this long so maybe we're not suppose to be in AZ anymore but in ID. I don't know.

Anyways.....Tyler starts school at MCC next week. 8 more classes and he's got is Associates Degree. Yay him!!! :)

Me...I'm starting to work out again and will hopefully keep losing the weight that is dropping off. Fingers crossed people!!

Brig...is the typical 3 year old. Thinks he can do everything himself and will even tell me he's busy or to hold on a minute. Or to just wait. :) Amazing how well he talks now after getting his tonsils out and ear tubes put in. AND he is starting to like food too!!! Not just milk.

Gavin.....my baby is getting big. Still doing the army crawl but put that kid in his walker and he goes crazy in every direction. And he's darn proud of himself when he does it too. He's figured out music and what his body can do to did. Quite a little dancer. :) OH!! and he's getting his 2 bottom teeth but he smiles all the time. Not a whole lots of tears for that little man. Got himself a hair cut too.

What else is going on? My sister Merry Jo is getting Married in SLC in March. Her man is a good guy. Got to meet him over the summer. My other sister Beth is doing Junior Miss Arizona. Her pageant is tomorrow at Mountain View. And my parents and younger siblings are moving to ID this coming week. I don't know much else that is happening right now. Like i said going day to day. Bedtime. I'm the only one still up. Hopefully not for long.

Its time....

HE'S A COMING HOME!!! Tyler will be coming home next weekend depending on how long out-processing takes but he'll be home. He's still going to try to get into to airborne school but he felt we needed him here at home right now. So after 4.5 months, we'll have a daddy and hubby at home again!!

Brig is doing good and getting bigger. Sad news for him though is that he has to have surgery Nov. 3rd to get eat tubes and to remove his tonsils. He's talking more and more, though its still a little hard to understand him. But atleast he tries to make the right sounds. He's also learning his colors and numbers. Brig loves nursery at church and has started saying the dinner prayers with a little help from me or Grandmom. Potty training is at a stand still right now due to the upcoming surgery and he screams everytime I put him on the toilet. LOL!! Candy and stickers have lost their glory with this little boy.

Gavin is getting big. He's in the 95% for length and 25%-50% in weight. So he's long and skinny. He fills out the 6-9 month clothes fairly well but they're very wide on him. He focuses so well and is constantly talking and laughing. He's starting to try rolling over but keeps rolling over and pinning his arm wrong so he can't go completely over. He loves his big brother. Saves the biggest smiles for him.

As for me, I'm starting to work out and slowly loosing the postbaby weight. I colored my hair a very dark brown. Its cute. My boys keep me busy but I've got lots of help which I'll be forever thankful for. I can't wait for Tyler to get home, its been along time.

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Just life going on while Tyler's at boot camp at Fort Jackson, SC. I didn't get a picture of it but yesterday Brig hit Gavin with a Wii remote and than pulled him out of his swing while I was doing dishes. Brave baby didn't cry at all. He must know he's got a rough and tough older brother. :)


Brig helping Grandmom make bread.



Brig and I taking a picture to send to Tyler



"He's mine!!"




Just being silly.


I'm awake!! Hello my name is Gavin :)

Moments......

Just a few fun moments since we came home from the hospital :)

Our latest and greatest............. :)

This is baby Gavin Lewis Horton. He was born May 3rd at 9:43 pm by c-section. He weighed 8 lbs 6 oz and is 20.5 inches long. Lots of dark blonde hair. He's perfect.

Brig is excited to have the baby here and home. He keeps wanting the baby to come and play with him thinking they could do things together now. When I explain to him that Gavin isn't big enough yet and that we have to be soft and gentle with him, Brig smiles and gives him a hug or a kiss.

Of course Gavin has Tyler and I wrapped around his little finger. Tyler leaves for boot camp on May 18th so he is spending as much time as he possible can with both of his little boys. I love him and will miss him while he's gone.

Much is happening....if only I could remember it all

So its been awhile since I last logged anything. Lets see if I can think of all thats happened.

Tyler joined the Idaho National Guard and leaves for Basic Training on May 18th but will be leaving from Phoenix. He'll be gone til end of September. He's totally excited and is having his first pre-basic training drill weekend this weekend. I got to talk to him tonight...which I didn't think I'd get to. He said it went pretty much the way he thought it would go and thought it totally cool. :) We'll be moving back to Mesa in mid-April. We're excited to go. We'll miss Idaho but definitely not the snow. I'm 7 months pregnant but the baby is measuring big by about 2-3 weeks. Brig is excited to be a big brother. He'll pat my tummy and talk gibberish once in awhile. Brig is trying to potty train himself. He'll go and stand at the toilet. If I get to close to even try to help him he tells me to get back!!! The last few days I've just let him run around without his diaper once he pulls it off but I set a timer and tell him he has to have a diaper on when it goes off because Daddy will be home soon. He's been really good about it. Only peed on the floor once and told me about while he was going. He was a big boy and put a towel on it when I got over to him. :) All I can say is that there is some benefit from having no doors on any of the rooms in our house right now.....bathroom included.

Busy Busy Busy

So things have been happening and days have been going on. Let's see if I can recall all thats happened in the last 3 weeks. The kids are getting along great. Emma is always telling Brig...."Big no. Big sit down." Things like that. Of course like any two 2 year olds they fight over toys or one makes the other cry for no apparent reason. Brig gave Emma her first black eye. He threw a jenga block at her and it cut her right below her left eye. Poor little girl cried so hard for like 5 mins and Brig just kept trying to give her a hug to say sorry. He doesn't know how to say the word yet but he loves to give sorry hugs.
I'm doing okay with this second pregnancy. I get tired real easy and I tend to feel sick after I take my prenatal pills no matter what part of the day I take it. I've been dealing with alot of lows and an occasional high with my bloodsugars. I got "tickled" on Sunday Monday or Tuesday coming home from Idaho Falls. It felt weird but it kinda felt like I was getting tickled from inside my tummy....twice. Tyler made the comment the other day that it seems like my stomach has a mind of its own because some days its bigger than others. LOL...
Tyler has decided to join ROTC at BYU-I but needs to get his gpa up just a little so it will take a semester to do that to get accepted to BYU-I. He's decided he wants to be a pilot in the National Guard and would become an officer through ROTC and get paid better than if he joined now as a private.
We finally get to move into our own place this weekend I think. It'll be nice.
We've gotten snowed on twice since we've gotten here and its supposed to dump more on us this coming weekend. I'm hoping it'll be alot but Jo is hoping not because she has a wedding to photograph this Saturday. Brig is funny with the snow. The first time it snowed he looked out the window and said..."ewwwwww!!" The second time it snowed he wanted to go playing it but wouldn't put his boots on so he didn't get to play in it. He watch Cars instead.
I'm guessing that before to long Brig will be ready to do the whole potty training thing. He took his diaper off the other day and brought it to me saying "Mommy.Mommy." I looked over at him and it was a stinky diaper. I took it from him and he ran for the toilet. He just had to sit on it. While sitting on the big boy toilet, he starts tearing off little pieces of toilet paper and dropping it in the toilet between his legs. Than something clicked and he ripped off a whole square and dropped it in behind him. It was very cute and he was very proud of him self.
So next week is Thanksgiving. We'll be at Tyler's aunt and uncle's house in Idaho Falls that day. Brig gets on with their family very well. There will be kids his age there on Thursday so I hope he gets along with them okay. If not, Casey or Jeff might have a little 2 year old tagging along behind them. (Those are 2 of Tyler's cousins)