Monticello

One highlight of every year is being able to go to Monticello for the hunt. In previous years, I just camped out with the guys and helped watch out for the big bucks. This time, I stayed at Grandpa and Grandma Schaugaard's and got to hang out with Grandma Schaugaard, Becky, Amber, and Kaitlin. Later, Sandy and Wade came to join the fun too.

This year, Gary didn't draw out for the deer hunt, but we still got to go because he got to hunt for elk. Sadly, they didn't even see one elk. But it was still nice to go visit. Later, when all the guys came back, and we celebrated Gary's dad's birthday and all watched conference together. Monticello is just beautiful in the fall, and you just can't beat the company :)

Tucker and Great Grandma Schaugaard

Tucker and Great Grandpa Schaugaard

Tucker and Great Grandma Schaugaard

Tucker and his Grandma Schaugaard

Tucker and Grandpa, someday they will have some good hunting stories to tell from hunting together :)
Two boys in camo

Amber and Tucker

Kaitlin and I shot some arrows in the back yard

A sweet Hunting Over the Hill cake that Wade made for Craig's birthday

Grandpa and his cake 

Gary helping Tucker sneak a little frosting

Tucker eating some rice cereal...just a little messy

Our New House

We moved into our new house! It took a lot of hard work and multiple amazing friends and family to get the house all cleaned and painted and ready for us to move in. Seriously we could not have done it without you!!! This is what it looked like before we moved in. 

Front Room: light green

Kitchen: magenta

The washroom and upstairs bath are just past the pantry closet. I didn't get a pic of the washroom.

Upstairs Bath:

Hallway and closet: magenta

Master Bedroom: purple with light pink trim

Master bathroom: yellow and white

Tucker's Room: light green

Going downstairs: gray walls and gross carpet

Downstairs Family Room: gray 

The previous owners left us some lovely furniture.

Nook off of Family Room/aka future ping pong tournament room

There is a downstairs bathroom and two bedrooms that I didn't take a before picture of because I thought we weren't going to paint them. We ended up painting one of the bedrooms. I will have to do a video tour or something so you can see the finished product. 

Because of the bright colors of our walls, we had to get everything with primer. We had to tape off all the fixtures, cabinets, flooring, etc. This is DeeAnn as the white primer monster :) She sprayed everything down. She and Bill stayed at the house till 4 in the morning because we had some time restraints and needed to get everything ready to paint for the next day. 

Here are some people who helped: Willie, Gary, and Chris. This is in the downstairs hallway.

Gary and I pause for a minute for a picture. He really did paint me. Not on the face though, all over my leg. 

Here is Justin putting up a light fixture next to the Laundry Room.

Grandma ad Grandpa Haroldsen were in town and came to help.

Ashley and Sophie were some awesome painters :)

Sophie and Tucker kept each other company part of the time.

Here is little Tucker just tuckered out. He was sooo good the whole time. He just sat in his bouncer, kicked his legs, and watched all of us paint.

Tucker got a chance to get out of his bouncer while Bill held him.

We decided the babies had had enough of the dust and so we Scott and Nate outside to watch them. Brutis helped watched them too.

Here's our little family working so hard on our new house. Tucker is ready to paint with his little paintbrush. This is in the Front Room. The front door is right behind us.

There are so many people that we didn't get pictures of who helped out so much with getting our house ready, helping us move, watching Tucker, and just helping us out. We want to thank all of you! We couldn't have done it without you. There are just so many that helped that I don't even think I can list all of them. Thank you so much!

Stay tuned for more updating. I have many more pictures and events to still catch up on.

He Thinks He is SO Big

Since our washer started leaking, we started doing our laundry at the Harmon's house. Well, Tucker sees Sophie crawling around all over the place and trying to walk, so he thinks that he should be able to do it too. He will roll over on his tummy and kick his feet and try his hardest to be big and crawl like Sophie, who is 5 months older than he is. He isn't even 4 months yet! He does get frustrated after a while when he realizes that he can't get anywhere.  

Another thing he does is, when he's sitting on my lap, he will grab my hands and push himself up so he is standing. He is pretty strong. Here is a picture of him standing up next to the couch. He can stand there  by himself for a long time just leaning against the couch!

Since we found out that we are getting a house, we have also been playing with the idea of getting a dog. Who can say that this kid doesn't need a dog?! We will look up dogs on KSL and then show him the pictures, and he just smiles so big!

Our Little Swimmin' Boy

A couple of weekends ago we went boating with some friends. Tucker came along and hung out on the boat. He was a pretty good sport. Our friend had  a better life jacket for him that doesn't squish his face, like the one we bought for him. When Daddy was in the water Tucker went for a swim too, in the middle of the lake! At first he didn't like it because it was cold, but then he really liked it after he got used to it!

Daddy wakeboarding

Mommy wakeboarding

Daddy and Tucker swimming in the lake!

Mommy and Tucker hanging out on the boat
Chris, Gary, and Tyler & Nicole hanging out on the boat

Twist of Events

So we have been renting an apartment in here in St. George since we had to move out of the house we were renting. Some of you may know that we were previously (March-April) looking for a house down here. We put some offers on some short sales, and had some that we thought we might get. But alas, everything was taking so long, and we finally gave up and figured that we would just move up North for Gary to get his Masters. Well, out of the blue, we just heard this last month that our offer on one of the houses was accepted! We are moving there at the end of this month!

Bahaha!

Gary got a link for this in an email. Considering that last month just ended, I feel that it is appropriate for all of the home teachers and visiting teachers out there. I was definitely laughing!

He wants to be awake...ALL OF THE TIME!

Last night after I put Tucker back to bed after feeding him, he decided to stay awake and play...for over an hour. We could hear him in the other room just babbling on in his little baby language. He wasn't crying or anything, just talking and talking and talking...and talking. I guess Tucker just couldn't get back to sleep. That being said, neither could I. He is not wanting to take his naps anymore either.

He also has this new fascination with his feet. I will go to get him up after naps or in the morning, and he is usually just sitting there holding onto his toes or trying to grab them.

Another thing is that he is attached to his "silky" blanket. He absolutely loves it. Is it child abuse when you know your kid just might get made fun of for being attached to a "silky" in high school? 

Sophie and Tucker just staring at each other. 

Gary wrapped him all up in his silky. Tucker could barely move!

He has a little elephant he always plays with, and he loves to chew on the elephant's ears because they make a crinkly noise.

There are just so many new things that I notice about him, like he gets all frustrated when he can't reach something that is just out of his hand's grasp, or when we put him in his bouncer chair and he tries to sit up more upright than the angle of the chair. He is also a thumb sucker.