XOXO

I just wanted to post a tribute to my wonderful husband. I love him so much and I want everyone to know what a wonderful husband he is.

He makes my day everyday!

He makes me laugh all the time.

He is such a hard worker and I really admire him for that.

He is passionate about flying.

He is a great pilot and I know that one day his dream will come true.

He upholds his priesthood responsibility and teaches me about the gospel and about myself everyday.

He is such a great dad to Walker.

He is really good looking. He will be the first to tell you that though. :)

I love him so much! I love you Marshall!

6 months!!

Update

Well, a month has passed since I posted last so I thought I would write a quick update! Life is going good!! Life as a new mother is getting better and better. Walker is getting big and smart. He rolls over like crazy. He will NOT stay on his back anymore. He practices all night in his crib! The nights are awesome now! He goes to bed at 8 and usually doesn't wake up until 7 or 730 in the morning! Marshall and I are loving our alone time at night! Woo WOo! Just kidding. Marshall is STILL looking for a job flying helicopters, but the way the economy is now the jobs are slim pickins. Helicopters are a luxury and something people are having to start doing without. Darn it! Hopefully the economy will make its turn around sometime soon (fingers crossed) and he can find a job! Meanwhile he is working at a steel factory which is great in the mean time. We are really thankful that he has a job at all! I am just plugging away day by day. I celebrated my 24th birthday the other day! I had a great birthday. Marshall took me down to the gateway for lunch and we actually had a star sighting!! Stanley Tucci ( I know him from The Devil Wears Prada, but he is in a lot of other things). Not a HUGE star, but my first star sighting none the less. Marsh then paid for me to get my hair done. Which I needed desperately. So I had a good birthday! The other day we went to the hunting expo and saw another star, Well, two stars actually. Shaun Bradley the 7 foot 6 inch basketball player. A Utah native. And Jeff Foxworthy! Yeah we sat there and stared at him for quite a while. Star struck. If I moved to California i'm pretty sure i'd spend everyday trying to see celebrities. Maybe I'm a little too obsessed. We are planning a trip down to Moab to go riding, but the weather is looking a little grim so i'm not sure we will be going! oh well. Anyways, that is whats new with us. I'm sure I will be posting in a few days as Walker is turning 6 months!!!!

5 months!

My baby is 5 months old today! Holy cow! He is just getting cuter and cuter everyday!

House-Sitters-R-Us

This past week we have been house/baby sitting for my relatives while they were gone on a cruise. We watched my cousins 6 year old little boy all week. We had such a fun time with him. He is such a joy to be around. He is so amazing. He is blind and has been since birth. He was dealt a pretty rough hand, but he deals with it so well and is just always happy and upbeat. I learned a lot from him this past week. I learned patience (well, I tried my hardest!). I learned that I CAN deal with whatever heavenly father gives me. I learned to be thankful for the healthy baby boy I have. I learned to be even more appreciative of my spouse. I learned to not take the little things for granted (now if I can just remember that on a daily basis). I learned that I have amazing relatives, who I look up to and I learned that I have an angel of a six year old cousin! I am so thankful for that experience.

Holiday Fun

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Ours was great! Santa doesn't deliver to morturarys. So that sucked, but we still had a great time. We went over to the Christiansens in the morning and opened presents with them and then went over to grandma and grandpa C's to have Christmas morning breakfast. Can you say delicious??? Salsa on everything! AND kneaders french toast. MMMMMMM! I'm pretty sure I've gained 10 pounds in the last few days. The ten pounds I was supposed to start losing come the new year. Dang. After that wonderful meal we went over to grandma and grandpa Banks and celebrated with them! We had a great time talking with them and we got a beautiful candle. Later that evening we went and saw the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. WAY long movie, but Brad Pitt was good to look at. We have enjoyed the snow. I thing it is a lot of fun to have a lot of snow. I hate driving in it, but I still thing it's fun. It just makes me think of everything being clean when it snows. My sister is in town from college, but has mono so i'm excited to see her but she can't do much. We celebrated my moms 50th birthday last week as well. I didn't take any pictures, but it was a really fun surprise party! So that was pretty much our Christmas day!
The tree. A little bare, but thats how we like it.
Can anyone see the baby? His dad loves him in camo! We're a little bit country.

Walker and dad!

Walker on christmas morning in his christmas jammies. Just wanting to take a nap!

Aunt Hannah gave Walker a new toy to play with. He is still too small for it, but he doesn't mind hanging out in it for a couple minutes while I clean the kitchen. He is getting SO big! Life is getting pretty fun with him. What a fun little guy!

We made our first attempt on starting Walker on rice cereal. It failed miserably. He was all sorts of confused. So we tried for a while and gave up. We didn't have the right equipment anyways. No baby spoons. I guess we'll just keep trying!

We made out trip down to grandma Mayfields the day after christmas. It was a really crappy drive down, but we made it and we had a wonderful time eating delicious food and going sledding. We look forward to sledding every year in Mayfield canyon. It was REALLY super cold so we didn't go as far up the canyon as we would have liked, but we still had a lot of fun. Here is a picture of Marsh in his snow attire. Does anyone else think we should invest in some snow gear? Doesn't everyone wear hip waders and tennis shoes when they go sledding? I'm pretty sure he is doing a pelvic thrust to.......

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night?

I haven't posted in an eternity! Life has been a little bit stressful and busy for us. I have been sick, Walker has been sick and both of us were sick during our one insuranceless month! Of course! I have been working longer hours these past few weeks because of the holiday rush. So i ususally don't get home until around 8 or 9 at night and poor Marsh has to clean the mortuary by himself. This past week has been hectic. Walker has been constipated (poor little guy) and we have had to switch to all formula. So this past week we haven't gotten much sleep ( getting up in the middle of the night to make a bottle SUCKS)and the poor little guy is just confused, but I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. :) We have a lot of holiday parties to go to that I'm excited for. Hey! You can't beat a free dinner! And some time away from the munchkin. We went and got Walkers christmas pictures taken last saturday. Let me tell you, I was NOT impressed with Sears at taking his pictures. Cheesy cheesy backdrops ( and of course marsh picked the cheesiest one of them all that he HAD to have) and they were SO SO SO SO slow. That was the worst part. You would think that they would know by now that when you are taking portraits for an infant you would try to do things as fast as possible, because you only have a few precious moments before they start SCREAMING! We got a few cute ones though. There are a TON of pictures of him sucking his hands because that is just all he seemed to want to do! But my heart just melted when i saw the pictures. What a cute little bugger. And he has his daddies ears!!! He is four months today! yay!