My HERO!

This post is dedicated to my wonderful, patient, and supportive husband! He has helped me out so much! We have had three weddings within the last six weeks that we have had to help in some of the planning. It has been really busy and Anthony has just been the absolute best! He watches the boys so that I can do all my errands, go take pictures, and just have some me time! I so appreciate him and love him so much! This past week I have also been sick and he has been willingly to stay home and take care of things so that I can have some recoop time! He is so good with our boys too! He tells them wonderful stories (I some how did not get that gene) and keeps them busy outside! You can tell that they love him so much! Anthony also clears off the table and helps with the dishes almost every night! He is so perfect and I just love him so much!

The best thing that he has done lately for me was build me a website that I could post some of my photography on! I was so surprised and it made me feel so special and loved! He gives me the confidence I need to do my best! He totally supports me in photography hobby! He gives me time to take pics and helps with photoshop to make them look better as well! He is the best! This is the address to the website that he built for me.

http://www.daydreamphotostudio.com/


I love it! When you click on the pictures it makes them bigger! Your the best honey! I love you!

Labor Day Birthday!

Andrew celebrated his second birthday on Tuesday! He has gotten so big so fast! He loves to sit and chatter and he is just so special to us! We love him so much! Andrew's birthday is special because it is one day before my dad's! My dad turned fifty this year and so to celebrate we had a baroque and went bowling! It was alot of fun!

Peter likes to say that his name isn't Peter Tietjen but Peter the Snake and his brother is Andrew the Turtle! Where he got this,I have no idea but I think that its kind of cute! So in honor of that cuteness, I made a turtle cake for Andrew's birthday! I was so excited about how good it turned out! If you know me, you know that I am horrible at decorating cakes! So I was really excited that this actually looked like a turtle when I was done!

This is James at Teton Lanes. My dad, my brothers Glen and James, and Anthony were on my lane and my sister, Rachal, and my mom and I plus the two boys were on the other! Not very evenly match but it was still fun! James is a pretty good bowler and so is my dad and Anthony. But me, not so good! I done right horrible so I was glad to be able to bowl with the kids who had the bumpers! Got love the bumpers!
Andrew had so much fun bowling! They have a ramp that kids can use! They just put the ball on top and push! Andrew did awesome! He got 106, which beat both me and Rachal! It was a great activity for our family and one that I think we will be doing for more often now!
My mom after she got her third strike! She bowled an awesome game and beat everyone the first game! (The girls and the little kids only bowled once but the guys got to do two games because they were faster!)
This was Rachal's face after the boys reset the pins just after she got a strike! It was her first and only for the night and we all felt really bad! But she was a good sport and it's kind of funny now that we look back on it!

The scores! You might need to click on the picture to see it better! But as you can see, we all did pretty good! I was pretty excited about my score! It was the highest I've gotten in a long time and I only used the gutters maybe once! (even time it was my turn that is) Anthony had an awesome second game! He got a turkey and the his personal best score! I was so proud of him and he was such a great example of sportsmanship! He didn't gloat or all! I definitely would have! He teaches me so much! Overall, it was great day! We had a blast!

Catch Up!

I know that I haven't posted in a while so I will play catch up in this post! Our family has been busy with weddings and all the stuff that involve it. Kyle (part of the Womack/Monson gang) got married on the 22nd of August.





Kyle and his new bride( my new sister-in-law) Tamara! They are a great couple and we are so excited for them.

Th Womacks have a huge Willow Tree outside of their house. When we were little we would swing on the branches! Megan and I introduced our children to the sport! Funny how our moms gushed at the cuteness when it used to bring screams of distress!
Peter absolutely loved this! He kept saying that he wanted to be Peter Pan! He was so cute about it! He was always making sure that Andrew got his fair share of swings! He is such a great big brother!
Anthony had to get into the action as well! It took a while to find a branch that was strong enough to hold his weight but he eventually was swinging like Tarzan! My husband is such a great sport! He kept pushing the kids and taking care of them so that I could have time with my family! I just love this guy!

We had some of friends over a couple of weeks ago that we hadn't seen in about two years! It was awesome to get together and compare kids and to remember good times! Jake and Anthony went to high school together and have hilarious stories about those days! It was a lot of fun to be together!
Sophie and Peter together! They are about four months apart! Peter loved having someone his age hanging out! He even thanked Heavenly Father that night for his friend Sophie, who's a girl! That's how he put it!

This is Kennon! Isn't he so cute! He loved the stairs and all the exploring that they allowed him!


Peter had his first fishing experience a couple of weeks ago! He caught his first fish and he just loved it! He talked about for about a week! The whole thing bad that happened was that our camera feel in the pond! I was so upset! I wanted to cry but didn't because I knew that Anthony felt really bad about it! So we talked about it and I got a new camera out of it! YES! And then the next day after buying it, our water logged camera began to work! So I got new one and Anthony gets the old one! I love how it worked out!

So we have had a very productive garden so far! This is me canning the last of our fourteen quarts of pickles! All the cucumbers came out of our garden! I was so surprised to get so many and it was a really cool experience to can them! I felt so homemak-ey and it made me feel like I accomplished something awesome!

The finished product! I was very surprised when I opened a bottle and they actually tasted good! I just used the pickling mix that you can get in the canning section of the store! They have been so yummy and it makes me feel so good to open them and eat them!

Carrots and onions from our garden! Anthony and I spent three hours cutting, peeling, blanching, and freezing all these carrots to only get 12 servings or about six bags! We were so discouraged! Carrots are so not worth the effort! I have enjoyed the onions and be able to freeze them as well!

New Hair

I finally was able to get my hair cut! I was so excited! The lady that I have do it is in Shelley (which is near my home town) so I had to travel there to get it cut but I love it. We were on our way down to see my mom because we were going to a bridal shower for my future sister-in-law Saturday morning. So I took the chance while I had it! Anth watchedGlen watch the boys all day Saturday while my mom, my sister Rachal, and I went to the shower and then shopping for outfits for the wedding. HAHAHA!!

BEFORE
AFTER
Isn't it amazing how a new haircut can make you feel? I feel like a new person and about twenty pounds lighter! I always have to have my hair thinned because it is so thick! NE ways...now only if I could figure out how the stylist did my hair, I will be great!

Primary Activity Day

So this week was a little more busy then I expected it to be. We had a Primary Activity Day on Tuesday and because I am the secretary I got to be involved in the planning. It was a lot of fun! We did a pioneer theme because our stake does a Martin Cove's Handcart trek this year and we wanted the kids to be able to be part of that. We had six stations that they could stop at that were part of the trail west. We suggested that they dress up in pioneer grab and come prepared to feel like a pioneer! So if anyone needs an idea for an activity day, let me know and I can email you the stuff. I got to taste Horseradish for the first time and it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. But I did only take a very small taste. Ne ways...I loved being able to dress like a pioneer and to experience a little of pioneer life. But you know me, a sucker for history!

Me with the other members of the presidency! I love these ladies! They have made me feel so welcome and loved! It hasn't been an easy transition for me into a family ward but they had definitely helped smooth the way!

HE'S ENGAGED!

So my brother James dropped a huge bombshell on my family when two weeks ago he announced that he was engaged and that they were getting married September 5th! Kind of surprising for us because he only first told us about three weeks before they were engaged! Crazy!!!! Ne ways... below are some of their engagement pics I took for them at the Gardens!

Our First Family Vacation

In honor of both Anthony and I graduating, we declared the need for our first ever family vacation, just our family. We decided to take the boys to Salt Lake to see Hoglo Zoo and to also see Temple Square. Way adventurous, I know, but for two little boys who do not travel well this was big! We talked about for months and got Peter so excited to see elephants and giraffes. We left Thursday morning and traveled all the way to Salt Lake having to make only two stops. Early this summer we bought a portable DVD player at a garage sale for a steal ($10) and that saved our lives. The boys watched movies all the way to Salt Lake, plus took a nap! Our first stop was to This is the Place monument. Neither Anth or I had ever saw it before and decided it would be fun. Come to find out they have a heritage park there that is like a mini pioneer village where kids can do all kinds of crafts and other activities that are related to the pioneers. It was a lot of fun. I would totally recommend it to anyone!

Us standing in front of the monument! It just happened that it was Pioneer Day as well.


This was one of our favorites! It just circles around a little lake but it was fun!
Here we are waiting for us to go on our ride. The boys really were excited. I think that they were just a little bit scared of it all!

The boys at the old school house pretending to be in school! It was really hot that day and most of the buildings weren't air conditioned! Just like the pioneer's day!They had some people there who were dressed up in pioneer clothing and pretend that they were pioneers. It was awesome!

This is us at Denny's! It was right next to our hotel! How awesome is that!

Thursday night we noticed that Peter's eye was starting to swell shut. He was bitten by a mosquito on Wednesday night and his forehead had swollen up but it wasn't until Thursday night that his eye swelled shut! This is him on Friday morning! We decided that an emergency trip to Urgent Care was necessary and attempted to try and find one. Almost two hours later we were back at the hotel with a prescription to help stop the swelling. Come to find out, Peter is allegoric t to mosquitos and that his eye swelled shut because of gravity. The swelling basically fell into his eye. So on top of being blind, he got to be a cyclops! Poor guy! We felt horrible for him. The whole point of the trip was so that he could SEE elephants and now he couldn't see ten feet in front of him.

The boys at Hoglo Zoo and a lovely shot of White Alligator. They are very rare and very powerful!

Us outside of the Alligator hut. My family came with us to Hoglo Zoo and we were waiting for them to come out. Peter is looking through the map trying to find the elephants.

Andrew succumbed to the need for a nap during the bird show that we watched. He slept for almost all of the zoo. Oh, well! He probably won't be able to remember much of it anyways.

The giraffes were my favorite part! I could remember them from when I was a kid! They had a baby there! I forgot how big they were!

My brother Glen and his resemblance to the gorilla! Pretty close!

Anthony testing out the hand gauge! Anthony had the longest hands in his family and so this was defiantly a temptation to try out!

And the whole reason for the trip to the zoo...the elephants! And wouldn't you know that they were working on the exhibit and so this was as close as we could get! Peter could hardly see them! I felt so bad but he got over faster then I did!

Our last day was spent on Temple Square and at the Gateway! Peter walked into the square and we began to ask him, where the temple was and he looked around and said, "I can't see it!" By this time, his eye had opened up considerably...he just won't look up high enough. That and he was looking for the Moroni statue on top.

Us in front of the Hyrum and Joseph statues!

We decided to let the boys play in the water at the Gateway before we left to go back home. They had a blast! Peter was completely drenched! Andrew was a little more timid but got into it as well.

So overall, it was alot of fun and very tiring! I think that I am still recovering! Not really! I can't wait to go back and spend more time at the Gateway. They had this really cool looking Discovery Center there, kind of like a children's museum, that I really want to take the boys too! Maybe next year!