Happy first birthday Tiya and Merry Christmas!

Santa Baby

fun in the snow

This is how tiya sleeps at night. It scares me I have to make sure she is still breathing.


She loves to help me do the dishes.
She has started to finally say ma ma!

Here are some cute pictures of Gwen and Tiya.

Halloween Party!

My mom takes about all year to make all the grand kids halloween costumes as well as theirs. The kids choose what they want to be each year.
Tiya is a butterfly, my sisters 3 kids are all ninjas, my brothers kids are minnie mouse and mickey mouse and daisy duck. My parents are bees which tiya was really scared of. She would cry when they would get close to her. Today was our halloween party and it was so much fun!

Fun at the Cabin

All the Grandkids. My parents cemented this bear in front of the cabin and the grandkids put their hand prints with their initials in the cement.
My brothers kids Brittany, Megan and Garrett. My sisters kids Izen, Zayden, and the new baby Taven. And of course me and Tiya.


Tiya had fun chasing the dogs around in this play stroller.

Tiya Can Crawl!

We went to get Tiya's pictures taken, here are some of them!

Tiya has been crawling for about 2 weeks. She was really sloppy at first, but now she's a lot better. We have to watch her every second now!

Her favorite thing to do is get into the garbage, including sucking on the bag from the side. I don't see how that could be fun..She can get to it well from her walker. Also she loves to watch the dogs and grab at them. she will laugh and laugh at kinzie, it's so cute.

The bottom picture is what tiya first started to do before crawling, which were basically push ups. I tried to load a video of her crawling, but we just got this computer and it is not letting me load videos here. maybe we will post one next time.

As for me and dain... I am just working still, same days and everything. Dain's last day at work is today and Monday he will be working at Scaddy's!!!!!!!

july trips

Flaming Gorge. Drew, Katie and Jake enjoying "Dain's wicked boat".





Jake hiding from the sun.

Katie and IZZY

Tiya enjoyed the boats too


Dain got our white four wheeler stuck in the mud at my parents cabin. He was riding with my niece brittany when they got stuck in the mud. My brother trevor had to go rescue them and they were all covered head to toe in mud.


Tiya likes her new pool we bought for her to swim in. So much Summer fun, i don't want it to end!

Update of our family..

No Tiya is not crawling yet, but she 's close. Right now she falls on her face after being in this position for too long. I am surprised by her and how fast she is growing. It seems like every week she is learning something new! It's exciting to see how she learns and watching her try new things. Especially new foods. When she tries them for the first time she gags and makes the funniest faces, then the next time the eats it she can't get enough of it!
One thing she really loves is to drink out of the glass you are drinking out of- no matter what is in it. Ask brenda, Tiya would not give her glass of ginger ale back at dinner the other night. It was so funny and adorable. She is definitely developing her own personality. She can be so stubborn already and i can imagine she will only get more opinionated and more stubborn. That's okay it keeps things interesting.
Dain is still working at fusion and I am working in two different dental offices but my schedule is different every week. usually i work every wednesday and some mondays. I am still looking for more hours so me and dain can start working on our house and pay off bills. The office i work in on mondays every once in a while is where i would love to work full time. This doctor i used to work with before i went to school and he just started his own practice so he doesn't have enough patients for me to work more than a couple of mondays right now but he is trying to fill his schedule because he wants me to work more too. Hopefully this will happen soon.
Tiya is growing up so fast that me and dain would rather not work so we don't miss a thing!
We are so excited to take her to flamming george, which is coming up soon. I can't wait to show off her fun bikini!
-Alyse

Tiya got her ears pierced today!

She did great! I felt bad that she cried even if it was just for a few minutes.
She doesn't even notice them.