Foust Family

Everett's Blessing

2011-05-25T12:17:00.000-07:00

Everett was blessed last Sunday May 22nd. Stu did such a great job and we were so blessed to have so many important people stand in for us. My grandpa was in town from Colorado who we named Everett's middle name after. We were so lucky to have him here. Also Stu's mission president is currently serving as the Visitor Center President in the Mesa Az Temple. He was able to stand in as well as Stu's Uncle Dave, his cousins Ty and Kris, both my brothers, my dad, my uncle Val and our good friend Todd Rogers who is like a second dad to me. It was such a great sacrament meeting as well. Since Stu's Uncle Dave is in the Quorum of the 70 he was presiding at the meeting and he gave his testimony at the end. Also there was a missionary farewell and he did such a great job. It was a spiritual feast.
For Everett's blessing I found Rivers and Everett matching bow ties from J Crew and I found me a skirt from Anthro to match. We decided to do a black and yellow color scheme. Also I have had a lot of people ask me where I got the other bow ties Everett has worn to church at and they are J Crew also.
We are so grateful to everyone who came for Everett's blessing. We love our little family and our little Everett so much!! We are so blessed!

We went to the Visitor Center after church to thank the Whites for coming. We will miss them so much when they are done.

Everett Ray Foust

2011-05-17T19:37:00.001-07:00

I am so horrible at updating my blog! Everett Ray Foust was born on April 12, 2011 at 10:15am. We went in at 3am to get induced. The computers weren't working very well that night so I didn't get started until about 430. I got my epidural at 8 am and went from a 6 to a 10 in about an hour and a half. I pushed for 20 minutes and he was here. 8lbs 8oz and 21 inches. This birth was 10 times easier than Rivers. He is the BEST baby and we can't imagine our lives without him! We love him so much and are relived Rivers does too!

Also Stu graduated from the Masters of Taxation at ASU. We are so happy he is done with school forever!!!

I also wanted to post some pictures of us going to church the last 2 Sundays. I love matching my little family! I don't have girls to dress up so I have to do it to my boys! We were all in brown on mothers day and last Sunday we were all wearing a hint of red. I love that Stu puts up with all of my nonsense.

2011-04-08T11:28:00.000-07:00

Rivers wearing Haylee's boots. He loves boots.... I think its time we got him his own pair. I guess it has been a little harder to keep up with my blog than I thought. I guess it comes with being 8 months pregnant and having a 2 year old. Rivers has been so much fun lately. I love watching him learn new things and grow. He is obsessed with coloring, building towers and castles and playing outside. He also LOVES LOVES to read and do puzzles. He woke up at 1 am (which he never does) Yelling in his room, " All done, read book, read book, egg and ham." He loves the book green eggs and ham but seriously did he have to wake up at 1 asking to read it!? He is so funny and keeps up laughing everyday with the stuff he says. I almost feel guilty at times for having another baby because I know Everett will take so much time away from Rivers. I just hope Rivers will want to be involved (in a good/safe way) We are so excited to meet this little man! I will be getting induced Tuesday at 3am! So ready.

Baby Everett, and Disneyland

2011-02-08T16:06:00.001-08:00

Steve Porter shot this picture for our ward calendar of Riv and my dad in his garden.

I started to make a book for our family journal and took all my old blog posts and realized it is so much easier to have a blog and transfer into a book then to do it by scratch. So, I decided to start my blog up again in hopes I will do better this time around.

We are due in 9 weeks with our second boy who we are naming after Stu's grandpa Everitt Foust. We decided to change the I to an E so we can call him Rhett. We are so excited to add another little boy to our family and can't wait to meet him in just a few weeks. Rivers comes up to my stomach now and says baby Ebritt. It will be so fun for him to have a baby brother.

Stu is finishing up his last semester of his master's program and starts full time with BDO Seedman in June. We love the company and feel so blessed he has been able to work for them for the last year and a half and gets to continue working for them.

We have been cramming in a few trips before tax season gets too busy and Everett gets here. We went to Disneyland a few weeks ago for Stu's birthday, Then to Tucson for Wicked with our friends and then to Utah this last weekend for a boarding/Foust family trip. It was a ton of fun.

Next on our list, baby, tax season, graduation, fixing up the outside and master bath in our house and then Montana in June! We are looking forward to 2011 and all the wonderful things it will bring to our family!

Toy Story Mania was the best ride! Rivers was cracking up the whole time
Rivers with his favorite people in the world, Stu, Mary Poppins and Burt. He is obsessed with the movie and asks for it almost everyday.

Rivey is 1!!

2009-12-04T08:41:00.000-08:00

I can't believe my baby is one. I guess he isn't much of a baby anymore. He is taking lots of steps and being naughty. I love him more than anything and I am so grateful he is apart of our family! I figured I would list my 12 favorite things about Rivers, one for each month he has been apart of our family.

12. I love how you throw your bottle as far as you can when you are done drinking it.

11. (I don't love that you are the pickiest eater alive) I do love how you wave your hands back and forth when we put something in your mouth that you don't like.

10. I love to hear you say words and I love how you yell when we clap our hands and say yeah! Its like you are proud of yourself too.

9. I love how you love music and you clap your hands when we start singing if your happy and you know it clap your hands.

8. I love your bird lip

7. I love your brown eyes

6. I love how you get so excited when you see someone you love come in the room.

5. I love it when you are tired and you want to cuddle with me and hold your blanket and play with the yarn on it when you suck your thumb.

4. I love how you see your blanket on the floor and you will crawl and face plant into it and talk gibberish into it.

3. I love that you are happiest when you are outside or when you making a mess. I never knew you could be so cute covered in dirt.

2. I love that you stay in the bath so long you get all wrinkled. You love your bath more than most things!

1. My most favorite thing about you Riv is your gap the size of another tooth in between your two front teeth. It produces the cutest smile ever! I LOVE you turtle and i hope you have a happy birthday!

What in the world?!

2009-10-25T20:38:00.001-07:00

cutest baby in the world!
Riv in his beanie
Rivers playing in one of the many boxes of stuff coming for our house.

I guess everyone that has experience in remodeling a home will tell you it takes longer than expected and it is also more stressful than expected. I never thought picking out paint would be much more difficult then picking out flooring. However We are loving the way our home is shaping up and we should be moved in by the second or third week in Nov. We are finishing up painting next week, flooring goes in on the 6th and after that it should be smooth sailing. We will do landscaping and painting in the spring as well as fixing up the backyard by the pool.

Rivers is getting so old. He isn't my little baby anymore. It makes me so sad. He is moving around everywhere. He is so close to walking. He can say mama dada ba for ball dah for dog ca or tah for cat and he tries really hard to say Jesus. It ends up sounding like cheeses. He is such a funny little boy and he is so much fun. I must say the older he gets the more baby hungry I get but I assume that's natural. He likes to see how far he can go without getting told no no. He usually ends up doing what we were discouraging him to do. Its funny because after we say baby no, no he always laughs after he has done what we've told him not to do. We love our Rivey and he makes us laugh everyday. Thats all from here but we hope to have pictures of our house up soon!

Montana

2009-10-25T20:10:00.000-07:00

Ha! We went to Montana back in July and I am just posting pictures. It as always is our favorite trip and it was even better this year because we were able to take along my little sister Haylee and of course having Rivers there. Rivers loved being with all the cousins and it was a blast being at the ranch and going up to Glacier. The weather was amazing and of course our family skit night, softball tournaments and hiking made the trip amazing. Here are some of the highlights of our trip. These pictures are backwards.

Riv in a Cedar tree
us on the four wheeler

aunt Lindy and Riv

me and my baby

beautiful Glacier Park

Lindy and Zane and our little family

Riv in his Daniel Boon hat

I LOVE this picture of my baby

four generations

Rivers getting ready to go on a float trip

great grandpa Foust and Riv

Us at the River

River and his closest cousin Rhett. He is 7 months older than Rivers. He was born at 2 lbs so he is small for his age and OBVIOUSLY Rivers is large for his age.

Rivers did awesome on the plane. He slept more of the way

Home

2009-09-01T13:49:00.000-07:00

We bought a house and we are thrilled about it. We hopefully will be moved in by Oct 1st, that is if we can get all the flooring put in, paint up, wall built, doors hung, baseboards on and a million other projects. Our first project is done, the pool fence. I will post before pictures soon and hopefully after pictures in a month!

July Happenings

2009-07-12T10:08:00.000-07:00

We were able to go up to Stu's uncle Dave and aunt Nancy's cabin for the 4th of July. We had a great lunch and were able to do a few fun things there before it started to rain and even hail. They have some fun swings, a fish pond, a zip line and they brought some horses up. Riv got to go on his first horse ride. It was so cute and he LOVED it.

Riv and Stu watching the rain

my mom bought this cute birthday hat from the orange patch and it is adjustable to fit any size!!! Rivey loves it. Also there is a pocket inside with more candles to put on top.

We were able to go see Wicked. I love plays and I have to say this was one of my favorites for sure. If you haven't seen it, it is a must see.

hooray for wicked

me and hay before wicked

Here is Rivers with his best buddy Carson. Riv was giving him a baby massage on the shoulders.

I love it when my baby is all clean and in his monster towel!

Greenbeans

2009-06-20T11:41:00.000-07:00

We gave Rivers some greenbeans to eat, we got this reaction....

Rivey

2009-05-01T14:25:00.000-07:00

Rivers is getting HUGE! He loves to pound down his rice cereal and drink lots of bottles. He is so much fun. He has mastered rolling over, squealing and sleeping through the night! He loves to be outside in his stroller and loves church. Here are some pictures my brother Ryan snapped yesterday and a picture of my sister and me and Riv on Easter.

My reason for being a horrible blogger

2009-03-27T14:03:00.000-07:00

Rivers is almost 4 months. He is such a joy to have as my little sidekick. I love being a mom and wouldn't trade all the tired days for anything. He is growing so fast. We weighed him at my mom's work last week and he was 15 lbs 8 oz. He continues to makes us laugh every day. Last Sunday we had him in primary with us and one of the classes were doing their sharing time. They were playing a game and being quite loud and we don't know if it was the vibration of the microphone but Riv started belly laughing. We have heard him giggle before but this was a belly laugh and for almost 20 minutes straight. Stu had to take him out because he got our whole primary going. I love this little baby more than anything!

He fell asleep in his swing

my brother heath got him this Steve Nash jersey for Riv for Christmas. It is still way too big but Stu wanted to try it on him.

Look at that deliciousness.

Cowboy Riv

2009-02-07T17:57:00.000-08:00

All I can say is that I love that my brother is a photographer and that I have a baby. When Ryan gets a new lens or something exciting he is always wanting to try it out on someone. Who better than Riv. Here are some he took last night. Oh and he wasn't naked he had a diaper on. Also he is so chubby he kinda looks like he needs a bra. I love him and all of his chubby self. Also We buzzed his head. His new hair was growing in and all of his old, long hair was falling out so we made him go from old man baby to cute buzzed baby. Oh how we LOVE our baby Riv!

Family Pictures

2009-01-18T16:07:00.000-08:00

The other day my brother Ryan took our family pictures. We wanted to get some done before Heath left for his mission. We decided since we were all dressed and Rivers hadn't ruined his outfit yet that we would take our family pictures as well. Ryan did a great job! We loved how they turned out!

Heath and Riv. Heath left to the MTC last tuesday. It was bitter, sweet. We love him so much and will miss him a ton but he will be the best missionary. The people of Halifax are so lucky to have him for two years.

Two weeks

2008-12-21T12:29:00.000-08:00

I can't believe how big my baby is getting. He is growing so fast! We love having a baby in our home and he has brought such a sweet spirit.

I love dressing him up!

He really likes his aunt Alex

these are his cowboy pjs, they are the cutest ever!

his lumber jack outfit

My boys. Stu has been such a big help its great!

Baby Riv

2008-12-09T11:42:00.000-08:00

Rivers David Foust was born on Dec 4th at 9:26 am. he was 8lbs 13oz and was 22 inches long. He is such a big baby! I went in on the third at 8pm to be induced. They induced me at 10 and it seemed to go by so fast from there. I started pushing at 8 am and he was here just an hour and a half later. He is such a good baby and we are totally in love with him!!

he was just a few minutes old here and look at those cheeks!

first family picture

he is always sleeping

Halloween, baby shower and a girls trip

2008-11-02T11:31:00.001-08:00

I figured since I was behind a few posts I would just lump them into one. Anyone who knows Stu might know that he loves to dress up for Halloween. So for the past month he had this idea of us dressing up as Bleeker and Juno from the movie Juno. He went on a hunt for his costume and found some pretty good stuff. I pretty much just needed to find a plaid mini skirt and a orange and white striped shirt. It was an easy costume to pull off since i am 8 months pregnant. Stu even wanted the orange tick tacs and he wanted me to have the blue slushy. Here is what we came up with....

Last Tuesday was my baby shower. My awesome sister in law Alex and her super talented mom Charlie whom we like to call Charlie Mom, threw it for me. It was a lot of fun and the food was great. Thanks to everyone who helped out, Aunt Terri, Kristen and Mikki to name a few it turned out great!

super good cupcakes! Some had Butterfingers, others Oreo they were so good!

Last weekend My friend Melanie her sister Jenn, her friend Tamra and I decided we need to do a girls trip. I wanted to do something fun before the baby came and Stu is too busy with school and work for us to go anywhere together so I decided I would go with some girls instead. We decided to go to Saint George and hit up a store called Tai Pan. It is like a Poppy's mixed with Hobby Lobby but for wholesale prices. It is huge! the size of Costco. I love home decor stuff and lets just say it is worth the drive and I was in heaven. Anyways We drove to Vegas on a Thursday and that night we went and saw Mama Mia the play. Ive seen it before and loved the movie so I was excited to be able to see it again. Then the next morning we drove to Tai Pan and shopped for 4 hours. It was great. We left and drove home all night. It was a great trip and I had so much fun with those girls! Jen had 6 carts! I had two and mel had three. Good thing we brought the trailer!

Jen also brought feather boa's for us to wear to mama mia

Mission call, State Fair (weezer) and Cabin Fun

2008-10-21T15:39:00.000-07:00

This last week has been a busy one. First my cute little brother got his mission call, and for the record I totally called it like a month before! He is going to Halifax, Canada. It gets 40 below in the winter. He is going to freeze but we are all super excited for him and can't wait to go there when he is home in the summer time in two and a half years. It is beautiful. For anyone who has seen Anne of Green Gables it takes place in his mission area.

My sister Haylee took 2 hours and decorated this cake for Heath.

Last weekend my mother in law and her husband Greg were down. We had a good time with them and on Friday we were able to go up to Dave and Nancy LeSueur's cabin and spend the day with them and their kids. It was so much fun to be around family and in cooler weather. We love the LeSueur family and always have such a good time when we are with them.

we took Miley and Addie around on the quads.

Greg and Julie. It was so fun having them down from Utah.

Stu with Cole, Carter and Miley

Then on Saturday my brother Heath and his friend Nikki, Alex and Ryan and Stu and I went to the state fair to go to the Weezer concert, but decided to go a little early to spend time at the fair. We went two years ago to see the Beck concert but didn't do anything at the fair and decided to this time. Lets just say I'm not much of a fair girl. It could be that I'm super pregnant and had to walk around a lot or it could be the smell and seeing signs like Deep fried bacon chedder mashed potatoes on a stick. WHAT?! All in all the fair is entertaining, the Indian fry bread was great and Weezer was awesome! We were so bumbed because when we got there people were in our seats and wouldn't move! So we were attempting to get to our seats and the lights went off and the show started. I was just bumbed because our seats were a lot better than where we were. But we enjoyed it a lot and they played a lot of old stuff which we enjoyed. They played a lot from Pinkerton my favorite album. Our little guy sure was rockin out the whole time. It was funny.

I had to take a picture to prove it.

I am glad to know if I ever lost a child at the fair they have a trailer full of them.

Stu kinda looks like a cave man, but it could just be that HUGE turkey leg.

Stu and Heath decided to go on this sketchy fair ride.

They enjoyed every minute of it.

Cute baby goat

We asked the girl working if this cow was pregnant because it was HUGE and she said no it was ready to go to the slaughter house. :( Poor cow it looked so miserable!

I am mad we weren't in our original seats closer! Oh well.

Rivers with a mustache.

31 weeks!

2008-09-30T07:58:00.000-07:00

It is so exciting to be down to the single digits. I only have 9 weeks left and I am still feeling great. It is so fun instead of kicks to feel his actual little foot moving across my stomach. He must be getting pretty cramped in there. I am getting anxious to meet our little guy and see what he looks like. Also my little brother just turned in his mission papers, so we should know in a few weeks where he is going!

Baby's Room

2008-09-13T08:24:00.000-07:00

Stu and I started a little early on the baby's room. Stu was going back to school and had a huge load this semester and I needed his help. Also work has been crazy for me and will be up until I have him. We decided to do an old ranch, cowboy theme. We had a lot of fun painting and redoing a cabinet and making cool rusty signs for his room. Stu's dad sent us an awesome hat rack made from old materials from the ranch. It also has the ranch's branding sign on it. My dad helped us a ton with painting and hanging things on the wall. My mom got some really cute cowboy themed accessories from the orange patch, and my sister in law Alex let me borrow her sewing machine. It has taken a while putting it all together, but we love the way it turned out.

Growing

2008-08-17T17:00:00.000-07:00

I have been really bad at taking pictures week to week. I will be 25 weeks on tuesday and I have really enjoyed being pregnant so far. Our little boy is growing so fast and getting so strong. It is crazy to think he will be here in 3 1/2 months! We are so excited and can't wait to meet our little baby Rivers.

Boy oh Boy

2008-07-16T11:10:00.001-07:00

We got back from Montana on Monday night, and tuesday morning we had our ultrasound. Our baby started out pretty modest but by the end had those legs wide enough we could see it was a boy! We are thrilled and can't wait until he is here!

Montana the State that I Love

2008-07-16T09:56:00.001-07:00

We just got back from our annual Foust family reunion. I love going because not only is it almost 30 degrees cooler but the Foust family is amazing. I love that I married in to such a great family. Stu's mom's side is awesome and so is his dad's side. There are usually over 100 people there but the best thing is that everyone is still so close! This year it was the Foust/Bauer family reunion. The Bauers are Stu's grandma's side of the family. They were in charge this year so, instead of going to the ranch we went to Bitterroot Lake and stayed in cabins there. It was so much fun. There was so much to do. There were softball games, volleyball games, a couple of boats and canoes, wake boarding, water Olympics and best of all GREAT food! We were there for three days and then headed up to Glacier Nation Park. It is the most beautiful place I have ever been too. So many great hikes to choose from, a ton of wildlife, and because they have been getting snow into June the run offs were beautiful this year. That made for some amazing waterfalls. There was still snow up on Logan Pass and it was fun to see people hike up and then snowboard down. Yes in the middle of July! I took a picture at 12:48 in the car and the temperature gage was 50 degrees, which later dropped to 48! It was cold but I LOVED it! Then after we stayed a night there for the last three days we went back to the ranch. It was so much fun. There is also so much to do there. Four wheelers, mountain biking, feeding new baby cows, chicks, and pigs. The river was a little too high this year for just a float trip but we had canoes to ride in. We also went to the National Bison range and an Amish Auction. It turned out to be a lot of fun. They had some great furniture, and quilts they auctioned off. They also had really good food. Their homemade ice cream maker was powered by an old John Deer tractor and a Mountain Dew pop can. It was so cool. We had such a great time up there and can't wait until next summer! picnic at the Flathead Lake

one of the baby chicks
mountain bike ride
The dog in the picture is Diesel the ranch dog, he follows you around ever where... that is why he is in our picture.
Poor baby cow! It just wanted to eat, it seemed a little upset even if Stu wasn't really sitting on him.
the Amish Auction

The John Deer, and mountain dew powered ice cream maker!
Uncle Craig, Stu, me and Kim at the auction
Amish horse and wagon

This was taken at 12:48 You better believe it!
East Glacier lodge. It was just as beautiful inside
Yep snowboarding in July.

our hike to Avalanche Lake
Avalanche Lake

This little guy is eating some apple we gave him. He was all over our shoes and hands. He very friendly and so cute!

Fresh mountain water to drink!

The run off was so awesome this year!

Stu's award was hilarious! This was awarded at the Water Olympics. I didn't get a picture of him dressed up but it was a ugliest diver contest and he won because of his outfit.
Just Stu's dad's siblings and their kids. We were even missing about ten people!

Ashley, Jared and Stu feasting.
Softball game

Couture Lane

2008-06-21T16:01:00.000-07:00

I am so excited and proud to show off our new Studio Salon. It is called Couture Lane, and it is located in L'mage Studios. About a month and a half ago 4 other girls that I work with and myself all decided to go out on our own and be our own boss. We are loving it! Besides marrying Stu this is one of the best decisions I have ever made. I work with some of my greatest friends and I love being able to do my own thing. I have loved every minute of being here. It is so much fun working with great people, meeting new people and best of all its drama free! Melanie and her sister Jenn decorated our room. They did an amazing job. The pictures don't do it justice, plus they have added a few more cute elements to it.

Two years

2008-06-07T07:41:00.000-07:00

Stu and I had our two year anniversary on the 18th of May. We went and had a yummy dinner at Out Back and then went to "grandpa's" house to ride a couple of horses. I had been telling Stu how excited I was for Montana to get on a horse and he surprised me a little early and set this up. Stu is great at surprises. Last year we did a super fun camping trip to Sedona for our anniversary. After we went and rode horses we went and had yogurt berry! It is my favorite dessert place. It is so refreshing! Thanks Stu for these past two years, they have been great!

Its a ... baby!

2008-05-16T20:10:00.000-07:00

We have been so busy with so many changes. We are moving out of Dave and Nancy's house on Wednesday. We found a super cute home we are going to rent for the next year while Stu finishes up school. We also have a baby on the way! We are so excited! I'm due December 2nd. Stu and I were able to go get an ultrasound today. It was so cute seeing how much the baby was moving.

My mother in law also got married last weekend! We are so excited for her and Greg. I forgot my camera while I was up there. I was so bummed because Utah was gorgeous. They got sealed in the West Jordan temple. We love love Greg and his family is so great. His sisters and daughter in laws and Ledah's mom did so much work for everything and it was BEAUTIFUL! We are so grateful to have joined families. All of Greg's kids are so great! This is my mother in law and all of her lovely sisters. The only one that is missing is Nancy. Carrie did a great job standing in as her!

Grandpa Foust

2008-04-20T14:20:00.000-07:00

I really love old pictures and some of my favorites are of Stu's grandpa Foust. He was such a handsome guy and still is. He is one of the kindest men I know and last year at the ranch we celebrated his 80th birthday party. I couldn't believe how many people showed up. I swear it was the whole town. He has done so much for so many people. I loved hearing all the stories his kids told about him. They had each of the grand kids say one thing they loved about him and that was really cute. It was fun watching him take the kids on rides on the four wheelers, and be so active in work and play. One of my favorite stories of Grandpa Foust is when he was asked when he turned 80 how old he felt, he said, " Besides my knees i feel 34." He was completely serious. He is such a kid at heart and we can't wait to go up to Montana to see him and Alba. We love our grandpa Foust!

Park City

2008-03-31T14:06:00.000-07:00

This last weekend was so much fun. Stu and I had the chance to go to park city for a vacation with Stu's Dad Glenn, his wife Kim, her son Phil, Lindy, and Scott. We came up here last year for Glenn's birthday and went boarding and it was unanimous we all wanted to go again this year. We arrived early Friday morning and went boarding all day at the Canyons. Glenn and Kim ended up renting an amazing condo. Stu and I were able to have the basement all to ourselves. Then on Saturday we were able to go to the Real Salt Lake soccer game. I have always liked soccer and liked watching it however, I have to say I've never been to a professional game and I LOVED IT! All of us had a really great time. Fernuski works for the Real Salt Lake soccer team so he was able to get us 8th row seats! It was so fun because not only were we able to see the players faces but the crowd got really into it as well. We almost saw a fight break out, so that was exciting. It ended up being a tie but it was great. Later that night Scott suggested for us to eat at the Blue Iguana. I think all of that soccer put us in the mood for good Mexican food. It tasted so good! Then on Sunday we just hung out most of the day in Salt Lake. We went to a Museum and saw an IMAX documentary on the human body. The skiing group ended up going to Deer Valley. All in all it was a great trip and thanks to Glenn and Kim for the amazing food and wonderful time!

I definitely had a hot goggle tan line, and that shadow isn't making it look any better

Happy birthday Scott!

Phil and Lindy

Fernuski working the field at half time.

Annie Get Your Gun

2008-03-21T14:34:00.000-07:00

Last weekend Stu and myself along with our friends Nolan and Missy decided to go hand gun shooting down at Sycamore Creek. I loved shooting the 22 because I felt like I was in an old John Wayne movie. It looks like those old western hand guns. I was mostly amused with Stu's almost perfect shot. It was the most accurate out of all of us and I enjoyed watching him shoot root beer bottles and hit them on his first try. Nolan is a Tempe Police Officer and his hand gun is a 40 cal. I was a littler nervous to shoot that gun because of how much kick they said it gave off. They were right. I hit WAY above the target . Once I got the hang of it I was able to compensate for the kick and shoot alright. It was a ton of fun and I have to say I might like it better than shot gun shooting.

the 40

Stu and Nolan Shooting

Nolan and Missy

I pretty much feel like im in an old Western movie with this gun

Sometimes i feel really short.

(he was on a rock)

"Horsin' Around"

2008-03-07T07:54:00.000-08:00

Last Saturday Stu and I had the opportunity to help out with the annual LeSueur "Horsin' Around". It is a day put on by the LeSueur family that allows children that don't really have anything have a fun and worry free day. It is put on for the Save The Family organization. It was fun. There were horse rides, ropin' lessons, face painting, bounce houses, a petting zoo, a great breakfast, a tractor ride, and some awesome carnival games. Stu and I have been able to help out the last three years. It has been great and it really makes you grateful for everything you have. It is so great to be able to put a smile on all of these families faces. Thanks to all the LeSueur for all of the hard work they put into Horsin' Around this year!

To get things started Katie sang the National Anthem and did such a great job!

Brooke and her mom and Jill serving breakfast

Cotton, Miley, Nixon, Grey, and Addie on the hay ride.

This year we all had matching shirts, even Gus had one! It looks like he is waving but he was playing with the hay.

Christmas!

2007-12-28T19:19:00.000-08:00

our seafood cook out!
Stu with a mouth full of crab.

All of us at Nate and Brooke's on Christmas Day.

I love Christmas. My mother in law, brother in law and sister in law all came down for Christmas. It was so much fun. We were able to just relax and hang out most of the time. Christmas Eve we has a sea food cook out. My awesome father in law Glenn sent us down fresh salmon and fresh crab. It was honestly the best crab Ive ever had. Stu did such a great job grilling the salmon. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. Anyways then on Christmas morning we went to my parents to open up gifts and went to the the annual Christmas breakfast out in their Cul-de -sac. It was so yummy. They had breakfast burritos, french toast and buttermilk syrup, fruit, and blue berry pancakes. Thanks to all the great dads that helped prepare the breakfast! Then later that day we went over to Nate and Brooke's house to have another meal. It was so fun getting together with all the Lesueur family. They are so much fun and we love just hanging out with them. It was so fun seeing all the little kids and also being able to eat awesome food again. Shawna made some killer orange rolls and Doug made us such a great omelet. We missed being able to see everyone in the Lesueur family there. James and Ash are in Boston and Dave and Nancy in the Philippines. Stu really enjoyed talking with Dave and Nancy on Christmas Eve. While it has been great living in Dave and Nancy's house we are really excited to have them come home! Later on that night we went to my aunt Terri's house. We had a fabulous dinner and got to see them and my grandparents. I love being with family and wish we got to see to see the Galvin family more! After that we went to the movies with my little brother and sister and Stu's little sister to see Enchanted. It was such a funny movie. Over all it was a great Christmas and we loved spending it with family.

Thanksgiving weekend

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We has such a great Thanksgiving weekend up in Utah. It was so much fun! It was the first time we had driven there in a long time. Talk about road trip. We had thanksgiving dinner and my mother in laws house. The Prices came down from Idaho and had Thanksgiving with us. It was so great to see them, we missed Lisa and her family though. We got to see Shannon and Jared and their new baby William, who is the sweetest, cutest baby! Stu and his cousin Jared are really good friends and forever they have watched Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Stu bought three seasons on DVD before Jared got home from his mission just so when he got home they could watch them. They ended up buying one when we were up there and the season had the movie The Touch of Satan. Oh my heck we laughed so dang hard! It was great. Basically it is a show that makes fun of old, horrible movies. Anyways we also got to meet my mother in laws new fiance Greg. He is great and perfect for her. He is super nice and we are excited for them to get married. That was all on Wednesday and Thursday was Thanksgiving with a ton of great food and family fun. We cooked in the morning and ate at 2. I helped make the bird nest yams that are so good and really cute! They are grandma Foust's original recipe. Then on Friday we went to Sushi with Heath, Lindy, Jared, Julie, Stu and myself. We LOVE Sushi! My mother in law didn't love it but we told her it was an acquired taste! Then we went to West Jordan to hang out with Fernuski, Janie and baby Sam. It was great to see them again. Fernuski and Stu were companions on their mission. Later that night we rode the tracks into Salt Lake, which was actually fun. We then met up with Pat who was also on the same mission with Stu. Him and his wife Lindsay came. It was a lot of fun to get to see these boys get together and laugh and talk about the mission. Their wives are great and i loved talking with them! We got to see the temple lights, then we went and ate at California Pizza Kitchen. The lights were amazing! We then went back to the house and talked for a bit and watched an old mission video with all three boys in it. It was pretty funny. Later that night we watched a movie and stayed up til three. We had such a fun time with both couples and hope to see them soon. Then on Sat we went to breakfast with Fernuski because Janie had to work, then we were off. We were able to watch the BYU/ Utah game and have a great lunch at Greg's house. We got to meet all of his kids and their spouses. They are awesome and we loved meeting them. Then later that night we got to go with the Rigby side to dinner. It was so much fun and i love when we get together with Stu's mom's family because they are so easy to talk to and so much fun! I'm sad i didn't get a picture with all of them.

Heath brother entertaining us in a long car ride to Utah by dancing to Bloc Party!

Susan, Lindy, Me, Julie, Jamie, and even Summer helped cook thanksgiving morning.

Jamie, Julie, me and Lindy

The bird nest yams! They were so good and Summer loved putting on the marsh mellows before they went in the oven.

Baby William, he is so cute and tiny, we loved him!

My brother Heath came with us. It was a lot of fun having him there!

Greg, Jared, me and Stu

Greg one of Stu's best friends came to visit. It was fun to see him! WE love Greg!

Jared and Stu petting the horses. Stu gets this super funny face when he sees little kids and animals... He says it is because he gets really happy and clenches his teeth... I'm nervous for our kids!

They had really great Sushi here. Lindy is probably sick of me taking so many pictures!

Riding on the Tracks with Fernuski, Janie, Sam and Stu.

Temple lights with Janie, Fernuski, baby Sam, us and then Pat and Lindsay

Dinner at California Pizza Kitchen

The mission buddies

This was on our way to breakfast. Fernuski insisted on riding his scooter. He said it was one of the worst decisions he has ever made! HA it was freezing. He took Stu for a ride...

Lunch at Greg's with all the family!

Congrats you guys we love you!

Thanks everyone for such a great trip!

Cali Trip!

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We got back this morning at about 2:30 am from California. We went because my cousin Chris got married in the San Diego temple. It was so pretty. I love that temple. We were there for a whole 24 hours. We got to see my cousins which was the best part! I love my mom's side of the family. We always have a great time and laugh a lot when we get together. We are all really close which makes getting together a lot of fun and not a burden. The beach was great and so was the weather. Heath, he is my buddy
Alex and me, we have been best friends since high school and she married Ryan.
Chelsea and Me San Diego temple, It is so pretty and amazing inside.

My cousins Chelsea and Shenelle, we all kind of look alike. Stockton is Jerry and Missy's little boy, He is so funny and such a stud. Benny my cousin

Chris and his new wife Brooke. They make such a great couple.

It was such a fun quick trip and we are so happy for Chris and Brooke!

Montana trip

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We went to Montana the last week in July 2007, and it was a blast. The first day we flew into Washington and then Glenn came and picked us up and we drove a couple of hours over to the Foust ranch. On the way to the ranch we went and ate lunch in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. It was super pretty. We went to the lake there and just hung out there for a bit.
We spent a day at the ranch then we went to Glacier National Park and spent two days there. It was my first time there and we went hiking and on a boat ride and ate really good food. They call it the American Alps. It was probably the most beautiful place I've ever been to.

We ended up seeing a couple of bears but from our car so I felt very safe. One was about 5 yards away, that was a black bear and the other was a grizzly mom and her baby and they were 50 yards away. We went to Flathead lake and hung out there. We bought fresh cherries and huckleberries. They were so good!

Then we went back to the ranch. which was a ton of fun. Stu has a lot of fun cousins, uncles and aunts. His grandpa is 80 and as Stu would call him the oldest teenager he knows. We have the greatest family! We had a rodeo, there was paint balling, a treasure hunt, canoeing, mud football, horseback riding, quads and float trips down the river. We also had a 20's themed dance in honor of his grandpa's 80th b day. They also had a dinner for him and most of the community came. The rodeo was great! They had sheep riding, bull riding, calf dressing, and had us catch some pheasants. We did the pheasant catch and calf dressing. We were 3rd place in the calf dressing. Our team was Stu, Lance, Jared and Me. They are Stu's cousins and best buds.

Stu's cousins daughter Ashley. She is way fun and has called Stu uncle skittles since she was little. She has named me Starburst.

This is Addie, Ashley's sister. They belong to John and Lisa. She is the happiest baby and Stu and i LOVE her. She is so cute. She is almost a year and she calls her mom Lisa. She is very entertaining.
Jared, Brennen, and me riding J.J, Ci Ci, and Smokey. Smokey has been around longer than Stu. He is old but everyone loves him.

This was after the treasure hunt. Some of the cousins dressed as pirates. They were really good. Stu's grandpa has his hat on backwards. He really is the oldest teenager we know.

This was our team who wrestled the cow to the ground. I put the hot pink underwear on it.

A park in Washington. They had the world's fair here in 1974. There is also a scene from the movie Benny and Joon filmed at this park. I love that movie. The day we went home we spent some time in Washington. It is so green! I wish Arizona was green. We love Montana and can't wait until we can go back next year