Augustish

 Florida life is seriously so fun.  We are enjoying our time here.  There is just something about living by palm trees that brighten my day.  I love the nightly rain storms that pour its heart out.  I love the sunrises and the sunsets. I love that Kendyls little legs are starting to get brown!  I don't however enjoy the frog outside our window that croaks into a megaphone starting at 3am.  I will get him and move him one day. 

The other day for FHE our friends and us went to the swimming hole.  AS we walked in there was a gator underneath the kids slide.  OH NO!  Jase and Justin quickly became the gator boys and seriously it took them maybe a good hour to get him.  He was a quick little bugger.  They finally caught him and LOVED taking pictures.  I don't think I will get into too much detail (idk the legal limits on playing with gators?) and all of a sudden Jase got BIT!  That things snap was so loud.  He quickly bled a lot of blood.  Justin and Jeremy went and released the gator into a pond away from the swimming hole. Jase got cleaned up by Mckenzie... (seriously she is a hero in so many ways!) He should have got stitches but he was anti go to the er that night when he had to wake up at 4am.  Don't blame him, so were watching it close for infections and cleaning it daily!

 We finally became Florida residents!  All that's left to do is register our car which were just waiting on a certain paper from the bank.  It will cost us around $500!  OUCH!  So not looking forward to that.  I miss Utah for this one reason.

 Kendyl lately is obsessed with getting dressed, getting undressed, wearing whatever and being crazy!  Here she is bright and early wearing my socks as mittens, my sports bra as shorts, my shoes and her pajama top.  Good combo kid!  ;)   she keeps us laughing that's for sure.

 This is Kendyls latest hobby (lasting now a couple months).  SHE LOVES STICKERS.  She loves peeling them off the paper, covering her face then moves on to my arms and face and legs etc.  Good thing i can find stickers for pretty cheap.

 This is my buggy and one of her friends Deklan.  They had fun playing and being crazy. 

And this is part of the swimming hole, the rope swings.  Kendyl will play and play and play.  I like when Jase goes because I have a phobia of getting in past my waist.  (example of why at the top of this post)  I love to hear her laugh and giggle in excitement.  What i might love even more, it wears her out so she takes a GOOD LONG nap. 

 

Bug is getting so smart.  If we ask her how smart she is she makes her arms super wide and says this smart!  She is learning colors, shapes, alphabet, loves the number zero  (she says rero) she knows EVERY animal sound. She loves Minnie Mouse and often asks to watch her.  She has a hard time eating except for hot dogs, then continues to lick the ketchup and mustard off the plate.  She LOVES apple juice.  She wont drink it unless its apple juice (even if its really milk or water i just tell her its apple juice).  She loves hide and go seek, coloring with chalk (thanks kenzie), drawing her hand, cuddling and watching minnie mouse. 

Jase is busy working and living the ranch life.  Its shipping season so he has been working many hours.  He loves when he does get off work on time.  HE is STILL obsessed with gun stuff and you can bet he comes home and goes straight to working on guns.  Whatever keeps him happy right?  At least he makes a few dollars off of it.

I'm just busy staying home and helping Kendyl learn and grow.  Its the best job in the world.  Although I cant wait for weekends for the beach and steak n shake.  I'm getting excited to take bug to seaworld.  Were just waiting until school starts around the country so its not CRAZY busy.  I love looking on pinterest and trying new recipes.  Most i like but others the pictures are so deceiving! I am loving the people here on the Ranch and i love our new friends.  Anyway, sorry this was long!

Sea Turtles nesting

The other night on Friday the 13th, we decided we would head to dinner then to the beach.  We heard that sea turtles were starting to come to the land and lay their eggs this month.  I was so excited because I had never seen a sea turtle on land, only while snorkeling in Hawaii (which in itself was AMAZING!).  Anyway we quickly ate dinner and off to the beach we went.  We lathered ourselves in bug spray and off we went.  When we got there it was still a little light out so we had to sit and wait.  I watched and watched for sharks but didn't see any.  It was finally getting dark and Jase said, we better wait another half hour.  UGH!  this was the time that i saw a sneaky crab and wanted to be done for the night. 

We waited and waited and when we could barely see anything we went for a stroll on the beach.  So romantic, a long walk to the beach.  Also, let me remind you, Kendyl is terrified of sand so we had her to carry with a death grip on us.  We walked about a quarter mile and we saw tracks!  we followed them up to a HUGE turtle.  We are not allowed to turn on lights of anysort since it scares them and they are endagered.  Not another 10 yards away, we saw another turtle approaching the beach from the water!  i was almost in tears with excitement!  Then along came 3 crazy save the turtle activist and they invited us to watch them lay eggs with a special red light!  We watched her lay 120 eggs!  Woo hoo!  It was AMAZING!

special facts

Sea turtles cannot reprodice or lay eggs until at least the age of 35, but up to age 45ish

only 1 egg in 1000 will make it to reproductive age. that is 1 in 10 nests that will be able to reproduce.

They only lay eggs about every 2-3 years. 

the hole they lay the eggs into is a good foot-2 feet deep! (they only have flippers!)

Anyway, I left happy and cannot wait to maybe go see some more this weekend. 

Here we are after, in the wind away from the turtles, finally a picture!  darn wind! and bolow is the type of turle we saw.  It is a logger head sea turtle.  Ours was 46 inches long and about 3 feet wide. 

Housing/ the 4th

Well we made it to Florida!  This was our 13th move and Kendyls 10th!  Good thing were here to stay for a bit!  We arrived during Tropical Storm Debby, and boy did it rain.  We got about 20 inches in like 2 days!  I didn't think it would ever dry up, but it did, and we are still wanting some more!

 

 

 Kendyl before her first ever airplane ride!  We let her have her binkie back to help her with her ears.  I get the worst ear aches.  She was a champ!  Jase had her pretty much all of the plane time.  He laid out the trays in from of him and she laid across those like a superstar and slept so well.  Us, well, it took us a while to catch up on our sleep.  We were so happy to finally land and have Paul pick us up!  He is great! 

 Our new favorite thing to do is go large mouth Bass fishing.  Until an unexpected gator shows up 5 feet in front of us like its his territory.  This has happened twice.  I think we need to find a new fishing spot! 

 Here is Kendyl again with smelling a flower! She thinks they are so pretty.  Even when she sees them in a book she still tries to smell them. 

 We worked so hard cleaning and unpacking, this is Kendyl taking a nap and break from it all.  Its sweet and all, but this was at 9:30 in the morning!  That is 2 hours early!

Anyway we had our first holiday here, the 4th of July! I was talking to my friend Jessica about what they do for fun in Florida for the 4th and how I didn't think it would be as fun as Utah.  She said "why cauase were confederates!?"  ha ha i didn't even know what a confederate is!  I then explained no, cause the state is full of retired people and they aren't big into parties! ha ha anyway I then learned the ranch throws one heck of a party and we had a blast! 

 Here is kendyls 4th of July outfit!  idk why her hair looks red?  but its still pretty blonde!

 top left:  Her drinking my diet coke.  I don't frink diet coke, but that day i did.  Top right: her and Dad! bottom left: Kendyl and me bottom right: just her!

Then a couple months ago Kendyl was in a photoshoot for the CUTEST boutique!  This was one of her outfits she got to wear.  More on that later!  but to check out the boutique
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Sanibel Island/mom, Travis visits

A few days after we landed in Florida my Mom and brother, Trevor, came out to visit us.  We had so much fun!  First we went to Steak n Shake for dinner, then woke up got ready and went to Steak n Shake again for lunch.  Seriously we love that place and there is a reason we went there 2 times in a 12 hour period.  A- Its so so good and B- Our house had too much grime to want to think about eating in it... more on that later!

Anyway we headed down to West Palm Beach to see my moms uncle and visit.  It fun to chit chat, swim and eat some good food.  Then we headed across the state to the Gulf side to Sanibel Island!  It was gorgeous and so much fun!  Really laid back too. 

 Here is Trevor and I waiting for our Virgin pina Coladas and Daquiris.  mmm mmm  Just what we needed!

 We rented bikes and toured a little bit of the island

 Here are all 3 of us.  Thanks Mom for staying behind and watching Kendyl!  :)

                                                        You never see this is Utah

                                            If this is all this guy has to worry about, then I say he has a good life! :)

 There were GIANT hibiscus flowers there!  Kendyl loved to smell them!

and.... we rented a paddleboard!  So so so much fun! 

This island is known for sea shell hunting.  We found a bunch of conch shells, sand dollars and my mom even found a 9 legged star fish!  There were dolphins at least 2-3 times a day that would just swim right by you! 

We headed back to the ranch so Jase could start work and we headed to Cocoa Beach to go to Ron Jons and enjoy the Atlantic Ocean.  This is where Trevor saw a baby shark.  Yikes!  The next day (July 3rd)  we headed to Orlando, OUTLET MALL!  we hit some good sales!  Then it was time to take them to the airport! :(   We had so much fun and I hope they get to come out again soon.  Love you guys!

Goodbye Party

We had a goodbye/Jase graduated party before we left Utah! We were going to fly buddy passes to Florida so we planned the party for a saturday night.  Then next we knew we were good to go on the saturday morning flight.  Then they didn't let me check in online so I called and the lady asked if I was flying with a child and for me to register her then (apparently a big no no!)  so then we got bumped and ended up having to buy last minute one way tickets, which was surprisingly not a bad price!  So with confusion we had to reschedule the party like 3 times but we ended up sticking with the original. 

Shae and August couldn't make it so we went to Surf n Swim the day before!  It was so fun to get out and about and play in the water!  Kendyl loved having a friend and loved the boat they got to float in.  Now Kendyl is always saying "Augi, Augi" for August!

 August and Kendyl

 Me and Shae baby



We had a good turn out to our BBQ we had, considering its prime bear lake and camping time and it was on a saturday mid summer! 

 Im so glad my grandma and grandpa shields could come!  we love them!

 These are some of my moms friends and the famous aunt holly on the right.  They are all such great supporters and they are so so funny and fun! 

 Zack Goff got to come!  Havent seen that guy in forever!  He was part of setting Jase and I up. 

 The Marins!  I used to babysit these kids!  They are such a fun family.  David (the dad) was the one that sang at our wedding!  We love them!

 This is the Barton Family.  Paulette, Justin and Gracie Mae  (oh and little baby boy Barton in her belly!)  We are so thankful they came and we're so excited for them!

 The Bares/Bodilys got to come!  Gosh I just love this family so much!  Bandon (who just got back from the army (i could totally be wrong) is in the red. Brayden is the tallest most fun guy ever on the back left and Jess is the girl beside me.  She is so fun and I seriously think of them as my own family! 
This was Kendyls goodbye party shirt.  It says ciao!  she waves and says ciao!  I thought it was fitting! 
Anyway thats all the pics I was able to take as I was playing hostess too.  Thank you To everyone who came to see us one last time!  We love you so much and we miss you!

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Well, the time has come that we get onto our flight and fly to our new home in Florida.  Our stuff and our car have been there for 2 weeks!  We are going to miss so many people in Utah.  We have THE BEST family and friends that have supported us during our moves.  This is Kendyls 10th move in her short 19 months of being alive.  We are so excited to become true Floridians and live close to the beach, and have Jase be done with school....for now.  Here are just 3 pics i was able to get thanks to facebook.  I will upload all of the pictures I took at the Goodbye/graduation party when we get settled.  thank you everyone for the love and support of our adventures and for helping us hold it together and say bye to all of you!  Love you!

 Shae couldnt come so we went to a surf n swim day.  We sure do love August.  she is a cutie!  Thanks for taking us swimming!

 Here is one of Brayden and bug.  She loves him so much!

Here is Bugs goodbye outfit.  When saying bye she waves and says ciao!  its pretty cute if i say so myself!

Long Update

My little brother Trevor had a heck of a season for Northridge Baseball.  Lets just say, they made softball when I played, look AMAZING! ha ha poor baseball boys.  In this season they won NO GAMES, hey but they lost all of them.  All of the coaches quit.  And on top of that I think Trevor is up to 16 baseball scholarships.(I lost count long ago)  WOO HOO!  He will probably end up in Arizona but when he thinks he makes up his mind he ends up getting another phone call of an offer.  We are so proud and happy for him.  These are some pics from their last home game!

 These are all of the seniors.

 Kendyl LOVES her uncle chebs!  oh, and that hat!

 Here we are, Trevor, Buggy and me!  (see me rockin my baseball shirt!)

 And Trevor, Bug, me and Jase! 

So the other day we were on our way to a wedding reception.  We told bug to get ready and she met us at the door like this.  Hat, baby, and purse.  She is such a diva.  She will not leave the house without her hat. 

 Here is us together!

 And another variation of her hat!  seriously we love her personality, and she always keeps us laughing!

 The other day we went shopping with one of my very best friends Courtney.  We just walked over to City creek.  I guess shopping wore her out cause this is how we found her.

 A couple weeks ago my mom and I stopped at Petersen Farm supply.  I stayed in the car with bug so she could somewhat nap.  My mom brought out a little chick and kendyl woke up to the chick standing here.  Needless to say she kinda picked it up and was like yuck and moved it.  She then noticed what it was and loved it and was giving it kisses.  We also brought out a bunny and a duck as well!

Then we were clothes shopping with my mom.  While she was trying them on I kinda lost bug.  (bad mom moment) anyway, I called her name and she came running around the corner with this hat (headband) on!  We cannot get enough of her! 

This little girl is 18 months old now.  She weighs 22.2 pounds and is now TERRIFIED of the doctor.  She saw that nurse and screamed bloody murder until we left.  Poor thing.  Scared her so bad that on Monday when I went to get my hair lasered she thought she was in a doc office again and screamed.  Thankfully Jess and Brayden rescued her and took her to get a slurpee and skittles!  Thanks guys we love you!  She is so so much fun and is a little copycat.  We have to be careful what we say now days. She loves counting the cars 1..2..3.. off our deck.  She loves to look for the moon.  She absolutely LOVES chips and salsa, and is learning to kick her legs in the swimming pool.  She gets the opportunity on Saturday to show off her cuteness since she has been picked to model for a boutique photo shoot. 
As for us, were super super busy.  We have to ship our stuff to Florida by the 8th, and in that time we have a baby shower, Jase teaching father and sons on fishing, my sisters wedding, My brothers graduation, Jase gone to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Florida, pack, pack pack...were super busy so if anyone wants to come help us that week we will feed you pizza and root beer floats! ha ha.  no were absolutely thrilled to be headed to Florida again.  Every night I come up with a list of what I want to do there.  So far
-Swim with dolphins
-Sea World
-Beaches (tons of them)
-surfing lessons
-Find a great beach workout
-hopefully do ragnar (Miami to key west0 or the Disney princess half marathon
-see the baby cows
-Fresh squeezed orange juice
and eat the best produce in the world!

anyway sorry about the long update, but bug is napping and i have to catch up!