December

Merry Christmas!  I'm glad this is all coming at the end of Jan!  Better late than never right?  Again, we cannot say it enough, Florida is BEAUTIFUL!  This Christmas season was everything I ever dreamed of.  No snow, wearing t shirts, Disney, and getting spoiled.  We did however miss our family and friends ever so much. 

A little overview.  Jessica  Bird my BFF came to visit and we kicked off the Christmas season by celebrating with Mickey!  No lie, one of the top 5 favorite times of my life.  We got to go in "after hours" where there were no lines, characters, free cookies and cocoa, and it even snowed on Main Street.  We got home at about 2 am to turn around and take Bird to the airport at like 5 ish in the morning.  Again, so worth it! 

We then had so many parties.  The Relief Society Christmas Dinner, the ever famous Ranch Party and the Ward Christmas party, then our friends Christmas party!  We were busy.  The Ranch party was so much fun.  We literally ate like ten steaks.  I totally lie, but between Kate and I, we had like 3 plates of food.  This is the night Kendyl got to meet Santa.  I think she liked him, what do you think?  That face was a blood curdling scream that literally was heard for miles!

 My pictures are in a very very random order and Im not fixing them right now, so sorry!
Jase finally had his dream come true on I think new years eve eve?  He got me to go deer hunting with him.  Not gonna lie, I spotted this buck, told him to shoot and he was ever so happy.  He however will think twice to ever take me in a deer stand to sit quietly for hours.  That was pretty boring!  Im proud of his deer tho, so Good job Jase!

 This next pic is of course of the Mickeys very Merry Christmas Party.  We got to meet Ariel and we were star struck.  Go figure, were 23 and 25 years old!  We stuffed ourselves on the best funnel cake and a giant coke!  Im literally counting down the days til next year!

 This next pic is of me and my buggy..... its a picture of a picture, sorry for the glare!  just have to show off my December tan! 

 So, since Jase was working on the calving unit he got to meet all the babies first hand.  Its my favorite time of year.  Friends, meet sunny, a blind calf that Kendyl named.  She was so sweet. 

 Next comes our first ever Christmas tree.  jase requested a real tree for the smell...gotta be honest, didn't smell it once.  It was still fun though. Kendyl got to decorate most of it.  Then she got 2 special ornaments this year.  She got a Minnie Mouse and a Sea World Whale.  Speaking of whales.  She is always looking at size and names them baby, mommy and daddy.  Well she knows was a baby and a momma dolphin are...and a daddy dolphin is a whale my friends.  She claims she dreams about them every night.  I'm so happy my parents got us a Sea World pass for the year.  We will be spending much time there!

 Here are all our gifts, spoiled as can be.  But poor Jase just got that gun and his boots.  He has expensive taste.  I also learned if I don't ask for anything all I will get is cash.  I spent it on an Ipad and a treadmill.

 Kendyl got so spoiled with Minnie Mouse stuff.  This little outfit is from her Uncle Trevor.  She loves it.

 Here she is with her minnie toys, minnie hat, minnie watch, minnie dress, minnie bath toys and minnie slippers...... oh minnie! 

We hope you all had a Wonderful Christmas this year.  We sure did!  Thank you to everyone who sent gifts, cards texts and calls!  We loved them so so so much! 

A little November

We are LOVING living in Florida.  Not to brag, but it was 82 degrees the other day!  November was such a fun month and FLEW by!  Kendyl turned the big 2! I cannot believe she is 2 already.  She is so full of sass and spazz and is so smart.  She loves all her new friends down on the ranch.  She loves to sing songs, dance, count, make funny faces, eat only hot dogs, play in her new kitchen, anything Minnie Mouse, and make us laugh all day long. 

We also had Jases parents come to visit for a few days, and had my BF Jessica come and visit as well.  I got food poisoning, and a cold twice, and had the Relief Society Christmas Dinner.  Thanks to my amazing counselors, I hardly did a thing and they did such an amazing job!

Here are a few pics of the month...

 

 

 Kendyl LOVES her new swing she got for her birthday!  We cannnot keep her off of it!

 While Jases parents were here we went on an Airboat ride!  Not gonna lie, I was super sick, but Jase said I can either be sick in bed or sick looking at nature, so here I am, pain and all!

 We went to Cocoa Beach and got to pick up some seashells.  Kendyl LOVES seashells!

 For Christmas my mom got us Sea World season passes!  Best gift ever!  We even got them early so we could go while Jases parents were here.....Im going to LOVE this year!

 Here we are in front of the fun sign!...

 We even got to feed the dolphins!  Ah seriously, I want one as a pet!  I will hands down build a tank myself

 ok this picture i can't help but share.  Please don't mind my nasty face ,but lets be honest, that Giraffe is totally Hamming it up for the camera.  BEST picture I took all day at the zoo, which we also got season passes to!

 These are just a few pics of kendyls birthday.  I had to get a few glam shots in her new outfits right!?

 Here are some faces she pulls while I try and take her picture!  She is hilarious and we love her!

 She got a fun little Minnie Mouse play set thing for her Birthday from gma and gpa Taylor...

 My mom got her a kitchen!  She loves it to the max!  She is always cooking up something yummy!

 We made her a cake and she LOVED the sprinkles!  Who knew?

But she also loved the cake as wel!

I have alot of catching up to do and I will get around to it I promise!  Just know we are loving living here! Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving :) 

October

Lots of pics up today!  Here is a brief overview of October!  At the beginning of the month Kendyl and I found tickets to fly to Utah for $271 round trip!!  That was a steal, plus my dear grandma has been getting sick so we jumped on the plane to go see her!  It was wonderful!  Kendyl was awesome on the planes and we even got to go to Texas for a few hours! We spent many days at the swimming hole with some amazing friends here on the ranch.  I seriously couldn't have asked for better people to be here.  The Relief Society Pres thing is coming around.  I really enjoy it and I am learning a TON! I feel so blessed to have that calling, and my counselors are beyond amazing!  I totally won with them! :) 

Kendyl keeps growing and growing.  She loves to sing twinkle twinkle little star, soft kitty warm kitty, her ABC's, can count to 13, put together puzzles, talks all day long and says anything and everything we say!  The other day i was exhausted and i put on Minnnie mouse and dozed off.  The next thing i know she was all up in my face and yelled WAKE UP then started laughing.  she will be 2 in 10 days! 

here are a few pics of whats kinda been going on

 

 

 I decided I hadn't taken pics of just Kendyl lately.....

 She loves to run around barefoot.  I guess it comes with living on a ranch, or maybe she hates shoes like i did growing up?

 awww :)

 She loves to go out and pick up rocks.  Now we have to wait til she is ready to paint the rocks!

 And here she is running from the camera in her cute new outfit. 

 Here are her CUTE CUTE new Toms.  Seriously this girl can put these shoes on all by herself which is a big help.  It also helps that they are adorable and go with everything.  Sometimes i dress them up with a little flower!

 This is bug in her GLOW IN THE DARK (new favorite thing) jammies and pigging out on Halloween candy!  She is so in love with suckers this year!

 This was during my trip to Utah, this is Hobbs pond across from my moms house.  Seriously this picture doesn't even describe how pretty it is!

 This is my BFF Jessica!  I was beyond happy to get to see her!  We are pretty legit friends! 

Then this is us at the ward trunk or treat!  Kendyl was a witch.  There was too much fun going on for her to want to stop and take a picture!  I was a grape and won most original costume!!  WOOO HOOO!

Anyway, I just scratched the surface of what has been going on!  We LOVE Florida!! It is beyond a blessing that we are here!

What a week...

Lets see if these pictures somewhat sum up my life these past week and a half or so.  BUSY BUSY BUSY.  Lets just say that my world has been rocked and my eyes are opened wide.  Lets start off....
1. I got an amazing new calling in our ward.  Relief Society president.  I am seriously shocked, nervous, clueless and the list goes on.  I am also very very excited and am so excited for my new counselors + Secretary.  They are truly amazing women and I have SO much to learn from them!  The reaction I got from friends was that they thought I was joking.  Im not! My testimnoy has grown like crazy in this short time so far and I am so excited to get to work!

2. So, along with my news above, I ended up in the Emergency Room 2 sundays ago.  Im going to be brief.  I had a miscarriage. Im doing ok, were doing ok. I was about 6 weeks.  I started bleeding like a crazy person and since it was Labor Day weekend the clinics didnt want to touch me so off to the ER we went.

3. THEN I got the awful cold going around.  My sinuses were stuffed beyond belief. I am just glad it was a very quick cold.

Im so very thankful to Jase and Kendyl for understanding and being so caring while my head has been away.  Im so very thankful to the AMAZING friends I have for taking me under their wing and taking care of us.  So please excuse me if im not totally with it right now, Ive been so busy and my brain has been on other things lately! So thankful for my family as well for everything they do for us!  Sometimes its hard living across the country, but they have helped make it such an amazing experience for us! 


PS, were going private in the next little bit so if you could leave your email address I will add you to our list so you can still view our life. 

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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