So Much Going On!

Well the last few weeks have been crazy!

Jaxon was a finalist in his school spelling bee and we were so proud of him. He took 5th out of the whole 4th grade! It was so fun to watch!

Dawson turns 9 months on the 7th of Feb.

Jared is doing more firefighter training. This time he is doing wildland training and enjoys it so much. We just miss having him home.

Taren danced in state drill competition. They did great! Only the 2nd time Carbon has gone in 14 years!

Blake has been busy with basketball and is so competitive. (huh, where does he get that?)

Here are some recent pics of all the fun stuff we have been up to! 9 Months old and has mastered the worried look!
Jaxon #2! Smiling because he just got another word right!


Jax doing a great job! Words I can't even spell!

Blake number 10 shoots and makes his 3rd 3 pointer!

"Go get the ball!" Just like daddy says!

Jax and Taren enjoying the game!

Taren in her kick routine, last one on the left, (yes the short one)

They look pretty sharp to me!

Here is Taren on the right! Wow she can jump!

Taren on the left, ouch!

Nice Long Weekend!

Jared
Nana Jo

Rusty

Frisky (left) Dunkin (right)

Taren

Grandpa and Grandma Parker

Just home from their 3rd mission

Blake

Jaxon

Grandpa Bruce and Dawson

Look I am crawling!

Me and Mom

Dawson loves Dunkin

We are so excited for a long weekend! Jared still has to work :( but it is one of the perks of working for the schools!

Jaxon has been busy with school and I am enjoying my short break. Jared is starting more firefighting training (this time wildland) soon. We love to stay busy!

This last weekend I went to Salt Lake to my sister-in-laws baby shower. It was so fun. I went with my mother-in-law Brenda and sister-in-law Amanda. I love shopping!

So we told Tyler we would send him some pictures this week so we took some funny pictures and we are going to send them. I thought I would post them so everyone could see them. Enjoy!

Holy crap it has been forever

So it has been so long since I have updated our blog... I know I am a slacker. It has been a crazy month. Tyler left for his mission on Dec. 5th. That was a hard time for our family but we are so proud of him and his willingness to serve! He is doing great we get letters from him almost every week and we love to read about his adventures and how strong his testimony is growing.
Christmas was so much fun. I had two weeks off, one of the joys of working for the school district. We spent a few nights at Brenda and Erolls and it was a blast to see all the family. Jaxon went to Tennessee to visit for Christmas and it was different not having him here with us. We also stayed a few nights with Nana and grandpa Bean. It was way fun but different not having Tyler there this year.
Dawson is growing so fast! I am going to post some updated pics so you can see how big he is. He just turned 8 months and I can't believe how fast it has gone by.
I graduated in Dec. with my Bachelors in Psychology. Now I am starting my graduate program this Feb. in school counseling. I can't wait because that means I am that much closer to being done! I am still working at the schools doing some counseling and I am loving it!
Jared played with his band in Green River for New Years so I didn't get to see him but he had fun. They don't play very often now so it was fun for him to hang with the band again.
We are all back into work and school now and enjoys all of it. I hope everyone is doing great and if you want Tylers address in the MTC let me know and I will post it!

This is me and Dawson on New Years Eve. He is a pretty cute date!

Scotty and Andraya had us over for dinner. Dawson loved it too! Now he HATES baby food!

Crazy Weekend!

So I have to update you about this weekend. We went to Manti to go to the temple with Tyler. We couldn't go with him yet but in the near future we will able to. Anyways, it was a pretty crappy day. We were late leaving because we had a pretty bad night (Dawson is still not sleeping at night) Taren also had her fake baby from school (super annoying if you ask me). Anyways we decided to go over Huntington Canyon and it was snowing so bad we could barely see the road. Jared was driving my mom's van and we had Taren, Blake, Jaxon, And Dawson with us. We were going down the other side of the mountain and Jared hit some black ice, sending us sliding towards the cliff. He some how got the van to stay on the road but still couldn't stop and we were gathering speed. He had to use the mountain side to get us to stop. He had to put the van into the side of the mountain to get us to stop. Needless to say the van had a hard time. Thank goodness he got us stopped though. It was probably the scariest time of my life. It just made us all feel so lucky that it only ended in the van hurt, not any of us. Here are some pics of the day!

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Happy Halloween!

Here are some pics from this weekend. Dawson was so cute in his cow costume! Jaxon was so scary in his scream costume... too scary to get a pic of :) and me and Jared were vampires! Jared played at the Holiday Inn it was a fun night!