




Hello there everyone! I hope everyone is having a great summer. I can’t believe it has been so long since we’ve graduated. A lot has gone on with me as I’m sure it has with you. I feel like I have been gone for two months straight. One of the trips I went on was to Chicago. We went and saw the play “Wicked” (I highly recommend it). A very busy spring means a calm summer to relax.
Tanner and I have 4 kids now, and we both turned 30 this year. How time flies. Jacquelyn is turned 6 in April, Haylee is 4 ½, Devin is 3 ½, and Cody is turning one in July.
Jacquelyn is is our 6 year old who acts like she is a teenager. She is a big help though. She learned to read in the past year and loves to read to her siblings. She loves to be involved in anything and everything. Last year she did soccer, T-ball, swimming lessons, dance, cheerleading, a neighborhood Tavaci group and piano lessons. Too much driving for me and now that the other kids want to start doing some of these things she’s going to have to cut back. We’ll see what she decides to do. Being in the public school now she is very much into all of the “in” things – right now it is Miley Cyrus.
Haylee is our happy go lucky little girl who is in her own little world. She loves to pretend, sing and dance. She wants to spell everything and asks us how to spell a word until she has it memorized. She always has a smile on her face and loves to laugh at her own jokes. She is not much into soccer or other sports right now. Picking the flowers and dancing in the middle of the grass was more her thing. She does love to run and can run almost a mile without stopping or complaining. She loves her Tavaci singing group and her little neighborhood dance class.
Devin is opposite to Haylee. He is our grumpy kid who can give quite the glare to anyone and everyone. He sure is funny though. He loves tools, trucks/cars, and playing ball the most, but he doesn’t mind playing dolls or house with his sisters. He is an organizer and everything has to be lined up or put in just a certain way or he gets upset. He is just getting over the terrible “3” stage. (It wasn’t two for him.)
Cody is the greatest little baby. He is a hoot. He is ALL boy and shoves anything that is girly or baby away. He wants the balls, the cars, or the sticks (drum sticks especially). He can sit and play on the drums for 20 minutes at a time a few times a day and is as content as can be. He has been walking since he was 9 ½ months – but only indoors and only on the carpet. Once he goes away from those spots he clings to your hand and is content to just do that. He is starting to tease, he loves to wrestle with Devin, he points to things he wants and gets upset if he doesn’t get it.
It seems that I have been pregnant or nursing for the last 7 years and I’m glad to be done. I’ve tried to keep up with the running, but had a hard time up until this summer to get back into shape. I’ve recently run a half marathon in Rexburg I’m also training to do a half triathlon. After working for Dr. Akers for 5 years full time it was time to go to part time. I needed to spend more time with my kids. So, for the past two years I’ve been working part time at Dr. Reddish and Godfrey’s office and have enjoyed working with Jennifer. It is so much different than perio though. I get very excited when there is a lot of perio scheduled in my day. I recently got out of braces – it was horrible being in them. It was supposed to be for 9 months but ended up being 18 and that was way too long. Many people got me and my sister, who is 15, mixed up because we both had them on and look alike.
We are still in the same house and have just kept remodeling and updating every chance we have. It seems that we always have projects going on around the house that Tanner stays busy with. The most recent was building a shed in the back yard, cutting down two huge pine trees from our front yard, and putting siding up.
After graduating in Accounting and Finance, Tanner tried to find the perfect job setting up medical office, selling employee benefit programs, selling health insurance, and doing taxes. He did that for almost 2 years and then we came across a garage door company who was trying to sell so we bought it. Now he has found out what he likes to do – He gets to work with his hands to fix and build things and be an accountant. He hasn’t let go of doing taxes for people and April gets a little hectic, but then his later Spring early summer months are slow and he can spend his weekends playing with his “big boy toys”.
We bought a boat this summer. The kids love the rides in the boat and are liking tubing more and more each time they go.
We have had some great vacations in the past few years. Our annual trip to Redfish is always great fun, but our most recent one was going to Zion’s National Park and Lake Powell. We spent a few days camping out on the beach at Powell. We enjoyed the scenery, the skiing, and Tanner fell in love with the surf board. The water rose 10” everyday so we had to clear beach and move our camp site up every day. We stayed at a resort in Zion’s for a week. We enjoyed the activities they had there such as paint ball, swimming pools, basketball, and a lot of four wheeler rides. We drove into Zion’s Park a couple of times to hike. The hikes are amazing. We hiked one called Angel’s Landing. The last half of a mile was strenuous, but well worth it when we made it up top. The climb had parts with an 800 ft drop off on one side of you and a 1200 ft drop off on the other side of you. The buses and cars looked so small. It was awesome. (I highly recommend this as well.)
Well, I’ve had a good time typing this up and can’t wait to hear how everyone is doing. Hope all is well for everyone. Teresa