CALIFORNIA TRIP!!!

Well a week has come and gone way too fast for the Slone family! Kyle's parents took the family to the beautiful California for a weeks vacation, we headed off to Disneyland, seaworld, legoland and the beach :) What a blast we had my goodness, we honestly cannot thank them enough it was an awesome trip that we will never forget :) I think it was all much needed for all of us!!! Disneyland was pretty awesome and although Talen and Jacob could not go on all the rides we still had a awesome time, but I will say though legoland was by far the best for the kiddos, if you have kids honestly it is such a neat place to take them and its all kid rides its really nice! But I do have a soft spot for animals and as always seaworld is my absolute favorite :) I just love it! I get all pumped up when they start screaming shamu shamu hahaha

Anyways we were there for the fourth of July which was pretty awesome being somewhere else during then and getting to see fireworks somewhere else, but I will say we did miss that good old Show Low parade and fireworks lol I think Show Low's fireworks actually do a pretty good job! But we did get to watch fireworks at seaworld, some other place by our resort, dont know where excatly lol and disneyland which was by the far the BEST, it was pretty cool!!! We spent half the day and the beach, goodness it was just so darn relaxing, Talen absolutly loved the beach, and had such a good time at all the parks it was way to cute and so glad we took lots of pictures for all the fun memories there :) My goodness I just realized I should have done a slide show holly picture over load lol I'm sorry I took some off so it would not be as long lol Enjoy, hope everyone is doing well, thanks for reading!




A day at the beach! :)













Disneyland and legoland!!! Sorry none of seaworld camera was not working :(

Havasupai Falls!!!

Last Thursday ten of us went to the beautiful Havasupai falls in the south part of the grand canyon, Kyle and I, Kristine and Brandon, Vicki and Justin, Art and Krissy, and Ryan and Robyn ventured off 10 miles to the beautiful falls and my oh my I had no clue that something that beautiful could be in Arizona! Its just amazing! The water is this beautiful blue green and absolutely as clear as can been! Now givin the hike is 10 miles all the way to the camp ground and 8 to the village was a little challenging for us lol its just a really long hike and about a mile in a half of those dang switch backs, man! We figured about all together we did about 28 miles, walking there and back and to the village once to call and see if Talen and the other girls wanted to see if their kids were doing ok and then back to all the falls, dang that is alot especially for me I'm so not a hiker hahah!

It's just an awesome place that I think everyone should at least go see and try once in their lives, it was a good experience. They have the camp grounds but they also have lodges you can stay at in the village, it really is just an great experience and a hole different world down there! But let me add I will never hike it again, but I will however pay to helicopter down or horse back ride hahaha that was just too many miles for me, but what a great time we had and what a fun bunch of people that went with us! We had a wonderful time! If you ever get the chance to go see it you really should!!! We only got to see two falls Mooney and Havasupai because the others were damaged from the flood they had last year :( but they were both beautiful!! And man did I miss our Talen Ryan more than ever it was so hard to be away from him, I have never been away from him for that long so that was hard, but I am so greatful that my sister took care of Talen for me, thank again sissy, I love you! But all in all we really enjoyed ourselves! Hope you enjoyed the pictures!

Latest Happenings!

Well.... I'm so sorry its been a while everyone, my gosh our lives have seem to be such a blur lately just crazyness!! Let me just start with my grandma passing away, she had a sever stroke two weeks ago and passed away on the 13Th and let me tell you how hard that has been I just cant even begin to explain how rough these two weeks have been. My grandma was not you typical grandma, oh no, my grandma was the best German cook ever, always yelled at you if you were in the kitchen, always got made at me when I went grocery shopping for her at walmart and would get the wrong thing, always would yell at Kyle for bbqing something that was not her way lol smoked and drank all her life and still went to the bar every now and then :) lol that's right to this day I would go pick her up from the bar every once in a while so darn funny and am really going to miss that more than anything! She was the most amazing women and had such a wonderful heart and loved every single one of us like there was no tomorrow! Grandma I don't know what in the world to do without you, you have seriously touched us in so many ways you have no idea, and I really feel so weird moving back home to show low and you are not going to be here.... what the heck do I do?! We all love you more than anything and we are all going to miss you very much, I love so very much!!!! Grandma and Talen Ryan!



And on a happier note.... Kyle and I bought a house :) :) woohoo.... its just so darn exciting! We just got an awesome deal on it, my gosh its just crazy! We went down to the valley with Kyle's aunt and uncle to a house auction and were bidding on two houses, the one we really wanted of course someone out bid us, but then we bid on this one and just got way to good of a deal! Its out in linden on 1.34 acers and 1900 sq feet, its pretty big, its way cute, and given it does need some work but has so much potential and we plan on fixing it up and selling it in two years and really making some money off it :) We figure if we do that at least one or two more times with another house we could almost own a really nice house free and clear, if we just buy, fix this one and another one up and sell it:) We are just so excited to finally have a house and and start working on it, its going to be so so much fun!!! I will have to take some pictures of it and post them :)

So things are finally starting to settle down a little bit I guess, the other night we went out with Kyle's parents and his sister and her kids and went out looking for some elk and had a little camp out, but without actually staying the night out there lol It was alot of fun thought, we roasted some hot dogs and did smores we just had a good old time, just really relaxing and enjoyable just to go out there for a night and relax and sit down and laugh with your family! They went out again tonight but we we not able to go we had to work on the house :( but here are some pics from the last one!


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ah... my two favorite boys in the whole world!!!






And also, yesterday was fathers day and I hope every father out there had a great day! But I just want to say thank you to my Kyle Ryan for being just a wonderful father, loving husband and my very best friend!!! You are such an amazing daddy and you just light up whenever you are around Talen and you help so much I could not ask for anyone better to be the father of my kids!:) Talen just absolutely adores you and you know he is constantly looking around the corner saying "dada" and looking for you lol he just gets so excited when he sees you walk through that door after work its just too sweet! Thank you honey for giving your heart and your soul to Talen and I, we LOVE you!!!


My two handsome boys! You are the best daddy ever Kyle!!!!


Hope everyone is doing fabulous!!!

HE'S ALMOST GOT IT!

Ok, so Talen has been doin so good trying to walk oh my goodness it is just awesome watching you child try and take their first real steps :) These past couple of days have been rough with everything that has been going on with my grandma so its so nice to have these moments, just makes everything better! He almost has it and its so exciting :) minus the face plants he does every now and then hahaha! We really think he is going to be walking soon! Here is a little video of him trying and he does pretty good, he does real good like the second or third time back :) ENJOY!

Slone Campin Trip!

So we went on the fun Slone camping trip, good times, good times, just forgetting about all the worries in life and just relaxing! Its always wonderful to get the whole family together and camp, fish, ride quads, sit by the camp fire and goof around what seriously could be more relaxing and enjoyable then that:) Talen absolutly loved it out there my goodness and did he ever LOVE riding the quads and arctic cat with daddy!!! He just seriously loves it, we wounldn't even be riding and he would look over and see the quads and go vmmmm vmmmm with his lips hahah oh so cute! Gosh I'm starting to get a little worried I have this feeling he is going to be just like his dad and be crazy on dirt bikes and quads, YIKES! lol

Anyhoo... we went camping by chevlon lake and boy is it gorgous, the lake is so dang pretty but a pain in the you know what to get too my gosh, just a hike and really steep to get down to the lake but we had a great time! We had a good time, I think everyone in the family needed it, especially with everything that has been going on in the family and grandpa george would have wanted us to go camping and enjoy ourselves, so it was a wonderfl trip and so glad we went and looking foward to our next camping trip this summer:) Just thought I would show some pictures with everyone! Hope you all are doing wonderful!


Mommy and Talen on the Arctic cat, it was so funny because everytime Kyle and I would take it out he would just fall asleep hahaha... its so funny that kids get sleepy on things like that you would think it would be the complete opposite!



Talen on his little camping chair eatin his cheetos! :)






oh my... my crazy husband riding on two wheels and doin wheelies, he scares the crap out of me sometimes!



hahaha Savanna and I doin a wheelie, cant you tell, minus the hands lol:)






Gosh I'm sorry everyone I should have just done a slideshow lol

Our Talen Ryan is ONE!!!

Holly cow, I still cant belive that saturday my baby boy turned one! It is amazing how fast time goes by! Wow what an amazing year it has been, life would just not been the same without our baby boy, really God has given us the best gift in the world and for all you parents out there you totally know what I mean, It is the best feeling in the entire world to love someone that much, and its the coolest feeling having them think mommy and daddy is the it thing, they dig ya, ya know ;) Love it!!! Words just cannot explain how greatful we are for him, WE LOVE YOU TALEN RYAN SLONE!!!

Our angel baby, Talen Ryan Slone 6lbs 1oz 19 inches long ;) Now look at ya lol



So Saturday we had a party for Talen and it was lots of fun, family and friends what could be better. I did a monkey theme for Talen since Kyle always calls him his little monkey, we thought that would be super cute! So that morning I made Talens big monkey cake and Im walking out to put it in my sisters car, and I freaking drop his cake, awww.... are you kidding me?? Uh, I was so upset lol but things happen I guess so I had to get over it real quick, it still truned out pretty good :) And man did he get lots of stuff, too much if you ask us lol he totally was spoiled my goodness, so we decided we are just going to give him some toys like every week or so because there is just way to much for him to play with all at once hahah. The gifts were awesome thank you everyone that came!!!


I made these little monkey cups, aren't they so dang cute:) We just bbq and had chocolate covered bananas one a stick and just had a good old time!


Daddy and birthday boy!!!


Talens little cake I made him, I know it kinda looks like a bear hahaha

Now remember I had to redo his entire face and everything hahaha

Blow birthday boy!






hahaha his batman pj's and the cape is so darn funny, I love it!!!!

So I know I have not posted in a while, things have just been so so darn crazy, but I will honestly get back on it, promise!!! I feel like now that we are back in show low I just seem to be so much more busy and always doing something, Talen and I are just busy busy busy!!! It was seriously so nice the other day Kyle and I decided to go for a quad ride we used to do that all the time in high school lol but anyways we took mine quad an his out and mine has not been riden in forever, I feel bad Kyle bought it for me in high school and I stoped riding it after I graduated hahaha oops but it was great to just get out! Brandon and Ryan, Kyle's cousins came with us and we just had a great time it was nice to get to hang and with my hubby and with the boys!!! ;) Anyhoo.... I'll keep ya all posted and be alot more on top of my blog! Thats all for now friends, take care!

Lets Play Catch-Up

Ok, so it has been a while since I have posted so I thought I would let everyone know whats been going on with the Slone family ;) Well we are finally moved out of flagstaff yay!! and officially a Show Low resident again hahah never thought I would be so darn proud to say that lol... things have been pretty darn crazy, moving everything into storage, and moving all of our stuff into Kyle grandma Linda's house and getting Talen adjusted to everything has been pretty interesting! But things have been going great, we started looking for houses and man has that been so dang fun, we are finding some awesome ones with great deals and lots of land thanks to Kyle's aunt Leslie she is wonderful,we would be lost without her, so I will for sure keep everyone posted as to when we do make an offer on a house ;)

Oh gosh and then I was thinking about going to go back to work to the doctors office I used to work for but decided not to for a while, I mean they were going to give me part time again and awesome hours but I'm just not ready and its wonderful because they said whenever I want to come back I am more then welcome so that's just to cool to be true with how the economy is going and everything, but then I figured well my goodness ya know I just want to be with Talen and I enjoy more then anything being a stay at home mom, I mean don't get me wrong it has its days hahaha let me tell ya, but I sure all you moms out there can agree it defiantly has its days, but I love it! So now I am thinking well I have my certificate to sub and I did a couple of times in flag so I mine as well apply to sub here right if there is any positions open and just do that every once in a while which I think would be super fun, but anyways that's kinda whats been going on in our little lives. Oh and Kyle started working over here in show low and LOVES it, its like a hole new man hahaha he just could not be happier and loves everyone he works with, its just honestly for the better for him and for us, I absolutely adore and love show low and there is no other place I would rather be in the world to raise my kids!!!

Oh dang and something that I really need to get done is a need to go buy a camera charger since ours was accidentally packed away in one of the boxes and put in storage, I'm really wanting to put some pictures up of Talen Ryan he is just getting so darn big and is going to be one this month ;) I know crazy huh?! but I'm having too much fun getting everything ready for his birthday party, so that will be lots of fun! Well that's it for now folks, hope everyone is doing wonderfully, and I'll get my camera going and put up some pictures! I just think things are going to be a little crazy till we buy a house and get all settled in lol so bare with me :) Take care!