Bye Bye July Hello August

Well as you can tell I am so darn ready for July to be over and SO ready for August :) July has just been one crazy month for us, my oh my! We have had one heck of a time with our house going through lets just say it has been a nightmare, but it finally closed yesterday, alright!!! Its finally ours we are finally home owners lol so excited! Then to add on to all this madness that has been going on this month, Talen got sick and has an ear infection in both ears :( I know my poor baby, its just been way sad, he has just been miserable, but we are for sure ready to say goodbye to July and hello August, start over fresh! This month we get to look forward to fixing up and moving into our house and also our anniversary is this weekend WOOHOO 1 year of marriage and the end of this August is 7 years Kyle and I have been together :) :) we are so dang excited about that! We were planning on going somewhere this weekend but we decided with all the crazy stuff going on with the house and Talen being sick we need to just stay here work on the house this weekend and take care of our baby and go next weekend!!! Anyhoo, things have just been way crazy this July and I am just ready for things to settle down! I wont bore everyone with every little crazy detail in our lives hahah we will just keep it sweet and simply for now, but just thought I would fill ya in! Hope everyone is doing great! Here are a few pic for this month, sorry alot of them are from my camera phone!


Oh goodness Talen loves going around the park in his little buggy! :)



Are funny little man, what would we do without you!

He's a walkin man!

Wooo hooo! Talen Ryan is officially walking now! It really is so darn crazy to us we just cant believe it, now it really is true when people say oh you just wait until he starts walking then they are into EVERYTHING and you have your hands full, and boy is that so darn true lol I remember sitting there saying goodness I wish he would start walking soon so I wouldn't have to put him down and his hands and everything wouldnt get all dirty, lol but now I am in for it! I do have my days but I just love chasing his cute little butt around everywhere I just cant believe our baby boy is walking, wow does life go by fast or what, I seriously have been learning to take one day at a time and seriously cherish, laugh and play with him as much as I can :) Mommy and daddy are so proud of you Talen Ryan we love you!!!!!

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!!!