Lauren & Rocky

Long time no see...

2010-06-29T04:31:00.000-07:00

So its has been over a year since I have been on my Blog. It has been a WHIRLWIND year with so much happening. Well the biggest thing is my darling baby Olivia, she arrived on October 6, 2009. she is 8 months, almost 9 months and is the cutest thing ever in HISTORY!!!

Rocky turned 5 and had a Handy Manny birthday with 35 kids that attended!! It was a crazy day but so much fun for him. His aunt Ginny and Uncle Russel were able to come from Utah and it was a special day. He also starts kindergarten this school year, it is amazing how fast a perfect baby grows in to a little back talking rambunctious boy. He is really growing into an amazing kid. We also moved last year into a single family home, having the extra space and a back yard has been HEAVEN. Rocky is meeting new kids in our neighborhood.

Also my Roo dog died, he was such a good boy and we miss him a lot. we had him cremated and so it is a little better knowing he is still in our home. I know that sounds kinda weird. Our house was so quiet without him, so we got a English lab that at full grown will be 125 pounds or more. he chews everything but other than that is a good dog. Very cute!

Ricardo, started his own business about a year ago and it has taken off, he is loving setting his own hours and being able to work from home. I Love staying home with my babies and being able to watch them grow. My daycare really took off as well which at first was a huge relief now we are settled in and I am enjoying the kids (most of the time) well speaking of which these kids have been sitting at my table so better go for now. promise not to let another year go by...

making jam...

2009-05-18T16:58:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I really wanted some homemade strawberry jam. It is so sweet and delicious and I love it. So I made some! It took me like 6 hours working in between the jam and cleaning house. When I was all done I wanted to eat it, but you have to wait 24 hours to let it set. So I will really enjoy my yummy jam with some whole made bread tomorrow. YUM YUM!

netflix...

2009-05-03T16:28:00.000-07:00

So our family as many of you know have a Library of DVDs. and it is well worth over $10,000. Every tuesday we are at target buying the new releases. Well with much talk and the economy we have decided to join netflix. it is $9 a month apposed to the $300 we spend. I can watch as many movies as I want and I dont even have to go to the store to buy them. Its pretty cool and I have a little extra in the bank to spend on toys for Rocky...LOL! One obstacle at a time.

TAKING TALKING TALKING!!!

2009-04-30T18:23:00.000-07:00

I have this little motor mouth constintly giving me info about fireman, cars, and telling me to say things. asking me how things work, the word "Mommy" has really been over used. His name is Ricardo Nathaniel Yuly (Rocky) and while I love him to pieces..OMG GIVE ME 5 MINUTES OF QUIET! LOL I tried teaching him the quiet game and it was so funny. I told him Rocky the first person who talks looses. he closed his mouth for about 20 seconds and said "Did I win?"

The other night I was making dinner, Ricardo and him were playing fireman(big surprise) and he came over to me and said mommy can you put my jacket on? HE WAS WITH HIS DAD!!!!???? Then another time he was upstairs and wanted a movie on, walked right past Ricardo and right to me to get up off the bed and go and put on the movie. I think I would like to be the Daddy! LOL Kids got to love em!

Loosing his baby face :(

2009-04-21T16:35:00.000-07:00

For along time now I have looked at Roc and thought, I don't have a baby anymore. He is all grown up and is this little dirty, action figure playing, car driving, not ever wanting to cuddle with me BOY! Who would rather want to play with his friends then watch a movie with me or help me make brownies. I know it happens to all boys, and I have to cut the chord, I just expected it to be in like 20 years or so...Rocky had other plans I guess. He is still the sweet little precious thing he has always been just not the same. Even his face and teeth are getting bigger. He has gone thru a little growth spurt and is wearing boy clothes not baby toddler stuff. He even knows the difference between the "MJ's and the shoes at target I used to get him. I love the way he is, and the independence that I have had but I do miss my little baby I used to have to hold and change and totally fully depended on me...

I guess in ten years or so when he is a teen about ready to get his license, I'll have other problems to face, but for now it is missing my baby.

Rocky the builder!

2009-04-21T16:27:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago Rocky and his Ricardo decided that they need to build a shed for Rockys tonka trucks, it took them all day and they were on a budget so it is kinda breaking already but it was so fun to see them work together and use the saws and hammers. They even painted it red and put rocky's name on it. After all was done the boys had had a lot of fun together and we filthy dirty!

Here is the outcome of the building prodject...

Rocky's new ride

2009-04-21T16:15:00.000-07:00

For Easter Rocky must have been extra special because he got such an exciting present, it was a power wheels ford f-150 two seater truck. He rides around the neighborhood picking up the local kids and taking them for rides. It has a real working Radio and a little bed in the back(truck bed that is.)

It was really funny the first night he had it, we didn't really have a space prepared for it and so it was kinda just chillin in the kitchen. I had given Rocky his bath, gave him his glass of milk and was just finishing reading a book to him and announced "Ok, little man it is time to go to sleep!" He looked up at me with his little eyes and pointy lips and said " mommy I really just want to go sit in my truck for a second and say good night"

PLEASE TELL ME HOW YOU CAN POSSIBLY SAY NO TO THAT???!!!!???

So we went down stairs I let him have the few minutes he needed to tuck his truck in for the night, it was pretty cute.

Food cravings!

2009-03-05T11:17:00.000-08:00

Last night at about 1 in the morning I woke up wanting sour cream lays potato chips. this moring before work I woke up early just so I could stop at 7/11 to get some before I stopped into work. WORTH THE WAIT AND SO DELICIOUS!!!

Winter and the snow with my little Rocasaurus!

2009-02-04T16:26:00.000-08:00

It has snowed here a couple of times this season and Roc is really loving it. One day when we had more then usual, I called my sister-in-law Andrea and asked if she could take Rocky out and play (I was at work) from the looks of the pictures he had a lot of fun. I wish I had been there to join him. "But I had to work for money to bring him toys" thats what he always tells me.

Thanks Dre, your the BEST!

PRAYER, SCRIPTURE...FORGIVENESS

2009-01-30T19:09:00.000-08:00

A couple of months ago my family made an effort to read the Bof M in 40 days. we kept up emails about it and everyone did such a great job...but me. I really tried hard at first. I have never even begun to read the Bof M but was always told that it would straighten my Testimony of Christ and his church. Well anyway I basically gave up after about 12 days or so. Lately I have been going thru some emotional Vices and after a conversation with my Bishop, I have turn to the scriptures.

Before when reading them I found myself bored and uninterested. Now however not that i am reading with real intent and I say a personal Prayer asking to help and guide me to understand, it is to stop reading. But i have a 4 year old who need a bit attention and a dirty house that needs cleaned.

I have had to deal with so much over the past couple of years and have wondered were do I even begin to ask for forgiveness and the scriptures have answered that question.

I NEVER do this but...

I do have a testimony of the gospel of Christ, I want to return to him and be with my Family. A forever Family that I will be with for eternity. I believe in our prophets that they have received revelation and that they are the leaders of our church. it is so hard to get to church, to see so many people with their family and feel alone, but once i am there i know that i am not only not alone but that Rocky and I are so welcomed there. It makes me so grateful to be part of such a wonderful and loving organization. I know that healing and repentance is a very hard and emotion process but my heavenly farther is by my side and loving me all the way.....

New Years Losers

2009-01-03T08:15:00.000-08:00

ROC AND I ARE HUGE LOSERS! ON NEW YEARS EVE WE WERE ASLEEP BY 10:30, WE MISSED EVERYTHING!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Fall came and went and I am posting it late!

2008-12-22T16:04:00.000-08:00

Our Neighbor three doors down has a little girl named Sophie, Rockys best friend. She is about 2 months younger then he is, but she is a genius! Rocky often goes out side with her and plays in thier yard. I was looking out the window one day and say that they had made a huge pile of leaves. I grabbed the camera and took a few pictures

Firetrucks, Christmas and Rocky!

2008-12-22T15:51:00.000-08:00

Every year our local fire department comes around with Santa on top of a firetruck. Well it is the two thrings that Rocky loves the most. He heard them coming, got on his coat, ran next door to get his best Frend Sophie and waited in the freezing cold until he came. We were all so excite! I snaped a couple of pictures of Roc and forgot all about the firetruck!

Setting up the Christmas tree

2008-12-22T15:35:00.000-08:00

This year Christmas has been so much fun with Rocky, he is really so in to everything. the story of Baby Jesus, Santa Clause, setting up the Christmas Tree and and decorating the whole house. Things that he is old enough to remeber and look back on as he gets older. This year sinse my mom lives like "right around the corner" she came over and help decorate. Well all of you know my mom and decorating; so this year I got one of those trees you find in a magazine! I love having her here, she help decorate the rest of the house and it looks great.

Rocky was so excited to help put the tree together and put on the ornaments and then we all went outside and swooped the lights on the bushes and I have a dogwood as well. Thanks MOM!

Ok its been awhile...

2008-12-22T15:15:00.000-08:00

Rocky and I are getting busy for the holiday season. Rocky goes to a private preschool here in Virginia and they had a Nativity, I had to work so I missed it and was so sad! When I picked up the christmas stuff he had left at the school I saw some pictures, my baby was an angel! So flippin cute!

He also always likes to talk about all the friends he has at school here is a picture of all of them with him.

love you all

Thanksgiving!!!

2008-11-29T08:45:00.000-08:00

So...another year of cooking yummy food and eating till you want to throw up! What a great day. I did it again, cooked everything. I think it was my best year...

Car Crash

2008-11-21T16:27:00.000-08:00

So...about 6 months ago Ricardo and I traded cars. I took our very nice honda Ridgeline, totally fully loaded, seatwarmers, NAV, this thing has everything a car can have! Ric took our not so nice Nissan Maxima( which by the way is not a bad car at all.) Well, we no longer have the Maxima, Ricardo was on his way to school and someone pulled right in front of him and well look what happened....

I was at work when I got the call and totally freaked out! I was so nervous as to how bad he was hurt and what not...no worries Ricardo is pretty banged up, with a bad arm but otherwise in good health. Thank you Hevenly Father!!!

A Great Sunday!

2008-11-09T15:32:00.001-08:00

Today my mom, step father and brother came into town. We woke up had family breakfast and got ready for church. I really love going to church but I get down sometimes when I see all these big familys taking up a whole pew and I think to myself how much I really want that. Well today I got it, we took up a whole pew in the chapel.

After Church my family had to go back to WV so they left. It has a been a pretty mellow evening, Rocky is down in the play room watching full house and I am doing this while watching Friends...

Do we Love each other

2008-11-08T19:32:00.000-08:00

Today Rocky and I went to great harvest and we got some of their apple scrapple bread. On the way in Rocky was talking and telling me some of the stuff that we do together, ie. we always go to Target and toco bell. He was saying how much he likes doing that stuff and we do it because we Love each other. I stopped and knelt down and gave him a hug and kiss. I asked "Rocky, do we love each other?" He put his hand on my leg and said "mommy, we love each other a lot!" we went inside the store and ate our bread.

Things like this I will always remember us doing. it is our little Rocky Mommy time that I cherish so much!

He has also began asking me Mommy do you love me even when I am bad, even when I hit. I always try to say especially when your bad because that is when you need it the most or something like that, but it is hard to do some times...LOL.

Election Day and my new blogg!

2008-11-04T18:00:00.000-08:00

So I am stating a blogg, because everyone is telling me how cool it is, so we will try it out!

Being Election Day I raced out of work, picked up Rocky and took him to my Dad's house so I could run and vote in peace. On the way to my dads house I was explaining to Rocky how he would stay with my dad for just a couple of minutes while I voted. He belted out so load "I want to go with you to vote for our country!" I started laughing and he said "mommy it is for the President of the United States!" It is amazing how fast he learns things. I am still wondering where he came up with that stuff? Maybe school!