Adams Family

Awww Man!!

2009-09-26T12:29:00.005-06:00

I decided that having had 5 haircuts by the time you are 10 months was outrageous. And that by taking him to the salon everytime was much more work than having a little girl with pigtails. So for the 6th haircut I had a great idea. How bout I just get the clippers out and give him a cute little baby buzz cut myself? Even though I've never used them, those things are foolproof right? Turns out no. Cute from the front.
Cute on the side.

DANG!!

Aviary

2009-09-26T11:58:00.008-06:00

The Bird Aviary has always been a fearful place for me considering I have an extreme bird phobia. I never wanted Rylee to share my fear so I try and "pretend" that I like, and am fascinated by birds. This bird here terrifies me but I try and say to Rylee, "Ooh look how big and strong he looks" all while not getting tooo close. We had a good time and I only got freaked out one time at the bird show when the falcon they were showing almost skimmed my head flying down from his perch.

Everyone at the Aviary

This grin lights up my life

Rylee and her aunt Court-Court

Rylee looks so depressed while Parker is doing his famous backbend.

Ahhhh!..so close to 30

2009-09-26T11:41:00.004-06:00

I had a super fun birthday, but also the very first birthday that I kinda dreaded. I don't want to be 30 and being 29 now means I'm a little too close for comfort. Oh well, besides that- I woke up to Jared cooking me breakfast and folding clothes! Whoa--it MUST be my birthday. Jared took both kids downstairs so that I could...wait for it.....wait for it.....SLEEP IN!!! It was amazing considering I have been dealing with sick and teething kids for the last 3 months. Then---I actually got to take a long, hot soothing shower!!! I also got a pedicure and my family came over for pizza and cake. It was so much fun. I just love my family and in-laws, they are so good to me. Thanks everyone for such a great birthday and making me feel so loved!

2009-09-20T22:18:00.001-06:00

More pics to come to round out the rest of summer. I am really going to start being a more consistent blogger.

2nd try at the camping thing

2009-09-20T21:51:00.014-06:00

After the last time camping can you believe that we tried it again? Well we did. It was sooo much easier this time. We were a lot more prepared, had a MUCH bigger tent, my kids slept better, it was warmer, and biggest thing of all...there was no river. This time my dad drove over in his 5th wheel and we camped at Anderson's cove with my side of the family. We were a quick walk away from the Pineview Resevoir. We had a blast in the lake, we blew up all the innertubes and floated for hours, set up a volleyball net on our site and had a couple of mean, VERY competitive games, and just had an overall good time hanging out. Rylee and Parker were so good and I had lots of help with them. We stayed both nights and slept relatively well! If camping is this easy now..sign me up! This is Ry in her very own personalized tube
First time having s'mores! Can you guess what she thought of them?

Love love love these girls!

Even though I have my "camping do" I thought this was a beautiful background

Today they loved eachother.

Sister-in-law romance shot

Chillin round the campfire

Are these kids related?

The kids had way too good of a time jumping on the tubes. Please excuse my poor little orphan looking daughter. We WERE just camping y'know.

Parker and Granddad on his last day here

Finally the 4th of July

2009-09-20T21:35:00.013-06:00

Okay, I've been really slow to update, kinda lame- I know. So if you care, I think I last left off on the 4th- so here's a little of what we did. We had a good time with our friends at the West Point parade. Rylee is finally getting the hang of scrambling to get candy. She had a really good time and actually got a lot of candy for her mom to eat. We then went to a little festival type thing where we watched the kids play games and get face paintings. It was a fun day, but we ended up not seeing a single professional firework for the third year in a row. Why? Because Rylee has exhausted parents. By the time 9:30 rolls around there is no way I'm delaying bedtime ANY longer. Sorry kids, maybe next year. However...we did do some in our backyard and Parker is going to a pyromaniac I fear. That kid couldn't contain himself at the sight of fire. It was a good 4th!
Eatin corn at the bbq!

Cheesin it with my hottie

Rylee waving to get candy

Rylee not getting any candy

Rylee and our good friend's little boy, Carter at the parade

Sacked out

Camping fun, or not....

2009-07-06T23:16:00.006-06:00

Well....I knew it was going to be a challenge taking a 7 month old and a 2 1/2 year old on an overnight camping trip so don't get on my case okay? Jared's family organized a funfilled weekend up in the mountains for us all. His whole fam was there. First of all, let me clarify-we did have a good time, but it was a really really really hard first night. It rained for about two hours after we arrived and set up camp. My mom, Rylee, Parker and I were in one tent while everyone else sat in theirs. Jared ran around being a man and making sure everyone had a dry tent. We huddled together while it thundered around us. So, that night was a damp and extremely cold night. We slept-all four of us- on an air mattress. Parker was so cold that I had to hold him the entire night and Rylee loves to sleep with her knee in my back I discovered. I layed in bed begging for the night to end and the morning sun to peek through. Eventually it ended and the sun brought high hopes for a better day.....Until we had the great idea to go tubing down the river that was close to our campsite. We saw small children floating down this river on dinosaur tubes. It looked to be a piece of cake---yeah. Jared scoped out a place for us to start down the river 3 MILES up! To make a long story short, the river was WILD and we were no match for it. There were rocks and logs and branches that killed us! Tabby, Kara- Jesse's girlfriend, my mom, and I had enough and got out while Tabby's hubby, Jared, Jesse, and Shy stayed on.We hiked through some people's private property, their horses, all the way up to the road where we started on our hike home-soaking wet holding onto tubes might I add. Finally after a mile or so we decided that we were not even close to our camp-I flagged a truck down and we jumped in the back. Crazy? Maybe, but we were beat up and needed the ride. So, this was the first time ever for me hitchhiking, I don't recommend it, but it got us where we needed to go. We all made it home in one piece-just a little banged up. All in all, we had a good adventure that we lived to tell about! I don't think Jared was ready for this pic.

This is Rylee and her cute cousins Eden, and Preston playing on the hammock

Yea for the tent, it was fun..at first!

See that wild river behind us?

Tinkerbell??

2009-07-06T22:57:00.004-06:00

So Tinkerbell is Rylee's hero. We went to our friend's Jan and Spencer's little girl's birthday party. It was a Tinkerbell party. I was armed with my camera ready to watch Rylee jump up and down and look amazed because they hired an actress to come and "be" Tink. Well...as you can see in this picture below she isn't so um..excited. I couldn't get a smile out of this girl. I think she was a little frightened to be honest, or maybe she was like, "what the crap? That isn't Tinkerbell!" Who knows!

In Loving Memory

2009-07-06T22:50:00.005-06:00

In loving memory of our fallen goat Lilo. She was a wonderful companion and so sweet. She was timid, but really loved to eat sweet cob and sneak through the fence to nibble our rose bushes. Poor, poor Lilo. I won't go into detail of her death, but just know she will be missed. Love you Lilo! I'm sorry your stay with us was so short!

Little late Father's Day

2009-07-06T22:27:00.008-06:00

So, I am a terrible blogger- I know it. But I had to post these cute pics of our wonderful Father's Day weekend. My dad came to visit to be with his kids for the first Father's Day in 16 years seeing as he lives in Colorado. We loved having him come and did a lot of fun stuff while he was here. Our Father's Day morning in our house started out with breakfast in bed which Rylee was eagerly partaking of. Jared said this was his very first breakfast in bed ever since he has been married to me. What an awful wife I am! Anyway...Jared is a great dad. He loves to play with Rylee and LOVES to throw her and come up with cool new flips to do. They have such a neat relationship. He does a great job with her when my patience is gone. He is patiently waiting for the time when Parker allows himself to be peeled from my chest can be more of a "daddy's boy" Evenso, he is so cute with him and always gets him to smile and laugh. We love our dad and are so blessed to have him as our own!

I love this picture of everyone with "crazy" hair in the morning.

LOVE this man!

These adorable boys are my nephews-ready for the pool!

This is my brother who is a wonderful dad to his two girls. He is also crazy about his nieces and nephews and is such a good uncle to them.

On the Farm

2009-07-06T21:43:00.013-06:00

Last week while Jared's sister Misty was visiting, we went to a farm that allows you to hold, pet and feed all the animals. It was so much fun #1 because it was Baby week, so all the newborns were out for us to see, and #2 Rylee has a slight obsession with holding all living animals. She reminds me of that character on Looney Toons that loves to hold and pet animals, but is really inadvertantly abusing them. I thought this would be a good experience for her. We had a good time even though the turkey's gave me nightmares for many nights afterward-those of you who know about my bird phobia know what I'm talking about! I can't believe I got a picture of everyone looking in the same general direction!

At the end of the visit, everyone got a short ride on the horse. Rylee is such an independant little one, she hated that I insisted on walking alongside of her.

I had to supervise on this hold to make sure this bunny wasn't smothered to death.

She especially has a thing for kitties- warning all kittens!

I have a thing for donkeys for some reason- they are soooo cute!

She is so fearless when it comes to animals! She didn't seem to mind this sheep leaning in for a kiss.

Grandma and Parker chilling out Parker Style.

This goat was only 2 days old! He was soo teeny!

This floppy eared goat was 2 weeks old.

I love Goats!!!

Goats, Kids, and Family

2009-05-12T12:25:00.019-06:00

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We had such a busy Mother's Day weekend! We kicked it off by welcoming our two new kids to the family- Lilo and Stitch (2 month old Pygmy goats)! Yes, this was really my Mother's Day present from Jared. I was so excited because I have been wanting some goats ever since we moved into this house with a pasture in our backyard. This picture is my entire family-minus my dad, but nonetheless every grandkid and brother and sister- Almost never happens! And I think everyone is actually looking! Oh wait- Parker is looking down, oh well. We had a wonderful barbeque on Mother's Day in our backyard with my family, Tabby and her family, and our friends BoJ and Jen Cheney. It was so nice to have everyone come and celebrate all the moms.

This is Stitch the brother goat. He likes to butt our dog Beasley when he gets too close.

And this is Lilo, the little sister goat. Isn't she adorable?

Shout out to my beautiful mom on Mother's Day! She is the sweetest, most loving, caring, unselfish person in the world and I love her more than anything. I have the greatest mom and mother-in-law ever! We are so lucky and blessed to have them in our lives. Thanks Grandma Debs (they are both named Debbie).

My awesome dad came for a visit from Colorado this weekend too! He drove his new prized possession- a brand new 5th wheel that is beautiful. We had such a good time just hanging out. I love this man so much and he just cannot get enough of all of his grandkids. Thanks dad for driving 500 miles to see us!

This is Ryker, Parker's cousin. We were on our toes wondering which one was going to grab the other's face, hair, nose, etc. first.

Love this kid! This was too cute of Rylee digging into some watermelon on the table.

This is Parker's hairdo after sleeping in his carseat- Jared picked him up and said, "Cool baby" thinking that I had deliberately combed his hair like this. We had a good laugh because it was a perfect as can be mohawk. We liked it so much we decided to comb his hair like that for church. He got lots of attention from the ladies.

Easter time!

2009-04-19T10:59:00.013-06:00

We had such a wonderful Easter this year. Jared's sister Tabby and her son came over to go to church with us early in the morning. After church, Rylee, Parker and Ryker "found" their Easter baskets and played with their toys. Later on, my mom came over and we had a sweet ham dinner and played in the backyard. Rylee was so happy to find all of the candy in her basket and kept calling it "beautiful candy". Beasley always helps out when needed.

We had a hard time getting a decent picture of all three of them.

Rylee was holding onto Parker before she accidentally let him roll face

first onto the grass. Hmmmm....

Ryker and Parker looked so handsome on their way to church

Beasley manages to get into most of our family pictures.

Rylee's cousins Jaden and Amare came over and we had an egghunt in our backyard.

This was Rylee's first Easter where she actually got to help dye the eggs. She was really excited- so excited too, for the fact that I put a nice cup of bright colored juice right in front of her, which was really the egg dye. She took a long swig when I turned my back and said, "Mommy, that juice is nasty!"

First haircut!!

2009-03-27T12:03:00.004-06:00

Yesterday was Parker's first haircut and I was soo scared to cut his beautiful curls. As you can probably imagine, they weren't always so beautiful and caused me some stress when trying to get out the door in a hurry. So we decided it was time. He is four months old and had a huge mullet! Anyway, we went to the salon that my mother-in-law works at and I held him on my lap while all his curls fell to the floor. He did really good until the end and he started to get a little fussy. So now he no longer looks like a baby, but a handsome little boy. He is getting so grown up! I have no idea where all this hair comes from. For some reason my babies are little monkeys when they are born.

Quick update

2009-01-29T20:53:00.012-07:00

Well having two kids has proven it is very hard to get anything done around the house let alone update our blog. Parker is growing at an incredible rate, his hair and personality are very similar, wild and crazy. Rylee has learned to crawl out of her crib so life as we know it has come to an end. Actually it was really only hard the first couple nights but has gotten much easier now. Except for the fact that she refuses to take naps. AHHHHHHH! Very much looking forward to spring time so we can stop being hermit crabs, and get away from rock band and television. Oh and we should be moving to our new house next weekend, VERY excited for that!! Gonna go get my butt kicked in ping pong now by Jared so until we meet again, buckle up and wear sun screen.

Parker with cousin Ryker

We have a new arrival!!

2008-11-30T23:11:00.005-07:00

Hello family and friends, sorry this took a little while to get posted, things have been pretty crazy around here as you can imagine. But here is Parker Harlan Adams. He was born on November 25, 2008 at 5:30 P.M. He weighed 8 LBS. 1 Oz. and was 21 inches long. This kid loves to EAT!!! Rylee and Parker are very cute together, we will be postng more very soon. Until then, peace out everybody.

2008-11-30T23:08:00.001-07:00

Halloween Fun!

2008-11-04T21:49:00.004-07:00

The night did get better, but Rylee started out as an "Angry Bee". I think she was upset about not gettting any candy right then and there. Other than this moment, Halloween was great fun! We went to a Trunk-or-Treat in our church parking lot and Rylee was so excited to see all of the funny costumes. After the Trunk-or-Treat we went over to Crestwood Retirement Home and banked about 50 candy stops in the span of 10 minutes- great for tired pregnant feet and hungry dads ready to go home. All in all, I think so far Halloween is one of Rylee's favorite holidays. She was enthralled with all things scary and absoloutely loved Frankenstein.
Isn't Rylee's cousin Ryker sweet?
Daddy's sweet "Trick-or-Treat" face
Rylee with Jaden and Amare a.k.a. Hannah Montana and Rosetta the flower fairy

Rylee as Hannah Montana, herself.

2008-11-03T22:03:00.001-07:00

Are you sitting down?!

2008-11-03T21:29:00.003-07:00

Hopefully you are sitting down because the Adam's family is finally updating their blog!!!! After a VERY long hiatus, I finally decided to sit down and just do it. Sooo, from the last posting, a lot has happened as you may have guessed. Our family decided in June to move from Florida(where we had been living for 31/2 years) back to Utah. It took us about a month to get settled, but finally it felt like home. That's when Jared decided to go back to Florida for an extremely long job. He was gone for about 2 months and YES it was extremely hard to be without a husband, pregnant, and chasing around a very active toddler. Oh yeah, another update-I am now nine months pregnant with a little boy if you didn't know. I am due at the end of this month- Hallelujah!
Anyway, we made it without a husband and daddy with the support of all of our family and friends, and are now coasting along getting ready for baby #2. Since we have been absent from our blog for so long and have been living a lot of life in the last five months, I posted a quick slide show below to show a little of what we have been up to. I know it's not detailed, but I promise to be a much better blogger in the future! We are glad to be back!

2008-11-03T21:28:00.001-07:00

Day at the Beach

2008-05-02T06:40:00.002-06:00

Rylee loves the beach-especially with her very best friend, Logan. She had such a good time playing with her sand toys and running in the water. It was even fun for me-for a little while. That is until Rylee discovered that this was a great place to find things to put in her mouth. For the rest of the time I spent my day at the beach chasing her around and taking various things out of her mouth. These things consisted of sea shells, sea weed, sand-of course, and her favorite.... cigarette butts! Yum!

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Rylee and her "too small" hat

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Cool Rylee!

2008-05-02T06:33:00.000-06:00

Ready to go home

Disney on Ice

2008-05-02T06:23:00.002-06:00

A few weeks ago we went to "Pretty Princess" Disney on Ice with our friends and their little boy Logan (whom Rylee is completely enamored by). We had such a good time but more importantly, Rylee did too. We were kind of worried about it, but she loved it and we loved just watching her. This is the guys being tough and standing in front of a Harley motorcycle in the midst of a billion little girls dressed in princess outfits.

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This is Rylee when we first got there-not quite sure what to think of the skating figures.

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Then she really started screaming and clapping when the 7 dwarfs came on.

2008-05-02T06:11:00.001-06:00

Rylee and her "Lovey"

Happy Easter!!

2008-03-30T18:53:00.004-06:00

I'm finally getting around to posting the very few pics we took on Easter. The day was cloudy and rainy so we weren't able to go outside and take any pictures next to pretty flowers or anything like that. So this is what we got, a picture of Rylee sitting on the couch in her pretty dress, which you can't even see all that well anyway. For those of you who care, there is a cute little pink flower on the front that matches her pink her bows. We had a nice quiet Easter on Sunday, but the day before we visited the Wernli's, a family in our ward. We had planned an enormous Easter egg hunt with over 10 toddlers, only to find it pouring rain outside. So our poor friends hosted a barbeque and egg hunt inside their house. It was wet, humid, but fun. Rylee had a good time, but only got around to finding one egg before she opened it and shoved all 6 jellybeans in her mouth at once. She was so psyched at this she forgot about all the other eggs she was supposed to find, so I fought off a couple of two year olds and got her a whole basket full. The next morning I woke Rylee up, she had apparently been thinking about all the candy she ate the night before, because the first thing she says to me was, "Nandy?!? UMMMM!!"

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2008-03-14T20:23:00.001-06:00

Family Fun!!

2008-03-14T19:31:00.003-06:00

Who knew Florida had any sort of farm in it? Well, I had no idea anyway. Jared, Rylee and I went to a park nearby that had pony rides and a small petting zoo in it. I'm not sure if she loved it or not, but we sure had a good time watching her. We also checked out the widely known Butterfly World. Rylee loves butterflys and points them out to me whenever she can. We had a good day of family fun and are trying to enjoy the nice winter weather before summer rolls in and cooks us on high.

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2008-02-09T16:12:00.001-07:00

Just hangin around the house

2008-01-29T16:31:00.000-07:00

A little while ago we started hearing Rylee say the word "DADOO". She would say it over and over again. We tried and tried to figure out what "dadoo" was. We would ask her questions like, "where is Dadoo?" Finally we put it together that she would say it whenever Jared would tickle her and he was saying "Got you!" so her word for "got you" is "dadoo" this is her cracking up and saying "dadoo, dadoo!!"

beasley loves to dance!!

Rylee thinks it is hilarious!

Poor Beasley!! Every once in awhile he is subjected to one of us putting Rylee's clothes on him and making him dance. He doesn't seem to mind too much.

Isn't he pretty?

This is Rylee riding her pony she got for Christmas.

We are not as awful bloggers as you might think. It is just the simple fact that our lives are very simple and non-dramatic at this point. We haven't taken any trips, gone anywhere worthwhile, or had any birthdays, holidays or family get-togethers. So, I have posted a few pictures of us entertaining ourselves. Hopefully soon, we will have a more interesting blog for you to read.

Look who's 1

2007-12-08T13:21:00.000-07:00

Though I'm glad we don't have to do it again for a really long time, we had a wonderful 1st birthday party for Rylee. We rented out the cultural hall at the church and decorated it with pink and white of course. All the kids played games and smashed a pinata. Rylee had her own cake that she got to dig into all by herself.

My baby is now a toddler, where did the time go? I can't believe how much she has grown in just this little amount of time, okay i'm going to say it: it seems just yesterday they were putting her in my arms at the hospital. She has brought so much craziness and joy into our lives, i don't think Jared and i could have asked for a better blessing if our lives depended on it. It's been a fun ride and it's only just begun.

Rylee's first snow

2007-12-08T08:41:00.000-07:00

It was beautiful weather the entire time we spent in Utah, but I wanted Rylee to experience her first snow while we were there. We lucked out-the last two days we were there a huge snow storm came in and she was able to touch and taste her first snow. At first she wasn't sure about it, but by the end, i couldn't get her to go inside!

Finally a Family!!!!

2007-12-08T08:28:00.000-07:00

So we finally made it back to Florida after a two and half month long visit to Utah. Rylee and I had an amazing time, but discovered we really needed one thing in our lives that we were missing terribly. That thing was Jared. Being the wonderful husband and dad he is, he didn't want to miss Rylee's first birthday, so he flew in the night before and was able to be at the party we had with all of our family there. After that, he selflessly drove three days home with the dogs while Rylee and I flew home in just a few hours.
Being home is nice, we are enjoying the warm weather and are especially enjoying having a husband and a dad around!! Though it is nice having all our own things, we do miss our family already and will cherish the memories we made there forever. Thankyou so much to all of those who took such good care of us while we were there. love to all!!!

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2007-11-10T23:02:00.001-07:00

2007-11-07T19:22:00.000-07:00

Well Brittany has been out in Utah for the past month and I've been stuck here in Florida working. Since I couldn't take being away any longer I planned a suprise trip to Utah at the end of October. While I was there Britt and I took a drive up onto the Ogden divide and had to take these pictures of the biggest brightest full moon i've ever seen!

As you can see, the animal in me took over.

This is brittanys impression of the Statue of Liberty!

This is the North Ogden side of the divide, I guess this is what you're supposed to do when you pull of and park on the side.

2007-11-07T19:15:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone!

We thought we'd try something new and start our own blog page. Let us know if you like it or not or what we can do to improve it. This is our happy little family at Tabby's wedding in September.