The Mr & Mrs

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Just Need A Little Help From Our Friends

This post: Corny, but necessary. This post is dedicated to people that saved my life this past month. Our last couple of weeks in Provo were absolutely crazy and there is no way we would have made it out alive without so many good people to help us. And yes, all pictures are pirated from various sources.

Thayne and I took turns being sick about the time we needed to really get into the nitty gritty of packing. Kalie & Jordan, Katrina, and Bethanie came to the rescue to entertain and help.

To make light work of loading our PODS container, Dallas & Jessica, DJ & Sammy, and Jason & Suzy were right there with us. And I don't know what we would have done without Jason and Suzy's air mattress those few days we camped in our house with our mattress load up.

Eileen and Maran were so sweet. Maran came to help watch Thayne and Eileen saved us with delightfully yummy food.

A very old, but very cute picture of Eileen and Maran

And what would we have done without the Noyes'? Amanda and Eric were positively angelic. They let us sleep at their house once ours was packed, watched Thayne for hours on end, helped clean our empty house, and made the crazy hectic-ness completely doable. Thayne absolutely loved spending time with them which made it so much easier to leave him and focus on getting work done even sneaking away for the best date we've had in a long time (we got to use our Seven Peaks Passes one last time, went out to eat at The Banana Leaf on University, and even went out for ice cream afterward). Thayne had a blast swimming, playing the piano, eating yummy food, going on walks, taking naps,

and playing with Eric.

They even indulged us in a last minute photo shoot in front of our little house, another photo shoot with Ty in his cap and gown in front of the BYU entrance, and one last stop at our favorite Provo restaurant. When we meet up again I'll have to steal the cap and gown pics of Ty. Right, Manda?

From here, we jumped in the car and started the journey to our new home.

We were fed, sheltered, and helped by so many people that will be terribly missed by this little family.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Spring Term

This has been a crazy Spring Term. Tyler quit his Full-time position at the end of Winter Semester and started Spring as a Part-time employee in order to finish up all this classes to graduate in time to start working for Amazon at the end of June. A full credit load during the Spring term is 9 credits. Tyler took 11 credits on campus and 3 credits through Independent Study, while squeezing in as many hours at the office as he could. There have been a lot of late nights and early mornings for Ty, and lots of missing Daddy for Thayne and I. Though Thayne and I have stayed quite busy ourselves.

We put the house up on the market the beginning of April and had an offer by the end of the month. There were lots of frantic cleanings for house showings and many prayers of gratitude that my son enjoys watching PBS. Once we had the offer and inspections in, Thayne started helping me pack. We started early so we could pack at a rate of a box a day, and thank goodness we did since the last couple weeks we all took turns being sick! I am so grateful for so many good friends that came over and helped. I never could have gotten everything done without them.

When we could, Thayne and I took trips to the BYU duck pond on the South side of campus where we watched all the baby ducks and would meet up with Daddy when he had time. I never caught it on camera, but Thayne would see the duckies and say "Kack! Kack! Kack!"

Here's a little glimpse of Thayne's excitement

After a crazy day of packing, duck ponding, or what have you, this was Thayne's all time favorite activity:

Thayne couldn't be more content than to sit with Daddy while he did his homework

And it made Daddy pretty happy too

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Birthday Boy!

Thayne is one year old! He is the sweetest, smartest, funniest little guy ever. He loves "Apple" (the phonetic alphabet song on YouTube), any kind of "hat", he'll tell you when his food is "hot" (which includes food that is slightly warm), and gets excited to see "mama" and "daddy". For his special day, Jill, Tevya, Colter, and Ellie met us in Saratoga for a birthday celebration. We went on a walk by the Jordan River, had a yummy barbecue, ate cake, and took pictures down by the lake. I can't even express how much we love this little boy. Being his mom is the Best Thing EVER!