Old Picture, Same Cute Face!

Mom and Gordo

Last weekend my Mom and Gordo came up to Boise. I have to say it was one of the funnest weekends we have had in a long while. It's so nice to have people so genuinely excited for us. They both came in and helped me bake the sweets. My Mom made the lemon bars completely by herself and ran to the grocery store twice to get stuff I had run out of. Woops!

The first night we went out to eat at this place called the Bitter Root Alehouse. I think that's the third time I've been there and I love it. The service is fast and the food is all local and not too spendy Lauren gets a grilled cheese with tomatoes, basil, and some other yummy things. I get to veggie burger (I know guys sounds sick but it is GOOD!) and I add avocado.

Anyway, if you come up- get excited! Not only will you get to work at the bakery you'll get to eat out at some delicious places! :)

videos

Wow! These took forever to upload. Goodnight. There is a tag under the movie if your interested.



I was tagged by ABBY!.... Wil and I totally splurged and got a $12 rabbit ears from Walmart. We have 4 channels therefore my shows are very limited, but nonetheless
Oh and mine are in no particular order

8 Shows I like to watch:
1. The Office
2. So You Think You Can Dance
3. The News (any news that we can pick up)
4. Ellen
5. Saturday Night Live
6. Biggest Loser (I have actually only seen one episode adn it was last season but I think i'd really like it)
7. Dr. HOUSE
8.

8 Things that happened yesterday:
1. I worked
2. We had our "best" monday so far!
3. Wil got sick
4. Did the "books" for the bakery before work
5. Folded laundry
6. Read nursery rhymes with Liam
7. Talked to Dani
8. Watched "the Visitor"

8 Favorite Places to Eat:
1. At my mom's
2. At my mother in laws
3. Callaway's
4. Logan's Heroes
5. Charlie's--- OH MAN I WOULD LOVE A SHAKE RIGHT NOW!!
6. Fredricos
7. Cafe Sabor
8. Both Grandma's Houses!

8 Things I'm Looking Forward To:
1. A Visit from Any family! :) hint hint
2. Halloween
3. Thanksgiving
4. Christmas
5. Thursday (I get thursday's off and we may go to a pumpkin patch!)
6. having a yard
7. Have more than one Car
8. Bran Muffins tomorrow at the bakery yumyum


8 Things on my Wish List
1. A paycheck! :)
2. A house
3. Health Insurance
4. A second Car
5. More drive
6. more time with my husband
7. More patience
8. More Christ-like

8 People I Tag
1. Melissa
2. Sarah
3. Kami
4. Brit
5. Cash
6. Stacia
7. Andi
8. Sade

Howdy

Oh boy... I love my little family so much! We are definitely busy with the bakery but we also have many fun moments with each other. The following pictures are in McCall ID, our house, and our back yard...

The next is Liam doing one of his "tricks." He is very proud when he does this...

Riding his bike- this is serious business!

The next two are in our "yard" or shared green space. We have a little kid play thingy- which liam LOVES! He can even go down the slide by himself.


Family outting to the zoo...We NEVER get off work earily enough to go to the zoo so one Saturday we made it a point to try and go. We got there at 4:30, it closes at 5, and the lady was like," Um.. we close in about 25 minutes." We were like, "ya we know! Isn't it so great we made it before close?!" She said, "I'm still going to have to charge you full price." We replyed, "SWEET! LET US IN! WE only have 24 minutes now!!" Despite only having a few minutes we had a great time. I'm not sure either of my boys attention spans would have lasted much longer than that!

This is McCall... It's about 1.5-2 hours from our house. It is a really fun town and close to 2 ski resorts. We had so much fun one sunday just walking around the town. It was nice and cool- oh made us miss home a lot.

Liam is walking and jumping!

So maybe it's more like controlled falling but it's a start. I'll post another video to more properly demonstrate his walking abilities.

Dang Cute Carrier

So... Grandma's, I'm sorry, but this will be a boring post for you..
I saw this on McKenzie's blog and thought it was to die for! It is a baby carrier and is made by Baby Bisou. It is so darling and can carry a kid up to 40 lbs. At the rate Liam is gaining weight, i'll be able to carry him in this until he's in 5th grade!

Love you all,
laur

I've got another

liam vids

I got a flip video for my birthday and it is pretty fun. i take it every where. We have got Liam doing some funny and cool things.

Happy july 8th!!

To feel like a a semi-responsible blogger i feel like i need to update the blogfest. Well, we had a an awesome weekend in Utah. The highlight was for sure seeing liam tear up his birthday cake and make a huge mess real quick. That kid just makes me so proud. We also watched two movies, ate at least three meals a day, and usually slept longer than 7 hours a night. it was awesome. I got to go dirt jump with the brothers Rupp, and jump out of a tree naked into 2nd dam with some of my friends. It was surely a success. we crammed a lot of fun into a few days.

Life at the Bakery is good. Summer always slows down, i guess, but we're still busy with everything else. We've started doing some new breads: Sundried Tomato Pesto, Santa Fe Cornbread, and Apple Crumble. I'm getting the baking systems down pretty well and I'm trying to impliment them upon my bread bakers. The dudes i've got are going to be great once they're all trained up with everything and know everything I know.

Man, Liam is so funny. He's not saying many words besides Uh-oh, mama, and dada. but he's really good at mimicking sounds and intonations of words. I think he'll pick up a second language fast. haa! My favorite Liamism is when he sticks his head into a bowl or a box and makes funny noises. I taught him how to yell into a mixing bowl a few weeks ago, now anytime he sees something that will bounce sound back at him he'll indulge himself. Liam and I were entertained by some storage item in ROSS dress for less today for a good five minutes. I love my fam they're the best.

Wife, Son, and Laur's new cut

I'm so lucky to have my wife and son. They are so good to me. Laur chases Liam all over the place every day, keeps the house clean, feeds me at night, works three closing shifts a week for $0/hr., and still lets me chill when I get home. Liam is patient in the car and will take long naps with me when it's time for me to tend.


Laur cut her hair and I really like it. I think it fits her, but she also has a hard time making anything look un-attractive.

And the best dad award goes to...

It's a bird....

It's a plane...


NO! It's WIL!!!


I know, this is really cheesy but really Wil deserves some type of award! You guys have NO idea how hard this guy has been working (like at least 80-90 hour weeks) That is amazing in itself, but then to top it all off- he is the best dad not to mention husband in the whole world. I love Wil for many reasons. Here are a few...
1. He is passionate and dares to follow his dreams
2. He is sincere and willing to help whenever, wherever, and however
3. He makes me laugh- we laugh together OFTEN
4. He listens
5. He is the best dad in the whole world!
6. He has an inspiring testimony of the gospel -he makes me want to be a better person

When Liam sees Wil he just lights up and can't wait to start playing. His little feet start a kickin and his hands start waving and he will do anything he can to get his dad to play!

On Saturday evening Wil went dirt jumping (see above pictures- NOOOO he hasn't lost it) Anyway, Wil took Liam on his first of many bike rides- Needless to say, Liam LOVED it!



While we were waiting for Wil to get some energy out on those jumps Liam had fun trying dirt for the first time...



I can't write a father's day post and not mention my wonderful father and father inlaw
We are blessed with 2 amazing fathers in our lives! They are incredible and we love them so much!!!!!

LEE HAM

More pictures....

So I'm not even sure that anyone will see this post for awhile, but I had a minute (that I probably should have used more wisely) and decided that I would post a few more pictures and possibly a movie.

I love this first picture. This is a total Liam pose.


Wil, Liam and I went on a walk in logan a week or so before we moved. We love logan and miss it a ton, but are loving Boise as well. (We actually don't know anything about Boise yet but I was trying to sound positive! :)

Liam loves bathing. He has a nightly ritual of eating and then Wil gets Liam undressed while I get the tub ready. Right before we put him in Wil holds him up and proceeds with one of our favorite parent songs "Naked time, Naked time, Liam loves his naked time," all while Liam's little legs are kicking 100 miles an hour because he is so excited. In this picture Liam is eating bubbles. YUM



We Love you all!!

A little of life in Boise

Well here we are in front of the place I spend 95% of my waking life. It's a real nice place, and super fun to work in.


Here is where we live. We are renting a three bedroom townhome/condo. It's new so it's nice and clean. It's also just less than a mile away from the bakery, so riding the bike to work works out great for this one car family.


Oh Yah! We are still the parents to this child. His name is Liam and I realize he looks like a jedi in this picture. We'll see what happens with this one.


To go on with his jedi skills he has really strong muscles... Unfortunately he takes after his dad and his arms are really small, that's ok though cause his six pack sticks way out.


This was Liam practicing his light saber skills. Sorry I didn't get the actual saber in the photo. He makes the same face his cousin Ben does when he's waving something around and he knows he's going to get hit in the face. It's totally funny. I only stop him when he gets a hold of something like a chain or a lamp. Stuff like paper back books and light sabers are free game though.

update

hey there, last week we went to dillon, montana to be trained on how to run a g-harv.  it was a lot of classroom work but we benefited from it. This week i'm in slc working/being trained at the 9th and 9th bakery.  It is different from the Logan bakery, which is good to see. next week i'll be going to the taylorsville bakery for the same deal. then I'll be done with corporate training and we'll be able to head up to boise and get started... after a couple more things happen. I'm glad i'm not in architecture school (like i'd even be accepted) but I can't stand all of this waiting. lemme at em lemme at em!

Liam photo shoot

Well, I hope that you're all into looking at Liam. Believe it or not this is me narrowing it down. Wil is a fabulous photographer!