Happy Birthday America

Fun weekend spent with family & friends-Pac-12 party, campfires, s'mores, bbq's, swimming, naps (yes, we managed 2 naps this weekend & it was heavenly), & fireworks. Will enjoyed the firework show saying "Look" & "Wow" while loving his blue sucker from Grandma.
Happy 4th!

In hiding

Apparently we have all been in hiding from the blog these past few weeks/months. Life is busy, but good. Here is Will in his usual hiding spot...in the kitchen cupboards, after clearing about all the contents first. Our little guy is a happy, active, busy, & quick. He has one speed, "GO!"
He is running around, climbing on everything, gaining his independence & opinions about things, and saying more words (of course his favorite is "no, no, no"...while waving his finger in the air). He weighs a whopping 28 lbs, which is getting a tad heavy for me. He follows me around everywhere...well that is until I want him to get dressed, change his diaper or hurry and go somewhere. We have started implementing time-out a little due to hitting. Not too sure how effective considering I said to Will after hitting me, "Will, if you hit mama again you will go sit in time-out." He got up, walked over to the time out rug & sat himself down. Hmm.

Helping Wes in the basement, while holding his football (slowly, but surely the basement is coming along). We are finally putting up the trim, happy day!
Talking on the calculator (or anything that looks like a phone)

Isn't it beaUtiful

New PAC-12 Logo at Rice-Eccles

Long Over Due Post

So I am way over-due on updating this blog.
Life is Busy...managing work home & chasing around our busy 18 month old. He is on the go-running, climbing, jumping, jabbering, hiding, throwing things over the banister down the stairs, splashing his hands in the toilet (yuck!), falling down the stairs (I thought this would happen more with first learning to crawl & walk, but now he thinks he can go down stairs facing forward, ugh), bumping his head & chin-& most of the time happy...well, if I am in sight.
We went on a week long cruise to Mexico & had a blast. But ever since our return Will has been super clingy. It's okay, I'll take the hugs & reassurance. We are so grateful for the time we had, and that Will was in good hands. I am sure we missed him more than he missed us, right?

Will & his Red Balloon that could not leave his hand.

He bathed with it, slept with it & clung to it like crazy.

Hiding behind the couch
Driving the car & the Children's Museum.
He would not leave the car & did not want to to anything else.

Happy for warmer weather. Riding his toy around the backyard. I

I have a feeling we are going to be spending a lot of time outside this Summer.

On the Cruise...in the Dining Room for Dinner.

With Sammy & Megan

Dinner

At the Comedy Lounge (enjoying the 'Family Friendly' Shows, only).

Have you been a comedy club for the 18+? You know you are getting old
when you become less tolerant of that type of humor.

And Yes, Sammy & Wes wore their matching ReAl Salt Lake jerseys throughout the cruise.

Adorable isn't it?

In Puerto Vallarta at El Eden Zip Line. So Fun!
This is where the movie 'Predator' was filmed. They took us on a 45 min Safari Jeep type tour to the 14 zip lines. It was the best. The tour guides would hide in the bushes & scare us (well me), play jokes on us (actually just me) about our cables being broken & send us on our way, hang us over the edge across waterfalls, forests & beautiful views hundreds of ft on the air. We loved this.

Sammy & Wes excited about finding a Rite Aid to get Thrifty Ice Cream.

Perfect way to begin our trip in Long Beach. We had a little time to kill after arriving in Long Beack & waiting to board the ship. So of course we had to find a Rite Aid. Happy Day!

Now for some of the portraits taken on the cruise.

Seriously the backdrops, the poses, the photographers, the people posing...priceless. We had more fun taking funny pictures, looking at them, & of course looking at all the other beauty's.

Yes, we are too cheap to purchase them. Therefore we took a couple pictures (of the prints) with our own camera...hence the poor quality. But still some good laughs.
Sammy & Wes, all serious.

Formal Night

Gotta love Wes going cross-eyed for this one.

Enjoying the Ship

Cabo San Lucas. Enjoying some delicious nachos on the beach.

We were so excited to be back on Cabo, and we went to one of the resorts we stayed at a few years ago, and hung out by the pool.

Arriving back to Long Beach

On the wild bus ride in Puerto Vallarta.

Showing off our 2 soccer jerseys we purchased for Will.

Loved the trip. We had a lot of fun. First Cruise for both Wes & I & we loved the experience. We ate way too much food, enjoyed way too much warm melting chocolate cake & pineapple frozen yogurt (yum!). Wes & Sammy drank diet coke like crazy (at all hours of the day). Loved our waiter (Willyma-"William", from Indonesia), I almost wanted to hug him good-bye our last day. The people watching it entertaining, the spa was great & we especially love walking around the ports & eating the local food (to be honest it was better than the food on the ship). We couldn't have imagined having Will with us (although we missed him), but we grateful to know he was happy at home (with his red balloon)...while we played, layed in the sun, read magazines, enjoyed Mexico, slept in & ate ourselves silly.

William's Christmas Dance

Every time the famous Target Christmas ad came across the TV, William would start breaking down and shaking his booty to the "I can't wait" rap song. We love his dance moves, so we got it on video!

Lucky 7

Happy 7 Year Anniversary!

It has been a great 7 years. And as Wes likes to say, "Seven is Magic". (Apparently it is the title of a book he read in Elementary School)-Love it.

Life has been good these past couple of months. Super busy, but having a good time. And yes, I have been a major slacker when it comes to updating the blog. So, here are a few pictures for good measure.

Happy New Year 2011. Looking forward to a great year.

Happy Wedding Day

Looking cute in his Snowman hat
12 mos picture

Family Photo with the cutest Santa

Ready to go-Loving his plaid outfit

Playing on the slide

Loving Christmas-I mostly was trying to capture a picture of his outfit. I love these little one-piece outfits...and will have him wearing them as long as possible.

Downtown, looking at the lights

Guten Tag

Good Day. Wow, we have been MIA from the blog. All is well in the Boyack household. We are enjoying Fall & life (could we just have weather like this all year, please?)
We headed up to Oktoberfest, which is always a good time. Grandma G was prepared with the Lederhosen for the kids, and they were a hit. They were the stars of the dance floor.

Will clapping & doing the classic 'Chicken Dance'

Wes teaching him the dance moves
Madi, Will, Caroline & Anna, all looking stylish in their Lederhosen
Family Picture
Cuddling with Wes
Enjoying a bike ride up Millcreek
What a fun & beautiful bike ride
Our on-going basement project

Wes putting up the insulation. He's the Best!
Wow, look at all the insulation!