Talmage vs Blue Marker

At least crayola makes washable markers...

5 Year Anniversary!!!

Today we celebrated our fifth anniversary. Wow how time flies when you are having fun. We are more in love today than ever. We have the best time together, even though we don't have that much time together with Jeff in school. We are so grateful that we met that fateful day on the playground in fourth grade 16 year ago.

Our Visit to the Phoenix Zoo

We spent the day at the Phoenix Zoo. All in all it was a really fun time. It is not the greatest zoo in the world, but it was ok. I think they do too good of a job of making the exhibits too much like their natural enviroment (i.e. you can't see a lot of the animals). I think that we are getting more used to the heat down here. It was like 102 degrees and we managed to not die of heat. Talamage's favorites things at the zoo: petting the goats, watching the monkeys, and listening to some tropical birds that were singing really loud.

Talmage Petting the Goats...sort of

Tempe Splash Pad

So now that Jeff has a few days off from school we decided to do a couple little fun things with Talmage that we have been meaning to do for awhile. Day one we went to the Temple Splash Pad to play in the water for the afternoon. We had a really fun time and Talmage loved it. He loved it so much that he flipped his lid when we had to go. We have now gauged how much T likes something by how bad he freaks out when we have to leave. This place was a 10 out of ten. Good Times....

Talmage Being Not So Graceful on the Slide...

Potty Time, Stickers, and Mommy

Well Talmage has started the quest of mastering the potty. We got him the Elmo's Potty Time video and the Elmo Potty(he is on a bit of an Elmo kick lately). He was pretty interested in the whole idea AT FIRST, but that faded shortly. We think that we are going to wait a month or two more. We really don't know what the crap(pun) we are doing. Wish us luck, and any friendly advice would be great.





Talmage has also been on a sticker kick too....




Fun with Mommy Time....

WE ARE PREGNANT!!!!!

We are happy to announce that we are expectiong Talmage to become an older brother on December 15th of 2008. We are soooo excited and so far Chelsi is doing great. We know it is a little early to be announcing it, but we already told our parents and if we know our parents news is traveling fast.

Blood Draw Anyone???

I just wanted to write a quick post and tell you how our day at the blood lab went. We ALL needed to get blood drawn and in AZ you have to go to a lab that is not at the hospital to get it done. So we woke up this morning and headed to the lab. It all went down hill from there. Talamage went first and boy that kid is unbelievably strong. It took every ounce of my srength along with a hefty nurse to hold him still enough to get his draw. He of coarse was going balistic. Poor guy he had no idea what hit him, but he knows he didn't like it. Chelsi went next and the disaster got a little more intense. She as some of you might know does not do well when getting pokes with needles. She was doing fine until the end but then passed out. Talmage started freaking out cause he could tell something wasn't quite right. Things got a little crazy, but everyng turned out OK. On our way out of the lab it was sad to see the kids faces in the waiting room cause they could hear the whole thing and they were scared to death. That kind of morning deserves a little ice cream and playing at the park. Hopefully we don' have to do that again for a LONG time.

Ashley and Jardin Gleason

Last week was Chelsi’s little sister Ashley’s wedding. Chelsi spent the whole week in Utah for all of the festivities. I flew in on Friday night at midnight for the big day on Saturday. Then we drove back all the way home on Sunday. What a weekend. Ashley and Jardin’s wedding was so great. They got married in the Salt lake Temple and had their luncheon at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. Then later on the reception was held at the Christenson’s house/yard. Everything was just beautiful. Those Christenson women can throw a heck-of-a wedding. Ashley looked wonderful and Jardin wasn’t ugly. They are a cute couple and we just wanted to welcome Jardin to family. We had a great time at the wedding and Talmage couldn’t have had a better time.

Mom and Dad come to Mesa

So a week or two ago Grandpa had some business down here in Phoenix and since Grandma had been out of commision becuase of her rotator cuff surgery she was able to come along too. We had such a great time together. We went out to eat at some of our favorite places and just spend some quality time together. We actually had grandma here for her birthday which was pretty fun too. We did one thing that was really great when they were here. At the Mesa Temple they have a Easter pageant every year. It is actually the largest outdoors Easter pageant in the whole world. There was easily 5 thousand people there if not more. The pageant was really done well and er had a great time. I think grandma liked it the most and is planning on heading down again next year.

The Pulley's Go to Disneyland

We just got back from our week long trip to Disneyland. We had the best time ever. It was the perfect time to go. We never waited in a line longer than 15 minutes, and the weather was wonderful. Talmage loved Disneyland, it took him a few rides to get used to the loud noises and dark rides though. He especially loved Flik’s Faire at California Adventure. He wasn’t quite sure about all the 3D movies though, we couldn’t get him to keep the glasses on. He was a great sport the whole time, he did take a few naps in the stroller but other than that he was a party animal. We had to get him one of those child leashes so we could keep track of him and it worked wonders, we are big fans. That kid has more energy than mommy and daddy put together.

This is a video of Talmage uh “dancing” while we waited for the Disney Parade. He is a clown but has some pretty sweet moves.
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This is a video of Talmage running around playing in the water at Flik’s Faire. He is trying to hit the water, but can’t quite get the timing right.
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