Happy New Year

Warning: This is a big post with lots of pictures! But well worth your time, I can assure you!

Well it's been a while since my last post! Luckily, this morning my baby has decided to sleep in his crib and not my arms so I am free to update my blog. Yay! We will see if I can update my movie blog. I feel like I have a million movies to blog about but I've had no time to do it. Anyways, for Christmas we went down to Arizona for 10 days and it was great! We got to see a bunch of family and the weather was awesome. It was actually unusual because it was so nice for winter. Tristan did great on the drive down and up. He loves his car seat and he slept the whole way. He is growing way too fast and I already miss my tiny lil baby that he was. He has already overcome his first cold (which was the saddest thing ever). He is also starting to understand that we talk to him. If you can get Tristan's eye contact and talk to him, he smiles like crazy. Even when you don't have eye contact, he smiles like crazy. He loves to be naked and have his diaper changed. And he is so cute, he will "talk" to you. I am enjoying motherhood and I know this is what I'm supposed to be doing. By the way, at 6 weeks, he no longer fit in his newborn clothes. I am so sad! But the 0-3 month clothes on him are still kind of big.

Cross eyed!

We got to speak to Elder Tanner Bryant on Christmas day! He was really excited to talk to all of us and we were as well. It was so much fun and we miss him!

Tristan got his first motorcycle ride... well sort of.

He also met Taz! We wish he could've met Zuka.. :/

Tristan and I went out on a date together with all my friends and their kids. It was so much fun! I love all those girls and you know who you are! I also love your lil ones too :)

Can you see the bobcat???

There he is! I had never seen one before out by our house, so it was cool!

Tristan loves his baths! He just chills in the warm water.

He's happy to be with daddy!

 Tristan and his lion at 3 weeks old. This outfit was a little too big for him (can't you tell?).

Before we left for Christmas, there was a huge snow storm! It was actually really cool and Scottie had to go to work in it.

 I love this picture.

Tristan fell asleep like this! It was hilarious!!

I missed taking a picture of Tristan on his 1 month mark.. darn. But this is his 6 week picture! He's getting so big.

And this is his cool "T" that my mother-in-law made for him! I LOVE it! And he looks super cute next to it AND it matches his room.

Tristan helped me take the dogs outside! He looks so cozy.

He feel asleep like this. He just likes to fall asleep sitting up I guess.

You can't see it but he loves his musical mobile in his crib! I took the dogs outside once and came back in to him smiling and "talking" to the mobile. It was adorable!

He is almost 3 weeks old in this picture. Tristan looks so small compared to the couch.

These were taken on my phone but he has a matching onsie, sleeper, and blanket! He happened to be wearing the onsie and sleeper and I put him on his blanket. So the question is, can you find Tristan? Haha.. I'm so funny!

He also loves to either sleep or eat with his hands on his face (usually covering his eyes).

I love his eyebrows in this one.

Happy boy when he's naked! (well almost naked).

Well there you go! Hope you enjoyed all of my pictures! And we will see when I get the opportunity to update again. Wish me luck.

In Memory of Zuka

This last weekend was a sad weekend for a few people. Scott had a dog named Zuka that he had to put down on November 1st. He got Zuka when he was around 14 years old, so she would've been 12 this January. Her back hips weren't working anymore and she couldn't get up to walk around without help.

 It was really hard on Scott and I know it was also really hard on Cherri (Scott's mom), who took care of Zuka when we couldn't. We truly appreciate all you did Cherri for Zuka while Scott was on his mission and while we've been married. 

Scott loved Zuka and it was hard to put her down because she was still acting normal and happy. She was just getting too old. 

Zuka was a great dog and had some funny little quirks. She was a great mother to her babies and she also loved tennis balls. She would never give it back to you but wanted to keep it in her mouth and away from Taz. 

 Even though I didn't know her as well, I will miss her. We will all miss dear Zuka and we can't wait to see her when we are all resurrected someday.

Newborn & Maternity Photos

Okay, I am looking for someone who does maternity and newborn photography in Utah. I want someone who is good at what they do but isn't too expensive. If anyone knows of any good photographers let me know! I find that I'm becoming more frustrated because I can't find a good price. So, if you know of any friends or family who would like some clients, let me know please! Thanks

The Woodruff Family :)

Tanner is on a Mission

My brother, Tanner, has officially left on his mission last Wednesday. He was so excited, he threw up on the flight over, after the flight, after lunch, and before he went into the MTC. :) Haha.. He's doing good tho! He wrote to us and said that it was just the stomach flu. I think it was all nerves. Anyways, if you didn't know, he was called to serve in the Argentina Cordoba Mission. His first week there has been kind of tough because he is already paired with a companion who hates being at the MTC and won't even talk to Tanner. He is staying strong, and has already asked me to send him some Dr. Pepper. If any of you wish to read his letters that do come through, you can go to his website at www.missionsite.net/TannerIBryant . You can send him letters (if you wish) and just see how he's doing. We're so proud of him! I already miss him. He'll be a great missionary though.

Camping

This last weekend, our ward had a Ward Camp Out up Hobble Creek Canyon in Springville. It had been planned all month, and I had switched work with some of the girls at work so I could go on this campout. As it got closer, we saw that it was supposed to rain. But, we still wanted to go because we haven't gone camping in a while, and I love camping.

Meli and Dash came with us and as we were driving there, it started raining. The raindrops got bigger and bigger. Well... at the grounds where our ward was, everyone was huddled underneath tarps because it was raining so much. It eventually slowed down to a light sprinkle and that's when we decided to hurry and put up our tent before it started raining again.

We were a little too slow. Our tent was still lying flat on the ground when it started POURING! Even harder than it had been before. We hurried and tried to put our rain tarp over the tent, but water still got in it. We were soaked! Scott and I were going as fast as we could trying to get the tent up. Well, Meli had a blast! She loves water so she was off and we actually couldn't find her for a while because she was exploring. Dash was absolutely MISERABLE! I wish I could've gotten a picture of him (but it was pouring) because he was huddled underneath a nearby tree, frowning at us. His little eyebrows were just drooping because he was so miserable. We couldn't stop laughing.

Well, I ended up staying with the ward underneath the tarps (soaked in my clothes, literally...it was like I jumped into a pool and got out) while Scott hurried home, with the dogs, to get towels, new sets of clothes, and dry the dogs off. When he did get back, we cleaned up the inside of the tent and everything went smoothly after that. Funny thing was, it didn't rain anymore after we cleaned everything up.

I still had lots of fun! I sure had a heck of a lot of laundry to do the next day. It was worth the memories though! Here are some pictures:

I am starting to look like I actually put a small basketball underneath my sweatshirt! But.. I didn't. :)

And that one picture doesn't look like there was a lot of water, but that was the tarp underneath our tent. We had already got our tent on the tarp before it started pouring. And we also got rid of some of the puddles before we took the picture.

Scottie Love

When we went to Arizona, Scott & I looked through a bunch of photo albums and found some cute pictures of him. I think some of them are quite hilarious. I took pictures of them on my phone and emailed them to myself so I could put them on my blog. They are kind of fun to look at, so enjoy! And I figure that this is how my little boy might look like. I'm so excited!

Scott & Cherri (his mom)

Scott & Sam (his dad)

Scott - this face is so hilarious! He looks frightened

Scott is in a basket and I don't think he is very happy about it

His brothers (Weston & Logan) torturing Scott.. no wonder why Scott has an attitude :)

These last two pictures are my favorite. This is Scott on his 3rd birthday and he is SO happy & excited to blow out his candles. (But then there is evil Weston..)

And evil Weston blows out his candles. Look at Scott's face.. That is the saddest face I have ever seen!! And the most cutest one too. I can't help but laugh every time I see this picture.

My little boy is going to be so darn cute! I can't wait to see what he looks like. And I'm sure he will be a lot like his father.

 And here is an update on my belly. This is 24 weeks! I am almost done! I can't wait!!!!!