End of 2010

It's been a few months but my new goal is to blog at least once a month! We'll see how it goes. Here are the last couple months of 2010 including Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas!

For Halloween we had a fun party with a few couples and we played games and had good treats. Isaac was a cute pumpkin that Grandma Tolman helped me make for him. Sawyer and I found our costumes at Kmart...we weren't very creative.



Thanksgiving was also spent in Rexburg because Sawyer had to work on black friday so we didn't have too much travel time. Sawyer begged me to get a deap fryer and he would do the turkey so I obliged and we had a really good dinner. We had some good friends to spend the day with so it was an enjoyable day.




Sawyer Graduated!!! He received his Bachelors Degree in Political Science with 2 minors in Business and Spanish. We were able to have Isaac's baby blessing the same weekend so lots of family came to support us. It is a little wierd with neither of us in school but we are ready to move on!







Christmas was spent in Sacramento with the Walker family. We had a good time with lots of babies! Isaac has two boy cousins only a few weeks apart from him. Drake is 7 weeks older and Emmett is 2 weeks younger. They should have a good time later on playing together. Of course we went shopping a lot, ate lots of good food, went up to the snow for sledding, Sawyer got to go shooting, and we saw a few movies. Overall, a very fun filled trip. After Christmas we went back to Rexburg to find out that the job we were waiting for fell through so now we are back in Sacramento waiting to hear from a few other jobs, hopefully one comes up soon!







And here are just some cute pictures I want to brag about how cute Isaac is...

Isaac Sawyer Walker

Our Handsome Baby Boy is Here!!



Born September 20, 2010
7lbs 15oz
21 inches long

So the last couple of appointments I had at the doctor were exciting because I was already dialated 4 inches and 75% effaced. They said he would be here before I came back the next week on September 16th. Well he wasn't coming so they said I could be induced on Monday the 20th so I jumped on that opportunity. We went in at 7:30 am and I was all set up by 8:30 waiting for the doctor. He came in and broke my water around 9:00 and I was already having good contractions. I never even needed the patosin. I love epiderals by the way...it was wierd having no movement in my legs for hours but it was totally worth it! Everything went well and we are loving being parents!

My mom was able to be there which was amazing help to us. She stayed for almost 2 weeks and we were so spoiled by her. Also Sawyer's parents were able to come for the weekend to meet him and they spoiled us too...mostly Isaac though! Kelsey, Tommy, and Maya were able to come up Saturday to spend the day too and it was really fun to spend time with family.

Isaac is now 3 weeks old and doing great! Overall he is a great baby that rarely crys. He does have this little lamb grunt that he does and it's pretty cute but he can do it really loud! We can't wait to have him meet the rest of his family at Christmas time.

Summer Fun 2010

This summer has been a fun filled and exciting summer. With Sawyer in school and me working it didn't start until July after school got out, with a Tolman family reunion in St. George, UT. We did lots of fun things like four-wheeling, boating, hiking, shooting, and lots of games and eating!








After the St. George trip we were able to come to Salt Lake and have an amazing baby shower thrown by my sisters and mom. Isaac was so spoiled! Thank you mom and sisters!







While we have a few weeks off from Sawyer's school we took a road trip to California to visit the Walkers. We did lots of shopping, went to a River Cats game, toured the capital building, took the girls swimmming, and ate at all the good restaurants we are deprived of in Rexburg. I also was thrown an amazing shower by the Walker girls where Isaac was spoiled once again! We are set and ready now! Most important we were able to see Drake the same night he was born! He was so precious and made us more excited for Isaac to come.







It was really good to see all our family and we can't wait for everyone to meet Isaac soon! Only 4 more weeks until he is due!

We made it back to Rexburg and still have a few weeks to relax before school and Isaac come so we have been playing with friends and trying to get a lot of fun things in. Sawyer had his birthday and we went to dinner and a movie for his birthday. We went camping by Mesa Falls and it was very exciting because we saw a big black bear about 1 mile away from our campsite. The whole first night no one was able to sleep because we were tricked by our ears thinking we heard something outside. Luckily the bear never came around and we had a good time. We went to yellowstone, fished, shot shot guns, and had a good time around the fire.

Jackson Hole, WY

When we had Monday off from school and work for Memorial Day, we decided that we didn't want to stay home and be bums like we do on Saturday's so Sawyer and his friend Dallin decided about 30 minutes before we actually left to go to Jackson for a night. It's only an hour drive and a really pretty one too. We ate a ton, went on the alpine slide at Snow King Resort and did lots of shopping (just window shopping though, everything there is so expensive or has Jackson Hole written all over it!) It was fun to go visit the place of my birth too! It was short but fun!

The term Tax Season has a whole other meaning to me now. I have been working for a small CPA firm here in Rexburg since January and it has been a really good job...until now!! Just kidding but I really know now what Cami, Kelsey, and Shannon mean when they talk about tax season! Anyway that is my excuse for not blogging since January!




Most of you already know that we are pregnant! I am 16 weeks along and due on September 27th. I've had a few appointments and everything is going smoothly. I've gained 3 pounds total but it feels like a lot more considering I can't button my pants anymore! The nausea was bearable, nothing compared to what I hear Cami has had before, and I can eat good food again. We find out on May 7th what the gender is so we are looking forward to that.

Sawyer just finished a semester of school and is now obsessed with anything outdoors, mostly fishing and shooting his new shotgun. He starts another semester in a week and an internship with the Rexburg Police Department! Not as exciting as it sounds, there has been one gun shot in the last 25 years, and well it was shot at a back tire to slow the car down.

That is our update for now. Here are some Easter pictures too!