VEHAR FAMILY

LITTLE MS. TAYLOR IS 1

2010-08-09T16:41:00.002-06:00

We are still in shock out how quickly this year has flown by...Taylor is one, crazy! She has had quite the successful year...stock market earnings, world peace, you know nothing big....if only. But we are so impressed at how much she has proven all the doctors wrong with being a preemie. She hasn't had one delay in her development. Sorry some bragging is going to occur if you want to skip down...She started sitting up at about six and a half months and not long after that started crawling. She learned how to climb up the stairs the last time we were in Utah which was at the beginning of June, thanks to Kevin, and is super quick to get up them. She hasn't quite figured out how to go down yet. In fact she had quite the spill at a friend's home that had us a little worried but she was fine. On her birthday we had my parent's out for a visit, we all had so much fun. Also on her birthday she took her first couple steps and broke her first tooth. She still isn't walking but loves to be brave and take a couple of steps from the couch. She still only has one tooth in there, which looks kind of funny, I would take a picture but she is too quick to get one of her holding still. We decided to get her an extremely large cupcake for her cake and she was in heaven. She grabbed it with both hands and dug in, it was so fun to watch her enjoy it. She is definitely her mother's daughter, she LOVES chocolate, I know we're bad parents for giving it to her. Kevin started it, gave her a sip of a chocolate shake, she was hooked after that. I took her to the doctor last week and the doctor was so impressed at how she is doing. Her overall growth is a lot smaller then Reagan ever was but hey that's okay, she does have a 1/4 Japanese in her. Her percentiles...10th for weight, 16th for height, and 66th for head circumference. Lots of brains is what the doctor said. We sure love our Tay Tay, Tayter Tot, Twiggy (a nickname from the beginning), McStinky, and all of the daily names we come up with around here. She is such a joy and we are so happy to have her apart of our family. Happy 1st Birthday Ms. Taylor!

A COUPLE MORE UPDATES...

Some of you know by now but to inform the rest of you Kevin started a new job on July 22nd. He was working for the state and wasn't all too happy with the job. And two years later he was offered a job after only a phone interview with the City and County of Denver. He is still doing the same thing, performance auditing but it's with a city which is the direction he wants to go in.

I've been working since February at 24Hour Fitness as a service rep at the front desk. I didn't think I would love going back to work but I really have. Kevin is home with the girls when I go to work so no extra costs with daycare, which really wouldn't make sense to do anyway. And he loves spending time with them so it's a win win. The whole situation has been pretty great, the best part I've lost at least 10 pounds from starting this job. Apparently standing up for 15 hours a week makes you loose weight, who would have thought.

Little Ms. Reagan starts Kindergarten on August 18th...I know I've said it before...but I'm going to be the weepy Mom when I drop her off. She is so excited to be so grown up and go to school, finally. We're so excited for her too.

So that is what is the latest with the Vehars. We're gearing up for another BYU Football season, two trips to Utah and a trip down to the Air Force Academy are already planned. Goodbye social life, hello Cougars! Love to all!

AND THE AWARD GOES TO....

2010-05-04T23:28:00.001-06:00

Dana Vehar: World's Worst Blogger. I shouldn't even call myself a blogger...hmmm....well too much brain power for tonight to think of a better term for my "blogging." But I was getting tired, as I'm sure the two people that check my blog are getting, of seeing the same post for five months now. So apologies two people but here is a new picture of my little girls (and yes Taylor does smile but only for random old ladies in stores).
I really should try harder to just document the happenings (as some people call them) of our little lives. But I'll be honest I'm sure I'll keep my trend going.
*disclaimer-I need to take a writing class to remember how to use a period, exclamation mark, etc. Sorry two readers!

CHRISTMAS AND REAGAN'S BIRTHDAY

2010-01-29T15:22:00.002-07:00

Okay so these pictures are a little late but oh well...Christmas was crazy but fun and it went by super quick. The following week we had my parents and niece and nephew here for Reagan's birthday. My sister was SUPER prego so they weren't able to come out here to CO so we both had the brilliant idea to send the kids with my parents. They all had so much fun together. The week was filled with staying up late (which was EXHAUSTING) and getting up early. We had a Snow Princess party for about six of Reagan's little friends. My friend Connie came to do face painting for the girls and they loved it (Reagan's favorite part of the party). It was two hours of chaos, but Reagan had so much fun with all of her little friends and cousin. Also on the agenda.. seing Princess and the Frog, super cute and surprisingly everyone enjoyed it. And Kevin took the kids sledding the last day they were here. We all had a ton of fun and so glad my parents could come out to CO and the kids could come with them.

2009

2010-01-08T12:17:00.000-07:00

This has been quite the whirlwind year. This time last year we had just found out we were pregnant, and not long after that I started to feel pretty cruddy! I'm not sure if most of you know but I had a pretty big scare with my pregnancy with Taylor (beside the having her six weeks early). At about 10-11 weeks along I began bleeding heavily, we were sure that we were going to miscarry, but thankfully it was nothing. Though after that we still had our fair share of ups and downs. At my 20 week appointment they were concerned that my protein and blood sugar levels were high, so I had to do some more fabulous tests to rule out gestational diabetes and high blood pressure, again everything came back normal, all just a little stressful. And then there was pretty smooth sailing after that, I was feeling a lot more normal just excited to see our little Tay. Then 33 weeks role around and well you know the rest. I can't say enough how grateful we are to our loving Heavenly Father! This entire experience with Taylor made us truly realize the importance of the gospel in our lives. Just a quick share about Taylor's blessing that I didn't mention in that post...Kevin shared his testimony about the power of the Priesthood, and I have to second it! My own testimony of the priesthood was strengthened during this time, I know because of the priesthood that our little Taylor is doing so well! There are times now that we just look at her and are humbled by the blessing that she is! If you can't tell she's a keeper, we all kind of like her!!

As I reminisce about last year I also think back on all the wonderful support we received during this crazy time and also the craziness that was my pregnancy. Reagan was so understanding, the poor kid watched movie after movie some days when I was in the worst of it! She has been such a amazing big sister, constantly helping with whatever I ask her to do. Her favorite thing lately is being the first one in her room after her naps or just waking up in the morning. Sometimes they'll even have a little time just to themselves and play and giggle at one another, it's so sweet! We're so proud of our little Reagan, I'm kind of in shock right now, she just turned five, and I still can't believe it!! She is just growing up too fast for me, sadly at one point in her short little life I wanted her to grow up super quick and start school and just be grown up but now I realize that I need to cherish this time in her life more. She will start school in late August and I know I'll be the Mom sobbing my little eyes out as she walks into school for the first time. So needless to say I'm trying to enjoy her more.

So to sum up this extremely long rant...I am so grateful for the year of 2009! It was filled with so many new and different experiences but we wouldn't trade them. Our family has been strengthened through these experiences and we are so grateful for another year together to learn and grow. We wish everyone a successful and happy 2010!

A UTAH THANKSGIVING

2009-12-07T10:37:00.001-07:00

To keep it short...our trip to Utah was relaxing and we all had a wonderful time. Taylor wasn't put down once, her spoilers aka my mother and sister just couldn't get enough of her. Reagan has never played so much, she spent pretty much every day with her cousins and went to bed each night completely exhausted. Kevin was in heaven...he was able to go to two BYU games, Air Force and most importantly THE rivalry game with Utah. They won both and I couldn't have had a happier fanatic! I was able to spend a ton of time with my twiny, we hit up several boutiques and found some fun stuff. My sis also took our family pictures and Reagan's five year old pics, she is super talented and so glad she was willing! Overall it was just a wonderful trip and we loved spending time with our families and our friends! We hope everyone is enjoying this time of year!

"THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED"

2009-11-04T10:56:00.001-07:00

I had this phrase in my head the entire month. We really have had a "totally wicked" month...First off the weather has been crazy one day it looked like this...

and the next it looked like this...

the last picture was taken from our first snow. We just got another big storm last week and by the end of it all we had a couple feet of snow in our backyard. Reagan just couldn't resist playing in the snow (the picture is a little blurry because I was taking it through the window, I was enjoying my nice warm house!)...

And then we had a three day Halloween marathon...It began on Thursday with some fun with Grandma Mary (Kedzie's grandmother) at the Halloween tea party, I only got one picture and it was horrible so sorry no pictures from that.
Then Thursday night was something that I have been anticipating for the past year...

that's right ladies and gents, WICKED...so amazing! We started the evening by going out to dinner at one of our favorite restaurants The Cheesecake Factory, I think I could eat everything on that menu, so stinkin' good!! Then off to the theater! It's been awhile since I've seen a musical/play and Kevin I don't think has ever seen anything so it was a new experience for him. And to be honest I'm sure he wouldn't have picked Wicked as his first show but oh well! I would see that over and over if it didn't cost an arm and a leg, okay maybe just an arm, but still it was such a clever, entertaining show. So if it happens to come to your area try to see it even if you have to sell your children, I know we did, ha, though it was tempting!
Friday was some fun in the snow and then that night we had a tri-ward trunk-or-treat, but ended up being trick-or-treating inside the church, it was a little cold and I'm sure the activities committee didn't want a bunch of frozen children on their hands.
And then some more Halloween excitement with our wonderful friends on Saturday. We had dinner at our house and then all the kids got some more candy, because I know Reagan didn't have enough from the night before, we now have a very large bowl FULL of candy. My cute little girlies...Reagan was a little witch (thanks Liss) and Taylor was her black cat, doesn't Taylor look so happy?!?!?! Oh the joys!!

We've had an exciting month and we can't believe it's already the end of the year and we'll be putting out the Christmas stuff soon.

CATCHING UP

2009-10-07T19:01:00.011-06:00

So I was just looking over my blog and realized that I am the world's worst blogger...my goodness several posts back it was Christmas of 08, YIKES! So anywho we have been alive and have been doing other things than just having a baby over here. Let's see...Craig and Sheri Denney were brave enough to take us boating with them about a month ago. I was a little hesitant to go only because Kevin wasn't going to be able to go with me but overall we had a fabulous time. Reagan even got to drive the boat, okay for about two seconds...

and I enjoyed some wake boarding myself,

HA!! Just kidding it looked more like this...

but I really did get up once we just couldn't get a picture of the very short moment. And might I add I did this only five weeks after having a baby, I know, I know!
And I finally finished Taylor's room...yes I know she's two and a half months old, but I really haven't had the energy...

We had some fun with friends at the second annual Urban Farm visit, thanks Em!
And last but not least I LOVE LOVE LOVE the fall like weather we've been having, though I just saw that it's suppose to snow here tomorrow, oh well...

So here is evidence that we have been doing other things and we're alive over here. We hope everyone is doing well and enjoying this time of year!

Taylor's Blessing

2009-09-24T11:51:00.004-06:00

I can't believe our little baby is now two months old. We just got back from UT and had a very busy but fun time with our wonderful family and friends. It's always crazy when we go to UT especially on short trips like this past one. But we're so grateful to have so many loving friends and family there to support us and share in Taylor's special day. Taylor had her two month doctor's appointment on Tuesday and I was shocked at how big she is. She is now 9lbs7oz. 21inches long. She is finally on the charts in her percentiles. So we're so glad our cute little Taylor is doing so well and is growing and growing! Thanks Liss for this beautiful picture!

UPDATE

2009-08-07T11:02:00.003-06:00

I just realized in my last post I mentioned that I would keep everyone posted, for shame I haven't.
So to update...
After being in the N.I.C.U. for only four days Taylor was discharged on Saturday the 25th. I didn't want to believe it at first, mostly because I was setting myself up for disappointment if something went wrong in the 24 hours before it was actually going to happen. To explain the shock of having her come home after only four days...When a baby is born so early they usually keep them in the N.I.C.U. for at least five days. They want to make sure they do not have problems with breathing, eating and some other things that preemies can have. But to everyone's amazement Taylor hasn't had a bump in the road since her early delivery, thus her only four day stay. Both of us are doing wonderfully! Taylor had her first doctors appointment the following Monday, everything went well. One of the many things that we have been very impressed with our insurance Kaiser, is that they send out a perinatal nurse after the baby comes home. We had our visit with the nurse and Taylor was back up to her birth weight, another amazement, most babies lose a lot more weight after birth, she only lost about 2 ounces. Since all the craziness of doctor and nurse visits we've been trying to adjust to life with a preemie (who doesn't seem like a preemie) and a four year old. Reagan is completely in love with her sister. The novelty has warn off a little since Taylor has been home for a little over two weeks, but overall Reagan has completely embraced having a new little one in our home. As far as my recovery/adjustment has been going it has been wonderful. I wasn't expecting to feel so great after delivering Taylor, maybe it had to do with the fact that I didn't push out a humongous baby, but I already feel back to "normal" whatever that means. The middle of the night feedings is still a little hard, in fact last night I completely feel asleep while Taylor was finishing up her bottle but I really didn't miss much. We are still in amazement at how this seemingly scary situation turned out so well. Again we are grateful to our Heavenly Father for the many blessings that have come. We are also grateful to all of our friends for helping and supporting us through this time!

Here are some more pictures from the past couple of weeks! Thank you Emily for some of these!

TAYLOR ELLA VEHAR

2009-07-22T23:14:00.001-06:00

Our little Taylor just couldn't wait for August 31st. My water broke on July 16th at 11:00pm, six weeks early. After much stress and everything that comes with having a baby six weeks early I delivered her on the 21st at 8:37 in the morning. We are so grateful to our Heavenly Father for how well she is doing. She is a little spit fire and has been doing exceptionally well for a preemie. At this point we are not sure when we will be able to bring her home but she is greatly loved and being well taken care of at the N.I.C.U. (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) at Good Samaritan Hospital. We also wanted to express our appreciation to everyone who has been supporting us through this little bump in the road. We will definitely keep everyone posted about Taylor's progress. We send our love to everyone!!!
Kevin~Dana~Reagan~Taylor

OUR SWEET BABY....GIRL

2009-04-10T19:21:00.003-06:00

Little Miss Reagan was right all along! We are having a girl. And we already have her name...Taylor Ella. I am more than excited to have another girl for many reasons...we already have girl clothes...girls are way more fun to dress and all the fun accessories that come along with them...and honestly I was worried about what Reagan's reaction would have been if it was a boy. So needless to say we are all looking forward to her arrival, I think Kevin might be a little worried about ANOTHER girl but we already have the queen of sass, Reagan, to buffer things. So look out world another little Vehar girl is coming!

THE LATEST

2009-03-27T19:01:00.002-06:00

Since I was sitting here on a Friday night watching Curious George with Reagan I thought I would do a quick post. Kevin has been wondering why I haven't posted anything new, maybe it has something to do with the fact that I've been really sick for the past oh three months and hence why there is nothing new to post. But as of late I've been feeling a lot better. A little more like myself each day which is nice. So I'm sure many of you have heard about Colorado's crazy 1 day blizzard, especially since most of you live in CO. Gratefully we've been enjoying a very mild, I would even say "warm" winter. But Kevin kept saying we were due for a storm and did we get some snow. Before the snow fall we were enjoying nice walks in the evening and Reagan and I in the afternoon spending some time out in the front yard. The first picture is our latest family portrait in thanks to Reagan's artistic skills. She even included baby Vehar! And the last picture is enjoying the snow, Reagan has been dying to go sledding and play in the snow. And that she did. Kevin spent some time on Thursday shoveling about a foot of snow off of our driveway and Reagan just had to go out with him. So we bundled her up and she got out her sand toys, hey it works for both, and made some snow castles. And today we went over to Westminster to do some sledding. I happily watched from the top and Reagan is a natural she absolutely had a blast. She is such a fearless child, she had no problem going down by herself, when some grown adults were a little hesitant. So that's what we've been up to lately, not a lot but life is good. We find out what this little baby is April 10th, which I can not wait! So I will for sure post when we find out. Hope everyone is doing well! Love to all!

ANNOUNCING BABY VEHAR #2

2009-01-22T16:58:00.002-07:00

I am extremely pleased to announce that we are pregnant!!! It's about stinkin' time! I guess I can't complain too much, we have been trying for about a year and a half. Baby Vehar will make it's arrival August 31st. And as most of you know Reagan was a late baby so we'll see when this one wants to arrive. Reagan is so excited to be a big sister and she is also decided that we are having a girl. We've tried to explain everything to her but she is four and doesn't quite grasp that the baby is just a baby right now. Regardless she is so excited! We actually found out Christmas morning and I took two tests just to make sure. I not so happily started the "morning" sickness a couple of weeks ago, let me tell you SO MUCH FUN!! Okay not really but I'm just grateful to be pregnant. So we wanted to officially make this wonderful announcement and I'll post more on Baby Vehar in a couple of months!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

2008-12-29T19:11:00.007-07:00

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We enjoyed our relaxing low stress Christmas festivities. Kevin had to work a half day on Christmas Eve but as soon as he got home we headed over to Carrabba's for lunch, extremely good Italian food! Thank you Ryan & Shannon! After sufficiently stuffing ourselves we did a little last minute shopping and then headed home. We had a surprise visit/invite from the Denney's that night and headed over to their home to enjoy some more good food and good company. It was fun to get to know them a little better and sit around and chat. We didn't stay too late, just long enough for Reagan and Sheri to make Santa's cookies and then we headed home to open our one gift and read some stories. Kevin's family has a tradition to get new pajamas and that is the one gift we get to open on Christmas Eve. As you can tell Reagan was excited to get her's this year, stinkin' Dora pajamas, but she loves them. Reagan was also very excited to set out Santa's cookies and get everything ready for him to come, surprisingly she went to bed at a decent time and actually went to bed. Christmas morning was pretty eventful but that's a later post. We enjoyed watching Reagan open all of her presents and seeing her excitement at the presents Santa had brought her. All in all the day was full of playing with toys, Kevin watching the movies he got, Better Off Dead, classic in his opinion! That night we had dessert with the Ravstens and again great company............ So the moral of this very long account of Christmas is we enjoyed spending time with one another and with good friends. We are grateful for the birth and life of our Savior and this time we've had to reflect on those things.

Happy New Year!

THANKSGIVING WEEKEND

2008-11-29T19:19:00.007-07:00

It's a little late but... Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!!! We are truly grateful for the wonderful weekend we had together as a family. For starters we decided we didn't want to have the traditional Thanksgiving and cook all day and clean up all night so we cheated and headed over to Mimi's Cafe. So one would think, "oh there won't be that many people going to a restaurant for Thanksgiving dinner." um the place was completely packed!!! In fact people made reservations for that night, CRAZY!!! We were shocked, but we saw why after. They had a very delicious turkey dinner, with all the fixings! I of course opted out of the turkey dinner and had my favorite salad, as you can see from the above picture, me happy I didn't have to cook! It was great, we missed spending time with family but enjoyed the low stress Thanksgiving. We haven't had the best experiences with Thanksgiving, but this year renewed our love of the holiday. This weekend was also a very productive weekend, if you can't tell I'm all about the productivity, I seem to mention it a lot, but anyway...we found our cute Christmas tree at a farm in Louisville. We thought Reagan would have a blast picking it out but she was more obsessed with the lazy black dog at the farm then helping us, oh well it probably went a lot faster without her input. After getting the tree home successfully we got out all the Christmas decorations, all five of them, and I'm not kidding and decorated the house and the tree. Reagan was especially "helpful" with decorating the tree, but she had fun, while she drove me nuts!!! Also part of the productivity was taking family pictures, let me tell you that was a load of fun with Reagan and Kevin who just love to be cooperative. But we finally got a decent one, decent in the sense that Kevin and I look good, mostly the decent one is the one that I look the least fat! Reagan isn't smiling but her "smile" these days is very fake. So I'm trying to finish because Reagan is being a little distracting, but we had an enjoyable weekend and are grateful for many things in our life. Oh I also forgot to mention that it snowed about four inches here the other night, Reagan was so excited to play in the snow and go sledding, the sledding didn't happen but she enjoyed playing until Kevin literally dragged her in the house.
Happy Thanksgiving to All!!!

BYU vs. AIR FORCE

2008-11-20T13:57:00.003-07:00

(I know I'm not very creative with my pictures, it's the easiest way to see a lot of pictures)

Being the true Cougar fans that we are we headed down to CO Springs for the game. I am in love with this area! We started our trip down there on Friday, right after Reagan's tap class. We stopped off at the Outlets at Castle Rock, it was extremely cold I think the high that day was in the upper 30s, YIKES!! So needless to say and to Kevin's enjoyment we weren't there very long. But I did find a new pair of boots, yeah for me! We were going to do some sight seeing down in CO Springs but because of our late departure and the cold we decided to just head over to our hotel. That night we went to the fireside held by the BYU players and the head coach Bronco Mendenhall. I was in shock, and because my love for the Cougars is not as great as some people, cough, cough, KEVIN, how many people go to those firesides. It was like a stake conference, in fact there were probably more people then a stake conference, sadly! They had some of the players speak and my favorite part was Brett Denney, who his parents are in our ward, played his violin. Okay this is a 6'4" 200 something pound guy playing this little violin, it was great! Reagan was so excited to see Sister Denney after the fireside was over, she just loves Sheri and it was a cute moment. It was fun to see some of the football players in a different and spiritual environment. The next day we headed over VERY early to the stadium, Kevin was a freak about being early that day. But we also had planned to attend the tailgate party put on by the Cougar Club. We were like the first twenty people there, I know, I wasn't kidding about being early. But we're glad we got there early we saw Kevin's distant cousin who is the Assistant Director for the Cougar Club, we haven't seen him in awhile it was nice to catch up. But the highlight of the tailgate was Reagan being so excited about Cosmo! When it was her turn to take a picture with him she walked right up to him and gave him a hug, she is absolutely in LOVE with him, in fact I got a picture of them hugging but it looked more like they were kissing, I told you Reagan loves Cosmo! Reags also enjoyed seeing some of the cheerleaders and of course had to get a picture with them. Okay so eventually we headed over to the game and had a blast seeing all the stuff that Air Force does for every game. We enjoyed the different squads come onto the field about 40 of them, para shooters, and of course a fly over by three fighter jets, HOLY COW THAT WAS LOUD, but fun nonetheless. All in all it was a great weekend, the Cougars won and we got to get away for a quick fun weekend!!

HALLOWEEN

2008-11-05T09:21:00.003-07:00

Halloween Festivities brought to you by Grandma Mary! Sorry I've been such a slacker about getting this up, we've had quite the exciting past couple of days since Halloween. We had so much fun this Halloween! It's much more exciting when Reagan actually knows what is going on and she has friends to share in the excitement. Reagan's friend Kedzie's grandmother was in town visiting and wanted to spoil all the kids. So the start of our crazy Halloween festivities began with a outing to Chuck E Cheese. Reagan had never been there before but had so much fun running around playing as many games that she could. Later that afternoon after much needed naps for all the kids and I think even Erin and Emily, we all headed over to the Ravsten's. Reagan was invited to a Halloween "Tea" Party and of course in their Halloween costumes. Reagan thoroughly enjoyed the "tea" party with Grandma Mary and her little friends. So thank you Grandma Mary we are so grateful to you for letting us join in the Halloween Festivities!
If you couldn't guess Reagan was Belle for Halloween and she even had her own little Beast! She was a dedicated Belle she even went trick-or-treating in her high heels! Crazy girl! We tagged along with the Holland family and went trick-or-treating in their neighborhood, our favorite memory was the adult size Pooh Bear drinking a beer, oh what memories! After our fun with the Hollands we came back over to our very quiet neighborhood, no beer drinking pooh bears. But Reagan and let's be honest Kevin made a killing with all the candy they got in our neighborhood, since we were one of about three trick-or-treaters in our area. So sad but hopefully next year we'll get more. So after a very full night of trick-or-treating and about 20 pounds of candy later, okay not really, we were all exhausted. We hope everyone had a fun Halloween!

FLU SHOTS, PUMPKINS & FUN

2008-10-20T16:04:00.005-06:00

This past Saturday was quite the productive day. All of us are officially safe from the flu, well at least we hope so. Kaiser had a free flu shot clinic and it was so nice to get all our shots at once. Reagan had the pleasure of getting the nasal flu spray, kind of weird but it was nice to not have to have a screaming child! After our very quick trip to Kaiser we headed over to Rock Creek Farms, just down the street from the Kaiser medical offices. We had been to this pumpkin farm when I was pregnant with Reags but not as fun without a kid. We waited in a little bit of a line just to get into the place and drove right up to a smaller patch of pumpkins. Reagan wanted to take home every single pumpkin she saw, which would have cost us a fortune, but thankfully she was easily swayed! We picked out two large pumpkins and drove over to a different part of the farm that had some farm animals and other fun free stuff. Reagan got to pet some small horses, not exactly sure the technical term for them but they were super cute and perfect Reagan size! And for some reason Reagan was in the mood to smile like a spaz, she looks way posed! All in all it was a very productive day and at the same time had some good ol' fall fun!

REAGAN'S SELF PORTRAIT

2008-09-30T16:36:00.002-06:00

So sadly Reagan isn't really one for drawing or drawing people. I thought this was worth putting up on our blog since this is her first official picture of herself. And yes her picture is a little creepy!! And no it's not cold outside she just has a thing for these fleece monkey pajamas, she makes me hot just looking at her.

HAPPY FALL Y'ALL

2008-09-26T20:30:00.001-06:00

I'm hitting a block...I can't think of anything witty to say...okay to be honest I'm not really that witty to begin with. But I wanted to post this picture of our cute little tree. I love how the leaves change with the beginning of fall. This is my favorite time of year, the beginning of all the fun holidays, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. So Happy Fall to everyone and we hope you enjoy this time of year as much as we do!

I'VE BEEN TAGGED

2008-09-26T19:56:00.003-06:00

So thanks to Shannon I thought I would do one of these...since I usually just delete these type of tags...but here goes

What was I doing 10 years ago?

1. In the middle of my Senior year of High School.

2. Very involved in two choirs at school.

3. Commuting from Chino Hills to Whittier five days a week...for those who don't know the distance...about 30 something miles but in CA tack on at least an hour for traffic.

4. Dating someone seriously.

5. Enjoying my life without responsibility!

What are 5 things on my To-Do list today?

1. Watch Drew and Blake Bruggeman

2. Start taping the laundry room to paint eventually, we were suppose to paint but had another big project we tackled...

3. Seal the driveway and walkway...our house faces North, which is no good for the snow it would never melt without salt or something like it...so anyway to save us a huge concrete bill we thought we would fork out the cash to seal the concrete

4. Relax and read

5. Enjoy listening to the Presidential Debate..okay not really, I'm so sick of the whole thing...for Pete's sake it's been going on for two years now (not the debate that would be horrible), ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

What are my 5 favorite snacks?

1. All time fav...chips and salsa

2. Chocolate of any form...mostly brownies or even just a good ol' Hershey's bar

3. Homemade popcorn

4. Something that kind of goes along with #2...Caramel Apples from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory...LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them!!!

5. I can't really think of a number five...but I'm not picky!

What 5 things would I do if I was a millionaire?

1. Pay off all of our debt...and that's it, okay not really but let's see...

2. Put a large sum in savings

3. Start some type of savings plan for Reagan and future children

4. Shopping spree of course for me and my family

5. And really a million dollars wouldn't go too far especially with the first four things, but if I still had a little bit left over I would put some money in a massage fund...so I could get a massage whenever I wanted!!!

5 Places I have lived:

1. Southern CA (Whittier 1981-1997/Chino Hills 1997-2000)

2. Rexburg, ID (2000-2004)

3. Arizona (on two different occasions)

4. Highland, UT (lived with M&D Valadez 06-08)

5. Westminster & Thornton, CO (AND WE PLAN TO STAY HERE UNTIL WE DIE)

5 Jobs I have had: Sadly I've only had five...

1. The first job I ever had wasn't until I graduated high school...I know I was spoiled...but I got a job as a shipping and receiving secretary. The only cool thing that came from that was learning how to drive a fork lift.

2. I got a job as a hostess at Frontier Pies in Rexburg, ID. Let me tell you that was a load of fun!!

3. I worked as a temp in CA...some of my duties...I first started out doing weird stuff like inventory for Nordstrom's Rack, then I took a big step back and put labels on red bull cans, I worked in a candy factory making weird candy and my final job with the temp agency was working as a secretary which was a job I stayed at for awhile.

4. My last secretary job was with the Child & Family Studies department at college, that was a great job...every once and awhile I had to deal with a bunch of whiners but other than that it was a blast.

5. My fifth and final job that I got paid for was working for Kevin's dad's business...and that's all I have to say about that. But the hardest job I've had is being Reagan's mom, HOLY COW!!!

AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAG ANYONE...IF YOU WANT TO DO THIS KNOCK YOURSELF OUT!!!

GO COUGARS

2008-09-06T19:21:00.005-06:00

Shame on me...I forgot to document and blog about the beginning of the BYU Cougar season! Kevin is more than excited to welcome this time of year. So good luck to the Cougars and be assured we will be watching ALL of the games. In fact we'll be traveling back to UT for one of the games and another we will be heading down south to Colorado Springs.
GO COUGARS!

FUTURE OLYMPIAN...

2008-09-05T23:40:00.003-06:00

Okay to be honest she's probably the furthest thing from being a future olympian...granted the kid can't even manage to listen to her coach longer than two seconds. But she thoroughly enjoyed herself this week. So you're probably wondering what I'm talking about...Reagan started her first day of gymnastics this past Thursday. She was so excited to go with her new found buddy Kedzie. There are only four kids in her class including her and I can't imagine those coaches having more, I think that would drive me insane. But they seem to be very patient with the fact that they have little to no attention span. So needless to say we are excited for Reagan to do something a little different this year and enjoy getting some of that energy out! Oh and the last picture is of the cutest, most rambunctious little man I know, Mr. Ethan Ravsten! I had to get him in on the excitement of the day!

IT'S ABOUT STINKIN' TIME

2008-09-02T13:51:00.008-06:00

We are FINALLY settled into our beautiful new home in Thornton! Everything is unpacked and kinda sorta put away. In my mind there is still much to be done, i.e. decorating and organizing, but for the most part we got a lot accomplished. Mostly because my parents came for a visit and I wanted things organized and unpacked. It is hard to explain in words, mostly because I can't articulate what I want to say, how grateful we are to be in this area in our ward and in this home! The entire situation we know went so well because we have been so greatly blessed. We love our new ward. Everyone has been so welcoming and have done more than expected when it came to watching Reagan while we moved and all those wonderful guys in the elders quorum that came to help us move all our junk in! This area in our minds is hopefully going to be a wonderful area to raise our family in. The elementary school is just in the next neighborhood. And there are three parks within walking distance. And most importantly I LOVE how close SuperTarget is. I told Kevin when we were looking at this area that it was a sign that SuperTarget and some other beloved stores were just down the street, well a little further than that, but you get the point. And the point to all of this rambling...We are extremly grateful to live where we live. We are more importantly grateful to our Heavenly Father for blessing us this entire way! SO for your viewing pleasure...

Pictures from our very fun adventure of painting Reagan's room. We originally started off with a light green, but after much consideration on my part and actually trying it out on the wall we decided to change it to a yellow. And as it turns out the yellow is A LOT brighter than I would have liked but oh well, Reagan likes it.

Here are some other pictures of the house...

The pictures of the backyard are right after Kevin mowed it. I wasn't fast enough to find the camera, granted it took him about 2 minutes to mow it. Our wonderful neighbors across the way lent us their lawn mower.

And last but not least...I love this wall hanging that Kevin's former boss, Dr. Lori Wadsworth, who we love and adore, gave us...a perfect saying to the start of our new adventures...

(oh and if you can't read it, "home is where your story begins")

SNIFF SNIFF

2008-08-11T00:08:00.004-06:00

To all who have read the Twilight Series...at 11:45 on Sunday night I sadly and regretfully finished the final book of the Twilight Series. How dorky is this but I felt like I was saying goodbye to a long time companion and friend. And yes it took me over a week to finish the book when it took me about two days to finish the first several. Like my sister said, I was trying to draw this last one out! It has been such a fun experience to be inside the talented mind of Stephenie Meyer for these several years. I am still in awe at how talented this stay at home, mother of three boys who remind her of "chimpanzees on crack", can be. Seriously could you describe three boys any better?!?!?! So thank you to Stephenie Meyer for sharing your wonderful talent with the world. And to all of you who still haven't jumped on the Twilight Series bandwagon, JUMP ON!!! I hope you all have enjoyed this series as much as I have!

SHORT AND SWEET

2008-08-04T14:49:00.003-06:00

Okay so things have been quite busy lately...we're officially in our house!!! FINALLY! Ummm, sadly we didn't document the moment with any pictures I know shame on me, but I'm planning on staging a picture next week. On top of the move I've been trying to fit in the very important final book of the the Twilight series!! I only stayed up until midnight last night reading, not bad the first book I stayed up until 3:00 one night! So needless to say I will post some blogs later when things are a little more settled down around here. Love to all!

UT TRIP

2008-07-23T09:25:00.002-06:00

WARNING THIS MAY BE LONG...
So most of you know the little Vehar family took a trip to UT to visit some family and friends. We were there for the 4th and Kev and my brother in-law Ryan had quite the time burning away $100 worth of fireworks, no joke! The box of fireworks was about 4 1/2 feet tall! What a waste, but the boys had fun. The kids had fun with the "cool" sparklers! Though the entire time we were worried one of them was going to burn either themselves or their cousin. There were also some very cute moments...on occasion they do like each other. Oh and yes Reagan is wearing her PJs we trashed it up that night! Earlier that morning my twin and I went and had some girl time...well Elissa just couldn't reach her feet anymore and needed a cute manicure before she had Ellie. It was nice to spend some time with her and get a little pampered! Oh and I had to take a last prego picture of her, doesn't she look so cute!?!?! Then three days later...baby Ellie! I'm slightly biased but she is SOOOO cute!! Kevin unfortunately had to go back for work so he wasn't able to see Ellie. Along with the exciting news of Ellie we heard some bad news while we were there. Kevin's 80 year old grandmother feel and broke her hip. She had surgery that Wednesday and was doing okay, as good as someone her age can do with having major surgery! She is the strongest most determined person I know, that's why we all love her so much. So the remainder of our trip we enjoyed our time with Liss and the kids and visiting Grandma Rollins in the hospital. We also got in some quality time with Ahbee and Papa (what the kids call my parents). Reagan went to the movies with them one day, and then we also all went to the museum. She loves hanging out with them and already misses them! All in all it was a exciting yet busy trip and we were grateful we were able to be there for the birth of Ellie and spend time with our wonderful families!!

THE HOUSE

2008-06-30T09:54:00.007-06:00

WEEKLY UPDATE...So we're back from UT! It was an eventful yet fun trip. I'll post something later. Of course we went to the house straight from the airport, I had to see all the changes. The lights to the outside are up, and yes they are kind of small, oh well. The carpet is in, YIPEE!! Counter tops are in and the sink with faucet. I'm sure there are some out there thinking, everything is way dark, but hey I think it looks good! And like I mentioned before dark is good, hides the dirt better! Oh and we have our coveted, well not really, Air Conditioning!!! Kevin and I think whoever invented AC should be put on Mt. Rushmore, okay that's probably bad but seriously WE LOVE AC!!! We also have some very sad looking plants in the front but some dork put a huge metal sign on one of them so it looks REALLY sad. Who knows what is going in this week, but everything is happening at a much faster pace now!

The lights on the outside, look hard they're small!

This last picture makes me laugh...She was so excited to see the house and all the changes. She kept telling us she wanted to paint her room, pink AND purple I might add. Anyways, she thought that we were going to paint her room when we were there. But of course we couldn't and she was super ticked. Kevin was in there with her and he told her, "let's pretend to paint!" That made her even more mad. So this is her nasty little reaction to not painting her room.

ELDORADO SPRINGS

2008-06-15T17:52:00.008-06:00

Some pictures from our outdoor trek on Saturday. These photos were taken just outside of Boulder, CO at Eldorado Springs State Park. We had a blast and would recommend going there! We did a little bit of exploring, mostly because we didn't know where the path led, it ended at a huge mountain face! Reagan really enjoyed herself and surprisingly didn't complain once. This is a kid that walks three steps and says "hold you, my feet are killing me!" But we all enjoyed the much needed hiking and taking in God's beautiful creations!

BORED LITTLE REAGAN

2008-05-25T15:14:00.003-06:00

This past week I've been trying to get over this stinkin' cold that I got from Reagan and then Kevin. So needless to say Reagan has been entertaining herself and this is what happens when I say "go play in your room". She decided to do her hair and put on her favorite skirt that her Ahbee (my mom's grandma name) got her. Doesn't she look so "pretty"?!?!?! She also decided to wet down the entire counter top, that was fun to clean up. Poor kid needs some friends.

MAUI

2008-05-14T09:33:00.000-06:00

For Kevin's graduation present from my parents we all went to Maui and had a ton of fun. Well we could have had more fun if Reagan didn't have a melt down every single day! But regardless we enjoyed the much needed rest and relaxation.

WE FINALLY ARE BLOGGING

2008-05-13T19:08:00.000-06:00

So I finally broke down and began a blog! Facebook and MySpace are just not cutting it! So here we are and for now don't expect much. I need to add a ton of stuff. LOVE YOU ALL!