Box Family

I got together with the Box Family this week. Ryan just turned 1 and they wanted some family pictures and some of Ryan. Alli and I have been friends since high school. She and Spencer got engaged the weekend we got married. I always remember them coming to our wedding together - I knew they were made for each other. It was definitely meant to be. Ryan is living proof. He is adorable. I don't think I've ever seen a more kissable set of lips. And those eyes. Piercing blue. No photoshopping required. Here are just a few of the many. Poor Ryan didn't want any more pictures. He was done after the first 5 minutes. With a little help from some electronic devices and stuffed animals, we lucked out and got some good ones anyway.

Our 24th

With much appreciation for the ancestors that blazed the trails we walk now, we celebrated Pioneer Day with family. My parents, 3 sisters and 2 Grandmas came to our house for some grub and fireworks.

It was so fun to hang out in the backyard and talk.

Jarom & Cannon

Haley & GG Stewart

(Haley is the freakishly tan one)

Then we went to the front yard for some fireworks. Cannon adores his Papa, especially because they lit all the fireworks together. My dad used to do that trick with me, now Cannon loves it.

Cannon running away and enjoying the fruits of his labors

The Spectators

GG Stewart, Haley (with Hazel), Whitney, Mom

GG Wright - this one makes me laugh. She was enjoying the neighbors fireworks much more than our display.

Cannon and his Papa

Summer Boy

Cannon has been in love with "auside" since we got a fence a week ago. He comes in to sleep and eat but otherwise he's been in his own 2-year-old world. He loves his froggy pool, arctic water table, the hose, his water slide, Popsicles, and torturing "gashoppers". It's like a big tall babysitter with slats. I can watch him from my kitchen table with the AC cranked up. It's a win/win situation, really.

Here are some pictures from his adventures today. He's happier than I've ever seen him, and that makes a for a happy momma.
the next two are from the 48.2 seconds he spent indoors today. Notice a difference? I thought so.

Can we go back out please?

Kylie's Blessing

Ruth and I have been friends since we were 4 years old. One of my earliest memories with Ruth was when I was invited to go to her house to play. She came to my door and my mom said that I could go play with her if I didn't cross the street. There was a long way to walk to Ruth's house that included going all the way around a cul-de-sac. I must have forgotten that one stipulation because as soon as we got outside Ruth and I ran across the street holding hands. My mom had been watching from the window and I was BUSTED! I was so sad because Ruth was my first friend in my new house. It was one of those hard lessons to learn, but Ruth stuck with me and we've been friends ever since.

Ah, so many memories with Ruth. Many giggling phone calls, trips to Classic Skating and Shopko, boyfriends and sleepovers. I also remember hanging out with her now husband Brian when we were 15. They met at the mall and they've been inseparable since then. Cute, huh? I remember hanging out with them at Movies 8 in Provo way back in 8th grade.

Ruth and Brian have a son named Micheal (18 months) and a little miracle baby girl named Kylie. Kylie was born at 28 weeks. It was scary for a while, but she has come so far and is an adorable and HEALTHY 6 month old. We were invited to her blessing and I got some cute pictures for them.

4 Generations

Kylie and Great Grandma Creer

I can't get over how cute Ruth's kids are. Kylie is so beautiful and porcelain. Micheal has the sweetest eyes and the most amazing hair color. Nice work, you two!

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Coming Home on Friday Night

The following is a detailed description of an experience we had this past Friday night (7/17/09). It was written by Jarom at the request of my Mom after we told her about it. I hesitated to post it, but I love the way Jarom writes. So, here is his very first post on this blog:

After an evening of running errands, going out to eat, watching Cannon play at Dino Land in the mall, and being with our family, we finished the evening by getting my haircut and heading for home just after 7:00PM. We turned off the state highway onto the two lane road that leads into our town. About three miles from our city center, the dark green, four-door SUV that we were following slowly drifted to the right shoulder of the road. The driver quickly maneuvered the truck onto the high way but quickly veered to the right shoulder again. Attempting to correct his vehicle from reentering the right shoulder of the road, the driver soon lost control and at over 70 mph careened across the left shoulder flipped forward crushing the front end and rolled over caving in the passenger and driver side doors. At the onset of the front flip, the car became entangled with barbed wire as it ripped from a dozen or so fence posts before the car came to a rest; destroyed in a cow pasture.

I pulled our car off the road and ran to the demolished car while instructing Ashley to call 911 and dispatch an ambulance. I hurdled through the web of barbed wire, broken glass, and items from the car, finding a disoriented but conscious man covered in dirt, blood, and glass. I told him my wife was already on the phone with the ambulance and they would be there shortly. I asked if he felt any pain in his neck, back, or legs and if he could still move. He indicated he everything was in tact and showed me his left hand. As he pulled his arm out of the broken window a two-inch gash across the back of his hand squirted with blood that quickly lined the outside of the door and the dirt around where I was standing. I tried to open the door but it was crushed along the windshield and the hood was resting on top of the broken caved-in portion of the doorway. I was able to open the door behind him and rummaged through the car and found a sock that I wrapped around his bleeding hand. Blood quickly soaked the sock and other bystanders quickly found napkins and other miscellaneous items to add to the saturated dressings while blood pooled down my hands and arms.

The man wanted desperately to find his phone so he could call his wife. His phone was not in sight and he didn't think it stayed in the car. While holding his hand, I dircted another bystander to grab my phone out of my pocket and call his cell phone. We found his phone crushed under the windshield and the dash that required lifting the hood off the window. His phone was deemed worthless as it was set to work with a hands-free device that was nowhere to be found. A trucker pulling a load of sod used his phone to call the man's wife and "J", our driver now in shock, peacefully asked his wife to come be with him at the crash site. During his phone conversation the ambulance arrived and began checking him for signs of additional trauma. The paramedics placed a brace on his neck through the rear door I opened. When his neck was immobilized, they moved to the large cut on his hand I was holding with 5-6 inches of soaked dressings.

The paramedics produced additional gauze and wrapped his hand with a bandage. The ambulance driver tried to open the drivers door but it wouldn’t budge. As he left to discuss the situation with the now arriving fire engine, I unlocked the driver’s door and unlatched the door from the inside. I yanked the door open and began prying it back so they would have access to the driver. While I was bending the door backwards, I noticed a sheriff disconnecting the car battery with two pairs of pliers. The paramedics and engine crew directed the placement of the driver onto the backboard. I noticed the vehicle description of the man’s wife and saw two car seats in the back of her car.

Before I ran back to our car, I told one of my neighbors, that also came to the scene, to be with the wife and tell her Ashley would take care of her kids so she could go to the hospital and be with her husband. I hurried back over to our car to tell Ashley to pull around to the wife’s vehicle and assume care for their children. As Ashley rolled down the car window, Cannon peered through the partially unobstructed window and yelled with a smile, "Firrr’ Trukk", pointing at a road blocking array of lights.

Ashley and our neighbors readjusted the car seats to load our car full of children and headed back to our house. The wife was in the ambulance speaking with her husband as the trucker and I began collecting the belongings that littered the cow pasture. The wife gathered some items from the car into a box that we carefully loaded into her car where the car seats had been. She gave me her cell phone and I programed our home telephone number under the contact "KidsJarom." She was concerned her son would soon begin to melt down because of a brown stuffed bunny. She took her home key off her key ring and told me where they lived if her son began freaking out so we could retrieve his beloved rabbit.

We assured her that her kids would be well taken care of and to hurry off and be with her husband. The scene slowly cleared and I asked a sheriff for a lift home and some alcohol wipes to clean off the now dried blood on my hands and arms. Upon my arrival home with an armed chauffeur, I found our two new friends playing in the backyard. Four-year-old boy "G" shoveling dirt out of our planter box and two-year-old girl "S" adjusting to the new surroundings. Cannon’s new friends eventually made their way to play in our basement preschool, eat a late dinner of chicken nuggets, fruit cups, CapriSun and an Ashley-snuggled viewing of Kung Fu Panda. The mom retrieved her children near mid-night following positive reports from x-rays and an MRI.

We were blessed to have had the opportunity to serve unexpectedly. Our family was prepared to meet challenges of this scary, near-death accident. I thank my Heavenly Father for the opportunity see His hand direct the actions of perfect strangers in the time of crisis. You will never know what may be expected of you while on your journey Home!

Hazel ~ 6 Weeks

These were taking today - on Hazel's 6th weekiversary. She's been wonderful right from the start. She cries when she's hungry or when her brother decides to pay her some "loving" attention. I can't even say enough about what a sweet infant she is. She's quiet most of the day. She sleeps splendidly although it's not quite "through the night" yet. I just love to snuggle with my little Hazie, and smell her milky sweet breath.

Oh, and the best part about having a girl...Bloomers!

Baby Ellie

Remember our matching bellies? Well, Ellie is here. Our little soul sisters were 12 days apart. I was asked (okay, okay I begged) to take pictures of her at 4 weeks old.


I'm so jealous that she has such a great head of hair already. Hazel is a baldy locks in comparison. Thanks, Jess and Scotty for letting me take these. She's beautiful.

May I?

I'd just like to take a second to show off my adorable cousins! We just don't get to see these guys often enough. Cannon absolutely loves and adores them. It's been great to have them visit these past few weeks. My aunt Tina needed pictures for her wall, so I got to take them.

The oldest, Marissa:
Alexa
Sara:
Ben:
Jake:
Jocey:
The crew:
Just one more of cutie pie Jocey: