The Reutzel Family

Easter 2011

2011-05-02T14:09:00.000-07:00

We spent the Easter holiday in Logan with Jeremy's parents. It was a great weekend filled with egg dyeing and Easter egg finding! The boys loved searching for the eggs!

Easter morning in our Sunday best right before church. I made the ties for the boys aren't they cute?

My little monsters! How could these cute little angels turn into destructive little demons? Look at those sweet faces!

2011-03-23T19:26:00.000-07:00

Hey, head over to my craft blog http://curdsnwheycrafts.blogspot.com and enter to win a giveaway. We are giving away a super cute onsie or shirt and a cute little head band that would be cute for your little one or for a cute baby shower gift!!

2010-12-16T16:35:00.000-08:00

This was our annual girls trip. We went to St. George and had lots of fun eating and shopping. Thanks girls for such a fun trip!

2010-07-20T10:46:00.000-07:00

So the other day Braxton was out riding his bike and he ran into
the back of a parked truck. He says there was a dog chasing him
so he was paying attention to the dog chasing him and not where
he was going. He hit the truck with his front tire and then his face.
Miraculously he did not break his nose or get a concussion but his
face sure took a beating. We called him the avatar boy for a couple
of days until the swelling went down. He was pretty tough and did
well once the bleeding stopped. ( He hates blood and freaks out
whenever he bleeds and there was A LOT of blood.) Luckily the
swelling has gone down and his black eyes are mostly gone. We still
get some looks. We had a social worker come to our house.
They had the wrong house and were looking for a neighbor in the
next neighborhood over. Braxton answered the door and the lady had
this shocked look on her face. I pointed her to the right house and she
asked my neighbor how things were at our house and if there was anything
she needed to be concerned about. Hopefully we won't be getting any visits
from the state.

A couple of hours after it happened.

This was the next morning. He has a little bit
of bed head!

Day number three. This was the worst.

Day Four.

Fifth day.

The boys turned on the sprinkler and left it on
all day so the backyard got a little flooded but
they had a great time running and playing in the
water. (sorry can't figure out how to turn the
underlining off.)

2010-07-12T17:58:00.000-07:00

Braxton turned 5 on June 30th. We decided that this would
be the first year he could have a friend party and he invited
11 kids. It was quite chaotic but really fun.
He wanted a pirate birthday so this is what I came up with.

These are the invitations we sent out. We rolled them
up and tied them with twine and put them in empty
water bottles with a little sand in the bottom.

Every one eating cake and ice cream.

I am pretty proud of this cake. I make all my kids birthday
cakes and this was the best one yet. Don't worry, it wasn't
hard!

The pinata.

Eating pizza.

Opening presents.

The balloons. We were supposed to have the party
outside but it was so windy. We ended up having to move
most of the party inside. I had twice the balloons
but they all popped. I was so mad!

We were able to play all the games outside before the
storm hit which was good because all I had planned
were water games. We walked the plank, dug for burried
treasure, threw cannon balls at a pirate ship and tried to
sink it, and we had a pirate war where I drew pirate ships on
the driveway and divided the kids into teams. The first team to
"sink" or wash all the chalk away with water balloons won.
It was lots of fun but I don't think we will have that many
kids next year.

2010-04-13T12:44:00.000-07:00

I made these ties for my boys for their Easter outfits. They turned out so CUTE and the boys love wearing them because they wear ties now like Daddy does.

2010-03-31T20:33:00.000-07:00

My mother-in-law and sister-in-law came down from Logan yesterday to make Easter chocolates. We had a blast gorging ourselves on chocolates and goofing off. We couldn't keep our hands off the caramel. It was so yummy! Here is our finished product.

She really could eat that whole thing!

Trying to look busy.

Yummy!

Being silly.

2010-03-31T20:06:00.000-07:00

The boys are super obsessed with pirates right now. Braxton wants to be one when he grows up so on Saturday we took the boys to Pirate Island. The boys had a blast! The food isn't that great(Its really not good, at least our pizza wasn't.) but the atmosphere is really fun. I felt really bad for our server, they are supposed to talk like a pirate the whole time and he was really struggling with it as he was explaining the menu. It was pretty funny to hear him go in and out of "pirate speak". But all in all it was a really fun night.

GIVEAWAY!!!!!

2010-02-13T15:02:00.000-08:00

Our business Polka-dots and Paisley is having a GIVEAWAY. Go to our blog pdandpaisley.blogspot.com to find out the details! We are giving away a really cute prize so head on over there to find out how to enter.

2010-01-25T12:49:00.000-08:00

Hayden had surgery on his eye to get the tear duct unclogged. We had to be at the hospital at seven in the morning which meant we had to leave our house at 6:15. He didn't like being awake so early in the morning and he didn't like that he couldn't have anything to eat but other then that he did really well. He didn't cry once, even when they took him away from us and when they brought him back in his hospital bed he was totally calm and just looking around. He was really goofy from the anesthesia. He just wanted to have his mouth open against my face. It was so cute! We are glad that his eye is all better. Its weird to look at him and see him without a red, swollen and goopy eye.

Waiting to be taken to his room.

He loved having the little thing that goes on the finger to test the oxygen level.

Getting his blood pressure checked.

Hayden wasn't too happy in this picture because he wanted some one to hold him and I wanted a good picture.

He was so cute in his hospital gown!

He did really well. He wasn't able to eat before the surgery and I thought he was going to be much worse then he was.

This is the teddy bear that they gave Hayden. He loved it!

Family pictures

2010-01-07T09:07:00.001-08:00

Here are our family pictures for 2009. My friend Whitney took the pictures and I thought she did an amazing job. I was so worried that we weren't going to get any good pictures because the boys were kind of crazy and wouldn't cooperate. But I was so surprised! They turned out awesome and we got so many pictures. Thanks Whit, I love them.

2009-10-04T10:16:00.000-07:00

We celebrated Braxton's and Jack's birthdays in July. Here are some pictures of their beach themed birthday party.

2009-08-05T19:19:00.000-07:00

We spent the 4th of July in Soda Springs, Idaho at Jeremy's family's ranch. It was so fun. Our boys had a blast. We spent a lot of time on the four-wheelers and the horses and just being outside. The girls played lots of card games and the boys spent lots of time shooting their guns. We always have a great time up there and look forward to going there every year.

Braxton and Jeremy riding. Braxton thought
he was so cool.

This was Jack's first time on a horse and he
wasn't scared at all! He wanted to do it all by
himself.

Jack is waiting for his turn to ride the horse.
He is being so patient.

Braxton riding the horse. Such a cute little
cowboy

Deep in thought.

Cute cousins.

2009-06-26T12:12:00.000-07:00

We blessed Hayden over memorial weekend. I am a little late getting these pictures up but what can you expect from such a procrastinator. We had such a good time. Thanks to all the family who drove down for the blessing.

2009-06-05T15:58:00.000-07:00

Braxton LOVES Thomas the Train so we went to see Thomas on Memorial Day. Both Braxton and Jack were super excited to see Thomas. They could not wait to ride the train. They loved every minute of it.

2009-05-08T13:21:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine took Hayden's picture a couple of weeks after he was born. She did an awesome job and they turned out so cute!!! Thanks so much Whit. I love them!

Happy Birthday Jer!

2009-04-10T13:35:00.000-07:00

Jeremy celebrated his 30th birthday on March 6th. As previously mentioned I am a bit of a slacker and am just getting around to posting pictures. I let the boys paint a birthday sign for Jeremy and they had a blast getting themselves, my walls and my floor very dirty. There was a trail of blue and orange hand prints all the way down the hall and into the bathroom. I even found a few handprints a few days later in some pretty random places. Good thing the paint was washable. They also got to help me make the cake, wrap the presents, and they each made a card for their Dad. They had so much fum and Jeremy loved it! Jer, you are a great Dad and a great husband. We love you!!

Wow! Thirty candles on one cake! Thats a lot of candles!

Braxton and Jack each had to open a present.
I don't think Jeremy got to open any of them.
Such a good sport!

The finished product!

Braxton looks pretty clean in this picture but

by the end of painting he was a mess!

If you look close you can see paint

around Jack's mouth. Yup! He tried

to eat the paint!

2009-03-14T16:58:00.001-07:00

Well he is finally here and he made quite the entance! Hayden D. Reutzel was born on Feb 23 at 9:18 in the morning. He was 7 lbs 9 oz and 19 inches long. He came so fast I didn't get to have an epidural and anyone who knows me well knows how big of a wimp I am. It was not pretty. I think Jeremy was a little freaked out. He told me he knew I was in serious pain when I started cursing like a sailor. Hayden came so fast the doctor didn't even make it to his birth. The nurse had to deliver him and she almost didn't make it. I was yelling at Jeremy to get the nurse cause the baby is coming. She came running in and checked me and sure enough he was coming. She pretty much was there in time to catch him. The doctor showed up just in time to cut the cord. He was worth the all the pain though, just look how cute he is. Braxton loves his new little brother. Jack on the other hand not so much. Hopefully he will adjust to having a younger brother soon cause I don't have enough hands to catch all the toys he likes to give (throw) to Hayden. Braxton has become a good big brother. He loves to give Hayden his pacifier, and loves to help me change his diaper.

I know, I know........

2009-02-04T15:25:00.001-08:00

I know its been a while since I posted last but I did warn people that I am a bit of a procrastinator. It wasn't totally my fault, our computer broke down and we had to wait quite a while for it to get back up and running. So here are a few pictures from the last couple of months.

Happy Thanksgiving

2008-12-07T17:04:00.001-08:00

We had a great thanksgiving filled with lots of food, family, and fun! Candice and I made pies and we may have gotten a little carried away. We made 12 pies and I don't think we realized how much work it was going to be. Oh well it was worth it and you can never have too much pie. The girls went and saw Twilight, The Forgotten Carols, and we spent a lot of time playing card games. The boys watched football, went hunting and saw Four Christmases. It was tons of fun and we were sad to see the weekend end.

2008-11-12T14:56:00.000-08:00

Well I finally did it. After much pushing and prodding by Ashley (she actually had to start the blog for me) I joined the world of Bloggers. Hopefully this won't be one of my hundreds of projects that I start and NEVER finish. Unfortunatley procrastination is my middle name so don't hold your breath. :)