Friendly Visit!

Melanie, her kids, and of course her "nanny" Sarah came to visit us a little while ago. It was really good to get to see them and how much the kids have grown up and changed. Brandon had a blast playing and getting into a bunch of mischief with Brian. Those two boys together....makes me glad I didn't have twin boys! ;) We all had lots of fun. We went over to Vernal to an indoor pool with some kid slides and had a lot of fun. (Sorry we forgot to take pictures). Here are some of the pictures we did manage to get during the visit!

Brandon & Brian Having their last bit of fun before it's time to say goodbye!

Brandon & Brian catching some air.

Samantha listening to Grandma Fillmore on the phone.

Before

Samantha trying to share her messy fingers/cake with mom!
After

" What about me??....It's my cake!"

Melanie, Brian, and Sarah
Jumping for joy!

Some fun pictures of Brandon/Parker

Just a bunch of pictures and videos of Brandon and Parker! Gotta love em'.

Parker's Blessing

Parker Jason Pugh our newest addition was blessed May 24, 2009. He is so adorable, and just keeps getting cuter. We are so blessed to have him in our family. I love his cute smile and his awesome personality. Here are some pictures of our fun day!

Parker in his blessing outfit!

Parker and his awesome family (us)!

Brandon loves his new little brother!

Parker and his Grandma and Grandpa Timothy
and Grandma and Grandpa Pugh!

Parker with his Aunts!

Ryan, Kelsey, Jillian and Crystal with Parker!

California Trip 2009

For Christmas last year my parents got everyone tickets to Disneyland/California Adventure and Knott's Berry Farm. Ben, Brandon, Parker and I left for our vacation on April 30 and were gone until May 10. It was an awesome vacation, even with all the vacation frustrations that there can be.

We started out our vacation Thursday (Apr. 3oth) by stopping in Ephraim to visit my cousin Tyra and her family. Her oldest boy, Bryan, was getting baptized on Sat (May 2nd). When we were both in college at Utah State University I would schedule my classes around hers and her mine so that I could help watch Bryan. I can't believe that he is 8 already!

Friday morning we got up and started our journey down to Las Vegas to my sister Emily's in-laws. Ben and I love to stay there, we've tried it out before! Brandon loves to go there to swim; and while we were there this time he learned how to swim on his own (with arm floaties). Derek's family is super fun and easy going. Saturday we had a nice relaxing day in Vegas and had a bbq for my nephew Jessen's 5th birthday.

Sunday after sacrament meeting we had a "quick" lunch and birthday cake for Jessen then we were off to California. Our family and Emily's family stayed with Derek's Grandpa and Grandma Denney. And Mom, Dad, Crystal, Eric, and Aaron's family stayed at a hotel across the street from Disneyland. It took us forever to get from Vegas to Anaheim due to the awful traffic coming home to California from Vegas.

DAY 1: Disneyland

We all met at Disneyland Monday morning Ben and I took our car in to park and had the wonderful time at loading the double stroller up and then breaking it down to get on the tram, and the setting it back up again, needless to say we didn't do that again the next day. We rode the tram over with Derek. Brandon got to sit by Derek in front of us and there was an older man in a Goofy hat sitting next to him. He was like...."Goofy" and he couldn't stop looking at him. He even reached over with his hand and touched his elbow really lightly. So funny!

Brandon loved all the rides. We rode It's a Small World first and he really enjoyed it. Except if anyone started singing he would tell them to ..."stop singing." We had lots of fun.

DAY 2: Laguna Beach

I actually only have a couple of pictures because my siblings were the ones taking pictures. We are going to put all our pictures on a cd and share, but haven't done it yet! The beach was a lot of fun. Brandon loved playing in the water and building sand castles with Grandpa. Well mostly he liked to break the sand castles as soon as they were finished. He also liked to play with the tractors in the sand. I thought Ben wouldn't be able to play very long in the water because he has motion sickness, but he did a good job getting out just before he got sick and then he would get in again. Ben, Derek, Eric, and I (well for a little while), ventured out into the very cold water and did some body surfing. It was good fun.
After the beach we went to a Resteraunt called Los Sanchez, one of my Dad's favorite places to go while in Orange County. Very yummy Mexican food. Ben got a food that he has missed from his mission called Empanadas, and I got a big ole Chimichanga, so good!
DAY 3: Knott's Berry Farm!
This was probably Brandon's favorite day of all! Knott's Berry Farm has a kid area called Camp Snoopy and Brandon loved it. He was able to ride kid rides just about all day. Most of the rides he was able to ride alone or just with an adult which he really loved! It was awesome to watch him have so much fun. Brandon would ride any ride they would let him on. I talked Ben into riding 2 rides with me that I don't think he was super excited about. 1st was a ride called Xcelerator. I couldn't believe how fast it was. 2nd was called the Silver Bullet and it was a ride that let your legs hang down from, it was awesome, but it made Ben and Derek sick so Emily, Eric, and I rode it again while Ben and Derek went back to help relieve Mom and Dad from watching kids. Brandon and Jessen got some special treatment from Grandpa because he took them to Camp Snoopy and rode rides while everyone else rode rides and watched the babies.
For lunch we went to a place at the park called Mrs. Knott's Chicken (or something like that). It was really good chicken and mashed potatoes. By the end of the day Brandon was exhausted and fell asleep almost immediately after we put him in the car, we hadn't even made it out of the parking lot!


DAY 4: California Adventure / Disneyland 2
We made it to the last day of our Disneyland vacation which was very sad. We had so much fun. We started out the day by going to California Adventure. The first ride we rode was Soarin' over California which was a lot of fun it felt just like we were flying/gliding over California. I wish Brandon would have been able to ride it because I think he would have loved it, I have no idea why you had to be so tall to ride it, but he will be able to ride it some day! We made our way around the loop and there were so many rides that Brandon couldn't ride, and after a day of being able to ride without waiting around he was super sad about having to wait. Looking back we should have gone to the kids side of the park first before the kids got tired. We were able to ride a fun Ferris wheel which Brandon really liked and then a Toy Story ride which was a game that you got to shoot things and get a score at the end. Lots of fun for Brandon. Later in the trip he watched Toy Story in the car and the first thing he said was "I shoot em'?" During lunch Parker had a big poopy accident and it was the ONLY day that I didn't have extra clothes for him so he got to hang around in only his diaper until Mom got him a Disneyland onesie later on in the day! Finally we made it around to the kid section and Brandon was able to ride some rides, but then fell asleep for quite awhile.
Ben and I finally met back up with everyone else at the Tower of Terror which Ben didn't want to ride, but I rode it with Eric, Derek, Emily, Crystal, and Caitlin. It was really fun. After that Emily, Derek, Eric, Ben and I went back to ride the River ride (well Emily and I just stayed with Parker and Taylor). Ben and Derek had wanted to ride that ride all day. We had back luck though, it broke down while they were on the ride, the good luck is that they were right at the end of the ride; but we had to wait forever for them to be able to get off the ride.
After that drama we made it over to Disneyland and went to Mickey's Toon Town! We were able to meet Mickey, Minnie and Goofy while we were there and Brandon loved going through each of the houses there.
After Toon town Ben, Brandon, Parker and I headed over to ride the Pirates of the Caribbean then Eric joined us because he didn't want to ride It's a Small World again. The park was getting ready to close so we rode Pirates, the Jungle Cruise and Thunder mountain before it ended. Ben watched Parker and Brandon while Eric and I rode thunder mountain and then I watched Parker and Brandon while Eric and Ben rode. While we were waiting Brandon made friends with a little girl that was also waiting. Super cute.

Day 5: Wild Animal Park!

On the last day of our California trip Ben, Brandon, Parker and I went down to the Wild Animal Park in Escondido. Ben and I went there on our Honeymoon and it was fun to go back. Brandon enjoyed all the animals. We got to see a kangaroo up close and see baby giraffes and a baby elephant. After the day ended we made our way back up to Las Vegas. We had so much fun! Brandon actually learned how to swim with arm floaties while we were in Vegas which was awesome!



THE END!!

It's Been Awhile...Catch up time!

Bryson came and stayed at our house one weekend so that he could go to work with Ben the next day. This was his first time seeing Parker who was already over a month old.

We went out to Salt Lake City to visit Grandma Pugh and celebrate my birthday. Brandon loves to go out and stay at Grandma Pugh's house. This time before we visited we had just seen a lady in our ward named Ruby and Brandon kept calling Grandma Pugh "Ruby". It was cute! While we were visiting her Grandma Pugh called Brandon "Dear." Brandon informed her that he wasn't a dear. "I'm not a dear, I'm just a little boy." Very funny.


One week before our California vacation Kyle had his farewell. We weren't able to go to the MTC with him because we were on our vacation so we got some pictures before he left.

More Parker!

My niece, Caitlin, wanted to come and see Parker so bad! So she rode out with my Mom Friday then went back home with Eric Saturday. She was so cute with him. Parker is doing well. He had his first real bath the other day after his umbilical cord came off. He enjoyed it for awhile, until Emily decided to take some pictures and then it wasn't fun anymore ;)
We love our new baby boy!!

Baby Parker!

Finally our new addition has arrived in our family. Parker was born Mar. 19th at 12:30am. He weighed 8 lbs. 3 oz. and was 22 1/4 inches long. He has quite a bit of light brown hair and has massive hands and skis for feet. He has already brought great joy into our home. We are so glad to have added him to our little family. Brandon has really enjoyed being with him for the small amount of time he has been able to be here. Our good friends Kim and Brandon (Big B.) watched Little B. for the night and Kim is helping watch him today so we can catch up on some much needed sleep. Here are some of the pictures we have so far, more to come as life goes on.

Hide n Seek

Before

Not too long ago Brandon and I were at my mom's and I was putting him down for a nap in the spare room. I needed to change his diaper and realized I didn't have one downstairs with me, so I told Brandon to wait there and I'd run get a diaper. I came back down and he was nowhere to be seen. I noticed where he was and left the room as quietly as I could holding back my laughter to run upstairs and grab the camera. When I came back downstairs I took a picture and then said, "Where's Brandon?" He poked his head out from under the pillow. He is so silly sometimes. We love him to death!!!

After

Zoo Adventure

When Ben's brother Ryan got home from his mission we went to the airport to pick him up. Beforehand we went to the zoo. It was nice and cold and snowy during the beginning, but warmed up a little as the day went on. Brandon's favorite animal lately is a "neck" or Giraffe. He knows they are called giraffes but prefers the name "neck". This face is awesome!

The Leopard is the most reliable animal for us. It is always there pacing the window and Brandon loves it. He chased it back and forth for quite awhile.

Big Boy!

A couple of days ago we put Brandon in a big boy bed. He really thinks that it is the best thing ever. The first night I was super nervous because I didn't want to be up all night putting him back in bed. To my superb delight he only got up at 8:30 or 9:00 pm while Ben and I were still awake. We got him a drink and he went back to bed and stayed there until about 6:45 am. I was out sleeping in the rocking chair in the living room because it has been more comfortable and Brandon came out and very happily said "Good Morning". I got up and told him it wasn't quite morning and had him go back to sleep which he did for an half hour and then was up again. The hardest part has been nap time which he hasn't stayed in bed for yet. Hopefully he will get the hang of it all. He sure likes being a big boy.

Pinball Master

Recently we obtained some pinball machines from Ben's parents and have added them to our gaming collection in our basement. Usually Ben, who has had mucho more practice than me, beats me! But recently I have been gaining ground on him and have become somewhat of a pinball master! I got super lucky the other night and even made the GRAND CHAMPION spot! It's hard to read the numbers but I scored 846,087,760. I couldn't even believe it!

Sledding Adventures

Sledding

Ben, Brandon, and I went sledding with my family on Saturday. My brother and his family (Brittainey, Caitlin, Jessen, and Tylee) came out and went with us as well. We had a lot of fun. We went up near the mountains and found a good hill to slide down. Ben's family let us borrow some sledding tubes and my family brought runner sleds. Caitlin and Crystal loved to ride down on the tubes. Caitlin even went and helped Ben make their own trail which was a lot of fun. I don't think I've been sledding in so long, but it was so much fun! Brandon liked getting pulled up the hill on the tube and hanging out in the tube at the top, but didn't much like going down and getting snow in his face! All in all we had a great time!!!

Christmas

Brandon was so much fun this year for Christmas. He really understood about what was happening and was excited about it. We go up around 7:30 or 8:00 and all went into the living room. Brandon got a Basketball hoop from Santa and played with that for awhile. While he played we made our traditional Christmas blueberry muffins and then finished opening our presents. Brandon was so funny opening presents. He opened a shirt that had a tractor on it and he said "Oh a tractor" even before he had it opened enough to see it. Then he opened a pair of pants and held them up to his face and said, "Oh...cute". I don't know what he was talking about....pants?? cute?? to a 2 year old?? It was funny. The best one of all was that I wrapped a truck in an old potty box and when he opened it he was like, "Oh, a toilet!!" and he was so excited that he opened a toilet. I had to tell him that his present was inside of the potty box. So Funny!!

After we finished doing things at our house we went over to my parents to open some presents with them and then played games with them most of the day. During the evening we went to Ben's family's house and ate dinner with them, opened presents, and played games. It was a very eventful day!

Keeping up with the bloggers

Boy I sure do have a hard time keeping up on this blogging stuff. I have a bunch of fun things to put on here, but due to lack of my photos it's always hard to want to add anything.

Ben, Brandon, me and most of my family went on a Train ride on Ben's birthday (not FOR Ben's birthday mind you) called the Polar Express. The kids get to dress in their pj's and you get to ride the train to "the north pole". On the ride you get served hot chocolate and cookies by elves and read The Polar Express. When you finally get to the north pole Santa gets on the train and gives all the kids a bell.
Brandon had so much fun. He couldn't wait to ride the train for "Daddy's party". He thought for sure we were going on the train for a birthday party for daddy. He loved to sit by Caitlin, Jessen, and Grandma, and always wanted to have Tylee sitting with him. It was lots of fun.

The next day Ben and I proceeded with our shopping for a new car, which we had done the day before and met everyone at the train. We eventually found a car that we both really liked. (Pictures eventually) And you know car dealerships....it took us forever to get out of there. But we went home fighting over who got to drive it ;) Just kidding. I drove part of the way and then let Ben drive the rest of the way home, and boy did he smoke me. I couldn't even keep up with him. It is a silver 04 Toyota 4runner.

I'm sure there is something else I've forgotten to update but this will do for now! Hopefully I can get into a better jive.