Proud Mama!

So since Major was 18 months and able to attend Nursery , it's been an up and down roller coaster with him. He went from Eager Beaver couldn't wait to go to Nursery just so he could go play with his friends to screaming at the word nursery. For the longest time we could not figure out why the sudden change. So last week Sunday Andy took Maj to nursery and sat in there with him the whole time...(which Andy didn't mind:) Major was just great playing with the animals as long as dad was there. So when it was time to clean up the toys Major started to whine and begging to leave! That's when the truth was unleashed haha! The Nursery teacher said "yep its about this time every time he cries and wants his mom" My little Major did not want to help clean up;) which is odd because he always helps at home! So when he came home from church Andy told Me the situation and I sat my little Major down and had a clean up talk with him and told him it was the nice thing to do..blah blah blah and he'd get a treat after! So this past Sunday I took him to Nursery and sat there with him and then I snuck out, thinking I'd have to come get him in a bit! Well that was not the case after Relief Society i was a VERY PROUD MAMA he was the last one in there pushing the push vacuum! He was so proud of himself when he saw me he said "Mom I Clean!" Oh my heck, I about jumped right out of my 4 inch high heels for joy!!! He ran to me and gave me the biggest hug ever!!! Me and him were celebrating for the next hour squeezing each other and jumping up and down!!! Wow it's those simple moments in my Mommy life that make me feel like Ive never felt before!!!! Lets just pray this nursery clean up continues:) I love you Maj!!!!

JABBAWOCKEES

This year was my turn to plan our anniversary get-away:) So I decided to do something a little different than what we usually do. If you know my Andy , you know he's not much of a dancer but he LOVES the JABBAWOCKEES!!!! Its funny he's for sure a JABBA groupie! So I surprised him with Tickets to their show in Vegas! Well not really surprised, Im not very good at surprises. So Friday Andy got off work early and we dropped our kids off at Aunty Tons! And we were on our way! It was a Blast and so nice to spend time with just Andy and I! It's crazy how empty you fill with no kids! We stayed at the South Pointe that was close to the Las Vegas Outlets which we loved!!! Andy went to his first Swap Meet! He thought was pretty cool! Best of all we got to just hangout together!

Las Vegas here we come!!!
Andy in our hotel room!!

Andy was like a little kid waiting to see the show!!!
Of course I had to get lots of pics!!!

The Entrace to the show!!!

The 2 Lovebirds!!!! I love this man!!!

I am one blessed girl!!

JABBA SET!

Andy was pretty excited about his

JABBAWOCKEE souvenior!

He's pretty gangster

The pre show. One of the JABBA'S came out

and did some funny audience participation stuff!

Andy was grining ear to ear watching the JABBA!

The end of our little trip!!!

Smooches!!!

Thanks ANDY for the Best 3 years of my life!

I Love you!

Role Model

This Boy is a Riot!!! He is such a little poser and full of energy!!! Major loves to play and hangout with "teemagers" He calls himself a "teemager" Mostly because one of his closest buddies is "TREV" Majors 15 yr. old cusion! These 2 are soo cute together and really get along and love to hangout together! Major just thinks Trev is so cool and loves to do anything Trev is doing! Im so grateful that Trev is a dang good kid (ok maybe Major learned that word from his mama:) and someone Major can look up to!!! He's definitely Majors Role Model!

Major posing for a quick pic!
Major helping Trev fix his Bike!

Future Model! He's a Ham!

Aunty Ton's comedian!

The Past few weeks we've been able to see lots of Aunty Ton, which we love!!!

Last week she walked in the house and Major was so excited and thought she brought her crew along he asked "Where's Cec?" Ton:"at school" Maj: "Where's Cam?" Ton: "at school" Maj:"Where's Trev?" Ton: "at school" Maj:.........loud sigh "OH DANG!"

We just laughed and laughed I don't know where this kid learns such words, and how and when to use them! He's too smart for his own good!

Or one day we were driving to Aunty Ton's and Andy was parking and hit the curb and Major blurted out "OH SHOOT!" Sounded more like the other word though we, had to hold back the laughs and teach him and alternative!

This age is so fun and full of surprising words and phrases!

Aunty Ton is always getting a kick out of Maj he's her little comedian!

Maj, Aunty Ton and Legend
She's a Laugher:)
We love you Ton!!!

Crazy it's been 3 yrs!

Yesterday was our 3 year anniversary!!! I can't believe it!!! I am truly one lucky girl! Seriously! and very fortunate to have found such an AMAZING man in such a short period of time! The Lord is good thats all i've got to say!

Andy and Tia short history...Im sure we've got you beat:

*August 2007 Met at a BBQ , I was hanging out with one of his friends who brought me and I knew I had to date Andy. Andy sent me for Ketchup instead, seriously! TO THE STORE!

*November 2007 Ran into him at Gen-x and I thought this is my chance I've gotta talk to him, so I got him to do security at one of my college dances.

* Securitied 2 Dances for me and I did all the talking I could to get to know him and I knew if I wanted this guy I was gonna have to work, because he was a good one!

* December 15th 2007 First Date! Christmas Work Party, I was a wreck before the date and then tried to play it off like I didn't have any time to get ready, when really I bought a new shirt just for the occasion and he knew it! The price tag was still on.....typical Tia moment!

I remember thinking if he asks to hangout after the work party then I've gotta chance:) HE DID!

*December 31st 2007 Andy purposed with the help of my sister and her kids:) Video Scavenger Hunt! I was very Fa'a leie to participate!

*January 26th 2008 Married for time and all Eternity!

I know its unreal but very true! I am so grateful for these past 3 years, Andy has truly made me a better person today and is such a great example to our family! if you would have asked me back in the day where i would be today I would have said just dancing my life away, well Im still dancing my life away just with my Best Friend encouraging me and supporting me at my side!

I Love you Andy!

Priceless....
3 years ago...young and in love

Its a tradition that the boy has to arm wrestle and win my dad in

order to marry his daughters!

3 yrs later....I love my Life!

Even younger and more in love

New Beginings 2011 "Truth Seekers"

So I must brag a little bit....we've got the coolest YW leaders in Southern Utah!!! hahaha thats just my opinion:) but Im probably a little biais because Im one of them!lol So this year for the YW's theme is the 13th article of faith so we made up our own little them to go with it , like last year we were SUPERHEROS and this year we are PIRATES! ARG!!!! We are "The Bloomington Hills 6th ward Truth Seekers" So to introduce our theme , for New Beginings we went the whole 9 yards and dressed up, did a skit and made it a night to remember for the YW! Along with making total fools out of ourselves but we love our YW so much we would do just that! We are so excited for this year and I am so privileged to be surrounded by such great examples and leaders to learn from!

This is our only new Beehive for this year! She's agreed to accept the CODE

and join us on our "Truth seeking adventure"ARG!!!!
ARG!!!!!! we were really in character!

One of our awesome leaders made this awesome cake for refreshments.

See I told you these ladies are amazing!

And this too!!! Boiling Rootbeer, Green salad, Seashell salad,

and sword struck meatballs!

I told you we couldnt get enough!!!

Pirate Emily!

Pirate Tiffany!

Pirate Loni!

Pirate Taryn!

Captain Mel!!!

The Cousins!

Over the past weekend we had a once in a life time opportunity....haha ok kidding but seriously we don't get to see our DeMaria Cousins enough! So when we heard they were going to be 2 hours away from our neck of the woods we jumped at the chance to play! So we took our little family to Vegas to meet their bigger family to hangout for a day and a half;) The boys had so much fun playing with their cousins and getting to know eachother again. By the time we left Major had a new BFF , Aunty Amber! We ended up staying the night with them, imagine 7 kids under 2 and 4 adults in one hotel room:) it was a blast! Memories thats what we're makin.....

Of course out of all the toys at the park Major found this horse

and it instanly became "Mine" (Majors words) He played on it

more than anything!

The "Big Boys" discovering a new ab workout!

Mike ( our bro. in-law and Stokes)

The favorite Aunty! Rori is at the stage I was at all the way up
until I got married and I still like to think I am still:) always babysitting, playing with the kids,
helping raise the kids, the kids BF, and the "cool aunt"!

Major giving Jaileigh a ride on his new friend!

This was a cool Dinosaur bone body that

Major loved too!

Little Micheal!

The Princess!

Grahm and Aunty Amber making little

Legend laugh!

"Race you to the top, Porter"

Does this look like he's helping her or pushing her?

hmmmm.....or course helping:)

Maj loves his little cousin

Steamy Mirrors!

Tonight at dance was UNREAL!!!! Ah Its nights like these that I live for with dance and make me appreciate my talent!!! Wednesday nights I teach an Adult hip-hop class its open to all levels and ages! When I started it 2 yrs. ago its been up and down in numbers! Sometimes I get 6 students and other times just 2 but I would teach anyway knowing that it would eventually grow! Well tonight I had up to 25 adults in class! including 5 guys! The energy level was intense and HOT! So hot we literally steamed up the mirrors in the studio room, all my years of dance i have NEVER seen that happen!It was insane and made and awesome memory for all in that class. I am so grateful for this talent that the lord has blessed me with and grateful to my sister Irene who never gave up on me! We all left the class drenched (not just me this time:) and feeling like we had won the lottery , seriously dance does that to ya! Its crazy! If you want a crazy good workout and not scared of dancing with great dancers , Come on out to Wednesday night Hip-Hop at 8:30pm!!! Its Steamy...

Quarter of a Century!!!!

January 10th is a National Holiday in our family no work, no school just play all day:)jk

But it is my birthday and a Quarter of a century I am , my Andy says. Andy always does such nice things for me on my birthday, he is so thoughtful. 6am i came home from my usual run and he had made breakfast for me and gave me my gifts new running shoes and running pants!!! yay! His boss was so nice to give him the day off to hangout as a family. So off to Zions we went we love that place!!! We took the kids through the Canyon and looked for deer! Major loved it! Then we ate at our favorite place in Zions "Blondies" if you haven't been you need to taste the Elk Burger! Very Healthy:) Major was so excited to finally see the Buffalo and kept asking to fight the Buffalo! He was sad when it was time to leave. We don't have a zoo here in Southern Utah so we have to improvise where we can:) We stopped by Grandma Irenes on our way home to visit and get all sorts of treats, she's always spoiling us! Then later that night my sweet sister Tonya and her family watched the kids so we could go to dinner at the Bent Fork, Great Service but we would have rather eaten McDonalds! :) It was a great Day with my Boys!!!

I am so blessed to have my beautiful family and such an amazing husband who will do anything for us and truly loves me!!! That is the best Birthday present ever!

Major and And checkin out the Buffalo

2 of my 3 boys! Legend was in the car right by us, it was cold out side!

I guess I've never seen buffalo this close. I was amazed
these suckers were HUGE!

CHECK OUT THAT HEAD!!!....the buffalos:) not Majors!
although his is pretty sizey too, thats why he's so smart!

Me and Maj at Blondies

Smooch for the Birthday Girl! Thanks Honey for a great Day

Major hiking in the snow!

It was gorgeous!

Major and a DEER!!!