24th in Utah!

We had such a GREAT time going to Enterprise for the 24th. What a fun town! My parents knew we would all be home, so they planned a whole week of fun for us. My moms only sister was up with her whole family, and so it was even better. It started friday. We all went on a family date (no kids!) we had a great diner and then hit a movie. Saturday I got up early an ran in the fun run, which went good. I took first in my division. The best part was that my whole family was waiting at the finish line for me. I felt really special! We then went to the parade. The boys loved it!! I love that we get to always sit at my grandma Rhodes house every year. I will miss that some day.
The races went great, the boys loved it! Holden did the money swimming deal to. He thought it was so awesome! I love having Rye at these kinds of events. It is not the same with out him......I love how much he loves those little boys.
After that some of my family went cliff jumping, and then we had a huge barbecue! My mom had a whole swim land set up for the kids, and they loved it!!
The night was still not over. My dad bought a huge amount of HUGE fireworks. So we (and half the town) headed out to our farm to set them off. FUN!
After that Monday we headed out on our annual moyle mammoth (cedar mountain) camping` trip. It rained and rained!! But everyone went but my brother and his wife. They just had a new baby. It was still fun though. Rye and I had to leave early because of work. They are still all up there! What a fun week with the fam though!
This is the most pictures I have ever posted!
Races

The Parade (morning of the 24th)

The Fun Run...

Barbecue with all the family

Rye an Carson thought it would be fun to see who could throw their kid down the slide the fastest!! It was so funny! and the boys loved it!


Doofus's....the things men do to be entertained.

Camping

Rye taking the boys and my cousins on a ride.

Hoager's first fish!! He went fishing with all the men, and Rye said he had never been more proud of Holden. He was such a little trooper!

Holden and sams little girl Bentley. So CUTE!

The boy's udates

Mr. Rowe
(Holden) Update
-He is my little helper. He washes dishes, sweeps floors, cleans his room, and dries the dishes.
-He is officially a big boy....He now wheres briefs! It is the cutest thing in the WORLD!
-I am afraid he is OCD....and I'm not saying that to be funny. He complains all day about his shoulder rubbing on his shirt, or his pants not sitting on his thigh right, his socks hurting his toes oh and his seat belt!!! Lets not go into how annoying he is with his seat belt!!....he is is daddies boy I guess!
-He hops into bed with me everyday when Rye leaves to work at 3 am.
-He loves to go fishing.

-He loves uncle slade, and always talks about being the lead man in Slade's band! He picked out a shirt with a drum on it and carried it around for 2 weeks until he finally got to show it to Slade.
-He started pooping his pants out of NOWHERE!
-He gets to spend almost every weekend with grandma Debbie and grandpa Russ, he loves it!
-We talked in church a few weeks ago and grandma Debbie was trying to help him prepare his talk. He started teasing her, and at the start of his talk he would say "Hello, my name is....Gramma! He still refuses to say his real name.
-Everywhere around town I get introduced as "This is Holden's mom" or "Oh, you must be Holden's mom."
-He spells words.
Now I have to update with the latest Holden Quotes.
Him and Grandpa Russ were driving into town (Eureka) from the ranch.
Holden : where we going grandpa?
Grandpa: EUREKA!
Holden : Hey don't say that....It's not YOUR REKA, it's MY Reka!!
he argued with Russ the whole rest of the way home about it being his reka, not your reka!
Mom: ewww'lala Holden you look like a stud muffin!
Holden: eww'lala mom you look like a.......Gurwl muffin, or maybe a princess muffin, hu mom!
His primary teachers said he had been really reverent, which is not like him.....at all. So we got in the truck and I said "whats wrong bud" He says, " I was so sad cuz I missed you and Knox, and I tried finding you, but I couldn't find you to good, cuz I forgot to use my game face to go real fast" (his fast face) ......and then he started crying! I laughed so hard! He always lies and says he needs to go to the bathroom to sneak a peak at me while I am in Sunday school, and yell "HI mom, that's my mommy!" But I was in young women's and it through off his whole groove.
Holden makes us so happy.

Knoxy'roo
-Nobody can quite figure him out.....But Rye and I.
-He is a mini Jack Moyle! If you were ever wondering what my dad looked/acted like...look at Knox

-He does not like to be bothered.
-He LOVES, LOVES, LOVES Rye. it almost drives me crazy because he wont even take a bite off my spoon if Rye is near, he has to eat from Rye's.
-Besides that he is a mommas boy.
-He is so handsome! He gets nice and tan, and his eyes are so Blue, and his smile! Oh his smile! I just love him.
-He cuddles, which Holden never did/does.
-He eats. and eats.... and eats.
-He is so tall.
-He is so COORDINATED! He can already do tricks on his bike, wheelies, ride standing, and he can do this fast reverse turn deal! He is a future motocross rider....we think at least, haha.
-He finally started saying a few words. Like, hot, dadda, momma, please, some. He has developed his own form of sign language though.
- He thinks the craziest things are funny, and his laugh makes my whole life!
-He loves everything Holden loves, because Holden loves it.

-He gets really exited, and it is so funny! He screams and flexes his whole body, until he almost passes out.
We love you Knox..

*Pictures of my boys during the fourth*

Holden, Knox, and I went to Utah for the fourth. It was a fun visit, and we got to stay for longer than usual. They love all their cousins, and I love spending time with my family, especially my sisters.
We have been really good!! We have just been enjoying our life and our kids. We are so blessed I think. Hope everyone is doing good!
Here are a ton of pictures I took!

The races-Knox did so good! He would not run with out puppy though....I guess it is more like "poopy." You gotta say it right. Puppy, is Knox's baby.....He would make a great mother, you should see him with that thing. He is SOOOO not affectionate, but he gives poopy all the love he can muster!! He is kinda an honorary Fitzwater. And you are probably all wondering how he stays so clean??? He gets a weekly toilet bath by Knoxy.....ya, dont ever touch it.

Holden getting his game face on....He really has a game face that he uses when he needs to run really fast!

The boys waiting for it to get dark to watch the fireworks..

I snapped these of the baby boy... Whenever I go home I love to get a few shots of them with my moms good camera......He is kinda cute! ...I would like him even more though if he wasn't such a daddies boy, it really makes me a bit jealous!



This is the best shot of Holden I could get, hahaha!! He is at "that stage!!"


The key to this boys heart is his food!! He is happiest when he is eating!

These are my best friends! This picture is from graduation, I just had to add it.

*CAMPING*

We just got back from a fun camping trip. It was nice to get away, play in some water, let the boys be free, get fried, and bask in the BEAUTIFUL area. SO GREEN! It was pretty darn fun.

I Love summer!



These two are so funny!! They really think their bikes are "real motorcycles"

A Father

My husband (Rye Fitzwater) is the best father, and husband in the entire world..;) He will never know how lucky I feel to have him, and blessed. I know how hard it is to find someone as good as he is. My kids also are EXTREMELY lucky.

My annual list of why I adore my husband:
-He is a bomb daddy.
-He puts us first, when it comes to everything
-He works his cute little bottom off for us.
-He refuses to buy anything for himself....(DONT get me wrong I wish he did!!) BUT my dad was the same way. I never saw my dad buy anything for himself until I was 14.....I think it means they are good dads. ....I have been stealing money from
HIM to give to HIM on fathers day to buy himself something good....how sad is that haha!
-He gave me beautiful children, who are going to be so darn cool.
- He seriously thinks I am the best person, hottest girl, most talented, fastest runner, best scrapbooker, best cook, smartest, next president of the world, best mom, ex....He is my number one fan, which makes me want to be those things for him..... I think it is the sweetest thing in the world.....
-I am his number one fan.
- He honors his priesthood. (he got called into ym's presidency by the way, and I am sooooo exited for him!)
-He is so cute.
-He fixes any small fights we have right off the bat. And he always wants me to tell him what he is doing wrong so he can do better....Who is like that??? I certainly don't let him tell me what I am doing wrong...
-He is my best bud, and he tells me I am his.
-We make a good team =)
Happy Fathers day Honey!!

(Ps thanks for being patient as I went private for a little while to post some posts for our book, I got some good ones in!)

Our Week

We have had a fun week/ weekend. It started with Holden, Knox and I heading home for high school graduation. (Slade's) It was great! We are so proud of him. BUT the most amazing part was Rye letting me go home!! Rye cant stand it. we have always Been by ourselves our whole marriage, and so I think we are all a little bit to attached. I make fun of him, but truth be told I am the same way! I was supposed to stay until Friday in Utah, but Rye begged us to come home (after 3 days) and said he would take the time off for us to go camping! I didn't want to pass that up, so we busted home to see the Daddy.
We headed to Austin NV to find a place my dad wanted us to go camp at. It was BEAUTIFUL! But so cold.....So that trip ended fast, haha! We also went out mine exploring. Which we do quite often. Holden convinced us to play hide and go seek, which ended up being hilarious. We also had a cook out. This place is crazy! (the town we live in) you will be driving in the mountains in the middle of nowhere and come across an old ghost mine that is pretty much a mini city every three miles it seams! it is so interesting. Some of the houses and buildings literally are like the people just disappeared and left everything the same. Even their tools are still one the tables! We have just been enjoying each other.... If the dang snow would go away! It is killing me......We had big plans to go and move cows today, which Holden was going to get to ride himself this time, so thats a bummer. But it hasn't quit snowing! Hope everyone else had a good weekend!

This picture is from my moms house. went outside to find Holden, and this is how I find him. Noah is a bad influence! haha!

(YES! We chopped his golden locks off! ) now he and Holden look like twins!

detailed update

For journaling purposes I thought I would do a detailed update on the boys. I hope you all dont get so sick of me. I can blog in 3 minutes, but it takes all day to scrapbook!

Holden:
He is getting so smart. We can drive down the street and he will start sprouting off all the different shapes he sees, Pentagon, c's, trapezoids, you name it!

-He can spell his name.
-He loves to help do yard work.

-His favorite show is Super why (on PBS) he sings the song so good!

-He already has a nickname around town as "the E'Z stop boy" The easy stop is a service station. Holden loves getting his bug juice!

-He takes playing way to serous, especially his train track building and drawing.

-He is the only kids in his nursery, and so they send him to primary and it is DISASTROUS!

-He can finally put his pants and one pair of his shoes on, haha! I was beginning to think we had a disability.
-He loves his dad.

-He loves Grandma Debbie.

-He whines a lot.

-He is very clean when it comes to his play places and eating food.

-His new favorite saying is "Shut the front door!" (we hear this after every funny comment anyone makes now)

-He has an AWESOME since of humor.

......Love you baby boy

KNOX

-He runs

-He has no ambition to talk at all, even though he sprouts things of when he finds necessary.
-He got a hair cut.

-He LOVES animals. He has a monkey (ugly monkey) and a puppy that he takes care of. He even rocks, cuddles, puts band aids on them, and gives them loves all day!
-He loves Horses!!!!!!!!!!!!! He freaks when he isn't on one.

-He loves driving things.

-He doesn't really like people giving him attention, he just wants to do "his thing"

-He loves to shower.
-He is DADDIES boy.

-He loves my mom, which is funny because he really doesn't see her much, and he is so stingey with his affection.

-He sleeps through the night all the time.

-He only has three teeth.

He is uncontrollable at church, but everywhere else is well mannered.

-He loves when Holden goes to bed, he thinks it is party time with all Holdens trains. He doesn't get to play with them to much =(

- Anytime he feels a party is about to happen, he cant wait to whip out his "clapping hands!!!" It is so funny. He really just learned to do that!

.....We love you.

The Newest!

Hello, Hello!! I sure have missed you all!! I am sooooo happy to get to catch up on everybody! We are doing so good. We are now moved. The kids are huge and there is to much to catch up on, so I wont even try =)

We do love where we live now, and Rye's job is going way good. The move was pretty easy. Over the last little bit we had been investing in new furniture and other things (finally) But we just kept putting it in storage, so when we moved we left most all our things behind! I was so glad to get to use my stuff. The boys love their new freedom. I have taken up scrapbooking, and LOVE it. Rye loves to go and help his dad. Holden is so big and mature. Knox is .......something. haha. We were at Rye's parents house a few days ago, and Knox was acting.....like Knox. and everyone was so convinced he was miserable and had an ear infection.....haha! I took him in the next morning and he was fine, he just is naturally like that!! Grumpy and demanding. I actually love and appreciate it about him, FULL OF CHARACTER!

These are some Fitzwater family pictures we had with Rye's family. The BIG family pictures haven't been posted yet. I think she is wonderful! And it was fun to see everyone and the Wood's. Cant wait to see every ones in the family. The photographer was Jessica Dupass from New castle/ Pinto area. She is friends with Rye's family. She actually used to beat him up on the bus, I thought she was rad.
....Ps, do you love Knoxys hair??? or does it need to go. I cant make up my mind. I have had numerous people lately beg me to put him in contests. BUT others just laugh, and laugh at him!!...Could I have posted anymore pictures???...dont think so =) ....accctttually yes I could have.

(Handsomeness)