Halloween 2010

We had a fun Halloween. Dax was a dragon, Riley was a Princess, and Logann was a skeleton. After my Grandma Zollinger's funeral in Logann we drove back to South Jordan and got ready to go trick-or-treating. Logann was tired, so it was just Dax and Riley with the adult support of Ani, Steph, Bree, Alex, Jeremy and I. After a while McCall and Ryan joined us. Ani and her "friend" Eric took Dax and I around for a bonus round of trick-or-treating to some really awesome homes up by the Draper temple. That was a lot of fun to go and do that extra bit with Dax. We are all still on a sugar buzz, and I can't seem to get rid of this little headache that I have had for the last few days. Maybe I should lay off of the candy, or get rid of it.

Dax's Birthday Season

Dax just turned 5 yrs old yesterday, although we have been celebrating now for two weeks. We first had a party at Papa Mark's house, where he got a lot of wonderful and thoughtful gifts, including a gift of 100 kisses from his crazy Aunt McCall.
Then I decided that I would allow him to invite some of his friends over for a party. That was a lot of fun. We were all in our costumes, ate pizza, played games, opened presents, and had cake and ice cream, and played some more. He has some pretty fun little friends.
Yesterday we had Rene and Teresa come over for a birthday dinner and party. We had to remind Riley that it wasn't her birthday, and that hers was coming up in just a few months, so she would understand why Dax got to open all of the gifts, and not her. She was okay after that. Logann just had a fun time in the wrapping. That might be all we do for her for Christmas. Since I know that she would like that more than any other gift we would give her. I think when all said and done Dax had a pretty awesome birthday season.

Little Blue-Eyes

This is our cute little blue-eyed baby, Logann. She is getting so big. These pictures were actually taken last month, but I am just getting them on the blog. She has a new trick that her siblings love. When she is happy she shakes her head back and forth and smiles. It is pretty funny.
It makes me sad that my Grandma Zollinger may never get to meet her in person because her health is declining very quickly. My prayers are for my Grandma these days.

Summer Fun

This summer has been a lot of fun. Dax had a lot of fun doing swimming lessons. He is definitely not afraid of the water. Which is a good thing as well as a bad thing. I think he was under the water more than he was above.

White Lightning! That is Dax's soccer team name. For a group of 4 year old boys they are pretty talented. There are 3 boys from each team out on the field, and they all want the ball. After the first game they learned that they have to be more cautious running after the ball. They would all run as fast as they could to get the ball and none of them would slow down, so there would be at least one collision with someone walking off of the field crying. On a good note, Dax made the first goal of the first game.





Riley and Dax loved swimming in the new reservoir by our home. I think it is called "The Lake at the Hills," or something like that. It is nice to have that so close to where we live. We also went fishing there a few times, and every time Dax lost his hook by getting it stuck in the rocks. On a different fishing adventure we went up Cedar Canyon to the kids pond, and within the first five minutes Dax fell into the pond. Then a minute later he fell in again, and a minute after that he fell in again. The funny thing about that is that he didn't care.


This summer we went to Lake Powell twice. That place is heaven on earth. Both trips were so much fun. We did a lot of skiing, boarding, surfing, and swimming. Riley even went off of the slide this year with me. I wish I had a picture of that, but I think it is on my Mom's camera.

The latest in June and July

Thanks to my sister McCall, we have the cutest pictures of Logann. She is three months old and getting stronger every day. She is always trying to sit up all by herself. She has also learned to laugh. It is so much fun when she interacts with us.

They came over before they moved to SLC for one last photo shoot. Riley and Ryan were her cute little test subjects. I hope that they can stay good friends with all of the distance between the two of them.
For the 4th of July, we all went to my parents home and swam in their neighbor's pool. Dax and Riley are fearless. They loved jumping off of the diving board. Dax kept trying to dive, but was only able to do belly flops. It was so cute because he was so persistent. I have a feeling, with a little practice at Powell, he will get it right really quick. Riley loves to try to keep up with her big brother, which most of the time she does, and do everything he does. Logann even had a fun time in the water kicking around and getting splashed on by her siblings.
Jeremy ran in a 10k race here in Cedar a few weeks ago and took first place. Not only in his age division, but overall. He is unbelievable. Now his next race to win is going to be the Olympic Kokopelli race in September. I believe he can do it if he keeps working as hard as he is.

Mother's Day Photo Shoot

My sister, McCall, has been practicing with her new camera, and using our kids as models. We went out last week and got some cute pictures for Mother's Day. Riley was so happy to be in her pink dress so she could spin around for us.
Dax loves the camera. For all of these pictures, Dax posed himself with no adult influence. We all thought it was pretty funny. As his Uncle Dave put it, "Stud alert!"

Six Months Later....

Well, it has been six months since my last post. I think I have ignored my blog long enough. Thank you to my friend Lisa for giving me a call to get this thing updated. I have a minute to post a little about what has been going on since then.
Riley turned two back in February. She is our little tom-boy/princess. She loves to wear dresses, but I didn't have any besides her nice Sunday ones, and I was sick of mending and washing the mud out of those ones. I had to get her some play dresses that she could still twirl around in and also go play out in the mud in.
On March 22, Logann Z was born. She weighed 6 lb. 9 oz. and she was 18 in. long. She came very quickly, and a little early.


That day was a big day. I started feeling some contractions that morning, but I thought that they were nothing to worry about. My visiting teachers came over for their visit, but this month they brought their cleaning brushes and buckets. They cleaned my bathrooms and my kitchen. I told them that they couldn't have come on a better day. At the time I didn't realize how right I was. That morning I was also in the middle of doing laundry.
Then at about 3:30 pm I started timing my contractions. They were getting a little more painful, so I thought that I might be going to the hospital to have the baby that night.
I got Dax and Riley and took them to the grocery store and bumped into my R.S. president. She asked how I was doing that day, and I told her that I was not doing too well, and that I wasn't feeling too great. On the way home from the store I called Jeremy and gave him the heads-up that we were probably going to go to the hospital that night because my contractions were getting stronger and closer together.
At 5:00 pm I called Labor and Delivery, and told them what was going on and asked if I should come in. They told me to relax, wait an hour, get in the tub and see if the contractions go away. Well, I got in the tub, and that was definitely not a good idea. Never get into the tub to see if contractions will go away! Bad Idea! My contractions snapped to five minutes apart, and super painful. I had Jeremy stop making dinner, get the kids in the car, and take me to the hospital. There was no way that I was waiting until 6:00 pm.
To make a long story a little shorter; I walked into the hospital at 6:00 pm, and Logann was born at 7:37 pm.

Our new addition

We went to the doctors office yesterday for our ultrasound. We are having another girl. From what the ultrasound tech saw, everything looks good. Now just about five more months of getting bigger and bigger, and we have got to get Riley to understand the concept of potty training. I really don't want to be changing more diapers than I have to.

Catching up... April

We had a lot of fun last month. Riley really mastered walking.


We had a fun Easter in Salt Lake, and here in Cedar.


Dax LOVES finger painting.


Another wound from playing outside. This time he ate it out in the road. I saw him fall. It was like his mind was in one place and his feet couldn't get there fast enough, and down he went.




We still love to go hiking. This time we went to Zions and did a 2 mi hike called Hidden Canyon. It was a lot of fun for us and for the kids. Jeremy had Riley in the pack, and Dax hiked the entire way all by himself, with the exception of about 5 minuts the way down. He said his legs were hurting so I gave him a little piggy back. We were so impressed with him. This trail was not an easy walk either. There were steep ledges, chains, and drop offs. I thought it was like a minature Angel's Landing. After the hike, Dax and Riley were pooped. Both of them fell asleep on the shuttle getting back to our car.

The Best Looking Yard On The Block...Not Really

Things have been crazy busy since we moved into our new home. We really enjoy it, but I have found, and my Dad agrees with me, that a home can suck the time and money right from of you. I have been trying to get our yard looking okay. I found out by talking to a all of my neighbors that before the previous owners moved out, they just turned off the sprinklers and let the grass die. They thought it would get enough water from the rain. Um.. I don't think so; we live in a desert! Jeremy and I have been hoping that it would come back with a little love, but that has not worked. So the past few weeks I have fertilized, pulled weeds, sprayed weeds, raked ALL of the dead grass (which consists of most of our yard front and back), and we also made sure our sprinkling system works, and is ready to go this season. Now we are going to take this to the next level. Tomorrow we are going to till up our yard, and start from scratch. We have never done this before, so wish us luck.

First Birthday

Riley just turned one on Feb. 6. So, that was nearly a month ago, and I haven't posted about it yet. I have just been a little busy. She is such a girl. She got spoiled, once again. We had two parties and two cakes. One party was here in Cedar with the Andrews family, and one later in SLC with the Zollingers. They were both a lot of fun.


Riley loves Jewelry.

She ate her "My little Pony" cake, but didn't get too messy. That is just how she is.

After the party all of the kids got in the tub. Dax and Riley thought it was fun to have someone new to bath with. The cute little boy is their cousin Ed.

McCall and I had made plans for Riley and Ryan's birthday cakes a few weeks before the party. I had so much fun decorating these cakes. I think McCall had a lot of fun too. The party in SLC was for the two girls and my Dad, so we made a cake for him too.

Ryan got the idea to dive into her little cake, but Riley just wasn't quite sure what to do.

It ended up being a VERY long day for the Riley Bug.

Our First Home

We moved to Cedar at the beginning of the year, and just closed on a home. I think that it is a beautiful home in a beautiful part of Cedar. We are in the process of re-finishing the wood floor, removing some interesting brick wall paper, painting, and cleaning it before we move in. We think it will be so awesome when it is all done. Until then it is going to be a lot of work. We are blessed to have family willing to help us out so much to get this project done.