Month of April!

This is our month of April.  This month was here and there trying to visit everybody and trying to get ready to get to Dallas.  It was a crazy month!

Bostyn, Ava, and Jaeley at Grandma Anderson's on the swings.

You always have to take sleeping pictures on the floor right?

We are in Dallas!  The Sunday after we arrived was Easter Sunday so we had to color eggs of course.  We had our friends Land and Nicki over to join us.  Bostyn did not know how to put the eggs in the dye softly so she kind of just threw them in which of course made a difficult cleanup!

Easter Sunday Morning with Bostyn in her new dress and Daddy.

Mommy and Bostyn

Bangs

This was back in March.  Her hair was getting long enough to cover her eyes so I decided to cut her some bangs.  Some liked it and some didn't (of course only my sisters would give opinions right?)  I like them.  I think they make her look like a little girl.

Dallas!

Ok, so I know I haven't kept up to my goal of posting twice a month, but I will try to do better from now on.  Lots has happened in the past month or so.  To start, our Saturn died.  I was sad because it was my first car and it was mine and Ladd's first car as a married couple.  Ladd was not sad.  He was a little happy to see it go.  He only had bad things to say about it.  But when we really left it, his sentimental part of him came out and admitted he was a little bit sad.  What happened was the engine blew out while on the freeway,  we don't know how but it was a little too costly for us to want to fix the old car so we spent more money and went and got a new one.  Makes sense right?  It doesn't to me.  However, I like our new car...it is a Hyundai Sonata and I think we got a pretty good price for it.  But being out here for about of month has put about 10 years onto it the way these boys treat the vehicles!  Ladd gets to drive everyday for work so he has a car full of boys every day in and out of it.  The next thing: We have moved to Dallas for the summer for Ladd's job.  Preseason was very stressful and hectic and we were glad to get it over with and to be here for the summer.  The summer however is maybe less hectic but it is still stressful!  We have a small group of guys but it will be a good summer:)  Ladd is doing great so far and is liking managing to the best that he can.  I really like Dallas so far.  The weather has been very mild and not hot!  I like it a lot!  I know it won't last forever and I am bracing myself for the 100 degree heat or higher.  I'm not the one who should be worried though.  It's the boys that have to be outside all day:(  The area we live in has about every shopping and restaurant you can think of within 5 minutes.  However, the apartments we live in are the least nicest we have had since being in the job.  I said least nicest because they are still nice, just a little older. 

Bostyn has gone through a couple of changes.  When we moved out here, she transferred from a crib to a big girl twin bed.  She really liked it and sleeps just the same.  She has also gone through a sleeping schedule change.  I don't think she really likes this change so much though.  She doesn't really go to bed till 10:00 or later most nights.  I feel bad but sometimes I like to keep her up so she can see her Dad when he comes home, sometimes I would like to put her to bed earlier but that time interferes with getting dinner ready and other things done before Ladd gets home.  She definitely does not have a set bed time but I am going to try to get her to bed earlier.  She is much happier and healthier that way too.

Bostyn is very busy and fun and naughty and loud and sweet and cute at this stage in her life! She is talking and says new things everyday.  She likes to do things herself but is not afraid to ask for help if she needs it.  She has started to sing her own songs, which is so funny to listen too.  She loves to take care of her baby, she loves to draw...not color, she likes to be outside, she like to help and be in the way whenever I am trying to do something productive, therefore, I don't do a lot of productive things:)  She still loves Mother Goose.  She loves me to sing to her several songs, such as, Herman the Worm man, Little Bunny Foo Foo, Popcorn Popping, Little Fish, Bumblebee and several others...it's cute and exhausting.  She will do most of the actions to them and sometimes try to sing along:)  She loves hugs and kisses, she likes to be held, she likes to be noticed all day long, she says Hi to EVERYBODY!  One thing that drives me CRAZY about this little girl of mine is that she is in a screaming phase.  Whenever I do not want her to scream the most, like in a grocery store or other public places, she just screams the whole time and it is a blood curdling, high pitch Banchie scream.  I never know what to do in these situations because I hate trying to stop her by some act because it is embarrassing and causes a scene, but it is also very embarrassing to be the mom who just lets her child scream at the store, plus it honestly hurts peoples ears!  Shopping of any kind is not fun with her!  Anyway, she is a character, and has definitely entered terrible two's early.  I still love her and she can be very cute and sweet at times but sometimes she makes it hard to realize the joy of being a mother:)  (was that not a horrible thing to say?)


Nothing is really going on with me.  I am finished with school!  I finished my last class a few weeks ago and now I am done forever.  I am not sad, but it does make me feel a little old.  I am just trying to be a supportive wife of a salesman and am trying to be a good mom:)  I have already met fun new wives that have turned into great friendships!   It's fun and I am happy:)

Cruising to the Bahamas and Mexico

 Ladd and I just got back from an amazing trip to the mexican bahamas on a cruise!  It was nice to get away and relax before the summer of sales begins. I have a ton of pictures on here so I will just explain the trip as the pictures go on.

Ladd bought a brand new paddle off of an Asian website....it came with a case and everything.  Well his best competition are people from platinum so he just had to take his paddle on our trip and he definitely got to play plenty. 

First our trip started with a day in Florida.  This is where they did their manager trainings.

Jared and Ladd playing ping pong and the Florida office

This is us on our way to the cruise ship...Wahoo!

These next ten pictures are us being silly and bored while waiting to get into our state rooms on the cruise ship.  

We finally got going and it took us over two hours to get out of Tampa Bay.  We are going under the Tampa Bay bridge in this pic.  It was really cool because the ship clears the bridge by just 6 ft!

This is us at dinner.

Lane, Ladd, Beamer, and Brady 

They all just came down the water slide. The water is freezing and there was no way I was going down it!

Formal night in the dining room

Us getting off the ship onto a boat to take us to Grand Caymen

We are at Grand Caymen on a boat taking us to Rum Beach Island.  It was a pretty fun beach.  I just wish we had more time on this day.  A bummer that happened this day was that they closed down Sting Ray City which was one of the things we were going to do.  

This was the fun group we hung out with at Grand Caymen

L-R: Brady and Josie, Bridger and Courtney, Beamer and Kim, Ladd and Laurie, and Nikki and Lane

Lane, Beamer and Ladd

 They played beach volleyball and Ladd got stuck on a team with all strange people.  It was really funny.

We are now in Cozemel Mexico at this point.  It was a nice day and the water was so pretty and clear.

Us and Beamer and Kim

Us, Lane and Nikki, and Beamer and Kim

You've gotta love the hat!

This is on our way to see the Mayan ruins and Tulum

This is Tulum.  It was really cool to see all the ancient ruins!

The Beach was beautiful at Tulum

Ladd played in the Cruise ping pong tournament and he won!

Then Ladd and Lane played in the Platinum Protection Tournament and they won too!

To end the fun vacation, the last day while we were burning time before we had to go to the airport, we got dropped off at Downtown Disney...A perfect ending to a perfect vacation.  Thanks Platinum for the free vacation!