The Roitz Family

Whew

2011-05-25T10:33:00.001-07:00

Whew, I feel like I don't have time to sit down and do this anymore. I look at all my previous posts and can't believe how fast my cute girls are growing! We have been very busy. I just finished my first year of nursing school and have one more to go. My awesome husband just got a job as the Safety Director at WISE in Mtn. View, so we are moving there yay! I told everyone I was not going to make any decisions about moving until school was over. May 16th was the last day, I have been making our moving arrangement since. I think we are going to be moving the second week in June.

We had a great Christmas and a beautiful Easter. Here are some other things we have been doing:

Josh has transitioned from working 4-6 days a week outside welding, to sitting at a desk with paper work mon-fri! He is adjusting slowly, but we are sooo proud of him!

Josh also got released as the YM president and doesn't know what to do with himself anymore:(

I am working my bum off going to school and playing with my two crazies.

I ran a 5k with my sister-in-law at the end of april.

Eliza went to pre-school at the college and absolutely love it. She wants to keep going all summer.

Eliza is very excited to move by all her cousins and grandparents.

Kyle is almost 1!

Kyle is crawling around and exploring all of the garbages mom leaves on the floor.

Kyle has a major attitude and will yell, scream, pull hair and scratch your face if she does not get what she wants, but she is also a very cuddly baby and loves to give loves. (bi-polar?)

My girls at Christmas

Eliza and her cuteness

They love their daddy

and they love to read

Easter

Floor was working better than the bed I guess
Cutest little bum ever

Grandma and Grandpa went to Hawaii

Lotsa pictures

2010-12-12T21:36:00.000-08:00

Okay...so it has been a while. Since I lasted blogged I have completed my first sememster of nursing school. It is going well, but I am very ready for christmas break. My little girls are growing so fast right before my very eyes. I never imagined I would have so much fun with two little girls. Kyle(that is what we call her:) is the best baby ever! She sleeps all night and has for a while, since school started. She hardly ever cries and she is always smiling so happy. I think we have been majorly blessed. School is hard especially when I want to kiss and hang out with my girls all day instead of going to school, but it will be worth it(this is where you as a reader take note and re-enforce that to me -an emotional mother -in the comment area, thanks!) Yes! It will be worth it.
Josh is my ever loving, patient, wonderful husband that is working as hard as ever. He is super busy with work and young mens, supporting me and our little family. I wish we could spend more time together, but we are so blessed I cannot complain.
Okay now for the pictures...

Eliza first

Now Kyle

I know, I know so cute! Eliza really is the best big sister, when Kyle cries she goes over to her and sings I am a child of God or Book of Mormon stories. Those are her favorite. Kyle loves her too, whenever she sees Eliza she breaks out in a big grin. Eliza is also super exited about her new boy cousins. Beck and Karter, they are super cute little dudes.

Happy Birthday Eliza

2010-08-14T10:08:00.000-07:00

Eliza celebrated her 2nd birthday July 9th. She was super exicited, and loved being sung to. She sang Happy Birthday for days after. Grandma and Grandpa Hamblin came over for the day and we went to lunch after Eliza got spoiled by them:)

At 2 years old Eliza can talk pretty well. She knows a ton of songs and stands on a stool and sings them all day.

She wears big girl panties.

She is a great big sister.

Her favorited food is grapes.

She loves all her cousins.

She loves nursery.

She loves to be outside.

When we make her mad she says, "Be nice mommy daddy, I mean it!"

We love you soo much Eliza

Grandma and Granpa's b-day present.

Here are some summer activities

Playing with Grandpa

Parade

Zoo

Elyse Kyle Roitz

2010-08-04T15:53:00.000-07:00

So... we had our baby about 5 weeks ago. She was a wonderful delivery and everything went very well. She was born on June 30th at 4:20pm. She weighed 5lbs 12oz and was 18 inches. We love her so much.

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Dress up

2010-05-18T07:08:00.000-07:00

Eliza has been entertaining herself by dressing up in all of my clothes. Anything she can find, mostly shoes, she tries on. She walks around the house in my heels and it cracks me up. She is growing so much and will soon be 2, I can't believe it!

She is a great singer and can sing her ABCs, twinkle little star, itsy bitsy spider, book of mormon stories, Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, and a couple more. She is talking very well and is starting to throw some major fits at times. She loves all of her cousings and won't stop talking about them.

Josh and I are getting excited for #2. No, we aren 't finding out what it is. I am 32 weeks now and feel huge! I am having this baby in Odgen so they are starting me the first week in July, but I am going to try my hardest to go myself the very end of June. Hope everyone is doing great.

Update

2010-03-23T21:34:00.000-07:00

December:
We had a great Christmas hanging out with all of our family. We also went to Little America for a couple days to hang out and go swimming.

January:
Blake came home!

February:
Josh has been waiting for me to post these pictures. This is "one of the best moments of his life!" As you all should know, Josh loves his Wyoming Cowboys. He has been lucky enough to get to ride the Cowboy Bus to many a cowboy game and they even went to the New Mexico Bowl. This bus is really sweet, and the coaching staff came to Rock Springs to visit with people and the Cowboy bus was there. (Josh speaking now) The New Mexico Bowl and trip was awesome. There will be many more LONG road trips for the Cowboy Fever bus and Crew in the future!!!! Thanks to my good friends Dave and Josh.

It was awesome to have Coach Christensen in the Cowboy bus honking the train horn!

We were privileged to get a picture of the bronze boot as a hood ornament.

One of the few Cowboy fans to ever hold the bronze boot!

This was Josh's second accomplishment in February. I am very proud of him

March:
We are just hanging out this month. For those of you who don't know yet Josh and I are expecting another baby in July. I am 24 weeks now and my due date is July 11th. Eliza is growing up so fast, I can't believe it. She is such a little firecracker and I love it! She loves her daddy so much and every night they wrestle and play for hours.

She is sick of saying "cheese"

She loves loves to read and this is where she is a lot of the time during the day. PS Speaking of reading. Josh got me a Kindle for Valentines Day and I LOVE it. Might be one of the reasons I haven't updated in a while. Seriously one of the best gifts ever!

Halloween Pics

2009-11-11T07:07:00.000-08:00

Here is my cute little stinker on Halloween. We went to hang with the Hammers and had a blast. Thanks guys! It was such a nice day. Eliza got a little tired at the end and decided to take embrace her true skunk, so she started crawling over the lawns and down the sidewalks. She was also much more interested in everyones pets than she was their candy.

Just another random cute picture.

2nd hobby of Fall

2009-11-02T12:13:00.000-08:00

In these short but beautiful months of autumn we are doing two things. Football(previously mentioned) and hunting. Josh dreams of the monster buck he will one day get, but for now he has to settle for a nice big 3 point. We are very proud of him.

Oh yeah, and my hobby is taking pictures I guess

Love it!

It has begun...

2009-09-16T07:27:00.001-07:00

It is upon us, yes, football season. It is the time of year when husbands think their wives like to talk football 24/7, when countless hours are spent reading stats and watching already played games. When all the eye sees is brown and gold and more brown and gold. Cowboy football 09.

Summer Highlights

2009-09-03T11:27:00.000-07:00

Our summer in photos, with a few cute pictures in between.

The Sweetwater County Fair. They had a free petting zoo that we went to everyday because Eliza loved it so much!

Just some cute pictures of her and her dad.

Her feet after the a long day on the boat and in the water at the Gorge.

Her face after the same long day.

Camping with the cousins.

Dancing with Grandma.

Playing at Bear Lake.

The two sides we encounter everday.

Hope everyone had a great summer!

Trekking is awesome!

2009-07-29T10:14:00.001-07:00

Last month Josh and I had the opportunity to go on a family trek. I have to admit that I wasn't too excited to go. It was like high school all over again, because we had a youth trek when I was a junior and it was the last thing I wanted to do over summer vacation. It turned out to be such a wonderful experience. 7 years later here I am again. I didn't want to leave my baby, I didn't want to camp in the dust and wind, and I didn't want to walk 25 miles. Once again I was humbled and had an awesome experience. It was not only a testimony builder, but we got to know people in our ward a lot better. Enjoy the pictures!

Josh and I in our garb, and our house for the next 3 days.

Our AWESOME trek leader. He did an amazing job. Good job, Brother G!

The men leaving the women for the women's pull. This is always such a spiritual experience. It was a lot harder than I remembered it being 7 years ago!

Josh being big Buddah. He was pretty excited!

Martins Cove

Our cart group

The river experience. We crossed it three times!

The last day. Tired and ready to get home to Eliza and a shower!

Birthday

2009-07-15T11:40:00.000-07:00

Brace yourself because there are a lot of pictures.

We celebrated Eliza's first brithday on the 4th. We went up to Grandma and Grandpa Roitz's house for a birhtday cookout. We had a great time and I hope Eliza did too! I cannot believe she is already 1!

Takin it all in

Lots of family. She loves to play with her cousins.

Loving Uncle Shane

Loving Aunt Bree

Kolten and Kaylee on their fourwheeler

That night during the fireworks... She is not a very cuddly person but that night she was, and it was a great end to a great day.

These next pictures are just some cute random pictures.

Growing up

2009-06-15T07:10:00.000-07:00

We spent some time up at the ranch this weekend with Grandma and Grandpa Roitz. Eliza loves it there because there are so many things to do. Lots of grass and dirt, dogs, cats, cows, and cousins.

Everytime the camera comes out these days it is all cheese. She squints her eyes and opens her mouth. Crazy girl.

Oh yeah, she is walking around now. She still mostly crawls but is walking more and more. She is getting so big!

Eliza's hair has gotten a bit long on top as you can see in the next couple of pictures. I just can't bring myself to cut it though...

I love my little big blue eyes!

Stubborn

2009-05-07T15:45:00.000-07:00

Eliza did not want to take a nap the other day. I would lay her down and she would stand right back up. I knew she was tired so I left her in there for a couple minutes. I went back in to see if she had fallen asleep, and sure enough she was! Just not in the traditional position.

Yes she is sucking her thumb:0 I don't know what to do about that.

We also had some killer dessert that night. I recreated Macaroni Grill's dessert ravioli. Deep fried snickers. Wrapped in pastry goodness. With ice cream. With little caramel chocolate things. With love.

Easter in Texas

2009-04-19T13:29:00.001-07:00

Well we made it back from Texas and we had a wonderful time. The drive wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be and Eliza did really well. We got to spend time with Josh's sister and her kids who we don't get to see that often. Josh's brother and his family went as well and Eliza just loves all of her cousins.

I have a lot of pictures.

We dyed some Easter eggs and Eliza just wanted to eat it.

MMmmm

Then she decided to chuck the egg. Hot pics of me I know.

Eliza LOVED to be around all of her cousins. She doesn't know what to do now that we are home.
At a museum in Pampa Texas.

What a cute babe!

Trying to steal Kolby's shoe

On the tramp. Josh couldn't find her jacket so he made one out of her pj's.

Kolten and Eliza

Kaylee and Baileigh

We went to Amarillo for the day and went to the American Quarter Horse Museam

All the cousins. This is the only picture I have of the baby Madelyn:( She is super cute though!

Woohoo Tucker. He is a real cowboy.

Eliza's first ride on the horse. We got to the museum and the guy asked if Eliza would want a token to ride the horse. I was like, "ya, what kind of horse is it?" I though being in a horse museum they would have an actual horse. The guy was like, "Oh its just a little horse." Me not getting it yet was like, "oh like a little shetland pony?" NO it was a wal-mart horse! I was slightly dissapointed. We are in Texas at a horse museum with no real horses, come on!

Horse kisses.

When we got home we needed some bigger pajamas because Eliza had a growth spurt on our trip. These are her new bigger ones and I guess her arms are a little short!

Hope everyone had a great Easter!

Texas here we come

2009-04-07T07:51:00.000-07:00

We are embarking on a grand adventure. Josh's sister lives in Texas and we are going to see her for Easter. We leave on Thursday and are breaking the trip into two days. The first day will only be like 4 hours. The second day will be 7! Yikes.
I am super excited to go on a mini vacation and see Josh's sister and all her cute kids. We are staying in Texas about 3-4 days.
My main objective for blogging about this is because I am really not looking forward to the drive especially the second day. Eliza has usually been good in the car, but it seems the older she get, the more impatient she becomes. We went to Utah last weekend and she wasn't having it. She has also turned into a very high pitched screamer. Its very soothing.
So I need all of you bloggers advice on driving with a babe please. What has worked for you?

One tough cookie

2009-03-09T08:38:00.000-07:00

This post is dedicated to my Grandma Stringer. For those of you who have ever had the pleasure of meeting her, I doubt you would soon forget the encounter. She can make you laugh and she can make you cry. She is one of the hardest workers I have ever known. I guess you would have to be when you grew up on a ranch in the middle of wyoming taking care of your whole family because your mother had passed away and your father was away half of the year in california shearing sheep to earn some money.

She is 91 and healthy, physically, as a horse. She has been in an assisted living home in evanston for a couple of years. She is an onery old cuss and for the first little while she wasn't too happy to be there. This last week she has been in the hospital with pnuenomia. They didn't know what type she had and both of her lungs were full of liquid. They didn't know if she would make it through the first night, but we had a suspicion that if she really didn't want to go yet, she wouldn't and she didn't. She is getting better everyday and is a hoot to be around. She is going to relocate to Logan to have some better care. I will miss not getting to see her as much and it makes me sad she won't ever really know my baby like she knows me.

I am going to miss you Grandma when you go to Logan and when you go to your Heavenly Father. You have made my life more memorable and provided me with some awesome times. You made the best homemade chicken and noodles and creamed peas and potatoes. You raised a great mom for me and had a hand in shaping me into who I am today. I love you!

This last weekend we had Eliza's pictures taken and here are some of those and also some random pitures of her.

I love my big baby blues

Best Friends

Heart anyone?

2009-02-12T07:47:00.000-08:00

I am sure you have heard of a broken heart, maybe an aching heart or a full heart? Well, how about a roasted heart? Yes, my friends that was what was on the Roitz family dinner menu last night. Roast beef heart.

For any of you who know Josh, you know he and his family have a cow ranch. When they butcher cows, they save everything. Heart, kidney, liver, stomach etc... Josh made some kidney for our friends the other night, and they are not too bad. Josh was always talking about how his grandma used to make stuffed roast heart, so I decided to give it a try. I tried to look online for some recipes and pointers, but suprisingly there weren't too many to find.

We had the heart in our freezer for a couple of weeks and I finally willed myself to take on the tast.

Before we begin, I want you to know that the cows on the Roitz ranch must be kind of lazy. They evidently don't like to walk very far or long because this cow had some serious fat buildup on his heart. That was by far the most time consuming part was cutting off all of the fat.

Observe

So after the fat is all trimmed off you have to cut it open and remove all the little arteries and membranes. It brought back flashes of A&P from college.

The next step is to prepare a stuffing, stuff the heart and roll it back up and secure. I then seared it in a pan. I do have to say it looked like a pretty piece of meat then.

Then you throw it in the crocker for the rest of the afternoon with some veggies and onion soup mix. And you come out with a little roast of heart. Sorry to dissapoint, but everyone (Josh and his dad) were soo excited to eat it I forgot to take a picture of the finished product. It really just looked like a little beef roast.

I made some mashed potatoes and gravy and we had some corn and peas. It was a nice country dinner.

*Okay, I had some of the heart, and it was good... It tasted like a roast beef, but the texture was a little denser and chewier(sp). I personally would rather just have a regular old roast, but it was a lot better than I expected. I will be making it again, because Josh loves it.*

Maybe some day ya'll could give it a try!

Pillow Scream

2009-01-29T16:43:00.001-08:00

Pillow scream. Have you ever done it? Until today, I had not. I've heard of women being stressed and needing somewhere to go to release the tension. I think the man version is pounding nails into a stump. Well today I did a mighty strong pillow scream, and to tell you the truth, it actually felt good and helped.

After an afternoon of being on the phone with doctors and electricians and fridge repair men and crack-in-your-wall fixers oh and estimates to fix windows who some little window breakers broke....whoa.... I needed a good scream.

Oh and my little child likes to sit up and play with her toys until she sees me, then she will fall over on her boppy on purpose and says whimper whimper until I pick her up. Ya its funny the first 15 times, then it gets a little less hilarious. So after I hung up the phone and kissed my baby, I had a pillow scream. aaaahhhhh. Then we were able to sing songs, and give hugs and mom felt much better.

Thanks pillow for being multifunctional.

She's snot feeling well

2009-01-08T18:54:00.000-08:00

So Eliza has been a little under the weather and full of mucous and I managed to catch it on camera. This is not for the faint of heart.

Christmas time

2009-01-05T10:22:00.000-08:00

So Josh and I and Eliza had a wonderful Christmas. We started early by going to Salt Lake for a little fun. We mostly just ate out and hung out in our hotel. We wanted to take Eliza swimming, but the water was freezing and we dipped her in and she was shivering.

My sister and I wanted to go to the mall that saturday before Christmas just to do some shopping for us. We were all done with our Christmas shopping and underestimated the crowds. We went to Fashion Place and it took us like 1 1/2 hours to get there from down town. The traffic was horrible and the parking lot was even worse. I dropped my sister off and tried to park. I seriously almost had a panic attack. Or maybe I did. I was trying to park and hadn't moved for like 20 minutes surrounded by cars and all sides. I started freakin out, and the mall inside was even worse. I totally would not make it in the after Thanksgiving sales. I would sit down and cry as everyone was trampling me.

Here are a couple pictures in our hotel room.

Christmas was so awesome, we love spending time with all of our family. We always have Christmas eve at Josh's family's house and Christmas day at mine. Eliza was pretty tired of running around all the time. She got a lot of books and clothes from our family. Josh's big gifts were a GPS from his family a PS3 from me and a book from my parents. My big gifts were a bread maker from my parents, snowboard bindings from Josh, and a Cricut expression from my mother and father in law. I was soo excited for everything I got. (I have wanted a cricut for forever, but couldn't justify getting one!)

Eliza's favorite part of Christmas was watching everyone and eating the bows.

Here is Eliza and her cousin Jersey who is about 4 months younger than her, and Eliza bundled up to play outside. That girl is all cheeks!

I've got you babe.

2008-12-16T14:41:00.000-08:00

Since not a lot has been happening I thought I would do a tag about my husband Josh.

Thanks for the great idea Skip.

1. Where did you first meet your husband?
Oh dear. I think we first met at church when we were both in high school. I remember thinking he was a pretty cute guy with a sexy smile:) I think we met officially at a ym yw activity when his friends I already knew introduced us.

2. How long did you date before you were married
We dated about a year on and off and then the last 6 months we dated seriously before we were married.

3. How long have you been married?
Josh and I have been married for 3 1/2 years! Every year has gotten better and better.

4. What does he do that suprises you?
I guess this shouldn't suprise me, but he is the most awesome dad! He does everything so well and I think Eliza Jae likes him better than me. He comes in the door from work and heads straight for her, and I have to remind him to give me a kiss too-although I don't mind. I guess what suprises me is how naturally it came.

5. What is his best feature?
His smile, I really love it.

6. What is his best quality?
I think his best quality is that he is a missionary at heart. He loved loved his mission and sometimes he thinks he is on one still, which is a good thing. He will invite everyone to church and he surely doesn't have a comfort zone he won't leave.
He makes me try harder.

7. Does he have a nickname for you?
No.

8. What is his favorite food?
Well, Josh is a major meat and potatoes kinda guy. He really loves anything you put in front of him. By anything I mean Josh eats everything you can think of, ie: Kidney, liver, tripe, heart, bone marrow, ugh. No pickiness here.

9.What is his favorite sport?
College football, if by favorite you mean that it consumes his life for 3 months.

10.When and where was your first kiss.
Our first kiss was when we were dating. It didn't happen for a while and I was starting to think I was gonna have to make a move. Josh later told me he was really nervous for some reason and he thought I thought he was a dork. Anyway we were at my house after a date and he was trying to say goodbye. I hope he won't get embarrassed by this story. He kept leaning in to me but then he would be like, "well i gotta go," and he would stand up straight, then he would lean down again... Well this happened like five times until he finally came in for the kill. Never forget it.

11. What is your favorite thing to do as a couple.
We really love to go hunting and camping together. It is so much fun when it is just you two out in the wilderness fending for yourselves. We also love to ride around his ranch in the fall and summer, mmmmmm so peaceful.

12. Do you have any children?
Yes, we have one beautiful girl.

13. Does he have any hidden talents?
Yes he has many. Most people know Josh is a welder by profession, but what most people don't know is that he is a really good welder. Josh welds pipelines, and learning to weld and doing it well is really hard. There are many older welders who have been welding for years who Josh outwelds. He is constantly offered jobs all over the country to come and get their pipeline going, but he stays here with us. Good job honey!

14. How old is he?
25.

15. Who said I love you first?
Josh did. He would always say, "I am really happy to be with you," for the longest time...

16. What is his favorite music?
Anything by the Beach Boys.

17. What do you admire most about him.
His ability to rise above. He is surrounded by crazy oil field guys all day and yet he never swears, he reads his scriptures everyday around them, and they know who he is and what he stands for.

18. What is his favorite color?
Hmmm, brown and gold?

19. Will he read this?
I will tell him to.

I love you!

I peeked!

2008-12-04T19:06:00.000-08:00

Well I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. This is the most wonderful time of the year. For some reason I just feel extra excited this year.

Confession: I already opened my two Christmas presents. And... I love them! I got a new camera and I can't stop taking pictures.

I also got a huge desk to do scrapbooking and stuff, it is so nice to have room to put all your crap.

We only have two presents under our tree, my present to Josh and one for Eliza, then 200 million others in the corner for everyone else.

Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving. This first one is my favorite of Josh and Eliza.

My mom and dad went to utah for Thanksgiving so we were just at Josh's house and didn't do the 2-3 thanksgivings we usually do.

Just had to throw that one in there.

Here is our glorious real tree that doesn't even smell like pine. I love the top branches that are sticking straight out longer than the other ones. The tree looks like it is stretching.

And finally here a couple little Christmas crafts I made.

I hope everyone is feeling the Christmas warmth!

Its time to get excited

2008-11-19T06:54:00.000-08:00

I am excited for...

stuffing.family.warm fires.naps.pictures.first thanksgivings.pumpkin pie.pumpkin bars.pumpkin cheesecake.apple pie.food and dessert in general.being reminded of everything I have.grammas and granpas.hugs.kisses.sweaters.scarves.snowflakes.snowmen.hot cocoa.red.green.white.snowmobiling.snowboarding.sledding.shopping.giving.
wrapping.pine.temple square.christmas devotional.frost on the window.warm quilts and cold pillows.big wool socks.new camera.cousins.pajamas.singing.christmas lights.christmas smells.gingerbread.baby jesus.wisemen.mother tell me the story...
santa clause.warm fuzzy.growing.loving.

YAY. I love it.

I am trying to avoid the problem Josh has. He gets bummed before the holidays even begin that they will soon be over.

We are already listening to the Beach Boys Christmas songs. Oh boy.

When Josh was little he thought he was Dennis Wilson reincarnated. For those of you who know the beach boys he was one of the originals.

Oh, my little baby has found her feet. You see why we need a new camera.

Halloween fun

2008-11-08T07:30:00.001-08:00

So Eliza was a cute chocolate treat(tootsie roll). We went to the stake trunk or treat and their were sooo many people there. She was amazed, she sat and stared the whole time not making a peep. I guess her costume was sort of unisex because people thought she was a boy as much as they thought she was a girl. Josh went to Wal-mart and bought his concoction. He was the creepiest lookin guy at the church, the little kids were scared of him. Eliza loved him though. I just got a bunch of stuff from the back of the closet and wore Josh's wranglers. It was lots of fun.

We also made some awesome caramel apples. Layers of heavenly and fattening goodness smeared on a healthy apple. Okay ready for this. Apples with caramel then white chocolate then rolled in smashed butterfingers. Oh they are good, for those of you who have been to Rocky Mtn. Choc Fac. Those are my fav.

Okay so Josh drew out area 102 for deer this year. It is a highly coveted draw out area. He was determined to get a monster. The trick to this he tells me is to pass up all of the huge bucks and wait until the last five days of the hunt. Unless you see a record breaker of course, then you shoot no matter the day. So Josh and his brother Shane go hunting for a week and Shane gets a nice 4 point, but Josh wants to wait. They pass up some nice ones and Josh even passed up a huge nontypical because someone else was trying to shoot it, but they kept missing. The guy who kept missing eventually got it and he is now in third place for the Wyo truck big buck contest. He is huge! Anyway Josh is waiting and waiting and the final day of the hunt comes around and he is getting kind of bummed. We decided we wanted some deer meat no matter what, so Josh shot a nice 4x5. He was pretty dissapointed because he had passed up much nicer ones earlier. I told him he has like 80 more years to get a huge buck:) That didn't seem to lift his spirits any.
So here he is.

Oh and about the background.....I just can help it. It is November.

Two new ones!

2008-10-30T10:25:00.000-07:00

Eliza has two new cousins! We are so excited, now she will have two more little girls to play with (and fight with as Malona said:)

Here is my brother Mike and Malona Hamblin's little girl.

Her name is Jersey Faye Hamblin.

She is so little, she weighed 5lbs 12 oz. and she has auburn colored hair.

There are also picutres of her big sister Emry holding her and giving us her "mean", but very cute face.

Josh's sister Wyomia and Willy had a little girl.

Her name is Madelyn Marie Shaw.

She weighed 6 lbs. 12 oz. and I think she looks like her brother Tucker. They live in Texas, so we aren't sure when we will get to see her, but we are excited!

Oh and just to let everyone know. Eliza Jae looks HUGE next to Jersey, I can't believe our baby was once that size(sort of).

3rd blog of October!

2008-10-13T17:45:00.000-07:00

Wow I am bloggin a lot this month. Don't know why, since I am usually a slacker. I just wanted to display some pictures I had forgotten about.

These are some pictures of when Eliza was about 1 month old.

These are some more pictures of her in her blessing dress, look how much so has changed!

This is the quilt that my mom and dad got for Eliza Jae when she was born. Sonya Buckner made it and I absolutely love it. It is sooo adorable. Thanks everyone!

Sorry this blog is pretty random, but I thought I would post some funny little articles I found.

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Quirky tag

2008-10-10T15:40:00.000-07:00

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Thanks to everyone who tagged me. I will try to think of 5 quirks.

1. I'm a band geek. I love big band music, classical music, opera music, musicals, etc... I can play the flute, piccolo, saxophone, and clarinet. I would love to learn to play more musical intruments. I really want to learn to play the harmonica.

2. I hate my feet to be rubbed, touched, looked at, or thought about. I can not even think about having a pedicure. When I get massages I have to ask the massage therapist to skip the feet. No loving husbands rubbing my feet. I can't even touch them myself without my blood pressure rising.

3. I eat paper. I think it might be some sort of disorder. I eat the sucker sticks after I am done with the sucker, I eat non-used tips of the q-tips, I love to eat brand new notebook paper, I just chew the edges off any paper towels and eat them. I know this is weird, but it happens.

4. I love to stay in hotels. I just love new clean (nice hotel) fluffy pillows. I love the hampton inn down comforters. I love the continental breakfast, ice machines, swimming pools, and hot chocolate on demand. I like laying on the bed with the TV right in front of you. I always take the sample vanity kit, shampoo, conditioner, and lotion. I am talking about nice places here, not your everyday Motel 8's or Comfort Inns.

5. My favorite snack is a microwave smore. Try it. Two grahms, two big mallows, and handfull of choc. chips and microwave for 23 seconds (depending on your microwave). Small glass of milk and you are in heaven.

I tag anyone who needs something to blog about.

PS here are some pictures from the blessing.

October?!

2008-10-05T12:10:00.000-07:00

Wow I can't believe it is October already. Time is flying. Sorry I haven't blogged for a while. Just been busy running around. We blessed Eliza a couple weeks ago, but I haven't posted the pics cause they are on a different camera and we lost it for a while. But I will post them soon. Josh did an amazing job on the blessing and we really appreciate all those who came to support us.

This weekend we came down to the Valley to hang out with some family and watch conference. President Monson gave a great talk and I notice something I haven't really notice before, he has beautiful teeth. They are perfect! Next time look and you will agree.
My sister and I did some crafts. I made a magnet board for Eliza's room and a halloween decoration. It was fun.

Here are some recent pictures of Eliza Jae. She is growing up so fast.

And to end this blog, I must tell you of a torn heart in our family. Someone is in anguish over decisions to be made. One side of his large heart he feels he must hold true to a long devotion to a certain team of young men. (AKA Wyoming Cowboys). The other side of his heart knows the need he feels to go out and be in God's beautiful wilderness to hunt and trap those four legged animals. Yes that is correct, October brings a sad tale to tell. One questions the need to travel to Laramie and watch the Cowboys(who are sadly not doing so well this season) play versus the need to hunt for food for our family (yeah right its all about the horns baby!) Anyway this is what October brings to the Roitz household. And hopefully both sides of Josh's heart can be fullfilled this month.

Blah blah blah...

2008-09-12T20:11:00.000-07:00

I hope I don't annoy people. Now that Eliza Jae is here I feel like all I do is talk about her. So SORRY everyone who gets annoyed by me(I know they probably don't, but I feel bad sometimes). I remember when there wasn't a squeeker around here, and I would listen to everyone talk about their kids, I didn't get annoyed but I just didn't understand and couldn't relate and empathize with them, now I know. And I really did love to hear them talk about their kids, it's just different when you really have one.

Here are some random thoughts throughout my day.
**I am glad the baby loves me even when my breath must reek. I know it usually doens't smell minty fresh, but she always lets me talk to her and doesn't grimace and barf. I guess I should be grateful to Josh also:)
**I am glad it doesn't happen when I think " I hope someone doesn't come to my house for a surprise visit when I am in my pj's with my glasses on and my hair up in a rubber band at 2:00 in the afternoon." Which seems to be happening more and more these days....
**When I was preggo I wondered if my belly button would ever go back in, NOW I wonder if it will ever look normal and not sunken in surrounded by my extra fatty spare tire.
**I cannot believe you just made that much noise and and passed that much gas and farted for sooo long and this is all that is in the diaper! ---I am talking about the baby. (Sorry if that was too gross)
**I do not want to watch any more football games that took place 1, 2, or even 20 years ago on TV. Why watch a game you have already seen or one whose players are probably dead now. I also am getting pretty sick of all the muley crazy DVD's and talking about hunting and what everyone saw. (I do love hunting, but I can't go this year and I just don't feel like talking about it oKAY!)
**I absolutely HATE HATE HATE how common swearing has become. There is swearing on every TV channel and bleeping does not help. I need to just toss the stupid tv out the window. Everyone here in Rock Springs cusses I hate it. There are respectable men who do not swear around women(or so I thought that was the norm), but here in Rock Springs they don't care whose company they are in, they just let their nasty mouths run. Now i don't mean a less severe H or D, it is the very worse ones. GRRR I hate it!

Okay breath I am done and headed to bed.

Here she is all 10 lbs. 9oz. of her!

Thank you Fam!

2008-08-31T10:45:00.000-07:00

Not a lot of my family are bloggers, but they do read my blog. So I want to say thanks to my family for these past couple of weeks. The last three weeks have been the hardest weeks of my life! I had to have my gall bladder out on August 13th, and then I had to go back and have emergency surgery 4 days later because my bile duct ruptured and I had a liter of bile in my abdominal cavity. My poor little babe had to be taken care of by my mom and my sister. I didn't even really get to see her while I was in the hospital and on soo much nasty medicine. So thanks sooo much family(this includes Josh's family too), I couldn't have done it without you, and I love you. Thanks for all the visits and calls. Now I can go back to being a mom again.
So that is what our little fam has been up to the last couple of weeks. We are just getting back into the norm and Eliza is doing great! She is getting so big already I can't believe it. I also can't believe summer is almost over. I am not quite ready for the wyoming winter. Josh's cowboy season is here(obsession) and I am sure we will be making some trips to Laramie.
Anyway her is a pic of Eliza (no she isn't in her bouncy 24/7, it just happens to be where she is when I take her pic)

2008-07-27T08:57:00.000-07:00

I can't believe how time is going by. Our little girl will be three weeks on wednesday. She is doing well, and is quite the little fiesty girl. Oh I will tell the labor story for all who want to hear.

9:00 p.m. Monday July 7th. My labor starts that night but I am not sure it is going to last so I try to go to sleep. Nope keeps getting worse. (At this point I am staying in Tremonton UT to be close to Logan when the time comes) I wake my mom up at 1:00 a.m. to get ready to go to the hospital. I get everything ready and try to take a shower to relax. We head to the hospital and get there around 3:00 a.m. We get checked in and monitored, but I am only at like a 2 so, the keep for a couple of hours, but send me home. I have no home to go to so we have to go to a hotel. But, before I leave they make me take to ambien, which are sleeping pills, to get rest before the real labor begins. Bad idea. I pay for the hotel room(don't remember) and start to hallucinate. I can't sleep because the pains are getting worse and I want to walk around. So I lay in bed for like 2 minutes and sleep and get up and walk around every 3 minutes. I don't remember much of this. Josh and my sister arrive, and I think Josh has blue hair, that I am going blind, I strip down to nothing and walk around the hotel room, and scarf down some cookies. I don't remember any of this.
8:00 a.m. Tuesday July 8th. Water breaks and we head back to the hospital. I am dialated to a four and things are going smooth. I don't dialate very quickly, but I am goin steady. Around noon time I am dialated to a 6 and I am doing great with the pain because I wanted to try no epidural. Then all of a sudden contractions slow to like 5-8 minutes apart and I uncontract. Thats right I didn't know it could happen, but I went back to a 5. So the doctor wants me to go on pitocin, which is what I really didn't want to do. So they give the pitocin and labor resumes.
I start to contract regularly and begin to dialate again. I still am not going very fast, but they are getting more intense. They keep upping the pitocin to move me along and the pain begins to worsen. So around 6:00p.m. I give in to the pain and get an epidural. That helped, but I didn't really like the feeling of my legs being numb. So then I rested a little and at 10:00 p.m. they said I was ready to push. I had asked for the epidural to be turned off so I could feel when to push. Oh yes I could feel, and then 2 1/2 hours of pushing later, here she was. 12:30 Wednesday morning.

And here she is now.

This is what she does more than we would like

This is what we wish she did more

And this is what we really love her to be like. She loves her bouncy.

2008-07-14T15:27:00.000-07:00

Here is our sweet little Eliza Jae Roitz.
She was born July 9th at 12:26 in the morning. She was 6 lbs. 12 oz. and 20 inches long.

Welcome to the world!

3 years!

2008-06-18T14:13:00.000-07:00

So here we are three years after the big day. Actually three years and 1 day. I can't believe how fast it has all gone by. Josh and I got some of our wedding pictures framed for our anniversary gifts to eachother. We haven't got them back yet, but I am so excited to see them. Yes, that is how fast the time has gone, we are just now getting our wedding pictures! Josh is such wonderful husband and I don't know where I would be without him. Here are some of my favorite things about him.

- He has such a strong testimony. I have been a member of the church my whole life and Josh has been one for 8 years and he knows so much more than me. He is a great example to me and I learn so much from him.
- He is a strong hard worker. Josh has a hard job, but he loves what he does. When he has a day off he can barely sit still. He has to be doing something, he can't lounge.
- He is really clueless when it comes to baby things. Everytime I say something about the baby, he's like, "Do you need to go to the doctor? Do you need to call your mom? ARe you sure thats okay, maybe you should call your doctor." It is really cute.
- He is not afraid to shed a tear every once in a while.
- He is going to be our little baby's daddy!
- He tries to listen and give input about decorating and clothes and baby stuff, but he does it just for me.
- He's a hottie.
- He loves the outdoors and wants our kids to grow up on a ranch like he did.
- He has a great family.

I love you Josh Happy Anniversary!

PS I went to the doctor and am dialated to a 1 1/2 and 75% effaced, and the babies head is really low. I don't know exactly what all that means but I am excited!

6 more weeks

2008-06-01T20:22:00.000-07:00

I'm still here, sorry for the long time no blog. We have been really busy lately unpacking and plus we didn't have the internet until Friday. Josh and I went on a little mini vacation to Jackson and Yellowstone and then to Logan for a couple days while I went to the doctor. It was a pretty fun little get-away, and very relaxing. The trip to Yellowstone was very adventurous and for a moment I didn't think I was going to come back with a husband. Are you ready for this? (I know all of you who know Josh are wondering what the adventurer did, here goes)

Story:
While we spent the whole day in Yellowstone, Josh wanted to see a grizzly bear. He kept getting really mad at the National Geographic channel and how they always show grizzly bears walking across the roads or eating food by someones camp, and he has never seen one at Yellowstone. All the time we were driving around we were eagle eye searching for a bear. But, alas there was not a bear in sight. We saw all the usual like the buffalo and the elk and deer, but no smoky the bear. So our Yellowstone was coming to a close and we were headed back to Jackson. As we were getting closer to town, we saw a bunch of cars along side the road trying to see something. You guessed it. Someone had seen a bear and they were all waiting for it to come this way. Whoever saw it said it was walking this way and we should see it soon. So we waited and waited and no bear. This other guy comes over to our car and him and Josh decide to see if they can go into the little field to see the bear coming. So Josh and this guy go down the embankment through some willow trees and cross a small stream. They are looking at something behind some willow trees and see the bear. I ask if they can see it and Josh says, "yeah come look." So I am heading down across the little creek, and I hear in the background, "Oh great, now a pregnant lady is going down there." I am thinking, "Its okay lady, I am from Wyoming." Yeah right. So I go down to where Josh is, and look for the bear thinking it is like a mile away and wham. The bear is like right there. A grizzly bear eating something. The bear was maybe half a football field away. So I decide I don't want to be dinner and run back to the car. I try to get in but the door is locked and Josh has the keys in his pocket. In the meantime more people are gathering, and the guy Josh went out there with decides they are a little too close to the bear and he comes back. Not Josh. Josh decides to go closer to the bear for a better picture. I am starting to freak out a little because everyone around me is freaking out. "What is that guy doing?", "Someone needs to tell him to get back." "Who is that crazy guy out there." One lady from Jackson was actually going to call the game warden. I am just sitting there by myself thinking yes that crazy man is my husband. Then I start to hear some whistling. Josh is walking closer to the bear AND whistling to him so he will look up at Josh. So by now everyone is freaking out and I decide I cannot watch Josh get eaten by a bear. I go back down to the first willow trees and yell at Josh to come back. Of course he was annoyed and says there was nothing to worry about and he knows more about bears than anyone there. I kind of freaked out a little. But he is alive and thats all that matters. I just told him I will never go back to yellowstone with him again if he wants to track bears that are eating their dinner.

Sorry that was a long story, but the most eventfull thing that has happened.
Here are some pics of the nursery and our house (just the kithchen)

The crib I absolutley love.

The bedding. This is not a very good picture, but the bedding is green and brown. I didn't want anything pink and frilly so I love it.

Here is a picture of the kitchen, also not a very good one. I love the kitchen it is big even though it may not look like it, and there is tons of counter space.

Home

2008-05-09T22:31:00.000-07:00

We have a home. It is true. Back to Rocket City, but better than nothin. I have been moving in and getting everything unpacked this week. My sister, mom, and me painted the baby's nursery today and I love it. I will take pics soon and post them because it is so cute. I have a wall called french roast (the color). Anyway it is nice to be able to be somewhere. I don't know for how long, but it is nice.
I cannot believe how time is flying. Our baby will be here in 2 months!!! Ahhh that is so crazy. Sometimes I can't wait, other times I have a mini nervous break down, and the rest I just can't believe. Me a mom, who would have thought. Its okay friends and family you can tell me if it is hard to believe. I know I still can't.
Another exciting bit, on Sunday we get to talk to Blake! I miss him, but he is doing amazing. He absolutely loves it and I know how blessed we are because of him.

Mt. Rushmore

2008-04-15T11:00:00.000-07:00

Since we were in Wright and so close to Mt. Rushmore, we decided to take a little trip over to South Dakota. It took us about 2 1/2 hours to get there. It had been really nice in Wyoming, so we thought it would be nice there. Wrong. It snowed the morning we were headed to see the big heads. It was freezing! We had fun, and it was nice to get away for a little while.
Josh and I kind of want to take a mini vacation before we have a little baby. I wanted to go to Yellowstone for a long time, but I don't want it to be cold and I don't want to wait until the summer because I don't want to go when my belly is gigantar. If anybody has any fun suggestions, let us know! Here are some pictures of our trip and my belly.

We went to a place called Reptile Gardens that had huge turtles. They loved Josh, they all came over to him to have their necks rubbed. It's okay if you don't believe me, but they talked to him. They sounded like dinosaurs, and smelled not so good.

My belly at 27 weeks. Hot pink hotness!

UPDATE

2008-03-30T13:44:00.000-07:00

Hooray! We are for sure having a girl. Just thought I would let everyone know the good news. Also I am a week farther along than we thought, so the new due date is July 13th. Thats all for now, hope everyone is doing great.

Adventures

2008-03-15T21:29:00.000-07:00

We are going on an adventure. Friends, you might not be hearing from me for a couple of weeks. Josh got a crazy job offer to go "clean up" a pipeline in Wright, Wyoming. Soo, we are packing up the fifth wheel and headin out of town. I find this a small blessing in disguise because we will be gone for about 6 weeks and that is how long we are going to have to wait for our house in Rock Springs. I will be without tv, internet, more than 10 gallons of hot water, and a large fridge. Dont' get me wrong though, I am excited to go. I have been staying with my parents and my aunt since we moved back and I am getting a little restless, even though I very much appreciate all they have done for us.
Update: We may never find out what we are having. I am having some frustrations, but we may be having a girl? Yes that is a question mark. We went to the doctor yesterday to see what we might be having and no luck. This is what the doc said:
"Well I can't see any boy parts, but I also can't see the girl part because your umbilical cord is running right between the legs. It may be a girl, but I can't be sure."
Alayna: "So can you give us a percentage?"
Doc: "Well I'd say its a little over 50%."
Huh?!!?
Alayna: "Should we start buying girl things."
Doc: "Oh no, stick to the greens and yellows. Rainbow colors too."
Our doctor is sort of a rainbow child/hippie lady. She wears grandma snowboots over her scrubs and our baby is "angel baby".
SOooo there is like a 52-55% percent chance we are having a girl. I guess that is the botton line.
We did buy a take home from the hospital outfit today and a little onesie and sox. Here they are:

Take home outfit for baby XX or XY

Baby, Bellies, and Birthdays

2008-02-24T13:34:00.000-08:00

Here is perfect hand wave. Yes that is our little critter waving at us from the inside.

Here is the unknown sex picture. Our little baby is lounging. It is kind of hard to see but the baby's legs are crossed and its arms are behind its head. The head is in the bottom right and the legs in the top left.

Here are some more pictures of my belly and my husbands "belly" We just got done eating Sunday dinner and it was lookin fine. My Josh also went and lifted some weights and sprouted some major pecs. What a hottie!

So now I will give you all an update of our lives. We did move from Casper and are trying to find a place to live in Rock Springs again. Josh is back to work and he is taking online classes through the University of Pheonix. He is really working hard and doing very well. I have to say I am really glad to be out of Capser and closer to my family. I am just starting my fifth month and can't wait for the summer!

This weekend we had a birhtday party for my Grandma Joan, she is 90! She is living in an assisted living home in Evanston and is doing alright. She is rapidly losing her memory, but she had a blast at the party and remembered quite a few people. I love her and miss the great times I spend at her and my grandpa's house when I was growing up. For those of you who know her, she is quite the lady. Josh and I were visiting her in Evanston and here was our conversation.
Grandma:"So who is your husband again?"
Me:"Who is he Grandma, whats his last name?"
G:Silence and laughs, "I can't remember."
Me:"Roitz."
G:"Oh thats right, did you two get married in the Temple?"
Me:"Yes Grandma, in 2005."
G:Looking at Josh, "Oh, so what religion are you?"
Anyway she is a funny lady and I hope she is happy, but she does not believe anyone who tells her she is 90. She is only 80 and it is 1979. I love her. I miss her old self and my grandpa, but I know they both lived great lives.

Decisions

2008-01-23T08:18:00.000-08:00

I hate making important decisions. We are at a point in our lives where we have to make a decision about where to move in the future, where we are going to be living when we have a baby, where and if Josh is going to go to school etc. I know everyone has to make these decisions, but sometimes they are so hard to make because I need to know I am making the right decision. I know what you are thinking... pray about it, stay in school, do what feels right. I have, and it is still hard. Also, Josh is a very indecisive person and things like this are close to impossible for him. Oh dear I am whining way too much. Sorry I had to let it out. It will all work out. On to better and more important things, it snowed a lot here in Casper and the wind has not blown it away yet. One thing I love about winter and the cold is when it is so frigid outside that your boots crunch in the snow and your nose hairs and snot freeze when you breath. I love that feeling, its like ahhh fresh frozen air. I am sorry if that sounds weird, but I like it. Also my little brother Blake is doing awesome at the MTC and he leaves for Canada on Monday! I feel so protective of him lately and I know he will be great. And speaking of cold. Average temp of where Blake is going,... -20 with 4 hours of sunlight in the winter.

Oh Baby!

2008-01-04T12:28:00.000-08:00

Yes thats right, there is one on the way. I am sure most everyone already knows, but here is my formal announcement. We are having a baby!!!! It is really crazy to think about but we are super excited. I am 12 weeks a long and the baby is due in July. We got to hear the heartbeat a couple weeks ago and that was amazing. It is hard to believe that it is real, because I am not showing yet, and it is just so surreal. I was very sick my first couple of months, but I am starting to feel a little better now. I have been eating a lot of cereal. Lucky charms and rice krispies. Anyway just thought I would write down our good news.

Christmas Tag

2007-12-14T10:06:00.000-08:00

Well thanks Skip, now I have something to write about.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper. We have contests in my household to see who can wrap the prettiest gifts. A suprising winner is Mike.

2. Real tree or artificial? Real, but guess what? I don't have a tree! Didn't do it, I am a major slacker. We are going home for Christmas, so I figure I can glory in the beauty of everyone else's.

3. When do you put up the tree? See question 2.

4. When do you take the tree down? If I did have a tree it would stay up for as long as it was alive.

5. Do you like eggnog? Eggnog!! It is the best. I am quite disappointed in all you who don't like it. They have a pumpkin spice kind, mmm. It does come in second to wasil though.

6. Favorite gift received as a child? A singing microphone tape player thingy. Sounds crazy and it was. Had it for years. We would always sing the "Mormon sunday school" songs on it.

7. Do you have a nativity scene? My mother gave me the Willow tree one. I so love it. Thanks mama!

8. Hardest person to buy for? My dad. I never know what to get him. Books usually bode well, but that gets old.

9. Easiest person to buy for? My neices and nephews, they are so funny and crazy. Plus they will tell you exactly what they want.

10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? This wasn't mine, but its a great story. My grandma (bless her little heart) used to go walking every morning like 2 miles. She found a wallet on the side of the road (with tire marks on it) no money or anything in it. She decided it would be a great present for my little brother Blake. He was super excited!

11. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail, I am even mailing some, I need to get on that.

12. Favorite Christmas movie? Christmas Story. Doesn't get any better. I did watch a Charlie Brown christmas for the first time the other day. Wasn't bad.

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? I think this year was the earliest I got it done. Last saturday I got everyone's.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? No.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Everything! Christmas food is the best. I love ham and my mama makes some great ham. Ohh and the candy, peanut brittle from my aunt Karen. Caramels, cinnamon popcorn, peanut clusters, pecan tarts, rolls oh my I need to stop.

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? Yeah I like the clear ones. I like how people put green and red spotlights shining on their lawns, looks cool.

17. Favorite Christmas song? Oh this makes me cry. My grandpa Hamblin had a gorgeous voice. He would always sing Oh Holy Night. We have it on a cd, so we always listen to it. Nobody else compares.

18. Travel for Christmas or stay home? Home, no kids. Boring Christmas with just me and Josh. (Sorry for the confusion, when I say home I mean Mountain View, so yes we are traveling Home.)

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and the most famous if you recall... Rudolph.

20. Angel on the treetop or a star? I like either. It doesn't matter.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? One present Christmas eve, and the rest Christmas morning.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Not enough snow.

23. What I love most about Christmas? Being with those who you love. Giving, sharing, serving it really is a magical time. I also love thinking about Jesus Christ and having him be the center of our hearts.

No snow

2007-12-04T17:00:00.000-08:00

AHH! Where is the snow? It seems like for the past couple of years there has not been enough snow. I need snow for the holidays. Snow makes things all the more magical and christmasy. It has snowed a couple of times, but here in Casper the wind blows it all away. All of my best memories are waking up winter mornings and having my mom or dad say it snowed. I would run to the window and gaze at the beauty. It really is so beautiful. I love waking up Christmas morning to a nice warm fire, opening the curtains before we opened presents and enjoying Christmas while it looked like Christmas outside. I know that there are more serious things to be concerned about than snow(like that I haven't started my chirstmas shopping), but I just would like it to snow like 4 feet for me please.
Josh and I took some holiday pictures during Thanksgiving holiday and notice the no snow going on in the background. I'm done.

Me and Kaylee on the couch at Grandpa Roitz's.

What a look! Isn't it cute?

Family

2007-11-11T15:55:00.001-08:00

We took a trip to Mountain View this weekend for Josh's brother's baby blessing. Kolby Boone Roitz. It was such a great little blessing, even though baby blessings are pretty common it was really moving to me today. I love all my family and could not be more grateful. We are for sure not perfect, but I love 'em. I love coming home and spending time with them. When we get together we go crazy. I also love my new family and the time I have been able to spend with them. They are wonderful people. I especially love all of my neices and nephews. Some of my favorite things are:
*Playing outside when the weather is nice and brisk
*Going for drives up in the mountains
*Having a tea party with the little neices (my two neices of opposite sides of the family became good friends this weekend)
*Eating a nice meal with them
*Talking the gospel with them
*Looking at pictures and talking about our memories growing up
*Being with them
Here of some pictures of my crazy family who I love!

My little neice Emry when she was born

Tagged

2007-10-29T16:41:00.000-07:00

So I got tagged by Skip. I haven't posted for a while so now I can have something to talk about. Thanks

The Rules:
Each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves.
At the end of the post the player then tags six people and posts their names then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Have fun!

1. I love microwave smores. Make em all the time. 2 grahams, 2 mallows, and lotsa chocolate chips. Microwave for 37 seconds, ahhhh perfection! Glass of milk and that is my favortie treat. I try to justify by saying that marshmallows have very little calories, they are just sugar, grahams don't have that many, and what can a few little choc. chips do?

2. I love reading. I would read all day if I could. I love all sorts of books. I just finished the golden compass series, they were great! I am trying to include the scripts in there too.

3. I had to come into work by myself for a week while my boss was on vacation. I chowed like nothing else. I ate junk food that whole week. I ate a butterfinger everyday. It was great and I am now in love with the turtle chex mix. Try it.

4. I love to snowboard. I'm not so good, but I am getter better every year. Josh is a maniac and goes like 100mph everywhere, but he does wait for me and tries to help all he can. I tried some jumps last year and it was so fun. I have a green and white board. Sweetness.

5. I have started to not shave my legs very much. It seemed like before I would shave them like once or twice a week. Now its like once or twice a month. Josh really loves it. Getting ready for the winter.

6. I have shoes from my junior year of high school that I wear everyday. I can't seem to find a pair I like enough to but them and wear them with all my outfits. I smelled them the other day and they do smell that old.

Sorry everyone who I know has already been tagged. I'm a loser

Pathetic

2007-10-08T08:01:00.000-07:00

I am just going to admit it. I have been such a pathetic person in the past it is so sad. I cannot believe I am going to admit it, but here goes. This conference session is the very first time I have watched all 4 sessions from beginnning to end. That it absolutely horrible. But.. I am proud of myself and I am going to stive to do it every time. I loved conference it was so uplifting. I don't mean to put people in categories, but I loved all of the hispanic speakers. I especially loved Pres. Costa's talk, he was the one that read the poem about "if tomorrow never comes." I was in a emotional mood the past couple of days and I cried and cried during talks. We also went to the stake center to watch a couple of sessions and that was a great experience. I have always just watched them at home in front of the TV, and a couple of time we got to go to the conference center. Going to the stake center really helps you pay more attention and you are able to feel the spirit more easily. Anyway I am proud of myself. It is also a good thing we did listen to all of conference because our bishop told us last night we were probably going to talk about conference in a couple of weeks! PS. Hey Rhonda how have things been going? Josh told me he talked to you a couple of days ago. Hope all is well in beautiful Georgia!

2007-09-26T17:40:00.000-07:00

Oh my goodness, I can't believe that another week has gone. It is finally starting to cool down here and I am glad. I swear its like 20 degrees hotter in Casper than the rest of Wyoming. I just found out the coolest thing today, its really awesome. We live in "felony flats". That is what the area we live in is called. My cousins that live here already told us we live in the ghetto, but this was a new revelation. My co-worker told me that when she was looking for a place to live here, she went to the police station and asked what parts of town were not good to live in. Apparently where we live is 1 of 2 places you shouldn't live. It doesn't look that bad, but I guess we will just have to bare it for now. Pray for us at night please. Just kidding. But you can if you want. I think we live in the nicest part of felony flats so thats a plus. Here are some more funny pics of hawaii. Man we are wierd people.

Here are some dolphins, they were swimming right by us. They were so playful, they would race our boat.

Such talent (he's only like 5 feet off the ground)

Oh yeah!

Here is Josh in Hawaii trying to imitate the Samoan people.

2007-09-18T20:16:00.000-07:00

My niece Brinley's birthday is actually this Thursday, but since we were home we celebrated it on Sunday. She is 4. She is such a funny little girl and I love her. We had a long weekend and Josh had an even longer one. A friend from our ward in Rock Springs got some Boise State tickets and wanted Josh to go. 10 hours from Casper is Boise. He was picked up at 5:00 a.m. Saturday morning in Rock Springs and got back to Mountain View at 5:00 a.m. on Sunday morning. Sadly Wyo didn't win, but he had a fun road trip. He is a crazy obsessed fan, but at least I know there are others like him! We went to church, came home and had a rockin party, then drove back to Casper.

Brin in her Belle dress. Horses, pink, and princesses are her obsession.

Here is Brin and her uncle Blake. Blake just turned in his mission papers. I can't believe he is 19 and ready to go on a mission.

This is Makelle, she is almost 1! I can't believe it, she has grown so much. She is so cute and has a major attitude.

Here is my nephew Cayden, he is a crazy cat. He's a pretty good little soccer and football star though.

Here is Brin in the shirt Josh and I gave her. She is in love with horses and pink so it was the perfect combination.

2007-09-13T17:10:00.001-07:00

Well, we finally got the internet! I am so happy, I forgot how much I depended on it to do so many things. Thats probably no too good eh? We have been here in Casper for almost 3 weeks, I can't believe it. It is a nice place and we do have some family here so that makes it better. Revalation: I have a full time job. Oh my goodness, 8 hours 8-5 with a 1 hour lunch M-F! It is kinda killing me, I don't like having a full time job. They are really nice and let me take 2 hours off on Tuesdays for my class. I get to answer phones and take orders and do a bunch of computer stuff, I am the "office girl". It is sort of fun, but I still don't like it. The biggest suprise of all is that Josh still doesn't have a job. We have switched roles. I am the bread winner and he is the household keeper upper. HAHA he makes our bed and does the dishes and guess what?, he even made spaghetti the other night! He is amazing and he studies like a little kangaroo all night long. Anyway I am glad to be connected again.

Kolten and I at the game. We had to entertain ourselves because the boys were going crazy and Kolten was having a hard time keeping up. He kept saying are we the cowboys or the pokes? He's a good little cheerer and will have a little brother or sister here soon!

2007-08-31T15:39:00.001-07:00

Hey everybody! We just moved on Sunday. We are unpacking and settling. We don't have the internet yet, so I am over here at Skip and Rocky's just dropping a line so you guys don't start panicking that you haven't heard from me :) We will be back by the 10th.

2007-08-21T10:19:00.000-07:00

I found my USB connector to my camera so here I go. Everyone else's blogs were so neat I decided to start one. I am not sure who wants to hear about me, but here goes. Josh and I have had a very busy summer. In May we took a vacation to Hawaii, it was awesome. My favorite part was the beaches. I loved Sunset beach. Everything was so beautiful. We went to Oahu and Kauai. I want to go back.

The next chapter of the summer was spent preparing for girls camp. Yes I was the GIRLS CAMP DIRECTOR! It was very scary and stressful, but it turned out wonderfully. It was a lot of fun and the girls are great. They didn't fight and got along better than I remember getting along with the girls in my ward. It was a great experience. I am glad it's over.

This last part of the summer, I have been getting ready to move. Yay! I am so excited. Rock Springs has been great, but I am ready for a change. We really love our ward and the friends we have made here. I am most excited for a washer and a dryer and a regular size fridge and stove. Sad huh? Josh is mostly excited for Wyoming football. He is obsessed. I need to pack. Here are some pic's of Hawaii.

2007-08-21T10:08:00.000-07:00

Waimea Canyon is beautiful, but little can you see the nude
yoga people on the shore

2007-08-21T10:05:00.000-07:00

This is Waimea Canyon from the Coast

2007-08-21T10:03:00.000-07:00

This is Waimea Canyon, they filmed Jurassic Park here.
It was foggy, but still pretty

2007-08-21T09:57:00.000-07:00

Waimea Canyon

2007-08-21T09:54:00.000-07:00

We caught crabs

2007-08-21T09:52:00.000-07:00

Yes we surfed, it was so fun!

2007-08-21T09:45:00.000-07:00

2007-08-21T09:42:00.000-07:00

Sunset beach. My favorite place

2007-08-21T09:30:00.000-07:00

Sunset on Ke Iki Beach. Our little bungalow is about

200 feet behind us. Ke Iki Cottage