My handsome Boy in his Sunday Best!

Megan's Wedding/Dylan's 3rd Birthday

July 1st my beautiful sister-in-law Megan married Bo Waters in the Salt Lake Temple. It was a beautiful day which began with the temple ceremony, pictures, then a luncheon, then a great reception! Megan looked gorgeous and was definitely the most beautiful bride at the temple that day!

These pictures are a little out of order, but here is Dylan and daddy at the reception. Can you tell Dylan loves his dad?

This is Bryan's Aunt Ann and his mom.

These two hotties are my sister-in-laws who were also bridemaids.

This is Dylan's grandpa Larry and of course Dylan and Bryan.

Dylan's birthday was also July 1st, although we mostly celebrated it a week later after the wedding hustle and bustle was over. Bryan's sister Alissa and her husband Jesse gave us their fish tank after they upgraded to a bigger tank. I took Dylan and we went with a pirate theme and bought some tropical fish. You can only add the fish 3 or so at a time in order to have better luck at having a healthy tank and fish. We started with 2 fancy guppies and a platy. This week we are going to add some electric fish and a snail. Dylan is obsessed with the fish tank and watches them all the time!

This is Dylan after his party with all of his loot! Thank you for everyone who came and gave him such awesome gifts!

Here is Dylan's birthday cake, of course it had to be Lightning Mcqueen themed!

Dylan's Aunt Crystal gave Dylan this awesome Lightning Mcqueen camping chair. He loves it and it has now moved into my bedroom where he watches his movies in it. He loves it, especially since it has a cup holder.

Again, these pictures are out of order, but here he is opening all his presents.

We gave Dylan our present on his actual birthday which was this awesome Lightning McQueen bicycle.

Here he is riding it for the first time! He still needs a lot of practice, but he is getting pretty good at it.

Pictures from our Florida Trip in April

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This little guy is going to be a big brother to his little brother, Caleb Dalton Beall!

We found out that we are having another boy. Dylan is very excited and says cute things about his baby brother. He loves to look at the ultrasound pictures and watch the ultrasound movie. In nursery a week ago the teacher said that they were singing a song about hearts and Dylan said, "my baby brother has a heartbeat." Dylan also says, "baby Caleb in there? pointing to my belly, and then, can he come out? he can walk? I want to play with him." It is pretty cute. Dylan is learning how to be a good big brother by practicing with our neighbor boy that we watch twice a week. He loves Christian and cries when he leaves and always wonders where he is when he is not at our house. I love being a mom to little Dylan and I am excited to meet our new little boy!


These pictures are taken at the Saratoga Springs Marina on the shores of Utah Lake. Dylan had fun watching the fishermen and throwing rocks into the water.

What I have been doing in my spare time...

I have found a love for working in my yard. It has been fun this year to do some new things with my yard and garden. My favorite yard project was my window box that I bought at Rod Works and then planted myself and with help from my dad hung it from my side patio fence. Bryan and I even found out that we could fix our own sprinklers. In all my digging and planting I had accidentally broken a lot of the pieces to our drip system in the flower beds. In addition to those problems there were many of our sprinkler heads that were either not working or not working very well. We were pretty proud of ourselves for figuring out how to fix them and then fix them. It is fun and very therapeutic to work out in the yard and even more fun to enjoy it once the work is done.




This was the only spot I could think of to plant any vegetables. The ground is not very good, but I thought I would start this year with some Zucchini plants and if they grow successfully I will expand next year.

My dad showing off our handy work! I love this, if I had the money I would make many more.

Happy 60th Birthday Dad!

Today is my dad's 60th birthday! After looking through hundreds of pictures on my computer, I only found these four of him. Apparently I need to be taking more pictures of him, because as he has been telling me often lately he is not going to be around much longer. For awhile he was telling me I needed to check on him daily to make sure he was still alive. This is funny because my dad is one of the youngest 60 year olds I know! I love that he moved closer to me and my family last year and that we have been able to spend more time together and get to know each other better without the stress of living "under his roof." My dad is a great father and his children and grandchildren are blessed to have him around. Hope you have a great birthday dad, and enjoy the "Seafood Fest" we have planned for you tonight! Love you!

A new room and big boy bed for a new big brother!

Dylan is now sleeping in the room down the hall since he has a baby brother or baby sister moving into his old room and crib on October 10th. He has been doing great in his new bed and he is excited to be a big brother. He will kiss my belly and say, I love you baby." I am very excited to be having another child and also to be out of my first trimester. I am now 14 weeks along and hoping to get some energy back in time for our trip to Florida. In about a week we are heading out to Florida and planning on visiting Disney World, the Beach, a boat ride on the ocean, and a wedding. I will be sure to post about our vacation and soon after if we will be having a boy or girl!!