June Bugs

As some of you know, Taylor and I live in a pretty luxurious apartment...... HA HA HA funny huh... built in the 70's and its so tiny. I mean it works for us, not gonna lie though its very interesting all the things that occur in that house due to its oldness of the building technique.

Any who... Summer is finally here when you hear the sound of June Bugs outside of your door. Taylor and I were walking to get our laundry from our laundormat one night (ha ha told you luxurious) and I heard one and stopped to show him... Well there was another one and they were going at it, if you know what I mean.

Taylor had no idea what a june bug was and what they do.. so i explained to him kinda what they are and why I know about them...  (my neighbor, michael, while growing up, would eat them at night. To be cool or for attention, its still a mystery to me why)

Taylor was kind of freaked out by them... Well the next night, Taylor was going to get another load of Laundry while I was talking to his mom..

Just visualize...

He grabs the Hamper, steps out of the doorway, shreeks, jumps back in the house and slams the door shut behind him... looking outside at the bugs quietly, hoping that me and laura didn't see it.

You all know how I am.. I laughed sooo hard. He's freaked out by these bugs... like seriously FREAKED out! He was embarrassed and his mom was so curious as to why I was laughing so hard and he was so freaked out.

I show her and Taylor so kindly opens the door and says, "Look at them, they are so UGLY!"  While stating the obvious, a june bug flies in our house, going crazy! Guess who goes running away from it.. Yup you guessed it, Taylor's Mom and, yup again, Taylor.. screaming in the same tone. It was a total mad house in there.

Taylor hurried, grabbed the hamper and ran to the laundromat area, while I was left with the big but littler then a cockroach like critter and kill it with a magazine.

His mom has this comment for me while hiding from its unpredictable flying.. "Isn't it comforting to know that your Husband is scared of june bugs.. doesn't that make you feel safe..." I just laughed..

Thanks to the June bugs I got a huge laugh! Thank you June Bugs for letting me know that summer is now here

Lesson Definitely Learned!

St. George Trip was an ultimate adventure... that's for sure. Taking an 18 month old out of the comfortable and familiar environment and staying 3 nights in a town where nothing looks the same or feels the same was probably one of the worst ideas I had ever had. But we made it very enjoyable.

We went to my friends wedding and it was so beautiful and personal. I loved it! McGuire on the other hand, had ants in his pants and wanted to go run them out during the Ceremony! So that was a battle for the silence, and lets say I got him as quiet as I possibly could. Sorry to Camille for a noisy lil one ha ha I don't think she really noticed though. I didn't on my wedding.

We found this great little community water area for kids and played in that for about an hour or two and we just tugged along for the weekend. Played in a park and enjoyed the warm (I mean WARM air)

I told you I would have some pictures, and I do have some, just not alot. But moral of  this story.. no more family trips until my kids can handle the unfamiliar environment, and can have their cribs to sleep in.

Lately

Lately..... We've been trying to build a house, or qualify to build a house anyways... We came across this AWESOME opportunity to just buy a forclosure house that is already built and never been lived in! With an affordable payment plan. I mean come on, who wouldn't go for that if they were looking for a house. So hopefully by the end of the month we will be new home-owners.

In the meantime, one of my best friends/ old college roommate is getting married this weekend. Taylor, McGuire and I get to head on down to my most favorite place in the world. Yup, ST.GEORGE! Taylor has never really spent time in St. George and never liked it. He only drove thru it to get to motorcross games and ate in Denny's lol. Some experience he had right?! So we get to have our very first family trip to southern Utah! Don't worry, there will be pictures up with this trip!

I'm extremely thrilled to be able to go see all my past happenings there and all the places I worked, learned and met people! Its kind of going to be a reunion for me, the wedding will include people that I haven't seen in a very long time! No worries, we will be going through fabulous freddy's car wash, starbucks, shopping, hiking (hopefully) and seeing the sights! Just not looking forward to the four hour drive with an 18 month old, we will see how that goes. Wish us luck!

Stefanie and Taylor Fam!

Mothers Day Weekend

This weekend was a weekend full of ANIMALS! Thank goodness that it was great weather to go to the Zoo..

It was the first Zoo trip for our family.. and McGuire's very first zoo experience. It was a great day for the zoo. The whole Thacker family came. McGuire was so excited to see the Monkeys and the birds.. It was so cute, he'd get to the glass part in the indoor zoo and knock on the glass... He wanted them to get closer to him so he could pet them. I thought that was the cutest thing to see. He even got to have his first Merry-Go-Round Ride on a wolf... he was so thrilled to be riding on it!

Afterwards, we went to chuck a rama... it was an adventure... McGuire ate what he wanted, stole food from other peoples plates, when he was done eating and had had enough of waiting for everyone else to finish, he threw his food across the room. I think its time for some manners. It was definitely an adventure.

Ella, McGuire's Cousin who is a year older, has an attachment to him. While we were leaving (she's in a booth with her dad on the bench next to her) she was yelling to say goodbye to McGuire, trying to get over Ted's (her dad) head for about 5 minutes. It was the cutest thing to hear and see. So of course we had to give her a minute to say goodbye and give him kisses on the cheek.

McGuire's first Merry-Go-Round Ride EVER! He absolutely LOVED IT!

Knocking for the monkeys to get closer

He got sick of me taking pictures of him.. so this funny face was needed to let me know ha ha I love it~!

It was a great weekend for celebrating mothers!

Kisses that melt you heart

This morning when I woke up, I must have had a terrible attitude in my dream, because it followed me to reality. I guess I had this look on my face that wasn't very welcoming to ANYONE, and McGuire knew it....

Today as Taylor and I were struggling to get McGuire ready for day care, he decided that he wanted to get a little jump ride on my lap. What I do is kneel on my knees and I hold him, let him jump and I just support him with my hugging arms. (For some reason he just loves it...)

Well today as we were lap jumping he all of a sudden stopped, looked at me and gave me a hug... then he jumped some more, stopped, looked at me and all of a sudden a huge wet slobbery mouth was going for my lips... yup a kiss that melted my heart.

My bad attitude from waking up was all gone, thanks to the spontaneous love that my little boy spread to me for that split second.

Isn't it funny how those things happen? As I ponder about that precious moment, I realize how blessed I am to have my own little family, so healthy and loving and supportive.. and also to have a family all together, period. With all the struggles that we all have been through we all love each other no matter what! What a blessing to have my little boy, and to have the kisses he gave to me, spontaneous. I'm so blessed to be a mother, and a wife to two of the most incredible men in my life!

It truly melted my heart!

Monkey see.. monkey do!

McGuire is growing so fast and is getting taller by the second! But not quite tall enough for him to see out the window.



In our little apartment we have electric heating around the floors, with a thin sheet of metal to cover them.



As most of you know, McGuire LOVES being outside.. so what does he do when he can't go outside... looks out the window.. But get this, this is how McGuire got his nickname Monkey...

This is our little monkey man... he makes sure he can get up to whatever it is that he wants and gets it right.


Everyday there is a new adventure with McGuire, he has he themed days were he's a monster and growls everywhere he goes, or he's the sherriff and will protect me from whatever it is that day that is the bad guy...


Til now, he's our monkey man.. You'll hear more about it soon, I'm sure. Ha ha

On May 1st

On May 1st, Taylor and I got to go enjoy the wonderful smell of racing gas, smelling racers, TONS of people and with our luck the Rain/Hail/Snow... Yup, SUPERCROSS was surely in town!

Taylor and I ordered tickets clear back in January! The time had finally come for us to go enjoy the races! We got to go in the pits and talk to all the racers that Taylor had raced with back in the day. It was a run down memory lane for him and made him kind of sad that he had to quit racing do to him breaking his back. So we are setting a goal for him to get better and get back on track (no pun intended ;) )

Rain, Snow or Shine we were there til the end and boy was it awesome! Totally worth sitting in the rain to watch all the victories of racers! Soon, hopefully, this summer I will be training to do some of my own motorcross racing... along with little McGuire (sadly we couldn't take him with us, it was too cold for the little man)

Basically at the end of this long, wet day of smells and coldness... it was a darn good time! I hope everyone who was there had the time of their lives! We sure did! 

Us with our ponchos that cost $5.00! (thats pricey for a trash bag jacket)