The Pickle Jar

ok ok ok........

2012-01-29T17:12:00.000-08:00

i know its been awhile. and about a bazillion things have happened since October. but i'm not covering any of it because all the people who are important to us already know all of it. so i'll just post a few pics. ;) enjoy.

Family Pictures

2011-10-02T14:45:00.000-07:00

Amber tried to take our own family pictures! Ha Ha, They would have been okay but I forgot the tripod so she had to use fences, the car, rocks and trees to set the camera on! She did pretty awesome considering the environment was her tripod. Oh, and it was hard to get Dixie to look at the camera cause she just wanted to look at the person that was sprinting back from the camera to sit down! And if you were lucky you didn't step in the cow pies all over the place, we all at one point that day stepped in a patty! The ones that she was able to pull the trigger on and look through the camera were really well, I'll get her a good camera some time.

fun in the garden

2011-10-02T14:11:00.001-07:00

Stopped on our way home from the airport

We were digging in the garden and caught a snake, Clay thought it was awesome

Clay standing by our new chicken coup, ty built it for us

clay wasn't even afraid of the snake

He is the master of catching the chickens to put then in the new coup, they were just free roaming the pasture around the house and sleeping up in our trees.

Its happened.......

2011-09-11T09:44:00.000-07:00

Lieutenant Price is home....

And since i'm such an awful blogger, here are some random, cute pictures of clay and dixie. that's what you all come here for anyway.

i am a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad... blogger........

2011-06-24T12:25:00.000-07:00

so here's just a bunch of pictures of what's been going on here lately. ...

dixie, looking cute, as always....

clay smiling with the day's catch of worms...

this is a photo that clay took himself. he's got pretty good composition in my opinion... if he could just get his finger off the lens....

another by clay, notice his trademark... and hello ashley! thanks for visiting!

little birdie cupcakes...

clay and his new horse, Dotty.

splash pad!

grandma gade and dixie girl.

sweet, sweet, cute adorable dixie girl.

clay being a maniac.... be aware of how his face faintly resembles his t-shirt.

ala-ka-zoom!

some mud must have gotten in his mouth... ew.

yum.

my children eat weird things. she's got a leaf in there this time...

playing with aperture.

summertime!

always adorable, ever darling, dixie.

my new rolling pin my dad made! love it! thanks dad!

this is my apology.....

2011-05-07T16:24:00.000-07:00

....to all the other moms that span the globe. i am sorry that your baby is not as cute as mine. :)

my children are gorgeous. and awesome... except for all the poop.... ahem.

i married tarzan........

2011-05-06T21:05:00.000-07:00

this is a competition at Officer School that Tyler's platoon chose him to do. Of course he was the fastest out of his entire company.... about 200 guys. strongest... fastest... best looking... what more could a girl ask for?

disclaimer: i uploaded this video 3 times and could not get it to come out right. sorry for the bad quality. but that's him for sure!

menagerie....

2011-05-01T16:19:00.000-07:00

speed racer.....

2011-04-08T21:40:00.000-07:00

well, here he is on the only warmish day of the year. we found the scooter from christmas and gave it a real go. he was going so fast i barely saw him fly by.

later he broke out his harmonica and played us all a tune. dixie just couldn't take her eyes off it.

i think it was the most beautiful thing she had ever heard.

the many faces of clay...

2011-03-25T12:13:00.000-07:00

i'm really glad we were able to get some good photos of clay when we did our family pictures because this is what he looks like on a daily basis.

ok, this one is pretty cute.

and in these he is wearing this gigantic tshirt because i am too busy... ahem, lazy to do the laundry.

binoculars... or... "nocars" as he calls them.

no comment...

still, no comment...

so i will have to finish up with some adorble ones of dixie.

there was a little girl who had a little curl.....

2011-03-02T11:34:00.000-08:00

Dixie has been blessed with beauty and gorgeous hair. it sticks straight up in the back. i love it. so, i put a curler in it for church on Sunday. oh she looked so pretty.

there is a facebook page dedicated to Ty's platoon. I found this picture of him there. it was the only one of him out of a few hundred. i will post more as i come across them. ;) clay says he likes that daddy has a gun, of course.

a sweet little laugh......

2011-01-22T12:02:00.000-08:00

i was finally able to get dixie to laugh a little for me. she giggles for ty all the time but i can never get it on the dumb camera. this was my most favorite thing with clay and it seems to be the same with dixie. just when i think she can't get any cuter........

ps. the reason she looks like she getting jerked around is because the only way i could get her to think i was funny was by pulling on her leg a little... no pun intended.

family pics.......

2011-01-09T17:04:00.000-08:00

we had our family picture taken this weekend! got some way way way cute ones of clay... of course.

I always wanted boys.........

2011-01-03T13:20:00.000-08:00

....until I had a girl. My younger imagination always conjured up a houseful of rambunctious boys. FOUR to be exact. however, after being pregnant and then experiencing the wild animal i call my son, i decided 1 is enough for me. notwithstanding, tyler and i had hoped for another boy. maybe just simply so clay would have someone who might be able to beat him up on occasion.

Dixie is heavenly. She is such a good baby. goes to sleep on time. barely cries. coos and smiles. lays her head on my shoulder and falls asleep, just like clay does. she is as cuddly as she is sweet and a lovely, wonderful addition to our cute little family.

and... we are still hopeful she will keep some of her bulk so she may fulfill her destiny to still be able to be the one who can beat on clay. if not that, maybe she could just lay on him and squash him into submission. we'll see....

Yesterday was her blessing day. she received a very special one indeed, by a daddy who is the only one who can make her laugh.

Connie made this beautiful dress.... it turned out so pretty!

this is dixie's cousin, Zach (wearing his blessing outfit too. clay actually wore this also, but i never got a picture) who was born only 3 days before her. he outweighed her by quite a bit, but now she has outpaced him in that department. chubbers.

I don't know if all moms feel this way, but when I had only clay, I couldn't imagine sharing the love I have for him. I almost felt, in a way, jealous... that a new baby would come between us and our time together. but now i can't remember what it was like without her........ and i can't imagine her not being a part of us, our family.

happy new year...............!

2011-01-03T12:50:00.000-08:00

guess what.................?

........... we've been working on the house again..... our stairwell was/is an enigma. why anyone would apply this amount of plaster (it was thick!) on a wall is beyond me. we would have just put drywall up over it and called it good, but the stairs are so narrow to begin with, we decided to just tear it all down.

it was gross.

here's me helping............ actually, i was on the clean up crew most of the time.

all finished! and clay back home with us.

then we got NEW CARPET! and again, an empty bank account. haha! we have now started saving for our next project.

dixie's room... not quite done yet.

and clay's room with his new bed! tyler built one into the wall because the rooms upstairs are so small. its working great and clay really enjoys it. he tells me in the mornings that he watches cricket and janie out the window, as well as the cars and trucks that go by.

long time no see... clay's friend Bennett came for a visit! we haven't seen them in so long! we missed you guys and will miss you once again. these are their best smiles!

'course clay had to show bennett all of his guns!

this was taken in the same chair two january's ago..... clay still can't hold still for a picture. :/

Ashley and I decided to keep up the tradition, so we put our girls up for the same torture. they seem more polite and designed to follow the "sit still!!!" directions.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! (on Saturday)

2010-12-30T21:00:00.000-08:00

WOW! This year just seemed to fly by for us. So many new things. A new baby, a new car, parts to a new house, and a new dog. New all sorts of things including new experiences with the army. That's right, if you don't know already, I am gearing up to head off to Basic Training and Officer School for the Army Reserve. We are excited for this new chapter in our life and to see where it will take us. So many adventures in life! See everybody at the party on Saturday!

there was a transient living in our crawl space.......

2010-12-03T09:44:00.000-08:00

oh wait, that's just Tyler.......

over thanksgiving we had a very interesting experience. Let's just say, somehow a flood was prevented in our basement by an unknown source. a valve was closed down there that is always on (goes to the washer) and neither Tyler or I turned it off. but when we did turn it on it sprayed like niagra falls. so we decided it was either one of the three Nephites or there was a really nice transient living down there and so kindly turned it off for us. i suppose we will never know ;)

but this is ty crawling all the way back into our crawl space looking for the main water shut off to our house. turns out, there isnt one.

This could be it! but it wasn't.......

notice the paleolithic columns holding up the east half of our house..... crossing my fingers there won't be an earthquake anytime soon.

dixie's photo shoot.....

2010-11-29T13:25:00.000-08:00

i've been wanting to do some cute cute pictures of our adorable little lady..... so i crocheted her this little diaper cover and put clay to bed, and us girls had some fun together. well, i had fun, dixie slept most of the time.

dixie is doing great, the last 5 days we've been averaging about 5 hours of sleep straight! its amazing... and the other day clay climbed up on the chair with dixie and told me to take his picture... so we have another one of these. gosh, they are cute.

we all went national......

2010-11-11T13:20:00.000-08:00

well, it finally happened. we were all on tv. and i was pregnant. and i'm glad they didn't get a close up of me.... or my belly. she's so much cuter on the outside anyway, right?

and i just have to put out there, that i'm still insanely jealous i didn't get to go riding with the rest of them... and not because they got on tv because of it... just because i've never been riding with my own husband before!!

and ty made the point today that this is the second time we've "sort of" been in a situation like this. do you all remember when those extreme makeover house people came to town? ty worked on that house, but didn't get on the tube. but connie and i did get free hot chocolate and "backstage passes." and we saw that one famous guy, can't remember his name... he wears the vests a lot i think.

anyway, here's the link to watch the segment. Early Show

bumble bees and blue dresses.......

2010-11-07T14:20:00.000-08:00

If you can't tell, clay was a killer bee for halloween. we had planned on doing the popeye thing, but once he put this bee costume on, there was no taking it off for about 2 days. so we just went with it.... ty thought it was kind of a sissy costume for a boy, so he gave him the gun. clay + bee costume + gun = killer bee. but he got confused and thought that other people were supposed to kill HIM. he got it straightened out tho and shot most of the people who gave him candy when we went trick or treating.

and i'm not sure what this picture is all about. i found it on the camera this afternoon and thought i'd throw it in.

family picture with everyone in it! don't judge me please, this was just a mere 3 days after dixie was born and i'm still kinda wide. having a baby is a good weight loss program. its really the only time a person can justifiably say "hey, i lost 25 pounds in just 10 days!" (which i did by the way! woot!)

got the kiddos all dressed up for church this morning and actually got clay to sit next to his sister.

he even put his hand behind her back so that she wouldn't fall over! what a good big brother. and what a BIG big brother. can you believe how huge he looks in this picture? look at his feet coming off the edge of the chair! sometimes its hard to imagine that he was just as small as dixie is at one time.

dixie looking cute in her church dress and little white shoes. she's even sporting a pink gdiaper, although you can't see it.

wishing someone well.....

2010-10-25T10:57:00.000-07:00

a couple of months ago clay and i took the car in to get serviced and while he was doing his usual "turn the waiting room upside down" routine with his best tornado impression, i sat down with a copy of TIME magazine. way in the back there was a 1 page article on cord blood donation. At Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, there is a cord blood bank. The article stated they had just expanded their program to accept donations from remote locations as well as locally.
so i gave them a call and they sent me a big red box. i ok'd it with my doctor to have him collect the cord blood from Dixie's birth. we hauled our big red box to the hospital with us and, although a little confusing and chaotic at the time of delivery, the doctor did his thing and we packed up all this "stuff" and Tyler mailed it back to NC.

The blood will be use for research OR be given to someone who is a match with Dixie that needs stem cell treatment for diseases like leukemia, bone cancer, and number of others. Also, Heaven forbid, if anyone in our family were to have such disease, we may be able to get our donation back (if not already used) to treat one of us that might also be a match to Dixie.

Another perk is that they test for every disease (mostly genetic) under the sun and if any test came up positive, they would notify us that Dixie could potentially be at risk... giving us a head start on her treatment.

its also nice that since this was a donation there was no cost associated with it on our part. and although we will never know if the donation will be used, it makes me feel awesome that it might possibly save someone else's life. or be there in case we might need it.

here is the website i used to make my contacts in case someone you know might want to help save a life too. Carolinas Cord Blood Bank

cute little gal.....

2010-10-24T15:26:00.000-07:00

I got this picture from my phone while we were in the hospital. its the picture i tried to send to everyone, but it took me 2 hours just to send it to 1 person. then i gave up.

you can see a little more of her dark hair and sweet little face. there were a rash of babies born on the day we went in. all delivery rooms and mom and baby rooms were full at the hospital. must have been a full moon. i think there were over 15 babies in the nursery while we were there. a nurse told me that in the 5 years she worked there this was the busiest they had ever been. but Dixie was the one that won the hearts of the nurses. of course.... how could she not?

when i was 26, i assumed that i would grow into an old spinster with 70 or 80 dogs. then Ty demanded i marry him even though i was taller. who knew only 4 years later i would have all this...?

Little Dixie

2010-10-23T10:37:00.000-07:00

Welcome home Dixie Rae Price! Born Thursday October 21, 2o1o at 11:20pm, 7 pounds 3 ounces 20 inches long! (bigger than when Clay was born). everything went good with the birth and Amber and Dixie are doing great!

Clay is soooo excited about his new baby ''siser'' We are still working with him on his smile.

quite the pair.......

2010-10-16T19:48:00.000-07:00

Like father.... like son.... like couch potato?!

this picture is a little older, but its too cute not to share.

baby update: she should be arriving anytime now. i have a week and a half left on my sentence, so i'm hoping for an early release. however, they come when they want to! so i'll just keep limping along with my separated pelvis and 3 to 5 minute contractions... she had better be cute! :)

and since she's coming close to halloween, i thought she deserved her own little witchy hat. if you forgot, i made clay a little candy cane hat when he was born and since our kids like holidays i'll have to keep up the tradition.

what can i say....?

2010-09-24T16:36:00.000-07:00

sometimes i think he's too good to be true....

plug your ears........

2010-09-07T10:54:00.000-07:00

After witnessing these little performances I think i now know how Bob Dylan and his son got their start.

chocolate milk anyone?

2010-08-07T10:57:00.000-07:00

clay has been taking the initiative and when i'm not fast enough on his requests, he's been doing things himself. for example... making chocolate milk. looks delicious. he took a swig and said it was "yummy." i'm not surprised since i've caught Ty simply squirting the stuff down his throat on multiple occasions. Clay might look like me, but definitely has his dad's personality. plus, the kid is hard as a rock and indestructible.... just like dad.

well we've (tyler mostly) been hard at work on the house again. ty pulled up the flagstone and moved it to go toward the garage. then he moved it again and took out the flagstone completely. the idea just didn't work out. so we were back starting from scratch.

we found some great pavers and ty got to work. i sat on the porch with a popsicle (which made me nauseous later, thanks to my ever expanding belly) and gave him directions.
I also moved the umbrella so he had some shade. it was about 98 degrees that day.
finished product.
we found a fence someone was selling and scooped it up cheap. now i just have to convince ty to make the flower beds and then i can start planting this fall.

new window casings and trim coming soon... then we are done with summer projects. whew.

ps. if you're a crazy, stay off my blog.

crazies.........

2010-06-30T18:13:00.001-07:00

just a heads up for everyone, i think i'm going to make this blog private because i've been getting some bizzare-o comments from creepy people.

so what that entails is giving me your email address and then i can allow you to view the blog... or something like that.

so just be expecting that in the near future.

thanks.

lil bounder......

2010-06-11T07:54:00.000-07:00

well, he finally got to start his gymnastics class. here are a bunch of fun videos for your viewing enjoyment.

wow, i'm bad at this......

2010-06-01T12:47:00.000-07:00

.... and what i mean by that is, that i'm soooo bad at this blog. in fact, lately i've been bad at everything. baby sickness is no fun. but i think i'm starting to come around and have a bit more energy and a bigger appetite. i ate three hot dogs today. gross.

so i thought i'd post some pictures of when we went to the baby animal days way back in march.

this one is probably my favorite. he loved holding the little ducks and chicks. he's was so good at it too.

down by the river.
according to Ty, this is Clay's little brother. we won't actually know until mid June.

we've been hard at work starting new projects without finishing old ones. the sidewalk had to go and we put in some flagstone and gravel. we plan to plant around it, so its not finished... the plan is to put a picket fence across the front with a garden on the roadside. so we will do the plants then. hope it turns out :)and this is tyler and clay working hard on getting all the cement out of the lawn. then there was nowhere for clay to ride his bike so we took him to the dog park and let him show off his newest skill.

smilin'.......

2010-04-07T14:56:00.000-07:00

he wanted me to take a video of him smiling....

let's go ride a bike.....

2010-04-07T13:47:00.000-07:00

so, it finally stopped snowing. i don't know why winter suddenly just decided to show up. we only got like 100 inches in the last week.... ok i'm exaggerating.... we tilled the garden this week and are getting ready to plant the peas. clay has been a big help with his rake. i don't have a video of that, sorry, but i do have a video of him riding his bike. and here it is......

here's some more of him. he's kinda boring, but i figured the grandparents will watch anything.

i'm bad at posting.......

2010-02-25T09:45:00.001-08:00

its no secret that i have a soft spot for animals, especially dogs. when my sisters and i would play house, i would be the dog. when we would play store, i had a pet shop. i thoroughly have always enjoyed them. and i guess i can never be without them.

i had a difficult time coming to terms with letting gijit go. but it was the right thing to do.

so we are trying again... the theory being that if we start with puppies and toddlers that they will acclimate to each other... growing up together.

i'll let you know if the theory holds up.

meet captain...

... and cricket.
so far so good though. right now Captain is being fitted for child-sized sunglasses... by my 2 year old ophthalmologist. he's quite patient.

speak of the devil. i don't normally condone posting naked-ish pictures of children on the internet, but he's not completely naked and he's just so cute. or, i mean, tough-looking. he completely refused to put any clothes on this morning, and i wasn't up for the fight so he was just going around in his diaper.

then alittle later i noticed the boots. he actually got them on the right feet this time. so i got a video.
enjoy.

15 seconds of fame...

2010-01-29T14:01:00.000-08:00

its official.... the harf has become a statewide celebrity. ok, not really, but it did get on tv. here's the link to the segment.

HARF

click that!

party week....

2009-12-31T10:43:00.000-08:00

so last week, two days before christmas, i got a present. a computer virus. oh, lovely day.... the virus dug deep into my hard drive and delivered me with a motherboard packed with porn... i rushed the computer to the hospital and got 'er all fixed up, however, i lost a whole slew of pictures and videos i meant to post so long ago.

however, i was either smart enough or too lazy to take some of them off the camera. the day was saved. and here now, i post them all, just for you.

happy viewing.

these are a couple of the pictures i could find that were saved. to be honest, not much came back to us.

sledding with papa dave.

long time no post......

2009-12-04T10:01:00.001-08:00

thought i'd put up some pictures of what we've been doing with the house recently.

new walls: lots of $$
new windows: even more $$
new front door: not as much $$ as windows, but getting up there

filing for bankruptsy because of home upgrades: priceless....

ok, we're not REALLY filing... but i hope this all pays off in the end. we just might end up retiring in this house.

don't knwo if you can see in the picture above, but that's the chimney sticking out of the wall so this is how we hid it...

clay smiling for the camera... he's getting better.

and here's some little animals at halloween!

carving "u-pins"....

2009-10-25T12:48:00.001-07:00

so, i just can't get enough of telling clay to "smile." he just can't get it down pat, really. but its too cute to resist....

and it wouldn't be a perfect smile without the continuous, ever-present, oozing river of drool...

clay tasted the pumpkin and said it was "ca-ca"... so he thought dad should eat it...

night shots... spooky...

playing catch up.... again.....

2009-10-23T15:50:00.000-07:00

this is clay watching in amazement at ty and the neighbor (steve) who brought down a few dead trees (and what i mean by that is: ty would be pulling the tree down with steve's truck while steve going at it with the chain saw and making crazy "whaaaaaaa!" noises...) in our front yard. when a tree would drop, he'd say "uh oh..."

ty and steve were more than happy to be men...

above: i made this stick horse for clay this week. It was supposed to be for christmas, but i couldn't help myself. he just loves it too much... i'm such a sucker.

above: this is what he does when you tell him to smile......

I found some old windows that came out of our house (if you can believe there were OLDER windows on this house). I'm using them to put family pictures in... so i got some great pictures of clay i was going to blow up really big and put in the window frames... but alas, camera malfuntion and the pictures aren't even big enough to make a 4x6... so i will share them with you and we can all adore them online.. and maybe in wallets.

2009-09-19T20:11:00.000-07:00

being ambitious...

2009-09-14T13:27:00.000-07:00

ty was home sick today from work so it gave me alittle opportunity to catch up on some blogging. here's a few things i'm behind on....
clay and friend bennett together again.

meet chett, new family member... and avid mountain lion hunter... to be.

a boy and his dog.

our garage... ooo la la

the sought after photo of the front of our new old house. basicly, its awesome.

this is an older video of clay's new phonics skills....
and a big thanks to grandpa gade for such a fun toy!!

our new old house and a cute little jelly face....

2009-09-01T12:39:00.000-07:00

so here are a few pictures of our new house. its practically impossible to get good photos of rooms, especially when they are pretty small. we are having a great time here. we've been working on the yard, which has been pretty fun, so now we stay up after 9 sometimes. haha...
backyard...

our bedroom, well part of it... i put the birds in here b/c the ceiling in clays room is too low. also, one of my favorite features is this stained glass window. the house has a lot of charm.

living room.

looking into the kitchen from the living room

another shot of the kitchen...

a close up of the jelly face..

oops, too close... ;) gotta love him.

ok, ok, ok....

2009-08-14T14:18:00.000-07:00

so i've been feelin' the heat lately about posting pictures. i feel like i've been running at about 30%... i hope everyone forgives me.

thought i'd update with a few pictures of clay and the puppies. he loves them. he calls them "baby" more than puppy, but he can make the noise. i have nothing witty to say, so just look at the pictures.

new pups

2009-08-10T20:18:00.000-07:00

just posting a few pictures of the puppies... let me know if you want one!

little deliveries.....

2009-07-14T19:19:00.000-07:00

well, we had a little excitement around the price house this morning so i thought i'd share. but first, i've been meaning to show some pictures of the dad for a while. so... introducing, Peanut... Gijits, er, "boyfriend". Don't be too quick to judge, he only has one eye.

but the puppies ended up looking more like gijit... so far.
she's not too keen on me holding them.. see her pleading eyes in the background. did i look like that when clay was born? "don't drop him, don't drop him..."

two girls and two boys.

this one is my favorite... and just so you can see how small they are...

and i know you all don't come to the blog to see pictures of puppies so here's one of my favorite pictures of clay. it was earlier this spring, but still cute, nonetheless.

fun in the sun......

2009-07-09T14:23:00.000-07:00

just a few summer pictures of mr. crazy. enjoy!

he loves chris ledoux....

2009-06-07T12:23:00.000-07:00

our little birdie project....

2009-06-06T12:50:00.001-07:00

Since Ash was here this week she helped me with a project that i've been wanting to do for a while now. i found it online and got a copy of the pattern. so here it is... more pictures to come of ashley's visit.

spaghetti face......

2009-05-19T11:02:00.000-07:00

we had spaghetti for dinner the other night... it will be the last time.

zooom.......!

2009-05-16T17:07:00.000-07:00

well, i've been wanting one since clay was born and i saved up some etsy money and bought clay and i a bike trailer. its so fun! clay loves riding in it and is always yelling, screaming and saying "uh oh." gijit also likes it, she ran all the way to paradise and back yesterday. i don't know how long it is but she laid down when we got back so i'm assuming its far enough.
this was actually after the ride and he didn't want to stop, i guess.

playing catch up.... ok, not really

2009-05-08T10:57:00.000-07:00

Clay finally figured out how to use his spoon for its real intended purpose. kind of. well he did it once so i grabbed the camera and then he wouldn't really do it again. but the first time he did it, he also blew on the food to cool it off.

what a smarty-pants.

so this video is kinda long and boring, but i'm sure the grandmas and grandpas will enjoy.

our little cowboy....

2009-03-29T19:07:00.000-07:00

Last week I had a cub scouts dinner... cowboy style. Clay came along, as usual, and impressed everyone with his cowboy git-up. he was truly the best dressed. He had a lot of fun playing with all the big kids there too. there was a stick horse that the others were riding around on, and when they were finished clay grabbed it and used it to sweep the floor... always wanting to be clean, you know... plus, he loves brooms.

That same weekend was really nice so we all went to the zoo in town. Clay loved it. He would say the sick horse noise for all the animals.

can you tell they are related?

mommy and clay... don't look at my hair, its doing weird things.

action shot on the slide!

him in the submarine. :D

doing a little sewing...

2009-03-17T12:42:00.000-07:00

so, i've been looking for an easter basket for the lovebug, but haven't found one that fit his fancy... or mine. I didn't really feel like buying one anyway, but until today i hadn't thought about making one. i have this obsession of wanting to buy clay cute things, but NOT wanting to because I WANT to make them... for sentimental value, i guess. even tho, he won't care that i made it in 25 years. haha

i saw the idea on etsy, naturally, and decided to try it out myself. i made it ultra deep so clay has a lot of room to dig for more candies and toys in his basket. this is how it turned out!
i had to add this next picture because i made the smaller basket this afternoon... and they match.
I went to put on my shoes this morning and looked out the window and we had a visitor out in our shed. thought i'd share the excitement.

clay tried to make the turkey noise for about half an hour after it was gone. but, alas, all animals still sound like a sick horse.

whacked....

2009-03-14T19:55:00.001-07:00

i was playing cowboys and indians with clay and tyler... they got alittle carried away... and i ended up getting scalped. we decided since it was such a tragic accident we would donate the "tail" to locks of love. hope they can use it.

just so you can see the back.

... and i know you all dont come to the blog to see pictures of tyler and i, so here's what you came for.

he was sitting so patiently while i got my hair done.... for about 2 minutes.

it snowed...

2009-03-09T14:02:00.001-07:00

The weatherman said we should expect 1 to 3 inches last night and throughout the day. i'm not sure he should keep his job. not that i mind it really. the snow is fun and beautiful to look at.... except ty had to drive to "almost Nevada" today. once he got over the mountain, it cleared up though, so that's good. now i just have to worry about him getting back :D

this picture was taken on saturday and i included it 1. because its cute 2. action photo of gijit 3. so that people on the "outside" of utah can see what it was like when i went to bed last night.

and now this!!! cody merely stepped down from the door and disappeared in the snow. he tried to make it to the shed and got scared so he came back. this is them out there while i was shoveling.
i made clay a little snow maze. he didn't get very lost.

almost famous......

2009-03-04T17:02:00.000-08:00

so i just had to blog about this. this morning i got a call from a woman who works on a movie set.... actually i found out she is the set director for a new film coming out starring Nicolas Cage. The movie is the Sorcerer's Apprentice! i also found out she's worked on movies such as I Am Legend and Enchanted... so i think it could be a big deal! anyway, so she found me through etsy and wanted all of my star garlands. i actually didn't have any "in stock" so i recruited my good friend Ashley and my mother in law Connie. We cranked out 11 garlands just in time to have them overnighted to New York City. So, when you go see that movie look for these in the background!

finally!!

2009-02-28T10:12:00.000-08:00

so i finally got that video to load up on blogger. i had one heck of time with it. I had to do it like three times and then let it process for about 2 days before it would go on. i don't know what i did wrong.

but anyway!... here are just a few cute pictures of the lovebug.

this is him showin' off his new gdiaper. i use a cloth insert in these suckers and now i don't ever have to buy diapers again... ok, well he uses a disposable diaper at night... but that's better than 5 a day!

i know,.. i'm a slacker....

2009-02-24T16:03:00.000-08:00

and i haven't posted in a long time. but this is cute. i forgot that i had taken this video. one day clay and i spent some time with grandma and grandpa price while our car was being fixed....... again.

so, clay wanted to try on grandma's coat.

doesn't he remind you of ET?

102nd post....

2009-02-10T08:23:00.000-08:00

what to write for the 102nd post. i don't know, nothing new here! we're past birthday season (stole that from jessie) so no more horrible looking cakes to show. so i guess i'll just post a new video of clay and his new shoes. he got spiderman shoes that light up when he walks. its pretty darling if you ask me. they are his "big boy" shoes.... hard soles! He got this little dinosaur toy from Maddie and Savannah for his birthday. He likes it now, but was a little grossed out by it at first!

Happy Happy Birthday, Dad!

2009-01-26T08:05:00.000-08:00

well, we had another birthday. Tyler turned 26 yesterday. If you all remember, i turned 21 two weeks ago..... we had another great party. And just like the last two birthdays we've had since Christmas, clay got all the attention. He wouldn't eat a bite of supper, but helped himself to heaps of ice cream and cake... and he's just too cute to resist letting him do that... on special occasions.
ty blowing out his candles on the awful looking cake i made.

he got this crank light. pretty cool. you crank it and there's a radio and the light.. you can also charge your cell phone. whoa, huh?

STRRRRRIKE TWO!

Mr. Clay and Mr. Bennett

2009-01-23T10:35:00.000-08:00

a couple of weeks ago Bennett came to visit. He and Clay had a good time getting their picture taken. i just had to put a bunch on here so everyone can see how cute these guys are.

clay's new toy!

2009-01-21T14:37:00.000-08:00

so this is what we've been waiting for since Christmas! Grandpa and Grandma Gade gave this toy to clay for Christmas. They decided not to ship it so they sent the money and Clay and I made the big trip to town today to buy it. I think he really likes it and he's figured out how to push the button. what a smarty, huh?

So, dad and teri, this one's for you... well, and everybody else, but mostly for you. Thanks again for the great toy...

.... gijit thanks you too.

just a few cute pictures....

2009-01-09T13:31:00.000-08:00

just thought i'd put up some cute pictures we've taken of clay recently. not much to report except that he's cute as ever...

Happy New Year!

2009-01-01T14:10:00.001-08:00

Just wanted to wish everyone a happy new year. good luck with your resolutions. :D and here's the video everyone's been asking for... he's getting better everyday. probably too good.. i can't keep up with him sometimes. he likes it when you chase him and if you scream and run away he'll chase you and scream. hilarious. .
and he has had to wear his cowboy hat today. he's had it on all day....

BIRTHDAY MADDNESS....!!!!

2008-12-28T17:43:00.000-08:00

well, he cleaned up again.... gifts and cake and all kinds of fun. Clay turned 1 year old today. It sure has been a year of adventures for everyone... especially mom, dad, and clay. but we made it to the year mark. he's getting to be so much fun. he's walking everywhere and doing so many more things. his new word is "mo..?" which means "more... chocolate, cookies, candy, anything yummy?... whatever you have is fine." so here are a few pictures of the big birthday bash. grandma, grandpa and uncle coby came out to our place for the festivities. we were trying to coax clay in blowing out the candle. didn't work so well. :D
the party gang wearing their fun party hats.
grandma and grandpa gave clay this cool chair... he really likes to sit in it.
can you tell he loves cake?? i think he wishes his birthday was everyday. we decided that he'll be on a crazy sugar high from thanksgiving until january 25. every two weeks between that time there's some kind of holiday party.
... and finally the cake(s). we had the great idea to do a cowboy hat, so i baked the cakes and tyler put it together. he really did an awesome job until i tried to frost it. so, the one on the left is the "cowboy hat" and the one on the right was a left over from the cowboy hat made into the real cake. i got an F in my cake making classes. Tyler got an A... i feel pretty dumb that i ruined it because, trust me, it did look really good. even i got in on the excitement. can you tell? i do have to say this has been one of the best years of my whole life. it has been such a fantastic experience to be clay's mom. i can't express how much i appreciate tyler and his hard work that allows me to stay at home with clay... and its been crazy that we were even able to do it. last year at this time we were pretty much flat broke... but he made it work. sometimes i can't figure out why he picked me, but i'm sure glad he did. i just want everyone to know how much i love these two cowboys. i sure am truely happy.

clay in his new cowboy clothes. he got this shirt and vest from grandma for christmas, he just had to sport it with his hat today. what a tough little cowboy, huh?

look at me....!

2008-12-18T12:30:00.000-08:00

just a cute little video of clay showing off his musical skills. i have a video of him walking, but blogger won't let me load it.

check back soon!

clay helped with the christmas tree.... sort of.

2008-12-05T16:37:00.000-08:00

well, we made it back home from our big trip out in Iowa. Clay had a blast. He got so excited opening presents that I had to take all his clothes off except for a tshirt becuase he was sweating and playing so hard. he had an everest sized pile of presents at both parties. i think he enjoyed the wrapping paper more than the presents.

and now we're back home and today we set up the tree. well... ok, I set up the tree and clay played with his farm animals. here's a couple pictures.

ps. thanks to mom and dad and aunts and uncles who gave clay a great thanksgiving and christmas.

ppss. i just realized in this picture the tree looks like its about to topple to the ground. i promise its sterdy.

our new house.... and really... its new!

2008-11-17T12:34:00.001-08:00

well we made yet another move. we're renting a new house in hyrum which is just south of logan. its a brand new house with brand new everything except appliances... but i'm not complaining... its great without the mice. it feels pretty good to go from a house built in 1874 to a house built in 2008. ha! and clay LOVES it. he can go anywhere he wants. its really wonderful actually. AND he's finally started crawling on hands and knees! we think he didn't like dragging his belly on the wood floor. he has such a great time here. he has his own room and his chair is in there so mommy can rock him to sleep every night. and best of all... he doesn't have to sleep in the kitchen. :D
clay counter cruizing...
clay loves getting into his cupboard and pulling out all the stuff in there. his new thing is putting the small tupperware inside the big bowls and then taking them out... then putting them back in. it keeps him busy for long periods of time (15 minutes max).

at these pictures, you must look...

2008-10-26T18:39:00.000-07:00

Last night we had a family outting to the pumpkin walk. The best part was putting clay's head in these little cardboard figurines. i think he makes a good jedi knight, don't you?

noah's herding two elephants into the ark.

a surgery in progress... gourd style.

this is a person with pumpkins as a rump. he's getting some kind of injection. sick... but funny.

he's back....!

2008-10-25T10:19:00.000-07:00

well, monday i got a call... from cody's new owner. she had some misfortunes in her life and kindly asked me to take cody back because she didn't know what to do with him. gijit received him with open paws. she LOVES having cody back... so not only did we get our good ol' pal cody back, we got our old dog gijit back as well. ever since her best friend left, she hasn't been the same. cody already commandeered one of clay's toys. he figures life's give and take.

"i let clay pull my ears and poke my eye's and pat me very hard on the head and in return he pays me with one toy of my choice. thank you clay." -cody

so he got a nail trim and a bath. good as new. we haven't decided what we'll do with him quite yet. its nice to have him back and he loves being a hunting dog. he's dug about 80 holes this week. OH, and he loves clay. he just lays there while all the pulling and poking goes on. i wish i had that kind of patience. it must be worth the toy.

and so you all aren't too bored with this post, here's a fun clip of clay. he discovered a new use for the rocking chair grandpa gade made for him. see for yourself...

Family Pictures

2008-10-18T20:59:00.000-07:00

We finally got around to getting our family picture taken. We have talked about it for weeks and finally Amber twisted my arm enough to get me to do pictures. I like people but for some reason I really have a hard time when it comes to sitting and sitting and sitting and getting your picture taken. I sure am glade Amber is patient with me. I don't know who gave out first, me or Clay. During this whole thing Clay just wanted to be on the ground playing with the leaves and dirt...he finally got his way.

say hello... wave goodbye....

2008-10-09T11:19:00.000-07:00

like i said, he learns something new everyday. the last couple of days we've been working on the wave. he's mastered it gracefully. he still says "momma mommmamamaa" but not for the camera yet.

i just realized there's a huge pile of laundry laying on the floor. i had just folded them and clay had just pulled them off the couch. so instead of refolding them... i took this video.

our little cowboy...

2008-09-07T17:00:00.000-07:00

its inevitable... clay is going to be a cowboy when he grows up. we're instilling it now so that when he's older there won't be any confusion. here he is showing off his new hat...

ty and clay on denver. denver's lookin' a little under "pressure"...

Clay ready for the races! Giddy up, Denver!

Here's a video of his new trick. he learns something new everyday. :D

And here he is chasing gijit. we can't figure out if she likes it as much as clay does. he gets pretty upset if you stop helping him walk around now. it won't be long before he can do it himself.

mr. adorable...

2008-09-01T15:30:00.001-07:00

Just a couple cute pictures for you all to enjoy. he was showing off some new clothes with jacket and shoes. its cold today... must dress accordingly.

is he really mine...?

2008-08-25T16:59:00.000-07:00

i can remember sleeping like this when i was young. maybe all kids do, but i'd like to think its because we have the same genes and we're both dang cute. :D

rockin' out to pearl jam... yeah!

2008-08-22T11:54:00.000-07:00

here we go... clay wanted to sit in his rocking chair that grandpa made for him. so i kept putting him in there and he'd rock back and forth like this and then slide out. it was kinda funny. meanwhile Pearl Jam is playing in the background... hence the title.

sorry the camera was bouncing around. i was trying to make him laugh and obviously i can't do that and hold the camera still at the same time... not enough talent.

just a little fun--ny lookin'...

2008-08-22T11:11:00.000-07:00

Just thought i'd post some fun pictures of clay... as usual. here he is yesterday just messing around. he had gotten about a pound of mashed squash in his hair so i had to wipe it out and it made his hair stick up. and he was making funny faces.

you can really see his teeth in this one and he's not even screaming.

yum yum... crackers and peanut butter cookies...

2008-08-19T10:06:00.000-07:00

This is for the grandparents back east so they can see what clay is doing now. its also for ty so he doesn't miss out on all the good stuff while he's gone. :D clay said he misses you, daddy!

we're trying out tiny pieces of "big boy" foods. so far so good with peanut butter cookies chunks. cherrios didn't go over too well this morning... and he finds every little thing on the floor to eat. for example, i just pulled a piece of bark out of his mouth. i wonder where that came from... i need a new hobby.

cuteness of clay...

2008-08-15T15:03:00.000-07:00

Just some pictures for you all to enjoy.

you can almost see his little teeth in this picture. i have yet to capture them for the gade's. he shows them best when he's screaming mad and i don't want to take a picture of that. :D

crawling clay...

2008-08-08T15:10:00.000-07:00

just a couple of videos of clay getting around unassisted. he really knows how to motor now. he's starting to get into everything. quite an adventure for sure.

i'm not very good at holding the camera still... sorry to those of you who get motion sickness.

bathtime fun... yee haw...

2008-07-28T21:22:00.000-07:00

Clay had some fun in the bathtub a few days ago. this is the ducky GG gave him while she visited in March. he didn't get a big kick out of it back then, but now he thinks its the bomb. :D

Best Friends...

2008-07-18T09:17:00.000-07:00

Clay is learning so fast... so is gijit! i made these dorky little cuffs and put them on my etsy page, but it ends up that clay and gijit play with them. whenever i would give the bracelet to clay he would use it to go fishing. gijit likes playing the game. the funny thing is, if it were one of us dangling that thing in her face she would have grabbed it and ran as fast as she could... then torn it to pieces...

ps. i'm so glad to have ty back home.

price family photo shoot...

2008-07-16T11:40:00.000-07:00

well, i've been wanting a picture of all of us for some time now, so we hired our usual photographer (grandma price) and got some of all three of us. i'll put them all up so those of you who copy-paste-print can take your pick.

I just have to say ty looks exceptional. he accidentally cut his hair too short, but he's still handsome as ever... and clay... what a cutie!

more of just clay to come soon... i know that's what you're all wanting ; )

who woulda thought...

2008-06-27T12:36:00.000-07:00

So I guess my terrariums are a wild success! I think its sorta nuts, but someone contacted me today and wants me to make her quite a few for her wedding center pieces. She saw them here:

www.etsywedding.blogspot.com

coming soon: bonsai! this is one i put together the other day. ty took the picture.

fun fun fun

2008-06-26T18:33:00.000-07:00

Amber hitting it hard in the Kayak on the Benson Marina. It sure is a lot of fun, mostly relaxing...

The water looks murky, we're not sure if its was from the dairy upstream or ....well... we just aren't sure what it's murky from.

And of course, who loves Tyler's muscles more than Tyler...

Amber is selling her terrariums online and just sold one to Illinois and New York and two to Texas.!! That's great considering she just posted them on her web site yesterday... She is so awesome, who would have thought to do that!!

Amber is sooo talented!! I SURE DO LOVE HER. If you want to see more of them for sale or that she has already sold, go to loveofgreen.etsy.com

Kayaking

2008-06-20T21:50:00.000-07:00

We rented a kayak today and tried it for the first time. It was a lot of fun out on the smooth waters but I sure took a plunge on the river and boy was it cold. Here are a few pictures and tomorrow we'll get some of amber on there.

testing testing...

2008-06-10T10:44:00.000-07:00

a few weeks ago we found this awesome pack to carry clay in when we go hiking. we decided to finally try it out the other day. he loves it!

i made gijit and cody climb a tree. as you can see (the blur) cody didn't stay long.

we ended up taking clay on a longer, real hike yesterday evening. he falls asleep pretty fast... he definitely is a price... he can sleep anywhere.

he's...

2008-06-06T22:00:00.000-07:00

simply adorable.

a couple of the cutest boys ever created...

2008-06-02T10:36:00.000-07:00

i'm the luckiest gal alive.

this weekend the price family went on a "spoil the boy" shopping trip and this is clay's new toy. he loves it and he'll stay in it for more than 10 minutes at a time. today i was able to fold an everest sized pile of laundry and do the dishes without him getting too grumpy! success!!!

i think he could have made it to the PBR world finals. i swear we could have been millionaires. :D

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our "new" house...

2008-05-31T12:18:00.001-07:00

we finally made it out of the cardboard box and got into a real house! we're pretty excited because it was practically a miracle that we got in. here are a couple of pictures.

yesterday i called our landlord to ask him some questions about it so we can get some renters insurance. he told us the house was built in 1874 with "updates" in 1914. its definitely haunted. :D

ty did a little video of it this morning for all to see.

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clay loves horses...!

2008-05-30T21:27:00.000-07:00

a couple of weekends ago we took clay to some good 'ol utah horse pulls. he had a great time.

he even went all out and wore his horsey shirt. i think it might be the last time he wears it though... its gettin' a little small.

remember the last time he wore it?

wasn't he tiny?

so i said i would post a picture of dallas. i think the resemblance is in the hairline. i don't know... maybe its just me. but this old picture is cute enough to post anyway. this is my grandpa martin, my mom, and uncle dallas.

after a long absence...

2008-05-29T16:59:00.000-07:00

well, everyone's been asking.... when are you going to post more pictures of the prince?

dad and teri came to visit a couple of weeks ago and so those are the first pictures to go up.

this is when clay first met grandpa. grandpa looks just a little excited to see clay... who isn't??? ;)

grandma teri with clay having fun!

his highness is moving up. on the right is his old crib and on the left is his new one. grandpa kevin made it for him and its gorgeous. everyone loves it and thinks we bought it in a store... but actually we got it for free!! clay loves it because now he has more wiggle room... and we all know he has always liked to wiggle.

and yet again he raked it in... this is his new clay-sized rocking chair. grandpa kevin made this too. can we say spoiled???

clay's first night in his new crib. "i've got it made" is written all over his face.

... and this is the moose that we thought was going to trample dad b/c he got so close.

and here's a cute little video of clay scarfing some carrots. he thinks its delicious.

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soon to come....

*clay at the horse pulls
*ty riding a mechanical bull
*gijit and clay playing tug-o-war with the frizbee

a little bit of Deike??....

2008-05-09T12:41:00.000-07:00

well, he's hit another milestone... well actually a couple. the other morning i put him down on the floor to play on his belly and he kept rolling over... roll over, roll over... he just wouldn't stay put.

... and now this!!! he sat up today all by himself. i know it looks like i'm holding him up from the back, but i'm not. and he's a little slouched over but still able to stay upright. he's getting so big and so much fun. he came into our bed this morning and was laughing and giggling and crawling all over daddy. he also gets a big kick out of the dogs. if they come near him he just laughs at them and if they touch him he gets really excited.

so, for those of you who don't know... Deike is my mom's maiden name. up to this point clay has looked through and through like tyler. but as i was just looking at this last one and it reminded me of someone. i couldn't put my finger on it and then it hit me. kara left some family pictures on our computer (haha... i took them out of the trash) and there are some of my mom and her brother Dallas when they were little. in this last picture clay looks just like Dallas when he was little. if i can get one i'll post it.

.... and i guess if he does have those Deike looks, maybe he has the brawn too. he'll probably tower over everyone. :D

sorry we haven't posted in a while. we moved and don't have internet anymore. hopefully, we can get it soon. meanwhile i've been using the computer at tyler's school. so keep checking back, i'll try to put up pictures as often as i can.

when they came....

2008-04-28T10:56:00.000-07:00

so, i love this picture.

kara sent me the pictures that were on her camera from their visit. everyone looks so nice here. i just wish mom wasn't hidin' out in the back ; ). but most of all, its so cute because we are all smiling- even his highness, clay. ty was the photographer here, so he didn't make it into the picture.

i love clay so much.

Clay is a morning person

2008-04-27T08:59:00.000-07:00

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Clay is such a good little boy in the morning, he likes to just lay in his crib and talk to himself and roll around and play. So, this morning I taped it, he wasn't as talkative as he was before I started rolling but isn't that how it goes! He always ends up at the top of his crib and in the corner, he's becoming so active lately, a few days ago he almost rolled all the way over onto his stomach. He is so much fun to watch grow up. He loves to have us help him sit up, he is so proud of himself when he sits up and he just loves to watch the dogs, all day he would if they would put a show on that long.

Sorry the video was kind of dark, the lights were still out, hope you can see it. Enjoy.

a hat for isabella and a thumb for clay...

2008-04-21T20:55:00.000-07:00

so, hope you like it tiff! this is what i came up with for your little bundle. i know it'll be way hot outside when she comes, but i think all babies should come home from the hospital in cute hats... or at least wear one IN the hospital so all the nurses can coo over her. or she doesn't have to wear it at all. it can just sit on the shelf or way back in a drawer... then i can make her a new one for winter. well, anyway... hope you like it. :D

and clay found his thumb today. i caught him napping with it in there.

as always... what a cutie.

gijit wishes....

2008-04-14T13:38:00.000-07:00

i think gijit might be getting lazy. usually on the walk she likes to frolic beside the buggy... not ride in it. of course, though, this was kind of a chilly day.... AND clay's hot water bottle was in there. i guess she was just getting warmed up.

what a weirdo.

Springtime.....!!!!!

2008-04-13T15:02:00.001-07:00

Well...its about 65 here today so we thought we'd break out some of the cute springtime clothes.

The whole family got pictures ; )

Isn't he the cutest? i think i always say that. well, thanks to tiff for the adorable hat and pants (there's more pieces that he'll soon wear.) and thanks to kara for the fun shirt.

we love him so much. he laughs all the time now. how can you not love a guy like that?

i couldn't help myself....

2008-04-11T19:46:00.000-07:00

i have a couple surprises for maddie and new baby jones.

this hat turned out pretty nice (its for baby jones), but i don't know about the kitty...

so i let clay give it a try. he seemed to like it. i hope maddie does... although i doubt she'll be wanting to nibble on his face. poor kitty...

sorry its not a surprise anymore... i just couldn't help myself. :D

clay says "what up, dog...?"

2008-04-10T11:40:00.000-07:00

clay loves trying on the hats i make.... even if they're way too big. : ) isn't he a cutie pants?

Fun Sunday

2008-04-06T18:50:00.000-07:00

We were at Grandma and Grandpa Prices today and got Clays first laugh on camera. It is the funniest thing, he just kept laughing and laughing and wondering what in the world he was doing with himself! We all got a kick out of Clay.

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