Deitrick Detail

well... to be honest i dont know what there is to say. september seemed to fly by and now its over and i dont know what we did. we are just continuing to settle into life here in minot. we dont have any travel plans anytime soon. not with baby girl so close to arrival during the holidays. we are continuing to pay off the student loan and have plans to have that done by the end of december.

justin still enjoys his job. he still drives a crazy amount, but they love what he is doing so everything is great there. Ryker is getting so so big! i love playing with him every day. we are working on words still and dont have anything new to report there, but he is trying and babbling a ton so im hoping they will come soon. we practice words everyday. its very repetative and simple for me haha so i love when justin comes home and i can have a real conversation. thats nice... he has gotten 2 new teeth. his 3rd tooth on the bottom and a molar on the bottom just poked through as well. i can feel the other 3 molars moving down. makes for a cranky boy sometimes but he is doing really well. drooling of course, but thats expected. he is doing better at night. he hasnt gotten up for about a week now. im grateful. my nights are restless enough.

im feeling great. getting bigger everyday. i feel like little girl is moving a ton more than ryker did. but im glad to know she is there and safe and healthy. we just ordered a carseat cover for her. one that will protect her from the wind and hopefully help seal in some warmth so the -40 degree north dakota cold doesnt bite at her nose. this little one will be using all the blankets we got. haha. i am officially 28 weeks this week. its crazy how fast this pregnancy is going. so different from ryker. but equally exciting. she could be here in as early as 10 weeks! i would totally be play with that... i am actually hoping she comes 2 weeks early so that she can share a birthday with auntie fae and also be far enough from christmas that she can feel special and its still all about her. we will see what she has planned, but heres to hoping....

it really was a slow month, so not a ton of pictures. but after last months overload its okay right?

he LOVED!!! washing the car with dad. he was so happy to play with the hose

with our new cubscout callings grandma deitrick sent Justins old scout stuff. here is ryker wearing justins old cubscout shirt. he has a lot to live up to! look at all the badges and everything!

he has gotten into shoes. he loves to have me put them on him. and he loves to try on daddys shoes

we were practicing patience with goldfish. mostly he was still out of it from his nap, but we thought it was funny

quick story! the pic doesnt do it justice. this bruise was BLACK! i went for my glucose test at the dr. the lady taking my blood was super nice. she put the tourniquet on and the vein in the middle of my arm shot up! you could see it from space. big. bulging, full of blood. perfect spot. but no. she chose to go for one of my side veins. i dont know if she just wanted to practice or whatnot. im not going to tell her how to do her job. and thats a decent vein as well even if its not as obvious. but she had to search a little. and i think her first attempt poked all the way through. its been a month and its still big and a decent shade of dark purple. it makes me roll my eyes. but whatever. i just dont get why she chose that one when i had a much better and easier vein like an inch to the left. oh well.

i take baby bump pics in this shirt a lot... i believe this was last week? (27 weeks) ish. its getting round! and not just because i eat whatever i want...

he recently got into wearing this hat. he looks like a thug but i love it.

ryker loves to play in the truck. now everytime we go somewhere he will come stand by the steering wheel till the driver gets in. climb on their lap and sit down. clearly this is his spot. he will look up at us like okay im ready to go. lets drive! its so cute every time. i finnally took a pic of it and got this perfect shot. i love this picture so much i can hardly contain myself. its just so perfect. i love my boys! i love that they are pretty much the same person.

a new game he learned to play with dad one evening while i was at a relief society activity

he loves this song so so much. we watch it every morning. and he stops whatever he is doing to dance to it. its that good.

more fun boy sounds! i think it doesnt help that we are laughing so hard egging him on

yahoo! so august was fun. and its hard to remember it all. so i might not explain a lot but the pictures tell a great story. the biggest thing is that i was able to go to utah with alicia and go to the shakespeare festival plus a few other plays. it was so amazing! i had so much fun. ryker stayed with my mom and siblings in colorado and justin had to stay in north dakota for work. so we were in 3 different states! it was crazy and i was super nervous, but it all worked out. ryker did great on his first plane ride. he played with another little girl the whole way to colorado and then slept half way through on the plane ride home. it was good and im so glad he did so well. without justin i didnt know how it was going to go and i hoped he wouldnt scream.

alicia and i and madeline drove tuesday all the way to utah and had a show that night at the tuacan theater. it is an amazing place. for my trip i really will let the pictures tell the story because i could write a 12 page paper on what we did and all we saw. the tuacan shows were amazing. the shows we saw in cedar city for the shakespeare festival were astounding and i was blown away with the quality of their performance. i would go every year if i was able to. it was that good. by wednesday my tailbone was so sore from sitting down but i still enjoyed all the shows we went to. we ended up going to 11 shows in 5 days. it was going to be 12 shows but tuesday night we went to see the little mermaid and the storm scene got a little too real and they had to cancel the show because of weather issues. sad day. so we got reimbursed and were able to see it again friday night but that meant we missed another show that we were planning on going to. little mermaid was so so so worth it. i have a small little boy crush on flounder. he had a great voice and was so precious. i wanted to take him home with me and have him be rykers big brother. so here is our schedule play wise.

Tues night - little mermaid - tuacan theater
wed morning - 6 seconds - shakespeare festival
wed afternoon - into the woods - shakespeare festival
wed night - joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat - tuacan theater
thurs morning - breakout - shakespeare festival
thurs afternoon - sense and sensibility - shakespeare festival
thurs night - the wizard of oz - tuacan theater
friday morning - hamlets shakespeare - shakespeare festival
friday afternoon - twelfth night - shakespeare festival
friday night - little mermaid again (was supposed to be measure for measure) - tuacan theater
saturday afternoon - comedy of errors (i have never laughed so hard in my life) - shakespeare festival
saturday night - henry IV part one - shakespeare festival

then we drove home early sunday and i was able to pack everything and go to sacrament meeting before ryker and i headed to the airport.

the ones we saw in the morning were plays that were still in production. so they were still being developed. they were good. some better than others. but i enjoyed them. basically i loved everything. they all did so amazing. actors in the morning and afternoon were all in 2 or 3 shows. and then all the tuacan performers were in the same 3 shows. i just cant get over how awesome it all was.

before we get to pictures, just a little family update. we are settling in well here in minot. it is about to get a lot colder and we are expecting our first snow on thursday. justin and i got callings. we both help out in primary as well as cubscouts. justin is a leader and i am a committee chairman. which means i do a lot of paperwork and making sure all the boys are where they should be. haha. it should be fun! i am excited. primary and cubscouts are all new to me so here we go!

we figured out that we are expecting a little girl this december. we are so excited to have her join our family. it will be fun to have 1 of each haha. she already has justin wrapped around her finger. its adorable.

ryker is doing great. we still dont have words yet but he is learning more consonant sounds. we have been teaching him sign language a little bit. he has gotten really good at pointing to what he wants. he now can sign thank you, more, and food. with accompanying sounds but not real words yet. he can fold his arms to pray and say amen. well his version. he can now crawl up and down the stairs no problem. he is really good at saying and waving hi or bye. still only 6 teeth but with the drooling i think more are on their way. he loves to dance to commercials. he is phasing out of his afternoon naps which make me a little sad. that is when i get the most done like write on this blog! haha. he is doing great and is so happy. i have lots of smiling pictures of that little boy. he is growing so fast!

okay. i think thats all about us. in utah we learned how to take a panorama pic where we could be in it like 3 different times. i hope they upload so you can see. they are awesome. enjoy!

they both just sit and watch car shows on saturday mornnings. seriously they are the same person.

loves being with dad

okay we have fun too. look at those chompers!!!

we went to the park and he loved it! the slide was fun and confusing all at the same time

he got good at climbing to the slide

loves the swing!

he always needs to be involved with dinner, so this is the easiest way to use both hands and keep him happy. we do this often shopping in stores too. haha

still loves his big trucks. and has learned to put stuff in the bucket to haul around

little girl coming end of december!

when dad is home that is all he wants. just cuddle with dad. clearly dad doesnt mind.

just got into denver! loopy but happy!

went to the pool on monday. took him some time to get used to it. but by the end he loved it and didnt want to leave

yay lazy river!

he loved the wheel, but didnt like getting splashed. he eventually got used to it. and enjoyed the play place

his favorite was pushing his floatie. he would go till he was neck deep. it was a great stabalizer

on the road to utah!

little boy is having so much fun with auntie beez. not missing mom much

it was cold and rainy at the little mermaid, but we were determined to stay and stick it out!

in front of the building where we saw the morning shows in cedar city

having fun with statues on campus

issac newton i think? we both have great hair....

i hope you can make them bigger and really see. they are so awesome

peach cobbler as part of dinner. it was super tasty

in the rain after they cancelled the show :(

might as well play a little bit!

madeline and rachel were with us

an awesome hat i found at the shakespeare festival

at red rocks in st george close to the tuacan theater

she looks so pretty!

i was tired and hot, but rachel took a cool pic anyway

enjoying the rain waiting for it to let up. we wanted to see the show so bad!

huddled under 1 umbrella

rachel and i huddled under ours.

we thought it fitting since we were wet anyway

acting like einstine

bench around the theater where the shakespeare festival was.

sitting with falstaff.

lady juliet

we finally got a pic with all 4 of us

different bench still cool pictures

i think its king lear? maybe king henry?

more great hats

who wore it better? haha i think alicia does great face. it compliments medusa very well

beautiful view at the red rocks in st george

i loved when i found a shady spot

front sign at the tuacan theater

we let madeline see a friend real quick in town and they gave us mints from the hotel. we got home and realized they turned our mouth green!

these were some awesome masks we found

just chillin with shakespeare

flotsum and jetsum from the little mermaid! i really loved them. they were so flamboyant. it was perfect. a close second to flounder

alicia found a rockin mask. it was so perfect

the steps at the tuacan

side note, prince eric/joseph was a beautiful individual. alicia loved seeing him in egyptian attire meaning without a shirt on for most of the show. haha