Happy Family!

Best Buds

What a cute face

Our little family

My boys

My camo guys

Proud Daddy

good lookin kid

They will be good friends

Just before Dan left to head out to South Carolina we headed

up to the Red Hill to get some family pictures taken by my Mom for Dan to

have with him so he wouldn't forget what we looked like. Please

pardon the still pregnant look about me, I mean come

on it was only 10 days after Logan was born.

And for a quick update on Dan. He is having a great time at

Chaplain Basic Officer Leadership Course (CH-BOLC). He loves everything he is getting to do. So far he has: Been exposed to tear gas (the gas chamber was one of his favorite activities, which is odd since he suffered quite a bit), ropes course, rappelling, first aid/combat life saver, orienteering/map reading, night infiltration, and his newest favorite ( he has a lot of faves) the low crawl in sand under barbwire with live ammunition and grenade simulators going off. He was proud that out of 105 Chaplains in the course that he finished within the top 10. What a nut job my husband is. he seems normal, but you never can be too sure.

We have been lucky enough to be able to

talk to Dan every night by phone or skype with him. He has his

own one bedroom apartment there on base. Yes, that is unusual but

he is an officer so his basic is slightly different than basic

for enlisted men. Unfortunately, all the really exciting stuff

is over and he now gets to spend many long days in a classroom

being taught how to help the soldiers he will be counseling.

As for me and the boys we are loving the St George sun!

Drake gets to go outside and play, I get to sit in a chair and

watch, and Logan gets to chill in his swing. We are looking forward

to getting to go visit Angie and Nate for a couple of weeks, the

end of March and into April. in Hawaii. It is going to be so

much fun!! Drake gets to have his second birthday on the

beach!! And then a few days after we get back Dan comes

home. Yahoo!!

So I would say right now life is pretty good.

More pictures

Ok, so I finally found where the pictures were saved on the computer.

These pictures were some that we took in the hospital. It's kind of

weird having a baby and not haveing many people, especially all the

kids, be ableto come visit you. I mean Drake didn't even get to meet Logan

until he was three days old. But it was so cute when he did. We only

filmed with the camcorder but Drake was so excited for 'baby'. He ran

over to the car seat when we put it down and opened the top. He

just kept saying 'baby, baby'. I did get a couple of snapshots of him

holding Logan. It was so cute! Even now Drake loves to give

Logan hugs if he is crying or give Logan his pacifier. He even likes to

sit on my lap and hold Logan. We have a lot of bonding time with the

three of us on the lazy boy watching cartoons or taking naps.

Logan relaxing

His first bath

He's not so sure he likes it

Relaxing under the lights

He's got his paci and glasses what more could you ask

Finally going home

Here are a few pictures of us at home. Unfortuantely, we did not take a ton of pictures itwas crazy trying to get packed, clean the house for Dan's brother to move in while we are gone, and then with my Dad getting a ride in an ambulance after slipping and falling in the parking lot and hitting his head. Lets just say he is doing fine it was just really scary.

I love snuggling my babies

Grandpa the morning after hitting his head with his newest grandson

Drake loving his baby

I was slowing getting the picture of Drake kissing Logan

Logan Taylor Neville

I know I haven't posted picture yet of your little dark haired Logan but with the whole Jaundice on a bilibed for three days, trying to clean the house and pack up for three months, and then saying good-bye to Dan Friday night it has been very busy for me. Here are a couple of quick pictures of Logan right after he was born.

For those of you who don't know our story we attempted a VBAC which is a normal delivary after a c-section. After 20 hours of labor, only being dialated to a 6, and the baby starting to stress the dr decided to do another c-section. Logan was born at 5:17am Dec 29th, 7lbs 12 ozs, 21 3/4inches. For those of you who are successful with a regular delivary you rock. As for me and my house we love the c-section in a matter of minutes your baby is born and luckily I never really have pain so my recovery is fast.

Drake has been great with his brother. He does like to rub his head(be soft we call it) and point or poke out his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. He'll come let you know when he is crying and he loves to cuddle on moms lap with Logan there too. Of course I love being able to hold both my boys without any fighting. Drake has also become a little protective of Logan. When people Drake doesn't know well are holding Logan he goes over and tells them 'no' and pulls on Logan. It's quite cute if you ask me.

So far is has been great with my little blondie and my little brown haired boys I can't wait til they can start playing together. Then again that also means with will be fighting....oh well that's life right. I'll get more pictures posted when I get my mom's computer figured out.

Our Christmas season

Through out December we have had a great time. We were in
St George the first weekend in December and got to see 'fall day'.
Fall Day is the day that all the leaves just fall of the trees, and you get
to make huge piles of leaves. My dad got the leaves all in a pile
and we sent Drake out to play. He had more fun trying to make
the pile bigger than actually jumping in it.

Jumping in the leaves
Surveying the piles
Enjoying the slide

When we got home Drake helped me decorate the tree.
I think he was more excited about playing with the Scooby
Doo ornament, Rudolf ornament, or the glass bulbs
but we had fun.

Decorating the tree

We also got to go to Dans sisters and have a gingerbread house
building contest. It was so interesting to see how each pair
decorated with their house. It was a good time
and great company.

Deb and Matt
Jon and Somelea
Josh and Alex
Bryan, Jason, Steve, and Nic
Bryan's house and mine

Well Christmas day is over and it was a great one! Drake loved
every present he opened. He loved them so much we really had
to coax him to open the next present. Once we were done
opening presents and we were getting his toys out of the packaging
he was jumping up and down yelling, Yea! Yea! Yea! You know growing
up Christmas was fun but being able to watch Drake enjoy it was
so much more fun. He spent the rest of the day spending
5 min with each toy before moving on to the next and
then back again. We can't wait until next year when
we get to have two boys to enjoy Christmas.

Drakes haul
The tricycle
Dan enjoying a breakfast of cinnamon rolls
Only two more days!!
Our Christmas afternoon nap

Thanksgiving

When there are big group gathering I am either really good about having my camera out and snapping pictures or I'm not. This happened to be a not. I did manage to catch a few pictures of the after the dinner and the sampling of the pie. Other then no pictures we had a great Thanksgiving. Dan got his annual football game with my brother Eric and brother-in-law Miah in. Although his shoulder is still a little tender and his wife recommended he not play. If any of you believe that because I recommended he not play was the reason he didn't you are sadly mistaken; he decided the night before while trying to throw that it was probably best he didn't play, but he was there for moral support. Drake and I headed to Grandmas in Woodland Hills early to help get ready.

We spent the weekend at grandmas with my parents and my Uncle Mark and his family. Drake loves having people to play with and follow around. Eric and Heidi stayed at Sarah's and we missed the Staheli family. They were lucky though I mean why go to a movie on Thanksgiving when you can go surfing instead. Friday was shopping day. Sat was also shopping day for the girls while the guys headed to the BYU Utah game. Dan was the only one in red. We got all of our Christmas shopping done except a few odds and ends, so now we can really enjoy the season. And my last few weeks of pregnancy will be calm and relaxing right...

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Kade, Miah, and my cousin Matt

Aunt Shannon and cousins
Heidi and Eric with Sami and Mason

Bad Mommy...

I learn a VALUABLE lesson the other day after coming home from
grocery shopping. DON'T let your son play in the BACK of the jeep
while you have your arms are FULL of groceries. He may feel the
need to just STEP right off the bumper of the car and use his FACE as
the landing gear. Then you DROP all the groceries you were holding
BREAKING the eggs to pick up a crying child with bleeding SCRATCHES
down the side of his face and a bloody hand. Luckily he RECOVERED quickly
but his mother is still TRAUMATIZED.

Our first snow

We got our first snow of the year, well at least the first snow that really stuck. I got Drake all dressed up in his snow clothes to go play in the snow. Dan at first refused cuz it was too cold out, but once Drake and I were outside having fun Dan couldn't resist coming to play. Drake kept taking off his gloves so he could really get his hands in the snow and play. They got pretty cold but that didn't stop him. It wasn't great packing snow or we would have tried to make a snowman. Anyways it was great fun!