Valdez Family

Monday, May 7, 2012

To Sum It Up...

I have slacked big time, so I am just going to give you a quick run down on the happenings with the Valdez Family in pictures.

We had a very fun Easter this year. The boys enjoyed some hunting at home and at their grand parents houses which gives them lots of candy and money.

We have begun our crazy spring/summer schedule of lots of sports. Boston is playing T-Ball and soccer right now and he loves both of them! He does awesome and enjoys having a game 3 days out of the week. This is his first season of baseball and his second season of soccer. He's had 3 games of soccer and has already scored 20 goals! Boston is a scoring machine! He is so fast on his break-away's that he sometimes has no one to pass to so he goes all the way to score by himself. He is practicing his passing and has had a couple assists which we are very proud of. It is so much fun to go watch him do his sports, and Logan has fun participating to. Logan is going to be just as good as Boston is. He is starting his training now because he thinks he's 5 too, so he takes his bat/glove/ball to T-Ball also and he takes his soccer ball to the games so he can play. What can I say, our family eats and sleeps sports!

Boston warming up with his team (Padres)

Padre pep talk.

Big #5 getting a hit!

Funny thing is no one told him to stand this way in the field. The natural!

It was so much fun to have his first game to be against his cousin and buddy Ryan. Also, they are both #5!

The salon has had quite a bit going on. We did a booth at the Healthy Women's Conference. It turned out great and our booth was very busy!

We also had a few models walking around throughout the conference passing out fliers promoting the salon. They looked awesome! Yup, my model is my soon-to-be SIL Nicole. Getting ideas for her big day! She rocked a cool side up-do with a fish tail. I know, I should have gotten a close-up.

Remedies also did the Prom Fashion show again this year. My models are the three on the left.

(L-R)I did a "Fergie-ish" messy-side fish tail with a bump in the front, a short hair side up-do, and a new take on a french twist. They all turned out great!

Hopefully it won't take 3 1/2 months to update again (sorry mom) but like I said, crazy schedule with sports. That's our family!

Monday, January 30, 2012

Basement Pix

Living room where the TV will go.

From the living room down the hall looking into the toy room.

Toy room

Got it working!

Finally! Here are a few pictures for those of you who have waited (not so) patiently. We have had a LOT going on with wrestling (both Cody & Boston), working, and finishing the basement. That's our life though, and we love it. Craziness and all!

This is how Logan fell asleep. He put his hat on himself and got his book.

Movie night in Boston's room.

We have a "Minute to Win it" champ on our hands! Boston whips right through it. 9 stacked!

Logan HAS to do what ever Boston does. That includes squeezing himself onto the stool to brush his teeth with him.

Wrestling season has about 2 1/2 weeks left and then starts soccer. Boston is going to play again this spring and hopefully baseball too. We want to try both to see what he thinks and if we can handle all the running around. Cody has stayed super busy with his work and many extra responsibilities. We ALMOST have the basement finished. All these little touch-ups are taking forever but hopefully we will be done soon (fingers- crossed). I will post pictures very soon on the basement. We have it just about finished painted, we just have one bedroom left. My camera is dead or I would post some now. You will just have to be patient (mom).

My work is going GREAT and am always excited to create new looks and get new clients. I have a couple hair shows coming up in February for new up-do styles and coloring techniques. Staying up on my education is very important to me and I love going with all the girls from work.

Boston is doing AWESOME in school! He is reading and was so excited to get his first library card. He loves checking out books and reading them to Logan. He has learned to tie his shoes, loves writing everyone notes (family & friends), and is catching on to EVERYTHING! He is the best big brother! He is so patient with Logan and loves teaching him how to wrestle and play games.

Logan is definitely going through his terrible two's right now. He is such a cute little stinker who has a mind of his own. He has his fair share of time-outs right now mostly because he is telling mom "no" or he has scratched or hit Boston repeatedly. He does act good most of the time, just don't make him mad. Logan loves to give everyone kisses and hugs first thing in the morning. He is just so excited to see everyone. He sings his "ABC's", "Itsy bitsy spider", & the Tooele school song (dad & grandpa Rich are very proud). He counts to 10 in both English and Spanish and has learned many words in Spanish from his great-grandparents Herrera and Dora. He is addicted to dad's Ipod and loves Angry Birds. Thanks to Boston, he is learning how to wrestle.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Who has the time??

Ok, so this is the second time I have tried to upload some pictures onto our blog and it has failed. I don't know what is going on but I promise that soon you will see some updates in photos.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Recap in Pix

Wrestling season has begun! Cody still coaches the high school team and Boston now does the little league. He is so cute! We had to pull out Cody's old singlets so he could wear them to practice... which means Logan has to wear one also!

The boys are as silly as ever but still so much fun! They are the best brothers!! Thankfully we broke Logan of his binky recently (HALLELUJAH!) but I had to share this funny picture. He is one silly kid!

Boston got to go to his first Utah football game this season with his dad. He had a BLAST! Got to take a picture of the "Ute U" before the game. Logan is trying to put the U up. He also had to put his beanie and mittens on like his big brother.

I just love this picture!

Who needs toys when you can play with the box.

Holiday season in full swing with their first visit with Santa...

and enjoying the Christmas Parade.

The basement is ALMOST done! Here are a few pictures. These first two are going to be the living room.

This is at the bottom of the stairs going left looking straight into the 1st bedroom/toy room. The door to the left is the utility room.

This is down the hall way looking into the 2nd bedroom. The door on the right is the bathroom and the other door on the left is the storage room.

The Bathroom!

Monday, October 31, 2011

Logan's 2!!

I can't believe Logan is 2 years old! It went by so fast. We have really enjoyed these past two years with both boys. They are best buddies and have so much fun together. We celebrated his birthday with a family BBQ at the house. Had some yummy food and let the kids run around and play.

Logan loves anything to do with sports and had a lot of fun playing basketball with grandpa Herman.

Uncle Marky kept the kids busy with some soccer.

Logan's latest thing is he loves to dress up in Boston's cape and mask. Boston got Logan his own mask and cape for his birthday so now they both run around the house being superheros.

Logan got a little help opening his presents.

Logan got a Blue's Clues backpack from Mimi and No-No that I think he could actually fit in.

Boston was so happy to give Logan his present. They are the cutest brothers.

With Logan's allergies, this year we decided to make him a rice crispie cake. I made Pumpkin Spice, Chocolate Mint, Cinnamon Bun, and Regular Rice Crispies. Logan could have all of them! They all tasted yummy!

I turned out to be such a beautiful day and we had a nice time celebrating Logan's 2nd birthday. I'm so glad everyone was able to come enjoy!

Monday, October 17, 2011

Remedies Halloween Show

Today our salon was asked to go on Channel 2 News to do a Halloween Fashion Show. It was so awesome! I had never done fantasy hair before, but this was amazing! I loved stepping out of my comfort zone to stretch my skills. Here's what we did!