Gun Control

I am beginning to wonder if I should initiate some gun control around our house. Noah is a bit obsessed with guns, swords or weapons of any kind really..but mostly guns. He has a little nerf gun that he loves to run around the house with and shoot innocent bystanders. He has trouble cocking the gun, so he runs up to me every few minutes and says, "cock it mom." Lovely huh. So the other day Noah was eating a banana that I had peeled about half way for him. When he ate it down to the peel and needed help peeling it the rest of the way, he handed it to me and said, "cock it mom." Hahahaha! I also caught him moaning in his sleep today at nap time saying, "cock it, cock it." Hmmm I'm thinking the gun situation is a little out of control.

Happy Halloween

So a few weeks ago Noah's grandma Mel bought him a really cute pug dog costume for Halloween. I tried to get him to try it on then, but he refused. I talked to him about Halloween and told him that you have to wear a costume to get candy. We even read Halloween books to help him get the idea. In the coming weeks we continued talking about the costume and I continued to try persuading him by telling him how "awesome" his dog costume was. Noah was not convinced and replied, "No it's not awesome mommy! I am mad at Halloween!" Thus began the stuggle with the dog costume. Needless to say, life is busy and I pushed the costume incident out of my mind and actually kept thinking that on Halloween Day with everyone in their costumes, Noah would be excited and put his dog costume on. Well no such luck. Noah ended up being an army guy, which to him was a way cooler idea than a puppy. Duh mom! I actually don't blame him for this. So here he is in his thrown together costume (two hours before we went trick or treating). He has my black eyeshadow on his face (improvising). He had some sweet boots for this costume, but boots were out of the question also. Such a two year old!

The day after Halloween and Noah is still enjoying wearing his army hat!

Trip to Cali

My mom, sisters and sister in-law and I, took a girls trip to California last weekend. We decided on the way there that the priorities of the trip were as follows: 1.Shop 2.Pee 3.Eat 4.Sleep
I would say that we definately, on a few occasions, did forgo eating and sleeping to shop, and the bathroom breaks were limited to emergencies only.:) We had so much fun just being together! We also went to the musical in L.A., Wicked! It was soooo amazing, I loved it. Here are a few pics from our trip!!
Wicked in L.A.!


At the Orange County Swap Meet

Michele and I thought this pink dog was not so cute. We are at the South Coast Plaza Mall!

Lake Powell

Noah and I spent the past week in Lake Powell, or "Yake Towell" (as Noah would say) with my fam! Noah had about as much fun as a child could have I think. His favorite phrase on the trip was, "Come on mommy, it'll be fun!(with enthusiasum)" It was lots of fun for both of us. Here are a few pics from our week.

Love the goggles!

Noah calls the wakeboard a skateboard and was fully confident in his ability to ride it. I found him like this a few times on our trip, saying, "me skateboard mommy, come on it'll be fun." Hahaha I'm not so sure he is ready...what do you think?

Tube rides with grandpa!

Swimming...he was a little tense in the water, not so sure about the life jackets ability to make him float.:)

Noah had so much fun with his cousins! (Natalie's three boys Isaac, Luke and Kaleb)

Noah lovin the jet ski! Since mid afternoon naps were out of the question with everything fun going on all day, he even fell asleep twice while riding with me.

I learned to slolam ski...which was so much harder than wakeboarding! I need lots more practice to be as good as Nat and Matt!!


It was time to leave and Noah had to pack up his sand toys, which was very sad for him! This is his forced smile for one last picture LOL!

College Days

A few of my girlfriends from BYU came to Vegas for a few days last week. We met for dinner at the Wynn and then got pina coladas and sat outside to watch the free show they run every 30 minutes at The Lake of Dreams...totally fun. It was so fun to see them and to reminisce about all our fun times at BYU! Love these girls.

MICHELE GRADUATES and ERIC COMES HOME!

So it has been such an eventful week at the Ringer house. On Tuesday my little sister Michele graduated from Spring Valley High School! Since there is quite the age gap between us (10 years), I did alot of mothering her when she was younger and up until the time I left home. Seeing her graduate from high school made me feel pretty old! Since Noah and I have been back in my parents home for the past year and a half, it has been so fun because it seems like the age diffence between Michele and I didn't matter much anymore. She is like a best friend to me! She is leaving for BYU in a few days and I am so going to miss her so much but I am excited for her to have all the fun experiences I did in college. Love you Meesh!

Michele and our dad at graduation!!

My little brother Eric returned from his mission in Milwakee, Wisconsin on Friday! Eric left for the MTC two weeks before Noah was born!! So he met Noah for the first time Friday. It feels like Eric has been gone for a really long time and it was so good to have him back. He has been an awesome missionary and I am so proud of him!!

Here is the whole Ringer gang!!! It was fun to hang out with everyone this weekend!!

My older sister Natalie, Me and Eric

We love Shoes and Summertime

Noah likes to try on my shoes. These are his favorite and I don't blame him, they are hot! Gotta love the pj's with breakfast all over them and platform shoes.




Noah and I had a fun weekend and spent lots of it in the pool, playing in the backyard and riding bikes! We love summertime!