Well it is Getting to that time of year again when we look at all we have to be thankful for and to be honest I don' t think I could ever be thankful enough for family. As some may know and other do not, my father will be going under the knife to have 2 vertebrae removed and two cadaver vertebrae replaced in his neck. this will happen on Tuesday the 21 of Oct at 7:50am. I have family that are traveling all the way from Wyoming to be here in support of my father and plenty of fam and friends that are praying for him, So thanks. Tanner just had his 4 month appointment and after examination found to be growing and achieving the milestones just like he is supposed to. As for our family...well we are living in Kingman trying to find somewhere to live and will probably live here till around may-July depending on when i find a job and somewhere to live in Tempe area. For now i guess that is all. I put two picks up the first is tanner playing with some pumpkins just having good ol' fun and the second is the Merritt clan having some good ol' fun. hope you all enjoy i will be updating to let everyone know about me pa and also about our living conditions.

WOW What Fun

So I don't even know where to begin......I know that it has already been a month since i have last posted anything and I would bet that everyone is just itching to know what is happening with out little family. Well as of right now we are in Kingman with our stuff scattered in Cedar City, Springdale and of course here. We are headed down to pheonix to look for a job and also housing today. Wish us luck I will write later in the week to let everyone know how things are going.

Fun I guess

So we have begun packing all the stuff that is not immediately needed. Things like the extra set of dishes and the curtains. As some of you may know I will be headed down to Arizona during the week to help out my Dad's business. Then if everything goes as planned we will be able to move the majority of the boxes and furniture into storage as we don't want to move anything until we are sure where we are moving. We are hoping as I stated in last weeks blog.....that housing and jobs will work out and that we will have both in place here soon. Tanner is doing well and like always growing way to fast. He has now found out how to rub his eyes and in doing so realizes that he must be tired and to throw a fit if we hold him because we are trying to have him sleep. On Monday, tomorrow the 18th of August he will be 10 weeks old. Can you believe it........neither can we.

SORRY

So a lot has happened since i last wrote. It always seems like that, i guess. So i will just abbreviated all of it and go from there. So nothing really happened until the 24th of July. We headed down to San Diego for a family Vacation. Then on the 30th of July we found out that we are no longer managers and had 30 days to move. However with no housing available till as late as December the owner will let us stay until we CAN move. Today we looked for apartments and also work as i am still unemployed. We even went down to St George to look.....and we might have found something...SO PLEASE keep us in your prayers we really need this to work out for us. Hope all is well and soon we maybe closer to some and father away from others. We miss and love you all wholly and completely.

I don't Even know where to begin these last two weeks have been full of things happening....if one didn't know better you would think that it was summer.....oh yeah thats right it is. So let's see I think that i will begin on the 1st of July. My family came through on their way up to Wyoming for our annual Merritt family Reunion. They picked up air and then were on their way. The folowing Caitlin and I loaded the car and Tanner into the car and began a grewling trip up to the reunion. I only say grewling because Caitlin was still healing from the whole child birth thingamabob, and I-15 north of Salt Lake City was rougher than the back road to my grandmas. We stopped at Greatgrandma Dolly's house and that was a lot of fun, then we went straight, or at least as straight as we could with a 3 week old baby in the car, to Wyoming. We stayed from Wednesday all the way till Saturday the 5th. We had loads of fun and found out that the mosquito wipes work well on kids and they don't mind them to much. We came home and on the 6th blessed tanner in the cedar 7th ward. It was a very nice Sacrament meeting. We took pictures and then Caitlin's Family made lunches for my whole family her Family and also the Reimschiissels. The Following day we had our good friends the Skinner come down to go to some plays of the Utah Shakesperian festival and visit of course. We had a blast and even got to compete at guitar hero Aerosmith it was awesome. Then we had 3 days to ourselves, Caitlin Tanner Ariel and Myself, till on friday my Mom came up to go to a roping in Panguitch Ut. To our suprise and displeasure mom annouced that our Nanny, Ariel, would be again returning to AZ. We missed her the minute she left, and no I am not Butt kissing, Caitlin and I now Have to change ALL of Tanner's dirty diapers. Ariel was such a big help. They packed Ariel's things and left Sunday afternoon. A house all to our selves......you would think that stress was releived and we would be able to sleep but no for 3 consecetive night I have had Insomnia and every time I start to get tired Tanner thinks it is the perfect time to wake up. So here we are to the present .....oh i forgot one thing......one tradition that we have when family(babies) go to wyoming for the first time we put their feet into the creek to help them like the cold, I guess. So now we are up to date on everything i will post pic's of the last two weeks in order the best i can.
here is Grandma(Caitlin's) Dolly

Tanner with his feet in the Creek

Caitlin and I holding tanner after
his blessing

Ms Skinner holding Tanner

Tanner's First Bike

So today we received Tanner's baby wrap which Caitlin picked out so that it was manly enough that Nic will wear it with the rocking Motorcycle. Now he is styling and ready to ride.......all is well and we are happy

2 WEEK CHECK-UP

Today we had the opportunity to go to Dr Newman for Tanner's 2 week check up and everything went alright, i only say alright because today was the day we had to do his 2nd P.K.U. test. For any of you mother's out there you know that to be able to do that test they prick the bottom of the foot and SQUEEZE the blood out enough to do at least 30 diabetes test. But on the bright side of Tanner being picked on they also weighed him expecting that he would have fallen in weight considerably below birth weight and just now getting back up to were he was at 6 lbs 15.2 oz, however, he has actually gone up a lot more he is now at 7 lbs 13 oz now and has grown to 20 7/8" from 20 " all in two weeks. An interesting Fact about babies in general, Yeast infections are available for all and are not fun to have always being rubbed by a diaper. Yes tanner has one and had to be put on prescriptions to help heal, it is alreay getting better. Pictures next week no promises as to when..... love ya all.

Friends

Today we got to have a friend of Caitlin's from high school, meredeth, come and visit us for a couple hours. I have come to find that no matter who it is or when they visit or for however long they visit it doesn't ever seem to be long enough when you love them. The summer has officially hit here is Cedar City Ut with a high of 92+ degrees it sure is heating up and Caitlin said the other day, "boy am I glad that I am not going to be pregnant while it is hot!" She missed it by only 9 days. well all is well just missing our love ones that are far and away, just wish we could all be close to one another and never have to say good bye for more than a couple of hours, If we want to.....sometimes, time away makes us the most fond of what we have because we can't have it caused by the distance we have between us. I personally can not wait till i can apparate from one local to another.

ASK and ye shall RECEIVE

Well after a long day of Tanner being kinda of sick but with no temperature....After about the 4th time of him throwing up, just a little extra milk, we all decided to give tanner a bath at 10:30 at night. Right before we started with him all stark naked I made a mention that to help us top off the night I looked at Tanner and said, "you should just let the pee fly and land it right on me!" Well it all went fine we washed him and dried him off and the applied a little lotion. I picked him up and right on cue on the way to put a diaper on and clothe him he "let the pee fly and landed the pee right on me here are the pics to prove it

Nic's 1st Father's Day

So today I had the blessing of my first official father's day that went just as i would have it. The above are two pics that we took and that we just fell in love with. the first happened during a TV show Americas best dance crew and they were doing what is called the motorcycle which looks like what tanner is doing. The second is when he was waking up about 1115pm he was making all kinds of faces and this is the one we loved the most. Happy F-day to all you fathers. And having Ariel my little sister here has been a HUGE blessing to my wife and I.