Our little Pyro........

So this past weekend, Tim, Hudson and I traveled to OhioPyle state park here in PA for a little camping. I wasn't sure how the whole sleeping under the stars thing would go for me since I am now 8 months pregnant and enormous. But Hudson was so pumped to go and just kept saying, "mommy, camping, catch nemo" so of course we couldn't say no. I was actually really glad we went and amazingly enough, I slept most of the night and used my will power to fight the urge of having to make 50 bathroom trips in the middle of the night. It is amazing what the mind can do........

We went with our neighbors and really good friends the Irvings, and spent the night and most of the day up there. We had a blast hanging out by the fire, checking out the natural waterslides and waterfalls and then fishing by the river. It was absolutely beautiful there. The more I see of Pittsburgh in the summer, the more I LOVE it. We had to drive through these small little towns with these unbelievably beautiful farms and I just kept thinking to myself....I could live there and there and there, if only my family lived there too. So I think everyone should start thinking a little bit.....Erica and Tyler are getting closer with moving to CT, which I am so completely pumped about- within driving distance....I am already planning my first trip. Anyway, it really is beautiful this time of year.

So we had a great time and it seems that with every trip we go on, we learn a little more about ourselves and especially our child. Turns out, Hudson is a Pyro. He is definitely related to the Tuttle side of things since Tyler and basically everyone in my family is obsessed with fire. He would not keep sticks out of the fire and honestly thought it was the coolest thing in the world to stick it in and then pull it out and have it flaming up. I have included some pictures.

Anyway, we love you all and hope you are doing great. Only 5 weeks left.....I am definitely counting down the days. I will keep you updated. Tate Almon Mosher is almost here!!

Love you,

T

Ok so I thought I should give you the low down on my trip to the Netherlands.... Well first of all thank you to mom and dad who made this trip possible. As hard as it was, I would not trade it for the world and I learned so much in the process. So Thank you so much. But I will start from the beginning and give you the short (but detailed) trip to Europe.

So for those of you who do not know, I left on Saturday the 19th of July. After a long trip I arrived in Amsterdam on sunday. Luckily I did not get lost in my attempt to find the hostil (yes I stayed in a hostil and believe me it was not glamorous at all). So I finally make it to the hostil and there were 3 American girls there that I started to talk to. My first thought was "Thank you Heavenly Father" hoping that these girls would be my roommates for the next two weeks. They then brought me my room key and took me up to my closet of a room. Unfortunately, I was not with the american girls, but was with 3 Polish girls who did not speak a lick of English. Needless to say, I did not enjoy my room very much. I did attempt to talk to them, but all that came out was "sorry I do not understand." It was a LONG two weeks in that hostil. The room was extremely small. It fit the two sets of bunkbeds in it with about the size of me in the middle. It was crazy small. Anyways so that is a rundown on how I lived during my trip.

My schedule everyday was wake up at 7:00a.m. Get ready (which wasn't much because I would just sweat all day long). Go eat breakfast. For breakfast you could have bread, eggs, or muesli(which is like a cereal) so of course i stuck with the muesli. After breakfast we would go get on the tram. The tram ride was about 20 minutes or so but it was nice to rest before the storm hit! We then started dancing at 9 and danced until 2:30. We then had an hour lunch break and then danced until 5:30. It was super intense. We had ballet class, improvisation class, modern, and rep (which is learning choreography). That was the best part because we learned things from world renowned choreographers, and they were taught by former NDT dancers. It was tiring but so awesome.

As far as the dancing goes it was amazing. Dancing over in Europe is so much different then in America. It is hard to explain, but it opened my eyes to so many new things. The company over there (Netherlands Dans Theater) is unbelievable. It is amazing how they move, and they are lucky to have amazing choreographers. It was a great experience to see something different, and to experience something completely out of my element. I think it made me grow as a dancer but also just as a person. I learned what it truly means to rely on the Lord, and for that small part of what I learned I would not trade it for the world. I was extremely homesick (which I am sure you all heard from mom) but somehow I pushed past that and got the most out of the experience. Thank you Marci!!!!! (she will know what i am talking about). It is something that has changed my life forever, and whatever the future holds I can remember I got through this hard part in my life. I know now that there are so many opportunities out there if you are willing to put yourself out there and conquer the hard things that come with it. Thanks again for all who made this possible. I love you all so much!!!!

Jones

Just a thought!

Dear Everyone,
While I was home at the funeral, Steve told me about a book that Pres. Monson had given to all his relatives that was called "On the Lords Errand" that tells stories about his life,Even stories that he wouldn't want the whole church to know! When he told me the name of the book it sounded really familiar. Steve was afraid that Myra had dads book but while he was there we went down and found dads book in all my church books. I had no idea what was actually in the book. Anyway, I am going to read it, it has a bunch of funny stories about when he was younger and going to church. It is kind of like a journal of just all the little things that happened to him in his life. This book is not suppose to get into the hands of anyone but the family! I guess his secretary found one being sold on ebay for about $2000 and he about died. Anyway, as I read it I will have to keep you informed about all the stories. It is quite the book. Steven took Phils and was reading it! But while I was reading the church news today I was reading the Messages of Inspiration From President Monson so I am going to just leave you with one that I liked. Take it as the Tuttle Timely Tidbit for the week!

Make The Effort
It is not enough to want to make the effort and to say we'll make the effort. We must actually make the effort. It's in the doing, not just the thinking, that we accomplish our goals. If we constantly put our goals off, we will never see them fulfilled. Someone put it this way: Live only for tomorrow, and you will have a lot of empty yesterdays today.-- From General Conference Priesthood Session, October 2007.

Love MOM

My dreams have come true...I am GIDGET!!!!

I went down to San Onfre on Friday night to learn how to surf. And SURFING IS THE ULITMATE!!!! I paddled out to the waves and it was about 7:30ish at night, our friend Eric was coaching us and it was beautiful. The sun was setting and it really did look like a scene from some surfing movie. I was nervous because it seems that although I love the ocean, she tends to just mall me and slam me into the sea floor so every other time I have tried to do something in the ocean I just come out worked, wondering why I even went in in the first place. So we get out there and the waves are starting to to die down a little so we are just sitting on our boards and it was so relaxing that I almost fell asleep. But anyways my first attempt I rode it in on my knees and it was so fun so that next time I stood right up and went for a little bit and then I lost my balance. The third time I stood right up and I rode IT ALL THE WAY IN! My teacher was quite surprise and said that I was a natural and I told him it was because I had watched Gidget so many time. It seriously was the coolest thing I have done since moving to California. I am going to go once a week and get really good and I am getting a surf board for christmas. So I have three months to work on the practice boards so that when it's christmas I can get a real one. It was soooooo fun. We surfed until is was totally dark but the moon was so bright that we just keep surfing, night surfing until I was shaking so bad because it was kind of cold after the sun went down and my arms were so tired from paddling. Then we had a bonfire and it was really fun. I loved it.

I am posting some pictures. Some of them are from my beautiful pot garden on our porch. Now I know it's no Mom and Dad's garden, only the two of them combined can produce amazing results but it has kept me busy and I have loved doing it. I got some of the plants from the Fair Plant sale. They have a big OC Fair every year and they decorate it with plants and stuff and then they have a big sale and they sale everything for super super cheap. I went not knowing that I was going to hit the jackpot but I did. I bought some beautiful hibiscus trees for only $20 bucks and everything else was a dollar. I was running away pulling all my stuff together and there were grandmas that were trying to take my stuff. I kept haven'ting to tell them to back off. Obviously, I didn't say that but it would have been kind of funny. I politely would tell them that they were mine and then we would sit and admire them together, me and the grandmas enjoying our purchases together.

I am glad that Joni is home and that she survived the foriegn land. Why don't you post some pics of your trip Jones. I am so excited to see you tomorrow. I want to hear all about it. Ty and Erica have you decided to move yet? Rich and Shelane, are you alive? Tim and Tanis, I want your child to come live with him. And Mom and Dad how's the befriending of the people that live on our property by the river, have you talked them into letting us demolish there house so that we can build there? That sounds mean but I dream about that property.

I am posting a video of claire singing at the cabin if I can get it to work and a lot pictures from this summer. Enjoy and talk to you all soon. Love you, Marsupial.

I am sure you have been dying to see...

I am sure Erica is going crazy by now since it has taken me forever to get her pictures done. So I finally finished editing them last night at about 1 so I thought I would post a few of my favorites. I absolutely LOVE actually most of them. Claire and Porter were troopers for sure and we actually got quite a few great shots of Claire- which was probably one of the hardest kids I have shot. But we love her for her little personality.

Erica, I hope you like them. There are so many that now is the hard part......picking.

Love you,

Tanis