My Fam

Halloween!

2011-11-12T17:25:00.006-07:00

Clay loved Halloween this year, he was so excited to dress up as a cow and get candy! He would also tell everybody, baby girl is going to be a sheep and mom and dad are going to be farmers. Their costumes turned out cute, Violet didn't wear hers for the trunk or treat. . she was sleeping. We did manage to get some pictures when we went to visit at Grandma and Grandpa's house. She mostly wanted to eat all the cotton balls. . . not a great idea. It was a fun day though and Clay got lots of good candy. I didn't know how many kids were going to be at the trunk or treat and we didn't bring enough candy by far! Luckily we had been to Grandma and Grandpa's house and we had some boxes of apples that we started handing out to kids, they were surprisingly excited to get an apple. Also Mike and I didn't really dress up as planned, I kind of dressed up as a farmer and Mike wore his monster hoodie from last year, I know we are boring.

Wow. . its been a while!

2011-09-27T14:51:00.009-06:00

Our new little family

Grandma and Grandpa came to see us at the hospital

Clay holding her for the first time.

Well, my last post was about how I was pregnant and now I have an almost 4 month old baby!! Violet has been an awesome baby and has slept through the night since she was just a couple weeks old. She is a super content baby and loves her big brother. Her big brother also loves her, maybe a little too much, if that is possible. Clay calls her sweetheart, it is the cutest thing ever. He loves giving her hugs and kisses all day. He lays down on the floor with her to play with toys and sometimes will sing songs to her.

Okay so my story about having her. Where to start. . . . . I started having contractions June 8th early in the morning when Mike was at UPS. I was kind of freaking out b/c with Clay it went super fast and Mike wasn't getting home until 8 ish. Well I had contractions for a while. . . . they weren't very consistent or very strong. When I would walk they would get stronger and closer together, well long story short, next morning still no baby. I couldn't sleep at all that night because my contractions kept waking me up. So that morning we walked around some more and called my Doula to ask her what to do. She came over and massaged my feet and used some oils that were supposed to help speed up contractions. . .I was willing to try anything at this point. Still nothing was happening, it came lunch time and we decided just to go to the hospital and ask them to break my water. We got all checked in and they said the doctor would have to decide, so we just had to wait until he was there. At this point I was regretting not eating lunch before I got there, because now it was nothing but ice chips and popcicles! So skip forward a few hours to about 6:00 and the doctor came in and told me he would go ahead and break my water, which took all of 2 seconds. After that I started having contractions really close together and a lot more intense. We had our doula come in right before he broke my water because we had a feeling she would come out quick after that was done. Oh . .. also I was doing this all natural. So for each contraction I had my stress ball that I was squeezing the crap out of. I was kind of in a sitting position at this point so Mike was pushing up against my knees, it just positioned my hips different so it didn't hurt as much. When I say pushing I mean putting all of his weight into my knees and I was telling him to push more, he was sweating by the end of all of this too. So they say about the point when you feel like you can't handle it any more is when you are about done. So I felt like I was close to that point, the doc came in to check me and I was at a 7!!!! WHAT! I was. . . a little frustrated/mad. So they decided to turn me on my side and I went from a 7 to 10 in minutes. I was already ready to push and ended up having her on my side. I was amazing and crazy intense. It was such a cool experience and I am glad that I did it. I have a beautiful baby girl that I absolutely adore. My recovery was awesome I only stayed in the hospital one night. It was so fun to have Clay come in and see her for the first time, he thought everything about her was so cute. He kept looking at her and saying. . awwww, it was adorable. Also my mom flew in that day so she was there to help us right away which was so nice. Clay got to stay with Blake while we were at the hospital and didn't want to come home when it was time, he loves his cousin Blake.

So since then we have gone camping a few times. We went to Hyrum Dam once.. just down the road, went up our canyon another time, and we just got back from Jackson Hole this last weekend. On Thursday morning we leave to go to St. Louis for my sister Angie's wedding, and then we are off to Nebraska for a few days! I am so excited to see all of my family!! In July the Taylor fam came out to visit and we had so much fun with them! Also we had her baby blessing in August and my mom and dad flew out and Clay had a blast playing with them and was so sad when they had to leave. We also went to Park City with Nate, Tammy, and Blake. Well hopefully it won't be so long until my next post. Clay is going to be three soon and I can't believe it!

A couple more things. The first time she smiled it was at Clay, then my Niece Haylee, and then ME! This weekend she learned how to laugh, cutest thing ever.

Fathers Day

Baby Blessing

Clay's favorite friend Avi that moved :(

Smiling at Daddy

Clay talks about this day all the time, the girls we shopping at swiss days :)

#2

2011-02-11T10:18:00.003-07:00

Well, so we all know by now that I am TERRIBLE at blogging! Anyways, I thought it was about time I put a post on here about the new baby! For those of you who don't know already, I am pregnant. I am due the end of June, so that makes me about 21 weeks right now. We are having a little girl and we are super excited about that.

So far everything has gone extremely well, I haven't been sick at all. . . . well with the pregnancy. I am sick right now with a cold and a terrible cough that is driving me CRAZY! We had the ultra sound a couple of weeks ago and everything looks great. We had the ultrasound tech put the sex of the baby in a sealed envelope and gave it to our friend who made cupcakes for us. She did a filling in the middle of pink or blue so she was the first one to find out what we were having! Travis and Megan came up for a few days and that night we did fondue with some friends and had the cupcakes! It was so fun, we also did skype with my family that is all so far away. Then we took cupcakes around to Mikes family so they could find out the same way we did. It was a really fun to find out.

Other than that Clay has been crazy as ever and learning all sorts of stuff. We took his binky away so that was challenging at first for sleeping, but now he is over it. He has been talking a lot more and learning his colors and letters. He loves saying letters with you and drawing circles. He has blocks that are red, yellow, blue, green, black and white. He builds those up several times a day and says the colors while he is doing it. He has also started saying thank-you when you give him something and it is so cute. He always wants to make sure that you heard him saying thank-you as well, so if you don't respond he will get closer to your face or just repeat it until you say you are welcome. He still loves choo choos and continually says that throughout the day. His other new fun development is screaming. He has started to get really frustrated when his blocks fall over or if something is stuck or if he wants something other than what you are giving him. So we are working on his patience! I am trying to teach him to laugh when his blocks fall over, so far he just stares at me like, why are you laughing about this? We are excited for spring so we can play outside more!

Other things I am working on. . . . . Christmas cards! Thats right, I have them all printed off just not sent so don't be surprised when you get a Christmas card in MARCH! They are too cute to not send though so hopefully I will get those done soon! I will try to be better about my blog and keeping you all posted on the new baby! If you have any girl name suggestions that would be great!

CLAY!

2010-12-07T22:15:00.008-07:00

Well it has been forever since I have posted and I thought I would post about Clay and his birthday! My little boy is now 2 years old! I can't believe it!

He is obsessed with choo choo's and can't get enough of them. He loves looking at pictures of them, playing with them, watching show with them, and reading books with them as well! He also loves Toy Story, so Toy Story 3 is perfect woody, buzz, and a choo choo!!! What more could a little boy ask for.

So for his birthday we decided to redo his bedroom. We ordered him a log bed that some people in providence made. It is awesome and he loves it. It came with a little side table, frame and bench that they engraved Clay on. I painted a choo choo on the wall, a must. We also got him a down comforter with a duvet cover that has cars all over it. We got some picture printed off and framed of the three of us and put them close to his bed. Last we got a night light that he loves to turn on and off.

Saturday we had family and friends over to celebrate. I made a choo choo rice crispy treat cake.

Grandma and Grandpa Hulse got him Buzz Lightyear. At first he was super confused as to how we got Buzz out of the tv. He loves it now and gets excited to see him on tv and in his living room. Porter, Kami and Avi got him some cars always good to have. The Kohler family got him tons of new tools and a car with a tool box on it! Also they got him some new choo choos that he carries with him everywhere and must sleep with them in his bed. More cars as well. Jen and Cody got him a play rug with a road on it to play with all of his new cars and choo choos! Jen made a super cute choo choo shirt that he also is in love with. You can never have to many trains or cars for this little boy. His birthday turned out perfect, he had a great time and crashed when everybody left.

For other updates, Mike is loving his new job at Logan River Academy. He has to take the boys skiing once a week, I know so sad for him. This new job has been great for me because he his home a lot more. I have been working at Prince Gallery once a week for a few hours, it has been a lot of fun. Other than that we are just getting ready for Christmas. We are going to St. Louis and leave Christmas Eve and come back New Years eve. I am really excited to see family even though not everybody with be there. Well that is all for now I am getting tired so my brain isn't working.

Arizona/Zion Trip!

2010-06-16T21:47:00.017-06:00

Last week we went on a road trip to Arizona to go see Kerry and the fam. We had so much fun despite the fact that our car broke down on our way out of Logan, and I don't want to talk about it! We ended up leaving Sunday morning and drove all the way through to Arizona that night. We stopped about every 2 hours to let Clay get out and run around. We now have all of our kids movies memorized after this trip.

We had so much fun with Kerry and her family! It was so good to see them all. Monday we went to Sedona and had some yummy ice cream and walked around looking at fun shops. We went to go to slide rock, that we hear is really awesome, but it was CLOSED! Bummer. We just played around at a camp site and the older boys went and swam in the river.

We went on a hike Tuesday, to some caves that were really cool. The weather was super nice, lots of pine trees and we got to see a bunch of lava rock.

Wednesday we went to the Grand Canyon, the south rim. It was super pretty and kind of trippy, it made me a little dizzy to look at it. Now we really want to hike down into the canyon and stay in a lodge they have down there! It is like a two day hike though.

The whole gang

Me and Kerry

Thursday Kerry and her kids watched Clay for us and we got to check out Flagstaff! It was really fun, we went and looked at a bunch of different bike shops and drove by the college campus there. Then we went to this awesome shop that I would buy all my clothes from if I lived there. I got a rad owl necklace, a shirt for Clay that says B is for Bob (it has a pic of Bob Marley on it), Mike got a button that I can't remember what it says right now. Then we went and had sushi, fried alligator to be exact! It was super good! We also had seaweed salad, which I love, and some veggie rolls. Also that night we had some super yummy ribs that Kerry made, and then we headed off to Zion. We got there around midnight and set up camp.

Friday we got up and had to move our camp because the one we were at was reserved. We found another camp spot and headed out to Hike up Angels Landing. We were at the visitors center wandering around and this guy camp up to us and said "I know it is none of my business but I just have to ask, (points at Mike) you have a hat, (points at me) you have a hat, (points at Clay) and where is his hat?" He had just thrown it off his head so Scotty had it. Scotty held it up and said "it is right here!" The guys just thew his hands up and walked away. None of us said anything we were all like. . what just happened there. Then Mike yelled "you are right it is none of your business" Then we got on the bus to go on our hike! It was so much fun! I think every single person that passed us commented on Clay being in the backpack. He had a good time and learned to say tree on our hike. The view was beautiful! There was a part of the hike that was a bunch of switchbacks called walter's wiggles. I was cursing Walter as we were going up them, that was the hardest part. It was worth it though. We didn't stay on the top for very long because Clay wanted to run around and well that wasn't happening on top of a mountain! That night Travis and Megan got there. We made some yummy dinner, Scotty was making fun of my pasta and mashed potatoes combo. Then we roasted some marshmallows and had some smores. Travis and Megan slept in our tent with us and we sent up both of our air mattresses so the tent was one giant air mattress, it was super comfortable!

Where is his hat!!!! See how is hair sticks up. . . that is sunscreen.

Almost there!

View from the top

Back at camp relaxing in his new chair

Clay throwing rocks, his favorite activity

Saturday we got up and went on a short hike up to the. . I can't remember the name right now. Something pools. They were really pretty though! There were some big water falls that went over the trail. After that we got back to camp and it started to rain so we decided to go for a drive through the park. Then we went to some little shops and had dinner at this pizza place Mike always went to when he was there with the UCC.

The bus ride up to hike to the Emerald Pools (I just remembered what they were called!)

Sunday we woke up packed our stuff and headed home. The weather was supposed to be rainy the entire time, and Scotty was on his motorcycle! He survived it though, but did get hailed on for a minute. He did stop and get some dry clothes at a walmart along the way.

It was a great trip!!

Easter!! (little late I know)

2010-04-18T21:12:00.006-06:00

So it has taken me a while to post about Easter, but I wanted to do it still even though it was a little while ago.

Saturday after work we drove to Travis and Megan's house. We met them to eat some dinner and then we were going to go home and color eggs. Mike went to their house to play with Clay, and we went to a few stores on a hunt for plastic eggs and a cute Easter basket for Clay. We ended up being gone for quite a while, but we got everything that we needed. By the time we got home Clay and Mike were both sound asleep. So we decided we would do the eggs the next day. We did however put candy in plastic eggs and hid them for Clay to find in the morning. After we did that we started working on some super cute onesies for Travis and Megan's baby. You can see them on Megan's blog, they all turned out really good, Travis even stitched one on!

So that morning Clay started finding the eggs before everybody was even up. He loved finding all the eggs and was putting them all in his basket and carrying his little basket around with him. It was so cute to watch him find them all. After that he was shaking them and one popped open and he discovered all the candy! WOO HOO! That is the best part.

After that happened we dyed eggs, and had a delicious lunch with ham, deviled eggs, potato salad and rolls. Then we drove back home to Logan and had a delicious dinner over at Jen and Cody's house. They did ham, yummy cheese potatoes, asparagus and rolls. It was a very good Easter weekend.

I already have another post I need to do about this weekend, because it was AWESOME, but that will have to wait until later because it is now my bedtime.

My visit to St. Louis

2010-02-08T13:20:00.005-07:00

The last part of January I went to visit my mom and dad in St. Louis. Angie just recently got a new job there and had just moved there a couple weeks before so I got to see her too!! Also Racheal and her family now live about 3 hours away, so they came up for the weekend! I had a lot of fun spending time with my family.

I was a little .. okay a lot worried about the flights out there and back, but they actually went extremely well! I am not sure how soon we will be flying again, but it went well. I took lots of little snacks, books, toys, and borrowed a dvd player from Mike's mom.

We didn't get as much done as we had hoped but watching Clay is about all we could handle. He loves to run around and climb and fall off everything. So I am constantly trying to keep him from getting more bruises.

My mom did get a new puppy while we were there and she is so cute! She loved playing with Clay, he was just her size. She would run after him and try and play with him. He wasn't so sure at first, and he didn't really like it. He got used to her though and would start to chase her around. They had fun together. She is a cute little puppy, her name is Carly. Bonita (Angie's dog) was not too sure about her either, and I think still is not to fond of the new puppy.

One night we got to go out to dinner to a fancy Italian place! Clay stayed home with Racheal's kids and played with them all night. It was so fun to go out to dinner with my sisters and my mom and dad. The food was delicious and we had a lot of fun together. I got to learn about all the times my mom had to take babies to the hospital!!

Mike was in Denver looking and drooling over all the new snowboards for next year. He drove with a couple of guys he works with at Al's. They drove there Wednesday and drove home Friday night. It was a quick trip but I think he had fun.

So this week we are going to start the Whole body action plan! It is through the body + soul magazine. The first week is a detox, well the last four days of the week is. So we are getting ready to start. My mom and sister, Racheal, are going to do it as well, so it will be nice to have some encouragement. There are a lot of new foods that we will be trying and I can't wait! I think it will be fun! I will let you all know how it works out!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2010-01-06T21:02:00.028-07:00

My sister in law Megan did this on her blog and I thought it was a cute idea so I thought I would copy her!

This is what we have done this past year. . . . . (also I never sent Christmas cards, so this counts!)

January

We went to Hardware Ranch with Travis and Megan to see all of the Elk. Clay was only one month old, so I was still trying to figure out how to be a mom. Which I am still trying to figure out! That was still when he slept all the time though. . aw the good ole days.

February

This was when we deceided to take a weekend trip to Moab. It was a great time to go becuase we were pretty much the only people there. Except for the road to Delicate arch was CLOSED! It was a fun trip though, and good to get away for a couple of days. That is also when I dyed my hair. . I don't want to talk about it.

Also Mike did quite a bit of split boarding last winter with the dogs. He has lots of plans to continue that this winter.

March

March was Mike's birthday!! I was proud of the cake I made him, the bike I attempted to draw with frosting is supposed to be his bike.

April

We road tripped it to Washington. It was a beautiful drive, long but beautiful. We had a lot of fun, and Clay did really well in the car surprisingly. It was fun to see that part of the country, I had never been there before. I loved seeing Mike's grandpa as well. We took the ferry a couple of times, went to pike's place market, the tulip festival, all sorts of fun stuff.

May

This was one of my mothers day presents. It was my very fist mothers day and it was a great one. I got pretty flowers, and an awesome bag it was a good day.

This was also the month Travis and I went to Texas to see my mom and dad. I surprised my mom, it was a great surprise and we had so much fun!

June

Our friends Pat and Lynn got married in Flaming Gorge. We went down there and camped for a couple of days, it was so pretty there, I want to go again when it gets warm!

July

We went with Jen and Cody to a Fourth of July shin dig. Mike and Clay slept through all the fireworks!! They had a cool little train there pulled by a four wheeler that was fun, Cody took Clay on it, what a great uncle.

We also went to the Cache Valley cruise in with Jen and Cody. We went and ate a bluebird before hand, then after we ate we just went outside the front door, ate our yummy bluebird chocolates and watch the cars drive by.

August

We bought our house!!! I love this house so much and I am so happy to be living here! We love Hyrum! It makes it easier to bug Jen and Cody all the time.

September

My mom and dad came to Hyrum to help us get settled in our new house. I think my dad met more people working out in the yard that day than I have in a long time. Maybe that is why I didn't meet many people at our other house!

We also went to the children's museum in Salt Lake. It was probably more fun for Mike and I than Clay but he still had a good time! He was just crawling at this point so he wasn't getting into too much yet.

Mike had a bike show for Al's in Las Vegas that we drove down to with 4 other guys from the shop, crazy boys. It was a fun trip, I just got to hang out with my Aunt and cousin for a couple of days! This is apparently the only picture I have from the trip.

October

This was my birthday! I know that we did something but I can't remember what, and neither can Mike. He is asleep now "trying to remember" what we did. I am sure it was great though!

We took another road trip, to Nebraska! My friend JJ got married so we took a long weekend and went. It was super fun to see everybody. We stayed with my brother Brad and his cute family. Travis drove there with us and then Megan flew there another day and drove home with us. It was a short trip but it was tons of fun.

We also went on a little drive to go find the snow of course!

We can't forget Halloween! Mike's costume was awesome and everybody loved it! He was syndrome from Incredibles, Clay was smokey the bear, and I was mother nature.

November

We had Thanksgiving at our house!! I loved having it at our house! We got new dishes, cups and I made lots of new things for decorating the house. I didn't take any pictures though. . . bummer.

We did cut down our very own Christmas tree this month, I love it! I am sad to take it down.

December

My Clay is now 1 YEAR OLD!

December was a great month, and I am sad it is over. I got to go to St. Louis and see my ENTIRE family!! We stayed up late every night, watching movies and playing band hero. I started a few crafts and left them there for when I go back the end of this month. I got tons of good stuff I am not even going to list it! It would take too long and I am ready for bed. I hope you enjoyed all my pictures from this year! It was an awesome year, and I probably could have put what different things Clay did each month, he is constantly changing. I don't have any pictures from December yet, I didn't take that many! I am not sure why.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAY!!!

2009-12-17T11:09:00.007-07:00

My little boy is 1 year old!! I can't believe it has been a year already! This year has been CRAZY, but tons of fun. Clay is so fun to be with all day. He is constantly learning new things. Yesterday he pulled the mop out of the closet and started pushing it around the kitchen floor, he is such a good helper! He loves sorting the clean clothes, and helping me put the wet clothes in the dryer, or the wet clothes in the other room. Last night he woke up at 2:30 ready to go, I kept trying to get him back to sleep and nothing worked. He kept kicking me because he couldn't get back to sleep so I starting holding his knees down when he would kick, and he thought that was HILARIOUS! He was laughing! I was like seriously you are laughing. . . . then I thought screw it I can't be mad at him when he is giggling, so I decided to make him laugh even more by tickling him and hoped this would wear him out. He did eventually go back to sleep, and slept until 8 this morning!

For his birthday we had family and close friends over. The night before his birthday however our sink got clogged. We tried to clean out all the pipes under the sink, we used drain o, we did everything we could think of and it was still not draining. So the next morning Mike took off work to figure out what was wrong. He ended up taking apart pipes that were in the basement and in the process breaking one of them. YEAH! So after Mike and Travis got all the pipes cleaned out and almost barfed because it smelled so bad, Mike went off to the store to get some new pipes. In the mean time, I still had not showered and I couldn't now because the pipes downstairs were taken apart. My kitchen was a complete disaster with dishes everywhere full of water from the sink! So Mike got home, fixed the pipes, and by 12:30 I was in the shower. Everybody was coming over at 1, by the way and I still had to make all the cupcakes and lunch for everybody too! So I had Jen make the cupcakes for me, and had Travis and Megan help with the decorations and food. All in all it turned out really good, lunch was good and the kitchen no longer smelled bad. Clay had a great 1st birthday and he loved all of his presents! I don't know why but it seems we are always working on something when Travis and Megan come to visit us, we are going to scare them away!

The cupcake tree! Thank-you Theresa and Melissa. Also thank-you Jen for making all the cupcakes!

Opening presents, he wanted to be sitting on my lap the entire time.

Last but not least he loved his little cake, after every bit he would say mmmmm

Now for Christmas, I am so excited to go to St. Louis I can hardly wait! I am so excited to see all of my family and my parents new house!! It is going to be so much fun, we will be there for a week! YEAH! It is only a week away!

CHRISTMAS TREE!!

2009-12-03T11:38:00.003-07:00

So the other night Mike, Clay and I went up into the mountains and found ourselves a Christmas tree! It was so much fun! It was pretty cold and there was a lot more snow than we had anticipated. We did find a good tree after a little bit of walking and searching. We ended up hiking up the side of the mountain in about 6 inches of snow. Mike carried Clay under his arm, and I cut down the tree!! We had a lot of fun, and got a good tree. I just have to finish decorating it and then I will post more pictures of it all completed!

Clay's 1st birthday is this Saturday!!! I can't believe it has been a year already! We are excited to celebrate his birthday, and I will post more about him for his birthday. I will tell you how great he is, even if he is mad at me right now for not letting him play with the computer!

FALL!

2009-11-11T11:54:00.006-07:00

So the other day I raked up all the leaves and let Clay play in them. I didn't know if he would really pay attention to them, but he loved them! He had so much fun crawling in all the piles of leaves. The really big piles he would try to crawl right through the middle of them and get stuck, all you could see was the back of his head. Later that day some ward members came by with a big trailor full of leaves and picked up all of them! YEAH! So all in one day I raked them, Clay got to play in them and then they got picked up!

Lately Clay had been dancing to music it is the cutest thing ever. He is walking everywhere and has been loving it.

The other thing I have been doing is working on a book that somebody ordered from me off of Etsy! It was so fun to make and it turned out so good! I hope she loves it too! She is getting married on the beach so she wanted light blues and greens. The crab was the theme throughout her wedding, so I stitched one on the front! Oh and it is going to be her sign in book.

Halloween and more!

2009-11-02T21:04:00.006-07:00

Well everybody else was posting Halloween pictures so I thought I should join in the fun! Our costumes were not quite as good as Amy and Randy though I must say!

So Mike has gotten quite a few comments about how he looks like Syndrome on the Incredibles. So we thought that costume couldn't be more perfect for him. It turned out a lot better than I thought it would. He dressed up for work on Friday and everybody loved it! He kept having people coming over to find him because they heard he had a good costume.
Halloween night we got all ready for the trick or treaters, come to find out our ward had a trunk or treat that we didn't know about so we didn't have very many people come over. We went to visit Jen and Cody and they had over 100 kids already! After that we went to Tammy and Nate's house to show off our cute little smokey the bear! It was a good night and now we have lots of left over candy... I don't know if that is a good thing or not.

This picture of Clay and I is when it snowed quite a bit. Clay kept pointing out the window at the snow so I let him walk around it in for a little bit, he loved it! He is walking every where now he doesn't want to crawl any more. He is getting super good at it. He still falls quite a bit but he is getting better.

The other thing I never posted about was our Nebraska trip!! We drove to Nebraska a few weeks ago for my friend JJ's wedding! It was so fun to be there and see all of my friends. The wedding was great and JJ was beautiful of course. We stayed with Brad, Emily and Mya. Mya is so cute and so full of energy just like Clay. Clay didn't know what to think of her at first, I think he was a little intimidated. It was also Mya's first birthday! It was so fun to be there for that and watch her smash her face into her cake. We also went to a Husker game!! That was so fun and it was Mike's first time going! It was a great trip, a long drive, but fun. I can't wait to see everybody for Christmas!

Walking, Vegas and more

2009-10-08T10:54:00.004-06:00

Well my baby boy is now walking. Well trying really hard! The most steps he has taken has been about 12!!! He is doing so good, and he loves it! He is standing up on his own so well, and usually takes 2-3 steps then sit down to crawl the rest of the way. He is such a fun little boy to play with all day long. Yesterday for lunch he had almost an entire thing of easy mac and lot of little slices of pear! For dinner he ate an entire banana and most of his quesadilla! He is eating so much it is crazy. He is happy as ever, except for at night when he doesn't want to sleep very much at all. He loves to play and not sleep.

A couple of weeks ago we went to Vegas because Mike went to a big bike expo there. It was called interbike, he had a blast. The first day all they did was ride all the bikes they wanted to. They went up to a mountain and had access to anything they wanted. He loved it! I got to spend all day with my Aunt Lori and my cousin Amy and her two adorable little girls. I had so much fun spending time with them, which doesn't happen very often. They next day I went to interbike with Mike and wondered around to all the booths and saw all the new fancy bikes and accessories. It was a fun couple of days, and Clay did amazingly well in the car!!! We are going to drive to Lincoln next week, so hopefully he will do well then too!

Other than that not too much has been going on. I put up some fall decorations in my house which is so fun! I love fall! I also got curtains put up in my bedroom and in Clay's room! Our room feels much more like a room now. This last week was my birthday, so I got a new dresser/shelves for my clothes! It is so cute, I love it! I got it at Ikea of course, but it is just a bookshelf but has a glass door on the front that is frosted glass with flowers! I also got some new clothes at Gap. Thanks Mom and Mike's mom for my new stuff!!!

OH! I do have another story to tell. So for my birthday Mike's sister Jen asked me if I wanted to go to lunch, which sounded awesome. So I chose to go to Olive Garden, I never go there but I really like it. So little did I know it was UEA week and all of the schools were out. Still I didn't think Olive Garden would be packed for lunch on a Thursday. Well, it was pretty full, and the wait was 15-20 minutes, so not too bad right? Well we waited for 20 min and nothing, so Mike went to talk to them, and then we got in. So we sat down, got our menus and decided quickly what we wanted to we could get our order in right away. We then waited and waited and waited some more. We sat there for 40 minutes with no water, no waiter, nothing!!! So we left! Nobody even noticed us leaving!!!! The girl at the door asked how our meal was and we told her we don't know, we never had it. We then explained what happened and she just stared with her mouth and eyes wide open. She didn't even say anything!!! No free meal!!! We then went to Iggy's, they guarantee you get your food in 15 minutes!! Perfect! It was really good food, and good for Clay because there was lots to look at there. Then we went shopping and got some cute new clothes for Clay and a little walker which he loves. It was a great day!

This was at my Aunt Lori's house, he had a great time doing this.

Etsy!

2009-09-20T22:08:00.005-06:00

So I have been wanting to open a shop on Etsy for some time now, but have failed to do so. Until today!!! I finally got a shop all set up! It is so much fun! It will be even more fun when I actually sell something, so wish me luck.

I started out with the name enjay, which is my initials NJ just spelled out, my creative little brother came up with that. So I debated for like. . . . 5 months ish, and finally decided to just do it. Well I went to set it up and it was already taken!!! I was so sad. Then I decided to do enbe, which is what my creative husband came up with. So after playing with logos forever, because I already had one for enjay, I finally got everything set up. I posted all of my books for sale this afternoon, and now I need to make more because there are not very many!

Here it is http://enbe.etsy.com

Other than that, we are going to Vegas tomorrow to a bike expo. I am super excited! We are going to stay with my Aunt Lori in their beautiful house. Tuesday I am going to play with her all day, while Mike goes and rides tons of different bikes. Then on Wednesday I will go with Mike to the bike show and look at all the new bikes!! It will be super fun. Then we are going to drive back Wednesday night, wish me luck, Clay hates the car at night!

The other night at dinner Clay kept making a super funny face. He does this face quite often but I haven't ever gotten a picture of it. Well I got tons of pictures and a couple of videos, he couldn't stop making that crazy face. He is so much fun and so full of energy. He is going to be walking any day now I can feel it. He is so dang cute I can't handle it most days.

Look at those faces and just try not to laugh.

Updates

2009-09-11T12:43:00.005-06:00

So we are all moved into our new house! There is still a lot of organizing to do, but mostly everything is done. There are still a lot of boxes in the garage, we do need to work on that. We are loving it though. We had a problem with some spiders when we first moved in and when we saw one crawling out of the attic door, that is above our BED we decided to call somebody. They came the next day to spray and we haven't seen a spider since! Now that, that issue is over it is much better. I have been loving all the space, and Clay loves it too. He crawls around everywhere, and really wants to be walking. He pulls himself up on everything still, and has balanced on his feet by himself a couple of times. The other thing we now have is stairs. He loves going up them and when I want to help him go down, he is thrilled. We have loved being in Hyrum, everybody has been really friendly. We already planted a couple of trees!!

The day we closed on our previous house, my mom flew out to help us! It was so nice to have her here! She made me beautiful curtains, and there should be more on the way! My dad also came that weekend, and helped a ton with the yard. It was so fun to have them here. I feel like that was forever ago, I am ready to have them back! Travis and Megan have been up a few times to visit and have helped a bunch with getting everything put together. Travis has assembled all of the new furniture we have gotten, thanks Trav! We lost the bolts to Clay's crib, so we finally gave in and just went and bought new bolts, I am sure they will turn up one day.

This last Tuesday Mike had the entire day off. Well except for UPS but he is usually home when we are waking up. So we went to the Children's museum in Salt Lake! It was so fun!!! I think Mike and I had more fun than Clay did. There was a little area just for little babies that Clay loved. There were just a lot of soft toys and a little slide.

That is pretty much everything that has been happening. Clay did have his 9 month check up. He was only 16 lbs. which is below the 5th percentile! So we need to fatten him up. The doctor said to put melted butter in with his peas and feed him shredded cheese. He loves the shredded cheese, I haven't done the melted butter yet. He said he can pretty much eat anything now, there is just a few things he can't eat. We have been having fun trying new things. He is still just a cute as ever!

Bike Riding and Chasing Clay

2009-07-31T12:21:00.000-06:00

Yesterday Mike watched Clay while I went on my first bike ride!! YEAH!! I got a new road bike earlier. . . I have picture on an earlier post. Last night was my first ride on it, and I had so much fun! I rode for about an hour and loved it! I went after we had dinner so I got to see the sunset while I was riding. I felt really good to get outside and be by myself for a little while!

Meanwhile, Clay is keeping me really busy. He is crawling now, but he doesn't do it all the time. We went to Travis and Megan's apartment on Wednesday and he just started crawling. He still likes to scoot though. He new favorite thing is pulling himself up so he can stand. Since I am packing he loves all the boxes, he loves to look inside them while I am packing, and eat the newspaper. Today he pulled off some big ceramic bowls that are on a shelf in the kitchen. That was fun! So I am excited to get into this new house so we can put all of that stuff away, so he can't hurt himself. Poor little guy! He never stop moving, he wishes he could walk so badly! I however would love for that to be delayed.

This Wednesday Mike had the entire day off, well except for UPS. So When he got home from UPS we hopped in the car and headed for Park City. Mike went mountain biking at the Deer Valley Resort. I went shopping at the outlet mall, and Travis drove over to meet me. Travis then discovered how crazy and how much Clay likes to move around. Then we drove up to Deer Valley and met Mike for lunch and by that time he was pretty tired. So we decided to go and make our visit to Ikea! I got my shelves that I have been wanting, and my desk! I am so excited to get it all set up in our new house! Megan met us after work at Ikea, and then we went and had some yummy dinner at Applebees. After that we headed home. It was a great day!

My new desk!! I am so excited!

So now with the houses, we are just packing and trying to get the few things done for our appraisal. We didn't know this, but they go through our house one last time, so we have to get it all cleaned up. Right now it is full of boxes and stuff everywhere! Our Realtor just brought over his trailer for us to fill up! We can start moving stuff in on Monday, but we don't officially get the house until the 15th. Everything is going smoothly though and we are thankful for that!

Houses

2009-07-22T09:14:00.007-06:00

So we found the house we are going to buy! We already gave them our offer and they accepted!! We are so excited! I absolutely love the house! It was built in 1890 but has been completely redone inside. It is so nice, and I am so excited to live there! It has a garage/shop that has room for all the cars, and a bike shop!!! It has three bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.

As for our house the siding is almost done and it looks SO GOOD! We had our appraisal done, we are just waiting to hear back from them. If we don't hear back that means everything went great, so I guess we don't want to hear from them. That should be by today though. Then they will do the home inspection and then we start packing! The closing date for our house is August 11. The closing date for the house we are buying is two weeks after that, so we are hoping we can move in sooner. They said if everything is complete we can. All that is left to do is the upstairs bathroom, tiling, and wiring. There is some painting and wiring in other rooms to finish. The sellers live in Ogden now and come up on the weekends to finish things with the house. Hopefully it will be done August 12! Oh, and we have to do the inpection and appraisal on the house we want. So much to do! Selling and buying a house is a PAIN! All of you that have done it or are in the process of doing it, know what I mean.

Other than that, Clay is doing really good! He has two teeth now and wishes he could run around still. He pulls himself everywhere, and loves sitting up by himself, and getting into EVERYTHING. He has been so much fun, and he is excited to have a bigger house to scoot around in!

As for Mike, this is his last week working at Hyrum Dam!!! YEAH!!!! I am so excited for him to be done with that. Even though the house we are moving to is right next to the dam, that would've been nice this summer! He will be working at UPS and Al's sporting goods still. He should be getting done with work around 4 though! I am not going to know what to do with him! I am excited to have him home more!

So Many Updates!

2009-07-06T09:45:00.013-06:00

There are quite a few things I need to write about, so here we go . . .

I went to El Paso for a week to visit my sister Racheal and her family. While I was there Mike went on high adventure with my nephew Trent in Lake Powell. He had a good time, and said it was very relaxing not having to work 3 jobs. He actually got to read a book!!! That rarely happens. I had an awesome time with my sister and her family. We did tons of fun things like, go to the pool, made terrariums, made picture frames, went shopping, and made plum jam! My mom was also able to come up for a few days too. I also got tons of good baby boy clothes from Racheal. One night we made plum jam from their very own tree in their backyard. It took a while, but it was really fun, we all had our stations and made a good little assembly line. The jam turned out really yummy!! I think we had like 52 bottles of jam, something like that. They are getting ready to move to Illinois, so it was fun to visit them in their house before the moved. I had a great time. We had fun staying up late and talking every night, that is my most favorite thing to do when I visit my family.

Clay loved Playing with the kids

Cora got stickers and was putting them on everyone, even on Clay's hands

This is just the beginning of plum jam makings

The other thing is Clay is now pulling himself EVERYWHERE! He loves it! He can't stop moving, and when he sees kids running he can't help but watch them the whole time. He wants to run so badly, and that is when I will be getting him a leash! He has been so fun, he keeps me busy making sure he isn't getting into anything he isn't supposed to. He loves cords, plastic bags, paper and sometimes he likes his toys. He can even crawl off the little step we have in our bedroom. He just hangs his little arms over the edge and then pulls himself forward until he falls off of it basically. He also is saying dadada and making new noises almost everyday. He also got a tooth!!! I don't have a picture of that yet. It isn't all the way up, but it is up through his gum's!

Thursday of last week Jen and Cody's ward had their 4th of July celebration. They were having games and treats at the church and then watching fireworks afterward. It was raining for a while before it started so we assumed it was canceled, so Jen and I headed over to Joanne Fabric to get some things. Cody called while we were there and said everybody was over at the church. So we got back and headed over there. They have this train that they do that is pulled by a four wheeler, and the seats everybody sits in are made out of big blue barrels. The kids love it and line up all night to ride on it! So we had Cody take Clay and they loved it. Mike got their right before the fireworks started and then he and Clay slept through all of them!!! It was a fun night though and I attempted to take pictures of the fireworks.

Clay and Cody going on a train ride!

Sleeping through the fireworks

For the 4th of July Travis and Megan came up from SLC. Travis and his friend Cody helped Mike put up a metal shed in our backyard, which is very nice to have. It didn't take too long, and we love it! After they did that we went to Hyrum, they had some booths set up and free watermelon so we thought we would go look around. We missed the free watermelon, but I got a really pretty pentant from the lady I always have to buy something from! She is my favorite, she is at the farmers market usually. After that Travis and Megan headed home because they were leaving Sunday morning to go to Japan!!!! We also made neck pillows for them while they were here, to try and help them sleep on the plane. They had a 10 hour flight! So anyways, after that we met up with Jen and Cody at the bluebird for some dinner. Had some good dinner and got some yummy chocolates, and went and sat outside to watch the Cache Valley Cruise in. It was a lot of fun, Clay loved all the motorcycles. He did not like the cops on the motorcycles, because they for some reason had to have their sirens going! After that we went home, and all went for a little bike ride, and then out for ice cream! It was a really fun day!

waiting for the cars to start coming!

Other than that, we had a couple look at our house for the second time on Saturday. They were here for about an hour. Our Realtor was going to call them this morning and get back to us, so I am excited to hear what they say! Hopefully everything works out!

Clay loves eating grass and dirt, his papa is so proud.

Clay's First Camping Trip

2009-06-11T14:43:00.012-06:00

Mike's friend Pat got married this past weekend next to Flaming Gorge. They got married outside by a beautiful lake out in the middle of lots of Pine Trees. It was so pretty there! We decided to camp while we were there. I brought lots of blankets and warm clothes for Clay. He loved it!! He did so well, he slept just as good or maybe better than he always does.

It was free fishing on Saturday in Utah (meaning you don't need a fishing license), so we went fishing there! I haven't been fishing in years!! It was fun, but gross when you actually caught one. I did catch one and so did Mike.

Sunday morning Pat's family invited us over to where they were camping to have omelets. So you put everything in a zip lock bag and boil it in water! It actually worked really well, and was a very yummy breakfast! They also had biscuits, gravy, orange juice, milk and Mike found some candy too.

The drive was really pretty and it was fun to see the dam. Clay did really good, and loves being outside. It was a great weekend. Now I am getting ready to Fly to El Paso tomorrow to see my sister Racheal and her family!

Clay also turned 6 months last week! We went to the doctor and he is 14lbs 3oz (which is the 5th percentile) and 25 1/2 inches tall! So our doctor said since he never stops moving, we need to give him more calories. So I have started to feed him 3 times a day now! We had a 1/2 birthday party for him last night at Jen and Cody's house. It was really fun, we made him a cute little party hat and had cupcakes! Jen posted some really cute pictures of him, he was so cute with his little birthday hat on! I am excited for his 1st birthday when he can have some cake!

Here are a few of swaps that I have done too! They have been so much fun!
This was a pink, green, and yellow matchbox swap.
This was a bird whimsy jar, it was only a 2 oz. jar full of cute things that had to do with birds!

These are summer time ATC's (artist trading cards) So you could do anything that had to do with summer.

TEXAS!!!

2009-06-01T14:29:00.004-06:00

I went to see my mom for a week and I had the best time with her. So about a month ago Travis called me and told me he was going to Houston and he got a good deal on plane tickets. So I decided I wanted to go with him, I called my mom to tell her and she didn't answer, so I decided she didn't get to know, I was going to surprise her.

The surprise was awesome. I waited inside and waited for Travis to wave me outside when my mom got there. She pulled up and they were putting Trav's bags in the car when I walked up behind her. I didn't know what to do to get her attention. I was just going to ask her if she had room for two more. Travis got out the camera and my mom says "okay we are taking my picture at the airport!" She turned around and saw Clay and I and screamed!! Then she hugged us really tight and the combination of the two made Clay scream as well. It was so funny, I love surprising people! My mom said she didn't have even the slightest clue that we were coming and was surprised to find out everybody knew but her!

The week was awesome, we went swimming, shopping, eating, and had a great time talking every night before we went to bed. My Dad came that weekend, he got in Friday night and we got to spend all day Saturday and part of Monday with him. My niece Afton got baptized that weekend so my mom and dad flew out Sunday Morning early and got back Monday morning!! What a fast trip! Angie also came to visit as well! I had a lot of fun with her, she came Friday and left Monday night.

Clay loved swimming in the pool! The cold water didn't bother him at all!! We got a little crab floaty for him, that had a little shade on it to keep him out of the sun. He loved kicking his little feet and splashing in the water. This video is of him playing with a little fountain thing in the pool. He loved it, you can see his little foot covering up with water and then taking it off. That tickles your foot too!! I don't know how he could stand it, but he thought it was great.

Clay was spoiled at got lots of new clothes!! He got some really cute stuff. His grandma and grandpa love spoiling him. I got spoiled to though, I also got new clothes!!
Clay did so good on the plane too!! I was a little bit worried because our flight home was so late, but he slept all three hours!!!! The plane ride there he slept most of the way too, he was awake for about an hour of it! What a good boy!

My very first Mothers Day!

2009-05-12T21:00:00.007-06:00

I had a great first mothers day. Clay slept from 9:30-8:30 for the first time!!! YEAH!! What a great present!! Then Mike made me breakfast in bed, he made waffles with strawberries and whip cream on top, and eggs on the side! YUMMY! It was very good! The friday before he got me a backpack that Clay can go in, so we can go hiking!! It is awesome, and Clay loves it. Mostly he likes sucking on it, and he actually sleeps in it too!
There is also this bag that I have been wanting for a little while, but it is kind of expensive. So Mike was going to get it for me for mothers day. . . When we went to get the backpack he said, I was going to get you that bag you wanted, little bowls (which I also have been wanting), and flowers. So as we are checking out, credit card in hand, he asks me if I am sure I want the backpack for mothers day!!! AHHH! So I got the backpack, and today I got the bag :) I am spoiled! I love it though! It is so cute, and huge!

I had a great mothers day! I also got some yummy cookies from Jen, they were gone within an hour of being home! THANK YOU!

Too much cuteness!

2009-05-07T22:02:00.002-06:00

There is nothing to say, he is just too cute and he loves Dirt.

Cereal!! and 3 gift challenge

2009-04-11T11:14:00.006-06:00

So I fed Clay cereal for the first time yesterday, and I am going to again this morning when he wakes up! He did really good. He didn't get much food but that is not really the point. He seemed to like it though, well he didn't hate it, so that is good! At his last appointment he weighed 12lbs 8oz. So he has doubled his birth weight!! He is only in the 30% for his weight. He was 25 inches long, I can't remember what percentile that was. He is doing great though! We are just getting ready for our trip to Washington. We will start driving early tomorrow morning!! YEAH! I am so excited to go on vacation!!! It will be a lot of fun, and hopefully Clay doesn't hate the car too much! I am going to get him a new toy so maybe that will make him happy :) Well enjoy the video!! It is kind of long so you don't have to watch the whole thing!

Also I am going to do a 3 gift challenge:

This is how it works..... The first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive a hand made gift from me during this year. When and what will be a surprise. BUT, in order for you to leave a comment on my blog, you have to post this on your blog first. (That means that sometime during this year you will send a gift to 3 people as well.) Get it? So, the first 3 people to comment on this post will be the lucky ones!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE!!

2009-03-26T12:22:00.005-06:00

Today is Mike's birthday, and he is now as old as I am!!! I haven't posted his picture of his hair being cut yet, so I thought this would be a good time. He came home from work one day and said he was done with his hair and he wanted to cut it that day! So we went and got it chopped off and saved his pony tail to donate to locks of love (or whatever it is called).

This year has been so fun especially with our Clay. Mike is such an awesome Papa and loves playing with Clay. Clay always knows when he gets home and smiles when he can hear his voice. Mike has been working so hard for our little family so I don't have to go to work and I really appreciate it. He even gets up in the middle of the night with me if Clay wakes up even though he has to get up and go to work at 4:00 in the morning!
I love every minute I get to spend with him, and we always have a good time. We are always trying new things which is always fun. Mike is up for pretty much anything, and he is always encouraging me to do the things I like to do.

Also here is another video of Clay, try to ignore me, I wish I could block out my voice on the videos so you just hear his. .. aw well, enjoy!

Houses, cleaning, and fun weekends!

2009-03-23T22:09:00.004-06:00

So today we put an offer on this house we have been looking at, which also means our house is now for sale!!! AHHHH!! So we went and did all the paper work and about a half hour later the Realtor called us and said will you be in the home show. .. TOMORROW MORNING! Mike said, ya that will be just fine. He tells me and I say WHAT!!!! So you all know what I have been doing all day today . . .cleaning like mad. Well I didn't finish everything and Mike is home from work now. He brought me home a shake for cleaning all day, and went outside. I thought he was working on Bikes in the shop, but he was taking down our CHRISTMAS lights! YIKES! We still haven't taken those down yet! So I was going to finish up cleaning the kitchen and bedroom but he told me I had three options 1 eat the rest of my shake 2 look on the computer or 3 lay down and rest. I have a great husband. Well I decided to write a blog because I haven't done that in a little while. I will keep you updated on the house.

This last weekend Travis and Megan came up to visit and we had such a great time. It was Travis' spring break this past week but he didn't get to go anywhere so he was a little bummed. So they deceided to come up here and get a hotel room to eat pizza, swim, and play their new wii! It was so much fun! I love playing the wii, and I got to try out wii fit and found out my balance is way off! I was excited to see if Clay would play in the pool, but when we got to the pool there was a huge sign that said . .no kids under the age of 5, no diapers, bla bla bla. So bummer he didn't get to go kick around in the pool. Maybe when we go to Texas in June he will be able to. He will be 6 months old then too!!! Thanks for the fun weekend Travis and Megan!

The weekend before that my friends drove all the way to Utah to see the fam! It was so fun to see them! I haven't seen Theresa in so long!!!!! It has almost been a year since I have seen JJ too! I had a great time with them, and I got to meet Shane which was fun as well! Also Theresa's friend, Christina, brought up her twins!! They are so cute, and more power to her raising twins, I would die. It was a short but awesome weekend! Thanks again for driving so far to see us!

Clay is doing great, he is still just as cute as ever. He is really starting to grab his toys, it is so fun to watch him. He is such a happy baby! We have a lot of fun together.

Something is off. . .

2009-03-10T14:33:00.004-06:00

So the other day Mike decided to hold Clay while I put his pants on, and it was kind of difficult. I thought that it was okay though. Well he was kind of upset and Mike kept asking him what was wrong. We went to put him in his car seat and well. . . . you can see what is wrong now! Poor kid, that is why he was upset, he had two legs crammed in one leg hole!

I just thought this video was cute, and I haven't put a video on here before so I thought I would give it a shot. This is one of his most favorite toys and he is getting to where he can get a hold of it sometimes. I just thought this was cute because he was talking in it too! Enjoy!

Sleepy Breeze and bikes!

2009-03-04T09:49:00.005-07:00

I have been meaning to blog about this for a while now. Mike kept telling me that I could put Clay to sleep better than he could. So he came up with this idea to get him to go to sleep. While he is rocking him he blows on his face. He calls it the sleepy breeze. He says this works because then he HAS to close his eyes, which will make him even more sleepy and he WILL go to sleep. Well I am not totally convinced that this little trick works. So one day, when we went to Moab actually, he was in his car seat and would not go to sleep. So I got in the back with him and since he had been crying so much his poor little head was bright red and he was hot. So I not thinking about the sleepy breeze starting blowing on his face a little bit to COOL him down! Well it worked and he went to sleep, and Mike caught me doing the sleepy breeze. So anyways it is an on going joke around here and I am still not totally convinced that it works.

Next thing. We ordered our bikes!!! YEAH!! I am so excited. I am getting a road bike. I want to go on long rides, that is my goal. I am not sure when or how I will do these longs rides, but I will figure it out! I am getting a CADD9 , and I am going to get clipless petals (red ones!) which I am nervous and excited about. That huge scar on Mike's arm. . . that is from clipless petals!!
Mike is also getting a new bike, opposite of mine. The bike I am getting is known for how light it is, Mike's bike is known for how incredibly heavy it is. His bike is for going really fast down hill. It is called the perp.
Clay is getting a chairot so he can come along on all of our fun adventures! He is still a little too small for it though, so maybe when is about 6 months old he will be able to fit into it. We will see.

Spring???

2009-03-02T14:00:00.007-07:00

I am ready for spring!! I am done with the snow and my really icy driveway. I haven't been able to really play in the snow as much as I normally do, so I am done with it for now. I am ready to play at the park and ride my bike and be outside!

Clay has been doing so good, he sleeps really well. He has been sleeping from about 10-5:30 sometimes longer than that. He has been talking a lot more and giggling a little bit. He loves morning time, which he does not get from me. We recently got him this bumbo chair that he loves! It helps him sit up and that is his favorite thing to do lately.

I also made him this little felt hat (compliments of the Martha Stewart website) it is a cute little hat I think. Plus he is smiling in this picture! CUTE! You can't really tell but he is wearing little owl leggings!

So one day we drove up the canyon to get some fresh air and Mike was playing with Clay and I just really liked this picture.

Last, this is a little sock monkey I made for Angie, I think it turned out really cute.

That is mostly all that is going on with us. Mike is still just working like crazy, so I love it when he is home for a minute so I can spend time with him. I end up hanging out at Al's sporting goods a lot so I can see him. Everything is going good though, and I actually got to go snowboarding for the first time this last weekend. It was a really fun day, and the snow was good and the sky was clear it was great. Clay got to spend time with his Aunt Tammy, I think they both had a fun time. It was my first time leaving him, and I did pretty good I think.

Moab!

2009-02-04T11:27:00.007-07:00

We planned this trip to Moab, and by planned I mean said we wanted to go and that was about it. Mike had work off of ups Monday morning and then got work off at Al's too. So we thought we would go early Sunday morning when Clay wakes up, which is about 3:30 ish. So the day before (Saturday) Clay was not in a very good mood. He wouldn't really eat and he was crying a bunch so a six hour drive to Moab wasn't sounding so great. We weren't ready when we wanted to be and so we deceided we weren't going to go and we would just go somewhere close. Well Sunday morning we got up at about 7:30 and decided what the heck lets go now. So Mike got on the computer and resereved a hotel room, there was no turning back now. We got everthing packed up and headed out! Clay was in a much better mood that day. He did so good in the car, we stopped about every 2 hours to feed him. So we stopped at Grandpa Madsen's had lunch and fed him and continued on our journey. We packed luches so the only time we ate out was for one dinner.

Moab was beautiful! The weather was in the upper 40's to lower 50's. The sky was clear, no inversion!! YEAH!! We could acutally go outside a breath fresh air! The red rock is beautiful!!! I have never been there and I loved it.
Right before we left Mike was looking on the computer and said oh no, the road is closed to Arches! By this time we had already bought the hotel room, so I just laughed and said ah well, lets go. He said just kidding its not! Really funny. Well when we got there the night of February 1st there is a sign right where you pay to get into the park. . .. the road up to Delicate arch (and some other ones) is closing the night of Feruary 1st. That was no joke. We couldn't believe it! The main road was still open though, so we still got to see tons of good stuff. It was just funny that it closed hours before we got there!

We had a lot of fun on our little weekend vacation. Moab was a fun little town, and great time for us to go, there was hardly anybody there. It was perfect, just what we needed.
On our way home Monday we stopped at Travis and Megan's house and they made us dinner! It was very yummy and always good to see them. I am so glad they live so close I love being able to see them.

Side note for those of you who don't know, my Dad got a job this past week! YEAH!!! They are going to be moving to St. Louis. Moving is no fun but it will be another adventure for them. JJ's parents live there too so that will be fun!!

Clay loved his little vacation.

smiling!

2009-01-26T17:23:00.003-07:00

Updates on Clay, he is 7 weeks already!

Clay has been smiling and I love it. He does it a lot in the morning when he wakes up. He also giggles a little bit too and it is so cute. Mike loves to make faces at him and it makes him smile every time, well most of the time, unless he is hungry then he just wants me.

He has been making a lot more noises and talking to us. He does this mostly in the morning too.

He no longer likes his car seat. Especially at night, probably because it is dark and he is in the back seat by himself. We put up this little toy that sounds kind of like a chime and he seems to like that. So sometimes he screams in his car seat and then usually falls asleep right when we pull up in our driveway, or wherever it was we were going.

Last night Mike and I went over to Jen and Cody's house and Jen taught us how to do infant massage. Clay loved it. He did such a good job and stayed awake and happy the whole time. I was worried he was going to be cranky, lately he is at night. He did really good though, and I am excited to do it again tonight.

I think that is all really, he is growing and his newborn clothes are getting to be too small now! I have to move him up to 0-3 months. His hair is getting to be a little bit longer, but you can't tell too much. He still has big blue eyes, they have lightened up since he was born but they didn't change color. Which I am happy about, I love his blue eyes. His hair does look like it is going to be red which is another thing I am excited about, I hope it has a little curl to it too like Mike's. Mike's hair was adorable when he was little, I hope that is what Clay's hair will look like.

A couple of my favorite things.

2009-01-15T12:34:00.002-07:00

So when Clay is asleep and you either, stand up with him, surprise him or just simply move positions he throws his hands up in the air. I don't know why but I think it is so funny, okay I know why because it is funny! It is so cute! After he throws his hands up in the air with fingers spread out as far as they will go they go in slow motion back down. I love it.

Next thing, little corduroys! I can't get over how cute they are! Mike is at work and I warned him that when he gets home he is going to pee his pants about how cute his outfit is today.

And now he is hungry so that is all!

Snowboarding

2009-01-12T18:20:00.008-07:00

Today was Clay's first day snowboarding! Thats right we took him with us!! It was so much fun, we just went and hiked up this one spot, it was just a short little run that went pretty slow, but it was good for Clay's first time. He of course slept through most of it. Mike just had him under his coat in our little wrap, he stayed really warm the whole time right next to his papa.

This is up at the top, just about ready to go down.

This is me on Mike's splitboard he let me try it out on the way up, it was much faster than being on snowshoes!

I just wanted to add this really cute picture.

Sweet little boy

2009-01-08T07:22:00.003-07:00

I just wanted to post this cute picture of Clay. This is Mike's favorite picture, we love sweaters. This is a good one with his eyes wide open. Thats all really, everything is going good over here, no complaints. Mike is just working a lot, and I usually go bug him over at Al's, otherwise I never get to see him. It has been pretty cold here as usual, it got warm for a little bit, but that is no good because it just melts everything and then freezes and night and makes a nice sheet of ice over everything. I still have yet to go snowboarding and so does Mike! I still haven't figured out how we are going to do that, I will probably just have to send him up to go play. Maybe we can work out snowshoeing one of these days. Okay now I am just rambling, enjoy the cute photo!

Happy New Year!

2009-01-03T10:44:00.008-07:00

So for New Year's we went over to Jen and Cody's house and had chinese and watched Horton hears a who. At midnight we woke up Mike and drank our sparkling juice of sorts and had treats. It was lots of fun and I got a new camera, YEAH!!! So now I can take lots of cute pictures of our baby boy. He is doing really good, he is very strong and loves lifting up his head and likes to push himself up on Mike's chest, it is the cutest thing. We are having lots of fun though and we like to go on walks. There are a couple of pictures of him in his wrap, he loves it. We went to Angie's the other night (little diner restaurant in Logan) He just slept on the booth in between us the whole time. What a good little boy!!! Then afterwards when we got up to leave, I think our waitress was surprised to see a little baby she didn't notice him laying there before. I love to see how many people smile and me because I am holding cute little Clay.

This is a hat that his cousin Afton made for him for Christmas!!! I love it, it is so cute! Thank you Aftie!

Clay Michael

2008-12-16T10:51:00.007-07:00

Well here he is! He was born December 5, 2008. He was 6 lbs. 8 ounces and 18 inches long. He has been a really good baby. We are all doing good, I am just tired most of the time, but it is getting better. He is just the cutest thing, and makes the funniest faces, I could stare at him all day, which is what I mostly do.

This was his first day out in his stroller, we walked to the grocery store, and it is really cold outside, so Mike made sure Clay would be warm!

Baby Room!

2008-12-01T10:43:00.008-07:00

Well I am officially done with work! YEAH!!! So now I am just waiting for the baby to come and I can't wait! I am so excited and ready for this baby to be here. I just wanted to show some pictures of the little one's room.

I made that little board that is a chalkboard/white board/cork board/picture holder thing, I think it turned out good, and then my cute shelves!

These are the owls my mom and I painted when she was here once. Also I painted that tree. . . does it look funny, be honest.

This is Mike's wall, he wants the baby to love maps like he does, and my cute lamp!

I love my crib! The dresser worked out perfectly! Also that is a bundle me that is in the crib that I am using in my car seat, and yes it does void the warranty on the car seat! DUMB!

This is the sock monkey I made, waiting patiently for the baby to come.

Well that is all, hopefully you can get an idea of what is looks like, taking pictures of a room is hard! I love how it turned out though!

Hypnobabies!

2008-11-15T11:15:00.002-07:00

So I have started taking this class called hypnobabies. I LOVE IT! It has been so much fun, and so good for me. After my class at the hospital I was freaked out and felt very unprepared. I decided I want to have a natural birth. The things they taught me at the hospital just didn't seem like enough, I needed something else. So I found this class in Logan. It is just out of someones house, and the teacher comes up from Layton once a week. So far I have had two classes. She just focuses a lot on talking positive about the whole experience, and telling yourself it is going to go well. Then of course we do relaxation exercises, and last week we learned about nutrition as well. There are two other couples in the class and Mike and I really like them. We get along with them really well. One of the girls, this is her second, and the other couple, this is their third. I am the one that is closest to having our baby. I am hoping I will make it to the end of the class! I have really enjoyed it though and I feel a million times better about having a baby. I also went to my sister in law's house the other night. We got to smell lots of good stuff from sentsy, and then she taught me how to do infant massage! It was a good night, and then the next day I had Mike smell all the ones I had picked out, so he would know just how great they are.

Deck

2008-10-30T21:43:00.007-06:00

So I am sure most of you have heard about the deck that Travis built for Mike and I. It is excellent! I love it! Yeah for Travis having time off of school and being board!!! Also thank you to mom and dad for funding the project. It turned out so good! We love it, and now our dogs can't jump up on our back door!!! YEAH!!! They hate it, I love it. Thanks again Trav for all your hard work, we love our new deck!

This is just the beginning.

all finished! Pretty!

me pregnant, and I swear I don't wear this shirt all the time, it is just the one I am always wearing when I take prego pictures of myself apparently.

so turns out Mike took a picture of the brownies before we devoured them. Look how cute?

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!

2008-10-25T22:46:00.003-06:00

My sweet husband and I have been married for a year now! Can you believe it! It has gone by so fast, and I have loved every minute of it. It was October 20, which this year was a Monday. So let me tell you a little bit about our day.

Monday's are the worst days for us because Mike has school until about 8:30 and I have a class in Salt Lake that I go to every Monday and get home around 10:00 pm. So basically we don't see each other all day, and I usually have to wake him up when I get home from class to let him know I am back. So this past Monday I was a little bummed that I wasn't going to get to see Mike all day long. So I get to work and Frank can see that I am not in the greatest of moods, and asks me if I want to go run and errand to get out for a little bit. Mike had just told me that morning before I left for work that if Frank asks me to run an errand to ask to use his truck because our subie is acting funny. So I ask Frank and he says that is fine, so I go to "downtown logan" to the Logo shop where the parking lot is like an alley way. So on the other side of this alley way (parking lot) is a ups truck (who gets the full blame for what I am about to tell you). So as I am leaving the ups man is nowhere to be found and I don't want to back out onto main street. So I try to get around him, when I see that this is impossible I decide to park in the parking spot I am close to (they were the angled ones) ya, I was too close to do that as well. I realized this when I heard Frank car crunching into another car already parked. I just froze, backed out and heard the dent pop out, and went onto main street parked there and put my head in my hands. I thought maybe it isn't too bad and I won't have to mention a thing. That would've been nice. I got out to look at the truck and it is dented with a little of the other cars paint on it. By this point I am in tears trying to figure out what to do. To make a long story short, I called Frank, he wasn't angry just told me to come back and we would figure everything out.

That was my day. Happy Anniversary.

So I went to my class that night everything went well I finished my leather book and I love it! I came home to find Mike was still awake. He had me wait in the living room while he went and lit candles on some brownies he had made for me. On the brownies he wrote Happy 1st anniversary to us. It was so cute and just what I needed, a perfect ending to a not so great day.
I would show you a picture of these wonderful brownies but they unfortunately are all gone. They were very yummy.

I couldn't ask for a better husband, Mike spoils me and I love it. He is the most wonderful thing in the entire world and I couldn't ask for more. I love how excited he is to have a baby, and I can't wait. I love Mike so much and we have had one great year, and I am so excited for our new adventures. He is my best friend, and I have so much fun spending time with him. Plus look at how cute he is!

I have more things to post about but that will have to wait until another day!

SNOW!!!!

2008-10-11T09:49:00.005-06:00

It is October 11th and it is snowing!! YEAH! I can't believe how much is coming down, but they are really small flakes and not really sticking. It is supposed to snow about 2 inches in the valley today, so they say. I tried to take a picture of it and it doesn't work, it just looks like fall, and if you look really close you can see little white streaks. So this morning Mike is doing a service project outside! YIKES! That should be fun shoveling dirt in the snow and it is really really windy. So while he has been gone I have been crafting. I saw Jen's cute Halloween decorations and thought, I want to make halloween decorations! So I tried finding a fun font online to use to make a little banner, and I couldn't figure out how to get it on my 12x12 orange paper, so I just used a sharpie! So here is what I have done last night until 11:30 and then this morning at 8:00. I think it turned out pretty alright. I might get different branches I haven't decided yet. Next fun thing that is going to happen today, Jen and I are going to make sock monkeys!! YEAH! I am so excited, it will be great fun. I will post a picture of that later.

Real quick update.

2008-10-08T19:50:00.004-06:00

Well I am now at 30 weeks, well 31 tomorrow. I went to the doctor today everything is right on schedule and I start my appointments every 2 weeks. I am going to go to a couple of the other doctors for these next visits to get to know them, in case they are the ones on call when I have my baby. Also I am posting a picture of Brad and Emily's baby! SO CUTE!!! Mya Ada Hulse, she was born October 7th, 8lbs 13 ounces and 20 1/2 inches!! I am so happy for them and I wish I could be there!!! I don't know when I will see them next, maybe we can swing Christmas, that is what I am hoping for. Also there is a picture of when My mom and sister Angie came to visit. I had so much fun with both of them! Angie was here for the weekend for my baby shower and my mom got to be here for almost a whole week! We did lots of little projects, and I will have to take a picture of the baby's room and show you. There is so much I have to write about but I have to get to making my mom's birthday present, which is TODAY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!! So until next time. . .

Our addition!

2008-09-10T20:57:00.008-06:00

So, I am finally posting about our new addition to our house. We added on a little room that is now our office/closet. So the original room with all of these things will now be the new baby's room! YEAH!!! We have had a lot of help with this room. Our crazy neighbor helped/was annoying for the entire project. Travis came up a couple of weekends and helped us completely finish it, we wouldn't have gotten it done without him. Megan and I helped paint, that was good! Cody also helped out a lot with the wiring, everything went really smoothly with that thanks to him. The room looks so good though and I love how it turned out. I am using it right now it is so wonderful to have it completed. We can say we did it all ourselves, even the carpet! Mike and I did the carpet, which was a huge pain, but I think it turned out incredibly well! Well enough talk just look at the pictures. Also I thew a picture of me in there, that is me at about 25 weeks.

Wedding and Craftiness

2008-08-05T20:15:00.009-06:00

Travis is all married now, and the wedding was beautiful, hot but beautiful. I had tons of fun with my family and I wish it could've lasted longer. We had so much fun shopping , swimming, and staying up late together. The only bad thing was that I came home sick. I think it was probably the combination of not very much sleep and going from extremely humid to extremely dry. I am starting to get over it though. This past week I have had about 2-3 nose bleeds a day! It is so annoying, and I considered getting my nose cotterized (I have no idea how to spell that) Good news is, I haven't had a bloody nose in a couple of days! YEAH!! One of my favorite stories from the trip is my nephew Prescott told Mike that he needed to wash off his tattoos before church on Sunday. He told him that he had a tattoo on his arm once and his mom made him wash it off before church. Mike assured him that they would be washed off by the following day. I wish I would have heard the conversation, Mike said it was cute.

So I have been crafting away on onesies. That is the other photo obviously, it has been keeping me occupied while Mike is gone in Idaho. I know, I know they will get spit up on and dirty before I know it, but what the heck, it was fun anyways. Also, I have been feeling the baby move around quite a bit. Last night I could feel it for a while, it is kind of crazy, and fun all at the same time. The other day I got to hold a 3 day old baby, it was TINY!!!

That is about all the rambling I have to do tonight. I mostly just wanted to show pictures!

BABY!

2008-07-21T11:48:00.004-06:00

So I had my doctors appointment this morning, I went in hoping I was going to get an ultra sound but thinking I probably wouldn't. Well when I went in with the nurse she said, "oh are you having your ultra sound today?? You should because you are 19 1/2 weeks" I said I was hoping so but i wasn't sure. She told me you have to specifically schedule your ultra sound because it is a special lady that does that, well nobody told me that!!! Even when I made my appointment why didn't anybody mention that to me!! So then my doctor came in and said, oh you should be having an ultra sound today why are you not?? I told him because nobody informed me that I had to schedule it specially with this lady. I also told him that I was going to Texas the next day and it would be fun to show my family pictures!! So he said he would see what he could do to squeeze me in!!! YEAH!!!! I was so excited, so he came back in and told me she just got there and she was doing an ultra sound and that she would squeeze me in after this other girl! So we just had to wait like 15 minutes or so and then it was out turn!! YEAH!!! It was so much fun and she had the whole fancy 3-D thing, and she gave me a CD so this is our sweet little baby. It was so much fun, and I can't wait to go to Texas tomorrow and see my family!!! Other good news Mike is skipping work to play today!! So I am taking a half day of work, so it was a great day!

Lots of updates.

2008-07-16T07:43:00.003-06:00

So I had something that I wanted to write about and now I can't think of what it was. I wanted to write an update though, so here goes.

Well first off all the last blog I wrote when we were supposed to go on that trip to Sun Valley, that didn't work out at all. We ended up not going, and it turned out to be a good thing. Nothing was working out in our favor to go that weekend but I just kept fighting it, I was going!!! Mike called when I was waiting for JJ to come over so we could leave and said he was on his way home and he was calling it off. He had a weird afternoon that day and almost got stranded on his four wheeler, and just didn't have a good feeling about this trip the entire time. So finally I gave in and told him to just come home. So that night I went and waited at a friends house until he got home because he wasn't getting home until really late. Well he got home around midnight and when we got back to our house it smelled terribly of gas! All the pilot lights were lit on the stove but little did I know there was one for he oven, which makes sense I just never thought of it. So that one had gone out and that one leaks the most gas of all of them. So we had gas leaking in our house with two pilot lights still lit near by! NOT GOOD!!!! So if I would have left for the weekend our house would probably not be here anymore. So now we have a brand new oven, so while Mike is gone he doesn't have to worry about pilot lights randomly going off with me home! YEAH!!! I love our new oven though, and we got some work done on the house that weekend. So all in all it was a good thing.

This last week I had Friday off instead of Saturday, so Mike and I decided to go for a bike ride. I borrowed a mountain bike from somebody at Al's and it was my first mountain bike ride. We also took the pups and they loved it. Naomi got really tired and the end and just started walking but right in front of Mike of course, she still had to be in front even though she was tired. It was really fun though, where we went it was shaded the whole time so it was really nice weather. We woke up pretty early too and went. It was a very good first experience. There were some little jumps along the way that were my favorite, I didn't jump off them I just went up and over them they were so much fun and those bikes are so squishy! I loved it!

We are also making progress on the house. Mike got all the insulation put down in the floor and the floor boards put down as well! YEAH! Cody came over and is going to help us with all the electrical. He just built a garage on his house and did all the wiring himself so he is going to share his knowledge. So that is what we are going to do this weekend. I am excited that we are making progress. Mike wants to have it completely finished by the time school starts. He is taking 22 credits this fall so he won't have much free time. I have a feeling once school starts time is going to fly by and it is going to be December before we know it!!!

I have also made a decision on what I am going to do for the baby's room, but you will just have to wait and see it when it is done, I will hopefully get a new camera or new battery for my old one so I can start taking more pictures!!! I have decided on a crib,car seat, and some other stuff I want to buy as well, now I just need to save my pennies.

Well this next Tuesday I am headed to Houston for Travis' wedding! I am so excited to see my family! I will be there for almost whole week and Mike flies out that Friday! I think well I know when I get there we will be doing lots of little crafts and hanging out in the pool. I am so excited I get to see everybody again! Also Mike's mom is going to take me to the airport on Tuesday, I am excited for that as well I love spending time with her and I think we are going to go out for breakfast! It will be a good week next week.

hmmm. . . .

2008-06-23T21:19:00.002-06:00

Well today is again Monday, which means Mike left this morning to go to Idaho for the week. The really good thing and sucky thing about this week is. . . I am going to Idaho to see him for the weekend!!! The sucky part is, he usually comes home Thursday night, but I have to work Friday. So I will drive up with JJ and Scotty Friday after work that is one less day to see my husband! DUMB! It will be fun however to go see where he is living. We are going to go canoing across a lake and do a little hiking! It will be tons o fun.

The newest thing I did to keep myself busy was to redo some chairs! The business next to Prince Gallery went out of business, sad for them happy for me! They were throwing away everything, so I got some free chairs and spray painted them and re-upholstered them, they look really good I think. Especially for my first time doing that! So that was my highlight of last week.

I also had another doctors appointment last week, which the doctor was not there because he was delivering a baby over at the hospital. My dad says that is a good sign, now I know he has experience. So the nurse just did a little ultra sound so I could hear the babies heart beat. She couldn't find it for a little bit and it was freaking me out!! But no worries she found it and all is good.

I came home to presents on my door today. Mike's mom loves to get us goodies and leave them at our door. She is so funny, and I love the presents. She got some cute baby clothes, towels, and wash cloths. They all have cute little duckies on them. Also she bought me some bread and E.L. Fudge cookies!! YUMMY! She is so good to us! I love getting surprises when I get home from work.

where to start. . . .

2008-06-15T18:14:00.003-06:00

Well I have not updated this in a while!!! I am terrible at it. I have been told numerous times by numerous people, so now I am finally updating!!!

First of all I am once again at Prince Gallery. I went back, I couldn't stay away for too long. The other job wasn't what I thought at all, and there was nothing for me to do. If there weren't any customers I just stood around and did nothing. It was on commission which turned out to be really sucky. Anyways, that is behind me now, I am back at Prince Gallery and loving it. It is good to be back and I feel at home. That sounds dumb but I do.

Next and probably most importantly, I am prego! I am posting my first ultra sound with this blog, that was at about 11 weeks. Right now I am at 14 weeks. So far so good, I haven't been too sick. I lost my appetite for a little while, and I am getting really picky about what I eat when I have never really been that picky before about food. My belly is starting to poke out a little so right now it just looks like I am a little chubby, but that is fine. Mike is really exited for when I have a big belly. I have mixed feelings. We are both really excited though to have a baby. We are adding a little more room onto our house. Those who have seen our house know that we could use even just a little more space. The room I am in now will later be converted into the baby's room, right now it is the catch all room. This is another reason for me switching back to Prince Gallery, he is a lot more flexible with time off and now he knows me so he doesn't get so mad when I am constantly late. Also if I wanted to work after I have our baby I could probably bring it with me to work if I needed to. Also we are not going to find out what we are having, we are going to have it be a surprise.

Other thing, Mike is doing an internship right now in Idaho. So he leaves early Monday morning to be at work and comes home Thursday night. It has been alright I guess. The first week was miserable. It hasn't been too much fun since but has gotten better. He is doing an internship with the BLM (Bureau of Land Management). He mapping random roads that probably shouldn't be there. His job is to find them map them out and then other people decide what to do with them. He has his own atv, and drives around in a big truck, which I guess is good because your tax dollars are paying for the gas!!! He is staying at a fire station in a town called Bellevue, it is pretty close to Sun Valley. He has his own room, they have cable, big kitchen, and all the outdoor recreation you could ask for. So he is having a fun time and planning lots of fun stuff for us to do when I go there for the weekend.

Also, my friend JJ is in town, she is staying until the end of July! It is so fun to have her here and I have been having lots of fun with her. She helps me get through the week without Mike here. We have been riding bikes together a lot and she works a ton, hopefully that will stop soon so we can play more!

One more thing, this weekend we went rock climbing for the first time this season! It was so fun! I forget how much I love it! It is so relaxing at times. It is just quiet, and you are constantly thinking, where can my right hand go, and when I move my right hand where am I going to put my left foot. I love it! We went with our brother in law Cody. He is fun to go with because he is very knowledgeable and a good teacher. Hopefully we will go again next weekend.

Well I love you all and I hope you enjoyed my updates, I will keep up with it more . . . . hopefully.

Goodbye Prince Gallery

2008-04-07T20:55:00.003-06:00

So today was officially my last day at Prince Gallery. This has been the only job I have been sad about leaving. When I gave Frank my two weeks I cried immediately after, and have cried periodically at work when thinking about leaving. I will now be working at Inkley's which will be a very good job, and I am confident I have made the right decision. Frank went to many great lengths to get me to stay, he even tried to get me heath insurance. I was very flattered by all the things he tried to do for me to get me to stay. I was supposed to work all week and my last would have been Friday. To my surprise when I told Frank I was definitely going to Inkley's he said today was my last day and he wanted my key. It was a very sad day, and once again cried when I left. I loved that job, and I learned a lot there. I met some awesome people and had a great time. It is time to move on though. On to my next adventure to learn more about photography, something I have wanted to learn about for quite some time now. I am excited to take on my new adventure. Also now I get the rest of the week off!!! YEAH!! I have recently learned how to make books, so that is what I will do this week! I will probably find many other projects I want to start as well.

Injuries

2008-03-27T20:36:00.004-06:00

So, my story goes like this. I was up at good old Beaver mountain, having a good time, and I thought I should try to go off some jumps again. So Mike went a did a little trick and these little boys were so impressed. So I thought well I can't go slow like I usually do and not get very much air, because that would just be lame. So I went faster into the jump than I normally do. So I went really high but I landed it!! YEAH!! I was so stoked, in fact I was thinking about how good I did and forgot to slow down for the next jump, which by the way is bigger than the first one. I went off the second one really really high, I just remember being in the air looking at my snowboard thinking holy crap (or some other words) I am really high right now, how am I supposed to land this. So I actually did land it, but I was so scared I just sat down while landing and got this bruise on my arm! So that is my story, it was a super good day and Mike was very proud of me.

Naomi just got spayed, poor thing. She is fine now but the first day we got her back she was completely out of it and the only spot she would lay down was on our bed. She was on her sleeping bag on the floor and wouldn't lay down so she kept falling over because she was trying to sleep sitting up. Crazy dogs, but she is jumping around and being crazy like normal.

NEW KITCHEN!

2008-02-23T18:03:00.007-07:00

So we redid our kitchen, and I love it!!! So I don't have too much to say just look at before and after pictures! We put new floors in and re painted everything!

Snowshoeing!!!

2008-02-03T17:57:00.000-07:00

So, I haven't updated this in a really long time!! We just went on a really fun snowshoeing adventure today so I thought I would post some fun pictures! It has been snowing like crazy today!! When I woke up this morning at 8:30 it was snowing and it is still snowing now, and it is 6:30! Crazy!!! So we went with Scotty and his two dogs. So we had three people and 4 dogs! They loved it but were so tired from walking in tall snow, so they both passed out when we got home. Right now we are just about to do some dutch oven dinner and dessert! So my hands are freezing right now and it is hard to type, so look at the cool pics and I hope all is well with everybody! YEAH FOR NEW SNOW!!!

HALLOWEEN!!!

2007-11-07T08:26:00.000-07:00

I love halloween!! We got back from our honeymoon October 30, so the next day we spent getting ready for halloween night! I dressed up as a witch and Mike was my cute black cat!!! I love it!! We played with friends that night and carved pumpkins, decorated these little mini bunt cakes to look like pumpkins, it was so much fun!! I love the fall here, it is so pretty! Enjoy! Also we dressed up dirt as a ski bum!!! My pumpkin is the kitty one and Nicole did the homestar runner one!

Cancun!!! and more

2007-11-07T07:25:00.000-07:00

Well the wedding is over! YEAH!! I am officially married and I am loving it! Things are going good here, we are just trying to get our house all put together. I don't have my wedding pictures back yet but I am so excited to see them! Everything went really great, it turned out just the way I wanted it. The reception was beautiful! Thank-you so much everybody for helping me with that! It was so much fun to have my entire family here, it was really sad to see them all go. Cancun was a blast! The hotel was SO NICE!!!! We had so much fun going to see the myan ruins, and going snorkeling! I have lots of good stories, but for now I will just put some pictures up!!! My hair is really short now, I chopped it all off two days after my wedding! YEAH!! I love it! It is so much fun to have short hair! After we got back from our honeymoon we had to drive to Las Vegas and go to my friends wedding where I was the maid of honor. I had to pick up the tuxes, do her hair, and Mike was the photographer! So basically we HAD to be there. Her wedding went really good, and we stayed with my aunt Lori. It was good to see their family I haven't seen them in a long time. Amy and Randy live there with them right now, it was so good to talk to them! They also have a brand new baby who is SO CUTE! Mike also became best friends with there other little girl, we had a great time with them. So we came home from vegas to find our dog and two new puppies!!! Our friend Scotty had been watching our dog and bought two puppies over the weekend! Well he lives in an apartment in student housing, with means no dogs allowed! So he is currently looking for a house. Meanwhile we have the two adorable little puppies and now of course we want one!!! Thanks a lot Scotty!!! They are fun to have though, and dirt loves them! He acts like their dad and it is so cute! Anyways, sorry that was a jumbled mess and probably hard to understand, but at least you get to look at pictures!!

Only 3 weeks left!!!!

2007-09-30T09:09:00.000-06:00

There are only 3 weeks left until we get married!!! Crazy! Time has gone by so fast! Hopefully you will all be getting your invitations soon! We had a little technical difficulty, we ran out of wax for the wax seals. .. but we are getting more in tomorrow. Tomorrow is also my birthday so I probably won't be doing invitations when I get home from work! Everything is going good though, we have everything ready for the most part. The invitations are my biggest thing right now! I just got back from Nebraska and had a really fun time there. It was fun to play with friends and see tons of people I haven't seen in about a year! The shower was so much fun! It was fun to see Brad and Emily's new house!! It is so cute! They have done a lot to it from what I hear, I didn't see the before of the house, but it looks really good right now! The other hightlight of my trip was that I got to see my little brother!! YEAH!!!! He is the AP right now so he is in the airport quite often. So I e-mailed him saying I was hopeing to see missionaries on my flight so I could give them a note to give to my brother. So Travis writes me back saying well maybe I can come see you at the airport when is your flight? So I tell him all my information, but then he writes back saying sorry it's not going to work. So I am sitting in the airport the next day in omaha, and I get a phone call from a phenoix number. It is my little brother companion!!! He tells me just to come out of security when I get to Pheniox and they will be there waiting for me!!! So my plane got there a little early and I rushed out of security and there he was sittting there waiting!!! I just hugged him forever! He is a lot taller than I remember him being and so skinny! He looked really good and it was so fun to see him! He said well it is not as hard to say goodbye this time becuase I am going to see you in a couple of weeks! YEAH!! I am so excited to see him again! I am so glad I got to see him when I was there, and I told him to say thank you thank you thank you to his mission president. They made a special trip to the airport just to come see me! It was a lot of fun! So now I am back home and back to work. Trying to get things done when I get home from work in the evenings. CRAZY! It is good to be back with Mike though! I missed that guy while I was gone in Nebraska!!!

New pets!

2007-08-08T08:33:00.000-06:00

So, I wanted to show everyone pictures of our new kitty. He is really cute, but kind of a pain in the butt already. His name is Atlas by the way. So aparently cats get stressed when they move to new places and they poo everywhere! So that was pleasent. So I took him to the vet yesterday and we don't quite have a kennel for him yet so since he was stressed already and then he was scared in the car he was shedding like crazy!!! I HATE cat hair! Good thing we got a cat :) Anyways, So I take him to the vet and he does have an infection so we have to give him medicine twice a day until our two bottles of medicine are gone!!! So the vet tech showed me how to put the medicine in the cats mouth, it is going to be interesting. The place we adopted him from told us we had a two week trial period and if we didn't like him we could give him back. . . so with all the shedding and pooping, we were really tempted to. He is just really cute though, and he gets along with Dirt increadibly well, they love eachother! So we decieded to give this medicine a try and see if he gets better. Don't worry though when everybody comes to visit for our Wedding there will be no sign of cat hair!!! Other than that, still just planning away. When mom comes to visit we are going to take a trip to Jackson Hole!!! YEAH!! I love that place and I am so excited to see you mom!!!! We need to convince Dad to come too!!! Also I wanted to put up a picture of all the bikes at Mike's house!!! He was fixing some for friends, there were a lot of bikes!

I wish it was snowing!

2007-07-19T23:48:00.000-06:00

So, it is really hot here, and probably everywhere else, I overheard someone talking about playing in the snow. . . .they are already making plans!! Where is this snow??? Is it coming soon and I am just not aware of this who plans two seasons ahead!! Wierdo. Anyways, I added this picture of Dirt, our pup, for two reasons: 1 he is just a freaking cute pup and I wanted people to see him, 2 he LOVES the snow! When he spots a patch of snow he slides on it like he is some sort of seal, he loves it!! It is so fun to watch him he is cute, and he misses the snow too! So good news I got my dress back from the alteration lady. She made a little jacket for me, it is really cute! I turned out better than I had planned. She also cleaned it and did a bussle . . I don't know if that is how you spell that, but you all know what I am talking about. . right? It is being safely stored at Mike's sisters house where it can actually hang up and be in air conditioning. . . in my house it would shrivel up. I also put a picture of a little backpacking trip Mike and I went on, it was a lot of fun and we camped in snow!! That was in may! It was a fun trip though, our pup came with us and our friend Scotty. It was a good time. OH! Other news we have started the paper work to buy our house!!! So I will let you know in a year when that is all done!! So many papers to sign and read!!! It is exciting though. Also Mike bought me a new bike. It is so FUN! I love it, it is a commuter bike. It has a mountain bike frame and handle bars, but the wheels are skinny like a road bike, it is super fast and light, I love it. So now when I ride my bike to work I get there a whole lot quicker, and it can still hold my little basket on it! YEAH! I think that is all for now though. I am just working on getting wedding stuff done, it is coming along good. Any suggestions and ideas are more than okay!

I can't believe I am doing this

2007-07-10T22:55:00.000-06:00

Okay, so I never thought I would have a blog!!!! I thought it would be a good idea though. JJ has one and I love reading about what she is doing! So I thought I could put some wedding updates on here so everybody can know what I am doing!!! I realize my address is Natalie Bodrero, and I am not quite Bodrero yet, but I figure it will be soon enough. Well as of right now, I have my dress and Mike has his suit!! We went to dillards last night and picked it out, and it looks so good on him! I am so excited. Then his mom went and bought it the next morning. When she went to go get it she just started laughing and the sales guy was nervous she didn't like it. So I guess she was laughing becuase it is the same color of suit his Dad wore when him and Mike's mom got married!!! WIERD HUH!! I think it is so cool that it turned out that way. Mike's mom says that it is wierd how many things they do alike, I love it! Also, we got our plane tickets to cancun!!! YEAH!!! We offically have a honeymoon spot! Now we just have to work on getting our passports, which I am not looking forward to. Well I am off to bed, I hope I can keep on top of this to keep you all updated! Oh, by the way that picture is there so you can see what I look like when I am typing!! Okay I know I am lame, but I love it!