New House

Sooo.....


I have been slacking- A LOT! I have been busy with a little something called building a house. We found a builder, lot & house plan that we fell in love with back in March. Despite only seeing the floor plan on paper, we decided that we wanted to build & buy. The process has been extremely fast! They broke ground on March 17th & completed the finishing touches today, June 8th. Tomorrow is our final walk through! YIKES & YEAH! We LOVE the house!!! Everyone has always told me that building was hugely stressful. I have not found the building process to be stressful. Picking out all our options & upgrades was fun, a little intense, but I wouldn't classify it as stressful. Our builder, Cadence Homes, has been awesome. They allowed us to install a radiant heat floor in the basement that is going to be awesome! Anyway... After 3 months, we are going to be getting our house next week!!! I think moving is going to be more stressful than the actual build, and half our belongings are already packed up! It's going to be Christmas in July when we start opening boxes!!!!! I don't have the camera with most recent pics, but here are a few pics from a few weeks ago.

Kitchen. The posts around the island were just temporary until the supports were on & glue dried. They are now off.

Front entry

Pretty sweet eh?! Needless to say, we are sooooo excited. I'll try to get more recent pics of all the rooms to post.

Catch up

It has been a long time since posting (yet again). Life just seems to keep speeding by. I don't have any pics to post (well, I do have pics. Just not downloaded off the camera yet). I will post some soon, I hope.

The kiddos are getting bigger & bigger everyday. C is now sleeping in his big boys instead of pull-ups at night. He has only had 2 nights in the last week that he didn't stay dry the whole night. 2 of the nights he even woke himself up in the middle of the night, went to the potty, and then back to bed. (Our room is right next to the bathroom & we could hear him slam the lid down). I shouldn't complain about the slamming of the lid though, at least he closes it! Every time! This kid LOVES to talk! He will talk your ear off! Most of the time it's about some imaginary story/situation he is living in. He has the most amazing imagination. He will tell you that too. He is so cute, he will come up to me & say "mom, I have quite the imagination!" The other thing he says that cracks me up is "Mom, I do love you." He often adds "I do" to statements. For example, instead of saying "I have to go potty" he will say "I do need to go potty". It drives his Dad nuts cuz half the time Dad doesn't quite follow that he just said "I do" preceding whatever he needs to tell you.

M is also growing by leaps & bounds every day. She is getting closer & closer to walking. She has taken 4-6 steps consistently for the last week. It's funny though because as she gets closer to you (if you have her walk between 2 people) she lunges instead of taking 2 more steps. She will get so excited & clap & cheer for herself. She also is signing words like crazy. She consistently signs milk, more, banana, duck, change (as in changing her diaper) & poop. She also does all the actions for itsy-bitsy spider & loves it. She has 6 teeth (2 on bottom & 4 up top) and a 3rd one coming in on the bottom. She's a Q-t & a pest at the same time. She gives her brother a run for his $. She loves getting him in trouble. If he takes a toy from her, hits her or whatever he might do that bothers her, she will cry & the second you reprimand him she stops crying & is perfectly happy. She's learned how to play her dad like a fiddle, she can do no harm. We are in serious trouble with this one!

My hubby is still working full time @ IM Flash Technologies, part time at Lehi Fire Department & going to online paramedic school. Busy. I am still working full time in L&D @ Timp Hospital & love it. All-in-all things are going well. I will try to post again soon.

M's 1st B-day!

So, It's been FOREVER since I posted. Life is way busier with 2 kids than with just 1. Especially now that M is crawling & cruising around. She doesn't sit still for more than 2 minutes I swear! Here are some pics of her during her B-day week.

Okay, so this pic is from about 3 wks ago, but it is a pic of her very first piggy tail!

So G&G Swenson went to Thailand for a week & a half over M's B-day, so we had a little pre B-day cupcake & present unwrapping before they left. She did not like having all that gunk on her hands.

She got several outfits & PJ's, boy does this girl LOVE clothes! She loves to play in piles of clothes!

Here is the cake! I special ordered M's B-day cake to match a pair of leggings I have for her. Isn't it way cute! Just the right size.

I got her all ready (leggings & hair done) & I placed her on my makeshift photo back drop. When Dad brought the cake into the room she started screaming! She wanted it NOW!

However, once she actually had the cake in front of her, she was a little timid about digging in.

Here she is trying to figure out how to pick it up without getting all gooey.

She started with the candle first. She did not want to give up the candle, not sure why though. It's not like it tastes any good.

It cracks me up that both of my kids are such FREAKS about getting their hands all sticky!

Still worried about the goop on her hands. :)

Here she is trying out a new way to eat the cake without getting it on her hands. It worked out okay for her.

The sugar is finally starting to set in.

Woohoo!!! Gotta love the sugar!!!

Notice the lack of REALLY digging in! Neither of my kids really ever got that it was okay on this one occasion to get really messy, that it is expected of them. :)

More cake & matching legging shots.

She started to get into a little more, after a little encouragement from mom & brother.

Daddies little girl!

Mom & M.
C & M. He is supposed to be hugging her (though it was more of a choke hold). She did not want to share her cake with him.

So there you have it. She is now 1! I can hardly believe it. She had her 12 month dr visit today & her weight is up from the 10th percentile to the 24th percentile. She weighed 19 lbs 6 oz. She is 28.5 inches tall (26th percentile) & her head is 46 cm (76th percentile.) All in all she is doing well.

The Sneezin' Store

So yesterday my husband took my son to get his Flu-mist. He knew he would be getting a flu shot to help "keep him healthy & strong." I was getting ready to go to work when they got home from the pediatrician office & I asked him where he had gone & how it went. He told me he had been to "the sneezin' store." I then asked him what happened at the sneezing store. He proceeded to tell me "well, I got some nose stuff that is good. But it was really stinky!" The nurse told him to sniff like he was smelling roses- didn't smell like roses apparently!

Tahoe, Teeth & Trick or Treat

Okay, so it has been WAY too long since I last wrote. Well, we have been busy. My husband got a second job (very lucky for us considering the economy & all). I continue to work full time & be a mom the rest of the time. Not much time for other things. Well, the end of September we went to Lake Tahoe with some friends for our Anniversary/my birthday. It was a very fun trip. We did lots of fun things while there. M got her first tooth the last day while we were traveling home (Oct 4). She cut her second tooth just one week after the first. Then of course there was Halloween last week. That being said, here are a bunch of pictures.

The first day we spent on the beach. It was nice & warm & a clear day. The rest of the week cooled off quiet a bit.

C kicking the waves

M & our friends little girl. They are 1 month apart & look like they are related, they are not.This is the view out our hotel winow. Yes, that is a ski lift. We woke up the third morning with snow & were SOOO excited about that. Little did we know.

A nice cold walk on the beach & the piers. C has a huge band-aid on his forehead because he fell face first off a 3 foot wall because he "was trying to see my ant friends."

The boys.

The hole crew minus myself.

We went & watched the Salmon spawn. All that black, those are Salmon.

Us & more Salmon

C & L with more salmon. There were some photographers at this bend in the river that told us the day before we were there 2 black bear had been on this very beach catching the salmon. How cool would that have been!?

This bend in the river really reminded me of our old family cabin in southeastern Idaho.

Crystal clear water & more salmon.

C & the wooden firefighter that was at the station near our hotel.

C & the back of the paddle boat we went on. The Ms. Dixie.

Me with snow on my sweatshirt. This was the night before we left.

The view out our window the morning that we were leaving.

We were told you had to have chains or snow tires to get around Lake Tahoe that morning, so we went down the other side of the pass instead of going around the lake. There was about 2 ft! Beautiful.

The road further down the pass.

M in her cute black Halloween outfit for our pumpkin painting/carving party we went to with some friends.

M in her flower fairy costume.

C & M on the front porch. He insisted on being a firefighter, again, for the third year in a row.

Transformers, robots in disguise! Autobots, roll out!

My little fairy firefighter! How cute!

UPDATE: She's 7 months old!

7 MONTHS & COUNTING

I finally got around to downloading pictures off of my camera & discovered how terrible I have been about taking pictures! A week & 1/2 ago M turned 7 months old! I can hardly believe it! She has been sitting up entirely on her own now for over 3 weeks, on 9/13/09 she finally figured out how to roll from her back to her front as well as front to back (on the same day)! She had previously gone from front to back, but not with any consistency. Now she can do both & knows she can in order to get something she wants. In mid August she figured out that she could scoot while laying on her back. She puts her knees up & pushes off so she scoots upwards. This has not helped the bald spot on the back of her head! :) She is developing quite the little attitude as well. She knows what she wants & will tell you. She loves to chatter & making the sound "a-da, a-da". She absolutely adores her big brother & vice versa! Even if she is in the middle of a fit & C walks in, she will stop crying & start giggling & laughing at him! It is so cute to listen to the two of them giggling at each other. Once one of them starts in, the other gets going & they will just giggle & giggle & giggle. C is almost potty trained. He forgets to tell you he needs to go about 40% of the time, but if my husband & I remember to take him every hour, he stays dry. He still will not go #2 on the toilet though. However, he will hold it until he has a pull-up on for bedtime or nap time & go then. We haven't had a #2 accident (in big boy pants) in over 3 weeks! C also has a new friend. His new best friend is imaginary & is with him all the time. He is a robot. Yes, a robot! Anyone who knows my son will laugh at this. He used to be deathly afraid of robots. Now anytime he gets in trouble he blames it on his robot or says his robot made him do it. I even find him talking to his robot every once in a while. His new favorite movie is "Pete's Dragon" & "Scooby-doo." He is getting to be quite the little riot. Anywho... That is the update on us. Oh, yes, & today actually happens to be mine & my hubbys 10th anniversary! 10 years! I can hardly believe it! I would post pics of our wedding, but they are all in storage! Bummer! It's been a good 10 years with lots of fun, challenges, sad & happy times! I love you Babe!

Here are the pictures I took of M on her 7 month mark!

This picture I was messing around with my camera & used micro-burst. The blown up view of it is pretty cool. It would be a cool effect for sports or something like that.

POTTY TRAINING IN FULL SWING

Day #1: FINALLY gets the concept! (No accidents even).
Day #2: only 1 accident! He even actually took the incentive & took off his own underpants, climbed onto the toilet & went without being supervised! When he put his big boy pants back on however, they were on backwards. But this is HUGE progress folks!
Day #3: We will see how it goes today!

Another HUGE in the world of my son... He swam yesterday (with his lifejacket) WITHOUT anyone holding onto him (or him clinging onto my neck for dear life).

We are making big strides with that kid this week! YEAH!!!!

My daughter still is only rolling from front-to-back and not back-to-front yet. But she is getting better at getting off of her much dreaded tummy time & back onto her backside. She cracks me up cuz she lays on her back & gets both feet right up to her mouth & chews on her toes! They are her favorite toys! It works for my cuz I don't have to remember to pack them when we go out somewhere.

I also got my new car a week ago. We decided to get another Nissan Maxima. This one is a 2004, Silver in color & has all the bells & whistles. It does have 70,000 miles, but that's just getting the engine started with Nissan though.