just stuff....

this is one of the beanies, car!

here is the other one. i am not sure about the brim. if you dont like it i can do a different one, or a different color. let me know and i wont be hurt if want a different one, they dont take very long to do.

here he is in his big boy chair!!! i love that boy!

he wants to crawl sooo bad!

look at that face!!! oh i could just kiss it all day! sometimes i do!

Aiden is 6 months old!!!! holy crap, how did that happen??? he is such a big boy now! these are some things he is doing now (so i dont forget)
-eating 2nd foods and loving them and trying to eat anything else he can gets his little grabby fingers on!
-he is sitting in a booster chair (like the girls sit in) because he totally twisted his way out of the bumbo chair!
-still spitting up a lot! that is his only flaw.... i guess he has to have one, right?
-is wearing 6-12 month clothes
-does not use a binky!!! sometimes he will suck on his fingers but only when he goes to sleep
-doesnt have to nurse to go to sleep!!!! i love it! he his so easy going! he will just lay down and go to sleep if i dont have time to nurse him (which is a lot!). makes it easy for date nights!
-drinking from a sippy cup
-sitting up
-spins in circles on his tummy like nobody's business
-is getting very close to crawling (gets up on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth) he is trying SOOO hard! he just wants to get up and go with his sisters!
-finally started sleeping through the night about 2 weeks ago!!! YAY!!! he takes 2 long naps during the day (when we are home) and then wants to be in bed at least by 7! and then he usually sleeps until 7 with the occasional 5am wakeup!
-he is THE happiest baby! as long as he isnt hungry or tired he will just sit anywhere and laugh and smile at anything and anyone! he loves to be talked to and LOVES it when his sisters "bug" him (like sit on him or roll around on the floor with him, ya know..)
-is so sweet and loves to cuddle and of course be held.
-is ocassionally going pee and poop on the toilet!!! i am kind of trying this different kind of potty training. he is actually doing really good!
-LOVES his mommy!! what can i say?!? if i walk out of the room he usually lets me know that he is not ok with it!
-LOVES the hot tub! and swimming... it a good thing cause we are going to live in the pool this summer!

we love our "aiden boy"!!!

just a little wierd

this is the kind of stuff rylee does...........




and this is the kind of stuff addy does. she is soooo weird!

the big 5!

we had our 5 yr anniversary on Feb. 27!!! i cant believe it has already been 5 years! mike sent me flowers, which was a really fun surprise, and he tried surprising me with a massage at Massage Envy, but it didnt work out as planned. he told me that i was going to get a call at 3:30 and to make sure that answered the phone. so my mom shows up to watch the kids and i dont get a call. it was after 4:00 when i finally got a hold of mike to find out what was going on. Massage Envy was supposed to call at 3:30 and tell me that i had an appt. at 4:00. so anyways, it got all worked out and i got my massage!!:) i have to give him props for trying though! when i got home we sent the girls with my mom for a sleepover and dropped aiden off at a friends house and went to Noras for dinner. it was soooo yummy! we really wanted to go stay somewhere, but it just didnt work out. we'll go soon to make up for it though!
anyways, thanks for the great 5 years, mike!! love you!

well check stats!

3 yrs.
height: 38 in.
weight: 35 lbs.
85th % for her age.
Rylee is just as energetic as ever! she is turning into such a little teenager it is scary! she loves preschool and learns something new every day. her latest is break dancing. she has some sweet moves! she loves being mommy's little helper, almost too much! she got an apron for christmas from her grandma nuts and loves to wear it and help in the kitchen. she loves to wash dishes and cut up vegetables and any sort of cleaning! she is quite the personality and loves being the center of attention. we love her!

19months
height: 35 in.
weight: 26 lbs.
didnt get her percent :(
adyson is a giant! she is now wearing some 3T clothes.... she is quickly catching up to her sister! i thought she was going to be my easy-going girl. i was SO wrong! she wants to do everything her sister does, including going potty on the toilet! i am always finding her in the bathroom sitting on the toilet "going pee pee". she does go almost every night before bathtime. that will be my summer project...potty training!(and learning to swim). she is very sweet though and we love having her around!

4 months
height: 26 in.
weight: 16 lbs.
95th %
Aiden is such a sweet boy and so patient! he doesnt really have choice with his demanding sisters around. it has been such a joy to have him. he makes everyone calm and he loves being talked and loves to talk! he is such a good boy and puts himself to sleep almost every night! not sleeping through the night yet, but its ok! love this boy!! he is rollong over and just started eating rice cereal and he LOVES it! he is very good eater(if his hands dont get in the way! he loves chewing on his fingers).

Aiden's Blessing

4 generation picture. aiden ,mike, mike's dad, mike's grandpa

mike blessed aiden on november 30, 2008. he did a wonderful job as always. i was starting to get very stressed over this event, so i just decided to make it easy and we had a really small luncheon after the blessing with just family. it was very relaxed and very nice to be able to enjoy it.

random pics

we took the kids the airplane show and they loved it. it was very sunny so rylee had to steal my sunglasses to see the airplanes.

this is aiden at 2 months. he is so perfect!

so i decided to chop off rylee's hair one morning before preschool. here she is with her ponytail!

this is what you get when your child cant walk without falling. looking a little asian, are we?? her eye was so swollen.... it was quite funny to look at.

halloween.....finally!

ok i know it has been forever, and yeah we are busy, but COME ON!! get it together woman and make a post already! so here is halloween 2008. as you can see rylee and addy are both princesses.... can you tell they have makeup on?? ya, they really like to help do makeup! not very good pics of them due to fact that they cant sit still for 1 second, but oh well. there will be more posts to come.... after i have mike help upload all the pics. yep, i still cant do it on my own. oh hush!

pretty princesses

carving pumpkins. rylee loved digging out all the guts!

this is what aiden did while we carved pumkins. he is the best!

trick or treating with grampa john and grama nuts

carving pumpkins

look what we got.....

Little Aiden is here!!!! he was born on wednesday the 17th a 7:54 pm. 7lbs, 3oz and 19 3/4 in long. i have to say that it was probably the shortest labor EVER!! considering that i was already at a 4, i knew it was going to be quick. my mom came up to take some measurements of rylees windows for her curtains at around 5:00 and thats when my contractions started, so i told her she had better hurry and get home to change her clothes and get back up here. oh, and lets not forget that mike had decided it was a good time to buy a bunch plants for the yard and start a little project..... was not happy about that. i dont know why nobody believes me when i tell them i am in labor!!! so, we finally get to the hospital and i am at an 8 and was so exited when they told i could still get an epidural. he was still a little high so they told it would work in time. i was a 9 when i finally got it and it worked just in time!!! i only had to push a few times and he was out! and can i just say that when you dont have an episiotamy(sp??), the recovery is so easy! he is such a good baby and the girls love him to death! we got so lucky with him, he really is so good. i dont know what i would do if he was any different. he pretty much just sleeps and eats and poops and sleeps some more.....isnt that the life? rylee LOVES him and always wants to hold him. she is very protective of him too. adyson is doing a lot better than i thought she would. she will give him hugs and kisses and want to lay on him, so that is kind of scary sometimes but other than that she doesnt really mind him being around and me holding him and feeding him. here is a few pics that we have gotten so far.....

mommy and aiden waiting to be released from the hospital

aiden being the cutest little baby ever!

ok, i just had to post this one of addy. this totally captures her personality and is way too cute not to post!

rylee and her baby "brudder" sitting on the couch together. she will hold him for 20 min at a time. she loves him.

aiden being cute

we had a little photo shoot after bathtime with the kids. is this not the cutest picture?

waving to the camera!!

I LOVE THESE KIDS!!!!!!

baby update....

or i guess i should say "no baby" update! ya..... he's still not here and it is really annoying! i have been dilated to a 3 for like a week and half and as of today i am at a 4. i had them strip my membranes today to see if we can this going! this baby just does not want to come out! i have tried almost everything to start labor. i have been weeding the whole yard (its a big yard and there were a lot of weeds), taking the kids for walks in a stroller with flat tires, jumping on the trampoline, helping mike carry the new rocking chair upstairs, taking out all the plants in the garden and getting it ready for the winter vegetables, carrying the kids while running up and down the stairs, plus a few that i wont mention. if after doing all that and i still havent gone into labor, then i dont know what will work. i guess we will just have to wait.
can i just complain for a minute? it hurts soooo bad to do anything at this point. i feel like i am so old because it takes me so long to walk anywhere because of all the pressure and my hips hurts like crazy! not to mention my humongous swollen feet and legs that hurt. i have very little patience these days, so when addy decides to whine and cry and hang on my legs pretty much from the time she wakes up until she takes her nap(this happens EVERY day!) i get very close to losing it. i feel bad, but it is hard when you are doing this every day by yourself. ok, i think i am done.
on the bright side, we finally got the baby's room painted so now all i have to do is get addy out of there and into rylee's room. i dont know how soon that will happen though. i am afraid to put them in the same room because they will not sleep. i know i am going to just have to do it suffer through the sleepless nights for awhile until they can get used to it. i finally found a glider/rocker that i love!!! it is what i have been looking for pretty much since i had rylee. it is from babies r us and they just barely got it! i love it!!! it is so soft and comfortable and it is the perfect chocolate brown chenille fabric! i cant believe i have had 2 babies without one of these things!
ok, so wish me luck that we can have this baby soon!!!! and, no, we dont have a name picked out yet..... any suggestions???

well, we are back from the beach. i wasnt supposed to go, but i did anyways. i figured this was going to be my last trip for a long time so i might as well go. we got back on thursday night and my parents let rylee stay with them. it has been really weird and REALLY quiet here the last 2 days. i think addy doesnt know what to do if she doesnt have someone to yell at and fight with, she has been so quiet. the beach was great and the weather was perfect. i did a lot of sitting around mainly because it really, really hurts to walk and i am dilated to a 2(for me thats not a lot, but i didnt want to push it), so i had a lot of help while i was there. we went to the beach and pool every day and went to the wild animal park. if you ever want to feel like the biggest retard, have your mom push around in a wheelchair!!! thats right, they MADE me sit in a wheelchair because there was walking involved while at the wild animal park. rylee got to ride on my lap part of the way and thought it was so fun. heres a few pics about what we did.....

addy and my mom getting ready to go to the wild animal park

addy had so much fun playing at the beach and digging in the sand

rylee and her cousin corbyn were best buds. she was always saying "where's my corbyn??!!"

addy got mad at something and laid down in the sand and threw a fit and this what she ended up looking like. lovely.

all the cousins at the wild animal park

some of the cousins playing and building sand castles

addy going for a ride on the boogie board. she's a pro.

we tried to get at least one picture of the family while we were there and this is what we got. not great, but it will have to do.

apparently digging a big hole in the sand is great way to keep everyone busy. what you mean you dont dig big holes in the sand when you're at the beach? weird.

In memory of Aimee...

I was going to have the title be "happy anniversary", but that just didnt sound right. :) It was 2 years ago today that my older sister Aimee passed away. we all went to the cemetery tonight and brought about a million flowers to put on her headstone....seriously, there was a ton. i took a picture because it looked so pretty, but i always forget how to upload the pictures and mike is in san diego doing video shoot. so that picture will have to come later when he can help me because i am really retarted. it is still so hard to have her gone and i am sure that it will never get any easier. i am just grateful for the time that we did have with her, and i know that she is working hard on the other side!
...... after we left the cemetery, we went and got frozen yogurt. this was the best frozen yogurt that i have had in a LONG time!! i dont remember the name, but it just opened by the coscto in aliante. i know this sounds really dumb, but this is one thing that i have been craving my whole pregnancy and i finally got to satisfy it!!

the kiddos...

ok, so my little girls are getting to be so dang big!!! i cant believe how quick they are growing up. last week we were swimming and after a while, rylee decided she didnt want to wear her floaties anymore and just started swimming by herself!!!! so much for swim lessons. i couldnt believe she can swim! she will even jump in and can swim across almost the whole pool!! i guess thats what you get when you have child that is very determined and independant..... and stubborn!
She is only 2 1/2 and it is probably to early, but she is going to start preschool this year!! it starts on sept. 2nd. that is in less than 1 month. HOLY COW!!!!! we went to target yesterday and i let her pick out a backpack.... and of course she picks out the one with all the princesses on it. whatever. she LOVES it and it was only like 8 dollars and she hasnt stopped wearing it, so i guess if it makes her happy, then it makes me happy! i just cant believe i am going to have a kid in school! i hope it will turn out good because she needs something to keep her busy!

my little Adyson is not so little anymore! we just went to the dr. for her year check up and she weighs 25 lbs.! she is one hefty girl. and very, very squishy!! she is so cute and always trying to keep up with rylee, but one thing that i love is that she is a cuddler!! it is so weird to have a baby that actually likes to be held and snuggled with. she is so funny. whenever she is doing something naughty and i say "addy, do you need to go sit in timeout??" she will get up and walk over to the timeout corner and sit there..... but only for like 2 seconds. i love it!
she started doing this a few months ago. at every single meal she has to have a fork or she wont eat what is on her plate. she is so wierd! she has to eat every bite off of the fork and if she cant get it, then she makes me help her so she can eat her food off of the fork.
ya, so the other day when woke up from her nap, mike and i heard her whine a little bit and heard big thump and then a little cry so mike started to go up stairs just as she is opening her door!!!! what the heck???!!! she just turned one and apparently can climb out of her crib now! and she has been able to open the doors for about 3 months! she is one crazy girl!

a few weeks ago, we all went to scottsdale, az with mike because he had video shoot at the Hyatt there. i dont suggest going on a trip with 2 little kids and being 8 months pregnant if your husband is going to be working the whole time! it was very tiring and really hard to keep the kids happy in a hotel room. i wish we could have enjoyed it more because it was really nice hotel, but i think that will have to wait for a trip with out kids!:) one thing we did get to enjoy was the spa! we took turns watching the kids the morning before we had to check out and got massages!! i really hope we get to go back soon because it was probably the best spa i have ever been to! i wish i had some pictures, but on the drive there i noticed that our battery was dead on the camera. maybe next time!

i have been really lame and havent taken many pictures lately. i will try to get some posted soon.

sleep deprived...

ok, so has anyone been doing anything other than reading Breaking Dawn??? ya, me neither. that includes sleeping, getting dressed, getting the kids dressed, cleaning, sleeping. that's right. all you girls that made me take the first book home to read..... i am totally hooked!!!! my poor family has been so neglected lately. and i think i am starting to get sick because i read instead of sleep like i should be doing. oh well.... its worth it to read about Edward, right?

it been a while....

i am a total slacker when it comes to posting things! a lot has happened since the last post, so i'll catch you up on the lastest...

addy started walking a few months ago and she turned 1 on june 19th. we had a little party for her and of course she loved it and knew exactly what was going on.

my hubby turned 32 on july 12th!!! wow! he is an old man! j/k. we went up to st. george for the night and went to one of the plays at tuacahn. kinda lame, but we didnt have the kids with us, so that was really nice!! we slept in til like 9:00!

we are just having fun swimming and checking out what's new in the garden that is takin over my yard! seriously, its crazy! rylee's favorite thing is to go check on the peppers and pick the tomatoes. i am just waiting for my honeydew to be ready and hope that it will taste good. i'm worried that the honeydew and cucumber got cross pollinated because they are so close together! i guess i'll just have to wait and see.

the pregnancy is going great. i always have uneventful pregnancies. i am already counting the days til he comes! i am so tired of being pregnant!!!

we took a little trip up to bryce canyon to see my sister that lives near there. it was the trip from hell! before we even got to mesquite we had to stop 4 times for rylee to go to the bathroom. the kids hardly slept the whole time, so of course they were tired and ornery the whole time. my kids dont do well going out of town because they are so used to a schedule and they are such light sleepers. it makes it really hard to have a good time!

rylee is still crazy and her favorite word is 'shut up'. that's a fun one! and now she likes to jump off of the rocks when we are swimming. she will always try to sneek to the higher ones and jump off them! she makes me so nervous!!!

rylee decided a while ago that she didnt want to wear pull ups to bed anymore.  apparently they make her butt itch.  whatever! so she wears her panties all day and night! and we have a lot of  "pee laundry" to do now! she really does a good job of not peeing in her bed, but she does have accidents sometimes.

hopefully it wont take me months to do another post..... we'll see how that goes!

Check out my Slide Show!

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yes, i am totally pathetic. well, we have had quite a bit going on this past month, so here is a little rundown for ya'll!
-a week before easter my dad had a heart attack and was in the icu for a few days, but is doing very well now.
-on easter there was a little accident involving mike, addy and the stairs. it ended up with her in the hospital with a fractured skull...no worries, she's doing fine!
-the day she was coming home from the hospital our courtyard wall was supposed to be built, so pretty much from that day on we have been working out in yard trying to get everything done. it takes a lot out of you when you're chasing after 2 kids, pregnant and trying to do landscaping and put together a swing set.....fun times!
-a few days after addy turned 9 mo. she finally got her first tooth and then for the next 3 weeks got 3 more teeth. so, she is finally sleeping through the night again. hallelujah!!!
-rylee is still annoying. j/k. she is just getting more and more stubborn and defiant! i swear that girl is going to put me in the nut house!!! she wont stay in any bed we put her in unless she gets a serious beating. j/k (but not really:). today i decided to start potting training again. mostly because i only had a few diapers left and i am refusing to buy more. plus, we are thinking of going to oregon in june and i do not want to take diapers with for rylee. i know, i am selfish, but also the thought of having 3 kids in diapers makes me want to puke!
-i turned 26 on the 14th of april...yippee!!
-lets see what else.....oh yeah, this pregnancy has been awesome other than the fact that i am constantly almost falling asleep because i am so dang exhausted. in the beginning there was only a few days that i was sick and it was because i waited to long to eat. seriously, i have to eat like every 2 hours! it is getting kind of annoying, but at least i am not sick!
-i had the 20 week ultra sound on monday and everything was great! especially the fact that we are having a BOY!!!!!! phew!! we are so excited and a little (ok, a LOT) relieved that we dont have to keep trying until we get a boy!
-i planted a bunch of stuff in my garden, but i know nothing about it, so this will be a little experiment to see if anything even lives! if anybody knows anything.....please let me know your secrets! and i really want to plant some fruit trees....that just may be a dream for now, though.
-oh yeah, addy is all over the place now!!! she is standing up every chance she gets and tries to walk, but her head gets there before her feet do. it wont be long!!! it is so funny, she be crawling along and then just stand up and clap for herself! she is so funny! and she loves rylee and especially loves to pick fights with her. seriously. this sweet little girl has an evil streak. her favorite thing is to pull rylee's hair, but i have seen addy tackle her to the ground and lay on top her holding her there. funniest. thing. ever.
so, thats what we've been up to. i hope you are all satisfied. :))

new pics!

back to life......

ya, i know...it takes me forever to get anything posted around here. we had some internet problems for a few days and then it always takes me a long time to figure out where the heck the pictures are on the computer. i'm a little slow.
so our little weekend getaway was so much fun and totally relaxing. we went all the way to Mandalay Bay!!! kinda lame, but i didnt want to spend the whole time in the car to get somewhere. and with the money we saved in gas we pampered ourselves!! we left on last thursday afternoon and went for a little ride on the motorcycle, and then headed on down to mandalay to check in. after we ate dinner we spent the rest of the night....

in the most comfortable robes ever!!! we tried to go to bed early but the couple next door to us were having a lovers quarrel and all we heard was a lot of really loud screaming mixed in with a lot of swearing.....if only the guy would leave his wife like the chick wanted and there wouldnt have been a fight. it was really funny, kind of like a live soap opera.

on friday we got room service on the morning and spent almost the whole rest of the day at the spa.....it was sooooo nice!!!! then we went to a really good steakhouse called Del Frisco's for dinner. the steak was so dang good and prices were actually really reasonable.

this is view from our room, not that we ever just sat and looked out our window.

on sat. we went to breakfast and test drove truck that mike wants to get and then we went to beach at the hotel and like an hour after we got out there, the wind started and we got the heck outta there. that night we went to the Rascal Flatts concert. it has been so long since i've been to a concert and it was so much fun!! they put on an awesome show

after we got out of the concert, we were walking back to our room and saw that Kelly Pickler was taking pictures with people at one of the restaurants so i butted in front of some people and got myself a picture with her!!! (she opened for Rascal Flatts, so thats why she was there).

so, all in all, it was a really great weekend without chasing little ones around, but we missed them so much! thanks mom for watching them (and our babysitter, on sat. night!).