Brandon, Jocelyn, and baby girl!

2012-01-27T00:08:00.000-08:00

I have been putting off doing a post until I had some time to actually get pictures up and everything but I have a feeling that if I keep waiting I'll never get around to it.
Christmas feels like it was forever ago! We had a fun little Christmas as a fam, I had to work Christmas eve 5-5pm Christmas day 5-11am and the day after from 5-5pm. Santa still made time to visit our house Emma was a lot of fun this year. We were able to also have my family Christmas party on the 23 which was fun.. We got to see the grandparents and hang out with everyone which doesn't happen often. The days after Christmas were spent with Brandons fam because J&C were in town. We celebrated the Dec. birthdays at the fun park, and hung out at our house one day... and I know I'm forgetting the details... (this is why I shouldn't wait to update!)
We rung in the new year at my parents. Emma luckily fell asleep so we stayed and did A TON of fire works. It was a blast. We also got to play Toy Story Mania which is so much fun.
I enjoyed my time off of school and felt like we were a normal family again but that was short lived and now I'm back to school. This semester I only have class once a week from 8-2:45, I'm still working two days a week and starting next week I have clinical once a week for 3 weeks then I start my precepting shifts which I hope I can make it through. I'll be trying to keep up my two shifts and I need to do at least two a week for school too... so thats 4 12 hour shifts a week plus a full day of class and not to mention just normal life. Good thing that only lasts 6 weeks then I will be done and be able to take boards! WOO HOO.
Emma has been giving me and Brandon such a hard time this past week. It started last Saturday night. We were talking on Sunday and we put her down around 9 for bed and she fought sleep and screamed and yelled, pounded her head against her door. We kept just trying to snuggle her and get her to calm down and put her back to bed but by 1am we were exhausted and we had to be up to speak at 9am church so we let her sleep with us which is a first.... and LAST worst nights sleep ever! Well we woke up at 8:48 and were in full on panic mode... we walked in at 9:05 during the opening song. Out talks went ok but man. Over share... I got dressed so fast I forgot to even put a bra on and realized when I went to talk out of the house...
Well Emma has continued to be completely afraid of going to bed. I had work the next few days so I just let her fall asleep with me then Brandon would put her in her bed when he got home. Last night she fell asleep after about an hour of me tucking her in every 10 min. Tonight I fought with her for about an hour and then ended up being able to sing and rock her (and myself) to sleep. I woke up and put her down and got back to working on home work. Brandon just got home and she just woke up to him coming in... what a cutie...
At least during the day I wouldn't trade her for anything. She is so dang cute is talking so much and just runs around pointing and naming things.
Well tomorrow we are going to Brian Regan with my family and then me and Brandon are staying at Kim & Blairs then we are going snowboarding Saturday, all while Emma stays at nana and papa's. Hopefully she sleeps good for them :) It will be the last fun weekend we probably together until I'm done with school so we are going all out!
So brace yourself for lots of pics and fun stories hopefully. :)

Santa, shopping, and dinner

2011-12-22T23:28:00.000-08:00

Last weekend we had te chance to see Santa. Emma seemed pretty excited about everything up until she layed eyes on the man in red... She didn't cry or anything she just wanted nothing to do with sitting on his lap or talking to him. (I'm going to be real honest, this Santa man was kind of creepy...) but wehad fun anyway. After we did a little shopping then we ended the night with dinner at the Copper mill with Brandons parents. (they had been finishing up Christmas shopping in Logan so we decided to meet up) Here are a few pics from the night.

In line waiting for Santa

Not so much a fan

Yes she did this by herself. This kid is crazy sometimes!

After dinner. She wanted nothing to do with pictures

Yes this is how Emma helps me.

we are so excited for Christmas this weekend!!

dear E

2011-12-15T21:20:00.000-08:00

Hey its your momma. I know bed time is like so last year... but you kept me up last night so I only slept 4 hours and I've been up since 3 am and have the pleasure of being up at 3 am again tomorrow (I know you're not good at math so that means I've been up 19 1/2 hours and can maybe get a little over 4 hours of sleep before being up for another 19+ hours). If you want to cut me some slack I'll put in an extra good word with Santa, I promise!

Love your momma

A good start to December

2011-12-13T19:49:00.000-08:00

So December is off to a good start. I finished finals last week and have been living the high life of no school... Ok that's only kind of true. Sunday I woke up sick sick sick to my stomach and spent most of the day in bed or being sick in the bathroom... not exactly fun but I was so glad that I didnt have school OR work the next day. Monday I actually just spent the day with Bradon and the Babe had had a good ol day. Today I was suppose to work but Brandon woke up at four and took over the bathroom being sick while I was suppose to be leaving for work... so I called in sick. And wouldn't you know by the time it was time for Brandon to go to work he felt fine. So I pretty much called in for no reason but I did however deep clean the main floor which was in much need of it and then I even got to go to the grocery store, made dinner, watched lots of "dragon" (aka how to train your dragon) with Emma and then we made some milk jug snow men and took some pictures. It was a good end to the night. Hopefully our little Emma gal will go to bed with out a fight unlike every nap time.
It is sooo frustrating/sad when your kido gives up on napping. I don't think I would mind as much if she wasn't just a bear from 1pm- bed time but she is just terrible and gets so sleepy and will actually start falling asleep playing or eating then she gets mad and cries until she wakes herself up enough to keep on keepin on. Heres to hoping its just a faze...
Well here are the few pics I took tonight. I was trying to play with the settings so they are kind of not the best and I've decided a tripod is in our future...

Emma and the tree

Our snowmen made out of old milk jugs and Christmas lights

My favorite new Christmas toy, our little people nativity

more of the above

One last one of the tree

Some things I want to remember about right now...

Emma is obsessed with chapstick, putting it on her, others, eating it, whatever
Emma hates napping
School is out for a month!
So grateful for our jobs, home, family and friends among many other blessings
So thankful for all the people who are always willing to watch E for us
Pandora Christmas station
Emma loves Happy tot squeezable food... I don't mind that she does just wish she would like something that doesn't cost so much...
Nollie ate a bunch of cat poo and promptly came in the house and puked it all back up SICK
Emma is loving to snuggle while watching "signing", "mouse", "dragon", and "toy" (signing time, mickey mouse club house, how to train your dragon, and toy story 3)
Emma loves to "color"
Emma is talking lots and lots and is getting so dang smart
Its the best time of the year! :)

today to a point

2011-11-14T18:41:00.001-08:00

Woke up had snuggle time with the hubs

got ready for school

Emma girl woke up and I left to school while her and her dad in bed watching "toons" and drinking milk

Had class

met with my head of program AGAIN(needs a whole other post, if I even bother)

Got home from school

Had lunch with the hubs while the babe napped

Emma finally woke up after a 3 hour nap

and this is how I found her

hung out with the Emma girl

watched signing time a million times

watched shaun the sheep about 2 million times

Emma destroyed a bunch of stuff

dinner

colored with Emma

updated the blog

soo excited for bed time:)

not so excited for work.

Is this real life?

2011-11-07T21:21:00.000-08:00

I'll save you the 5 min you might waste reading this and just tell you now this probably isn't worth the read but hey I can't stop you.

As much as I hate rough days I feel like I need to write about them so when I think things are tough or whatever I can remember there were worse days.Also I wan't to remember what it was exactly I did make it through. So really this is me just being whiny but hey, its my blog and I'll whine if I want too! haha ( and I just feel like I should add I in no way think we have it hard, to be honest I feel like we have been so blessed, we have great family, friends, we have a beautiful little girl who we love dearly, we have a great house, jobs, and I'm in my LAST year of nursing school, I really could go on and on... but this is a venting post)

I just need to say, school is getting so ridiculous! Our instructor last Friday was texting his wife then all of a sudden mid sentence he answered his phone. His wife wanted to know if her out fit looked ok. Seriously? Then just ends lecture because he couldn't focus. Then today they had told us to come in an hour early, no big deal right. Well too bad our instructor text a student to see when class was and they told her 9 not 8 so we all sat around for an hour and then she starts lecture at maybe 9:15. Annoying but oh well right. Then its getting closer to time to leave and we still had to do a test review, take a test, and group test. So someone asked why she was taking so long, she says because this is a three hour class and they let us out too often. Then someone else says well we were all here on time, and you weren't. so she says well I was told the wrong time. So I say its kind of disrespectful of our time, you can't just change how long lecture goes mid class. So our instructor says fine I'll just stop. and says to take a break and then comes back and does a terrible test review and then tells us she knows we are suppose to take our test now, but our other instructor has an announcement and so to take another 15min break. Serious? And his announcement, we are canceling lab this week and we are all suppose to go to this mock trial the master students are doing up at Weber state that goes until 5 this Fri. when I usually get out around 2-3 on Fri. Oh no big deal who needs to try and plan there lives... And I wish this was the first time things like this had happened but its pretty much a weekly thing and its getting old! We have Mon. and Fri. class so when we were suppose to get Fri. off and they up and changed class to Thurs. because they needed the extra day. So frustrating that I'm spending all this money on nursing school and most of the time our instructors aren't even prepared for lecture and can't answer our questions.

As for the rest of my day, I still don't have babysitters a few days this week, Emma has emptied out all her toys, pulled 9 keys off the lap top, wrote on the couch with pen, kicked me, and threw books at me (she has had her really cute moments too) Found out we were out of rubbing alcohol half way through the ink clean up, and had to run to the store at 8:30. And Emma is still awake and its 10pm (SO not normal for her).

Man how whiny was that! I'm just so grateful for my family especially my husband. Brandon lets me be a big baby right now and just tells me I can do this and we will get through it its only a few more months. I can't wait for graduation and we can be a normal family again. Never seeing Brandon is getting old! I know there are so many other people just like us, who don't see their families and have been doing it for much longer and my hats are off to them cause I just don't think I could do this if I didn't have an end in sight.

On a lighter note, I was able to sweep, mop, clean the kitchen and downstairs bathroom, and cook a big ol dinner which I was pretty excited to get done. And I got all the ink out of the couch, just trowing this out there I love my white couches. I may have to wash them a lot but at least they come clean.

Oh geeze, Emma keeps pulling on the dogs ears and now I have a shaking dog sitting on my lap and a crazy baby girl trying to keep pulling on the dogs ears. Its not like the dog couldn't just jump over the baby gate and get away she just keeps on getting beat up by the babe. Well I need to get laundry switched and put a crazy baby to bed and get myself to be cause I need to get up at 3:45am. Tis the start of my three 12 hour shifts in a row... In good news, I only have clinical this week and next and I'm done for the semester!

I promise to not have another whiny outburst, well I at least I won't blog about it. :)

as of late....

2011-11-04T16:32:00.000-07:00

Well we made it through another month of nursing school! I'm not going to lie its been pretty hard but our family and friends have made a huge difference. I honestly don't know how we could do it with out such awesome people in our lives. It is SO hard trying to find places for Emma and I feel like I'm burning everyone out.

Unschool events this month....

Conference

Emma's 18mo birthday!

being a real family on weekends... well at least when we weren't working...

Pumpkin walk

Ayotte Halloween party

Brandon threw out his back

Sexton Halloween dinner

Trick or treating

This list makes me pretty sad... School has taken over our normal lives!! Its honestly been a lot harder than my first year of school. I guess I am working more and my clinical day is longer, oh and we have a kid now... I swear our house is a disaster, I forget stuff all the time and am so tired! Working three 12's in a row is kicking my butt. This past week I worked three 12's and did a 12 hour clinical plus school on monday and friday... too bad today I totally slept through two alarms and missed my test this morning! At least my teacher only took 10% off instead of 20% So I ended up with 80% which hey, I can live with. At least school is only until April and I have almost all of December off... I just have to keep telling myself that. :) well here are a few pictures from the last few weeks.

Little Emma girl helping me get a Thredup box posted

Just waking up

Halloween, Emma, Grandpa, and Nash

Savannah and Emma

Halloween night

Trick-or-treating

I'm so excited for November and for this awesome Fall weather. I hope we can make more time of the fam and not let school over power our lives. Once again a huge shout out to all our family and friends who have been helping us out with Emma, it means the world to us. Also to everyone who is just plain old supportive of us and our work and school. We couldn't ask for more!

Emmas 18mo stats

2011-10-17T21:01:00.000-07:00

Well today was Emmas 18mo old check up I can't even believe it! Here are her stats
weight 21.8lbs 14%
height 31in 27%
head 18.1 33%

Still just my little petite gal! She cried a little with her shots, which she got four of, but she calmed right down when she got her sucker. As for what she is up to these days... I'm not going to even attempt to write all the words she is saying she has been starting to repeat us a lot and has a pretty big vocab. A few of our fav sayings as of late are oh poop, oh boy, and see ya later. I have no idea where she got the oh poop from, neither of us ever say it, but its pretty funny to hear her say it. She is still in size 4 diapers are is still fitting into mostly 12-18mo clothes. Has used the big potty once... she kept saying poop so I sat her on the potty and she pooped and was so happy... then she ran under the dining room table and peed, a ton, and then came running out. But we are going to start introducing it and just see what happens, I mean really who wouldn't want to get rid of diapers!?
This past Saturday we got together with my family for Tyler' birthday and we did some family pics. It was fun and man is it hard getting everyone smiling at the same time, haha. But I think they turned out pretty well, just need a little editing. :)
I'm still crazy busy with school and work, but I think I am getting use to it. We are at mid terms right now, we have fall break this weekend, and I am SO excited, no work or school, friday-sunday. How awesome is that?
Brandons job is going well, we are really hoping he can switch to days soon, even though that means we would have to do day care. We are getting a little tired of never seeing each other, but at least school doesn't last forever, and we are just so grateful for a jobs any how.
Speaking of jobs I'm suppose to work tomorrow. Early. Ugh. I'm kind of hoping to be put on call so I can spend time with the fam. Oh and cleaning the house, because well, its a disaster zone right now... sad but true. Please don't judge.

Conference Weekend

2011-10-03T20:19:00.001-07:00

This weekend we...played with cousins

ran around in this silly helmet

watched conference in a stroller
ate a black crayon
visited nana and papa
picked apples with grandpa
went down the slide
watched conference at home, and got tickled lots by daddy
made a new recipe, it was yummy
pet a chicken... kind of
enjoyed a good breakfast
Crashed after all the fun
went out for one last time on the lake
spent lots of time in the car
more breakfast time, gotta love that mouth full!

Love when pictures are out of order... oh well. We had a great conference weekend. Always love hearing all the talks and gets me so excited for fall. We enjoyed our time as a little fam and had fun visiting the grandparents, cousins, aunts/uncles, brother/sister in laws. Brandon is on day shift this week so we actually get to see each other a lot, woo hoo. Its much needed we are hating how much time we spend apart but we are so glad I can be finishing up school and that we have jobs. Emma is so much fun lately and is talking more and is just so much fun... except for the fit throwing that's not so fun. But I best be off to get ready for work tomorrow. Can I just say how much I hate getting up at 3:30am YUCK

Sick girl

2011-09-26T15:49:00.000-07:00

So this little gal has been sick the last three days... I have done at least two loads of laundry everyday... She's a lotta drama, but brings us a lotta joy! Love her.
And seriously can her hair grow just a little more so it isn't so scary all the time.
Oh and, who told her she could be 17 1/2 months old!! Make her stop!

Oh yeah, just so you know don't expect much as far as updates from us. School/work has taken over my life. I just looked at the camera and I had taken pictures twice so far in sep. This being one of them. And taking more pictures was a goal I had for myself... so much for that!

Big Bear: Ayotte family vaca 2011

2011-08-23T13:18:00.000-07:00

Here are some pics from our most recent and sadly last vaca of the summer, because like it or not I started school yesterday...

sunset behind the condos

Lots of food, hiking, games, laughing, swimming, water fights, strolling around town, and just plan ol' being with the fam. Emma was not so fun but everyone was awesome with putting up with her and her craziness. After the condo we spent two night with Jason and Claudia. Kel was a trooper and came along and sat next to Emma. Turns out Emma and teething=NO FUN. It was kind of rough in the car but we made it. The drive home wasn't too bad sooo glad we stopped at the outlets. We got some sweet deals (wish Emma wouldn't have been so cranky and maybe I could have found some mores stuff) and good thing Kel sang "Zoom, zoom zoom, were going to the moon" oh... about a million-gazillion times!

We then went back to work, enjoyed our last weekend together before I started school. We went out to my parents Saturday and celebrated my moms bday with a bbq with all the fam, we missed Hayan but everyone else was there. It was a lot of fun and Emma and Nash are starting to interact more with each other its lots of fun. Then Sunday we went out to Brandons parents for a yummy Sunday dinner.

Monday I started my last year of nursing school WOO HOO. All except that I actually have to go to school. Well to be honest I really do like school, its trying to find baby sitters for E and having to be away from the fam so much that I really don't like. I just keep saying, "its only a year, its only a year" You can do anything for a year right? And really its only like 9 months. my schedule for at least through October looks something like this:

Mon. class in Ogden 8am-12pm

Tues. work in Logan 5am-5:30pm

Wed. clinical in SLC 7am-730pm
Thurs. work in Logan 5am-5:30pm

Fri. class in Ogden 8am-6pm

Sat. and Sun. - Family time

REPEAT

Hopefully I can keep up working because that means school will be paid for, and who doesn't like free school! We could not do this without all our family and friends helping out with watching our little gal. Who knew trying to find baby sitters was so complicated. So far its working out well. I just hope I can remember where to pick her up at haha.

Well little E is down for a nap and there's about a million other things I should be doing with precious nap time.

just an ordinary day...

2011-07-27T21:33:00.000-07:00

0800: wake up to Emma screaming

0815: daddy went and got her, my kind of day :)

0830: "mooore?" Emmas favorite word

0835: Breakfast, I dump some Cheerio's on Emma's tray and pour some corn pops for me. Emma points at my cereal "more" I dump some corn pops on her tray, every ones happy.

0915: B leaves for physical therapy

0915-1030: spend way too much time on the computer while Emma watches yo gabba gabba and runs around like a crazy girl. Then hurry and shower and get me and Emma ready to leave.

1040: actually leave the house after making about ten, last trips in the house for some random item.

1130: Meet up with Brandon and hit up TJ maxx, Old Navy and Pets Mart. Then its off to subway and then up the canyon to first dam.

1215-1300: Emma fell asleep on the way, so we carefully move her to her stroller, go sit at the picnic tables, have lunch and chat and take ridiculousness pictures of ourselves. After lunch Emma wakes up we go look at ducks, Emma points and says "moore?" "no ducks say quack" "wack?" "yes quack" "moore?" then signs cracker.

1300-1415: Part ways with Brandon and head to Hobby Lobby with little Emma to look for a frame for a project. Leave empty handed which is a good thing considering I picked up and looked at a million different things.

1530: get home and Emma is hungry, tired, and cranky, but won't eat or sleep! Fight her on taking a nap. I lost. Spend the next hour getting toys thrown on me, and a sad baby crawling on my lap almost falling asleep, then waking up to throw something or start crying. Then she goes and terrorizes the dog.

1605: Nollie joins me on the couch and tries to hide from Emma. Nollie fails.

17oo: wake up from a tiny nap because Emma is hitting me in the face with a toy and is asking for more. She has in maybe five min. emptied all her toys out, and pulled her toy crib half way across the room, pulled out a bunch of the PS3 stuff and broken a clip.

1705: Brandon calls for me to look up a mattress, after much debate, we don't want one. We would rather a car. Some how this makes sense...

1730: start making dinner, try to feed Emma "more" I fail. Dinner in the oven, Emma fell asleep in her high chair, great.

1800-1900: Eat dinner, bake some cookies. Emma is still asleep. Great.

1915-1930: Try and watch "So You Think You Can Dance." Stop because Emma is awake finally.

1935-2100: Feed Emma again, give her a bath while eating ice cream (don't hate!), Emma asked for more, she ate ice cream in the tub (don't hate!) fight to get lotion on the babe and for her to sit still long enough to get a diaper and pj's on, E runs around more, we read books, give her some milk, brush her teeth, prayers and lay her down.

2100-2130: back to SYTYCD while listening to Emma talk to herself.

2200-2230: finish SYTYCD, then B calls and I talk to him. Go in and put the pics from today on the computer and start this post.

2300: think to myself who in there mind makes a post of their day hour by hour. Oh yeah me, cause I want to remember my plain old days are my favorite kind of days.

Another boating weekend

2011-07-25T12:35:00.000-07:00

We had another great weekend out on the lake. We went out with my parents my brother and his kido's and our friends Ryan and Heather. We had lots of fun. Emma is starting to really like the water she came out with me and just floated around in her life jacket and I wasn't even holding on.

Brody

Emma out surfing... kind of

yikes what a face, from me that is
After boating we went to my parents for some lunch. Then we headed off to meet this little guy!

Remmy
How cute and tiny is this little guy! Cade and Krisi you did well! We had fun catching up with them and holding there sweet little man. I forgot just how small and perfect babies are!
After our visit we headed home, got ready and dropped little E off with nana and papa and we headed out to dinner and a movie with Ryan and Heather. It is SO weird going places without Emma. We went and saw Harry Potter and it was great. We got home and enjoyed our kid free home... it was almost too quiet with out our little gal running around causeing drama, haha.
Sundays are always fun, trying to get E to sit still is pretty much a joke. Me and Brandon get plenty of exercise walking her around the building and outside. Our little primary kids love her, but its pretty hard to teach sometimes. After church we went and visited with some of Brandon's fam thats in town and had a blast.
Emma is becoming quite the little talker. Mostly she just says more for just about anything, food, drink, a toy... but its just so cute. She also says no a lot but she says it in such a cute. Also in the vocab these days is, dog, ball, hello, hi, bye, nana, cracker, mom, dad, love you, please, baby, juice, milk, and blanky. I think I forgot some but thats pretty much it. She will try and repeat things you say and its pretty funny to listen to. Brandon said coo coo cachoo and she gave it a pretty good effort, so cute. She will also moo like a cow and quack(duck), baa(sheep), and lalala(pig). Yeah the lalala is from a book moo, baa, lalala. She throws a mean fit and screams high enough to make your ears bleed. She can destroy a room in no time flat. She even pulled my camera (yeah the new SLR) off of the computer desk today. (THANKFULLY it works still) Shes giving kisses and loves. Shes walking pretty well and tries to run. Will say no, no, no while doing things she knows she shouldn't do. Has not mastered unsnapping a onsie but can pretty much undress herself from any other type of clothing. Has jumped out of her crib twice, and escaped the pack and play once(at her sleepover at nana's hahaha). She gives fives and and will give rocks (bump fists) waves hi and bye, and tries really hard to blow kisses. She is our world and can't imagine life without her she is so much fun to have in our family. I've recently had a lot of friends loose their children or other kids in their families and cannot even imagine what that is like and just feel so very blessed that I have my little crazy girl running around and getting into everything.

be glad you can't smell pictures

2011-07-15T13:05:00.000-07:00

Don't you love the editing job... can't have my kiddo's hoohoo showing...
Yeah this is what I woke up to...
poop everywhere, on her body, legs, arms, FACE, sheets, the crib, blanket, floor... I wanted to throw up. Come to think of it I don't know how I didn't.
One thing I've learned, take pictures when you would other wise want to scream, cry, and give your child away, it makes you laugh and some how makes scrubbing poop out of everything for an hour some how not seem so bad... I think.

toothbrush

2011-07-08T20:32:00.000-07:00

These days most of the pictures I get of this kid are of the back of her head. She is running around like non-stop! Today she found a new love in her toothbrush, she played with it for an hour before we had to leave the house and
I just couldn't take it along for the ride... She still hates headbands but will keep them on for about an hour without bugging them... then after she realizes its there... its over!

this is what I wake up to

2011-07-08T11:42:00.000-07:00

love all the snot and tears. If you look close you can see her 9th tooth peaking through on the bottom right of the pic.

yeah thats her diaper on the ground... she's been stripping down every morning, its pretty much awesome. Oh except for having to wash the sheets. I guess I should be happy there hasn't been any poopy diapers yet.

when things are quiet

2011-07-08T11:29:00.000-07:00

When things are quite when you're cleaning, there is probably a reason. Emma found a bag of skittles and was loving life... so much for getting anything done. :)

4th weekend

2011-07-05T14:59:00.000-07:00

Well we had quite the fun weekend. Friday we went up to my parents for some boating. It was the first time back out on the lake and it wasn't without a few problems... haha but we did get to go out and do some surfing. Here are a few pics from that.

I worked both Saturday and Sunday but we still had some friends over Saturday. It was good seeing Katie and her hubby Steve and their little cutie Spencer. On Monday we were going to head up to Bear Lake with Brandon's fam to do some boating and hanging out but the weather was terrible! So we went back out to Mantua for some more boatig! We had a blast... but I forgot my camera... UGH. But imagine us having lots of fun. After boating we enjoied some tasty burgers and then games, croquet, an outdoor movie, and topped it off with some fireworks. Poor Emma and Nash had enough fun by the time the movie was going but over all it was a really great weekend with family and friends. We were sad we didn't get to spend more time with Brandon's family though.
Emma is still a crazy woman. I can hardly ever get pictures of her actually looking at me cause she is usually running around. She finally weighs 20lbs at 14 months. She is talking more, but then she stops saying old words... Her fav's right now are still dog and her new one toe. She is walking better all the time and now loves to be chased but she gets going too fast and runs like a drunk and usually falls over, its pretty cute. She STILL has no hair... ok ok its coming in but its still sooo short and she still HATES headbands. However I have started to be able to get clips in her hair and they usually stay in. She just had another tooth break though so that puts her at 9 TEETH! Crazy and there is another all but ready to break though. She has been on a kick again of not sleeping. For the first two-ish weeks I think it was because she was soooo hungry (growth spurt) then the next few weeks it was her dang teeth. She usually wakes up somewhere around 2-5 and doesn't always want to go back to bed... not so fun. But its a good thing she is pretty cute! She loves to let the dog out of the kennel and to climb in and shut herself in. As you can tell we LOVE this little gal no matter how crazy and sassy she can be!
We are trying our best to enjoy our summer because when school starts we are afraid life will be pretty crazy! And so far I think we are doing a pretty good job!

sneak peak

2011-06-30T11:36:00.000-07:00

Here are two of the pics we did in Cali, I did the editing... and well I'm not as amazing as Claudia, however as it turns out she is just waiting on her little guy to get her any day so these will do for now!

Emma thought it would be fun to army crawl all the way under her crib.

yes... we have a naked problem at our house. Emma has been the worst at stripping down lately!! she managed to get her diaper undone and pretty much off this day. When I go to get her up in the morning or after naps she will have managed getting her shirt off or her legs out of her jammies... this girl!

at her daddy's softball game, looks pretty cozy eh, juice, goldfish, blankies, doesn't get much better.

a few disney pics

2011-06-17T15:31:00.000-07:00

the kido's and my mom with Aladdin!
The whole gang waiting for the bus
worn out Emma bug at sea world
woo hoo for SEAWORLD

Vacation!!

2011-06-15T16:21:00.000-07:00

Me-o-my! What a fun ten days. We started our trip off in Moorpark CA. And spent Sat-Mon with Jason and Claudia. We even got to meet up with his uncle Dennis and his fam. We tried to go camping on the beach, but we got rained out. We still had fun going to the beach even with the rain. We got to do family pics thanks to Claudia being amazing, even though she was having contractions the whole time we were there. Pretty sure we put her into labor;) (HAHA love ya Claudia).

Tuesday we met up with my family in Anaheim CA. We did DISNEY for 2 1/2 days (we went the first night for just a few hours but got a lot of rides in actually and a little view of the fireworks. :) Disney was a little chaotic at first, but I think we got in all the major rides and all the kids did awesome. Savannah and Sydnee were crazy girls going on all the big kid rides including the tower of terror! Emma loved all the rides we took her on, she was a lot of fun and I can't wait to take her back when she will actually remember/have fun/know whats going on.

On Friday we headed to Ocean side. Mom and dad ended up at the wrong hotel, too bad it wasn't the right one because they said it looked really nice haha. We went to the beach but it was pretty chilly. Saturday we did SEAWORLD. It was a lot of fun but I think the kido's were all a little worn out but we still had lots of fun. Emma's favorite I think was the dolphin show, and not because of the dolphins haha. There was this lady dressed like a bird and she LOVED her. She just would point and laugh and squeal, everyone around us was just laughing at her. The rest of our time was spent at the pool or just hanging out. We had lots and lots of fun but were totally worn out by the end of our trip.

Emma did awesome on the way down because we drove at night but we were so tired so we tried getting up really early for our trip home which went pretty well but the last three hours were TERRIBLE. She was so sick of the car and would just scream when she was in her car seat. As soon as we got out she would stop. She finally fell asleep for the last hour which was heaven!

Now I know your thinking longest post ever and no pictures... I know! I had our camera but I didn't really take any pictures... I was so mad because our new camera got to our house two days after we left. My mom thankfully got some pics of us, and I will have our family pics that Claudia took up sometime. So please don't hate, pictures ARE coming.

As for our little Emma girl, she has become such a BUSY girl. She is walking a lot now and CLIMBING. Oh I love her but sometimes! I have had to go get her off the couch like 10times just writing this because she climbs up and starts going through my purse and tearing everything out, including unzipping things and emptying them! She climbed on top of the coffee table last night and threw every thing on the ground. She is now saying ball on occasion its pretty cute. She is still loving what ever we are eating. Just before vacation she was eating so much, but during and since she hasn't been the best eater. Still thinks shes a puppy, and loves her Nollie "gog" She is still sleeping pretty good, not loving nap's though.

I think thats all for us though, I PROMISE I will post pic's later when this kid is SLEEPING and not TERRORIZING every thing!

LOVE HER

After church

2011-05-15T15:52:00.000-07:00

I love spending time as a fam but Sundays are getting hard! Little miss Emma is so CRAZY during church! I'm exhausted by the time we get home! I can't even imagine having a whole bench full of crazy kids, how does anyone learn anything?

We love our little gal though and have so much fun watching her learn and grow. She is now saying hi, moor(more) and does the sign, go, gog(dog), mom, dada, and uh oh. She is starting to walk a little more but its definitely not her favorite way to get around. She is still a little baldy, loves her puppy Nollie (more than mom and dad I think) and love to laugh and smile so big.

I'm still trying to get all my stuff sent in for school which I'll start the end of August. We are a little nervous because I'll be working part time and doing school and Brandon will be working full time so we will be juggling little Emma around, but I'm sure it will all work out.

and to end with some pictures!

Forgot I had pictures..

2011-05-15T15:46:00.000-07:00

pics

2011-05-10T17:48:00.000-07:00

my little miss sassy girl

downstairs couches Upstairs couches

All these were taken with the new camera... not the best but I'm working on learning more about it.

mothers day and anniversary weekend

2011-05-10T13:49:00.000-07:00

We had such a great weekend! Saturday we went to the tulip festival with Brandons parents and Kim, Blair, and Sophie. We had lots of fun soaking up the sun, everyone got a little sun burned but it was worth it! After we went to IKEA to pick up our new couches, then back to Kim and Blairs for dinner. Emma crashed out in the high chair (she had only napped maybe 20 min. in her stroller during the day) so we just left her outside while we cleaned up haha... and yeah no pictures.... sorry. HOWEVER that will be a changing (more on that later). After dinner we went and got some TASTY frozen yogurt, it was SO good. then came home and put up our new couches! We love them so much... I however did not love that I stayed up until 12:30am and then had to be up at 3:30 for work...

Sunday I worked all day then went down to my parents for a BBQ with everyone. It was a blast and we had lots of great food. I love getting together with my bro's and having all the kids together, Emma loves chasing her cousins. Maybe one day she will be walking/running around with all of them. (she is still NOT walking)

Monday was our anniversary which I had to work all morning and Brandon went to work at 3 so we didn't really see each other until he got home . But we were both so spoiled I got a new camera and backpack and Brandon got a few shirts, a watch, and some sun glasses.

Too bad I might be too dumb for our camera. Its the Nikon D3100 and I really do love it, I just really don't know how to use it. If you have it on auto focus it will only take a pic if its focused... problem is I can never get it to be focused so we have to manually focus which I know is better but I kind of was thinking of easing myself into learning all that SLR stuff not diving in but oh well. Hopefully lots of beautiful pics to come with our sweet new camera! But as for this post... NO PICTURES sorry about that.

Some more of Emma's bday

2011-04-18T21:13:00.000-07:00

Rollin in the goods

Pre distruction

Nollie wishing she was having fun

Emma one year stats
wt 19.1 18%
length 28.5 29%
head 17.8 53%

she did awesome with the toe poke for her iron level, but shots... didn't love so much but she did love the sucker they gave her. Brandon has those pics on his phone and he is a slacker getting them on the computer. Yes babe I'm calling you out.

I also have a bunch of pics to get from my mom from our party at her house where she ate her cupcake. And this coming weekend we will be celebrating with the Ayotte fam. I seriously can not believe we have a ONE year old!!

some birhtday

2011-04-10T02:27:00.000-07:00

At Texas Roadhouse, she wouldn't stop moving so I could never get one of her face!

poor Emma. Her new car seat doesn't lean back as much and she always falls asleep and her head is all forward and scrunched as she snores... hopefully I fixed the car seat so she can breathe....

one, no way!

2011-04-05T23:29:00.000-07:00

UGH How did it happen my Emma Kate turns one tomorrow( I guess today, why am I still up!). How in the world did it go by so fast!? The past 12 months have been a complete joy. Full of ups and downs, diapers, sleepless nights, first time smiling, laughing, sitting up, crawling, standing, and even a little shaky walking with mom and dad, first foods, bumps and bruises, first time sick. I am so glad little Emma decided to come join our family. We love you Emma!!

as of right now Emma...

has 7 teeth, four on top and three on bottom

can stand by herself

can crawl up and down the stair herself

is on 100% whole milk as of today! woo hoo,

smiles and laughs a lot

won't let you make her do anything she doesn't want to do

is off her bink

sleeps good 90% of the time, she has random times where she won't nap or insists on waking up to eat lots but usually coincides when she is sick or growing

will sign for milk 75% of the time

signs for milk when she wants anything to eat or drink... still working on that

loves to watch baby signing time

will laugh at funny things on tv

loves her mommy and daddy

Can say mom, dad, I want a bottle, do basic math, you know normal one year old stuff ;) just kidding

We go for her one year check up on monday so we will do her stats then.

We love our little gal so much and are so happy to have her in our life!!

Yeah we're mean parents

2011-03-29T20:05:00.000-07:00

If this video didn't make me laugh so much I wouldn't post it because I HATE MY VOICE on tape but seriously? She just keeps doing this she was totally asking for it!

Spring... I guess

2011-03-17T20:32:00.000-07:00

This is when it was nice and warm just before we left to Vegas last weekend. Me and Emma took a walk over to the park and played on the swings. She LOVED it. She would just laugh and laugh. I was pushing her so high!

This is a picture after the show we went to 'Le Reve' it was lots of fun. We sat in the second row which was super nice even though we did get splashed a few times. They wouldn't let you take pics during the show but man it was crazy! There were all this acrobats above all the water and diving back in the water and synchronized swimming... that description doesn't really do it justice but it was lots of fun you'll just have to believe me.
Also I'm just realizing this is about the only picture I took while we were there. Ugh I'm terrible. We had lots of fun though it was a super short trip but we had lots of fun and it was a perfect little break. If only when we got back it didn't decided to go back to rainy/snowing/cold/grey/yucky weather!

my cute little sleeper girl.

And this was today she likes to take her socks off and chew on them... ugh

Blood

2011-03-08T09:24:00.001-08:00

Quick post. This is how we found emma this morning. I have no idea where she was bleeding from. I think she maybe had a bloody nose. Who knows.

Emma girl

2011-03-02T23:20:00.001-08:00

I can't believe my little girl is 10.5 months old all ready! She is crawling and climbing and walking around all the furniture. I'm so not ready for her to be walking yet but I don't think it will be long. She is still trying to get her top four teeth in they have all broke through finally, its taken a month. Just wanted to do a quick up date and test out blogging on the phone turns out it takes a very long time!

Blogging by phone...

2011-03-02T22:54:00.001-08:00

Test

Projects

2011-02-04T16:30:00.000-08:00

Here are a few of the things I have been working onNew bar stool cushions, much cuter and matchy than the old ones
The back of Emmas new high chair cover, I think I'm going to love the pocket back there its perfect for extra bibs and toys
One side of the new high chair cover
The other side, complete with cute baby
just to remember how much I hated the old one... YUCK

My not so little girl

2011-02-04T14:54:00.000-08:00

I can't believe Emma will be 10mo on Saturday, where is all my time going with my little girl! She loves to stand by all the furniture and pull herself up on your leg if you are standing. I'm afraid it won't be too long and she will be walking. When we were at my parents last night she stood all alone for about three-four seconds.

Emma has changed our life so much but we wouldn't have it any other way!
I love her!
Getting just a little tiny bit of hair, and it likes to stick out like crazy
Playing with toys sitting like a big girl
I just love that she likes to stand on her tip toes, its too dang cute!

New house pictures

2011-01-21T17:46:00.001-08:00

Well here are a few pics. Yes we are still in the process of unpacking and I haven't really decorated much but hey that just means anything else I post will look better right :) We are loving the new house and trying to make it feel more like home. We couldn't be more happy to be homeowners though.

For those who don't know our floor plan I'll try and kind of describe it. The main floor has the great room, half bath, kitchen, dining room and lots of closet space. On the second floor is a big bonus room (which is the picture of all the madness of toys, tiny couch, and tv and that.), laundry, three bedrooms, and two full baths.

Please don't judge me for all my boxes, toys, mess, dishes in the sink and what ever else you may have noticed. We are SO grateful for all the help we had moving. That was a very hard week for us. Brandon was getting over influenza, Emma was (actually still is) getting over her ear infections/sickness/growing/teething/what ever else is wrong with her, and I had been sick with a cold. Our old house was a mess, and moving wasn't the smoothest process, but its over and done with and I hope that the next time I move I will remember to be A LOT more organized :) and not sick haha.

Emma is still way off schedule since she was sick before Christmas. I think she has maybe slept 6 hours straight and that was maybe two times. Her norm now is to wake up ever 3-4 hours all night and then she wants to be up at 6 or 7. Its killing me! Brandon is working swing and I just can't seem to get to sleep before he gets home which is like 12-2am.... yeah thats why the 6 am wake up call is hard after being up two time is the night. I miss my baby who would go to bed at 10 and not make a peep until 9am, I guess I should just forget about her and get use to the new little girl cause its been about a month. Oh yeah and she has decided that shes too big for baby food. She use to eat about a jar and a 1/2 and now she MAYBE eats 1/2 a jar. I seem to be able to get her to eat whole foods better but man, like I said I'm just so not use to my little girl these days, I'm almost positive someone came and switched her in the middle of the night.

Some fun things shes been doing lately include:

Crawling like a pro

growling (she sounds like a dinosaur!)

throwing fits if you tell her no, or take away something she isn't suppose to have(I really do need to record one of these fits they are pretty funny)

swinging in her car seat(its an awesome arm work out!)

pulling herself up on the furniture (mastered this one today)

chasing Nollie around and chewing on the dog toys/playing in Nollie's food bowls

fighting sleep

Loves her lullaby at night

crying and crawling after you if you even look like you're going to leave the room

I'm still trying to get use to Brandon working swing shift and being home with the babe and Nollie. I really want to start putting some pictures and decorations up but I am terrified to start punching holes in the walls but I'm getting kind of sick of nothing on the walls...

Oh I don't know what else is going on. I work all Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday this week and then I'm hoping to get some more things unpacked/thrown out as well. Wish us luck with that! :)

other pics

2011-01-21T17:46:00.000-08:00

A little sign I made for v-day

My little cutie

Here she comes!

I think shes lookin more like Brandon all the time.

More house

2011-01-21T17:43:00.000-08:00

Emmas room

Our room

Kitchen

New House!

2011-01-21T17:39:00.000-08:00

Laundry just at the top of the stairs

Living room down stairs

Half bath down stairs

Dining room down stairs

long week...

2011-01-06T19:29:00.000-08:00

Well to start off little Emma got diagnosed with an ear infection on the 30th, so we started her on antibiotics. She was starting to get a little better then on the 3rd she got a fever at night and it would not go down. I gave her lots of Tylenol and nothing would bring it down then she started puking so I ended up taking her into the ER at 3:30ish that morning. Oh yeah, Brandon went to the doctor on the morning of the third and he had influenza. Back to little Emma, when we got to the ER her temp was 103 something but everything looked ok, they did blood test, a urine test, and a chest x-ray and still didn't really find anything. He looked at her ears and said they were clear now too. Great, so they said its a fever of unknown origin and to just give her Tylenol and Motrin around the clock until it goes away and to only give her clear liquids for awhile. They took her off her old antibiotic and stuck her on a different one and sent us home. She had a fever all day tues. and so did Brandon so I was playing nurse all day to them. They both started feeling better yesterday. We even moved some stuff out to the house. Today Brandon was feeling ok and he went back to work poor guy. Emma still just seems sick but hasn't had a fever but is now starting to have lots of diareaha, oh joy. My mom was so kind to come over and watch her while I took Brandon dinner. Now I'm home, baby's asleep and hubby's at work until midnight.

Tomorrow our fridge, washer, and dryer are coming to our new house so we have to be out there early in the morning. I also need to get Emma an appointment for a follow up. Man and we're not even going to be getting much rest because we are moving this weekend! Hopefully next week will be a little more calm.

Christmas

2010-12-31T18:33:00.000-08:00

Lets start with some pictures...

Emma, Parker, and Sophie. Their size difference is still so funny to me.
Emma a little before Christmas when the fam took pics in santa hats! I made this one for Emma
Random... I don't remember selecting you picture. This is a random picture of how I found Emma asleep one day. She was totally face down. Mind you when I put her down her head was facing the other way and she was on her back...
Our grinch puppy... poor Nollie
The fam, please if you noticed Brandon's hole in his shorts.... just ignore it.... oh dear.

Well.... if you were thinking I actually took pictures Christmas morning or Christmas day for that matter, you were wrong, very wrong. I was busy enjoying our first Christmas with out cute little girl. We did take some video so don't write me off as a bad mom yet.

Christmas morning we woke up and opened presents at our house, then got ready and headed down to my parents. We hung out with the fam, did dinner, opened presents again, my aunts, uncle, and cousins came up to visit, it was very fun. Then we headed out to Brandon's parents, ate more, hung out with the fam, presents. We spent the night, and hung out some more the next day. It was a great time, Christmas is going to be so fun as Emma gets older and maybe even add more kido's to the mix. We were totally spoiled by our families and enjoyed seeing everyone.

A few days before Christmas Emma had a fever and was just super irritable which just isn't my little girl. She wouldn't even play with her toys it was so sad! I knew she was getting teeth so I called and got a doctor appointment for Christmas eve just in case it was something more, well she started feeling better that morning so we didn't take her in. For a week she was just on and off cranky and was waking up all through the night, which was killing me cause she has been sleeping though the night since like 4 months. Yesterday she was super cranky and was so tired but wouldn't take her naps so I called and got her in to the doctor. Turns out she did have an ear infection. I was so glad ( I know that sounds terrible!) but at least we knew why she was so sad and we got some antibiotics to get it fixed. She seems to do fine all day but nights are when it gets bad. Hopefully she will start to feel better tomorrow. In other Emma news she can army crawl and is pretty close to crawling on all fours she has done it a few times but prefers her belly and scooting. No matter how many times I vacuum or clean up the floor she always finds some little piece of something to chew on, she is great at crawling through her excersaucer when we try and block he into the living room. She also is still in love with every toy or object that isn't hers.

We closed on our house on Wednesday and we can move in when ever we want. We had been shooting for this week but they just poured our driveway and can't drive on it until next weekend so instead of hauling boxes from the street we are waiting until next weekend. I will be so glad to not have boxes stacked against all our walls! I am beyond excited for our house, there is so much storage space and I really have been trying to get rid of a bunch of junk so hopefully we can have a clean and organized new home!

Man this is a scattered post....

Today we just wasted our day away at home, we wanted to move some boxes over but we were just too lazy and it was too cold. We did go get some Japanese which I have been craving for awhile. Now we are just sitting at home, I'll probably be going to bed soon because I have to be up at 3:45 for work. woo hoo. Hope everyone has a wonderful new year. :)

Jobs, not jobs, and the likes

2010-12-16T08:43:00.000-08:00

Well very exciting news! Brandon got a promotion at work! He will be working as a sort of supervisor of what he use to do. He has been training and will continue to train until the end of the year then he will start on his own on swing-ish shift. We think his hours will be like 4pm-12 or something like that. We are quite excited!!

I too HAD a job interview set up for today. But after a little thought and a lot of prayer I decided to not go so I called up the manager and let him know. My hours would have been from 2-11 3 days a week so we would have had to get a baby sitter for our little miss, and to me it just wasn't worth it. I know that more hours will become available soon on BHU where I am currently working PRN and they would be day shift which would be 5am-5pm, way less conflicting with Brandon's schedule. I would have loved to work on TCU because I would have been doing more nursing care, taking care of more patients, and just not feel like I'm babysitting but I really think this will be best for our family.

In other news and events...

I cannot believe its almost Christmas!! This year has gone by so fast, with school, a baby, new work schedules, building/buying and house and everything else life has just flown on by. We sure are trying to enjoy it, but sometimes I wonder if we are missing something, I sure hope not.

Emma is growing so much, she is starting to get her bottom two teeth, one just broke though two days ago and the other isn't far behind. She is starting to get around quite well. She isn't really crawling on all fours yet, but that doesn't stop her from scooting, wiggling, army crawling, rolling into all sorts of fun. Her favorites are any toy that isn't her's, the tv remotes, the ps3 remotes and cords, and the volume buttons on anything. She is such a joy, and am so thankful she is in our family.

Our house is all but finished, we really just may be in for Christmas which is unreal to us! When they told us thats what they were shooting for we just told ourselves it wouldn't happen, but would be happy if it did. Well now its a real possibility! They said it should be painted and have all the cabinets in by Friday. They all ready have the tile done, walls were textured, all the doors and casings in, shelfs in the closets, and half the siding done. They were working on our road on Tuesday when we went out. So we really just need our appliances, carpet, and a driveway and we will pretty much be ready to move! Oh and lets not forget all our packing... ugh. I have started working on packing up anything I don't think we will need, you know food storage, towels, summer clothes etc, mostly I am trying to get rid of junk! For some reason I feel that I might just need everything one day... I am doing much better though at getting rid of stuff and am convinced I will not move junk that I don't need to my new house.

Speaking of I really should go start packing, cleaning and de-junking. This will more than likely be one of our last posts this year. Wish us well on packing, if you have any tips let us know!

Californa in October

2010-12-05T16:26:00.000-08:00

So I just got these pics from Claudia from when we visited in October, me and Brandon are terrible at taking pics, so thanks Claudia for documenting our trip.

Emma at 6ish months

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these were all done by my fabulous sister in law, Claudia, while we were visiting them in California.

can I just say...

2010-11-21T21:48:00.000-08:00

I love this little girl.

Sleeping with daddy
Yes this is how I found her sleeping, she stayed that way for probably an hour

thanks to Claudia for this one. :)

Were just playing and having fun. Saw HP7 woo hoo(thanks to Ry and Heath for watching the little one), dinner, friends, work, snuggle time... life is good.:)

California Lots of pics!:)

2010-10-24T20:44:00.000-07:00

Well lets be honest pictures are what anyone cares about anyway so you can just scroll to those but as for a little update from us....

Emma is 6months! Ok really like 6 1/2 now, where has all that time gone! It is just flying she is changing so much all the time and we are loving every min. of it! She is loving to eat her baby foods she pretty much loves everything but squash, but that was awhile ago, we will have to try again. She loves jumping in her bouncer thing and chewing on all her toys. She sleeps through the night like a champion. She usually goes down around 730 or 8 then I feed her when I go to bed and she might stay up an hour total then she goes to bed until around 9am. its heaven. She is sooo good to us. I'm just hoping that all our kido's are like that but lets face it who gets that lucky?

I don't remember if I ever officially came out and said we are building a house! Woo hoo! We looked and looked and decided that building was the best option. We will be building out in Tremonton (never in my LIFE would I think I would be living out there, but I'm so very excited!) It has a main floor and upstairs, its a three bedroom 2.5 bath and has a giant bonus room that will hopefully be a sweet theater/ big kid play room. It will be the perfect little place for us and our family to grow. We all ready picked out paint, siding, carpet, tile...(you get the idea) and they started digging about a week ago. I'm so very excited for this next step in our life, and hope we can make a smooth transition. They are contracted to have it done and ready to move into by January 13, but they said there goal is to have us in for Christmas, what the! Thats only like 2 months! How awesome would that be!

Brandon applied for a different job at thermo, so he would be a specialist, which means more money that is always nice but it would be from 8am-5am and at the other campus which would be kind of a longer commute once we move, but he also heard word there might be a specialist job at the place he is all ready at, which also comes with a pay raise but I think he would be working swing. I don't know if that would be a good or bad thing. If I get to working just nights (5pm-5am) we would just have a few hours of overlap and it would only be at most 2-3 days a week. I am still working 12hr/week as a CNA in the float pool and doing 12-24hr/week as a LPN on the psych unit. I really am loving working as a LPN and wish that I could get a guaranteed 24 hours so I could just quit being a CNA, its really hard doing both but I am so lucky that I get to.

Trying to hold her bottle like a big girl

munching on her toys

She looks funny... but she loves the bouncer (thanks mom!)

sleepy girl

Sleepin with papi

lovin the bumbo

She LOVES her hand

Sleepy girl, always sleeping with that daddy of hers

Nap time with Nollie and Emma

California!

Story. So Brandon was playing with Emma and Ada and Ada accidentally kneed Brandon in the eye.... none of us could look at him without saying something about his eye the rest of the trip. It was kind of gross, and pretty sad it looked like it hurt so much! Love ya babe!

Other wise California was a blast. The boys played lots of PS3 and sports and me and Claudia did some crochet and crafted it up. We went to the pumpkin patch, to the Zoo, shopping(I got Emma the CUTEST converse, they are bright yellow and I LOVE them!) we tried going to just walk around the beach but it had been rainy all day so that didn't last long but we still had lots of fun hanging out with the fam! Thanks Jason and Claudia for feeding us, letting us crash at your place, and for putting up with us!

Brandons eye after a little knee came to play with it...

Emma, my poor little bald girl.

Me and Emma at the Zoo

Monkey!

Tiger

Giraffe

.... I don't remember what he was

Zebra

Lions

Emma girl and her funny monkeyish hat

Ada and Emma BFF

funny goats at the pumpkin patch that would climb all around in the air and stand on these platforms

Emma our little cuite at the pumpkin patch

Well thats it. Hopefully I will just stay caught up, cause purge blogging is lame!

Its been awhile

2010-10-06T21:15:00.000-07:00

Oh my, its been a month! and well lets get honest I'm not really in the mood to update tonight cause I have way too much to update on so in short, we are alive and one big update coming up... maybe tomorrow....

kitchen before and almost after

2010-08-25T15:13:00.000-07:00

well I think it looks a lot better. I still need to get all the door pulls on but I need to either spray paint them like I did the ones in the bathroom, or buy new ones.... we will see. What do you think? better before or after?

the actual update

2010-08-23T22:08:00.000-07:00

Now that we have all those pics out of the way....

I started working as an LPN on our psych unit at the hospital. So far its been good. I have only worked one day by myself but it went well. The extra money will defiantly be nice as well as a little working experience as an LPN will be good too. I will be working one to two 5pm-5am on bhu a week and one 5am-5pm a week as a CNA on float.so pretty much part-full time woo hoo.

Brandons work is the same ol same ol.... nothing new there.

We have been working away on the house still. July was just way too hot to ever work on the house. We have the deck sanded now, all we need to do is take down the old railing, stain the deck and railing and get the railing up. I just painted the bathroom vanity, we still need to tile in there and then it will be all done. My most recent paint job was the kitchen. I started Friday, worked Saturday and Sunday and we back at the kitchen today. Tomorrow I will do the second coat in the morning and possibly get all the doors on that night... maybe I'll let it dry longer but I just can't stand looking at all the junk in the cupboards! The kitchen has been a LOT more work than I had planned but so far, I think it will pay off. I sure hope it does other wise I am out on all that time!

I really wanted to be done with all of our little projects so we could get the house listed in September but who knows if that will really happen....

We are still looking for a house to buy but we aren't positive that we want to be in Logan forever, but to be honest we don't know where else we would go. Plus your money doesn't seem to get you very much in Logan, but I'm sure when the time comes we will find something, or at least we hope we do.

Well I don't know as that much else is going on.

Emma is growing and learning every day. She keeps us laughing all the time. She loves the talk so loud/scream all the time, she is such a happy little girl. She rolls over all the time now she can roll quite a long ways its funny. You'll lay her on her blanket and then before you know it shes half way across the room, not even kidding! She loves to stick three or four fingers in her mouth and just suck on them like crazy. She is starting to giggle lots. She loves to be thrown up in the air, she just laughs and laughs, well most of the time. she isn't the biggest fan of solid food... but I'm kind of lazy with trying too... I decided it was time to try because she was/is going through a growth spurt and was just eating way too often, so the cereal helped, but we only kept up on it for a little over a week.... and thats our little Emma girls update.

I think thats all for now. Hopefully the next post will be of the finished kitchen :) one can hope right.

house pics

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a bunch of trees that we cut down

our first run to the dump

number 2

number 3

pics

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passed out in the car

Double rainbow on our way home from SLC a few weeks ago

little miss arched back

more pics

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One sunday, taking a nap with mom

She sure loves her phone

yes she is watching tv with her dad...

random pics

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at daddy's softball game

no water...

2010-07-26T12:31:00.000-07:00

So we tried watering a week or so ago and our sprinklers got stuck on, after trying to get them off we ended up having a bad sylinoid (or something like that) which was shooting up a stream of water in the front lawn while the sprinklers were going on in the side yard. (same place that got all the water in the basement and flooded it over the fourth) After many a phone call to my dad trying to figure out how to turn off the water we found out our main water turn off was under those big metal circle things (like where the ninja turtles lived) in the middle of our side walk. We finally got that open to find it was full of water past Brandon's elbow. We probably bailed some 20 gallons of water out of the little main water turn off, then after struggling to turn the water off with a wrench we discovered we had one of those big metal rod thing to turn off the water got the water turned off to our house. So we went with out water the whole next day, mind you we didn't think we would have hot water or anything so poor Brandon went to work half muddy and yucky from our adventure the night before. We also don't have ac just a swamp cooler which doesn't work with out water. It was quite the hot and terribly long day. My dad was kind enough to come up that night and helped us fix our sprinkler or so we thought... Brandon has been manually turning off and on the sprinklers this week. Then Saturday night Brandon thought he would water again... well at 1230am he couldn't get them to shut off so he had to turn the water off again. So we have been without water since Sunday. We turn it on long enough to shower or flush the toilets (awesome, I know you are jealous). So once again my dad is coming up tonight to see if he can help us figure out why our sprinklers are so freaking awesome. Life is good:)

3mo old pics

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Claudia, my rockin sister in law took these while we were up in bear lake. I'm in love... now to just get some printed!!

More pics of Emma's blessing

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Here are some more pictures from Emma's blessing. Thanks Claudia for doing these for us!

BEFORE

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front steps, we ripped up the carpet. We are going to try and sand off all the leftover glue. Thinking of leaving it bare cement or possible using some concrete paint in a chocolate brown. Also what do you think of a chocolate brown where that mustardy yellow trim is? and maybe a deep barn red front door....

Just wait until you see the after. No we do not live in the garage, there is a house hiding behind the giant tree....

That my friends is a rose bush that is out of control and has grown as tall as our roof and is about as wide as half the house! And guess what thanks to my dad, Brandon and our friend Ryan, its all chopped down and waiting to be taken off to the dump.

And this is our deck that is in need of a good sanding, staining, and new railing. I have about 1/6 of it done.... yeah its hot out there give me a break!

Extreme Home Makeover!

2010-07-12T12:41:00.000-07:00

So I know I have been a slacker on updating lately but its been kind of busy.

To start it was Emma's blessing. Like the post before said it was a fun filled day, but I couldn't have asked for more, but to be honest I'm glad that its all over with! I was so stressed out with trying to find a day that most everyone could be there, along with the food and everything else and it being a holiday weekend as well as Ayotte family vacation.

Next Ayotte family vacation! We went to Logan fire works on Friday which was a lot of fun. Emma slept through the whole thing. What a good little sleeper! The next day we went to the pool, had lots of fun in the sun, then to Emma's blessing then just hung out some. Sunday we went to church, had a bbq, tie died shirts and hung out some more. Monday we went up to bear lake. After setting up camp aka Brandon, me, Emma, and Kel hung out in the church parking lot where we thought we were meeting everyone (they were all setting up camp).... we went to the lake. It was super windy but we still had a good time. Lots more hanging out and having fun until the next day we found out that the sprinklers at our house got stuck on and were going for 12+hours and our basement had 1-2in of water in it.... The house we rent is actually Blairs dad's house so they were kind enough to cut there trip a little early (they were planning on leaving at 3 and ended up taking off around 12, THANKS GUYS) Blair went and assessed the damage and called some water damage people. We came home later that evening and tried to get things in order. It we a fun, but kind of eventful little weekend. We still have like 7 huge economy fans going in the basement.

So now the owner wants to put the house back up for sale and asked if we would be willing to help get the house ready, we agreed so we have been working on the house pretty much all week. We have cut down a bunch of trees and overgrown, and I mean overgrown bushes. The house (other than the fact we have about 3-4 truck loads of branches to take out to the dump on our front lawn...) is looking great on the outside. The inside really doesn't need much, well except the basement with the flooding. So hopefully all this work pays off and we get the house sold! Pictures will come soon promise! Any advise would be great with what to do with the landscape or the inside.

Well back to sanding the deck and TCOB (taking care of business)

Emma's blessing

2010-07-11T16:50:00.000-07:00

These are just a few of the pics from Emma's blessing. It was kind of crazy with switching dates and everything but it all worked out perfect. Thanks to everyone who brought food and took pictures. We are very lucky to have had all most all of our families there. We couldn't do this without all our family you have all been great examples to us.
Emma did have a blow out right before, but good thing I hadn't put her in her dress yet! She was pretty happy all day long but did start to get a little fussy after the blessing and we were trying to take lots of pictures. It all most felt like our wedding again, but with a new little addition. We had her blessing over at our church. Brandon did a great job. I love watching him with Emma they are too cute together.

Lake Powell 2010 cont...

2010-06-22T16:27:00.000-07:00

little Emma out for a boat trip. I was surprised how much she liked going in the boat.

Asleep on the way home. She got SO mad when we were going down spanish fork canyon though. It was pretty sad. she just screamed for like 15-20 min and there was nothing we could do.

My family always stoped at this gas station and got pictures with the dinosaur but now the gas station is closed but we stopped by for a pic any way.

Lake powell was a blast. It was a little different only having me and my bothers their wife's and the other two kido's but it was lots of fun. Got to go surfing, catch some rays, and eat way too much. Thanks for the fun time mom and dad!

Lake powell 2010 cont

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Rainbow bridge

Yes this is a picture of Brandons nipple... but check out the fish bite marks! He was just swimming away when WHAM a fish bit him!

One of Brandons little catfish.

Lake Powell 2010

2010-06-22T16:18:00.000-07:00

Nollie didn't want us to go so she jumped in the trunk

Getting gas

This is where the pioneers came down... anyone want to explain to me what they were doing in southern Utah if they ended up in SLC?

shots!

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We have a video too of her getting her shots but I forgot to put it on the computer plus its pretty sad. After we got home she did pretty good I gave her a little tylenol and some little heat packs on her legs and she was good to go.

working out

2010-06-02T11:23:00.000-07:00

Yeah, just did a little working out and man am I a little weakling... looks like I'll be doing this more often... ugh....

Sleepin alone

2010-05-28T10:51:00.000-07:00

So I had Emma sleep in her room a week or so ago and she woke up every hour which is not normal for her at all so she has continued to sleep in a laundry basket (yeah I know she loves it though) by the side of our bed. It's pretty much just out of me being freaking lazy because its quite the routine to have to pump, feed, and change her bum. Well last night I thought we would give her room another shot and she did great. Woke up at her normal times and life was great. Hopefully that will continue to be how it goes and I'll stop being lazy. :)

yes this is like the 20th post today...

2010-05-27T21:24:00.001-07:00

yes I'm pretty sleepy, ignore that

soooo I just made this necklace for our family pics which are to be done in red white and black... what do you think?

POOP

2010-05-27T18:57:00.000-07:00

haha... so we just had the home teachers over and Emma was being kind of fussy she ate a little then wanted nothing to do with that. Well just as there about to leave she starts being a little gassy. Then during the prayer you can totally hear her pooping. Turns out it got on my pants all over her blanket and a little on her onsie. Too funny so we striped her down and gave her a bath. Brandon is funny I love watching him take care of Emma he always thinks he is going to break her or something. He's such an amazing dad and husband.

more pictures

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BLOW OUT

yeah it got on the floor....

Hair clip I made today

Braclets I made today

Emma

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Lovin her bouncer

I know this pic is blurry but talk about funny thumbs up and weird face haha

43 weeks pregnant... I think not

2010-05-26T20:50:00.000-07:00

So I was just laughing because my little count down to Emma said I was 43 weeks prego... I think not.

Emma is doing great and growing way too fast. I have a bunch of new pictures of her. I'm thinking I need to go and get them done I just have a hard time spending money on it but I think it would be worth it maybe...

I am loving just getting to spend all my time with Emma. She is so cute and fun to watch. I'm so glad I only have to work one day a week. My two shifts I did miss her quite a bit, but hey now I have two weeks to just be with her and be mom I love it!

Brandon is still working away. He is registered for a few classes in the fall to finish up on his Spanish degree. That will be fun for him. haha. It is so hard to go back to school after a break but I'm sure he will do great. :)

And thats about it for news... Lake Powell is in a few weeks and I'm soooo excited to get some sun and hang out with the fam and go boating. Hopefully little Emma girl will love it there or it could make a really long week, but come one whats not to love about Lake Powell?

Tomorrow my goal is to post all the pictures I have so wish me luck!

Newer pics

2010-05-04T16:17:00.000-07:00

Sleeping while daddy plays softball

A friend of mine told me to take this she thought it was hilarious!

Yes this happened while I was sitting right next to her doing homework. She just kept sleeping.

This is what I left one day on my way to school, everyone in bed sleeping, NOT FAIR

WOO HOO... Tomorrow is my last 6 hours of clinicals and then Thursday I have a little 10 min evaluation, then its graduation on Friday! I couldn't be more excited. We finally made it, and yes it really was a "we" effort. I couldn't have made it through school with out every ones help especially Brandon. He has had to switch shifts, take care of our little girl while I'm at school, put up with all my crazy pregnant-ness and postpartum-ness... He is just pretty much amazing, and I love him so much! Thanks for all you do dear, you're the best!

No go...

2010-04-27T14:23:00.000-07:00

Well I got my letter from Weber state and I'm not in, but I'm not upset at all. I'm pretty dang excited to just have work and spending lots of time with little Emma. So heres to Brody, sorry you have to go back to school!

Baby Emma's story

2010-04-20T16:52:00.001-07:00

Well I figured I should finally get around to telling about how little Emma came into this world before I forget all the little details so hear goes... Long post ahead....

I had spring break April 1-5th and I had planned to get lots of my school work done so I wouldn't have to bother with it when I got back to school. I did start a few assignments but I just wasn't feeling it. I pretty much just sat around all weekend and just relaxed. Monday night I thought I should use my last day and get some things done so I went grocery shopping, made a lasagna and bread sticks, cut Brandon's hair, cleaned up a little... I don't even remember what else but we got to bed around 10pm and I was pooped! I got up at 2am for my normally potty break and while I was in there I just thought...hmm... that doesn't feel like I'm peeing, but no way is that my water.... so I went and crawled back into bed and told Brandon I wasn't feeling too well and maybe I wouldn't go to school today. He was half asleep so he just agreed. I still just wasn't feeling right so I lay on my side to feel her move... I couldn't feel anything so I feel my belly and think hmm that feels pretty tight maybe thats a contraction. So I hit Brandon and tell him I can't feel the baby and he puts his hand on my belly and says yeah she just moved and he goes back to sleep. So I sit there awhile longer, no, no I think this may be labor. So I hit Brandon and tell him we might have to go into L and D. He was finally starting to wake up more and he just looked at me and said serious? I get out of bed to go pee again, yep, I think I'm serious. So I go mosey into our room and put on some sweats, go back in the bathroom grab my make up bag and tooth brush, yeah Brandon is still in bed. So I tell him he's got to get going so he gets up puts on his sweats and we get ready to go.

Brandon - Should we let Nollie out? No, no time.

Brandon - Theres snow all over your car should we switch them around? No, no time.

So he has me pop the trunk that has 5 or more inches of snow on it and it won't open so he cant get the ice scraper out, so I'm there brushing the snow off with my arm. Brandon gives up on the trunk and joins me in brushing the car off. We get to the hospital

should I get you a wheel chair? No, I can walk...

so I hobble onto the elevator and we go to L and D.

Nurse - So what makes you think you're in labor? Oh I think my water maybe broke, I don't know.

Nurse - Are you having contractions? Oh I don't know maybe.

Nurse - Do you have a pediatrician? No thats on my list of things to do this week.

They just look at us like, probably a false alarm but lets get her checked in. So we get into our room, I change and all that. They check me.

Nurse - Yep your water broke and your at a 3, your having a baby today.

A what? She isn't suppose to be here for another month. I have tests and clinical's and who knows what else left to do before she comes!

By now its almost 3am. Holy cow! How exciting I'm having her today!

I was in shock/disbelief for awhile I just had not even let myself think what if she comes early. Brandon and I were both very excited but slightly nervous because after all I was only 35 weeks and 6 days along. They warned us she may or may not have to go to NICU but I just was really calm and felt really good about everything.

We called our parents around 5am and let them in on the news. No one was expecting that we were at the hospital about to have the baby. and on second thought no one thought it was that weird we were calling at 5am, come on whens the last time we called our parents at 5am for a little chat? haha.

I got my epidural around 8 and had her by 1012. Now some moms out there might kill me, but I honestly thought the whole thing was going to be so much worse than what it really was. I don't know if its because I just had the mind set that this would be such a painful, difficult thing, that it was easier, or maybe that I had just been on labor and delivery a week before at clinical and the moms I watched have babies just made it look so dang easy... I don't know. But it was such a great experience, and it couldn't have gone better...Well I say that, I mean after the epidural my blood pressure did drop to 70's/40's and the babies heart rate went down as well, but I had awesome nurses and I knew that is a somewhat normal response to the epidural.

My postpartum experience was less than steller, but once again, wasn't really expecting much. I was pretty hungry by the time I got up there after being in labor and all, and what do I get for lunch? Sweet and sour meatballs and some yucky looking potatoes... not what I was hoping for but hey. And yes breakfast was tooooootally not what I ordered, but I also know the kitchen pretty much sucks at the hospital. (notice my complaints are about food haha) I went home at around 4 the day after I delivered. It was so nice to be at my own house. Our friends brought us dinner and we have been pretty much fed dinner every night since then, we are so spoiled!

I enjoyed my week with my new little one, she is such a great baby! Then I went back to school that following Monday, not so much fun, but I didn't really have much of a choice. I've got tests to take and clinical's to stay caught up with so I can graduate. Brandon luckly switched to swing so he gets to be at home all morning with Emma and I get home around 2:30 and have her the rest of the time. Wednesday when I was at clinical I started feeling crapy, I thought it was just that I had a baby one week earlier. It didn't help that I forgot some of my breast pump stuff, and started crying because no one seemed to know where I could get replacement parts (a very nice nurse on postpartum hooked me up with a new kit, SWEET). So then I was feeling a little better but then I started getting the chills. I left clinical's early cause I thought it was better to take it easy. I got home and Brandon left for work, then I really started to shiver and shake. I layered up and got under a blanket and curled into a ball and just wanted to die. Poor Emma started to get hungry and the last thing I wanted to do was move. I called the doctor and they said sounds like mastitis we will call in a script for you. So my sweet mom picked that up and brought it over to me. Ugh, mastitis is no fun just in case you were thinking of getting it. So I skipped the next day of class cause I knew we had Friday off so I took it easy all weekend and I am feeling SO much better now.

Wow looong post, if anyone is reading or just skimming through I hope you know this is mostly for our memory, but glad you read along.

So that brings us to today. I've got clinical tomorrow, and class on Thursday and Friday. Then next week we have a test or two and I have clincal's Wednesday and Saturday, another test that Monday and clincal's on Wednesday, then (drum roll....) GRADUATION on Friday. Holy buckets batman I'll have made it! Then I get a glorious two weeks off from everything, then its back to working my whole one day a week... I know I'm such a complainer, but I really would spend every min of everyday with little Emma if I could.

So thats all folks. I don't know if I am going to have much time to update until graduation but we will see. It won't be a novel like today thats for sure! Sorry for anyone still reading....

9 days old

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Pictures of the little one

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Here are some pictures, our parents have a lot more than we do but anyway here she is! and no they are in no kind of order...Brandon and Emma taking a snooze
Emma in her suit case....aka her bili bed. Turns out we get to stop the lights today and recheck her tomorrow then hopefully we are done with it. She hated it at night but we found out she likes to have a blanket over her while she's in it and have it pulled up around her face.
just snoozing
Big ol yawn. Our first/only night in the hospital
just after she got all cleaned up, poor girl has swollen eyes...

A little more blanket than baby... in her super cute blanket from Colleen
Big yawn. Emma in her going home outfit, thanks mom for going out and getting it!
shes just so tiny!
Mom and baby
So I guess they round her weight... Emma 18 inches and 5lbs 10oz

Little Miss Emma Kate

2010-04-09T12:45:00.000-07:00

Well most everyone all ready knows but our little one decided to come four weeks early!

I will do an account of the whole thing later when I've got more time or maybe I'll have Brandon do it but we are all doing fine. Emma is eating great, only lost 6oz, she does have to be under billi lites at home but I just went in today again to get her bililruben tested so we will see how much longer the lights have to last. I am actually feeling amazing, I really thought it would be a lot worse but it has been awesome. We couldn't do it with out all our friends and families help though so thanks to everyone for all the visits, running around and picking stuff up for us, and bringing us dinner. It has defiantly made things much easier for us.

I start back to school Monday and hopefully all goes well with trying to balance baby with school, but we will make do. Brandon is talking to his boss today about switching to swing shift until I'm out of school so that he can be with her during the day and then we won't have to worry so much about fining people to watch her and everything.

Well I am going to go back to trying to rest, I'm kind of terrible at that.

Not so spring break

2010-04-05T12:06:00.000-07:00

Well I had Thurs, Fri, and Mon off from school for spring break but the weather wasn't so springy, oh well. I was starting to get a cold Thursday so I just slept and was lazy all day. Oh we did have an OB appointment, she says everything is still looking great. I just hope we make it to May 5th... or at least the 3rd. The doctor seemed pretty optimistic about that so we will see.

Friday we went to see clash of the titians with some of our friends, it was pretty good.

Saturday I worked all day. Man being prego and working is getting harder all the time. Good thing it was a pretty slow day.

Sunday we went down to my parents after the first session of conference and watched the second session and then had a tasty dinner or ribs, potato salad, and macaroni shrimp salad YUM!

Today I got my nursing application sent off woo hoo, I will know by May 1st if I got in or not. I still don't know if I'm ready to go for another year, but waiting is just going to make going back even harder, and especially with a one year old! I've been trying to get ahead on my homework assignments but I'm getting pretty sick of it I've worked on it for 2-3hours now so I thought it a good time to take a break.

I still can't believe how fast my pregnancy has gone by. I hope we have everything ready in time! We are both so excited to finally meet our little one and finally hold her! Only a little over 4 weeks to go! :)

Well I'm going to go continue my break from homework and go take a nap :)

School

2010-03-19T14:32:00.000-07:00

Well nursing school is kicking my butt! Long story short, we were suppose to take a test monday but they couldn't get it to work so they made us just waste two hours for "breakfast" while the lady who was going to teach that afternoon showed up. Then the next day we go to take the test and it was terrible! The class average was 71. I got a 78, but it was just a really poorly written test. Even the lady who taught us and wrote the test was like " I wish I could just throw out this test, this in no way reflects what you guys know" Well our program director said she would look things over but has just been really worthless when it comes to fixing this problem. She turns down all of the classes suggestions on how to fix the problem. They adjusted our scores a little so I now have an 85 which by all means I'll take it, considering a lot of people are still below a 77 which is considered a fail for us. It been a very long frustrating week to say the least!

Brandon is a little trooper and just keeps helping me a long he is pretty amazing if I do say so myself. We both have to work saturday, have sunday off then its back to another long week. I am sure ready for spring break, but that isn't until April 1.

We had a doctors appointment tuesday and everything is looking great. I'm measuring right on 32 weeks, my blood pressure is good, my weight gain is good, I am starting to loose sleep but nothing too terrible yet. I'm just hoping to make it to my due date with all the tests and clinicals I need to get done. Yikes! Who planned this anyway ;)We are getting so excited to have our little one here, I just hope we have everything ready! It still just seems unreal some days it has gone by too fast! Woah did I just say that? haha.

Well until we have something more exciting or pictures... Oh yeah! It was Brandon's birthday monday! Woo hoo and happy 25!!! How crazy is that! We didn't really do a whole lot. We went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner with Ryan and Heather. I even made him ride the saddle, and they all yelled yehah. haha it was great. I got him some new pants and a shirt, and then his fam got him some money (his favorite and he likes to remind me that it is all his, haha) My parents donated to the other half of my gift to him which was a sweet HD video camera. Its pretty awesome, and soon we will have exciting things to video and put up here. :)

I do have a few pictures but lets face it I'm too lazy... and really I need to go study some more.

I promise next time there will be pictures!

Another week gone

2010-03-12T15:39:00.000-08:00

Well nothing much new. I started our nursing care of the family (OB/PEDS) this week. It is going really well. We have been talking a lot about pregnancy and labor and delivery which makes me even more excited/anxious about having our little Emma come. It makes me want her here right now, but then I remember that if that were the case, school would be VERY difficult to finish so I 'll take her as a graduation present ;) haha.

Brandon's work is keeping him very busy. He is putting in about 50hours a week which is great for making up for me working less, but also is making him pretty tired.

I just keep wanting to do like a million things such as get a new computer desk, paint all the cupboards in the kitchen, make/hang shelves out in the garage, get all the boxes that are hiding in all the corners of my house outside, do some spring cleaning, decorate, finish up the nursery, go through all of mine and Brandon's clothes and get rid of all the junk we don't need, study, hang pictures around the house, do something with our living room/craft room/everything room to make it not so chaotic.... ugh. Sound a little like nesting? I know most of them are completely insane. Its way more than I would even want to take on even if I wasn't pregnant, going to school, and working. So instead I will try and make do, and not get stressed out that there is so many things I wish I could/would do.

Brandon is amazing and puts up with all my craziness. He's pretty awesome if you didn't know. :)

In other news, our little puppy went into heat, thats pretty annoying. She looks so sad/depressed all the time. We had to make her some underwear as to make sure she didn't leave a mess anywhere. I have some pictures I'm to lazy to get them off my phone though. She's not a big fan of when we have to put them on or take them off, but once they are on she is pretty good about them. She does have random freak out moments and tries to chase her back end and rip of the undies, but hey, shes a dog, and undies and dogs usually don't go together.

well over and out until some more exciting things happen:)

Med/surg is over!

2010-03-04T16:46:00.000-08:00

Woo hoo just took my last med/surg test it was a comprehensive final and I got a 93% I was pretty freaking excited.

end of story.

stroller

2010-03-01T20:51:00.000-08:00

yes I am still debating on which stroller/car seat to get. I just found this one last night and I actually think I like it better than the grey one I found at target and bonus its cheaper...
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Graco-LiteRider-Travel-System-with-SnugRide-Lively-Dots/13423017?sourceid=1500000000000003260330&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=13423017#Specifications

and to be honest I really didn't care if my stuff matched but I found the pack and play in the same fabric awhile back and I loved the fabric then.... and once again not too bad on the price I don't think

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html?asin=B002TUTP28&colid=3S86YYUYX7MHX&coliid=IP5WPVVRAHHVU&bckreg=baby

So we went to the Aggie game last night, it was a totaly blow out but it was still fun. I did have a baby in the ribs pretty much the whole game, and I really thought I wouldn't make it up the hill from where we parked but I did. haha. Brandon kind of had to drag me along, but I made it. I've realized how out of shape I am with being in school and being prego and never doing anything!

Today I had the day off school, so I tried to tackle some cleaning and organizing. It took me awhile to get going but I got a fair ammount done. I will be glad when I'm done with school and can just keep things the way I want them. I have the day off tomorrow too so I hope to get a little more done as well as study for my big final on thursday. woo hoo. Then med surg will officially be over how sweet is that!

Pregnacy is still going pretty well, I dont know if I ever mentioned it but after failing my 1 hour glucose test, I had to take the 3 hour one which I passed, I was pretty excited about that. Then my doc tells me that by just having a high one hour I am more likely to have a big baby... hopefully not too big EKK. She said it could be around 9lbs. CRAZY.

Well I think thats all.... Oh yeah, Brandon got switched to 7-3. Its kind of a bummer but its nice for him to not have to get up at 4am, so we will be about on the same schedule woo hoo.

fun baby things to make

2010-02-21T19:59:00.000-08:00

Just a few of the million fun projects I wish I could be doing instead of being in school... (okay I really am glad to be almost done with my LPN but I still wish I had time to make all these fun things)

car seat cover pattern
http://sumossweetstuff.blogspot.com/2010/02/tutorial-tuesday-car-seat-tent.html

fabric flower tutorial
http://sewritzytitzy.blogspot.com/2008/11/from-annas-gardenfabric-flower-tutorial.html

Easy Burp cloths
http://www.makeandtakes.com/baby-burp-cloth-tutorial

cloth baby shoes
http://homemadebyjill.blogspot.com/search?q=cloth+baby+shoes
http://stardustshoes.blogspot.com/2006/10/cloth-shoe-pattern.html

changing pad
http://sewtakeahike.typepad.com/sewtakeahike/2008/07/diaper-changing.html

wipe case
http://homemadebyjill.blogspot.com/2009/02/wipes-clutch-tutorial.html

soft cubes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/londonmummy/429089607/in/set-72157604381990885/

A B C wall decor
http://www.howdoesshe.com/2010/02/26-abcs/comment-page-1/

nock off moby wraps tutorial
http://diaryofacraftaholic.blogspot.com/2009/08/baby-wraps.html

The crib is up!

2010-02-19T19:05:00.001-08:00

Sweet! Didn't even take that long to put together. I am quite impressed with the quality too. And it totally matches all our other wood stuff around the house (as if that mattered that much...but). It was suppose to come with a crib mattress but target ran out, so my mom called and they just said they would credit her back 40bucks, so we ended up getting the crib for super cheap and its exactly what I wanted. Thanks mom and dad!! this is the crib blanket, yes I know its more boy like but once I get done with the decor you won't think that at all! Or at least I hope not...

crib blanket and the crib sheet, I don't know if you can tell but the crib sheet has white circles on it.

And here is the beautiful crib all set up minus the mattress. :) We are getting sooo excited! I am starting to get more and more uncomfortable but I just have my bad days here and there. The other day at clinical was one of them. She got hiccups twice for like an hour each time I swear! Ok it probably wasn't that long but it sure felt like it. And she was in a really uncomfortable spot which was worse when I was standing, good thing it wasn't too busy and my nurse liked to sit around and chat!also I am getting pretty sleepy again. I took like a two hour nap when I got home from clinical today and I'm still about ready to go to bed.

I actually have the day off tomorrow so I get to sleep in and then go watch Brandon play basketball with the ward tomorrow. I'm pretty excited about that. Maybe if I'm feeling like a over achiever I will bring the camera and take a few pics.... no promises though.

School is staying ever so busy but they just keep saying as soon as OB/peds hits it gets a lot easier. I had my last med/surg clinical wed and did my last OR rotation today. I have 3 more test and about 50 assignments due by the end of the first week of March then its onto the OB/peds section. So only like two more weeks of really craziness... or so I hope...

11 weeks to go, CRAZY

2010-02-16T18:12:00.001-08:00

I can't believe how fast school/pregnacy has gone! 11 weeks and school will be out and I'll be holding my cute little emma!
Tomorrow is my last med/surg clinical and then I have an OR rotation on friday then its on to OB and Peds SO EXCITED... except then I have to be up at 3 am once a week, but its worth it right?
Speaking of 3 am I actually need to get all my stuff ready for my lovely 3am morning. Got to hit the hay by at least 8:30!

oh ps the crib came today, I'm so excited, so excided I didn't put it together tonight... waay to much going on today. Hopefully by weeks end it will be up. :)

Quilt

2010-02-15T20:02:00.001-08:00

Check out this sweet quilt, its so cute. hopefully the link takes you straight to it, it says eat. play.sleep.repeat. sooo cute.
http://www.modabakeshop.com/2010/02/baby-life-quilt.html

Got the nursery all cleaned out, as it turns out I feel like just dont have enough space for all our things but oh well, just have to make do with what we have.

Nursery

2010-02-15T10:46:00.000-08:00

I am going to have the nursery completly cleaned out and organized by the end of the day or else... Wish me luck.
The crib should be here in a week or so. SWEET

27 weeks belly pics.

2010-02-05T13:59:00.000-08:00

Sorry if you didn't want to see my naked white belly, but Brandon thinks that belly pics with clothes dont show much. oh yeah so my hair is no longer long and yucky like that anymore, woo hoo! Maybe in a week or so I can take another belly pic and get my hair cut in it too.

Like the hip stretch marks cause I sure do... I guess it beats them all over my belly right?

Baby Update

2010-02-04T15:32:00.000-08:00

UGH! I went to my visit on the first and I did my glucose test, well got a call today that I was a little high and need to do the 3 hour test! UGH! I really didn't think I ate too bad and my blood sugars before pregnancy were always low. And I really haven't gained that much weight.
Also I have been feeling like Emma (yes I'm pretty sure that's her name) hangs out on my kidney from time to time, and I mentioned it to my doc and shes like that's probably all it is, no big deal, but do you have a family history of kidney stones? Well my dad has them so I said yes, and she said are you drinking enough... I just looked at Brandon and was like probably not enough.... He always gets on me for not drinking enough. I don't know what it is but I hate drinking! And being in class all day doesn't help. So I started drinking lots more and so far no more kidney pain. Hopefully I don't get to enjoy both kidney stones and gestational diabetes. Seriously. What do you do.

I think I have my crib picked out and I all ready have bedding, but I still need to pick out a car seat and stroller. I really think I like the last one that I put on the last post, the grey one with the stroller. I am going to look at it tomorrow after I get my hair cut and stop by school. woo hoo right. Only 13 more weeks to go, it has really gone by too quick! School is helping me stay really busy and helping time move right along. This month is pretty crazy but then I guess it starts to mellow out and good thing cause sitting though lectures for 5 hours and doing clinicals is starting to get a little uncomfortable.

Brandon is still alive I promise. He is working like a mad man, playing lots of basketball, and playing lots of video games. Also he has been doing a lot of the cooking and cleaning cause I'm a serious slacker sometimes. I just get worn out with school, work, and being prego. He's pretty much amazing.

Well now were going to continue watching Lost and trying to get season 5 done with... we're all but there woo hoo!

Fun things

2010-01-31T12:20:00.000-08:00

With school being so busy I have about a million other things I would like to do that are a lot more fun but I just don't have time, so here is a link so I can remember to do this later on.

http://www.kmckaydesigns.com/projects/family-planner-and-calendar-journaling.html

This is an awesome journal/calendar its so cute and is about all the time I have for scrapbooking.

Also I have been trying to shop for baby gear, its getting closer every day (duh...) but there is so much out there its hard to decided whats good quality stuff, and making sure it doesn't just cost waaay too much. Any suggestions on car seats? I liked this one kind of... but have no idea how good it is as far as safety goes
http://www.babycarseats.com/asp/show_detail.asp?sku=CBI1356
loved this one but it doesnt come with a base
http://www.diapers.com/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?productId=15233
this one is kind of light in color but holds up to 35lbs, but also is kind of big I guess...
http://www.diapers.com/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?productId=16680

And what about a stroller? Do I even want one? Do I care if it goes with the car seat?

Stoller car seat combo??
http://www.target.com/Graco-Travel-System-Little-Wonders/dp/B001EY883W/ref=br_1_12?ie=UTF8&frombrowse=1&searchView=grid5&searchNodeID=3579971&node=3579971&searchRank=price&searchPage=1&searchSize=30&id=Graco%20Travel%20System-%20Little%20Wonders
or I kind of like how you can push this one with your kid facing you or out to the world..http://www.target.com/Graco-Flip-Travel-System-Pagoda/dp/B002OEV7IY/ref=br_1_14?ie=UTF8&frombrowse=1&searchView=grid5&searchNodeID=3579971&node=3579971&searchRank=price&searchPage=1&searchSize=30&id=Graco%20Flip%20Travel%20System%20Pagoda

I want to make a bunch of stuff for the nursery/I still need to finish cleaning it out. (Side note.... Me and Brandon have way to many clothes. We are spread out all over the house. We have our bedroom closet packed. All our church clothes in the baby closet, then all our sweatshirts that dont fit in our closet and all our coats out in the coat closet... That my friends is trouble! Maybe we just need a bigger closet.... thats it.) Really there are just still some boxes that need a home other than inside my home. Our garage isn't really the biggest and is full of stuff that isn't even ours. woo hoo.

I have been krocheting up a storm. Its taken me a little to get back to being able to do as well as I use to but its coming along. I forgot how relaxing/time consuming it is. That is no good with school....

Speaking of school its still going okay. It is so busy and everyone is my class is about to explode but we are all going to make it through it. Apparently if we can just get to the second week of march we will be home free. I guess the last half of the semester is suppose to be a lot easier. I sure hope it is cause this semester is about 20x worse than last.

um... I'm getting sick of being on the computer all ready, which to Brandon would be shocking but its true. Hopefully he gets home from home teaching soon cause I'm hungry (shocker).

Christmas and other stuff

2010-01-09T13:27:00.001-08:00

Oh how I hate blogger most days...
I don't know why but I put a lot more pictures in the last post and they didn't post, and now they are all out of order but I'll see what I can do...

Brandon and Nollie taking a nap. Brandon had to work 10 hour days all this week and he comes home pretty sleepy. He is amazing though! Love ya babe.

This is Nollies kennel... I had put these little pads that in case she has an accident it doesn't get on the carpet right? She hasn't peed in her kennel for awhile but we have them so I thought, might as well use them. Well she showed me what she thought of that...

I just walked in the door this is how she was, she knew she was in trouble, little punk.

Seriously, how snuggley is she. This is her chair and she gets pretty upset when people come over and sit on it. To get them back she climbs all over them, and tries to sit on their head. Its something everyone should see, haha.

Sweet! Marry Christmas to us! We have been saving and looking and this little baby stole our hearts. I know it blends in with the wall right now, but 1 I'm to lazy to repaint, 2 it will look great where ever we move go neutral!

I know sideways... UGH This is us up at wolf creek

Up at wolf creek one night watching movies. We look greasy.... sick

My darling husband.

The sweet fort we built while my parents were gone. Woo hoo for forts!

Well.... That's it.... Pretty anticlimactic, but hey, I have been terrible at taking pictures lately. Maybe that can be new years resolution, to take more pictures.

Tonight we are going down to by Brother Tylers, they are having some friends over and were going to be having some bbq pork sandwiches YUM. Tomorrow, I am so lucky and get to speak in sacrament meeting... ugh. And the worst part is that means we actually have to be on time for church, haha.

School has been just flying by. We have all ready had 2 quizes and a test and have another test monday and we have only been in one week!

Brandon like I said worked like crazy this week I think it was like 55 hours or something. He is awesome and doesn't even complain, and we all know I'm not complaining for a little extra money to put away! ;)

That's all for now. Sorry there weren't better pictures and hopefully I will have more next time!

Christmas pictures

2010-01-09T13:25:00.000-08:00

The tree lights off

The tree with lights on... Please dont make fun of how short it is!

Brandon and I before his work christmas party

My dad and his puzzzel up at wolf creek. He is trying to fix his hair, come on dad really? haha

Slacker

2009-12-31T16:02:00.000-08:00

So really I have sooo many pictures to put here but I have been slacking/trying to clean my house. Today I spent all day off and on trying to go through boxes of all our old stuff and reorganize and re-box everything. I got rid of a ton of stuff, but I feel like my house is more crazy now than it was before! Ok ok you can see a lot more of the floor in the nursery but I really just wanted it to be done today! My goal was to have it done before I went back to school so looks like I'll be tackling the rest of it on Saturday.
The pregnancy is still going great. She kicks and does flips all the time. Brandon is able to feel her moving around in there too. However pretty much any time she is going crazy and I tell him to feel she stops. Crazy girl.
Brandon has had tues-fri off of work so it has been great spending more time together before the madness of school starts back up and then I'll probably be spending at least one night every other week at my grandparents in Ogden. No fun, but I am lucky that they live so much closer to my clinical sites and can stay there any time I need to.
We are headed down now to go hang out with my parents and have some dinner. I don't know if we will stay down there til 12 or not because I am suppose to work in the morning and we really don't want to have to drive up the canyon if it is snowing, so we will see.
I promise the next post will have pictures!!

its a....

2009-12-15T14:24:00.000-08:00

GIRL

Woo hoo. We really never had much of a feeling oone way or another but thats what the ultrasound says. We are sooo excited. It was so fun to watch they guy find all of our little ones organs and measure everything it was so exciting. Everything looked great and right on track. Both of us are healthy. The guy tried for like five min to try and get her to turn her head so he could get a good view of it but she would not budge! He shook my belly like ten times, and she would just cover up her face with her hands, little punk. ;) We got a few pictures and a DVD.
We are thinking Emma Kate for a name, but who knows that could change by the time she gets here. Let us know your thoughts on that, and we may take it into consideration, haha.
I'm so excited to start making lots of fun little things for the nursery and for the little one. I've been working on getting the house back in order so hopefully we can stay on top of things when I go back to school. Turrns out the nursery is still filled with boxes.... ugh. We need to put shelves out in the garage so we can store all of our crap out there.
Well thats all for now.

Today is the day!

2009-12-15T11:31:00.000-08:00

Today we find out what we are having, FINALLY!!! Woo hoo. Our appointment is at two. I've just been trying to stay busy by cleaning up the house while Brandon is working. We'll let you know what goes down sometime tonight!

update on life as of late

2009-12-07T18:06:00.000-08:00

Well nothing new really but I just felt like doing a little update.
School is almost out for me woo hoo! I have lecture tomorrow then two days off then I take my last test of the semester Friday! I am so excited one more semester left until I have my LPN.... AND a baby! Crazy!
Brandon is still just working 5-1 at thermo. He is still really liking it except that he freezes to death if he has to go out on the forklifts in the cold. It has been in the high teens to low twenties the last few days. He sure is a trooper. Maybe I should get him some hand warmers or something for Christmas, haha.
Friday we are going up to Wolf Creek with my family. We are so excited for a little weekend get away and some down time and not having to worry about work or school! We come home Monday from that, I have to stop by school and do an evaluation with my professors but that's only going to take like ten min.
I'm quite excited to start the break, I only have to work one day a week, I tried signing up to work more but they said they didn't need me, and I'm not going to lie, I am going to enjoy the break. I have worked full time and have been going to school for the past 3 years or so, so it is going to be quite nice to have lots of time to just be home and take care of stuff around the house and have a good ol time. By then I will know what I am having and maybe I'll even start a few projects for the nursery, or maybe clean out the nursery of all of our junk! haha.
Ugh, I tried uploading some new pics, but that didn't work and I'm too lazy to try again. Maybe another day....

Boy or Girl

2009-11-30T13:08:00.000-08:00

So I probably won't be finding out today, but I figured just in case we talk our doc into it what do you think we are having?! Me and Brandon honestly haven't had a for sure guess.... sooo.... let us know what you think! The big day will more than likely be Dec 15 that we find out.
:)

Can it be Thanksgiving break yet?

2009-11-18T10:53:00.000-08:00

Well the last few weeks I have been sooo busy with school. I told Brandon if we can just make it to thanksgiving break we will have it made. We are a week away and to be honest it has gone by crazy fast because I've had so many tests, clinicals, papers, work, and whatever else keeping me super busy. I only have like 2 tests left, 2 quizzes, and 3 papers, and 3 clincicals left for the rest of the semester I am soooo excited!! I will have lots of time during the break I don't think I'll know what I'll do with myself. And even though cleaning and organizing the house should be number one... I don't know if I'll have the drive to get it done haha. I am excited for the holidays and all the fun to be had with family and friends not to mention all the good eating to be done!
Brandon is still alive and working like a mad man, he has over time pretty much every Saturday until Christmas which will be really nice to have the extra money with Christmas and tuition being due soon. Funny how things work out...
Our next appointment is Nov 30 which I am pretty dang excited for even though we don't get to find out what we are having until 2 weeks later on Dec. 15 ugh! I so just want to know all ready. A friend of mine who is the same day just had her ultrasound and found out what she is having, oh well... at least mine should be a for sure by then!!
Well I need to get back to homework and getting ready to go to clinical woo hoo.

Baby Visit

2009-11-02T20:04:00.000-08:00

Well we went to our appointment today it took SO long for us to see our doctor, but that's not news. But all is well, we just did the Doppler and listened to the little heart beat. So much fun, Brandon gets so excited I love it! So the doc says everything is looking good, I had way better blood pressure, I had only lost one pound since my last visit, and I can expect to gain 3-4 lbs this next month. I need to call and set up my appointment for next time. The only bummer is that we have to go in four weeks, and shes just going to do a little check up, then in two more weeks we will do the ultrasound and HOPEFULLY find out what this little person is! We are so excited, but.... that puts it at like a week before Christmas, and to be honest that feels SO far away, I'm sure it will go by quick though with how busy school and just the holiday season is. :)

Visiting Teaching

2009-11-01T13:18:00.000-08:00

So I have had such a hard time getting into visiting teaching; I'm too busy, I don't know my companion, I don't know the girls, I hate calling people... I always had a good excuse until now. My new comp is such a go getter! She stopped me today at church and said she would set up the times and she would even prepare the lesson. I told her if she set up times, I could do the lesson. How easy is that right? Why did I make excuses for so long!? I don't know, but I'm pretty excited (along with feeling very overwhelmed with school, work, relief society visits, not to mention just life it self!) But I'm willing to give this a shot... So I found a pretty cool little blog trying to come up with a lesson for this month, its visitingteaching.net, and is over on my sidebar under crafty sites.
I'm going to go get my lesson all ready cause this week with school is sooo busy, actually the next few weeks are pretty packed. I have two of these 10 hour assignments to do, tests, several quizzes, and 4 clinicals. I told Brandon I might not be the happiest at the end of the two weeks but if we can make it through it, the next week isn't so bad and then I think I only have 2 more days, then thanksgiving break which will be much needed!!
Our next baby appointment is tomorrow, I don't think we get to find out what we are having just yet, I will only be a little over 13 weeks but we will get to check everything out and make sure everything is going well. I pretty much live for these appointments its one of the things that keeps me going to the next month, and I have a feeling that its only going to get worse with looking forward to them! So if we don't find out tomorrow, we should for sure at our December appointment! WOO HOO. :) We can't wait... But we don't have much of a choice!

Sad sad news

2009-10-24T16:57:00.000-07:00

Well today Zeke got hit by a car and died. I was off at a baby shower so poor Brandon had to deal with it on his own. He had let them out to go potty, and Nollie spotted some people across the street and Brandon yelled at her to stay but she sprinted across anyway. The people started to pet her, so Zeke thought he should go get in on the action too. The first car missed him, but the second didn't. He got up and started to run so Brandon thought he would be okay, but by the time he got to him he wasn't breathing and it just was no good. Lots of people stopped and tried to help, but it was too late. It's only been two months since we lost Axel, and we are just having quite the hard time. Now we don't know if we should keep Nollie or let her go to a new home that doesn't have such a bad track record, and doesn't live on a super busy street.

In other news.... the pregnancy is going fine, I'm less nauseous but still don't feel too amazing, but its getting better all the time. School is going really well, we just had midterms, woo hoo I'm a quarter of the way done. Brandon just got moved back to day shift... sort of he is working 5am to 1pm, so a lot better than grave yard.

That's it for now, we are going to go and take care of Zeke and try and have a better night.