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Halloween 2010- The cutest Witch Ever!

2010-11-19T20:34:00.000-08:00

Cute tutu outfit and Bella's 2nd birthday party

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Thanks mom for the cute tutu. it completes her ballet outfit.

she loves and i mean loves elmo. So we had an elmo themed birthday party. With elmo cupcakes. It was great, except very windy.

No longer a baby

2010-03-21T19:57:00.000-07:00

Bella is getting so big. She shows me everyday how she is no longer a baby and a little girl. I cant believe how time flies. I swear she woke up one day and just started talking. She now talks in sentences. My beautiful angel is getting so big.

2010-03-21T19:46:00.000-07:00

She loves her ducky. She cant go anywhere without it. She loves to take her babies with her as well. In this video she starts by asking if her ducky and baby want to eat and tries to put them her highchair. Then she asks them if they want to go night night. She is so cute.

Christmas gift she loves

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We decided to venture out into the snow. She loved it, but of course got cold fast.

Ballet Bella

2010-03-21T19:16:00.000-07:00

So i signed bella up for ballet class. Its a mommy and me class. It is so cute. She has always danced listening to music and i wanted to get her involved in something. We go every monday and i go to the class to help her with moves as she is still young, but it is a great bonding experience. She likes it. She loves her outfit. Its a little big but its the smallest they had. She has a dance recital in june where she will be dressed up as a bunny. I will have to post the video.

2010-03-21T19:13:00.000-07:00

I was trying to take a picture of her as we were getting ready for church and she would not stay still so the pictures are blury.

2010-03-21T19:06:00.000-07:00

We went to utah to celebrate Jamie and Camerons sealing at the temple. It was a wonderful weekend. Too short though. Bella and Angelina got along really well. Here they are watching TV with everyone. So cute!!

2009-11-12T10:04:00.001-08:00

There are 4 new posts. Check them out.

Sorry so late

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Ok so sorry its been awhile since a new post, but alot has been going on. Its hard to keep up with everything sometimes. But below are some new pictures. Enjoy.

My little pumpkin

2009-11-12T09:50:00.000-08:00

So Bella was a pumpkin for holloween. We went to Johns house and his neighbor was having aparty. These are the kids from the party.
Another kid at the pary was wearing the same constume.

My nephews in costume.
Bella loves to climp on things, in things etc. This time Sayde wanted to join her.
So bella LOVES the snow. She had a blast playing in it. Sayde on the other hand couldnt wait to go inside.
Bellawould run down the side walk and then plop backwardsin the 2feet snow and wait until someone would come and pick her up.

Sayde by the front door.
Sundays are hard. Its right at her naptime. But she is still cute even when she is grumpy.
AAWWWWW!!!!!! Precious

There are always new things right?

2009-11-12T09:38:00.000-08:00

So this is our new addition to the family. Her name Is Sayde. She is a Chihuahua puppy.
Believe it or not but we found a home for Reno. A farm! He lives with three other large dogs and can run free. It was a sad day to see him leave, but we both feel he will be happier there than tied up all day not having any contact with anyone, since we both work. One day someone at my work asked if anyone wanted a baby chihuahua for free. I asked patrick if he would be interested and to my surprise he said yes. I honestly didnt think he would be interested. To make a really long story short we took her home. She is very quiet she doesnt yip like most chihuahua's and she doesnt bark. However she is more of a guard dog than reno was. She will growl if someone is at the door. But that is it. She fetches, and is a HUGE lap dog. she is now 6months old. Very cute, very playful. It was a battle figuring out her name, but ultimately she is our sadye.

Bella loves to carry her ducky around, especially when she is tired. She doesnt have a blanket she has a ducky. We now have to bring it to her babysitters because she asks for it when its nap time. She tried to fit in a box and when she sat down it broke.

We finally got our backyard finished. It looks great.
Bella can now play in the backyard.
What a beautiful smile! She is my angel.

Tiny Town

2009-11-12T09:31:00.000-08:00

So Patrick and i went with some friends to a place called tiny town. It had small houses and buildings that bella could climb in.They also had a train that went around tiny town. It was a hot fun day.

DC Trip

2009-07-22T12:51:00.000-07:00

Oh what fun i had.
Bella and I went to visit my cousin Jennifer in DC. It was a very nice and relaxing visit. We went swimming one day and here is bella in her new swim suit thanks to her grandma.
Bella loves to swim, however she loves to do things on her own. She wanted to swim by herself but of couse she cant swim yet and the pool we went to doesnt allow floatys unless it is in the kiddy pool. Which she could of used. The kiddy pool was a little deep for her. But we had fun nonetheless.
We went to go feed the duck by Jennifers house.
They were very agressive ducks. They would hiss at you if you didnt feed them their bread fast enough.
After swimming grace and i went to the fantacy playground with Bella. They hadfun. But i tell you what, if i ever meet the person who decided to have rocks as the ground part for people to walk on i have a few words for him.

There was a crane chilling out where we were feeding the ducks.
Mom and Isabella swimming in the kiddy pools See how deep it is. Mom sits down and its upto her waist. Isabella stands up and its up toher waist

Bella Baby

2009-07-22T12:46:00.001-07:00

So Isabella has a couple of favorite toys. This dog we got her for her birthday and she loves it. We got the dog for her because she loves dogs. She thinks anything live and walking is a dog. Isabella burys her face in this dog when ever she sees it. She carries it around with her, and yes it is 3x as big as her. She just loves this dog.
Now she doesnt sleep with the dog. But she has been lately sleeping with her duck. She loves to sleep with this duck. I have found it on top of her face, on her belly, under her arm. She is not far from this duck in her dreams. She used to sleep with her husky dog, and then before that she used to sleep with her musical worm.
Abby came out and visited and helped me pick out some flowers and bushes to plant in my front yard. Abby helped me plant the flowers and Isabella is going to help me plant my bushes.

Denver Zoo

2009-07-22T12:38:00.001-07:00

Look at this crazy animal i found at the zoo. Deep red main, a growl that would scare anyone walking by and claws so sharp they can cut through anything.
She was walking around with my ragedy anne wig and well i decided to put it on her and see what she looked like. She was so cute i had her pose for the camera.

We saw a bunch of animals but i only put a couple of the pictures on. I dont think i have ever seen a rhino in person. For some reason i think they are always hiding when i go to the zoo. He was scratching his nose.
I came across an old high school friend that still lives in colorado. Not far from where i live. We had decided to go the zoo together. She is with her daughter Olivia. Not much older than Isabella.
This peacock was following everyone around.
HUGE!!!!!! I mean huge. And he was chowing down.
There happened to be alot of baby animals out when we went.Here is a pictureof the baby goats.
posing bella
eating bella

Black Eye / Blue Eyes / Evil Eye

2009-07-22T12:30:00.000-07:00

My Poor Bella had run full force into the couch and had given herself a black eye. I tried to take a picture none of the pictures do it justice. Her eye was black and blue all around her right eye. Up above the eye brow to across her nose to below her lower eye lid. Here she is giving me the evil eye.
I still cant get over how blue her eyes look, especially in this shirt.

She is stunned. How dare i take a picture of her while she is eating breakfast.

Our little climber

2009-06-21T10:52:00.001-07:00

We have a couple of toy buckets and she loves to pull everything out of them and sit in it. We also have a place in our TV stand where we put her basket of toys and she loves to pull the basket out and crawl inside and play in there. She loves to climb on everthing, roll on top of everthing etc. She is our little climber.

Isabella's 1st Birthday

2009-06-21T10:44:00.000-07:00

So she ate her cake and i was hoping for one of those classic pictures where her face is a mess. But she was such a careful eater and she wanted to get down and play. And the cake was white. Oh well, she enjoyed it anyways.
What wonderful friends and family she has. They all decided to test out her toys for her to make sure they were safe. Jefferey, Sammy, Lema, and Aaliah.
She was having a blast with her friends and cousins onher birthday.
Isabella recieved alot of new clothes and i think she really liked this outfit.
Jeffery was a big help when Isabella was opening her presents. I think at times he was more excited about the presents than she was. But isnt that what cousins are for, to show them how excited you need to be. I mean Isabella has never done this before and Jefferey is a pro. Thanks Jefferey, Your an awesome cousin!

Our little bundle of JOY

2009-06-21T10:28:00.000-07:00

We bought her these sunglasses for when we go to the beach this summer. We have been practicing putting them on her to get her used to them. She finally let us put them on her and she kept them on long enough for me to take a picture. She is now letting us put them on her and she will walk around with them on for about a minute or two before she pulls them off. However i dont think she will wear them at the beach for longer than a couple of minutes. Oh well!
She is such a daddy's girl. If i am sitting next to patrick on the couch or giving him a kiss, she always comes over and tries to get on Patrick's lap and then she says daddy daddy daddy. All over. Its like she is telling me he is my daddy. Its cute.
Those of you who havent met Isabella, she has a bunch of different laughs. She loves to be scared and loves to be tickled. How can you not smile with a face like that. She is thebest!
I cant remember which dress she wore for Easter Sunday. This one or the last one but either way, she looks cute in both. After she realized she couldnt pull her hat off she left it on.
This is a cool picture. I caught her while she was falling. So she is still in the air.

Recently

2009-04-10T21:51:00.001-07:00

Isabella is walking now and shes not even 11 months old. She is such a girl, she already plays dressup. She loves to pull things over her head and have them hang on her shoulders and arms. She has found some of my clothing items and was walking around with them on her. My shirt she put her head through the neck hole all by herself. Its quit funny. I have videos of this as well, that i cant upload either. =(

Spring Break

2009-04-10T21:35:00.000-07:00

We went to Pennsylvania and Virginia for spring break. It was great to see all the family and friends. I still cant believe how big Isabella is getting. These couple of pictures we were at a mall in a play area and she had a blast. She is in a couple of boats.

One night my mom, grandma, me and Isabella all went to a mad hatter party at church. We had 4 generations there. It was great fun. The hat Isabella is wearing grandma made for her. I cant wait to see the rest of the outfit that goes with it.
Isabella LOVES dogs. She had a facination with Patricks brothers dog. The dog was facinated as well. They stared at each other through the window. And when they were inside together they followed each other around. It was fun to watch. Reno, our dog doesnt want anything to do with Isabella. She loves seeing him though. She gets all excited when she sees him, even if he is outside.

Growing up so fast

2009-04-10T21:28:00.001-07:00

This white outfit was a gift from Isabella's Aunt Lori. It is a 6th month outfit but it fit her perfectly at 9mnths. It was a big out fit. But with her bow in her hair and her shoes on she looks like a little girl instead of a baby. Where has the time gone. She is growing up so fast. Oh and patrick had gone snowboarding the day before and he got sunburned.

WE had boughten her sunglasses that are velcrowed around her head. She would not keep them on to save her life. I had also cought her climbing in and out of her car seat. I also have that on video but i cant seem to get my videos to download for some reason.

Thanksgiving/ Christmas/ and After

2009-04-10T21:07:00.000-07:00

All of these images are sometime from November to February. We stent christmas in Utah with Patricks family. We spent Thanksgiving with my brother and family here in colorado. Isabella has always been a happy baby. We have been very blessed.

Holloween

2009-04-10T20:38:00.000-07:00

Holloween Pictures. She was the cutest lion i have ever seen.

Just the girl

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Patrick and the girl

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Me and the girl

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FYI

2008-08-12T08:54:00.001-07:00

I have posted new pictures but there are so many that you have to click on older post to view all of them. Dont forget to look at the renaissance pictures.
Enjoy!

THE BEACH

2008-08-12T08:43:00.001-07:00

The first set of pictures: I found a cove at the beach. Tons of rocks to hop on. The water came right into the cove. The waves ran right up against the rocks, like you actually see in the movies. it was really cool. The second set of pictures is patrick boogy boarding. He stayed in the water the entire time we were there except for a 20 minute lunch. He even pouted a little when it was time to go. Poor thing!

2008-08-12T08:39:00.000-07:00

More beach pictures. At the beach there were a bunch of kids, actually two teenagers started it and then got kicked out by the kids, but the kids had dug a large hole, and andrew and jacob helped.

2008-08-12T08:36:00.001-07:00

My nephew Jacob who loves the water. He spent most of his time in the water or literally rolling around in the sand. He was head to toe sandy by the time to go. This was i believe the only day he took a nap in the after noon. This kid is hard to ware out.

2008-08-12T08:34:00.001-07:00

My nephew Andrew at the beach. he is afraid of the water so he spends most of his time in the sand. And chasing seagulls.

2008-08-12T08:33:00.001-07:00

My sister Melissa getting ready to go to the beach.

2008-08-12T08:27:00.000-07:00

When I went to california, patrick came out for the weekend to play in the water. We went to the beach. Isabella spent most of the time in her car seat. She was not liking the beach. It was too windy and hot. And she didnt like the water. When she was awake i took her to the water to see what she would think and the minute i put her feet in the water she curled her feet and started crying. She wasnt too happy with me. But its just her first time going, she'll get used to it, especially if patrick has anything to say about it. He is a fish out of water. As for me i am not quit in bathing suit shape yet, so i didnt go in the water either.

2008-08-11T17:17:00.000-07:00

I went to california a week ago to visit my sister. Here is a picture of Jacob holding Isabella and Andrew and Melissa holding Isabella. When Andrew would hold Isabella he would force her head to lean up against his chest and she didnt like that. He would use both hands directly on her face to force her head down. It was a nice idea but not one Isabella enjoyed.

2008-08-11T17:15:00.000-07:00

Isabella is having tummy time. She rolled over for the first time about three weeks ago. She is growing up so fast.

2008-08-11T17:10:00.000-07:00

Here are more pictures from the renaisance festival. They had live jousting. In this one picture a night was gathering a good luck emblem from a croud member. The elephant pictures is in a parade of royalty. The royalty would parade around the festival with many other characters. You could ride the elephants for a fee of course. They also had camels there you could ride for a fee. The festival was really neat. Except for the under dressed people. And i am not talking dressed for these times, oh no... these people had purchased their own renaissance outfits and minamalized the minimum. If you get my drift. It was fun either way.

2008-08-11T17:05:00.000-07:00

We went to the renaissance festival a couple of weeks ago. It was so hot out and very sunny so i bought a cute sun hate for Isabella. Of course it was too big but she looks cute anyway. Patrick loved to carry her around. He actually said, "so this is what its like to be pregnant" as he arches his back to try to find comfort. Hehe hehe

2 Months Old!

2008-07-18T12:03:00.000-07:00

Wow how time flys. She is already 2 months old. She weighs 10 lbs 9.5oz. she is 22" long. She is staring to smile on purpose and laughing. This is the funnest part. She still cant get into anything and yet you can still get a smile and laugh out of her. I have one more month before i go back to work. Its going to be hard but i know she will be in good hands. Enjoy the pictures, i know i enjoy taking them. Isnt she photogenic. I might be bias =)

2008-07-18T11:55:00.000-07:00

She is starting to smile on purpose. some pictures are when we were watching the fire works for the 4th of July. You will see my brother spencer visiting from PA and my nephews Sammy and Jeffery and my sister in law Stephanie. Others are random. She is getting so big.

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She has quite the animated face. It is the cutest thing in person.

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A bunch of cute pictures. Enjoy!

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Grandma Bria's outfit.

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Mom came to visit when Isabella was about 3 weeks old. We went to the park. It was really windy - Isabella didnt like that very much.

2008-07-18T11:40:00.000-07:00

Cutie patudie!!!! This is one of Lori's outfits she gave Isabella.

THE LABOR!

2008-06-10T12:56:00.000-07:00

Some of you know this story, but most do not. The last 4 weeks before Isabella was born i was on bed rest. Not fun at all. The first couple of days were fine and very restful but the rest of the time was aweful. You cant get comfortable in any position and i was not aloud do do anything but shower and get up to use the bathroom. I had to stay lying down as well because i would get nauseous if i was upright too long. Well on Wednesday May 14 i had a doctors appointment in the morning. (First of all Isabella was due on May 23) So i went the doctors appointment and the doctor was checking me and she was saying i was going to have a 9 lb baby. I thought i dont know where she is going to come from becuase i was not prepared to have a 9lb baby. Well right before i was about to leave the doctor wanted to do an ultra sound to see just how big this baby was going to be. Well it was a good thing they did the ultra sound because they found out i didnt have enough amneotic fluid for the baby and they needed to induce me that day. Oh and i was not going to have a 9lb baby they estimated 7lbs. Which was right on the money she was 7lbs 1oz. Anyway they told me to go home and collect my things and my husband and head to the hospital. So i got to the hospital about 12. I was not aloud to eat anything big, so on the way to the hospital i munched on some crackers.
They started me on patosane. I got started about 1pm. So i was on that all day they took me off that at night and put me on prostane to soften my cervix. By 7am thursday morning i was only dialated to 1 cm. So they did that process again all day thursday. By friday morning i was only dialated to a 2. My doctor told me that if my noon i hadnt shown any more progress they would schedule me for a c-section. So noon came around and i was begging for a c-section. I was tired and hungry. You cant eat or drink when you are on the patosane. You can eat and drink on the prostane. Anyway shifts had changed and i had a new doctor. The new doctor didnt want me to have a c-section she wanted to break my water and see where i go from there. Ok now i am more that upset i am getting mad. Why didnt they break my water on wednesday. Anway for those of you who dont know anything about patosane, it makes your contractions 10x worse than without. So since wednesday i had been having contractions but they were only on a pain level of a 3. They just felt like menstral cramps. However they had up my dose to the highest dose on friday that my contractions were 2 minutes apart. Not thinking the doctor broke my water with me still on patosane at 2 minutes apart with no epidural.
The minute the doctor broke my water my contractiions went from a pain level of a 3 to a 10. I had no epidural and they were every 2 minutes apart. So i was in excrutiating pain. So the nurses were trying to clean me from the water break and trying to give me an epidural at the same time. Oh and my IV was not working so they had to take it out and put it in again in a different place. All at the same time. Patrick was in the back of the room freaking out, not knowing really what was going on not able to help in any way.
So this all happened about 12:30. By 1pm my epidural had kicked in and i was good to go. Poor patrick. So just by breaking my water i dialated to a 10 by 5pm. I had Isabella at 7:34 pm. So it took 21/2 hours of pushing as well.
This was NOT the best experience of my life. I told patrick at the hospital that we are going to adopt IF we want any more kids. Now that i am home and relaxed i will think about having more kids later down the road. I need time much time to get over that ordeal. Neadless to says, Isabella Saige Bria is here and beautiful and i wouldnt trade her in the world for anything.
More pictures are on the way.

2008-06-10T12:55:00.001-07:00

More cute pictures.

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This was at the hospital, right before we loaded her up to take her home.

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These are images taken at the hospital.

2008-06-10T12:44:00.000-07:00

We had just gotten home from the hospital and my visiting teacher came over with her daughter. However i was upstairs and patrick answered the door. He didnt recognize her and the first thing out of her mouth was "where is the baby" patrick didnt really know what to say as he didnt recognize her. Anyway i come down stairs not knowing she was there, to find her and her daughter playing with Isabella. Anyway after they left, I held Isabella as she was a little fussy and she fell asleep in my arms with her hand over her face as shown. I think that visit was a little stressful for her as well.

2008-06-10T12:42:00.000-07:00

She rarely at this point would stretch out. So i had to take a picture. She does however hold her binky in her mouth all the time.

2008-06-06T13:40:00.000-07:00

One week old and we are on our way to church for her blessing.My mom made her blessing outfit out of her wedding dress. Doesnt she look cute. So tiny and yet so perfect.

2008-04-07T14:43:00.001-07:00

I know, I know, Its been forever since i have updated my blog and i appologize for that. When i started the blog i was working at a real boring place where i had tons of time on my hands, now i am a middle school art teacher and pregnant with no energy at the end of the day. I know no excuse, i will try to do better. I am sure i will have many more pictures to put on the blog once the baby comes.

So just a little update on whats going on in our lives. Patrick in in school part time trying to earn his bachelors degree and he still works for ADT full time during the day. I am teaching art at a middle school. Not exactly my favorite age group to teach but its getting better and better every day. I am hoping I will stay at this job for next year if i have to work. Even though i want elementary school i am tired of switching jobs and it would be nice to stay in one spot knowing the staff, students and environment.

We are still getting everything ready for the arrival of our baby. I finished painting the baby room and patrick just barely finished putting up the crib, now we have to actually put the baby room together. We are getting there though. I do have to say that my mind is all about baby. I cant concentrate on school. I am done i feel. I am ready to stay completely focused on our upcoming addition. But well, life has other ideas for us on that. Such is life i guess.

There really isnt too much going on with us. We are just busy working and planning for the baby. Which takes up all of our time. I have attached a video of our house as some of you have been asking what the inside of our house looks like. So hopefully you can all pull up the video ok.

Again i will try to do better in updating my blog more often. Enjoy for now.

2008-04-07T14:32:00.001-07:00

These wonderful pictures are of reno relaxing in the back yard. He sleeps like this quit often. It always puts a smile on my face. He is such an odd dog.

2008-04-07T14:17:00.000-07:00

Ok, so these pictures are of when Patrick and I went to my brother and sister in laws house for easter dinner. Stephanie is holding Sammy in some pictures. Sammy is a great picture taker. He was smiling big. I also have pictures of Jeffery. We brought home an easter treat for Reno. The ham bone. We will NEVER give him the entire bone again. That night reno jumped his gate from the kitchen to the rest of the house (which he never does) and he pooped and peed in the baby room. Too much ham for him i guess. Not that i am condoning him jumping the gate and doing that anywhere else but i am trying to get the carpet real clean so he doesnt go back to that spot. I do not want him in the baby room. So that was a nice morning treat to clean up. There is also pictures of my belly in there. Patrick took those pictures.

2008-04-07T13:57:00.000-07:00

These Few images are when we first got our digital camera and we were playing around with it. Its very rare that i can get patrick to not make a funny face when taking his picture. So most pictures you see of him are most likely going to involve his tongue. That one picture of me standing side ways was back in early march. So i have grown a little more since then.

2008-04-07T13:50:00.000-07:00

More ultra sound pictures. I believe these were taken in March. I have had 5 ultra sounds, because the doctors have been checking and double checking my placenta as it was not moving as fast as they wanted. They said i am good to go now. So i dont believe i will have any more ultra sounds, but i was surprised to get a 3D ultrasound. 3D was AMAZING, it actually looks like a baby in there instead of bones and such. It was really cool. She gave me two 3D pictures. Unfortunatly they look better in person compared to on the computer. I hope you can make them out. And then the other pictures are of her feet and a front face view.

2007-11-09T12:09:00.000-08:00

Ok, so patrick and i went to the doctors yesterday. They were having a hard time determining how far along I am, thats why we went. I am officially 12 weeks and now 2 days. Which is what they were telling me anyway. So it was kind of a waist of visit. Except patrick was able to hear the heart beat and see the baby. I guess thats not a waist. It was cool. They gave us 3 pictures but this is the only one you can really make anything out of. In the picture it looks like he is waving but when i scanned the picture it looks as though he might be sucking his thumb. (if you click on the picture to get a closer look, it really looks as though he is sucking his thumb) He would have to be taking that after me. I sucked my thumb forever!

One funny thing, we were at the doctors and the doctor was trying to get the baby to move. He was not budging. The doctor told me to remember 3pm that could possibly be nap time. Or we have a lazy baby. Patrick spoke up and said yup, thats my kid. It was funny.

Oh and i am saying he, even though we dont know what it is yet. We say he in our home, to ease patrick, as he wants a boy. =)

My response to being tagged

2007-11-02T12:16:00.000-07:00

So I was tagged by my sister in-law Stephanie and my sister Melissa, so lets see what I can say about myself that no one already knows. I don’t know if I will get 6 things but we will see.

Let me explain the rules first. When I get tagged I have to say 6 things about me and then go and tag 6 more people. I believe you go onto their blogs and make a comment on their blog and state they have been tagged.

1. I was in boot camp. Not the real boot camp through the government but through a gym I had joined. It could have been the real thing. I had 6 ex-marine instructors. They all went through the real boot camp and they tried to make it as real as possible. They would have us all line up and shout at us, in our faces. We were to say YES SIR or count out loud etc. If we didn’t do something they didn’t approve of, even as simple as not yelling loud enough we were called to the front deck. Meaning they got to make fun of us even more and push us harder than the rest of the group. We had canteens we drank water from. It was a great experience. I can say that now. Everyday I was doing it though I would ask myself “what did you get yourself into”. We had a ceremony at the end of training to award those who didn’t quit. It was a lot of fun, hard work, and great exercise. I could go on about that experience. Let me just say that there are two things that stick out of my mind at this moment that were the most challenging. One was we were split into 3 groups. There were about 4-5 in each group and we had to carry real logs. Huge trees I mean. We had to march with them on our shoulder and then they made us come back and lay down with the log on our stomach and we had to do sit ups as a group. I coped out when we did the sit ups, I was smack in the middle and we starting to get claustrophobic. They wouldn’t let me quit so they just stuck me on the end. The other thing that sticks in my mind was at the end of the course we would have an obstacle course we would have to work. We had a flat wall we had to climb with a rope, we had an upside down v wall we had to climb up and down, etc. All kinds of things. Ok enough said about that.
2. Not too many people know this about me but when I was in school in Virginia getting my bachelors degree I was in school full time and had 3 jobs and trying to date. I look back now and wonder how in the world I was able to do all that. Its amazing what you can do when you have to.
3. I ran a 10K run in one hour and 10 minutes. I was quit proud of myself. I think that’s what really did it in for my knees. I cant run anymore. My knees wont let me.
4. A loooonnnngggg time ago, when I was at Ricks College getting my associates degree I went on a 30 day camping trip. One summer a friend and I went on a 30 day camping trip. We took classes and camped all through Utah and Idaho. It was fun. There were a few downfalls, like my plant life class we watched videos. YES videos, in the woods. At first I thought it was a joke, but no our instructor brought his mini tv and vcr and plugged it into the car lighter. We also had to read the entire Odyssey book. That is a huge book. Especially when its not easy reading. At one point no one showered for 2 ½ weeks. When we finally were able to shower, we were at a camp site and they had bathrooms and showers. However, the only day we were able to go and shower there was a sand storm, so the minute you walked out of the shower you were covered with sand, so needless to say we were completely clean. And the water was freezing cold. That same place we were attacked by buffalo. Yup real buffalo decided to tramp through our camp site. Most of us were able to run in the vans and hide. There were a few of us that didn’t make it and ended up on top of the vans. Everyone knows buffalo are huge, imagine one running at you. They are ginormous at that point.
5. I am sure everyone knows this about me but my ultimate dream is to tour Italy and see all the wonderful history I learned about in my art classes and teach in my own art classes. And go to the Louvre and go to Florence etc. all those places are my dream. To travel.
6. And lets see, last but not least…u.m.m.m….man this is hard. I was in two car accidents within 2 weeks of each other. The first was a hit and run. I pulled over as I was pretty shaken up and low and behold, Patrick (my husband now, not even dating then) and our good friend Jeremy were about 3-4 cars behind me and saw what happened. They pulled over to check on me and called the cops and then they chased the guy back to his house. They came back to tell the cops and when the cops followed the trail of oil the guy had already taken the license plates off and was not home. We ended up going to court and come to find out it wasn’t even the guys car. It was his buddies, he was going to 7-11 to buy beer and well…BOOM. Car accident. My car wasn’t too damaged only about $2000 of damage and I was fine. Thank goodness. Well not more than two weeks later my mom comes to visit and we go to the store and as we are leaving a lady backs into me. She kept blaming me when it was obvious her fault. Her damage on her car was completely on the back bumper, my damage was on the side of my car. So I was obviously out of my parking spot before her. Anyway we didn’t go to court but it was a hassle because she was blaming me and I was blaming her. Fun fun. Knock on wood, I have not been in any serious accidents or any others since then.

Wow I did it. I thought of 6 things. I am sure now that I have thought of these things more will come to mind.

2007-10-18T10:51:00.000-07:00

This is my first ultra sound of our baby. I went to the doctor and they were trying to hear the baby's heart beat but they couldnt find it (because i am still a little early, at this point i was only 8weeks 4 days). Since they couldnt find the heart beat they let me get an ultra sound to find the heart beat. The picture isnt that good but they said thats because i have a tilted uterus and i am still fairly early. But if you look close in the center a little to the left the doctor marked the top of the head to rump. You can kind of make something out. I am not very good at looking at these things. Either way, very exciting!

2007-10-18T10:50:00.000-07:00

This is just a close up of sammy on pats lap. Doesnt he look comfortable. He's probably wondering what is on Pats face. Its funny when pat holds sammy he very softly touches Pats facial hair, wondering what it is. Its funny.

2007-10-18T10:48:00.000-07:00

Here Sammy is sitting On patricks lap at John and Stephanies house. We are watching conference and Sammy was so cute he would slowly back up to sit on Pats lap. Then he just curled up and got comfortable.

2007-10-18T10:46:00.000-07:00

here is another swing picture. I have a series of these, but i will only put a couple on so i dont over load you with swing pictures.

2007-10-18T10:42:00.000-07:00

Last summer we went to the park with Jeffery and Sammy alot. Jeffery loves the swing. Here pat is pushing Jeffery in the swing.

2007-10-18T10:41:00.000-07:00

This is the house with our front yard done.

The House

2007-09-27T10:16:00.000-07:00

Ok, so i have never done a blog before but my sister and sister in-law started one and i think its a great idea to let people see whats going on your life. So i dont have much up yet but more will come soon.

First we have the HOUSE. As many of you know Patrick and i are building a house. These first few pictures are from my phone i downloaded. I have more from a camera but i havent developed those yet.

First off i must say that Patrick and I would go to the house practically every weekend to see how the progress was coming. It was fun to see the progression of the house.

The lighting was perfect for this picture. Patrick looks like he is in deep thought. This is at the back door. The back door is through the kitchen.

This is the back of the house, where our sliding door will be. I told Patrick I wanted to take a picture of him in the house and this is what i got. Patrick always has to be doing something funny in pictures. Here he plays "MAN of the house". But oh how cute.

So this is the front of the house as just a frame. The master bedroom is right up front where the two big windows are on the top floor. We have 2 bedrooms and a loft. We could have decided to make the loft a third bedroom but its just the two of us (for now =) and we needed some sort of office. It works out.

This is the final outside. They are not completely done, but you get the idea. Our house is a soft peach with a red door. ( Mom you should like that! )

Patrick and I are so excited. We move in this weekend. We close on the house tomorrow and we move in on saturday. Patrick is very excited because this means we arent moving again for at least 2 years. I say longer but you never know what will happen.