Fun, Fun!

So I took this picture because it was the first time in a while that Daniel and I got dressed nice, plus Daniel got a hair cut. It was Saturday night and we got to spend the entire day together while Daniel did a repair,and we spent all day Friday together too which was awesome! I wasn't feeling that great Friday night and Daniel wanted to go bowling with his friend Jimmy, I told him to go have a little boys night and he did, then they brought back the movie Dejavu with Denzel Washington, I had never seen it and it was vey interesting. It was good it's nice to hang out with Jimmy while he's here. He plays baseball for an affiliate team of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and so will be leaving when Spring training comes around. Saturday night we went to dinner with Daniel's family because his older sister Monica and her husband Doug were in town so Wynn, Phyllis, Monica, Doug, Monterey, Stuart andHeidi, LaRae and Adam, and Daniel and I went to JB's (pretty much the only restuarant in town), it was really fun, there is always good stories especially from Doug who is from South Africa about his ancestors. Plus lots of political talks. My in-laws are very active in discussing politics and I learn alot from listening.

My brother Tarek is moving and he gave Daniel and I his grill. We are so grateful because we've really wanted one. The day after we got it we came home from church and the bpys wanted to grill up some Steaks...unfortunatley I had already planned Taco Soup but they sure are excited to use it. Tarek also gave LaRae and Adam some couches and his big screen HD TV which is huge... my brother is so generous. Sunday night we went to Wynn and Phyllis's and we visited with the family like we do every Sunday, we heard the news about President Hinckley and it was hard to be too sad when Wynn says "well good for him." I was glad to hear his family was with him at home. I'm sure he knew it was his time and it reminded me of when my 93 year old grandpa called his kids and said he was going to die the next day so please have his grandkids call and say their goodbyes. Grandpa had a dream the night before that he woke up in bed and his wife Lillie was there and their son Tony (my uncle who died at age 2) came in and jumped into bed with them, he knew what he was going to and was holding out to say goodbye!

Baby Stuff

So I missed my appointment this last week...I just blanked it, which happens a lot to me now, I can vouch for the whole pregnancy forgetfullness thing that's for sure. I rescheduled for next Tuesday so we will see how that goes it should be a quick appointment I was a little low on my Iron so they will retest it I'm trying to get more Iron because I hate those fingerpricks!

Well LaRae had to do a trip for a D.I. fashion show with her young women so they go and pick out an outfit to buy then come back and show it off. LaRae found this onesie and bought it for me saying "Here is your first of what will be many Strawberry outfits"... it's so true my mom always gave strawberry stuff to MaryJane's girls so I'm sure I will get my share. I don't mind at all, as long as it isn't that fake Strawberry Shortcake (I played with the real deal and the new ones bug me :)

Daniel is doing good we're just trying to get him a good calculator for his math class, he does alright without it, but his homework takes twice as long when he has to use his phone calculator and when they get into graphing he has to have it. I found a good deal off the BYU-I bulletin board and Vaughn got it and is sending it to us, I figure with all the years of schooling ahead for being a doctor it will be a good investment.

Daniel's cousin Kara is here until monday and it has been so fun to have her around. I went with her to my sister-in-laws Heidi's house 2 days ago to do some sewing projects. She was making a Jean lap quilt with an airplane backing for her husband Skylar (who is a pilot). While she did that I worked slowly on my rag quilt for baby. I tried something new making the border into strips and I really love it. I might give it to LaRae though and am planning

on making some coordinating pillows. I haven't de-linted it yet

as you can see but it was fun working with the girls and I learned

alot from Heidi as she was helping teach Kara about how to do a

Jean quilt...I want to do one for Daniel next Christmas so it was good for me to learn. Anyways Kara is coming today to pick me up

and we are going to St. George for errands, it should be a fun day!

Green or Blue?

So Daniel and I have been fighting about what eye color we want our little girl to have. I love Daniel's Big Blue's and the color is so deep I just want her to get them. He on the other hand wants her to get my green's I know it doesn't matter but I hope I win on this one and I thought this picture shows just how beautiful Daniel's eyes are. We are 99% sure she's be blonde since we were both toe-heads until highschool...and maybe curly it's just fun imagining what she'll look like...though she probably won't have hair if she takes after the Steele's until she's two because we're bald babies.
This week has been interesting. LaRae and Adam may have an offer on their house and if she takes it it'll be within 30 days... we cleaned our guts out before the lady came by but she wasn't even interested in seeing the house she was more interested in the property and just said well I have to have a house to live in and didn't care one way or the next... LaRae and Adam's property is considered horse property by the city and there isn't many of those around so that is what she was interested in...I was a little mad she didn't even look around the house since we spent quite a bit of time on cleaning it. We were a bit worried because we haven't found an apartment with the right price tag (or it's gone as soon as we do find it) and didn't know how much time we'd have to get into another place. We've made arangements though and I for one am relieved that we have a game plan seeing as I don't want to be in the middle of a move when she comes.
Daniel did so good on his test in Math this week he's pretty sure he aced it!! Smarty! He hates his computer class but is gonna stick it out. Also he is registering for the BYU spanish test that comes down this way in May if he passes he'll get 12 more credits!! I officially have switched my liscense from Oregon to Utah and am glad that ordeal is over with!! Daniel's cousin Bryce Hastings is getting his endownments out tomorrow and we're so excited for him and for an opportunity to go to the temple. I want to try to go one a month this year because we really need to work on that so this is a good way to get us there. Bryce's sister Kara is down and she's been married a few months but is going to be away from her hubby for 7 days she's already missing him tons and Daniel and I can't believe she can do it, the longest we've been apart is 36 hours but I'm sure the older married couples are laughing that I even know that number I hope it's never more because they were not tearless 36 hours:)
Well I can't believe it's January 20th and that Valentines Day stuff is already in stores...it's funny but whenever I see that stuff I just remember Oh, JD and Denise Bowns's birthday see guys having a holiday birthday isn't so bad people always remember!!! Hope everyone has a good day off tomorrow!!

Impromtu Shoot

I decided since Tyson hadn't dressed this morning I would put him in an outfit and do a photo shoot!! He cheesed it up and his personality really shines through! The rest of the pictures are on my photography blog! La Rae was there making him laugh!! He got tired of it really quick!
I am doing great! The baby kicks all the time, she's a mover and her daddy can just request a kick just by asking...I'm excited for her to come in a few months. My friends Karli and Zac had their baby boy and he's so cute it just makes me anxious until she can come. I'm working on getting material to make her cradle sheets and blanky so I should be able to keep busy.


Daniel is finishing his second week of school and suprisingly his favorite class is Math...I'm glad for him because it's definitly not mine!!!

School Day

So this is a picture of a piggy bank my mom got me for Christmas... If you look close it has my name on it. My mom loves piggy banks and decided that this one she found will help me save, Thanks mom.


We have been working hard at getting Daniel ready for school. I thought I was done with financial aid, midnight registrations, and working out all the scheduling kinks when I graduated last August. But with Daniel working all the time you can guess who was stuck with the "fun" stuff. I've been so nervous about the whole thing and making sure we were prepared. I knew that he started January 9th TUESDAY. BYU-Idaho always stareted on
a Tuesday. So Monday night after Daniel got home I printed off a schedule, a calender, and wrote all the directions I could think of, also a map of campus. As I started filling out his calender I saw that something was wrong with it.... It said that the 7th was that day!!!! I checked my phone and gasped... I ran into the bathroom where Daniel was showering and started crying, he assured me it wasn't his fault and it was one class. I told him his teacher's name and he laughed and said I shouldn't worry... it was his old Math teacher from high school who is very smart, and nice. I still couldn't believe after all the preparation I went through I messed it up. Well the next day I went with him to make sure he got there :) Actually I just ran errands, saw some friends while he was in class. This picture I took of him before we left... his first day of many college courses. He seems to like it so far and is planning on testing out of a few classes... My smartie hubby!!! Well it will be hard, he get's home late but it will be for the best, let's just hope this baby doesn't come a week early or Daniel might be in the middle of some finals as his classes don't end until the 2nd of May!!!

New Year Blues

So this is the second New Years in a row that I have been sick... the first was strep throat and this year I got a 24 hour stomach flu. We were out on the town... and had some plans but then I told Daniel take me home and as soon as we got here I started throwing up. I was so drained that I went to bed by 9:00 pm. Daniel layed down with me and then at 12:01 he kissed my forehead and said "Happy New Year's" it was sweet of him but I was a mess and was wishing the day was long gone.
So here is that freezer full of beef I promised you all. There is one identical to it in the garage so we're set with meat.
Tyson was playing with the gift Daniel and I got him for Christmas a couple days ago. He loves making gun noises. He sure is cute I am always snapping pictures of him and plan to do a photo shoot of him soon. I'll post those pics on my photography attempts blog.

Here he is and guess who is horsey is? MEEEE!!! Like always I seem to be his jungle gym and LaRae just laughs.





Well here is my first attempt at a canvas. I did it from Tyson to his Dad Adam. LaRae likes it so I guess that's important. I decided to try it thanks to all of Karli Cleaver's wonderful creations.

Baby Finds

I've been really lucky with some finds at flea markets and yard sales. I found a cute car seat at the huge Las Vegas flea market... and my sister-in-law gave me a cute cradle with spindles and is high and rocks back and forth when pushed that I am refinishing. But I also found this sleigh bed crib, with mattress, and mattress pad at a yard sale for a great deal. I might paint it but right now Tyson sometimes uses it.
My brother Tarek and my sister LaRae bought this cute dress I was eyeing at Kohls. LaRae has a little boys sailor outfit that she can put on her baby that is due 3 weeks before I have my little girl... I'm already planning the photo shoot :) I'm so happy I have this one little dress... though luckily my sister MaryJane is giving me a lot of her baby's clothes so I'm looking forward to that.

Looking Back

A year the 29th!!! We made it, one year under our belts. Our anniversary was on the 29th and it was not at all what we wanted it to be. We had no money... or actually no money we could obtain due to a banks being closed and a check to me that I couldn't cash because I still haven't switched over my liscense. But that wouldn't have mattered except Daniel felt bad and he really wanted to do something, and I kept asking him what did he want to do ( It didn't help that we were sick and really didn't want to do anything) But I was feeling down because we never had money on Valentines Day, or our sixth month anniversary and we still did something memorable... feeling down didn't help because Daniel thought I was mad at him :) So about 8:00 I called Daniel in for a mtg and said "Let's start today over" I then went on to explain we could still make today special. I told him that if he would leave the room I would find something that maybe I'd given him before or something special to us and wrap it up, then he could do the same. We would then open them and tell each other why they meant something. We also decided to tell each other 3 things we loved about the past year and that was memorable to us. While Daniel was finding his gift I popped popcorn and grabbed the movie Ratatouille which we hadn't seen yet and two glasses of juice. We opened the gifts, mine was a shirt Daniel bought me for Christmas but he gave it to me early... he knew I wanted it and tricked me when he bought it, he gave it to me early because I was complaining about not finding anything to wear. It was thoughtful of him to get it because it showed me how much he pays attention to my wants. I gave Daniel a small quote book I made for him when we were engaged. Each page rotates with a quote about love and then something that I personally loved about him. He told me he read it almost every night we were engaged because he was away from me and it made him feel so loved. We then talked about our memories and also made goals for this next year. Then we had a silly toast with our grape juice and ate popcorn and watched our movie... we had kleenex's nearby because we were both so sick... but it turned out to be great and I was glad we decided to do something special that day instead of feel sorry for ourselves.

One memory I have is our first date... it lasted almost 24 hours. I got up at 4 am to start a drive up to zion national park. Daniel and I and some of his family and their friends were going to hike the narrows. A gruelling 16 miler where 90% of the time you walk through water. Here is a map that sorta explains the hike.

We did it in around 10 hours which was pretty good... the drive up to the trail head took a few hours itself. We got home around 6:00 I showered and drove out to the flat where Daniel took my on a motorcycle ride to the Peach Days Rodeo... after that we went to JB's with the family and ate dinner. Then we drove over to his cousin's house and watched a movie on the trampoline with some of his family... That's when he kissed me :) Then I needed to go back to his house to get the vehicle to drive to LaRae's but I was leaving after church the next day so we decided to talk about what we were going to do since an 8 hour drive seperated us. Needless to say we figured out how to see and talk to each other and the rest is history. Let me just say that going on a 10 hour hike is a great way to get to know someone and the scenery is breathtaking here are some pics...and if anyone is ever interested in going let me know I'll give you the scoop!!

21 weeks

Well here is a picture of me and my big belly :) Daniel took these one day when I was wearing a ModBe shirt which tends to emphasize the belly.

My friend Natalie has been dying to see my belly. It's nice to actually see that there is something in there and to also feel that little person moving around.

Here is one more picture of me, but don't expect many more, I'd rather take them of Daniel and soon of the baby. Christmas was great we got to spend it here in Hurricane, though it wasn't a white Christmas like at home it was still great and we had a wonderful time with the Stout family. Phyllis my mother-in-law worked like crazy with food preparation. We got to do something I never imagined I'd do on Christmas eve if at all and that was to package beef. We did 2 whole cows which is about 1200 pounds of beef. The boys cut it up and I was on the packaging table wrapping and taping. It may sound gross but it was fun though very time consuming. But half of one of the cows was one LaRae, Adam, Daniel, and I were paying for so we worked hard and it's nice to have 2 freezer's full of beef... the boys are especially excited for all that steak!! I won't post a picture of that because it might make someone sick but maybe I'll take a pic of the freezer :)

After Christmas we've been going to the flat (Daniel's Parents house) daily to hang out with the family. But today was our real Christmas gift. We got to find out what we're having......

A BABY GIRL!!! I'm excited thought I would be disappointed because I wanted a boy but as soon as I saw her I was so excited to imagine Daniel with this little girl (it's what he wanted) Everything looked great the Doc said everything was how it should be. I had talked to my sister-in-law before I went and she told me about when she got her last ultra-sound and this was her second time to the doctor because she was in denial she was pregnant but she went and it was showing the baby and the heart and all of a sudden the baby flipped around and bam there was another one!!!! I go to the same doctor she did and he said that her face was classic, she had lost her son a few years before and he only lived about a month but here she was having twin girls and it was a shocker!!! But now Erica and Emily are so dang cute and in the crazy two year stage here is a pic of them at their party a few weeks ago.

Anyways my little girl seems to be doing fine and is very active the doctor said She was flipping around a lot and it was neat to see... also good for Daniel because he said wow she's doing all that inside you? When we got back to the flat we showed the pics and my cousin (who is also my sister-in-law) Sara Ann said that she has my eye shape... I'm not sure but I think she's dang cute!!
Her right face is on the right and tilted toward the left The really white stripe against her left cheek in the middle of the pic is her hand... the whole time the doctor said she was resting her face in her hands.

Here is another shot of her and again her hand is on her left cheek.

Well I better wrap this up, needless to say I'm excited...but a little worried when someone who isn't a huge fan of pink gets a girl the first thing I think of is what am I gonna put her in... I guess I have until May to figure it out!!!

Long Time

It's been a long time since I have posted, but I'm going to try again. So much news! We found out in May that I was expecting and were super excited. At about 10 weeks I started bleeding and found out I was having a miscarriage, I stopped going to work and was a little depressed for a few weeks, luckily my sweetheart pulled me out of it. We moved in with LaRae and Adam in August and have been there since. We found out we were expecting again at the end of August and were so excited, we also found out LaRae is expecting and they will be just a few weeks apart. My due date is MAY 5th, right before my birthday. Southern Utah is different for me but I am having fun being around Daniel's family. This week we should be going to get a Christmas tree and I'll make sure to bring my camera, also some people wanted to see the pregnant me so we'll see if I can get the courage up soon for a phot o. :)

Surprise!!!!!! Weekend

Yes!!! Ace is coming is what I was thinking Friday morning she called and said she would be there around 3' O clock. She lied she was there at 12:00 and not only Ace but she surprised me with my friend Comet.

Well we were on campus and I had called our friend Dash he was on his way to SLC from Burley and I handed the phone to Comet and ran in to turn in an assignment they were done talking by the time I got back. Later that day Comet asked how to get from the Stadium to my house I asked why and she said :She just wanted to orient herself with her surroundings" Ha ha when really she was directing Dash to my apt. They got me again!!!! So Dash and his dog Kipling came. Maveric was so excited to have a playmate. We went to the park and they loved it.

We went back to my place and made Chicken Fajitas on wheat tortilla's, a green salad, and fruit. It was great!!! We ate on the floor and talked about Camp and what we were doing now. Daniel was so great with our endless talking because he wasn't annoyed which is rare most people get bored with our talking. We went and got custard and then came home and watched Hoodwinked. Dash slept in his Van but the girls stayed in the spare bedroom. Dash came in the next morning to say goodbye, unfortunately he had to work that day.

Saturday was fun I made German Pancakes and we went to Clara's house to meet for rides to Lava Hot Springs so we could float down a very rapid filled river that people rent tubes and go down. It was all fun and games until Comet and I flipped we scraped ourselves up but it was still fun.

Maveric even went it was pretty scary for me when both her and Daniel fell in luckily she can swim and the water is very shallow. We went with Tandy and she didn't live far from there and so when we were done we went to her house to eat some dutch oven ribs MMMMmmmm!!

Cutie pie's Ahhhh!!!!! Maveric

When we got back we all showered and went to meet up with some of Ace's friends we then went to get custard at a different place and then said goodbye to Ace's friends. We went to Walmart where these awesome pics were taken on Daniel's truck!!!

so cute!!!!! Look how tan Daniel is Together Again!!!

Anyways we went back to Clara's and watched some home made videos had a poetry reading, Karaoke where Ace played guitar. Ace and I preformed the clevland shuffle, and Lillie did the Napolean Dynamite dance. It was a fun filled evening the weekend was great but I think maveric enjoyed it the most!!!

Puppy Maveric

Here is our puppy!!! She is so cute we love her. And we want to share her pictures. We have a picture of her when she's 7 weeks old and then when she's about 13 weeks old, she fell asleep playing with a root beer bottle but looked like she had gotten herself "drunk".