perfect moments

I had one of those perfect moments today. You know the ones, where you could live in that moment in time forever and wish you could feel that feeling all the time. They're precious, memorable and sometimes life changing. I had Liam on my lap rocking him a little, humming a made up tune and Addy looked at me then ran into her room and came back dragging one of her favorite soft and cuddly blankets, it was the black one and when she crawled up on the couch next to me it covered her face except for her gorgeous liquid blue's that the black accentuated so that they were even more stunning if that's possible. She finally wriggled her way up and sat on my other knee. She handed me her blanket for me to wrap around her and then laid her head across my chest looking up at me. She slid her head down and laid it against Liam and this was IT. My two babies were looking at me and they both smiled. My heart melted! It hasn't been the easiest adjustment this having two kids and Addy hasn't even showed that much interest in her brother, but here it was these two cuddled up and staring adoringly at me, their mommy, a title I take for granted to often and totally feel undeserving of this devotion but I'm selfish so I'll take all of these precious moments I can.

Family vacay review

Day One- drive through the night from Hurricane to Victor, Idaho. We went there because Stuart's old mission president owns these ranches up there (anyone from BYU-Idaho probably has been there because they are the cabins that they use for all of the retreats) anyways we went to vacation and help maintain some of the cabin roofs. Kids did awesome sleeping pretty much the whole way. Saw a gorgeous sunrise coming down into swan valley. Addy got car sick and threw up 5 minutes before we got there, but was fine the rest of the trip.

After helping with breakfast and watching Addy play, Daniel and I got to take a ride into Driggs to the Broulims, we had a sleeping Liam with us so it was a nice time to talk and we looked at the huge houses Daniel had helped build when we lived in Rexburg. (the cabin we stayed in)

We then got back and Addy, Liam and I took a nap while Daniel helped with the roof maintenance. We got lunch together and explored. Then LaRae held Liam while Daniel and I took Lincoln and Addy around the ranch on the fourwheeler to take cute photo's. Addy loved the freedom of the place and was constantly outside with the kids. We looked at my dream kitchen in the main lodge.

Josh needed pictures taken for a school report so Daniel watched the kids while Josh took me around on the fourwheeler to find things to take pictures of. We had a nice meal of chili and potatoes, played uno, roasted marshmallow's for s'mores and went to bed.

Day Two- had a leisurely breakfast, cleaned up and took family pictures around the ranch. We went to see some of my old professor's in Rexburg and my old boss, due to nap and being there one day less than I thought I didn't get to see everyone I wanted but maybe next time. We had lunch at Daniel's cousin Joy's and her husband Eric and their cute new baby Olivia's apartment while Addy napped. We then just chatted and the boys watched football. We took them out to one of our favorite places when we lived there Taco Izcali's. We also tried a new gelato shop which was way yummy. We watched a movie and we stayed the night at their apartment .

Day Three- We woke up got ready and went down the street to my good friend Ashley's apartment. Her and her new husband Tyler fixed us breakfast and some of their friends and Ashley's cousin Lexi who I knew way back in 03 and haven't seen since then. It was a nice breakfast and we said our goodbyes and went back to Joy's to put Addy and ourselves down for a nap. We slept until about 1:30 pm and then we ate hamburgers Eric had grilled. We said goodbye the them and want to say thanks again for their great hospitality, good advice, and awesome food. We love you guys! We then headed towards Idaho Falls to see my good friend and old roommate Melissa. I haven't seen her in two years and it's been killing me that she hadn't even met my kids. She had just had a surgery on an infected wisdom tooth and I was having a tension headache so we were quite the pair but it was still awesome to see her I missed her so much! We love you Mel.

We then went on our way to Salt Lake and the last hour we had both kids screaming and Daniel was grumpy because BYU getting creamed so it wasn't the most pleasant drive and we were sure glad to get to Kara and Skyler's (more of Daniel's cousins) apt in Salt Lake City. Kara made us yummy navajo taco's and we stayed up talking while the boys played nintendo about her pregnancy and how we are so excited she's going to have a baby, thanks guys for being so great! We went to bed and this morning we got going and Daniel made it in time to teach his Sunday school class. It was an awesome vacation and we loved being on our own schedule and doing our own thing, it was good for me too so I could see that getting out with 2 kids can be done but it is nice to get home. (the rest of the pic's later)

family vacay preview

2 days in a cabin in Victor, Idaho overlooking the Tetons, great company... family (the best kind), 1 day in Rexburg with cousins and friends, 1 day in Idaho falls/Salt Lake

1 heck of a good time. I took tons of pics and I'm excited this our first vacation as a family of 4 and it's been great!!

one of the family... thanks LaRae for taking it.

kissing cousins Lincoln and Addy
little Lincoln man wandering around (the kids loved the freedom)
some of the scenery... amazing huh!!!!!
Lincoln, and Addy at the fishing pond.

much more to come

picture post

my dirty face little indian who runs around outside with no shoes
blue eyed babes ready for church
us getting ready for church
handsome boy, we tried on a tie
addy's first juice box

new hairdo

my favorite things II (good deal days)

So I decided to do another my favorite things but mostly because I wanted to share some good deal websites, and some good deals I got this last week.

First I wanted to share my find that has well been worth the money already. Liam has been really needy, he always wants to be held or rocked do to the fact he's a little colicky (luckily not the scream for hours kind of colicky but constantly wanting held, rocked and pressure on tummy kind.) I was a little stressed because it's hard to get anything done when you have one baby in your arm and the other pulling on your pant leg so I knew I needed something that could at least give me 20 minutes of a break. A bouncer was out of the question because I have one and Addy can go and try to sit in it with him or continuously give him kisses and I needed something with a bit more umph. Enter the swing, they were really expensive though and so I thought I'd get the cheapest $50 one but was hesitant because it too was close to the ground. Well I went to Kid to Kid to see what I could get and there was 2 nice looking papasan chair swings one for 65 and one for 70. The $70 one looked newer and had more options, and when my cousin Steph and I tried both the $70 one had batteries already so I took it knowing I was getting a good deal based on my research of brand new ones. We went to Target for a few things and I went to look and there was my exact model of swing still on shelves and costing $150 Liam loves it, Addy loves pushing him and I've gotten more than my 20 minutes with it which is well worth it. So thanks my little lamb swing for a little sanity back in my life.

Number 2 good deal happened the next day when Stephanie and I went to yard sales. We didn't have much luck (found some cute clothes for Tyson) but as we were headed home Steph's friend called to tell us to find a computer print a coupon and head over to target. This little guy the tag reading system was on sale. This is normally $50 and was on a clearance rack for $35. We had a $10 coupon. This deal still wouldn't have been enticing enough but when you rang up the clearance item it rang for $12, so with the $10 coupon we got it for $2. We bought 9 of them. I got three so I'd have some Christmas gifts, but I learned a valuable lesson. Scan the clearance items because an okay deal might really be an awesome deal, Thanks Steph!!!

Now for some websites to share. I hesitate to give this website out because it lowers my chances to win but here is the best blog giveaway site. I have won a cute custom swimsuit for addy from here and i love the amount and variety of giveaways on

fabulousfunfinds.blogspot.com Check it out and you'll love it. 3-6 giveaways weekly.

Now some of you may already know about Enjoy the ride rewards program from Huggies but do you know how to get codes and win cash or prizes? Thanks to Stephanie who showed me how addicting and awarding this can be. I've won $30 so far. Here's the deal. Go to website EnjoytheRiderewards.com and sign up= 10 immediate points. Look for marked boxes of Huggie wipes and peel sticker on back is reward codes= 1 point each. Click on earn points and take the polls, and watch videos. 1-5 points each. Get Huggie mailers? There are codes on them worth 5 points each.

And then you can copy these codes:

5-point codes

ZXLRK-BTBBM-NNPGB

HKNZJ-ZGMDN-KBPGB

XZRSS-FHSQG-FLTMN

DDCHK-GCBLZ-DSPGB

KCPBH-XMNRB-TDPGB

JXBQX-LWHPP-HPPGB

LNXBX-DXTSH-BSPGB

STLPM-MBQPZ-RLPGB

NBDKD-QZGDT-FJPGB

PWZLK-XCQNS-QSPGB

1 point codes-

BBMCJ-MBDWF-CCPGB

BBRZW-BPBWW-NZPGB

BBWJL-NMMWK-XHPGB

BCPTK-XPTCQ-TJPGB

I actually put both this months mailers on this list so if you come up with an already used code that's why. I don't know how long these code's last so hurry and use them.

Play the interactive game where you find the babies. This is 2 points per play and you can win $10-35,000 dollars this game is only until October and they claim 4,000 winners a week. I blew through 75 points fast and no win, so I made an account under Daniel's name and redid all the codes and that time I won $10. A week later I had Lillie sign up and I won $20. Also there is an instant win game it's the kohls $25 gift card one and it is 1 point to play and 300 winners a day so if you have an extra point give it a shot, I'd rather win the cash but either one is awesome. Let me know how it goes!!!!

One last thing that I wanted to mention was to those soon to be new mommy's out there huggies came out with an awesome product. Between my two babies and you all know there isn't much time between them but they came out with these newborn diapers with a wet strip down the middle that changes color if there is any moisture (front to back so even if they poo you can tell) without taking the diaper off. We all know they are a little hard to tell sometimes and you have to sniff or touch it, yuck now just peek to see if the strip is blue. Lifesaver for me because Liam hates his diaper off and I don't have to take it off to check and make him scream.

Well if any of you have some tips let me know!!!!

Just another day

So we've been just hanging in there every week until Daniel comes home and then the weekends fly by. Of course this is the last week he does this so we are so excited. This last weekend was the county fair so we decided to brave the heat and have a little fun. Addy liked the animals and the bear show, and I was kicking myself for not bringing my camera. We found a booth that did some cheap photos and we did them of Addy and Liam. Liam was a champ he was good the whole time until it was time to eat some fair food because he was hungry. So we moved things along to get home. We also went shopping one day just for me to get 2 new shirts that fit... I hate this in between time because maternity doesn't fit and other clothes I had were to small or won't work for nursing so we found some cute things that will work. It was just nice to be with my hubby and kids I know Addy enjoyed it she loves having her daddy to go places with and play with her. Daniel went to the famous Astro Van jump and demolition derby, I stayed home with the kids and Lincoln, he had a good time but I was bummed when he got back and we realized the weekend was over and we had to be away from each other all over again. Every time Daniel leaves Addy learns something new he took some pictures of her as soon as he got home this week. Glad this is the last week!!!!
 addy and her chubby belly

 addy showing daddy how she prays

 the fair pics, it's a pic of a pic so a little blury but you can see how cute they turned out.

I'm so glad when....

I'm so glad when Liam gets home 
 I'm so glad when he opens his eyes
 I'm so glad when Liam gets a blessing
 and sleeps like an angel

 I'm so glad Liam puts up with his sister's left overs like pink bouncers and purple blankets.
 Addy's so glad the bouncer is back and she can lounge and read.
 I'm so glad Addy and I get to play forts for the first time.
 I'm so glad Addy loves to swim.

 I'm so glad when daddy comes home!!!!!!!

two more weeks of m-thurs work out of state, and it hasn't been easy but we've been surviving and I sure am glad when he gets home, so is Addy, frankly she gets bored with me. Liam is great and has such a sweet disposition, Addy still likes him but does get mad sometimes if I'm nursing and she wants me, other than that we're adjusting to two and to Addy entering the beginnings of terrible two's (tantrum mode over random things).

Addy's 15 month weigh in:

22 pounds

Liam's 2 week weigh in:

8 pounds 4 ounces

XoxOxoX

So here is a big Smackaroo for my Babe. I've been so busy trying to get a routine I wasn't able to post that on Sunday Daniel turned 24. I don't know that it was a fun birthday for him, what with both of us being so tired all the time trying to adjust but he didn't complain. Fortunately Comet came over earlier that week and I gave her some instructions to buy Daniel a new backpack for school. She brought it to me Saturday so I at least had a gift for him. I also told him to go pick himself up a cake and he came back with his favorite cheesecake (and some tiny cupcakes for me since I don't like cheesecake) He says having Liam and Addy made this birthday great. Daniel had  last week off which worked out nice because he got a week with the baby and I got help. Sadly this week he's out of town to Arizona for work and will be gone till Friday, I'm trying to be a "big girl" and not get sad or overwhelmed but his help has been amazing and it's hard not to have him here. I wanted to tell a few things about Daniel that I love, in no particular order.

1. He tells me he loves me every day.

2. He misses me when we're apart.

3. I miss him when we're apart.

4. He gets up every morning early to get Addy a bottle.

5. He grabs Liam for me but always cuddles him before he gives him to me.

6. He helps me clean up.

7. He LIKES to clean the bathroom.

8.He's proud of himself when he dresses Addy and thinks she looks so cute.

9. He loves being a dad.

10. He's supportive in all my endeavors.

11. He never yells at me.

12. He changes as many if not more diapers than me.

13. He can quote every line of Nacho Libre and Napolean dynamite and many more movies.

14. He is a History buff and know the history of almost anything.

15. He's willing to go to work at a back breaking job to support us.

16. He's the first to admit he made a mistake.

17. He knows what I like and don't like.

18. He loves the gospel and wants to better himself.

19. He's willing to help his family.

20.He loves my family.

21. He loves Adrian.

22. He loves my friends and wants to hang out with him.

23. He gets really excited about simple little things.

24. He laughs uncontrollably over dumb commercials, and it's contagious.

25.... I could go on and on he makes me feel so loved and treasured, I love him so much!!!

Hopefully I'll get more pics up of Liam, who is such a handsome boy!

July 20th, 2009

So I was waiting for this little guy the last couple of days. Friday we went to the doctor and I was at a 3 and 80% so I thought pretty soon. I waited and nothing happened but a few contractions (I was in a race with my sister-in-law Leslee) I was hoping for Friday and sure enough that night I had some good contractions but they stopped after a couple hours and when I found out that my sister-in-law had her baby that next morning yeah little sweet girl Ryann found her way first and is a cutie. We had company here who were leaving Monday and really wanted me to have that baby before they left. Well Sunday I had contractions all day and then they got pretty bad about 1:00 a.m. they woke me up and I walked around, took a bath, got online to pass the time and about 3:30 woke Daniel up and said I think we should go for a walk to see if they pick up and are the real deal. I didn't walk far because I was hurting pretty good. We went home got things ready and got in the car. We got to the hospital about 4:45 and I about bawled when they said I wasn't even at a 4 yet. I was having back labor again this time and let me tell you it's not fun, not that any labor is fun but there is no break for back labor and I wasn't about to go through what I did with Addy so when they admitted me because my contractions were 3 minutes apart and every time I had one his heart rate dropped a little so they put me in a bed and an hour later I got my epidural, so no more back labor and some sleep and I was feeling good. They broke my water when I got to a 5 and about an 1 1/2 later I felt pressure and asked the nurse to check and I was at an 8. Meanwhile the nurse was getting me pretty worried because she was nervous about Liam's heart rate that would just keep dropping with the contractions, the scenarios why was either he's laying on his cord or it's wrapped around his neck... that freaked me out because my little brother George had to be delivered by C-section because of that so I got really worried and didn't mind taking the Oxygen mask to try to get him some more air. My friend Ace was there and she decided to stay since we were getting closer. An hour later I felt like he was going to come out and sure enough I was at a 10. I hurried and called my Mom and Daniel's cousin Kara (who I wanted to come) and they were just a few minutes away so they hurried over and got there just before my Doctor. Minutes later we started pushing and in under 15 minutes he got here (way different the second time around because Addy's was an 1 1/2 of pushing) sure enough he had the cord wrapped around his neck twice and I'm so thankful for my doctor who knew what he was doing. Thanks Ace and Kara for being there hopefully I didn't freak you all out. Liam is doing great the first night here at home wasn't easy like Addy he just wants real milk and I don't have it yet. Addy has really loved him, and she keeps giving him kisses, no jealousy....yet. Well I'll update more later!

Auntie Ace thinking she'll help me out!
 mom and dad waiting

he's here!!   happy parents! Grandma!
 Auntie AceGrandma and Liam Mom and Liam

Proud Papa 

 Auntie Comet came later!!