Floors...and a baby!

First of all, I can't get enough of THIS little girl!!!

We found her like this in the car....it was pretty hilarious!

She is just so cute and I want to love on her all day! She LOVES to be held and for the mast part I love to hold her. Is that bad? Will it create problems in the future? I don't know. But I enjoy it! What do you all think? She is a stubborn sleeper. It takes forever to get her to stay asleep without being held. She is spoiled.

BUT, it will be better having her to take pics with rather than this pumpkin this year...haha!!!
Adam brought this harness home from work one day and said I could hook it up to my belt loop when we go shopping so he can't get away....I think it is a GREAT idea! He used to love shopping with me when we were dating, now not so much. I call that false advertising!! just kidding!
Adam has done an AMAZING job with updating our house. Here are some pics of what we have done so far. This is before:



This is during:





This is after:
He is sitting where I usually sat and ordered him around while I was pregnant! He wanted a turn.





It turned out beautiful and it feels like a whole different house. My husband is amazing for doing all that himself for the first time!!!

Just had to add some pics of my cute nephews! They had to move to St. George recently, so I miss being able to see them all the time. They are so cute and fun!


Ok, some more of my little Bug-A-Boo!! I tried to get some cute pics of her sleeping but it didn't happen. She would wake up as soon as I put her down....of course.


This was the day she was blessed. She was just an angel! It was a perfect day. I will put some pics up of her in the dress when I get some. She was beautiful and we enjoyed having everyone there with us. I will tell more when I post the pics.

Daddy loves holding her little hands!!
We are so blessed to have her! SHe is still so small. She only weighs 7lbs 9ozs right now. So the doc says we have to get some weight on her! I am having to supplement a little with formula so we will see if it helps. She is pretty long though! Little stinker!

Baby Ashlynn!!

Baby Ashlynn is here!!!! She was born May 1st at 6am weighing 6lbs 12 oz and 181/2 inches long. She was a much smaller baby than I had anticipated! We are so blessed to have her with us! I was pretty happy for to have come on her own and 10 days early. It was an amazing experience and almost seems like a dream. She had to spend a week in the NICU after I had her b/c she was having trouble breathing on her own. She really only struggled the first day and improved everyday. It was difficult having to go back and forth from the hospital all the time and not being able to spend much time with her, but I know it could have been much worse.

We brought her home on Mothers Day! What an amazing mothers day gift!! And to think it was exactly 2 years ago on mothers day that our stake president in Dallas got up to bear his testimony and mentioned his visit with us and my desire to be a mother. He said that he knew I would be. The Spirit hit me like a ton of bricks and I knew it would happen sometime.

Our little bundle of JOY!! Well, most of the time, haha! I have to admit I was not prepared for what it takes to care for a newborn. It has been a MUCH harder transition than I could have imagined. NO sleep and a crying baby is pretty darn stressful!! She doesn't like to be put down too much, haha! She is the Princess after all. How do you ladies do it?! But, it will get better and easier and we are so happy to have her in our lives.

What the?!

I'm BA-AACK! Time has just flown by and I have been so busy with everything. And I got so behind on my updates I knew it would take a while to get everything in. So...I just won't be able to cover everything but I will be back on track!

Good news is I am still pregnant! YAY! I have enjoyed being preggo...so far! I do not like seeing pics though b/c it reminds me how much it shows in my face that I am pregnant. I mean sheeesh! I look swollen already! I do not like that so much. But it is a blessing to be able to experience this! I want to spank her little bum already!!

OH YEAH.....I forgot to tell everyone it is a GIRL!!! We are so excited!

No names yet. Maybe Grunka? HA HA! NO.

It is just stressful!

My nephews in October. LOVE THEM!!
Adam's Halloween costume....................That is his real hair!! Haha....It was awesome! He was really HOT with his mohawk! We were rock stars!

My little buddies came over to build some marshmallow snowmen in December!

I am really bad about keeping up on how far along I am so I will just put some of the few pics I have!
We made these shirts for a Valentines party. You can't see it well but it has B.F.F.E on the hearts. Best Friends For Eternity!! Haha! I love him.


Well that is a quick update for everyone. I will have more soon! And thanks to everyone who left me such wonderful comments last time. Thank you thank you!

OK.......

I'll admit....................... I AM PREGNANT!!!!!

I KNOW! I can't even believe it! But I am so excited and grateful to be in this moment. I have just passed my first trimester, yay! We got to hear the heartbeat! It was amazing. So I debated a long time when I should announce it b/c I want to tell everyone and then I don't want to tell anyone. I have this MAJOR fear for some reason of announcing it and it getting taken away from me. So hopefully everything will turn out fine and have a healthy baby.


Here is a little bit of what happened in case you were wondering. I was on chlomid for 7-8 months and was scheduled to go off the next month b/c both the doc and I wanted to move on to other things since it hadn't done anything. So I was scheduled for more tests and searching for places to get in-vitro or adoption. I had decided that those were the 2 roads we were on and I was ok with that. BUT, I waited and waited for that time of the month and it never showed up! I was really freaking out! In the past I would be late and take a test, it would be negative, and I would start the next day. I didn't want that to happen so I waited until I couldn't wait anymore. I just wanted to get it over with! Much to my surprise it came out positive!! I was in such shock I took 2 more tests to make sure. I start laughing and smiling out of pure joy and then I start crying. I couldn't believe it. I drop to my knees and thank my Heavenly Father. And the crying continued for the next few days!! Haha! It was horrible. I cried every time I told someone about it! But, it was tears of JOY! Even Adam was getting emotional! We had stake conference the next day and everytime he heard the word father he was getting emotional...awww! And Adam has been the best! He is actually over-protective of me now that I am prego. I love him! It has been fun and we are going to just try and enjoy every minute of it. I know that it was hard to go through those years of wanting and not being able to, but I can't trade the things I have learned from it for anything. It has been a trial and a blessing. And I know that there are still many women struggling or not able to adopt and it is hard. We are not alone. God knows us and strengthens us.

Well, I wish I had a picture of the baby or something exciting to show, sorry. When I get more pregnant I will. Right now I just look chubby! Don't really like this stage...haha! But, I have been feeling pretty good so far. No major sickness yet. I just pray everything goes well. Thanks to everyone's support and prayers. We have been blessed with great family and friends!!


HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

p.s. I can't wait to show you Adam's costume this year.....

Best week!

Well this has taken me forever! But, these are just a few highlights of the BEST WEEK EVER!
We were able to go visit with some of our best friends for a few days and it was so much fun! We LOVE being with them! As soon as we got there Kendyll already had Adam following her around playing "mommy and sweetie" and polly pockets, Adam was the Beast of course! Haha! It was hilarious!

We got to meet Claire for the first time! She was so cute you just want to bite her! And she actually really liked me...I am good at bribing kids into liking me.

Here she is throwing up a peace sign....

And what she did best.....attack Drew!!

We went downtown to Pig Out in the park and saw the Radio Flyer wagon. It was a great time! The slide was fun but we weren't moving too fast b/c my hips are a little too big for it!

Little Drew being so cute and loveable as usual!!

Then we went to the lake and put our feet in the FREEZING COLD water. Oh I remember all the water being this cold in Idaho...you have to work your way in and wait for your body to numb so it gets "warm".

But Kendyll didn't think it was as cold as I did..............

Oh we loved being there with everyone!!!

Us girls tried to do a little picture stunt and pick up Delphia and Aubry wanted to lift her over our heads.....ok..............hahaha! First of all I was on the wrong side and second of all I had the heaviest part of her body, which isn't really that heavy, but third I was laughing so hard I was losing strength!!

So at this point I was just trying not to drop delph in the water! Haha! It makes me laugh just looking at it!!

We decided to just do different stunt.....

Delph is still scared for her life, but we did it!

Kendyll attacking Adam in the morning and then we get the most special treat of all.......

Kendyll's curly hair!

She came out whipping that hair around and said" Welcome to my curly hair!!". It was quite the reveal! And she continued to toss that hair all during church until everyone noticed!

We had so much fun and miss our friends terribly. But, it will only get more exciting each time we meet up! The friendships we made through college were put in our lives for a reason and I am grateful for that.

shopping=love

There is always one thing that makes me happy.........SHOPPING!!!
And what makes me even happier is finding clearance prices!!
Like these sandals were $3 each...AMAZING!

AND, I got to go garage saling this weekend with my mom and sis in law and we found some amazing stuff...well my sis in law did but I get just as much of a good deal high from other people as I do for myself...haha!

I found this cool lantern for a DOLLAR! Umm, I'll take it!

I LOVE it! Oh, and some more amazing news..................... we got a HOBBY LOBBY!!!

OH SNAP!