Fun Pictures with Blake & Amy!

Amy and I had my cute sis-in-law Tiffany take some pictures of Camryn and Blake when she was in town! Camryn wasn't really in the picture taking kind of mood, but there's a couple that show her personality really well these days! She's quickly entering the "terrible two's" at only 21 months :( I bribed her with candy so she's eating that and asking for more in her pics!

Last couple months....

I've been a complete blog slacker lately, like usual, and Matt is having a boys poker night tonight so I thought I'd take the opportunity to catch up! In no particular order here's what we've been up to the last couple months!

This is Camryn's crush, Drake! She loves to have him come over and play, and every time we walk past his house she says "Drake" and wants to go knock on his door and see if he's home :)

Camryn acting crazy!

This was completely my fault...I left an entire gallon of paint out Friday night then sent Camryn and my niece Kennedy downstairs Saturday morning while I was finishing writing an email. After a couple minutes I hear my niece say, "Shell, Camryn...paint!" I ran downstairs and Camryn had dumped the whole gallon all over the floor and was stepping in it! I yelled to Matt "emergency!" so he threw Cam in the tub to wash her off while I attempted cleaning up the paint mess (after taking a picture of course!) It didn't all come up so now we have a good excuse to get new floors, which we've been wanting to do for awhile now! Always an adventure with this girl :)

My cute sis-in-law Tiffany came with her three adorable kiddos and we got to spend a few days together! We made cookie dough one night and just let the kids go to town! Camryn started out taking little finger-fuls, then after she realized how good it was she just went for entire handfuls!

This girl LOVES shoes! She goes through my closet any chance she gets and just tries on all the shoes she can reach!

We took a fun trip to St. George with some good friends for my 27th birthday and just enjoyed the sunshine for a few days! Camryn was absolutely loving being outside!

For easter we did a fun little easter egg hunt at Aunt Connie's house, but I didn't get any picture's so here's a few of her finding a few eggs at home that morning! I don't think she really got what was going on but it was still cute to watch her find the eggs!

And last but definitely not least, I'm now 19 weeks along...almost half way...and we're finding out next week what we're having already!!! This first half always goes by SO fast! I'm feeling great and staying active, and growing by the day! I'm already feeling this baby kick so much...way earlier than I felt Camryn. I have no idea what it is, but I know it's going to be another active little baby! Check back in next week to find out if it's a boy or girl!

One HARD puzzle for one BIG announcement!

We went to our first doctor appointment today and saw our new little baby on an ultrasound! The little thing already had little arms and legs and was moving around like crazy! We're so excited to meet this new addition to our little family!

So I thought it would be fun to get these puzzles for our families to announce the pregnancy! I ordered them online and thought they would be really simple and easy to put together 10 piece puzzles or something. Little did I know they would be 100 piece giant puzzles that would be almost impossible to put together! Luckily, my cute mom is a puzzle lover and has to finish everything she starts, so she eventually got it put together after everyone had already guessed what it said :) We sent each of my family members in Washington a handful of puzzle pieces so they all had to get together to complete it, and we gave Matt's mom hers on her birthday as part of her present. Now...patience until we can find out if it's a boy or girl!

She's 18 months already...

My little angel is already 18 months old! Wow that went by fast, but it has been such a fun adventure raising this little monkey and getting to know her CUTE personality! She is a busy girl and there's never a dull moment at our house. Camryn loves to read books and recently started saying "book book book book" over and over when she wants to read. Kinda sounds like a little chicken, so cute! She's saying new words every day...some of her favorites are ball, bird, book, bath, more, NO! (with a raised finger) mama and dada of course, Ninny (for Lindy) cheese, buh bye, toot :)

She's loving shoes. I think she's going to be a shoe girl for sure. She puts on my high heels and tries to walk around as best she can, but it usually doesn't work very well! Then she gets so frustrated and does her sign for help after they fall off.

She really is a monkey and loves to climb up on the counters, on her changing table, anything she can! But thankfully she has not yet tried to climb out of her crib...yet...I hope that lasts awhile longer. That's the one place she'll just relax and be still :)

Dancing is still a favorite! Anytime she hears music she gets her groove on, it's so fun to watch!

Camryn is such a friendly little girl and will pretty much go to anyone, but also has her favorite friends she always has to go find at church and sit on their laps! She loves to give kisses and just started making the kissy noise with her lips when she gives them, I love it. She has turned in to quite the little cuddler first thing in the morning and that is my favorite part of the whole day! I get her up and we go lay on the couch together while she drinks her bottle (yeah, she's still on the bottle) and then she just cuddles for a few minutes...cherished minutes!

Trying on hats with Daddy and unlce Parker!

She loves her vegetables! When she's in the mood to eat.

We got her first ponytail over Christmas! Its small, but its there! And she is SO addicted to her blanket...in a scary way.

We love this little girl so much and love that she's in our family every day! What a joy and a blessing she is. Love you Camryn!

Caribbean Cruise 2010!!

Ok, I know I'm a month late in posting pics from our caribbean cruise in January, but every time I get on to finish this post there's just SO many pictures to go through and it overwhelms me! So, here's a few pics of the flowrider in Grand Turk and all the couples at dinner...if you want to see LOTS more pictures and read more about the cruise, go here! Thanks Cami, for taking the time to go through all the pics! (I hope you don't mind!) The only thing on here that's not on Cami's blog that you MUST watch is the video of Matt doing "chubby bunny" with some crazy drunk lady at the very bottom...hilarious!

We had such a wonderful time on the cruise with all of our wonderful friends...thanks for the great memories everyone!

One more week!

I will be here....

in exactly one week!

Can't wait to soak up some rays.

A rough day...

See the huge blue-ish green bruise on her left eyebr0w? We went to our ward christmas party Saturday morning and while Camryn was out in the hall playing with some other kids, one little girl turned around and ran off, slamming her right into the corner of a doorway. She hit her eyebrow so hard...that was definitely the hardest I've ever heard her scream :( She recovered fairly quickly then went to play in the nursery with some other little kids. Someone opened up the cupboard right into her face again.

Then we were ready to leave so I put her in her carseat, gave her my car keys (which I USED to do all the time!) and shut her door. I went around to open my door...and she'd locked it with her teeth!! I ran over to Matt, who had driven separately to tell him Camryn just locked herself in the car. He calmly asked if I wanted him to drive home and get the spare set of keys. I told him he couldn't because the other set of keys was also in the car, in the center console. Camryn was happy for a few minutes playing with her keys, and we were trying to get her to push the unlock button but it's the smaller one and she wouldn't. She finally got bored with the keys and chucked them on the ground, so we decided we better call a locksmith. Thanks to Danny we called the police because he informed us if there's a child in the car they'll come for free! So a cute blonde police lady (who had hot pink handcuff's in her back pocket!) came and opened the car for us, at which point Camryn was screaming! She was fine but ready to go home and have a bottle and go to sleep. It was a rough day....

thanksgiving

We had a busy, fun and eventful Thanksgiving this year! Our plan was to fly out to California to spend the holiday with all of Matt's family but Camryn woke up with a 103.5 fever Thursday morning so we decided not to get on the plane if she was getting sick. Parker was driving down to Cali Thursday afternoon, so after eating Thanksgiving dinner (Matt with his family, Camryn and I with mine) we headed out!

We got there at 3 am, but thanks to Parker who drove the whole way....I got to sleep a little on the way! Friday all the girls headed to the American Girl doll store. WOW! That place was amazing...a little girls dream! Each doll had it's own little room with her story and clothes and accessories...which are ridiculously priced but you get sucked in while you're there! We had lunch at the cafe there, where the little girls got to bring their dolls and they give you high chairs so they get to sit right next to you :) They only serve pink lemonade and hot chocolate to drink, ( so fitting) and we had a delicious lunch. It was so fun to see my cute nieces light up at all their favorite dolls and pick out their one outfit to take home!

Saturday we drove to the beach so the boys could surf, but the waves weren't great so we just ended up having a fun picnic on the beach and letting all the kids run around in the sand!

Sunday we drove down to see Amber and Bryan's cute house! Then we hit up Disneyland on Monday! It was so fun to take Camryn even though she doesn't really get the whole magic of it all. But she liked going on the rides and seeing all the people and lights and trying to escape from mom and dad :) We had to leave early to catch our flight home so we didn't get to be there as long as we would have liked, but it was so nice to spend time with our family and be in the nice 80 degree weather! Why don't we live in Califnornia?

I'm so grateful for my wonderful little family, for my sweet husband who is my rock and takes such good care of us, for Camryn who brings so much joy and love into our lives and teaches us how to be more selfless. I feel so blessed for everything I have and love this time of year that we get to show our gratitude for all we have!

I might start posting more often...

So my excuse for not posting very often is that my old computer was SO slow and every time I got on to upload my most recent pictures, it would take too long and I'd run out of time! Well we have a new wonderful computer that is FAST and it only took like 4 seconds to upload everything! I no longer have that excuse so I might start posting more often! For now, here's a catch up of the last couple months...

We took a fun trip to St. George with Luke and Amy a couple weeks ago and finally went and hiked the crack! Last time we tried to do it I was 8 months pregnant and couldn't fit :)

What do you find when you don't watch Camryn for 3 seconds? She climbed into my mom's suitcase and dumped out all her pads :)
Outside the temple at Amber's beautiful wedding , of which I have no other pictures because I was chasing this monkey around all day!
I love this picture of my sweet girl!
Camryn LOVES to dance every time she hears music...check it out!

Cutest octopus ever!

We went to our ward's trunk or treat last night and Camryn was an octopus! She was so cute in her costume, she kept grabbing the legs (?) and clapping them together. Matt and I were lame and didn't dress up :) Duckworth's...we need you guys to move back and start throwing your Halloween party again!

Horse back riding

While my niece Aizlyn was here I kept telling her we could go ride Amy's horses so we finally made it happen! Camryn was so scared of the horses the first time she saw them (before this) but she liked them a lot better this time. She actually got on and rode around with me! Thanks Amy for all the fun days at the farm!