BFF

Could these two cousins be any cuter? Owen and Hallie simply love eachother. When Owen went away to riverside for the weekend with my sister in law...Hallie asked for him all weekend. Hallie thinks she's his mother, and he thinks she needs to stop being so stubborn and just do what he's telling her to do. They are my favorite to watch. It also helps that between the two of them they make up a pair of the best looking cousins on the planet. :) On another note.. It looks like I get to be a wife again on SUNDAY!! YAY. I could go into the whole long explanation of how it's all going to work out, but you wouldn't understand it..because I barely understand it. All I know (if everything gets approved like we are hoping) he'll be here on sunday and Hallie will have her Daddy back and I will have my hubby back. And on yet another note, I would like to issue an apology, I read so many blogs of people who are deep thinkers and extremely eloquent in their wording....but that's just not me. I write about my everyday (however boring that may be) and I don't like to give too much thought to any one thing. :) Sorry if when you read my blog you feel like you are reading a travel log.... but that is exactly what this is. A travel log of my life. And if I get any deep feelings about any one topic, you may just hear from me about, but don't count on it. Sorry for the whole stream of conscieness thing.

Shout out to the Hottie

Just sitting here missing Matt and looking at old pictures and pictures he's sent me of him playing army man and I had to share with world what a hot hot husband I have. :) Really, how did I land such a good looking husband? I'll tell you how... lots of inmodest clothing in Hawaii. Hahaha. I love him so much and he keeps me so grounded. In every way. I don't know what I did to deserve him in my life, but I do know he is who is supposed to be in my life. I just lucked out that he also happens to be really, really, ridiculously good looking. I love Matt.

Fashion Island

Lara, Rebecca, Hallie and I all went to fashion Island on Monday and Hallie ended up having more fun than then the rest of us combined. They had a really big Koi pond with HUGE Koi in it that the kids could sit and feed and what not. The Koi would come right up and eat out of your hand. They had those fountains that the kids could run around on and water squirts up out of the ground, a carousel that Hallie got to ride, and all kinds of regular fountains that we could go see. It was really fun. And yes.....that would be a kid leash Hallie is wearing in a lot of the pictures. I'm one of THOSE moms. :) Matt was not happy when I told him I had gotten one for Hallie...but I informed him that as soon as he was 8 and 1/2 months pregnant and chasing a two year old (almost) who can run faster than he can....then he could pass judgement. :) Plus it's such a cute kid leash. As far as being pregnant goes..I'm over it. Definently getting to the hopeless point where it feels like I'm going to be pregnant forever. My Doctor told me that if I'm ready he's planning to take the baby 10 days early because of his size. When Hallie was born (two weeks early) my doctor informed me that if she had been any bigger she wouldn't have made it out with a normal delivery (if you consider forceps and all that scary stuff "normal"). Anyways..we're excited to have this baby and Hallie and I can't WAIT to see Matt again. We miss him so much.

Yay park

As Hallie would say. Whenever I tell her we're going to the park, she always yells "YAY park!" So Saturday my parents stake had a big stake party at Central Park for families. They had a HUGE blow up slide, jumping house, hot dogs, cotton candy, games, and were right next to the swings and slides and what not. Hallie had SO much fun. She had her aunts Mary and Elizabeth and my cousing Marissa to take her around doing all the fun things there was to do and eating all the cotton candy her little tummy could handle. So here are some pics from our fun saturday. BTW- I finally went and got Hallie's big girl potty for her today, we got home, opened it up, she sat on it, and WENT! I'm amazed.

Big Girl

She is such a big girl all of a sudden it amazes me. As a matter of fact I'm going to go get her a "big girl potty" and start the potty training. I've been putting it off and putting it off even though I have known she is ready...but I'm finally ready to put in the effort. This is a picture of her "smelling the flowers". We can't walk past a flower with out her stopping to smell it. All she is actually doing is blowing air out of her nose onto the flower, but it makes her happy regaurdless. Just wanted to list a few things that I love about Hallie:
1. You love to cozy with me.
2. When ever I try to send you to time out you hold your finger up to your mouth and tell me to shhh. Or tell me "Mommy, be nice!"
3. Watching you push the button to listen to the messages on the answering machine so you can hear daddy sing you itsy bitsy spider.
4. Your dolly that you love so much it has gone bald.
5. How your favorite place to watch your movies is in my bed, laying on my pillow, with your dolly, blankie, water, and binki.
6. How reverse psychology only worked on you for a few days before you figured it out.
7. How you inform me when you are going poop in your diaper.
8. The way you come up to me 20 times a day and say "Hi mommy!" as if you haven't seen me for days and wrap your arms around my neck.
9.How you always tell me "bless you" whenever I sneeze.
10. Your obsession with hair.
11.Your tan lines.
12. Whenever I try to help you with ANYTHING you tell me "Hallie do it."
13. Anytime we go to anyones house you eat them out of house and home...even though I feed you PLENTY at home.
14. Hearing you sing the ABC's to yourself always puts a smile on my face.
15. The way you always know who's shoes belong to who and what cell phone belongs to what person.
16. How I have never felt so much love for and from one person.

Hubsy Wubsy

So here are a few pics from a week and a half ago when I flew out to Alabama to see Matt for the weekend. I was SOOO good to finally get to see him after seven long weeks, even if it was only for like 30 hours. We went out to eat for every meal and got to cozy and talk face to face and do all kinds of fun things. :) I missed Hallie like crazy and felt guilty the whole time was gone that she would think that her mom had abandoned her. I didn't feel guilty enough though to cancel my Las Vegas trip with Lara and Rebecca for mothers day. So Alabama last weekend...and Las Vegas this past weekend. We stayed at the Rio in a really nice suite and ordered a lot of room service, ate at yummy buffets, went to a cool exhibit, took naps, slept in, and Lara and Rebecca went and got prenatal massages at the spa (I don't like people touching me, so I opted for sleeping instead. Anyways, fun weekends. I go out to see Matt again for memorial day weekend (a week and a half) and he'll be home two weeks after that , YAY!

$1.00 left of internet time

I'm at the Denver, CO airport and paid for 20 mins on the internet (five bucks) and have one dollar of time left. Well, not .75 cents. Anyways, I just got back from spending the weekend in Alabama with Matt (SOOOOOOOO nice to see him) and I have a three hour layover here. I miss Hallie so much and I can't wait to get home and see her. I had never been to the south before and it was a pretty crazy place. Crap, .44 cents. I'll write more when I get home.

The healing power of shopping.

So I had to go and be a human pin cushion today at my Doctor's request. It is that time of the pregnancy....time for the 1 hour glucose test. I'm actually a little late getting it done because of the switch of our insurance to military, so because I am officially covered as of today it was the resposible thing to do to get it taken care of right away. Nevermind the fact that a little over 50% of the time I pass out when I get my blood drawn, I had to do what was best for our baby. (I think his name should be Chase by the way, and Matt agrees). Then right after going four hours without food, drinking the nasty sugar drink, getting my blood drawn and NOT passing out (yay me) I had to go upstairs from the lab to my Dr's office and get my rogham shot because of my negative blood type. So all in all, the day up to that point had been pretty devastating. Becca was with me for it all in case I passed out and needed to be driven home. So we decided to turn the day around and first went to Carls Jr and I had their Philly Cheese Steak sandwich.... I can't even describe the philly goodness of that sandwich. Then, we went and picked up Lara and met up with Mary at Southcoast and did a little maternity/baby shopping. It was as if with each purchase, the hurt from the shot in my butt got a little more tolerable. Amazing. Finished off the day with some yummy apetizers at claim jumper with my sisters, picked up Hallie from Nana's house (had to drag her out the door because she loves Nana's house), came home and watched a little monsters inc, put crazy 20 month old to bed, watched American Idol on Tivo (the only way to watch TV these days), talked to my hubby who I'm missing like CRAZY and now here I am. So what could have potetially been a really crappy day turned into a really great one through the magic of retail and eating out. Here's a random pic of Hallie from last week so as not to make this post visually unstimulating.

Pregnant Damsel in Distress

So my refidgerator that I have only had for about 8 months is having issues. Fortunetly for me...it's still under warranty and Sears sent someone out to fix it. Well they fixed it alright, but when they were done the man told me that because my kitchen was such a tight space he couldn't plug it back in for me and that it was my job to make sure the fridge was accessable to him. I asked him if he wanted me to have my kitchen remodeled before he came...then....he left. I told him my husand was in the military and I was gone and I had no way with my big pregnant belly to get back behind the fridge to plug it in and move it myself. He didn't care. So there I was, 7 months prego, my fridge in the middle of my kitchen, and all the freezer food in my sink defrosting. I couldn't fit between the wall and the fridge to plug it in, Rebecca was here with me and neither could she. So finally I climbed up on top of the fridge, sat on the top of it, had Rebecca put the plug in my toes, and because of my monkey type feet I was able to plug it into the wall with my toes and together we pushed the fridge back where it belongs. Thanks a bunch Sears.

Hello Again

Hallie kissing an Egg

Best Friends

Hallie's pretty Egg

Some of my best friends

Uncle David and Hallie in a tent

Hallie and I at the Aquarium

Giving the potty a try

Katie's Ferrett

Grandma Jan, Broadie and Hallie

Smelling grandma's flowers

Aunt Jess and Hallie

Silly stringed at the easter egg hunt

The end of hunting for Hallie

We just got back this past saturday morning from our one week trip to Utah to see Matt's family. It was nice to get away for a while and Hallie LOVES being spoiled by all the grandmas and grandpas and aunts and cousins she has up there. I don't think she wanted to come home to her time-out chair and a normal bed time and fruits and veggies. :) We had a family easter party with Matt's mom's side of the family the sunday before easter and Grandma Dona hid eggs and all kinds of goodies in her yard. Once Hallie found a tootsie pop and got the wrapper off of it she was done hunting and ready to eat her candy. We went to the aquarium in Sandy, Hallie's aunt aunt Katie took her horse back riding, we went and saw Meet the Robinsons (really cute show), we even went up to Rexburg to see some of my friends for a day and a half. We got back early saturday morning and I left Hallie with my mom so I could go put an easter basket together for her really fast (a candy free easter basket by the way...I know, I'm a mean mom) and do a few more errands. Then we dyed easter eggs at my parents house with my siblings and Owen and they had a great time. Easter we spent also with my family having easter dinner and hanging out at Mimi's house all night. It's been a REALLY busy week and I'm kind of looking forward the things winding down a bit. WE still really miss Matt a lot and everything just seems like it would be so much more fun if he was here doing it with us. But at least being busy made one more week go by a little bit faster. Here are a few pics from our week...enjoy!