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I’ve been tagged….

2012-01-29T23:56:00.001-08:00

My friend Emily at Amazing Grapes tagged me in a post and since I haven’t blogged in 5 months, at least this is a post. So, I’m supposed to do the following.

1. you must post the rules.
2. post 11 fun facts about yourself on the blog post.
3. answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and then create 11 new questions to ask the people you've tagged.
4. tag 11 people and link them on your post
5. let them know you've tagged them!

Here are my fun facts:

1. I am 100% obsessed with the Backstreet Boys. Have been since I was 19 years old. Something funny? I bought their CD with I was maybe a sophomore in high school and hated it. So, I sold it. When I was 19, I had to go back and buy it again because by then I was in love…..all thanks to their Disney Channel concert special. My little sister, who was 9 at the time, is 100% to blame for my unhealthy crush on AJ.

2. I should be hooked up to a Diet Coke IV to just make my consumption more streamlined. Although I set a goal this week to only have 2 sodas a day (and not two 44 oz. sodas…..2 12 oz. cans….I’m proud to say I did a great job!)

3. I have gone on at least a 5 day vacation with my husband (sans children) every year since we have been married. I highly recommend this practice. It’s good for us AND the kids.

4. I recently started working out 3-4 times a week by going to the gym and doing different types of group exercise classes. I thought I was coordinated until I tried Zumba.

5. In order to really want to go to the gym, I bought my first ever real workout clothes within the past month. Would you believe that even with my athletic background, I’ve never really had honest to goodness workout clothes?

6. I am pretty sure I have an addictive personality, which is one of the many reasons why I don’t drink, smoke, etc. That and, of course, it’s against my religion

7. I have met the Backstreet Boys 3 times in person (see, I have already talked about them twice….totally obsessed) and gave AJ my phone number (long story about that one but needless to say he never called……or did he? I had a blocked number call me the day after and didn’t answer it in time….I’ll never know)

8. My sister is exactly 10 years, 6 months, and 22 days younger than me…..and there are no other siblings.

9. My first car was an old volkswagon bug that has a metallic blue paint job as per my request (my grandpa pretty much thought I was the coolest person ever and did it for me) and personalized license plates.

10. Me and two of my best friends in high school would pile in the front seat of that bug during 2nd period to go and get sodas and donuts….and yes we would bring some back for the teacher, who never complained of us being late to his class.

11. I stay up way too late almost every night and am mad at myself every single morning for doing it.

No, since Emily tagged me, here are the questions she asked me to answer.

1.How old were you when you had your 1st kiss? I do believe I kissed Trevor Rollins when I was 3. Does that count? The first one where I knew what it was about was in the 6th grade….so however old I was then. 11 or 12?
2.Do you remember your first kiss’s name? If so, what is it? Trevor Rollins at age 3 and Kelly Blackburn in the 6th grade.
3.Where’s the furthest you’ve traveled? Probably Puerto Rico
4.Where’s your favorite place to getaway? If it’s local, either my bedroom, bathtub, or somewhere to get a massage. It it’s not local, anywhere with a beach.
5.What’s your favorite ice cream flavor? Cookie dough
6.Do you prefer a wood fireplace or gas fireplace? and why? Gas. It’s easier and I don’t have to clean it.
7.What was your very first car? Haha! See my random facts above.
8.If you were forced to choose between a chapstick, toothbrush or hairbrush to go with you on a deserted island, which one would you pick? Good question! I would probably say toothbrush (but only if I could bring toothpaste too….otherwise what’s the point?). My first thought was chapstick but maybe I could find a plant with some moisturizer type stuff and dreadlocks would just have to be ok.
9.What past time period would you like to live in? and why? I wouldn’t want to go back in time at all. We have life so easy and I am incredibly high maintenance so I need the modern conveniences. But, if I HAD to choose, maybe Victorian and I have no idea why…..the pretty dresses?
10.Which food could you not live without? Bread.
11.Which food do you believe is of the devil? {figuratively speaking of course} Maple butter Blondies from Applebees.

Now I’m supposed to tag 11 people. If you want to do it, feel free. It’s fun.

Rachael, Chelsea, Chalise, Sarah, Tiffany, Karen, and since I’m a slacker blogger, and it appears that a lot of my friends are too, so I don’t know if they’ll even see this post or not, so if there is anybody else out there who wants to participate, feel free

Here are my 11 questions to you.

1. Where is your favorite vacation spot?

2. Would you rather sleep in or wake up with the sun and why?

3. Who is your oldest friend (not oldest in age but who have you been friends with the longest?) and what is your favorite thing about him/her?

4. What is your favorite song and why?

5. If you were stranded on a desert island, what are 3 things you would like to have there with you (assuming you already had food and shelter).

6. What’s one word that describes you?

7. What’s a phrase or word that you say all the time?

8. When someone meets you, what do you think their first impression of you is?

9. If you suddenly had one million dollars given to you, what would you do with it?

10. If you could spend an entire week by yourself, in your own home, without your children, hubby, friends, etc., what would you do with your time?

11. How many states have you visited?

Labor Day in P-Town

2011-09-18T22:22:00.001-07:00

Ok, so spending time in Parowan over Labor Day is pretty much the best ever. I don’t know if it’s the small town stuff, or if it’s just more about being with family that rocks but whatever it is, I look forward to the Iron County Fair every. single. year.

I mean, seriously, how cute is this?! Thank goodness my grandparents buy pre-sale carnival tickets and donate them to us because who can actually afford to take their kids to the stinkin’ carnival?! The prices to ride the rides and play the games are, in my humble opinion, FREAKIN’ OUTRAGEOUS! We figured out how much it costs both kids to ride the Merry Go ‘Round…..$6!!!! WTH?

And then to play the games….$5 for two stupid toys. Oh well. That’s what Grandma Les is for. She ALWAYS lets my kiddos play the overpriced carnival games. They love it, she loves it, and everybody is happy. Here is Naiya with the two balls she won from playing the duck pond game. Don’t you just love the placement of them? Haha!

And Tyler with his sword. Funny story about the duck pond game. Obviously the chances that you will win a large prize are very slim. Even a medium prize is highly coveted. Well, the first time they played, Tyler chose two small prized ducks and Naiya got a medium one! Naiya is one luck duck! (I’m so punny, lol!)

The last day we were there, we let the kids play again (grab 3 ducks for $5….such a rip off!). Well, Tyler pulls 2 small prize ducks again and Naiya pulled…..you guess it, a LARGE prized duck! Probably the only one in the whole pond! Even the lady running the game was surprised! Anyway, Naiya chose a huge stuffed pink dolphin, Tyler chose another crummy prize, and cried about the fact that Naiya got something better than him. Yay for carnival games.

And here is my awesome mom cuddling Naiya before we headed to her house. It was Naiya’s nap time and she needed some grandma cuddle time before we headed home. I love my mom….she’s the best.

Being in Parowan in the summer also means trips to the cabin. Karl, Tyler, and I headed up one afternoon and Tyler and I played several games of darts. Tyler has some nice form here.

Yeah, that’s right….I got a legitimate bullseye! First. One. Ever! Of course that warrants a picture of me in my super awesome sweatshirt….a Lady Rams sweatshirt.

Then it was an early birthday party for Naiya. There is really no reason to actually celebrate in Vegas yet since she doesn’t really have ‘friends’ per se, so we wanted to celebrate with family. Obviously she racked up the loot.

Yep, my kids are the awesome-est!

Naiya went to Aunt Raelene to get help with lots of her presents.

And then Tyler pretty much opened them for her

Cheese!

Then she got to blow out the candles on the cake that my Grandma Joan made especially for her.

The Labor Day parade is the best part of being in Parowan for Labor Day. Not because of the super awesome floats (anybody who has been to a Parowan parade knows how us small town folk roll with the floats…..pretty much anything we can throw together works), but because we get to hang out with family, see people we haven’t seen in FOREVER (like since high school), and just chill out.

My little sis, my mom, and Naiya. See that building in the background? That is the world famous Dairy Freeze. Yeah, I worked there when I was 16 (not in that building….it was renovated since I worked there) for $2.16 an hour. We got paid that little because there was the chance that we could get tips. I think the most I ever got in tips was like $5 for the whole shift. Good times.

My mom with Naiya and Taylor. Um, Karl looks super sexy in the background.

How funny is this picture?! Naiya was eating a Laffy Taffy or a saltwater taffy or something and it looked like she had blue fangs.

Just in case you missed the blue fangs the first time. She looks super tired….I think she was mid-blink when I took the picture.

Anyway, we love visiting Parowan. Such a fun small town!

Naiya’s 2 year stats

2011-09-14T14:57:00.001-07:00

I had to get this written down before I forgot. Naiya had her 2 year well check today and she weighs 26 pounds and is 33 inches long. She is in about the 30th percentile for height and 40th for weight. And her head is in the 70th (it has to be that big to hold all those smarts, right?). Too cute. But, she is doing well and she was great for the doctor, as soon as she freaked out for about 5 minutes. Our pediatrician is great and talked to her until she calmed down to do her exam. She’s awesome.

Summer wrap up

2011-09-01T21:59:00.000-07:00

Sheesh! If I can ever just keep up with this blog it will be a huge surprise. I guess it’s just easier to put pictures on FB and that way I know people will comment…..seems like that’s where most of my friends spend their time. Or is that just where I spend my time? But, people comment on FB….they don’t comment frequently here. Is anybody out there?

So, August was a super fun month. You’ve seen my post from when we went to the beach, our anniversary, and Tyler’s start of school. We wrapped up August by going to see the Beatles LOVE show. Our friend’s son is in it and so they scored us some free tickets….which go upgraded! We were on the 2nd row! It was pretty fun.

Taking some pics before the show.

Jake, who plays one of the ‘Boys of Liverpool’ in the show. Pretty cool that now we know two people who are in shows on the strip. Yeah, that makes us almost famous.

The show was GREAT! I’m a huge fan of Cirque du Soleil shows. They always entertain. Thanks to Chet and Terraza for the tickets! We had a blast!

Tyler’s First Day of School!!

2011-08-29T10:22:00.000-07:00

Today is Tyler’s first day of Kindergarten! He is SO excited! He woke up this morning and did everything that I asked him to do to get ready. He says he is most excited for Science. I sure hope they do Science so he’s not disappointed :-)

He’s going to a brand new charter school this year and almost everyone that we know is going there too. However, NOBODY is in his full day kindergarten class that we know. He will have to make new friends but since he’s good at that I’m not worried.

With this new school, the pick up and drop off procedure is a little crazy but I’m sure it will all start to get streamlined really soon. Here are just a few pictures of him. I can’t believe he’s old enough to go to kindergarten!

In his snazzy school uniform. I am loving that there are uniforms. It makes getting ready for the day SO easy. He is holding up the little card I put in his pocket with his teacher’s name and room number. Um, his feet look HUGE in this picture and of course Naiya had to join in :-)

Seriously….how cute is he?!

Waiting in the line to drop him off….he’s still excited!

Almost there! His backpack there are a TON of school supplies. Apparently we were maybe supposed to bring them when we met his teacher on Friday but we’re new at this so whatever. Tomorrow we will send him with more.

Here he is in line to go into the school. Parents weren’t really supposed to walk with the kids to their lines but since he is still my baby, and Karl was driving, I jumped out to make sure he got to the right place. I’m glad I did so that I could take a few extra pictures.

Saying the Pledge of Allegiance. I am SO glad that they are doing that. You can tell that Tyler’s backpack is crazy heavy since he is hunched over.

Tyler’s teacher is the one in pink holding the sign. She seems nice.

Walking into the school! I’m not gonna lie…..there were tears. Tyler seemed to have no anxiety or nervousness at all. The tears were all mine. Sometimes when I think about him at school, I get teary eyed again. I always think he's such a big boy but he looked so small standing next to everyone else!

This is how Naiya felt about Tyler going to school. She was sad for quite some time. Karl went back to work full time today too so her two favorite people are going to be gone all day. Yep, I come in 3rd on her list.

It’s an exciting day at our house. I can’t wait to hear how his first day goes!

Beach Bums

2011-08-14T18:43:00.001-07:00

Since Tyler starts school this year, we wanted to take a family vacation to the beach. Naiya has never been and typically when we all go somewhere as a family, it’s too visit either my family or Karl’s family. It was SO much fun for the 4 of us to head to Southern California for 4 days and just hang out.

Tyler LOVES the beach. Well, I guess I should say, he loves it until his attention span runs out. He would usually be good for 1-2 hours and then want to go home. To be honest, with little kids there, that’s about all I could handle too.

My little bathing beauty :-)

Naiya’s first time in the ocean. She was not a fan. The water was super cold and afterwards she clung to Karl because she was scared. She wouldn’t go near the water for the rest of the trip.

In this picture, she is still a little freaked out by the water :-)

Family picture!

Karl and Tyler played in the water constantly. They also build sand castles and had a blast together while Naiya and I sat up on the sand so that she could play away from the water.

I LOVE this picture! Naiya was still a little wet and it was cold so we got wrapped up and she cuddled super tight (which she never does). I just love this girl!

I thought it would be fun to go to Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade since the first time I went I remember seeing tons of street performers and having a blast. This time….not so much. It was still fun but there were only 2 performers so basically we just walked up and down the street and left.

Day 2 at the beach. Isn’t Naiya’s swimsuit cute?! This was one good thing about the Third Street Promenade….clearance sale at Old Navy….which is where we got her suit.

One of my favorite pictures ever of T-Bone. He looks so grow up and super pumped to be at the beach.

And proof that both of us were there at the same time. Um, we are pretty much the two pastiest people ever.

I had to post this picture. We stayed at the Howard Johnson in Stanton and this was posted on the room almost directly below ours. I don’t know if you can read what it says but basically it says that in June the room was seized and it was under investigation since methamphetamine was either stored or manufactured there. Good times.

Day 3. We went to the Huntington Beach Pier and stayed at Huntington Beach all day. The morning started out chilly but by about 1pm it warmed right up and was the best beach day of the trip.

I love this picture! Tyler is walking in front of us with Naiya cuddling with Karl. It pretty much describes our two kids. Tyler wants to explore and Naiya is a daddy’s girl :-)

We rented a car bike for an hour and rode up and down the beach. We got tons of smile from passers by since those kids are just too darn cute! Or, it might have been that they were constantly fighting :-)

Our ‘camp’ set up on day 3. This is the way to relax at the beach….having some shade to come back to was amazing.

Naiya sleeping on me….which never happens! It was nice.

Although it was nice to cuddle with her, it was a little chilly in the shade, and I got uncomfortable so I moved her to a towel where she slept for almost 2 hours! AWESOME!

The last beach picture. We decided we need to make it a tradition to go to the beach before school starts each year (or do a family vacation with just the 4 of us). It was SO much fun!

Our 8th Anniversary

2011-08-03T18:23:00.000-07:00

I cannot believe that Karl and I have been married for 8 years! Seriously where has the time gone? It’s been the best 8 years of my life and I’m so glad I get to spend eternity with this guy. Thank goodness he is who I ended up with…..he might possibly be the only guy willing to put up with me :-)

We decided to do a ‘staycation’ right here in Vegas. We searched for deals on the strip and found a room at Harrah’s for $35 a night! We were a little skeptical about the hotel since it’s one of the older hotels but we were pleasantly surprised. Don’t mind the spots on the above picture, there was a mister by the entrance, which caused the spots

Here we are in line to check in. You can definitely tell the difference between the older Vegas hotels and the newer ones. The older ones have gaudy artwork and lots of ‘busy’ decor.

Yeah, I know this pictures sucks but this was the view from our room. Not too shabby for $35!

And somehow we got a room upgrade! This is a picture of our bathroom! The hotel far exceeded our expectations (other than something we found in the trash….if you are so inclined to find out the nastiness that was found in there, feel free to ask….just be prepared to throw up in your mouth a little bit….have you guessed what it was yet?) and I would recommend the hotel to anybody.

Another view of our bathroom. How nice is this?

We debated about going somewhere ‘nice’ for our anniversary dinner. Somewhere we have never been on the strip. But, while we were researching, checking out menu’s etc., we decided we would rather go somewhere more ‘classy’, like Lucille’s BBQ. Hehe! It’s much more our style (casual comfort food) and we enjoyed it thoroughly! Yes, I did order a full rack of ribs….I was STARVING.

After dinner we went and saw The Lion King. We have been wanting to see it for a while and a friend in our ward actually plays Timon in it so we decided to go. To be honest, I’m more of a fan of the Cirque Du Soleil shows but this was still great. I guess I was expecting something other than a great play production since I’m used to Cirque shows. We still enjoyed it though and I’m glad we got to see it before it closes this year.

Here’s our friend, Aaron, who plays Timon. He gave us a backstage tour (I wasn’t allowed to take pictures…boo!), which was great! Do you just love Karl’s super cheesy smile?! We got a kick out of it!

And, to close this post, here is a picture of Buck and Winnie in Harrah’s. See what I’m talking about with the gaudy decor? But, it was cute and looked like old time Vegas. After the play we went and walked on the strip for a few minutes until we realized that the strip is only fun that late at night if you drink and gamble, which obviously we don’t do, so we went back to our fancy room.

Happy anniversary to the most awesome, wonderful, amazing husband ever!

Silly Naiya

2011-07-30T18:10:00.000-07:00

One morning, after a delicious breakfast of Swedish pancakes (or crepes) Naiya was putting the syrup filled plate on her head and so we ended up with these super cute pictures.

Tyler swimming

2011-07-28T23:09:00.001-07:00

So, I was a proud mama on Wednesday when Tyler swam for the first time! This has been a long time coming since up until this summer he has refused to put his face under water. He had just gone to swimming lessons that day and hadn’t even done a front float yet and then Wednesday afternoon he just thought he’d swim. Yay for Tyler! I’m so proud of him!

Pioneer Days 2011

2011-07-25T18:07:00.000-07:00

Each year our stake does a Pioneer Days celebration. This year we were also on the committee to plan it. It’s super fun (but super hot) and the kids had a blast!

Me and Naiya just chillin after the BBQ dinner.

Tyler and Naiya….gotta loves those faces!

Tyler playing the fishing game. Can you tell it was hot but his red cheeks?

Cute kids!

By the time the night was over, both kids were super tired. Tyler fell right asleep.

Sleeping on the blanket after the fireworks. He had just had a huge popsicle….hence the dirty face :-)

And Naiya with her crazy hair. The spray sunscreen we used disintegrated her elastics so this is what her hair ended up looking like :-)

lia sophia NEXT!

2011-07-12T22:26:00.001-07:00

June also is the month that we make our annual trek to Milwaukee for our annual lia sophia conference. Just a few of my favorite pics

Kelly, Jenn, Mauricia, Paula, Steph, Nichole and me after the Sunday General Session eating at Mo’s. These girls are in my central team and we had a BLAST!

Me in the reserved seating for the Diamond achievers. I worked my booty off this year to get this award for personal sales. Diamond is the highest you can get!

I was the #1 Manager in personal sales in the entire Zone. I think #2 was somewhere in the $80,000 range. I felt pretty special :-)

My team was #1 in the zone for sales AND recruiting! Yay for us! Somehow I don’t have a picture of our sales. Oh well.

For the 3rd year in a row I earned the lia sophia award and got to have lunch with some of the women in the Kiam family. Elena Kiam is the new Creative Director. She is an AMAZING woman!

Tory Kiam, President of lia sophia

My team rocked so hard this year! #7 in sales and #6 in recruiting in the ENTIRE COMPANY!!!

The night of the Fashion Soiree! What beautiful women I get to work with!

My wannabe red carpet pose :-)

This sums up how our feet felt by the end of the night. I LOVE the opportunity to do this with my team! I seriously love these girls!

June rolled into one

2011-07-12T22:17:00.001-07:00

Just a few things we did in June.

Went to Tyler’s end of season soccer party

Went to Summerfest in Orem.

Everyone enjoying the Summerfest parade

With my newest niece, Khloe. Apparently she never cuddles or falls asleep on anybody. Except me that is :-)

Karl and Tyler hiked Lone Mountain

And we played at the park

Memorial Day Weekend

2011-07-12T22:11:00.000-07:00

Over Memorial Day weekend we went to Parowan. We went down to my Great Grandma Hilma’s house to honor her memory. We helped fix up the yard and had lunch there too. Here are the kids being silly.

Yep, we make cute kids.

We also celebrated my Grandma Joan’s 49th birthday there too :-) I believe she has turned 49 about 25 times, lol!

Naiya is such a daddy’s girl.

The kids played at their cousin, Taylor’s, house for a while too. Taylor and Naiya LOVED being in the water. It’s so funny that they are only 3 months apart but so different in size. Tyler had fun too. Except we didn’t bring their swimsuits (Naiya is wearing one of Taylors) so he got cold really fast.

Seriously…..too cute

This has to be one of my favorite pictures of all time. You can tell by this picture just how much fun she was having!

Preschool Graduation

2011-07-12T22:05:00.000-07:00

Tyler graduated from preschool in May. Ms. Aubrey is an AMAZING teacher and he loved every second of school.

Here they are singing some songs

The graduate!

With his teacher, Ms. Aubrey.

These kids are so awesome!

Tyler got the bookworm award. By the last day of school he had read 51 books! He read all of the books that Ms. Aubrey had to give the kids. We made that our goal to have him finish all of them. He ended up reading like 14 books in the two days before school was done. He is such a smartie!

Fieldtrip

2011-07-10T20:59:00.000-07:00

In April Tyler got to go on a fieldtrip with his preschool class to our friend, Karen's, house. They got to ride horses. Me and Naiya got to ride too :-)

Giddy Up!

When we got there that morning it was super cold so luckily Karen had a blanket we could borrow. I felt like the Mom of the year :-) Thanks Karen for letting us come!

Easter 2011

2011-06-30T18:42:00.001-07:00

Wow, I really need to update this blog more often. This was our Easter this year.

The Easter Bunny came to our house :-)
Doing the egg hunt in our backyard. There were a LOT of eggs.
Opening the loot.

My little angel ready for church.

Coloring Easter Eggs. So much fun!

Puerto Rico!!!

2011-04-29T21:29:00.000-07:00

I am not sure there is anything better than a tropical vacation....oh wait....if it's FREE!!! Karl and I got to go on a free trip to Puerto Rico thanks to lia sophia! I love that I can earn free trips each and every year that I am in this business. We have seen parts of the world (the Caribbean especially) that we never would have gotten to see otherwise. Love it! So, our trip was to Puerto Rico this year. We pretty much did a whole lot of lounging at the resort. We did one day of sightseeing, which was super fun. The best part is that we get to spend time with great lia sophia friends too!

On the beach in front of our resort. The beach was AMAZING! We were at a very secluded resort so it was really nice.

Beautiful! The beach isn't bad either....hahaha!!!

On our sightseeing day we went to a rainforest and Old San Juan. The picture above is of a fort that they had when it was first settled. It was pretty cool.

Me and one of my bestest friends, Whit, at the rainforest. The guys got in the water but it was FREEZING!!!

Karl and I on the night of my birthday after a steak and seafood dinner. Nothing better than celebrating your birthday while you're on vacation!

Karl even brought me my gifts! So sweet! Pardon the no makeup look....why put makeup on when you're just going to be at the beach all day :-)

During our welcome dinner.

One of my favorite pictures ever! Karl and Monty went snorkeling. Monty got super sunburned and Karl is incredibly white....not to mention their totally opposite builds :-) Funny.

Me and Whit on the beach with this super cool sand sculpture. One of my favorite pics ;-)

We had such a great time! Next year we will be off to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic!

Thought Provoking Questions

2011-04-24T20:35:00.000-07:00

So a friend of mine blogged about a website today that asks thought provoking questions and as I was reading them, I thought it would be fun to ask myself a few of them and write them down. Ideally I would do one a day but I can't make that kind of commitment (who am I kidding....I rarely blog anymore). So, here is one of the questions from the website http://thoughtquestions.com

What's the closest you have come to having your 15 minutes of fame?
I love this question because secretly I want to be famous :-) I don't know if I could handle the lifestyle that comes with it but I think it would be fun. There are a few times in my life that I could say I have come close. When I was 21 I went to a Sugar Ray concert and got pulled out of the crowd to participate in the concert by Mark McGrath himself! It was awesome! Another guy got pulled out of the crowd and it was a sing off competition. For those of you who know me, you know I cannot sing to save my life BUT, I am ok with performing like I can. So, I had to sing Limp Bizkit's 'Rollin' and by the end of the song, the entire audience was chanting my name. I was a rock star for like 2 whole minutes! I ended up winning the sing off and got a t-shirt and a slap on the butt from Mark McGrath. It was sweet! People in the elevator after the show were asking to touch the shirt that I got.....weird.

Probably the other '15 minutes of fame' is in the lia sophia world. I earned a trip to NYC because of a contest that they offered to managers. I was the only one in the entire company who got to go so an article was posted about me on the Advisor website and then then interviewed me for our monthly publication for Advisors. That was pretty sweet and now lots of advisors around the country know my name because of that.

So, that's my stories about my 15 minutes of fame. Nothing too exciting but I do have to say, if I could experience fame for a day I'd be all about it :-) What about you?

Spending Tyler's birthday money

2011-03-18T21:58:00.000-07:00

Tyler got quite a bit of cashola for his birthday this year and when we were trying to decide how to spend it, somehow we got on the topic of Build A Bear and Tyler decided we should go there. He got a Build A Bear last year and loved it. He loves his 'pets' as he calls them and sleeps with one every night so I was glad he chose this rather than going to Target and spending hours trying to find toys that will just get lost/broken/etc.

Watching his bear get stuffed. I loved seeing the look on Naiya's face in the background and her chubby legs sticking out of her stroller :-)

Putting the bear's heart on his head so the bear is smart like Tyler. Naiya can't wait to make her own bear, lol!
Giving the bear a bath. I have a picture on my phone of Tyler giving his bear a bath last year and he looks SO different! He has grown up so much this year!
Getting his bear dressed. He chose a baseball uniform for it.

End product. Tyler decided to name him Sam. Oh, and he spent every single cent that he got for his birthday....he even had to borrow like 50 cents from me. How much does a Build A Bear cost you ask? Way too much. The bear itself isn't expensive but it's all of the accessories. But, at least we don't have more toys lying around our house and Sam is sleeping with Tyler as I type this post :-)

Tyler turns 5!!!

2011-03-18T21:40:00.000-07:00

I cannot believe my baby boy is 5!!! Where has the time gone?! We decided this year to let him have his birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. I don't even know where this idea came from considering that we have never ever been there before (and will probably never ever go there again....at least on a Saturday) but he and his friends had a blast! He got to invite 7 friends (there are 5 other kids in his preschool and then the 2 friends he has pretty much grown up with).

I won't list the kids names here since I'm not sure about his preschool friends parents being ok with the bloggin but Breck, Mitchel, and Eli were there too :-)
Funny kids. One of his preschool friends isn't in these pictures....he was too busy playing, lol!
Tyler got to go in the ticket blaster since he was the birthday boy. It was so cute!

With Chuck E. Cheese during the birthday celebration

There were like 5 other birthday parties going on at the same time (it was NUTS) but all the birthday kids got to stand up on their chairs and be honored.

Eli having a blast!

I am not sure what Naiya is on but she is super serious. Grandpa Schauerhamer in the background looks worried :-)

So, Tyler has a crush on this little girl from preschool :-) So I had to get a picture.

After the party we came home and hung out for a little while. Then that night we went to dinner at Chili's and came home to open family presents. It was a pretty awesome day. However, just a piece of advice to anybody who reads my blog. Don't go to Chuck E. Cheese on a Saturday afternoon....it was seriously chaos.

Disneyworld 2011

2011-03-18T21:20:00.000-07:00

These pictures are in backwards order but oh well. In January Karl, Tyler and I went to Disneyworld with some friends. I had a lia sophia rally in Orlando so we decided to take a family (minus Naiya) trip to Disneyworld. We left Naiya with my parents because she is so young and figured it would be more of a vacation for us and give us a chance to give Tyler some Mommy and Daddy attention. We had a blast! We were in Orlando for like 8 days and had so much fun! Oh, and note to self, vacationing with friends is super duper fun!

Tyler got chosen to participate in the Monsters Inc. comedy show (cutest....thing....ever) and when they asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up he said a Space Ranger. So, after the show, one of the workers had him take a Space Ranger pledge and then got us to the front of the line for the Buzz Lightyear ride. Super fun. Tyler wasn't so sure about everything but he was such a sport.
We got to have a Meet and Greet with Peter Pan. It's kind of a long story of how we did it but basically Peter Pan (his real name was Tyler) helped us get into the park each day.

Me, Nichole, and Adam (Nichole and Adam are our friends who came with us) were in the Backlot tour show. That's me in the sunglasses. Don't I look hot? :-)

Tyler loved getting autographs from all of the characters.

Here's us with Adam, Nichole, and their daughter, Rylee. We have been friends with them since before we were married. We were all in the singles ward together and Adam and Karl knew each other a little bit from college. Rylee is about 4 months older than Tyler and they have a son, Emmit, who is about 3 weeks younger than Naiya. Nichole also does lia sophia with me and they are great friends.

Tyler and Rylee watching a movie at the condo.

With Lilo and Stitch

This was Tyler's first ever ride on an airplane. We bought lots of activities for him to do on the plane (a 5 hour flight is a long time for this little mover and shaker) and he did great! We had a blast and we're so lucky that we can do fun trips like this!

Naiya at 18 months

2011-03-15T16:13:00.000-07:00

I know, I know. I am a total SLACKER when it comes to updating my blog. Pair that with the fact that for the last few months I have been doing an insane amount of lia sophia parties, that my blog has been seriously neglected. Lucky for me, Naiya just turned 18 months old so I had an excuse to really pull out the camera, take a pic of her, and blog about it quickly before I forget what is going on with her at 18 months. Since my last post, we also went to DisneyWorld and all of the pictures are on Facebook but I will be posting some of that here too :-) So, here is Naiya at 18 months.

She is seriously the cutest girl in the whole wide world. Above is a picture of her 'cheese' face.

Posing in her new skirt.

I LOVE this picture! She is SO dang cute!

At 18 months, Naiya:

Is really starting to talk a lot. She can say Mama, Daddy, Tyler (Ty), apple, juice, milk, out, down, night night, hi, bye bye, dog, cat, cow, (along with the sounds that those animals make), bow, shoe, sock,eyes, mouth, hair, ears, nose, belly and some others....I just can't think of them right now. A lot of words are only the first syllable but we know what she is talking about
Loves taking her shoes and socks off
Loves to show off her belly
Knows where several of her body parts are (eyes, nose, hair, ears, belly, fingers, arms, legs, toes, hands)
Shakes her booty when we sing 'shake shake shake, shake shake shake, shake your booty'
Will come to the gym with me and go in the kids room with only a small amount of crying
Went into the nursery at church with only a small amount of crying
Is TOTALLY a Daddy's girl
Only takes one nap a day now
Wakes up entirely too early each morning
Has the cutest laugh I have ever heard
Will talk with her hands (she tells the best stories)
Talks on the phone to her grandparents. She'll walk around the room pointing at things and telling them about them
Loves being outside
Is pretty much the cutest thing in the world

She has brought so much joy to our family and we couldn't imagine our lives without her!

December....so far

2010-12-23T00:17:00.000-08:00

December is a busy busy month. Especially this year. Karl's birthday, a wedding, Christmas....etc. My little sister went and got married! Crazy! Here are some pics.

Outside the temple after her endowment session. I got to be her escort and it was so special!

Karl celebrated his 35th birthday on the 10th! We partied it up big by having cake...and that's pretty much it :-)

Yummy cake, lol!

Naiya loves cake too :-)

Ash and Hayden got married on the 17th in the Las Vegas temple. So happy for them!

Our little family.

Gotta love those kids!

One of my fave pics and me and Ash together.

The luncheon....the decorations were SO pretty.

Tyler and Naiya love their Grandma Les!

Niaya with her super cute headband to match the flowers of the wedding party...chillin' with Grandma Joan.

Another favorite....I just love this girl!

Naiya was so serious at the reception....funny.

Loved the decorations at the receiption too. The pictures don't do it justice.

Hehe! Congrats Ash and Hayden!

November 2010

2010-12-23T00:12:00.000-08:00

So, apparently even thought Thanksgiving is in November, we didn't get any pictures of it and obviously nothing else was noteworthy because the only pictures on my camera from November are ones that Tyler took (he took like 20....I only posted 2) and one of Naiya that he took. Plus, my camera died right before Thanksgiving so we had to buy a new one. So, enjoy my lovely 3 November pictures ;-)

There was one notable thing that happened in November...Naiya started walking! We, of course, have no pictures of it :-(

October 2010

2010-12-22T23:50:00.000-08:00

Pictures are out of order but I don't care....it's just so I have a chronological update, lol! Naiya was a cute little witch for Halloween. So stinkin' cute!

I am not sure what she is laughing at in this picture but I LOVE it!

Hehe.

Tyler was this exact pirate when he was 2. The costume still fit him and since Karl and I were pirates again this year, he wanted to be one too. Even though we bought him a Power Ranger costume.
At the trunk or treat. Seriously this girl is too cute.

Ahoy matey!

One of my friends had a Halloween party at her house and invited tons of people. There was a ton of yummy food and games for the kids. Here's Tyler trying to eat a donut from a string.

My little witch once again.

Tyler's preschool took a fieldtrip to a pumpkin patch. Naiya and I got to tag along.

T-bone :-)

Not another picture, Mom.

Tyler and his best friend, Mitchel. They have so much fun together!

On one of the rides.
Karl got to go hunting with his brother, Scott. Karl loves hunting season. Me? Not so much.

Don't they look SUPER stoked in this picture? Their faces crack me up :-)

Sept 2010

2010-12-22T23:48:00.000-08:00

I'm doing lots of updates tonight so here goes. Tyler started preschool with Mrs. Aubrey in September. He LOVES it!

Tyler says.....

2010-12-15T22:20:00.000-08:00

Tyler has been on this big 'craft' kick lately. He and Karl went to Michael's to get Tyler some projects because he LOVES them and it keeps him super busy. So, Tyler has been making a ton of bead necklaces for everyone. Me, Naiya, Karl, my mom, my sister....everyone. Today he brought me one. Here is our conversation.

Tyler: Mommy, here is a necklace for you (It had like 6 beads on it)
Me: I love it Tyler! Can you put more beads on it? I like lots of beads.
Tyler: You get what you get and you don't throw a fit!
Me: (dying laughing!)

Gotta love this kid! Luckily now that he has used that on me....I get to use it on him. Thanks Mrs. Aubrey! He got the saying from preschool, lol!

Giveaway

2010-11-20T22:42:00.000-08:00

My friend is doing a giveaway on her blog. Go to http://lailielynnboutique.blogspot.com/ to check it out!

Naiya at 14 months

2010-11-18T10:49:00.000-08:00

Ok so no pictures because I'm lazy but had to write what Naiya has been up to now that she is 14 months old. Seriously, where has the time gone?!

At 14 months, Naiya:
*Is FINALLY walking! She's so stinkin' cute!
*Is trying really hard to say words. She's working on 'bird' right now. Still no real 'mama' or 'dada' yet.
*Gives the best kisses! Puckers up and everything!
*Loves cuddling with her blanket to sleep
*Is high maintenance....she loves to be carried around
*LOVES being outside. She'll constantly point at the door and grunt to go outside
*Is a dancer! Every time she hears music she starts dancing
*Has a cute little deep voice :-)
*Fold her arms to say prayers at meals
*Is scared of Tyler.....he's a little meany....but loves him at the same time
*Dislikes people she doesn't know. It still even takes her some time to warm up to my family
*Hates the doctor. Tyler never cried (except for during shots) and she cried the minute the doctor walks into the room
*Finally likes peaches and green beans (yay!)
*Has enough hair to put in pigtails and her hair is curly.....so cute!
*Has 11 teeth (her 4th molar is coming in)
*Has the cutest sense of humor. She will laugh at herself when she does something that she thinks is funny and she smiles a scrunchy smile that I just love
*Is still a good sleeper. Goes to bed at 7:30-8 and wakes up around 7am (used to be 7:30 until the time change)
*Only uses her binky during nap time and bedtime
*Is still a daddy's girl. If both Karl and I are around, she wants nothing to do with me...good thing I'm still Tyler's favorite, lol!

We just love her to pieces!

Robot Cows

2010-10-20T14:17:00.000-07:00

The other night I was up late watching TV with my little sis when she was in town. Tyler wandered downstairs around 11:30 and proceeded to tell us about a dream he had. Let's just say it was super hard to not bust out laughing as he told the story. His eyes were huge and glossy...almost as if he were still sleeping, as he was telling it and he was super animated and excited about it. Keep in mind that I wrote the dream down but of course I can't capture everything he said so this is the abridged version.

Mommy I had a real dream...yeah! Daddy looked outside the window and saw a robot cow. And it really was going to jump over the moon....yeah. And then it looked through the hole and I was just staring at it like......what the heck? When I asked him what hole he pointed to the window and said, but the blinds were open.

I think it's still out there, he said. Me: let's check.
Tyler: But it's kinda scary....to me

When I looked out the window and told him I didn't see a robot cow he said, "but it might be filled up with air"

Me: I still don't see any cows
Tyler: But it's better if you look like this (as he closes one of his eyes really tightly and looks out the window)

By this time I can barely contain myself as I took him back up to his bed. Then about 30 minutes later he came back downstairs (my sister's fiance was there this time and asked Tyler about his dream again) and he said that the robot cow was jumping and jumping and jumping to try to jump over the moon for 2 hours!

The next morning I asked him what the cow looked like and he said silver with green eyes. This kid seriously has an imagination on him :-)

Naiya at 13 months

2010-10-15T22:55:00.000-07:00

Can I just say how much I LOVE this little girl?! She is so amazing! She's such an easy baby and she is SO much fun at this age. Here are some pictures that we got done last month.

I mean, seriously, it doesn't get any cuter than this! SO glad that she got Karl's eye color. But so glad that she got my hair :-) Tyler was still a baldy at this age so it's so fun to be able to do her hair. And it's all curly and cute in the back.

This picture TOTALLY captures her personality! She loves clothes!

One of my favorite pictures ever!!!

At 13 months Naiya:

Can stand up without help but doesn't stay like that for long
LOVES to dance. Whenever she hears music she starts dancing.
Hates green beans and peaches. Seriously....what baby hates peaches?!
Loves almost everything else in the food department. Especially peas, spaghettios, pears, bananas, and anything that we are eating at the time
Says prayers with us. Whenever we sit down to eat and we say the prayer, she puts her little chubby hands on her chest and starts babbling. It's the cutest thing ever!
Plays patty cake. Does the clapping, rolling, and tossing :-)
Thinks she is super funny. She'll do something funny and laugh at herself
When she's done drinking from her sippy cup she throws it on the floor
Can climb up the stairs
No longer drinks from bottles. I'm all about having my kids quit bottles cold turkey right when they turn one and they both did GREAT!
She still uses a binky but only when sleeping and when she finds one :-)
Sleeps like a stinkbug sometimes
ALWAYS ends up turned the other way in her crib. We put her in one way but she always ends up with her head on the other end
Still pretty much sleeps 11-12 hours at night and takes 2 naps a day (yeah, we're lucky)
Is finally starting to give Tyler a taste of his own medicine. The other day she grabbed onto his nose and squeezed it.
She knows where my nose is
Loves to push her baby stroller around
Isn't fond of strangers
Takes her hair bows out during her naps.
She pretends to wash her hair when she's in the bath
Loves 'reading' books. The other day she played quietly in her room for like 15 minutes and was just looking at books
Hates driving in the car for longer than 10 minutes. Road trips are no fun with this one
Will 'talk' on the phone. She has the cutest deep voice when she does it
Is the sweetest little angel and we just love her to pieces!!!!

Labor Day weekend

2010-10-04T11:37:00.000-07:00

Gotta love Labor Day in Parowan :-) Naiya got the volleyball during the parade because the SUU volleyball players thought she was so cute! There's a video of her dancing at the end of this post. Every time this girl hears music she starts dancing!

You can see why they thought she was so cute!

Tyler waiting for candy.

Tyler loved the carnival. Such a cutie!

Naiyas first birthday

2010-10-04T11:01:00.000-07:00

We were in Parowan for Labor Day so we celebrated Naiya's birthday a little early with my family.

She loved her cake, as you can see :-)
This was the before shot

Tyler pretty much opened her presents but she enjoyed seeing what they were.

Especially if they were clothes! She would hold them up to herself. She's going to be just like her mommy :-)

And she got a chance to play with her cousin, Taylor

And be silly :-) We just love this girl!

Cute kids

2010-10-04T10:57:00.000-07:00

September was a super eventful month for us :-) More posts about that month are on here too.

Naiya is loving to feed herself. This is her first experience with chicken nuggets (loved them!) and apples (she has had apples before though, lol!)

Karl and Tyler went Dove hunting. They left at 4am!

August 2010

2010-10-04T10:36:00.000-07:00

August was pretty uneventful for us. Karl and I celebrated our 7th anniversary but apparently it wasn't too exciting because there are no pictures. We just went up to Mount Charleston for the night and got to relax. But, here are some pictures from the other 'happenings' around our house in August.

Naiya can finally wear pigtails in her hair. So fun!

Tyler wanted to shave one day....so stinkin' cute!

Naiya is pulling herself up like crazy and cruising all over the furniture :-)

Karl and Tyler went on a hike.

Normally I write more but right now it's all about catch up :-)

Before I forget

2010-09-29T23:25:00.001-07:00

Naiya's 1 year stats:
29 inches
19 lbs 13 oz
50th percentile for height and 30th for weight. And we thought she was a little chunk....turns out it's just her cheeks, lol! I promise more pictures are coming soon!

Coming soon.....

2010-09-09T23:51:00.000-07:00

It was brought to my attention today that it has been over a month since I updated my blog. I'm a slacker, I know. I've been more focused on getting our 2009 scrapbook done so blogging has not been a priority. But, tomorrow Naiya turns 1!!! What in the world happened to the time? So, I will be posting pictures soon of her 2 (yes, count them, 2) birthday parties, trips, etc. So, just be patient and bear with me :-)

Tyler says....

2010-08-03T11:08:00.000-07:00

Tyler was asking what my laminator machine was this morning. Here is our conversation:

Tyler: Mommy, what is that thing with your jewelry? (Since I use it for my lia sophia stuff)

Me: It's a laminator

Tyler: But what does it do with the lambs?

Haha!

Naiya at 10 months

2010-07-18T16:34:00.000-07:00

I'm always late with these posts but at least they get done sometime. I seriously can't believe Naiya is already 10 months old! Time has just flown by with her here! I remember almost wishing Tyler's first year away because it was such a hard transition for us. But, Naiya is such an easy baby and since we know what we're doing this time around, it's a lot easier.

At 10 months Naiya:

*Is still a Daddy's girl.

*Takes quite the beatings from her big brother but loves him just the same and gets a smile on her face every time she sees him

*Has 3 teeth on the bottom and is getting her 2 front top teeth but they just haven't broken through yet

*Can pull herself up to standing in her crib and on furniture (she just started that like 2 weeks ago)

*Is still an amazing sleeper (we are SO lucky!)

*Can wave

*Says 'mama', 'dada', 'gaga', 'baba'. It's all just jibberish but still :-)

*LOVES going swimming

*Still army crawls rather that being up on her hands and knees

*Is losing her baby chub :-( She had the cutest leg rolls and now they're going away since she's mobile. I wish chub rolls on legs were still cute at my age, lol!

*Really likes to explore. She loves just being on the floor and being able to just go all around the house.

She is just super fun to have around. We can't imagine life without her. I do have to say though, I am looking forward to the day where she can smack Tyler around a little bit and give him a taste of his own medicine :-)

Be prepared.....

2010-07-16T11:54:00.001-07:00

I just posted like 4 new posts on here today and to catch up. So, there are a lot of pictures and if you want to see what we've been up to, make sure you see all the posts I did today :-)

Naiya's first swim

2010-07-16T11:37:00.000-07:00

Last week we went to our friend's house for their daughter's birthday party. Luckily they have a pool and since it was like 1,000 degrees outside we got to swim. Naiya had never been swimming before (we have a baby pool and she hates it) so we were worried but she LOVED it!

Naiya and me after getting sunscreened up. Can you tell it's super hot?! Her face is beet red! Naiya loving the water!

This picture cracks me up! Check out Tyler's pirate eye :-)
Tyler has been scared of swimming the past few years but these floaties were AMAZING! I'm not a huge fan of the floaties but I would rather him use them then be clinging to me the whole entire time. He was just chilling and swimming around the whole pool with them.

Ok seriously, how cute is our baby?! Karl's farmer's tan isn't bad either, lol!

She had so much fun!

This was after we went inside to open presents and Mack took her for a minute. Like her hair? We had it up in a ponytail before we went so it was a little crazy. At least she has enough hair at 10 month for it to look crazy. Tyler didn't have that much hair until he was like 2 :-) Thanks Paula and Mack for letting us come play!

4th of July

2010-07-16T11:20:00.000-07:00

We spent the 4th of July in Parowan this year (me and my sister drove straight there right after the Backstreet Boys concert.....long night). I LOVE spending the 4th of July there. There's a parade and right after the parade they do fun kids races and games at the city park.

My grandpa and grandma at the parade with Naiya. So glad she still has great grandparents around!

My mommy and daddy :-)

Tyler jumping up and down saying "Look at me, look at me!" to the people in the parade who were throwing candy. He made out like a bandit! It helps that he's so stinkin' cute!

My Aunt Raelene with her granddaughter, Taylor. Taylor is 3 months younger than Naiya.

Cheese! I LOVE this picture! Check out those teeth :-)

Waiting for the parade.

Here's Tyler running his very first 4th of July race. Oh man...he's getting beat by a girl, haha!

Throwing a ball at the dunk tank.

Ashley and Naiya before the fireworks started. Naiya definitely doesn't like fireworks yet :-(

My mom being silly! We had so much fun!

Backstreet Boys....This Is Us Tour

2010-07-16T10:42:00.000-07:00

My sister and I got to go to the Backstreet Boys concert on July 2nd. I love that we can go together and have the best time! Both of us even sprung for VIP passes last minute so that we could do the soundcheck and I did the package where I got my picture with them. Yay!

Of course I stood by AJ :-) Oh, and if any of you are wondering, the reason why I'm in a tank top and skirt is because the concert was at Mandalay Bay Beach (a pool) so my swimsuit was on underneath just in case we wanted to get wet.....not trying to be immodest :-)

Just some creative editing of the first picture, hehe!

My Silver VIP pass and Ashley's Bronze one. Ash just didn't get the picture with them but got to do the soundcheck.

Waiting to go in.
Howie and AJ during the soundcheck.
Love this picture!

Brian during soundcheck

Just another one.

Me and Ash waiting for the actual concert to start

Ash and I met three of these girls at the AJ concert in May (we hadn't met the one in the hat before) so we hung out during the show.

The opening song. It was a great concert! A little too hot since it was outside and general admission but still super fun!

lia sophia MORE Conference

2010-07-16T09:42:00.000-07:00

Just beware....there is picture overload. But, I did spare all of my blog readers ALL of the pictures I took....I'll save them for my own scrapbook. But, I attended my annual lia sophia Conference at the end of June and had a blast! I look forward to this every year, mostly because I get to spend time with some of my bestest friends in the whole world and have lots of fun girl time!

Michelle, Melanie, Sarah, Nichole and Jenn

The first night we were there we went to a restaurant called The Safe House. The entrance was in a dark alley and you had to have a password to get in. Jenn was the unofficial tour guide and had found out the password before hand. If you didn't know it, you had to do silly things like hula hoop, the chicken dance, etc. and everyone already inside the restaurant could watch you. It was pretty cool :-)

Paula finding one of the 'secret spy' things in the restaurant

Jenn finding another one.

Basically there were all kinds of things you found 'spy' in the restaurant. It was an ode to spies.

Nichole, Melanie, and Me

Nichole and I have known each other for over 7 years and she became an advisor about a year ago. Since then we've become way better friends and I just love her! Melanie and I have been in the same ward for quite a while and she just signed up in February (if I remember right) and we have become great friends....she has the most amazing family too!

Me and Whitney coming down off the stage for the Emerald Recruiting award (the second highest personal recruiting award you can get!)

One of my favorite things about Conference is the recognition. I set goals each year and LOVE when I get rewarded for my hard work.

My Zone Manager, Charity Mentzer greeting me after coming off the stage.

Michelle, Jenn, Me, Paula, and Michelle waiting for our Zone meeting to start on Monday night.

Me and Whit.

One Monday night we had a Zone reception complete with a chocolate fountain (yummy!), amazing training, and, my favorite.....more recognition!

It does my heart good to see my name associated with #1 :-)

I was #1 in personal sales in our Zone! It was so exciting!

#4 Unit in team sales in our Zone!

The only thing better than a personal award is a team award! I was so proud of us for being #4 in the entire zone! Next year we're shooting for #1!!!

#3 in personal recruiting in the Zone!

#7 in team recruiting!!!!

Me and Paula. She is the 'veteran' in my unit and has been doing lia sophia longer than anybody on my team besides me.

#1 UNIT IN THE ENTIRE COMPANY IN SALES AND RECRUITING!!!!

This was one of the most exciting times during conference! After they announced everyone who earned the team sales and recruiting goals, the counted down the top 15 Units. Whitney's Unit ended up being #1 in sales AND recruiting! I was so proud to be part of her team!

Me and Elena Kiam at the lia sophia Award Achievers luncheon.

Me and Whitney earned the lia sophia award and got to have a special luncheon with the women of the Kiam family. I got to sit at the table with Elena Kiam and 3 members of the Advisory Board. It was great!

Ellen Kiam and Me after lunch. She is such a sweet lady!

Jenn, Paula, Melanie, Me, Michelle L., Michelle P., Sarah and Nichole...my central unit who attended conference.

On the last night of Conference we had the lia sophia White Party! They had a red carpet for us and we got to take pictures on it. I felt famous for a minute :-)

This is me doing my best red carpet pose. I could pass for a celebrity, right?

Me and Whitney had the exact same pair of white pants so we had to show them off :-)

Me, Paula, and Jenn being silly before the fireworks show. This is what happens when you haven't gotten enough sleep for several days in a row.

The last picture that we got of Conference. We had a blast! Watch out next year though! Now it's my team's turn to be #1 :-)

Tyler said.....

2010-07-08T00:44:00.000-07:00

As we were eating breakfast yesterday morning we were talking about how old we were (I wish I could remember the whole conversation but Naiya has ruined my memory, lol!). Then Tyler looked right at Karl and said:

"Daddy you are more than me because I don't have hair on my belly"

We were cracking up! I guess the more hair you have on your belly the older you are....haha!

Naiya can....

2010-06-23T23:44:00.001-07:00

I think it's funny that almost 12 days from the day she turned 9 months old (she was 12 days early), she can do almost everything the doctor was saying she should be doing at 9 months old. So, now she can:
*Sit up from lying down
*Wave (sort of)
*Pull up to her knees....not quite to standing yet
*Clap when we say, "Yay Naiya!"

So, the only thing she is not doing that he said she should do is pulling herself all the way up and saying Mama and Dada discriminately (sp??). Did I mention that she's pretty much the cutest thing ever?!

Babies and Mice

2010-06-22T18:32:00.000-07:00

I took Tyler to see Toy Story 3 today and on the way home we had quite the conversation. Here's how it went:

Tyler: Mommy, do you know when we have babies they are in a bubble and they spin around and around?
Me: What? Where did you learn that?
Tyler: We updated it on our computer
Me: Where did we update it?
Tyler: On our log

I finally figured our that he had seen my sister in laws little baby countdown on our blog. SO FUNNY! Then, about 30 seconds later we had this conversation:

Me: Tyler, I just saw some mice cross the road!
Tyler: You did?
Me: Yep, do you know what mice are?
Tyler: Yep, do you know that if there is only once mice then it's a mouse?

Haha! Great movie date with my little guy! He has had quite the exciting day! He went on a picnic with Karl and some friends and then he got to go to a movie with me. Such a fun day!

Little Prayers

2010-06-17T23:13:00.000-07:00

I had to post this before I forgot about it. I am just loving how Tyler is saying his prayers lately. For the longest time his prayers were very generic and the same every single night. But tonight he added a few things in. It went something like this:

"Dear Heavenly Father, I'm thankful for this day and for all my blessings. Please bless my family and that we will sleep well. Bless Jesus. Bless that Naiya will get better soon (after a little prompting from me on that one). Bless that my tooth will feel better too. Name of Jesus Christ, Amen".

Today he was saying that his tooth hurt so we talked about maybe going to the dentist. He didn't like that idea very much because it's a little bit scary. So, I told him we would wait a few more days but if it didn't stop hurting we would need to take him. Sounds like he's hoping for a little divine help :-) He is such a cutie and such a sweet boy.

One more short story about Tyler. The other day he went over to his friend's house and his friend's older brothers were teasing Tyler and his friend as older brothers will do. Tyler was sad about it and the older brothers felt terrible and made him cookies and brought them by the next day. After eating the cookies, he wanted to call them to tell them thanks for the cookies so he called and left a message on their machine. It was so stinkin cute! Then, he said to Karl, "Daddy, do you know how I feel right now?" After Karl asked him how he felt he told Karl that he felt good :-) Then, he told me that we should make them cookies so that they could feel happy too. He is such a sweet boy and very sensitive. Man I just love that kid! He brings joy to my life every single day!

Naiya at 9 months

2010-06-16T11:01:00.000-07:00

BTW there is another post after this one in case you want to see it.

Naiya turned 9 months old on the 10th! Seriously, where has the time gone?! She is such a joy to have in our family and we just love her to pieces!

At 9 months Naiya:

*Can army crawl like crazy!

*Can get to a crawling position from sitting up

*LOVES the Gerber Puffs. If she runs out she yells until she gets come more. She almost has the pincher grasp down

*Is losing interest in drinking her bottle in one sitting. She used to scream when we took it away to burp her, now she gets distracted

*Just waved for the first time TODAY!

*Can make a clicking noise with her tongue

*Still sleeps for 11-12 hours at night....YAY!

*Loves her Daddy (and her Mommy and Tyler but she's a Daddy's girl)

*Makes the cutest high pitched noices

*Eats one container of stage 2 food and 5-6 ounces of formula 3 times a day and 7 ounces of formula right before bed.....thinking of increasing the food and lessening the formula....thoughts?

*Is growing lots of hair and we're thinking it might be curly! Neato!

She is just a sweet little girl and we love her to pieces!

Orem Summerfest

2010-06-16T10:18:00.000-07:00

*Be prepared for a lot of pictures :-)

We went up to Orem this last weekend because every June they do Summerfest. There is a carnival and a parade and it's tons of fun. The last time we went for it was before Tyler was born so we were excited to go. The bummer was that it was rainy and overcast, which meant that it was also pretty cold but it was still fun!

On Saturday the entire family went on a bike ride. Can I just say that I don't ride bikes....ever. But, it sounded fun enough. To make a long story short, I thought I was going to DIE! The trail was about 6 miles long from what everyone was saying and the first half was BRUTAL....all uphill. But, on the way down it was super fun. I am just going to pretend that the first part never happened so that I can have good memories of it, lol! Anyway, Tyler and Naiya got to ride in the trailer...pulled along by Karl.

I love that in this picture both of them are squinting and happy :-)

Right before we headed out.

So, I had on a tank top, my t-shirt, a long sleeved shirt and a sweatshirt....it was cold! So, the picture of me is not flattering at all but oh well.

Waiting in front of Dean and Cindy's house for the parade to start. Tyler, Karlee, Jessica and Aleece....so cute!

Tyler and Karlee waiting for the parade to start. Karlee is the closest cousin in age to Tyler (besides the Memphis cousins) so they were buds.

So cute!

Just thought this was a cute picture of Tyler watching the military guys go by.

So the floats in this parade are SO good! Definitely not what you would see in Parowan, lol!

Tyler ready to sprint after some candy. At first he was super timid and was sad when he couldn't get the candy fast enough. I had to teach him to jump up and down and yell so that the candy throwers would actually see him. Then he really started to have fun.

My cute kids.

Tyler taking a break from basketball with Karl and Scott to pose for the camera.

The girls. Karlee, Kolbi and Aleece with Naiya. These girls LOVED playing with Naiya.

What a cutie pie!

Naiya in the swing. I'm glad we got a picture of her smiling in it. The second we pushed her just a little bit, she freaked out

My father in law loves to put babies in fun places. I'm glad that I got this picture. She looks like she is having so much fun!
Something cool that my in laws get to do is irrigate their yard. It floods their whole lawn and the kids can play in it. Tyler LOVED it! Even though the water was SO cold, he had a blast and was so sad when we had to go home.

We had a great time! It was so nice for Tyler to get to play with his cousins and for us to see our family. We found out that Scott and Tiffany are having another baby so that means grandchild #16 (if I am counting right) for Dean and Cindy! WOW! Congrats to them!

Memorial Day 2010

2010-06-08T12:01:00.000-07:00

We went up to Parowan for Memorial Day and even though we didn't do anything extra special, it was nice to just be with family and hang out.Here's Naiya with her cousin, Taylor. Naiya is 3 1/2 months older than Taylor. They are too cute!

Naiya is wondering why there is another small person next to her, lol!

This is my mom's favorite thing. Cuddling with the grandkids at night time. Naiya was SO loving being tickled.

Bath time! She was super cranky one night but once we put her in the bath she was a happy camper. I am in love with her chub! She played in the tub for about 20 minutes. Gotta love it!

Tyler's Preschool Graduation

2010-06-07T16:22:00.000-07:00

Tyler had his preschool graduation on May 25th. It was SO stinkin' cute! They all had to wear red shirts and I just thought their graduation caps were the cutest things! They sang a few songs, their teacher gave them each a report card and said some nice things about them, and then we had some refreshments. It was so fun! Tyler really enjoyed Ms Tanya's preschool and is really excited to attend Ms Aubrey's next year.

My handsome graduate!!!

I'm not sure what he was pouting about right here but it was a cute picture :-)

Trying to get a group shot. SO funny that he is the only one looking at my camera and totally posing, lol!

Cheese!!!

Naiya trying on the hat for size :-)

The family :-) All the mom's got a rose....we were wondering if Karl deserved it more since he was the one to always take him and pick him up.

Aw so cute!

Doesn't he look like he just wants to squeeze her head off? Funny.

Anyway, apparently Tyler is the quiet one in his preschool (WHAT? He is so not the quiet kid around us) and is great at sharing his toys with others. He is also very meticulous with his work, likes to do it neatly and color inside the lines. We are so proud of him! He also had to recite the ABC's in front of everyone there and he did a great job! He has really learned a lot in preschool....he is such a smart kid!

Sister San Jose Trip May 2010

2010-06-07T13:33:00.000-07:00

My sister and I went on a trip to San Jose a few weeks ago. This is the first time that we have done just a sister trip and it was so much fun! We did a whole lot of staying up late and sleeping in too. Fun times!

We went and saw Wicked while we were there! I never realized how much I love plays/musicals but I LOVED this one! Made me want to see some of the shows we have right here in Vegas. Me and Ash at Denny's after the show.

One day we took a drive and stopped at the San Juan Bautista Mission. We got there at 4pm and it was closing at 4:30 so it was a quick walk through and I'm sad that we didn't get to go into the museum and learn more but we still had fun. Here is a picture of me in front of the cemetary.
Ash in front of a well. He he. Stopping to smell the roses.
After the mission we went to 17 mile drive. It's basically a HUGE gated community (Pebble Beach) and golf course and it's a beautiful drive along the coast, in the mountains, etc. I'm a little envious of the people who live there. It's super quiet, very nice houses, and along the beach. What more could you ask for except for a maybe a smaller mortgage payment :-)

Another viewpoint along the drive.

Another one....did I mention it was freezing?

Under a 'ghost' tree.

How pretty is this view?

We drove to Capitola Beach with my uncle one day. Definitely a different beach than something you would see in southern CA or Cancun :-) We had a great lunch with my uncle and had a blast having some sister time!

Could we BE any whiter???

I did a party in Discovery Bay while I was there and this was the view from her backyard. WOW! As I was driving into the town I didn't even know there was these little channels. It was amazing!

Tyler in soccer....gotta love it!

2010-06-07T13:00:00.000-07:00

It has been so much fun to watch Tyler play soccer. He enjoys it a lot more than he enjoyed t-ball. So, May was spent at soccer games on Saturday morning. Here's Naiya enjoying the game.

I love this action shot of Tyler. The kid on his team on the left is the ringer on the team so it was good to see Tyler really going after the ball. He even scored a goal this game!
Ok seriously how cute are these kids? It's so fun to watch them!

Naiya at 8 months

2010-05-16T14:35:00.001-07:00

I seriously can't believe Naiya is already 8 months old! The time is going by WAY too fast with this little one. She is big enough that we can finally bathe the kids together (yay!) and obviously she was having a lot of fun in this picture. She is just too much fun. The best thing is that Tyler loves her like crazy and is so sweet with her. I just love these kids! Someties I still can't believe I am a mother of two. Seriously! When did that happen? (yeah, yeah, 8 months ago I know but still!)We took the kids bowling a week or so ago and she had so much fun watching the action and chewing on the camera case :-) Luckily we have an easy baby on our hands.

Some things about Naiya at 8 months:

*She still rolls everywhere to get where she wants to go. She sits up perfectly and is just now starting to maybe think about crawling :-) I'm good with this stage though.

*She LOVES her food! She eats a half container of fruit and veggies at each meal and drinks 6 ounces of formula 4 times a day

*She loves the Graduate Puffs and the Biter Biscuits

*She's a flirt. Today at church each time a man would come into the library she would get a big smile on her face. Uh oh!

*She is a great sleeper! Still sleeps 12 hours at night and takes two 1 1/2 hour naps (sometimes longer) every day

*She hates cuddling still. If she's ready for bed she has to be put right in her crib

*She has started doing 'raspberries' with her tongue. SO cute!

Her little personality is really starting to come out. She is just amazing and we are so blessed to have her in our family. My kids are the most amazing little spirits and I just love them to death!

AJ Concert

2010-05-07T22:23:00.000-07:00

I am posting a few clips of songs that AJ sung at the concert. I wish I would have actually gotten whole songs but oh well. Lesson learned. We had an amazing time!

Cancun....thanks lia sophia!

2010-04-26T10:23:00.000-07:00

Alright so most of you have probably seen these on facebook but I can put a little bit more info on here :-) Karl and I went on an all expenses paid trip to Cancun! We left on Sunday the 11th and returned Friday the 16th. It was pure bliss! You definitely can't beat vacationing for free and getting gifts in your room every night :-) We had the most amazing, relaxing time. Be prepared for picture overload.

Here is Karl standing on 1 of our 2 balconies :-) This one overlooked the inlet on the West side of Cancun. It rained the last 2 days we were there which is why it is super overcast in this pictures. Yes, my pictures are in backwards order and, No, I don't care :-)
This is the view from the other balcony of the ocean and the resort next door.
Me and Whitney being silly on the last night of the trip.

I love this picture except for the fact that it's a crotch shot of me and Terraza looks like she is trying to cop a feel (she wasn't) and I look like I'm totally grabbing her too (I wasn't)!

Me and Paula....I just love this chicky!

Makc, Paula, Me and Karl.

We went to the mall one day and this man paints beautiful pictures with his finger. He helped me paint one. You can all see my beautiful artwork on my fridge next time you come over.

Me, Paula, and Traci. No we didn't all plan to wear baby blue that night but all the cool people were doing it!

Playing cards in our room one night.

A picture of our room. I'm not sure why everyone got 2 double beds instead of a king but oh well. The jacuzzi tub was awesome! I want one in my house.

Me and Paula after our jetskiing and snorkling excursion.

On the beach. Isn't the water beautiful? We had so much fun playing in the ocean!

Um, we are super duper white :-)

Paula and Mack eating lunch on the beach.

Karl and I getting dipped in the water while parasailing. It was the first time either of us had done this and it was so much fun!

Thanks to Whitney for this great idea for a photo op. My bag from lia sophia, the shells we found on the beach, and my sandy feet. Love it!

These are some shells we found on the beach. Apparently when the last hurricane swept through Cancun, it wiped out their beaches so they import the sand from a sand bank like 50 miles off the coast or something like that, which is why there are so many shells.

Waiting for the welcome receiption to begin.

Okay okay, I know this isn't the most modest picture but I like it :-)

Traci, Whitney, Me, Paula and Terraza. SO MUCH FUN!!!! I love vacationing with friends!

Love this girl!

We had the best time! Free vacations are the BEST! Can't wait to go to Puerto Rico next year!

7 months

2010-04-22T14:54:00.000-07:00

As always, I am late posting this but luckily a few of my friends have babies just a few weeks older than Naiya so their blog posts reminded me to do this :-) Here is some info about Naiya at 7 months.

*She is a happy baby! We get the best smiles out of her all the time.

*She is a great sleeper. She still sleeps about 12 hours a night with us only going in a few times to help her with her binky.

*She likes to be swaddled to go to sleep but comes undone after about 30 minutes

*She can sit up by herself

*She rolls everywhere and hates being on her hands and knees...she may never crawl :-)

*She talks....a lot. She finds the cutest parts of her voice and uses them a lot.

*She loves her big brother but gets mauled way too much by him

*She hates cuddling but likes to be held....weird I know

*Is still eating stage 1 foods (loves all veggies and bananas) but also likes the Gerber puffs

*Is so much fun!

We just got the high chair out and she loves it!

Family Pictures 2010

2010-04-09T23:08:00.000-07:00

My friend, Shadoe, took our family pictures a few weeks ago. I just LOVE how they turned out! Be prepared.....I posted pretty much all of them ;-)

Seriously my kids are the cutest! I'm so glad they got Karl's super blue eyes!

I am SO glad we got this picture! It will go perfectly in our living room!

Love this one of the kids....just wish you could see my face. Darn hair!

Naiya is already checking out the bling :-)

Oh so handsome with his cheesy smile, lol!

Those eyes! LOVE THEM!

This one makes me smile every time!

This one is too funny! She looks like a doll.

Easter 2010

2010-04-04T16:47:00.000-07:00

This might actually be the first time EVER that I have posted something on the day that it happened ;-) Beware that there are a ton of pictures on here but I needed to get it all the way updated.

Tyler took this picture of Naiya....too cute!

I just did a little photo shoot with Naiya today because I don't take nearly enough of her. Plus she looked SO cute in her little dress and new Easter hair bows.
This picture cracks me up! My camera flashes twice when I take pictures so I have gotten many eyes closed pictures with Naiya since she is blinking.
Chompin' on one of Tyler's Easter basket presents. Tyler opening all the easter eggs that he found in the backyard. He was so sweet to give Naiya the eggs that he had opened so that she had something to play with. She is getting SO good at sitting up by herself.

Pickin' up the loot in the backyard. The Easter Bunny spoiled us rotten this year with tons of candy!

Naiya with her basket. Doesn't she just look so happy?! She got tons of new hair bows, some tights, and a stuffed animal.

She is such a cutie!

Tyler with his stuff. He told us that he wanted eggs and soda (Sprite to be exact) and luckily that's what the easter bunny brought! Plus some extra candy and some sidewalk chalk eggs. He was SO excited! My mom is here this weekend and he went downstairs at like 6:30am and woke her up. He asked her is she heard a loud noise in the night....he was pretty sure that was the Easter bunny. Funny. But, we made him stay in bed with us for a little while longer until Karl got up to make us breakfast. 6:30am is just WAY too early in our house.

Both kids.....another one of Naiya with her eyes closed.

Tried again.....same outcome :-)

These were on the counter Saturday night when I got home from my parties since we are sort of celebrating my birthday tonight. Tomorrow is my actual birthday but my mom and dad will be here tonight, then my grandma is coming down tomorrow to take us all to lunch and then I have a party tomorrow night. I figure that we'll be going to Cancun in a week and that's when the real celebrating will happen :-)

Tyler sportin' my new birthday shoes :-) I got some money from my grandparents and since I had some time on Friday night, Karl and I went to the mall. Aren't those cute?! Tyler thought it was so funny that he put them on. This picture could make for some great blackmail later on dontcha think?

My grandma and grandpa came down on Friday to bring my mom down and to color easter eggs with Tyler and Jake (my cousin, Adrie, lives really close so she and Jake came over for a while). My grandma LOVES to color eggs and normally we do it at her house but her grandkids are all grown so now it's on to the great grandkids!

Do you like the Halloween tablecloth? That is the only vinyl one I have ;-)

My grandma Joan sent these cute little Precious Moments prayer dolls to Tyler and Naiya for easter.

Ok how handsome is this boy?! He's just awesome! He fell asleep on me today for the first time in FOREVER! It was awesome! Right after the General Conference talk about a mother's love. It was great!

Trying to get a nice picture of the two kids together. This was about as good as it got.

Another eyes closed picture. They are so funny!

Here's a good one! This was right after she started to sit up by herself.

Another photo shoot a few weeks ago.

Looks like she's thinking, "Mom, I've had enough".

Here she was in her carseat ready to go somewhere. I can't even remember where we went but she was sure happy!

Tyler learning to spell our last name. Karl taught him to spell it to the tune of M-I-C-K-E-Y, M-O-U-S-E. It really worked! Now he can spell and write Schauerhamer.

Karl's example and Tyler's version. He's doing awesome!

Well, sorry for picture overload. I really need to be better at updating. Everything else is going great! I'm super busy with lia sophia, which is great considering it's our bread and butter :-) We are really enjoying both of us being home with the kids and every time we get to do something in the middle of the day on a weekday, we feel very fortunate that we can do that. Life is great!

Another Tyler says....

2010-04-02T20:53:00.000-07:00

Today I was talking with Tyler about how old I was going to be on Monday. When I told him I was going to be 30 he said, "That's the end of the numbers!". He can only count to 30 so it made sense to him but that made me feel old :-) But, he did say that after I am 30 I get to be 1 next. Apparently once you turn 30 you start over, lol!

Tyler says.....

2010-04-01T08:53:00.001-07:00

This morning while we were eating breakfast, we were talking about how Tyler will be able to shower by himself soon since now he's not afraid to let the water rinse his hair in the shower. He said that he will shower by himself when he is 16. Of course I said that I hoped he showered by himself before then but that I didn't ever want him to be 16. Here's how the rest of our conversation went.

Me: Tyler, I never want you to be 16

Tyler: Why?

Me: Because I really like you being 4 because you love me, you like to cuddle with me, and you like to hang out with me.

Tyler: I will love you no matter what number I turn and I will always play games with you.

(Isn't that just the sweetest thing?!)

Karl: Tyler, that was such a nice thing to say!

Tyler: Well, not you! Only Mommy :-)

Funny! I just love that kid. He is the sweetest thing and I'm so glad he'll still hang out with me when he's 16

Naiya's 6 month stats

2010-03-24T22:30:00.000-07:00

15 pounds 13 ounces
26 inches

(She's pretty much in the 50th percentile in height and weight)

Her head is 17 cm (I think that's what it was) and apparently that's big. The first thing the doctor said when he came in was, she has a big head! LOL! Anyway, she's in the 75th percentile for her head size. She's just going to be super smart, right?

She is doing so great! We still have her on 'gentle' formula so that her tummy doesn't get her upset. According to the doctor, we're not supposed to be feeding her fruit yet but she has gone through all the vegetables and she seems to be doing ok with the fruit so we're just going to go with it. I thought for sure if he could have, he would've slapped my hand with a ruler or something like I disobeyed his orders :-) But, Naiya peed on him when he was checking her out so she got him back. Ha ha!

We just love our little Naiya Papaya. Here are some things about her at 6 months:

*She LOVES her brother. She smiles at him as soon as she sees him
*She still wakes up a few times during the night and just starts talking. Once we go and wrap her back up and put her binky in, she's good to go
*She rolls over onto her side or tummy to sleep now....so cute!
*She rolls over to get to where she wants to go
*She can't quite sit up by herself but she's getting close
*She loves her exersaucer
*She loves making funny sounds when she talks. Especially deep ones
*She is super ticklish
*She gets really mad when it's time for her to eat and you don't get her food/bottle fast enough
*She is a happy baby unless she's tired or hungry....we got lucky this time around
*She takes 2 good naps a day (1.5-2.5 hours most days)
*She sleeps for about 12 hours at night (with the 1-2 interruptions for binky time)
*She has the chubbiest cheeks ever! They make her look chunky but the rest of her is skinny. She has my cheeks
*She has really dry skin, especially on her neck and behind her knees
*She loves taking a bath and doesn't mind the water poured right over her head (we weren't going to do what we did with Tyler. The kid is still scared of water getting in his eyes)
*She has her daddy wrapped around her little finger :-)
*But she likes her mommy more, lol!
*She is our little princess and we just love her to pieces!

(Pictures to come soon! I have been a picture slacker)

Piggies and Paws and Scentsy!!!!

2010-03-19T15:08:00.000-07:00

So, next Wednesday from 4-6pm I am hosting a Piggies and Paws and Scentsy party. For those of you who don't know what Piggies and Paws is, it's amazing! Someone comes to take a print of your child's hand or foot and turns it into a cute work of art! Check it out at www.piggiesandpaws.com. Plus I'll have Scentsy there so that you can stock up on your summer scents too :-)

Please come and invite your friends with you. Just let me know how many kids you are bringing with you too.

I'll be serving my famous chocolate chip cookies with milk too!

For Time and All Eternity

2010-03-12T22:20:00.001-08:00

On Wednesday, March 10, 2010, my grandparents on my mom's side went through the temple for the first time! It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. I was my grandma's escort and Karl was my grandpa's. Then they were sealed to each other forever. It was truly a blessing to be there with them. If only my whole family could have been there too. I pray that one day they will all be able to be there. I wish I could really write on here exactly how it felt to be there, but I'll save that for my journal. All I can say is that it was amazing. My grandparents looked so peaceful and happy the whole entire time. My grandpa told my mom that the night after was the first night he had slept well in a really long time. It was an honor to be there and especially to escort them. I am so thankful that we were able to be there.

My cute grandparents. They were so happy and so in love.

The group shot. Because of an accident on I-15, the rest of my family couldn't get down to the temple in time to see them come out. We were just glad they were all safe. Curt and Dawn Ann got to see them come out so at least someone was there :-)

I wish we would have gotten more pictures. It was FREEZING.

What an incredible day! I just love you guys! Congratulations on becoming an eternal family!

Had to get a pic of me and Karl too. We were married in this same temple 6 1/2 years ago!

Tyler's 4th Birthday

2010-03-12T21:49:00.000-08:00

Tyler celebrated his 4th birthday this year! Time sure does fly, doesn't it. We had a small Spiderman pizza party for him. We like to keep it simple. With his friends. We're missing one here...the only girl....but she was a little late since they had to drive from Henderson. Mitchel, Breck, Brandon, Eli, Luke and Tyler
Naiya just enjoying the party :-)

Cheese!

The girls.

Tyler with Rylee (the only girl at the party). I love that their smiles are totally pained, lol!

Playing "Hot Potato". I had the biggest headache after this game. The kids were SO loud but they had so much fun.

Opening presents. Tyler suddenly got shy during this time. I'm thinking he only likes to be the center of attention with family.....with friends it was a different story.

Forgot to get a pic of the ghetto cake before Karl cut it. Like I said, we like to keep it simple. No fancy cake this year. Plus, this one tasted way better.

On Tyler's actual birthday, we took him to Build a Bear to make a 'pet' as he calls them. One the drive to the mall he was wiped out :-) He didn't know where we were going and apparently didn't care.

While the whole time Naiya was talking up a storm. This is her serious face when she is talking away. So cute!

Scopin' out the 'pet' choices.

Tyler finally settled on this cute black bear. Good choice.

Putting the bear's heart in after it was stuffed. It was so funny...the worked tried to get him to do their little ritual before putting the heart in. Kissing it, holding it against your heart, etc. Tyler wasn't having any part of that. Karl said that Tyler can already sense the cheesiness of it. Funny.

Giving his new pet an air bath. He spent a lot of time here. He took a long time choose an outfit for his pet too (a basketball outfit....and he refused the cute underwear that they had for the bears) but didn't want to put the clothes on it. So, even to this day, the bear is naked.

Doing the birth certificate. With a little help, Tyler named his pet Fluffy. I know, I know, I lack creativity and couldn't come up with better options.

Done! He was so excited to do this. Then we enjoyed a lunch at the food court and our day was done :-) I'm glad Tyler was ok with a simple birthday too.

Tyler says.....

2010-02-25T20:33:00.000-08:00

Today as Tyler was sitting down to eat a lunch of chicken nuggets (he had to eat lunch before he could have a piece of cake) he said......

"Sometimes I just wish I was a grown up".

Ha ha!

February so far....

2010-02-24T14:22:00.000-08:00

I am so bad at keeping this updated but to be honest, we really haven't done all the much :-) So here are just a few pictures.Tyler's first gymnastics class ended so we signed him up for a 4 year old class that will start this month. He loved it!
One rainy day Karl and Tyler were 'skateboarding' in the garage. Check out Tyler's mad skills.

Nice form.

We went up to Parowan for a quick trip. Here's Naiya next to her cousin, Taylor. Naiya looked SO big next to her ;-) They were too cute together.

Tyler just loves his little sis.

This past week Tyler's preschool went on a field trip to Anderson Dairy. Karl got to go with them. Those kids are so cute!

Eating ice cream at the end of the tour.

Here's my little office help :-) Tyler helped shred paper the other day but was complaining that it was too loud so Karl got out the ear protection. Too funny!

That's pretty much all we have been up to around here. We are both enjoying being home with the kids and having some time to spend together. lia sophia is going really well and I'm back to doing at least 4 parties a week so that has been a blessing. The other good news is that so far, thanks to Weight Watchers, I've lost 12 pounds so I only have 6.5 more to go to reach my goal weight. Yay! It's nice to be able to wear my pre-baby clothes again.

She did it!

2010-01-28T20:31:00.001-08:00

Naiya rolled over from her back to her tummy for the first time on her own today! She did it 4 times in a row so we know it wasn't a fluke :-)

Catching up.....

2010-01-28T14:13:00.000-08:00

It's official....I need to be WAY better about updating our blog on a weekly basis. So, here are some pictures from the last month. Be prepared....there are a lot. This is mostly for me so that when I go to scrapbook I'll remember what went on so bear with me :-)

Tyler has been LOVING taking pictures. Here is a good one of Karl and Naiya. Normally it's of the floor, the wall, etc.

Naiya. She is such a stinkin' cutie!

Karl's brother and his family came to see us on their way to Utah before Christmas. They live in Tenessee so we never see them. It was fun to hang out with them.

My cousin brought us this HUGE 5 lb Hershey bar for Christmas. It's been a month and we still have half of it left. I've even given a ton of it away :-)

Thought it would be funny to see how big it was next to Naiya. So, does the chocolate bar look really big or does Naiya look really small :-)

Just another random picture. I'm finally starting to see some differences between her and Tyler.

So, we have this huge tear in our Love Sac cover that Tyler likes to climb in. We've even found toys hidden in there.

Me and my Aunt Gaelene at Christmas Even dinner. Had to include this one since my dad is being silly in the back :-)

Tyler telling Santa what he wants on Christmas Eve. A Big Bumblebee Transformer and Hot Wheels that change colors in the water. Too cute!

Little Naiya fell asleep on the way to see Santa (we literally had to drive 2 minutes) and stayed asleep even when we put her on his lap. Tired girl :-)

Ash on Santa's lap. The rule is that you have to sit on Santa's lap until you get married. Then I'm pretty sure you get one last hurrah with your spouse the first year you're married :-)

Me and my pops.

Tyler in his new Christmas PJ's showing off his muscles.

Both kids in their new PJ's. I just LOVE them!

My mom's favorite part about having Tyler stay at her house. Watching Wow Wow Wubbzy at night and cuddling on the couch.

Tyler helping Naiya open her toys. Okay, not helping her but just doing it for her.

Cutie pie! She looked so little sitting there on the floor in her Bumbo. She was such a good girl over Christmas. Started sleeping through the night and everything!

My sister and I gave my dad a portrait of the two of us. The last one my parents had was when I was like 21 and Ash was 11 or 12. It was time. My dad got teary eyed when he opened it :-) He's getting soft in his old age, lol!

With new finger skateboards.

I love how Naiya is just totally studying my mom here ;-)

Ash with our new cousin, Taylor Ray. She was born on December 29th (I hope I got that date right) to my cousin, Jessica and her boyfriend Weston.

The proud new mama.

The proud new grandma.

Tyler started gymnastics in January. He LOVES it! My camera takes super crappy pictures sometimes. My birthday is April 5th for anyone who wants to get me a new one :-)

Here he is doing a handstand. He is SO good at gymnastics and following the rules there. They do cute little routines and he has so much fun! It's definitely something we'll keep up.

Naiya trying rice cereal for the first time. Surprisingly she really liked it right off the bat. Can't believe she's already old enough to start solids!

Cutie pie!

I love how her eyes are crossed looking at the spoon :-)

Gotta love those chubby cheeks!

Give it to me! She started green beans this week (Jan 25th) and LOVES them! Next week we'll move on to peas.

I think this is another picture that Tyler took.

Cute girl!

Photographed by Tyler

She started to roll on to her side this month. She is thisclose to rolling over but can't quite get it.

We love our little girl!

This is the first time Naiya liked being in her jumper. The first few times we tried she just screamed. She still doesn't jump, just chills there.

My cute kids. Tyler just thinks Naiya is the cutest little thing. These two little ones are the best things ever! Tyler makes me laugh everyday and Naiya is just a little sweetheart. I'm super lucky!

Tyler says....

2010-01-17T20:58:00.000-08:00

Today in church the family speaking in sacrament meeting was talking about obedience. Tyler was busy coloring in his coloring book but suddenly whispers to me, "Mommy, what is the Holy Ghost?". I explained to him that it is what helps us choose between right and wrong. What helps us make good choices. To which he replied, "We should get one of those for our house". Ha ha!

Then, tonight during his prayer, I helped him say that he was thankful for the Holy Ghost. He asked me if I like the Holy Ghost. I told him yes because it helps me make good choices. He said, "I don't like the Holy Ghost because it's spooky". Sounds like he's taking the 'ghost' thing a little to literally :-)

Naiya's 4-month stats

2010-01-13T22:55:00.000-08:00

12 lbs 13 oz
24.5 inches long

She is in the 40th percentile for weight and 50th for height and is growing well. She is starting to get her two bottom teeth already! She is starting to 'talk' a ton, sleeps through the night (usually from 8pm until 7-7:30am....sometimes later), and takes two naps a day (usually at least 2 hours each one), is trying to roll over from her back to her tummy, still loves to be swaddled at night and during naps. She loves to be held, she is starting to laugh a lot more (SO cute!), and is ticklish on her tummy. She LOVES taking her baths. She has been putting her fingers in her mouth a ton (probably because of her teeth) and is drooling like crazy. She drinks 4-6.5 ounce bottles a day and we can now start her on rice cereal. I seriously can't believe she is old enough to start solids! Where has the time gone? She is a really easy, calm baby. We are SUPER lucky :-) She is starting to grab for things, can hold on to toys, and is starting to put everything in her mouth. She is just too much fun!

New Year's Resolutions

2010-01-01T23:50:00.001-08:00

My cousin, Adrie, posted her New Year's Resolutions and I thought it was a great idea so here are mine (BTW, a post on Christmas is coming real soon.....just had a Diet Coke so I'm not ready for bed yet).

1. Get rid of the baby weight :-) That means, going back to Weight Watchers. Gotta get back to my goal weight before we go to Cancun in April!

2. Be successful with lia sophia so that Karl can continue to stay home. I have 15 lia sophia goals in front of me in my office so I want to reach all of them.

3. Reach my spiritual/religious goals. For example, family prayer daily, FHE, etc.

4. Spend more family time together. Since Karl is home now, I would like for us to do more activities as a family.

5. Make a budget and stick to it :-) Since we have to cut back with just one income, budgeting is super duper important.

I am sure there are a ton more but those are the most important ones for right now. Happy New Year!

More Naiya pics

2009-12-17T22:40:00.000-08:00

My friend, Amanda, came over the other day to take some pictures of Naiya in her blessing dress and her Christmas dress. Her camera broke right before she came over so they didn't turn out like she wanted them to but my baby is still just the cutest little thing :-)

Always gotta get the naked shot. She was not happy to be in her dress and her mood totally changed once we took it off. Check out those chin rolls :-) We were playing with my jewelry for the pictures and I love this one.

What a cute smile!

We're going to try one more time with the blessing dress shots :-) Gotta hurry before she gets too big for her dress.

Tyler says.....

2009-12-16T20:18:00.000-08:00

Last night after Tyler's prayers Tyler asked why we can't see Heavenly Father. Karl was putting him to bed so I'm not totally sure about the details of this conversation but Karl told him it was because Heavenly Father lives in Heaven. To which Tyler responded, "Well why don't we drive to see him". So cute!

To cut or not to cut?????

2009-12-05T15:12:00.000-08:00

So I have a poll going on the sidebar of my blog. I'm STILL on the fence about my hair. Should I cut it short again or try to grow it out. I've included a few pics of both styles. Which looks better on me? What goes with my face better? I know that's a weird question but it's a concern, you know :-) Please vote :-)

BTW, this is the color my hair is staying. I don't have the patience or money for highlights anymore :-)

This was the length that it stayed for a really long time. It used to be even longer but after having kids for some reason, it never really grew longer than that.

He he. I just had to throw this picture in there because not only does it show my hair super long but it's one of my favorite pics, lol! Which style do you like best on me? Comments about either are much appreciated as well.

Lots of updates

2009-12-02T22:43:00.001-08:00

Just posted a few posts so make sure you scroll down to see them all :-)

Naiya News and Thanksgiving

2009-12-02T22:15:00.000-08:00

Had to post this about Naiya before I forgot. Last night Naiya slept through the night (she's done it off and on since coming home from the hospital) from 7:50pm until 7am. I had to go in and put her binky in at 3am, 3:30am, and 6:30am but never got her out of bed. Yipee! Then, tonight she rolled from her tummy to her back. Pretty sure it was an accident but still document worthy :-)

We went up to Orem for Thanksgiving. Naiya had just come in from being out in the sun. She was SUPER relaxed and calm. It was so cute!

With her cousin, Kolbi. Obviously not too happy. With Aunt Tiffany. Trying to get a pic of a smile.

I love this outfit! I had to make it winter friendly by adding a long sleeved onesie and tights but oh so cute!

We headed back to Parowan the day after Thanksgiving since my cousin was having her baby shower. She is due on Dec 20th and is having a little girl. They are naming her Taylor.

Naiya next to her cousin, Harper, who is only 4 days older than her.

Me and my little sis.

Naiya with Aunti Ash. Look, they match!

Karl's sister, Jennie, and her family stopped by my parent's house on Sunday to see us. Here's Naiya with Aunt Jennie.

With Jessica and Aleece

Smiling at Kylie.

With Kylie, her oldest cousin

Ryan and Aleece

It was quite the adventure to take our first trip with both kids. Naiya wasn't as happy as normal since she was out of her routine but she still did great! I still can't believe how much more laid back I am with her than with Tyler. It's such a nice change. We had a great Thanksgiving with Karl's family and a nice weekend with mine.

Family Pictures

2009-12-02T22:02:00.000-08:00

We got our family pictures taken a few weeks ago up at the temple so here you go :-)

It was FREEZING that day. See the little purple flower? Tyler had brought it over to me. I just love this kid!

What a photogenic kid!

The best one of Karl and me.

LOVE this one :-)

She is such a cutie pie!

Our attempt at a feet shot. I painted mine and Naiya's toenails but you can't really even tell. Oh well :-(

This is one of my favorites.

Tyler was having so much fun!

Love this one of me and Karl but wish the kids were looking up too.

This was the best one of all of us.
Still trying to decide if I want to grow my hair out or cut it short again. Any thoughts???

Hitting it hard

2009-11-16T22:45:00.001-08:00

Lia sophia that is! Here's the deal......Karl is going to be a stay at home dad! That's right, to make a long story short, he is basically getting laid off and I couldn't be more excited! We have seen the potential with lia sophia for quite some time but I couldn't really hit it hard because, you know, I do have 2 kids to take care of, Karl was out of town half of the week for work, and I am exhausted most days! So, with the tough economic times and Karl being in the construction industry, things just aren't great. There are options out there but he would really like to find something that he really loves to do and would like to look into starting his own business. We don't know what yet but we know that it's time for a change. Yeah, we're going to have to cut back.......a lot.......and I'm not excited about that. But, I'm excited to actually see Karl every once in a while. Seriously, for the last several months, I feel like we never see each other. When we do, it's basically to trade off with the kids, give a brief overview of what happened that day, and it's off to bed. That is no way to live people! So, we have decided that for the time being we are going to do what we can to fully embrace the potential lia sophia has to offer! Who would have thought that selling jewelry could 100% support our family? It's amazing that I work part time and can make an income that can do that. I feel so blessed!

Can I get any more behind????

2009-11-15T09:56:00.000-08:00

I know, I know....I'm super behind on blogging. But, I should be able to keep up more now. More info to come :-) But, here are some pics from the last month or so. I seriously can't believe that Naiya is already two months old! What the heck happened?! Anyway, enjoy :-)

Here's a pic of Tyler reading a Heritage Makers board book that I made for him. It's called "I'm a VIP" and it's all about him. I am going to give it to him for Christmas but since I wanted to show it at my party, he got a hold of it and just loved looking at it! Yay!

Tyler has been getting a hold of the camera lately and loves taking pictures of anything and everything. One day I found him totally giving his stuffed bear (named Big Juneau) a photo shoot :-) Just love that kid!

Here's a pic he took of my mom and dad when they were here for Naiya's blessing. His photography needs work :-)

I was trying to get a picture of Naiya smiling and this was the best I could do with our stupid camera. She does smile bigger than that.

This is Naiya waking up to see Spiderman above her. I just think this picture is funny.

This was how she was sleeping before the above picture. Before we switched her formula she wasn't taking very good naps and we just stuck her on the couch so she could kind of be on her side.

The day of her blessing. Karl did a great job with the blessing and it was so great to have his parents and a lot of my family here. I regret not getting more pictures of Tyler on his blessing day (I seriously think we got 3) but he was so dang cranky it was hard. Tyler is such a sweet big brother and always loves to give Naiya kisses on her head.

Man I have cute kids!

He he :-)

I think this picture is SO CUTE! Don't know what she's raising her hand for but I love it!

She looked so pretty in her dress!

Trying to get a nice family picture. Don't you love how Karl and I are obviously looking at different cameras, Tyler is sticking his tongue out, and Naiya is not happy :-)

I LOVE this picture of Naiya with my mom! Naiya always makes a little "o" with her mouth and pulls her little fists up under her chin. Love it!

Tyler and Mitchel on Halloween. Thanks, Sarah, for letting us borrow Jackson's costume! Tyler wore it for days and days (even took naps in it) after Halloween.

We didn't dress Naiya up this year because I just coudn't justify spending $20 on a costume that she would only wear for 20 minutes. So, I got her a cute Halloween hair bow instead that she can wear year after year (it can go on a headband now, or put in her ponytails when she actually gets hair....I'm officially addicted to hair bows now).

So cute!

Trying to get another picture of her smiling. Didn't work so great but man this girl likes to keep her hands in fists. It's kind of funny.

So, there's the update. Hopefully I can update more often now. There are some serious changes going on at our house.....more to come :-)

Naiya's stats

2009-11-13T15:24:00.001-08:00

So Naiya had her well check on Monday and here are her stats
10 lbs 11oz
21.5 inches long
Apparently we were feeding her too much each time though. Gotta cut back to 5 ounces rather than 6....no wonder she spits up :-)

Tyler said....

2009-11-07T18:18:00.000-08:00

So, Karl and Tyler ran to our rental house tonight to see what needed to be touched up before our renters move in and I was home with Naiya. Karl came in and told me this conversation he had with Tyler.

Tyler: There's something special at our house
Karl: Oh yeah, there's something special at our house, huh?
Tyler: It's Mommy

How sweet is that? :-) I just love that kid!

Lots of catch up

2009-10-31T10:08:00.000-07:00

So these pictures are all out of order but since my life feels out of order too it's all good :-) It's been a while since I posted pictures so here's a lot of catch up.

Karl went deer hunting the 2nd and 3rd week of October (ask me how happy I was about him going when he is out of town for work for half of the week and then went deer hunting and left me with both kids) to take some time for himself (ok, it was much needed but still). He was pretty proud of himself for shooting this big buck. I wish I could tell the measurements or even if it is a 3x4 or 4x4 but I'm not sure and don't really care :-)

Tyler posing with Dad and the big buck

Such a cute girl! I'm telling you, if she wasn't dressed in pink, I wouldn't know her from Tyler's baby pictures. They are so similar.

Tyler started t-ball this fall. It's definitely an adventure. He's a great hitter and knows how to run the bases but gets VERY distracted when his team is in the outfield. Doesn't he look so cute standing on first base though?

Great batting position! So cute!

Doing a team cheer before the big game.

This is pretty much what he does when he is in the outfield....plays in the dirt. Karl said last week he actually layed on his stomach on the pitchers mound. Maybe t-ball won't be his sport.

I love that they have their names and numbers on their shirts.

Here is Naiya at about a month old. I still can't get over the similarities between her and Tyler.

The proud big brother!

Karl's parents came down the first weekend in October to see us. They just loved getting to know Naiya.

Takin' a snooze with Grandma

My grandparents came down that same weekend. Naiya is great grandchild #9 for them I think.
My Uncle Gordon was driving through that weekend too on his way home to California so he got to meet Naiya too.

Naiya's first real bath after her cord fell off. She still hates them.
Last weekend Tyler was pretending to skateboard on the side of the bathtub (he said he was doing a railslide, lol!) and when he jumped off he hit his mouth on the tub. There was a lot of blood and a lot of crying and he looked pretty funny with the huge fat lip for a few days but all is well now.

Everything else is going well. We had to switch Naiya's formula to one that would help her not spit up because she was always fussy and wouldn't really nap during the day because she would spit up. Not fun. Ever since she has been on this new formula, she is much happier when she is awake and has been napping like a champ. She is a noisy napper (crying for a few seconds many times or grunting) but she is doing much better. Tyler just loves his little sister and LOVES when she smiles. She is a happy girl, especially right after she wakes up. We just love her!

Heritage Makers Party

2009-10-23T22:11:00.000-07:00

I am having a Heritage Makers party on November 7th at 11am for anybody who is interested. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the things that I have made with them and even if you are into traditional scrapbooking, you have to come and check it out! There are tons of other things that you can do and you still have time to do them before Christmas! Check out the website at www.heritagemakers.com and let me know if you can come. Kathryn (for those of you who know her) is coming all the way from Arizona to do the workshop because I told her I would have a good turn out :-) So, come on over and if you bring a friend you get a gift from Kathryn! See you there!

Missing my boys

2009-10-14T21:17:00.001-07:00

This post is mostly for me but feel free to read on if you want :-)

So, Karl is out of town for work (he came home from deer hunting on Monday afternoon after being gone all weekend and left on Tuesday morning for work in California) and Tyler is in Parowan with my parents and I totally miss them! It's been so relaxing with just me and Naiya at home but at the same time, I have nothing to distract me from the neediness of a newborn. The quiet of the house is great but it's just not the same without Tyler's craziness running around the place and Karl's 'amazing' outbursts of song (to which Tyler says, "Daddy...that's annoying!"). I miss my boys!

I think I can now see why I had a little postpartum depression after having Tyler. I had nothing to distract me. It was just me, the baby, and TV all day long until Karl got home. After just being home with Naiya by myself for a few days, I will welcome Tyler's curiosity and wild ways...it keeps me sane (which, I know, sounds completely contradictory). I love my daughter like crazy but I miss being able to talk to someone....even if he is only 3 :-) Today I called to talk to Tyler and as I was asking him about his day he interrupted me and said, "Mommy, I have to tell you something". I said, "Tell me" (I could tell he was incredibly excited). And he said, "Auntie Ash is coming to pick me up!". My 18 year old sister was going to pick him up to hang out with him and show him off to her roommates and take him to McDonald's for dinner. How freakin' cute is that?! He was so excited! I miss him!

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow when Karl gets home (yet again, for only one night before he takes off to go deer hunting for the weekend.....have I mentioned that I HATE deer hunting season?!) so that we can have a few hours to spend together and watch a movie. We did that on Monday night and we decided it's been way too long since we just got to spend time together.

For some reason, tonight I am a little overwhelmed with emotion with how blessed I am to have such an amazing family. An incredible husband who is more that I could have ever asked for, an awesome son who keeps me on my toes and makes me laugh every day, and a beautiful daughter who has made me appreciate the newborn baby stage. I have two perfect, healthy children, and a great hubby to go on this journey with me. It doesn't get any better than this. I am so thankful for my life right now and just had to document it :-)

Naiya's first photo shoot

2009-10-09T22:33:00.000-07:00

My friend, Shadoe, came over when Naiya was two weeks old to take her pictures. It was SO nice to not have to go to a studio for them. Here are my favorites.

Love the smile!

I'm a little biased but I'm pretty sure I have the cutest kids around!

Naiya's 1 month stats

2009-10-09T11:33:00.001-07:00

Length: 20 inches (pretty sure they didn't stretch her far enough today, lol!)
Weight: 8 lbs 8 ounces

She's doing awesome!

Tyler said....

2009-10-04T10:14:00.001-07:00

This morning Tyler and Karl had this conversation:

Tyler: Look Daddy I found some money (holding a quarter)
Karl: Where did you find it?
Tyler: In the Love Sac
Karl: No, that's my money
Tyler: No, when you find money you get to keep it. That's the way Father in Heaven made it.

Tag, you're it!

2009-09-29T18:34:00.000-07:00

My cousin, Adrie, tagged me on this and since Tyler has a friend over and Naiya is asleep I decided to go for it :-)

A-Age: 29....I can't believe I will be 30 in 6 months!
B-Bed size: King....it's bliss!
C-Chore I love: Really?! I don't enjoy chores at all.
D-Dog's name: Don't have one
E-Essential start to my day: Diet Coke!
F-Favorite colors: Probably blue but I really don't have a fave.
G-Gold or Silver: Silver
H-How many times have you been outside the USA: Let me think....probably like 5 or so
I-Instruments I play: I once played the trumpet and the piano...not so much anymore.
J-Job title: lia sophia Unit Manager...Mommy
K-Kids: Tyler (3), Naiya (2.5 weeks)
L-Living arrangements: House in LV with Hubby and kids
M-Most popular dessert at my house: Brownies...they're easy
N-Number of times I have stayed overnight at the hospital: 2, both for the babies...I had my tonsils out when I was 3 but I don't think that requires an overnight stay.
O-Outdoor activity I have never tried, but would like to: I think I've tried almost everything I would want to do with the outdoors....maybe a water sport I haven't tried???
P-Pet peeve: People who are late, like really late, and interrupt the whole event. Flaky people. Rude people. I've learned a lot from doing lia sophia about different kinds of people :-)
Q-Quote from a movie: Just ask Karl and Emily, I am the WORST at movie quotes...I can never remember them. So, I'll go with the first thing that popped into my head, "You complete me". Cheesy I know but that's the first one that came to me. Or I could go with, "Show me the money!" Funny that they're from the same movie that I haven't watched in ages!
R- Restaurant I can eat at everyday: Applebee's or McDonald's (I'd have to switch up meals at McDonald's though....some breakfasts some lunches)
S-Siblings: Just Ash
T- Time I wake up: Whenever Naiya or Tyler does. Lately it's once in the middle of the night and then around 6:30 or 7:00
U-Unknown fact about me: I have a huge birthmark on my upper right arm that appears darker when I actually have a tan.
V-Veggies I dislike: Can I say all? I'm not a huge fan of veggies but I really dislike asparagus or any bitter leafy green.
W-What is my dream vacation: Anywhere warm with a beach but I would like to go to Paris one day for some reason.
X-Xrays I have had: Hum, leg, shoulder, does an ultrasound count?
Y-Yummy food I make: I'm SO not a cook but I make a mean fruit pizza!
Z-Zoo Favorite: Probably giraffes or elephants.

I tag Rachael, Chelsea, and Tiffany

Update....finally

2009-09-26T17:03:00.000-07:00

I finally took some more pictures of Naiya (I took WAY more with Tyler....it was honestly a little overboard, lol!) So, here you go. There is also one comparison shot with Tyler....they are SO similar!

We thought this picture of her sleeping was funny with her hand up in the air. I just wish Karl wouldn't have gotten me in the picture. No makeup, messy hair, pajamas on....good times. A close up of the wild hand :-)

Sleeping away :-)

She's getting so good at holding her head up when she is up on our shoulders. Oh so cute!

Here is a picture of Tyler. I don't know how old he was in this picture but I think you'll see the similarities when you see the picture below. Don't they look so much alike?!
She makes this cute face all the time.

I stuck this random picture in here :-) After we brought Naiya home from the hospital, I saw that Tyler had put regular dish soap in the dishwasher. I cleaned it out as best I could but once we started it, this is what we got. Nice. Oh, and our faucet broke right around the same time.....so no dishwasher AND no functioning kitchen sink. Good times when you have to wash bottles.

Naiya's 2 week stats

2009-09-24T16:30:00.000-07:00

7 lbs 5 oz (she gained 9 ounces this week!!!)
20 inches long

Doctor says she is doing great! She is such a calm, easy baby. Let's just hope it stays this way :-)

Big Belly Prayer

2009-09-20T22:35:00.000-07:00

Tyler really has been saying the funniest things since Naiya arrived. Here was his prayer tonight.

"Dear Heavenly Father, I'm thankful for this day and for my blessings. Please bless that Mommy and Daddy will sleep well. Please bless that I will sleep well and that my baby will sleep well. And please bless that Mommy's big belly will go away. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen".

I swear, my belly isn't big anymore :-) I mean, bigger than normal but definitely not still pregnant big. He had a friend over yesterday and she even asked me why I was growing another big belly. Seriously?! Good thing I have a sense of humor about the 50 pounds I gained, huh??

Naiya's stats and another Tyler said

2009-09-17T15:50:00.000-07:00

So this post is mostly so that I remember and can scrapbook it later. Naiya had her first well check today and she's doing awesome!

6lbs 12oz (she weighed 6lbs 11oz at birth and the doctor was pleased that she didn't lose weight)
19.5 inches long
13.5 head circumference (I think that's what it was)

It is SO nice to go into the doctor and not have a million questions for him.

The other night we were all in the car and I was telling Tyler that Eli and Oliver were coming over the next day to see Naiya. When I said that Oliver was coming over Tyler said, "All of who??" Karl and I were DYING laughing!

More Tyler said....

2009-09-15T21:04:00.000-07:00

Just so you know, I've done a couple of posts today so read down if you want.

Tyler: Mommy, you're growing another big old belly?!
Me: No honey that's just leftover from having the baby
Tyler: No, it's another big old belly!
Me: It will go away soon
Tyler: But it's taking a long time

Awesome.

Tyler said....

2009-09-15T17:21:00.000-07:00

So Tyler has said some pretty funny things the last few days and I have to get some of them down before I forget them.

At the hospital when he saw me change Naiya's diaper
"I never seen a little bum before!"

Last night our sink faucet broke and Tyler showed Karl.
Karl: "Oh man, I don't think I can fix that"
Tyler: "Sure you can daddy....it just needs a little tape!"

Tape fixes everything, right?

Brother and Sister

2009-09-15T17:11:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to post some comparison pictures of Naiya and Tyler. I couldn't find the one I was looking for of Tyler that shows just how much they look alike so these will have to do :-)

One of the first pictures of Naiya.

And a bath picture of Naiya.

Bath picture of Tyler :-)

One of the first pictures of Tyler.

Do you think they look alike?