Random Pictures with Captions

Paisley with her Great-Great Grandma! April 2012. 6 mos

Paisley with her Great-Grandma! 6 mos

Easter Morning! In her Easter Dress with her Easter Basket. 6 mos

Such a cute smile! 6 mos

We had a fun date at City Creek and got dressed up!

Paisley in her cute new swim suit! Beach ready! May 2012. 7 mos 

Cabin Trip to Joe's Valley with friends. Myles was so proud of these 3 big fish he caught! June 2012

We took Paisley to a petting zoo! She loved it! July 2012. 8 mos

Random picture of paisley! 10 mos.

At Bonnie's Wedding Reception! Sept 2012. 10 mos

Family Pictures! She was tired. 10 mos

First piece of cake for her first birthday!

Her fist sucker. On Halloween!

Fairy!

We both dressed as fairies for Halloween.

She loves Peanut Butter!

Sometimes her hair does funny things.

With Santa Claus!

The whole fam with Santa and Mrs. Claus.

The tree we picked! And the chocolate she got from Santa!

Opening Presents at Grandma and Grandpa Chris and Wendy's house on Christmas Morning. She was sick. 14 mos

Playing with her spaghetti! What a cutie!

First drink of grape juice and first drink from a sippy cup with a straw. YUM! She loved it!

Just a little update on what's going on with us, I'm pregnant again with another girl! She is due in April! Myles and I will both be graduating in April just a couple weeks after the baby is born, and then we will probably be moving wherever Myles gets a good job. He is looking at several different options right now but we are still looking for more opportunities. Paisley is walking and learning more and more every day. She should start talking soon. She knows a few words and will use them occasionally but isn't much of a talker yet. We are looking for a new home for our dog Joey so if you know of anyone please let us know. We are a happy family!

I Love Being a Mom!

Life with Paisley is great! She is the CUTEST little girl in the whole universe! And I'm not just saying that because I'm her mom. :) I'm so glad I get to stay home with her all day. I do take a few shifts a week at work and Myles watches her while I'm gone, but for the most part, I'm a stay-at-home Mom now. I'm glad for the time at work because I do go a little crazy after a while of not leaving the house so it's relieving to be able to leave for a few hours.
When Paisley was about 2 weeks she rolled over twice from her tummy to her back! She hasn't done it since then and I think it's because she's put on a few pounds and her muscles haven't developed fast enough to keep up. But we'll keep putting her on her tummy and hopefully she will roll over again soon!
She is a very strong baby! She can hold her head up fairly well and she can push herself up with her legs as long as someone is holding her.
When Paisley smiles, the whole world stops to look. It is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen and it makes me so happy inside! She has cute little dimples and I have no idea where she got them. Myles is so good at making her smile, and I'm getting the hang of it too. She just needs to be in the right mood.

We found out that she will go to sleep without being held if she is in a swing. But soon after we made this discovery, our used swing broke. :( But we borrowed another from my sister. My life is much easier when she will fall asleep somewhere besides in my arms. Although sometimes I like to hold her anyway. :)

Paisley went to the emergency room this week. :( Right around midnight she got a fever so we called our pediatrician's night call nurse and she said to definitely take her in right away. We hate the ER, but if we hadn't gone and anything bad happened to Paisley that could have been prevented I couldn't live with myself. So we got and of course her fever had already gone down by the time we checked in. It took all night to get all the tests done to make sure she was ok and of course everything came back normal. When they put her IV in and tok it out she didn't even make a face! She was so perfect it was amazing! She cried a tiny bit with the catheter they gave her to get a urine sample, and she cried the most when they sucked the mucus out of her nose. But she was really an angel the whole time. I have such a good baby girl! So we came home and Myles ate some food and then left for his last day of finals. Crazy!

Paisley with the IV in her arm. She was tired. Sorry it's bad quality I took it on my phone.

I love my baby girl so much!

Paisley's first Thanksgiving.

Christmas Time is Here

I love Christmas time! We put up our AWESOME fresh tree that Myles got for free and it looks beautiful! It could maybe use a little more decor but I love it! We even put up lights outside our house in the bushes and around the door! It's great! We are so festive this year. I wish we had more decorations, especially a nativity.

I have gotten so many uplifting messages about Christ I have truly been edified and my testimony of Christ has been strengthened. I want to remind everyone about what Christmas is truly about so I have a little Christmas thought to share.

Alma 7:11-12

“And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith that he shall take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people”

“And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.”

Christ was not required to experience our pains, sicknesses, and sorrows for the plan of God to be carried out and the world to be redeemed of their sins. He suffered these things “that he may know according to the flesh how to succor [aid] his people according to their infirmities.” Christ chose to suffer every sorrow, pain, affliction and grief we will experience; and all this out of pure love. In Him we have a constant loving friend and the only One who can honestly say He knows exactly what we are going through. He gives us His pure empathy and charity.

If Christ has given us so great a gift, what can we give to Him this holiday season as we celebrate His coming to this earth in a tabernacle of clay? “Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another” (1 John 4:11). How will you show your love for your fellow men and women this Christmas season and show your gratitude for Christ’s perfect love?

Thanksgiving 2010

Remember how last year we went to visit my family in Mesa for the holidays and someone crashed into us? Well this year our car blew up. No joke. There was billowing smoke and flying particles and everything. Looks like we just have really bad luck with cars.

There was a huge outpouring of generosity from others as we searched for either a new car or a ride home. We received gifts from many generous people and could not be more grateful. We ended up buying a new car with lots of help from my Dad for the drive home

I loved spending Thanksgiving with my family in Arizona. The weather was fabulous and I always had something to do. I made pumpkin pie from scratch! and it was way tasty! Beat that Sara Lee!

The LIGHT Alumni concert was awesome and it rekindled my craving for performing. I want to be on stage in front of an audience! Singing with choir is just not the same.

I love my sister Bonnie. We giggle together.

Halloween

Halloween was great this year. :)We carved a pumpkin that we grew in our own garden!

The carving could be better but for our first Halloween together I'm thinking we did a pretty good job. :)

We saved some of the pumpkin flesh which turned out to be about a gallon worth! I'm going to see if i can make a pumpkin pie out of it. This should be interesting.

We also Roasted the seeds. It didn't turn out as well as the store ones, they weren't soft enough, but I ate them all anyway!

For our costume we dressed up as Edward and Bella, and our puppy was Jacob. I thought it was pretty awesome! Myles looked a lot like Edward in his costume, but I just looked like a girl unless I was standing right next to him. Still, it was fun. :)

On a side note, I'm all caught up in school! Still have assignment to do, but I'm not late on any of them.

Also, our car is broken. I hate being stranded except to the places I can walk to. I hope it gets fixed by this evening.

Valentines Day & the Beautiful Dog

I've decided to repent of blog neglect.

Valentines Day weekend was wonderful and relaxing. Myles and I had decided to celebrate Valentines Day on Monday instead of Sunday this year, since there was no school. However, when Sunday came around, my impatience caused a 2-day Valentines. Here's just a few things we did:

• I got a new sweater.
• Myles made homemade chocolate covered strawberries for us.
• Sparkling grape juice.
• M&Ms.
• My favorite ice cream.
• Lunch at Red Lobster.
• A trip to the Animal sanctuary.
• Roses.
• Dinner made by Myles.

A few weeks previous, Myles and I had decided that my Valentines Day gift to him would be the purchase of a computer game he had started as a demo and now just HAD to buy IMMEDIATELY. So I told him it was his present from me.

Myles and i really want to get a dog, so that's why we went to the animal sanctuary. Looking through all the dogs they had, we found this beautiful Husky/German Shepherd mix and we want her! She's about 4 years old and she is so calm and well-mannered. Her previous owners lost her and failed to update the phone numbers associated with her microchip so they have no way of finding the previous owners. She has been there almost 3 months and they say that is a long time, and when Dogs are there for too long, they have to put them to sleep. We want to save her! It would be such a shame to put this beautiful and sweet dog to sleep! Unfortunately, our landlord doesn't allow us to have pets (and he'd be ESPECIALLY opposed to a dog this big) so we can't have her. But we're still hoping to get a place to move into that will let us have a dog and then we can adopt her! She's gorgeous. We left the shelter feeling so bad that we couldn't save her, because we absolutely fell in love with her.

We've been thinking about a dog for a while now, and a couple months ago we got a fish tank to satisfy us since we couldn't have a dog, but all the fish died except one- which is ironic because this is the one fish that almost got eaten to death when we first started the tank. Anyway, we are no longer satisfied with our one little fish and we need something smarter, more companionable, and that lives in the same habitat as us (not water). We'll see how that goes.