Andrew, Ali & Jackson Hyde

January!

2012-01-23T15:26:00.000-08:00

I love January! It is the best month of the year because everyone is trying SO hard at their new years goals, trying to be a good person, stay organized and all that good stuff. My house is pretty spotless lately and it makes me SO happy! We like to have piles of clutter (mail receipts, coupons, etc...) lying around and it is amazing how much counter space that junk takes up! I LOVE New Years goals SO much! LOVE them! It is so refreshing to have a new start to better yourself...
My New Years Goals are...
1.)Forgive people more quickly. I tend to hold little grudges here and there, what a waste! SO, I am trying to be a little bit better.
2.)Organize one thing a day. We are thinking about buying a house when our lease is up in May and I want to make that move as easy as possible so I am picking one drawer or cabinet a day to de-clutter. Honestly, it doesn't take long. I already de-cluttered a box of junk in our laundry room today and it took like 10 minutes tops.
3.)Read the Ensign cover to cover each month. The Hyde family decided that this would be fun to do as a family. Me and Andrew had a goal last year to do it and stopped in March(losers, I know), but it was great while it lasted so I am excited about this one.
4.) Continue going to the Temple each month. I love going to the Temple. We have a ton of family names that we do from my dad's side and it makes it a little more special each time. If you put it on your calendar each month it really helps!
5.)Build our food storage/ stock pile a lot this year. Everytime I watch Extreme Couponing I get so motivated and think, "Why can't I do that?!?" Well, I am not going to dumpster dive for coupons, I'm not going to buy crap we don't need and most importantly, I have a life! I really do want to have an awesome stock pile though of things that we use every day (tooth paste, toilet paper, paper towels, water...) so that when the big earth quake or whatever happens we will be ready!
6.) Have my new gratitude journal filled by the end of the year. So far I have written 5 things every few days, it is a great way to recognize the Lord's hand in your life everyday.

Hopefully I can keep up with these goals- I really do want to, but you know how it goes...

Here is what we have been up to...

My bestest friend Betsy got home from her mission! YAY! I am SO happy to have her back in a land where I can at least text her and call her all the time! I guess we are used to not living in the same zip code since we haven't since 2006- wow- that's a long time! I LOVE YOU BETSY AND AM SOOO PROUD OF YOU!!!

My dad usually gets a Jazz suite for the first game of the year. This year Jackson was so fun to take. He kept cheering and ate TONS of food- it was great! Until... The Jazz Bear came! We were sitting in the seats and we hear a big POP and confetti went EVERYWHERE. Then silly string. The Bear got my dad SO good- it was so funny! SO, I screamed with excitment to go get a picture with the Bear and Jackson freaked out! Like totally lost it he got so scared! Um, HELLO, meeting the Jazz Bear is on my Bucket List (yes, I am currently working on my bucket list- always adding stuff to it).

Not too much else is going on around here... WOW, I freaking rock at blogging lately!

LOVE YA!

ABC's of 2011

2012-01-11T01:11:00.000-08:00

I thought that might be kinda fun...Enjoy!

A-Angie's Dance Academy! I taught ballet for Angie while I lived in Logan and was greatful for that experience. I was sad to leave, but am so blessed that I am still teaching at a different studio in Sandy, Dance Concepts!

B-Bye Bye Logan! SO extremely sad to leave the Hyde's, but SO excited to have an awesome job in Salt Lake and be living close to my family.

C- Celebrated my first Mother's Day! I LOVE BEING A MOM!

D- Dates! Me and Andrew saw a movie about a month before Jackson was born, so in August 2010 and went AN ENTIRE YEAR without seeing a movie! The first movie we saw since being parents was 17 Miracle, ha ha! Since then we've been to lots of movies and are going on lots more dates- finally!

E- Emily started hair school! I know, you're thinking that this has nothing to really do with us, but YES it does! FREE HAIR FOR LIFE!!! Too bad my son has no hair- Ha Ha!

F-Father's Day! Andrew got to celebrate his first Father's Day! WE LOVE YOU ANDREW!

G- Grandma Moby passed away in October. I love her and miss her SO much, but am SO glad that she is in heaven watching over us pain free.

H- Hyde Family Pictures! My sister in law Amy's sister Kelsey took these pictures and did such a good job!

I- International Traveling! We got to go to Mexico in August and it was SO fun! Jackson was a champ the whole time! We ate SO much chips and guacamole that I thought I was going to pop! YUM!

J- Jazz games! Jackson went to his first Jazz game Jan. 1, 2011. He was just an itty bitty 14 week old baby, but it was fun! We LOVE the Jazz!

K- Katy Perry concert! LOVED it! Katy is awesome!

L- LOVE! We celebrated our Three Year Anniversary this year! Each year we stay in the Anniversary Inn and this year we stayed in The Biker's Roadhouse, it was awesome!

M- Master's Degree... CHECK! Go Andrew! You rock and are always trying to make mine and Jackson's life better, thank you Sweetheart!

N- Nice Apartment! MAN ALIVE do I love our new apartment! It is SO much bigger and SO much nicer than our Logan Student Housing Apartment. I did LOVE the ward and our friends in Logan, but no dishwasher and spiders all over was just about enough to kill me after 3 years ;) O, and no AC!

O-One Years Old! Jackson Boy turned one in September and I am more than honored to be the mother to such an angel!

P- Patriots VS. Giants game! I hate football, but going to the game was really fun. One step closer to seeing ALL the teams play before we die ;)

Q- Quite the trip to England! Andrew got to go "Study Abroad" for a week or so in March for school and had so much fun!

R-RUNNING! Jackson started walking two weeks after his first birthday and got the hang of it SO fast! It is unreal how quickly these kids learn!

S-Sister Time! I LOVE MY SISTERS and am SO blessed that we have such an awesome relationship. Since moving to Midvale, I don't think I have gone one day without seeing at least one of them.

T- Time Out For Women! Gay took me, Amy and Raegen and we had so much fun. It was all of our first time (except Gay) and we are going to make it a tradition every year. I loved all of the speakers and it was so great cause it was just for women!

U- Utah State Fair! So fun! Love the fair!

V- Vacation to Boston! SO fun! LOVE our yearly getaway just the two of us!

W-Wes and Raegen got married! Such a fun, beautiful day and we couldn't be happier that Raegen is now a Hyde!

X- Xtra fun playing around! Jackson is at such a fun age- newborns are boring to me! Ha! Love them, but Jackson is so fun to play with now!

Y-Yummy food! It is nice that Jackson can now eat pretty much anything that we eat now! It is so fun ordeing him a Happy Meal and watching him eat normal people food!

Z- Zoo! This was the first time taking Jackson to the Zoo! SO fun! SO hot! Can't wait til next year ;)

Wow, I had to get creative there at the end! WOW, two post in such a short time- look at me go! LOVE YA!

I know...

2012-01-04T15:01:00.000-08:00

... I suck. Real bad. O well. I would say that it'll get better, but it probably won't... Anyways... We have had a great last few months... trip to Boston, Thanksgiving, Christmas and tons of family time! It's been great! Boston was fabulous! Me and Andrew take a trip alone each year and we decided Boston would be fun. I've been there before like 8 years ago and fell in love with the city. It is huge like New York, but not as crazy busy and a lot more historical (obviously) and stuff. I love it! If I didn't live in Utah, I'd want to live in Boston.

Thanksgiving was great and we spent this year with my family at my parents house. It was double great cause we ate at 2:00- right in the middle of Jackson's nap so I got to actually sit down and enjoy a meal!

Christmas was a lot of fun too! We spent it in Logan with the Hydes. I LOVE them all so much and feel so bad for people who don't get along with their in-laws cause mine are THE BEST!!!
Santa and Jackson!

My Family did a Sub For Santa for two families and it was so awesome. It was so fun buying things for these little kids and helping people who actually NEED things for Christmas and not just WANT stuff ;)

Bowling on Christmas Eve with the Hyde's. This was the FIRST time that I've ever broken a hundred... Thanks Son!

My sister in law Amy made the boys these CUTE matching pjs... LOVE them!!!

Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, Shephards, Angels!!!

Christmas Morning!

BITING open the presents!

New Church Christmas Outfit!

Jazz Man!

Like Mother, Like Son! Jackson is obsessed with the vacuum so when "Santa" saw this cute one for ten bucks he HAD to get it;)

Since Tuesday after Christmas, Jackson has been SO sick! Throwing up, nasty poops and dehydrated to the bone! He'll go 16 hours without a wet diaper, then I FREAK out and take him to the doctor and he'll pee the second she walks in the room... you're kidding me right... that has happened twice this week and both times the doctor has said, "Well, it's good that he peed, but if he hadn't of just peed you were going to have to go to the ER..." Lovely! SO, we've been doing lots and lots of cudling and lying around- relaxing, but exhausting all at the same time.

I'll try to be better! LOVE YA!

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2011-11-28T21:12:00.001-08:00

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100 Things You Don't Know About Me!

2011-10-12T23:00:00.000-07:00

Before I tell you the 100 things you are dying to know about me, let me paint you a little picture...

So I saw this same post on my cute friend Anbre's blog and totally copied her. I started doing it and quickly became addicted to doing it one night. BAM! I had 25 of them without skipping a beat, just typing away... went to bed that night and kept thinking of good ones. Addiction starts. The next day, during nap time I sat down and BAM wrote 50 more! These ones were a little tougher, but it was so fun to think of things that I just kept going. Then, last night after I put Jackson to bed I was typing away and was on number 84 and BAM they all got erased! Let me say that agian... I was on number 84 AND THEY ALL GOT ERASED!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, I cried. No, actually, let's be honest, I bawled. I was SO mad! SO MAD! My blood was boiling! Seriously my hand slid across our touch pad and in half a second the whole post was highlighted and deleted! How does that happed?!? ANYWAY, I am going to get past it, not hold a grudge against this touch pad that I really want to pour honey all over or do something else really damaging to and write my list once more...

Without further ado...

1- I wish I had become a professional ballerina.
2- I have the best professional ballerina name- Alexandria Siegfried! Very European!
3- I loved performing and it was my very favorite part about dancing.
4- I wish I liked to read.
5- I don't understand girls who don't carry a purse... where is all their stuff?!?
6- Sometimes I think that someone should be following my family around with a videocamera... Keeping Up with The Siegfrieds! Drama drama drama!
7- I love writing in a planner and organizing things.
8- Since I have been planning Jackson's birthday party I have recently become obsessed with party planning blogs.
9- I wish I had a huge budget to plan parties all day long- so fun!
10- I am proud that I got my Bachelors degree in Family Finance and think that was a great major for me.
11- I have always loved saving money even as a kid. When I was like 14 I went to dance in Boston with Boston Ballet for 5 weeks. The typical cost is around $3-5,000 for a summer intensive program. I had saved up like $800 or so and did it all secretly. The night before I was going to Boston I came into my parents room with a little white tin full of all this cash! They had no idea why I was crying and they both thought that I was going to tell them I didn't want to go anymore. In no way did my parents need the money to help with the cost, I just wanted them to know how much I appreciated it. I felt so proud of myself!
12- My new biggest fear is having a huge disaster happen and not be able to get a hold of Andrew or my family. Seriously, just thinking about it makes me heart pound!
13- I am addicted to my phone- it is a real problem.
14- I think driving in the car and not talking on the phone is a huge waste of time.
15- I HATE HATE HATE milk.
16- I have thrown up twice just thinking about how much milk was in the last thing I had just eaten. One was a Kit Kat- why do they have to put MILK chocolate on the wrapper? And the other was gold fish... I ate a little bag in class one day at USU and after class was walking to the shuttle and all of a sudden barfed everywhere...
17- I am not a cheese fan either. I am ok with like pizza or nachos most of the time, but no way would ever ever ever put it on a sandwich or eat cheese and crackers.
18- I am weird about eating anything creamy or too cheesy. I have to have Diet Coke or a soda to drink with it cause I am positive that doesn't have milk in it.
19- I like falling asleep to the TV, but am ok not falling asleep to it too.
20- Me and Andrew have a goal of visiting all 50 states by our 50th Anniversary! We have been to Wyoming, Nevada, Washington D.C., Hawaii and California.
21- We also have a goal to see all the NFL teams play. NO, I do not like football, but I think going to the games are fun. We've seen the 49ers and the Broncos so far.
22- I love going camping.
23- If I had to go without milk, eggs and bread or hairspray for a month I'd go without milk, eggs and bread.
24- I will never mow the lawn. When me and Andrew were dating we got in an argument over who would mow the lawn. Not that he really wanted me to, but he said if it needed to be done that I would have to do it. Um, No. My dad doesn't even mow the lawn- or own a lawn mower, why the heck would I?!?
25- I am a Babywise fanatic. I don't understand how to be a mom without it.
26- On the same note- I have to have a schedule.
27- I love being the oldest. I used to hate it and always wished for an older sister, but now I love it.
28- I like leading the way and being an example to my siblings.
29- I feel like my siblings are my own children and I am a mean mama bear to anyone who is mean to them!
30- The older I get I realize that my sisters are truly my best friends. I have always loved them, but honestly I rather be with them than anyone in the entire world besides Andrew and Jackson ;)
31- I am SO happy I had a boy first. When we first found out we were having a boy I had to force myself to be excited, but honestly he is the best ever!
32- I would choose a live in chef over a live in maid.
33- I never really crave a home cooked meal like some people say they do. I'd eat out every meal if Andrew'd let me.
34- I used to want to be an FBI agent. I think this is cause my mom always wanted to be one and I thought it was kinda cool.
35- I love my maiden name and honestly had a hard time changing it. I kept Siegfried. My legal middle name is now Ann Siegfried.
36- People always have asked me if it is weird seeing my dad on TV or on the back of the phone books and stuff. Honestly, no. He's been on TV for as long as I can remember. When me and my sisters were little and we'd see my dad on the TV we'd run up to the TV and kiss it! I am so proud of him and all of his hard work.
37- I like to over help people. This is because of my mom. If she is asked to make someone in the ward dinner or something she'll make them dinner for a month. And bring muffins for breakfast and rolls with a meat and cheese platter for lunch too. She loves to overhelp people and I get it from her- thanks mom for your great example!
38- I don't think I will ever have short hair again. I tried it, liked it for a few days and then realized I look like Dora the Explorer.
39- I am stressed about getting old because Grandma's with long hair everyone thinks are weird, but I can't imagine cutting my hair!
40- I have found out, since having a child, that I am kinda selfish with my time.
41- I get jealous that my sister can go tanning, out to eat, to a movie or the mall whenever she wants and not have to worry about a child's schedule.
42- I love teaching, not just ballet. Actually ballet is kinda hard to teach because my students don't love it as much as me and don't have a passion for it like I do. I have taught a few financial classes and workshops and Relief Society lessons and really liked it. I am not great, or even good, but I do enjoy teaching.
43- I hardly ever wear my hair up. I don't like my hair in a pony tail.
44- I challenge myself to see how low I can listen to TV. Andrew listens to TV SO loud and I honestly have a hard time watching TV with him because the loudness gives me a stomach ache- literally.
45- I love buying people gifts and always want to buy them more and more.
46- Me and Andrew made a goal to go to the Temple once a month since we've been married and I am proud to say that we've kept it! That's a total of 43 times so far. It has helped us so much!
47- I can't wait to own a home.
48- I want to be the mom that all of Jackson's friends think is the coolest and they always want to come over to "Jackson's House" cause we'll have freshly baked cookies and awesome things for the kiddos to do!
49- I have a hard time telling time.
50- I get Right and Left mixed up all the time- even when I make my fingers in the L shape.
51- I am a bad speller (if you read my blog often you probably knew that one) and am always asking Andrew how to spell. And, he is the best and never calls me stupid or dumb.He is my little spelling bee.
52- I can't wait to have a dog! We want t bull dog named Hulk Hyde with a red collar!
53- My dream car would be a Black Range Rover with tinted windows.
54- I love to sneak up on people and scare them. I used to get my Grandma SO good- it was the best!
55- I grew up thinking that all generic brands were beyond horrible and that it was agains the Siegfried Law to buy them. I am starting to get better at buying some generic things, but it is a learning process.
56- I love to cry, it feel so good to me.
57- I cry about 3-4 times a week on average. If I am pregnant it is about 6-7 times a week.
58- The older I get, no matter what, if I see someone cry I cry. In movies or anything.
59- I have never seen any of the Star Wars, nor do I want to.
60- I hate even numbers.
61- I wish Andrew's birthday was on an "odd" date. Mine and Jackson's are.
62- My lucky number is 1 because I was born October 1, I was the first child and my name starts with the first letter of the alphabet.
63- I have a small birthmark on my right calf that is kinda white and when I was younger I used to think it was syrup and lick it for some reason.
64- I love doing my hair and make up.
65- Doing my hair and make up is the only time that I can let Jackson sit there and whine/cry/ grab onto my legs and pretend I can't hear him.
66- I love being short and having such a tall man. Andrew's a foot and 2 inches taller than me.
67- I really don't have "an embarrassing story" like most everyone does.
68- I hate the sound of air conditioning- especially in the car.
69- I think it is stupid not to stand up for yourself or loved ones.
70- I think I have a big nose.
71- I want laser hair removal from the neck down. HINT to Andrew for a Christmas Present please!
72- I don't get why there are so many sports channels and not one dance channel!
73- Me and Andrew are going to go on a mission together when our kid(s) grow up.
74- I think I should learn Spanish (because of #73), but would be too embarrassed to speak it.
75- I used to go days without drinking anything... I don't know why. I know, that's horrible.
76- One of my biggest pet peeves is when people are asked their birthdays and there response is, "April." AHHH!!! I want to say, "O really, WOW, the whole month is your birthday- that is SO cool!" Seriously, it is not that much more effort to say April 9 or whenever it is... SO ANNOYING!
77- I can't brush my teeth unless I wet my tooth brush, then tooth paste, then water again, I think it's nasty to not wet your tooth brush first.
78- It is hard for me to accept that other people have good life plans too. I can't see anything wrong with the way that I have mapped out my life, but when I think of others people's plans I really have to bite my tounge so that I don't offend anyone with my suggestions ;)
79- I wish that it was required for every American to take a Financial Literacy class.
80-I HATE clean hair- I need a few days of natural grease in it to have a fabulous hair day.
81- The future of America and the world scares me. I think I have a pretty great life and don't want it to change.
82- As a couple, me and Andrew drag our feet with making decisions and it really bothers me.
83- I used to wear mostly browns, now I am all black and love it.
84- I got my ears pierced when I was 12, they got insanely infected and I had to take them out and I gave up on ear rings til my stupid sisters BEGGED me to get them re-pierced in Spain when I was 18- so I did. And they are more than crooked, but what ya gonna do about it...
85- It stresses me out to wonder when we will have another kid and how many we will have. I don't like not knowing.
86- I've never broken a bone.
87- I used to not be a breakfast person, but now, if I don't eat breakfast I feel sick.
88- I have never "flown by the seat of my pants." I don't think I could ever do that. That doesn't seam fun to me, it seams irresponsible.
89- I love making lists. It relaxes me.
90- I can NOT lie. I rather get in trouble or have someone mad at me because I honestly can not lie.
91- I love my big hair. Really, I do.
92- I have been compaired to Angela from The Office on more than one occasion.
93- I could watch re-runs of Friends, Seinfeld and The Office all day long. Saying that makes me feel like I am cheating on McDreamy because I LOVE Grey's Anatomy too, but you can't really watch re-runs of a drama series like you can a comedy.
94- One of my biggest pet peeves is when people only give 50%. Like, why not do it perfect the first time and not waste time having to do it again cause you didn't do it good enough the first time?
95- I love a good corn dawg... don't lie- you do too.
96- If I got to change life's with someone for a day it would be President Monson. I'd love to see what he does all day and how awesome it would be to be led by the Spirit in all that you do.
97- Call me crazy, but I love Facebook- I check it like it's my job.
98- I don't trust other drivers. I am the worsed back seat driver and I don't even care that it is annoying- the driver has my life in their hands!
99- Along with #98, I love using my car horn. When I pass cars I put my hand over the horn, just in case I need to use it ;)
100- I still know every word to every Nsync song- no shame, AT ALL!

TA-DAAA!!! I finished! Yay me!

Hope you enjoyed it and still want to be my friend after you know all my secrets ;)

LOVE YA!

The Circus is in Town!

2011-10-01T18:18:00.000-07:00

Jackson turned one... wow, that was the fastest year of my life! I threw Jackson a Circus themed party and it was SO much fun! It was fun to plan, fun to make all the decorations and stuff and fun to actually throw the big bash! It really was way fun because it gave me something to do and look forward to for a few weeks- heaven knows I need things to do and look forward to. We are so grateful for everyone that came and spoiled Jackson- just like he should be! I love spoiling my little man!

We also got 1 year pictures done of him a week or so before the party and they couldn't have turned out more perfect! My talented cousin Blakelee did them and did such a good job!

Enjoy the MILLIONS of pictures!

We had a TAKE A GUESS game to guess how many m&m's were in the jar and Tyson won with the closest guess!

Monthly Pictures!

We displayed just about a million pictures of little man...

Rainbow Cupcakes!

Fruit Kabobs!

Silverwear...

Lots of Yummy food!

The Candy Table!

Circus Snack Table!

SO many presents!

Opening Presents!

Giving Livi a ride on Jackson's new toy! SO CUTE!

The Cake!

Blowing out Candles!

He likes to smell things... including His cake!

Rianbow cake!

Love these clowns!

It was SUCH a fun party and we are SO grateful for everyone that came and brought awesome gifts!

I'll post ALL of his ADORABLE pictures next... this post was already long enough! Ha!

LOVE YA!

12 Months!!!

2011-09-21T12:54:00.000-07:00

What in the world. My little man is 1 today! 1 Year Old! SO sad, but so fun! He is such a good baby and always has a smile on his face! He is not feeling his best today, so our photo shoot didn't didn't go very well, but we tried...

This is how our shoot started... not happy!

Then Meggie walked in the room and he got a little happier... He loves Meggie!

Then, to make his little cheeks stay in the chair he needed a brush to brush his hair- isn't everyone happier when they are brushing their hair ;)

And this is how we ended...

THIS MONTH...
-I have kinda stop keeping track of all of his new foods because he really can eat whatever he wants and usually eats a lot of what we are eating... including chocolate!
-This month though Jackson has turned into quite the cuddle bug! I am LOVING this! He will want me to hold him and then just lay his head on my chest while I continue doing whatever I am doing- it is SO stinking cute! We've all been kinda sick lately and that has made the cuddling extra good because we just lay on the couch and watch Tom and Jerry and he loves it! I don't normally just let him sit there and watch TV, but since he's been sick I will do whatever he wants.
-He stands all by himself, no steps yet, but standing like a champ!
-He walks along things now and realy fast, it is so cute!
-He got HIs very first fever over 100... 102.1 to be exact! I felt so bad cause he seriously felt like he had been soaking in a hot tub for hours!
-We took him to his first fair and he ate some Funnel Cake and road the carousel! He liked it, but got a little nervous- maybe cause his 5 ft. mother could barely hold on to Him when the horse was going up- ha ha!

And, I am done breast feeding today. Weird! I have loved it so much and am beyond grateful that I have been able to do it for a whole year. It has been a huge comitment and I honestly didn't know that I'd love it this much, and didn't understand it when women said that they loved it so much and had a hard time stopping, but it totally is that way! Jackson has been so good and so easy to nurse- thanks buddy!

Any tips/advice to the extra-hormonal me? I have been going crazy with hormones and have an emotional break down just about every day- it's been real fun. Don't feel bad for me, feel bad for Andrew and Jackson- I think they both want me to move out! Ha! Sorry, this is kinda TMI, but I love getting advice from everyone who've gone through the same thing.

We got 1 year pics and here is a sneak peak... more, LOTS more to come later!

LOVE YA!

Cabo Celebrity!

2011-09-12T21:35:00.000-07:00

Better Late than Never...Well our vacation was absolutely fabulous! We had such a great time and it was SO great being with my family for an entire week just relaxing by the pool! I was a little nervous about taking Jackson to Mexico at 10.5 months old, but I must have forgotten how unbelievably easy of a baby he is because he did awesome! Beyond awesome! Seiously he could not have been better! He slept on both plane rides, he took great naps during the day, he ate like a king and slept through the night every night... in a pack-n-play! (He's not a huge fan of pack-n-plays-I don't blame him!) I guess being at the pool about 10 hours a day wears him out!

So, you might be wondering why I say Cabo Celebrity- here is why...

Every day we'd wake up and go to the breakfast buffet- yum!

The workers would say...HOLA JACKSON!

I am not kidding EVERY single person that set eyes on my little man came running to get a glimps up close- like he was a celeb... HOLA JACKSON every 5 minutes!

HOLA MY BABY! (Yes, they called him "their" baby)

The workers/ waitresses all knew him by name and kept rubbing his beautiful bald head like it would give them good luck or something...

HOLA JACKSON!

When Jackson would be taking a nap and I'd be at lunch with my sisters they'd ask me where my baby was, they missed him...

HOLA MY BABY!

There was one girl, Nora, and this older lady who was vacationing from San Fran saw us coming down the hall, they both started drooling over him and then started arguing over who Jackson likes the best...

It was seriously crazy how every person would just come up to us and start touching him and tell me how cute he was and what a good baby he was- obviously I couldn't agree more! I guess they don't get too many babies at the resort.

Anyways, here are a lot, no... A FREAKING TON of pictures that might make you want to book your trip to Mexico right now!

At the airport- 8-7-2010

Maybe it is a Siegfried thing, but we believe it is mandatory to get a Cinnabon before you get on the plane no matter what, so naturally Grandpa Ned gave some to Jackson... I think it is obvious what he thought of it.

Love these ladies! Meg wasn't feeling her best so Andrew got this wheelchair for her and pushed her through the airport- what a sweet man I have!

Here we go!

Sleeping on the Plane!

Just arriving at Riu Palace!

Swimming!

Just arriving at Riu Palace!

One of the days we decided to go on a fishing trip. It sounded like it'd be awesome. In the boat they had a place where Jackson could take a nap and everything... well, it did not go so well. Cole started feeling way sick, then Andrew did (they Hyde's get way bad motion sickness) and then I kinda did. As soon as we got on the boat Jackson fell asleep on my chest so I just sat there in this chair and it got SO hot so we decided to go out and get some fresh air. All of a sudden poor baby Jackson's stomach started kinda jumping and then be barfed all over! It was so sad. I started crying cause I felt so bad and then he started crying. So, we told Pedro to take us back and we were done! Meg, my dad and our friends Masude and Julie went back out cause they were feeling fine, but they didn't get one bite from the fish in all 5 hours! I was SO happy we didn't stay with them!
About to go Fishing!

Sleeping on the boat!

And most of the days we just hung out by the pool and played by the beach! Jackson is such a water baby and could be in the water all day long!

Dancing on the beach! Me and Emily always take dance pictures on the beach!

Going out to dinner!

Clapping for the Mariachi Band!

One of the days we got to go Parasailing! It was SO awesome! Again, I was nervous to take Jackson, but he did awesome on the boat- and no one got sick!

We could not have asked for a better vacation! Jackson was perfect! It was SO nice to be able to relax and have my whole family there to help with Jackson- many hands make light work is totally true with a baby!

Sorry this took SOOO long!

Love Ya!

P.S.- My kid is going to be one in 9 days... what?!?!?

11 Months Old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2011-08-21T21:28:00.000-07:00

No No NO! NO, my baby is NOT 11 months old! What?!?!!?! I have 30 days til I have a 1 year old! I really can NOT believe it! Like for real this last year has gone by SO fast it is unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jackson is the best baby still and this month has been quite a big month...
-Jackson went out of the country for the first time.
-Went on a plane and was unbelievable.
-He got a tooth on top, making our teeth count to 3 total.
-You went to Bear Lake for the first time.
-You went to Primary for the first time (we got called to be Primary teachers, CTR 4 so Jackson gets to go with us).
-You tried lots of new foods: pumpkin bread, ham,pancakes (he ate 2 of them this morning- he LOVES them), syrup, watermelon, pineapple, apricot, nectarine, BBQ chicken (I look over at my dad and Jackson's got BBQ sauce all over his face and my dad said that Jackson was staring at his buffalo wing pretty hard so he gave him some... um, ok), 7-Up (somebody (aunt Meg) thought that it was just Chloe's water), strawberry smoothy (somebody (Andrew) didn't even noticed that he grabbed the straw), pickle, blueberry muffin, Cafe Rio rice and tortilla from mama's burrito, 4 Cheese Pasta from Cheesecake Factory and White Grape Juice!

I know, you don't have to rub it in- he looks old, he sure is FREAKING cute though!!! LOVE MY BOY!!!!

Things this guy does on command...
-Wave
-Snap! Yes, I said Snap! He taught himself how! He makes a snapping sound and everything!
-Give Kisses (almost everytime) with a big wide open mouth and yes, I love it! Jackson was ready and willingly giving kisses the other day while we were out to dinner and Andrew said, "OK, stop making out with your son- we're in public!" How mean! Um, NO, I am not going to pass up the opportunity to get a kiss from my baby, like I said before time is literally flying and before I know it Jackson will be on his mission and I will look back at this time and cry!
-Brush His hair... I mean, brush his beautiful bald head! If I hand him a brush he knows exactly what to do!
-"Come Here!" I feel like I have a puppy sometimes because I say, "Come here!" and slap my leg and make him follow me into the next room, ha ha!
-Clap
-Touch his head! I say, "Jackson, where's your head?" and he grabs his head so prefectly!
-Show me His tounge!
-Dance! It is SO cute! Almost anytime that he hears music he starts rocking His head and body! Our song is Super Bass by Nicki Minaj and he says BOOM BOOM BOOM and it is SO freaking cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am still working on my Mexico post, it was an awesome trip so just you wait!
Love Ya!

Bear Lake Fun!

2011-08-20T13:01:00.000-07:00

Man, I am SO behind on my blogging! A few weekends ago we went to Bear Lake with the Hyde Family. It was SO much fun! We stayed up way too late playing games and eating tons of treats! We played my favorite game Celestial Companions and won- like always, ha ha- Sorry guys! Speaking of Celestial Companions- it was Kyle and Gay's 30th Anniversary while we were there. Raegen and Amy made a cute DVD for them with pictures of them from back when they were dating til today- it turned out SO good! Here are some cute pictures from our great weekend!

Nintendo with Papa!

McKay and Grandpa Kyle!

All the girls... and Jackson!

After Dinner!

Love Birds!

Bear Lake!

Dirty 4 Wheeler Boys!

Out to Dinner!

Playing Games!

We love the Hyde family and are SO blessed to call them Family. Thanks SO much Kyle and Gay for everything- we love you!

Double Digits!

2011-07-21T18:35:00.000-07:00

Yes, Jackson is 10 MONTHS OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, I am freaked out. Yes, I am starting to plan his party. No, I have not decided on a theme yet. ;) That pretty much covers my thoughts on this new age...

This month...
-You got a passport! What 10 month old needs a passport? Um, one who ROCKS!
-This was funny... when we were filling out the part about hair color, what do you put? TBD or NA were not options so Andrew guessed Dark Brown, why he didn't just put Brown is beyond me. A blonde could get away with "Brown" and a brunette can get away with "Brown" to, but he thought Dark Brown was a better choice. Also, his passport is honestly the cutest picture I have ever seen of him! They said that it was the cutest picture they have ever taken! The girls there probably took copies for themselves!
-You started CRAWLING! (07-08-2011)
-You pull yourself up and stand a lot and make me nervous.
-You have eaten a ton of new food this month: hash browns, fresh banana, strawberry, peaches, grapes, mandarin oranges, pears, and nectarines, nila wafers, spaghetti-o's (absolutely hated these), pear-raspberry mix- not a hit at first, but the second try he liked them, pasta primavera (HATED this, gagged! I've never seen him hate a food more!), Strawberry Yogurt Melts, lil' crunchies mild cheddar (loves these!), rice, pieces of bread, cooked noodles (not a big fan- I think he doesn't like the texture) and I am sure there is more I can't think of...
-Most days I feel like I am feeding my baby bird... I bite off pieces for him and feed him just like the birds do it!
-You are still sleeping like a champ and taking 2 naps.
-You went to the Zoo and loved the giraffes.
-You celebrated your first 4th of July!
-You burp and laugh and say eeewwwwww everytime- maybe I shouldn't have been doing that cause now he does, but it is so dang cute I don't even care!
-You are the cutest ever! We read Sandra Bouynton's The Going to Bed Book every night (have it memorized) and when it says "Now everybody goes below," "And when the moon is on the rise, they all go up..." and "Down once more, but not so fast." we run our fingers down the book to make it sound like the little animals are running up or down... well, you started doing it the other night and I almost cried it was SO freaking cute!
-You sign "More" to me, even though it is kinda more of a clap you do it when you eat a food you really like like peaches.
-You're a waving machine! Sometimes I worry your arm might fly off. You waved at the nice lady in the mall and it made me so proud to be your mama!
-You clap like one of those creepy monkey's with those symbols!
-You snort and sniff and make yourself laugh.
-You like to play with your tongue, hopefully it'll be as long as your papa's- Andrew can pick his nose with his tongue!
-You make a clicky noise with mouth that is so cute!
-And lastly YOU ROCK! You are honestly the easiest, funnest baby in the world! I don't know what I must have done to deserve such an awesome kid like you, but I'd do it ten times over to have you in my life forever!

SO, with this 1st birthday creeping up on us, are there any cute traditions that you all are doing with your kidos that I should start? I can't WAIT to throw him a fun party- my girl Giuliana will probably be there covering the whole event!

We saw 17 Miracles about the Pioneers- it was really good. It ended with this quote and I love it! I loved President Hinckley so much!

"I will never get over being thankful to them; I hope you never get over being thankful to them. I hope that we will always remember them...Let us read again and again, and read to our children or out children's children the account of those who suffered so much." -Gordon B. Hinckley, Jan 31, 1999 Church News, Page 5

Have a GREAT Pioneer weekend!

LOVE YA!

I've been told...

2011-07-18T22:01:00.000-07:00

... that my blog has gone down the you know what from my sister who is a you know what. So, I guess I will update it very quickly before I go to bed. I. am. so. so. so. tired. Since living in Midvale I feel like I my life is GO GO GO! There is a lot more going on down here and with my sisters (sidekicks) with me 24-7 I have been out and about a lot more. SO fun! Love those crazy ladies. Here is a few pics to show you how much fun we've been having!

The 4th of July BBQ at my Parents House!

The Living Aquarium! I think me and Chloe enjoyed this more than Cole and Jackson, ha ha!

Scrunchy Face!

The Hogle Zoo!

I think everyone else in the Salt Lake Valley decided to go to the Zoo this day too and it was HOT! I was so nervous that Jakson was going to get dehydrated so I kept giving him his water bottle and I am pretty sure that he had the worlds heaviest diaper cause he drank so much!

Jackson doesn't like hats so much, but this is how he left it when he was trying to pull it off... ya, he's a G!

Notice his cute "Zoo Shirt"... gotta have a new shirt for the Zoo, right?

The Blaze Game!

Openind and Closing this door a l l d a y l o n g... until he smashes his fingers in it and needs a kiss ;)

We are loving life, loving Andrew's job, loving Jackson and loving being so close to my sisters! Jackson is 10 months on Thursday so another update will be coming soon! How's that for ya sis! ;)

LOVE YA!

Nine is SO Fine!

2011-06-21T15:44:00.000-07:00

First off, we moved. Second, we moved. And lastly, WE MOVED! We moved to Midvale- yahoo! We are SO happy! It is SO nice to be close to my family again, but we are VERY VERY VERY sad to leave Logan. When I first moved to Logan I never thought in a million years that Logan would feel so much like home to me, but after 5 years of being there I guess Logan was my home. We will miss our friends and mostly our family that are still in Logan, but I promise we'll be back to visit very often! I bet you are wondering why I said Nine is SO Fine... Well, here is a list of 9 changes in our lives since last post...

1.) Wes and Raegen got married! We are SO happy to have Raegen in our family- they are such a cute couple and wish them the best!
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Hyde!

At the Temple!

Hyde Cousins!

At the Reception!

Jackson even took a nap at the reception- yay!

2.) Andrew finished his last classes FOREVER! Yes, he gradutaed in May, but he had 2 summer classes from May 16- June 10 that he had to finish. We had a little pizza party for him that was way fun. Everyone kept saying, "Congrats!" And I kept saying, "Thanks!" Cause I feel like I just got done with school too! It has been SO hard having Andrew do his Masters, but we are so happy that we stuck it out and did it!

Leyla Palmer (12 weeks), Olivia Larsen (7 Months), Jackson (8 Months) and McKay (17 Months)

Love Birds!

Yummy!

The Hydes!

Thanks for coming everyone!

3.)Jackson started and ended swimming lessons. Michael Phelps, watch your back... you've been warned!

4.)Andrew got a new job! We were sad to have him leave Al's- it's been such a good job and they've been so good to him while he's had such a crazy school schedule. Thanks Kris and Jase! Andrew is going to be working for my dad for a little bit until his job with the Jazz KFAN Radio opens up- we are extremely grateful for this opportunity. Thanks Papa Ned!
5.)We left Aggie Village! So bitter sweet. We've been there since we got married in 2008- crazy we've never moved before this.
6.)Jackson got a stomach virus! He had the r u n s for 2 weeks! Like pooping 3-4 times in 2 hours! SO sad! NO appetite. NO fun, and most surprisingly NO diaper rash! I was VERY quick to change that stank butt asap! That would have just been the cherry on top! I think he was just trying to get ready for swim suit season by dropping a few lbs...
7.)We moved.
8.) We moved.
9.) And, we moved.

MAN ALIVE we have a lot of stuff! The lady at U-haul told us that we only needed a 17ft. truck for a standard 2 bedroom apartment... um, not correct at all. We got the 26 ft. truck "just incase" and we filled it to the brim! I am SO happy we got the bigger truck. Even though our truck broke down twice and put us behind schedule like 4 hours, our move was as good as it could have been! Thanks a million times over to everyone who helped us- we could NOT have done it without you!

This is how we lived for a while- - - no fun!

Nine is also SO fine because, yes, you guessed it- JACKSON IS 9 MONTHS OLD TODAY!!! (I told you it was good that he gets a month older each month or there would not be an update right now...)
This is how the photo shoot started- tragic... life has been a bit tragic to Jackson lately... almost every little thing he goes into a full on cry and then about 5 seconds later he is all smiles... what a fun phase we are going through!

This Month Jackson has...
~Sprouted a new tooth! That makes 2 for this kid now. He has marked his territory by chewing on his crib and made a few little bite marks! Arghh! Makes me so mad- his crib is the nicest furniture in our house!
~He can pull him self from laying down to sitting up. I know, I know, he is a little physically behind, but I hear that once they start crawling your hands are REALLY full, so I am enjoying the not crawling as long as I can- I'm sure he'll be at least crawling by Kindergarten, right?
~He now say 5 sounds... MaMa DaDa BaBa NaNa and his new sound as of a few days ago is YaYa!
~Along with all the sounds, he can now put 2 together... mostly it is MaMaBaBaBa and now it is DaDaYaYaYa- SO DANG CUTE!
~Because of the above mentioned Stomach Virus we haven't tried too many new foods this month, but we have tried the little puff disolveable cereal looking things, Club Crackers, wheat biter biscuit cookies, rice and Diet Coke! HA HA HA! Not- he can't have that stuff til... um, he graduates Kindergarten! Ha Ha! I am SO funny!

~I've noticed if he gets really into a toy (or piece of garbage he finds on the floor) he puts it in one hand, shakes it, switches hands, shakes it, switches hands, shakes it... for a real long time! It is so cute! I tried to get him on video doing it, but he was being camera shy. It is so funny!
~He dropped a nap! Man this threw me for a loop, but it was a good change. Now he takes 2 hour and a half naps and sleeps from 9:00pm-8:00am. I am SO blessed! Thank you Babywise!
~His bootylicious booty is now in size 4 diapers. We had a few "wake up in the middle of nights soaked in pee" nights and decided we needed to make the switch. I hate when you switch sizes and still have a whole case from Sam's Club left over of the small size... o well...

Father's Day 2011- - - Andrew, you are the best! We love you more than anything! Thank you for all of the sacrifices that you make for us and for providing such a great life so that I can stay home with Jackson. LOVE YOU!

This is the game we play all day... I lay Jackson on the floor and jump over the top of him and he laughs, laughs, laughs! (I am in the air in this picture- talented huh? Jumping, making a baby laugh and taking a picture all at once- and, with pointed toes!)

Well, that is all I can think of now. It's hard to think when those unpacked boxes on my kitchen table are giving me the stink eye.

I promise I will try to update sooner than July 21 (10 Months Old), but no promises!

LOVE YA!

8 Months!!!

2011-05-21T21:45:00.000-07:00

I guess it is good that Jackson gets a month older every month, cause then I have a for sure reason to post something! Ha Ha! And, we'll keep up with our tradition of me saying, "Wow, time is flying!"

I didn't realize this until now, but it kinda looks like his sweet cheeks are not in a diaper because of his strategicly placed hand, but he is... I promise! Ha Ha!

Just relaxing....

...I LOVE this cheesy smile he's doing! Again, this paper is way interesting.

Done with the photo shoot aparently!

This picture is significant because when Jackson was born his foot was as long as my pointer finger and look at it now...

THIS MONTH...

-Jackson tried Turkey & Turkey Gravy and loved it!
- Gobbled Up Apples-Banana-Strawberry Mix, and I mean gobbled up!
-Tried some Rice Rusks crackers... I don't think he got it that it was food at first cause they look so funny, but once he realized that he was eating something like we eat he thought it was way fun!
- GOT HIS FIRST TOOTH!!! (May 9) Surprisingly he wasn't as fussy as I thought he would be, but now that I think about it I think he was hurting for like the week before it actually popped through... Now he's acting the same so I think that we're about to get number 2 here any day.

I love my little man more than anything and I can't imagine my life any different.

Andrew is just finishing his last 4 weeks of classes and I seriously CAN NOT WAIT!!! He has school from 9-3 then work 3-9 and THEN homework! It sucks SO bad. I feel like Jackson has no dad, but really he has the best, hardest working dad and we are SO beyond grateful to have him!

I am laying here in bed and watching Extreme Couponing- ever watched it? These women spend $5 on $600 worth of groceries!!! NO JOKE! I am not getting motivated ,(well, maybe a tiny bit) I am getting mad! That is just insane- absolutely INSANE!!! They have MASSIVE amounts of food and everything you can imagine in their homes! This lady just said she has 150 rolls of toilet paper and she paid $0 for it!!! Andrew just said, "If you are bored why don't you do this?" Um, cause I am normal?!?!?

Well, I am tired... just cause Jackson gets 12 hours of sleep doesn't mean that I do!
LOVE YA!

Here and There...

2011-05-09T12:44:00.000-07:00

We have had a lot going on these past few days. I'm pretty sure that for a straight 48 hours the only time that Jackson was set down and had some time alone was during nap time- good thing I am the nap nazi! We have had a lot of family here and there and everywhere and while it is always fun, I've missed laying on the ground saying, "Jackson, roll over here... come get this..." Here is what has been going on...

Jackson had his first ride in a grocery cart! The weather was FINALLY warm enough for a few days, and that car seat is o so heavy, so I decided that it'd be fun to have my little man bag that darn thing! He loved it, and so did I, until I turned around and he was sucking on the handle and I about threw up!

We found a new source of entertainment/ cage/ break for me... Jackson loved it! And, when I pulled the basket off he kept looking at it and wanting it back over him like a little fort.

Like, mentioned before, it's been warmer and warmer so we've been going on walks- so much fun!

Now, the best part... ANDREW GRADUATED WITH HIS MASTERS!!! I was more excited for him to be done than I was for myself to be done! I am SO proud of him and I am SO happy that we decided to have him do his Masters right after his Bachelors. This last year of our lives have for sure been the hardest (Andrew in school 24/7, new baby, me staying home...), but it has been the most rewarding.
Master Hyde!

There were bag pipes at the freaking graduation and Jackson HATED them... I think we all did! Ahhhh- they really made this 2 hour graduation fun!

Siegfried Fam...

My cute Family! Yes, Kourtney Kardashian has this dress!

Jackson in Andrew's Cap!

Andrew's awesome parents got him a grill for graduation! It cooks 35 burgers at a time.. right! No way, unless they were itty bitty burgers! We love it and it is SO nice! Thanks Kyle and Gay- we love you guys!

Then, Andrew's great- great aunt passed away and we went up to her funeral. It was short and sweet and got me thinking... If my funeral is longer than an hour I will haunt everyone who planned it because long funerals are the worst! My dad's aunt's funeral was 2.5 hours last year and I was about ready to die! So, there we have it, in writting- no longer than an hour for me!

Jackson is doing this new scruntchy face grin/ smile that is the funniest thing ever! I LOVE IT!

Last, but not least- Mother's Day! I love all of the mother's in my life and want them to know how much I look up to them and their example in every way! Words can not describe how blessed I feel to have the Lord trust me with such a sweet little spirit in our home. Jackson, you are the best thing in my life and at times make me not want to have any more kids in fear that they will not be as perfect as you are! (Am I nuts or what?!?) I truely believe that being a mother is the reason I am here on this earth. I am grateful that I have such great examples around me! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
LOVE YA!!!

This guy...

2011-04-21T13:41:00.000-07:00

...is 7 months old today!!!

He is the easiest baby to make smile- I can just say BOO or smile at him for a second and he instantly smiles!

He loves to grabs his toes!

Everything goes in his mouth!

He is curious about everything around him!

This is him saying mamamama...

He's sitting up so good now! (that happened very quickly)

And, here is where that paper got way interesting... and tasty!

Jackson EATS bananas, pears, apples, peaches, squash, green beans, peas, sweet potatoes and carrots... His favorites are green beans and pears!

He says mamama, dadada, bababa. He says bababa cause Andrew was playing with him and playing with a ball and we said say BALL and he kept trying to say bababa- he's a smarty pants!

He can almost roll from his back to his tummy, but gets kinda lazy and decides he rather not. Rolls way easy from tummy to back. Eats his toes all day long.

He is really easy to take to the store and go in his car seat. I count that as a blessing when he was younger he would SCREAM at the site of that stupid thing which was absolutely impossible to get any errands done!

His favorite toys are... not toys... cell phones, measuring cups, spatchulas, boxes- you name it!

He loves to be scared. We could spend all day with him on the bed, me crouching down and jumping up and saying JACKSON and him jumping from getting so scared and laughing for hours- it is the best thing ever to hear him laugh!

I L.O.V.E. MY LITTLE MAN!

Grandpa Siegfried and Jackson!

2011-04-14T13:01:00.000-07:00

Remember this outfit... Well, on April 17, 2010 we went to Fetal Fotos and found out Jackson was a BOY! After, we went to Chuck-a-Rama and celebrated with my family! And, I guess to celebrate Chloe's birthday ;) After dinner we went to Fashion Place Mall to buy a little outfit for our little man. And, Yes, this World Champpion onesie is what we ended up with. At the time I thought it was kinda silly, but Andrew was dying over how cool it was, and that made me happy cause I was really needing him to be excited about this baby so we just bought it. Now I think it is so dang funny and cute- mostly cause of the little chunk inside of it, but still!

A few weekends ago we went down to Sandy to celebrate my dad's birthday. My dad loves babies SO much, and Jackson is no exception, even if "he squeels like a pig stuck under a fence." (according to Grandpa Ned!)
This is Jackson in Grandpa Siegfried 's reading glasses!

Isn't it funny, the things we do to our kids!

If any of you have not been to Temptation's Cupcakes in Logan you NEED TO... but not without inviting me first cause it is AMAZING! Seriously, they are to DIE for!!!

For my dad's birthday we ordered Asian Star and it was of course delicious. Naturally, chinese food comes in a real fancy big box, right? Well, it turned into a nice little play pen for about 45 minutes and, if my dad would have taken me seriously when I said I was keeping that box, Jackson would be playing in it now- he loved it!

Jackson's new obsession is his toes, but who can blame them, they are so cute! He loves to chew on them all day long- that is why he won't roll over cause he just sits there and eats his toes... Anyway, I am ocd and ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS have socks on him cause I don't want his toesies to get cold, but recently he's been pulling his socks off and he thinks he's pretty funny...

Man alive I love this kid! In church on Sunday I started crying during the sacrament thinking of Jackson passing the sacrament. How emotional am I... Yes, you guessed it, I am tearing up now just thinking about it again! I seriously can't explain the love I have for my sweet child. If you are a mother you understand, if you are not, you may think you understand, but you just wait- it hits you like a ton of bricks how much you seriously love your kid. I was taking to my sweet new mama friend Paige and she was saying what a new perspective on life she has now and it is totally true. It makes you not care anymore about stupid things. It makes you leave the dishes in the sink a little longer so you can read a few more books to your little one. It makes you not buy that cute new swim suit cause you want a new outfit for your chunky baby. SO many things change instantly that you don't even realize! I am SO SO SO blessed to be able to stay home and be with Jackson all day. It is seriously the life that I have wanted for such a long time and it is the best ever! I know I probably say this same stuff all the time, but it's not like I have anything else going on to blog about ;)

This is Jackson today! My mom bought Jackson this little outfit last summer and I totally forgot about it and found it this morning in the back of his drawers. I am SO happy I found it cause, as you can tell, it is as tight as a leotard! Too bad he won't be able to wear it too much longer, but I'm sure baby brother will enjoy it one day.

And here is where the photo shoot ended when he tried to grab the camera...

Have a wonderful week and please pray for warm weather cause I am sick and tired of this rain, snow crap that we keep getting! LOVE YA!!!

6 Months!!!

2011-03-25T19:42:00.000-07:00

My O My! I guess we'll just make it a tradition that each month I will tell you all how fast time is flying around here! Jackson turned 6 months on March 21... Yes, we had a mini celebration... Yes, I did cry... And Yes, Jackson was fully aware about what was going on...(I like to think at least) Doughnuts and Sweet Potatoes- YuMmY! New Set of Balls! New Books! We love to read! I especially love it when Andrew reads to him. It is funny how differently a man and a woman read the same book. Andrew really does sound like a dad reading it, ya know, in a very... I don't even know how to describe it, but it is a total "dad" way of reading it and I love it. We read books every night before bed! (Thank you Border's for going Bankrupt, it really helped us celebrate Jackson's 1/2 b-day nicely!) 1 Week! 1 Month! 2 Months! 3 Months! 4 Months! 5 Months! 6 Months! I LOVE looking at these pictures because it really does show, not only how big he gets each month, but how everything changes. How his nice tan he was born with has slowely faded, how his face has gotten older and how much more aware of his surroundings he is. This time he was so interested in that ball and paper that it was hard to get him to look at the dang camera! Also, I am teaching Jackson a little sign language. I am teaching him MORE and ALL DONE for right now. He sometimes will kinda do MORE, but the other day he decided he just wanted to start talking instead... Watch! (This was having issues, so if it doesn't work, just believe me... or look on my FB)

He now has his M's down so now he is saying mamama all day long- it is SO dang cute! I can't imagine my life without him!

Now, one sentence that doesn't have to do with Jackson (kinda)...I have been pretty sick lately ;( The Dr thinks I have gallstones! I'm going in for an ultrasound on Monday and will let you know. If it is not gallstones then they think it is ulcers. When the Dr said all these things I told him that I am breastfeeding and he gave me this look like, "Why the heck are you doing that if your baby is 6 months..." Then he said, "Well, 6 months is a long time and most women don't even go that long so you might want to stop. If it is gallstones you'll need surgery and that'd be hard while you're breast feeding, and if it's ulcers the meds you'll have to be on aren't good while you are breast feeding and you'll have to stop." At this point I am bawling just thinking about stopping. I knew before I had Jackson that women "loved" breast feeding, but I never really understood it, obviously cause I had never done it. Now that I am, I love it SO much. I really really really DO NOT want to stop. I think that this Dr thought that I was nuts- but I really don't care. I don't even know him, I only went in cause my stomach pain was SO bad and I went to see the first Dr that I could.

How long did you guys breast feed your babies? And, when you stopped how did that go? I am almost praying that it is gallstones because if I am in the hospital for a day or two and can't, I can pump and I've got plenty of frozen milk that Jackson would be just fine... Anyways, pray that I don't have to stop, that's all I care about!

LOVE YA!

Biker's Roadhouse!

2011-03-17T13:16:00.000-07:00

SO, every year for our Anniversary we go to the Anniversary Inn. It is SO much fun and all of the rooms are way cute! This year for our Anniversary, Andrew was in London and I was lonely in Sandy, changing poopy diapers... ; ( So, we decided to go a few days late to celebrate. We stayed in the Biker's Roadhouse room this year. Andrew has wanted to stay in this one for a while so I surprised him with the room and he was so happy. Here are the pictures of our room...

This was the first time that I have left Jackson. I was very nervous about it, but I knew that he'd do just fine cause, let's face it... my baby rocks! Andrew's mom stayed with him, even though she had such a crazy day and was so tired, she was more than willing to take him for the night. It really was so good to be with just Andrew and spend time alone. I love Andrew more than anything and having him gone for 10 days was so hard, and I am SO grateful he is home!

Today is Jackson's First St. Patrick's Day! YaHoO! We gave him Green Eggs and Ham! No, not the food, the book! Ha Ha! He did try to eat it though, just like everything else near him.
See, trying to eat his book...

Here is some pictures of Andrew's trip to England. He started in Manchester, then Wales and ended up in London. He went with his MBA Program for a mini study abroad to visit some businesses over there. He felt real important going on an "international business trip." There were 4 different places that he could go to: China, Italy, England or Japan. And yes, you guessed it, I told him I would have gone to Japan (that's where my dad went on his mission). THANK THE LORD Andrew didn't go to Japan!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really would have died! The MBA kids that did go to Japan are home and safe and weren't near the disaster. Poor Japan, I feel extremely grateful that I am home, watching Seinfeld with my heating pad on my back blogging while my little niggets naps the afternoon away safe in his crib...

Hotel in Manchester- look how tiny the beds are and how close together they are!

In Wales: That sign is the name of the city- it is the longest name in the world!

Business Man!

Buckingham Palace!

Big Ben!

London Bridge!

Windsor Castle!

Stonehenge!

Consider yourself pinched REAL hard on the butt if you aren't wearing green today!

LOVE YA!

Nothing too exciting...

2011-03-06T16:55:00.000-08:00

Here is what we've been up to...

Poor Jackson got sick for the first time. Look at those sad red, watery eyes and little runny nose. I felt so bad, but really he is such an easy happy baby that it could have been a lot worse. I really am so lucky that he has only been sick this once- in 5 months I feel like I am pretty lucky...

5 Months Old on February 21... I won't even bother to scream TIME IS FLYING!!!

He is trying to sit up, he can sometimes if I get his legs spread just right and his belly position just right in the middle of his legs! I took a picture of him like this on my phone that is WAY cutter, but not great quality, but after I took it I set it as my background and the first time I really looked at it I cried cause I can't believe how old he is getting, like seriously it is crazy that my baby boy is eating all these foods and sitting up and o m g I just love him to death!

He all of a sudden loves to just throw his legs to the sky... so funny. If I do that for too long I'm pretty sure my legs would start shaking, but he just loves it!

Jackson loves green beans! He really is such a good eater and will eat all of his food and does SO good! I am so lucky!

He loves his squash too!

All the girls at Paige's shower! Paige, we are SO excited for this gorgeous baby girl that will be here shortly! It was so fun to throw this shower and see all of our friends from our old awesome 19th ward! I miss that ward so much...

Jackson and Emmett Rock- don't they look like they could at least be cousins? Emmett is SO dang cute- I really do hope Jackson turns out like him!

Sadly, Andrew's MBA Program does a mini study abroad over Spring Break and he is in England right now... for 10 FREAKING days! That is the longest we've ever ever ever been apart and I have been crying a lot. I am so clingy to him and always have been since day 1. On Tuesday, March 8 it will be our 3 year anniversary and he will be gone, I am so sad. I tried to pack Jackson with him, but then realized that Andrew isn't lactating so that plan didn't happen. Ha Ha!

Have a great week! LOVE YA!

Valentine's Day Treat!

2011-02-19T17:10:00.000-08:00

This V-day was a little different than most... low key, I guess we would call it, but it was great! Take out and sweats- my kind of night!

This is Jackson's cute V-day shirt... this lasted about 2 hours before he pooped all over it... typical!

For Valentine's we decided to give Jackson a little treat... RICE CEREAL! He loved it (I think)! If you notice in the next few pictures he wouldn't take his eyes off of the bowl, ha ha!

So the Bumbo is working great, but Mr Thunder Thighs might not fit into it much longer, so I've been looking at high chairs online. I found a great one that holds up to 250 pounds... WHY IN THE HECK does a high chair need to hold 250 pounds? If Jackson is ever 250 pounds he better be taller than his 6'4" father or else... ha ha!
Anyways, do any of you wise, experienced mom's have a high chair they love? tips? suggestions? Any advice would be great!

RANDOMS...

I got Andrew this shirt for Father's Day this last June... So nice of Andrew to share his gift with Jackson... HOP ON POP! I LOVE these two little butt nuggets! Jackson loves Andrew SO much and Andrew can get him to calm down when he's sad, laugh SO hard and they are so cute together. I am SO happy we had a boy cause their cute bond is heart warming!

My boy loves getting naked (a common theme for babies). I had to post this picture because his onesies always get stuck on his head... So please tell me why his head is in the 13%... I don't get it. It's not like it keeps me up at night thinking about it, I just think it's weird!

Jackson will be 5 Months on Monday the 21st and my o my I can't believe that I've had him in my life for only 5 months. I really can't imagine my life without him. I was looking at pictures the other day from 2008 and 2009 and thinking to myself, "Wow, what a life we had... get up and go whenever and do wahtever and come home whenever and not worry about bath time, bed time, story time, tummy time... how many wet and dirty diapers someone has had, how many minutes someone has eaten... and the list goes on." It's almost weird to imagine what a carefree life I used to live and how the only person I had to plan around was myself. I LOVE my new life as a mother and seriously wouldn't trade it for anything! Motherhood is such a blessing and I am grateful to be a mama!

P.S.- Jackson is kinda sick right now, cough, choking on his mucusy crap in his throat, runny nose- SO sad! Pray for my little nugget to not get croup like the Dr said it might turn into... and that I won't get an ulcer worrying about it. . .

Have a great week! LOVE YA!

Jackson, Jackson, Jackson!

2011-02-01T19:57:00.000-08:00

While we were in St. George last weekend I had my cute cusin Mandy take some pictures of Jackson. Man alive did they turn out cute- how could they not, right? Thanks again Mandy!

I love my little man...

I hope you all enjoyed these pictures as much as I do... Love Ya!

Blah...

2011-01-24T21:35:00.001-08:00

Today is just one of those poop up your back twice and spit up all over days, ya know. Man, I am just t.i.r.e.d. today. And, on top of it, I locked myself out of my house (yes, in cold cold Logan with my little man) and I kicked one of my little brats out of my ballet class tonight because she was laughing out loud and rolling her eyes like nobody's business... SO ANNOYING! But, tomorrow will be a great day- a few of my friends I used to work with are coming over with all their babies for lunch- I need some social interaction desperately...

Here is what we've been up to lately...

~My adorable little nephew, McKay, turned 1! He is SO cute and such a happy little guy! The first birthday is always so fun when they cake themselves in cake! It was funny becuase when McKay was getting all messy his cute older brother Dylan (3) was really concerned that he was getting so dirty and making such a mess. I have THE CUTTEST nephews in the whole world!

~Jackson went through a "I need my mama 24-7" phase... cute, but exhausting...Because of it we've been spending a lot of time doing this...

~Then, Jackson turned 4 months!!! Yes, I wrote a letter to Father Time and told him to put the brakes on his speedy time machine because once again, I can't believe how fast time is flying!

Jackson had to go to his 4 month check up and he had quiet the growth spirt- yahoo!

HEIGHT: 25 inches (58%)
WEIGHT: 15 lb. 12 oz. (72%)
HEAD: 40.5 cm (13%)

I am so happy that he is getting taller, I mean, his papa is 6'4" so hopefully (I pray every night) that he gets those tall Hyde genes! I am most surprised that Jackson's head is so "small." I don't think he looks like he has a small head at all, but o well, he sure is DANG CUTE!
Chubby Legs got shot!

~Then, this last weekend my mom, sister, aunt and cousin decided to run the St. George Marathon so me and Jackson tagged along and had a great time. A road trip with a 4 month old was a new experience for me... You can only imagine how it was. Jacks really did do a good job and slept in the car a lot when it was his nap time, but sometimes he didn't and it literally gave me a stomach ache- I HATE when his schedule gets messed up because I am a psychotic nazi about it...

Binki and Finger in mouth, ready to go!

Chillin' at the Condo...

My mom after her run- she's so awesome!

Jackson and Emily...

Matching grey shirts and black sweats for the ride home...

I had to throw this picture in, not because Jackson is wearing an awesome Rolling Stones shirt (you're welcome Grandpa Ned), but because can you see our little hidden accident...all day long...

Tomorrow, please be sweet to me... LOVE YA!

I Feel Special...

2011-01-11T21:33:00.000-08:00

This little jacket, hanging by the doorway... makes me feel special...

This binki, in my purse... makes me feel special...

When I am holding Jackson in sacrament and he starts smiling and laughing at the couple behind us, that makes me feel special... mostly because I used to be the person sitting behind the cute babies at church and now I have one of my very own cute babies.

Adorable Story: So lately Jackson has found his voice and my little man just talks and talks all day. At church on Sunday when we started singing the first hymn, so did he! He hadn't made a peep before that and as soon as everyone started singing so did he, it was SO cute! And, tonight when I was singing to him he popped his binki out and started singing with me! It seriously metls my heart!

Jackson is SO funny- he loves his hands in his mouth...

ONE

TWO

THREE

I have always loved Jackson (obviously), but I am really just falling in love with him more and more everyday. We have this gorgeous big picture of the Temple on our wall and Jackson was looking at it a little bit ago and I was telling him all about the Temple and how he'd get to go there one day before he goes on his mission and yep, you guessed it- I started crying! I can't imagine not seeing my baby for 1 day- how could I do 2 years?!?!?

And, my cute friend Whitney put this song on her blog called Never Grow Up by Taylor Swift and yep, you guessed it, I cry literally everytime I hear it! This song makes me want to just snuggle my baby all day long (I do anyways), but seriously makes me realize how tiny and precious this time in my life and Jackson's life is. I honestly would do anything for my baby boy and I hope he will always know that!

Here is the cutest video you'll ever see- it'll probably win an award soon... Don't laugh at me in the background- if you have kids you know you do anything and everything to get them to laugh and if you don't have kids, you just wait- you'll sound like an idiot in the back ground of all your videos too, I'm sure of it!

Go ahead, watch it again- I know you want to- I won't judge you...

I thank the Lord everyday for giving me the privilege to be his mother and know that it truely is the most amazing blessing in the world!

I hope you all have a great week, if you watch Jackson's video I'm positive you will!

LOVE YA!

It's true...

2010-12-26T15:55:00.000-08:00

Holidays really are SO much better once you have kid(s)! Yes, I know that Jackson is only 3 months and has no idea what is even going on, but when he is older he can see the cute pictures and know that we really did care, ha ha! This is how our Christmas Holiday panned out...

DEC. 23, 2010

We spent this night with the Hyde family- it was such a fun night! We had dinner, a pinata with lots of candy, white elephant, then tried to do the manger scene with the 3 Hyde boys, but that didn't work out so well, but it'll be fun to see how it will progressively get better each year, then we did some Christmas songs on chimes, Gay read us our new Christmas book and read the nativity story from the scriptures. It really was way fun and I love the Hydes so much!

Me and Amy got way cute matching Christmas Pajama's for the boys, but Jackson had a HUGE blow out in his (typical Jackson, my boy can poooooop!). We thought it'd be a fun memory to remember so we took a picture while he was naked and his pj's were being cleaned off. ; )

I'm pretty sure this was meant for Dylan and McKay, but Andrew and Wes had a lot of fun with it...

Hyde Cousins!

McKay as the Shepard...

Dylan as the Wiseman...

Jackon as the babe in a manger...

Christmas Songs with the Chimes...

Each year Kyle and Gay give us a new Christmas Book, this year's book was Penny's Christmas Jar Miracle. It is a cute story you all should read. We also got a cute jar to fill throughout the year with our pennies to give to someone in need next Christmas- way cute idea!

DEC. 24, 2010

We did Christmas at our house with my cute little family. We got up and opened gifts with Jackson. He sure is spoiled! Santa got him a cute Aggie outfit, a nice space heater for his cold room (that mama might steal), some onesies that actually fit and lots of cute little toys and stuff that I am sure he would just die without- ha ha! Santa brought Andrew Black Ops, NBA 2K11, some DVD's, a way cute 49ers shirt, Jazz shirt... sports fan, or not? And a bunch of other crap he doesn't need. Santa brought me the Kim Kardashian perfume, dvd's, some much needed knee high socks, tanning lotion (why is tanning lotion so expensive, lame), cute purse and a bunch of other crap I don't need... AND the best of all Andrew got me he said I would get later on in the day... So, we cleaned everything up, got packed, fed the baby and were on our way to home sweet Sandy! So, we get in the car... we're talkin'... and, "Weird, my back feels really warm..."... we're talking... "Seriously, my back feels like my seats are like heated or something..." ...we're talking... "Holy Cow, my butt feels warm too..." And Andrew says, "MERRY CHRISTMAS, I GOT THE SEATS HEATED!!!" I was SO SO SO beyond happy! I really did almost cry! Hands down- best Christmas ever! I've never had a car with heated seats and I told Andrew that we'll never buy a car without heated seats again! He stole my car on Wednesday and got it done and I had no idea! He is SO sweet- his gift was so thoughtful!

Jackson's Gifts...

My Gifts...

Andrew's Gifts...

Jackson in his new Bumbo from Grandma and Grandpa Hyde!

Our traditional picture in front of our tree... o wait, you can't see our tree, that's because our tree was about 3 feet tall because our couch is GINORMOUS and we don't have room for a big tree like the last few year, but next year, when Andrew is graduated and we live in a mansion we'll have a GINORMOUS tree... right?

Our 2010 Traditional Ornament... To bad this frame is so small and my face is SO FAT in this picture...

New tradition- handprint ornament of all my babies!(Sorry this pic won't turn!) Jackson has his daddy's hands- wide, big palms, short, thick fingers and a cricked pinky- I think it's cute!

That night we just hung out with my family, ate way too much food and had so much fun doing nothing. We always get Christmas pajamas and this year we decided to get Jazz pajamas cause we love the Jazz!
At my parent's house...

Could he be any cutter?!?

Jazz Pajama's!

Siegfried Sisters!

DEC. 25, 2010

We all got up and opened tons of presents like always. One of my parents gifts is always a trip. The last few trips we've gotten have been to Hawaii which is obviously the best trip ever, but we decided that it would be better to do that every other year and do somewhere new the other years. So, this year we are going to go on a church history tour back to Palmyra and stuff- I am SO excited!

Jackson madeout like a bandit this year- holy cow he got SO SO SO much! Grandma and Grandpa Hyde got him a Jumparoo, a Bumbo with a tray and lots of cute toys for the bath and to hang on his car seat. Grandma and Grandpa Siegfried got him the cutest little recliner that is brown and matches my couches at home, clothes, Disney movies and lots of little toys. Did I already mention that he is spoiled... spoiled rotten, but that is how it is supposed to be, right?

Jackson's cute little brown recliner that he will love for a long time I am sure of it!

Since we did those pctures for our parents early for Christmas, we wanted them to have something to open on Christmas Day so we made a cute photo book with the pictures in it with fun memories from each kid- they loved it!

We always have my dad's family over after we open our gifts on Christmas day for lunch so they came over and we, again, ate way too much and had lots of fun playing cards and talking all afternoon!

We really are so blessed to have such amazing families and hope that you all had an amazing Holiday Season too!!!

LOVE YA!

o.m.g.

2010-12-21T15:30:00.000-08:00

WwWwWoOoOoWwWwW I CAN NOT BELIEVE MY BABY BOY IS 3 MONTHS OLD!!! It really is bittrsweet, but o how sweet it is. Jackson is seriously the best baby in the world- even when he is so tired cause he's missed a full nap he just sits there and hangs out, he doesn't fuss or cry hardly ever. He really only cries when he gets in his car seat- man alive does he hate that thing! Once he is in there and we pick it up and get moving he is usually ok, or if the car is moving he is good, but those Stop signs or red lights just abut kill us. How does he know when the car is not moving? He is SO smart! He can hold his bead up really pretty good and has rolled from tummy to back a few times, but won't do it again- good thing we got it on video! I LOVE LOVE LOVE being a mom and love watching my little nugget grow and develop each day. He is starting to talk SO much now and absolutely loves Andrew. He is constantly watching him and when Andrew says, "Hi Buddy!" Jackson gets the biggest smile and it makes me melt everytime because I want them to be bff. And, like father, like son- Jackson LOVES watching TV and will seriously about break his neck if I turn him away from it! It is really funny...

Here are our 3 month pictures!

1 Week Nugget!

1 Month Chunkie Nugget!

2 Month Chubby Nugget!

3 Month Huge Nugget!

And, because it is Christmas time I will give you all a few more pictures of my cute baby. (What did I blog about before Jackson was here???)

We took Jackson to see Santa- it was so much fun! Jackson just sat there and could have cared less that a big fat stranger with a snarly white beard longer than my hair was holding him- ha ha!

Santa's Little Elf- check out that muffin top!

Santa's Little Man- check out the scratch on his nose... poor guy! I hate cutting his nails because by the end of it I am sweating because it makes me so nervous I am going to cut the top of his finger off!

Giraffe Jackson- my mom got this adorable hat at the Farmer's Market- she is such a great grandma- he is SO spoiled having the best grandma's in the world!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!!! LOVE YA!

Siegfried Family Pictures 2010

2010-12-10T14:06:00.000-08:00

This year for Christmas the Siegfried kids (I will always be a Siegfried kid at heart- I LOVE my maiden name) decided to get family pictures done for our parents. We were going to get them done as a surprise, but decided that we wanted our parents in the pictures so we (Emily) made them a little gift certificate for Family Pictures and we gave it to them in November as an early Christmas picture so that they could be in them. We got them done by Kellee Smith from Moments By Kellee. She did my bridals and engagements, but was already booked for our wedding day, but she is by far the very best photographer out there! She really is so much fun to work with and I check her blog like it is my job- Thanks Kellee!

Whole Family...

Mom and Dad...

Kids...

Girls and Dad...

Girls and Mom...Fierce Five!

Fab Sisters... We wish we were Kardashians- we like to pretend we are! Ha Ha!

Boys...

Coleman...

Chloe...

Emily...

Meggie...

Andrew...

Ali...

Ali and Mom...

Ali and Dad...

My cute family...

We are SO happy with how the pictures turned out! Hope that you all are having a great Christmas Season this year!

JACKSON UPDATE...

My baby rocks! That is pretty much all you need to know... He sleeps through the night, is weighing in at 13.7 pounds and is in the 75% for weight, but just the 10% for height and 10% for head which is really weird cause I do not feel like he has a little head. I think he is trying to really get into the holiday season and look like Santa- short and chubby, but O SO SO SO ADORABLE! I seriously can't imagine my life without this little guy!

Funny Funny Funny Story- - -

I was "talking" to Jackson and Andrew was sitting right there with us and I said, "Jackson, I might have to shove my boot up dad's butt!" cause Andrew and I were teasing each other and Jackson got the saddest look on his face and then started bawling!!! I seriously was laughing so hard I couldn't even comfort him! I am still laughing as I am typing this! HA HA HA!

LOVE YA!!!

Jackson's First Turkey Day!

2010-11-27T19:05:00.000-08:00

This year we went to Andrew's aunt Julia's house in Bear Lake for Thanksgiving- we had 46 people there so it was a lot of fun. I feel like Thanksgiving is supposed to be loud, wild and have tons of people there so I felt right at home. Jackson loved the turkey and mashed potatoes... Ya right- he didn't get any, but I ate some for him... ; )

I started this cute tradition when we got married,that every Thanksgiving "Turkey Tom" brings you a new shirt so that you look cute on Thanksgiving- Andrew really loves it... not.

My cute friend Shawna made Jackson THE CUTEST Thanksgiving Turkey shirt EVER!!! Jackson looked SO adorable for his first Thanksgiving!

Papa and Jackson!

Mama and Jackson!

All of these cute babies got to spend their first Thanksgivings together- how cute!

Jackson(2months) and his cousin McKay (10months)

All the babies oldest to youngest. I think it was 10, 6,5,4 and 2 months, but I might be wrong... All I know is Jackson weights as much as the tiny little girl next to us and I am pretty positive she is 4 months!

Hyde Cousins- Jackson, Dylan and McKay!

My cute Family!

My Little Turkey! Can you imagine your chubby cheeks just resting on your chest because you have no neck... SO cute!

Cheesy Bib, I know, but I thought it would be cute pictures for a second...
OF COURSE we watched football too! Andrew was holding Jackson and all the boys screamed at the TV and Jackson wasn't very happy about it. He didn 't cry, he just made a sad face... Am I a bad mom that I think his sad face is SO cute?!?

On Friday night we got to go to the Jazz- Lakers Game! It was a WAY good game! My mom was so sweet and sacrificed her ticket to stay home and watch Jackson! She said she would rather stay home with him than go to some dumb basketball game. She got him to drink his entire bottle (4oz), gave him a bath and when we got home he was such a happy little guy! My mom is so sweet!

I hope that all of you had a great Thanksgiving! This year I am especially grateful for my health. My cousin, Kalli, passed away a few weeks ago at the young age of 26 due to diabetes and complications because of it. I really have always been really pretty healthy and I will forever be grateful for it. I know Jackson might not be here if I wasn't and that thought just breaks my heart.

I also am more than grateful for Andrew this year. (great, I am already starting to cry and I haven't even written anything yet...) Andrew is doing his 2 year Master's program in 1 year AND working! I seriously can't imagine being as busy as he is with everything that he has going on. He has literally made my dreams come true by providing for our family so that I can be the stay at home mom that I have always wanted to be. I complain a lot and he is always so good to me and never complains back. He is so amazing and me and Jackson love him to pieces. Jackson loves staring at his Papa and it makes me so happy!

LOVE YA!

Big Big Boy!

2010-11-21T22:25:00.000-08:00

Time, please slow down, my baby boy is 2 MONTHS OLD NOW and I CAN NOT, repeat, CAN NOT believe it!!! I seriously feel like we just brought him home! I love him to death and hate being around family with him cause I never get to hold him and I miss him! I seriously am SO blessed that I get to stay home with Jackson- I know that it is not possible for everyone to be a stay at home mom, so I am really grateful that I get to. Here are 2 month pictures...

1 WEEK

1 MONTH

2 MONTHS

Here are his stats from his 2 month appointment...

Weight 12lbs 2 oz (68%)
Height 22.25 inches (28%)
Head 38.25cm (17%)

Short and Fat- just like I imagined... I am surprised he's not taller cause Andrew is so tall, but he's still really young and has pleanty of time to grow, grow, grow!

He had to get shots at his appointment... :( I really was stressing about it, but he did great. He only cried for 30 seconds and then he was fine. His little legs were sore that night and every time I touched them wrong he'd cry, which made me cry and I felt so bad. Seriously, how do you hold a baby without touching their legs, or pushing them up against you... I'd like to know...

Shots on his chubby little legs... ; (

We got THE MOST ADORABLE Thanksgiving shirt for Jackson, so be VERY excited to see pictures this next week... LOVE YA!

Look...

2010-11-11T19:08:00.000-08:00

WHO'S SMILING NOW!!!

This sweet smile is why I get nothing done all day...

How can having a newborn be hard when they are this cute?

I seriously love his smiles! (I think he looks like me as a baby in this picture...)

SO ADORABLE! I LOVE his Big Cheesy Grin!

This is right after he was choking and I was almost crying it scared me so bad- I guess I should be glad he wasn't too sad about it...

This last Sunday, November 7 we blessed Jackson. Andrew did such a great job and I am beyond grateful for all the worthy priesthood holders in our lives. After the blessing we had a great luncheon with lots of yummy food! Thanks to everyone who brought something- it was delicious!

My sister in law Amy made us a blessing blanket and so did my Grandma Siegfried so Jackson looked like a big snowball, but it was totally so cute! Both the blankets were awesome- I could no way make something like that!

Center pieces... each table had candy on it with the most adorable pictures of Jacks!

We had a great turn out and I am so happy everyone could make it!

Food, Food Food! We had TONZ of leftovers and I was SO stressed that we weren't going to have enough... I hate throwing parties and having to stress about the food.

All the Hydes...

All the Siegfrieds...

Jacks is now 11 lbs. 11 oz. Yes, he does have a muffin top. Yes, he does have the chubbiest thighs EVER. And Yes, I could just eat him up!!!

LOVE YA!

First Halloween!

2010-11-02T22:17:00.000-07:00

We had a great Baby Proof Halloween this year!

First Halloween!

Grandma Siegfried got this cute hat at the Farmer's Market! Look how much happier he is in these pitures than the one above... babies really do love to be naked!

My Little Pumpkin Head!

Naturally, Jackson had to be a bear for Halloween because we called him Baby Bear before we named him!

Bear Hyde!

Bear Hunters and Bear!

Lion, Tiger and Bear... O MY!

Andrew Olson- 3 weeks, Olivia Larsen- 2 Weeks and Jackson- 5.5 Weeks! These other babies made me raelize how bald my little nugget is, and how tan his skin really is! Dang- I wish I was as tan as Jackson! He seriously looks like he got an awesome spray on tan! Ha Ha!

Jackson's First Day at Church- Oct. 31, 2010
He did really good... He slept the whole time, other than when I had to feed him (I feel special that I can now go in the MOTHER'S ONLY room! Ha Ha!)

So happy to go to church!

Jackson is 6 weeks today!!! HOLY COW! I LOVE my baby boy! Thanks to Baby Wise and mostly my Babywise Coach Magdalena he is sleeping 8 hours through the night. Let me re-type that so you all know it wasn't a typo... JACKSON IS SLEEPING 8 HOURS THROUGH THE NIGHT!!! So to answer the question that everyone asks, Yes, we are getting some sleep around here! Sorry- I am bragging about how FREAKING awesome Jacks is, but isn't that the job of a mother... to brag about their babies? If the mom doesn't brag about the baby then who will?!?

LOVE YA!

O Baby!

2010-10-21T18:16:00.000-07:00

HOLY COW, someone please tell me that Jackson is not really already a month!!! I CAN NOT BELIEVE IT! I have loved this last month of my life more than anything and can't imagine my life without my baby boy! I seriously love him more than anything!!!

ONE WEEK- Sept. 28, 2010

ONE MONTH- Oct. 21, 2010

I LOVE my chunky monkey and I know you do to! AHHH, I just want to eat him up!!! It is seriously so hard for me to put him down for naps cause I miss him so much! He is the best baby ever!

LOVE YA!

Newborn Pictures by Blakelee

2010-10-14T20:34:00.000-07:00

My cute cousin took these pictures for us over Conference Weekend when Jackson was almost 2 weeks old. She did such a good job and Jacks really did too. I LOVE MY BABY BOY!

Enjoy these pictures as much as I do!

My baby boy is 3.5 weeks old and seriously where has the time gone? I CAN NOT believe he's almost a month! It makes me so sad, but excited to see him growing and can't wait til he can throw a ball around with Andrew and run around and stuff... Well, maybe I can wait cause he's just so precious!

LOVE YA!

Jackson's Birth Story Part 2

2010-10-05T21:06:00.000-07:00

This is the longer part, and there are pictures! Yahoo!

Enjoy...

It really was so crazy! So I make it to the bathroom and sit there while my water just keeps breaking and breaking. I was kind of crying/ freaking out cause once your water breaks you are for sure having a baby! Em said, “Ali, it’s ok! What should I do?” And I said, “I need you to go get me some new undies cause these are all wet!” We both kinda laughed, but I was dead serious! Later I would find out that this was a dumb idea because your water breaks and breaks and breaks. Emily ran out to my car cause my hospital bag was out there with everything I needed. While she was doing that she called Andrew and told him to get ready! So, Angie- our studio owner finished my class and was so excited for me! My little girls were a little freaked out I think, but it was way exciting to them too. As me and Emily are going out to the car my water is breaking, breaking, breaking! She obviously drove my car home- not like a grandma- and our front seat was getting soaked. Luckily I had a blanket in my car so we grabbed that for me to sit on. As we were driving home I called my mom, dad, Andrew’s mom , my aunt Julee, both my grand parents and Meggie. I was SO freaking excited! We got to our house, Andrew ran out and we were off to the hospital.

I had called the hospital on our way home from ballet too so they were all ready for me to come! And, because of our prenatal classes they told us to request a corner room if we could cause they were bigger and I am so happy we did cause we got one! At this point I really was feeling fine still- I was having contractions, but again was too distracted to time them and they weren’t hurting or anything. When we got checked in, around 6:45pm, they checked me and I was still only dialated to a 1.5 and 70% effaced.

I was shocked cause I thought for sure I would be more, but o well. My mom was on her way, Emily met us at the hospital and Andrew’s mom was going to come when my mom got there. Emily was my personal stylist for this blessed event!

Emily and Andrew were hungry so Emily left and got them Taco Bell and me and Andrew just kinda hung out. We didn’t have a name picked out yet, and I really wasn’t that concerned about it, but Andrew really was so we talked about that while everyone was gone. A nurse came in then and gave me an IV. This was the first IV I’ve ever had in my life and it was the worst part of the whole delivery. The nurse did not do a very good job and I was not very happy cause it really did hurt. Then my mom got there and we called Andrew’s mom and she came over. My dad, Meggie, Chloe and Cole were on there way and were going to go and stay at our house. When Andrew’s mom Gay got there, Emily left and went to go let my family into my house and get Andrew’s backpack and homework and stuff.

When Emily came back she brought Chloe with her so she could see me and wish me luck.

At this point I was starting to feel the contractions getting stronger and stronger and was shaking again. Whenever I was shaking it looked more like I was freezing and was having the shivers.The nurses called them the Mommy Shakes. I didn’t want to get my epideral yet so they gave me some fentanyl so that it would take the edge off. The nurse said I would start to feel a little loopy and tired and I was like, “OK, that’s fine.” Within about 30 seconds I felt it kick in and got really dizzy and tired- I couldn’t believe how fast it worked! It made it so that I could not feel the contractions at all. I even fell asleep for a little bit of it which I didn’t think was possible to do while you were in labor, but I guess it is.

After about an hour the fentanyl wore off and I started feeling the contractions more and more. The nurse said I could get the epideral if I wanted, but I still wanted to wait. Call me crazy, but I really did want to feel labor pains for a little bit. Instead of the epideral I did a second round of fentanyl, but the nurse warned me that my contractions were stronger than before and that usually the second round of fentanyl doesn’t work so well. Well, she was right, it was not working hardly at all so I decided that it was time for the epideral. I was really nervous because I really hate needles, but o my goodness it was SOOO worth it! The anesthesiologist, Dr. Skablin came in and he was really nice. When he walked in I said, “I want to make this as easy as I can on you and I have a really flexible back so I will get in any position you want me to get in.” He kinda laughed and just told me to sit on the side of the bed and let my knees hang off. He had Andrew get in front of my like we were going to hug and hold me still. I was holding onto Andrew’s sides and was preparing for the worst. The Dr really did do so good and I promise you that getting the IV was way way way worse. I got the epideral at 00:52 (that’s what I had to write on the papers they had me sign) so now it is Tuesday, September 21. The epideral was great. I really did love it because I didn’t feel loopy or anything, I just felt the pain go away. I really feel like it made the whole experience enjoyable. The next few hours were pretty boring. We watched Enchanted, Andrew did some homework, me, my mom and Gay all just kinda sat there and tried to get some rest.

When I had a contraction the baby’s heart rate would go down a little bit, so they were a little nervous, but said that it was pretty common, I just needed to be on a little bit of oxygen. Because we were there for so long we went through 3 nurses, but my second nurse said that when she checked me she was a little curious what position the baby was in. Holy Cow did that make me nervous- then, I got mad because I told Andrew that the first nurse that we had acted a little funny about where the baby was and I could tell, but no one else said anything. So, they did an ultrasound and found out that he was face up! I freaked out just a tiny bit, but the nurse said that she’s 99% positive that he will flip by the time I am ready to deliver. As soon as the nurses left the room I made Andrew say a prayer that the baby would turn- if anyone could get the baby to turn it would be the Lord so I thought it was a good idea.

The epideral was still pretty good, I couldn’t feel hardly anything, but it was a lot stronger on my left side. I could still feel my right leg, wiggle my toes and move my knee. It made me nervous that by the time I was ready to push I would regret not having the anesthesiologist come fix it so he did. He just put a little something extra in there, I felt a cold rush go down my back through the tubes and then I was fine. I got checked again and this time the nurse said that she felt another little bag of water that never broke and that they’d get Dr. Horsley in here to check it. When he came in I couldn’t have been happier to see his face. He was going to be out of town from Set. 24- 29 and I was freaking out that I wouldn’t be able to have him delivery the baby. He broke that extra little bag and said he’d see my hopefully soon. Around 8:00 my third nurse said that I was ready to push and that she’d get the Dr as soon as she could see the baby’s head about the size of a silver dollar. She said that I would probably push for a few hours so that I didn’t need to worry that Dr. Horsley was in assisting Dr. Olson in a C-section. Well, that nurse was wrong and pushed for less than an hour.

Honestly, the hardest part of pushing was when I had to hold my breath for 10 seconds. When I told the nurse that I think that she thought that I was crazy but really I am not good at holding my breath and I never have been. So when it was time Dr. Horsley came in, got his new gear on and the baby’s heart rate dramatically dropped down to around 30. A baby’s heart rate needs to be around 120-170, so 30 is SCARY! I don’t think I realized how bad it was, but it was because my placenta tore away from my uterus the last minute of my delivery. It was seriously a blessing that Dr. Horsley was there just in time. After the Dr was all ready the nurse had me push one more time and then said, “Stop, now watch your baby come out!” I had a mirror there and it was beyond cool to watch the baby come out. Dr. Horsley then suctioned a bunch of fluid out of the baby’s mouth and then put him on my tummy. While he was laying on me I just wanted to pick him up and kiss him, but he was pretty messy. Andrew and a nurse wiped him off and then they took him over to get some shots and check everything else. Because my placenta tore away from my uterus the baby swallowed a little bit of blood, but they were so good and got it out as fast as they could. I didn’t get to see most of what happened next because I was being stitched up and was crying cause I was so excited.

The baby was 19 ½ inches long and 6 lbs. 12 oz. They whole time I was pushing they told me that he’d come out with a cone head, but that it would go pretty much go away after about 48 hours, so he might really only be 19 inches, but whatever. The baby was crying quiet a bit, but they said that that was a good thing. Then I fed him and he didn’t make a peep for about the next two hours! Meggie, Emily and Chloe’ then came walking through the door and it made me so happy to see them. Meggie was crying the most so I said, “Meggie’s crying the hardest- she loves baby the most so she gets to hold him first!” We had to then move to the 3rd floor, the Mother Baby Unit, and when we did we had lots of visitors. It really was such an awesome experience and I honestly can’t wait to do it again. I feel so blessed with how everything worked out and how everything was such a great experience. I hope that everyone gets to experience childbirth!

My AWESOME cousin just took newborn pictures of Jacks, but I will post those another day- they turned out SO SO SO cute!

LOVE YA!

The Birth Story Part 1

2010-10-02T00:00:00.000-07:00

So, I have been wanting to post the birth story since baby Jackson came along, but man alive have I been busy. I LOVE LOVE LOVE being a mom and can not believe how rewarding it is. Seriously Jackson is the best thing that has ever happened to me and I hope and pray that everyone can enjoy being a mother as much as I am right now.

Anyways, so I have been typing up the birth story now for a week or so and it is already 4.5 pages, size 11 font, single spaced. Details. Detail. Details. I seriously want to remember everything about everything! I know that it is probably over the top, and Andrew thinks that no one will want to read it, but he has no idea what goes on on these blogs. Ha Ha! I am goingto post half now and half later cause it seriously is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO long!

Enjoy Part 1 of Jackson's Birth...

I feel like the “birth story” really started a few days before the actual birth of baby Jackson. I feel like there were a few things that needed to be done and put in place before he came into our lives. On Saturday, September 18 I threw a bridal shower with Cassidy Fitt for Becca Lesher down in Sandy. I was really happy that I was able to do that for her and even happier that Andrew was able to go down with me because at our Dr. appointment earlier that week Dr. Horsley stripped my membranes so I really didn’t want Andrew more than 5 minutes away from me at all! The shower went great, I got to see all my friends and nothing went wrong. After the shower we were planning on going home to Logan because I wanted to stay close to Dr. Horsley in case something happened. As we were saying goodbye to my family I was giving my dad a hug goodbye and said, “Love Ya- this is probably the last time I’ll see you pregnant!” Then it hit me that I remembered that I really wanted Andrew and my dad to give me a blessing before I had the baby and I knew that this would probably be the last time we were all going to be together before the baby would come. I immediately started crying because I felt the Spirit so strong. Andrew and my dad seriously gave me the best blessing. I really felt so comforted after and like everything really was going to be just perfect.

That night I started having contractions every 5 minutes apart. At our prenatal classes they said to come to the hospital when your contractions were regularly 5 minutes apart or closer. So, after an hour of contractions I started crying and freaking out. I was just crying because of the emotions of it all and being so excited and just overwhelmed. I called my sister Emily to come over and help Andrew calm me down and to most importantly, curl my hair. The whole time I was pregnant we joked that she was going to have to hurry and curl my hair as soon as I went into labor so that I would look fabulous in all of the millions of pictures we were going to be taking. So, she comes over around 1:00 AM and sat with me and Andrew while I was uncontrollably shaking and having my contractions. Then we started doing my hair and as soon as we were about half way done my contractions stopped. So, nothing exciting happened after that, I went to bed looking fabulous and Emily went home. I had the worst night sleep EVER because I was so freaked out that the contractions would come back or that my water would break and I would just sleep through it. All night I tried to keep myself awake, but nothing happened.

Then, Sunday morning I got up and no way was I going to church- I felt like it would have been way too much so I just stayed home and made Andrew stay home with me. Then, again that Sunday night contractions every 5 minutes came back. I was so annoyed with them because the same thing happened- after about an hour and a half of them they just stopped. I was so mad because I really wanted the baby to be born on a “teen” date- like 17, 18 or 19. So, I started crying because the baby was going to have a “twenty” birthday and I was so mad he’d have a stupid birthday. I know that it seriously doesn’t matter, but it really does to me. Andrew was trying to be so sweet to me while I was crying, but I know he secretly thought that I was absolutely nuts.

On Monday, September 20 I really didn’t have anything going on. I cleaned my house a little bit and didn’t do much. A few days ago I had a really really cool experience about the blessings of paying tithing and ever since it happened I felt like I really needed to write it down. I felt like I really needed to do it because if I didn’t I wiould forget it and after the baby would be here I would be too busy to write it down. So, I wrote in my journal and Emily brought me Old Grist Meal for lunch and we sat here together and ate until we had to go teach ballet. It is also very ironic that we ate Old Grist Meal for lunch because I said a few months ago that I wanted to eat something light like a sandwich before I had the baby because I didn’t want to get sick from something too heavy because of all of the medication that I knew I would be on.

Lately, every time that me and Emily were together I made her drive because I told her after I have the baby I was going to have to drive us everywhere because of the car seat, but I drove to ballet today because Emily’s license got suspended and now she drives like a grandma and I really hate it. She was fine with me driving as long as we could end our last class 10 minutes early and I would drop her at the Ellen Eccles Theatre so she could go to a play for her Creative Arts class. I told her that was fine. We got to ballet, I felt great, nothing was different. First class- great, maybe a few contractions. Second class- I realized that I hadn’t felt the baby for a little bit so I made Emily warm our girls up alone so that I could drink some water, eat some sugar and lay on my side to get the baby to move. As soon as I felt him moving I was fine and got up and helped her finish class. Third class, our last class was great. I was having contractions, but was too distracted to count them, time them or even worry about them. And, because what had happened the two nights before I was mad at my contractions for playing tricks on me so I didn’t care at all. Emily was teaching most of the class and I was kind of assisting so that she can be more used to it for when I go on maternity leave. I knew we were going to have leave early so I kinda let Emily just take over and I started cleaning our stuff up, putting our elastabands away, writing on our time cards and putting our poster of ballet vocab words all away so that we could leave early. At 6:15 Emily needed to go change into her real clothes so that I could drop her at her play. So, I started teaching a new grande battement combination while Emily got her clothes to go change. After teaching for about 30 second MY WATER BROKE!!! It was so weird. So, I screamed, “Emily!” , but she just kept walking cause she couldn’t hear me. I started running towards her and told my girls to hold on (like I would be coming back to class or something…) So I screamed louder, “Emily!!!” and she turned around and I was running to her and I screamed, “MY WATER BROKE!!!”

Next Up.. Jackson's Birth Story Part 2... Love Ya!

Fine, I will put just 1 picture up because HOLY FREAKING COW is Jacks the cutest or what!!!

This was after bath time on Sunday, September 26...

Love Ya!

Jackson Andrew Hyde

2010-09-21T19:37:00.000-07:00

No time to talk, just pictures today!

We are SO SO SO in love with this little man! I'll tell the birth story and have more pictures later... Thanks for everyone's prayers and text, sorry if I never texted back, life has been totally crazy! LOVE YOU!

...FALSE ALARMS...

2010-09-19T20:53:00.000-07:00

Here is how my Saturday night went incase anyone was wondering...

CONTRACTIONS
11:44pm
11:54
11:59
12:04am
12:09
12:14
12:19
12:30
12:35
12:40
12:45
12:50
12:55
1:00
1:05
1:09
1:15
1:18
1:21
...
...
...
NOTHING!

They just stopped... HOLY CRAP is this annoying/ exciting/ scary/ frustrating/ overwhelming... After an hour we called Labor and Delivery and they said I could come in, or wait til they got worse and closer. I told them maybe I'd wait a little longer and then come if they were still coming on strong. I was seriously shaking uncontrollably. Ya know when you are shivering because you are SO freezing, that is what I was doing times 10! It was insane!

The whole time I've been pregnant me and my sister Emily have joked (but were totally serious) that when I was going into labor that she was going to come over and curl my hair all cute and big. SO, around 1:00am I called her BAWLING and she ran over- so sweet Em! As we were curling my hair and trying to distract me is when the contractions STOPPED... So, it's 2:00 in the morning, I'm lookng fabulous and have no contractions. Emily is exhausted and Andrew is passed out on the bed... All night I kept thinking those dang contractions would come back or my water would break, but NO! I had the worst night sleep because I was really trying to stay awake...

And, incase anyone is wondering what is going on now at the Hyde house, it is about the same... every 5 minutes, but not as intense as last night. I don't know what to do... I just want to have this baby RIGHT NOW!!!

Wish us luck! Love Ya!

P.S.- I am 39 weeks today- YAHOO!

These past few weeks...

2010-09-06T14:35:00.000-07:00

Well here we are, 8 months pregnant and ready to POP... literally! I can't imagine getting any bigger, but some how I do. Some how every Dr's appointment the scale keeps climbing higher and higher- what a confidence booster! Man Alive am I ready to be done! At my 36 week appointment I was dialated 1 cm. and 70% effaced. Yahoo! So, I have pretty much given up on an October baby, but that is ok because now we'll have 3 birthday months in a row!

August 30- Andrew
September ?- Baby Bear
October 1- Me!

Did you guys start dialating and effacing at 36 weeks? Just wondering what the norm is, but everyone is SO different I don't think there is a norm...

So I am still teaching ballet and it is so good for me. It is good to still feel involved, get a little bit of exercise and I really do still love it so much. Last week I made Emily take some pictures of me just because I am a dork and just to remember that I could still do a few things being 35 weeks pregnant.

Splits! (Sorry this pic won't flip!)

Arabesque!

Tilt!

Andrew turned 25! Yep, he's a quarter centery- what an old guy! I can't even explain how much I love him and how amazing he is to me. I really am not kidding- he NEVER EVER complains! He is always happy! Normal, I hate people that are always happy because I think that as a human you get mad, angry, frustrated, stressed, blah blah blah, but no- he doesn't. He always has things the way they need to be and everything works out so great. I couldn't have married a better man and I truly feel bad for everyone else cause no one else gets to be married to him but me!

Yes, this is the pathetic cake I made him... I have so much more respect for the ladies with the hair nets at the grocery store who decorate the cakes- this was super hard and it looks super not so good!

LOVE YOU BABE!

We didn't do anything too spectacular because I had ballet til later, it was pooring rain that day and I was just to dang tired! I got us Firehouse to go and we ate a fabulous dinner and then watched Date Night- one of his presents. We LOVE that show- it is seriously our favorite show!

I also got myself a rocking chair/ glider. I am in love with it! I seriously can't tell you how awesome it is! Sitting in one for 2 minutes in the store is great, but sitting in one for fifteen minutes at home just about puts me to sleep it is so relaxing! I think it is a for sure must for any mom! Andrew was not too thrilled with this prchase, but I have found him multiple times rocking away in the nursery because I know he loves it too- even if he won't admit it.

For Labor Day weekend my mom's side of the family rented out this cabin/lodge/ big open building thing up Logan Canyon at Camp Lomia. It was such a great weekend with everyone- I love having nothing planned, tons of food and family and games to play- we really did have so much fun!

For Sunday we had our own little meeting. My musical Aunt Julee did the music, my spiritual giant of a father did a little lesson and my grandpa did a great job conducting the whole thing and it was so great. We had a mini testimony meeting and it was really great. I love my family and am so grateful for the gospel in our lives.

This was the only part of the trip that I HATED, not hated, but HATED!!! We decided to drive up to Old Ephraim's Grave. Old Ephraim was like the world's largest bear and was buried up Logan Canyon. The reason that I hated this was because the road that we had to drive on was EXTREMELY bUmPy and EXTREMELY nArRoW! I don't do well with bumpy and narrow rides because it makes me nervous that our car will tip over or something. SO, adding the pregnancy too it made the trip even worse! And, when someone tells you that it is "just about 10 miles" you don't think that it will take AN HOUR to get there! Seriously every bump hurt my bump and it really was painful to try and hold my belly while we were going over such horrible roads! I cried a little bit on the way up, had a few contractions and complained the entire time. On the way home I didn't cry, I BAWLED my eyes out, had some very real contractions and made sure that everyone knew how much I hated the entire experinece! I'm just a real treat aren't I... ; )

Don't let these smiles fool you- I was in pain...

We also did SMORES- my favorite! My cousin Blakelee had THE BEST idea to use Reese's Peanut Butter Cups instead of chocolate- it was SO yummy! You have to try it!

It wouldn't be a normal Ripley Camping Weekend without a few campfire songs. Wonderfuly talented Julee had tons of songs to sing that brought back so many fun memories of camping when we were just little ones. Thanks Julee!

Singing songs and playing games!

I LOVE my family more than anything and really am so blessed to have them in my life!

Here is my last really great story... So you might know that I am a little superstitious. I am a littlestitious as Michael Scott would say. On June 6 I got a fortune cookie that said,

"Remember three months from this date. Good things are in store for you."

SO, three months is today- September 6... LABOR DAY! Seriously if I have this baby today (I'm sure I won't) I might have to change my religion to the Fortune Cookie Church of Truth!

I'll keep you guys informed on my progress with the pregnancy- I go back in to the Dr on Wednesday and I am SO excited to see how much more I am dialated and everything! And yes, our bags are packed and we're ready to go!

LOVE YA!

End of Summer

2010-08-22T20:11:00.000-07:00

We have tried to make the best of our last month of summer and have done a few fun things... Here are some pictures!

Went to the Cache Valley Fair and Rodeo ( I don't know why this picture has spots all over it, we took 2 different pictures in this cow barn and they were being so weird!)

Playing some softball...

Then, this last weekend we went up to Bear Lake with the Hyde Family. It really was so much fun! We went out to dinner...

Hung out with the smilliest little guy ever, Baby McKay!

All the boys watched Football, of course!

Threw some rocks...

Played with our toes...

Stayed up late playing games!

Got ready for the Lake- Dylan and Andrew are so cute together!

I seriously look like a whale in this picture!

We also have got our nursery "ready!" I say "ready" because the decorations that we have up are kind of temparary because I don't love them and because I want to hang newborn pictures of the baby up, but obviously can't do that yet. And, I want to hang his name either abouve the crib or above the curtains and since we don't have a name yet, we can't do that either... But, at least everything else that matters is ready! I LOVE our furniture and everything!

Crib!

Bedding from Pottery Barn

Dresser and Hutch!

Cute Changing Table that we mainly got to put these cute PB Baskets on for more storage space...

Curtains!

And, the best part- our diaper bags! Mine is SO freaking cute and I love love love it! I got the Michael Jordan one for Andrew's Car Diaper Bag- he thought it was pretty cool ;)

Lately, not just because I eat everything that I see or that pops into my mind, but because soon we will have a newborn- we have been making midnight trips to get slurpees, shakes and frostys- O WAIT, last night Wendy's RAN OUT OF FROSTY'S!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME! I was seriously angry! Anyways, that is why I am getting so big, but really we've got to live up our freedom while we can!

What else should we do while we can? Any suggestions? LOVE YA!

No, we didn't win the lottery...

2010-08-12T18:25:00.000-07:00

... this big beautiful wedding ring I am wearing is FAKE because my gorgeous real one won't fit these days. I had to go buy one my sausage like fingers could fit into... Seriously WHY do my fingers need to get fat for this kid to be healthy? I don't think that it makes any sense...

I am now 33 weeks and 4 days pregnant and am really looking for that light at the end of the tunnel. I am so over this. I am over wearing my only cute pair of pants every single day. I am over the long shirts that I HAVE to wear so that no body can see that my pants are not buttoned and are being held up by a hair elastic. I am over not being able to sleep comfortably AT ALL. I am over all of it.

I know that all of you are probably thinking that I am so ungrateful for this magical experience, but I am SO not! I have had the worlds easiest pregnancy- still no throw up, still no complications what so ever and for all of that I am beyond blessed and truly thank my heavenly father multiple times every single day! I really do understand how blessed I am and I already love this guy more than anything in the world!

Here are my 32 week pictures...

Big Mama!

Enough with the pregnancy, here are some fun pictures from Jackson Hole. We had a lot of fun and love going up there every year because there is so much to do and it is so relaxing which is great for me!

Eating at out favorite restaurant Mangy Moose!

Old Faithful...

Old Faithful...

Old Faithful...

Elk...

In Yellowstone...

Yellowstone National Park...

Everone (minus me) got to go river rafting on The Snake River like we do every year, kinda sad I missed it this year...

Bison on the Road...

We were driving around exploring and stumbled across this really pretty lake and got out to put our sore swollen feet in... OK, maybe it was just mine that were swollen...

Alpine Slide, another fun thing I missed out on, but that's ok...

Fun Animal Hats...

Ice Cream in the Park...

Going grocery shopping with these Yahoos...

Lunch with the girls while the boys were fishing...

The last night we went to a play/ dinner and our waitress walked around and sang and got up in Coleman's face and he got SO embarrassed it was SO cute!

Annie Get Your Gun...

My fabulous sister in law Amy threw my a baby shower! I am really going to miss not having baby showers after baby gets here! Amy did such a great job and I got a lot of really awesome gifts! My sweet mother in law helped out too and let us have it at her house! Thanks SO much for everyone that came!

Amy, me and Gay...

We FINALLY got our nursery furniture! We picked it out and stuff a few weeks ago in Salt Lake, but haven't had a chance to drive down there with a trailer and stuff to get it, but we got it and I am SO SO SO happy!!!

The Changing table and all of the stuff we have to put away...

Andrew setting up out furniture!

Me "helping" set up the furniture...

My sweet mom came up this last week and helped me SO much with the nursery! We organized all of my baby clothes and put them all away- it feels so good to have it all done! We haven't hung anything on the walls yet or put anything cute on our hutch or dresser, but when we do I will put cute pictures on here!

LOVE YA!

O, and P.S.- incase you were wondering what my plans were for next month, I will be having a baby... NEXT MONTH!!!

I HATE COMPUTERS!

2010-08-09T11:21:00.000-07:00

OK, so is my blog being weird for anone else too? My page won't load so I can't read anything that I write, I can't click on my friends blogs, my back ground won't show up... SO FREAKING ANNOYING! I have lots to blog about though...
1- I am now 33 weeks- only 7 weeks left!
2- Jackson Hole trip!
3- I sware I had more things...
Anyways, I am trying to figure this out and will post soon, hopefully!
LOVE YA!

Sister B and Baby Showers

2010-07-23T15:23:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago my bestest friend Betsy left on her mission to Uruguay! I was so lucky and got invited to her setting apart and it was really awesome. She is going to be such a great missionary and will work so hard like she always does in all aspects in her life. LOVE YOU SISTER B! (CAUTION...I look huge in this picture...)

THEN, my fabulous mom and awesome sisters threw me a baby shower! It was SO much fun and I got a lot of really cute stuff! It was so great to just have all of my cute aunts, grandma's and cousins there! My family really is so close and it is always so much fun to all get together!

I LOVE MY FAMILY!

I really loved every single thing that I got at my shower and needed all of it times 10, but these win the prize of one of my top favorites... My aunt Julee and her cute daughters made me thse quilts for Baby. O M G is all I have to say! Seriously Julee is SO talented and SO good at what she does! The thing that amazes me the most about quilts like this is that you just walk into a fabric store and buy tons of fabric and don't stress about if it matches perfectly and then once it is all put together it looks FABULOUS! I have a hard time making decisions like that so it always amazes me that others can do it so well. I can't wait to cuddle my little nugget in these cozy blankets!

And, my cousin Blakelee has become a great little photographer and took a lot of really cute pictures at my shower... Check out her blog to look at them cause she is awesome! http://blakey-theellisfamily.blogspot.com/

Today is my Moms' birthday! YAHOO! I just wanted her to know how much I love her and how amazing she is. She is the most compassionate person I know and will bend over backwards for anyone in need. I am SO lucky to have her as a mother and my little nugget is so lucky to have her as a grandma because she has already spoiled the crap out of him! LOVE YOU BIG CAT!!!

Catch Up...

2010-07-11T17:24:00.000-07:00

I know, I know- I suck at blogging lately. Here are my excuses...
1- We went to Hawaii for 8 days
2- Our computer has a virus!
3- I am too tired!

Seriously I am getting more and more tired and worn out from simple every day things. It is no fun for anyone when I am tired because all I do is cry. It feels like it is umcontrolable and it just happens- Andrew really enjoys it. I really do feel bad because not only am I worthless cause I am too tied to do anything, I just lay there and cry so he can't get anything done either.

Here are some pictures of Hawaii- we really did have SO SO SO much fun and it was SO relaxing and SO great to have Andrew not at work everyday and be able to be with my family 24-7!

On our way to HAWAII!!!

Me, Grandma and my Mom

Checking in to the Grand Wailea

Me and my Mom

Andrew boogie boarding

Gorgeous Chloe Boogie Boarding

Eating YUMMY breakfast

Because of my huge bump this is how I got my back tan- creative I know!

Hawaiian Love

Ocean Love

Beautiful Hawaii

Andrew, my Mom, Meggie and Emily all got to go Scuba Diving...

I just sat on the beach and drank my frozen lemonade...

After Scuba Diving- they got to hold an octopus, star fish and other creatures!

The Whole Family on the Beach

The kiddies on the beach

Hawaii was SO much fun and I have a feeling that next year, with an 8 month old, it will be even better!

Now, here are my 28 week pictures! Can you believe it!?! I certainly CAN NOT believe that I am in my 3rd Trimester now! Where in the heck did the 1st and 2nd Trimesters go? Here was a little reality check for us- we went to Stork Landing- a cute baby store with cribs, strollers- you name it. We were just looking at some of the cribs and I asked how long it took to order a crib and the gril told me 6-10 weeks... 10 WEEKS! You're kidding me! I will be 39 weeks by then!!! No way will we be getting a crib from there...

I still am feeling great, just getting more tired like I said. Baby is NUTZ! When I do my Kick Counts and am supposed to get 10 in an hour, pretty sure I get 10 in about 3 minutes... You do the math at how many times that means he moves in an hour! He is going to be one wild little buckaroo, but we are getting more and more excited!!!

And, ELDER WESLEY HYDE GOT HOME!!! He was serving in the England Manchester Mission! We are SO excited for him to be home! I don't know what happened, but I didn't take any more pictures of Him at the airport...

And, last but not least, my two besties threw me a baby shower! It was SO SO SO much fun! I got some way good stuff and it was so much fun to see everyone. Betsy and Becca decorated so cute and did such a great job! I LOVE THEM!

Family

Friends

Cute Decorations

Cute Decorations

OK, now this is the real last thing... Betsy is leaving on a missionon WEDNESDAY! Holy Cow! I seriously love her to death and can't imagine not being able to text her and ask her how to spell things, what decision to make or just to text her my random weird things that only she understands. I love her so much and am SO excited for her to serve in Uruguay! LOVE YOU BETS!

I threw her a surprise going away sleepover party and we had SO much fun doing absolutely nothing and staying up talking all night with all the girls!

K, I promise to blog more... Sorry! LOVE YA!

24 Weeks!

2010-06-09T16:15:00.000-07:00

So here we are- 24 weeks! I know I say this every time, but seriously this is going by SO fast!I can't believe that baby is going to be here SO fast! I am SO excited!!! It is SO much fun going shopping for baby and imagining him wearing all these cute outfits! Here are some fabulous pictures of the big baby I will be having before I know it!

Can I just say how much I miss laying on my stomach! I seriously HATE not being able to climb up on my bed and lay on my stomach! That is one thing I will be looking forward to when baby is here. This month I have had some pretty awesome leg cramps in the middle of the night. It's really fun when I wake up screaming and Andrew freaks out and has to rub my legs til they stop- he's so sweet! The more water I drink the less cramps I get- and, if I eat a banana every few days that helps too cause I think I am low on potassium like every other woman in my family. All my aunts, grandma and mom take potassium pills. I have a Dr appointment on Monday so I am going to talk to my cute Dr. That's all for now! LOVE YOU!

P.S.- My uterus is the size of a Soccer Ball and yours is only the size of an Orange!

Washington DC!

2010-05-26T19:47:00.000-07:00

So we just got back from DC and had SO much fun! I was told that it was "a lot of walking", "tons of walking", and "really, a lot of walking," but nobody told me that it was SO SO SO SO SO much walking you'd cut your own feet off if you had a knife near by! I have never walked that much in my life! I am a ballerina, I am fine with dancing for hours on my toes, but this kind of foot pain was just horrible! We really did have so much fun, but because you are walking around so much and literally on your feet all day you are SO exhausted by the end of the day. It was really so nice to be with Andrew all day and sleep in together (usually I do that alone). Andrew is such a good little travel buddy- he is really good with maps. I am no map genius so I am grateful that he can read maps very well. We ever got lost and we got on and off every subway train that we needed to. Andrew is also one of those happy go lucky guys and when we are traveling the "go lucky" part is really good because everything seems to work out so perfectly- I guess that is how our life is too. I love him SO much and really do miss him when he is at work all day. Here are a TON of pictures (sorry), just be glad that I didn't post all 155 of the pictures that I took.

The National Archive Building where we saw the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and the Constitution- it was really neat!

The Old Post Office Pavilion...

Us on the top of the Old Post Office Pavilion...

Pictures from the top... The Capital

Pictures from the top...

Ford's Theatre where President Lincoln was shot...

The booth he was in when he was shot...

The actual suit he was wearing when he was shot. They had to cut his shirt, so there is no original shirt. The pillow on the floor next to the suit has his real blood stains!

The gun that killed President Lincoln...

Us with a statue of President Lincoln...

FUNNY STORY: So obviously I did not take the last picture, some nice lady took it for us. After the picture was taken I walked up to go and get the camera from her and saw this little kid taking pictures and winding his disposable camera as fast as his chubby little fingers could go. I noticed that he was taking pictures of something moving, or someone walking or something. So I turned to see what he was taking pictures of and about lost it... He was taking pictures of Andrew! O my goodness it was SO funny! Andrew had no idea and after I got our camera back and realized what was going on Andrew was in another part of the museum. I have no idea what this kid was taking pictures of him for, maybe he thought Andrew was just really cute- I guess I can't blame him! Ha Ha! My mom said that she thinks that the chubby little kid probably thought that Andrew was so cute and tall and in such good shape that he wants to be just like him...

The bed President Lincoln died in...

We went to the Crime and Punishment Museum. It was really cool. It was all about serial killers and had all these crazy sick artifacts from them. I don't know why so many people (us included) have such a fascination for such a sick thing like serial killers... Maybe cause it just catches your attention so much.

Me in Jail...

I need one of these at home. Ha Ha!

Cell Mates!

At the Natural History Smithsonian- our favorite one of the 3 that we were able to go to...

Dino...

That's ME!

Mama and Baby Bear...

Seriously Andrew's hands are as big as frying pans... or bear claws! Ha Ha!

HUGE Whale!

My excellent photography skills gave Andrew a nice new look...

We went to the American History Smithsonian and it was really cool! They had a part with all of the First Ladies Inaugural Dresses!
This was Martha Washington's dress...

Michelle Obama's Inaugural dress...

My personal favorite invention... The First Heating Pad!

How the $5 bill evolved...

They also had a section on Birth Control... Not that I am a fan of it at all, but I thought this little guy was funny...

My FAVORITE part of the trip! These are Dorothy's shoes!I LOVE LOVE LOVE The Wizard of Oz! When I was little I would watch it 10 times a day and say, "Mommy, I want to watch Poz..." I think it is such a cute movie!

President Lincoln's top hat that he wore the day he was shot. I know it looks bronzed, but it wasn't, it was just old and dirty I guess...

President Washington's suit...

The original Star- Spangled Banner. It was SO big! The lady that made it couldn't even fit it in her house- she had to put it all together in a warehouse!

At the Air and Space Museum. This museum was cool, but not our favorite. I guess we're not totally into air and space...
This is the original plane that the Wright Brother's first flew!

The one and only time that I wore my rain jacket that we bought for this trip. The weather reports said that 3 of the 5 days we were going to be there was going to be thunderstorms! (This is that "go lucky" thing I was talking about...)You can see the capital coming out of Andrew's shoulder...

Andrew's Celestial Kingdom...

The White House! Since we booked this trip like 3 weeks ago we weren't able to do a tour of the White House because you have to book your tours 30 days in advance...

The White House...

By the Reflecting Pond. You can see the Lincoln Memorial behind us. It might look close, but I seriously thought that this was a death march! I almost had to get on my hands and knees and crawl the rest of the way it made me SO tired!

Taking a rest on the steps...

Honest Abe! I couldn't believe how big the statue was, it was really cool...

The Lincoln Memorial...

On the other side of the Reflecting Pond with the Washington Monument behind us...

The Washington Monument...

The Holocaust Museum. We weren't allowed to take pictures inside, but it was SO cool. It seriously makes you want to cry seeing all the pain those poor people went through.

We went on a tour of the Capital. The building itself was so gorgeous. I never thought it would look like that on the inside...

US Capital...

US Capital...

US Capital...

US Capital...

We went to this museum called The Newseum. It was all about how the news has shaped our lives and changed the world. It was pretty cool. They had tons of front page news articles from historical and significant events.

Titanic Sinks...

Hitler Dies...

Marilyn Monroe dies..

Prince Charles and Princess Diana get married...

Princess Diana Dies...

Part of the Berlin Wall at the Newseum...

Andrew was SO sweet the whole time he carried this backpack for us. It had my jacket, camera, treats, water, umbrella and everything else we needed. I figure that the extra 10 pounds the backpack was adding to him was about the weight of something that I am carrying for us... Our son! Ha Ha!

All in all the trip was fabulous and I am so happy that we were able to go on one last trip alone before baby. We decided that we are going to go on a trip alone every year NO MATTER WHAT! So far we have...
2008- Honeymoon Cruise
2009- San Fransisco
2010- Washington DC

I guess I can't blog anymore without talking about the baby... He is doing great! I am feeling him a lot and I love it! He is so cute and when he is hungry he kicks up a storm. Whenever I get hungry I feel him a lot more than usual. My cravings lately have been ice cream and nachos! Kinda weird I know... My next Dr appointment I get to drink that yummy orange glucose drink- wish me luck!

Thanks for reading! Love Ya!

Shower Thoughts...

2010-05-18T19:09:00.000-07:00

So, on my last post I mentioned that we were getting ready for a little adventure... Well, let me give you the full story...

My cute sister in law Amy mentioned that her and Tyson wanted to go on a vacation, but she didn't want to leave her baby boys. I told her that they HAVE to go and that her boys will never remember that they left them and that her and Tyson deserve it. So, they started planning their trip to NY and asking me lots of questions cause I just got back from there a little bit ago and I started to get SO jealous that they were going on a trip!

Then, a few days later, I'm in the shower and I decided that me and Andrew should go on a trip too...
Where to?
Then I randomly thought WASHINGTON DC!
When would we be able to go? June? NO, we're going to Hawaii in June... July? NO, we're going to Jackson Hole in July... August? HECK NO- I will be WAY to pregnant to go then... Um, May? YES! I looked at my schedule and decided that if we didn't go around May 20 then we couldn't go until like next summer... So, YES! We are going to Washington DC THIS WEEK!

I am SO excited and even more excited that I cooked this idea up in the shower and that we are actually going through with it. I always get these really great ideas, but we never follow through with them because life gets in the way, but we are going for sure and are SO excited!!! Neither of us have ever been there and thought that it'd be a fun vacation cause there is SO much to do back there! Because there is so much to do back there I have planned out like every second so that we don't miss anything and we can see and do as much as possible!

So, that is where we will be the next little while- YaHoO!!!

Also, my Dr appointment last week was great! The baby was healthy and everything looked fabulous! The ultrasound tech said that the baby is measuring a little small and changed my due date to October 2. I almost cried I was SO HAPPY! The Dr won't officially change my date because Sept. 27 and Oct. 2 is within the same week so they aren't changing it, but I told them I am cause I wanted an October baby from the start. And, my B-day is Oct. 1, My little brother's B-day is Oct. 2, my parents Anniversary is Oct.3, and my uncle Val's B-day is October 4! How awesome would that be if baby was born on October 5!!! That would ROCK!!! And, his B-day would be 10-05-10- AwEsOmE!!! I am really into having a good "date" as a birthday... ;)

-Look how cute Baby is, he ALWAYS has his arms up by his face-

-This is so cute too cause he ALWAYS has his ankles crossed, just like Me! They said that his Femur bone is 1 inch!!! That just tells you hos tiny the rest of him is!-

We got some other really good 3D pictures, but they only printed them out for me and didn't put them on the CD so I need to go get them scanned onto my computer so I can post them cause there is one that the baby looks like he has his thumb in his mouth! And another where he has his hand behind his head like he's just relaxing in there! SO ADORABLE!!!

Everything is going great! The Dr said that the real reason that my back is hurting so bad is cause I have never weighed this much in my life and cause all the weight is in my stomach and really pulling on my back... So, like everyone has told me, it will only get worse! Fabulous...

Well, wish us luck on our grand adventure and don't worry, there will be PLENTY of pictures to share when we get home!

Love Ya!

20 Weeks and Graduation!

2010-05-09T18:52:00.000-07:00

YaHoo! Andrew graduated! Saturday was a really good day! We went to IHOP for breakfast. It's weird that the 4 years I've lived in Logan I have never been to the Logan IHOP... Stuffed French Toast was SO Yummy! Maybe even weirder, but the whole time that I have known Andrew we have never been out to breakfast together... He doesn't believe me, but I know I am right.

Then we went home and did nothing... It was SO nice! We just laid in bed and were lazy ALL DAY! This is the first Saturday in a while that we both have had work off.

Then, the graduation... It was SO fun to see my cute Andrew up there in those adorable cap and gowns! After the graduation we went to Firehouse Pizza. It was SO good. (Like how I mention all the food we ate that day cause it was all so good!) We had lots of family come up and we appreciate everyone for their love and support! Here are some pictures from the graduation...

WOW! Am I really 20 weeks?!? Am I really HALF WAY DONE?!? Am I really going to have a little baby here soon?!? This is nutz! I am still loving being pregnant, but now there are new worries and challenges. At ballet I am becoming less flexible because it is getting harder to touch my toes like I used to because my belly is on my thighs... If that doesn't make sense, when I tell my girls, "Nose to your Knees!" I can no longer do that with them- Ha Ha! The new worry is making sure that you feel your baby move everyday. I do feel this active guy move all the time, but there has been 3 nights that I have cried cause I couldn't remember if I had felt him! I seriously FREAK out because there is nothing scarier than poking your belly, laying on your side and eating ice cream and not getting that little baby to move! I know that everything is totally fine, but still at that moment I want to just run to the hospital. Anyways, no need to worry my Dr. appointment is in the morning and I really think I am just overreacting. This Dr appointment is when we were supposed to find out if it was a girl or boy, but we cheated and found out early, but I am SO excited cause we are going to get more ultrasound pictures! I'll post those asap! For now enjoy my 20 week pictures and don't worry, I know I'm getting "kinda chubby"- one of my little ballet students told me last week...

Lastly, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! This was my first Mother's Day as a Mother-to-be and I loved it! I got some great gifts and got to hang out all day with my cute nephews! I am SO grateful for all of the Mother's in my life and don't even want to think where I would be without them!

Love Ya!

My Thoughts...

2010-05-03T10:36:00.000-07:00

HOLY CRAP! I can not believe how fast baby bear is going to be here! I am already 19 weeks! I swear that countdown thing on the side of my blog is skipping days! Don't get me wrong, I am overly excited that our baby boy will be here so soon... I can't wait to hold him and kiss him and put lotion on his chubby little body (I love the smell of baby lotion on babies!) and dress him in all of the clothes that we already have for him! He's already so spoiled!

Andrew is gone right now, he is on Cloud 9! Andrew has been SO cute since we found out it was a boy. He has been bidding on Micheal Jordan and Baby Nike clothes on E-bay SO much! Most of the stuff we've gotten awesome deals on, but as much as I love Micheal Jordan and Nike... I need other clothes too! I have found some really cute Baby Polo things, but I guess I have a few more months to stock up on non- athletic style clothing. I do love how excited he is though!

SO I figured out why my back pain is SO horrible! I was complaining to my aunt about it and she said, "O, well you probably have a tipped uterus like all of us so the baby is sitting back farther and putting lots of pressure on your back." I guess my grandma and other aunts have a tipped uterus too and now that I think of it I remember that my Dr told me a long time ago that I have a tipped uterus... SO basically there is nothing that I can do about this, and Yes it will bother me the rest of the time- Great!

Other than that things are going great! Me and Andrew are about to do something very random, fly by the seat of our pants (not typical Ali and Andrew) adventure, but we're placing all of the pieces together and will let you know if it actually happens. And, my 20 week appointment is next week and I am SO excited for more pictures of our little guy!

Love Ya!