Daxton is growing up to quick...I remember enjoying Khloe grow up. sitting on the floor, reading, or just rocking her. I feel like Ive missed so much about this kid. We have been so busy in the first 6 months of his life. And that stupid "cloud" that new moms get after a kid is born, i feel like Im just coming out of it. FINALLY! I really enjoy when Khloe naps just so I get one on one time with him. He has started to move around on the floor, stand if holding on, and if Khloe will give him any part of her day he soaks it in. I just love him...Im a bit in shock that he is still as big as he really is...

 Khloe found this "Bed" at the furniture store the other night. The trashiest item in the store but she had soooooo much fun. Steve and I actually sat down and enjoyed her being entertained! 

She also told us Walter could have one of the beds...We miss our Cheyenne friends!

 Khloe sat the entire sacrament in time out....in a new ward, and a SMALL new ward, every family gets their own bench its so small:-) 

I think we made a good first impression!

 I found CUTE PJ's at $2 a piece the other day at childrens place. I was really hopping to get a cute picture of them smiling but Daxton is mad and Khloe was proud she made him cry...I just give up taking pictures...

 Many people have asked if its hard to live in my parents house...and no! I have enjoyed the simplicity of not having a house. I get to spend LOTS of time with my kids. Every night I get to rock Daxton to sleep EVEN if Steve is at work late. Every once in a while my mom will take Dax and Im able to spend the evening hanging out with Khloe. Im sure they are ready for us to leave but its been a  nice change of pace. 

On that note, at the most 2 months left till the house is done and 1 month down! and the house is coming along fast!

 our treat at Target, I LOVE THE POPCORN!!! and since i lost another 10 pounds(45 total!!) i figured I could splurge on a snack...

last but not least he can now go from sitting to crawling position...its only a matter of time before he is crawling...and he is ALMOST 7 months old! 

Trip to Idaho

The week we moved and tried to settle in, we got a phone call from Steve's parents letting us know that his grandpa(97 years old!) was going to be passing away soon. Steve had taken 9 days off and we kinda hopped that it would happen during the week he had off so we could enjoy a small trip to Idaho. That did not happen. In fact grandpa died the Tuesday Steve went back to work. Luckily we were able to take 2 more days off to go to the funeral.

Please don't think this sounds heartless, we all loved grandpa but he was ready to be back with his wife and it was the best thing for him. 

with that said...we had QUITE the trip!

on the way there I dinged the car, ripped my shirt, spilt everything that I tried to drink and hurt my knee! I'm 100% sure I need a mini-van but I'm not ready to commit to a "mom car". Khloe only slept for about 30 minutes of the 8 hour drive...Daxton didn't do much sleeping either...

This was Daxtons first time sitting in a high chair! 

 When we finally got home, Khloe and Daxton just sat and watched Bubble Guppies, it was perfect!

this is the most exciting thing ever....our foundation is poured, its behind the lumber, and today they started putting up the lumber up...I really don't know what they are doing, but Its looking great! 

two months left!!

hello

long time!

clearly its been a LONG time!! 

and ALOT has happened at our house…or lack of a house!

Daxton joined our family! he's almost 7 months now:-) 

we put our house up on the market and sold it in 3 days! 

in 30 days we were out and moved into my parents house!

btw we have a house that will be done in April…

its been quite a year! 

We are lucky to have my parents who let us move in to their basement! Im not sure we would have survived moving into a small apartment. I HATE apartments…especially with a dog who wakes up at night to go outside! 

anyways maybe ill get my butt in gear and add some photos…but not today!

5 years....

On May 6th Steve and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary! Seriously 5 year? It makes me feel so old but then I remember I got married at 20....that made me also seem old:-) We really didn't do much..Steve took his day off, we went to Fort Collins and went to our favorite wings restaurant...with my family:-) My aunt and Uncle were in town for the night, and we both wanted to see them. It all worked out... In the 5 years we have been married we have NEVER been in the same town on our actual anniversary. This year it was nice to spend the actual day together! Maybe one of these years we will do something special...

we went as a family to Idaho about a month ago and then I was back two weeks later with my family for my brother Jeff's doctorate graduation. Now I LOVE traveling but I can say I wont be going back to Utah or Idaho until this baby is born... Way to stressful and its getting so close!!! 9 weeks!! and im done!

I have started to kind of gather last minute items, my favorite so far is my moby wrap! I know I don't want a double stroller, who has room to store one of those monsters?! i tried it out and needed a "tester" with khloe asleep and all her babies were in her room Buddy was naturally the best choice.AND he LOVED it!

I cant wait to put little Dax in it! 9 weeks...i can handle 9 more weeks...

With only 9 weeks left and our goal of getting the back yard in before he is here, we needed to start asap! Stupid foot and a half of snow 2 weeks ago kinda hampered us getting going...
As we speak our yard is being sprayed for lines! we put in an area for Khloes slide and tramp. man those are a lot of work! 

ok it was work for Steve...I did get him a drink and lunch though....that is working right?....honestly all I wanted to do was help...but with 82 degree weather swollen feet and back pain that limits me even walking, I didn't think helping with digging was a good idea. I

 

 I like how it turned out...we have the tramp left and the rocks around the trees...we are waiting to see if our trees survived the winter before we make them pretty!

here are a couple funny things that i randomly found!

 yes that plunger is actually 5 feet tall..way to go Evanston Wyoming!

 this is my nephew Will! He is such a cutie! Khloe and him LOVED each other!

 this was a sad week for us...our AMAZING neighbors moved to Colorado...they used to bring us home watermelons, fresh fruit and veggies from their parents farm! they would shovel our driveway...lend us tools...anything you could think of...We were VERY sad to see them move:-(

 and lastly, we have a missionary who has a gluten allergy! my poor mother-in-law is probably sick of me asking...can he have this? (she has a gluten allergy to) my phone is packed with pictures of nutrition facts!:-)

randomness..

khloe had a really rough day...So did mom! she screamed for hours on end if i didn't just SIT with her...unfortunately there were things that HAD to be done and I couldn't hold her...

But the next week she got her share of cuddles...

this was me at week 22...? i think...

my birthday dinner!!! I could go for more of these, to  bad they are an hour drive...

I was lucky enough to have Both my brothers home in march! the bad part was they were a week apart! Chris and I packed up and went to the Denver aquarium.. it was fun...I think we enjoyed it more than Khloe did...she didn't understand that the glass wall would hold the fish in...

She finally figured it out after one of the fish ran into the glass...but that was in the LAST room....

we had only 4 days of beautiful weather...no wind either...Wyoming winter is almost over...

24 weeks!

Steve has become good friends with a driver from Walmart. Walmart is SUPER picky on the freight that they will take, a rip, dent in the box any flaw(even if its not to the product) they wont take it..that means the driver will get stuck with a flat of cucumbers, watermelons, peaches, shampoo anything they sell at Walmart. Since Steve and this guy are good friends we get the flats! 50 lbs of cucumbers! i made sweet pickles, they were soo good! a huge perk of the job!

yep, the only picture I was able to get of Khloe on Easter... Steve spoke in church, we were late, and Khloe didn't want to be there that day! Oh well....

Khloe has figured out how to turn the camera on my phone around and take pics of herself...Cute hu?

why watch tv....when the washer is going?

you are reading that right....9 degrees with wind! its so cold outside today! we have not left our house, nor do we plan on it

they say we could get up to 15 inches of snow...i hope they are wrong..

this is how conference weekend went down at our house...lots of sleeping while i cook...i love cooking and listening to conference...its a weakness, or else id look like these two!

strawberries were .99 a pound this week. 20 lbs is what i ended up with...i think..

pretty sure ill never have to buy strawberries again....

update!

Well we found our our little nugget is a B.O.Y!! I'm pretty sure Steve doesn't believe me...We are thrilled to have the opportunity to have one of each! We are still deciding on a name..we have one that we both love but since Steve is in disbelief we are  waiting till our next ultra sound on April 15 to announce the name:-)

We had our fundraiser for the Young Men and Young Women at the beginning of the month...it was such a success! we raised enough money to send EVERYONE to camp!!! HUGE blessing for our ward! Really for any ward!  I wish I had time that night to take pictures of what people donated and the AMAZING chili that people brought! Next year ill remember to assign someone to do that!

This key is the key to the church...One Thursday night for mutual I went in early to set up.. I kept my coat on just to make sure i had a SAFE place for this key...i know i should have had a HUGE key ring so i didn't loose it...any ways about 10 minutes before girls were going to be showing up and MANY trips back and forth from my car to the room I had lost the key....Its MAYBE 20 feet from the room we meet in to my car..no snow no crap on the ground... i kept thinking how did i loose my key..mutual went on like normal a couple girls went to my car to look to see if they could find it(i might have offered $20...) no one found it...sick to my stomach i walked to the bishops office and told him.."i lost my key". We are already short on keys...the next morning on my way to walmart i found myself in the church parking lot...looking for my key...i searched high and low! as i was just about to give up i thought look in the bushes...about 3 FEET into these HUGE bushes was my key!!! How the heck did it get there?! who cares...i found my key!

 yes my dog jumps from the couch to the counter on a regular biases...

 this is normal at our house...

 so is playing basketball...

 AND bringing owls to the back yard...

AND more butt crack..her hair is NOT red..i do NOT know why it looks like a horrible color job!