Happy Halloween

Just a couple of cute pictures of my little monsters. Miss Peanut had lots of costumes to choose from thanks to my talented sister making a Tinkerbell costume for her daughter last year and my mom's huge costume box. In the end she decided to be Tinkerbell and a puppy. We went last night to our ward's trunk-or-treat, but I'm not sure I'll venture out tonight because Officer is working.



She just laughed at herself when I put her in front of a mirror, it was so funny. And then when she realized she had a tail she kept trying to "chase" it. At the Trunk or treat there was another little boy her age dressed in a very similar costume. This little boys brother came up to miss peanut (thinking it was his brother) and started dragging her away by her tail - it was pretty funny to watch.




And the little guy - just chillin'. I was getting Miss Peanut ready for bed and he was squirming like crazy and this is were he settled in. Too cute - he has been so much fun!

Such a blessing

We had the chance to bless our little man (blog name will be decided soon) last week while Officer's parents were still here visiting. Thanks to everyone who was able to make it there - it's so wonderful to have so many family and friends close by for occasions like these. I wanted miss peanut to have a special dress for the day, but she was out of it so fast after church that we didn't get a picture of our new family of 4 together, but we did get Officer and his dad with our little man.

My very talented sister took Pictures of Little Man a couple weeks ago. I'm finally posting the link.
Hawkley Photography

We're doing well, just not doing much for now, but we'll be blessing the little man this weekend so I'm sure I'll post more next week.

Our little Man has arrived - just a little early.

Early Sunday morning we had a little surprise and my water broke around 2:00am. We stayed at home until about 7:30am and packed bags for me a Miss Peanut (she was able to go spend a couple days at Grandma's house until we got home). I really have planned that I would have to be induced again so I had neglected to pack anything up until that point. Once we got to the hospital everything went so quickly and smoothly, we were so glad to have great labor and delivery nurses, and before we knew it he was here! He was born at 3:48pm October 4, 2009. He weighed in at 7lb 5 oz and was 20 inches long. Of course you can see from the pictures that he has lots of jet black hair that is just so cute! We are just thrilled to have him here!


We spent that night at the hospital, and we were able to Come home the next evening and now we're just adjusting to life with 2 little ones. Miss Peanut really has done well with all the changes, but it's definately going to be an adjustment. She loves to count baby brother's eyes, fingers, ears, nose. She just hasn't quite gotten the fact that he is a real baby and not like her doll babies. Here's some pictures of their first introduction, and some other cute ones.

My sister was able to come take some pictures this evening and I'm so excited to see them - I'll post a link when they're ready. Anyway - it's been a wonderful week. We have been so blessed to have this little man in our family. I couldn't wrap my head around how I would love another child the same as Miss Lydia, but it just happens and your heart just grows. I'm so blessed to have a beautiful little family!

keeping busy

I've kind of been nesting this last month or so...I don't know what the deal is. I think I'm just trying to tie up any and all loose ends because this baby will be here and then I'll blink and the holidays will just be crazy busy after that. So I'm pretty much planning for my world to just stop this next month, so that I can just enjoy this new little man while he's so teeny - I hope he's relatively teeny anyway.

Here's some of what we've been doing:

• We finished up most of the yard work/patio stuff. Found some patio furniture on craigslist! Gotta love it!
  
  


• I have cleaned out every closet in my house


• Sorted through all of the stuff in our garage and found plenty of things to sell or donate.


• Deep cleaned every room in my house


• Had the carpets cleaned - so nice to not do it myself.


• Restocked most of my pantry/shelves/closets with things I will probably be needing, so that I don't have to make those trips to the store when I'm sleep deprived and find that when I get there I've forgotten why I went in the first place.


• Officer built me shelves in our closet so that I have places for all my craft stuff. He's been really great to help me finish lots of little projects without too many crazy pregnant woman comments ;)
  


• Finally finished reupholstering a glider in the nursery

• Bonus - Officer also built a mantel for our Fireplace - I love it - I've wanted one for so long!

• Miss peanut and our new little man will be sharing a room for a while which I tried to keep fairly generic, so I freaked out that I needed more boyish stuff in the room and made two quilts.

My sister made one For Miss Peanut like:

and I copied her genius and came up with this: of course mine has plenty of imperfections, but for my first "involved" quilt I thought I did alright.

• I crocheted several hats for various things; one for our little man to wear at the hospital. It's camo because Officer is really hoping to go hunting the week I'm due. We'll see what happens, but we had to add camo to something. (It's being modeled by Miss Peanut's baby)

• I've been working on homemade Christmas projects - no pictures of them for now or they wouldn't be a surprise, but they have been lots of work and I'm determined to get them done in the next week or so and then most of Christmas is out of the way. With the exception of shopping for officer and getting a stocking for our new little man.
  
• I think I'm just about to the end of my to do list...finally. Officer's parent will be here next weekend and they'll be here until we bless this little man on October 25th (totally bugging me that I call him little man because we still don't have a name yet - that is the top of the to do list). My doctor said he would induce me the week of October 12th, so as long as all goes we'll we wanted to bless him while Officer's parents are in town.

Miss Peanut has been:

• Talking up a storm - you would not believe the vocabulary of this chick! It is such a blessing though because she can tell me what she needs, wants, whatever. She knows most of her alphabet and can count to 13. She is also learning to sing a little - or at least repeat the words or fill in where we pause - so cute.
  
• She's totally getting her own sense of humor which we just love - It's so hard to keep from laughing sometimes when we probably shouldn't be encouraging her.


• Loves to be a pirate! I need to get that on video for the full affect, but it's hilarious!


• Loves Disney CARS, Curious George, Superwhy, and little Einsteins. Then she picked up this thing for Elmo when she was at my mom's house.


• Growing like crazy - we measured her a week or so ago because she has been waking up at night saying oweeee my wegs (legs). Sure enough - had to be growing pain - she's grown 3 inches since may. She is 35 inches tall now and hasn't gained any weight, so she is tall and skinny like her daddy.


• She now has her 2 year old molar - they were brutal.


• She can recognize and name most of her cousins/aunts/uncles. We had pictures taken this summer with everyone and I put together a little book for her to look through with all the pictures. She has over 30 cousins, plus their parents and lots of grandparents and she has amazed us by naming them all. Most people would probably say I should try something like state capitals or nations, presidents etc, but I feel like family is more important and I don't really want to be one of the parents that pushes their kids so hard in school. They're already pushed way more than I was (it's crazy what my nieces and nephew have for homework!).
• I can't believe that she will be 2 in November! Her birthday is actually on Thanksgiving Day this year, what to do about that?

So anyway, there you have it. We're still here, just been a little preoccupied. We're so excited for this little man to get here - please feel free to toss out any names that you like/love whatever, I could use some extra help!

Peanut Pull-ups!

This was a few days ago - I just crack up at this girl. She has begun mimicking Officer and I a lot. She watches Officer do pull-ups most nights and this is how she does it! The rest of the video is just silliness, but I love her silliness!

More picutres from our California trip in no particular order.

Thanks to the efforts of all other family - I have compiled more pictures from our trip to the coast. Thanks!

Officer loving on our newest neice

Miss Peanut and me - all my loveliness

Hanging out at glass beach - reflecting maybe?

All pictures with these boys, they are always trying to puff up their feathers a little more than each other - silly boys

Miss Peanut learning about fishies and how to gut fish - very important stuff.

Which fishy do you want for dinner?

The men, looking manly after having provided dinner for their families

My super cute girl wearing the hat I made for her.

My adorable niece in the hat I made for her.

Da-da kisses - it's now my desktop background and that's what miss Peanut says everytime she sees this pictures - and when the computer is off she says where da-da kisses go?

Miss Peanut loved Madi's dog ro-ro (roxanne) and she kept asking "where ro-ro go?

Peek-a-boo - taken by by brother-in law

the view from the other side of the log

I'm just a little tired...

So - no excuse - I've just been lazy about blogging. Not much to report, summer has been so much fun and its winding down. Here's a couple of pictures from today.

Big shoes to fill - she is alway getting into our closet to try on shoes. Such a silly girl!

And......drum roll please - probably won't see another one of these this time around...a belly shot. 33 weeks

Home again, home again....

I'm working on getting pictures on here - it's taking me forever to finally catch up on things since we've been gone for almost a month, so here are a few to start you off. I'm totally one of those lame mom's that forgets to take the camera or had dead batteries in the camera, so I'm sure I'll post more after I've gathered some from family.


After girls camp my brother and his family finally made it "home" this summer and we were able to take family pictures. and have a little reunion. You can see that little isn't really the right word when it comes to our family and it just keeps growing. It's always a party.








We were able to spend most of the week at the family cabin first with some friends and then most of my family came up. It was so great to spend time with them even though it was short.

Officer took Miss Peanut went for her first ride on a 4-wheeler, she wasn't real sure what to think of that.



Miss Peanut had her first "pedicure" sort of, don't look too close - she doesn't like to have anyone play with her feet.

we took the kids to play in the river




of course we ate plenty of smores and sat around the campfire - or at least watched officer chop wood - fascinating really.

and Officer took our's friends little boys (one was the dad and the other was the son) to go shooting and teach the "Kermit" about gun safety. (I borrowed her pictures thanks for sharing:).

Once again - I'm lame and didn't pull out the camera while my family was at the cabin - so I'll have to gather some from everyone.

We were home long enough to unpack and repack and we then took off for California to spend time with Officer's family for almost 2 weeks. So nice to get a way that long.

We stayed at his parents newly remodeled beautiful home for a few days before we headed for the coast for the opening of Abalone season. When I say coast I don't mean sunny Southern California - I mean beautiful much cooler Northern California. It was such nice weather compared to the summer heat at home; I loved actually having to wear a coat cause I was colder in the evenings. Officer spent most of the time in the water working on spearing fish this year rather than diving for Abalone. His brother has developed some great spears and it was really neat to see at probably a dozen new divers this year between all the grandkids.

I was a little nervous to have Miss peanut at the beach - cause hello I'm not moving as fast these days and I will blink and she'll disappear. I was grateful to have so much help with keeping track of her. Glass Beach is always a favorite in Ft. Bragg and Miss Peanut loved it.
Daddy with Miss Peanut at Glass Beach

Michael showing Miss Peanut a crab he found.

Just playing.

We were also able to get family pictures with everyone - those are in the process of being edited by my wonderful sister - thanks for helping and letting us borrow your camera. Anyway, it was a wonderful trip and we were sad to come back, but we're here and now we've got a handful of weeks to get ready for this baby. I didn't think summer would go by quite so fast and here it is August.