Lydia's almost here!!

It has been quite a while since I last posted and I was looking at my countdown till Lydia gets here, and she is almost here! I can't believe I only have just 2 to 3 more weeks left. This preganancy has been going by really fast. Then I got to thinking, that I am pretty darn nervous for her to get here. When I was about ready to have Keely, I was very ignorant of what the aftermath was going to be, but know I have full knowledge of what a new baby means - a lot of work and soreness. Am I really ready to go through labor again? Am I really really to embrace another baby and wake every 3 hours of the night for feeding? I guess I don't really have a choice in the matter. Although I am done with being pregnant, and I can't wait to see Lydia, I am a little nervous for a new baby. I know we will get through that first month, and everything will be fine. The anxiety is always worse than the acutal reality of the situation. I am sure we will be just fine. I really can't wait to see her. I will definatly post when she gets here.

Happy Brithday!

May 9th was Shawn's birthday, so this is a little late. He is now 27 years old. He will be 30 before we know it. Dang he is getting old, just kidding honey. I just wanted him to know how much I love and appreciate him. He works so hard for our family and makes us so happy. He is always helping me see when I am in a bad mood and making me a better person.

He is such a good daddy to Keely. She is always asking for him to come home when he has his late classes, and always wants to wrestle. I hope you had a good birthday Shawn, with many more to come. We love you! :) Here are some pictures of Shawn

Wasn't he a cute baby?Shawn at 21 on his mission.

She Did It!! Hooray!!

In January, I started potty training Keely, and things didn't go so well. So I decided to put it off. So I just started it up again on Tuesday and she did it!! I was so proud of her. She actually ran to the potty to go pee! She just kept yelling "I did it, I did it!" It was so cute.
My biggest concern about starting the potty training process was her going poo on the toilet, becuase she runs around and acts crazy when she has to go, and it takes her like 30 minutes. But on Tuesday she went poo on the potty! I was so amazed. Things have been going pretty good today. She had two accidents, one right after her nap, but other than that she has done so good. I hope it continues to go well. We will see.... wish me luck :)

Funny Story

So I want to write this story down so I don't forget it, because it was kind of funny. So today right before leaving for church Keely has to poop. And when she has to go, it is quite the ordeal, it takes her like 30 minutes and she runs around the house, and she always seems to pick the perfect times to go, like when we have to go to church. Well we got to sacrament meeting and she finally went and she started clapping out loud for herself, pointing to her bum, saying "poop, poop!" really loud. I was afraid to look around to see if anyone noticed, but it was so funny.


-On a side note, I have gotten some requests on my pregnant belly. So here is a picture at 28 weeks. (don't mind the messy stairs)

Zoo Trip

Around Christmas time Shawn and I decided to get a zoo pass since we like going and it is worth it to get a pass if you are going to the zoo at least once. I am so glad that we did. We have gone about 3 times since then, and it is so nice to get out in the cool weather and to just walk around and look at the animals. Well about 2 weeks ago, my friends Courtney and Amanda all took our kids to the zoo for a day, and it was so much fun to hang out and see them. Of course the kids had fun and it was a beautiful day. I took like two pictures.....

Keely, Madden and Jaxon playing in the water.The three by the giraffes..

Thanks again girls for coming out to hang out with me. We will definatly have to do it again. :)

South Mountian

So this past Monday for Presidents Day Shawn didn't have school, so he took work off as well. Well we decided to get out of the house and go on a hike. Haha ya you are wondering "with a two year old?" Well Shawn remembered going on an easy hike when he was younger with his family to South Mountain, the Mormon Trail. Haha ya and it ended up being harder than he remembered. Well it was pretty easy for us, but with a two year old it was a little difficult. But I must say I was really suprised with how well Keely did! She hiked pretty much the whole way up, about a mile distance. She wouldn't let us help her most of the time, she wanted to climb the rocks by herself (she is so independent). So it took us a really long time to get to the top. Sometimes I would try to carry her so that we could move a little faster, and let me tell ya, being six months pregnant carring a two year old on your back is quite a work out.

We ate lunch, and rested for a bit, then when it was time to go, we decided Shawn should carry her all the way down, becuase it took too long in the first place to get up there. So he carried her (thanks honey!) while we cruised down the mountian and she ended up falling asleep on his shoulder, she was so exhausted. It was a beautiful day and it was so nice to get out and do something different than just sit around the house all day. Next time we decide to go on a hike we will wait till Keely is a little older and an easier trail. :)

Family Update.

So there really hasn't been much going on with us lately. Shawn started yet another semester. He's taking 15 credit hours and working still full time. This is a hard semester, and I think the rest are going to be hard as well. When I say hard I mean I never get to see him anymore. Every night he either gets home at 7:15 or 8:40. So Keely and I have some long days ahead of us. Shawn's classes are getting tougher though as well and so they are long days for him. We just keep counting down the weeks for the end of another semester... Shawn is still trying to sell his motorcycle, so if anyone knows someone who wants to buy a good looking motorcycle, just let me know.... :)

Keely had a little accident last Sunday the 26th of Jan . We were about to leave for church, and I got a necklace out of my jewlry box that hangs on the wall. Keely saw me and deciced she wanted one too. So she climb up on my vanity while I was in the other room, and my curling iron was still on. She knelt down right on top of it, and it burned her pretty bad. I felt so bad because I should have been watching her around it. Hence we didn't make it to sacrament meeting, since we were trying to soothe Keely and keep her calm. She was wearing a knee length skirt so the first layer of skin just came off with the curling iron. I feel so bad for her. It was such a tramatic experience and it still is when we change the bandages. Below is a picture of the ugly thing. It looks really bad. I just hope it doens't get infected and doensn't scar. It was a good learning experice for me though with having to deal with a major wound. I just hope I am taking care of it correctly.

The pregnancy is going well. I feel great, I did with Keely so hopeful I am just lucky. Except my tail bone hurts so badly this time. I never experienced that with Keely. I guess it's just the way this baby is positioned. I am hoping it doesn't get worse when I get bigger. I haven't been doing much besides working while Keely naps and trying to find fun things for Keely and I to do together.

Since Shawn and I got married we have been using a tiny little 4 drawer dresser that I used growing up. Ya its pretty small. So we decided it was time to get a new one since the baby is coming, and Keely could have our old dresser. So we headed over to DI to see what they had (my first experience with DI, and I absolutely love that store!) and we found a really nice dresser. It needed a little work, but we bought it. I wish I took a before picture, but this is what my little project has been over the last couple days. We have like double the space now, and it is so nice not to jam pack shirts and underware in our drawers anymore.