Well it was Shawn's birthday on the 9th. He is 26 now; he is closer to 30 than he is to 20 now. He's getting old! Just kidding. I love you honey; happy birthday! We just had Jason and Courtney over for pizza and to visit, since we hadn't seen them in forever. It was great to catch up and watch Jaxon and Keely interact.
We haven't been up to much. Shawn is done with school for the semester, and he ended up getting good grades, which he was so happy about. Shawn was really bummed when the Suns dissapointed once again, so there hasn't been basketball on, but now the DBacks are. I have to admit, I enjoy watching the DBack games. They are a fun team. I hope we get to go to a game this year.
We are moving to a new condo at the end of May. We will be saving money for a lot bigger place; almost 400 square foot bigger for less. So it is exciting. We have all month to move, so last weekend we moved all our storage stuff and the stuff that we don't use. So it will be a nice easy move and transition. I have given up on reading for the time being. I think I wore my eyes out, and there really hasn't been time with packing things up and such.
I went to my friend Amber Crandell's bridal shower last Saturday. I seriously have been looking forward to it for about a month. I love baby showers, and it was so good to see my friends from High School that I haven't seen in a while. I was hoping I could get to see more, but it was still great! I haven't really posted any pictures of Keely lately, so these are my favorite from the past month in a half.

Keely and I getting ready to move boxes.Keely is into putting her shirts on and off.

Giving her baby a kiss.

Eating on the couch like a big girl.She has her camping chair in the living room. She sits on it to watch TV. Goofy girl.

Reading Time!

Well these past two weeks have kind of been a blur. It seems I have been reading non stop and can't get enough of it. I started with reading the Twilight series for the second time, and I thought hmm I will just casually read through them and enjoy them again. The first time I read them I read really fast, so I thought the second time I wouldn't get so involved. Well I was stupid, because it was just as bad, I couldn't put them down. I love those books. I used to be an Edward fan, but I am kind of leaning towards Jacob after this second go around (for those of you who know what I am talking about). I finish all three of them in 8 days, and then I started reading Wuthering Heights, finished that one in 3 days, and then I started "These is my words" and finished that one in 3 days. So in about 14 days I read 1,600 pages. That is a lot of reading; I feel like such a nerd! It reminds me of the good old AR days in high school. But it also reminds me of Trace Porter making fun of Nicole Barnett for reading all the time. Haha. Love you Nicole! I don't know why I always think of that when reading, but I do.

So after reading all those books, I feel like a bad mom and wife. I think I have neglected my family! and my eyes are a little tired haha. I am taking a little break, but I forgot how fun it is to just sit and get absorbed in a book. So I have done a little repenting and started doing my chores again and making dinner for my family.

But for those of you who haven't read "These is my Words" by Nancy Turner, it is such a very good book. I highly recommend it. Its about this woman who settles near Tuscon in 1890, and she talks about getting married and having a family, and all the trials that she went through. It's a real tear jerker though. I have a list of books that I am going to read, but I want to know about some other good books that people have read. So if you have a good one, let me know! :)

Easter Sunday

My mom got Keely her Easter dress this year, so I didn't end up making one. So Shawn and I decided that we needed new church clothes as well. I think it is the perfect time of year to get new church clothes. We were one smokin family at church I must say. Haha I am just kidding. Keely looked so cute in her dress, and I just started putting pig tails in her hair, which made her even cuter. She got the idea of looking for her easter eggs at Grandma Nelson's.

Isn't he so handsome? I had a hard time getting Keely to look at me.

Shawn did a better job getting her to smile for the camera.

Isn't she such a cute little bunny. :)

Finding her eggs.Putting them in her basket. Looking at her prizes.

I am so grateful for the wonderful family that Shawn and I have. We are so blessed I can't even describe. I hope everyone had a good Easter Sunday. :)

House Full of Girls

My sister Kelli asked me to watch her girls while she left for a day to help with her stake trek, and so we had a house full of girls last week. Hailey and Addison spent the night on Wednesday and played all day on Thursday. We had a lot of fun. Keely had the most fun I would have to say. She loved having friends over to play with and to entertain her. Mom gets boring sometimes I think. Hailey and Addison were so good. They really are good little girls. They never complained about nothing to do in my small little house. Here are some pictures.....

Keely loved laying on Hailey's pillow pretending to sleep.

Hailey was getting frustraed that Keely took a liking to her braids.She also loved carrying Keely, and Keely thought it was so funny.I really like this picture of Keely snugly close to Hailey watching TV. If you look close you can see Addison got a hold of a marker and colored Keely's foot.

After those couple of night, I don't know how Shawn would do if we had all girls. He needs a boy to wrestle with. They sure were fun to have around though.

Here she comes!

So Keely is finally walking. Wahoo!!! She started about 2 weeks ago, I know I am a little behind in my posts. It is so fun to see her walk around. Everytime she falls she makes this little grunt noise, it's so funny. Walking also makes her look so much bigger and taller. Anyway, that is all I wanted to say. Later Alligator!

Rebellion

So my friend Amber tagged me, and I told Shawn that I wouldn't do the tagging thing if I started up a blog (he doesn't like them for some reason), so hopefully he won't see this post. Haha I know I am a rebel huh? It's kind of fun. :)

7 Random things about me

1. I love love love to sleep. That includes going to be at night early and taking naps. I don't get to take very many naps, but when I do, I cherish it.

2. I love to learn about things. I wish that I could go to school right now, because I just like to study and be in a classroom setting. When I was in college, I would read my textbooks beyond what the teacher assigned, because I would find them so interesting. When Shawn is done with school, then it will be my opportunity to finish my degree.

3. I am a list maker. I am constantly making list of what things I need to do. Shopping lists, chore list, work list, ect. I think I do it to keep me organized but Iit also gives me great pleasure to cross things off. It makes me feel like I am accomplishing things.

4. I love paper and office supplies. When I was little I asked my mom to get me paper and pencils and office stuff for Christmas. I was so excited to get a big storage thing of all kinds of supplies.

5. I have been on a lot of different diets, not that I wanted to lose weight necessarily, but because I just want to eat a certain thing all the time. For example, I have been on an ice cream and milk diet. In high school I would eat a lot of ice cream, wait I still do, so maybe I am on the diet still? On my milk diet, I drank about 80 oz of milk a day. Haha, that was a mistake though. I thought I was pouring the milk into an 8 oz glass when it was a 16 oz glass. We went through a lot of milk.

6. Two years ago I had foot surgery due to fallen arches. I had shin splints all the time because of it. My shin splints are gone, but my feet hurt all the time. I wish I never got the surgery, because I am always in pain. I get all excited about going running and working out, and then I dont, because the just the thought of running on them hurt.

7. I am a sucker for romantic movies, or just anything romantic; books, movies, tv series, ect. To name a few of my favorite, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Man from Snowy River, and North and South.

Our Fun Little Life

So I haven't posted any pictures of Keely lately. Actually I haven't really blogged at all . Things have been busy with working, just taking care of the house and Keely. Not much has been going on except Shawn is going to school and I took on another little part time job at his work. I go in about 2 nights a week and scan papers for Shawn's boss. It isn't bad, it's nice to have a little extra money. We got a new couch from Shawn's Grandma. It is practically brand new, and we got a good deal on it. So right now we have 2 full size couches in our small apartment. We would get rid of it, but it's my sister Ginger's and she has no where to store it. Oh speaking of Ginger, she is getting married!! Yahoo. And who might the lucky man be? David Bently. I was thinking about it last night, how strange it is that they are getting married. In high school you would have never guessed. She is so happy and David is such a good guy. It's kind of weird that she is the last one that my parents have to give away. We are all just growing up, and we will all have our own families. Weird.
Shawn and I started watching Lost starting with season 1. They have all the episodes on abc.com and we are like addicted to it. Why didn't anyone tell me how good this show was? Sometimes it kind of gives me an errie feeling. When we watch it right before bed and I need to get up to brush my teeth, and it is dark in the rest of the house, I get kind of scared. Shawn of course thinks I am silly for brushing really fast and jumping under the covers. But if you've seen the show, you can see what I am talking about. "The Others" One weekend we watched like 12 hours of it. Haha we are so sad.Keely still isn't walking. She will be 4 months old in 4 days. I can't wait till she walks, I think it will be easier. People tell me that it isn't but I think it would be nice to set her down anywhere I need to. She is such a funny little girl; she cracks me up. Shawn was growing out his beard about a month ago to see how long he could stand it, and he would rub Keely's hand on his it and she would just start laughing so hard. It was cute.

This is what Keely does for the majority of her day. She loves her car. She tries to get her care bear and her on it with the same time. It is so fun to watch her get on and off it while holding on her bear.She had her first bubble bath tonight, she didn't know what to think of them. It was funny she was trying to put the bubbles into a cup, but of course they were just sticking to her hand.

I think that is all that we have been up to. Not too much... oo except for my story below, make sure you read that fun little tale :)