Ayden's Birthday

We celebrated Ayden's birthday twice, once on her actual bday and then had her birthday party the following Saturday @ Centennial Hill's Park. We also took our family pictures on Ayden's birthday and as expected she wasn't exactly cooperative but Cortni was still able to get some good pics. Overall, it was a great day, Ayden especially loved her coldstone red velvet cupcake yummo! For her birthday party she had a ladybug theme. Cortni's present to Ayden were the invitations to her birthday party, didn't they come out WAY cute? =) Ninah's present to Ayden was her birthday cake, a giant ladybug, and matching cupcakes and she did an AWESOME job!!

Catch up!

swimming @ Aunt Regina's




Ayden @ Grandma Stephanie's house....


Okay so, I know Im WAYYYYY behind but, with school I stay pretty busy among the rest of the craziness of our lives. Anyway, This post should make up for all that's been missed out. In july and most of August Ayden and I got to travel home to be with my family for 3 whole weeks! Will had to stay behind and work but, it was so much fun to just relax and catch up w/ ALL of our family.

ch ch ch ch changes....

So since I haven't updated in a while I thought I'd take some time and let ya'll know what's been going on. There will be pics to come but for now.....

Ayden and mommy leave saturday to go home to the east coast for three weeks.

My mom won tickets to The Wiggles go banana's tomorrow.

Ayden started walking two weeks ago and now runs EVERYWHERE!(she's 10 months and 3 weeks)


Ayden has four teeth and only eats table food.


Ayden says Mom, Dad, Thank you, No, Hi and Bye bye.

Edina is headed back to school in the fall.

and last but def. not least.........................................


WE'RE PREGNANT! Not sure of the due date due to some confusing details but, my doctor is doing an ultrasound in 3 weeks when I get back. As you can see our little fam is doing great!

Mother's Day and Update...

Okay so, I've gotten extremely lazy about my blogging so I thought I'd update....Mother's Day was so awesome! This year Will and I were able to purchase my mom's favorite painting for her. Son of Man: The Worth of a soul by Liz Lemon Swindle. My mom was so moved by this painting and when I walked upstairs and turned it around she was amazed! She couldn't believe we got it for her. Then we exchanged cards and gifts....Will got me a new net book which I really wanted cuz we have lots of computers here but, now I have one that fits perfectly in my purse and can go anywhere and w/ wifi Im able to connect almost anywhere. Mom and Eric got me Ed Hardy shoes but they were a little small so I took them back and got a really cute pair of Ed Hardy sunglasses instead. Last, my husband made AMAZING carne asada for all of us and it was superb.

Ayden has grown sooo much! She's walking(assisted) all over the house and Im pretty sure she's gonna stop holding on to things any day now. She's such a ball of energy and so very sassy, If isn't done her way it aint gonna cut it. She had her first introduction to grass and she was iffy but then decided it was okay...then she tried to eat it...that was the end of the grass adventure. Oh and she's also in KWNR's "That Baby" contest.... please go to www.kwnr.com/pages/thatbabyvoting-a-f.html She's towards the end Ayden2, the contest only goes for another two weeks so, please vote as much as you'd like.

Stick to laying pipe!

So, my wonderful husband is the love of my life but, he tries to fix EVERYTHING. Our computer has been overheating so he decided to clean it out....He took it out to the backyard w/ a can of air and disappeared for an hour, when he came back in it wouldn't even turn on. He talked about some gold prongs being bent off the fan, so we called my uncle to come fix it. Turns out those gold prongs were off the celeron processor. So, im computerless till these weekend when I buy a new motherboard....So no updates till then. So, now all of will's co-workers joke about how if it doesn't deal w/ pipe don't touch it. Oy Vey!

Nascar Truck Series!!!!

Okay, I married into a Nascar lovin' family which is great cuz I love all racing, especially drag. So, ever since will and I have been dating we ALWAYS go to the races starting w/ the trucks series and anyone who knows me, knows that I love loud trucks. So, we head out early every year about 1:30, drive to the speedway, have a BIG tailgate w/ great food(this year we had a turkey my sis in-law roasted the day before)and then head to the track. It was the first time I'd left the house since we came home from having Ayden and my mom watched her so we could go. My friend Kelly came along and she grew up racing and knows the Busch's so, it was nice for her to come out too.

Ayden's Blessing

November 2, 2008 was the day of Ayden's blessing. This had to be THE busiest weekend we've had yet. The blessing was at 9 am and we all(except Ayden) didn't get to bed till about 3 am. We woke up at 6:30 to finish cooking(for the brunch) and to make sure we were all pressed and ready to go at 8:15. We had such a great turnout, and were SO grateful to everyone who came out to be w/ us that day. All of Will's family and lots of my family came. It was such a beautiful missionary experience for everyone, Three of my friends from school also came. Brunch was awesome,the invitation said "light" brunch but as Cortni told us Neither me nor my mom know how to make a "light" anything so, there was LOTS of food. Afterward, we got to hang out w/ my mother in-law and Ayden and mommy took an AWESOME nap!! Thank you to EVERYONE who came, our ward was so big that sunday =)

Fun w/ Ninah

Yesterday Edina and Ayden got up and hung out w/ Nana for a bit and then began the day by meeting our close family friend Cortni at Centennial Hills to pick up the wonderful family pics she took for us last week at Floyd Lamb State Park(which was lots of fun!) Then we made the drive to Edina's best friend Ninah's house. We spent the day fussing w/ photoshop making Ayden's birth announcements till we discovered a much easier program w/ more of a scrapbook feel called memory mixer. By then we decided we were WAY hungry and headed off to OG's for some salad and breadsticks, yumm =) Then when we got back to Ninah's we finished the announcement which turned out super cute. Thanks Ninah!!