Update

Our internet was set up on last Friday, which means I went almost an entire two weeks without it! How did I survive?

So I just wanted to write a quick post and let everyone know where we've been for the past two weeks!

We moved into our house on Saturday the 21st. We are loving it! We had a lot of help that day and were able to move fairly quickly. The weekend before we bought our appliances off of craigslist and painted the house. I just have to say that craigslist is awesome! We bought a fridge, washer, and a dryer (all almost new) for only $650. We are now almost all settled in, and loving life in our new home!

Kate is growing up way to fast! She can now pull herself up, crawl really fast, and has started to say syllables like "da" and "ma". She also likes to entertain herself by yelling as loud as she can. She turned 7 months old yesterday and I just can't believe it!

Thanksgiving was awesome, as always. This year we had it at Dustin's Uncle Brian's house. Dinner was delicious, and we had our traditional White Elephant exchange. The boys watched football while the girls watched She's the Man in the theater room.

I went Black Friday shopping with my sister-in-laws, mother-in-law, and my friend Amy at 12:01 friday morning! It was so much fun! The mall was crazy busy, but that's all part of the fun! I headed home around 3:00 am, but they were the real troopers and were out until 8:00!

We went to see the Temple lights on Friday night. They were so pretty, and I just love the spirit that the temple brings.

Today we attempted to go to church, but found out that we went to the wrong ward! I did get to see one of my old friends from beauty school there though, so that was fun. We will be in our assigned ward next week. haha.

I did take pictures of all of these events, but my camera needs new batteries and I have yet to find my camera cord. I will be updating and posting pics of everything as soon as I find the cord, and can afford batteries.

Happy (late) Thanksgiving everyone! Now lets get ready for Christmas!

Kate's First Crawl

That's right!

My baby is crawling! This is literally her first crawl. I saw her doing it and I grabbed my camera and pressed record. I'm so proud of her! Now she is everywhere! She was before, she really knew how to get around just by rolling and scooting, but now she's a lot quicker! She knows exactly where she's not supposed to be, and goes right there. It's time to start baby proofing.



It's so funny because just about an hour earlier I decided to take a little video of her funny rolly-crawl. This is how she used to get around before. It's so funny.



I can't believe how big she has gotten!

6 month checkup

Kate had her 6 month checkup on Tuesday. Here are her current stats:

Height: 27.75 inches
Weight: 18lbs 13oz
Head circumference: 17 1/4"

She's such a big baby! She's in the 90th percentile for BOTH height and weight. She had to get three shots this time, which was not fun for her or me. I just hate seeing her in pain, I always tear up a little. And yes, I did decide to give her the H1N1 vaccine. I really talked it over with my doctor. At her 4 month appointment I asked him about it and he said not to worry, the media always overhypes things. But at this appointment his tone changed. He's seen SUCH an outbreak here in the valley that he and all his children got the vaccine even though they never got flu shots before. So after thinking about it, I finally came to the conclusion that the vaccine can't possibly be worse than her actually catching the swine flu. Also, I really trust my doctor. I know he wouldn't advise me to do it unless he thought it was really important. Kate was kind of tired after her shots, but was back to our normal happy healthy baby by the evening!

Which brings me to my next question.

Shouldn't my 6 month old be sleeping through the night?

I remember when she was about 2 months old she used to sleep through the night, and I thought I was so lucky! haha. Well, not so much anymore. Waking up once is fine, but lately she's been waking up like 3 or 4 times. Just last night I put her to bed at 8:30, she woke up at 9:30. I kept her up a little bit to make sure she was really tired and put her back to bed around 10:30. She woke up at 12:30, I fed her and put her back to bed. She woke up at 2:30, I fed her and put her back to bed. She woke up at 4:30, and I fed her and put her back to bed! Holy crap! Is she just going through a growth spurt or something? She really shouldn't be hungry, I fed her 2 jars of baby food and breastfed her before putting her to sleep. I think last weekends trip just really through her off schedule. But to be honest, she started doing this even before we went to Utah. So I guess I can't really blame it on that.

I have no problem putting her to sleep. But how do you help her to stay asleep?


And no, this is not a side effect of vaccinations. :) haha. I know some of you were probably thinking that (Mom)! She's been sleeping like this for more than a week now, and I'm getting pretty tired!

Bryce and Amanda's Wedding

It's been over a week since I last blogged. What? That's not like me. Here's what we did last weekend.

We flew to Utah! My cousin Bryce was getting married, plus two of my cousins had recently had babies, so of course we wanted to see everyone!

We had such an easy time flying this time. It was so stress-free I couldn't beleive it. Dustin works for US Airways, so in order to take advantage of flight benefits we have to fly standby which is not the easiest thing. This time we just walked straight up to the gate, the guy handed us our tickets, and we walked straight onto the plane! Didn't even sit down first. Kate did really well while flying. She slept almost the whole time, and never cried during take off or landing.

The flight was only 1 hr 15 min. I love it! It would have taken us 12 hours to drive! We got our rental car and checked into our hotel in Lehi (thanks again Uncle Brian!). That night we picked up Andy (after getting lost, Utah's streets are wacky!) and ate dinner with my mom and Aunt Sherri.

After that we were driving back to our hotel, and I decided that I really wanted a shake. So we found this place right by our hotel called Iceberg. The shakes only came in two sizes, mini or regular. Okay... so when you think of a mini size shake... what do you think of? I was thinking mini meant like a kid's size frosty, and I wanted more than that so I ordered a regular. Well what we got were the biggest shakes ever! Plus, I don't really think you can call it a "shake" it was so thick it was more like soft-serve ice cream. Basically, it was heaven. We went back the next night also.



Kate loved playing in the hotel! She just loves being down on the ground and mobile. She thought it was so funny that she got under this chair.




The next morning we went to the Draper Temple for the ceremony. The sealer was really long winded. He talked to Bryce and Amanda about everything! The funniest part was when he said the wrong name. He said "Bryce, remember that you are only to love Amber" or something like that, we were all suppressing giggles.

After taking some group pictures, we went to the luncheon. It was catered by Cafe Rio. Yum!

The reception was later that night in the Provo Library. It's a beautiful building. On the way there we followed my cousin Kim and her husband TJ, and my younger cousins Tyler, Rachel and Jaron followed us. We were driving on the free way and hit some traffic. Tyler (who was driving) didn't realize that we had slowed to a stop, and had to pull an evasive manuever not to hit us! It was really scary, and I'm so glad they didn't hit us. Teens + driving= bad combination.

Anyway, we got there in one piece and had a lot of fun at the reception. I am really sorry about the picture overload in this post, but all my blogs get made into books eventually, so this is how our lives get documented. I'm not really a scrapbooker.

Here they are! Don't they make a cute couple?

Everyone wanted to dance with Kate.


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My and my bro. I don't look so good in any of the upcoming pictures. I hadn't had a chance to retouch my makeup since 9:00 in the morning. Oh well.


The five girl cousins. The best part about any reunion or wedding is hanging out with these girls!

L-R Khristen, Me, Kim, Elaine, and Natalie
Three of us have kids now. Elaine is winning.

The second generation of cousins. I think the technical term for them is first cousins once removed. Is that right?

L-R Kate, Maliah, Jackson, Anna


Just the girls


My family
The next day we had a lot of fun just hanging out with everybody, and playing games.

We flew home the next morning and were home in time for lunch. I love flying! On the flight home we flew over the Grand Canyon. It was such a beautiful sight from the sky, it makes me wonder how anyone can deny the existence of God.


Obviously, this picture doesn't do it justice.

It was a great weekend. Now it's time to start packing and get ready to move!

Halloween!

I hope everyone had an awesome Halloween!

We did!

We tried to be really creative with our costumes this year. Dustin and I spent a total of $10 putting ours together, and I think you'll really enjoy them.

I hope you can tell who we are from these pictures. We are, clearly, Where's Waldo? and Flo, the Progressive Insurance girl. I think we've been married too long, because we make the same dorky face in all our pictures. I was trying to channel Flo's energy into my facial expression, but I don't think it worked out.

Kate was Princess Leia. I did buy Kate's online though. It was so funny I just had to buy it.

It was a little big on her. I think she'll be able to wear it next year too.

That night we went to a party at Scott and Sherice's house.

Sherice was a witch.

A nice witch. Only the nice witches wear tutu's.

And Scott was my favorite pitchman.May he rest in peace.

Everyone else looked really good in their costumes as well!! I thought I had taken more pictures, but I guess I didn't. Sorry.

We had a great time playing games and eating yummy snacks. We played this game where you had to eat a doughnut on a string without using your hands.
It got pretty violent. Sherice even split her lip!

I took video of Dustin and Jaron playing, but it's not uploading. Oh well.

We also played Halloween bingo, and Catchphrase. Catchphrase was SO fun with as many people as we had. We pretty much yelled the whole game.

By 11:00 Kate had had enough and we went home. It was so fun you guys! Thanks for a great party!