Baby!

I was so relieved to have our first ultrasound and see our little baby in there! I keep forgetting I am pregnant. With Kaleigh, I had a constant reminder because I was so sick. I have had absolutely no sickness with this one! This makes me think it is a boy!

Kaleigh Girl!

My good friend Katie, took some fun pictures of Kaleigh in the beautiful fall leaves!
They turned out cute! (especially the tongue one!)
Thanks Katie!

Happy Halloween!

We had a great Halloween! (Probably my last one of not having to go trick-or-treating). We had a little dress up party for play group, but Kaleigh was not about to let me put her pirate costume on her. Every time she see's it, she runs and if I get it close to her she freaks out. Hopefully we have better luck with the costume thing next year!

Quick trip home...

I just returned from a quick trip to Utah where I attended the funeral services of my cousin Stephanie Johnson. (Center) She passed away in an automobile accident in Logan, Utah. She was a sweet person and will be missed by many. These are the times that we are so thankful for our knowledge of the gospel and knowing that we can all be together again someday.

Coloring on Grandparents front porch with cousins and uncles!

Watching BYU get creamed by TCU. (Ouch!)

#2

We are going to have another baby!!!
We are so, so, so excited too! (Not sure how excited Kaleigh is going to be, but we sure are!) I am only about two months along, so have a long 7 months ahead of me! Luckily I have not been sick yet. I was super super sick with Kaleigh, but I have heard that each pregnancy gets better and easier. Is this true? I think maybe instead of my body being affected by pregnancy it is my brain. So far I have.... tried to put the milk away in the microwave instead of the fridge, dumped the left-overs in the lid of the tubaware rather than the container part, and worst of all... the other day I waited for Kaleigh to go down for her nap leaving her home with Trevan studying and I drove to Wal-Mart to get all my groceries and a few other things. I got there and quicky got everything I needed. I got up in line to check out. When I went to pull my wallet out I realized I had forgotten to get it out of the diaper bag at home. HATE when this happens. Well, I disappointedly left to head for home. On my way home I passed the market and decided to go get some blueberries. Well, luckily they were closed and I didn't have to go inside to embarrass myself again. (Still not having my wallet.) So, I head for home again and notice the Rite-Aid. I so smartly thought I would stop there and get some diapers for Kaleigh so I wouldn't have to go all the way back to Wal-Mart that same day. I pick out the diapers I want, get up to the register only to realize I STILL didn't have my wallet. Who does this? Is it true that your brain goes crazy while your pregnant?
Hopefully I survive this next 7 months and still have any brain at all!

Children can be so funny!

What do you think? Do children like olives because they taste good, or because they are so much fun? Kaleigh would eat olives all day long if I would let her!

Rocks and Dirt! Why is it more fun to play in the rocks and dirt than it is to play with a goat? I thought Kaleigh would love playing with the goats at the zoo, but she could care less about them. The only time she showed any interest was when she tried to bathe them in the dirt! I guess it is true when you hear that your children will like the things you would never think of them liking!

The Zoo!

Last week, my good friend Katie asked us if we wanted to go the zoo with her and her son Carson! We had so much fun seeing all the animals. We talk about the animals all the time now, especially the Zebra's (Zareebra's!) Kaleigh and Carson also got to ride on the carousel before we left. They both loved it! Can't wait until next time!

The two Philly's!

Trevan went to Canada a few weeks ago and he dropped Kaleigh and I off in Philadelphia to spend a few days with Derrick and Ashley before they moved back to Utah! We had tons of fun swimming, going out to eat, movies and ice cream, talking and shopping on Market Street which brings us to our 2nd Philly........
Our First Family Pet!

Derrick bought a turtle on Market St. for Kaleigh! We named him Philly! Kal loves her little turtle and has had a lot of fun with him!

Things we will miss from our Summer in Utah!

Campfires!

Chuck-E-Cheese!

Feeding the Ducks at BYU!

Our Daily morning walks to Aunt Camme's to swim with Grandma and her sisters!

Blow-up toys!

Playing with Grandparents!

Helping Grandparents work in the yard!

B.B.Q's with friends!

Swimming with friends!

Camping with Family!

The Cabin!

Boating, skiing, wakeboarding and tubing!

Good friends!

Every Wed night rollerblading up the canyon! (Having near death experiences trying to dodge the crazy out of control bikers!)

Staying at the Covey's house. Playing in their huge yard while Trevan spends hrs mowing it!

Trev's First Book Signing!

Trevan had his first book signing in Utah! (He had his second one a few weeks later!) We went to visit him and look who else showed up! That's right... Elmo! Kaleigh was in heaven. We ask her what the elmo song is and she starts singing "La La La La". Anyway, she gave him hugs and kisses and would not let him out of her sight the whole time.

For those of you who have not yet gotten Trev's book... I highly recommend you do! It is really an excellent book and will keep your attention. You will learn so much from it! It is available at Seagull Book, Deseret Book, Amazon and Granite Publishing! You will not be sorry if you get it!

4th of July!

We had a great 4th of July! We started out by having a breakfast at the parade with the Hatch family! We then went and had a bbq along with swimming which is always fun! Later in the evening we lit some of our own fireworks at our yearly Cold-e-Sac of Fire party! It was a lot of fun!

Summer at home!

We have been lucky to spend the summer at home in Utah! Trevan got accepted to do some research for BYU with some of the top scholors and present it at a symposium! He was very busy, but it paid off when he presented his research and did an awsome job!

Family Pictures!

Hot-Dog Hot-Dog Hot-Diggity-Dog!

Are anybody else's children obsessed with Micky Mouse and the song Hot-Dog? Everytime Kaleigh hears the song, she immediatly drops whatever it is she is doing, runs in and starts dancing her little heart away! It is so funny to watch. I get worried she is going to hypervenilate! (Sometimes she is a little more wild than this, but this is the best we have gotten on camera so far!)

Loads of Fun! (Week 4)

We got to go golfing with Derrick and Ashley! We are starting Kaleigh early in hopes that she will love to golf as much as we do! We might be in luck since she loves playing with the golf clubs and balls and riding in the cart!

Loads of Fun! (Week 3)

D.C

National Aquarium! Smithsonians!

We had so much fun with my parents! We went to Washington D.C a few times and saw many of the amazing Smithsonian Museums! (The Natural History Museum was my favorite by far!) We also went to Philly, Fort McHenry, the National Aquarium and many more things!

Loads of Fun! (Week 2)

Congratulations Derrick and Ashley!

These three are available!

I flew home to Utah to see my brother Derrick, get married to Ashley! We are so excited to have another sister-in-law in the family! We spent most of the vacation being sick, but the days we felt good were super fun! It was fun to see all of our good friends and family at the wedding.

Loads of Fun! (Week 1)

Statue of Liberty!

Some of Kal's friends!

Trev's sister Brittney and her husband Justin, Grandmom and Grandad, Dad, me, Trev and Kal!

Liberty Bell!

Some of Trevan's family came out to visit us and to watch his sister Sharlie, sing with her high school choir at Carnegie Hall. (spelling?) We got to go to Gettysberg with them, to Philly to see many of Grandmom and Grandads mission friends and to N.Y.C! It was so much fun!

My good friend, Katie, took some fun pictures of Kaleigh for me. Didn't she do a great job! The two times that Kaleigh has had photo shoots, she has been horrible. However, we were lucky enough to get a few cute ones!

Vacation to Canada!

Niagra Falls!

Sacred Grove!

Hill Cumorah!

We just got back from a little vacation to Canada! We drove to Hamilton Ontario Canada because Trevan had some interviews at Mcmaster University to see if he would be interested in going there for his Phd in a year. We had a great time stopping all along the way at the church history sites and Niagra Falls. Too bad it is not the most beautiful and warm time of the year, however we still had a great time! Here are a few pictures.

It's that time of year again!

I am absolutely obsessed with Cadbury Mini Eggs! Once I start eating them, I simply can not stop. The only reason I stop is because the stores run out and no longer sale them. Well, it seems that Kaleigh is the same way. She loves them too. She knows where I put them and is always trying to get to them. Like mother, like daughter uh? If you have never tried them before, I highly recommend them! Just remember that once you start... you can't stop!

Help me out Cookers!

My sweet husband was one HUGE sweetheart on Valentines Day! He surprised me with a VERY-LONG-TIME wanted KitchenAid! We didn't get anything for Christmas, and he decided to take a little of our tax returns and purchase this for me! However... I have a good friend that has had some problems with her KitchenAid, which brought me to the computer to research about them. It seems that many people have problems with theirs going out on them, but of course there were more people saying good stuff rather than bad about them. Luckily, KitchenAid is good about exchanging them. It is nice that they will exchange for me, but do I even want to go there? So... I started reading about the Bosch Mixer. It seems to be good as well. I just don't know enough about either of them and need some help deciding! Any suggestions?

Happy Birthday Kaleigh Girl!

So.... Good thing that I have a few more years of practice on making cute B-Day cakes before she cares too much. I think I tried to cook it, cool it down and transfer onto a plate before the cake was ready. I ended up destroying it. Luckily the frosting helped it look a little better!

Kaleigh is a good sport! She walked right to her cake on the ground and dug right in! I am afraid she ate too much of it though, because she threw-up after! O-Well, it was worth the fun she had playing in it!

Nice and Clean again!

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY KALEIGH!
I can not believe that our little girl is already a year old. Time goes by way too fast! Some of the highlights of Kaleigh when looking back on her first year are...
1- Her little tongue. It is rarely inside her mouth, but rather, always moving around outside her mouth!
2- Crawling. She is the most dramatic little crawler! She puts her head down, swings her arms really high and slams them to the ground each time and charges to her destination! So funny!
3-Her smile. Kaleigh has the biggest smile! It takes up her whole face. We love it so much and are so glad it happens often! My family started saying "SUPER HAPPY" to her and she would smile huge and bend her head over. So funny!
4- Walking! This was probably one of the funnest things to see! Kaleigh started taking steps about a month ago, and is now unstoppable. Don't you think babies are so cute right when they start walking? The legs go side to side rather than in front of them! Trev loves chasing her and making her try to go faster than her legs can take her! She loves it too.
5- Of course.... TALKING! Kaleigh is starting to talk so much! Her favorite words are Cheerio, Hi (to everyone!), nigh-night, bathy, dog, I-love-you, and calling her mom "meg" rather than mom. She is even starting to say the animal sounds! We are having so much fun teaching her, and it is so rewarding when they start understanding!
The only thing that has not been fun is... trying to get her to take a sippy cup rather than a bottle! Any suggestions?

Utah Fun!

We love Utah! We had so much fun in Utah over the Holidays! When we got there we had a huge list of things we wanted to do and people we wanted to hang out with. We thought a month was plenty of time, but it seemed like we were busy the whole time and were trying to juggle our schedules to be able to do everything!
Some of the highlights were... family parties, BYU games, snowmobiling, (watching my niece Torrie, roll her dads machine down a HUGE mountain and then trying to figure out how to tell him about it) Kaleigh and her best friend Jake (the dog), Kaleigh's first steps, Kaleigh's being sick probably half the trip (got sick again the night before we were suppose to fly home, so I had to cancel my flight and wait a few more days)
and hanging out with all our friends!

Merry Christmas!

I know, I know, I know... I am super late for our Christmas pictures.
But... Better Late Than Never! Right?
We had a lot of fun in Utah spending our Holidays with our family and friends! It was fun having our first Christmas with Kaleigh. (Even though she didn't seem to care too much about any of the gifts!) We better enjoy the time we have of not having to buy her anything, because I am sure it will be a little different in the next year or two.
We went to see Santa in Baltimore at a mall and I was surprised that Kaleigh didn't seem to mind him at all. She just stared at him. (Probably didn't know what else to do). She must take after her father in bravery, because her mother was the BIGGEST cry baby when it came to Santa Clause. (I am embarrassed to admit that it was not just when I was young like her, but probably until I was about 10 years old. My family still talks about how everytime I would see him I would immediatly start to cry and seek for a good hiding place!) He just makes me nervous for some reason.

Yea! My husband's book is fnally out!!!

Three years ago Trevan got an idea to write a book and said he wanted to finish it before graduate school. Let's just say that he is a man of his word! I am so proud of him! He has worked so hard on it, and after three years of about 20 hours a week it is ready for you to read. He is not going to brag to everyone about it, but I am because I am so excited for him! Granite Publishing did a great job with it (very nice cover and hardbound book) and has got it at Seagull Book and BYU bookstore. So everyone, GO BUY THE BOOK! You will love it as did Stephen M.R Covey and Dr. Donald Q. Cannon who blurbed the book.

Busy Baby!

PROBLEM!

SOLUTION!

O-MY-GOSH! This child is into EVERYTHING! Every time I go into her room, the diapers are all over the floor, in the kitchen the cupboards are empty and everything that was in them is found all over the floor. She even empties the garbage's all around the house for us. She is just busy, busy, busy!

Put on your DUDES!

When my niece, Jaydenn, was younger she called her sunglasses DUDES and it has stuck with us since then! Kaleigh loves to wear her DUDES and since I have no pictures of all three of us together I thought I would post this one just for fun! What do you think of Trev's sunglasses? (He had to barrow them from Mr. Potato Head!)

So, if there is one thing that Kaleigh is serious about in life so far... it is her dancing! She is out of control when it comes to dancing and especially when it is Baby Mozart that she is listening to! We have to hold on to her very tight when we are in church and they start to sing a hymn. It is really fun to watch her grow and learn and develop her own little personality! We do have to admit that we are a little nervous for the future and both agree that we are going to have our hands full with this hyper child!

Happy Thanksgiving!

What a fun Thanksgiving we had! I have to be honest when I say that I was not really looking forward to my first Thanksgiving away from home. I thought it would be okay, but that I would wish we were home the whole time. Well, it would have been fun to be home, but it was also really fun here. We started off the day playing football with some people in our ward. I don't know if our team won or not, but I am proud to say that I made a touchdown! I have never made one before, so that was exciting! It was really fun to watch all the couples trying to juggle our babies while playing football at the same time. We did a few trick plays with them by passing the baby and then catching the football to go in for a touchdown! All three of the babies are great football players!

We then went to the Owen's home along with a few other couples in the ward to eat a delicious Thanksgiving meal! While we ate and hung out for a while, Kaleigh was busy kissing Carson. I would say we are in trouble with this little girl, but it was Trevan that is teaching her this habit. So, which one of them is suppose to get in trouble?

We are very THANKFUL this Thanksgiving to have such an amazing ward out here in Baltimore. They have made us feel so welcome, and we have such a fun time with them anytime we can get together. It is so nice to have a family away from home! It is nice that they made it possible for us to end our Thanksgiving holiday with a sore body, and a full belly!