Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The past couple of weeks

Just hanging out at the park. I'm not sure why she's half undressed. I think we just changed her.

I love that she can sit up in the boppy. She almost entertains herself

This is Matthew, one of my nephews I watched. He loved Haylee. Every time he sees me now he asks, "Baby? Baby?" He loved playing with her.

Just a random picture we took after church last week. I think I was just so excited that it was nice out. I could dress her up for summer.

The blanket house while it was still somewhat put together. Matthew's holding an onion. He decided he needed that in the house along with peanuts and bananas.

She is quite proud after taking one of her first sips of water. It's so funny what I take pictures of now, babies drinking water.

Haylee's new favorite toy is any blanket she can get a hold of. She loves being cozy!





I feel like the past couple of weeks have gone by so fast. I watched my nephews for a couple of days while my sister and brother in law went to Hawaii. They have three little boys and Haylee and I aren't used to being around so many boys. We played some sort of battle game on the xbox, played transformers, played and watched star wars, played and watched spiderman and played some sort of rocket ship game. I built them a blanket house which I thought would be so fun to play house in. After all, my sisters and I loved playing house when we were little. The house stood firm just long enough for them to want to eat dinner in and then it got turned into a rocket ship which then became a scene from the movie transformers. I put up a picture of the blanket house which I hope my sister doesn't see. Her house kind of got turned upside down to construct it, but whatever the house turned into it seemed to occupy them all night so that was good. This past weekend was so nice. It hit 80 which it sounds like it did for all northwesters. We went to the park and just hung out on the grass which felt so nice. Haylee is pretty close to sitting up all by herself. She can do it for a few minutes and then she tumbles over. She loves sitting up and playing with her toys in her boppy. That will occupy her for 30 minutes which makes me so happy because she is not a napper so I can finally have a few minutes to myself every day. She also loves playing with blankets now. We got her a sippy cup so she has taken her first few sips of water, which she is still trying to decide if she likes. She does love playing with her cup as a toy though. Some news in our lives that is not about Haylee for once, Weston quit his job at Wells Fargo Financial and we are moving to Pittsburgh to do APX one last time (Seriously this is the last time!!!) I'm still pretty much in shock that we are moving to Pittsburgh especially since it's in a week but I'm exicted too. We are going to have a great summer. I'm pretty sad to be leaving Boise at the same time, even though I said I would never live in Idaho. I've really liked it here and I'm really going to miss my two sisters that live here!! I'm just praying my sister Katie has her baby before we leave! I can't witness the whole pregnancy and then leave before the grand finale! Katie please go into labor tonight! I guess I should stop blogging and get packing!

17 comments:

Katie said...

No baby news!!

Abby said...

APX again? Man, first you said no living in Idaho, then you said, no more summer sales....wow...guess you learn to give alittle more than you had initially planned...is that what marriage teaches you? All I have to say is "you must really love Weston!!!!!"
you should have a great summer! Wish you were coming to Chicago, I miss ya!!!

Jesica and Chris Fowler said...

So funny!... Every summer is the last! I'm excited for you and it sounds like it will be fun! I'm glad we have blogs to keep in touch! Haylee is soooo dang cute!

Natalie said...

I'm excited you will be going out to Pittsburg...that means I will get to see you at least once during the summer. Haylee is so cute and she is getting so big! Hope the move goes great and see you in a couple weeks!

Stacey said...

Wow, that's quite the blanket house!

Sharran said...

Loved the pictures! Haylee is growing so fast. She is adorable. The blanket house is awesome in my opinion. They are lucky to have you as an aunt, you are great fun. Good luck with all your packing. We are certainly excited to see all of you real soon!

TORI, SHAD, AND TY said...

I love the blanket house! How fun! My brother and sister and I used to make them when we were little, too. Your little girl is such a doll. I love the headband with the big flower!

Heidi said...

That is quite the blanket house. What a fun babysitter/mom! I need a trip to Hawaii and a babysitter. Any chance you want to stop by Iowa? It's interesting to see how different boys and girls are. We know nothing of spiderman, transformers, rockets, etc. around here.

Unknown said...

Weird... cade and I almost went one last time, but to Pitts. We would have been there togther. As always I love you guys!

Rachelle said...

good for you! a change is always a good thing! and i'm so sorry they didn't have haylee's size in that swimming suit because it is adorable!

LinnieBell said...

Karen!! Haylee is too cute! I can't believe you guys are really doing APX one more summer! My sister and her husband leave on Tuesday for DC for Pinnacle...soo crazy! It's always an adventure! :)

Janis said...

Haylee is just the cutest, Karen! How great that you are recording all these pictures and fun things!

Cecily said...

Haylee is just so beautiful! So, you're off to Pittsburgh soon? That will be a really fun area to be during the summer. There will be so much stuff to do there! (Thanks for the birthday wishes!)

Melissa said...

your story is my story :) Kyle quit his job and here we are doing pest control for the summer in VA..it's just too hard to pass up!! ;)

Cardon Family said...

so much going on! Pittsburgh will be awesome...and I remember when Doug said...no more pest control too...but look at our life now...he is a owner in the company! haaha...you never know where life is going to take you!

Scott and Jamie said...

I can't believe you left without saying goodbye! I was out of town for a couple weeks and never heard back from you, anyways I hope your drive went well on the move. You'll have to post some pics of Pittsburg when you get there. Oh, and Lauren forgot to give you her email address when you went private, and told me to give it to you to add her on, it's: davies327@gmail.com
Well you better come visit us in Indianapolis on your way back to Idaho. ~Jamie

Toni said...

Yay, I can comment on your blog now! That picture of Haylee in her dress is just so adorable! What a beautiful little girl you have. Have fun in Pittsburgh!