Happy May!!!!

Ok sorry there are a million pics of Haylee. Basically this post is so that my family can see pics of her. It's so sad being so far away from them this summer, especially since my sister Katie had her little baby girl last Friday May 2nd. They named her Sadie. I can't wait to see her. She looks like a little doll from her pics. I can't believe it's already May. We have already had a lot of events this month. Weston and I celebrated our two year anniversary on May 6th!!! Yay for us, we've had a wonderful two years and I have the best husband in the world!!! We took each other shopping, weston got shoes I got an outfit and that night after a long, long day of work for Weston, we went to dinner. The only place still open that late at night was Applebees but many of you know I was very happy with that because that is my favorite place to eat. Probably my favorite part of the anniv was Weston wrote me a love note and I love when he writes to me so it was fun. That same day Haylee turned 6 months and that's a big deal to me. I just can't believe she is already 6 months. It's a little sad because she is so not a newborn anymore. She is at such a fun stage though. She is completly sitting up by herself and lunges towards her toys if they are too far away. She tries to grab everything, which I think is really fun. Ok well sometimes when I'm eathing it's not so fun but I just think it's so cute how she reaches both of her arms out. My favorite thing ever is when she reaches both of her arms out towards me. Oh my goodness it has made all those long exhausting nights of being up all night so worth it!!! Another may event is that it's weston's dad's birthday today and Haylee really wanted to wish him happy birthday along with Weston and I. And of course Sunday is Mother's Day!! And cinco de mayo was the 5th. I hope everyone celebrated. Us APX wives had quite the fiesta. Nothing beats Costco enchilladas and good company!!

Happy Half Birthday to Weston and I

We are here!! We made it to Pittsburgh!! It was a long drive but luckily now we have a third driver in our family. So that made the driving a little easier. Pictured below you will see how good of a driver Haylee is. We unpacked, made ourselves at home and Weston is already on the doors meeting the people of Pittsburgh. We gave Haylee her first round of food today. Her first bite was great and then from there she was very unsure and by the end she wanted to do just what her bib said, go to grandmas. (Probably to have some chocolate) Thanks mom for the bib. I started her on just what I was supposed to. Rice ceral, but I don't think that will last too long. It's disgusting all around, the texture, smell, and taste. We quickly moved to applesauce, which she was much more excited about.

Haylee is going to miss her cousins, but not as much as I'm going to miss my sisters in Boise

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!

A trip to Oregon

Yay we went on a trip home to Oregon and it was so much fun. I loved every minute of being in Portland. It did rain everyday but I don't care because I love it there so much. We decided to drive but Haylee did great the whole way. The real concern about driving is how I would do because I don't like road trips. I would much rather fly. But I did good in the car too. We spent time with my family, went to the nike store in downtown portland, ate, went to omsi, shopped some more, watched movies, watched basketball games, and we even went to Washington to visit my aunt and uncle. My goal in life is to convince Weston to move to Portland. I think I'm making progress. We did move west from Rexburg to Boise.

I think Weston and I make such cute dinosaurs

We went to Omsi, the science museum in downtown Portland, to show Haylee all of the fun stuff and I guess science is not really her thing. It put her right to sleep.

Weston and I remain very calm in an extremely dangerous situation

Stacey on the other hand is in a complete panic and is not handling the situation in a calm way

My mom's birthday was March 30th so I was glad I could be in Oregon for her big day!!

Weston and I stopped at a fish place on the way home. They had a ton of fish there to look at so Weston was very happy to stop and see that. He wanted me to make sure and get the sign that says rainbow trout in the picture so make sure to notice that.

My wonderful grandpa is so great with all the grandkids and great grandkids. I think he has 27 grandkids and 22 great grandkids with one great grandchild on the way.

My beautiful mom. Like I mentioned earlier it was her birthday the weekend we were in Oregon and I was so glad I could be there for that. I love my mom so much and now that I'm a mom I am so thankful for all she did for me growing up and still does for me this day. She is an amazing person and I learn so much from her. She is such an example to me of patience, kindness, unselfishness, compassion, and basically she is just really good at everything she does!!!!

My awesome sister Stacey also lives in Oregon so it was a lot of fun to hang out with her too. I love how her and Haylee are sitting in front of the fire together. Very cozy! Haylee is all smiles and giggles around Stacey. They sing together and have a good time so that was fun.

Happy Easter!!!!!

Same baby, same pose, same backdrop, different props, different dress, different holiday. I'm obviously not a photographer because I lack creativity but hey Happy Easter!!!!

Haylee loves biting (or gumming) on her bottom lip. This is a classic look for her. And now she is always sockless. She kicks her socks off before I can even get them on. Weston and I are both sock people. We always wear socks even in the summer. Weston is a fanatic about it. I've never seen him wear flip flops or any kind of sandal because he can't stand not wearing socks. Don't you worry that even on our cruise ( a while ago) he wore running shoes on the beach so he could still wear socks. Anyway long story short we are surprised at this point in her short life she hates wearing socks.