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here comes summer!

2012-01-06T12:52:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas!!!

2012-01-06T12:27:00.000-08:00

This year we spent Christmas with my parents in Thatcher. Summer and I flew down on the 17th and Ry drove down later in the week. I LOVE Christmas at my parents! It was so fun seeing Summer Christmas morning. :)

Summer's BIG goods! she also got a little doll house with the dolls of course, some movies, clothes, and candy/toys in her stocking. :) what a spoiled little girl!

tried turning this pic but it just wasn't happening. isn't she so cute in her christmas jammies?!

Lovin the couch!

opening presents

after presents my mom and i made reigndeer (i can't spell. haha) pancakes!!! thanks pinterest for the idea! this one was summers and she LOVED it. they were oh so tasty. ;)

YUM

summer eating her breakfast. :)

YAY for Christmas morning! so fun. :)

ATTN: PEEPS! ;)

2011-12-09T12:44:00.000-08:00

i need address's for christmas cards if you want one. i'm slacking i know but hopefully they'll be delivered by christmas. i'm picking them up today so i'll need address's ASAP. haha! we'll do better next year. i promise. :)

fam pics!

2011-11-03T14:16:00.000-07:00

so i meant to do these pictures when summer was a year yet now she's almost 19 months and we just barely got them done! i'm such a slacker. blah. haha! oh well...

so we went to logan for ryan's cousins wedding, luncheon, and reception and, lucky us, my cousin kaela lives there! i didn't even think of it till we were on our way up but i called her and asked if she wouldn't mind taking our pics. :) they turned out way cute! even thought we had a grumpy boohoo baby the whole time. thanks kaela!

sassy pants with her sucker. (the only thing that prevented her from crying)

she looks so cold...poor girl!

i'll post more once we get the disc. :) hope you likey. :)

growing up

2011-10-16T09:39:00.000-07:00

so itty bitty.....

to way too big.....

way too fast....

LOVE her!

summer bug update.

2011-07-13T14:14:00.000-07:00

summer has been walking for 2 weeks now and is quite a little pro. :)

summer still loves to clap and loves it even more when you start clapping along with her

she says hi alot and today she said bye for the first time. she usually just waves.

she still has a love for books and always wants to turn the pages herself

summer also LOVES doggies. says doggy and says "woowoo" that is her doggy bark. haha! but if she gets too close to a dog she freaks out and starts screaming. it's a love hate relationship. haha

summer says mommy now instead of just momma. sometimes it comes out meemee instead of mommy. she says dada and daddy. kitty comes out titee. haha! oh ya. she says ducky (that's her lovey that she's had since 3 months) but the most often said word ( besides momma and dada) is hiiiiii...... haha! she's been saying it so much lately and it's so funny. :)

summer has 14 teeth at 15 months old. we should start calling her chomper. she has the front top 4 and bottom 4. she has 4 back molars and the 2 bottom eye teeth. working on the top 2....they'll be showing in a couple weeks i'm sure.

summer likes to sit in chairs or on the couch like a big girl now.

she still LOVES the water and swimming.

wears BIG GIRL piggie tails now! :) so dang cute.

LOVES shoes! oh my. i've never been a big shoe person. flip flops are good but i'd rather be bare foot. not summer. if she sees her shoes she will bring them to me, sit down, and put her feet in the air. haha! silly girl.

summer still likes peek a boo and we learned seesaw and wash the ladys dishes when we went to thatcher. ;) thanks mom and heather!

summer likes to help with anything and everything. dishes, sweeping, wiping the counters, laundry....my little helper. :)

summer is obsessed with her daddy. when we were in thatcher, if she saw me talking on the phone she assumed it was ry. she'd run up as fast as she could, take the phone and start smiling and laughing as she screamed dada as loud as she could....over and over and over. whenever he gets home from work she rushes to the door and won't leave his side. :)

summer also LOVES her grandma and grandpa reynolds! she'd do the same thing with my dad that she does with ry when he got home from work. she would play and play with my mom and just laugh forever at her. she will miss them tons!

for some reason in the above picture, summer didn't want to swim. i was sitting on a chair with my feet in and she decided to do the same. silly girl.

summer also has a new found love of playing naked. haha! i've never let her before and when we were in thatcher she played quite a bit in the backyard in the nude. so hilarious and cute to watch. :)

summer knows where her belly button is and her nose but for some reason won't catch on to the others like ears mouth or eyes.

she's started picking her nose. yay! haha.

she's started becoming intrigued with eye lashes and eye brows. she tries to pull them off. her own and others. :$ wierd.

summer sits on the potty every now and then and has pooped twice and peed about 8 times. haha! tmi i know. i'm not pushing her at all. i just got it to get her use to sitting on it so she wouldn't be scared once the time came to potty train. sometimes i ask if she wants to go potty and off to the bathroom she'll go. it's more of a game than anything. :) i don't make her if she doesn't want to.

summer loves to shake her head no! she won't say it yet. but she'll shake her head like a nut job if she doesn't want something. haha! it's quite sad when i ask for kisses and she makes a face at me and shakes her head no. haha! lil stink.

i'm sure i'm forgetting tons but this is it for now. :) hopefully i'll get on later and post some pics of brocks farewell family get together! he left today for the mtc and will be headed to australia before we know it! i'm gonna miss that kid! love you brocky!

yesterday...

2011-06-29T10:36:00.000-07:00

on june 28, 2011, summer was 1 year, 2 months, 2 weeks and 2 days old....and she finally started walking!!! :) hooray! about 3 weeks ago she started taking a few steps and did pretty good for a few days to a week. then NOTHING. for 2 weeks. she didn't even want to attempt any more. then yesterday she got brave. she started letting go of things and i got her to take up to 8 steps. later at the inlaws she took up to 10 and was quite enjoying walking back and forth to everyone in their living room. when we got home she was walking back and forth to me and ry down our hallway and after a few times she walked right past ryan, all the way down the hall, around 2 corners and into her bedroom. :) haha! she's still a little unsure about it but LOVES it and all the attention she's been getting from it. we're way excited and it's just so cute to watch her. :) happy day.

easter rewind.

2011-05-14T13:58:00.000-07:00

mine and rys baskets are awesome i know. mine is the one on the left with the dog and hot wheels car and candy. haha! ryan promised to get me a new car...haha! it's a ferarri! lucky me!!! haha! and yes that is young frankenstein in ryans on the right. with lots and lots of candy. haha! summer got a bunny, hair bands, candy, and a car. :)

i think i might have accidentally deleted ry's pic with his basket and i look RE-diculous in the pic of me with my basket so all you get is summer. :) i know that's all you really want to see anyway.

LOVE this girl!

she LOVED her toys but REALLY wanted the chocolate and candy in mine and ry's baskets. :)

so i had bought summer a cheap easter dress that i was going to fix up and make cute...buuuuut....my mother in law, jane, made summer some ADORABLE dresses for her birthday...this being one of them. how could i not put her in this dress for easter? sooo cute! this is a pic of her at church with her easter bunny. she was giving it loves. :)

and....outside easter pics. we didn't really do an egg hunt but summer played with the plastic eggs. :)

HAPPY LATE EASTER!!! :)

zions hike

2011-05-14T13:45:00.000-07:00

after summers birthday party we went with ry's family to zions national park. we just hiked on the paved path for the first mile of the narrows.

where the path meets the water on the narrows people had stacked rocks (see bottom left of collage) they were EVERYWHERE and it was really neat looking.

LOVE this pic of ry and summer! i love my lil family! :)

party!!!

2011-05-14T12:55:00.000-07:00

so i already did an actual birthday post for summer but i never put pics of her birthday party. it was an owl theme as you can see and i think it turned out pretty cute. :) i made owl cupcakes that am happy to say turned out! i was nervous they'd look lame but i was proud of myself. haha!

summer wasn't too sure about digging in the cake. she dipped her fingers in the frosting a couple times before i finally just put her hand in it and had her try it. she didn't cry but she wasn't very happy with me either. dad came to the rescue with a spoon and she liked that idea much better! haha! silly girl. :)

thanks to all the family and friends that came to celebrate summers 1st year! thanks for the gifts so much! she got adorable clothes (which was much needed), cute toys, and darling books. :)

once again....happy birthday sweetpea!!! we love you!

HAPPY HAPPY.....

2011-05-14T12:35:00.000-07:00

29th BIRTHDAY!!!

oh yes...my dear sweet hubby is 29 years old! and he is probably going to kill me when he sees this post but oh well. haha! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVE!!! you are the best!

look at that sexy beast....haha! :)

catch up time/cheesy anniversary

2011-05-14T10:19:00.000-07:00

i'm sooo far behind on this it isn't even funny. i have our anniversary, rys birthday, lissa's birthday, did summer's already...but not her party, easter, lissa's injury, mom's birthday, mothers day, and more i'm probably forgetting. oye....soooo, one at a time. here's our anniversary!

ry and i were married 3 LONG but very short (haha!) years ago in the st george, ut temple and it was one of the best days of my life! i love you jeffrey ryan hulse!!! thank you for all you do for me and our precious baby girl. you are the best hubby/daddy i could ever hope for. :) you work so hard and put up with so much.

i'm so so so happy i get to spend eternity with you. i love how you can make me laugh no matter how ornery and angry i am. i love your laugh! :) and i love how you are with summer bug. she loves you so much!

i love how much you love the outdoors and that we spend time together going on hikes or going to the park.

i love you love you love you! :) simple as that.

1 WHOLE YEAR ALREADY?! somebody pinch me...

2011-04-12T21:59:00.000-07:00

million picture overload warning!!!

a year ago today i gave birth to the sweetest little pumkin ever! Summer Elise Hulse was born on april 12th weighin in at 7lbs 3oz. she was a shorty at only 18 1/2 inches. poor lil girl went by "baby girl" for several days because we couldn't decide between two different names we had picked out. i would tell you the other one...but we're saving it for a later time for when and if we have another girl! :)

summer was a little active baby in the belly and out! she was a pretty good baby overall and didn't fuss TOO much...

summer lost 13 oz by her first checkup before she finally started gaining. she was so tiny! but then got huge! haha! we love our lil chunk.

we didn't get many pics of it but summer would smile in her sleep SO big! haha! big cheesy grins all the time and she definately has the cheeser down to an art. we love that smile of hers.

also during her sleep she REFUSED to be swaddled. she HAD to have her arms out and up by her ears or she wouldn't sleep for long. now she just tosses and turns all over the place!

once i went in to check on her and she was half standing up in her crib still asleep. i stood and watched her and all of a sudden she just drops! still snoozing away! haha!

summer use to like her headbands....ok not really but she would leave them be. but no longer. she won't even let me do a pony tail or pig tails anymore. she will reach right up and pull it out. lil stink!

summer was blessed at only 1 1/2 months old. the pic is closer to 3 months old. the dress still fit! ha! she was a doll and ry did perfect during the blessing. :)

summer started changing and growing up WAY too fast. like babies always do i suppose. it's crazy how time flies!

summer Loves to cuddle and lay her head down on everything. she LOVES giving any and all her toys/dolls/stuffed animals hugs and rocking them! haha! so funny to watch.

summer has ALWAYS been a talker! laughing, shreeking, babbling, screaming, growling... any noise she can make

she LOVES LOVES LOVES water!!! bath time or swim time. i took her swimming when she was 2 months and any time we go she doesn't even want me to hold her. she tries to jump out of my arms in the deep end! silly girl

we like to take her on hikes and hopefully we'll be able to start getting out more that the weather is warming up. we went to zions a couple weeks ago and are going again on sat! yay!

summer also loves going to the park. i will follow her around as she climbs all over the play equipment. we took her today for her birthday and she threw a little fit getting in the car because she wanted to stay. haha!

summer makes the most hilarious faces! haha! this is only one of the many.

she is always such a happy little thing. she is ALWAYS making friends in the grocery store, at the park, the gym...wherever we may go

summer has been crawling since 9 months and was pulling herself up the same time. she started walking along furniture a few weeks after and is still too chicken to let go and walk! she seems to prefer walking over crawling though. she's started walking along the walls to get where she wants to go. :) we will have a walker sooner or later...

summer points and makes noise whenever she wants anything now. she LOVES cheese! gold fish, cheetos, mac n cheese, cheese heads. she's eating lots of adult food now and hasn't eaten pureed for over a month. she HATES it! i don't blame her.

when summer can't push a button or want help with something she will let you know. for example...she'll see me texting and when i'm done she grabs my thumb and will push it down on the buttons on my phone "helping" me do it. haha!

she is starting to try to say words. when i say something to her like "duck" (her lovey) she sometimes says uck. she also says dada, mama, baba (which i thing means lots of things) she says baba ALOT. it could mean bottle, binky, baby, and who knows what else.

summer is starting to have stranger danger pretty bad. haha! she's ok as long as no one picks her up or touches her. the doctor picked her up at her appt and she FREAKED OUT! haha!

summer loves brushing her teeth! haha! not the top teeth so much but she will laugh and laugh when i brush her bottom teeth....which by the way, she has 8 total. got her first tooth the day after she turned 7 months and got all 8 by the time she was 10 months. oh ya...that 3 months was AWESOME. i'm thinking more will be on their way soon.

at her dr appt, yesterday, she weighed in at 22lbs 14oz and 29inches. she is only 1 1/2 away from being a foot taller than she was when she was born! (18 1/2inches) almost a foot in a year! crazy

summer use to do this head tilt thing...we'd say awww.....and SNAP! she'd whip her head to the side so fast! haha! so funny! she still does it everyonce in a while but not half as much as she use to

LOVE this hat on her! too bad she HATES hats now along with headbands and having her hair up. she can't stand anything on that head of hers!

summer loves to paint! haha! for daddys birthday i let summer "paint" and once it dried i put her hands in white paint and did her hand prints and i painted her name on it. :) i'll have to show a pic of it. she LOVED getting her hands dirty!

summer is SOOO good at playing quiet whenever i'm tired and decide to nap on the couch. doesn't happen often but she's such a little angel for me...most of the time. :)

oh yes....it has begun. she can now open the cabinets! yikes! she LOVED getting in and investigating. haha!

summer also likes to play hide and seek...especially if you jump out and scare her right when she finds you! she jumps but thinks its soooo funny! she plays catch now. we'll roll the ball back and forth which she also finds hilarious. :) she LOVES pictures of herself including seeing herself in the mirror. she could just stare at herself all day! haha! summer loves it when you chase her! she'll stop and make sure you're still chasing her and then take off again. :) she like patty cake and little piggies. always clapping once the nursery ryhmes are over. she's such a good little audience for her mommy's singing. :) she LOVES to dance!!! oh my goodness...she will dance to ANYTHING. any time we go to the store she dances to the sound the cart makes when i push her! hahaha! oh ya. summer like to bounce whether its me bouncing her while i run with her or on the excersize ball or just her bouncing up and down standing up. summer is one of the most ticklish babys i have ever seen! her neck, her back, her pits, her feet, her thighs, oh yes...even her tooshy is ticklish! haha! after she gets out of the bath or after a diaper change we play pinch the cheeks and she just laughs and laughs! :) summer loves putting things in and taking them out. she'll empty the diaper bag and put stuff back in just to take it out again. haha! summer LOVES LOVES LOVES her daddy! as soon as he walks through that front door she hauls over to his as fast as she can go smiling her cheesy grin as she goes. she scrunches her nose and its just the cutest thing ever! summer bug we love you!!! today you turned one year old! it is crazy and insane that a year has already flown by but we've loved every minute of the crazy roller coaster you've put us on. :) you cause smiles and tears but no matter what we LOVE you! you are such a silly silly girl and we love your silly unique personality! you are a sassy one. but don't you change! it makes you who you are. i can't wait for this next year to see what you have up your sleeve for us. you sure keep us on our toes. :) remember who you are and that you are special! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVE BUG! mommy and daddy love you more than you will ever know! xoxo!

Once upon a time, 4 not so long years ago....

2011-04-06T08:30:00.000-07:00

....a beautiful little girl was born. she was born on april 6th 2007 at 12:05 pm and weighed in at 7lbs 8oz. she was the most perfect little bundle of joy i had ever seen. her name is LISSA BRIELLE.

for those who don't know my story...well, you soon will. i don't think i have EVER written it down so here it goes.....when i was 18 i found out i was pregnant. i can't say i was shocked but i was most definately terrified. i was barely 5 weeks along when i first went to the doctor and my little angel was only a tiny peanut. it didn't seem real. was it really real?? i don't remember exactly when i told my parents but when i did, all i remember thinking was that there was no way in the world that i would ever give up my perfect little baby. as the weeks went by my parents would softly beg me to just consider adoption. just think about it. just look at the families on lds adoption. it couldn't hurt. i specifically remember telling them that there was zero point in thinking about it or looking at families profiles because i wasn't going to do it. i was keeping my baby. end of story.

i don't know why...i really don't. but one day when everyone was gone i got on the computer. i went to the lds adoption web site and started looking at profiles. within a few days i found them. i didn't know it then but i couldn't stop looking at their pictures. reading about their life. my mom eventually noticed i was looking. it was never really discussed but i knew what i had to do. i hated it. but i knew it would be best for everyone involved. especially lissa. if i could give her anything i could it would be a whole family. not a broken one. a mother AND father. who were married in the temple, had a good job, an education, a home, a solid foundation, and who would love her just as much as i already did. during my decission making i left thatcher to clear my head. my aunt offered to let me live with her for a month or so while i sorted things out. so off i went. while in st george ut i met ryan. we hung out a lot while i was there and we parted in tears when i headed back home. back in thatcher now i was back to repeatedly looking at the couples profile...over and over and over....i wrote them. i didn't write them through the agency. i just sent them an email. i told them the basics of my life at the time and what i was going to do. i told them i couldn't get them out of my head. they were it. i knew it.

we arranged to meet in tucson az which was very nerve racking but good. we talked and went out for lunch and i assured them i wasn't going to change my mind. i think they may have been more nervous than me....eventually the time wore on and i was nearing my due date. i wasn't having any contrations and other than lissa being up in my ribs like crazy i was pretty comfortable. i thought that my water was "trying" to break but when i went to the doctor he said i was still good. but....i was having contractions every 4 minutes and was dilated to a 4. i couldn't even feel the contrations they were so small. the doctor said that it wasn't enough to put me into labor and that i could walk around the hospital for an hour. i knew she wouldn't come yet. but i was hoping. so i walked. i started feeling contractions but they weren't terrible. when they checked again i was still at a 4 but contractions were every 2 minutes now. yet....still not enough. so we went home. the next day was my brothers track meet and i had light contractions off and on all day. i felt great though! still thinking my water was breaking and the dr didn't know what he was talking about though. i had to go to the bathroom EVERY 15 min to 30 min. ALL day long. that night i slept blissfully, just to wake up at 6:45 with one HARD and PAINFUL contraction. sweet...so i jumped in the shower and did my makeup, didn't even have time to blowdry my hair. less than half an hour after waking up i calmly knock on my mothers door and say mom...i think we need to go. she doesn't believe me. ha! i love my mommy. i'm laying on my bed in pain...in labor, and i yell to her again. MOM!! of all things to do she tells me CROSS YOUR LEGS I'M GONNA SHOWER REAL QUICK! she was sure she had time. i knew otherwise. my dad took me to the delivery room because my mom thought because it was my first baby i wasn't really in labor. i just thought i was. as soon as i was changed into a gown they checked me and i was at an 8. oh ya...my dad calls my mom and she rushes down to the hospital.

lissa was born face up 4 hours later. poor baby. the dr couldn't tell she was face up and the suction cup would literally pop off her head several times before she came. her lil head was so swollen and bruised...but she was still beautiful. silly little girl. about an hour later i was settled in my room and called amy and fred. she's early! not due till the 11th. fred and amy couldn't come right away. i got to spend 6....(5 technically, once fred and amy got there they were "foster parents" for day 5) perfect days with my angel. she was such a perfect little girl. hardly cried ever. only woke up 2-3 times a night to eat or be changed. LOVED to be cuddled. she'd just sit right on my lap perfectly content. till day 5. thinking about it now she probably just had an upset tummy or something. but she wouldn't stop crying. fred and amy had recently got into town. i couldn't get her to stop. and then i broke. all the realization of what was going to happen the next day came crashing down on me. i thought, if i can't even get my baby to stop crying right now...i would definately never be a good mommy. which is silly, but that's how i felt. i couldn't even calm her. i tried everything i could think of....and then started sobbing. my mom came in and i handed lissa to her. i can't do it mom. i can't. you've got to take her. call fred and amy. so she called the social worker and he said they could be foster parents till tomorrow. day 6.

fred and amy came over with teesa. lissa's soon to be sister. she's a doll. :) we all hung out and just visited. time wore by so slow yet so fast that day. when they first walked in the door they had her in clothes they'd bought for her. with a blanket and bow they'd bought for her. in her own car seat that they'd bought for her. not me. it was really sinking in. i'd never see her again after today. not for at least 18 yrs. that is. the social worker and notory came. i stared at the papers. read that i was giving up my rights as lissa's mother. that i'd never have her back. i almost didn't do it. i was thinking...what on earth am i doing here? what am i doing? this is my baby! my baby girl! i can't do this....i was bawling the whole time. i wanted to tear the papers into tiny little peices and say i can't! there's no way i'm sorry but no. but i didn't. i just cried and signed.....i had to. she'd be happier. i couldn't let fred and amy down either. i might be miserable, but everyone else would be happy. right?

that night i don't think i slept much. i cried alot. made myself sick i cried so hard. but i pulled through. i don't remember which night after but my dad was out of town and i even slept with my mom one night. i just cried and cried while she held me like i was 5 again. i'd never have been able to pull through if not for my family...but mostly my mom. i want to be a mommy like her. like she was and is for me. and i knew i wasn't ready. not yet.

i miss that little bug with all my heart. i almost never talk about her to anyone. and when i do i try to make it as lighthearted as possible. it's easier for me. just try to act like it's not a big deal. it was so long ago right? no....just a short 4 years and everyday i miss her more. i wonder what it would be like if summer and her were together. sisters. ry is the only one that really ever hears me talk about her. listens to me cry. its hardly ever but when i do its long and hard. i love you lissa brielle! more than you will ever know. i'm sorry it's taken me this long to finally tell the world this story but its so hard for me to talk about. i never had group. (counselors and birthmoms support group) thatcher was too small. my case worker had to drive 2 hours everytime we met because there were none closer. i'm not one to share my feelings or show my emotions. it's just not my thing. i've even slacked on sending emails and gifts. i didn't even give you a christmas gift this year and i'm so so sorry! you are one of the most precious people in my life and i need to show it more often.

i know it is forever away but i cannot wait to see your face again. to see your shining smile and your glowing eyes so full of life and love. i know fred and amy are and will continue to care for and love you with all their hearts! they are wonderful people and wonderful parents. they have done so much for you and me and even teesa and amanda (teesa's birthmom) you are so loved by so many people. we all miss you so much! my parents have pictures of you in their home. my dad even has one of you on his desk at work. we love you. i don't think i can say that enough.

you are so beautiful and so full of life. i can tell just from your pictures and the silly fun stories your mom and dad tell.

you are unique and special. don't let anyone ever tell you different.

i love you i love you i love you! never ever forget that.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY GIRL!!!

Twin Baby Boys Have In-Depth Discussion

2011-03-30T12:35:00.000-07:00

too funny! LOVE IT!

Check out this great MSN video: Twin Baby Boys Have In-Depth Discussion

What About Our Girls? Childhood Cut Short

2011-03-29T11:59:00.000-07:00

a must read!
click on link below...
What About Our Girls? Childhood Cut Short

a quick summer update. :)

2011-02-18T11:54:00.000-08:00

summer is still just crawling around and walking along furniture. no standing or walking by herself yet. she is 10 months and 22lbs. has 8 teeth, oh yes, i said 8. and working on getting more. yikes! loves to point at everything! mostly daddy and the picture of jesus in our living room :) she is a smart lil bugger and eats all the marshmellows out of the lucky charms cereal. haha! tries to talk like crazy, one day we'll all of a sudden understand what's coming out of that mouth. LOVES to swim (still). won't hold still while getting her bum changed rar! won't sit down in the tub worth a darn. she's constantly standing up and then slips and falls right on her tushy just to get right back up. ha! she LOVES these little infant cheese puff treats. gets SOOOO excited when daddy comes home! shakes her booty like crazy when she crawls. haha! loves to dance! bobs up and down, sways back and forth or does this weird right leg shake. haha! so funny. that's it for now. i'll get pics up someday.

not ryan, not summer, just selfish ol' ME

2011-02-09T10:41:00.000-08:00

hello everyone. many of you know me as summer's mom. yes well, i was someone else before that believe it or not. yes yes, ryan's wife as well...but even further back. before i was melissa HULSE, i was MELISSA REYNOLDS! oh ya, i'm not just a hulse, or ryans wife, or summers mom. believe it or not i am an INDIVIDUAL. don't get me wrong. i love being married and i love being a mother but that DOES NOT define who i am. most of you don't know me. you think you do but you don't. i'm not always angry and a mess. it may appear that way but being a wife and mother sometimes does that to you. i miss the old me. i want some of that mixed in with who i am now. i miss music. i was in choir every single year of my life since kindergarten. i took voice lessons. i went to regional choir and made it! it felt awesome! the only time i have for singing and really belting it anymore is in my car. i use to play the piano every day as much as i could. i NEVER play anymore unless i am in thatcher. which is only once or twice a year. i use to paint and draw. yes, i use to actually paint and draw. even sold a painting of a pink sunset over the ocean with silhouettes of palm trees and a young couple for $30. i miss just sitting and letting my hand guide the brush with nothing to think about. just enjoy myself and what i was creating. i can't remember the last time i picked up my brushes...i use to run. i was on the varsity track AND cross country team. and i loved it! listening to cars in the distance, feeling the wind on my face, time to reflect and think. i don't even know what that is anymore. i use to love hanging out with friends. go bowling, golfing, play softball, go to a movie, chill at sonic, even just go to walmart to people watch. not anymore. the only friends i do have, also have children and have things to take care of. not like i have time either though. normal days for me...wake up, get summer and take ry to work, get home, feed summer, change summer, get something to distract her while i try to find something to eat. do dishes, vaccum, go to the bank, feed summer, put summer down for a nap, shower, get ready for the day, clean up summers toys, try to catch up on laundry, get summer from her nap, give her a snack, clean up the mess after, go grocery shopping, put groceries away, play with summer for a little then put her down for another nap, feed summer once she wakes up. try and clean a bit more before ry gets home, go pick up ry, make dinner while he showers (or often times takes a bath. i think the last time i took a bath was when summer was a month old) feed ryan, feed summer, then i eat, bath summer, get her ready for bed, spend an hour or more fighting trying to get her to sleep, wash my face, brush my teeth and go to sleep. soooooo exciting ya? i know i'm being my angry "now" person but it would be so nice to mingle a bit of the two "me's" together. i NEED that ME time. my ME time this week...i went to walmart for half an hour to get summer some formula. yaaaayyy...i REALLY need a vacation and i CANNOT WAIT to go to thatcher this month! i'll get to see my family, my home town. maybe go running. catch a movie with my mom. even go tanning. get ice cream with my bro. he's leaving for a mission soon. we'll sing and play the piano together. jekyl and hyde and wicked! :)i can't wait! something needs to change. i can't do EVERYTHING! i can NEVER keep up. no matter how hard i try, the apartment is ALWAYS a mess! i've about given up. to the point where i just don't care anymore. i miss being me.

ps. i don't want any encouraging comments or simpathy crud. i just needed to vent and now i have. THE END.

love this girl!

2011-01-30T20:32:00.000-08:00

just some fun pics of summer bug. :)

christmas pics FINALLY

2011-01-29T08:36:00.000-08:00

yikes...

2011-01-15T11:09:00.000-08:00

as of january 5th, 2011 summer officially started crawling! yay! it's only been a little over a week and she is constantly ALL OVER the place! this little girl can move. she keeps me on my toes but i have to admit...it's causing some major issues. i have a hard enough time keeping our apartment clean and now i'm having to chase her all over and she's always pulling stuff out and throwing it around and i just can't keep up. don't get me wrong...i LOVE that she's crawling and it's so much fun! our place just looks like a dump for now until i get use to her moving around and learn to adapt and multitask better. yet i'm sitting at the computer while she naps. ha! oh well. summer also has 5 teeth now!!! oh yes. she has been giving me HECK the last several days and this morning her 5th little tooth decided to greet me. 2 on top, 3 on bottom. crazy crazy. this little chica is growing up so fast! along with crawling...she pulls herself up on ANYTHING and EVERYTHING she can! she'll use the couch, my leg, the wall, the pack of tp i left on the floor after grocery shopping...haha! seriously. she will be walking in no time. anywho, there's the short update for now. i've been trying to get some videos of her up but our darn computer is lame but i'll keep trying.

summer....

2010-12-20T21:41:00.000-08:00

so i've never done this before...shame on me. but here are a few things the lil squirt enjoys to do and we enjoy watching her do...

*LOVES to clap to everything

*does this adorable head tilt thing like "awww look at me, i'm so cute!"

*has her 2 bottom teeth and the top 2 just poked out today!

*is on the verge of crawling, gets up on her knees but not much moving yet.

*also on the verge of walking! i really don't know which will be first. she LOVES to hold our hands and walk around and also stand against the couch for long periods of time.

*thinks peek a boo is hilarious and will even do it herself now. she holds the blanket up and will throw it down over and over and over. :)

*for some reason she likes to slap people. she'll get her little arm and just WHACK WHACK WHACK! abusive little girl. haha!

*summer LOVES her little jumper! it's the funniest thing to watch her go nuts jumping up and down in it.

*i swear we dont watch tv that often. movies actually, we don't even have television. but summer is addicted. she LOVES watching that lit up screen.

*has always loved being outside.

*graduated out of her baby whale bath into the large adult bath.

*is a little fish! she loves swimming! 1st time going was 2 months old

*eating big people food! she likes bread, strawberries, manderin oranges, beans (yes i feed her beans, lay off), cucumber, rice...and whatever else is tasty and soft.

*is 19 lbs!!! at 8months and 2weeks! yay!

*loves her daddy so much! :)

*summer LOVES books! she would probably sit still and let me read to her all day.

*is a hair puller like crazy...i HATE it!

*says...bababababababa and rararararara. only says muuuuuummmmmm when she's angry, go figure. we're working on dada. :)

*loves strangers. especially old people in walmart. haha

*stares and gets so excited when she sees the tree lit up and all the presents beneath! it's so funny. :)

*is the happiest and sweetest baby girl ever!

i love our lil girl like crazy and it's so fun watching her learn and grow. we're so excited for her first christmas! last year i was still preggo and on christmas eve ry got to feel her move for the first time. quite a change from then to now and i just can't believe how fast it's going by but i'm loving every minute of it. even the days i feel like pulling my hair out. :) merry christmas everyone! we'll put our christmas post up soon. :) hooray! love you all!

Family pics!

2010-11-23T10:55:00.000-08:00

special thanks to spencer potter for our fantabulous photos! :)

everyone else...enjoy.

oh yes...we are the masters of cheesy....

i heart this one.
lil angel cakes

blue lips! poor baby was so cold.

;)

summer and mommy.

summer and daddy (LOVE this one of ry)

cutie in a phone booth

LOVE my wrinkley chin/neck...oh ya.

PERFECT

so this is love...

look at those baby blues...mmmm

peek-a-boo!

can't get enough of those eyes

happy family.

she was only smiley for the first bit of the shoot :( shoot...

one of my FAVS

i just LOVE this little girl.

so blessed to have such a beautiful, healthy, and happy little family! i love you summer and ry! you are my life....

thatcher!!!

2010-11-11T13:20:00.000-08:00

a few months ago i went to thatcher with summer while ry went to moab with his dad and brother. it was summers first time on an airplane! she did pretty good and slept most of the flight. :)

summer with her great grandma and the little quilted blanket she made for her.

4 generations.

another 4 generations

just look at that angel face

our little doll

happy baby

i wasn't very bright when it came to taking pictures. most of them are of summer and not my family. haha...oops. next time i'll do better. :)

my dad decided to give summer a cookie. haha! it was her first real solid food besides baby food/cereal.

and she totally loved it!

yummy cookie

my LITTLE brother. haha!

summer with all the great grandparents. :)

summer just LOVED cuddling with her grandma! anytime she'd be fussy in the slightest, she'd quiet down as soon as she was handed to my mom.

summer was dozing away. haha! my magic mommy.

sweet cuddles. :)

The Many Faces of Summer

2010-11-11T13:14:00.000-08:00

so this girl can pull some pretty amazing faces. ry and i have tried to imitate some. the middle/second pic for example. ya...i dunno how she does it. haha! silly silly girl.

this one kinda scares me. haha! but HILARIOUS! haha:)

day at the park.

2010-11-11T13:06:00.000-08:00

summer had never been to the park before so i grabbed a big blanket, some toys for her, watermelon for me and went to just sit and relax. it was pretty much FABULOUS. :)

such a happy girl.

another silly face.

tonguing her hippo.

me and the squirt. :)

here we go...

2010-11-10T09:30:00.000-08:00

i'm going to attempt to catch up. the last month or so have been busy and fun filled and i'm terrible at keeping up. i don't even remember when exactly we went but a month or two ago we went to zions again and hiked the emerald pools. i'd never done that one before and it was really fun! it was a little longer than i thought it would be from what i was told but i enjoyed it. ryan carried summer in our little front carrier and i'm glad he insisted because i tripped twice. haha! such a clutz. oh well.

some cool rocks that were stacked up along the way.

the bridge at the beginning/end of the hike.

view from up above. it is so pretty there.

ry and the munchkin. she's a goof. so many facial expressions come from this little girl it's crazy.

daddy daughter. :)

mommy daughter

pretty pretty;)

one happy family!

one tired little girl.

she did so good on this longer than anticipated hike! did not get sunburned thank goodness because an over zealous mother with the sunscreen. fell to sleep 3 times while being carried and ate when we got to the top. i had to hide behind some rocks while ry kept watch because hikers were everywhere. awkward to say the least. first time feeding her in public. haha! lucky me.

6 months :)

2010-10-14T11:56:00.000-07:00

so summer is 6 months already and such a happy little girl. she had her 6 month dr appt today and got her shots. :( so sad! and before i tell you how much she weighed i've gotta tell you a little story. at 4 months she was 15.7 lbs. i took her in at 5 months for a fever and she was 15.8 lbs. only 1 ounce in a whole month. hmmm....so i notice after that she hasn't been having many wet diapers and when she does, they aren't very full and they STINK....hmmm. then she started being cranky everytime i finished feeding her. well duh, i should have figured sooner she wasn't getting enough. soooo....the last 2 1/2 weeks i've been breastfeeding her AND giving her a bottle RIGHT after till she is smiley and content. i was starving the poor girl because i'm not producing enough. sad! she's doing much better now though and went from 15.8 lbs at 5 months to 17. 5 lbs at month 6! almost 2 lbs more in only a month. haha! my little piggy. i love her.

i know it's been forever, once again, since i've posted but this is all you get for now. i'll put pics up soon. :)

some more summer

2010-09-02T12:05:00.002-07:00

i guess once a month is better than never right? here's some pics of the little munchkin from this past week. she's 4 1/2 months! 5 months on the 12th! sigh...crazy crazy.

i'm just waiting for her to push her little arms up but she enjoys being lazy. she is getting pretty close to rolling over from back to tummy but only when she's feeling up to it. haha!

happy lil baldy! she does have hair...just not very much and it's blonde so....oh well.

chunky monkey!

i love her! :)

decided not to smile AS SOON as i put the flower on. lil stink.

saggy boobies. haha!

hmmm.....

such concentration on NOT smiling.

hopefully you'll get more before a month from now. maybe i'll even write about me and ry. haha! and just so ya know, summer was 24 1/2 inches and 15 lbs 12 oz at her 4 month appt. yeehaw! :)

precious princess

2010-08-05T22:45:00.000-07:00

just some recent pics of our lil angel! she is so dang cute! LOVE her!

oye...

2010-08-05T15:50:00.000-07:00

so i'm forever behind on blogging and i'm not going to catch up in any particular order or be all speedy fast about it either. haha! you just get one for now. so last weekend we had our first reynolds family reunion. we went to munds park, by flagstaff, and stayed in a cabin 5 bed 5 1/2 bath. it was so nice to get away and be with my fam! i miss you all so much!! :'( tear. the weather was AWESOME! other might now think so cuz it rained the WHOLE time we were there but it was cool, 50 degrees to about 70 degrees, and it was a nice change from the 100 plus weather. there are a zillion pics so be prepared. and videos to come later. :)

heather cookin chicken. mmmm.....so good.

ry read his book alot haha!

becky told the kids a church story and then had them draw a picture about it. aww! cute

chubby lane is starting to thin out.

lila and brooky reading.

mom and summer.

dad cutting the AMAZING watermelon. mmm! i think i'll buy some tomorrow.

chloe and cole swinging away

heathers heiny and chloe. haha! ;)

LOVE this lil girl!

heather playing frisby

brock clint and jordan

cute lil goober!

jared makin hot dogs and burgers!

ry reading again. :)

ruston and dawn enjoying the outdoors. haha! :)

brook and summer. brook is just such a doll!

me...woot. haha!

chloe! :)

brooky

becky jared and the boys.

my crazy sis and chloe.

ry with our princess.

BIG NEWS!!! :)

2010-07-10T00:46:00.000-07:00

Summer laughed her first out loud laugh today!!! she normally does this silly breathy laugh but today during her bath, she laughed out loud and i about flipped. ry walked in right when she did it and i turn to him and yell SHE LAUGHED! scared her half to death but she did it a few more times and i was just in a little bit of heaven and couldn't get enough. she is VERY vocal and it cracks me up some of the noises she makes. hopefully i can get the laugh on camera soon. till then, i'm going to ATTEMPT to go to sleep. again. it's almost 2 in the morning and i feel like i should normally feel at 2 in the afternoon after drinking a 44 oz dr pepper. yay for me. aren't i so lucky. blah. oh...so i guess it wasn't technically today that she laughed. it was last night. :) hope you all are sleeping soundly. toodles

conclusion to sears

2010-06-26T18:29:00.000-07:00

so i went ahead and went back to sears for the reshoot. the manager apologized multiple times. told the girl that's been ticking me off NOT to call me and to have someone else call to reschedule me but she called anyway and decided to be rude and stupid. anywho, i got my cute pics. LOVED the manager that retook them. she gave me some extra sheets for free. upgraded the collage that i ordered. and on the cd, i was only suppose to get the original pics but she went ahead and gave me the originals and the edited ones that she did from BOTH sessions. so i ended up getting A TON of pics. PLUS, i went ahead and complained to the regional manager through email and they called and will be sending me a $50 gift card for my troubles. SUWEET! haha! anywho. i'm attempting to put ALL the pics on my facebook but until then, here are some of my favs. the lil stink wouldn't do her BIG smile but i got her silly closed mouth grin and a half smile too. next time we get pics maybe. :) enjoy.

happy baby

2010-06-25T11:04:00.000-07:00

i love that no matter how angry and annoyed i can be, one little grin from this munchkin sends all the anger and frustration out the window. after this morning i went in to get her out of her crib and she is just smiling away. LOVE HER! so here's some pics of her first time swimming. she was about 8 weeks. :) i'll get more later on of our swimming adventures to come.

I HATE SEARS!!!! with a passion

2010-06-25T09:11:00.000-07:00

so don't ask me how but the senior case manager at sears found my blog and wrote a comment about my lovely experience. i didn't write back because the manager at the photography place said i can get a reshoot and trade whatever pictures i wanted. kinda a pain but sure. better than nothing right? so i reschedule and guess what?! the same girl that took the first pics that ticked me off to no end calls me saying oh, we can't have you come in this morning and the manager said you don't want me to do them (after i schedule summers feeding time and nap time and everything perfect again so she will be happy for pictures) WHAT?!?! are you freaking serious? so i, once again reschedule for this evening. we already have plans though and i don't know if i'll be able to make it. so i call back and i say ya know, i'm sick of all this crap and i want to bring in the pictures and get my money back. she said i don't have the authority to do that and i don't see what's wrong with any of those pictures. bah! there's only like 4 out of 14 that turned out cute! and i had asked the manager about how many at least they usually take. 20! so i didn't even get the least amount of pics that everyone else pays for. so i tell the girl, the senior case manager emailed me and believe me, i will be emailing him back. so i did. i told them i want my money back and they can have their pictures back. i don't want them. i paid way too much to have all this crap go on. i just wanted some decent pictures of summer. is that so much to ask. i think not. sorry my blog has become my angry vent release. RAR!!!

my angry story + cute pics!

2010-06-08T16:20:00.000-07:00

so here are the rest of the pics of summer and let me tell you , it was an adventure. first of all. don't get your pics done at sears. too expensive and i about chopped this ladies head off. errr....so i was scheduled for 12 right? i rush and rush and am freaking out about getting there on time and sure enough i barely made it with one minute to spare. literally. and then i wait and wait and wait just for the lady to say, oh, i'm running behind. it'll be 45 min's. can you shop around and i'll give you a call. sigh. sure fine. an hour goes by and nothing so i go back. oh sorry sorry it'll be 10 minutes. so again. i wait and wait. half an hour later Summer is screaming poopy and hungry. i'd fed her at 11:30 and let her sleep in so she was happy as can be when i first got there i might add. so ya, i was pretty pissed. first time to get pics done EVER and this is what goes down. so i say to Summer quite loudly. oh poor baby you were so happy an hour and a half ago! then i storm off. i know, mature. but i didn't care. but i still wanted her pics done and i didn't know of anywhere else so i stalked around the store till another associate saw me and starting talking to me. i went OFF. not mean to them but just letting off steam about the stupid photographer. she sympathized and told me to complain to customer service. which i didn't do even though the wentch didn't give me a deal for all the time she made me waste not to mention a once happy baby would have taken much better pics than my now very cranky little girl. but whatever. it's done and i will never go back. AND i didn't even get that many pics at all. she had an "i give up" attitude when it came to summer being fussy so she said that should be enough pics to pick a few good ones. i didn't pay for "just a few good ones" i paid for what should have been MANY good ones and i don't know which ones to choose from. BLAH! so there, now you have my great sears story. i was there for 3 1/2 hours for a half hour session including all my waiting time combined and picking out the pics. enjoy the pics. :) haha! sorry so long. thanks for reading my complaining novel.

this shows her true feelings. it took some work to get her to not cry. luckily the lady had a vaccum there. haha! that's what saved these pics. the lil princess refused to smile till we got home. then she wouldn't stop. the lil stink. :)

this one is mid-yawn and hilarious. haha

bah hum bug! ha!

say what?!

help! i'm falling!

Cute lil toesies!

here come the favs. such a cute lil princess!

i love this little girl!

this one i got in the large frame. perfect!

L.O.V.E.

my little nerd. haha!

summer summer summer.

2010-06-07T18:03:00.000-07:00

cute video i got of her smiling yesterday. yay!

got the munchkins pics taken yesterday cuz she'll be 2 months this week. :) having issues getting them all to download onto blogger so this is all you get for now. sorry.

LOVE this lil cutie pie!

sweet lil summer...:)

2010-05-07T10:51:00.000-07:00

so the first pic is off my camera and the others are from my phone which is why they're so small so sorry about that. :)

cute cute cute

her fav face to make. i love it! haha

Lovin the big flower that my mom put on. :) i miss you mommy!

and me...in all my motherhood glory. yay! haha!

little roley poley

2010-05-06T11:04:00.000-07:00

so yesterday, 3 weeks and 2 days, little summer rolled over from her tummy to her back! i know, its not the normal roll over that is from back to tummy but still...weird coincidence that she just somehow pulled off? i think not, she did it 3 times. oh ya. this one is gonna be a handful. but i can't wait! :)

A BIT ABOUT

2010-05-03T14:28:00.000-07:00

SUMMER....
*is kinda sorta getting use to nights, but not really. haha!
*smiles and laughs in her sleep all kinds but not when she's awake.
*holds her head up like a champ! this girl is dang strong!
*gets her legs up under her and kicks like crazy during tummy time
*ALWAYS falls to sleep half way through eating and will wake up an hour or less later hungry
*coos, grunts, oinks, hums, and makes all kinds of other goofy noises ALL the time
*is getting dang chubby! (gained a pound and a half in less than 2 weeks)
*isn't quite sure whether she likes baths yet or not
*turns red as a cherry when she's mad or "pushing" (going potty) :)
*is already trying to roll over...:$ we're in for trouble with this one
*DOES NOT like headbands. she pulls them off almost everytime i put them on
*is the darn cutest girl in the world and we love her so much! :)

"THE STORY"

2010-04-20T13:53:00.000-07:00

so i was having some "pressure" and a weird pinching pain and after talking to ry decided to call the doctor just to see what he said. i wasn't having more than 2 or 3 very slight contractions a day and was walking everywhere trying to get things going. haha! i wouldn't have normally done this being only 38 weeks but i was a 5 at my last dr appt and didn't want to wait. haha! anywho, i couldn't get a hold of the dr. and i kept getting transferred to different departments of the hospital. i told them what was going on, that it wasn't a big deal, was in no pain, but wanted to make sure all was well. my dr appt was the very next day and i asked if i should just wait till then. they said to come in and just get checked out. so....in i go. i let ry know and told him i'd let him know if they were keeping me or sending me home. i was at a 6 and 80% effaced and still no pain or contractions that were regular or close together. because i was so far though, i was told to stay. so they put me on pitocin and waited. my doctor was going to break my water and then i'd just wait to deliver. i decided against an epideral by the way. :) haha! ry got there in time to help coach and hold my hand. he wasn't going to "look" or cut the cord but ended up doing both without passing out. yay! haha! from the time they broke my water to the time she was here was less than 2 1/2 hours with no meds. hurray! i looked hidious after because i had millions of broken capularies from my chest up and i looked half mexican because my skin was so dark from them. thankfully they were gone in a few days. it looked weird. haha! ry did so good! and she is healthy as can be. :) she did have jaundice pretty bad but it finally started going down so no worries there. ALMOST had to be put under lights but didn't. yay! i'm getting about 3 to 4 hours of sleep each night but doing good.

our pretty little princess! :)
thumb sucking down already, along with holding up her head! yes she will pop her little head up, look around for a few seconds, and then thump it back down on your chest. haha! she's so strong already!

and here is her sweet rockin mohawk i decided to do today! hahaha! LOVE IT! hard to see very well cuz her blonde hair though. ry says she's my little baby doll that i can dress up and play with. oh well, :) she's so much fun already and looking different everyday. She is such a sweet little girl!

guess who's here?!

2010-04-15T16:33:00.000-07:00

Summer Elise was born on april 12th 2010 at 7:19 pm weighing in at 7 lbs 3 oz and 18 1/2 inches long. she is so sweet and adorable and we just love her to pieces! enjoy the pics and we'll post more soon. everyone is doing great! :)

baby update!!!

2010-04-06T19:59:00.000-07:00

so....dr's apt today! dr says i'm now "a 5 at the least" so i'm taking that as like a 5 1/2?? and still 80% effaced. still no painful contractions. mostly just braxton hicks that i can't even tell i'm having more than half the time. he says the head is THERE and he's suprised i haven't gone yet. i'm not TOO uncomfortable and i'm not in any pain so i'm very lucky. whoo... i'm officially 37 weeks today and he wants to TRY to get me to last one more week but i don't think i'll last that long. i'm planning on a long walk thursday or friday. :) hehehe! anywho, if i DO happen to last another week, he asked how i feel about being induced. all i've heard is good stories from it but i'd rather go natural and being induced slows down the labor anyway so blah. he said he can start with stripping my membranes and if nothing happens he'll break my water. so i'm sure that will get things going and nothing else will need to be done. knock on wood. :) everything is ready in the car, my hospital bag, car seat and diaper bag. woot! so....anyday to a week left people. then you will get pics! yay!!! we can't wait or be more excited for this little chica to get here so we can cuddle and love her! wish us luck! :)

Happy 100th post! AND......

2010-04-06T08:48:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO LITTLE MISS LISSA!

she is 3 today and i just can't believe it! at this very moment i was at the hospital bringing her cute little self into the world. technically she's not 3 yet. haha! at 12:05 noonish. :) she is the luckiest girl in the world to have the parents and cute big sister that she has. they love her so much and i know she loves them too.

she is so gorgeous!

one of her easter pictures. :) so cute! she was born on a friday and easter was 2 days later. i still have her first little easter dress, socks, shoes, and headband even. maybe someday i'll give them to her for her daughters to wear.

and this one is a bit older but i love the cute hippy look and of course i needed to show off her cute and loving sis! they are such buds and i'm so glad she is where she is and so happy. i love you lissa! :)

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

can't sleep!

2010-03-31T21:52:00.000-07:00

so i pretty much can't sleep. i can't stop thinking about this baby coming early! tues at my dr. appt i was at a 4 and 80% effaced. i'm having the slightest of slight dull contractions tonight and every time i feel that little aching my heart rate jumps like crazy! which is rediculous cuz i could still have up to 3 weeks like my sis was with one of hers but i can't help it! i don't think it will be quite that much longer but i don't think it will be any sooner than a week either. you never know and that drives me crazy! blah! anyway,

so pretty much my wonderful hubby's birthday is tomorrow (and his twin brother russ :) and i can't wait! i blew up balloons tonight and got happy birthday plates and napkins. gonna make cupcakes tomorrow and i put up a happy birthday banner in our kitchen entryway. i have his present but not really...haha! his brother actually has it so he'll get that later but he has 3 cards waiting to be opened first thing tomorrow and i plan on making him breakfast. :) yay! i'm excited. he's gonna be the big 2.8. and he's not very happy about it but whatever. i am! haha!

anywho, i should probably try to get some sleep again. wish me luck. ugh.

I have the best hubby ever! 2 years and counting. :)

2010-03-29T15:55:00.000-07:00

Happy Anniversary to us! It's already been 2 years that we've been married and that is just crazy! Sure to most people we're still newly weds but it seems to be flying by for us. School, work, and everyday life keep us busy but we love it and every minute of it we get to spend together, even if it is only 2 hours a day between the time Ry gets home and we go to bed.

I love Ryan more than anything and I know he feels the same about me. :) We always kiss before he goes to work and as soon as he gets home and plenty more. We cuddle as often as possible, we still chase each other around the apt like little kids, and we still have tickle fights. :) Yesterday we went to the park and had a sunday afternoon picnic. Things like these keep our marriage strong.

When I'm angry or frustrated Ryan makes fun of me till I laugh away my frustrations. I let him vent to me about work and how he wishes he was done with school, no matter how many times I've heard him vent the same complaints in the past. When I'm running late for church and I'm yelling about my stupid hair or how my clothes make me look even more large than I already am he tells me I'm beautiful. He always knows how to cheer me up. :)

Even when Ryan leaves for work before 7 and doesn't get home till after 9 he tries to help with dishes or clean up after we eat our late night dinner. He often apologizes for not helping more around the apartment, which I think is insane because of how hard and how much he works. He's the sweetest most thoughtful guy I know!

He always puts me first. Ryan LOVES to ride his mountain bike but hardely ever gets to with his job. Yet if he does by chance get off early he always asks me what I want to do. And even as he's headed out the door to ride he asks if I'm sure I don't want to do something with him instead. He often says he feels bad for leaving me behind so he can ride with Russ. Silly boy. He deserves his bike riding time more than anyone I know.

I'm the luckiest most blessed woman in the world to have the hubby I do and I get to spend ETERNITY with him! He jokes that now we're having a baby I'm REALLY stuck with him. haha! Well GOOD! I'm glad. :) And I couldn't be more excited.

I love you Jeffrey Ryan Hulse!

32 week belly shots. woot!

2010-03-20T14:38:00.000-07:00

sorry so many, these were just my favs out of over 80. haha! special thanks to aubry for taking them for me. :) your the best! and i love them! which is saying alot cuz i don't like pictures of myself. blah! but i suppose who does right? :) anywho, enjoy!

nursery thus far

2010-03-10T10:39:00.000-08:00

so i finally got the crib (playard) and set it up yesterday and after that i couldn't stop. haha.

so here is a front view of the crib and wall. woot!

so starting from the right side of the room, this is the dresser we got from some friends that i sanded down and repainted. yay! the top 2 drawers are stuffed full of clothes already for her first year along with shoes, dresses, socks, bath towels and so on. the large bottom drawer has blankets and some of ryan's stuff he has no room for in his dresser. haha! i want to get some curtains and such but we'll have to wait and see.

this is the corner where i will sit with the little munchkin in the middle of the night when she wakes up crying. :) yay! haha!

this is as much of the room i could get in one shot. it's only 10 by 10 ft so ya. haha!

and this is my porcelin doll collection that she will inherit from me. :) thanks mom and dad and whoever added to the collection when i was growing up. :) and thanks mom for letting me have the shelf from my old bedroom. :) love you!

so...yep. that's it so far. i would love to paint but we're renting and if we paint it, we'll have to paint it back white before we leave and i don't want to have to do it. haha! the cute polkadots are like wallpaper/stickers that i found. they come right off and stick right back on and i love them. :) it's getting close! 7 weeks left!! or less! (i just have to throw that in everytime. a week or 2 early would be awesome!)

the shower!

2010-03-10T10:17:00.000-08:00

so the shower in logan was put together by my mother in law, jane, sister in law, stacy, and sister in law, heather. thanks a ton guys! we got lots of clothes, quite a few hand made blankets, a bumbo and other goodies. it was great and thanks to everyone who came. :)

this is one of the many outfits i got and yes, it's quite spunky and out there but it's one of my favs and i had to put it on here. LOVE it! :)

some cute little toys for the cute little munchkin.

this is a hand made carseat cover and i LOVE it! it reminds me of home :)

cute and fun blanket made by grandma jane.

and this was crochetted (i think i totally butchered that word.) by sister in law heather. gorgeous! we're gonna use it at the blessing.

all of ry's fam. :)

and the goody table. mmm....

thanks again everyone! it was great. :)

logan drive

2010-03-10T09:53:00.000-08:00

the weekend before last we went up to logan for my baby shower and me and ry took a drive. i've never been to the logan temple (inside) but someday when we go up we'll have time to go.
:)

i don't remember the name of the place we stopped but we stopped in the logan canyon at a natural spring and took some pics. here's ry posing for the cam.

and me in all my pregnant glory. haha! don't i look lovely.

this is the spring. the icicles hanging from the top were pretty scary looking. i made sure not to walk under them so i didn't get speared. :$

this was a friendly snowman across the road. i swear this thing was 10 ft tall or more. how someone was capable to get it that big i don't know but it was huge.

and here's us! woohoo!

the end

31 weeks and more

2010-02-23T18:40:00.000-08:00

so here i am rockin my fender shirt at 31 weeks. haha! my face is starting to get puffy i noticed and i need to start lifting weights cuz i am sure getting some flabby arms. bah! oh well, anywho. i had another ultrasound today because i had a low lying placenta but it has migrated up as i've grown out and everything is looking good now. weren't able to get very clear pics because this one is a sass and just doesn't want us to see her face. no profile and only half of a face shot. haha! she kept pushing the ultrasound device away, well, tried to anyway. silly girl. the lady doing the ultrasound did show us that she has plenty of hair (white fuzz is what it looked like in the pics) and if the rumor is true, it definatly explains the insane heartburn. even with prescription meds i get the burn. 9 (or less) weeks left!! :) can't wait to meet this little chica in person! prenatal/ labor classes start march 2nd and i have an appt that day. hurray!

in other parts of our lives, ry is doing better at work and getting faster. he does pretty good at upselling and has been getting great tips the last couple weeks. yay for people who tip! we love you! haha!

CAR ISSUES

we may have to start looking for a car...again/still. my car is acting up again and while i normally get around 20 around town and 30 on the freeway, the last 2 times i gassed up i only got around 16 and 17 miles to the gal. :( ugh, don't know what's wrong yet but i hope it doesn't cost much. and hopefully we'll find a good deal on a great car someday soon.

TEETH ISSUES

i finally went to the dentist... :$ i haven't had a cavity if what seems like FOREVER! last i went was 9 months ago. well...i had 7...yes 7! cavities. and a broken filling. ugh. so i got 5 fixed including the broken filling and i get the other 2 done tomorrow. wish me luck.

TOILET ISSUES

so the night before last, our toilet started flushing really weird. filling completely up with water and then very very slowly draining. well, it was forgotten that it wasn't working properly and was used early the next morning. (not saying who so as to save me or ry embarrasment :) ry told me to just leave it alone and of course i didn't listen. so i tried to fix it and it overflowed with poo water. gag i know. sorry tmi. so i cleaned it up and called our landlords about the prob. they got a hold of someone to fix it but they didn't get a hold of me till today. the plumber can't come till tomorrow. ack! so our toilets been sitting for 2 days in its current state and i CANT WAIT till it's fixed. ugh. haha!

anywho, that has been our life lately. fun stuff yes? haha!

keep your doors locked!

2010-01-31T13:18:00.000-08:00

so yesterday, we were getting ready to head out the door and ry unlocks it as we grab some last minute things. seconds later, the door knob twists and the door opens...we look at each other wondering who on earth just opened our door? so ry peeks around the door and there is some random little boy standing there. ry says: "...um, hi." kid says: "do you have kids?" what the...?! haha! uh....no not yet. i bust up laughing cuz it was so dang random. this kid was a crack up. he kinda seems bummed that we don't have any playmates for him but he goes for second best. "do you have any candy?" he asks. seriously?? haha! we told him no. he says...oh and tells us his name, which i don't even remember because i was laughing so hard and then he asked ryan who was laughing. he told him it was his wife. once again, oh. then he turned, got on his bike and left. lesson of the day, don't leave your door unlocked even for 5 minutes. children in our neighborhood are fearless and VERY friendly to say the least. haha!

our little mini me! haha!

2010-01-20T11:41:00.001-08:00

HAhaha! so i found this website "baby generator" and it's pretty interesting. :) we'll see if this is what she ends up looking like! :)

What do you think about my little new baby Baby Hulse?
MakeMeBabies.com - What will your baby look like?

between 24 and 25 weeks.

2010-01-15T10:48:00.000-08:00

oh how i hate taking pictures of myself, especially when i'm a bloated hippo. haha! ry took the one of me in the swimsuit and i was supprised at how cute it turned out. well...ry wasn't around this time and this is what you get.

getting tired of pictures not turning out.

and just not caring anymore. hot yes? i thought so. haha! oh well.

i'll be 26 weeks on tuesday and my doctors appt is monday. hurray!

christmas...haha! just a little late.

2010-01-15T10:06:00.000-08:00

so i HAD edited and cropped all these pics and then it decided to not save them after i clicked save and escape. sooo, i'm just posting them as is. so it's, once again, been forever since i posted and i'm sorry. as soon as school got out last semester i took my finals and 2 days later took off to thatcher for vacation/christmas. i left my hubby for 5 excrutiating...(sp?) long days and he finally got there christmas eve afternoon. :) yay! my family was probably so excited that he was there so i'd stop talking about him. haha! good things of course. :) here are my sis's kids and i missed there adorable little faces! i finally got to see Lane, the youngest, for the first time and that kid weighs a ton. haha! that little butter ball would put my arm to sleep within 5 min's of holding him.

and here is brocky....aww...i miss my little brother. i'm glad him and ry get along so well because i somewhat partially ignore my husband with all my family around. i miss them so much! ry and brock will just chill upstairs and serenade each other on their guitars.

ry decided to take this lovely photo of myself and there's not much you can do mid gulp to avoid a picture so all i did was put my hand up. haha! oh well...

awww.....he finally gets to thatcher and decides to take a nap. :) haha! which was ok really because he did drive 9 1/2 hours by himself to get to thatcher. poor guy. i love him so much! AND.....ry got to finally and officially feel the baby move for the first time on christmas eve. it was late and it's my fav. thing ever to sit and look at the christmas tree all lit up in front of the wood burning stove. so i got ry to go downstairs with me and we were cuddling on the couch and BAM! she kicked me a good one. haha! which she's been doing ALOT of lately. i was so excited :)

and my dear mother...i DID have a picture of my dad but it was right after he bumped his head real hard and he didn't look too happy. he actually kind of gouged it open and i felt so bad! i can't imagine how bad it hurt! :( anywho, i LOVE this pic of my mom with heather's kids. i think it is so stinking cute!

anywho, i really didn't take that many pictures so this is all you get for christmas. :( sorry! i'm usually camera happy but i just enjoyed everyones company this time and i'm glad i did. i'll post a preggo pic after this so watch out.

falalalala...lala...la....laaaaa

2009-12-17T20:21:00.000-08:00

ok people. i have a reason i am so huge at only 21 weeks. my doctor told me today i am measuring 3 weeks larger than i am suppose to be. ah! hopefully i even out later on and don't measure this big for the whole time. i'm getting back pain and hip and knee pain already and he's sending me to a physical therapist aside from my chiropractor so wish me less pain. haha! it hasn't been too bad but it's getting that way. anywho, everything else is good. she favors my right side so i have a lopsided belly and it's pretty funny. she moves ALOT but no hard jabs yet and ry has still yet to feel anything. i think he believes i'm making things up. haha! oh well. i'm flying out to az for christmas sat. so hopefully i don't get swollen up. ry will be joining me christmas eve. :( too long away from my love. sad day. but i've only been to thatcher once this year and i need more than 3 days there with my family so i'm abondoning my poor husband to fend for himself. we went shopping tonight and got him some frozen food to survive on while i'm gone. haha! well....have a fantabulous christmas everyone! travel safe and eat lots of yummy food. :)

20+weeks! in a swim suit!

2009-12-14T16:55:00.000-08:00

i finally found a swim suit! yay! you may ask, why is she getting a swim suit in the middle of winter? first of all, we have a community center that has an indoor pool. AND i'm gonna want to swim once spring rolls around and after. this will still fit then AND it covers my belly without having to wear a tank top, which is what i have ALWAYS done. it will be nice not having to worry about that. it came with polka dot bottoms but i wear my swim skirt over to cover my nasty thighs. haha! anywho, had to share my new purchase, which ryan is reimbursing me for as a christmas gift. haha! my idea. i LOVE LOVE LOVE this swim suit. i have never really liked how i look in swim wear (who does?) but this one, i do. so there ya go. and you get to see how huge i'm getting. haha! yay. i will be 21 weeks tomorrow

school/finals

2009-12-13T18:13:00.000-08:00

this is how i feel when it comes to school and i am so happy it is coming to an end. yet we still have finals week. ugh...i only have 2 finals left and it's math and english. wish me luck that something sunk in to my head this semester...or like the pic shows was forced in. haha!

and so it begins...

2009-12-07T13:53:00.000-08:00

yes. i went shopping already. but this is all i bought and i WILL restrain myself from buying anything else until after the baby shower. :)

CUTE little bracelet! i love it.

and this is my favorite ever! aww.... ;)

IT'S A GIRL!!!

2009-12-06T20:18:00.000-08:00

yep yep...for all of you who have been waiting, here they are. ultrasound pics! :) i had to take pictures of the pictures because we don't have a scanner so hopefully you can still see pretty well. you all probably know what these pics are of but i'll explain them anyway.

this is of the thighs and buttocks and you can vagely (sp?) see the 3 dots between the legs which are the determining factor of the baby being a girl. :) yay!

here's the profile and i think she definately looks like ryan so far...be begs to differ but whatever. haha!

here is her cute little foot. ry pointed out she has my finger toes. haha! great.

she was moving constantly and here she has her arms crossed in front of her face. you can see her fat belly to the right stickin out. haha!

after she finally moved her arms we got this scary face shot. AH! hahaha! our beautiful little princess for ya.

anywho, here she is in all her glory! she's a active little gubber but we love her to pieces already! and just so you know my official due date is april 27th. hooray!

ultrasound is scheduled!

2009-11-25T09:12:00.000-08:00

so i went back in to my doctor yesterday and got to hear the heartbeat again. he had a hard time keeping the heartbeat and said we have a very active baby....uh oh. haha! one moment he would pick up the heartbeat on one side of my belly and a second later it was clear on the other side. everything is still going well and i think the morning sickness if finally gone. :) hurray! it's been about a week since i've got sick and it feels like a miracle. haha! ALSO....you ready?! Dec 4th at 3:00 is when our ultrasound is scheduled for! so in a week and a couple days we'll know whether it's a boy or girl! everyone cross your fingers for a girl!! haha! j/k :) but really ;)

complaining session...watch out.

2009-11-23T18:52:00.000-08:00

so i go in for my doctors appt today and wait for 10 minutes before being called back into one of the little offices where you wait for the dr. i sit there for 25 min's just for a nurse to come in and say, sorry, dr cain had to run over to the hospital to deliver a baby. ugh...so i actually had some questions for the dr. this time so i asked her and asked about scheduling my ultrasound. so off she goes to "ask" and i sit for another 10 min's. so i spent 45 min's at the doctors and didn't even see the doctor. blah, whatever. i understand the urgency of the poor woman waiting for him over at the hospital but they could have at least told me as soon as he left so i didn't have to waste 3/4 of an hour of my time. doesn't seem like that much but today was a hectic one and i wasn't in the mood. oh well, so my appt was re-scheduled for tomorrow at 3:40 and my ultrasound is set for dec. 4th (friday) at 3. yay! boy or girl?? any guesses?

another venting story. i sent off for my birthcertificate nearly 3 months ago. it was suppose to take 10 to 15 business days...2 to 3 weeks. the first time i didn't get it, i called to see what happened and they didn't have my apartment #. so i update it and they supposively resend it. so i wait and wait and nothing. so i call again. this time, they "think it may have got lost in the mail". so i wait and wait....and you guessed it! nothing...so i call AGAIN! and say i have been waiting for this thing for over 3 months. i'd called 3 to 4 times total and nothing had been resolved. and i asked what their problem was...AND!!! the retard that "updated my address" failed to put in the only thing that they had missing from it. the apartment #. DUH people! get a clue and do your job. so this miracle man that i spoke to on the 20th...(remember it's suppose to take 2 to 3 weeks to get this thing) sent it and i got it today. the 23rd. 3 days later. now why can't people just pull there heads out and have done it that way to begin with. we almost didn't get insurance because of it. medicaid was kind enough to go ahead and approve our case when it was suppose to get dropped because of the lack of the birthcertificate. then we got a letter saying if we didn't get it by the 30th of this month that our medical benifits would stop. lucky us we FINALLY got someone to help us and i can take it in first thing tomorrow. yay!

school has been soooo stressful! aahhh! math teacher decided to cram 3 assignments into today so we didnt have homework over the holiday. nice yes, but she's requiring us to do it. not choice. so i have 3 large math assignments. 4 page english rough draft with outline 2 peer reviews and a worksheet. i need to do the lib test review for the final which is an hour and a half long lecture video online. and then take that final before the 6th. HELP! i am not use to all of this school stuff let alone all the other stress right now. AND with ryan's new job he is constantly gone. i'm use to him going in at 7:30 and getting off anywhere between 4 and 6 at night. now his schedule is so random and he works tons! he went in at 6:15 this morning and won't get back till around 10:30 or 11. i need some calm alone time with my husband again. and when the baby comes....yikes. just pray i don't lose my head people. i feel like i'm going crazy already.

16 week pic.

2009-11-17T11:09:00.000-08:00

so technically i'm 17 weeks but this pic is at 16 weeks...i'm a slacker i know. not only that but it's hard to take a picture of your own belly. haha! i was having some issues lemme tell ya. oh well...anywho. sorry so short. i have homework to do. ugh...

cooking/baby....

2009-11-05T13:44:00.000-08:00

cooking news and baby news....not cooking the baby news....well i guess in a sense i am cooking the baby, hahaha! anyway...i'm a nerd i know.

so i've been trying to be a better wife and actually make dinner and tasty treats instead of throwing together some pasta roni or hotdogs...haha! mmm....poor ryan. anyway, i decided to make fruit pizza! mmm....it was way good and so sugary it gave me a stomach ache. haha! but the fruit balanced it out... :) that's my way of thinking...

next i made banana nut bread and unlike last time, it turned out 100 times better. last time i think i put too much flour and it was heavy as a brick. but not anymore! hurrah! haha!

i've also made speggetti with meatballs, clam chowder, enchilladas, and easiest of all...pot roast with potatoes and veggies. anyway....that's it for my random food update.

baby update. everythings looking good so far. my next appointment is on the 23rd. and unfortunately my doctor said he wants to wait 2 weeks after that appointment to find out the sex of the baby. bah!!! i can't wait that long! i'll be a day short of 18 weeks at the appointment. and 20 weeks when he's wanting to do the ultrasound. i'm going to try to talk him into sooner. if not the day or the day after my appt. then a week from then....but not 2 weeks. i'm starting to go a little crazy. haha! ry would beg to differ and claim i already am but whatever. anywho, toodles for now. miss you all. :)

update...

2009-10-24T14:07:00.000-07:00

well, things are still as crazy as ever. school is flying by but not quite fast enough. ry is still working full time with plenty of work but we decided he needs to find a different job. i WOULD have got insurance through medicaid but my stupid birth certificate STILL has not got here after over 2 months of waiting. today was the last day to turn it in before our case was dropped. stupid phoenix. i called them at least 3 times and still...nothing. hence ryan needing to get a diff. job. (insurance) his current job as you've guessed doesn't offer it, but he's been there for 4 years. so it's been hard having to make the change. also over the last couple weeks, ry's clutch cable in his car broke and a week later we find out that mine has some issues of it's own. ry's car is finally fixed but we decided to just sell mine and get a more reliable car so when the baby comes it won't leave us stranded anywhere. it's been a GREAT car! but it's time for parting...sigh. anywho, that's what's been going on here the last few weeks...now we're up to date, i have another appointment on the 30th and i'll be a little over 14 weeks! it is just zipping by! in around 3 weeks i'm going to find out whether it's a boy or a girl and i can't wait! me and my friend ash went to the what women want expo (i had never been before) and i had a blast. i was in a great mood and got to be loud and eat samples and candy. haha! it's been a while since i've done that and it was fun to just let loose. they had TONS of ADORABLE baby stuff and i bet ry is ever so grateful that we don't know the sex yet because they had bows and tutus and all kinds of cute girl stuff. i really want a girl but it will probably be good if we have a boy so i don't spend all kinds of money on accesories. haha! oh well. i don't mind either way really and either does ry. but obviously i want a girl and he wants a boy. isn't that how it usually goes? anyway, i'll stop my novel for now. lots of love! have a great day!

12 weeks and 1 day.

2009-10-14T13:04:00.000-07:00

so as you can see, for those that had the opportunity of seeing me pregnant before, at 3 months this time around is what i looked like at about 5 1/2 months with Lissa. sad story i know. i started out 30 lbs heavier with this pregnancy and have added 4 lbs already. AH! i'm going to have to get a personal trainer and starve myself after i have this baby! i was also much more active before and i need to start up my preggo denise austin dvd, walks and swimming. that would help a little right? i hope so.

a month or so ago...

2009-10-13T20:16:00.000-07:00

around a month ago we went with our friends robb and coryell to the narrows in zions national park. the pic above is us in a little cave we came across. ryan was scared of the spiders lurking within. haha!

This is the first real water hole you come to that we swam and played in. the water was soooo COLD but we numbed up to it and it was fun.

me and ry by the rock waterfall thingy.

isn't it cool?!

along the hike. it was so pretty...lots of trees and vegitation growing everywhere.

our little friend mr. squirrel. he followed us begging for food. all the squirrels up there are a bit too friendly. i was wearing flip flops on the walk back along the paved path and it got within inches of my foot! i didn't want it to take a nibble so i finally backed away...

the rocks all along the narrows seep water which makes it so green along the rocks. it's pretty cool. i was lucky enough to get the butterfly in the pic too!

FUN TIMES!

so much to tell

2009-10-12T09:52:00.000-07:00

ok, so this time i haven't really been a slacker, just extremely busy! school has been hectic and we just moved last week from st george ut to washington ut. we didn't have internet for about a week and a half because of the move...and! we've been busy trying to set up insurance and other related things because we are expecting! woohoo! so my cousin actually bought some tests for her and had an extra that she gave to me. i reluctantly took it knowing it wasn't gonna happen. we'd only been trying for 2 months and i was sure it was going to take at least 6 or more...well surprise! not so. i found out when i was 1 day shy of 3 weeks...is that possible? crazy. so this pic of me at 4 weeks. i'll actually be 12 tomorrow. it's flying by already!

anywho, i'll write more later when i have more time. i have to get to math class. woot! ugh....wish me luck. we have a test today. :$

getting so big!

2009-08-11T12:03:00.000-07:00

the lil munchkin is getting so big! and somehow more and more cute everyday! her hair is finally getting some length and i love how its staying nice and curly! teesa (her adorable sister) is in the bottom left pic. isn't she beautiful? aww....

angels landing!

2009-08-10T13:15:00.000-07:00

this pic, for those who don't know, is angels landing. you start at the bottom of this 1500 foot ascent and go all the way to the top. saturday at around 7pm we (ryan me and our friends chris and amanda) started our way up.

this is the skinny walkway around where the chains start so IF you do slip...you'll have something to hold on to. we found out the day after we did the hike (sunday) a women was hiking with her husband and 3 kids. she slipped and fell 1000 feet. scary realization of how dangerous our lil trek was...

this part of the hike is called walters wiggles. this hike was the most intense hike i have EVER done but it was so much fun and i would do it again in a heartbeat, which we plan on doing.

one of the stretches where you have to hold the chain, one false step....and your sky diving. you just have to be extra careful and prepared.

one of the points where you're just kind of pulling yourself up

it was soooo high! luckily i'm not scared of heights. it was so pretty and such an amazing experience! we compared it to the scriptures, and started singing hold to the rod. haha!

the view from the top....it was waaaayyyyy up there. when we got scared we sang primary songs. haha!

we got to the top around 9 and headed down around 9:30. so it was dark on our way back. people called us crazy but we went prepared with camel backs, food, and headlamps.

another view from the top....on our way up and down we saw 3 deer, lots of turkey, 3 or 4 ringtail cats, and a tarantula! we got back to the bottom around 10:30. we were all so exhausted and sore the next morning but i loved every minute of it! we hope to go again before it gets too cold....these pics were just ones i found on the internet. unfortunately i didn't take my camera. next time i will though! :)

finally...

2009-08-09T19:41:00.000-07:00

alrighty...picture overload ahead...sorry it's been so long! we've been so busy lately coming in and out of town, getting ready for school, and lots of work. not for me anymore though! as of wednesday last week i no longer work for US bank. i loved working there and i really will miss it. but ry and i have decided that i need to start school and get at least a semester done before we have kids. sooo...i am starting in the fall (2 weeks) and will be taking 15 credits (6 classes) i'll be taking math, english, cis, lib, intro to music, and private voice. so hopefully i won't be too busy to post everyonce in a while!

for the 4th of july we went up to bear lake with ry's family. we headed up friday night, got there at 1 in the morning. saturday we went to bear lake and sunday we came back! haha! gotta love those short trips. oh well, it was fun and we got to see ry's fam.

on our way back to ryan's grandmas from bear lake we stopped at a natural spring and it was ABSOLUTELY freeeeezing! i put my toe in and said no way, but ry hopped right in. haha! in the top right pic you can see where the water is blue and black...that's where it was coming up out of the ground. it was crystal clear water and so pretty!

at ryan's grandmas she told us she had plenty of cherry's and to go pick ourselves some. :) aren't they beautiful?! they were so yummy and we were so glad she was so sweet to suggest it.

this is us setting off fireworks for aiden on the 4th. woooo!!!

THEN for the 24th we went to thatcher! yay! i love love love the pic of chloe with her skirt on her head! haha! cute lil nerd. i went crazy with the camera in thatcher. it had been so long since we'd been(8 months!) so i wanted plenty! the pic of the clouds was on our flight. that was quite an adventure. haha! it was pretty much a stress fest till we finally left and knew that everything was finally in order. so as you can see, heather is nice and ready to have her new lil boy come on out. she looks fantastic and i had to mention several times to my mom that even though heather is just about full term she still looks skinnier than me from behind...how is that fair?

at my grandmas they have chickens and watermelon and all the good stuff. ya know...haha! so we took heather's kids and went outside to play. :) ry took the lovely (ugh) pic of me picking the watermelon.

after seeing my grandparents we went to the horse corals to take pics of chloe and cole. chloe was cranky like no other but we still got some dang cute ones of her! she loved the horses though and started feeding them hay by herself. i was afraid the horses were gonna bite her hand! ryan even decided to pet the horses and i was able to capture a few pics of him with the horseys.

i LOVE the way these pics turned out of chloe and cole!! and yes heather. i will get these pics to you one way or another. i'll probably have to make a cd and send them in the mail. that would be the easiest. anywho, someday, i'll get me a nice new camera and start doing this more often. my current camera is terrible and i really really 'dislike' it. haha!

sorry there are so many pictures of my niece and nephew! they are just so cute and fun to take pictures of! of course we went swimming while we were there. i didn't get any pics of me and ry because we were both in the water and of course my camera is not water proof. we did go to fry mesa and swim in the reseviour (sp?) and it was so fun and pretty up there! unfortunately it was thundering and raining so we didn't stay long. we also went to safford pool and swam. i love swimming....
we also went to the mountain in thatcher...good ol mount graham....it's so pretty up there. we walked around the lake and just enjoyed nature...
there is a cliff that is just above the lake and we walked to it and looked out over the valley. i love it up there...sigh....
fun pics of the kids i got. don't you just Love the one of them both sitting looking at the lake?! awww......

more of our stroll around the lake.

there were so many pretty flowers....

jared and becky also came down with their kids after we'd been there a bit. unfortunately i didn't get any pics of brook!! she is there youngest and she is sooo adorable!!! here are the kids at the park. mathew was as wild and crazy as ever and isaac was such a little monkey! that kid can climb anything! haha! he's in the red shirt climbing the big green pole. he reminded me of the guys in hawaii that climb up the palm trees and make it look like a breeze.

well i do have another post that i need to put on about the other day, hopefully i'll get around to it today. but that's what we've been up to. have a great day!!!

be prepared....

2009-08-04T21:59:00.000-07:00

so...i'm still alive, and so is ryan. haha! tomorrow is my last day of work so i will find time this week to post a HUGE long blog. yay! sorry i've been so nonexistant. you will hear from us soon....be prepared!

i miss you princess...

2009-06-24T22:15:00.000-07:00

My angel baby...

camping

2009-05-24T17:39:00.000-07:00

last week me and ry went camping with another married couple up in kolob. we went friday night and got there a little later than hoped and couldn't find a camp site. so we camped by some people just for the night and then went about 200 feet down the road to find our spot. haha! oh well.

hahaha! a lovely picture of ry being silly. i love my silly hubby. :)

here's ry putting the wedges in so we wouldn't roll into the lake. as you can see we were RIGHT off the lake and it was fabulous. OF COURSE we HAD to take all our fishing stuff. ry got me a belated mothers day gift which was a pink fishing pole. it's a different kind that i'd NEVER used before but i'm pretty use to it now.

the guys by there victory fire. haha!

our new found spot. isn't it so pretty? unfortunately we drove a ford...big mistake. we got stuck up there for quite a while because the dang thing wouldn't start. fords.....what a waste. :)

there was this cool little island right in the middle of the lake and it was so green! there were ducks and birds all over

me fishing...woot! haha!

ry fishing...awww....

aww....so relaxing.

oh children. haha!

2009-04-20T10:18:00.000-07:00

so ryan had one of his finals today...he doesn't think he did too hot but i guess we'll have to wait and see. hopefully he'll get his report done by wednesday! wish him luck!

so i have to tell this hilarious story, one of the little girls in my primary class sat in front of us in church. about half way through church she asked her parents if she could come sit with us so back she comes and plops on my lap. she's 5 years old with curly dark hair, the bluest eyes, and such manners. she is quite a talker too though. LOVES to talk. anywho...she turns around and says in a quiet whisper, "teacher...i need to toot but i don't want to on your lap." hahaha! so she slides off my lap, runs to the corner (we were in the very back) bends over, turns and smiles, and lets one rip. hahaha! we were DYING laughing. she comes bouncing back and plops right down on my lap like nothing happened. my and ry were crying from laughing so hard. :) don't ya love kids?

random

2009-04-16T10:21:00.000-07:00

hello everyone, i found out how to unblock my blog from my work computer! yay!!! haha! so i'm at work right now and it's pretty slow. just eatin starbursts and waiting for customers to come in. woot. so....ry has been pretty busy with work and school. finals are coming up and he has a 12 page report due in 6 days and is only on page 3. haha! so i won't get to see much of him this week. blah...oh well. as long as he gets his stuff done. i've still just been working at the bank. been thinking about switching to part time so i can get school started. no...i still don't have ANY college. ugh...i want to but things have just been so busy. anywho....don't have any pics this time. just thought i'd write and say hello, HELLO! :)

happy birthday...

2009-04-06T19:02:00.000-07:00

Happy birthday Lissa Brielle!!!

today is my little angel baby's birthday and she is 2 years old! AH!

here is her cute little monkey princess face, i love her so much!

2 years ago today i gave birth to Lissa Brielle at 12:05 pm friday afternoon. she was 7 pounds 8 ounces and was 19 inches long. she had dark hair and dark mysterious eyes but now....she has bright blonde hair and the deepest bluest eyes you could ever get lost in! i had lissa for 6 days before placement was final. they were some of the best(and worst) days of my life. she slept in my room EVERY night and i would leave the light on so i could wake up (if i slept at all) to her perfect little face. i could hear her sleep...she'd purr like a little kitten, quite loudly in fact. :) she was such a good baby, only waking to be fed or changed. i loved just watching her during the day, holding her and snuggling her cute little face. her skin was so soft and silky. i miss that...i loved feeding her her bottles...she would down those things like nobodys business. haha!
the week past quickly and thursday came and went and i dreaded signing those horid papers....how could anyone give anything so perfect beautiful and fragile...a part of themself, away to someone they hardly knew? i almost didn't. i sat and cried at my parents dinner table...sobing, debating whether to shred them up in front of everyone. i was so close....but i knew that i and most importantly lissa, would be better off if i signed. i couldn't take from her what she most deserved and i can see now i made the right decision.

she is such a happy little girl, so full of life! 2 amazing parents and a beautiful loving big sis. i hear she's such a sass and who knows where she got that from?? hmmm.... :) i love this little angel with all my heart and i hope she knows that and never forgets it. i love you lissa...you're my little star and i know you'll continue to shine and grow bigger and brighter every day! don't let the world get you down because you're better than that. fred and amy tell me you have such attitude and that if anyone were try to take you, you'd show em who's boss. :) not in those exact words...but i'm glad. you have such a sweet strong spirit and i hope you never make the mistakes your mommy made. it will hurt you more than you know...i miss you baby girl...so much, each and every day. i'm sort of just rambling now....so many thoughts and emotions are running through my heart and mind. words cannot describe a mother's love. happy birthday lissa. i love you...

amy's blog post for lissa's birthday...video at end.

SWEET, PRECIOUS Lissa....Happy Birthday baby doll!
My dear sweet Lissa….I love you so much and are so glad you are part of our family! You have so much sass to your little personality it is unbelievable! That sass is what makes you so completely loveable :) We never have to worry that anyone will walk all over you because we think you may just punch their lights out if they tried!!! There are just so many wonderful things about you that we love….- Those big, beautiful, blue eyes…they melt anyone’s heart….and that is OBVIOUS!- We love how can’t say your “f’s” yet so everything that starts with an “f” is pronounced with an “h”…example: food is pronounced hooooood and phone is hone.- We love how you copy EVERYTHING that your big sister says and does. Since she is a great big sis, that is okay with us!- I personally love how you and I get to watch “Horton Hears a Who” every Thursday night together when Dad and Teesa go off to play volleyball. That is our night together and I love it!- I love how you adore your grandpa’s. Most kids love their grandma’s and I know you love them too but there is something special about seeing you get so excited about seeing your grandpa’s!- I love how you want to do everything yourself. VERY independent…want to put your shoes on yourself, want to put your pull-up or undies on yourself…you say “I do it!” to everything!!! Hmmm…do you see the sass??? :)- We love how you are a peacemaker. When you and Teesa are fighting, you are usually the one to give in.- We love your determination…you are definitely a go getter! Much too busy to snuggle…there are WAY TOO many things to see and do in this life :)- We love how you share your food when you like it! You want to make sure we get a bite too :)- We love your wild imagination and we can often sit for a long time just watching you play. I don’t think that Teesa’s imagination took off at such a young age but I think you see Teesa and learn from your big sis!It is hard to believe that 2 years have passed. I’m so grateful that I get to be your mom and hope with all my heart that you know just how much we all love you and how blessed we feel that you are in our family.I just walked out of Teesa’s room after putting her to bed…and yes, I fell asleep…but there your dad was sitting on the couch just thinking…I asked him what he was doing and he said he was just thinking about you sweet Lissa and how he remembers when you were in the hospital and every little test they ran on you including the 3 spinal taps…he remembers changing every dry (because you were dehydrated) and wet diaper and most of all he remembers how WORRIED he was about you and how much he had already grown to love you even within a few short weeks of you being on this earth….he was emotional about this and I’m pretty sure I saw him wipe a tear away from his eye….Lissa…that little fighter in you is who we see today but with a big ole’ personality that is shining through now :) You were obviously suppose to be on this earth and have something important to accomplish. We are so grateful for you and everything that you have taught us and how you make our family complete.We LOVE you sweetheart and hope you have a wonderful 2nd birthday!I have done a video of my sweet, sweet, little angel Lissa over the past year and I cannot believe how much she has grown up. I know some of you had a hard time watching Teesa’s video so I contacted the company to find out why and they have updated their plug-in so what you would need to do is the following:You can reinstall the Presenter plugin by go to your Start Button and click on Control Panel. Then go Add/Remove Programs and remove any software that says Photodex Presenter.Please go to your 'Start' button and click on 'Computer'. In here locate your 'C' Drive and double click on it. Now find the 'Program Files(x86)' (if you do not have the x86 version, then use 'Program Files') folder and double click on it. Locate the 'Photodex Presenter' and delete it.Then reboot your computer and click on my video link and it should ask you to download their new plug-in.This will basically delete the old plug-in if you were able to watch my videos before and upload the new one…I had to do it on my computer too To watch the video click the words “Our Angel”Our Angel

major overload...

2009-04-04T22:19:00.000-07:00

be prepared...

so this is going to be a lot of little posts bunched together, because, like always, i've been a blog slacker. majorly. haha! oh well, quite a while ago we went to the gorge by the virgin river and went on a hike/walk. it was really fun and quite entertaining. russ came with and climbed this cliff with no gear and then couldn't get down forever because it just happened to be steeper than he thought. haha! quite an adventure...so here's a sweet pic of us having fun.

and here's a pic of ry trying to tell russ which way to go to get down...but does russ listen? no....and not just cause he's deaf. boys...so stubborn.

so here's this awesome silouette i got of ry and i think it looks so cool. even though i used a crappy camera.

and here's one of me...haha! i don't even know...

awww....we're holding hands...this one leads to....our one year anniversary!!! YIKES!!! it's already been a year, and one week. so crazy. time flies so fast.

here's our very flattened cake from a year ago. haha! good times. sorry for my lovely appearance in these next couple pictures. i was ready for bed and remembered hey! we didn't do the cake! actually ry rememebered. :)

here's the cards we got each other. i actually made the card for ry. if ya can't tell. :) i like it and i told him he can't throw it away. haha! it's been the best year of my life and i couldn't ask for anyone better. ry puts up with so much from me and loves me no matter what. we've never really argued except for one topic that i can't seem to blow by. haha! some of you may know what i'm talkin about. but other than that with an additional mood swing from me, everything's been fantastic! he's the love of my life and i don't know what i'd do without him. i love you ry!

AND ry's 27th birthday was on the 1st. i have to tell this story for those of you who don't know already...when ryan's mom was pregnant with ry and russ, the doctors told her they were suppose to be girls. well, no one seemed to believe her when she ended up having twin boys on april fools day. haha! i love that story. ry didn't get a cake for his birthday...sorry ry! but we are trying to lose weight and i made him strawberry waffles with whip cream for breakfast...and once again, for those of you that know me, this was a big feet...me + early mornings....well, is a big non solvable problem...haha! it just doesn't happen. but i did it. yay! ry got this cool gym thingy that goes in the doorway for pull ups and situps and stuff. it's just little but way neat. i'll get a pic of it later. i also got him a watch from fossil and its hot. haha! also, later pic.

here's some new pics of my adorable baby monkey princess....haha! i LOVE this picture and she is getting cuter every day! i'll also have to post later part of the email that fred sent me. hilarious....i've been told she is getting her little attitude. haha! so funny. she's getting so big. she'll be a whole 2 years old on april 6th!!! AH! where is the time going? life is flying by way too fast...yikes...

and here are two st patty day pics of the adorable sisters and ME! haha! lissa is such a little leparacaun.....k. i TOTALLY slaughtered that word but you know what i mean. so cute.

THE END!

just thinking about...

2009-03-12T17:19:00.001-07:00

my little princess...

So this is the most recent pic i have of my little cutie. need i say more? she's so freakin adorable and i love her so freakin much! i love this pic! she's so different and unique yet so familiar. i miss her so much, this little angel that i know so well, but not at all, at the same time. she's so perfect. Lissa Brielle, i love you so much baby girl....just reflecting, and letting you know i always miss you. hugs and kisses...

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

2009-02-16T11:28:00.000-08:00

so for valentines day, i got us a nights stay at the holiday inn express and a HELICOPTER tour! woohoo! if you know ry very well you know he wants to be a helicopter pilot yet he'd still never even riden in one. soooo, now he has! it was SO crazy! you get butterflys in your stomack like no other! it's like a roller coaster but not at the same time. it's so hard to explain. i didn't think it'd be that different from an air plane but sooo not true.
here's all the exciting pics from the flight. my camera kinda stinks so i didn't get many good pics with it being night and all but at least we got some! there were like 3 couples that were waiting for rides too that had just been married in vegas. haha! so weird.

WOOOOOO this was right when we landed.

afterwards we were gonna eat at pf changs, best chinese ever, but there was an hour and a half wait...not only there, but everywhere! we couldn't find anywhere nice to eat without having to wait forever...ugh. so we finally found terribles casino restraunt didn't have a wait and it was pretty good. not what i'd hoped for but it was still good. :)

and this is just a crazy picture of myself that i decided to put on. haha! love it! kinda random but i like it.

THE END. ;)

hmm

2009-02-08T20:53:00.000-08:00

so i can't find a background that i'm totally lovin so this is it for now. until i find more time to waste then this is what you get to see. haha! hope you like. toodles

whew....

2009-02-08T19:18:00.000-08:00

so i know its been a lifetime and i say that everytime but like always it's been crazy busy and i've been too tired and lazy in my little spare time to sit and write. so we went to thatcher for a short trip over martin luther king holliday to visit and had tons of fun. ry and heather raced and it was hilarious! ry won! haha! we went to the hot springs and dairy queen. we had a big barbeque and it was cool to get to see everyone. it seems like it been 6 months ago when it's only been almost 1. we'll be back as soon as we can get the time off work and school. i miss you family!!!

so this is us chilling at the belagio waiting for the water works to start. great fun! this was during the new year with our friends terry and kristy. fun fun!

some sweet decor...

the m&m factory!!! yay! for candy! they had some awesome stuff in here. never went from the bottom to the very top floor in here and it was pretty cool.

AND last but not least my new major hair do. yikes....don't really like the cut which is why it's not all down. i wanted layers and the chick disagreed with me and now i don't like it. but i absolutely love the color! but i really REALLY miss my LOOOONNNNNNG blonde hair. sigh...i just can't decide. but obviously there's not much i can do about it now. why you may ask. i'm sick of the same thing day in and day out and decided to go drastic. ugh. so if ya can't tell there's quite a bit of red and i LOVE it! plus dark brown and some blonde still. anywho...i'm still just working and ry is helping rex out till he finds a more solid job. and that's about it. hopefully i'll write sooner next time. sorry! have a good night.

lissa...

2009-01-01T18:53:00.001-08:00

So i know i haven't posted a christmas blog about our christmas yet but we've been busy ever since....well, a long time. and i only got one day off for christmas, christmas day, and today off for new years. other than that i've been working about 8:30 to 6 everyday. ugh. anywho, i just wanted to share some amazing pictures of my precious little princess and her christmas. i'll post more later, we have friends from out of town staying with us and we're getting ready to eat. sorry so short! toodles!

AWW.....

2008-12-20T21:50:00.000-08:00

so i just changed my blog and i look over to see ryan snoozin away in our bed. sooo cute. i love my hubby so much. oh, and just so you all know. we were GOING to send cards out to everyone this year....but ya, not going to happen. haha! sorry, we love you all and hope you all have a FANTASTIC christmas and new year. toodles for now! :)

whew!

2008-12-19T17:41:00.000-08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! sorry it's been a life time since i've posted. i've been so busy and then when i finally got a chance, my camera didn't want to add it's pictures to the computer. it took me 2 hours to fix...when i found the time to sit for that long. i was suprised. haha!

so, of course, i have to start off this huge post with goofy fun pics of me and my hubby. :) i love taking pictures

CHEESE!!!! yes, i am camera happy

oh so serious...

mmmmmmmm.............so here are some sugar cookies i made and ryan and russ had them gone within like 2 days. haha! i'm glad they turned out. i'd never made sugar cookies before believe it or not and was glad they were enjoyed.

and here's some pics i took on our trip to thatcher for thanksgiving. we were going to go see ry's fam for thanksgiving but plans changed the NIGHT BEFORE. ugh. but things turned out good and we had fun. we left at around 5:30 am. we stopped at the rock dwellings by the colorado river and it was way cool. ya!

i love these, unfortunately they are a little darker than id hoped. oh well

yup yup

ryan is strong.... ooo lala

inside one of the "houses" SWEET huh?

and outside one of the houses. soo neat...

AND us in thatcher with my family! yay! i miss you all so much already! come visit us! it's your turn to come here...sniffle...

all us kids. yeehaw! haha! good times. i need to lose some pounds...ugh

me and the love of my life! aww....

i HAD to post this adorable picture i took of chloe! she's so dang cute and sassy! haha! i caught this pic at the perfect time. one moment she looks like this, and the next

she looks like this...haha! love this lil chica.

me after our drive in the st george snow! yup it snowed. alot too! but i didn't get any pictures sadly...i was at work all day everyday till dark and i couldn't get any good ones at night. sorry....

my hilarious husband tree hugging. hahaha! i love you ry. hahahaha!

This is what i got from fred amy lissa and teesa. yay! i was SO excited! amy made the jewelry and did you make the hanging too amy? i don't know. im thinking you did but i'm not possitive.

AND THE END!

aahhh!

2008-12-08T13:14:00.000-08:00

so i know it's been forever and i promise i'll catch up but for now i'm on my lunch break and i'll post some pics of us putting up our christmas tree. sorry if the pics look dark. my camera stinks...ugh. i'm getting a new one from my sweetness for christmas. woohoo! anywho, gotta get back to work. bleck! i'll find time somewhere to post more. sorry!

last 24 hours....

2008-11-10T13:48:00.000-08:00

Well to start off i started feeling sqeemish last night and tried as i might could not relieve my tummy. i don't "lose it" very often, if ya know what i mean. i have a very strong stomach. i tried everything but to no avail. woke up about 5 or 6 times because my stomach hurt so bad and finally! at 4 in the morning i made a dash for the restroom. not a good night. so i called in sick from work 45 min before i had to be there and they let me off the hook. yay! needless to say, i'm feeling MUCH better now and finally got some food to stay in my tummy. sorry if this was too informative. i needed to release my suffering though. haha! ryan had to get up this morning to go to jury duty...ugh. and on his way home called and asked if i needed anything. i asked if he could grab me a gatorade and what does he do? he got me 2 of my fav gatorades, lilies! (my fav flower), and wrote me a sweet little not on our dry erase board on our fridge that says: "I love Melissa Reynolds Hulse so much! sorry your tummy hurts. your the best! i love you!" awww.....what a sweet husband i have.

so when i started feeling better i decided to browse some pictures of temples online and i found the san diego temple! i haven't really seen many pictures of hardly any temples but the salt lake has always been my fav when it comes to outward appearances. well, this one just may be taking it's place! i've never been in either of them. i've only been in the mesa and st george temples. but someday, i will go to BOTH the salt lake AND san diego and determine which one is in 1st place. haha! is it bad to have a fav temple? hmmm.....i would think not???
AND.........DRUM ROLE PLEASE!?!?!?!?! guess who got the job at U.S. bank in st george ut? oh yes...that would be me! haha! yay! i got a call like half an hour ago. i'm excited but pretty nervous and scared at the same time. i've never had a business job before. just walmart, my dad's shop, and at the school and daycare. haha! what a list....oh well. but no real BUSINESS jobs ya know? so it will be interesting. i'll be starting...soonest, the 19th, latest, the 21st. depending on paperwork. i will go from NO benifits-to medical AND dental. i will go from $6.55-to $10 an hour. i will go from the most random schedule (sometimes 45 min days) around 20 hours a week ( i was suppose to be full time at the day care mind you.....-to 40 hour weeks! and i get to sleep in for an extra hour...putting me at work at 9 instead of 8 and getting off at 6. soooo yay for us!

well, that's pretty much it i suppose.
the end. :)

chips and salsa!

2008-11-07T18:10:00.000-08:00

so for my birthday, russ bought me a chili's gift card. so yesterday for lunch i suprised ryan at school while he was studying and snuck over. we finished just in time for us to get back to the school for his next class. anywho, the main thought of the post is chili's chips and salsa are THE BOMB!!! sooooo dang good! love it! a whole bag and container of salsa is around $3. mmmm.....anywho, if you have a chili's close. go get some!

tagged

2008-11-07T17:45:00.000-08:00

8 Things Tag
8 Favorite TV shows: (in no particular order)
1. will and grace
2. still standing
3. reba
4. The Office
5. rugrats
6. saturday night live
7. What Not to Wear
8. next top model

8 Things I did yesterday:
1. worked for 2 hours
2. job interview
3. went and saw ry at work
4. got groceries
5. cleaned
6. folded laundry
7. cleaned my fish's bowl

8. things i look forward to:
1. Christmas
2. thanksgiving
3. Seeing my family in thatcher!
4. Having kids... someday.
5. cleaning out the spair room
6. getting a new president
7. losing weight
8. going on another cruise

8 Favorite restaurants:
1. lucky buffet
2. chili's
3. china buffet
4. taco taste
5. chalo's
6. my mommies food!
7. arbys
8. jack in the box

8 Things on my wish list:
1. camera
2. car! this won't be for years but the want is still there
3. a house
4. a baby!
5. our tv to get fixed
6. more time for scrapbooking, painting, drawing and so on
7. our own piano
8. lose 15 to 20 lbs

8 people I tag:
1. Heather
2. amy
3. resa
4. Nicole
5. Brooke
6. Cami
7. stacy
8. amanda

lately

2008-11-07T17:14:00.000-08:00

hey everybody! so this is my new hair do! haha! yay! i put brown and red in it. never gone this dark before but i got daring and decided, what the heck, might as well. i like it alot and it makes me not look so pale and pasty white. anywho, here's some pics of me sportin my new do and, as always, being goofy.

on another note, the other day tonya and i went grocery shopping. she lives in the complex right next to mine, she just moved, and so now is within walking distance. well when we got back from shopping, she showed me the little path she took to get to our place and her whole apartment was lined with pomegranites! yay! so i grabbed about 5 and they didn't look that good at first. but when i busted one open, they were the deepest ruby red and great! yay!

...on another note, haha! i realized i never posted a pic of the pizza and cake i got for my birthday. yummy!! so here is the scrum-dilly-umtious pizza and cake! and us of course! haha! russ made the cake, turtle cake, and this is it only half way done but it looked cooler this way. haha!

and....a while back ry got this SWEET mp3 player from his thoughtful daddy. it's pretty sweet, and i must say i'm jealous. but i don't know if i'd really ever use one if i even had one. so no worries. this is him playing with it and lovin it!

and last but not least, a while back i applied at u.s. bank and 2 days later....i got a call for an interview! the next day i went in. the day before yesterday i got a second call saying i'm seriously being considered and would i go in for a second interview. heck ya! so i went in yesterday and i think it went really well! especially considering that i have absolutely no experience as a teller or in banking at all. hooray! so hopefully, i'll get a 3rd call soon. allen, our friend that is the branch manager (i also have connections...haha!), said that i would be starting at $10 or $11 an hour and i'd get medical and dental. AND for every 3 months we make 22 referals to start an account we get a bonus. so cross your fingers!

well, i guess that's it for tonight. have a good one everybody! love you all!

Lissa and fam

2008-11-02T20:20:00.000-08:00

So here's the most recent pictures of Lissa Brielle and some of her awesome big sis, Teesa Zabrina. They are just two peas in a pod and both seem SOOO happy! I love that they get to be sisters and grow up with everything they need, mainly two loving parents who are strong in the gospel. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU Fred and Amy for all that you do for these precious little angels. They are more than any parent could ever ask for and I'm so grateful that you get to be their parents, friends, and guardian angels. I'm sure I speak for Amanda and myself when I say we just couldn't thank you enough for all that you do for these girls. You are the best! and I hope that one day, Ryan and I can be just like you. We all love you and you're family so much! Give Lissa a hug and kiss for me and tell her I love her and miss her with all my heart. Can't wait to hear from you in a couple months.

birthday/halloween

2008-11-02T19:31:00.000-08:00

My Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEEEEE!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOOOO MEEEEEE!! HAPPY BIIIIIRRRRRTHDAAAAY TOOOOOO MEEEE...EEEEE!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!!! YAY! HAHA! so ya, if ya didn't know~today was my birthday. and it was WAY fun. well we kinda started celebrating last night and we will tomorrow too but ya! here's some crazy pictures of me when i got a wee bit bored yesterday waiting for ry to finish up homework so we could go to town and play. haha! i think i was having a bit too much fun but it was worth it. haha!

AND HERE.........is part of my birthday present!!! yay! i got a cute lil fishy. i don't know it's name yet but i love it. my brother, jared, suggested the name RED. haha! i'm considering it but we'll see. so this lil new friend of mine has personality and i love it! haha! it follows my finger along the glass and its hilarious. also, when i feed it, i'll blow on the water so the food moves in circles and the fish will concentrate on one big piece and follow it as i blow the water. haha! so funny. the other part of my birthday was an early present which was the sweet pink robe that i've posted before. we had papa murpheys today, which we bought yesterday, and russ came over and made turtle cake and we ate that with icecream and watched a movie. woohoo! great day! ry was gonna make me breakfast in bed but i said cereal sounded fantastic.

Work/Halloween

so the little one on the left is a doll, tristan, and he was dressed as a lion for halloween and he was to die for! he took it off and i took of the slip of the dress i was wearing because it was warm and itchy and he was having fun just playing with it. haha! then there's ivan, on the right, and oh my goodness! i absolutely LOVE this kid! he seriously is one of my favs at the daycare. haha! i know i shouldn't have favorites but i just cant help myself. his costume was FREAKIN ADORABLE. little rebel...and then there's devin, aaahhhh....he's about 7 months old and soooo precious. that's jennifer holding him. she's gonna be working for a month there. she has Cerebral palsy. she's a way cool girl but ya!

and this was the murder mystery party i went to. me and ry were suppose to be italians who owned a winery. i had no clue how to dress...haha! oh well, it was fun. oh! and i HAVE to tell this story...the guy in the blue suit was choking on a piece of bread, well he got up and went to the kitchen trying to cough it up and it just got lodged more. he couldn't breath and was trying to do the hymlic (spelling?) on himself. someone finally noticed and ran over to help him. they did the hymlic on him and he finally spit it out. SCARY! anywho...rob (far right) ended up being the murder. half of them thought it was me...how rude. i'm innocent!! haha! anywho it was fun and the food was FANTASTIC! yummm.....they had huge rolls hollowed out like bowls and soup to put in it along with salads and we brought veggie trays and candy. mmmm.....

work crisis...

2008-10-20T09:58:00.000-07:00

so...work at the daycare the last week has been WAAAYYY too slow. it went from an average of 80-90 kids a day to about 35 a day. The daycare director informed me this morning that she's most likely going to have to lay some people off. I'm GUESSING i'm one of them. i'm just kind of a run around there. they throw me where ever i'm needed. which has been home lately. i only worked an hour and a half friday...and an hour today. AAAHHHH! soooo....i'm job searching. before they lay me off for good. if you live in st george, and you know of anyone hiring, i'd greatly appreciate the help. i've contacted 2 families looking for a nanny and one business looking for someone to do data entry/typing. no banks are hiring that i've found and that's about all i've come up with for the 2 hours since i got off this morning. anywho...i'm gonna get back to looking. thanks for the help! love you all!

my first trail...:$

2008-10-17T12:44:00.000-07:00

so ryan did his first post yesterday! yay for ryan! haha! i know the robe is totally cheesy but i swear, that thing is the most comfortable article of clothing i have EVER owned! L.O.V.E it! haha! anyway, a few weeks ago ry and i went on a bike ride. but not just any bike ride, oh no...mountain biking! AHH!! doesn't sound like a big deal, but for me....i hadn't riden a bike since i was like 15...or younger. AND this bike is way heavy and a little big for me. doesn't shift worth beans and i was riding in soft sand, over tons of rocks, down hill way too fast!, and up hill way too slow. haha! it was way fun don't get me wrong, just quite an adventure for my first time on a trail. anyhow, we didn't get any pics really ON the trail, because i was trying not to fall of my bike. haha! but here's some in the parking lot at the trail head.

no, he is not peeing on the tire. haha! i love this pic...as you can imagine, ryan does not. :)

me in all my glory! haha!

aww....ry is so cute

i was a little wobaly in this pic. can ya tell by the look on my face?

i think that bumpy ride knocked a few screws loose...oh wait. we were like this before too. haha! have a great day everybody!

2008-10-16T18:42:00.000-07:00

This is the hot new robe that i bought Melissa for an early Birthday present. She has been wanting one since the cruise. It kind of looked like a grandma robe, but she wears it nicely. I hope Melissa doesn't mind if i wear it to get the mail. Ha ha ha!!!

OUR 6 MONTHS TOGETHER!

2008-10-04T16:57:00.000-07:00

so i'm finally doing the post that i said i would do a week ago for me and ry's 6 month anniversary mark. yay!!! haha! it's gone by so fast yet at the same time it seems we've been married 5 years. (in a good way) haha! i promise. so last monday for our amazing 6 months we first went out to eat at applebee's and let me tell you...i absolutely LOVE applebee's but this time....was soooo much better than usual! seriously, i got ribs and mashed potatoes and they were scrum-dilly-umptious! it was the smaller basket for cheaper and it was only about $8 yet it filled me. but not to the point i was miserable...you know how it is when you go out to eat somewhere delicious and you always eat more than you can stand cuz it's just so dang good. it was pretty messy being ribs but it was so worth it. mmm....

after dinner~ we went on a drive up this hill because i wanted to look at these GIGANTIC houses and they were so amazing! i don't like wishing and dreaming they were mine...or i had one like it or anything like that...i'd never want to clean the dang thing. haha! but i just think they're fasinating and i can't believe how big and beautiful they are...

on the way home we stopped at frost-stop...or frost-top...or something like that. haha! i love there ice cream and i was so glad my meal was perfect and i had room for dessert too. at the ice cream place there was a claw machine and i was in such a good mood i asked ry if i could pretty please play it with the change i had left from ice cream and he, of course, says i don't care sure...haha! so i look for the stuffed animal that will be the easiest to get, i'm REALLY good at these by the way, (me and my cuz use to go to denny's late all the time and i'd play the claw machine there like every time and win something. i had a TON of stuffed animals that i had to end up giving to the DI.) ANYWHO, 3rd times a charm and i won an ugly orange teddy bear with a skull and crossbones on the chest. hahaha! it was pretty sweet.

so...on our way home once again and ry has an idea. russ, his twin brother, is at a church dance. so what do we do?? we go tag his car! ya! haha! we snuck over to his car laughing and whispering like little kids and wrote with window paint all over his windows and left my lovely teddy bear prize on his window. haha! it was great fun....especially playing stupid when we got a call later that night. when we got home we got ready for bed and cuddled. perfect end to a perfect night. loved it....

wow! haha! so this was us 2 years ago around the time we met. we look so little! and my hair was so short! LOVE LOVE LOVE this picthis was us in vegas on a double date at the cheesecake factory. we later met up with some more of our friends and had a blast! us at the bowling alley. anytime anyone got a strike they had to "ride the bull" hahaha! this consisted of getting on the middle thing where the balls come up and yeehawing pretending like you are on a bull, with the arm in the air like you have a rope about to lasso something. i refused everytime...this one is priceless...we went to a friends for game night, was not planned at all, but i wore my cousin's shirt (give me some love) and ry wore his shirt, (i'm a lover not a fighter) it was fate i must say...everyone thought it was planned and thought it funny when they found out it wasn't. so of course a pic HAD to be taken this pic was taken at my brother, jared's, graduation at nau in flagstaff. i was so excited ry came down to visit while i was there. flag is halfway between thatcher ( where i was living at the time ) and st george.

same place same time. sooo happy!

us in all of our crazy-ness while dating and engaged. yay! if ya couldn't tell i finally figured out how to do the collage!!! i'm soooo excited!

AND.....us HAPPILY married! hooray! it really has gone by so fast and i absolutely can't wait for the rest of forever! it's going to be such an adventure and i'm so excited and full of love and joy and thankfulness i get to spend it with the most wonderful person in the world! I LOVE YOU RYAN!

some of our fun cute wedding pics...

i don't think i ever posted these before but this is us at the dinner party! i was so nervous he was gonna shove the cake in my face. he kept pretending like he was going to and i just kept bending further and further backwards! haha! these are the only pictures i have of it so if anyone else has any i would be so grateful if you'd send them my way...

anyway, this is the largest most informative post i've ever done. i hope you liked it! haha! i need to be more informative more often when it comes to these, maybe not so long though. sorry!

LOVE YOU ALL!

appitizer before the main course

2008-10-01T10:18:00.000-07:00

k...so i'm working on a post that i wish i could have done monday (me and ry's 6th month mark!) yay! BUT...that day was JAM PACKED! and so was yesterday...so i'm hoping later today when i get off work i'll get around to it. i feel like such a slacker. but i will catch up and there's tons that we did monday! it was sooo much fun! and i can't wait to tell you all. till then here's some pics of ry playing his sweet guitar! ;) he's the best!

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here comes summer!

Merry Christmas!!!

ATTN: PEEPS! ;)

fam pics!

growing up

summer bug update.

yesterday...

easter rewind.

zions hike

party!!!

HAPPY HAPPY.....

catch up time/cheesy anniversary

1 WHOLE YEAR ALREADY?! somebody pinch me...

Once upon a time, 4 not so long years ago....

Twin Baby Boys Have In-Depth Discussion

What About Our Girls? Childhood Cut Short

a quick summer update. :)

not ryan, not summer, just selfish ol' ME

love this girl!

christmas pics FINALLY

yikes...

summer....

Family pics!

thatcher!!!

The Many Faces of Summer

day at the park.

here we go...

6 months :)

some more summer

precious princess

oye...

BIG NEWS!!! :)

conclusion to sears

happy baby

I HATE SEARS!!!! with a passion

my angry story + cute pics!

summer summer summer.

sweet lil summer...:)

little roley poley

A BIT ABOUT

"THE STORY"

guess who's here?!

baby update!!!

Happy 100th post! AND......

can't sleep!

I have the best hubby ever! 2 years and counting. :)

32 week belly shots. woot!

nursery thus far

the shower!

logan drive

31 weeks and more

keep your doors locked!

our little mini me! haha!

between 24 and 25 weeks.

christmas...haha! just a little late.

falalalala...lala...la....laaaaa

20+weeks! in a swim suit!

school/finals

and so it begins...

IT'S A GIRL!!!

ultrasound is scheduled!

complaining session...watch out.

16 week pic.

cooking/baby....

update...

12 weeks and 1 day.

a month or so ago...

so much to tell

getting so big!

angels landing!

finally...

be prepared....

i miss you princess...

camping

oh children. haha!

random

happy birthday...

major overload...

just thinking about...

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