November

This month has been completely crazy for us. I started school again at the end of Sept. I'm just doing it online and I'm only taking 1 class at a time right now but that one class is very difficult with an 8 month old who needs contast attention and a daddy who is ALWAYS at work. Zac has been working insane amount of hours.... Like 50 hours of overtime a week. Yes that is a 90 hour work week for him. So I haven't had much time to spend on the computer updating...... But I'm gonna give it go.......
Alexis is now 8 months old.

Alexis sure does have some personailty!!!! She knows what she wants and what she doesn't and she let EVERYONE know!!!!! She says "mamma" when she feels like it. She also holds conversations with everything. She loves yelling and hearing her own voice. She also thinks she should be able to get into everything!!!! She's quite the handful. But she is so adorable!!!!

So it turned cold. FAST!!!!! It's also started snowing but then it all melts. The wind in Wyoming is miserable! So whenever we go anywhere I have to bundle Alexis up and she does not like that at all. She also hates the wind blowing on her. So taking her out in the cold can be very difficult sometimes.

We have a sliding glass that leads out to our patio. Alexis loves looking out it. And most of the time she is licking it too. Whenever her dad goes out the door she is right there watching him. It's the funniest thing to watch.



My mom, Steffanie, and Jordan all came out to visit. It was so great to see my family. While they were here we decided to run over to Mt Rushmore; which wasn't our smartest idea. It started snowing on us while we there and it was a pretty bad drive back home. Oh well it was good to spend time with them and Alexis was actually really good in the car!! YAY!

My mom bought Alexis a walker. She loves that thing. On her first try she didn't even hesitate. She knew exactly what she was suppose to do with it.

She is going to be walking pretty soon. She just needs to learn how to keep her balance and I don't think anything with stop her. She does great when someone is holding her hands and she walks. It's just a matter of time.......

Thanksgiving was just a couple of days ago. Since Zac is working so much and he only had Thursday off we just stayed home. Zac was just lazy the whole day and spent time with Allie. I cooked Thanksgiving dinner....... It was an adventure to say the least...... Alexis loved the mashed potatoes and gravy though. She just kept eating.......

My littly girl so smart. She loves reading her books. And yes she actually reads them. Or yells at them. One of the 2!!!! I love watching her when she does it because she is so intent and loves looking at the pictures. 

Well I'm mostly caught up!!!! I know the next month isn't going to be any easier. Especially since we'll be back in Utah in 2 weeks!!! We're just going to visit for the holidays but I'm pretty excited to be back. I have missed it!!!! So I'll try to keep everyone updated on her first Christmas!!!!



Lame... I know!

Ok so this is just random but......
I have loved vampire stories for, well as long as I can remember. I read them in high school ya know, before Twilight made vampires cool...... So when Twilight first came out I read them and hated them. I hated that Bella was such a whiny crybaby about Edward. I just didn't like how she devoted her whole life to him and just him and that she led Jacob on. So I read them again a couple of years later. I still had a problem with them but I didn't hate them. I liked the story just not Bella.... So when they released the movie I just didn't really care. Plus I HATE Kristen Stewart. She's just one of those actresses that drive me nuts. So I never watched the movies. And then Twilight Mania hit and people were going crazy about Edward... Blah.Blah.Blah.
So I'm sitting alone at the house (because is working another Sunday- Yep thats 21 straight days of him working) and the Twilight movies are on. Since it was Sunday and nothing else was on I watched.... And I guess I was wrong. Kristen Stewart was the perfect actress to play Bella. They both annoy me still but oh well. And the movies have taught me that I am so... TEAM JACOB!!!! I still stand by that!!! Plus he's hot(yes I know hes younger than me... Doesn't matter!!!!)
Now I can't believe I'm admitting this but I wanna see Breaking Dawn now. God, I've been sucked into the madness!! Blah...........

October

Here we are again.... Allie is now 7 months old!!!!

This month has been pretty calm. We haven't done too much. Alexis has learned to crawl!!!!! She is a little mover and is getting hard to keep up with. From the time she started to her fully crawling was maybe a week. Once she figures something out she runs away with it.

She loves getting into everything she shouldn't be getting in. One of her favorite things to get into is the Blu-Rays.......

So I am a girl and I'm teaching her to be one too... Yeah you can never be too young......

Now that it is football season we had to put her in her dad's team!!!!

We have slowly been introducing new foods to her. She loves eating her cookies every day. We have to take off her clothes because she makes SUCH A MESS!!!!

Now that she has crawling down she is learning to pull herself up. She only does it on me and her dad though.

And just because this is one of my favorite pictures of her. Helping mamma with the laundry.

We went to Mount Rushmore and Bear Country yesterday so I have tons and tons of pictures to post but I haven't uploaded them yet and it's gonna have to wait for another day because Alexis is yelling that she needs her mom so............. Bye!

September!!!!!

My lil Allie is 6 MOTNHS!!!

I can not believe that she has been with us for half a year!!!! At times I think its insane that this is my life now!!!!! We are getting along nicely in Wyoming. We've had our problems but for the most part we are settling in. We just got back from our trip to Utah. We went out for 10 days. We had so many things we had to do! We went to 2 of Jordan's football games.

Watching the game

Go Riverton!!!!!

Baby girl and me



He is such an amazing lil football player!!!

We celebrated Grandma, Stevin, Steffanie, and Jordan's birthday!

Grandma's big present

Jordan got an Ipod... finally......

I can't believe the twins are 21!

Crazy Stevin

Steffi's funny birthday card!!!

We went to Price and visited Zac's family. It was great to be able to spend some time with them since we won't be back til Christmas. We also had Alexis 6 month check up. Which went perfect! She is 15 lbs 6 oz and 26 inches long. Now for me to brag about my baby...... She has been sitting up all by herself all month long.

She is also moving everywhere. She rolls and scoots herself all over the floor. She is also starting to push herself on her knees. So she's gonna be crawling soon. Which I'm not sure if I'm happy for or not!

Late again......

yep i am doing this late again... but its because today is the first day weve had internet since we moved up here!!!! alexis is now 5 months old!!!

this past month has been pretty busy. we have been trying to spend as much time with family as we could before we left. we spent a weekend in price/ at the cabin. When we were in price alexis was able to meet her great Yia-Yia.

we also made a trip to vernal this month. it was great to spend some time with gigi and alexis was able to meet her great grandpa

gigi, Steffanie, and alexis at grandpa's grave

alexis was able to watch some of the fireworks we set off in front of the house. she sat with grandma and stayed nice and bunndle up.

uncle stevin got a new dog, sam and alexis LOVES him. she just loved sitting and watching him. i think that means she needs a puppy but her daddy doesnt exactly agree with me right now......

so the day before she turned 5 months old we came to gillette. since we have such wonderful family that brought all of our things up, alexis and i were able to fly out here. it was alexis first plane flight and i've only been on a plane a couple of times so i was pretty nervous. alexis did great though. she slept almost the whole time and then entertained the other passengers when she was awake.

Saying goodbye to uncle stevin

saying goodbye to aunt steffi

saying goodbye to uncle jordan

saying goodbye to grandma

at the airport really saying goodbye to grandma

on the plane

finally with daddy again!!!!!!!

we're now just trying to get settled and get back on a schedule so it can be ruined when we go back to utah in 2 weeks!!! oh well!!!

It's that time......

So we knew that this would happen... I just kept hoping it wasn't going to happen soon. But Zac has gotten transferred. He left to Gillette, Wyoming 2 weeks and 6 days ago! Alexis and I have been staying at my mom's house and visiting everyone before we leave. Which is gonna be in 3 days, we fly out on Saturday. I'm so excited to see Zac again this is the longest time we have been apart. Plus I really don't like Alexis being apart from her daddy. It's gonna be way nice to be able to get back onto a schedule. So I guess its goodbye Utah... Hello Wyoming???????

Aww SOOO much!!!!!

Ok... Ok.... Ok.... I know I'm so horrible about writing on here. Now that Alexis is getting older and can hang out alone more I am getting better at getting things done. This is going to become a priority.... I hope!!!! Anyway I have so much to tell! Since I missed it I'll start with Alexis' @ 3 months old.

She turned 3 months on June 14. Since Utah has such awesome weather..... It was nothing but raining and generally crappy weather the whole beginning of the month. So we had to spend most of the time in the house. She is getting a lot more vocal and "talks" all the time. She's also starting to get better at being alone on the floor. Which gives me a little bit more time to do other things than just hold her!!!! She is so social also. She loves smiling at people. We also had a family member's baby shower that we attended. We finally got our 5 generation picture taken.....

Mom, Grandma Linda, Grandpa Curtis, Alexis and me

We also had our family pictures taken for Mother's Day. Alexis was having a horrible day and while she was good during the shoot she wasn't the happiest. I guess the joys of having a 2 1/2 month old. While we've had a couple of snags and still havent recieved them here is a preview of more to come.....

Ok now we can move on to 4 months. This past month has been quite the wirlwind for us. We have been to Price twice and are planning 2 more weekends..... It also finally started warming up and ITS FINALLY SUMMER IN UTAH!!!!! I'm so excited. We have been able to have lots of firsts with Alexis.....

First time swimming! She didn't like it at all!

First time camping. Hanging out with YiaYia

First time at the cabin. Allie and Gigi around the fire.

Uncle Stevin making her laugh.

Big smiles with Papa.

Snuggled up nice and warm in the  new blanket Gigi made Alexis.

Alexis is now 4 months old!!!! She has been so busy lately. She is finally taking a pacifier. We found a brand she likes and its the only ones that she will take. As much as I hate them they have made things a little easier. She also taught herself how to roll from her back to her stomach. She rarely stays on her back now. She also is trying so hard to sit up by herself. She still kinda has a round bottom and topples over pretty easily.

Wow!!! Thats a whole of life to catch up on. Hopefully I never have to do it again like this....