Fun with family!!

We have been playing with lots of our family this week. My sister Jessica's kids came and stayed with us for a few days. Regie loved having them around. On Wednesday we had a little picnic. Nothing like a spring day and Dairy Queen hamburgers to make a person happy!!! (By the way, I am so glad Spring has come around for a few days!!) Here are the pictures from our picnic!!!

What a fun pair these two are!!

This girl was enjoying her french fries and dip. Maybe more dip than fries, but she was sure happy!!

Love this picture!!!!!!

A couple of monkeys!

She loves swings!!!


On Wednesday night we met up with Gary's brother and sister-in-law. They were staying in a hotel here in Twin and they invited us over to go swimming in the pool. Here is Regie girl in her new swimming suit.
She was combing her hair. She is wearing a cute little cover over her swimming suit! I love Target!!!

Here is Laeni girl in her swimming suit.
Love the big smile!!!
She hasn't been in a swimming pool for a very long time, so I wasn't sure if she would enjoy it or not? Lets just say that she loved it!!!! Once we got the little floaters on her she wanted us to let her go so she could swim! And she would. More floating I guess but she loved doing it by herself. She had to be reminded a couple of time to keep her mouth closed, but she would just float and swim like a little frog. I can't wait to take her swimming again!!!

Gary has never swam with us before. He just doesn't love the water. Well he totally surprised us. I didn't even know that he packed a swimming suit! It was the best surprise ever! Regie and I were just playing when all of a sudden Gary climbed in the pool. It made my day! And Regie was so very excited! She was such a daddies girl! She wanted to be right by him. It was so much fun!!!! I am so glad that he joined us! Nothing is better than playing with your family!!!


Here is Jake, Toni, and Laeni! We had so much fun playing with them!!! Thanks again guys! We loved it!


This weekend we headed off to Burley to celebrate my Dad's birthday! I was suppose to work both Saturday and Sunday, so on Friday night we had an early celebration. Here is Regie girl coloring right before we left. I had to add these because I thought they were so cute! She gets so into it. What a sweet girl!!

Here are two of my most favorite guys ever!!!
She loves riding the horse at Grandma and Grandpa's house! She is starting to get brave on it.
I made some cupcakes for my Dad, and Regie picked out the candles. Here he is about to blow it out.
He got some help!
We were missing some grand kids, but this was sure a fun evening.
Happy Birthday Dad! I hope you had a great day! We love you very much!!!

Weekend Alone

Well this weekend ended up very differently than I had expected. I was suppose to work (precept) on both Friday and Saturday, so Gary and Regie decided to head out of town for the weekend!! Well, plans changed. I went in on Friday and both my precepting nurse and I were sick. So they sent us home. Gary was still planning on going and I almost joined him but we decided it was smarter for me to work on Saturday so that I only had two more days left in my preceptorship. So trying to be an adult I let my family drive away with out me. I went grocery shopping and I relaxed, and maybe I even pouted a little. Well that night my nurse called and said that she wasn't going to go in on Saturday either. Now, I am not sure if it is because I am such a family person, or that I am pregnant, but I got very sad. I could have went with my family. After calling Gary and having him laugh at his emotional pregnant wife, I decided I was going to do something fun and productive the rest of my weekend alone. So I woke up on Saturday (after sleeping in) and I cut up some fruit to dehydrate.

They turned out really yummy! I also played with pictures and sent some to Costco. Can you believe that this is my Regie girl when she was just a couple of weeks old. I wonder if her little sister will look anything like her?I also started working on a special project for Regie's room. I and not done yet, but here is a sneak peak. (It won't mean anything to you yet, but I am sure excited!!)

I finally started to enjoy my weekend alone. Even though I missed my family very much!! I also got my entire house cleaned (vacuumed, dusted, moped, and all!) So even though my weekend turned out differently than expected, I ended up being very productive! My family got back Sunday afternoon and I couldn't love on them enough!!!

For other news, I am offically under then 100 day mark for my pregnancy! YEAH!! The baby will be here in no time!! I can't wait!!!

Organization!!!

Well, the last two days I have been doing some major organizing! With help of course! Regie and Gary both helped out. It all started when I realized Regie's recent growth spurt made alot of her clothes too small very quickly. (Even her recent Christmas and Birthday clothes!) I got to looking around and she had only a hand full of clothes left that fit. But you couldn't tell with the large amount of clothes she had in her closet. So that is when I decided to put some away in storage. (I also did some shopping! I am proud to say that I bargain shopped! Between Target and Old Navy I bought her 11 shirts, 1 pair of pants, 2 pj bottoms, 1 wind outfit for $80. I was so excited!!!) Anyway, back to organizing! Here is what her old closet looked like. A couple of the outfits are for her new little sister, but everything else was clothes that no longer fit.

It was sad to go through it all! There were tons of cute things that she just didn't get to wear very much because she went from a 18-24 month to 3T in a matter of 3-4 months. Which is a pretty fast growth for her. I had bought all 2T for her birthday and Christmas. My little girl is growing too fast!!!

Here was my helper through out day one! Hiding in her favorite spot in the closet.

And playing on the top bunk!! She loves being up there!! She got up there and asked for a pillow and a blanket. It didn't last very long though! She had too much playing that needed to be done!

Here is all of the clothes that no longer fits my sweet girl!! Some of it has been well used, but most of it will be put away for the little one on the way.
All the hangers left over!
In Regie's new room, we haven't really used her closet for clothes yet. We kept them in her old room or in the laundry room on the rack. But I decided it was time to put this closet to better use! So here is the before.

Before I get to the after, I had to add a few pictures of our afternoon today. We actually played outside for a few minutes! Regie loved it! I have to say that I really loved it too!! I am so sick of being stuck in the house all day every day!! I can't wait for Spring and Summer!!!

I love this picture, she told me her hands were cold. So we started our way back in.

After we got back in (and warmed up)we finished Regie's room and closet! We even cleaned out her toy box! There were so many baby toys and things that she never used that she couldn't even see what she had in there!! But that is all fixed now!! Here is Daddy with his helper!!!

Here are the baby toys that we moved out of Regie's room and we will put them in the little ones room!!! (Fun toys, and I am sure Regie will still play with them, but it was time!)

Here is the finished project!!! YEAH for organization, and team work!!! I love it! I still want to do some more decorating in her room, but as for now, her room is organized and she now can play with all her toys!! (And I have a place to put them all away!!) By the way, I got the purple tubs and the three high storage thing at Target on sale!!! The clear tubs I got in January, but I bought them at Home Depot for a dollar each.

I have also come to realize that this baby will be here very soon, and we are not at all ready! Well, we are ready for her to get here for us but we don't have anything here ready for her!!! So today I got the 0-3 month clothes out from storage and washed all of them plus the new outfits we bought her. So here is all of her clothes clean and ready to be put away in her closet.

It was so fun to go through them. I remember my Regie girl wearing them. And now they look like doll clothes. I can't wait!!

Now all I need to do is buy more newborn diapers (we have one pack), buy new bottles, get blankets washed and ready, make a blanket (maybe), finish her closet organizing (half way there), get a bassinet, and I am sure that I am forgetting about a million things!!! But one day at a time!! So checking one thing off my list is pretty cool!!!

Well, I will leave you all with one last picture! Here is our daughter waiting "patiently" for me to come and play with her earlier tonight. I love the hands on the hips! She has been doing this and putting her hands in her pants pockets lately. It cracks me up! My 2 year old is turning into a teenager already!! Boy do we love her, attitude and all!

Oh, she has been feeling alot better today! She still has a mean cough, and she threw up a few times yesterday, but she is her old self again!! Thank heavens!! I missed her voice and her attitude!!!