Team Dooley

Playing at the park

2011-11-06T21:09:00.002-07:00

the girls are growing up so fast and i feel like i dont know where the last year has gone. i just wanted to post some more pictures of things we have done lately. i love abbys little personality she is so fun to have, and cali is getting to be such a little joker these days i love it. its really fun to have them in our family.

Halloween 2011

2011-11-01T13:15:00.002-06:00

We went to so many Halloween carnivals and parties that abby wanted to dress up as something different each time, originally she was going to be belle the whole time but when she wanted to switch and we had all the stuff i thought why not? so those are the three she chose and cute Cali was a Care Bear thanks to Holly. We had a great Halloween and love that its warm enough here that we can wear the costumes and not have to cover them up with a coat.

Hiking up South Mountain

2011-11-01T13:11:00.001-06:00

So we live in Tempe Arizona and have lived her for 6 months and have just recently realized we live right next to some great hiking trails. So we have been taking advantage ever since.

trip to vegas

2011-11-01T13:08:00.001-06:00

We went to Vegas a few weeks ago to buy a truck from Jeffs parents (we sold our Jeep) so we decided to take the girls to see Freemont Street to see the light show and all the fun dressed up people there and they loved it. The picture on the top of Abby is my absolute favorite, i love that little girl.

Mexico in a day (this is for you Sarah)

2011-08-01T22:17:00.002-06:00

So Saturday night comes along and my cousin Sarah ( in all the pictures above ) says to me and Jeff that she has never been outside the U.S. and so Jeff tells her thats its like 3 hours away to Mexico and we should go, so we decide to pack up and make a day trip out of it on Sunday. So we woke up early got everything ready and drove to Mexico. We spent a lot of time on the beach and that was awesome, it was really warm and just fun. Then we did a little shopping where Sarah got some glasses she has been wanting and then headed back home. It was spontaneous and just really fun. Sarah is moving in a couple of weeks and we are really going to miss having her here and being our "nanny".

Celebrating 24th of July

2011-07-28T10:04:00.000-06:00

24th of July in Snow Flake Arizona

2011-07-28T09:54:00.004-06:00

This year we wanted to actually celebrate 24th of July because its not really celebrated in many places here in Arizona, but it is in Snow Flake We have some friends who have a house close to there so we all went up and celebrated there. We had a parade in the morning, then a fair and then a rodeo and fireworks. Abby told me during the fireworks that they are better there than on tv (we have to watch them on tv for the 4th of July cause its just to hot) It was so nice to go somewhere a little cooler and to spend time doing things that we used to always do in Utah. It was a great weekend.

Baseball game

2011-07-28T08:28:00.002-06:00

At the library this summer they had a program where if the kids read everyday they got free stuff, so abby got us free tickets to a D-backs game and it was so fun. Cali even sat through the whole thing.

mini photo shoot

2011-06-22T16:23:00.002-06:00

we were very bored yesterday so i got the camera out and decided to just take pictures. they grow so fast so i just love to take pictures, and this is what came of our little mini photo shoot yesterday.

just a day with the girls

2011-06-17T17:29:00.002-06:00

this is my life, and i love it! these girls are pretty much how i spend all day every day. I always say that if i could pay someone to just talk to abby all day then my day would be a little easier. She loves and i mean loves to talk, thats all she does. Jeff tries to play the quiet game with her but she just says she always looses and gives up on it. but i love her for it anyway. cali is just amazing, the best baby ever, i always say that too but its true. anyone who spends time with her knows she is the best (except when she is sick, and then i might not say that) but i love these girls with all of my heart and am so thankful everyday for them in my life.

Abbys first dance recital

2011-06-17T17:04:00.002-06:00

So abby has been taking dance for a year now, ever since we moved to arizona and she had her first dance recital last saturday, it didnt go as planned. she was suppose to be there early to practice and then the parents go into the gym and each class does their little number and then the whole group of girls do one song together, well who knows what happened but abby never came out with her class so she only did the whole group number and thats all the pictures are from. im sad because she had worked so hard for it but oh well i guess, she still had fun and looked super cute!

jeff is 30!!!!!!

2011-06-17T16:45:00.002-06:00

Well Jeff is the Big 30! He was not excited about it but we celebrated it anyway. We just had a few people over for dinner and cake and ice cream and then we played some minute to win it games. we had a lot of fun. I have just started making cakes and this is what i came up with for jeffs birthday! then the next night we had our awesome cousin sarah watch the girls and we got to spend a much needed night away (minutes away, but still away) so thats pretty much all we did but it was a great weekend.

campint (kind of)

2011-06-02T20:51:00.002-06:00

so i started blogging the other night and only half of my blog was published, and i have been trying ever since to get the rest back up but its not working. so you dont get all the pictures from our fun weekend. We went camping with some friends but ended up not being able to because it was way to windy, our tent was blowing away so our friends have a ranch where we were camping and we stayed there. i was excited to camp cause it gets a little hot here in the desert but it was just nice to be outdoors again.

2011-05-31T22:32:00.001-06:00

bowling

2011-05-31T22:24:00.003-06:00

You just have to love this little girl. Abby has so much personality i love it. We got a coupon in the mail for bowling and decided to do that for family night a few weeks ago. Abby loved it. She loved picking out her own ball and throwing it down by herself but it would take so long to get down to the pins that she lost interest. We had a lot of fun.

Love of my life

2011-05-02T09:43:00.002-06:00

Just to set the story straight THIS is the love of my life. i dont know what i would do in this life (or the next) without this guy. I love him with all of my heart and would love to be with him above ALL other people! I just dont say it or show it enough but its true, he is the best husband a girl could ask for and the best dad that i could have asked for for my children. I love you so much Jeffrey Ryan!

Does she need her big sister?

2011-04-30T08:37:00.002-06:00

Abby is such i a good little helper. If Cali is ever crying she asks me "does she need her big sister" and i tell her yes and she will go over to Cali and give her toys or talk to her or try to make her laugh. Its the best thing. These are just some of the random pictures i have taken in the last couple months.

Easter Time

2011-04-25T07:32:00.003-06:00

well its been a while since i was able to post anything, but i think we have internet again and hopefully i can be good at posting again. i might post pictures of what we have been doing the last few months but for now i think i am going to just start with yesterday. We love Easter! I love everything about it. We woke up and found our baskets and watched Tangled (abby got it in her basket) and then went to church and came back and had a easter egg hunt just down in the grass in our apartment complex. Abby loved it and we loved watching her. Every year i have an easter egg hunt for jeff and her and i think we all like it as much as her. My cousin Sarah was here to celebrate with us and that was fun. Then we went on a walk around the Tempe park and just enjoyed the day.

Indian Ruins

2011-02-16T20:20:00.003-07:00

Indian Ruins

2011-02-16T19:57:00.002-07:00

it wont let me upload all off my pictures at once so they will have to be just here and there but we decided to make the most of one of our last weekends here in arizona so jeff found this place we could go and see some indian ruins. it was awesome. abby even loved it. we went with all of us and my cousin sarah ( we dont really go anywhere without her here in arizona ) we just love her. anyway, we went to two different places and saw some pretty awesome stuff, i just wish they would have let us go up and actually go into them but they are still cool from a distance.

nothing better than these girls

2010-12-23T19:10:00.001-07:00

I love these girls so much. I thought it would be hard to have a family of girls and yes at times it really is but i wouldnt trade it for the world. I just think that there is nothing better than these girls!

Thanksgiving in Vegas

2010-12-23T17:45:00.002-07:00

This year for Thanksgiving we met my sister Natalie and her family in vegas because its half way from both of our houses. We had a lot of fun but it doesnt feel like Thanksgiving when you eat at a super 8 motel, but its the people that we are with that make it worth it. Abby loved it, she loved seeing all the dressed up people and the m&m store and she really liked the water show. We also went to circus circus and played a bunch of games and she loved winning stuffed animals. We had a lot of fun and it was well worth the drive.

We are moving to Alaska! (and other fun pictures)

2010-12-21T07:22:00.003-07:00

Yes we are moving to alaska, its crazy i know but jeff has another great job oppertunity and we cant pass it up. So we are moving to the complete opposite of where we live now. We arent moving until feb or march so we have a couple of months to get ready, but jeff already started the job there and he just works from home and will travel there a couple of times before we get there. Im really nervous and scared but so excited, its going to be great for our family.

here are some random pictures and i didnt know the one with minnie got in there till they were done uploading so we just get another one in there.

Cali's birthday

2010-12-19T08:42:00.002-07:00

Cali was born on September 30th and weighed 7 pounds and was 19 inches. We had jeffs mom come into town and stay with abby while we were at the hospital, we went in at 5:30 am to get everything started for the c-section and they ended up having some emergency stuff and we got bumped so we had to wait an extra hour and a half but it was okay i was really nervous, and to pass time jeff made me laugh with all his poses ( hes such a great guy ) finally it was our turn and they took us into the delivery room and gave me my epidural and jeff had to wait in another room, well my epidural didnt work and i could still feel everything so they ended up having to put me completely out and jeff couldnt watch either, they went and got him to cut the cord after they got her out and then he could be with her after that until i woke back up. So it didnt got quite like i had planned it or wanted it, but at least we got our happy healthy girl here.

Cali has been such a great baby from the start, we just love her so much and are so excited to have another cute girl in our family.

Abby's 3rd birthday

2010-12-19T08:23:00.002-07:00

Back in September Abby turned three and we had so much fun. My awesome cousin Sarah lives here in Arizona with us and i dont know what i would do without her, but she came to our house for Abbys birthday and we went to Peter Pipper Pizza and Abby got to play games and get prizes and then we came home and she opened gifts and had cake and ice cream. She is absolutely in love with the color yellow. She loves it because she loves the princess Bell but the funny thing is she wont watch beuty and the beast because it scares her but she still loves Bell. So this year she just wanted a yellow birthday, yellow balloons, yellow cake, yellow presents. She is so funny but she got her yellow birthday and we had a blast. She got that hat at preschool that day and she wanted to wear it all day. I cant believe that i have a three year old and that she is so good. I love her so much and she means the world to Jeff and i.

Abbys first trip to disneyland

2010-12-18T11:55:00.002-07:00

Earlier this year we participated in the disneys give a day get a day program and got free tickets to disneyland so back in august we took abby for the first time and it was the best day of her life i think. It was so fun to see her there, she absolutely loves minnie and calls her the big big minnie and we walked around all day with her yelling big big minnie where are you. We ended up waiting in line for an hour and a half for abby to meet her and abby didnt complain once she was so excited and the picture up there is her seeing her finally after waiting all day it was priceless. I was eight months pregnant when we went so it was kind of a long day with jeff and abby going on all the rides but i wouldnt give that day up for anything. At night for the parade abby danced and sang along with all the characters and thought it was great, after being there from open to almost close abby fell asleep before we even left the grounds. I love disneyland and the fun that it brings to little kids, i think its even better than when i was a kid myself to see abby experience a lot of these things. it was a great day.

Pictures Finally

2010-12-16T08:59:00.003-07:00

these are some of my favorites, i have a million pictures that i need to post since the last time i posted some but i will just have to pick and choose some for now. these ones of cali were taken after she was first born (besides the bath one) i cant believe she is almost three months old now. and this one of abby is at cali's baby blessing and i just loved it so i had to put it in.

It's been way to long

2010-11-11T19:13:00.002-07:00

So i know that its been forever since i have blogged and its been driving me crazy, i feel like i dont have to scrapbook if i blog and since i havent been doing either i have been feeling really quilty. As soon as we got to Arizona our computer broke and we have not had one since now (thanks to Natalie and Brint) and so hopefully i can start blogging again. I dont have any pictures on the computer yet so i dont have any to post but i thought i would just write i quick note to update what we have been up to.
So Arizona is very very hot, we are finally getting some cool weather now but i thought that i was going to die there a couple of times this summer. I dont suggest being pregnant and going through a arizona summer for the first time. Things here have been good though, we have been adjusting and enjoying our time here.
Jeff is working pretty much non-stop, hes gone about 11 to 12 hours a day and he keeps very busy.
Abby has started pre-school and is taking dance and she has quite the busy schedule herself, which keeps me busy. she is loving every minute of it though. In school she has learned her pledge of leagence and it is great to hear her say it. when she gets to the part of "and to the republic" she says "and to the re chocolate" its great. She is getting so big and so smart and time has just flown by with her
Our newest addition is Cali, she was born on september 30 and is now 6 weeks old. she is great, its crazy how much you forget about a newborn so its taken me some time to freashen up on my skills. She is now just starting to smile when we look at her and she loves to be held, if she isnt sleeping she wants to be held. I will post some pictures of her soon.

So life is pretty great right now with my cute little family. I am glad to be back in the blogging world and hopefully i will get pictures up soon cause i know thats the best part about it.

2010-07-20T14:11:00.002-06:00

moving

2010-02-23T16:02:00.002-07:00

its crazy, i never thought i would be the one in my family to be moving but its true. We are moving to arizona in 2 weeks. Jeff has a great oppertunity for a job and we couldnt pass it up. its scary and exciting and i think will be a great thing for us. we have talked about wanting to move and try something new but now that its here its a little scary, but like i said exciting.

surprise 60th birthday party

2010-02-12T13:59:00.003-07:00

my dad just turned 60 yesterday and my mom wanted to give him a surprise party and i must admit it turned out great. i think he really was surprised and that doesnt happen much to him. it was fun to see everyone there and talk. i cant believe he is 60 cause that also means that we are getting older too and im just not ready for that.

birthdays at pirate island

2010-02-09T16:05:00.003-07:00

it is jakes and my dads birthday this week and natalie decided to just have the party at pirate island. it was really fun. the kids had a blast and almost the whole family was there which hasnt happened in a while so it was good to see everyone, and pirate island is a great place for birthdays.

my latest project

2010-01-28T17:48:00.003-07:00

so i have been inspired by friends to be more crafty and thanks to jeff and my sister this is my latest project. i started doing blocks for christmas gifts and loved doing them so i thought i would give a valentines one a try and this is what it turned out like. i love them!

the mall play place

2010-01-21T12:43:00.003-07:00

when you are poor you have to be creative on how to let the kids play, so we went to the play place at the mall and the kids loved it. jackie and her kids were sick so it was just natalie and me and the 2 kids. they had fun playing hide and go seek and just letting out some energy. it was a good morning.

a trip to idaho

2010-01-17T16:04:00.005-07:00

we went to jeffs grandparents house in idaho this last weekend and it was fun. we went bowling and i had to post the score just to show that not only i beat jeff but abby beat jeff, it was a good day. we spent most of the time just relaxing and playing outside a little and then on the way out we showed abby the bridge in twin falls, it was great to see them again and to spend time out there with them.

Painting with dad

2010-01-14T19:23:00.003-07:00

Jeff is pretty much the best dad that i know, he has so much patience and energy for abby. i love it. abby loves it when he comes home from work cause he needs to get energy out and shes all for that. one of their most recent projects is painting. she loves it and i think jeff might like it as much or more than her.

playing with christmas toys

2010-01-13T14:47:00.002-07:00

abby got a backpack and a big giraff for christmas but since we were in arizona she didnt get to play with them much, but she has since we have been home. i think the backpack is a little big but she loves wearing it.

christmas in arizona!

2009-12-29T15:30:00.007-07:00

christmas eve dinner at shaunas ( i wish i had a good picture of everyone)

this is what the boys did the most

abby enjoying tatums new christmas gift

joe feeding my favorite "baby grant"

christmas morning (abby was sick)

tatum and abby taking a bath together

the favorite grandchildren

we went to see the lights at the temple

abby enjoying a long road trip

going to the train park

so first of all i cant see the pictures very well when i choose wich one i want to post so some of them are blury but i couldn't delete it after i got so far into it, anyway we went to arizona for christmas this year. jeff had a couple of job interviews and we decided to stay for a warm christmas. it was awesome. i have family down there and they were all so good to us. we loved spending time down there with them i just wish i could post all the pictures and that i would have taken more.

thanks to all the farmworths for letting us intrude on your christmas and making it so much fun for us!

visiting the dooleys for christmas

2009-12-29T14:43:00.003-07:00

visiting santa

like mother like son

we got to go to arizona for christmas this year and on our way we got to go and see jeffs parents. it was great. we got to help out with a charity that jeffs dad helps with and we got to make gingerbread men and open presents that we all loved, it was just a good time. thanks dooleys for all that you did for us!

family christmas party

2009-12-15T18:57:00.003-07:00

dad and grandpa dorn and grandma farnworth eating dinner

abby not knowing what to say to santa

grandma taking her turn with santa

abby excited for her turn with santa

the girls (jackie and tiffany just happend to be twins, it was funny)

mom and dad

cute markie

so last night was the family christmas party. it was great as usual. it was at natalies house this year and we just got together and ate and did white elephant gifts and then santa came. i didnt get any good pictures of abby with santa but she actually liked it this year. last year she hated everything about santa but this year she even went running up to him to give him a hug and i just missed it on the camera.

it was great to get together with the whole family and enjoy the true meaning of christmas. we hope that everyone enjoys their holiday season and has the best christmas ever.

First snow!!

2009-12-07T19:01:00.002-07:00

we got a few inches of snow today and so we decided to get out abby's snow pants for the first time and go to my parents to play with the cousins in the snow so that she likes it, i forgot my camera for that one but when jeff came home thats what she wanted to do so we all got dressed and went out. it wasn't good packing snow so the best snow man we could make was that one that was a good 6 inches tall. it was a great night in the snow.

making gingerbread houses

2009-12-07T18:52:00.002-07:00

i must admit that we have always loved making gingerbread house's even before abby came along but its so much better with her, they house looks worse but its more fun for sure. we had my cousin mandy and her family over and natalies husband had to work so her and her kids came over for the fun too. we had a blast.

temple square lights!

2009-11-30T14:50:00.003-07:00

sunday night jeff and i took abby to see the lights at temple square, and she loved it. it was so much better than taking her last year, she seems to just love everthing about christmas this year and it makes it so much fun. i think that temple square is the best place to go look at lights. everything up there is just amazing and we had a lot of fun.

christmas at gardner village

2009-11-30T14:43:00.002-07:00

jeff and i got bored so we decided to check out the elf's at gardner village. they are really cute and its a fun free thing to do with the family so i recomend it to anyone!

decorating for christmas

2009-11-30T14:34:00.002-07:00

i love decorating for christmas! and this year so did abby. she was so funny, whenever we would get out a decoration she would get a big smile and say "oh mommy thats beautiful" and play with it until we got another one out. its great to have the house all done and the spirit of chirstmas here.

thanksgiving

2009-11-28T07:50:00.009-07:00

we did thanksgiving with my family this year at natalies, we really had a thanksgiving breakfast brunch cause ryan had to work but it was still delicious.

kenzie holding her dog rambo

abby doing what she loves

brint carving the turkey

ryan and kennedy

all the girls that were there

the best picture of dad

mom and dad

kennedy

parker

abby

ryan, tiff, parker, kennedy

seizure number 2

2009-11-20T15:01:00.003-07:00

there are more times than i can think of when abby has gotten sick and as a parent you worry about them over and over and just want the pain to go away and want everything back to normal. Abbys first seizure was in january and that was by far the scariest day of my life. i cant tell you what goes through your mind when you watch your child go through something like that, no one knows unless you experience it for yourself (which i hope you never have to) but she made it through it. they say that once a child has a febriel seizure they are more likely to have another one until they are 3-5 years. i guess there is something in our brains that stops us from having siezures when we get fevers but its not totally developed in young kids until 3-5 years. so basically i guess this might not be the last one she has, and i hate that. abby got sick on weds and weds night is when she had another seizure and luckily jeff was here at home and did most of the work. we took her to the e.r. and found out she has bronchidous and that it was another febriel seizure. i am so glad that it is over and that she is getting better. she has been so tierd and mellow and weak and last night we were playing with her doll house and she just layed down and went right to sleep. poor girl was exhausted but she looked so cute i had to take a picture of her. today she is doing better and acting a little more like the cute girl i love.

Color me mine

2009-11-15T18:31:00.002-07:00

We took abby to color me mine a couple of weeks ago and i thought it was awesome. i have herd of it before but have never been there. for those of you who dont know what it is, its just a store you go to and get to pick out something you want to paint and they have all of the paints there for you and when you are done they fire your pottery for you and its awesome. we made a plate and a bowl for a abby and i am not sure who had more fun between jeff and i or abby.

Cornbellys

2009-11-15T17:58:00.003-07:00

cornbellys at thanksgiving point was well worth it. we have never been before this year but abby loved it and we actually liked it with her. they had a lot to do to keep you busy for a long time and it was a great family night!

winters here!

2009-11-15T17:50:00.002-07:00

i love winter cause i love all the winter clothes for abby. i think the beanie look is my favorite!

st. george time!

2009-10-14T20:43:00.003-06:00

we were in vegas for the weekend for one of jeffs races and on our way home we stopped off in st. george and went to the sand dunes. at first abby was not a fan. she hates things on her feet but after some time with jeff she got more comfortable and loved it. i have to admit that i love these two more than anything.

family pictures

2009-10-14T20:32:00.002-06:00

we went to take some family pictures for natalie and her family and decided to take a couple of our own. we are going to take more family pictures once it snows but these ones are pretty cute too.

top of utah marathon

2009-09-21T20:35:00.003-06:00

so jeff and his dad ran the marathon on saturday and they did awesome. jeff finished just over 4 hours and i think thats pretty amazing. he did great. his mom, abby and i all made shirts to support. it was a pretty good day!

abbys 2nd birthday!

2009-09-21T20:21:00.002-06:00

i know that everyone is jelous of this mickey mouse cake, it is pretty awesome. jeff helped me with it so i cant take all the credit. abbys birthday party was a success even though we didn't get to have it at the park like we wanted to due to the rain. i think she just loved having so many people at our house that she knows and everyone was paying attention to her. she got some great gifts thanks to all of her friends and we all had a lot of fun. we had pizza and a pinata and just did gifts and cake and ice cream. thanks to everyone who made it a success.

kind of early but she loves the halloween costume

2009-09-08T22:09:00.002-06:00

so we just got her halloween costume at costco (super cheap) anyway she is in love with it. she wants to take it with her everywhere. she doesn't even have to be wearing it, she likes to have it by her side but i like it the best on her. she makes a pretty cute elephant.

kind of blury but still the cutest girl in the world

2009-09-02T22:44:00.000-06:00

thanksgiving point night out

2009-09-02T22:34:00.001-06:00

spending time in the canyon

2009-09-02T22:11:00.001-06:00

playing with daddy

2009-08-12T07:06:00.003-06:00

abby loves to play this game, all she does is go and hit jeff in the buns and then he turns around and tries to catch her and she comes running to me screaming, shes so cute doing it and i love her face so i had to take pictures.

a day with the girls

2009-08-11T20:55:00.005-06:00

today we went with my sisters to ikea and then lunch at the park. abby loves the park but she HATES having sand and rocks in her shoes, so it was a long day at the park. but it was really fun to get out and play with the cousins.

Birthday bowling

2009-08-11T20:20:00.006-06:00

so my grandpa and i share the same birthday and we always choose a fun activity to do and this year was bowling. my grandpa is an amazing bowler and abby isn't so bad herself (thanks to the little kid helper) we all had so much fun.

saturday night with grandma and grandpa

2009-07-11T23:07:00.002-06:00

jeff went out for a guys night of watching fighting and so i had my parents over to do their hair and hang out for a while. abby as i have said before loves grandpa or as she says is "banca" so she had a great time being with them, i love it when shes in a good mood.

parade time!!!

2009-06-29T20:59:00.002-06:00

we went to the lehi parade last saturday with my cousin mandy and her family and it was awesome. i didn't know how much abby would like it but she did, she loved picking up the candy and just getting excited, but by far her favorite thing was a float with mickey and minnie and tigger and pooh. i wish everyone could have seen her face when she saw them for the first time, she has only seen them on the tv, and she thought it was amazing. she wanted jeff to keep walking down the street with them because she didn't want them to leave. it was just so cute!

abby changing poo's diaper

2009-06-29T20:48:00.001-06:00

so i had just got done changing abbys diaper and then went and sat down and saw that she went straight to all the changing stuff with poo and started to do what i had just done to her. it was so cute. she makes me laugh all the time.

memorial day in vegas

2009-05-29T21:41:00.002-06:00

we went to jeffs parent in vegas for memorial weekend and abby loved playing with thier new kids toys. they also took us to see the shark reef aquarium and it was awesome. we had a good time.

favorite pair of shoes!

2009-05-29T21:36:00.002-06:00

abby loves these shoes, i have to hide them because she wants to wear them all the time and they are not the easiest to put on or for her to run around in, but they are some of the cutest shoes i have ever seen

playing catch for the first time!

2009-05-29T21:28:00.002-06:00

when i was pregnant with abby jeffs mom sent us a package and in it was this cute mitt and i think that was the first time that jeff was okay with us having a girl. I cant believe that she is actually old enough to even think about putting it on, of course she isn't good by any means but its so cute to see her try when jeff and i are playing catch.

cowgirl

2009-05-04T20:43:00.002-06:00

abby is not a hat person, but when jeff had her walk in with this one i loved it, and for some reason she wanted to keep putting it on. she is so dang cute.

a great easter!

2009-04-16T21:44:00.002-06:00

we had such a good easter. i love easter! we had jeffs parents over for the weekend and that was great, we loved it. they had never been to music and the spoken word up at temple square so we thought that it would be perfect to go there that morning. so we woke up early and jeff and abby went searching for their baskets together ( that was awesome) abby loved it, and i think jeff actually did too. so then we were up at temple square by 8 am and thats early for us, and acutally early for everyone there cause it doesn't even start till 9:30 and we thought it was 8:30 and nothing even will let you in till 9 so we had some walking around to do wich was nice but really cold, and then i didn't know that you had to be at least 8 to go into the music and spoken word so abby and i just watched and walked around the visitors center, she was so cute when we got do go in and see the christis, she thought that was awesome and i loved watching her.

later that night we had my family over for dinner and an easter egg hunt, it was great. abby was a little slower than all the others but she loved to carry her basket and pick them up by herself. shes getting so big. all in all it was a great weekend and i loved easter!

easter family home evening

2009-04-07T22:34:00.001-06:00

2009-04-07T22:26:00.002-06:00

we had the ross's over for a fun easter family home evening. it was great we had some dinner and then brint put on a great lesson of the resurrection (put on by the kids) and they did great. and then we decorated some awesome sugar cookies. abby loves playing with the cousins and i think we all had a great night. thanks ross's for coming over.

my cute family!

2009-04-07T22:17:00.002-06:00

i was watching jeff and abby outside yesterday and just thought to myself that i have the cutest family. i am so lucky to have them. jeff is such a great dad and abby just loves him, and watching them together is so fun. abby loves to be outside and thats an understatement. she screams when we have to come back in, so when jeff gets home from work if its nice outside i can usually count on him to take her out there if she hasn't gotten enought outside time in the day.

happy birthday stacy!

2009-03-25T21:30:00.002-06:00

my cousins from alaska are staying with us right now and it was stacys birthday last night and we had a happenin party last night and these are the pictures that i have from it. its nice to have family here and to be able to celebrate together, happy birthday stacy!

not ready for bath time

2009-03-25T21:18:00.002-06:00

So my cousin holly is staying with us and she had 2 little girls and it was bathtime for them, but not for abby. i was downstairs and holly was upstairs giving the baths, well abby found her way up there and i thought she was just going to watch and holly had just gotten the other girl out and was getting her dressed, well abby decided that she wanted to join in the fun and in the 2 minutes that neither one of us was there, she found her way in, shoes and all. im just glad that she didn't slip and fall. they are just so darn cute.

zoo time!

2009-03-01T09:21:00.002-07:00

We got to go to the zoo last weekend and its been forever since jeff was at the zoo, abby and i went last year but she enjoyed it so much more this time. abbys at that point in life where she wants to be running around all the time and not be in the stroller so that got frusterating at times but all in all i think it was a success. she loved seeing the animals that we always read about in books, but i am not sure what her favorite was yet. it was really fun to just spend the day as a family and get out of the house for a while, and enjoy the somewhat nice weather.

grandma and grandpa

2009-02-18T12:23:00.002-07:00

abby is so funny, she loves grandpa. i think it probably makes my mom feel bad, but whenever my dad walks in the room she will walk past anyone and say grandpa with her arms out ready for him to pick her up. she doesn't care about anyone else being there when he walks in. its great that she loves him so much. my parents were over the other night and we were just about to put abby down and as you can tell i had just taken her hair out of the piggy so its kind of crazy, but we just all talked and hung out for a while. it was great to have them over.

play time with jake

2009-02-15T19:08:00.002-07:00

we have my cousin jake staying with us from alaska, he likes to play x-box and abby just loves to sit with him and pretend shes playing. really anything he does she wants to do. its funny, she follows him around and just wants to play and most of the time he could just care less about her, but i think shes starting to grow on him.

an afternoon at primary childrens

2009-02-09T18:12:00.002-07:00

So abby has been getting sick a lot lately and the doctor decided that they wanted to go to primary childrens hospital and take an eeg test to see if there happened to be another reason that she had a seizure. so when they take the test, they have to be sleep deprived so we had to put her to bed late and get her up early and she couldn't fall asleep at all during the day or the drive up, which for abby driving and sleeping is usually a great combination so it was a challenge. luckily i had my mom and dad there for help. they were nice enough to go with me and help keep her awake and be there for some moral support, it was great.

so they had to hook her up to a bunch of things on her head so that they could test the brain waves while she sleeps. it was sad but she did such a great job. we wont know anything for a week but hopefully all is good. thanks to everyone for the support and help with abby.

time is precious

2009-01-20T10:16:00.002-07:00

so i got another glimps at just how precious time really is, everything can change in a matter of moments and we cant take anything for granted.
sunday night my family and i got together to go over to my parent store that they own and rent some movies and grab some stuff that we all wanted, and everything was good. abby has had a fever for a couple of days and she just wasn't feeling the best but we decided to take her with us just to get out of the house a little.
when jeff and i were done getting what we wanted we decided we should probably take abby home because she just looked like she didn't feel well. so we went out and got her in her carseat and were waiting for my cousin jake to tell us weither he was coming with us of with natalie while we were waiting abby started to shake a little and i thought she was cold, so i went in the back seat next to her and she only got worse so i told jeff we should take her to the urgent care and we left to go, a few seconds later she started shaking really bad and i could tell something wasn't right and she was struggling breathing, so i yelled at at jeff to call 911 and i took her out of her carseat and started back to the store, abby threw up on me and then went limp, she stopped breathing and i started freaking out, jeff was pounding on the door to get one of my family members to open it and we were searching for brint my brother in law who is a nurse and i knew was abbys only hope, luckily brint was the one by the door and let us in and i just handed her off to him and hoped with all my heart that he could save her, luckily he did and got her breathing again and we waited for the ambulence to come and it seemed like forever.
we then took her to the er and she stayed the night at the hospital and we took her home yesterday. i guess she just got to high of a fever to fast and the way her body fought if off was through a seizure and thats what happened. i have never been so scared in my life and wanted to help her out so much but was helpless. there was nothing i could do for her and i just wanted to make it all go away. i am so greatful to still have her in my life and i am so thankful to brint for helping save our little girl, i dont know what we would do without her in our home, shes so fun and we love her so much.
things are better now, we have to watch her temperature all the time but at least shes more of our little abby now.
so i am so greatful for every moment with her and with jeff and for how precious our time is together.

Christmas morning

2009-01-04T16:13:00.002-07:00

So i posted christmas eve and then forgot about christmas morning but here it is, better late than never. we decided not to go to big for abby this year because she doesn't really know whats going on anyway but she loved what she got and just wanted to play with what she first opened and didn't realize there was more. we had a great day thougth, breakfast with my family at my parents and then we just had a fun day hanging out with family and enjoying another snow storm. (i think i am done with those.) i hope that everyone had a great christmas and new year!

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-25T06:32:00.000-07:00

2008-12-25T06:23:00.002-07:00

these santa picutres are the ones from our last christmas party but i didnt have my camera. as you can see abby is not one of santas biggest fans, but as a doll she loves him.

yesterday for christas eve the family came over to our house and we tied tubes up to the cars and went around the neighborhood, this last week we have gotten about a foot of snow so it was perfect. then we went over to mom and dads and had some dinner and exchanged presents and played games. i just love everything about christmas thats probibly why i cant sleep right now and im here blogging while my family is still sleeping! i hope everyone has a great christmas and i cant wait to see the picutres from it.

I love the holidays

2008-12-17T19:09:00.002-07:00

so usually i am not one to put posts unless i have pictures but natalie has my camera and so i cant put any pictures on right now but i love the holidays and so many things are happening so i thought i would just write for this once. we took abby to see the lights at temple square and i ended up dropping jeff off with her and finding a parking spot because it took us 40 minutes to find one and we were about to just go but im glad we didn't even though she slept through most of it, i enjoyed it. i love being up there and seeing all that they have during the holidays, its amazing. on saturday my niece and nephew had a sleep over and we made sugar cookies to decorate during our primary class the next day and it was really fun. im not usually one to like sugar cookies but i love to decorate them with kids. i cant wait for abby to start enjoying it. then like natalie has talked about we had our family christmas party and for pretty much everyone but abby it was great, i will have to post pictures or you can look at natalies to see that abby did nothing but cry that whole night. she has had strep and has been no fun lately. but i love our christmas parties, they are good times. and i have to agree with natalie what my parents are doing this year for christmas is awesome. they gave each one of us kids a box with stuff for the twelve days of christmas. its been so fun and everyday i am amazed at how much thought and preperation had to go into doing this, i have the best parents in the world! so thanks again for all that you did to gave such a great gift to all of us.
so thats pretty much whats been going on here, i am looking forward to celebrating christmas next week, but i think that it comes and goes way to fast. enjoy the holidays

sickies

2008-12-10T20:23:00.002-07:00

Its pretty sad when its 7:30 and i am up by myself watching white christmas ( a favorite of mine). Jeff has been sick for a week now with a pretty bad cough and abby has just started getting a fever so its fun here at our house. this is jeff and abby cuddled up on our bean bag watching tigger and poohs christmas movie (which abby loves) you know shes sick when she will just sit there with you and not move anywhere, and its jeff's favorite time of the day too.

christmas card pictures

2008-12-09T20:51:00.003-07:00

so we always take pictures for a christmas card and we normally have snow for the occasion but this year it didn't work out that way. and i dont like any of the pitures but what do you do? we have another couple that we go with and we both take picutres of each family so i hope that they have some better ones. but this is what i have for now.

i'm doing something wrong

2008-12-01T21:58:00.002-07:00

so we are playing cards while we were down at jeffs parents house and to distract abby jeff gives her his cell phone and this is what happened. so obviously i talk on the cell phone way to much because no one year old should be able to do this, but i must say shes makes me laugh just watching her.

2008-12-01T21:29:00.002-07:00

So we went to jeffs parents in vegas for thanksgiving this year again and i asked my mother in law if there was anything cheap but fun to do and she said that they had a dinosoar park there and at first i didn't think abby would have that much fun because shes always been more afraid of the park but she loved it. i was so excited. watching her there was so much fun. it was good for my mother in law to spend time with her and i think abby loved being there. it was the first time she has ever been on the swings and she didn't know what to think at first but she was just all smiles. i sure love that girl, its was good to sit back and think of the things that are really important in life and how thankful i am this year especially, for the family that i have. i never thought in my life that i would have so much love for my little family, i thought life was great when i got married and that my life was pretty complete but then abby came along and taught me a whole new lesson, my life wasn't complete, and i still think it isn't all the way complete but she is a big piece of the puzzle and i dont know what i would do with out her. and i am pretty sure that i have the best husband in the world. he is so great with abby, i always knew watching him with my nieces and newphews that he would be a great dad but he is so much better than i thought. he has so much patience and love for her and me and i wouldn't trade my life with him for anything in the world.

Update

2008-11-23T15:46:00.002-07:00

So we have been busy lately, not a lot has happened though. i started working more hours and i feel like i cant keep up with everything so this is alot of different posts in one. We got snow a long time ago and i never posted any pictures, i was so worried about abby getting cold that i think i over bundled her, she couldn't move and she hated every minute of it, but shes so darn cute. i got her this chair a long time ago too but she has just learned how to get herself into it, she hasn't figured how to get out of it yet and so she gets in and gets all excited and plays for a while and then freaks out when she cant get herself out, its fun times. last night we were putting away some food that we had in the big sack and abby was walking around and wouldn't let go of it, shes so funny, its bigger than her but she loves carrying it around. she really is starting to become quite a funny girl, i love this stage where things change all the time and she is learning new words and things to do every day.

one of my favorite pictures

2008-11-03T15:16:00.002-07:00

I love it when abby is happy, there really is nothing better than that. she has been sick lately and she has been teething and theres just so many times when she doesn't want to be her happy self that i love the moments when she is. i never though in my life that i could love someone like a mother loves her child, its amazing, there is no explaining it. i love her more and more every day and i cant think of how our life would be without her.

Busy weekend!

2008-10-29T21:44:00.002-06:00

okay so thats a lot of random pictures but i had a random weekend but it was a lot of fun. First of all on friday night we had trunk or treat and jackie and her family came with us to it and the kids were so cute, Abby didn't enjoy like i would have liked her to but thats what its like at one i guess. Then Jeff and i got a free weekend in Park City so we stayed at this condo and it was really fun, we decided that vacations with Abby aren't the same as vacations without her and its been a while since we have taken her somewhere, but it was worth it, and she has finally started walking which is a big thing in this house. She is such a timid and kind of scared girl so she wont do it all the time, she loves to walk with someone holding one hand but all alone is just to scary right now but everyday she does more and more.

Last, Jackie and I went to Gardner Village to see all of the pumpkins and witches with the kids and they were so cute. Emily was scared of the witches but chase and abby seemed to enjoy it. after that we went to mcdonalds for lunch and abby got sick and threw up all over and she has been sick since so thats no fun but all in all we had a busy but great weekend.

2008-10-29T21:34:00.000-06:00

halloween fun

2008-10-20T21:15:00.002-06:00

we went to natalies to carve pumpkins and as you can tell abby was a big help, but shes so darn cute its okay. she is just trying to walk on her own these days and shes getting better and better every day. i cant believe how much shes growing up, its fun to be able to do these things with her even thought she could really care less.

pumpkin patch

2008-10-20T20:54:00.002-06:00

tonight natalie invited us to go over to
springville and get pumpkins and then
carve them. i thought abby wouldn't
like the hay but i couldn't get her away
from it.

Abby's favorite things!

2008-10-15T11:42:00.001-06:00

Abby has so many joys in life and these are just a few of them.

B.Y.U. Game

2008-10-12T13:49:00.002-06:00

So my sisters have these awesome season tickets to the byu games and they were nice enough to have pity on us poor people and let jeff and i come to one of the games, it was sooooooo much fun. You get to go and have dinner before and then you have great seats with little treats and drinks waiting for you. It was probably the the best thing jeff and i have done in a really long time, so thanks again! My parents were great and they took all of our kids for us at natalies house and so we went back there after freezing our butts off at the game and we layed the kids down and played some card games. Its great to have a day out.

Discoveries!

2008-10-03T20:31:00.002-06:00

One of my favorite things to do is watch Abby find new discoveries, its fantastic, she can find fun in anything. Today she find my camera case that had extra batteries in it and she would pull them out and put them back in the case over and over and she thought it was the best thing to happen to her all day. She is just at that age where everything is a new discovery and i am loving every moment of it.

Family Picture Day!!!!

2008-09-28T21:17:00.002-06:00

we all know that we love picture day. some pictures turn out and most dont, some kids are good and some are not. as you can tell abby was the one not good today, but we got a few cute ones. we went up springville canyon and found a really cool spot that i think turned out great.

2008-09-28T21:06:00.000-06:00

Bath time with Maddie

2008-09-27T15:42:00.002-06:00

We have some friends of ours that we hang out with all the time and they have a daughter thats almost 7 months and Abby loves her. They are really fun to watch, and last night they were over for dinner so we decided to have the girls take a bath together and Abby was trying so hard to help bath Maddie, she is really such a good helper.

Bunco Night

2008-09-27T15:30:00.001-06:00

We finally started bunco night and it was great, there are a few kinks we need to work out still but it was all in all a success. Thanks to everyone who helped and came, i hope you had fun.