Thursday, May 22, 2008
He has a name!
Our baby boy has a name! (no he is not here yet, 3 mo left) Ryan and I have had a hard time agreeing on a name for him. I have wanted to name him Logan Daniel and Ryan was not happy about the Logan part. He knew a Mr. Logan and has bad memories from him. But NOTHING else was working. We tried to think of lots of different names, but nothing fit. I was getting bummed, thinking he was going to be a month old before we got him named. (I really like to have the name pretty soon after we find out what it is, I hate saying the baby or it) Well one day I was having a rough day and I just said Ryan I need a hug and while he gave me some hugs (he's such a good husband) he says well hows Logan doing? I couldn't believe it. He is so sweet. That definatly made my day better! -Well once I finally believed he was serious! So our baby boy has a name, Logan Daniel Dalton. Logan after the Logan temple, which is my favorite- also to convince Ryan it was a good name, after Logan the wolferine. Andy says we HAVE to do his hair like the wolverine, it'd be way cool. So I'll have to do at least one picture. lol, we'll see how much hair he has. And Daniel is my daddy's name. He is an amazing man and I hope that Logan will be like him. So that's the story. Yeah for little Logan. We are so excited and can't wait to meet him.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Happy Mothers Day
Happy Mothers Day to all you mom's out there. I have learned lots from my amazing Mom friends. I couldn't even list them all. You are wonderful and amazing, keep up the good work! I hope everyone has had a great weekend. Ryan and the girls made it a special one for me. On Saturday morning I got to go garage-saleing all by myself! I loved it. It was so nice to get out with out the girls. Saturday evening we went out as a family for dinner and tried a new restaurant. Then this morning Ryan surprised me with breakfast in bed! I LOVED it! Kaitlyn helped by bringing in the cards that they got me. Thanks guys for the wonderful weekend. I want to especially thank my mom and mother in law this special day. They are wonderful and I love them both so much. I also have 3 amazing grandmothers that I love very much, plus Ryan's 2 amazing grandmothers.
My Mom
Mom and my sisters Jessica and Tiara-who must have been moving
My mother is amazing. I love her so much. She is always there for me and I love to talk to her. I call her almost everyday just to talk and see what's going on. I love the advice she gives me. My mom's main goal was to have a solid family. She wanted us to have a safe, secure, loving place to come home to, and she wanted us to love to spend time together. I think she has done an amazing job at that and continues to do so. She is the mother of 7 children and Grandmother of soon to be 4 grandchildren.
My Mother in Law
Mom with Kaitlyn just after she was born
I have been so blessed to have the best in-laws. If you got to hand pick the family your spouse came from, I'd definitely pick the Daltons. I love Mom, she is wonderful. She has always made me feel welcome and loved since the very beginning. Just after Ryan and I got engaged I flew back to Texas, but my family had already left for Utah. I was alone and feeling really lonely. I ended up going over to Mom D's house. Ryan wasn't even there, he was still in Iowa. As soon as I walked in Mom gave me a huge hug and said what's wrong? She hugged me as I baled and told her how lonely I was and how all the phones were broke at my house and then she gave me a phone so I could call my mom. I had JUST BARELY gotten engaged to her son and she was already helping take care of me. Mom your great and I love you. Mom is the mother of 4 and the grandmother of soon to be 6.
Mindy, Ryan's sister
Mindy and her husband Chris
Again, I couldn't have asked for better in-laws. Mindy is an amazing mother. She has 3 boys. Boys, they take LOTS of energy and Mindy is so great with them. I know she REALLY wants a girl, but I think she is the perfect boy mom. Austin, Cameron, and Colin are so lucky to have you. I wish we lived closer together. I love just to spend time with her and hang out. And my girls love playing with their cousins. Kaitlyn saw a picture of Austin on your blog (the one with the allergic reaction) -I hadn't said anything to her- and she says Austin mommy, look Austin. It was so cute. She loves you and your handsome boys! I love you Mindy.
My sister Julia
Julia with Kaitlyn and I on a camping trip to Nauvoo
This is Julia's FIRST mothers day as a mom! Yay Julia! I'm so excited that you are a mom now. Julia and I were pregnant together for a little while. She is way ahead of me and already had her baby. A cute little boy named Cooper and as Kaitlyn says Pooper. I have been amazed at how much Julia has grown up since becoming a mom. Babe your amazing and do such a great job. I wish I was closer and we got to hang out more. I love you babe!
Katrina, Ryan's sister
Katrina being cute and funny
Katrina hasn't become a mother yet, but she is an awesome sister in law and I'm sure a great wife. I also really enjoy having Katrina as a sister. Your wonderful babe and I love you!
My Mom
Mom and my sisters Jessica and Tiara-who must have been moving
My mother is amazing. I love her so much. She is always there for me and I love to talk to her. I call her almost everyday just to talk and see what's going on. I love the advice she gives me. My mom's main goal was to have a solid family. She wanted us to have a safe, secure, loving place to come home to, and she wanted us to love to spend time together. I think she has done an amazing job at that and continues to do so. She is the mother of 7 children and Grandmother of soon to be 4 grandchildren.
My Mother in Law
Mom with Kaitlyn just after she was born
I have been so blessed to have the best in-laws. If you got to hand pick the family your spouse came from, I'd definitely pick the Daltons. I love Mom, she is wonderful. She has always made me feel welcome and loved since the very beginning. Just after Ryan and I got engaged I flew back to Texas, but my family had already left for Utah. I was alone and feeling really lonely. I ended up going over to Mom D's house. Ryan wasn't even there, he was still in Iowa. As soon as I walked in Mom gave me a huge hug and said what's wrong? She hugged me as I baled and told her how lonely I was and how all the phones were broke at my house and then she gave me a phone so I could call my mom. I had JUST BARELY gotten engaged to her son and she was already helping take care of me. Mom your great and I love you. Mom is the mother of 4 and the grandmother of soon to be 6.
Mindy, Ryan's sister
Mindy and her husband Chris
Again, I couldn't have asked for better in-laws. Mindy is an amazing mother. She has 3 boys. Boys, they take LOTS of energy and Mindy is so great with them. I know she REALLY wants a girl, but I think she is the perfect boy mom. Austin, Cameron, and Colin are so lucky to have you. I wish we lived closer together. I love just to spend time with her and hang out. And my girls love playing with their cousins. Kaitlyn saw a picture of Austin on your blog (the one with the allergic reaction) -I hadn't said anything to her- and she says Austin mommy, look Austin. It was so cute. She loves you and your handsome boys! I love you Mindy.
My sister Julia
Julia with Kaitlyn and I on a camping trip to Nauvoo
This is Julia's FIRST mothers day as a mom! Yay Julia! I'm so excited that you are a mom now. Julia and I were pregnant together for a little while. She is way ahead of me and already had her baby. A cute little boy named Cooper and as Kaitlyn says Pooper. I have been amazed at how much Julia has grown up since becoming a mom. Babe your amazing and do such a great job. I wish I was closer and we got to hang out more. I love you babe!
Katrina, Ryan's sister
Katrina being cute and funny
Katrina hasn't become a mother yet, but she is an awesome sister in law and I'm sure a great wife. I also really enjoy having Katrina as a sister. Your wonderful babe and I love you!
Monday, May 5, 2008
A great rainy day activity and other things
A few weeks ago we had some older kids at our house to play for the afternoon. We have TONS of toys, to many in fact. But we don’t have much for older kids. Plus it was rainy all day so we couldn’t run around outside. I was trying to think of some fun things for the kids to do when I remembered a fun idea I read in a Parenting magazine. We got out a cardboard box and unfolded it. I had 4 kids, one square for each kid. Rule one, you must stay in your square. Rule two, you have to share the sidewalk chalk. That was it. The kids had a great time.
The oldest a girl, 10 found out you could erase it and recolor your square. Just use your sock or your pants or even your hands. Lol. They got a little dirty but had a great time. I had gotten Kaitlyn the sidewalk chalk for Easter and we hadn’t had a chance to use it yet. She had fun coloring with it and breaking them into smaller pieces (why? I don’t know, but she was having fun!) and Em thought it was so YUMMY! We had to keep taking hers away. It turned out to be a fun little activity. So next time your stuck inside on a rainy or cold day give it a try!
Kaitlyn NEVER EVER sleeps with us. Ryan is VERRY happy about this. I tried when she was littler to let her sleep with us occasionally, but she just can’t sleep if mommy’s there. Even on the few times she’s been sick at night, she can’t sleep when we (ok, I) put her in our bed. The other morning Kaitlyn came in REALLY early. Like 4 or 5. I was worried she’d be up for the day, but Ryan just plopped her in the middle and we ALL went back to sleep, including Kaitlyn. When we woke up I couldn’t believe it. Ryan got up before us to get ready for the day and snapped a few pictures of us sleeping. WARRNING: I am sleeping and do not look good! Please ignore me and look at my sweet cute baby.
A weekend or so ago Ryan and I went to look at some houses during the day (thank you Andy! Having a teenager in our house is AWESOME!) Kaitlyn and Emily stayed home with Andy so we could be quick. I had put Kaitlyn in her bed before we left. She usually goes to sleep really quickly. This time she was having a rough time going to sleep. Plus I heard some really weird noises, I thought our neighbor upstairs was just being really loud, moving furniture or something. I even checked our screen door which doesn’t always close all the way to see if it was making the banging noises. Well eventually the noise stopped and I didn’t think much of it. Ryan and I left. When we got back Andy was just dying with laughter! Kaitlyn had been having a hard time sleeping and then she started yelling for help. When Andy went to check on her she was between the board and the wall. It’s really hard to explain so here’s a picture:
The first is a picture of Kaitlyn’s bed. Ryan’s dad and grandpa made a really cool bed. It’s a bunk bed, but the bottom is a desk instead of a bed. They gave it to us recently, and Kaitlyn has her toddler bed under the bunk bed and we took down the desk for now. So the second picture is of the space between her bed and the wall that she had climbed down into. She had been there for a while and Andy had heard noises and thought she was just playing, apparently she had been stuck in there and was trying to jump out. We thought it’d be fun to put her back in to take a picture, but she freaked out! I know I don’t have to worry about her climbing in there again. I love that Kaitlyn is so adventuresome (sometimes) it just cracks me up when she gets stuck somewhere odd.
There was a huge city wide garage sale on Friday and Saturday. So of coarse I went! There were 100 registered g-sales and more that weren’t. I had so much fun, and got tons of great stuff, and if you ask Ryan all I did was spend our life savings. Lol, but he’ll be grateful when the baby gets here and we actually have clothes for him. I got a huge bag stuffed full of boys clothes, books, barbies, a UT Texas hat ($2, brand new!), baby dolls, a slide for the girls, a princess doll, a princess lamp and placemat, and princess clothes. Plus other stuff. The funniest is I got a Cinderella book for 25 cents and Kaitlyn was reading it, she’d open it “ohhh, Thank you mommy!” and then turn the page and say
“ohhh, Thank you mommy!” again, for almost every page. She carried it around and even slept with it last night. I love that she can be so happy with something that cost a quarter.
The oldest a girl, 10 found out you could erase it and recolor your square. Just use your sock or your pants or even your hands. Lol. They got a little dirty but had a great time. I had gotten Kaitlyn the sidewalk chalk for Easter and we hadn’t had a chance to use it yet. She had fun coloring with it and breaking them into smaller pieces (why? I don’t know, but she was having fun!) and Em thought it was so YUMMY! We had to keep taking hers away. It turned out to be a fun little activity. So next time your stuck inside on a rainy or cold day give it a try!
Kaitlyn NEVER EVER sleeps with us. Ryan is VERRY happy about this. I tried when she was littler to let her sleep with us occasionally, but she just can’t sleep if mommy’s there. Even on the few times she’s been sick at night, she can’t sleep when we (ok, I) put her in our bed. The other morning Kaitlyn came in REALLY early. Like 4 or 5. I was worried she’d be up for the day, but Ryan just plopped her in the middle and we ALL went back to sleep, including Kaitlyn. When we woke up I couldn’t believe it. Ryan got up before us to get ready for the day and snapped a few pictures of us sleeping. WARRNING: I am sleeping and do not look good! Please ignore me and look at my sweet cute baby.
A weekend or so ago Ryan and I went to look at some houses during the day (thank you Andy! Having a teenager in our house is AWESOME!) Kaitlyn and Emily stayed home with Andy so we could be quick. I had put Kaitlyn in her bed before we left. She usually goes to sleep really quickly. This time she was having a rough time going to sleep. Plus I heard some really weird noises, I thought our neighbor upstairs was just being really loud, moving furniture or something. I even checked our screen door which doesn’t always close all the way to see if it was making the banging noises. Well eventually the noise stopped and I didn’t think much of it. Ryan and I left. When we got back Andy was just dying with laughter! Kaitlyn had been having a hard time sleeping and then she started yelling for help. When Andy went to check on her she was between the board and the wall. It’s really hard to explain so here’s a picture:
The first is a picture of Kaitlyn’s bed. Ryan’s dad and grandpa made a really cool bed. It’s a bunk bed, but the bottom is a desk instead of a bed. They gave it to us recently, and Kaitlyn has her toddler bed under the bunk bed and we took down the desk for now. So the second picture is of the space between her bed and the wall that she had climbed down into. She had been there for a while and Andy had heard noises and thought she was just playing, apparently she had been stuck in there and was trying to jump out. We thought it’d be fun to put her back in to take a picture, but she freaked out! I know I don’t have to worry about her climbing in there again. I love that Kaitlyn is so adventuresome (sometimes) it just cracks me up when she gets stuck somewhere odd.
There was a huge city wide garage sale on Friday and Saturday. So of coarse I went! There were 100 registered g-sales and more that weren’t. I had so much fun, and got tons of great stuff, and if you ask Ryan all I did was spend our life savings. Lol, but he’ll be grateful when the baby gets here and we actually have clothes for him. I got a huge bag stuffed full of boys clothes, books, barbies, a UT Texas hat ($2, brand new!), baby dolls, a slide for the girls, a princess doll, a princess lamp and placemat, and princess clothes. Plus other stuff. The funniest is I got a Cinderella book for 25 cents and Kaitlyn was reading it, she’d open it “ohhh, Thank you mommy!” and then turn the page and say
“ohhh, Thank you mommy!” again, for almost every page. She carried it around and even slept with it last night. I love that she can be so happy with something that cost a quarter.
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