Friday, June 26, 2009

Fun in Utah!!!

After Powell we headed off to Utah. We had so much fun with friends and family!!! Here are just a few highlights of the things we were able to do and the people we were able to see. It started out with Ace's Birthday party at Chuck 'E' Cheeses. He had such a great time with all his little friends. Ace loved the Monster Truck I think he used all of his tokens on this one ride.Alex and I were able to go to the Herriman Temple open house while we were down there.

Alex's family also had a small family reunion while we were in town. It was at the Lake and we had a great time.

Owen loved the Lake, He is so super cute.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Lake Powell

Alex and I had never been to Lake Powell so on our way home to Utah we decided to stop off in Lake Powell with Alex's dad for a while. It was only a 5 hour drive from Las Vegas to Page, AZ. It really wasn't to bad, but we had such a great time. Lake Powell is beautiful and now we know what everyone is talking about!!! Alex had a great time wake boarding and I had a good time just sitting on the boat and soaking up the sunshine. It was perfect temp not to hot.



Thanks Lon for a great Trip!!!!

Monday, June 8, 2009

KRUNK the Goldfish is DEAD!!!

You heard right, Krunk, our beloved goldfish of almost 3 years was found belly up this morning by grandma Jennifer, who has been taking care of him since the move to Vegas. He was given a proper burial at sea. Krunk is survived by Pal the dog and 3 mangy cats. He will be missed

Saturday, May 30, 2009

May UpDate

So a few weeks ago Al and I were invited to go boating with some friends at Lake Mead. We had such a good time. We love to be outside and it gave Al a break from studying for a few hours.

Alex finish his first year of medical school. I am so proud of him, He has been so good at handleing everything with school and the pregnancy. He is a great husband and is going to be an amazing daddy. After Al finished his last test on Friday we were able to go camping in Utah with my family. It was fun even though it rained half the time.

Brandy and Dylan, Isn't he the cutest. He is the happiest baby and so much fun. I can't wait for McKenlee.DYL PICKEL:)
Alex and KIWI she loves uncle Al.

Ace bug and Uncle Al in the razor and mud!!!!

Thanks Mom and Dad for a great weekend.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

McKenlee's Room

Even though I still have 16 more weeks until the little one is on the way we have already started on the room. This comes to no shock for those of you who know me well, and know how OCD I am about everything and getting it done the way I want. :)
Here I am waiting so patiently to get the chair rail painted. When we first started we did not know how big of a project this was going to be.

After we tried to paint the chair rail, our awesome and very talented neighbor came over to help us put it up. Alex is taking lots of lessons from this neighbor and he is becoming quite the handy man himself. Then next came the taping and painting. Alex and I had a good time but we have been painting for two days and we are still only half way done. Needless to say neither of us are going to become professional painters any time soon.
So last but not least Alex put up this beautiful fan all by himself. He learned how to install fans from the fixit neighbor. (It's great to live by people who know how to fix everything.) The paint is still not done but I think we have a good start on things. I can not wait to be done so I can put my house back together and we can start putting up the crib and all the decor.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Pregnant Pictures 21 Weeks

So since I am finally half way done with the pregnancy I figured I should post some pictures of the baby bump. So Alex and I went out to dinner last night at Macaroni Grill with a Old high school friend. It was great to catch up.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Sorry for the long post but when you don't update in 3 months then you get this....

Life has been so busy in the last few months we have found out that we are pregnant, gone to Utah for a week and a half over Christmas and New Years, gone to Pheonix, AZ to spend time with friends, gone back to Utah for Alex's grandmother's funeral, had four different groups of people come and stay with us. Found out that we are having a baby girl, Alex finished another block week, went to Mesquite NV to spend more time with friends, put in a new microwave, put in a new fan. We had so much fun doing it all!!!!

Thats right for those of you that I have not talked to in a while we are EXPECTING!!! FINALLY We were pretty excited to find out the good news, not really expecting it that soon though. In December I just had a gut feeling that we may be expecting so I went to the dollar store and bought a few pregnancy tests. After I took the first test Alex did not believe it because it was a cheap test so then we did another one, He still did not believe it so before we left town for Christmas Vacation I decided to go to the doctor, they called me later that day while I was at work and told me. I was so excited to do the "I told you so" dance to Alex and I just could not wait, so I texted him "Your going to be a DADDY!" Well come to find out he was right in the middle of his last final when he recieved the text. He said that after that he couldn't focus anymore. We then drove home to Utah for Christmas it was great and we were able to see all of our family and friends. While we were down there my sister had her third child it was awsome that she had him while we were in town. When we got back in town we had Kasie, Alex's sister come and stay with us in January, we always have such a great time together, she is so much fun. After that I flew home again for Dylan's baby shower. Then the next month we went to Pheonix to spend time with one of Alex's mission companions. It was so much fun the weather was so nice. Alex actually left a can of unopened soda in my car and it exploded because it was so hot. The next weekend was kind of crazy, Alex's grandmother had passed away and we needed to fly home for the funeral but we had friends already scheduled to come into town. We went and they still came, lucky for us they were able to come pick us up from the airport. The next weekend Alex's brother (Cody), his wife (Kayla), Kasie (sister) all came to town to stay with us. We went hiking at Red Rock Canyon it was so much fun we had a great time. Lon and Karen also came down for the day and we went to the Paris buffet which was so good. So the first 4 months of my pregnancy went pretty fast becasue I really had no time to think about the baby. Which brings us to this last month, me being OCD had to find out what we are going to have because I felt that I need to get everything ready for the baby, so the whole time I've wanted a little boy. I don't know why, but that's what I wanted. Everyone kept saying that it was going to be a girl and I would disagree with them. Well the day came and we went in and sure enough they told us that it is a GIRL, I started to cry, but now I think that I am going to be okay. I went shopping and it took care of everything=) There are so many cute girl things. Which finally brings us to this last weekend.

This last weekend we were able to have most of my family in town, the weather was okay but we still managed to have a great time. We were able to go ride the Boulder City Train which was kind of a waste of money but Ace had a great time seeing the trains and riding them.

After the train ride we went to the Las Vegas Strip to the M & M and the Coke factories. The kids loved to see the M & M stuff and the 3D movie. The coke bear was a little scary for the Ace Bug but Kiwi got her picture with the bear.






























After a long day at the Strip and the trains Ace and Kiwi decided it was time for ice cream!!!




























On Sunday we went to the park and had an Easter Egg Hunt and a picnic!!!! McKenlee got her first Easter presents. It was such a beautiful day and the kidos had so much fun playing out side at the park. (You can kind of see the baby bump)