I'm a Big Girl Now!!

Sorry it has been a while since I posted anything. I went home to Idaho for nearly three weeks had tons of fun and did so much and just enjoyed spending time with my little brother. It ended all too suddenly and my sister-in-law was just way too sick with morning sickness to start a trek across the country! So my wonderful mom, who is the pro-driver, volunteered to help and we started on our way not knowing how the drive would go and believe it or not it was awesome we actually quite enjoyed ourselves! I think it helped that Addi was movied up for the journey and me and my mom rolled out a foam mattress and made us a little bed in the van! Only Brielle got a little frustrated but she was quite the trooper! Since we've been home all the classes I wanted to take were all ready full so I decided to hold off until next semester to start school and all the Ladies that were going to do the co-op preschool with me all backed out at the last second, so our once full year has now cleared up drastically! So Addi is doing some swim leasons and we have just been going to the Y every day and enjoying having a car to just go out and do whatever we want! Our little Miss Brie who is almost nine months old continues to constantly amaze us. She is determined to grow up and she is going to do it now! She is one determined little girl. She stands all by herself now and she even took a few steps yesterday! I thought that Addi walked too early at ten and a half months but to my amazement I think my little Brielle just might beat her!

Addi is loving swim lessons, we signed up for a class that was supposed to have 5 kids in it but they only had 2 sign up and then when we started classes the other little girl hasn't ever showed up so lucky little Addi has had one on one lessons and absolutely loves her teacher and of course being the little fish that she is, she has done so well!

I have been looking to get a Twin size bed for Addi for a long time, this little girl sleeps spread eagle and everytime I check on her before I go to bed half of her body is on bed the other half flailing out and her blanket and pillow on the other side of the room. So I was wanting a bed with tucked in sheets and blanket and the bed big enough for her to sleep spread out with out half falling out of bed. I really wanted a bed big enough that we could use forour guests when they come in town but this poor little teeny tiny room couldn't handle it so I found this little Trundle bed on Craigslist and thought it the answer. I could pull out the trundle and have a big bed when guests are here and then roll it back under and just have a cute little day bed for Addi! It was just black metal bars that didn't really match the cute little Bed spread that my mother in law gave me so I Spray painted it with hammered metal spray paint and I'm glad I did, it turned out way cute! We tested it last night, I tucked Addi in told her good night and went back in to check on her before I went to bed and VIOLA still tucked in tight and fast asleep!

Daddy's Long Vacation!!

Well, we have had a very long vacation!!! It was fun to have Jake home for two and a half months, but it was very stressful. Jake was supposed to start with Lockheed on June 7 th, pending a security clearance and background check! Well the 7th came and the background check wasn't through so they pushed our start date to the 28th and then to July 12th and we finally found out last Tuesday that we can finally start this Monday! Yay, finally! So our long vacation has finally come to an end! We played at the beach, city festivities and LOTS of at home tea parties (Addi's new obsession). We found every possible, no cost entertainment that there was to find in Orlando Florida! The girls and I have some excitement coming up very soon!! My little brother comes home from his mission next Wednesday so me and the girls have one way tickets home, where we will be spending 2 weeks with the family! Then since I have pretty much been without a car for two years, stuck at home with two stir crazy little girls, my uncle is selling us a very cheap but very nice van (I know!!! I'm NOT excited about being a van owner but after two years of nothing to drive, I think I would drive ANYTHING!) So after two weeks the girls and I and a VERY brave sister-in-law are going to attempt the 2000 and something miles back to the sunny state of Florida (wish us luck!) Then from there our lives get even more hectic! Jake is giving me my Dream, I'm starting culinary school, to be a Pastry Chef, this fall and Addi is starting a co-op pre-school that I'm organizing, so between the two we shall be busy, I guess it should make up for two years of sitting idle on the couch!! Well just a quick head's up on what will be happening in our lives! These are just some fun picture's of the last couple months! My poor babies hair grow's like a weed but just down the middle, so she either has a comb over or a mohawk or in this case when the wind is blowing....who know's what that hair do is!!

Our little fish, she LOVES the Beach and she LOVES swimming!!!
We had a fun 4th of July, we went to some city festivities and waited in some weird patches of pouring rain to see some fireworks that were pretty lame!! Then on Sunday we were out in our yard having a BBQ and happened to realize that they were shooting off a HUGE nice firework show over the Golf course right in our front yard!! Good to know for next year, I guess we will have front row seats and no waiting!!


A wonderful little entertaining Jumper that my mom bought for Brielle to keep her occupied!! We have since realized that this little girl will only be happy when she finds a way to climb the walls!!
Addi's many entertaining Tea Parties, Brielle enjoys them too!!
Our friends had a Mustache Birthday party!! So don't judge us please but because of the way Brielle's hair has grown in, we have always teased that she looks like Hitler!! So when our friends said they were having a Mustache party we just couldn't resist!!

Our cute little girls in their WAY cute 4th of July dresses, I never tire of dressing my two pretty girls alike!!
Sorry about the long post, but just a little of what is going on in our lives!!

My over-achiever!!

My cute little trouble maker is growing up right before my eyes and WAY too fast. She is growing up fast but...... she is learning to do things way too fast. She started scooting at 4 months she was full fledged crawling at 5 months and now she just barely turned 6 months and is already pulling herself up to things!! I've heard that the second one grows up in the blink of an eye but I swear I haven't blinked yet....she just doesn't stop she goes and goes she is into everything and she studies everything her sister does and just wants to keep up with her. I didn't even get to enjoy the baby days and i'm starting into what seems like the toddler stage even though she is only six months, please stop I want to remember you when you were cute and not a terror!!!

There she is cute when she is all strapped in and can't take off to terrorize something else.
Just a cute fun picture of Daddy and his girls since he has been spending plenty of time with them.
Just a few videos to show my little 6 month old's talents!! Bedtime is already a strain with this age, but with my little mover it is extra challenging, I put her down and she immediately flips over and starts crawling to the rails and then she pulls herself up and screams, I found her like this and realized it was time to drop the crib all the way down, didn't think I would have to do that for a few more months... Oh well. Also to show the destruction that she leaves, don't tell daddy I let her suck on his movies, we all know thats a no no!

South Carolina

We went on a fun little trip to South Carolina and during our trip we stopped by Charleston to check out the sites! It was a beautiful drive, in fact the entire state of South Carolina was the prettiest state I have ever been to, with all the Plantations and just the thickest green everywhere! In Charleston, we took a little boat tour of all the sites, this was the US Custom House, just a really pretty building!

We were able to see Fort Sumter, or what is left of it, it was a lot smaller than we expected but after seeing the history behind it, it was because the entire top half of the Fort had been blown off in battle!
We also got to see the USS Yorktown!
There were Yachts everywhere!!
This was the Bridge coming into Charleston.




We went to Myrtle Beach down to visit our friends Bryan and Rebecca Stalvey!! It was beautiful and just fun to spend time with friends!!




They were making these fun little roses out of reeds and grass, of course Addi loved it!
We had so much fun and just absolutely enjoyed our little mini vacation, before Jake starts work!! Now I've got Jake on an endless list of Honey Do's while he's home, he will be so glad to be back to work after I get done with him!!!

JOB....What's that, I've forgotten?

While we have been in school Jake has kept busy with doing all the school work and trying to bring in a little income here and there with odds and ends like Internships and Graduate Assistantships! We made things work, but had to sacrifice little things here and there and had LOTS of help!! Thank you, we couldn't have made it without all of your support. I am so happy and so proud to announce that after many sleepless and tear filled nights, that our prayers (and I know a lot of yours, thank you for keeping us in your prayers) have finally been answered!! We knew eventually we find a Job but we were so blessed to get the exact one that we were hoping for, nor did we know what an amazing company they would be!! I am so full of gratitude and I know that our Heavenly Father has been looking out for me and my beautiful little family!!

Has offered Jake a job as a Financial Analyst!!! I have never seen a job so perfect for my husband. He is a man who has to believe in a company to work for them and lets just say Jake is a believer!! Someone at Disney that Jake interned with asked him why he would want to work for Lockheed?? Jake said "oh I love that kind of stuff" and she goes "WHAT?? but they make Bombs!!" I just recently watched Iron Man 2 and the more and more I find out about Lockheed I tease Jake that it will be like working for Stark Industries!! He is so excited to start work!! I'm so proud of him! I know through the whole job searching process he took a lot of rejection and abuse and he still kept going back for more!!! In the end it was all worth it! The best part of all of this is he doesn't start until the 7th!! So we get two whole weeks of just spending time with Daddy and the girls are just soaking it up, as am I!!!!

Family Visits!

I know that I am really behind on my blogs, so I'm trying to catch back up. For Jake's Graduation we were lucky enough to have my Grandparents and both of our parents come and visit!! The girls and us were so spoiled by all of them and we just absolutely loved having all the visitors!! Thank you everyone for taking the time to come and visit and to make sure that we know that we are loved! We love you all and can't wait for another visit!!

Graduation!!

Jake graduated with his MBA on May 1st!!! Oh what a happy day! We are finally out of school!! I am so proud of him he worked so hard, he was class president, graduated with high honors and was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma for his scholastic acheivements!! On top of all that he was still an excellent father and still always made time for his family!!! I don't know how he had the time to fit it all in but he managed to do it!! We love you so much Jake and we are so proud of all that you have accomplished!