A tale of the last 10..or so.. days

Preslee loves going on bike rides with us. This particular bike ride she was more preoccupied with her little phone and drink.

We loved our bike ride but every time we looked down at our legs we were getting bitten by a stinkin mosquito! I probably got about 8 on each leg. My Preslee came out of the ride untouched and that is what I care about. She is such a fun little Princess.

August 15th, 2012

For Our 'End of the Summer' YW activity this year I wanted to do something really fun with the YW. We decided to take Front Runner down to SLC and go visit Temple Square.

We were about 10 min our of Cache Valley when one of the LA girls  mom called and said that her girl wanted to go. There was no way we were not going to leave her. So I turned around and got her and I am so glad I did because she made it so much fun. But it did put us a little behind but that was totally ok.

After we toured the visitor's center we ate at 'The Gardens' that is on the same floor as 'The Roof' on the top floor of the JS Building. It turned out to be more expensive than I was told it would be but I just bit the bullet and ordered. Our YW budget may be feeling tight by the end of the year but we had such a great time. It was so nice to look and see the Temple. We were all so giggly during dinner and pretty much the whole time.

You could say that there were a lot of what we liked to call 'blonde moments.' Like trying to scan our paper front runner pass. My favorite was when we were going home and getting on Front runner Sister Miller got on the train and the doors closed. She turned to look at us through the window with a look of horror on her face. All the girls and sister Pritchard were freaking out and banging on the window thinking that she was going to leave without us. I said 'just push the button to open the door, the train shouldn't be leaving this early'. And it worked. We laughed so hard at our foolishness. I was about to pee my pants. I had to pause and cross my legs as I was climbing the stairs to the 2nd level of Front runner. We were all in tears. 

There were so many little things like that. We are obviously not city girls and don't understand how all the UTA stuff works. But we are all a little more educated.

We really had so much fun and made some wonderful memories together. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful bunch of YW to work with. I wish they all could have come with us.

We ran out of time to get any pictures by the reflection pool or by the temple.

"Picnic" at First Dam 

August 17th, 2012

I " " the picnic because there was no eating done by Preslee. Every time I tried to give her some sandwich she would just throw it to the ducks. She was much too busy to worry about such unimportant things such as food when there is playing to be done. When will I learn??!!!!! She loved this little outing.

These ducks were not afraid to get close. They even took the food right out of my hand.

We have bee working on the word 'Duck'. She is pretty good at saying it. I have some flash cards with pictures of animals and objects to learn. We HAD to bring the card with the duck on it. She just kept saying 'duck, duck, duck,..' over and over on the drive to First Dam while showing me the card. Such a fun kid.

Our Friend Grady.

"Duck, Duck, Duck." I think we will learn the difference between Duck and Geese at a later time.

Love feeding the ducks

Our little card. Such a fun... and hot... day.

This Saturday August 18th, 2012

Aggie Football Family Day

We are huge Aggie Fans Especially Football and B-ball. We love it. It seems we go to everything we possible can.

We hope Preslee will one day be an Aggie Fan or at least love the University of her choice as much as we love USU.

Stepping on to the new field. While they were installing this field this summer, Matt would watch it online live. To me it was the most boring thing one could do but he was enthralled. So this was a big moment for him.

The 20... the 10... Score!!!!!!!!!

I love this little girl so much

Matt is the best Daddad ever!

What do you get when you put very playful kids together?

This weekend we were blessed to have Matt's brother Russ' family with us. So So fun. Preslee loved having her cousins to play with and Dakota Super loved having little boys to throw the ball for him. They came yesterday morning and Russ went to work with Matt, The kids got immediately to playing. 

It was so so hot outside that we decided to play mostly inside. As you can see; this is how much fun was had.... and this is just one of the rooms in my house.  And I just had fun relaxing and chatting with Kim.

After the boys finished up Matt's work we went to the Cache County Fair. It was great... and hot. I love fairs and any summer festivity. I just love all holidays and festivities. And I love having a family and kids to share them with and to make it very special for them.

Coloring the Aggie Bull at the fair.

Preslee is just so special. I can already tell that she is going to be very musically talented but lately she has shown a lot of interest toward art too. She loves to color. She is going to be one all-around gal.

Kim and I wanted to make new wreaths for our doors today. We both tried to think of ideas. I wanted to do an August/ September wreath but really couldn't think of something  about those months other than harvesting veggies and fruit. I didn't want to dive right in to Fall or Halloween stuff either. But then I thought of Aggie football. Matt has been obsessed with it. 

They were putting in a new football field this year up at the stadium. New and improved turf. It is supposed to be some of the best stuff money can by. Top stuff. Anyway. There was a live internet feed of the installation of it. It took maybe about a week or so. Matt would get online and just stare at the computer screen and watch the workers install it. BORING. But he loved it. 

That is how excited he is about football.

So I came up with this wreath and not to my surprise, Matt is crazy about it.

AGGIE FOOTBALL -clap - clap - clap clap clap!!!!!!!!

Splish Splash

Why do I always update our blog at night. I get so tired by the end of the day that things go blurry and I don't really have much to say because I do not feel whitty or chatty and don't feel like telling stories. Good thing pictures are worth 1,000 words.

Preslee LOVES water. Which is good because it has been so blasted hot this summer that we do water stuff almost everyday.... Which makes it a good thing that she has three swimming suits. She wears those more than her clothes it seems. It has been a wet summer.

Yesterday I had a combined mutual activity that I was in charge of. We went to the aquatic center in Logan. Pres and Matt came to and we really had a blast

After a while we took her out of her floaty and let her just walk around in the water. I hovered over her like a helicopter mom would. Any mom would. Anyway she loved it. 

On the drive home I looked back at her and my heart just sank, she looked beyond tired. Poor thing played herself to exhaustion. Lets just say that she took two naps yesterday and I was totally ok with that. I sure miss the 2nd naps.

Today was a slow day for us. Preslee and I really didn't have any errands that needed to be ran. And lets be honest. I usually keep my house really clean and so nothing needed to be cleaned really. 

So once again we played outside in the water.

She loves this little pool. We keep it in the garage and whenever Preslee sees it in there she points to it, makes that cute little noise she makes when she is trying to tell me that there is something that she likes, and she gets really excited. 

You can see our fantastic new fence in the background.

And of course we need to have our measuring spoons that we pulled out of the drawer outside to swim with us.

Tonight after dad gave Preslee a bath, while I vacuumed, we played a little game of hide-and-go-seek. Preslee gets so over excited when she knows that we are coming after her. I am always afraid that she is going to run straight into a wall or something. She just squirms all over. You can count on it every time that she runs right into my closet and hides in my clothes. I will crawl on the floor and bang my hands down for effect and she squills. Oh it is such a fun game to play with my little miss.

I love and live for my little miss.

We have finally announced that we are having a little baby girl. Some knew but most did not so this is how we did it. 

Surprise to all!!!!

I have been dying to get this picture done and have been thinking about announcing a pregnancy like this even before I found out I was pregnant. I thought it turned out alright.

I used a wide angle lens and I am not sure that was the best choice for the picture. It gave it a weird look to it. Or maybe it is just me.

Here are some other pictures that I took of Preslee before our feet photo shoot. She just looked so cute in her little outfit,  her matching shoes, and her hair, that I just had to take advantage of it before she played hard. 

"Me being oh so good for the camera."

"But really, this is what I would rather be doing."

And since we need to clear out our guest room for Preslee for a little bedroom shuffle. We decided to take the first step start with the book shelf.

We wanted to put it in our room but it needed a little face lift before it would really look good in here.

Meet Plain Jane

We added a little crown molding 

Puttied the sides so it would not show any major cracks

And Vwallah

She fits in our fancy room just great.

We did a lot of fun things to our home today. Some big and some small. I really enjoyed doing it and I know Matt did too. I am glad that we work so well together. I will think it and he will help me create it. I would rather be doing stuff like this than sitting around watching whatever.

Mommy's helper

Now I don't know about other mom's out there but I seriously sweep my floor 3 times a day. So I was not in the least bit surprised that when Preslee got her hands on the broom and the dust pan tonight that she just went to town and tried her best to mimic  what she has seen me do. It was so fun to see. She would push the broom forward and back and do her best to clean up. 

Also, I did a little project today during nap time. I like the quick projects like this one:

Before

After

Baby and Balloons

       I am going to get a baby sister!!!!!!!!!
Yesterday (7/31/2012) we found out that we are having another little baby girl. I couldn't be more excited. I have always felt in my heart that this little baby was a girl and that there was another little girl being sent from above. Everyone asked me what I preferred to have and I really didn't care but I feel that deep down I was leaning towards having another girl. I have such a strong bond with my sister that I wanted the same for my Preslee and now my baby girl.
We wanted to do something special for Preslee so we bought her a bundle of pink balloons. She is not old enough to realize what is going on and to understand what a sister is but she fell in love with the balloons. She would not let them out of her sight.She takes them from room to room with her wherever we go. Even today we had to have them with us while we ate breakfast and lunch. I needed to run some errands today and I was afraid that we would need to take them with us. But that was not the case, there was a little separation anxiety when we went out to the car but she survived.
I love Preslee so so so much and everything she does is the most amazing and cutest thing ever. I cannot imagine loving anything as much but I know (or have heard) that with each child your heart expands. I know I will love this next little one just as much.
I remember the feeling that I had when the doctor put Preslee in my arms. I had the feeling that I knew her before and that we were finally reunited. I had such great love for her that only a mom or parent could understand. I would do anything for my little miss. I can't wait to feel it again.

This picture was taken today at lunch. She wouldn't even let the balloons go to eat, Silly girl.