We don't have the actual pictures yet, so I stole a couple from facebook. Interestingly enough it snowed on their wedding day, only for a few mins but it snowed. Even more interesting is the last time it snowed around here:
It's now a family tradition. They had a great photographer, so the pics are amazing even though it was pouring rain. I'll post them soon, along with some other interesting stuff.
These two crazy kids are getting married. 
Which means life around our house has been crazy. Today Hailey hits 21 months but for the sake of keeping it short, that post will have to wait until after the wedding. I'm so excited for Steven and Amanda though! Saturday will be awesome!
She normally gets really into the hand motions, but today this was as good as it got.
With a little help and a LOT of patience from my cousin Rachel. I've never successfully sewn anything in my life, so I'm pretty pleased. I've always wanted a cute apron, and it turned out awesome. Thank you again Rach! (ignore the messy hair,I'm 5 1/2 month pregnant, I'm allowed to look sloppy.)
The tiny girl hit 20 months today. She's a little genius. Steven got some AWEsome video of her on Saturday and I plan on posting them as soon as I can steal the files off of his computer. If you are his friend on Facebook, he has posted them there. She can sing a few songs all the way through now. She loves (and hates) all the same things as last month. She has a great memory. She gets excited when we talk about baby brother and loves to kiss my belly, she tells me about him a lot even though I don't think she is really sure what all this baby brother talk means. She chatters ALL the time, non-stop. Most of what she says is pretty understandable. She loves to make sound effects. I think it's because Alex and I make them a lot. But lots of actions have very specific sound effects attached to them when she does them. She loves to visit friends and often will say someone's name followed by, "see them," when she wants to visit someone. She remember names VERY well, she's already better with names then I am. :) She is very gentle with other kids and loves to share. I feel very blessed for that. She also loves to help mommy cook. She runs in the kitchen and says, "cute baby help mommy." We're not exactly sure why she started calling herself the cute baby, but it's hard to say no to the "cute baby," so we know why she continues to say it. She says her last name now and it's SO cute, that will never be posted on here though. I like to keep the delusion that all of the strangers who read don't know who we are. She has also started to say her own prayers without any prompting. They go something like this, "Father grateful today AMEN!" This is getting very long, so I guess I should stop the bragging for now. ;)
I hit 5 months in the pregnancy on the 12. This pregnancy has been so different than Hailey's. I am seriously amazed by the differences. I've been sick with colds and flu's the entire time. Once I get over one thing, I have about a day before the next one hits. It's been really hard. With Hailey I never got sick. I've also had lots of body aches that I didn't have with Hailey. This baby is also way more active than Hailey was. Which is funny because the doctor said Hailey was way more active than a normal baby, I guess Alex and I just have hyper active babies. I have also have the worst sweet tooth. With Hailey I ate fairly healthy and really craved healthy food. Baby boy just wants desert, seriously that's all I want. I'm still pretty small though, and hope to stay that way until Steven's wedding in a month. We'll see how that goes with sweet tooth baby. Here's a picture for those of you who have asked.
Alex's parents and one of his brother's families are in town, so we met up with them at Disneyland. Grandma Y took WAY more pictures than I did, so for all of you in Utah, you can ask her when she gets home to see more Hailey and Kenna cuteness. Hailey LOVED spending the day with Kenna and we had a lot of fun with Alex's family. I just wished they lived closer. (Notice that I said, "they lived closer," and NOT, "we lived closer." It's too cold up there. :P)
Gotta love Hailey's "smile."
Hailey and Kenna on the "horsies." (And don't forget Rachel)
I tried to get everyone's attention, I guess I don't have a very commanding personallity.
Minnie Mouse tried to kidnap Hailey because she's so darn cute.
I think this is the only picture I got with both Hailey and Kenna smiling.
Hailey's first pigtails were the day before Halloween, they make her look so much older. Like a little kid instead of a baby. This is the best picture she would let me get though.
As you can tell I really get into dressing up.
Our cute tiny princess.
And since Halloween is Uncle Markie's birthday, here's a picture of him blowing out the candles on his birthday pie.
Happy Late Halloween!
We went to:
Man! I'm so in love:
Our cutie girl looks so much like her daddy:
Alex and his hero:
The only "family" picture we got (notice Alex is almost not in it):
When I'm pregnant I avoid the camera because I break out like a 12 year old and no one needs to see that. Sadly, I usually love being in pictures, I am not one of those people who is camera shy at all.
rain again. The only draw back of living in Southern California is there is not many days like this:
But also no snow days, so I guess it balances out.
I'm 20 weeks pregnant today, half way there. I have some pictures to post of stuff but I'll save that for later. On a really random side note, Hailey has been obsessed with the toilet lately. We personally think she is too young to potty train, but because of her obsession we decided we could buy her one of those seats that goes inside the toilet to make it toddler size. I bought it yesterday and she seriously begged to use it ALL day. Like I said, we don't really care if she does but we knew she would be excited about it. Last night before she went to bed, she used it! Seriously! She didn't just sit on it, she actually went to the bathroom. I chose not to post pictures of that because I think it is creepy when parents post potty pictures of their kids. Alex and I were both in shock though. I guess she's closer to ready than we thought. I promise to get some pictures of what we've been up to soon.
Hailey hit 19 months on Friday. I can now use the excuse that everything takes me longer because I am pregnant, so that is why I am a few days late on blogging about it. I will also use it for my excuse in the lack of blogging. Anyway, here are some pictures of the random things we've been up to.
We went to Disneyland for papa's birthday and Hailey really wanted to ride the, "lumpalump." (elephant) 
We went to the Seaside Highland games last weekend and since we've posted lots of Scotish games pictures before I thought one of a piper on the beach would be cool. It's the best we could get. You can see his pipes and he is wearing a kilt even though you can't see that.
My two loves.
Hailey giving daddy a kiss.
This is at the LA county fair. Hailey wasn't so sure about the dinosaurs. 
We were the cutest flowers at the fair.
We also went to the zoo, but those pics are on my dad's camera. Hailey knows tons of words and her sentences have become more complex. The doctor was amazed by her vocabulary when she went in for her check up. She can also count to 10, sing most of the alphabet, and is starting to learn her shapes and colors. She knew most of her animals already but now she has started to learn some more obscure ones like Koalas. She sings lots of songs too and she request songs for me to sing to her. Her favorites are the monkey's swinging through the trees, "abc," and "I'm trying to be like Jesus." She has also started to say prayers and can start them on her own. She loves nursery, singing, dancing, reading, going on walks, and anything to do with water. She doesn't like to take her nap or eat her dinner. She is growing so much each day. She is so fun. She also has started to call herself sister and points to my belly when we ask where the baby is. I plan on putting up a bunch of videos this month but getting good ones are hard.
We also find out what the baby is on Monday! :D
About a week ago I called one of my high school friends and sang happy birthday. Since then Hailey has been singing it like crazy. She is really good at it but she is so hard to catch on camera. This is the best I've gotten. In honor of Papa's 50th (YES 50th, my daddy is getting OLD!) birthday today, I thought I should post it. Happy Birthday, Papa!
(Also, note how distracted she suddenly gets by the phone that has been in her hands the whole time, babies are so funny!)
Today was Hailey's first day of Nursery. She was so excited, she didn't even look back to say good bye when she got through the door. She loved it and had so much fun. The only draw back of the whole experience was this:
Yep, that is a bite. AND it's about two hours after she got it. Needless to say, it was pretty bad. BUT she didn't cry! So, we didn't even find out about it until after. She's a tough cookie!
So I've always heard that the "terrible twos" are so terrible because kids want to be independent but aren't quite capable of the desired independence. If this is the case Hailey hit the terrible twos about 2 weeks ago. She wants to do everything herself and has a big enough vocabulary to make that clear. It's been alright though except for a couple of days. She is SO smart. She knows over 100 words and my doctor said 10 is good and 50 is usually the max. So I think I gets some bragging rights here. ;) She has some simple sentences down and totally knows exactly how to explain what she wants. Her dancing has become very elaborate, and so has her singing. Right now her favorite song is, "I Love to See the Temple," and when she tries to sing it she gets some of the words. She loves to sing with mommy and she even request songs. She is finally drinking milk! (YAY! after all the hard work!) She loves to go swimming at her aunt Nancy's. She loves to go places, she's our traveling girl. She is obsessed with fruit right now and with breakfast. She would eat breakfast 6 times every morning if we let her. She also loves to color and go for walks. She has started to feed herself recently and is actually really good at it. She still loves to read and that is what we spend most of our time doing. She also loves all things girly, which has been strange for me. Never thought I would have a girly girl. I tried to get some cute videos to post but she stops everything and smiles every time she see the camera. When I figure out how to hide the camera, you will get some great videos. She is SO fun!
On Saturday we went down to Newport Dunes for their movies on the beach. We went with my family and another family from our ward. We took a picnic dinner and the movie they showed was Ratatouille. Hailey loved it! We've been wanting to go for a couple of years, so it was finally nice to get down there. We had a lot of fun but I forgot my camera. So you get the picture from their site.
I would definitely recommend it. It's 10 bucks for the whole car load but this weekend coming up is the last one until next summer.
Hailey is 17 months. Our church starts at nine. Lets just say we aren't always on time for church. Last Sunday we were all ready for church and it was looking like we might be on time. I should have known better. I looked away for just 2 mins, (which I discover more and more is an eternity in baby years) and I hear this evil laugh. I look up and what do I see? Hailey has climbed up on the kitchen table and found the permanent marker that someone left out. Before I can stop her, the whole front of her white shirt is covered. (It is in the wash getting bleached as we speak, cross your fingers for us.) It was one of my favorites. :( I then frantically went looking for a clean dress, luckily she has had a recent growth spurt, so she fit into one she had never worn. The benefit to you is that the new dress looked so cute on her that I decided to post pictures. I have also included some random pictures of our adventures from the past week.
My cousin Rach picked it out, she has great taste.
Hailey's new favorite thing to do is get as close to the camera as possible.
Rocking the sing star mic.
This T-rex is in a library, probablly the coolest library ever.
She apparently loves ATVS.
As for the rest of our travels this summer, those will have to wait... until I finally get around to it OR worms have ears. Soon, I promise.
Recently I found out they are remaking one of my favorite 80's movies, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." As if this news wasn't bad enough on it's own, it is also going to be staring Miley Cyrus. I am now in a state of mourning. Just in case you have never seen the original one in all it's glory and as a tribute to it's awesomeness, I have found you this clip.
Now go watch the movie and your life will be complete.
I know I'm a slacker, it's been a crazy month though. Things have finally settled down (more or less) because Alex is back to work. We have been all over the place this month. And I will try to blog about it sometime.
Hailey now has enough hair that she actually has curls in the back. It's pretty darn cute and I no longer feel like she will always be a baldy. :D She has started to talk non stop. She gestures and uses enough real words to make it clear that she thinks she is saying sentences. She knows tons of words and has started to use ones that we have not specifically taught her but she has picked up from us talking. She also is doing short, "sentences." "Let's go," "more _____," "come on," and several others. I've trying to get video of her talking and gesturing because it is hilarious but when she sees the camera, she stops and smiles. She follows instructions, (except no) and always does the "victory dance" when she has done something she is proud of. She loves to dance, sing, read, play in water, jump on things, and learn new things. She does not like to be told no, get dirty, cuddle, or stay up late. (she is her father's daughter) She grows so much each day that it amazes me.
I know I'm a bit late but life is busy! I'm not gonna write all her milestones anymore, I will just say she is a genius, AND I'm not just being biased. ;) She is so fun. She's our little chatter box. She loves life. I have some great videos of her to post but finding the time has been difficult. Hopefully I will do better. We also have some awesome vacation pictures I should blog, I'll try to get some good stuff up soon.
With the passing of the King, mixed feelings have gone through a lot of people including myself. I, too, have heard and joined in on a of few jokes about how the creepy pedophile is gone and that he will have to be recycled since he's 80% plastic, but, all joking aside, he was still a person. A person who had talent for singing and, especially, dancing. He had some great talent even back in the days that he sang with Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and Marlon. Man, I still wish I could moonwalk like he could.
Speaking of moonwalking, there was once a video game that was made after his famous dance move. To honor the passing of this great singer/dancer I've decided to share the commercial for Michael Jackson's Moonwalker with all of you. Some of you might think that I'm mocking his death with this video, in fact it's the opposite. Hopefully most of you know of my likeing to video games and I feel that this is best way that I can honor him. I'm even thinking of downloading this on an emulator.
How proud can a mother be of her nearly 16 month old?
You tell me.
(No, she is not actually playing. Alex isn't even playing, they are watching other people play but Hailey wanted in on the action. AND it's Mario Kart Wii, which we own now.)
Happy engagement Tio Estaban and Amanda!
They got engaged June 18, I'm just a little behind.:)
I am grateful to have such a great Husband, to be such a great daddy to Hailey. I am also grateful for my own father and father-in-law, for all of the love and support they both show us. I am truly blessed to have such great men in my life. Happy Fathers Day!
Pandora Radio.
Go check it out. Hailey loves the Alan Menken Station we created. Alex and I listen to it a lot. In fact right now I'm listening to the Billy Joel station.
In no way do I post this video to compete with Carrie's post of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" literal version (super funny, by the way). I've known of another video for a while and I realized that if you enjoyed Carrie's post you just might enjoy this.
(p.s. sorry about the couple of swears)
Hailey hit 15 months yesterday but I was so overcome with excitement for the saved by the bell clip that I forgot to blog it. That probablly makes me a bad mom. I am trying to think of her new milestones but I am having a hard time remembering what was this month and what was the month before. Time has been a serious jumble ever since I got this cough that I have had for FOUR weeks now. ANYway, the milestones I can think of off hand are:
-She now can show you and name her nose, head, mouth, eyes, ears, elbow, bum, feet, toes, and belly button.
-She's up to over 50 words that she uses frequently and knows what they mean.
-She can say all of the colors but she doesn't know them by sight yet. We are working on it.
-She signs please, thank you, I love you, more, and milk.
-She has learned a few more animal sounds.
-Sadly, she has started climbing.
-She loves to dance, sing, read, go for walks, jump on the trampoline, eat, mimic sound, play with other kids, blow kisses, play peek a boo, (or as she calls it, "peek a ba!") wink, take baths, color, dance on the table, play with dry beans, and playing in her ten.
-She does not like to be taken off of the trampoline, be woken up early, or be carried by anyone. (she wants to , "walka walka")
A Saved by the Bell Reunion? I think only Alex, Steven, My mom and dad, and my cousins could even possibly comprehend the joy that this video brings to my heart. I may be slightly exaggerating when I say that a Saved by the bell reunion would be the third best day of my life, BUT only slightly. (the preview before the clip is slightly disturbing though)
AND if you too find yourself jumping on the couch and screaming for joy after watching this. Here is another one to bring a little more joy to your heart.
(Sadly, I understand every joke in each of these clips.)
I made a cake yesterday and I decided to try a new type of butter cream frosting. I've never been a big fan of butter cream because it is always too thick and too sweet. This one is just sweet enough and it is fluffy. It's almost like whipped cream frosting, which is my personal favorite. I hate taking pictures of food because they turn out poorly, but here's one anyway:
If you are interested in trying it, I got the recipe off of one of my favorite food blogs, Coconut and Lime. Here's the link: http://coconutlime.blogspot.com/2009/05/roux-frosting.html
I took Hailey out in the sprinklers on Thursday. She had mixed feelings about them. She would get close enough for just her feet to be getting wet and enjoy it. If she got brave and decided to venture closer, she would freak out and run to the back door screaming. She would then stand there until she worked up the courage to go back out, and then do the whole thing again. It was pretty hilarious to watch. She looked so cute in her swimsuit!
Trying to decide is she should get closer:
There she goes:
This is when she remember how much more she likes the trampoline:
