Look at My Hot Husband!

So we all saw the little post Chris put on with my "polygamist" hairdo. So here I am getting back at my hubby! HAHA! Isn't he the hottest thing ever! I just had to look threw thousands of our pictures to find this but it was totally worth it. Chris always leaves a mustache when he is shaving and thinks its so funny to come out of the bathroom like nothing is wrong and try to kiss me. (picture him trying not to laugh at himself) I always run away and freak out how gross his mustache is! EWWW!!! I made him take this picture over two years ago to document his creepo look. 

My real haircut

So Chris and I thought it would be funny to put a ugly picture of my new bangs as a joke picture. I know all of you thought I looked so hot but hey its not the real look! Anyway here is a REAL picture of my new hairdo. What do you think?

Birthday Adventures

Mayan Fun

So For my birthday Chris took the day off HURRAY! And took me to the Mayan and a movie. It was so much fun. And for a second year in a row THE  FOOD WAS GOOD.  Whenever you mention to Mayan to anyone they say eww the food is gross! Well its not so Chris took  a picture of his heaping pile of fajitas to prove it.  They changed the menu a bit from last year but for the better now you get a ton of food instead of barely any. Which also could be bad when you end up gorging yourself cause its so dang good!  I had such a good birthday this year! It almost made me forget that I'm getting old.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CRYSTAL!!!!!

Hello all!! Chris here,

Crystal celebrated her 25th birthday today by cutting "polygamist" bangs! GAGGG!!! Lets all pretend they look good and leave her nice comments! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY, I LOVE YOU!!

Avery

So a couple weeks ago Gap was having a sale on their spring line so I just couldn't resist this cute outfit! Avery just loved it. She twirled around like a princess singing I know you from sleeping beauty.  And posed quite nicely to show off her cute dress, hat, and sun glasses. I had to blog about Avery and her new pet name for Penelope. She of corse can't say Penelope at all. She has been able to say Cooper forever and usually calls Penelope Cooper too. But lately she has been calling her Wootie.... I have no idea where she got this from or how it even works as the name Penelope. It just cracks me up every time she yells, "Wootie come here!" (while of corse patting her leg) 

Family Birthday Party!

Me and my Grandpa

The yummy Costco cake

Ave and her cousin Lily

Sunday we all went down to my dads house for the January Birthdays. (We have four in jan.) It was my brother James, my dads, my brother in law mikes, and mine.  We had a ton of yummy food that my step mom made. Thanks Laurie! And a yummy cake and tons of presents. Its always fun when we get together because of all the kids running around wild.  Avery was so into her cousin Lily. She is just in love with babies right now and is so excited to become a big sister.

To my Hubby

So I heard this song on the radio and yes I teared up ( I am really pregnant emotional today) Anyways I just want to say to Chris I love you so much.  You are an amazing husband and daddy! I know you have been having a lot of stress from work and I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate you and all you do!

An unexpected ultrasound

Don't look to closely at the face it looks a little creepy like the baby is smiling or something

A foot! And hurray it has 5 toes!

So considering the situation of my pregnancy and tons of people are always asking how everything is I thought I would just blog about the things that are going on.  Yesterday I had some really sharp painful cramps in my right side. YIKES! Normally I get these every couple of days but they go away pretty fas t(within minutes to 1/2 hour). I had told my doctor about them and said you are probably just growing and since your organs aren't normal it probably just hurts worse for you. But yesterday was an all day experience. I called the doctor of corse worried he said to go to the ER if they got worse since they were closing and to come in the next day if I was still in pain. Luckily my mom came over and took Ave while I passed out in bed. And luckily this morning the pain was way down but still lingering so I called the doc again and I had to go in for another ultrasound.  This is my fourth ultrasound! Can you believe it and I'm sure there will be a whole lot more of them.   Well the baby is fine we saw and heard the heart beat. Hurray! And we got to see our cutie again we are spoiled! This time the baby had pretty much doubled in size since the 8th of Jan. And as you can see we saw a foot and the arms and a profile. Also got to see it move around. CRAZY! But still no gender :( Anyways nothing was wrong with our little one which was good but it still doesn't explain my pain! I'm guessing the doctor will say its just your crazy uterus's.  Chris reminded me how miserable I was when I was prego with Avery ya I guess I blocked those memories. I did have to go on bed rest at 20 weeks with her for "painful cramps"  I'm just glad they didn't put me on bed rest yet. Well there is the update and I will keep you all posted on any news.

so I guess we should share our secret

Avery is so excited to be a big sister!

Yes Chris convinced me to take a fam pic even though I feel HUGE!

I guess its ok to share our little secret! Yes we are pregnant with our 2nd! I am a little over 12 weeks now and slowly starting to not feel deathly sick everyday. Hence the lack of posts. The doctor said we are pretty much in the clear now but with my whole double uterus thing its still a mystery on what will exactly happen.  I had Avery in my right side with the normal cervix so we know that side is ok even though I had her at 33 weeks.  Most women with the anatomy do have their babies premature because the baby runs out of space. With Ave I had pre-eclamsia so we don't know how much longer I could have carried her. This pregnancy is in the left side with the small cervix so the doctor says we don't know if I will have a normal delivery like Ave or if I will have a c- section but we will worry about that when we get there. The only real mystery is is how early will I have this baby. My due date is August 5th.  So they are just keeping a real close eye on me and we will just see. Im just preparing myself for another early baby. Im ok with that as long as he/she is healthy! Anyways if anyone has any questions about the weird situation with uterus ask away oh and we all know I have one kidney too! I think I got in the wrong line!

Avery's 2 year pictures

I took these a while ago but never posted them. It took two different days of bribery and me acting like an idiot to get these darling pictures of Ave. 

Avery is such a big girl!

A while back we went to McDonalds with my niece and nephew and taada we got these amazingly cute pictures of Avo being a cheese ball! Avery is turning into quite the young lady.  Chris told her the other night binkies are for babies and she is a big girl and doesn't need a binkie anymore. She said ok! and handed it over I was shocked! Because we all know how miss Avery is a very opinionated little girl and likes things to be her way or her idea. Surprisingly she slept through the night just fine and didn't ask for the binkie once. She has asked for it a couple of times now but we just say binkies are for babies and you are a big girl and she gets this HUGE smile on her face and is fine.  Avery has also started to potty train a bit more. She will go 3-4 times on the big girl potty a day which I think is amazing and most of the time wears big girl pull ups. In fact we spent new years sitting in the bathroom while she made her first number 2 in the toilet. Chris said hey happy new year and we both laughed and couldn't have wished to spend it any other way. Avery is talks so much now and sometimes we are like be quiet for just a minute! She is talking in very short sentences and will pretty much copy any word you say even if you don't mean to say it (if you know what I mean). The other day Chris was like this is stupid and Avery copied! Stupid stupid stupid. We couldn't stop laughing. She is pretty much obsessed with Dora now and says Beuno all the time.  She still hates eating unless its yogurt (which she call wenert) pizza, chicken nuggets only from McDonalds, mac and cheese, and quesadillas, and baby food of corse! She is in love with babies and playing with her friends. Oh and she is obsessed with her daddy! She is definitely a daddys girl. Anyways there is a little update on miss Avery.

New Years

Avery's face painting experience

Chris and Ave getting her lion balloon animal

Avery and her cousin Stephanie

For New Years we hung out with my dads side. Went went out to dinner. First trying to hit up Chilis since half of us had gift cards. Bad idea on a holiday! Most people in Utah county were thinking baby back ribs too! It was an hour and forty five minute wait. Not a good idea with two toddlers no place to stand and several hungry women. So we hit up McDonalds. YES! haha not really well the kids a blast on the play place so that was sure nice to have them out of our hair while we all tried to scarf down our dinner since they closed in 30 minutes! After dinner we headed over to the mall for a warm kid friendly party! It was fun but crazy. The lines were outrageous for any of the kids stuff. So we waited in line for a balloon animal and face painting. We had Avery get her face painted and we definitely thought she wouldn't stay put. We were wrong she LOVED it! And kept saying paint paint. Overall the night had a lot of hiccups but we had so much fun being with family.

Christmas

Avery opening up her presents

Christmas Eve

Christmas was so fun this year because Avery knew what was going on and was REALLY into opening presents. She kept saying open more open more. She was pretty sad when all the presents had been opened. For Christmas Eve we head over to Chris's moms house to have a yummy dinner and play games. It was so fun hanging out with family. We got home pretty late and realized crap we hadn't put together or wrapped all the gifts so we were up pretty late getting Christmas ready. Avery woke up Christmas morning around 9 nice! a little sleep in is always nice. We took her downstairs and she went crazy opening presents. Afterwards we went to Chris's dads for brunch and had another yummy meal! and more presents. Then our moms came over for even more presents. It was a great day! Can't wait for next year.....Well maybe I can.