RegaNater

Fall 2010

2011-08-30T02:14:00.000-07:00

I was on a role this fall taking picture after picture:)

Here Winston is riding his very first ride:)

Then I did my best to do a little photo shoot of my cute little man and his buddy Jace

Wins last highschool football game was fun, they played hard and made it really far. Winston and Grandpa matched in their plaid shirts:)

Winston got his first black eye. Poor buddy. He is one wild and crazy boy who plays hard.

Halloween 2010

2011-08-30T01:06:00.000-07:00

I can't help but to post a million pictures and they all look the same, haha, but to me they are so cute! I thought Winston was THE most adorable clown I've ever seen. My dad was amazing and actually made the entire families costumes!!!! For real!!! He worked so hard and as a family we looked awesome! It was amazing! Thanks DAD! Now enjoy the pics, they are pretty self explanatory:)

October 2010

2011-07-03T22:39:00.000-07:00

Winston being a cutie patootie!

Check out those boots!

Kirk and Brittany's Wedding was so beautiful! It was outside on the most perfect day at morrison ranch.

This was a fun set up they did for the guest book

It was such a beautiful night. They couple ended up dancing in the moonlight, so sweet and romantic:)

Emily and I took Winston and Jace to schnep farms for their pumpkin patch. Winston loved the petting zoo.

I turned and saw him trying to ride one of the goats. haha crazy boy!

Hawaii 2010

2011-01-09T13:57:00.000-08:00

In September, We went to Hawaii. It was a first for both of us! We went with Nate's "Bro's" from highschool and their wives! We went with no kiddos and seriously had one of the best and well needed trips of our lives!
All of my pictures are out of order, but it took me like two years to get them all loaded and it would take me another two years if I tried to get them in the order I want (Is it just me or does blogspot's lack of basic features just drive you crazy) Anyway, back to the best trip of my life:)

Here we are at the Laie temple, the beach house we stayed at was in Laie walking distance from the temple! We would even jog in the morning to the temple and it was so beautiful. It was still under construction when we went so we were not able to go in, and unfortunately weeks after we left, they had the open house.
Here is a Buddhist temple we visited, it sits ontop of this cemetary and is so pretty. I could have stayed there much longer, but the mosquitos were in full force that day!

One memory that I want to write, is that when we were in Hawaii, Beave was determined he would get a tattoo, although Kayla his wife begged him not to. At this temple Kayla made a wish at the wishing well that Beave wouldn't go to his tattoo appointment, Well Beave went and 30 min after dropping him off, he called and the power went out at the tattoo shop. haha go Kayla!! (But unfortunately for Kayla that didn't stop Beave the next day he was back at the shop and got the tattoo.)

This was the once glass table on our balcony, we came home one windy afternoon and the umbrella broke all the glass. Thankfully the owners were understanding.

We went to pay tribute at Pearl Harbor.

Nate went deep sea fishing and caught the most delicious fish! It was beautiful!

That night Captain Mike (Lahua's cousin that lives there) invited us over to eat all of the fish our boys had caught. Ahi Tuna, mahi mahi, and much more! It was the BEST! I've never had anything that fresh beforeWe went to the polynesian cultural center and it is so impressive we got to see the show that night and even had the backstage hook ups thanks to Beave. He actually grew up in Laie while his dad taught at BYU Hawaii, he has many old friends there and left and right we got so many hook ups. The Hawiian people take care of their family, and close friends there are family, it is such an amazing spirit. This is the band that Beave used to be in when he lived in HI, we got to see them perform! They are so good! Bruddah Sam on the left is like a legend there. He is so so talented!

The Bros Nate, Beave and AaronWe were invited to Bruddah Sam's place for a Kava party! Can I just say Kava is so nasty its like drinking mud haha! It was fun though:)

Ok this is one of the pics I wanted at the end because at the end of our trip we were leaving Sat afternoon. Well we got to the airport and our flight was delayed for like 8 hours and unlike anywhere else we were thrilled! We didn't get to spend much time in Maui. To accomodate us the airlines shuttled us to Maui let us stow our carry ons at a hotel AND gave us a buffet voucher to the hotel dinner valued at like $60 per person.
Oh my gosh All you can eat, fresh king crab!!!! I was in heaven. I love crab! I have no idea how much I consumed this night haha!

Beautiful waterfalls of the mountain

Blue Steel anyone?

We went on a hike one day, it was very amusing. We took the wrong way when we got scared that this crazy local was going to kill us so instead of seeing this beautiful view we ended up walking around the sewer plant. haha!

Now I know where Winston get it, NAte climed this totally unstable tree that if he falled he was going strait down a cliff.

In Hawaii, Love is in the air:)

On the North Shore the waves were INSANE!!! These waves were tunneling right at the shore. Lifeguards were warning everyone that even body surfing these waves was dangerous and can brake bones. Yikes! Of course that didn't stop Nate and Aaron

At the PCC Luau

Nate decided to put the tattoo across his face at the PCC

Here's me taking some fun yoga shots! I have always wanted some cool yoga shots and there no better background than this!

The most amazing tree ever! I love it!

Im obsessed with coconut water! Can you tell!

We cruised the whole time in convertable mustangs! It really is the only way to go!

Kristi and Landon are Beave and Kayla's friends! It was so fun to get to know them they are a blast! And of course we love Beave and Kayla!!Me and Lahua ( Aarons wife had so much fun) We got made fun of for the scarves but hey our hair was out of our face and not wind blown when we got to dinner so It really did the job! I think they are cute anyway. If I ever have a convertable you better bet I'm gonna be sporting my scarf and big sunglasses:)

This was the view from our balcony. WOW!This was our beach house!

This was the most wonderful snow cone of my life. I would have it any day over Bahama Bucks! Instead of cream it had condensed milk and the flavors were home made. So So So good! I'd go back just for that haha!!!We jogged to this point it was right down the street from where we stayed.

This is my favorite picture!

Our whole group as we arrived in HI

Best Breakfast ever! This is what they based the breakfast place in 50 first dates after

Again those monsterous waves

The whole group again:) I"m so glad we got to share this experience with them! We had a blast and are ready to do it again!

ALOHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

August/Septmber Happenings

2011-01-05T07:48:00.000-08:00

August was hot and fun!!

Nate celebrated another birthday! We had a hot date to the Keg Steakhouse, yum:)

We also had some friends over for some pies (Nates request)

Winston is constantly cracking us up. He is such a cutie pie! BAth time is his absolute favorite time! He plays and splashes

We took Winston and JAce to their first baseball game

I got to meet up with Hiedi

and I discovered Winston's love for Jamba. Does he realize that while I was prego I drank Jamba like everyday?

My skinny little monster cant keep his pants up. They just fall right to his ankles all day. One day I looked over and he took his shorts and put them on his head. Oh my gosh, I was cracking up.

Uncle Ryan with his future nieces (haha fingers crossed)

HAppy Birthday Heather

Go Cards

2010-12-10T07:54:00.001-08:00

In the pre season We went to the best Preseason Cardinals game EVER! It was so exciting especially since our favorite player of all time Max Hall had a rockin night!

It was Winstons first NFL experience. He loves football and he loves his Cards:) It was fun to be there with Kinzi and the Halls just celebrating Max's accomplishments.

Carrie came with Leah, she thought Leah was wearing a cards jersey but it was actually ASU haha:) Just as long as it wasn't Uof A

My future football star :)

My dad got us these great seats and then shows up in the opposing teams jersey...What???? He had to support his team since he grew up in Virginia. It was a win win for him

Its so good to see good things happen to good people. YOu don't find nicer people than MAx and Mckinzi! So happy for you guys and I wish you all the success in the world:)

Camping aka What was I thinking

2010-11-14T10:29:00.000-08:00

This Summer Nate and Loren Smith got the bright idea that we should go on a camping trip with the kiddos. Thus far in our marriage, we've camped a few times. Our camping has only been quick overnight trips and we always camp at the same place. Mount Graham. This is by Thatcher and where Nate has camped most of his life. At Mount Graham, you just drive up the mountain and find a good spot and we always have a good time.

Well, this trip was different. First of all this was our first time camping with babies. Camping for just one night with adults is perfectly fine, camping one night with babies is ridiculous. There is way too much stuff to bring, and it is so not worth the hastle.

So here's the details to our not so fabulous trip...

Here we are finally packed only a couple hours after we were hoping to leave. Check out Winston trying to peek over all our stuff. Though we are packed, we were not quite ready to go, because we still had to go pick up the canoe so the boys could fish. The drive was only supposed to be an hour and a half to the camp site, but we waited an hour to load the canoe and then we started our drive. Once we got into town it was dark. We headed to the lake where we were planning to camp next to. When we got there though, we realized that the site we were hoping to stay on was completely full due to the holiday weekend, and that in order to camp there we were supposed to make reservations. We were not in Thatcher any more, this was way different than what we are used to. Splendid!!!! So we drove for another 2 hours in the dark, with 4 cranky babies including me and Stacia, finally we found this make shift camp site right of this dirt road and when I say make shift, I mean it.

So now its like 10pm and we haven't eaten dinner, because we had packed tin foil dinners that we would make once we got the fire started. So we start getting everything set up, and of course it starts raining. Awesome! So we get the tent up and now have to eat our food inside. Which we tried to get rid of all the elk meat in our fridge and made dinner out of elk....hmmmm, not so tasty. It needed lots and lots of ketchup to taste good.

Since it was pitch black when we found our camp site, we kept joking how in the morning we would probably wake up to the most beautiful scenery.... nope.... we woke up to sad remnants of a forest fire.

This is all our stuff. Now the main point of the trip was to fish, after all we did rent a canoe. So after eating Breakfast, it was time to pack everything up and head to the lake..... yeah, so not worth the hastle.

'winston helping take down the tent

This phase of Winston's life was hard on me. He wanted nothing to do with me and was obsessed with his dad, sometimes he's still like this. But anyway, this picture sums it all up, check out that glare he's giving me.

I won best dressed of the trip...actually everyone kept making fun of my outfit.

First camping trip yeah!!!

Oh and did I mention that Winston did not sleep that night, he just cried and screamed for like 2 hours. And our site was surrounded by all of these fresh cow turd piles

I would say this picture sums up our trip:)

HB trip

2010-11-14T09:52:00.000-08:00

Stacia came home for the summer and we had so much fun. One weekend, Nate was so nice to stay home with Winston and let me and Stacia go out to California to go visit my brother Ryan who was staying the summer at his friends beach house in Huntington Beach. It was a very quick trip, but in our short time there, we had so much fun and have so many funny stories just from a one and a half day trip. This was the Beautiful house we stayed in. It was so much fun to be back in HB. Its been so long since I was back there, but I loved it. My favorite thing was riding a beach cruiser around and going to take yoga classes at the Main street Yoga Works.

Check out this Kitchen. This house was so nice.

We went out for Ryans birthday!

You can't go to HB and not go to the sugar shack. Its a must do.

Wud up

randoms

2010-09-04T18:48:00.000-07:00

I have a few random pics and videos that I wanted to post!

First Cannon my nephew turned 3 Yeah!!!!! What a big boy!!!

Then I have two cute and funny videos of Winston. The first is of him playing Where's Winston. I think when he says wootie, that really is his way of saying Winston.

The other video might make you think I'm the worst mom ever! haha. But When Stacia was visiting this summer, she came over and helped me a lot with Winston. One day we were going to meet my mom for lunch and I asked Stacia if she could help me get Winston Dressed before we left. Well He ended up in the most wt outfit ever. He looked like Bruno or something. haha. It was so funny though, so I let him wear it. haha. We laughed so hard. I just love my little man. he is so funny and cute!!!!! love him!!! Hopefully the videos come out well.

4th in Flo Rida

2010-08-06T08:35:00.000-07:00

It was so great to be able to go to Florida this summer for the 4th of July!

Nate's grandparents celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary this year, so the entire family made their way to Florida for a week long visit. Everyone except Camille and Jay and of course Jared who is serving his mission in Africa were able to go. We missed you guys

So we're off for a week and I have to admit I was terrified of what that plane ride was going to be like. This was Winston's first time flying. He did so Well!!! For the first time ever, I was grateful for layovers, where Winston was able to get his wiggles out. The airport was a giant playground for Winston. He loves escalators and anything with wheels. So he was in heaven with all the wheelchairs and luggage rollers at every corner.

Getting ready to shine his shoes:)

Yeah!!! We made it to Fort Myers Florida. Day one, we went to Sanibelle Island and spent a day at the beach. We had rain storms everyday that we were there, but luckily we managed to have clear skies at the beach.
The beaches at Sanibel are beautiful. You walk through tons of greenery and then you hit the beach. Here is Ian (Nate's hilarious little cousin) Winston and NateWinston loved being able to play in the warm gulf water where the waves are gentle and small. This boy was in heaven!!! This place is known to have awesome shells too. We found so many!

Family at the beach!

On our way home from the beach, we made a stop at the hopital

No need to worry, it was for good reasons. Nate's cousin Marli had a beautiful baby boy that day!I was able to meet all of Nate's expended family just last year when we went to Florida on a trip there. But this trip we got to meet Nates long lost cousin. Jimmy was very nice and it is too crazy how much he looks like a Wright.

Happy Anniversary Grandma and Grandpa Wright

All the siblings

Raylee and Winston rockin out

We had such a large group that we all stayed at different relatives homes. One of the homes had a lake in the backyard. We had a great time kyacking!

Watch out for the giant grasshoppers

Ian and Nate went all the way to this island where they saw alligators

The next day we went to Ft. Myers beach. I only wish Winston would have slept longer. This lasted maybe one minute:( Kase slept good though.
If you remember my post from last Fl trip, I raved about this orange juice place...Yep, still good! We love this place, and made an effort to go there as many times as we could.

Here's day one

Day 2

And day 3

Not only is the onrange juice so good, but they also have orange and keylime soft serve icecream that is delicious too

One day we all took a walk through this Nature preserve that is right near the house. It was so pretty, we were litteraly in the tropics. Our hope was to spot an alligator. We found a group of baby racoons, they were so close. I was so scared though because I felt like the mama racoon was going to jump on my back out of nowhere and attack me. You should have heard me scream when a drop of water landed on my head. The whole group thought I was being attacked or something. ah good times!

Family pic on the Nature preserve. Happy 4th!

Grandpa joined us. This place is in his backyard and he had never been before. We walked so much and he is in great shape.

I got some cute pics here. I wish I had a nice camera, this place would be a cute photo shoot. Maybe someday...

Mission accomplished!!!! We totally found this alligator! It was so cool!

We made our own fireworks show! Thanks guys for not blowing us up, well there was one close call. I'm still traumatized, haha!

Sparklers!!!

Win

All the grandlee kids. Raylee and Alezae loved their tutus from Grandma Roo best buds

The cousins minus Camille and Jared and Dillon with Grandparents (those mirrors ruined the picture)

All the great grandkids (minus Addie)

4 generations (I know I have some of these already oh well)

We love Grandpa Wright!!!

Thanks for the great time in Florida! Hope to see you all soon!!!

Mr. Personality

2010-08-04T09:42:00.000-07:00

This is just a little shout out to my little man. He is my light and did I mention he is hilarious!!!!

This kid is a crazy ball of energy, and I'm serious about that statement.

The funny thing is that he was just born with this big personality. He's super independent, funny, happy, active, and really is a good good boy. However, there's one other adjective that describes my little man, and I mean this in the best way possible but hes a little brat hahahahaha!

Well this is an older pic he was 9 months and would make this hilarious faceNotice in all these pictures, all the drool! Yes that is another trait that he has had since birth.
These next pictures are more recent and the fact that he is either without a shirt and many times only in diapers should not be surprising. He's dressed this way 80% of the time haha, I know I'm white trash, but I have my reasons. 1) This is the messiest and drooliest boy you ever did meet. 2) MAybe this is normal, I'm not sure but this kid has some active intestines. I'm talking at least 3 bms a day. Sorry tmi.

Winston is starting to look like Daddy more and more

So let me tell you something about Winston, clearly he loves his daddy. And when I say loves I mean LOVES his daddy. All day at home I here "dadda! dadda! daddy?" The funny thing is he said mama maybe for a day and then stopped. Call me crazy, but I really think he won't say mama on purpose now. I think he does it to drive me crazy!!!! Hands down dadda is his favorite. In fact I'm sure after this picture he pulled my hair bit my nose and then screamed to have daddy hold him instead!!!! Oh well NAte's my favorite too:) I can't blame him

Here is Winston being a ham as always

He always does this squat and laughs! I love it!!!

look at that drool

He always walks with his chest out! It's so funny

He loves putting bowls and things on his head!

Silly Silly boy!!!!

Just chillin!

Love you buddy! You are one of a kind! And I wouldn't trade your for anything

Happy Birthday to me!

2010-07-25T15:09:00.000-07:00

I'm coming to the realization that birthdays are getting less and less fun. Let's rephrase that, Getting older is getting less and less fun. This year turning 26 has been by far the hardest to swallow. In my head I'm still a teenager, my real age is clearly the opposite!

I still like birthdays though. When else do you get to do everything you want and no one can argue with you. It's my day and that's why I love it!!!

I had such a great birthday week thanks to all my friends and family! We even had a little party where we went toJumpstreet! This place is lined with Trampolenes and is a blast. The best part too is that it is crawling with tweenagers, and you tell me what's funner than messing with a bunch of tweens.

Heres most of our wild group!

We couldn't get Max away from the dodge ball area! Those poor kids didn't stand a change playing against Max!

Shane Lauren and baby Brody

Emily me and Sara

Jumpstreet Baby!!!!

The week of my birthday, there is plenty to celebrate. Theres cinco de mayo of course and then 3 of my closest friends have birthdays that same week.

Mckinzi had a cinco de mayo/ birthday party that was so much fun.

Here's me and my cute cousin Emily

The Rex in all his chubby roll glory! I seriously want to bite those cheeks! I just love them!

Kinzi playing games at her bday bash! Look at Gage telling her where to go

Around this same time, I was so lucky to start hanging out with two fun girls from high school. Sara Nixon and Amy (Smith) Shumway. We've been friends for a long time but didn't hang out often enough. Then they started coming to my yoga class and we started hanging out more often. Mostly we just act like fools and crack up. Here we are at Pita Jungle, don't know why or how, but I ended up having a pita on my head the entire night. We're so weird!!!

We also started crafting. I'm sure I'll post more about this, because I have a serious obsession of making headbands. I can't stop!!!!

Having fun!One night a few of my girl friends went out for my birthday / Amy's going away dinner. Of course as soon as I start hanging out with Amy she moves away to Connecticut:( miss you Amy! We seriously had the best time though! Thanks everyone!

My two work out buddy's. Amy, you'll be happy to know that Sara and I are still going strong. We're still on our yoga/pilates/zumba kick!!!

Amy and I took our boys to the zoo one day! They had fun!

Winston loves playing on all the water features

It was so hard to get a picture of the two of them

Then our family went to Thatcher one weekend to visit! Here is Winston with his cousin Kase

The Bridges came with us which was so much fun to have them there and we went throught the open house at the new temple

Here's Winston dressed like a preppy!!! haha! This outfit cracked me up

Winston Turns One!

2010-06-22T22:54:00.000-07:00

In April, I still can't even believe it, but my little baby turned 0ne!!! Are you kidding me?? My mind can't wrap around it, I still feel like I just had him. Geeze, time flies when going crazy. haha! So far motherhood has been a huge mixture of fun, stress, exhaustion, love, and excitement. I love my boy so much and I'm so grateful that he is just a healthy happy guy!

Anyway I have serioulsy 1 million pictures so I am posting only 1,000, in other words this is going to be the longest post ever. Sorry, I just can't leave out any of the cuteness!

Our little birthday boy with one of his favorite people...G-pa

Winston had so many friends come out for his birthday! Here's Sara and Amy

Des, Raylee, Kase and Grandpa

Winston loves balloons so we had a balloon theme party, it was great!
He also loves picking his nose, can you tell?

Daddy and Nate at the bbq. We had a little surprise for our guests, some of you knew and some of you may be finding out for the first time right now, but those burgers were not beef, they were elk. Everyone really liked them. I would have liked them, but just knowing they were elk kind of siked me out.

The first five minutes of his birthday and he's already making a huge mess by eating mudd! Here he is caught in the act

Since my sister Marlee is amazing at making parties super cute, I asked her to do the cakes. Like always she went ALL out. It turned out so so cute! The cupcakes looked like balloons and then at each table there were vases full of colorful m&ms and bright colored balloon cakes.
Have you ever heard of cake balls? Its cake mixed with frosting and rolled into a ball, then its dipped in chocolate. Marlee then put them on sticks and used bright colored chocolate so that each arrangement was a balloon bouquet! It was so cute and very tasty too!

Happy birtday pinata!

A giant cupcake for the birthday boy, once again thanks Mar for making it look so cute!

"NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOO" is what all three of us are yelling as this little birthday boy reaches for that fire first thing. Yikes, Thank goodnes we were all on alert. He was just fine.

A little hesitant at first

Yeah!!!! He loved it. This was pretty much his first time having sweets so we weren't quite sure what hed do.

"So this is what I've been missing out on"

Cousing Turner at the jump house!

Winston's friends Brielle and Shane jumping. Oh my gosh Brielle can you be any cuter as you smoosh your face into the netting? I love that pic!

After the cake Winston did one of his favorite things , Played with the hose. He didn't realize the real purpose for the hose was to wash him off. After the cake he was filthy.

Happy boy!

Cousin Cannon with balloons

Opening presents. (Geeze as I write this I am realizing I am a horrible person and have not sent out any thank you's. Sorry! Does this count, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Winston was and still is in heaven!!!!)

Caught in the act, it was actually these little guys that were opening all the presents haha! Winston's Cousins are not going to like it when W returns the favor at their parties, haha!

Our attempt in getting all the kiddos together for a pic! Hey we tried!

Winston not feeling the bounce house

Marci Kristen and I

Langdon Heather and Brielle

Winston and Jace. Look out ladies!

4 generations of Wright boys!! It was great having Winstons great granparents from FL come out to his party!

In all Great Awesome Day! I love this boy and can't wait for many more birthdays to celebrate!!!!

March Madness!

2010-06-06T14:27:00.000-07:00

We had so much fun in the month of March. The most memorable and exciting part for me was when my sister from California came out to visit me! I just love her and her family and it was so good to have her here. She hadn't been to AZ since Ryan had his mission farewell, so this was a BIG treat!

Here's Me and Trisha

Because this was such a rare occastion with them being here, I pulled out all the stops to make this trip amazing. We swam in Ryan's heated pool, we went to the easter pageant, We even went horse back riding!

Here's Ryan swimming with Winston

I think its nap time!

Ryan with Max and Sadie

We also took everyone to the zoo. Here we are having fun

Winston being cute!

It was so cold the night of the easter pageant. Gwen was perfectly warm though in this little number

The whole family! Tricia, Kirby and the kiddos!

Little Gwens chocolate on her face started looking like a hitler stache

The kids loved playing with the puppies!

Winston loved his Easter basket. He went and got pics with the easter bunny. He wasn't too fond of that!

messy eater

Also this month Des and TC blessed their baby

TK/KAse is such a sweet baby!

2010 is now in session

2010-05-30T16:47:00.000-07:00

Well Jan and Feb were fun. Winston of course is getting bigger and bigger. He's such a fun loving boy. One weekend, we took Winston and my Nephews to this Jungle gym type place out in Tempe. They had a ton of fun!
Turner loved it and just went on and through all of it

Cannon had fun but was a little more hesitant

In January, Winston's new cousin was born. Timothy Kase already goes by all kinds of names.

KAse is what his mom wants him to go by and TK is what TC wants him to go by, so pretty much he goes by whatever:) He's so cute (PS this is Des maybe 2 hours after giving birth) Are you kidding me? she looks awesome! That's just unfair!

Mr. Blue eyes!

Loves making messes now that he's eating all kinds of foods

Kinzi's baby shower was fun too

It was nice to see Kristen and Karis

I hope I look that good the next time I'm pregnant!

Winston's best gal pals came to play! Leah and Brielle are the sweetest girls ever

In February, Nate and I took a trip to Tucson to see the Haughts. We loved going out there. Tylie is so funny and cute!

All the kids chillin! Thanks Tylie for letting use your room and for letting me use your purse (no joke, I borrowed a 4 year olds purse and it was actually cute)

Camille and Addie came to town so we were able to get a pic of all the cousins on Nate's side. Too bad we didn't have much patients, this is the best one we got.

Kathleen, Des and Camille

Then Valentines weekend, Nate and I met up with the Wrights at Win's State wrestling tournament in Prescott. Heres a pic with me and Addie

The whole fam! Even Kyle and Lindsey came out and surprised us all! We were only missing Jay and JAred.

I've been taking more video lately than I have pictures. Heres a funny one of Winston getting super scared by the punching bag that looks like a real man. Were mean parents for continuing to taunt him with it, but at the time it was too funny. Enjoy!

last one, I swear.

2010-05-21T09:20:00.000-07:00

I know I said goodbye to 2009 in my last post but there was a monumental event that I need to post.

YES! We made it 5 years in December!!!!

in 2004 I married my best friend

I can't quite say it was the best day of my life... Lets not forget that I was a little out of it. (If you didn't know I had my appendix removed the day of my wedding. Hence the pics of Ryan and Nate feeding eachother our wedding cake and the pics of Nate and I dancing in a wheel chair)

I'll definately never forget our special day(s)

I know you never read this, but Nate, I love you and your the best husband and father in my eyes!

Happy five!

bye bye 2009

2010-05-07T08:48:00.000-07:00

I know I know, I'm rediculously behind. One day I'll catch up though, I promise.

Anyway the remainder of 2009 was so fun, especially because Stacia came to town for the first time in years and this time I got to finally meet her boyfriend Nick, whom I totally give my 100% approval on. These New Years babies, Jude and Winston had so much fun on NYE hanging out

Stacia was able to meet Winston for the first time when she came into town. Whinny Pooh loved his auntie Stacia

It also was Nick's birthday

Sleepy boy

Grandpa and Winston

Winston hangin with his girl Brynn

Grandmas! Gotta Love 'Em

2010-04-06T09:56:00.000-07:00

So a few months ago, my mom was watching winston and for the first time she had to transport him back to my house with out me. So over the phone I talked her through properly installing the car seat. She must have forgot that there was something else to buckle, cause when she arrived to my house and I opened the door, This is what I found.

Thank goodness he was safe and nothing happened, or this story would not be funny at all, but Oh my Gosh, when I opened the door and saw that he turned around and was just standing there with the biggest grin on his face, I just died laughing. My mom fealt so bad, but it was all good, he made it home in one piece.

Oh buddy, you are a crack up!

Love you Grandma!!!!

Twas the Season

2010-03-06T21:15:00.000-08:00

I am so so so behind, so bear with me as I try to catch up.

Christmas was so much fun! It was such a blessing to have Winston this year. Christmas is so much fun with a little one. He is a little too young to understand, but it didn't stop him from having a blast. His favorite present was the boxes and paper of course!He's getting to be so big and crawls everywhere. He pulls himself up to standing and laughs all the time!

He is Mr. Tounge. His tounge is always hanging out and doing funny things

He was our little santa! It was adorable !

Here we are on Christmas Day! Turner and Cannon were in Heaven with all their toys! They were so dang cute! Winston was so excited to play with all his new toys

Cutie!

Santa with G-ma and G-pa

Here's just a cute pic of winston crawling around

Christmas Eve Dinner was so good! We all went to the Keg and had an amazing time!

Then we went to the movies! Here's Ryan, Poor guy had to have knee surgery again and was on crutches for the longest time.

Kirby my brother in law had a Christmas concert here, It was so good to see him do his thing! He's Amazing.

Cutie!

Here's Winston with Santa himself and as you can tell, Winston wasn't into it! It's so funny, bet anyone with a bierd Winston totally freaks out! Poor guy!

Nov 2009

2010-01-17T00:23:00.000-08:00

We had a really fun November! So much fun that I honestly think this may just be my longest blog post ever!!!! Watch out:)

It started with Laura's Birthday!!!! I love Laura, she has always been such a good friend to me! We went to lunch with the kiddos and Shauna

Winston and Brynn had a blast can't you tell?

Shauna talked Tylie into putting this dress on and asking her mom if she could have it. We are so bad, we kept telling Tylie that she deserves it and to keep asking her mom... I know pay back is coming.

Winston went to visit daddy at work and loved typing on his computer

Nate went hunting one weekentd so Winston and I had a sleep over with Jace and Emily

Nate had a little run in with danger, and it wasn't from a wild animal. It was from his own scope. And no I'm not kidding. Nate was going after a deer that was getting away so he shot real quick before getting his gun secure. I tell him that is what he gets for trying to kill bambi We also went to my little cousins foot ball game and winston had this cute little had to stay warm

I nearly had a heart attack when I was watching my nephew Cannon and he decided he was an artist! Seriously I thiought my sister was going to kill me. Thank goodness the permanent marker came out!

The artist himself

Later that month Nate and I took a trip to Utah! DRIVING!!!!! AGHHH!

Thankfully it wasnt that bad. Winston was a champ in the car. He was better than I was. Since we drove so long we had to make it worth our while so we stayed for over a week.
We started our trip with some good ol BYU football. We are really gonna miss watching our favorite players Max and Dennis next year. Thanks so much kinz for the awesome seats

Then we were off to see my family that lives in SL

Here are my cute little cousins

Lindsey Mackaylee, and Cami

PArker with Winston

This is my cousins son Rucker! He has to be one of the wildest funniest kids ever! He cracked me up the whole time

Cousin Ali with my aunt Karen. We had an amazing German dinner where my aunt cooked my omah's German dishes. It was incredible.

My cousin Daniel, my biological dad Rainer, and my cousin Gretchin

Winston in his winter gear. He actually learned how to crawl during this trip! What a big boy 7 months

Winstons first snow. We took him on a sled ride he loved it!!!

my little monkey!

Uncle Gary

Here is my cousin Ashley's baby Mylie! She is a sweetheart and crazy enough she looks like my niece Sadie. At least I think so. Thanks Ash for letting us stay with you and Rock band through the night! I had so much fun

Out with my cousins

On my last night we went to dinner with my family at Mcraths

Where we had the best sevice ever!!! Thanks to the Cami (hostess) Lindsey (Server) and Ashley (Manager). They were all working the same night and lucky for us it was pretty slow so we got to hang out a bunch.

So we said bye to SL and headed to visit Nate's family in La point, which is the small town near Vernal. On our way we stopped for dinner in Heber. At my favorite place Dairy Keen. Rachae met up with Camille and I there.

Up at Granma and Granpa walkers almost all the family was over. It was packed and full of fun times with family. Addison and Raylee loved playing all day long!

Poor Addi broke her arm just before the trip

The infamous Uncles Lynn and LAine

RAylee all ready for some Thanksgiving dinner

TC cutting the Turkey Cousins

The feast! We ate so good. There were about 30 or more mouths to feed too! It was wild!!!!

The sweetest lady you'll ever meet, Grandma Walker

Winston with Grandma and Grandpa Walker

After Thanksgiving we went to go see the new Rec center that was built in Vernal. It was huge and so much fun. It had rock walls. Even an indoor pool

Nate climbing

Here's me practically doing the splits. It was tough

Winston eating before he swims

As always we played games like Rook and others. It was great

Kyle and Lindsey

Win Jay and Camille

Cousins Todd and Heather

Cousin Kacey

We had an amazing Thanksgiving. It was so nice to be with family and feel that love!

After Thanksgiving at Grandma's it was time to head home. It was actually nice to have Winston there to take turns driving... Just Kidding! He just played with the wheel while we were parked at Sonic! haha!

October 09

2009-12-13T15:03:00.000-08:00

This October was so fun, especially because we went to California and had so much fun visiting friends and family.

We first stayed the night with Mindy and Josh and their two kids, Case and Cameron. They are the cutest kids.

They loved playing with WinstonOur next stop was to Valencia to see my sister Trisha and family. Winston got to meet his cousins for the first time. Here he is with Gwen.She's like twice his size:) I love itWinston had fun with all his cousins Gwen, Sadie and MAx One of the main reasons we went this weekend was to go to the BYU vs. San Diego game. On our way to San Diego we stopped in New Port Beach and ate at one of the best breakfast places Plums

Does it get any better than that?

We stopped and took some pics at the beach, unfortunately it was pretty over cast out but Winston loved the beach!

He was all smiles

Then We celebrated one of Winston's best friend Brielle's birthday. She turned 1

The decorations and cupcakes were so dang cute

The Birthday girl with daddy

Winston with LEah

Winston was so happy there. He is just the happiest boy I know for real!

Happy kids

Riding horses

Halloween 09

2009-12-13T12:58:00.000-08:00

A few years back we did a halloween fear factor party. It was so fun, so for Marlee's birthday on the 25th, we played fear factor again.

Here's Ryan and Nate getting pumped for the games to begin The first game, we had to suck up this nasty concoction and then spit it into a cup. The first to fill the cup up to a certain line won.

Ryan and Marlee's husband Ed won this. It was so gross and it almost came out my nose while I was running to fill up out cup.

The next game, we took Eyeballs (marshmellows) and dipped them into blood (strawberry syrup) then from a ladder we tried to get the eyeball into our partners mouth.

Nate got so messy. I think its cause I have such bad aim.

Ryan

The last game we had to put flour bags in our mouths and drop them into a bucket. You end up with flour all over and it gets stuck in your teeth like glue. It's so gross. But we had so much fun.

For Halloween, We came strait out of Oz.

Winston is always growling so we knew we had to make him a lion. He was so cute in his little costume. I was Dorothy

And Nate was the Tin man

Happy Halloween!

We went to Heather and Eddie's Halloween party and had so much fun. I was so excited because my chili won the grand prize which was a massage!!!!! It was so awesome.

Loren and Carrie's costume was hilarious. They were the justin timberlake spoof of Beyonce's Single ladies.

We had so much fun with kareoke.

friends from cali

2009-11-09T22:30:00.000-08:00

YAY!!!! It was so much fun in september because my good friend Annie from CA came all the way here to hang out with me for the weekend. She has 2 little cuties that were so good and so much fun. We went swimming in the best kiddie pool. They loved it. Sorry the weather was so hot that weekend annie, it's not my fault I promise. and please don't judge, I want you to come back.Winston making funny faces

Sean swimming

Brianna swimming

Having fun

2009-10-24T22:46:00.000-07:00

For labor day CArrie and Loren Smith invited us out to their cabin up north. It was so perfect!!!Carrie's parent's cabin was so pretty with the prettiest view.

Not to far from the cabin is a Natural bridge that we hiked out to. It was really pretty
This is the Natural bridge

Pretty waterfall

Winston and Leah loved being out doors

Here Winston and Leah were mapping out our hike

Cuties in car seats

Thanks so much for inviting us. We had so much fun

Here are some other pictures.

Winston and Grandma napping

Winston meeting Brynn for the first time. They were both fast asleep. It was so precious.

Here is Winston and Tylie!

Happy Birthday Nate

2009-10-20T20:18:00.000-07:00

In August was Nate's birthday.

If it weren't for pictures I wouldn't remember what we did. ( I know horible, right?)

Winston went shopping for presents with me, While shopping around we tried on some hats. We ended up getting dad some books, cause unlike me, my husband is a book worm.

On Nate's birthday we went to dinner at Macayo's, We love that place

We went with our friends Shane and Lauren. We love them, they are so fun.

Shane is one of Ryan's childhood friends. We have known him and his family since we were babies.

Ryan and his date.

Happy Birthday honey!!!

(Sorry this is the best pic I have, Nate HATES taking pictures)

Farewell Elder Wright

2009-10-10T16:17:00.000-07:00

Nate's little brother Jared had his farewell in August. We all went to thatcher and had a great time with family. All of Nate's grandparents came, which was really special. We were able to get some 4 generation pictures, which is so exciting.

Here is Nate's mom with her parents (Grandma and Grandpa Walker) Nate and Winston
We love the Walkers so much. They are the sweetest people. Out of quite a bit of great grandchildren that they have, Winston is actually the first boy.

Here's Elder Wright with all of his Nieces and Nephew. He is so good with them. He is going to be a natural one day.

The Cousins! Poor Winston is going to have to stick up for himself around these wild girls. Right here he's thinking "Aunt Des, please please please make sure that the baby in your tummy right now is a boy"

Winston also got to meet his Great Grandma and Grandpa Wright. Winston just loved peepah Wright, he would smile and laugh everytime with him.

Cute little guy

Here is the 4 generation picture on the Wright side. It's crazy because all four of them are the first born of their family.

Uncle Kyle and Aunt Lindsey

This next picture cracks me up. We totally could make the people of Walmart website with this incident. haha!

So we needed to run to Walmart real quick and Addison had just gotten out of the bath and all the boys were out hiking, We didn't have time to get ready, so Camille just said what the heck, were in Thatcher, who cares, and just took Addison in her diaper only, no shoes and her hair was all in her face.

Too cute!

Winston loves his Bumbo! So do I. He's such a strong baby though so I really have to watch him cause I could totally see him pushing himself out of that thing.

Elder Wright with Winston, Its so wierd to think he'll be two when he comes home. He is serving in Ghana Africa and has already had many humbling experiences. He is absolutely LOVING it over there. We are so happy for him.

Waz happenin

2009-09-10T21:40:00.000-07:00

Hello!!! I feel like its been a long while since I've posted. Winston is now 4 months and counting. He is still a super good boy. He smiles and laughs now, which I can't get enough of. He is still off and on with his napping, but at least he sleeps pretty good at night. He is still in our room, we try to keep him in his bassinett, but he doesn't sleep as well in it. However if we put him on our bed he is OUT. What the heck is up with that?? I need to get him into his own room, but, he still eats like at 5 am and It's so convienient to just have him right there.

Well, for the 24th of July we went to Thatcher. Winston went swimming in a play pool, and as you can tell in the pic, he wasn't really feeling it. Raylee on the other hand loved it! This is Winston's cousin and they are such good friends already its so cute

Here's the fam getting ready for the parade!!! Winston can't wait

Winston did good and had fun, but he did not like the sirens at the end. He started crying.

Afterwards we went to this dinner thing with the whole town the food was really good and so were the fireworks. Nate and his best bro's were chillin with their babies, it's fun to see them all together as dad's now.

And here are all the bros together

This is Jar's baby Mason, he cracks me up

Here is Winston

When John Taylor and Sarah came into town, We got together to hang out. The babies loved hanging out. Winston is about 6 months or so younger than them but he hung in there. He's even putting the moves on Leah

Brielle was just chillin and it was so funny

Blush Party

2009-08-25T14:52:00.000-07:00

So most of you know my good friend Rachel Foulger. Well not too long ago she started her own line called Blush www.toplessundershirt.com It's these undershirts that will never ride up, which serve many purposes including the cure for the infamous plumers crack haha!!! Anyway Rachel is in town from Utah and we decided to do a get together where she will bring all her inventory cause I know a lot of people have wanted to see how these work in person. Anyway the party is at my mom's house this Thursday at 7:30 I'm getting pizza for everyone so let me know if you can make it and if you need directions. Either way it would be fun to just hang out with the girls :)

These are awesome if you are pregnant

Or not pregnant!

Winston and the Cougars

2009-07-20T18:01:00.000-07:00

When I jumped on the ban wagon to get pregnant, The ban wagon was pretty full. It seems like almost all of my friends were about six months along when I finally got pregnant. Needless to say Winston has many friends, girl friends that is. He is one lucky guy with all these pretty girls hanging around him. He's younger than all of them, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't mind a cougar.

Here he is with Kristen's daughter Karis.

Winston and Brielle locking arms

She knows how to make him smile

This was the first girl he met. Leah! She dominated him in size

When Brielle first met him she leaned over out of no where and just gave him a kiss. It was so cute.

This is Nate's best friend Beave's daughter, Kennedy

Winston and Leah smiling

Here's Winston and Tylie! Such good friends

Cuddle bugs

Poor Winston is already getting worked over by his women

So cute!

They have a love/hate relationship

Here he is with all his women!!! What a stud

Watch out ladies, Leah's making her move

What We've been up to!!!!

2009-07-13T15:59:00.000-07:00

Well, I've made you all wait long enough, so here comes an explosion of pictures and stories to fill you all in on what we have been up to. Trust me, it's a lot.

My pictures are in backwards order so We are starting with the most present.

Winston was blessed! Yeah!!! It was so fun and he looked so cute. We had so much fun being able to be with family and friends for this special occasion. Thanks so much to those who were able to make it!!! (ON Time, that is) Oh yeah Langdon... If your reading this I'm totally calling you out. haha!!! You know I will never let you live down being late to Winstons blessing :)

Here's a picture with Nate's family. All of my family bailed after sacrament. And I'm now just realizing that I never got a picture with all of them. :(

Nate and I were both nervous, but it was really good and really sweet.

So now I will take you back a few weeks ago to fathers day weekend, where Nate and I woke up and said, "you know now that we have a kid, there is just one thing missing... A Mini van of course!!!!!"

So yes, believe it or not, but nate and I are now the proud owners of a mini van. Don't laugh! I know we just have one kid, but its never too soon to plan ahead

Winston has had many firsts, one of those was Swimming!!!! He loved it, although he wasn't feeling the photo shoot beforehand

Winston had his first play date and slept right through it!

Winston got to meet Uncle Ryan, and here's some pictures of Ryan trying to copy Winstons faces

Carrie came over and gave me a make over. Thanks Carrie! You are the best. I needed it. Here we are with Leah and Winston

Another big shocker is that I quit my job and have started watching my nephews a few times a week. It has been hard but worth it. I get to stay home with Winston now.

Here are some cute pics of the boy!

Even more shocking than leaving my job is that we moved :(

We rented out our house and are now living in Chandler at a house my brother owns. We miss our nice spacious house and of course all the fun friends and neighbors we had out there. Here is a picture at a ward party with some friends.

Winston went on his first trip to Thatcher. We hung out with Nate's friend Jar and Stephanie's boy, Mason. He's a giant compared to winston and was pretty scared of him too. It was too cute.

Winston and Raylee hung out with their aunts and uncles. This is Jared, he opened up his mission call while we were there. He's going to Guana Africa. the Cave Coast mission. Wild!!!!

Winston met uncle Kyle and Aunt Lindsay

Raylee loves holding Winston! She is so sweet with him

YEAH!!!!! DADDY GRADUATED WITH HIS MASTERS!!!!!!!!! Congrats Nate, your the best!

And here is Winstons first bath!!!

GO NATE!!!!!!!! ASU!!!!!!!!!!

Sleepy boy!

2009-05-10T15:03:00.000-07:00

There is one thing for sure and that is that Winston Loves to Sleep (In the day at least) All day he is sound asleep and nothing wakes him. Sometimes I try to wake him to eat and it never works. I've tried changing his diaper, putting a cold wet clothe against his skin, but he doesn't even budge. Come 10:00 pm though, he is in party mode. He will be wide awake till 12:00 even 1:00 sometimes, but luckily he does get back to sleep.

Here are some cute pics of this sleepy boy. He loves having his hands by his face, which is funny cause I am sleep the same way practically.

Awe

2009-04-29T21:23:00.000-07:00

Just an update. Winston and I are doing good. I'm slowly healing but feeling a little better everyday. Winstons head looks so much better. I seriously cannot get enough of him. I just love him to pieces. So far he has been such a good baby. He sleeps a ton and does not fuss much unless he is hungry. We are trying to work on breastfeeding. It's pretty painful, but hopefully we will get used to it soon. Anyway, I just wanted to give an update and share this adorable picture of him!!

The Big Debut

2009-04-26T15:32:00.000-07:00

Well most of you may know the traumatic entry little Winston had into this world, but many do not. Before I start I do want to say that everyone is fine. It was scary for a bit, but everyone is ok now.

Let's start with the labor. Going into induction on the 22nd of April at 5 am, I was not too scared. I knew I was getting the drugs, and I really just felt like it wasn't going to be that bad (haha). I also was prepared to have a long labor, I wasn't expecting anything less than 12 hours, but I was hoping I would at least have him on the 22nd. Oh was I wrong. It was not what I thought it would be. At first things weren't so bad, I started patosin, and didn't feel much. When I was dilated to a 3 (7 or so hours into labor) they broke my water. Right after that I made sure they got me that epidural. Anyway, as I kept dilating, I knew my epidural was working, but I was in a ton of pain cause of the pressure. I know people told me I would feel pressure, but this was so painful. It was awful. Then I got a fever. Since the babies heart wasn't being effected we just continued on with the labor and I got antibiotics. After some serious torture and pain It finally came time for me to start pushing, I started and after 2 1/2 hours he wasn't budging any further. When the doctor came in, I think the babies heart started increasing and things became crazy. All of a sudden Winston was getting vacuumed out of me. It was awful.

So 20 hours later, He was finally here. Not on the 22nd but the 23rd.

Well as soon as he got here, he had some complications. He had a fever, he wasn't crying, and had his cord around his neck twice. The nurses revived him, and then took him to the nursery. It was so good to hear him start crying.

In the nursery, they checked all of his vitals and ran some tests. The tests came back good. But the scare was now his head. He had major swelling in his head. It was a combination of being in the canal for so long, he was also face up, which put him in a bad position. But I think what made it worse was the vacuum. They wanted to keep him in the nursery to keep an eye on his head.

my poor baby

Well later that morning, they ran a cat scan on him and his brain had swelling as well as blood around the brain.

Here is a picture of the big bruise the next day :(

Well because of the cat scan results, the doctors thought it was best for little Winston to get moved over to BAnner Dessert where there is a better Nicu, They wanted to monitor him closer and check to see if the swelling goes down.

I finally got to hold him, and I just fell in love. He is the sweetest boy ever. (check out my swollen hand below)

The good thing is that neurologically, he was doing great. His behaviors were all completely normal.

Here Winston is before they took him over to BAnner Desert. It seriously broke my heart.

Look how precious he is.

When he got to the new hospital I was still at the other hospital so I didn't get to be with him. Nate and his mom were so great and stayed with Winston while my mom came and stayed with me

In the Nicu, his chest got cold and Nate didn't have any of his clothes with him, The Nicu is not used to having babies his size, so they had no clothes his size. They did find this huge onesie though. It was so funny to see him in it.

Well after 2 more cat scans, the doctors were able to see that his brain swelling went down and that the blood around his brain was significantly improved as well. They finally let us take him home. We were so relieved, thankful and happy.

It is so nice to have Winston home. We love him so much. He is such a good boy. Very calm, loves to eat and sleep, although we're working on getting him to not use the bottle and use mom instead. Hopefully he'll get a hang of breast feeding soon.

I can't tell you how grateful we are for all of your prayers. Thank you for all your support. We are so blessed to have so many good friends and family in our lives.

Winston, we love you and are so excited to have you in our lives.

9 months pregnant

2009-04-26T15:21:00.000-07:00

Here I am 38 weeks pregnant and ready to pop!

UPDATE

2009-04-18T08:55:00.000-07:00

WOAH! Does that foot belong to a 500 lb person or what? Someone even told me they thought it looked like a baby foot with the rolls and everything. The truth is, that is MY foot! Are you kidding me? I hate being swollen. As if being pregnant isn't uncomfortable enough, being swollen on top of it makes it even worse.

Well if you haven't heard yet, this swelling along with high blood pressure and protein has led me to be put on bed rest for the last 3 WEEKS! I meet with the doctor 2 times a week and get to do all sorts of fun tests and stuff. I have mild pre-eclampsia. It's pretty scary, but I really think that everything is going to be fine. I'm so grateful that it is just mild and that I did not have to be hospitalized. That would have been awful. As you could imagine I have been going crazy being all cooped up. I've had a few melt downs, but thank goodness for family and friends. It really helps to have support from them. My mom and Nate have been so so good to me. They help clean, in fact my house has never been cleaner. Nate even puts up with all my crazy food requests which include a bag of sonic ice every few days. As well as treats and candy that he hates getting for me, but is afraid to say no, for fear of how I may react. I've had good company too. It is so nice when people stop by and visit and even bring me food :) Thank you!!!

OK so the updates of all updates......

I'm getting induced this Wednesday April 22nd 2009. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Winston will finally be here. I will be exactly 38 weeks. On Monday I got an ultrasound and the technician was so nice that when she was done doing the measurements and stuff, she put in on 3D so I could have a picture of him. It was so fun. Check him out. He is Nate's little clone. That is Nate's nose and lips for sure. He looks so peaceful and boyish. I'm so excited to meet him.

At the same time, I am so not ready for this. It's crazy the mixed emotions that you feel.
I'm cool with any and all advice. Please let me know if there is anything you wish you would have done or that you did. Any secret mommy or birthing tips?
Yes I'm getting the epidural and Yes I'm planing to breastfeed.

Baby Shower/ mini wedding

2009-04-14T22:59:00.000-07:00

WOW!!! I am seriously so thankful for everyone that came and helped throw me the greatest shower ever!!! I can't tell you how awesome it was to be able to get all my friends and family together to celebrate this special occasion. There is one thing for sure, Winston is very popular already and he has a lot of people who love him.

Here is a recap of this wonderful day. PS. the reason I call this my mini wedding is cause I got a little out of hand on the guest list. I think all my friends especially Laura had heart attacks when they saw how big it was going to be. oops! Here's my mom above and my sister Marlee below. They were such big helps at puting this all together.

Here are just some of the millions of clothes that Winston got. One things for sure, this baby is not going to be naked much.

So here is where I have to brag about my sister Marlee. She is so talented and went ALL out on this diaper cake and basket as well as these amazing cupcakes.

So, Marlee and my mom went in on this diaper cake full of goodies. They had so much stuff that they ran out of space on the diaper cake and had to come up with the basket shown above in order to use all the fun toys and accessories that they bought. The picture does no justice unfortunately.

Marlee also made a hundred of these adorable animal cupcakes. They were yummy too. The poor girl had a back ache for days after making each of these.

The Elephant

The lion

The monkey

Here is Nate and I before the shower started.

Me with Nate's mom. She is so great!

There were so many adorable babies there too. Winston is going to have so much fun playing with all his little buddies when he gets here.

Here is Annabelle, Lynn girl. Lynn and Annabelle came all the way out from California to help throw my shower!!! How nice is that? Thanks you guys so much.

Carrie and Leah

Kristen and Karis

Sarah on the right was visiting her family from NY. It was so nice theat she could come .

Here's Heidi, Stacy and baby Eli

Kristen with her raffle prize

Me with Desiree, my sister in law. She was at lunch break from work, while I was getting ready to chow down on that plate of food. Ok let me take a minute to brag about the food. I still have dreams about it. It was AWESOME I was in pregnancy food heaven!

Vanessa with Emily and baby Jace

Heather and Jenn. Brielle stayed home with dad.

Me and two of my oldest friends Jess and Nichelle. We go way way back. Especially Nich and I.

Tricia and Kristen and Karis

Lynn and Marci. (PS Marci is responsible for those amazing crepes which were to die for. Lynn made the carmel chocolate pretzels. Oh my gosh I'm so hungry right now. Can you tell?)

Me with my mom and Marlee

Me with Laura and Rachel. Laura, thank you so much for everything you did to put this together and for coming from Tuscon to go to my shower. Rachel, thanks for coming all the way from Utah just for this. You are the best.

I know I keep saying it, but thanks again to everyone. I seriously had such a good time. I felt so loved and blessed to have so many great friends and to have such a supportive family. I love you all and can't thank you enough.

February

2009-04-13T23:17:00.000-07:00

Well I really need to get all caught up, especially since this baby is going to be here in no time (NEXT WEEK to be exact. I know I am lousy at keeping you updated, but I'll tell you all about it in my next post, let me take care of this first).

Ok so Valentines weekend Nate took me on a not so romantic get away to Prescott. The reason I would not refer to this as romantic is that we were there to support his 2 brothers in their State wrestling tournament. It was fun to be there with family and watch all their matches, but I will say it is no fun to travel while being 6 months pregnant. It really isn't fun to sit all day in bleachers either, but I survived. It was snowing there, so that was fun.
Nate went to college at Embry Riddle in Prescott so he took me around a little bit. We stopped at the mall one day and I got to learn something I never knew about my husband. Apparently, in college he worked for a short time at the mall. And of all places, he worked at Things Remembered
HAhahaha, I was laughing so hard. He went up and was trying to see if they remembered him, (he only worked there for like a few weeks) He kept telling the sales lady that he was the one that engraved a bunch of the displays.

We got home from Prescott on Sunday in time for my mom's Valentine's dinner. She loves decorating and doing fun stuff for the holidays.

Here's everyone that was there besides Nate and I. I felt so miserable and ugly that night that I would not let anyone take pictures of me.

Us getting ready to eat.

Brielle with her Valentines rose. How cute is that?

mom and daughter

My mom with Brielle

Here is me that night. This is why I did not want any pics of me. I felt like a cow if you couldn't tell by my body language. If I could go back, I would tell myself to just wait cause that was nothing compared to being 8 and 9 months prego.

A few weeks later, I was actually feeling good so I took some pregnancy pics.

Here I am at 29 or 30 weeks

The week after, I took some more pregnancy pics. This time we tried to be all fancy. I made Nate join me.

First we compared tummies, Nate's still trying hard to keep up with me.

I made Nate do the heart on the tummy pic cause I think its so cute. His heart shape is a little deformed though. At least I got him to smile. He was so mad the whole time that I was making him take pics with me. He hates taking pictures.

Here I am 30 week pregnant

My mom's uncle Lud came into town again. He is so cute. He is 88 and looks amazing. I hope I take on his genes.

That's a wrap

Chihuly at the Botanical Gardens

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Wow! If you want to go out on an awesome date night, or you want to impress some visitors from out of town, you have got to go to the Chihuly exibit at the Desert Botanical Gardens. The exibit is here till May 31st

We went with my parents and it was so pretty.

Chihuly is a famous glass blower from Italy. The exibit is all blown glass and at night they all light up. Here are some pics!! Yes all of that is glass strands

This one was one of my favorites, I can't imagine how long this would take to make

If you decide to go, you'll love it!

Happy B-day Q

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It was my dad's Birthday in February and we partied it up!!!!

We went to My favorite place in the world to eat... Liberty Market!

Here is the best red velvet cake you'll ever eatHere's my dad DJ Q

Happy Birthday to Langdon too, their birthday's are days apart!

Cute Kids

2009-04-08T14:12:00.000-07:00

I have all of these cute pics of my nephews, niece, and friend's babies that it would be a shame not to share

Here is Turner and Cannon and their dad Ed.

(PS this picture is monumental. For them to both be looking at the camera and smiling. It almost a miracle) My Future daughter in laws, Leah and Brielle. Hopefully these girls are down for polygamy. haha!
Papa Langdon and Brielle

My niece Raylee with Brielle

What a cutie

Turner lovin his dinner!!!

Mmm spaghetti

January wrap up

2009-03-15T14:07:00.000-07:00

Things are going good. In this post I'm wrapping up January. Everything has been really good in the pregnancy. So far, any complaints that I've had are really not that bad. I'm so grateful that things have been fairly easy for me so far. Here is Nate and I at 27 weeks pregnant.

Nate says he's just trying to make me feel good by not having to put on weight by myself. Speaking of sympathy pregnancies, the other day Nate cracked me up when I got a text from him saying "are you hot right now? Cause I think I'm having sympathy sweats".

I must say, being pregnant this time of year has been awesome. I was comfortable not cold this whole winter. I don't know what I will do besides be miserable if I ever am pregnant during the hot months here.

One weekend, My parents, Nate and I thought it would be fun to ride the light rail into Phoenix and have lunch and walk around. The day started off fun and energetic. Here we are getting our passes.

Here we are riding the light rail for the first time (well besides Nate. His department at work has been involved somewhat in the light rail. So he got to ride it before it was even open.) In phoenix we had a lot of fun, but coming home we were all exhausted. So exhausted that Nate and I looked up at one point to realize my parents had fallen asleep. We were laughing so hard.

I don't know why, but they remind me of Weekend at Bernie's. I think that is what made this even funnier.

Then On a Monday, I got a text from my aunt letting me know that my cousin Marybeth was getting married The Next Day.

My first reaction was WHAT??????? This was news to all of us.

Marybeth is the craziest girl I know, so I don't know why it shocked me to find out that she would plan a wedding in a day. Anyway, She has been talking and dating this guy online for a while now. In December she went out to Colorado and met him for the first time. He shortly moved here and then they got married! It was Crazy!!

Here are pics from the wedding.

Here is the groom Thomas

I think Thomas is flashing a Star wars symbol or something here.

Marybeth, strutting her stuff!

We kept asking Thomas if Marybeth was Naughty or Nice. HAHA, I don't think he got our inside joke. We quickly filled him in on the infamous Naughty or Nice story involving Marybeth.

Kinzi was in town and it was baby central. She came to visit Jaime and Tessa's adorable baby boy Gage. I forgot to get a pic of him. But it was so fun to hang out with some of my favorite girls.

My cousin Emily had her baby Jace that same weekend. He is so cute!

And here is a pic of Little Leah, Carrie's baby. I can't handle her little cheeks!

Florida Vacation

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In January we had all sorts of trips. Nate and I wanted to take advantage of easy traveling while we still had the chance. So we decided to go to Florida! It was so much fun! We went with Nate's parents and we met up with Will's side of the family, who all live in Florida. Before this trip I had only met Will's parents (Nate's grandparents) It was cool to finally meet the rest of his family including Nate's aunts, uncles, and cousins. The first day we were there, we met up with some of the fam and spent the day at the Epcot Center. It was a lot of fun. I had always wanted to go here. If you have never been to Epcot before, it's basically a huge theme park that features a ton of countries. You walk around from country to country. Each country has food you can eat to represent that country. Shops and architecture, everything imaginable to represent that certain country. It was so much fun!

Here are Nate's little cousins Dakota and Ian in Mexico. Ian cracked us up. He just makes me laugh so hard.

Here's Nate in Norway, he is one hot viking if you ask me!

Of course we had to take a picture of us in Germany. My ancestors are from Germany in fact, my grandparents migrated here from there when my real dad was just a baby. I would definitely love to visit there one day!

We got a group shot on our way into Italy!

Here is Nate and I in front of the Trevi fountain. Italy is another place Nate and I would love to go to one day. Nate served his mission in Italy, however his mission only covered the northern part. So he never went to the big touristy places like Rome, Venice, or Florence. I on the other hand have only been to the super touristy places. So it would be so fun to go back and show each other the places we've been. Plus how fun would it be to see Nate speak the language. He doesn't get many opportunities to practice here, so I never get to hear him.

Haha, I forced Nate to take this picture with this character from Robin Hood. Nate always says that was his favorite Disney movie. This poor character, none of the kids knew who he was. They were all like "Who Are you?" haha!

That's another thing I must say, I had never seen so many Disney characters before, not even at Disney land. Epcot is definitely the place to see characters if that is your thing.

So we had an awesome day at Epcot, it was definitely a teaser though, the whole time your thinking, oh wouldn't it be nice to actually go to this place? Some day.....

The next day we drove down from Orlando to Fort Myers, where all the family lives. Fort Myers is beautiful. We went to Sanibel Island, which was also beautiful. Here we are at the beach.

Here is Nate's parents. Will and Kathleen.

And here is Nate and I. Yep I'm finally posting a pregnancy picture where you can actually tell that I'm pregnant.

So of course on the last day of our trip, Nate's family take us to the best place in the world. I have craved it every day since. Next time we go back I'm coming here 5 times a day. It's that awesome. Anyway its this orange place that sells citrus, juices, and ice cream. I thought I knew what a good tasting orange tasted like. There is no comparison to what I tasted in Florida.

This place had all these different kinds of orange and grapefruit samples

But the best part was the juice samples. Oh my gosh. I drank like a gallon of orange juice that day. It was SOOOOO good. My favorite was the fresh Orange-Strawberry and Orange-Cranberry juice that they had. It was awesome!

That same day we also went to visit Dillon, Nate's little cousin, at work. Nate and I know Dillon very well, after all he was on our honey moon with us! haha! Unfortunately I'm not kidding. Technically Nate and I didn't quite have a honeymoon due to our crazy wedding story where I had my appendix removed, which lead us to canceling our cruise to Mexico. Anyway 6 months later, we finally took a big trip to France, which we called our honeymoon, cause we never had one. But in France we were with Nate's uncle who lives there. Dillon was also there at the same time to make it easier on his uncle, so yes, We got to know Dillon very well.

Back at Nate's grandparents home we just hung out with everyone. All the cousins and family got together which was so nice!

Nate with cousins Jessica and Dakota

The Wright's

Will with his 2 sisters and brother

Will's whole family

Brotherly Love!!!
Here is our attempt at taking a 4 Generation picture. Hopefully in a few months we can get a more legit one. It's kind of cool cause Grandpa Wright is the first born Son, Will is also the first born son, and so is Nate. And now we are continuing this by also having a first born son. We couldn't be more excited.

This is Nate's cousin Marly and her daughter.

Anyway, I want to thank everyone who made our trip so special! You all are great and it was so fun to meet you all!

Ok I have to share this story of our flight home. We had a layover in Chicago. I was so hungry and excited thinking that Chicago should have some good places to eat, even if we're stuck in an airport. So I saw this place called Billy Goat Cafe. The line was huge and I thought this is a good sign, people like this place. So I got a Hamburger. Ok, I have really good sense of taste especially now that I'm pregnant, And I know with out a doubt that that burger was NOT beef. It had to be cat or something like that. But then it hit me, maybe it really Billy goat. Nate thinks I'm full of it, but I swear. So work of warning. Never eat here if you have a lay over in Chicago!

New Years in Cali

2009-03-01T14:38:00.000-08:00

Well, I've finally made it to blogging 2009 happenings, so at least I am somewhat progressing.

For New years this year Nate and I took a trip over to Cali to visit our friends and family. When We lived out there, we got to meet some life long friends. It was seriously so much fun to go and visit all of them. Here are my girl friends that I made while living in Huntington Beach. We were all in the same ward together. On the left is Mindy, on the right is her sister Michelle who was visiting, and on the bottom is Annie. When we lived there, Mindy and Annie both had a baby, but I of course did not. I would always try to get their kids to like me the best, but it never worked. I would always try to get them all to take pictures with me but they would not have it. haha! I know that deep down I really am their favorite though! (side note, These pictures crack me up cause I thought I was sooooooo pregnant when I was up there and now I look at these pics and I just look fat haha. It's funny how your head makes you think you look soo pregnant, when in reality you are not that big yet)

Mindy's girl Cameron is such a doll. She is just as sweet as can be!

Here are all the guys. I think Josh and Greg have developed man crushes since Nate and I moved away.

The girls

This was my first time meeting little Brianna. This is Annie's youngest. She is so tiny and so cute!

Here's Nate and Case at G.A.Y. my favorite place ever. I miss their yogurt so much!

Case and Sean are such good friends, it is so cute to see them play together.

They even get in trouble together! Here they are in time out making sad faces.

Awe, how can you stay mad at those faces!

After hanging out with my friends in HB, we headed to Valencia to visit my sister Trisha and her family.

I was so excited to see my neices. This was also my first time meeting Gwen. She is the best baby. I totally love her!!!! Sadie is such a good big sister!

Here's my neice and nephew Sadie and Max. I cannot believe how grown up they are.

While we were up there, We all did this competition on the trapoline where you see how many times you can bounce while sitting. I thought it was so funny to see Nate do this. Too bad it's sideways. Oh well.

I miss them so much!

Here's me and my sister with Gwen. She is so cute! I love her! I wish we lived closer to them, we seriously have so much fun whenever we are together.

Saturday night, we road tripped back home so we could make it in time for Brielle baby blessing. She was just adorable as always.

Thanks to everyone in Cali for letting us stay with you and for hanging out with us. We miss you guys so much. Hopefully we will come out again soon!

An eventful December

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So December was such a fun and exciting month! It all started when Nate and I were able to get our ultrasound letting us know we were having a Baby BOY!!! Not long after that, Little Leah Bee was born.

Then Karis surprised EVERYONE by coming 2 months early! (Both mom and baby are perfect)
Here's Kristen, my idol. Not long after having Karis and already looking great.

And here Super BABY Karis. She is so cute.

While I gush over my friend's kids, of course I have to bring up Tylie, Laura's daughter. She had her 3rd birthday, and with Tylie you never know what funny thing she will do next, so no still shots here, All video. I had a hard time choosing which video to put on here, there are so many, but here she is with her cake.

Closer to chrismas, I threw together a last minute (literally) Christmas get together with a few friends. We of course had ugly Christmas Sweaters and just hung out. Here are some pictures. There were some friends that didn't dress up Christmasy, so they were not invited to be in the picture. haha!

Here is Nate's besty Beav and his wife Kayla and their little girl Kennedy

We couldn't find Nate's Turtle neck to go under his sweater, so he doesn't look as festive, but his sweater does have reigndeer on it, you just cannot see them.

Here's Marceles (I just love this guy) and I.

The party was fun and low key. I'll have to be more organized next time and plan it in advanced.

On the 23rd of December, Nate and I celebrated our 4th year anniversary! He was so sweet and got me flowers delivered to my work. I was shocked!!! He hasn't done that since we were dating. Thank you Nate! I love you!!!!

LET THE FESTIVITIES BEGIN!!!

For Christmas, we really just spent a ton of time having fun with our families! Which was just perfect.

Here is a picture of Marlee (my sister) and Ed at my mom's house on Christmas Eve.

This year was our year to be with Nate's family. Normally we would have gone to Thatcher where his parents live, but since Des had to work Chritmas, we celebrated at our house. It wasn't the same though cause Camille Jay and Addison could not make it this year. We missed them a lot. In all it was fun, and I hardly took any good pictures, but here are a few.

Here is Lindsey and Kyle (Nate's brother) We got Lindsey the game of Rook for Christmas. She is the newest addition to the Wright family, and to be in this family you have to know how to play Rook.

Our main source of entertainment was cute little Raylee. Here's a video that I got of her. I'm posting this mainly for you Camille.

The Fishes. Des, Raylee and TC

Another funny gift was to Nate and Kyle from their brother Jared who is a highschool senior. Jared got them their old Jerseys from Thatcher highschool. Same number and everything. Apparently the same Jersey they wore is now the practice jersey. Now Nate can live out his highschool memories! haha

Is that Uncle Rico from Napolian Dynomite or my husband?

After we did Christmas with Nate's family. We went over to my sister's house to watch my nephews open gifts.
Me and Turner

The boys with their hot cocoa

Big Q and little Q

G-ma and Cannon

Here is my Christmas tree all decorated! I love my house around Christmas. I think Christmas decorations are so fun!!

After Christmas I had a few get together's. First was for Tessa Gissels baby shower.

Then we had a little Student council reunion. Not many people showed up. Hopefully next year we can plan it better and get more people to come.

Look close everyone, cause that is my first picture where you can see my baby bump.

November

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I know, this is getting lame how far behind I am, but I promise that I'll be caught up soon. Anyways, November was fun. As far as pregnancy goes, I was in my 4th month. Just out of my first trimester, and eating like a mad woman. Well I've always ate like a mad woman, so imagine that and times it by 100. I really am so lucky because I never got sick throughout my pregnancy. In November I was in that stage where my tummy was getting big, but you still couldn't tell too much if I was pregnant or just fat. I used clever disguises like scarfs though, and that really helped. So sorry, no belly pics in this post.

My order is backwards, but oh well. I guess we'll start with Thanksgiving! We had it at my parents house and I was really bad at getting pics ( I was too busy eating), but here are a few.

My mom and I

Marlee's inlaws

And you know Turner was all over the desserts!

In November Nate and I took our Niece Raylee and our Nephews Turner and Cannon out to the Phoenix Childrens Museum. It was actually really fun and perfect for all ages. I was afraid they were too young, but actually there is a lot there that is geared to just their age. I totally recommend going there sometime.

Here's Raylee with her doll

Cannon in the car section

They have a huge play kitchen and grocery store. The kids loved it!

This was my favorite, the little ones got a little scared at first, but there are thousands of these noodles hung from the cealing and you just run through them.

Even the big kids can have fun!!!

Raylee girl!

Mr Turner! He was all over the place, it was almost impossible to get a picture of him, but he had a blast!

Then at the beginning of the month, Kristen had a baby shower! It was seriously so cute! Lynn and Marci did AWESOME!!!

I was so happy to hang out with Lynn and her adorable little family! Annabelle is a doll.

Some of you might remember this sign. Go class of 2002 haha!

Kristen and Linda!
Poor kristen wasn't feeling good that day. But she hung in like a champ:)

The cutest thing was the cake they had for her. It was adorable. I was a little pregnant lady made of frosting. Seriously that thing was edible. I felt like I was on Ace of Cakes.
And that's a wrap!! Hope you enjoyed. Stay tuned for December!!!

Still Behind..Oh Well.. Here's our October

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My dreams certainly came true in October when a group of my girlfriends decided to go to the So You Think You Can Dance concert!!! All of us girls are equally obsessed with the show, How obsessed you ask? Well, when its on, every week we get together to watch it, and then when were alone we all re-watch it because we end up missing a lot while were talking. We keep all of the episodes saved on our DVR's until our husbands force us to erase them, and we seriously go back constantly to rewatch the dances that we liked. Tricia and her son even memorized one of the dances this year, and that had to of been the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life!!!

Anyway, here we are before the concert in our specially made shirts,

We drew so much attention that night it was so fun!

Eating before the show! Busting moves
The craziest thing for me was seeing So many of my old friends at the concert. I seriously was expecting to be the only adult out of 10,000 little teeny boppers, but that was so not the case. I ran into Jen Kabutz who I used to dance with in Highschool. and then there were like 5 of 6 other people that I ran in to from Gilbert High School as well, what are the chances??

Then, Nate and I played hosts for our family. Nate's grandparents from Florida as well as his Grandpa's brother Gary and his wife Michiline came to visit all the way from Paris, France! We absolutely adore them, and were able to take them out and do a lot of fun stuff.

I took them to the Hail Theatre in down town Gilbert, which they absolutely LOVED!!! (This is such a good place to take visitors and its pretty inexpensive)

The stage is right in the middle, and the audience is on all 4 sides which makes it interesting.

Gary and Michiline are great! We actually went to France 3 years ago and they showed us all around! We had a really good time.
Grandpa Wright, Gary, Michiline, and me

This picture makes me laugh, my mom was standing in the sun and I kept making her go lower and lower so I could see her. haha!

Here we all are at one of my favorite places Joes Farm GrillBaby Brielle Bridges, daughter of Langdon and Heather, made her big debut in October! Though she was nameless for the first 3 or 4 days, which nearly drove me to insanity (just ask Heather). Here she is already flashing gang sings and everything haha, actually I think she is signing the words "I love you" only to me though. Then Carrie had her baby shower which was really cute! Even though I was NOT invited :)

Haloween was great, and of course I was aweful at taking pictures. I am in the works of getting a picture of Nate and I's costume this year. It was nothing compared to our Wayne and Garth last year, but it was pretty fun.

Here are my nephews costumes though. Cannon was Blue from blues clues!And Turner was Blue's little friend from the show (I'm sure I will get to know this characters name real soon here, but for now I'm clueless)Of course this is the only picture I could get of them together.Happy Halloween!!!!

September Part 2

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I hear wedding bells!

In September Nate and I went to Utah for Kyle's (Nate's little brother's) wedding Kyle and Lindsey had a beautiful ceremony in the Mt. Tempenogous temple.
Lindsey was so beautiful, and her dress was so cute.

Here are Nate's grandfathers

Here are Nate's twin uncles Lynn and Layne

and here are Nate's adorable grandma's The happy couple!

Our cutie Nieces! Love them!

The Wright's

too cute!

All the girls!Tell us how you really feel Jay. haha!Here is a picture (Not a good one) but of all of the great grand kids on the Walker side of the family. Notice they are all girls. So our little guy is going to be around a lot of estrogen. Hopefully they don't bully him too much :-) After the Wedding I went to meet up with friends and family in Utah. We hadn't been to Utah in forever, so it was so fun to see everyone! Rachel, Nate and I met up at Applebees with her boyfriend and his friends. We laughed so hard.

I got to spend a lot of time with one of my favorite cousins ever... Ashley!Ashley is a mommy of two, and it is so crazy to see her in her element with her kiddos. They are so good! You are such a cute mom Ash! Miley wasn't too thrilled when we sat her on the motorcycle at Lindsey's work Your hot Nate!!Say What???? Since when did I have a shoe named after me. One of my Utah highlights was meeting up with all of my family The Rohde's

Here are Ashley's parents, my Aunt Cheryl and Uncle Gary, behind them is my Aunt ArlyneWe got together at my favorite Hires Big H. You'll never guess who that is next to Ryan and I... it's my biological father. Crazy huh! Good thing Ryan knows how to lighten the mood. I'm not sure if Ryan made it more awkward or less awkward, but that's Ryan for you

We got Rainer to flex his muscles with Ryan. haha!
Ryan and Cheryl, need I say more! haha! I love this girl! Then Mckinzi invited us to the event of the weekend. The BYU game. It was so awesome, I had never been to one before. the crowd was so fun!

It was really sunny that day and we just had so much fun! Thank you so much Kinzi! GO MAX and DENNIS and GO Cougars!!!

Back at home, Nate and I went with the gang out to Cheese cake Factory for Kristen's Birthday! Happy Birthday Kristen!