Our little helper

It doesn't matter the weather. If there is water around, this girl is playin in it.
When we got home from our camping trip, but got the quad out of the truck and began to wash it. Mind you, it was overcast out and sprinkling every once in a while. Not really that cold out, but rainy weather non the less.
Izzy saw this and thought of the fun she could partake in. She then took it upon herself to start washing my car. And herself. This lasted a few minutes and then we wrapped things up and took her in for a nice warm bath.












She was not very happy when I took the bucket away. However, once she knew we were headed for the bath, she was ok with it.


She is currently enjoying a nice warm bath right now as I finish updating my blog.
(No worries folks. I can see her from where I sit!)

Our quick campin trip

After not having much of a Thanksgiving camping trip, we wanted to take a trip of our own and get out of town for a few days before the baby comes. So the other weekend we took off to Frank Reigns.

Here is our new truck. We traded in the big ol' gas hog that was slowing coming up with a problem here and a problem there, for this newer, more gas efficient, and more reliable Toyota Tundra. We love it. For around the same price we were paying for the other one (monthly and on insurance), and it's way cheaper on gas, it was a good choice for us.

Aw! And here we have our little trailer. Have no fear people. It's not a scary as it may look. Bud and his dad have been completely remodeling the inside. It's not all done yet, but it's lookin pretty hot on the inside! Once the inside in completed, we will repaint the outside and make it look super awesome!

And here she is, going on a ride with daddy. She was loving it! She wanted to go on it all the time. However, she did not want to put her helmet on first. You had to start moving first and then stop and put her helmet on. We didn't understand it, but whatever. She even fell asleep at one point. I will have to get that picture from my mother in law.




She was ready to go!

"bi, bi, bi" she would say. (bike)

We're still alive!

I can't believe it has been as long as it has and I haven't even touch my blog. We have been busy and tired around here. I know lots of people say, "you think you're tired now, wait till that second one comes". Well, actually, no. I'm sure I will have my moments where I'd love to catch up on some sleep, however, I know how my body works and what I am capable of and let me tell you, it will be SO much easier to get things done when I don't have a big ol' belly crampin my style and slowing me down.
I am 37 weeks now and counting the days! We will be having a scheduled C-Section on April 6th. Only 2 weeks to go! We are all ready and just waiting at this point. The kids room has been repainted, crib set up, toys and books re-organized, clothes washed and folded in drawers, carseat and baby hospital bag ready to go.




My plan of attack with my blog was to get all caught up from Thanksgiving and Christmas and work my way till now. However, the more I think about updating it, the more daunting it looks to me, therefore I put it off. And I'm not going to lie, I have been totally neglecting taking pictures lately too! What has happened to me??!! This little boy in me has brought out the lazy in me for sure! Can't wait to get him OUT!
SO, I have come to the decision that I will just do one semi-big post with just a few photos from each post I was going to make. Keep it short and sweet and to the point, so I can finally feel caught up and ready to go for when little boy blue comes.
So here we go!...

Thanksgiving-
2010 Thanksgiving was different, but relaxing. It was with some of the same crowd and then lots that we didn't know and weren't really the same with (ya know what I mean). On top of that, no one got to ride because the closed the trails because of snow (and the tree huggers). So for the time we were there, we just hung out in camp, spent time with each other and eat. However, Izzy got to go on her first ride! She enjoyed it until each time they'd circle around and she would see me and act all helpless and sad. It was funny, but she had fun. Oh and this was also right before Bud got pulled over for "riding with a passenger". Too bad she hardly counts as a passenger and they were only going like 10mph! And the "officer" thought he'd just ignore all the other 20 people riding on their bikes in an area that said "no riding", but whatever! He let us off the hook cause we said we had never been there and this was the last time we followed anybody to a new campsite (which was true). We can't go anywhere without Bud getting in some kind of trouble without even trying to cause trouble. People think cause he's this big guy he must mean trouble.
Anyway, here is a few pictures of Izzy's first ride.





My brothers visit-
My brother came up from San Diego for Thanksgiving, so we made sure to make it back home from camping so we could visit with him. We ended up leaving camp early cause there was no riding and things were just different. So it was nice to spend the weekend with my brother. Izzy had so much fun with him. It took her a few minutes to warm up to him because she hasn't seem him to often, but it wasn't long and she was having fun. And by the time he needed to go, she wanted to be held by him and give kisses. He'll be up here this weekend too and I'm so excited to have him see how much she has changed!






Christmas-
Christmas was a little more fun this year. Izzy kind of got the idea, but not completely. She had fun opening gifts and then playing with the bags, wrapping and then her new toys. This next year our family and extending family will be enjoying Christmas down in Disneyland. That way we are all together all at the same time and I get to experience a Disney Christmas!

NICE, crib makers

So, one afternoon I put Izzy down for her nap as usual. And like MOST times, she sits and plays in her crib for a little while, then cries until she gives up all hope of anyone coming and rescuing her, then she crashes. So, being use to the crying part, which at times and get pretty dramatic, I sat and just waited for her to get over it and go to sleep (stubborn little child we have. Although, with both her mommy and daddy being very stubborn as well, she had no hope). After an unusual amount of crying time and the fact that it continued to be "dramatized", I got up to go see what the problem was. It was dark when I went in there, so I couldn't see anything wrong at first, other than she was just upset and wanted to be held. I held her for a minute as she lay her head on my shoulder.
After I laid her back down in ehr crib, she finally went to sleep. When I walked out of her room, however, I soon noticed blood all over my shoulder. Not a crazy amount, but enough to realize that that was the reason she was crying so much. I wasn't about to go back in there after she finally went to sleep, I just figured, she had bumped her mouth and it bleed a little bit. All you moms know that even a small mouth injury always bleeds a lot and heals really fast as well.
Once she woke up from her nap, I decided to scope things out and see what I could find. I noticed the blood on her blanket first and realized, "wow, what the heck did you do", I kept looking and soon spotted a bunch of blood on the siderail. Well, the GENIOUS crib manufactures but a plastic cover on the tops of the side rails. This is good thinking for babies who teethe on the sides of their crib, therefore avoiding them chipping off and eating the paint and/or wood of the crib. HOWEVER, what they failed to think of was the proper design of this contraption. Izzy was capable of bitting the bottom part of this piece in an attept to pop it off. This backfired on her when it snapped back into place enclosing her bottom lip with it. OUCH!!
This now explained all the blood. Poor baby! Needless to say, I removed these stupid covers.

A New Game

When Izzy first learned how to climb up on this chest, this is what she did every time. Crawl on top, stand up, turn around and start to fake cry. However, if you did not come get her during that fake cry, she would then start to seriously cry. Tears and all. Then I would go get her down and as soon as I would set her feet on the floor, she was right back on top of it doing the same thing! Needless to say, this game didn't last too long and we just started to ignore her and told her how to get down herself. Now, of course, she hasn't been playing this game for a while. She still enjoys climbing up on it though and looking out the window, or sitting next to the cat when he is up there. She gets down all by herself now with no problems!

And we are having.....

A BOY!

Sorry, I have been totally slacking lately and have been averaging about 1 post per month. This was not intended, but it's just what has happened. And sorry to say, but I don't even have pictures to post on this post. I mean I have pictures, but I only have so much time right now and it's easier just to write a quick something. We have been busy, and when we aren't busy, I'm exhausted. So I nap when Izzy naps. Sometimes, not a whole lot gets done, but I'd rather be rested than very tired and grouchy. I'm sure my husband would rather have that as well.
Bud has also been very busy as well. Not working at his job, which is a bummer (stupid economy) but he has been working day and night basically rebuilding our trailer before we leave camping for thanksgiving. So we don't get to see a lot of each other lately. Maybe once we get him back I will have some more time to sit and blog properly and post lots of pictures.

So yes, we found out we are having a boy! I'm not going to lie, at first I wasn't too excited. After having a girl, and an awesome one at that, the though of having a boy, just was not exciting at all. I knew the whole time that this baby could really go either way (a boy or another girl) but a part of me was hoping it was another girl for these reasons: one, because we have EVERYTHING and I wouldn't need to change anything, and two because I never had a sister and the thought of Izzy having a sister so close in age sounded so cute and fun!!
So, for the first day I was a little disappointed, but the next day I was over it and after talking with a few friends who had experienced the same thing, I felt better.
So now all we really need is boy clothes. Which I have been lucky to have some friends say they will give me what they have. So that is a blessing.
I also feel, so far, like this little guy is going to be smaller than what izzy was. My belly in general is bigger this time around, but it's mostly NOT baby bump belly. Which is weird because I have yet to gain an ounce in this pregnancy and I'm already half way through! But anyway, my actual baby bump is quite small compared to what it was at this point with Izzy. But we will see how it progresses in the next 20 weeks. Maybe I will get a smaller baby this time. (Don't worry people, remember Izzy was almost 10 lbs, so when I say smaller, I just mean a normal sized baby!)
So far, again, my pregnancy is the same as with Izzy. However I am more tired, but hey, I am chasing a toddler around all the time!!!
ok, I guess Izzy isn't going to nap, so now is my cue to get off the computer. Picture posts coming soon! (hopefully)