Past Prego pics

This is one of my Christmas presents. I was so excited because I thought I didn't have any of me while pregnant with Calvy. I forgot how big I was right off the bat with him.
It was really fun to go back down memory lane. Enjoy, just some of the experience, there are too many to share.

This bike took us(Alsy, with me pretty much watching) till 3am. We got this bike for a steal months ago at a big sale for $6.50, but it was a booger to put together.
We originally were going to give this to him for his B-day in Jan. We had this really cool tent/tunnel thing for him to play in the house with because it's too too cold outside. Well, while setting it up 3 poles broke and so did my spirit. I was so mad, I was so excited to give him that gift, but he did love his bike. His favorite gift was a pirate set from the Dollar Store, funny.

This was him waking us up. Please excuse my underwear.(sorry)
We had to convince him to go look at what Santa brought him, all he wanted to do was watch Nemo.
Santa gift. Video coming.
He warmed up to it, lets just say it took a while to convince him it was fun.
We've had a Merry Christmas. I think his favorite would have to be drum he got from his Grandma Barnes, we have already hidden it from him, it's VERY loud. :) My favorite gift would have to be the pictures Alsy developed for me, I've had 3 cameras sitting in my drawer for years now and he went and got them developed. They were so fun, most of them were of the time while I was pregnant with Calvy, so that was fun to look at. Alsy's favorites are his software for tranfering movies onto his iPod and his new aluminum water bottle. Nixon got a new squeaky toy and some dog treats, which he is sharing with our little house guest, Penelope(our friends min pin).
Merry Christmas EVERYONE! We wish we could be with you.

Christmas Jammies in "person"

Christmas Eve in Iowa

Yet again, it uploaded them out of order and it won't let me rearrange them...annoying...do you here me Blogspot People, it's annoying!

It is a tradition with my family to have a progressive dinner with family and at the last house we open our Grandma Jammies.
This year we had a progressive dinner with some friends, our "Iowa Family". It was super fun. We had an appetizer, the dinner at our house and then hot chocolate and a movie at our other friends' house.
It was cold, but fun. So these are some pictures of us in our new jammies(thank you Momma!), they are not quite warm enough for these Iowa winters, but Calvy would not let us take those off, so we did extra socks and blankets tonight. This last picture was after dinner at our house, that's why my stomach is sticking our so far...haha. So as you can see, no baby yet...hopefully soon....pretty please. :)

I just saw this for the first time, so I had to post it. It is so funny.

You HAVE To Check Them Out

Okay, Seriously if you live in AZ and you don't check them out, you are CRAZY! One of my best friends back in AZ just started this photography business with her brother and Fam. This is just a taste of their awesome skills. Check 'em out on their website Endless Foto.

Winter Overload

Iowa has some CRAZY weather. Yesterday was a crazy winter day here in Davenport. See our porch furniture? We had so much snow, it was non-stop all day.
We had a dinner with Alsy's newspaper crew last night, when we got home I sat in the car with Calvy asleep in the back while Alsy shoveled our walk. Everyone was outside shoveling and snow blowing, it was almost 10:00 when we got home. Seriously! When does it stop? ( there's a little glimpse of our new van)
Look at that.

Hide and Seek

We have gotten so many packages from Alsy's parents so we have a TON on boxes. I went to the basement to switch the laundry and came back up and couldn't find Calvy. Then I heard a litttle something and this popped out. He was actually having a little poopy time. This is his poopy face. Poor guy, he just wanted a little privacy.
It was really cute to watch him try to get it closed again. I remember being a kid and loving boxes. It's so fun to him pretend.

Trying to keep warm.

Well it gets pretty cold here, especially in the morning after getting out of your nice warm bed. So we have to set Calvy in front of the TV right next to the heater with a blanket. These heater work pretty well, but it is still so cold out that it's hard for them to keep up. I don't know what we're going to do, maybe it'll just have to be super expensive for us in the winter.
Look at little Nixy! That collar is pretty bright huh? :)

Calvy's new dew.

Well this site is being a little stubborn and it won't let me move the pictures around so here is the finished product. I did not take a before, but you've seen him with his long hair.
He loved to see himself in the mirror with his new hair. He's so cute, he looks so big.
Look at all that hair...ignore all the other stuff in that pile.
He did so well, he didn't cry at al while I was cutting it, but he did cry when I had to hose him off in the bathtub. He got 2 big boy candies for being so good.

Winter's Past

Look at this cute little boy. I can not believe we have been here for over a year now and that this will be our second winter and our second child. Time is going by so fast, I don't know what I'm going to do. One of these days I'm going to turn around and I'll have a 5 year old and not know where the time went. Holy COW!

...Wait a second, I have 2 kids.

Our little baby girl is getting bigger, and I am too in return. She is very active, my stomache is always moving. She has picked up the hick-ups, she has them about 3 or 4 times a day, but nothing compared to her big brother who had them atleast 8 times a day..no joke. I can already tell that she is not going to be a mild mannered as her brother, but I still think she'll be a sweety. I am carrying her much lower than Calvy, and she seems to hurt me a lot more than he ever did. Her kicks are like kungfoo kicks that seem like they are going to break the surface. I often jumo in surprise and pain during quiet times at church or restaraunts. It's a little embarrassing but very uncontrollable, it's just a relfex for my to jumo and say "owe" when I'm being kicked that hard, especially when it's in a less than comforatble spot, if you know what I mean.
We are so excited for her and have no idea what to expect with a girl, although we would not be surprised if when "she" is born that "she" were actually a "he". Alsy and I both have our doubts, but we'll see.
We are hoping we didn't use up all our cuteness on the first one...after seeing little Calvy it's hard to think how we could have a cuter kid. We can't wait to have another baby in the house, we are remembering how much fun it was, we're not quite to the part of our memory where it was super hard, but I'm sure we'll get there. I can't wait to get her out and see her, and finally be able to give her a name. And also to be back to my normal size, man, I forgot how rough it was being 2 people for so long. I can't wait to just be ME again.

Memory Purposes

I have a few things that I have been wanting to write down so that I won't forget them. Writing is not one of my strong points(bad handwriting, and bad carpotunnel) so typing is the way to go for me, even though typing is not one of my strong points either. :)

Calvy has become such a ham and such a big boy, I love being his Mommy. Recently he has become quite the parot, repeating everything we say, good or bad. The other day we were doing something in the kitchen and I must have dropped something and was acting frustrated. Calvy must have noticed the change in my attitude and said, "Are kinneen me?" It took me a second to realize what he was saying and it took the next day when we were in the car to figure out where he had even gotten it from. The next day while driving a car pulled out in front of me in a very "Iowa driver" sort of way and my response was "Are you kidding me?!" and there in the backseat my little parrot says, "kinneen me?!" So now whenever he senses my frustration he says, "kinneen me?!" He's such a cute little boy!
He has also started to join in the conversation while Alsy and I are talking. Usually he'll just repeat the last word of each sentence. In the car this evening while going to pick up some dinner(because my kitchen is a disaster after 3 pots of milk boiled over and burned to the stove and pots, but that is another story having to do with Husbands and their messes...I love you babe!). Alsy and I were talking about whatever we were talking about and Calvy in the backseat just kept repeating the last word we'd say. It makes me feel bad when he does it because I know he just wants to be included. So I turned aound and said something like "Oh ya?" and he looked at me and said, "yep". This continued till we got our food, and then all he could say was "Fetz Fye".
Yes, I am still going, I told you this is for memory purposes....
Not only does he mimmick all we say he also mimmicks all we do too. He has done it several times, like while I'm standing in the kitchen leaning on the counter talking with Alsy he'll come stand right beside me and stand exactly the way that I am, after looking at me several times to make sure he has gotten it right. This evening while I was preparing my lesson for tomorrow he noticed that I had put down my pen to pick at my fingernails. He promptly put down his marker and started to mimmick my motions. He is so funny, we catch him doing this all the time, he wants to be big so bad. I love this little guy.
We are trying to get him used to the idea that I am going to have another baby, so we often point to my belly and ask him what it is. His usual response is to say "baby" and then kiss my tummy. After he kisses my tummy I say, "Aah, you're such a good big brother". He recent response the the tummy question is to now say baby and kiss my tummy and then after kissing my tummy he says," Aah, uh budder" while tilting his head to the side as to mimmick someoneso super sweet.
We just checked out a book from the library about a family who is having another baby. It matches our family almost perfectly. It is a family with the mom and dad and an older son, a black dog with a red collar and they are having a little girl. When we read the book Calvy points at the boy, and the dad and says who they are, and then points to the dog and says, "nissun", he does look a lot like our dog, given that our dog is also black and also has a red collar. Tonight I tried to go a little further and really try to get him to understand that ther is a baby in mommy's tummy and that she would come out. I think I might have gone too far. I turned him toward me so he could see my face and I asked him if he knew he was going to be a big brother just like in the book. I pointed to the baby in the picture and said there was a baby just like that in my tummy. So he lifted up my shirt and began to kind of dig at my tummy trying to get her out. He kept saying "Oogh, Scuck. Out?" I then had to explain that she wouldn't come out until after Santa Clause came. We had to go through this about 3 times, but I think he might understand now. We ended with him smiling and saying "ya".
Well, it is getting late and we have early church so I'd better get my booty in bed. Thanks for reading.

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These are supposed to be on our "i heart" blog but I wanted to get these up and we are having blog issues.
We really want to do better pictures, but for now, this is what we have. Hopefully my camera isn't completely horrible and you can atleast make out the shapes.
BTW, our show was a blast. Due to poor planning on the shows part, we only had about 300 people show up versus the projected 1000 we were expecting. So that was a let down, but we enjoyed ourselves and are excited to do it again...next year. :)

i heart Debut

NOW INTRODUCING:
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My best friend and I have started a little business. We made a few for a friends Baby Shower and they were a big hit, so after a little hesitation on my part, we decided to go into business.

Our big debut is this Saturday at a craft show in Port Byron. It'll be held at Riverdale High School, Admission is $1, it's from 9am-3pm. It's going to be so fun, we are really excited and have been onesie making maniacs, so come by and see us. Check out our Blog. Come to our show and say you saw our blog and you'll receive 10% off, link us to your blog and you'll be entered into a drawing for a FREE onsie! Just post a comment on i heart blog letting us know you linked us. Thanks for all your Support!

...Stay Tuned for our Christmas Line coming soon.

Wood Anyone.

So Alsy and I discovered something this evening, about 5 minutes ago to be exact, thanks to my Elephant brained friend Nicole.

We had forgotten our 5 year anniversary, it was this past Friday. Luckily we did go out do dinner at the local Chuck-E-Cheese with friends and all the kids. An interresting way to celebrate an anniversary.
I looked it up and wood is the traditional gift for 5 years. Not sure what to get, but maybe I'll think of something absolutely amazing that will blow his mind...ya right. We are planning on going out to dinner and a movie this next Friday, and this time no chuck or Calvy. Any volunteers for babysiting? j/k

Thanks Cole!

I'm Thankful For..

Ok, let's just face it, I am not very good at this posting everyday. So lets make it a "whenever I get around to it" Thankful Post.
Today I am thankful for great friends and family. I just had a great little Shower thown by my best friends. I had fun sittin and chattin with everyone. I only got one picture, and I honestly have ZERO energy to go grab my camera and load it up. My friend took some others so I'll have her email them to me.
Thank you so much to my friends for coming and buying my baby gifts, and for my awesome friends who did so much planning and preparation to throw me such a great shower.
Oh man I can't wait to show you a picture of all the sweet treats and the super adorable diaper cake.
Thank you all so much!

p.s. I just caught wind that there might be a shower, held by proxy, for me in AZ. Thank you so much family...you rock the house.

That's what I call singing

This is Adele, she is amazing. I tried to get her music video but they are all blocked. Look it up on Youtube, it's a cool video. Hearing her sing makes me think I chose the wrong path. I think that's how we all feel some times huh. Man I wish I could sing like her. Alsy you better watch out, we might have to start paying for a voice coach.

An eventful week so far.

Calvy decided to open up his sippy cup, which was full of prune juice, all over his rocking chair and library books. That was a really fun morning. I have been praying for patience, and I am defiantely being taught. Well, like I;ve said before I hate how Blogger loads the pictures. They are always out of order. We made Turkeys this morning.

Here he is coloring it, and he is actually happy. That changed really quick. That is why I never got a finished product picture with him in it, he was in time out.

I was making Taquitos for dinner on Monday and our stupid refrigerator froze all of my tortillas, so when I fried them they fell apart and made a HUGE mess. Alan called and said that there was a chili cook off at the school and asked if I wanted to go. So, he came and got us and we went. It was a lot of fun, and lot of drinking, but a lot of fun. They had face painting and balloon making, and popcorn, and a ton of chili. I had about 2 bites of 2 different chillis and decided I was done, it was really spicy.

Calvy had a lot of fun, he gota balloon hat, a maraca, a spiderman balloon, his face painted and Daddy got an Octopus, I didn't get a picture of it, but it was HUGE and hilarious watching him carry it around. We had fun and it was cheap. Afterward we did a drive-by Cup-caking to some of our friends, for FHE. It was fun.

Playtime on Sunday

We wanted to keep the TV off this last Sunday so we decided to play with Calvy. We tride to think of some games we could play with him, but he's a little young for that. So, we got out his little farm house(you might remember this from my sweet buys, it was a $1 at a garage sale with all the people). Our house was a little cold, so we are all bundled up. Calvy was loving all the little people. We put them all over him, in his pockets, in his hood, in his jacket. He loved it.

I got video of it, but not any pictures. But he would open the barn door and say "Hola Daddy", and close it and say "Adios Daddy". It was so cute. I'll try and get the video on. He had to sit and take a little poo, so in the video he's trying to poo and say Adios at the same time, it's really funny.

Gettin some play time in.

Calvy loves to step over that drain pipe, and back over again. I'm not sure why, but he'll do it several times while we're outside. Nixy, he is hilarious. He pretty much just keeps a look out while we're outside. I'm not sure what he's looking for, but I'm pretty sure it's Squirels.

This is another day, a warmer day, hence the shorts and T's. We love when Daddy is home, we were on our way out to go eat some lunch and decided to play a little. Poor Nixon didn't get out this time, and he was barking inside the house, I think he was a little mad at us for not letting him out.

Fall is so fun here. We love to watch our trees lose their leaves. All of our trees are currently bare. It didn't take long this year.

Well it's Day 9.

I should be onto the 9th thing I am thankful for and yet I am falling short. This post I will be playing Catch-Up. So here is a list of 5 things that I am most Thankful for all the days I have missed.

5. I am very thankful for warmth. Where ever it may come from , I am Thankful for it. It is a chilly 33 degrees outside, and whenever and wherever I can find heat, I soak it up. Thanks to Sam's Club and Craigs List for the sweet heaters that keep us warm, which in turn will also (hopefully) help us save some money this winter. 6. I am Thankful for a handy husband. Alsy is so good at fixing things and engineering them to work the way we want them to. He saves us so much money on vehicle repair and maintenance. He's just great to have around the house, I love it.

7. I am SO Thankful for Chiropractic Care, Free Chiro Care. It has been so nice throughout this pregnancy to be able to go to the Chiro and get some relief from my aches and pains.
8. I am Thankful to be a mother. Although I do complain, and life IS hard, I do love being a mother. Calvy is so sweet, he has such a fun personality and loves to love us. We are excitedly awaiting our little girl and can't wait to meet her. Calvy is so cute, he touches my belly and says "bay-beeeeee" and then gives it a big hug and kiss. Alsy has surprised me a few times as to how excited he is. With Calvy he never really kissed or touched my belly, and with this one he is very into that. I can tell we are all excited to have a little girl in the family.
9. Last but certainly not least. I am grateful for prayer. I love that wherever I am that I can pray. that I have this long distance Walky Talky that I can turn on and use whenever I need to. And in realtion, I am thankful for answers to prayers. I made it to church today, on time, and that was a definate answer to my prayers.