El Paso!

Last week my mom, Ashley, and I got to take a trip to El Paso to go see my long lost brother and his two little kids. We hadnt seen Josh or Olivia in over a year and a half, and I had never even met little Henry! They are the cutest kids. Its wierd how much I love them for only having met them a few times!


We would take at least 3 pictures to get one where the kids were looking at the camera or to get us to look at the camera. This is one of the best we could get..


One afternoon Josh took us to Fort Bliss where he was working while Monica babysat for us. It was so fun to be with us three again, it had been way too long! Josh is only 18 months older than me and Ash is 14 months younger so we were all really close growing up! We got to see all the places Josh has worked and lived in the last 3 years. He is moving to Austin to a different base in two weeks because he is leaving for Afghanistan in March.


This is Henry. He loves food! Whenever food was around he'd have as much as possible stuffed in his hands and even more stuffed in his mouth. When we first got there he was crying alot and would only go to Josh but by the end of the first night he warmed up to all of us. It made me so excited for my little baby!

Josh bought Henry and Olivia these little outfits for Olivias birthday party. It was princess themed because she loves princesses. They both looked sooo cute. There was a giant princess pinata that they bought for the kids to hit but at first Olivia didnt like the idea of bashing in her lifesize princess. It was pretty funny when it actually started happening we thought she would start bawling but she actually was okay with it until a little boy at the party put the princess face on like a mask and ran around the house with it.

Olivia is the typical girly girl. She is so prissy and proper. Anytime you talk to her she talks in a whisper but she is so sweet! She loved grandma and for the first day thought I was grandma for some reason. We didnt know if it was because of my white hair or I was the first person she saw off the plane but by then end she realized who her grandma really was!

It was a really good trip but it made me miss them even more!

26 weeks!

So I went to my 26 week Drs Appointment yesterday and was feeling good on the way in... Apparently I was not being careful what I was doing and I tripped on something and fell flat on the ground! Luckily my purse was kind of between my belly and the cement but it still scared me soo bad! I was so worried something would have happened to the baby but the Doctor told me everything is still going really good so all is well. I am so excited because I finally ordered the baby's bedding and its supposed to get here tomorrow so we are going to get the nursery started.

I'm going to have to alot to blog about soon because tomorrow is Tyler's birthday and then this weekend I am going with my mom and sister to El Paso to visit my brother Josh and see my neice and nephew. I cant wait to see them!

One of the many reasons I love Tyler

One afternoon over Christmas break we had a day outside in the snow. We all had to basically find whatever we could around the house so I was actually surprised we all had enough snow clothes (some of the outfits were really interesting!) Anyway, Susan was trying to get a picture of us all jumping in the air at the same time and as you can see we had some difficulties with timing. Apparently Tyler thought we were supposed to be doing something way different… I’m scared to see what kind of things our little girl is going to do with parents like us!

Happy new year!

Apparently I'm dislexic or its the year 2001, but either way we hope everyone has a good new year! We have been busy with the holidays and moving but hopefully I'll be able to update more soon!