Cookie Touch

By Carmen

Nana and Papa went to Disney world with Tyler’s sister and her family. They brought back a couple of souvenirs for Annley. One of which was a giant lollipop. As soon as Annley saw it she grabbed it and said very excitedly “cookie touch”.

Cookie touch is a segment in one of the episodes of Sesame Street that Annley watched. During this segment a cookie fairy gives cookie monster the gift of turning whatever he touches into a cookie.

Do you see a resemblance between the two wands?

Here is Annley having some Cookie Touch fun.

Two Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

By Carmen

Most of you have probably guessed by the simple fact that we changed the title of our blog that are having another baby.

The due date is April 6, 2010.  We are very excited.

I am now 14 weeks pregnant and the morning sickness (which is part of the reason I haven’t been writing much lately) is finally starting to ease up.

We decided to get a little creative with announcing this pregnancy to family.

I bought Annley this t-shirt. 

The shirt was a little too big so I let her wear it as a pajama shirt.  She wore it to my parent’s house but when we arrived, Dustin was the only one home.  He never even noticed what it said so I changed her clothes before we met up with my mom.

I had to tell my family separately because we weren’t going to be going to be together for the rest of the week and I knew there was no way I’d be able to hide it with as bad as my morning sickness was.

We put the shirt on Annley and walked to my grand-parents’ house.  Papa was out of town for a basketball tournament so Nana and my cousin Macy were the only ones there.

It took my Nana about 20 mins before she saw what was on the shirt.  She very randomly and excitedly gasped “really?”

Everyone was pretty much expecting an announcement sometime soon and weren’t really all that surprised.

Tyler will be posting how he announced it to his side of the family soon (I hope). 

This Little Piggy

By Carmen

The other night I was making dinner and Tyler was watching Annley.

I heard her happily say “Daddy Daddy” and then added excitedly “PLEASE!”

A minute later out walks Tyler holding Annley and a bottle of red nail polish.

I’m guessing their conversation went like this:

Annley: walks out of the bathroom with a bottle of nail polish, takes it to Daddy and says “nails?”  “Paint?”

Tyler: “Just a minute. Okay, what do you say?”

Annley: “PLEASE”

He carried her to the chair in our great room sat her down and opened the bottle.  I envisioned Annley taking the bottle from Tyler and tipping the bottle upside down in an attempt to paint her own toenails so I  grabbed a trash bag to put under Annley.

I have to say Tyler did an excellent job painting her toenails and Annley had a great time having them painted.

What’s in a Name?

By Carmen

 

Lori, Tyler’s mom, started a business in real-estate investment.  She deals with properties who that are on their way into foreclosure.   Lori asked Tyler and Travis (his brother) to help her come up with a creative name for her business.

Some of them are:

 

Out of the Box Properties

Batteries Not Included Properties

ASAP Properties

Wasabi Properties (se habla espanol)

Yore Properties

Come On People, Make Me Rich Properties

Made-ya Look Properties

Rainbow Unicorn Sunshine Properties

Get-Your-Own Properties

Pipedream Properties

Instant Properties: Just Add Paycheck (Like Oatmeal, but realtor-er)

Frustrated Incorporated

Then of course, there were the maybe real ones like Iron Rod Properties and Steadfast Properties, and Progeny Investment Co.

It was a fun evening. We laughed a lot.

 

Lori is still trying to come up with the perfect name for her business so if you have any ideas let us know.

Dancing in the Rain

Annley has never liked anything resembling a shower including sprinklers and rain.

This afternoon it looked as though it would start pouring any second so I took Annley outside.

It started raining as soon as we got outside but instead of bringing her inside immediately I decided to see how she would react.

Much to my surprise not a complaint escaped her pretty little lips. Instead she ran around playing and yelling "WOW!"

A few minutes later I brought her onto the porch where she continued to spalsh and play. Everytime she went into the steady flow of rain (that ran off the roof) we, my family and I would burst into cheers and praise. Soon she was dancing under the water not even the least bit phased by the water running into her eyes. Obviously I was pleased.

Eventually she remembered that it was also raining and the grass and went to the very edge of the porch and said "grass" so we put her in the grass and started a game of tag. Uncle Dustin put on his swim trunks and joined us in the yard.

Thirty minutes later we decided it was time to come inside. We stood on the porch completely soaked through and very happy.

Batter Batter Swing!

By Carmen

The last 2 weeks Tyler and I have been getting ready for the annual stake softball day.  We had 3 practices with our ward.  I was quite impressed with how well Tyler did, especially since he’d never played softball before our first practice.

Our ward was actually good.  Most of the team was fairly young and pretty athletic.  We were excited.

Today was the day. I was up this morning at 5:15 without an alarm clock anticipating the day of fun and games.

Our ward had enough people to help out 3 other teams who were short handed.  Tyler and I were put of a team with a ward who did not practice at all and who the majority were older and overweight.  “Great!” I thought “we have no chance at winning”.

Then I remembered it was church softball and who cares.  We didn’t win any of our games but we did improve vastly throughout the day. 

 

While Tyler and I were playing, Annley was playing with her Nana, the other kids who were there, and some of the other sisters who were there.  She had a blast eating her snacks and mooching from others.

 

It wasn’t until last week that I realized that I no longer have the body of a 16 year old.  What I mean by that is when I was 16 I could play a weekend long softball tournament and wake up the next morning with no aches and pains at all.

Now when I play a softball game or practice, I wake up feeling like I’ve been hit by a freight train.  Which has me concerned for what kind of shape I’ll be in (and how I’ll be walking) when I wake up tomorrow.

Summer Catch Up

By Carmen

It has been awhile since I’ve posted what has been going on around here lately. This summer has been pretty busy between going to a family reunion and day to day life. Here is a glimpse into what we’ve been up to.  Some of our adventures have not been photographed. 

Just a heads up: there are a lot of pictures in this blog.

The first few pictures are from the Kern’s Family Reunion.  The little girl with Annley is my cousin Celeste.

 

Here is what she has been up to lately.

A little Foosball.

  Learning to share.

A little dancing.

A trip to the Gatlinburg Aquarium.

TV with Papa

Kisses from Travis.

Learned to climb in the stroller by herself.

Started playing dress up in Mommy’s clothes.

And Daddy’s (she calls his shirts dresses).

 

  Became obsessed with Harper (a friend’s baby).

 

  And what summer would be complete without a road trip.