She's 2!!

So two years ago the most amazing thing happened! We became parents to a beautiful baby girl. She has been the joy in our lives for the last two years and it just gets better everyday! She is still so happy (most of the time;) big huge smile 98% of the time, gets excited over everything, lives to play" I'm gonna get you", loves to swim and jump and watch t.v., to swing and slide and be tickled by her daddy. She gives us hugs while patting our backs, blows kisses to everyone when she says bye(even the grocery store lady), hates her vegetables, is talking more and more everyday, and loves to be around people and never wants to miss a party!

Here she is the day she was born

One years old
and now TWO!!! I can't believe it!
When everyone showed up to her Minnie Mouse party she was so excited that she just ran around hugging every ones legs!

She loved opening her presents and it was so fun this year because she could actually understand what was going on. Her is one of her gifts,every girl needs a pink ball! This was one of her favorite gifts from Amber and Aaron!
Here she is getting her kitchen. We waited until the end and brought it in and she was so excited! Little does she know in about 16 years that is the last thing she will ever want!
Three lovely ladies!!
So we sang to her and then told her to blow, and she did but very delicately! It took her about 10 tries and us helping before she got it out. We were clapping and cheering as she finally did. She is just such a little Lady!
Before she blew them out, she decided to stick her hand in the frosting to give it a little try! She liked it! And is my child the only one that eats ONLY the frosting on the cake?!

The cake! I'll let you decide if you think I made it or not?!??
Yummy!
Us with our party hats! I didn't think she would wear hers longer than to get a picture, but I was wrong. She didn't want to take them off until it was bedtime. So cute! Then a few days later I was making her breakfast and served it to her on one of her leftover party plates, and all of the sudden she runs upstairs and comes down with her ears on. If she was going to eat on a Minnie Mouse plate then she needed her ears!
Her buddy spot! After a quick wardrobe change for the princess we headed off to Chuckie Cheese. She loves it and it was so fun to watch her!
She was just shoving in the pizza!
On the swing ride. This is the ride that I remember loving as a little girl. I didn't think she would do it but after about 10 seconds she loved it and rode it 3 more times! Grandpa would walk around to each side as it swooped up and give her a kiss and then go to the other side!
We had her birthday party the day before her actual birthday so on her real birthday we gave her our gift. Her own house. I hope she doesn't look back on her 2nd birthday and think that mom and dad were trying to move her out already- with a kitchen-house-vacuum-food......? She loves to play pretend, and i love to watch her do it.
And after it was all done we asked her how her 2nd birthday was and she said,"WOW,WOW!"
We love you Isabella and are grateful for the blessing you are in our lives!!!

Easter

Easter was so fun this year! Last year we got to be in Oregon and this year we were in Mexico. I think we are starting a traveling tradition for Easter. But we went down with family and friends and the weather was incredible and the company was great and we had a lot of fun! Isabella was old enough this year to kind of get into the Easter thing, so that was super fun! We didn't get much sleep because the adults would stay up until 1 or 2 in the morning and then our kids were up at 6 or 7. You think we would learn but we just couldn't help ourselves! What with games where we make animal sounds, yell, laugh, act, and eat junk! who would want to sleep!

So we/I love the game sedareks. Which is just like sharaides(sp) but instead of one person acting out to the whole group the whole group acts out to one person, but they can not discuss the word before they start. It is HILARIOUS to see every ones different take on things in a stressful/timed situation. I love it!! I can't remember what the boys were acting out but it was funny enough for me to get up and get my camera! I will leave it to your imagination
Scott, Kiana, and baby Donavin came with us. It was his first Easter and his first visit to the beach. He was so cute! Oh and they were fun too!! ;) They were waiting on passports(which have only been taking about 2 weeks) and weren't sure if they were going to make it, but they came that day at 10 in the morning and they were on the road by 2! What a miracle and we were so glad they could make it!
This is miss Lucy and she is so sweet and cute! she says the funniest things and is so pretty! She is 3 and Isabella had fun playing with her!
Isabellas' favorite part of Easter was the hunt. I was surprised because I thought she was still too young to get it. I wanted to hide them all again just so I could watch her little face!
Her happy face!
WOW! WOW! is what she was saying
Here is Amber and Amy helping the girls dye Easter eggs. I was running back and forth from the kitchen getting paper towels and spoons and more bowls. It was a quick activity but it was worth it. Isabella kept eating the dye even after she tasted the vinegar. Really, I can't get the kid to eat anything but give her a bowl of vinegar and away she goes! We had no spills and the eggs actually turned out decent!
Amy, Nate, Ivy, and Lucy! Thanks guys for coming! We had so much fun! All of this group were great company!
Isabella playing in the sand on a windy day!
I hope everyone had a great Easter! Ours was one to remember!

Day 21....

....of my miscarriage. So I have wrestled and wrestled with whether or not to post about this but I have just been blog stocking for an hour and all of you out there have really inspired me with your bare facts blog posts(Emily,Natalie,Tammy). I feel like had I known even a tenth of some of this it would have made this trial a million times easier. And please know before I start that I am not whining or feeling "poor me" in any way, and that 99% of this would be written in sarcasm font if I had that! If you can't cry we might as well laugh!!!

Day 1: went in for my 11 1/2 week check up and my wonderful doctor always does an ultrasound first. I have seen a many ultrasounds in my day, so pretty soon into it I could tell that there was something wrong. The ultrasound tech was so kind and when I finally said, "there is no heartbeat, huh?" he nodded and said that he was sorry and he would go and get a room for me. I said, "Bummer!" He handed me the tissue box and left me in the dark, warm room with my thoughts, which were,"this sucks!and Heavenly Father, please give me some peace to my heart and mind, please oh please!' If only I hadn't had to see the little baby lying still on the screen.
So they move me to the room to wait for the doctor and he comes in and is sweet as can be and we decide to do the D&C option. I had heard so many horror stories of trying to do it on your own that I didn't even want to talk about that option. So he walks me to the surgery scheduling room, where the girl proceeds to ignore me as I am standing 2 feet from her and talk to the other girls about how she is getting her hair cut that day. I stand there trying not to lay on the ground and cry, but put on a tough face, when all I want to do is get the heck out of there. I try to break the ice by asking her about her baby that she has tons of pictures of on her board. I got one sentence(one of my pet peves with the ob/gyn world is that I know they deal with this all day everyday, but a little compassion would go a long way! This is probably my 100th experience with this type of situation)
I finally get out of there and have a good cry in my car. My wonderful in-laws were watching Isabella for me and Rich was out of town. I had called them before I got home and they were so loving and caring. My father-in-law immediately gave me a blessing and my mom-in-law gave me that hug that only a mother can give! My mom came over shortly after and got Isabella and Dad came to to give me a hug and blessing.They had just drove in from vacation, WELCOME home! I am SO grateful for all of my parents.
I am home about 15 minutes when the hospital calls and wants to make sure that I will be able to pay the$500 that the surgery will cost, Well gosh, that is just fantastic and made me feel so much better! The first thought was that I would rather take that $500 dollars and go shopping and that would probably fix a lot more than surgery;)
Rich flew home immediately and went with me to the surgery. Which was at 6:30. I was not allowed to eat, but because my body still thought that I was pregnant, I was still sick. And you know how much fun it is to be sick and pregnant with no food! But my man took care of me and had all of my favorite comfort foods ready and waiting for me when we got home, along with flowers!I love you, Rich!
Day 2: cramping and bleeding but doing pretty good emotionally. Pretty excited about my pregnant gut that I get to get rid of now. I know I am vain but that is not fun!
Day 3: Drove to Mexico for Easter weekend. My bleeding was lessening by this time. Things were looking pretty normal.
Day 4: Bleeding had pretty much stopped until that night when I started the clotting and bad cramping. I was pretty nervous because I had never had anything like that happen and I thought that a D&C was supposed to eliminate all of that.And can I say," ew, yuck, gross, gross, gross!!" Oh and did I mention that my milk had started to come in on this day?! That was marvelous!
Day 5: Really bloated and it hurts to eat and to touch my whole stomach, but not bleeding again. Until that night. This time it was much worse and the cramping was so severe that I had to take pain killers. I am thinking what the heck is going on. And I am in Mexico which is a place that you do not want to have any medical issues!
Day 6:My whole stomach was still bloated and it hurt to eat but no bleeding.
Day 7: Went into the doctor and he put me on an antibiotic for the bloating thing because he thought it might be an infection, and told me that the clotting and bleeding thing was normal. I thought that news would have been pretty useful about a week ago!!!But at this time I had not bled for 2 days so he thought I was done. Got home and had the most severe clotting and pain, yet to date! 2 vicadin and a demoral finally kept me from going to the ER(I hate going to the ER). But I am still and again,thinking, what the heck!!!!
Day 8: Stomach bloating was a little better and no bleeding. I sewed my living room curtains that day. Might as well get on with life while I can. One bonus, the no eating thing helped with the gut!
Day 9: All dressed up and ready to go to Baptisms for the Dead with the youth and, YIPEE, started clotting and cramping AGAIN! Had to stay home and my mom came over and got Isabella because poor Rich actually needed to work and had been so great with taking care of me and Isabella through all of this. By this point I am really frustrated so I called and left a message with the nurse just because I really wanted to know how long to expect this kind of thing to happen. She told me to come in to the office the next morning.
Day 10: Went to the Dr. and they did and ultrasound(inside and out-that is always fun) and saw a pretty big blood clot way up high in my uterus. He gave me a prescription for a pill that they would give you if you choose to miscarry on your own( I was really excited about experiencing it both ways-what a deal- a 2for1). It makes you uterus contract and push everything out and is supposed to be pretty painful-they write that prescription with a vicadin prescription- and the told me to block out my life for the next 2 days. This is getting better and better! But I was grateful that at least in two days it would finally be done! So I go drop off the script and take Isabella to play group because I figured the rest of the day was going to be barney and curious george. At play group I got to listen to all of the pregnant women complain about how miserable they were being pregnant- I have no hard feelings and know that I would probably do the same thing, it just sucked to listen to that day!
Went back to the pharmacy and they told me that I could not take that pill because of the other prescription that I was on would be FATAL if I took them together. FANTASTIC! I asked how long I had to be off of it and she said 2 weeks. another FANTASTIC! And then the nurse from the Dr. office called and said sorry there was nothing that they could do, we would just have to wait and see if I passed it on my own.
I hadn't cried since the first day, but at this point I said a little prayer and said I am doing my best here to have a good perspective and be strong, but every time I have to keep dealing with issues it is just an ugly reminder of what I have lost. So teach me what I need to be learning because I want to be done and get on with life. I think my answer was PATIENCE. So I cried that day and as I am crying I am thinking why am I crying, this is not making me feel better. I talked to my mom and cried some more, Rich gave me a hug and I cried some more still thinking this crying thing is not helping. And then Isabella woke up and my tears dried up! She makes everything all better. And my mom came over to help and took us to get some comfort food. She makes everything all better also!
Day 11: I am doing fine and just waiting for the bomb to drop. I just kept praying that when it happened I would be home so that I didn't have to make a scene.
Day 12: bleeding
Day 13,14,15,16,17,18,19: bleeding and spotting with light cramping.
Day 20:call the Dr.s office because I am wondering what is going on with my body. I had not passed the clot and a client in the medical field said there is nowhere for it to go but out. They tell me to come in again. All I wanted was again another answer of HOW LONG to wait.
Day 21: Meet with the doctor and he said that the clot breaks up and I will just keep bleeding! Fabulous! Oh and the front desk wanted to make sure that I payed my $220 balance from the D&C that didn't work! Awesome!

So if you ever have to go through this I am told that most of it is NORMAL. But all of that info would have really really helped to know all of the possible side effects and what was to be expected. It really was not as bad as I made it sound just very frustrating when you are trying to move on. I am still doing great emotionally and know that it could always be worse and I would much rather have this happen than something else!!! I grateful for the trial and being able to gain more patience! I know the Lord will bless us with another pregnancy when it is time. and Thank you, thank you, thank you, to everyone who called, texted, sent flowers and their love. I really appreciated it! And I am sorry I didn't respond. But know that I got each and every one and felt very loved!

Disneyland

So we went to Disneyland a couple of weeks ago to meet Rich's Parents and his brother Matt and Beth and their kids. It was lots of fun and Isabella did better than I expected. But I had to put this picture first because I think that her cousin Paige was her favorite part of it all!! They were so cute and Paige was so good with her. Since Isabella is an only child right now her playing skills are not to polished. But Paige being the youngest of 5 is a pro and took her right under her wing! Thanks Paige we love you!
Here is the crew minus us!
This is backwards but, this is her at the end of the day, just pooped!!!
Sportin some Minnie Mouse glasses, which stayed on for about 20 seconds.
Waiting for Daddy to get off the rapids.
She loved the parades. She would sit on Rich's shoulders and clap and wave! So cute!
The first day in the park! Her favorite rides were Dumbo and the carasouel. She would say,"Wheeeeeeee!" the whole time!
She loved the characters but I think that Pluto was her favorite. She would try and cut in line, stand and wave at him with a smile so big she was drooling and just get so excited! It was so fun and I hope I never forget her little face that day!!

Seriously?!!!!!

Just wanted to quickly post and save us all awkward moments. I found out today that I miscarried again. I was 11 1/2 weeks, and my 3rd miscarriage, and darn it if it doesn't seem that every time I post that I am pregnant I miscarry! So next time I'll let everyone know when I deliver!! (jk) But we are doing fine and just greatful for fathers blessings, the Gospel, the Comforter, trials, our sweet Isabella, family, the miracle of pregnancy, prayer, and our Savior!

Growing up and Catching up!

Well after a couple month absence in the blogging world it is time to catch up on a lot! We have been so busy and done so much in the past couple of months! Isabellas is growing up quickly and is now 21 months old! We can hardly believe it! And to catch you up on another detail that will make her and the new baby!, 29 months apart! So that is why I have been MIA in the computer world. Too lazy and tired to do it! But we are very excited and all is going well. The baby is due in October which makes me a little over 10 weeks right now!
So to get up to date on everything else we have been up to I will start from now back to January.This month Lindsay and the girls have been in town and we have been spending most of our free time over there. Rich is traveling all of the time, so their company has made things less lonely! We will be so excited when they move back to Arizona next year! Rich and I took a little get away in early February to Flagstaff and had so much fun. But those pictures are on another camera and I will post that later!

Here is Isabella one Sunday after Nursery. She loves it and always comes home a little hyper!
In February, I got to watch Keith and Lindsays girls for 5 days and we had lots of fun. But 3 girls under the age of 3 was no small task. But we survived and have lots of fun memories! We ate ice cream naked(well with diapers) every night with Hannah and Isabella. Here is Hannah cleanly eating her ice cream

and Isabella with her feet up on the table and an ice cream go-tee going on!We had a picnic one day which mostly resulted in a lot of playing and not a lot of eating
The two girly girls, eating there hot dogs. As soon as they walked away I think the dogs ate half of their plates!
In January, my brother Ryan got engaged to Kylie Bell! We are so excited for them and can't wait for them to move to Arizona in April after they get married! She is the best and they are such a cute couple. I took a few pictures of them while they were waiting for the real photographer to show up for their engagement pictures. And this is my favorite one and I just can't put my finger on why?!

ahhhh! Don't they look so cute together!

Here is their awesome photographer, THE Natalie Montez, laying in the middle of the road in order to get the right shot! What a dedicated photographer!Rich and Isabella playing in the Hammock
So we/I made our first attempt at Sugar cookies for Valentines Day. She was so funny that as soon as the batter was done she started to eat it. How do they automatically know that it will taste good. We must all come born with that intuition.
The final result

The next day when she ate one for the first time. I don't know if any actually made it into her mouth!


Taking a ride on the Carousel at the ZOO. Isabella threw a large fit getting off!
Sweet Gerber baby Brynlee. She is so cute!
Grandpa and Grammy took the older girls ahead of us To the zoo and did a little shopping! The got animal print sunglasses and were feeling HOT!!!
Isabella playing it cool!
We all went to the zoo on New Years Day! Isabella loves the petting zoo, but mommy is allergic so she is happy when Daddy is there to take her in. She giggles the whole time!
Keith and Lindsay came for Christmas and we got to spend a few days with them after we got back from Oregon. Including New years Eve, when we stayed up till 3 in the morning, acting like teenagers who didn't have children that wake up a 7! Ouch
So I feel a little caught up now and hope it won't be another 3 months before I blog again.