A load of stuff

Holy Cow! It feels like forever since we have posted. I guess it basically has since it has been at least a month now. A lot of things have happened and as luck would have it, we caught a few of those things with the camera. I'll just start throwing things up and see how it goes.

This is Makenna and her cousin, KD during Thanksgiving break in Alabama. The two hit it off right away. We had to pry them apart sometimes to stop the kissing and hugging.

This is Pam and I at my white-coat ceremony. Basically they put a white coat on me and then I sat back down for an hour. I guess I look more official now.

This is Makenna with a black eye on her right eye. She slipped at the daycare and hit her face on a table leg. It looks nasty, but at least that means she is up and holding on to things. We expect her to just run off one of these days soon, she is that close to walking.

I took this picture at our ward Christmas party last week. We were feeding her mashed potatoes and she got it all over her face. As you can tell, she wasn't too impressed with me taking her away from her food. Pam says she looks like Santa Clause.

This is right after I gave Makenna a bath the other night. You can't really tell, but I spiked her hair up to give you an idea of how long it is getting. Hey look, you can also see my honker and double chin.

An ultrasound picture

Hello all! This is Austin. I have been out of school this whole week, and I have been taking care of Makenna. She is pretty much a crazy kid. Now that she can crawl, she is all over the place, and I am running around to catch her. She even tried to crawl onto the coffee table tonight! She keeps trying to pull our lamp over too. But anyways, I have been using the time to relax slightly, and catch up on some chores around here and help out a little more with things. I also started writing a book. Anyways, we went to the doctor today and got an ultrasound. It looks like the due date is actually going to be June 29th, which is around a week earlier than we had thought. I thought that it would be fun to post up the picture of the ultrasound. You can't see much, just what the doctor called a "gummy bear," ie a little 8 week old tadpole. I hope you like it! It's my turn to give Makenna a bath tonight, so I am off!

PS the little word on the ultrasound says "BABY" if you can't read it.

A Few Misc. Photos and OUR BIG NEWS

Makenna has not been wanting to eat her baby food lately. She just spits it out and won't eat at all! So we decided maybe she just doesn't like "baby" baby food. So we went and bought her Stage 3. She tried it on Saturday: spaghetti. She adored it! But she was so messy afterwards that we just had to take pictures!

Look at it! Even all over her body! I'm glad we stripped her down before feeding her!

It's so good she has to lick it off her fingers!

Look at the tray! I'm just glad we moved her away from the couch so she couldn't get her slimey hands on it!

One more....

Last Sunday we had stake conference. I dressed Makenna in a dress that my mom made (it's my favorite one). She looked like a princess! By the way--this was supposed to be an 18 month dress! But I think it fit perfectly now!

We really couldn't get any good Halloween pictures because we brought our video camera (and it doesn't have a flash). But here you can kind of see our costumes: King Austin, Queen Pamela, and Princess Makenna. (Austin put videos up, but he missed the pictures!)

This is one we took of Princess Makenna before we went to our Trunk or Treat. She looked so dang cute!

Now for our big news... we are having another baby! I will be completely honest, once again it came as a shock to me. With Makenna, we couldn't believe we were already having a baby--we had just gotten married! Well I can't believe it again this time! I will be honest, I was taking some "medication" after having Makenna because I just did not want to be pregnant ever again! Well, lately I had been having dreams that a little baby was up in Heaven crying because her mom and dad wouldn't let her be born (yeah I know, I've probably watched too much Saturday's Warrior, "Jimmy you promised!"). So Austin and I started thinking about it. And Makenna is just so wonderful that it's hard to remember how horrible pregnancy was. So about 6 1/2 weeks ago... no more "medicine." And we are 6 weeks pregnant! So it was fast! Much faster than I thought it would be! And I'm already sick... and working at a job I don't love... and having Makenna get up three times a night! So it's very hard right now! I wish I could stay at home and have someone come and take care of us! But we are still excited! I went to the doctor on Thursday, and he said that my due date is July 5 (that may change after our ultrasound on November 19th). He said he figures, since Makenna came at 39 weeks and she was a first baby, that the baby will probably be at least a week early. I hope so! I love babies, but I do not like pregnancy! Anyway, so that is our big news and we are pretty excited (and scared... I keep teasing Austin that we are having twins!).

A bunch of videos

Well, Makenna has been sick these last few days (again!), but this time she got pneumonia! She is feeling better now though. We have taken a few videos over the past few days and decided that tonight would be a good time to post them. Enjoy!!

This one is of Makenna dancing to Daddy whistling.

This is in the back of our Explorer. It is pretty dark and hard to see, but this is from our ward Trunk-or-Treat.

This is another video from our Trunk-or-Treat. You can see Makenna a little better in this one. Makenna and Pam were dressed up as a queen and princess and I was dressed up as a king. You can see Makenna's costume pretty good in this video. Pam's mom made the costumes and mailed them to us. They were super! I just feel bad we didn't get to wear them for more than just an hour or two.

This video is just a funny video of Makenna dancing to the music on TV. Watch her shake her little booty!!

This is Makenna again, shaking her groove-thing. She is such a funny little girl. This was just tonight, so you can see that she is feeling better after being so sick. We love you all and thank you for your well-wishes for Makenna.

We went in Makenna's room at nap time today and this is what we found...

She has just started standing up today and already she is standing in her bed. Scary!

Good grief! We have put a ton of pictures on here lately!

Anyway, yesterday I was off (this is my Fall Break) so Austin took off from school and we kept Makenna with us and we went to the zoo! It was such a fabulous day! The weather was hot, but not too hot, and the zoo had several shady places to pause and rest so that was nice. Makenna didn't care about the zoo too much; she was too busy looking at the boys and girls or at her seat belt or the ground, but Austin and I had fun looking at the animals! And Makenna was a perfect angel all day, even without babyfood and a nap, so it was a fantastic day! We took a ton of pictures, but I will just post a few of our favorites:

This is a crazy old baboon. I hated the baboons! Their bums were all red and gross and it made me sick to look at them when they walked around. But this picture is cool!

We were able to go into the little squirrel monkey's "cage" (not really a cage because it was pretty large). The monkeys just ran all around us. We were not allowed to touch them, but they were really right there with us! One of the monkeys was right behind us when Austin snapped this picture, but it's pretty hard to see. The monkeys were smaller than newborn babies!

We went on this out of the way trail to see Bighorn sheep and stuff. It felt like we were out in the middle of the desert! But way off in the distance we captured this picture! We kept thinking this guy was fake because he never moved, just stood on top of the rock! But we looked in the telescope thing and saw him moving around. We guessed he just wanted to be King of the Rock!

This jaguar was so ridiculously beautiful! They said he is just a baby at 6 months, but he is much bigger than our baby! He kept pacing around and seemed angry because these dumb little boys kept running around blowing whistles. The zoo people told them to stop, but they were such naughty children they just kept at it and the mom didn't do anything! I so do not like it when kids are bad and parents do nothing about it! Anyway, this picture doesn't do the jaguar justice! I think it was the most beautiful animal we saw!

I don't remember what this bird was called, but we thought it was so weird because it looks like it has a million beaks on top of each other! At the zoo you walked through very shady areas and there were millions of bird cages and waterfalls and they had mist you could walk through. It felt like you were in the jungle! But there was also a section you walked through and the birds weren't caged. I kept getting scared that I would be attacked!

This is me and Makenna in front of the warthogs. I was suprised that they didn't smell that much!

The flamingos. So strange, only a couple were standing on one leg! Notice that Makenna is more interested in my necklace...

Look how close Austin and Makenna got to the giraffes! Ha ha, and look at how tired our baby looks!

This is back in the monkey cage. I totally missed the monkey. They are too fast!

Now, we had a fabulous day. But this last picture says it all. This is how Makenna felt about the day:

Ha ha, like I said, Makenna was super good and didn't cry or anything all day, even without her nap. But she sure didn't even glance at the animals our whole time there! We just couldn't get her to look up at them! She was too busy studying the ground! But it was so wonderful to get out and about as a family! Our first family outing was a success!

Oh, one more thing (I guess Makenna did cry once!). We went to the gift shop and bought Makenna a little giraffe before we left. She loved it and kept giving it kisses! Well on our way to the car, she dropped it. I picked it up and gave it to her. Well Austin pointed out that it was dirty. So I took it from her to wipe it off. She screamed and cried and through a fit! The second I gave it back to her she stopped crying. Hmm, do you think someone is getting to be a spoiled girl? Ha ha, she has a temper that is for sure!

Okay, I have copied this fun "picture tag" from Janae and Becca. I cheated just a tiny bit... I read about this last night and didn't take the pictures until this morning! But my house is still a mess so I didn't cheat on that part! Here it is:

You have to stop what you are doing and take the following pictures NOW. No excuses! If you don't have time to blog just take the pictures NOW and blog when you can!! No cleaning, re-arranging, just have fun taking the pictures!

1. Kitchen Sink
2. Favorite room
3. Fridge
4. Closet
5. Laundry room
6. Self Portrait
7. What you or your family are doing
8. Dream Vacation
9. Favorite Shoes
10. Bathroom

1. Kitchen Sink: Nice and simple... I hate dirty dishes in the sink so I don't have to worry about that being clean!


2. Favorite room: I guess my favorite room would have to be our living room. Austin and I love to sit on the couch and watch TV or play the Wii or I will read and he will do homework or something. And Makenna has her own little corner with her toys and she can just sit and play for ever! (Ha ha, look at our table; looks like we are a very hydrated family!)

3. Fridge: I don't know, pretty boring... we have some left-overs, giant Costco mayo, and plenty of bottles for Makenna in the door!

4. Closet: This is my and Austin's closet and it is the first closet ever that holds both of our clothes! (Of course after having the baby I donated a lot of clothes to DI because they will never fit again!)

5. Laundry room: Yes, I know, I haven't folded Makenna's laundry from SATURDAY yet! I'm also not going to lie; there are some clothes in the dryer too!

6. Self Portrait: Here is another secret... I went to the gym this morning. Then I came home and started doing some organizational chores and stuff and then Austin and I went out to lunch... and I never showered! Eww! That is my excuse for this picture! I'm sorry!

7. What you or your family are doing: Makenna is taking a nap and Austin is at school. So I'm cuddled on the couch reading a magazine! Aah!

8. Dream Vacation: I couldn't get the blog to upload correctly so I don't have this picture. But I want to go to Disney World!

9. Favorite Shoes: I honestly wear these shoes everywhere: out shopping, to school, to church... no wonder they are getting all scratched up!

10. Bathroom: This is our bathroom.

This is Makenna's/the hall bathroom.

Whew! That was a bit of a headache to get the pictures, put them on the computer, and then fight with the upload but it was fun!