A Shower For Our Baby Boy!

My sweet friend Julie threw my friend Nikki and I a joint baby shower! Nikki and I are just two days apart. She is having a girl and I'm having a boy. The colors were blue and yellow and there was tons of yummy food. The friends I have made out here are awesome and we have become really close since most all of us have no family around. We got tons of cute stuff for our baby boy!

Nikki, Julie and me (I think I am 27 wks here).

The cute table and yummy food!
All of my prego friends! Yeah for fall/winter babies!
Danielle, Nikki, Lisa and me

Opening presents

More dear friends...Kathryn, Bekah, Rachel and Danielle

Rita, Jennie and Lisa :)

Kelly and her sweet daughter, Hope.
Julie and her swett baby Cambria. She is about 2 months old now!

Here is the loot! Thank you so much to everyone who came and a special thanks to Julie!! We are truley blessed and can't wait for our sweet baby boy to be here!

Our little 15 month old...

Here are some pictures of our sweet Kylee bug at 15 months old. She is growing up so fast!! She loves mac-n-cheese!!! She also loves all fruit and no vegies. She will eat chicken if I let her dip it in ranch dressing. She is saying so many words now. Some of her favorite words/sayings are: please, thank you, mama, dada, may-me (maylee), here you go, all done, down, elmo, cat, ball and ka-ka (clifford). She is transitioning to just one nap now which means we can have more fun in the mornings, but that is one less stretch of mommy quiet time. Oh well, I guess I should get used to having no quiet time in a few months. It is much harder to take pictures of her now that she is always on the go. I tried my best.

Blow drying her hair after bath time :)


I love her sweet curls!!!

She loves to stand on her tip-toes lately.

Her new favorite game to play with Daddy.

Kylee's first high school football game of the 2010 season! She was entertained by the cheerleaders with all the clapping a cheering going on.

Her first taste of Nutela. I think she liked it :)

Here is a sweet video I took of Kylee saying the blessing on dinner. She did it one night without me watching her, so the next night I snuck out my video camera and caught her! She really is picking up on what we are teaching her.

Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty

This past weekend we headed out for another adventure to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. It was such a beautiful day, perfect for site seeing and a ton of walking. We parked at Liberty State Park in NJ and took the fairy over to Ellis Island. Here is a pic of Jeremy with NYC in the background.

The Registry Room

Beautiful ceilings

Look at the cheap prices!

An old cash register

This was a word tree that listed words we use in the US and what country they came from. Here is a close up pic so you can see some of the words.

Kylee and Jeremy in front of the Lower Manhattan skyline.

The Statue of Liberty!!!

Kylee was such a trooper. She sat in her stroller most of the time and even slept!

We took another fairy over to Liberty Island. There is Lady Liberty!

Jeremy hiked all the way up to the crown!! It was 21 flights up a narrow, spiral starecase. I only made it to the base of the statue where the museum was. Honestly my back and feet were killing me and I didn't want to put myself in pre-term labor. Good thing he took some pics of his view.

View from the top!

This is the original torch!

This was as close as I got to the crown :)

To finish off our day we headed to Hoboken, NJ to get lunch at our favorite little Cuban restaurant, La Isla. Their Cuban sandwiches are amazing!!! But the restaurant is a little whole in the wall and not really kid friendly, so we got our sandwiches to go and got a table at Johnny Rockets. A little ghetto to bring our own food, but we did order a kids meal for Kylee, a chocolate shake and some fries. That's not so bad, is it?

After lunch everyone was satisfied :)

my two favorite people!

Jeremy had aranged some friends to come over later that night for cake and ice-cream to celebrate my birthday. We didn't end up getting home until right before the party started and we were all exhausted so I don't look really great, but it was fun to visit with our friends. Jeremy made me a chocolate oreo cake with mint ice-cream! It was deliscious! Thanks Jeremy for planning such an amazing day!!! I had so much fun and will remember this b-day forever!!! I love you :)

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Quick visit to CA!

My parents flew me and Kylee out to CA to visit them for a quick surprise birthday trip!! We had so much fun hanging out with family, going to the beach, shopping, eating out and swimming. There wasn't much time to visit any friends and I'm sorry about that, but hopefully I can visit everyone next time. Kylee did great on the plane ride. She is easier to entertain now. I bought new Elmo books, stickers, and other random new toys that kept her attention. She loved saying "hi" to all the passengers.

Kylee with Grandma and Grandpa Poole

Fun at the beach! Sand everywhere!!!!

Kylee and Uncle Reed

Kylee loved playing in the backyard and smelling the flowers with Grandpa.

She also loved the hot tub. I'm pretty sure she went in every night! Luckily it cooled down enough at night to enjoy it.

Kylee and Aunt Lacey playing at the park. Kylee had a lot of fun even though she looks mellow.

She loved playing Grandma's piano.

Me, my beautiful cousin Christie, and Kylee. Christie is off to ASU this fall for school. I know she will have so much fun!

Kylee and Grandma at Aunt Lisa's house. Kylee loved their dog Coco. She chased her around the backyard all afternoon. Great entertainment.

We got to see my brother and sister in law Scott and Mary and their boys Tyler and Travis. Kylee had so much fun playing with her cousins.

Kylee loved seeing Grandma Murdock. She would sit in her lap and let her read her books. We sure miss not having Grandparents close!

Travis and Kylee having a fun time watch cartoons.

Kylee loved it when Travis would push her on this train. It was so cute!

Here are some video's from the trip. I hope they turn out!