Update....

I have been so bad about blogging lately but I wanted to catch up and post some pictures before the new baby comes. We had such a fun Halloween this year with Kylee being a little older. She was the cutest little ghost and loved running around in her tutu.

Jeremy took her Trunk-or-Treating at our ward Halloween party. She was a little nervous at first but then got really excited when people started putting candy in her bag :)

We got to go to a fun Halloween party with some kids in our play group. We decorated sugar cookies and read stories!!

Kylee and Maylee, best buds and always seem to be matching. Kylee loves to sit on Nikki's lap. We miss them so much! We went to a Halloween fair and Kylee got to pick out her own pumpkin! She loves it and carries it around the house. Here are some pics of Kylee and Maylee a few days before they moved. They are best buds and will miss each other!

We took a trip to the pumpkin patch. It was a freezing day but we all had fun taking a hay ride and looking at the pumpkins.

Kylee loved the cows. Stinky!

Happy fall!!!

Apple Pie

My friend gave me this apple pie recipe and it turned out so good! This is a picture of her pie. Mine looked similar, we just cut into it before I could snap a picture :) It was a great way to kick off the fall treat baking season!!!

Apple Pie by Grandma Ople (this is not my grandma but I am sure she is a nice lady)

Ingredients:
1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie
1/2 unsalted butter
3 tbsp flour
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
8 Granny Smith Apples- peeled, cored and sliced (I used Honeycrisp because I love them. They worked well with this recipe.)
* I added 1 tsp or so of cinnamon because I thought it would be good and it was.
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Melt butter in a saucepan. Stir in flour to form a paste. Add water, white sugar and brown sugar, and bring to a boil. Reduce temperature and let simmer.
2. Place the bottom crust in your pan. Fill with apple, mound slightly. Cover with a lattice work of crust. Gently pour the sugar and butter liquid over the crust. Pour slowly that it does not run off.
3. Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce the temperature to 350 degrees. Continue baking for 35 to 45 minutes, until apples are soft.
Don't forget the ice cream or cool whip!! Enjoy:)

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 :)