Happy 2nd Birthday!!!

Maddyn had a wonderful 2nd birthday. This is the first time she has understood what presents were and was excited about them. We had a Minnie Mouse themed party because that is her absolute favorite. We had Pizza for dinner because that is her favorite food. She got a piano from Grammy and Papa, a scooter, cute clothes, and money from Grandpa and Grandma, some baby items and a farm from mom and dad, and a very cute dress from Avery and Jessica. She had a blast!

I can not believe that she is already 2 and will have another sister here soon. She is so smart. She will repeat any word you tell her to except the work "grammy". We have no idea why she wont say that. She is always on the go and wants you to "come here" all day long. She still loves her Minne and will not sleep with out it. She is a great help around the house. She loves to be given things to put away and will put them in the right spot. She loves cleaning the lint trap from the dryer. Maddyn is such a joy in our life and makes up laugh everyday.

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Sneeeeew

The snow has finally stopped. In untouched spots there is over 4 feet of snow. We got hit with snow all week. Trevor was shoveling snow just to go out hours later and shovel 6 more inches. School was canceled on Thursday and Friday. We have had a great 4 day weekend shoveling snow. Maddyn calls the snow "Snneeeew". It is so cute. She loved playing outside. We could not get her to come in. When she finally did, she would cry for a half hour while her hands and feet warmed up and hurt.



Trevor's parents have a bunch of chickens down a little ways from their house. This is the beginning of the trail they had to dig to get to them. It was waist deep most of the way.
This is Maddyn and Trevor almost ready to go into the Chicken Coupe.

This is the entrance to the coupe. You can tell how much snow there is here. All the chickens survived!!!

This is our side fence that is 4 feet tall. Trevor was able to walk right up to it.

Maddyn wanted to help with every bit of the work.

Even plowing the snow with a four wheeler.

This is the front of our house. We almost can't see out our windows.

Trevor trying to get back to our satellite so that we can watch TV. It is up to his waist. Some of the trees that are small are completely covered.

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What we have been up to

Well it is a snow day today and I finally get a chance to sit down and blog. We are getting DUMPED on. I will post pictures later when it stops snowing. The last two days we have woke up with 8 inches each morning. This morning we woke up and it was a blizzard and it has not stopped.

Maddyn has been learning so much lately. She found my therapy blocks and decided to prove to me why I became a therapist. As you can see in the pictures, there are holes in the top of the container. Well she decided she wanted to try to put the shapes through the correct holes. However, she does not know shapes and would try to shove the square through the circle. When she would do this and it would not work, she would clinch her fists and teeth, hold her breath and scream. I thought her eyeballs were going to pop out of her head. I had to teach her how to do deep breathing techniques so she wouldn't get so mad. After that every time she got mad we had to say "Maddyn just breath". I can't believe I had to teach my 22 month old anger management.

This is also what we do every waking moment of the day, Sing If Your Happy and You Know it!!! My mom got her this book and she LOVES it. We can't just sing the song, we have to have the book there also. I am working on getting the video up also.

Maddyn is also loving taking pictures of herself. She calls the camera a Cheese. I think she looks like a little girl in this picture. She also insists on wearing a necklace if mom is.

This is a picture of me at 24 weeks. I am getting close to the third trimester. I feel good, but I have had a horrible cough for 2 months. The doctor finally gave me an inhaler. Maddyn wants to crawl all over my belly and have me carry her everywhere.

Christmas

This year was so fun with a little one. We took so many videos. If you want to see how funny Maddyn was check out all of our videos at www.dropshots.com/trevorandniki . We started out the morning by having to wake Maddyn up. Trevor and I were up the night before until 11:00 p.m. putting together her toys. We came up with the idea to wrap her presents so they were ready to be played with when they came out of the wrapping. Lucky for us we did this; she had one present from a friend that was in the box and she freaked out. She ran to get the hammer to get the toy out of the box quicker (see the video on dropshots). When she came out she first saw her car that santa had brought. Every toy opened there after had to be placed in the trunk of the car. If the toy did not fit, then she would freak out (see video on dropshots als0). Maddyn has not stopped playing with this car since. She gets so mad if we move it out of the living room to clean. Opening presents took us 2 hours. Maddyn wanted to play with each toy before she opened the next. We stopped to eat snacks a few times also. Maddyn made out with some fantastic presents that she loves: magnadoodle, princess shoes and purse, rocking horse, little cars, money, a huge minnie, and a shopping cart. I can't wait for next christmas when she understands that there is a Santa!




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Really Cool

LeeLou blogs (my super duper famous in the blogging world friend who will hopefully take me to see Oprah when she gets to go on her show someday for her awesome contirbution to the blogging world) is doing a very cool blogging conference in UTAH. It is the weekend of May 28th and 29th this year. She will be doing seminars about "writing, photography, internet safety, community, how to grow your readership, the dynamics of blogging, how to be awesome, and etc. etc. etc." Check out her website and stay up to date.
http://www.casualbloggerconference.com/

It's a Hamburger!!!

We found out that our new little baby is a girl. The ultrasound tech told us that he will either find a turtle or a hamburger. He said it was a hamburger. I am just excited that everything looked good and we have a healthy baby. Trevor thinks we have a name picked out, but I want to keep our options open.

Leelouswag

So my fabulous friend Julie has another exciting website. Check it out. She gives away free stuff. Go to Leelouswag.com

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas

We were so excited this morning when we saw the snow sticking to the ground. By the time Trevor got home from work there was about 4 inches. Maddyn was a little scared to play in it at first but loved throwing snow balls after a while. We even built a snowman !!! It doesnt have a face or arms yet but we will get there tomorrow.

Thanksgiving.

What an adventure Thanksgiving was. My parents came from Oregon to meet us in Salt Lake City. We rented a house so that we could make a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Marcus came with his girlfriend Tamera. They announced to us the first night at dinner that they are engaged and will be getting married in Hawaii. We are very pumped about the venue!!! Maddyn absolutely loved hanging out with these two...they had enough energy for her.

The next day we had Trevors parents, Grandma, and Sister's family over for Thanksgiving dinner. My mom did most of the work and it was a fabulous dinner. Maddyn enjoyed playing with her cousins and we enjoyed the company.

On Black Friday, we didn't do much shopping. My mom and I went to Toys R Us early and got the things we needed for Maddyn. Later in the day we went to the mall and Maddyn got to see Santa. She was really excited until she realized she had to sit on his lap without me. That is when she cried and wanted to get off. Tamera and I really wanted to see New Moon so our guys were really nice and went with us. Trevor said there was a lot of staring at each other in the movie.

On Saturday we spent most of the morning trying to save Maddyn from the car. She was helping Trevor clean the car when she locked herself in. Trevor was trying to warm up the car also so it was running. We tried for a half hour to get her to push the unlock button, but all she wanted to do was dance to the music and push every other button in the car. Finally, we called the police and they came along with the fire engine with their lights on. They were able to open the car with a wedge, blood pressure cuff, and a stick. They were our hero's. The rest of the day we just hung out. That night we went to temple square to look at the lights. It was really pretty and my families first time to temple square. It was a great vacation and we enjoyed our family.

What we are up to these days.

Well since I haven't posted in so long I thought I better give an update on what is going on. Maddyn is such a little girl now. Nothing about her is a baby. She loves putting makeup on, wearing all of moms jewelry, coloring whatever she can, brushing her "teef", and destroying the house. We love her so much and she keeps us extra busy. She can say so many words and they are so adorable. I will have to do a video of all the words she can say. She likes to ride her bike and play under any sink in the house. Whenever we can't fine something we just go look under the sinks in the bathrooms and it is usually there. Her hair is just past her shoulder blades, but you can't tell in any picture because it is so curly it curls up past her shoulders. She never lets me comb it so it is always in her face. She is now opening doors so nothing is safe.

I am about 18 weeks along with baby #2. We went in a couple weeks ago for a doctors appointment and an ultrasound. The doc could only get a clear pic of the back so we weren't able to tell. Our 20 week ultrasound is on the 17th so we are crossing our fingers we will be able to tell. We will be sure to let everyone know as soon as we know.

Halloween

Oh my goodness. I can't believe it is almost Christmas and I am now posting about Halloween. Oh Well. Maddyn was dressed as Minnie Mouse if you couldn't tell. She has a Minnie doll that she can not live without. She calls her Ninnie. She wouldn't wear the ears though. This is a picture I snapped before she ripped them off.

The day was filled with lots of excitment. We first went to the carnival that the local college puts on. Maddyn was not sure what to do with the games, but she sure enjoyed the prizes she earned.

We then went to Trevor's school carnival. Trevor had to work a booth so Maddyn and I walked the cake walk, fished for prizes, plucked the ducks out of water, and ate corn dogs while we waited. She then went to help dad at his booth. We also got to be in the costume parade. I am sure Maddyn would have won if she would have worn her ears, but I think they thought she was just another pricess.

Later that night we went Trick or Treating. Maddyn thought this was the best. She would just say please when she got to the door. She would not talk, smile or say thank you. As soon as we got close to the car she would jump up and down and say candy. She was so excited to show dad her piece of candy. We didn't need a bag to put the candy in because she wanted to eat every piece as she got it.

Random Picture session

There were really pretty leave at the church accross from our house. Trevor took some really cute pictures of Maddyn playing. Check out www.dropshots.com/trevorandniki to see the whole photo shoot. It takes too long to upload them here.

I love it!!!

I was thinking yesterday how nice it is to have Maddyn around. These are the things I will never happen with her around.

1. Forget to put my shoes on before I leave the house(she is putting shoes on me all day long. )
2. Have a door left open. (she closes the doors as soon as she comes inside)
3. Have trash on the floor (she loves putting trash in the garbage. So far we have only seen her put real garbage in there.)
4. 5 minutes without laughing (she is constantly making us laugh with her new tricks.)

We love her so much and she amazes us everyday.

Its Official!!!

Baby # 2 is on the way!!!!

We are 12 weeks along and are due May 5. We are really excited. I was quite sick for a while and even went to the hospital once for a bad case of food poisening. Other than that baby is great. The baby is really active. You can see in pic #1 the baby is right side up and 15 seconds later is upside down. The baby is moving like crazy. Sometimes I swear I can feel it move. We wont find out what we are having until Christmas, unless I can talk the doctor into looking really close next visit. Maddyn is really excited and is always wanting to kiss my belly and say baby. She will be a great help I know it.