The Messicks

The things that come out of that kids mouth. . .

2012-02-10T12:50:00.000-08:00

Krew has been saying some pretty funny things lately. Thought I would write a couple down to remember them.
The other day I was SUPER stressed (and now I can't even remember what I was stressed over so it must have been really important.) Krew was talking and talking and talking so I put Brody in his crib and locked myself in the bathroom to have just a min. to myself. One min. later I get a knock on the door- "Mom? are you poopin?" and I replied "no Krew I'm about to freak out- can you just go play with your toys for a min?) and away he went, I calmed down and didn't think much of it. When Doug got home that night he asked Krew "what did you do today Krew?" To which Krew answered "Mom freaked out!" We laughed :) Thats now his favorite thing to say. Whenever Brody is playing with his cars (Krew still isn't a pro at sharing) he says Brody don't touch that cause I'm gonna freak out.
Whenever I ask Krew to do something that he doens't want to do he says "Oh mom, I'm just so tired."
One thing that Krew doens't like to do is throw away poopy diapers. He's fine if there is just pee in the diaper. Whenever I ask him to throw away a diaper he says "Is it poopy?" If I say yes he says "just set it down." One day I decided that I would tell him that it wasn't when it really was. I watching him carry it off into the other room to the garbage and right before he threw it away he opened one of the flaps to check and make sure it wasn't poopy (it must have been a really stinky one) as soon as he saw that it WAS poopy he dropped it on the floor. and screamed "I"M FREAKING OUT MOM!" hahaha
So about 2 weeks ago Krew kept telling me "there is a spider in my ear" At first that made me really nervous. I looked in his ear and decided that a spider probably couldn't fit in his ear and he must of gotten this idea off of a movie or maybe he was talking about spider man (his favorite super hero) or who knows where he got this idea. Anyway- he kept telling me this for about 3 days and finally I was pretty stern with him and said "Krew, your fine! There is no spider in his ear." Well that night I woke up at 2 am to him SCREAMING at the top of his lungs saying that his ear hurt. Hello mrs. mom of the year- he has an ear infection!!! I felt bad so I decided I would take him to an urgent care right then to get something for the pain because obviiously this had been hurting him for a while. I looked online and couldn't fine any urgent cares! So, I called the hospital and the preceeded to tell me that there is nothing open past 11:00 pm out here I just had to take him to the Er. So i loaded him up and took him to the emergency room for something that wasn't an emergency. (the first of a couple trips we would take that week :) I felt kinda silly taking him in for an ear infection. Come to find out that he had a double ear infection and the Dr. told me that if I would have waited another 24 hours his ear drum prolly would have burst. Great. Like I said- mom of the year! Anyway- I thought it was funny that he said that he had a spider in his ear!
I'm loving my life right now. Staying home all day with my two buddies is the best. Krew's feelings are so soft. He is so sensitive to how people are feeling around him. I love that about him. What a great quality to concern yourself with others. Several times a day he will ask me "Are you happy?" "Are you mad?" "Are you sad?" I just Love my little boys Krew. He's not a toddler anymore. He's my little boy. I can't remember when he stopped being a toddler but now he's a sweet little boy. I'm so lucky to have him.

4 years!!

2012-02-08T06:35:00.000-08:00

Today is our 4 year anniversary! I was thinking this morning about how much has happened since we got married four years ago today . . . I have been pregnant ALMOST half of our entire marriage! wow. Nice to put those sick, huge, horrible days behind me. I'm now looking forward to a LONG stretch of no pregnancy symptoms- as I'm sure Doug is as well. Since we have been dating/ married I have finished school, worked to put Doug through school, had two babies, Doug graduated from BYUI, applied and got accepted to dental school, made it through his first semester of dental school, we bought our first house, moved across the country and away from our family and lastly we've remained best friends through it all. When I look back at all those things I just can't believe how CRAZY the last 4 years of our life has been. Out first few years of being together has kept us very busy and i'll say that our life is not for the faint of heart. Everyone keeps saying that the work we are putting in now will pay off. I think we still have a few more years of crazy but I do have to say that at least for me, this year has not been as crazy for me as under grad. since I don't have to work like a crazy lady. I think Doug is probably singing a different tune :) I'm so glad that I married such a strong, determined, hard working guy. I love him. Thats it. He's perfect for me. I wouldn't have been able to come this far with anyone else. I can confidently say that there is only one person made for me in the whole history of earth and that person is my husband. How lucky am I to have married the EXACT perfect person for me?? Ok enough enough- you get it. I love the guy. Thanks babe for putting up with me for 4 years. I'm glad your better at forgiving than I am :) "No amount of time with you will be enough, but lets start with forever." :) I made that up on my own.

Brody 5 months

2012-02-08T06:24:00.000-08:00

Bordy was 5 months yesterday! Yeah! I have to say that I have love love loved Brody as a newborn. (much much much easier than Krew) However, I do like it better when my babies grow up and their not is fragile. Brody has been eating cereal 3 times a day for a month now and he loves it! We just have one more kind of cereal to try and make sure he has no allergies to it then we get to move on to baby food! Brody is SUCH a good baby. I always say that after giving me Krew God said that I deserved an easy one so he sent me Brody. Right now Brody likes to roll all over, eat his cereal ALOT! He isn't very into his binkey which is wierd to me because Krew loved his. Thats good tho- Body loves his baths, and playing with toys. Right now he is in a stage where he grabs EVERYTHING and pulls it to his mouth. He also LOVES his older brother. All the time when I'm busy Krew will just walk over to Brody and Brod will get happy. He laughs at any sort of attention that Krew gives him. I'm so glad I had two boys in a row. I think they are going to be best buddies. Here is a video we took a couple sundays ago when Krew was entertaining Brody.

Brody's month 5 stats: 25 inches long and 17 lbs!!!
On a different note. . . I only know his exact weight because I had to take him to the dr. yest :( Brody has RSV. Its not serious enough to need to be hospitalized right now but it can change pretty fast. I hope that it changes for the better and he gets better fast. Any extra prayers sent our way would be appreciated!

Brody's Blessing.

2012-01-25T17:28:00.000-08:00

We waited to bless Brody until we flew "home" to Idaho for Christmas. I just realized I never posted pics of that. Brody was possibly the oldest baby ever blessed:) . . . and biggest! He BARELY squeezed into the outfit that Krew wore- granted he was a few months older than Krew was at the time of the blessing. Doug blessed Brody and gave a beautiful blessing. It was so nice to be around family and friends for this occasion.

And I had to throw in a pic of Brody and Aunt Ash. She is going to have a baby in about a month and a half and I CANT WAIT. I'm going to be an Aunt!! To a niece!!! yeah!!!!!

More of Brody

2012-01-25T17:22:00.000-08:00

While we were home for Christmas my mom got out her camera and got a few pics of Brody. She just emailed em to me and I can't believe how cute they turned out! I thought I would post a couple. Thanks mom!

Nursery snack time

2012-01-18T11:57:00.000-08:00

We are in the nursery with our good friends Josh and Liz. A couple Sunday's ago, we spotted Krew playing with a doll. I thought this was wierd because he rarely gives the dolls a second thought so I took a closer look. . .Josh took this video on his phone of Krew "feeding the baby." Guess I need to start being more modest when I feed Brody :) Its kind of alarming that he thinks I feed him from my belly button. Oh well, thank goodness for plastic surgery :)

Krew's "hebrew"

2012-01-18T11:35:00.000-08:00

I'm trying to record all the funny things that Krew does and all the things he says that make us laugh. So, I had to write a couple things down . . .
The other day Doug was on his way out the door to go to the gym when Krew just starts crying and crying saying "daddy, don't leave me again! PLEASE!!!!! Stay with me!!!" Doug looked at me and said "How do I say no to that?" So, he skipped the gym and went outside to play with Krew in the snow. I was watching them play and I just thought it was so cute. When they were taking off all of their snow clothes I said to Doug- "You guys looked like you were havin fun out there- Its so cute hun, you're his little Hero :)" When Krew heard me say this he goes "ya dad!, You're my little hebro!" (like hebrew only with a bro at the end) Doug and I immediately started laughing which made krew feel like a little comedian. For the rest of the night all we heard was: " I wanna play with my little Hebro, I wanna sit with my hebro, I wanna study like my little hebro!" It was quite hilarious.

Another funny: The other day I was at the grocery store with the boys. Krew likes to play this -I want that?- game. He'll see some treat that he wants and he'll look at me and say "I want that?" I usually say "No, probably not right now." but sometimes I'll tell him he can get it. This day was one of those days that I was trying to hurry so Krew was hearing a lot of "NO's" All of the sudden he said "I want Jesus CHrist?" ???????? He looked up at me and I'm sure he saw an alarmed face because thats just not something I was expecting to hear. He likes to get a reaction from me so he started YELLING " I WANT JESUS CHRIST! I WANT JESUS CHRIST!" I really didn't know what to say to the kid. I didn't want to tell him that we don't say that but I definitely wanted him to stop screaming that so I said "Krew, usually we only say Jesus Christ at church or when we are being reverent." What does he do then? He changes to "I WANT HEAVENLY FATHER! I WANT HEAVENLY FATHER!" If I was in Idaho and this happened I don't think that this would be as big of a deal because everyone would know that he probably just had a nursery lesson on Heavenly father and Jesus or something but here is a different story. . . No one here is Lds and EVERYONE was looking at me like I was crazy. He finally calmed down and stopped screaming when I bribed him with a treat. I really wasn't expecting that one. At least I know that he's learning something at church!

Milestones. . ..

2012-01-10T18:05:00.000-08:00

In the dept. of growing up, LOTS has happened in our house this month. Lets start with Mr. Brody. He started rolling over with he was about 3 1/2 months old. and then when he hit 4 months we got to try out some rice cereal. He wasn't sure about it at first but he REALLY likes it now.

Brody started rolling. . ..

We also took away Krew's binky. I know I know we're a little late on that one. Ok REALLY late. Don't judge. I have just been dreading and dreading fighting this battle. And, actually it wasn't all that bad. Shoulda done it about a year ago. . . lesson learned.

Oh, and we got our first snow! To bad it didn't stick around! :( I thought Buffalo winters were supposed to be bad? I went for a run outside 2 days ago for heavens sake! Show me the snow!

This ones for the BoYs

2012-01-10T17:59:00.000-08:00

I thought these boys looked pretty cute in their new Christmas bow ties I made for them. . .

Krew has been really good about being a big brother lately. The other day I was working on something on the comp. and Brody was in his jumper crying for me. I heard Krew go over and suddenly Brody stopped crying so I yelled "Thanks Krew just keep playin with him for one more min." then I heard Krew say "up, up, and away!" then Brody would just laugh and laugh. So i ran for my camera. . . .

Dangerous? probably.

Our time in Idaho. . .

2012-01-10T17:31:00.000-08:00

I was so so glad to go home for christmas. I really couldn't handle another week of Doug being gone ALL OF THE TIME. I flew home a week before Doug. Alone. Well, with my 2 1/2 year old and my 3 month old. Call me crazy but it was worth it. The flight actually wasn't horrible. Krew was a good boy and listed to me and they both fell asleep for 2 hours. I wish I had gotten more pics of the time I spent with my family but we were just to busy. :) My grandma came to town for christmas as well and she LOVES to shop more than anyone I know so we went shopping probably every other day lol. I love her and it was so good to spend time with her.

Krew has missed Uncle Mitch and Jack SOOOOO much! He slept with Mitch every night. They played hard and slept hard. What good uncles. We wish you lived in Buffalo!

I let Krew choose what he wanted in his own yogert. . .healthy yogert piled full of sugar. Doesn't surprise me a bit. He even told me that he wanted some pop to put in it. Thats my boy. Or actually Doug's boy. Mr. pop A-holic.

Terrie didn't know that we were coming home. I thought it would be fun to just show up on her door step. So thats what I did! She hadn't met Brody yet so she was extra excited to meet him. I thought I was going to have to call the Ambulance to revive her after she answered the door!:) We had lots of fun with them while we stayed with em. . .
Terrie wanted to take Krew with her to her school one day. Krew thought he was pretty important going to school just like daddy.

While we were staying with the Messicks, Bruce got out this old train track that he got from his dad. It kept Krew entertained for hours.

Its become a tradition for Terrie to have the grandkids over around Christmastime to make ginger bread houses. It was fun for Krew to be included in that this year. I didn't realize how much work she puts into these until I helped her make them! What a great Grandma. The work pays off tho because ALL of the grandkids LOVE doing this.

It was fun to be there for the big Messick Christmas party too! Every year the grandkids do a nativity. Krew was a shepard however I didn't get any pics of that because it only lasted for about 2 seconds when he decided that his costume (a towel with a hole in it for his head to go thru) was "broken" because it had no arm holes. He just couldn't understand it. Brody was the baby Jesus however, he didn't have a costume so he kind of looked like a modern baby Jesus. Ya just had to use your imagination. . .

When the time came for us to go home there was lots of tears. When were were at the salt lake air port walking down the hall to our terminal I remembered running as fast as I could the other way down the hall with my Double stroller and my huge bag to be greeted by my mom and sister just two SHORT weeks ago. . . the tears started all over again. It was killer. Doug thought I was seriously depressed. I probably cried half way to Chicago. I HATE not having my family around to see Brody grow up and play with Krew. I'm going to miss my sister Ashley's first baby in two months and I CANT STAND the thought of missing out on that. I love my family so much and I'm happy I got to come home for Christmas. It was a very Merry Christmas for me that is for sure.

Christmas Morning

2012-01-10T17:14:00.000-08:00

On Christmas Eve we stayed the night at my parents as did Ash and Sam. Meg and Josh just live up the road so they came over early to get into the fun as well! It was nice to have my Grandma there to.
Santa found us AGAIN! In Idaho this time! . . . thanks to Grandma . . .

Can I eat that candy now????

Thank you great Gama .. . Krew really loves the loader and backhoe and roller and excavator ect ect. . that you gave him!

The Pettet's . . .

Brody gave Jack a gun for christmas . .. it was a big hit. Literally. I got hit like seven times with it. He really liked it.

Brody modeling some boots he got.

The car seat cover I made for Ash . . .

Uncle Sam really has quite the touch with the babies. Good thing to cause he's going to be a DADDY come March. We're so excited for a little girl cousin!!!!!

In the afternoon we went to the Messicks to talk to Uncle Allen and open some more gifts. . .
The boys were just waiting for the opening to begin :)

Elsie got a hair stylist kit and Krew thought it was AwEsOmE!! He knew just what to do with it, he had Elsie's hair styled in no time. Should I be worried about that?

Pictures

2012-01-10T10:53:00.000-08:00

While we were in Idaho my sister in law Tracy took some pics of us. I think they turned out great. In fact, I can't hardly pic my favorites! We had lots of fun hanging out with them and their two sweet little girls.

Imma go schoo toooooooo!

2011-11-27T17:49:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I played taxi driver for Doug since one of our cars is getting fixed right now we're down to one ride and I'm not a fan. Krew didn't mind tho cause we made a couple trips to daddy's school. When we dropped lunch off to him Krew went thru his normal pleeding with Doug. . . "daddy sit down," "daddy come to Krew's house" and when none of those worked he said "Imma go schooo toooo daddy!" So, Doug took Krew in for a little tour of his school since it was sat. and it wasn't super crowded. When Krew got back into the car all he would say is "that is Nice! that is so nice!" or "I wanna study with Dane and Aaron toooo momma!" It made me think tho. . . I'm glad Krew looks up to Doug so much and I'm glad that Doug sets such a good example for Krew. I hope when college rolls around for Krew he remembers how cool he thought daddy's school was :)

Fun, Fun, and More fun!

2011-11-27T17:08:00.001-08:00

We have have been party hardyin lately :) ok just a couple times when Doug doens't have to study his brains out. I made these tasty treats for halloween. They are to die for. Seriously. Let me tell you about them. . . they are called cake pops. I love them. My family calls me cakelin because I LOVE CAKE :) This is the first time I have made these so their not the cutest but they taste absolutly amazing. If I make it to Heaven this is what will be on the menu. Cake pops. Everyday. I could have eaten all of them.

Over Thanksgiving break we got invited to go to a cabin with some other dental students. While we were there us ladies made Thanksgiving dinner that was to die for. The turkey was Amazing . . ok everything was amazing! (Obviously I didn't cook to much:) I wish I would have gotten a pic. of the big feast. It was huge. I needed two plates just to get one serving of everything. There were tonz of sides. Doug was IN HEAVEN. besides the feast the kiddos played all day together and wore eachother out. It was awesome! Here are the few pics that I did manage to take on my awesome camera phone.

Brody was pretty much a celebrity up there. Kisses from all the girls . ..
There was lots of fun to be had jumping from bed to bed. . .

My little composer: :) Krew was in love with the piano there! He would sit on the bench and get so serious and then start playing the keys and sometimes singing.

I'm such a big black Friday shopper. This wonderful pic. was taken at 2 AM when a bunch of friends bumped into each other. Guess we all like good deals. . .

Breaking Dawn. . . need I say more? I know some people don't like this movie but I DO NOT fall into that category. Me and my friends out here all went to the premiere and it was a BLAST! We even got interviewed and got to be on the news! We all got together and made shirts for the event. They were pretty funny. Here are some of the sayings that were on out shirts:
Little nudger (my friends that is prego wore this)
I like my men cold, dead, and sparkling.
I tried to steal Jasper but Alice saw me coming.
I love sparkly vamps.
Bitten
Imprinted.
The Cullen crest.

-We had such a great time and I can hardly wait for this movie to come out on video and for part two to come out!

Krew's new friends.

2011-11-27T16:27:00.000-08:00

Krew has made lots of new friends out her in Buffalo. Here are a few that I have pics of. This first one is Molly with Krew in nursery. For some reason these two are always the last ones sitting at the snack table gobbling up all the extra treats! :)

Krew plays alot with Carter and Parker. They usually get along ok but sometimes they fight just like brothers. . .they like to wrestle . . . lots.

The boys looking out the window the the garbage truck. . .what is it with boys and trucks?

Another one of Krew's friends is Maddie- she just lives down the street from us. Maddie is really smart.

And of course I can't forget Ms. Ragan Alexis Dobbins! Ray lives two houses down from us and I'm glad she puts up with Krew pestering her cause she"s Brody's Fav. (she always makes him smile and babble) and I really like it when she does my hair! :) LOVE her!

Krew has lots of new friends but he still really misses his best friend Aunt Abi. My mom sent me a pic. of Abi and her new Boyfriend cause they got nominated for homecoming royalty woot woot! I showed Krew the pic of Abi and he did NOT like seeing her with another friend :) He kept staring at this pic. saying "thats my Abi momma!"

My littlest man. . . .

2011-11-27T14:57:00.001-08:00

Just a couple pics of my little man Brody. I don't feel like I post enough pics of this little sweetie Brody is 2.5 months old and he can: hold up his head no prob., roll over, smile ALL THE TIME and put on the lbs. like its no one's business! At his two month Dr. Apt. he weighed in at almost 15lbs. and 23 inches long! What a chunker! He makes everyone around here so happy. We love you Brodster!

If you think his smile is cute. . . you should hear his laugh! He started laughing a couple weeks ago and its the cutest thing EVER! Once, Krew was right in front of his chair and Krew started laughing which made Brody start laughing. Its pretty much my favorite sound.

I love holding Brod right before his bath and checking out all his rolls:) I love my chubby baby!

Halloween festivities

2011-11-04T07:20:00.001-07:00

This year for Halloween a few of us got together and took our kids around trick or treating together. Krew got so much candy! We decided to make a party out of it so all the adults ok- MOST of the adults dressed up. Krew's dalmation outfit from last year still fit and honestly with a new baby around I wasn't feeling to up to organizing new costumes so no judging but yes, he is wearing the same outfit as he did last year. I'm a great mom. Oh well, he loved it! Here are some other of my fav. costumes:

Josh and Liz: Or should I say Jess and Larry? Liz is trying to disguise her 8.5 month pregnant belly as a beer belly. She is due on the 10th! I'm so EXCITED for her! My fav. part of this ensemble is the cig's.

I think Josh is really liking the new curves on his body:)

Uncle Rico and his babe. Oh, there is Carter and Parker to . . . gotta love the stach. Why does this remind me of a pic that I have with my parents when I was little? Yikers.

Us at our ward Halloween Party. Yep, Krew is on a sugar high.

We also went to a pumpkin patch. All of these kids' daddys are first year dental students. In order left to right: Krew, Molly, Parker, Maddy, Carter Mia: Addy, Bell, Tara

Krew Had fun playin at the play place even tho the carnival wasn't going. Next year we'll have to take Doug and go when the rides are open.

We did look at pumpkins :) And the petting zoo for a min. lol. Where was I? Who knows. Feeding Brody? Maybe chasing Krew? Gosh I'm bad at pic taking! I'm hoping to score a camera on black friday. Then hopefully I will be better and more excited to take pics! :)

SwEeT BoYs

2011-10-30T19:24:00.000-07:00

Today I dressed Brodster up for church and thought man he sure reminds me of Krew. I remembered that I had a pic of Krew in this outfit so I took a pic and later discovered that in these pics the boys are pretty close to the same age! (Brody is 3 days older) So out here in Buffalo there is LOTS of little girls. Its no secret that I would LOVE to have a little chica. Girls are so fun. So sweet. I love watching the little girls out here with their daddys. Its precious. Watching is all I can do for now being that me and Doug won't be having any more kids while we're here. But I really hope that one day I can get a girl :) My sister Ashley just found out that she will be having a little girl in March along with one of my food friends from high school Missy! I'm so excited for them. And, a little jelous. Ok good, I admitted it. I found myself in a bit of a slump. I've already gone a little crazy buying little girl baby gifts. . . . Girls are just so fun to shop for! You can dress them up so cute!
OK, so I guess these air Jordans that Brody had been sportin lately are pretty sweet . . . :)

Anyway, back to the point. I've been thinking about all the things that I love about my boys. There is a large list:) Although one day I hope to have a girl, These two boys are pretty much the funnest. I'm excited I had two in a row the same gender. I hope they will be best buds! Brody is SUCH a good baby. He's always smiling at me and cooing and frankly I'm wrapped right around his finger. I can already tell that he has such a good little personality. Krew is a FIREBALL! He pushes me right to my limits. Daily. But, I do have to say that He sure can pick me up when I"m down. There is nothing like a hug from Krew. It melts your heart. He is a very sensitive ilttle boy. Whenever I get after him or put him in time out he usually will come up to me afterward and say "I'm sorry you got mad momma." He also loves loves loves his little brother. He is such a great helper. Whenever Brody is crying he will search for his binkey and shove it in his mouth. If he can't find Brody's binkey he improvises and gives Brody his binkey (which is LOTS larger!) it usually makes Brody gag and I try to step in before Brody pukes:) Lately I've been trying to teach Brody how to fall asleep on his own and letting him cry it out a little bit before naps and bed time. Krew CAN"T STAND it that I won't help him. The other day, I was in the kitchen and just listening to Brody (who was crying) in the monitor. All of the sudden I hear Krew's voice loud and clear saying "its ok Body- Krew is here" Krew had snuck upstairs and crawled into Brody's crib with him. Sweet right? I love these two precious boys. I'm so lucky to have them and I wouldn't trade either of them for the world.

This fall in Buffalo . . .

2011-10-26T12:59:00.000-07:00

So the fall season here in Buffalo ROCKS. The leaves are BEAUTIFUL. We have SO MANY leaves on our lawn its incredible. On sat. Doug was cleaning them up and Krew really wanted to go outside to help him so I bundled him up and he had a good ol time playin in the leaves.

I have to admit that I was excited to stop working and be a stay at home mom but honestly, I was worried that we would be a little bored. I shouldn't have worried because there is alot of fun things going on here. The fire station close to our house had a fun thing going on the other night. They let kids come and check out the fire trucks! Krew was talking about it all day long! He's a big talker cause when we got there all he wanted to do was cover his ears and watch from a safe distance :) He really liked seeing the big ladder and spraying the hose tho. He's still talking about it. . . and talking about it and talking about it. . . to much talking!

Krew is still liking his trike . . . on days that its not to cold he likes to bundle up and go ride it on the side walk.

We've also had quite a few pretty rainy days here . . .

Since its been so rainy we've had to stay inside and play quite a bit. Krew is really starting to like to play with his toys. He's into air planes, trains, loaders, dump trucks, monster trucks, ect ect. He's fun to watch play with them. He usually lines them up in a row and races them or makes them jump off of the furniture.

I went in Krew's room to check on him one day and he had made these "garages" out of some blocks for his cars. Silly boy.

And lastly, just a pic of my littlest man. He's getting so big!

All shnazzed up for church!

2011-10-16T16:47:00.000-07:00

Today was Brody's first day at church. After I got both boys ready (which by the way took me SOOOOOOO long!, Fear not, we were only five min late for church! yahoo!) anyway, I couldn't stop staring at the boys after i got them ready. I know every mom thinks that her child is adorable which is how it should be but I really couldn't believe how cute these boys looked. I'm so blessed. I love em so much!

My friend Jen made Brody's tie and gave it to me at my shower. She is an amazing seamstress. Thanks Jen!

And one of Krewzer, missionary part and all.

Da AiRpAnEs!

2011-10-16T16:37:00.000-07:00

For playgroup this week we got to go the airport and get a close up of the helicopters! Krew absolutely loves the air port. He's always talking about the airplanes that go high and are loud. Its probably his favorite thing to do here so he was extra excited for playgroup this week. Great choice Stephanie!

Even tho Krew LOVES da helicopers he was deathly affraid it would turn on and be loud. So, sadly he wouldn't get in it but he watched from a safe distance with his ears plugged.

This is how close it is to the landing strip! i'm sure it won't be long before we're back!

Homesick. . .

2011-10-16T16:31:00.000-07:00

I was going through pics on my camera and found these from when my mom came. They made me homesick. When my mom got off the plane Krew made this sign for her . . .

What I would give for a hug from mom now! ; )

Miss ya mom! Can't wait for another hug next time we come home!

Brody's announcement

2011-10-13T10:36:00.000-07:00

Here is Mr. Brod's announcement and the rest of his newborn pics! My great friend Mrs. Mallory Nikolaus took them and despite Brody pooping on her blanket and not falling asleep for the entire shoot she did a great job! I could just kiss this boy all day long. Oh, wait thats what I do! Love him.

BoO aT tHe ZoO! . . . and a few other things

2011-10-07T11:49:00.000-07:00

Another zoo post! I promise we do do more things that hit the zoo up all the time. They had trick or treating and some fun stuff to do at the zoo so we got the boys dressed up and went to get some treats! yep, Krew had all of his candy eaten by the time we left. And yes, he did play so hard after he ate all his candy that he threw it all up before we left also. It was a fun thing tho.

Cutest lil punkin in NY if I do say so myself!

There was a little haunted house that I told Doug to take Krew through. About 15 seconds after entering Krew ran out crying and plugging his ears. Guess he wasn't quite ready for that!

Of course we had to visit Krew's FAVORITE animal the BRRRR! When he saw this baby bear he said "that looks like Body momma" ?? Maybe because its legs are so short? lol. Don't ask me why its turning green.

When Krew saw this bounce house he couldn't believe that it was a puppy just like him! He wanted to jump in it so bad. . .

A little bit scared of all the "big kids" jumping around at first.

Not sure about this mom its pretty high!

Finally got the courage to go down!

Here is Krew with his buddies Carter and Parker. I'm glad he's made friends out here. These boys are to cute!

Krew has been quite the picky eater lately. The other day Our friend Josh told Krew to eat his food like a dinosaur! Krew really liked that idea and he now insists that I place his plate on the floor every meal and he "eats like a dinosaur." No utensils. But as long as his plate is on the floor he gobbles it all up! Whatever works I guess. Am I a bad mom for letting him eat off the floor?

We set up this tent for Krew to play in while we watched conference. He loved it. He wanted to sleep in it. We let him. Can't wait to go camping next summer!

Brodster is 1 month old! Here is a pic. of him nice and alert! He's still such a good baby. When he left the hospital he had only lost one oz. and when I took him to his 2 week apt. he had gained 1lb. 2 oz. !!! Mr. Fatty :) I now have to put baby powder in between his fat rolls so they don't chafe! I just love my fat baby boys! Soon, i'll post some of his newborn pics that my friend Mallory took.

It was Doug's B-day on the 28th. He turned 26! I can't believe it! He;s now closer to 30 than 20. I think 30 is going to be a turning point. I mean i remember when my parents were 30 and they seemed so old! (no offense mom and dad) Pretty soon we'll be grandparents with bad knee's and medication :) Lol JK! By the way Dave and Julie- Thanks for Doug's B-day gift! You really spoiled him. It did confirm my thoughts that you love him more than me. :) Don't deney it! I made a cake for Doug and here is Krew enjoying "helping" me make it.

On a different note, we a had a fatality the other day. This is or was my favorite wreath. I spent hours making it. Ok thats a lie. I was wanting to make one like this and was dreading the amount of time it would take me when i stunbled upon this wreath at a garage sale! $1.00 Viola! Well the humidity out here in NY made it melt and it was attracting ants. :( I had to throw it away! Darn it!

Fun Saturday with DaDdY!

2011-09-27T10:15:00.001-07:00

Life out here in NY for us has been a little hectic lately. Doug seriously thinks I'm going crazy. And in all honesty I probably am. Enough about the hard tho. Doug had a big anatomy test last week and was gone until 11 pm every night of the week. He came home on friday after his test and announced that he wasn't going to touch his books all day sat. and he wanted to spend all day with us! Praise the Lord! This family day was MUCH needed. When Doug asked Krew what he wanted to do of course Krew said "THE ZOO!!" Which was kinda perfect because I had just broken down and purchased a zoo pass! Krew LOVES the zoo. The zoo here in Buffalo is so much better than the Idaho Falls zoo! Sure its not the hogal zoo but for us its quite a treat! We just don't have zoo's like this back in good ol' Idaho. This is one of Krew's favorite animals at the zoo.

This is Krew's absolutly FAVORITE animal at the zoo. He'll tell you all about everything he saw there but when he gets to the part about the BRRRRR's he'll say THEY"RE AWESOME!

Little Brody just snoozed almost our entire zoo visit!

When I signed up for our pass at the zoo I got some free ride passes. Krew was so excited to be able to ride on the rides! You can see in this pic. how much fun he is having.

Here is Krew on the train at the zoo. He wouldn't ride it by himself, so being that Brody decided he wanted to eat at that exact min. Doug was the lucky parent who got to ride the train with Krew. He was the only person over the age of four on the entire train! He was so embarassed oops i mean excited to be the only adult on the train at the zoo :)

When we got home from the zoo Doug decided to get out the Jeep that Mitch and Jack let Krew borrow to see if Krew is still afraid of it. . . it was a hit! Doug spent time showing him how to drive it however Krew is still a little wreckless on it.

Ruining the flower beds . . .

Wave at mommy! Yes, I did just ram your car momma. Smile and wave Krew, smile and wave.

Sat. afternoon Doug watched the boys so I could have some "grown up girl time" :) When I came home all 3 of my boys were asleep! . . .While my mom was here she slept on an air matress we put in our spare room. Krew slept with her one night and ever since she left he is always asking to sleep in Grandma's bed. He'll crawl in bed then say "I want gama to come back on her air plane" :) Here is a pic of him taking a nap in "Gama's bed".

Sweet right?

Brody Mychael Messick

2011-09-16T10:33:00.000-07:00

He finally came! And I'm so glad he did! Brody is by far the best baby I have had! He is already sleeping for two hours at a time at night, (Krew never did that until he was about 6 months old) the other night Krew and Brody got up the same amount of times. Yes, thats right. Brody rarely cries. . . When he's hungry he just grunts(like a piglet) Its so cute! I'm beginning to realize more and more what an absolutely terrible baby Krew was. :) I say that in the kindest way possible. I wouldn't trade him for the world. But Brody ceases to amaze me. God must have known that I needed an easy one.
So I got enduced this time. I was really nervous about this because i've heard so many bad stories of it going wrong and moms having to have c sections and that is what i definatlely didn't want to have because my mom was only coming for one week of recovery for me. Not six! They started the pit about 8 am and it was SO SLOW I was getting more and more nervous that it wasn't working because the nurses said that they were giving me the highest dose and by 3pm I was only at a 5. I just knew that it wasn't going to work and I would have to have a c section. So, they turned off the pit but my body wasn't about to give up! It took things the rest of the way thank heavens! Quite quickly to! Brody was born at 3:44 pm. He was a whopping 8lbs.even and 21 inches long! Right before he was born his heart rate dropped and stayed down. It was really scary. All of the sudden there was about 30 nurses, a midwife and some wonderful dr. in the room (for the life of me I can't remember her name but she was amazing! Thank Heavens for her! I love her! She did a great job delivering my Brody and calming everyone down!) Someone threw an oxygen mask over my face that was made for a 300 lb. man (it pretty much covered my entire head) so i couldn't hear a darn thing that was going on which really scared me! Finally I ripped it off and said "I don't need that! I can breath fine! I need to push NOW!" Everyone was shocked and said oh, ok well if you feel like pushing then push! So i pushed and out shot A purple Brody with the cord around his neck! He was fine tho. I was fine. This recovery is SO MUCH better than my recovery with Krew. Nursing is going great which is such a relief. I really cant think of anything that isn't going just perfect. (Minus the spare tire Brody left me with) We're so blessed to have his sweet little spirit in our home and I can only hope that I can be the kind of mom that this sweetie deserves.

Whew! finally made it here!

Our bigger, better, family.

Krew first meeting his little brother.

All ready to go home from the hospital. Double chin and all.

Once while my mom was here Brody was sleeping and Krew came running in the house just yelling! Brody lifted his long old fingers up like "stop, would you just stop?" Haha We couldn't stop laughing and had to take a pic.

Sweet feet.

First bath assisted by Grandma. Notice, this boy isn't even crying!

Hello sweet Brody- clean and fresh!

I dunno if you can see but when we put lotion on him right after his bath his hair curled right up! He's got Curly hair just like Krewzer did!

Oh i just LOVE the way babies smell after their baths!

I sure do appreciate my mom coming out and spending her whole week with us! She was such a great help to me and Doug! I KNOW that Krew loved every min they spent together and he really really misses her! Thanks mom!

This is my third set of Roses from Doug. He likes to wait until its a very special occasion to grace me with flowers :) Thanks babe! Love you so much!

Look-a-likes

2011-09-16T10:30:00.001-07:00

Krew

Brody
These two look so much alike and yet so different to me!

Our first visitors!

2011-09-16T10:23:00.000-07:00

Dougs parents were so nice to bring our other car out to us the week before Brody was supposed to be born. We were all hoping that Brody would join us while they were here but Mr. Piggy had his own agenda :) We had so much fun with them and It was hard to say goodbye . . again. Sad to say but I honestly didnt' get any other pics then the ones I have here we were so busy! I know Terrie got a few so i'll have to have her send me some.

Niagra . . .

There is a big rivalry here in Buffalo. Who has better wings? Duffs or Anchor Bar? Of course while Doug's parents were here we had to visit each contender. The night that we went to Anchor Bar this lovely lady was outside promoting some casino. Allen about shot out of his seat when he saw her! He couldn't wait to have his picture taken with the likes of her! He did say that Anchor Bar was definately the better place to eat before he went home. Do you think this had anything to do with it?

On that note, Allen is going to be leaving ALL of his girlfriends behind in about ten days he leaves on his mission to Arizona! We are so proud of him! Good luck Al!

Happenings

2011-09-16T09:56:00.000-07:00

There was quite a bit that happened before little Brody came that I still need to blog about so i'm taking this nap time to catch up! Doug had his white coat ceremony. It was really cool. Doug really LOVES school. especially now that he is learning things that he will actually get to use someday! Its so neat to see him progress in his never ending (it seems like) quest to be a dentist!

The best family pic. I have. Dang the sun in our eyes! We are so proud of you Dougy!

I wanted to get this little man potty trained before the baby came and I'm SO glad to say that after 2 weeks of me just wanting to absolutly pull my hair out and one more week of just plain frustration. . . we're there! Don't get me wrong there is still accidents and I still stress about him forgetting everytime we're in public and yes he has definatly taken a step or two backward since Brody has come but he's still wearing his panties and we're almost at the fully potty trained stage! phew! Who knew potty training could be SUCH a chore!

A couple weeks ago during the Finale of the bachelorette my friends Liz had a few of us girls over to partake of some sparkling cider while she chose between two of the loves of her life :) Fun to get together with the girls. Even if you are the size of a freight train.

Another fun thing I've been doing is Shellac nails! I really questioned if this stuff really stayed on as long as they say it does when it first came out. My sister is a cosmotologist as well and she started using shellac in her salon and LOVED it so when we moved out here I got myself a light and tried it out. My hands are always in water, wiping dirty bums, and doing dishes so reg. nail polish for me usually only lasts one day. I tried the shellac polish out and it stayed on my fingers for a good four weeks and even then I had to work to get it off. Glitter toes are pretty fun to do also. Mine have been on for six weeks and still goin strong! I'm charging $10.00 for fingers, $10.00 for toes and for little girls its $5.00 for fingers and $5.00 for toes! Paint or glitter doesn't matter. Here are a couple pics of some generous people who let me learn on their fingers and toes :)

These are my little neighbor Ragans toes. She's so cute. She couldn't decide what color so we did each toe a different color!

Just the two of us.

2011-09-06T11:46:00.000-07:00

I have LOVED spending this last month with Krew. No work, not a ton of responsibility, just hangin out me and my boy. I've had more fun with him then we have ever had before. He's such a nut. Tom I'm getting enduced and quite honestly I'm a little sad for Krew. He's been my baby for 2 1/2 years! I know he's going to be a great big brother and love little Brody but I just hope he knows how much I have cherished the time that we've had together. He is such a good, big, helpful, nice, smart boy. He's my buddy :) We've had fun riding our bikes down to a park that is close to our house practically every day. He loves the tire swing. He gets on it and just laughs and laughs which of course makes me laugh and laugh when I hear his cute laugh.

Krew has been loving riding around this new trike that we got for him. He asks to ride ALL DAY LONG! Lately he's been getting good enough at it that I can just ride my bike behind him and he thinks that is pretty cool. He also loves to sport his little helmet.

The other day I was trying to get comfortable enough on our couch to take a nap. (which is close to impossible when your my size) I was staring at some pics that we had hanging in out living room and I couldn't help the tears from coming! I just can't figure out how my baby went from being this . . .

to this . . .

and now this? STOP GROWING UP!
It reminded me of a song by Trace Adkins that says:
Your gonna miss this.
Your gonna want this back.
Your gonna wish these days,
hadn't gone by so fast.

These are some good times.
So take a good look around.
You may not know it now,
but your gonna miss this.

I'm sure that I've got some strong pregnancy emotions runnin through me right now but I just feel so lucky to be Krew's mom. He's such a sweet boy and I've so cherished the time these past 2 1/2 years that we've had together- just the two of us. That said- I can't wait to meet my new little guy tom and see Krew transition into being a big brother.

House pics.

2011-08-14T18:29:00.000-07:00

I have a list. Its a mental list really. Of everything I need to get done before I can have this baby. And, guess what. . . This is the last thing on my list! I wanted to get this post done before I have the baby because I know once the baby gets here my house probably won't be this clean for a while :) Now my list is completed. . . come out come out whenever you want baby! When we first got to Buffalo we had a really busy first couple of weeks because we knew that we wanted to paint and do a couple updates to our house before we even bought it and what a better time to do it than before anything is unpacked or hung? It was an extremely stressful couple of weeks but after MUCH cleaning, painting, installing, ect ect. . . I LOVE OUR NEW HOUSE! Just last night me and Doug were talking and he said isn't it so weird how fast this house has become "our home"? We've really only been unpacked for pry 2 weeks but already this feels so much like home to us. Anyway, here are some pics of our new crib . . .

Living room.

Kitchen.

Dining room. I especially am in love with this room. We have put alot of sweat into it so far. Doug hung the bead board and then I came behind him and painted it. I'm really diggin the bead board.

Pantry door. (with my fav. wreath on it) . . .I used to have it on our front door until one day, one of Doug's friends came over and said "I think a rooster ran into your door" :) haha SIlly boy doesn't appreciate my fashion sense! I took it off the front door and hung it in the dining room. I think it looks better there anyway!

Going out our back door I wanted a bench and some coat hangers for the winter time. Doug made this bench and shelf with coat hooks on it for us. Doesn't it look good! Possibly my fav. area in the house.

For Krew's room I had to do a before and after pic because it used to be a little girls room. The pic. above is the before pic. It was so weird to put him to bed in it when we first got here! So after much painting, and bead board installing. . . .

Here it is after. . . What do you think? Is it Boyish now?

Check out those awesome bookshelves that Doug made for Krew's room!

Main floor bathroom.

This is the "everything" room. Its meant to be the salon room but until I get busy doing hair which pry won't be for a while with the baby coming and such its partly an office for doug, craft room for me, workout room, and when we have visitors it will transform into a guest room. A room of many trades.

The "salon" part of the spare room.

Up the stairs is our bedroom. I said that we did alot of painting but of course our bedroom still needs done :) The green wall has got to go. I want to paint it red. . . I'll get around to it someday. Maybe during christmas who knows.

Upstairs bathroom.

This is going to be the baby's room. Right across the hall from our bedroom.

I made this frame for the baby's room. Love the saying. My camera did something wierd to the a in this pic but its really not there!

Our back yard. We were so lucky to get these toys for Krew to play on for FREE from some of our amazing new neighbors! And of course we were telling Krew that he would have a tramp at our new house and he made sure and kept us true to our word! :) He LOVES the tramp!

Lovely sandbox which Doug constructed for Krew. (Needless to say that Krew spends LOTS of time here!)

I'm loving our new house. And, now that we have it all painted and we're totally moved in our house is open for visitors! Any takers? :) We sure miss everyone at home!

Maternity Photos

2011-08-11T12:09:00.001-07:00

One of my new friends here in New York, Mallory, is just starting up her photography business. She is AMAZING! You can check out her work here: www.mallorynikolausphoto.blogspot.com (Not to mention her prices are really reasonable!) I wasn't going to get maternity pics this time around since I got them done when I was prego with Krew but, I feel like this pregnancy is so different and TONZ of people kept asking me if I was going to get pics because "I will want to look back at how I looked when I was Pregnant :)" So, You can call me crazy for going out on a limb and getting my pics taken 3 weeks before I'm due but after having them done I really am glad that I did. #1 Mallory is took some awesome pics and #2 I'm going to want to remember my little family like this. Krew has been my one and only little baby for so long. Lately he will go grab a sippie with milk in it, crawl into my arms and want me to feed him like a baby :) Or, he'll crawl into the new baby's car seat and say look momma a baby! Doug keeps saying that its premonition. Anyway, Mal took some great pics and I SO appreciate her and her little family being apart of our lives out here!

First day of school

2011-08-07T19:44:00.001-07:00

Here is Doug on his first day of school. Off to learn how to be a dentist! We love you Doug!
For some reason Krew really got into taking pics this day. Lol. As soon as he caught on to what we were doing he started pulling poses out that I had never seen this kid do before in my life! He would only hold a smile long enough to say "momma watch!" and then He would strike another pose. Me and Doug were laughing so hard I didn't get any really good ones but I tried! this pose here was one of my fav's. Who taught him how to lay on the floor just like a model? ha ha ha

Me and Krew have had so much fun spending all day together. I ABSOLUTLY LOVE being a stay at home mom. I could play with this kid all day long! He's so funny. I think he likes having my full attention all day long to :) The other morning we had a funny Krew moment that I wanted to write down. So Doug left for school and so I decided to get out the jogger stroller and take Krew for a walk to park that is close by our house. Krew is used to me pushing him the in jogger and running however, I decided that since I am now extremely pregnant I didn't want to scare any neighbors so I settled for walking. This is not what Krew had in mind. He kept saying go go Go! Finally he threw his hands in the air and said "oh c'mon momma! Run!" I couldn't stop laughing. This kid cracks me up.

Beaver Island

2011-08-07T19:32:00.001-07:00

Before school started for the 1 year dental students me and a couple other wives wanted to get together and do something fun with our husbands before we kissed them goodbye for 4 years :) We went to a place called Beaver Island. It was a great beach and the kids had lots of fun.

Krew with his new buddies "Car-der and Parker" I'm so glad that Krew has friends here! It makes him and me SO much happier!

The guys: Craig, Doug, and Josh

The Gals: Liz, Mallory and Me. Yes that is a genuine "I'm so happy to be in a swim suit when I'm 8 months prego smile. Liz is pregnant also. You just can't tell :) She's going to be having a little girl about 2 1/2 months after I have my baby. I am so happy that I have these girls here with me tho.

After we had been there a while I noticed Krew was just sitting in the sand staring at nothing and being really quiet. This is definatly uncharacterisitic of Krew. (Little did I know that he had heat stroke and would sleep for about 17 hours straight after we left the beach and then wake up and be sick- not fun!) Anyway- I got kinda worried about him because he had been playing so hard with his pals so i took him away from everyone and found some shade. He fell asleep just like a baby. I love this boy.

Sweet Boy :)

Nauvoo

2011-08-07T19:03:00.000-07:00

On our way out to Buffalo we stopped at Nauvoo. We spent almost and entire day there. That was perfect for us. I was worried that we wouldn't have enough time to see everything we wanted but Krew simply wasn't going to allow us to go on many tours. He doesn't really like to sit still. Wierd. One of the few tours that we did take was Carthiage Jail where Joseph Smith died. Here is a pic. of us by a statue that is out front of the Jail.

During the tour they explained that Joseph Smith's brother Hyrum, was trying to hold the door shut when the mob came to kill Joseph. The mob shot Hyrum through this door and killed him. If you look closely you can see that the bullet hole is still in the door.

The inside of the window that Joseph Smith fell to his death from.

The top window is an outside shot of the window that Joseph fell out of when he was killed.

The outside of Carthiage Jail.

Then we drove a couple miles down the road to Nauvoo. This is the actual size of an average wagon that each family got to cross the plains with.

All of the names on these walls are people who died while in Nauvoo.

I found some Lyman's that were on the wall! I'm not sure if I'm related to these ones (I'll have to do a little fam. history) But I know that I did have some ancestors that made it to the salt lake valley.

At the edge of Nauvoo there is a trail you can walk down called "The Trail of Hope" This is the trail the the saints walked on to leave their city as they were driven from their homes.

Its really cool to walk down this path because ever 10 feet or so there are journal entries from the saints for you to read. The journal entries are mostly about the hardships they had to face in Nauvoo and how hard it was for them to leave. This one especially hit me. I'm so glad that I don't have to deal with struggles like the pioneers. Yes, I had to move across the country but it did it in the comforts of my car. I had air conditioning, hotels to stay at, pools to swim in, and fast food along the way. The trip only took 3 days and I didn't have to give birth or deal with sickness along the way. This was a good stop for me. What on earth do I have to complain about?

This is the view that the saints had of their temple as they walked away from Nauvoo. How sad to leave such a beautiful thing behind.

This is at the end of The Trail of Hope. Its the Mississippi river that the saints had to cross in the middle of winter to leave Nauvoo.

We took a tour of Nauvoo in this little wagon. It was really fun and good for couples with kids cause we got to see all the buildings within about 1 hour and we learned alot about them from the missionaries on the tour. It was way fun.

After our tour one of the missionaries said it would be ok if Krew wanted to pet the horse. Krew loved it! One of the horses he met was named Ned and for several days after we left Nauvoo Krew would occasionally ask "Where is Ned?"

Krew wanted to kiss the horse:)

The beautiful Nauvoo temple.

Our last days . . .

2011-07-20T11:59:00.000-07:00

We were pretty lucky our last week in Idaho to stay with Fam. and not have to work. We spent alot of QT with family and had so much fun. Here is some of our adventures:
Krew on Gama's lap watching us light off fireworks.

Before we left we got to go see cars 2 the movie at Edwards with Mitch, Jack, Gama, Abi, Ash, and Meg. Krew thought it was so cool. BIg building with mirrors on the ceiling, candy and a good movie! What else could a guy want?

Krew ended up falling asleep on Meg's lap.

The Sunday before we left the ENTIRE Messick Family had a BBQ at Doug's cousin's house. They had a cool little loader thing in their backyard that Krew absolutly LOVED! Doug really wants to make one for Krew in our backyard.

I spent an entire day cleaning our old house for Meg and Josh to move into. I wanted it to be really clean for them plus I would be so embarased to leave a messy house behind me. Nobody likes to clean up someone else's mess! I was having contractions pretty regular and my mom was worried about me being around cleaning chemicals fumes so she offered to help me clean. How nice. She will probably be mad at me for putting this pic. on but I want to remember the story behind it so forgive me mom. When she got the the house I had already been there and she asked me "what can I do?" Without thinking I told her that Krew's room was pretty much clean the window seals and base boards just needed to be wiped off, and sent her off to do that. I kept hearing her sniff sniff which is not unusual cause she has allergies but the sniffing got quite frequent and heavy so I went in to see if she needed some medicine or something. This is what I found: My mom bawling her eyes out. What a mistake to have her clean Krew's room! :) I love you mom and Krew misses you so much! Since we've left I've found out that my mom pretty much stole one of Krew's blankets for her to keep because she says it smells just like Krew. lol! Silly Gama! We love you so much!

Krew was such a trooper on our drive across the country. We went 2300 miles in 3 days! I can't say the same for me. I will always remember driving away from my parents house. I bawled for a good 2 hrs. straight and then off and on the entire rest of the trip. Krew would get so worried about me when he would see me crying. He would say things like "Doug, whats wrong with mommy?" or "Its ok mommy" Finally Doug taught him to just say "I love you Mommy" when I was crying. I'm alot better now. Maybe only once a day do I get really homesick but it helps when I get a hug from my little boy and he says "I love you mommy!" What really gets me is when Krew says "Where is Mitch? Where is Jack?" "I want gamma and papa" Or when he talks to them on the phone and cries and cries after we hang up. He misses everyone. But I know he's having fun here. There are so many little boys and girls his age that we get to play with periodically throughout the week. This move will be good for the both of us.

On our way out to Buffalo we were listening to Doug's Ipod and Krew was asleep. Doug randomly said I think this is my favorite song. So I started it over and turned it up so i could hear the lyrics. Its called "Love Like Crazy" by Lee Brice. Of course it made me cry. Everything makes me cry lately. Here are the lyrics.

"Love Like Crazy"

They called them crazy when they started out
Said, "Seventeen's too young to know what loves about"
They've been together fifty-eight years now
That's crazy

He brought home sixty-seven bucks a week
Bought a little 2 bedroom house on Maple Street
Where she blessed him with six more mouths to feed
Now that's crazy

Just ask him how he did it
He'll say, "Pull up a seat
It'll only take a minute
To tell you everything"

Be a best friend, tell the truth
And overuse "I love you"
Go to work, do your best
Don't outsmart your common sense
Never let your prayin' knees get lazy
And love like crazy

They called him crazy when he quit his job
Said them home computers, boy, they'll never take off
Well, he sold his one man shop to Microsoft
And they paid like crazy

Just ask him how he made it
He'll tell you faith and sweat
And the heart of a faithful woman
Who never let him forget

Be a best friend, tell the truth
And overuse "I love you"
Go to work, do your best
Don't outsmart your common sense
Never let your prayin' knees get lazy
And love like crazy

Always treat your woman like a lady
Never get to old to call her baby
Never let your prayin' knees get lazy
And love like crazy

They called him crazy when they started out
They've been together fifty-eight years now
Ain't that crazy?

I had quite an emotional trip out to Buffalo and I'm going to miss all my family, Doug's family, and our friends so much. But, I'm so glad that I have Dougy at my side. I look up to him so much and I know that when we're faced with challenges in these upcoming years I can trust Doug to always make the right decision. I feel so lucky to have him and my little Krewzer and pretty soon my new little guy. All we can do is our best just like the song says. I know we'll make it cause we have eachother.

We finally made it out to Buffalo! Our new home sweet home. More pics to come soon!

4th of July

2011-07-20T11:43:00.000-07:00

The 4th of July was our last day in Idaho this summer :( I was pretty sad but we still managed to have some fun. Here are some pics of Krew at the parade.

For some reason Krew was a big baby about noises this fourth of July. During the parade whenever a big loud truck or something would go by he would grab Megan's hands and put them over her ears. He would get mad if she took them off!

Looking for some candy . . .

You can't really see which girl is Abi in this pic. but here she is parading by. My dad was driving his truck for them in the parade this year and when Krew saw him he couldn't believe his eyes! His grandpa! In the parade!

I still can't believe that Abi is a cheerleader. She's always been the one of us who I was sure would do sports of some kind. She will have fun tho cheerleading is a blast and its fun to practice tumbling with her. .. .maybe I shouldn't admit that. . . it was on the tramp! :) Here is Abi and the rest of the JV cheerleaders.

Ross Park

2011-07-20T07:16:00.001-07:00

Doug's parents took everyone to Ross Park in Pocatello before we left. It was a really fun day. For some people it was the last time we would see them until we come back for christmas. . . possibly. So it was kinda bittersweet. We had fun getting a slight tan and floating in the lazy river.

My beautiful sister in law, Jamie.

Cool little wading pool. Krew liked to pretend to be a mermaid in it :)

Ross park has a pretty cool water slide. Here is Kenzie gettin off of it.

Rylee goin down the slide

Even my fearless Nice Presley went down the big slide all by herself!

Krew and Pres. Cute buds.

The only two boy Messick cousins. . . for about another 6 weeks! Quincy and Krew

Kenzie, Rylee and Krewzer

All that sun really wore Krew out! When we left at 7:30 he fell asleep in the car and didn't wake up until the next morning at 10:30! There can be miracles.

A day at the ZoO. . ..

2011-07-20T07:05:00.000-07:00

Before we Left Idaho we got the chance to visit the zoo with Dan, Tracy and their girls. It was lots of fun. Krew had never been there before. He liked all the animals and still babbles about the zoo. .. camel, goat, presley, monkey, ect ect. It was nice to spend some time with them before we left.

Krew has takin a big liking to Pres all the sudden. While we were at the zoo Presley had a hawian punch juice and Krew thought it was so cool. SO, I bought him some juices like that for our trip to Buffalo. He refers to them as a "Presley Juice" He still asks for them all the time.

The otters were pretty cool! . . ..

We also got to see a baby Zebra!

Trip to Oregon

2011-07-20T06:36:00.000-07:00

The first week of June we got to take a road trip to ORegon with my parents, Abi, and Mitch and Jack. We drove quite a bit. I was Nervous as to how Krew would hold up but with his buddies Mitch and Jack of course he had fun!

The boys also did alot of this:

Krew got his first experience in the ocean! At first he didn't know what to think of it. I'm glad he's cautious. Once he warmed up to it he LOVED IT! Now, whenever we see a big body of water Krew says ocean! ocean!

We got to meet Paul Bunion and his ox Babe!

If we went down to the beach at the right time of the day, while the tide was out, then we could see the coolest things and we got to collect lots of sea shells. These are one of the many starfish we saw.

Mitch and Jack loving their lives searching for creatures of the sea.

On another part of our trip we got to see the red woods! These trees are so breath taking! Abi couldn't believe how much it looked like the movie twilight. We had our eyes peeled for a member of the Cullen family the entire time.:)

Us on a little hike through the redwoods.

Sea Lion Caves

We got to stop at an aquarium. When we first walked in there was a display of fish swimming around. Krew started screaming at the top of his lungs its Nemo! its Nemo!

There was this cool tunnel that we could walk through that was glass and there was sharks swimming on top, to the sides, and below you. So cool.

We stopped and saw these BEAUTIFUL falls on the way home! What an awesome trip! Thanks mom and dad!

Megan & Josh's wedding

2011-07-20T06:17:00.001-07:00

My sister Megan got married back in May.
At Megan's bridal shower we played a fun game. We got into pairs and were givin toilet paper and a barbie and instructed to make a dress for her. This is the winning barbie- doesn't she look awesome. And no- it definately wasn't mine and Ashley's :)

Waiting for the couple to emerge from the temple. What good little buddies all dressed up.

Krew admiring Meg as she came out of the temple.

Megan's reception was in my parents backyard. Everyone was hoping the the weather would hold out which it did . . . for half of the reception. We ended up moving it inside halfway through which was a total fiasco. It was so pretty though. I wish I would have got more pics of the waterfall and pond and all the decorations which Megan took it upon herself to make! It really was so beautiful!

Megan and her bridesmaides. Have you ever seen a pregnant bridesmaid? Now you have.

Megan and Josh tried hiding both of their cars because they didnt't want and decorations on them for their honey moon. However, that just comes with getting married right? So of course Me, Doug, Ash, and Sam along with a few other adults who I'm sure would like to remain nameless- found Meg's car and got it all decorated up for the occasion. I took a pic. of the back of it for a reason. Doubt not that the side windows say some very embarasing things like he's getting lucky tonight and love is in the car :) All our work went down the garbage tho- literally! They wouldn't even drive off in it! They washed it off before they even drove it an inch. Pretty lame if you ask me. Oh well, At least Josh's brother got to his car and from what I hear his got it ALOT worse than hers. Hopefully they didnt wash that off so fast! To each his own. Congrats Josh and Meg.

Goodbye Idaho. . .

2011-07-04T23:35:00.000-07:00

Tom. morning we are going to start our quest east to New York! I haven't done a post in a while because I have simply been so busy. I still need to post pics of our trip to oregon, Meg's wedding, and our fun week spent with family but all that will have to wait another week until we arrive in Buffalo. We're planning on getting there on Sat. We're stopping for a day in Nauvoo which will give us a nice break I believe. I've been having some pretty serious contractions lately but I'm hoping that alot of that is due to the stress of packing and leaving. Hopefully I can make it clear to Buffalo before this baby decides to come. I really think that once we say goodbye and get on the road and my emotions calm down that hopefully my contractions will as well. What a stressful couple weeks we've had! Not to mention the tears. . . I'm not going to say much about that because we still have a few goodbye's to say and I already feel like the tear supply is dry. All I have to say is Buffalo New York is going to have to be a pretty special place if the Lord wants to send us there for 4 years. No family and no friends there. ..yet. I hope that I have as many great friends waiting for me to find them in Buffalo as I have found here. So long Idaho . . . My next post will be from New York!

Megan's give away

2011-06-29T15:30:00.000-07:00

My sister Megan is starting a craft blog. She posts lots of crafts that she does and she's doing a give-away. All you have to do is email her and tell her which one of the crafts she has made that you would like to recieve if you win. Real simple. Her blog is megscraftcreations.blogspot.com

I LOVE you daddy!

2011-06-20T09:40:00.000-07:00

Daddy, your my best friend. I'll love you forever. These are some of the reasons why:

I love it when you take time and read to me every night.

When I wake up in the morning and you have already left for school or work I run to the door screaming NO! DADDY! BYE BYE! . .. This is how sad it makes me.

I've always known that your on my side. . . thanks for understanding my attachment to these lovely "minks" I'm so glad that you give me one EVERY TIME I WANT ONE! What would I do without you?

When you take me to the park to play, I have so much fun. .. I will always remember the fun times we have together here daddy.

I like it when you let me help you wash your tools in my "semi boots". . .

. . . and play with them, I want to be just like you daddy!

We have the same favorite food: pop. I'm glad we understand eachother when it comes to this. . . otherwise mom would never let me have this wonderful drink that puts me in such a good mood.

One of my favorite things to do with you is ride our bike to Arctic Circle while momma is cutting hair and get an ice cream :)

And, even tho mom isn't ok with it, I like it when you bring your bike inside the house to work on it during the winter when its to cold outside.

I love to ride on it with you to.

I LOVE it when you let me drive and honk the hone!

I especially like it when you cuddle me to sleep. Lately this has been every night and nap times on Sun. also. Doug hun, you are the best daddy that Krewzer could ask for. We both love you so much.

MoNsTeR tRuCk ShOw!

2011-04-18T10:57:00.000-07:00

We went with my family to watch the monster truck show at the Holt Arena last weekend. It was really fun. Krew is really into trucks so he was mezmorized the entire night!

Doug took Mitch down to the pits before it started and they got to ride in this truck called "sargeant smash!" You can't see where they are in this pic really but they r in there! Right by the window a couple seats back!

The amazing backflip!

The show lasted for 4 hours! I couldn't believe it! However, I was even more suprised that Krew sat still for the ENTIRE THING! I thought for sure we would be chasing him around but he loved watching the trucks so much he just sat on Aunt Abi's lap.

"The Boys" (Mitch Jack and Krew) couldn't believe how big the tires were.

Oh I had to throw in this awesome hair cut that I spotted there. I kinda felt like I was at the eastern Idaho state fair.

We went to the falls the other day and fed the ducks and saw the falls. Krew had a fun time.

Bye bye James!

2011-04-18T10:42:00.000-07:00

Doug's brother James headed out to Indiana after school got out to go sell pest control and will be gone all summer. He might come see us in Buffalo after he gets done and right before I pop :) We are really going to miss him.

Dougs parents took us out to eat at our fav. restuarant Texas Rhoadhouse. We went with James and Allen and while we were there we realized that all of us there would be gone in the fall. Doug's mom god pretty sad. We sure will miss being with our family.

Graduation cont. .

2011-04-18T10:38:00.000-07:00

O I forgot to post this pic. of these beautiful flowers that Doug bought for me on his graduation day with a note that said thanks for puttin me thru the last four years babe. I thought that was so nice that I started crying! This is the second time that Doug has ever givin me flowers. (the first was the day I had Krew) I just love when he does things like this on special occasions. Makes my day! Thanks hun

The Graduate!

2011-04-18T10:27:00.001-07:00

Finals week finally ended and then. . . DOUG GRADUATED! I'm so proud of him for sticking it out and graduating! I love you so much Doug, your a great person, and example of hard work and dedication! What a great achievment!

I can't believe how big I'm getting until I see a pic. of myself. Holy cow! Literally COW! That girl looks like she needs to hit the treadmill!

Doug with Mr. and Mrs. Messick :)

Doug and Nick . . . Friends from elementary school on.

Finals week. . .

2011-04-18T09:59:00.000-07:00

Finals week is bittersweet for me. It means the end is near but a whole week of HELL is coming up! This semester has definatly had its challenges for us and I was so ready for Doug to be home for a couple weeks! But I didn't want this week to drag so I planned something for me and Krew to do every night while Doug was gone. (Doug didn't get home until 11:00Pm or later every night- Of course it doesn't help that we live 30 min. from the school so he burns 1 hour driving everyday! I can't wait until we're in Buffalo- Our house is just a few min. from the school! Maybe Doug could even come home for lunch?!?!) Anyway some of the fun things me and Krew did during finals week include: Going to Aunt Ash and Uncle Sam's farm and seeing all the cows! We also had dinner with Ash's sister and brother in law Josh and Kiri which was really fun. They are so nice. Krew LOVED seeing all the baby and momma tow's! I sadly didn't get any pics but I'm sure we'll being doing it again this summer. Our week also included alot of playing outside (Krew is such an outside boy!)

One night I wanted to make some Easter no bake cookies. Of course Krew was up for it he LOVES to "help" me cook. Notice his long lost sock. I do take care of this boy I promise. He doesn't always look like such a rag-muffin. For some reason that darn left sock never stays on tho.

The finished product. I stole this idea from my friend Missy's blog. I thought they were so cute and seasonal :) Thanks for the idea Miss.

We went shopping at Smiths which is Krew's fav. because they have kid carts for him to push. This is usually an out of control shopping experience.

I also got to babysit Camille's kids: Quincy, Katelynn and Elsie one night. She brought over Tangled for the kids to watch which was so fun! I made the older kids popcorn while they watched the movie. . . As you can see Krew was more excited about the popcorn than the movie lol. It was really fun to have them over!

Our week also included a lot of goffing off. I just love this little boy and I'm so glad I have him to keep me company while Doug is at school.

Some Catchin up!

2011-04-18T09:26:00.001-07:00

I'm SO BEHIND on posting so here is an all enclusive!
Back at the beginning of March I started to feel slightly better after 2 1/2 months of being sicker than a dog. I told Doug that I really wanted to get out of town and kind of "leave my sickness behind me." He suggested that we go to Boise and watch the state basketball games. So, I took out my pump, grabed all my meds and away we went for a nice weekend away. And believe you me, it was SO NICE to get away. I wasn't terribly sick without my pump which was a blessing from God. In fact I decided not to put it in again! Right now I'm feeling so much better. We have a DVD player in our car which made the ride so much better for Krew. Doug got a pop so naturally Krew had to have one to. Not only did Doug get him a small pop but he definatly got him a "BIG GULP" I just had to laugh when he brought it out of the convienant store. Krew sat in the back and drank half of it and watched his fav. show Nemo. He then produced about a 10 lb. diaper. Never felt a wetter diaper in my entire career as a mom. Thanks dad. You made Krew's trip.

Playing in the pool at the hotel. Our hotel was right across the parking lot from the Idaho Center which worked out perfectly for us. We could just walk back and forth when Krew got tired of watching B-ball and go swim. On sun. morn. we spent 3 hours in the pool! Needless to say that Krew was completely a prune by the time he finally got out. He likes swimming so much these days.

Finally I'm blogging some pics from Krew's 2nd birthday party! He is always so excited to have visitors! Thanks to everyone who came you made his day!

Fav. Uncle Allen. Al is so nice to always take krew to play outside and spend time with him. We love you Al and we r really going to miss you! (especially Krew!)

Missy and Coby came up to Idaho a couple weeks ago and it was fun to visit while I did her hair. She brought Jacoby over to play with Krew and I was really suprised at how good they played together givin Krews sharing abilities :) I really miss Missy! Sometimes I really think twice about going to Buffalo because Missy's husband is going to Med school in AZ and Doug got into the same school for dental. We would have so much fun if we went there!

Fast hug! Even tho this pic. is blurry I had to post it because its so cute.

We also got to go to Pres's Birthday party at the Blackfoot pool. Krew LOVED the slide there! I thought this was a cute pic I snapped of the two of them.

My Cousin Tiff made it through Idaho Falls the other day and she stopped by. I was really glad she stopped because I hadn't seen her little boy Grant Benjamin yet. He's seriously the CUTEST little boy! Holding him made me really excited to have a baby. I forget how easy babies are at first :) SO fun to hold and cuddle! Sadly this is the best pic we got. Krew was being quite a character. He wanted to go outside if you can imagine that.

Its a BOY!

2011-04-18T09:20:00.000-07:00

I don't think I ever blogged that we're having ANOTHER boy! We found out a couple weeks ago and I just haven't had time to post pics from the ultrasound. So, after I get all caught up I'll figure out how to post em. We'er really excited to have another boy. It will be really fun to have two little boys I think. Hopefully they will be great buddies. Doug's mom had 7 boys and no girls so they keep teasing me that I'm going to carry on the tradition and have all boys ah! Who knows maybe that will be the case but I can't complain because c'mon who doesn't love little boys? If this next one is at all like Krew he will certainly work his way right into everyone's heart! :)

Krew is Two!

2011-03-14T20:59:00.000-07:00

I can't believe that my baby is two! Those two years flew by way to fast! We threw a small little party for Krew but he loved it. Its so nice to have a few new toys to play with. Its hard to believe that this is probably Krew's last birthday here in good ol' Idaho. I sure am going to miss being here and having family around to celebrate these times with us. I'm so glad that we were blessed with Krew as a son. He is such a sweet little boy. Learning and growing every day! He can't wait to be a big brother and is SO aware of mommy's baby in her tummy :) Sometimes I feel like I will never love anyone as much as I love Krew. He has been my baby for so long. I'm sure when my precious little bundle gets here my heart will change but for now, Krew has my heart. . . I love you Krewzer, you are my best boy and I'm so blessed to be your mommy. Thanks for the last two funnest years ever!

I need to document that I'm still Krew's favorite girl to kiss :)

My latest project. . .

2011-02-23T13:35:00.000-08:00

My latest and greatest project that I've been working on lately has left me totally drained, sicker than a dog, and a little fat... you guessed it- we are adding another member to our family! These past few months have really been a trip for me and I want to write it all down since this is what I consider my journal. So for those of you who don't want to, you don't have to read all this! I was hoping that this pregnancy would be a little easier than my last being that I got so sick when I was prego with Krew. But all my hoping was to no avail. I've been in and out of the hospital, on home IV's and I'm currently hooked up to a small pump that stylishly hangs from my belt. After all this I'm happy to say that I am at the almost self sufficient stage. I haven't been able to cook yet. (we've been relying on my mother in law's cooking, Dougs cooking when he can, and frozen meals:) delicious!) But other than that I'm back to work, I can brush my teeth without dry heaving if I'm carefull, I can walk, go out in public if I dare, and take care of Krew. I'm so greatful for my mom, sisters and Mother in Law who helped my family through these past weeks of absolute Hell. The first 3 months of pregnancy has been one of the hardest trials that I've ever had to go through. That may sound silly to some people but being pregnant and learning to rely on others for the simplest of things is my giant. I have a hard time accepting help for some reason but I'm coming out of this with a greater resolve to help those who are in need more than I have been in the past. I'm also so greatful for modern medicine. Without medicine and a great Dr. I probably wouldn't be able to have kids because I would get to dehydrated and miscarry. As of today I'm 3 months along! WOoHOO! I'm feeling better than I have been and I hope that I feel completely better in the upcoming weeks! I'm sick of being sick. . . bring on the labor!

Born to be WILD

2011-02-16T13:53:00.000-08:00

Since Doug has been doing alot of this lately:
Me and Krew have had lots of time to spend together. He's getting to be such a character. Everytime amma and papa stop by he has them just in stitches laughing. He's been slightly difficult for me to get a handle on these past couple weeks. Here are a few of the funny things I've caught him doing lately or that he just likes to do: Mr. Sneaky likes to get the ice cream out of the fridge when I'm not looking.

His new fav. place to watch "toons" It gives me a heart attack everytime I catch him up there!

The weather has been so nice lately. On Sat. I bundled Krew up and let him play outside. He didn't want to come in all afternoon. He played outside for hours!

Krew watched Doug drill something the other day so of course he had to do it to. Under our supervision we let him try to drill on his rocking horse. He now always wants to play with the drill.

Gotta make sure its sturdy!

Another one of Krews' new favorite things to do is act like a "mer-man" in the tub. Check out those sweet cheeks!

How can I not just love this cute little face?

My mom gave me an early Mothers Day gift. We both love to cook from ourbestbites.com so she ordered us their cookbook! Its so nice to have some of the recipes we love in a book! I can't wait to use it when I start cooking again. . . more on that later. Thanks mom your the best!

Back in Jan. We hung out with some friends in our ward on New Years Eve. I brought a treat in my favorite polka dot bowl. I loved this bowl. On our way back in the house Doug was carrying Krew and my bowl and tripped. I ran back to were he tripped because I heard my bowl shatter and Krew start crying. When I saw what had happened I cried "my bowl!" (apparently I was more in love with the bowl than Krew :) I was madder than a hornet for days after because my favorite bowl was gone :( Well when our anniversary rolled around last week Doug TOTALLY REDEEMED HIMSELF!!! This is not the same bowl but I think I like it better. I just love polka dots and I love it even more because my sweet husband scouted it out for me. Thanks Doug! Your thebomb.com!

Christmas and an exciting announcement!

2011-01-12T15:02:00.001-08:00

I'm so glad we had a white Christmas this year! Krew is at the funnest age this year. He loves his Uncles Mitch and Jack.

Krew is a copycat. . .whenever I'm in the kitchen cooking he wants to be to. The outcome of this is that I never have a clean pot or pan to cook in because he is always playing with them on the floor. Solution: Krew needs a play kitchen . .. (a manly one) So me and Doug re-painted this kitchen for Krew is white and orange. Those are boyish enough right? My mom got this kitchen for christmas when she was a little girl. Then, she re painted it and gave it to me and my sisters when we were little, and now, Krew is playing with it.

Krew absolutly loves Lightning McQueen lately. He watches the show everyday. (I'm not proud of that but sometimes its the only thing that will occupy him while I'm working.) He was so excited when gama gave him the "cars" cars for christmas. He plays with them all the time and I am very much enjoying the extra time it gives me!

All in all we had a great christmas this year. I love giving gifts at Christmas. Its so fun trying to find a gift for someone that will make them happy. Krew was extra fun this year. He even got in on the giving part which I was glad about. On Doug's side of the family Krew drew his cousin Presley. This gave me a good excuse to work on krew's vocab :) I kept out a pic. of Pres and Paityn and kept saying their names and before I knew it Krew was babbling all about Presley. He came to the store with me and helped me pick out her gift and coudln't wait to give it to her when we got to ama and papa's house. :) It was so cute I WISH I would have gotten a pic. Krew is so sweet. It made my heart just smile inside to see how excited he was to give his gift this year.
Our little family has made it a tradition to go to temple square around Christmas time and look at all the lights. This year we went with my family and it was such a fun trip.
Here is a pic. of my little trooper bearing the freezing cold while we were outside walking around.

Inside the conference center they had a cute nativity out on the stage where the pulpit usually is. . we coulnd't get close but this is the best pic. I got.

The amazingly beautiful 40ft. tall tree in the conference center. . . some day I hope to have a tree this size in my home. . ya right keep dreaming.

Last, but certainly not least. . .MEGAN IS ENGAGED!! Josh and Meg will be tying the knot May 14th. We are so happy and excited for them! Can't wait to have another brother in law! Congrats to the happy couple!

Way cute hair bows!

2011-01-12T14:43:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone! Check out these super cute bows at the Shabby Shack blog! Amanda is selling them at really great prices! Practically a steal! There is also a give away going on right now!

hmm . ..

2010-12-22T21:57:00.000-08:00

So the link that I was trying to leave below for the tags didn't work for some reason. . . they're under the U-create blog that I have a link to on here. Just scroll through like 2 pages until you seen them. Looks like I'm a novice blogger also!

What we've been up to . . .

2010-12-22T20:51:00.000-08:00

Last year our Christmas spirit was so lacking that I vowed to make Christmas more present in our home this year. I've been busy doing so many Christmas projects. I'm so glad that these few things that I've made we will be able to re-use each year because I don't think I will have this much ambition again next year. :)I started with making our tree skirt. It took me alot longer to make than I expected. Pry because I'm a novice sewer. Don't look to close!

I wish I could say that I made this wreath but I didn't. My sister Megan was so nice to make this for me and the cute little decorative trees below. I have loved this wreath.

Aren't these little trees cute? She also made my mom some that are gold that turned out realy classy looking.

I also decided to make some stockings with the leftover fabric. This is Dougs and Krews.

Mine and a spare.

All 4. . . and no there is NO symbolism in the fact that I made 4 stockings as I have been asked one point five million times. I AM NOT pregnant. . .I just thought that 3 stockings would look silly hanging on 4 hooks. :)

Just a pic. of my favorite ornament on my tree. . . I'm really getting into birds lately.

Well crafting isn't all that I've been up to lately :) I have set aside time to eat and sleep ect. ok and spend a little time with my family. My nieces Ms. Mckenzie and Ms. Reilly came and stayed the night with me last weekend and we had such a blast. They both wanted to do my hair in the "salon room" so I definatly got pampered. We stayed up so late just laughing. We played the funnest game called Curses from Porters Its a blast! My mom just bought it for us to play on Christmas Eve and I can't wait!

Just a couple pics of my little man. His new favorite thing to do is feed his "baby" aka his little bear with a bottle. He is so sweet. Don't get me wrong he loves loves loves trucks and balls and boyish stuff but I just love that he has such a sweet, caring side to him!

Also, here is a link to some cute free printable Christmas tags. Merry Christmas!

Wonderful skin care!

2010-12-03T12:17:00.001-08:00

For the past few years I have been looking and looking and looking for some good face wash. I have been on proactiv for a really long time and everytime I would try something new I was ALWAYS breaking out. I've tried everything from just a plain bar of soap to Estee Lauder face wash which can get expensive. I had all but given up when one of my friends told me about the M2 face wash. I tried it out and I absolutly love it! I had no breakouts switching over. It is so gentle on on your skin it has made my skin feel great. The best part is. . . its budget friendly! It is only $25.00 for a 3 month supply. I also purchased this handheld microderm. I've never had a microderm before but I have a couple scars on my face that really bug me. Since I loved the face wash so much I decided I would try it out. It has made such a difference on my face. My face is so much smoother and I can see my scars fading. It is also saving me quite a bit of money. To get a professional microderm runs somewhere around $70.00 and this little machine that should last I dunno . . . forever . . . is $150.00 I'm so glad I found this skin care. Its made such a difference for me so I wanted to share it will all my friends. If anybody would like to try it out here is my friend Lindsay's email. lindsaytwiggy11@gmail.com - she is the one who sells it. Just thought I would share my great findings with ya'll!

GREAT NEWS!

2010-12-03T11:55:00.000-08:00

December 1st finally came! Our family has been waiting for this day for months. . . back in June Doug applied to 12 different dental schools. In the following months he flew all over the country interviewing but none of the schools can tell the applicants if they have been accepted or rejected until Dec. 1st. So, patiently we waited and waited. We have both been dying to know the outcome of Doug's little ventures. Well on Dec.1st this is what we found out: Doug got accepted to- Western University in Cali, and Buffalo University in New York! He is on the waiting list in Loiville, Ohio, Indiana, and Las Vegas and we are still waiting to hear back from Creighton and Midwestern in Arizona. We are so excited and relieved! I'm so proud of Doug and all the hard work he has put in the last four years. Its so great so see it paying off and I hope he knows how proud his family is of him. We love you DOUG! Tune in again soon for our final decision on where we'll be for the next 4 years!

Family pics.

2010-12-03T11:31:00.000-08:00

My mom recently got a new camera and she got all of us together to take pictures and I think they turned out really well . . .

Check out my beautiful mom! She is so pretty!

Tale of Two Brains

2010-11-16T20:57:00.000-08:00

If she doesn't scare you, no evil thing will. . .

2010-11-06T21:36:00.000-07:00

This year for Halloween Krew was a dalmation and me and Doug decided to dress up as well. I was Cruella and doug was a dog napper. Sadly, this was the best pic. we got.

My FaVoRiTe things about fall

2010-10-31T14:52:00.000-07:00

I just love the fall season . . .

One of my fav. things about living in Idaho is watching the leaves turn. Its so pretty. I never get sick of it.
Who doesn't love jumping into a big pile of leaves . . . that someone else has spent time raking up? :)

How about taking pictures in the leaves? We just had our Messick Family Pics taken and I think they turned out pretty good. This is a pic. of Krew and his closest cousin Elsie. They are 3 months apart and they are so cute together. (I'm a theif I stole this off your blog sorry Camille.)

Pumpkin pie shakes

Apple cider

The boys of fall :) We all love watching football. Ok maybe Doug and Krew like it a little more than me. I don't mind tho, it gives me time to get some things done. Whenever we turn it on Krew stops what he's doing and yells FOOTBALL and starts clapping. Its pretty cute. He also has a mini football that he likes to practice throwing. He actually has a pretty good arm that little lefty, although I don't know how excited I am about that because he likes to throw his ball at breakable objects and we have had a few casualties :) We've also been able to go watch Doug's brother Allen play this year for the Shelley Russets who just moved up to 4A division and their doing great. His team is in the state playoffs right now- more pics to come of that! Connor, one of the boys in my primary class invited us to watch one of his games which was also lots of fun. I just love this football season!

Last but certainly not least: THANKSGIVING!!

Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays, but as it has been approaching I can tell that it is going to hold even greater meaning to me this year. This past month there have been a couple tradegies that have come upon a couple of our friends. They have hit close enough to home to really make me have much more of an eternal perspective. Its sad that it takes a tragedy for people to sometimes stand back and really look at whats important in life but that is definatly what I have been doing. I feel so blessed to have Doug and Krew. They mean the world to me. I'm never again going to complain about having a hard day with Krew because there is people out there who would give anything to have one day with their child. I want to start focusing more on being a better wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt, and friend. I want to focus more on making sure that all my family and friends know how much I love and appreciate them. I want to make more time for reading my scriptures, and going to the temple. Those are the things that I should really add to my "to do" list and stress when they don't get done. I'm going to try not to get offended again because being offended is nothing but a waste of time. "Those who take offense when none is intended is a fool. Those who take offense when it is intended is also a fool" -President Monson. To all my friends and family: I LOVE YOU! and as of this past month have a greater resolve to let you know that, and I hope the feeling is mutual! When I look at my life with more of an eternal perspective these are the things that are most important to me.

My Boys

2010-10-13T22:37:00.000-07:00

Doug is such a great dad. He can't stand to listen to Krew cry himself to sleep. The other night he said that he was going to go into him room and read him one more story so he would stop crying and he was gone for a really long time. I went in to check on them and this is what I found:

Sweet huh?

Where we've been. . .

2010-10-13T22:07:00.001-07:00

Paradise . . .

This is the temple in Phoenix, Az. Doug got an interview here so we all flew down and spend a few days.

Does anyone know why this plant is growing leaves and feathers?

My Grandma was so nice to let us stay with her while we were in Pheonix. Krew had such a great time playing in her pool and playing with her dogs. He also had his first encounter with a prickly pear at her house. He only touched it once, and then walked far away from any cactus the rest of the trip. I was also able to visit One of my best friends Missy and her boy Jacoby. We had fun taking our kids swimming and then shopping. Ok maybe just swimming. :) Going shopping with Missy just isn't as much fun as it was in high school. One reasons for this: Krew FYI: I learned a fun little fact during my stay in Phoenix. . . did you know the plural word for cactus is cacti? pronounced (cact- eye). . . interesting.

Krew had such a fun time hanging out with grandma great!

Beauiful Missy. I wish we could have gotten a picture together :(

Jacoby is half fish. . . he wasn't even scared to jump in where he couldn't even touch! I was totally amazed!

Hello Mr. Handsome :) Your daddy must be a looker!

Krew and Coby . . . chillin on the beach rockin the water wings!

Labor Day

2010-10-13T21:58:00.001-07:00

This summer we decided that Krewzer is old enough to come ridin with us. We've taken him on a few rides and he LOVES it! He sits so perfectly in front of Doug, pointing at things and saying WOW! Sometimes when I ride up on the side of him I can hear him say Hi Mommy! Its especially funny when he tried to immitate us and tried to stand up! So we went riding on labor day and I finally remembered to take some pics! It was pretty cold So he was all bundled up but that didn't put a damper on his spirit!

Krew could have sat here forever I think just throwing rocks into the stream.

2010-09-11T20:55:00.000-07:00

Krew turned 18 months old on the 9th of this month! I can't believe my little baby is that old! Where does time go? I miss him being my baby so much. Wanted to document a few things about him. . .
Krew sleeps through the night about half of the time now... every time he gets up he just needs his binkey and then goes right back to sleep.
He DOES NOT like to sleep in bed with us. . . every time he's tired he grabs my finger and leads me to his crib, then reaches up so I can put him in it.
Krew's favorites at 18 months-
Grandma- he always wants to go places with my mom.
Mitch and Jack
"my-moo" and "abba"
any type of sugar: ice cream, suckers, smarties, cotton candy
Everytime we pull up to a gas station Krew says "pop"? he loves pop!
Cereal for breakfast
running errands with dad
riding on the front of Doug's dirt bike in the mountains
puppies
baths
the basement
toy cars, trucks and motorcycles
playing basketball
stud finder
feeding himself with "big person silverware and plates"
Things that Krew doesn't like at 18 months-
NURSERY!!!!
One other thing that Krew has loved this summer is playing in my parents pond, stream, and waterfall. These are a couple pics of that:

FrEaKy FaMiLy ReUnIoN. . .

2010-08-17T21:19:00.000-07:00

Don't we all look a little freaky? haha

We had a Family Reunion on my dads side of the family last weekend and it was a blast! Almost all of the grandkids made it so that was really fun to see everbody. We all live in different places and don't get to see eachother to often. We had fun (sometimes a little to much fun) playing some minute to win it games, eating some tasty food and catching up. At the end of the games everyone got prizes. . . Doug got a lovely pink see through bra, I got a pirate hat acccompanied by and eye patch and hook, and Krew recieved and orange wig. The prizes were halarius ranging from clown nose, crazy glasses and interesting underwear we all got a kick out of it. Days like these really make me wish that all my family lived closer together and we could see eachother more often!

This is my Uncle Scott, Aunt Jen and the rest of their crew: Cousins Beau, Taylor, Malorie, Burkley, Riley, Kristy and her Fiance Ron MIA: Tiffany her husband Josh and her little baby bunp :)

My Aunt Shelly and cousins Forrest and Casey.

Kinda looks like we're in Hawii in this pic. . . to bad we're not.

And finally . . . our family.

2010-08-08T20:56:00.000-07:00

I feel like the summer is coming to a close and I haven't had time to post anything about what we've been up to. Can't believe the summer is almost over! Well here is a little bit of what we've been doing:
One of Doug's good friends Benny is getting married soon and all his friends threw his a bachelor party and went ridin. I decided that all the wives should get together so everyone came over for dinner and then we had fun watching our kids play. All together there was 5 mommies and 6 kids at our house. There was lots of crying, nursing and laughing going on. Here is a pic of all the kids from left to right-
Maddex, Tory, Ellie, Krew, and Kia MIA: Ryann really wanted her mommy :)

We have discovered this summer that one of Krew FAVORITE treats ever is ice cream cones. Doug was delighted when we discovered that and now takes Krew out for and ice cream at least twice weekly. Krew has since gained 10 lbs. . . no I'm kidding but this boy definatly gets his share of sugar!

Krew don't like to share his treats :)

We've also been boating quite a bit this summer. Its fun to be with fam. have lots of fun and of course eat some tasty food!

Doug on the sky ski. . . as of now him and my dad are the only people who can ride this thing. . . woohoo go Doug!

By the end of the day me and my Krew were BUSHED!

Viva Las Vegas

2010-08-08T20:29:00.000-07:00

Me and Doug took a little trip to the fabulous Las Vegas a couple weeks ago so that Doug could check out a dental school and I decided to tag along. Neither of us had been there and it was amazing. I've never seen so many sparkling lights, amazing hotels, or drunk people ever.:) It was so nice to get away just the two of us.

This was our hotel it was off the strip a little ways so we definatly got our exercise in walking a bit.

In front of the Bellagio Hotel there is a BEAUTIFUL fountain that goes off every night it was awesome!

Us at a cute little river. . . nearing the end of our wonderful trip.

When all was said and done Vegas was fun but there just wasn't a whole lot for us to do :) We don't party and by the end all I wanted was to come home and see my baby. It was SO nice to get away together and it was much needed but when it comes down to it I would trade living in good ol' Idaho Falls with my family.

To bone and back!

2010-07-09T23:03:00.001-07:00

Me and a bunch of my friends at work ran the "To bone and back" race a couple of weeks ago. It was so much fun to train and really work for something! It made running so much more enjoyable. For anybody who hasn't heard of this race its a 40 mile race, each team has 8 people or less and each person has to run at least 5 miles. We had 7 on our team including: Me, Annie Cooper, Tiffy Sargent, Emily Sargent, Melanie Furniss, Lyndsay Nulph and filling in at the last min. Kim Ence. We all ran five miles except for Melanie who ran ten. Our Boss Sherry, her husband Bruce and daughter carly came and drove our support vehicle and cheered us on. Sara Sanders came and rode with us to thanks Sara! Sherry chased us around with the water sprayer all day and boy was I glad because I ran my leg right in the heat of they day. Here's some pics:

This pic. was right before I ran . . . so nervous!

When we crossed the finish line we were so suprised to learn that we took 3rd! Out of 13 teams! We were not expecting to place at all we were just excited to do it so it was really exciting that we all did so well. I even got a medal out of it :) I had so much fun! Thanks to everyone who cheered us on and helped us out!

Catchin up!

2010-07-09T22:31:00.000-07:00

Ok so I'm really sorry about this huge long post but I've been so behind lately. . . You don't have to read it. . . really!
On the Fourth this year me and Doug decided to the the "firecracker fun run" before the parade. It was a 5k along some of the parade route. We had fun doing it. My parents offered to watch Krew that morning and needless to say he was quite spoiled this morning. :)

Krew and grandpa. . ..

This was Mitch and Jack's fav. part of the parade :) MONSTER TRUCK!!! Hope everyone had a good 4th!

My B-day was the other day and I had the best birthday I've ever had! Seriously! My parents must have thought that I've been quite cranky lately or something so they gave me a gift certificate so that I could go get a massage which was DIVINE! My sister megan came in and worked for me all day. . . happy birthday to me. My sister Abi watched Krew for me all day . . . happy birthday to me!!!! This really meant alot to me I guess because I don't ever really have "me" time. Here are some pics I got of Meg Abi and Krew that day.

Me and my mom also took Krewa and Mitch and Jack to the zoo! I had to include this pic. This monkey was Krews fav. animal at the zoo! It came and sat righ in front of Krew and just stared at him. It was so cute! To bad I didn't get a pic.! . . .At the end of my most amazing wonderful day I was telling Doug all about it and got a little choked up because even tho I absolutely loved all my gifts, it meant so much to me to get such a genuine wonderful gift from my sisters. I love them so much and I'm going to miss them when we move away one day. I know that no matter how many "things" anyone has in life real joy comes from your family. Thanks so much Meg and Abi, I love you guys!

I also missed fathers day. Happy Fathers Day to all the dads in my life! This is Doug on the bike I gave him for fathers day. . . ok not really. He wishes. Its my dads bike and Doug drives it home for lunch almost every day and loves every min. of it!

This pic. is on of my fav's! Its the first time that doug held Krew. Krew's pretty fresh in this pic. but it just warms my heart to watch Doug with Krew he is such a good dad and I'm so so so glad that he is setting such a good example to Krew in every aspect of his life.

Bathroom re-do

2010-07-09T22:15:00.001-07:00

I've been re-doing this bathroom for quite some time and I finally decided that I just need to git er done! I didn't have any before pics. but here are some afters: . . . I started with my shower curtain. Plain and boring brown. I got the idea from one of the craft blogs I was looking at one day, can't remember which one, but all I did was just sew on a strip of fabric and wa la. Drab to Fab.

I snagged this old shelf at a garage sale for .25 painted it up, made a string of pearls, found an old perfume bottle from hollister that I had and of course had to add some smell goods since its the bathroom. Notice how I wrapped some scrap fabric that I had left over from the shower curtain around the glass? I thought that tied it in pretty good. I had two pretty frames left over from our reception that I love but didn't really know what to do with so I used one here and antiqued a pic. of me and doug.

I made a couple more strands of pearls to put on the hand towels (which I thought would also be a cute idea for napkin rings), used an old frame from our wedding which had some pearls on it and antiqued a bum shot of Krew :)

All in all I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out . . . even tho Doug complains about the "girly-ness" of this room. I'm working on a couple projects right now so more projects coming soon . . . ok maybe not so soon.

15 months!

2010-06-13T14:59:00.000-07:00

My "baby" is 15 months this month :( He is growing up so fast! When I look at these pics it makes me a little sad because he is a little boy now! . . .but, he will always be my baby lol. He is saying new words everyday but right now his vocabulary includes: momma, hey dad, hi, that hot?, abba (abi), and no. He can say a few other ones but I really can't count them yet. He is running all over the place (usually away from me) he loves unloading all my cabinets and he is enfatuated with the sprinkler and the toilet. I also have some really good news a couple times lately if I put Krew on the toilet right when he wakes up he goes potty on the toilet! He loves watching the toilet flush! I'm sure it will be a while before he is potty trained but I'm really glad that he is already excited about it! Oh and I'm pretty sure that Krew is going to be a lefty! He colors with his left hand and eats with it also! Even if I put his spoon in his right hand he changes it to his left to eat. I'm pretty excited about that because so far I'm the only lefty in my entire family so I think its pretty cool that Krew is joining the severely left handed club :) I've heard that you can't tell for sure until they are two so we'll see if anything changes. We were out at my parents the other night after it rained and Krew LOVED playing in the puddles! At first I was trying to keep him out of the water but I finally gave up and decided it would be ok if he looked like a little rag muffin. My mom took these pics. aren't they good? I'm so glad that we live so close to my family right now. Its been so fun spending time with them and I love that they help me with Krew so much. He loves his grandma, grandpa, aunts and uncles!

Summer time? fuR real???

2010-05-19T22:07:00.000-07:00

Oh man I LOVED the nice weather we had this weekend! We just wanted to spend all day outside! Krew loved it to . . . he is such an outside boy! I turned on the sprinkler and let him play in it. He just kept tryin to drink it haha! The later we went for a bike ride and had a bbq at the park. I hope this weather lasts! I'm sure ready for summer!

All that playin in the sun wears a little guy out! Gotta love the going to bed at 7 part! Wahoo!!

I also wanted to post this cute pic. of Doug bein such a good daddy :) Since he's not in school right now he gets to watch Krew while I work on Mon. and Wed. nights. They sorta have a new tradition . . .(I think thats its just because doug doesn't want to make dinner) Doug takes Krew to Mcdonalds every mon. night. Krew loves playing on the toys and of course eating the exceedingly unhealthy food :) I love watching Doug with Krew. He is so cute with him. Oh, and I hope everyone had an awesome mothers day! I sure did! I'm so lucky to be a mom. I love my little man! I have so many amazin moms in my life that set such great examples for me! I love my moms!

Look what the stork brought!

2010-05-13T20:16:00.000-07:00

We have been patiently awaiting the birth of two little babies and me and Doug woke up this morning and we both had texts on our phones . . . They were born the same night! How exciting! There is nothin like having a new baby! Its such a special experience and it was so so so fun to go hold these two little cuties tonight! I love BABIES!! This first one is my new niece Josie. . . or maybe Payton? The name has not been decided yet. But I do know one thing; this lil girl has the CUTEST attire on earth! She is adorable! I can't wait to have a girl! Congrats Dan, Tracie and Presley!

This is baby Maddex his mommy and daddy are our friends Kevin and Sara Sanders. He is so cute :)He is the exact same size as Krew when he was born! I think that he looks just like his daddy! Congrats Kev and Sara we are so happy for you!!

Welcome Home James!

2010-04-28T21:50:00.001-07:00

Dougs brother James got home from his mission tonight. Terrie was elated to say the least. As soon as she saw him walking down the stairs the tears started crying and she started jumping up and down :). It was so cute. . . I can't imagine leaving Krew for two years. Anyway, this was James first time meeting Krew. We have been trying to teach Krew how to say James for weeks now. . . to no avail. It was so excited to see James tonight! We love him and missed him so much! I remember we used to joke about us having a baby when he got home from his miss. and we have a toddler! YIKES! We're so excited to see how James's life unfolds. We are so proud of him for making the right decision to go on a mission and becoming such a good missinary. I know that is the best way to start his adult life out and I can't wait to see when life takes this boy! We love you James!

MOAB

2010-04-28T21:30:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago we went with my parents to Moab Ut. for a week to go ridin. It was so nice to get away for a while. My inlaws took Krew which I am so greatful for! I didn't worry about him the entire time. Moab is such a beautiful place. I could live there. I love riding there because its pretty tough but its such a good work out and I like the challenge. Afer our first ride Doug informed me that he didn't know if he could ride the rest of the time because he was exhausted from taking his bike up some tough places and then getting mine though it to. haha we toughed it out tho. We ended up having a really good time. The temp. was in the 80's the entire time! Perfect!I love seeing my husband in his riding gear :) its hot! I love the red dirt and the slick rock. I was to scared to pack my camera along with me being that I wreck frequently so these a few pics that we took from a phone.
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Hottie :)

My mom and dad our guides.

All of us taking a break in a sweet cave we rode into.

Showin me the love. . .

2010-04-28T21:27:00.000-07:00

My husband loves me. . . This is what Doug got me for my birthday, mothers day, christmas and every holiday for the rest of the year :)Thanks Doug! Your the bomb.com :)

Like father like son . . .

2010-04-06T20:37:00.000-07:00

I have been working on a baby scrap book for Doug and I came across a pic. of him that reminded me alot of a pic. of Krew on a pg. I did for him. I compared them and holy crap they look alike!

One year pics.

2010-03-29T19:56:00.001-07:00

Since it was semi-nice on Sun. me and my mom decided we should take Krew outside and take his one year pictures. We also tried to get some family shots. Its was a little chilly but he was a trooper!

GiRlS NiGhT

2010-03-29T19:30:00.001-07:00

This friday Doug was up at school way late so I had my friend Megan come over. Meg is quite the character:) She had me laughing all night. From the second she got in the car she had an agenda. She wanted to go get ice cream, do our nails, do our hair, and then try on all of my high heels. I asked her where she wanted to get ice cream and she said "I can't remember what its called but I'll tell you how to get there." No doubt about it this girl knows her way around Idaho Falls! She directed me right to cold stone. Then we came back home I did her nails and she did my hair (to save some pride I opted not to post a picture of that) and then she tried all my heels on. Each time she tried a new pair on she had to walk on the hard floor to hear the heels clip clop. :) haha.

I love all of her different faces and poses which she came up with all on her own I might add.

We had tonz of fun!
O I also found a blog that I really really like. . . it has some super cute ideas for little girls hair. Thought I would share it: www.cutegirlshairstyles.blogspot.com hopefully one day I have a daughter to try these on. . .now watch me have all boys! AHH!!

Birthday PaRtY

2010-03-09T17:51:00.001-08:00

Today is Krews birthday! We had a little party for him on Sun. Nothing big just let him attack some dirt cake which my mom provided and opened some presents. (Even tho I old everyone that this was a no present party the grandparents couldn't resist) Here is some pics I took!

This is Krews closest cousin Elsie. Don't they look alike?

Thank you so much for everyone who came to celebrate with us. Also, thanks so much for the nice gifts that Krew recieved. Its so fun for him to play with some new toys and I enjoy it also it gives me a little break from trying to entertain him.