Moved!!

Sorry for my lack of posting lately, the main reason for that is because we moved!! Last Saturday was the big day and so I have been busy packing and getting everything ready to move, moving and now am slowly unpacking and trying to put everything in place of where I want it to be. We are in the middle of doing some work on the house and are still not quite finished but the main things are done and the house is livable so we moved in and hopefully the rest of the work will be finished soon.

The house

The kitchen before

The kitchen after

This is the only room that is completely finished right now (besides painting) and as more rooms get completed, I will post pictures of them too. We love our new house and all the room we now have!!

Easter!!!

We had a very fun, busy Easter weekend! This year Nena was old enough to understand the concept of finding eggs. Or maybe she just knew they were all filled with candy and that's why she wanted them! On Saturday morning we had a big Easter breakfast with the LeSueur's. It was a yummy breakfast and was the first of three egg hunts! That afternoon, we went out to Queen Creek for our niece's baptism and right after that we had an Easter lunch and egg hunt with Clar's family and just hung out at a park for a while. It was cold and windy but it was fun to be able to sit and relax, or just chase Nena around the park. On Sunday we went to church and then went to Clar's parent's house to eat dinner and then went to my Grandma Riding's house for another dinner and egg hunt with the Riding's. It was a lot of fun!!Nena and Daddy at the park
Finding eggs on the playground

More eggs

Finding eggs at my Grandma Riding's house

Nena didn't want to put the eggs in the bag, she would get a big handful and then take off running away from me. She also kept opening the eggs and eating the candy right in the middle of the egg hunt.Swinging with Aunt AngelaWhat a cutie! This is her Easter dress.

Shoes, Hats, Cameras and Phones

These are some of Nena's favorite things. She always gets her shoes from her room and wants me to put them on her and she loves to bring my shoes and try to put them on me and says "side" to go outside. It's cute it reminds me of a dog when they want to go on a walk or something. She loves to put mine and Clar's shoes on and walk around the house in them. Clar has so many hats and Nena loves to put them on and wear them around the house but it seems like whenever I pull my camera out to take a picture, she immediately takes the hat off and won't put it back on. She is always getting into my purse and getting my camera out so I always have to put it up high so she can't get to it and then whenever I go places I forget to grab it so I can never take pictures when I go anywhere. We have a play camera for her that she loves to play with, she will hold it up by her face and point it at someone and say "cheese" and pretend to take a picture! Of course Nena loves phones, what little girl doesn't? She will put one of her play phones up next to her ear and just talk and talk and talk. Sometimes she will have one on each ear!! It's so much fun to see her learning and understanding more and becoming more and more of a little person instead of just a baby!!

Big Jake

A little while ago, we got Nena a puppy!! Clar named him Big Jake after the John Wayne movie. Right now though he is more "Little Jake" until he grows. We wanted an easy name that Nena could say and she says Jake so cute! We are keeping him at my parent's house for a little while until we move into our house. My parents have a dog named Lucy and her and Jake just play and play all the time. Hopefully he's not too lonely when we take him away to a different backyard all by himself. My parents live just a few miles down the road from us and so it is easy to go there often so Nena can play with her puppy. She is so cute, she pats her knees to try to get Jake to come to her and he chases her around the backyard. She loves him so much!!

SURPRISE!!!

Well, we went to the doctor today and our little girl is definitely not a little girl like we were originally thinking.

IT'S A BOY!!

So for four weeks we thought our little boy was a little girl and we were wrong. At our last doctor's appointment the baby wasn't moving around a whole lot and the doctor said that he couldn't see any sign that the baby was a boy so he just assumed it was a girl and said he was going to write down that it was a girl ? so that he would be sure to check next time. Good thing he checked because he found the boy parts this time. It was kind of a shock because I had gotten so used to the idea of having another little girl but now will have to get used to the idea of having a boy!! We are so excited and can't wait!!

Behind

Sorry I am way behind on Blogging. It always seems like I finally get caught up and then all of the sudden I am behind again.

On Thursday the 22nd my dear sweet Grandpa Riding passed away. He would have been 82 next month and him and my Grandma just celebrated their 57th wedding anniversiary in December. They have 8 kids, 50 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren. Back in November he fell and broke his leg and his health has pretty much been downhill since then. He was in the hospital and then in a care center and then after he begged and begged for them to let him go home, my family finally brought him home in hopes that being home would help him to get better because he hated being in the care center. It was hard to watch him get worse and worse knowing that there was nothing we could do to make him get better and I was pretty much just waiting for the call from my dad. I knew it was coming but when it happened I still couldn't believe it. It is times like these that I am so thankful for the gospel and for forever families. I am filled with mixed emotions but I know he's in a better place and I know that he is with his parents who both passed away when he was a kid. He lived a good life, was loved by many and has left behind a great legacy. I will miss him a lot and I can't wait until the day when I can see him again!

He was in the navy so they had a little ceremony

giving the flag to my grandma


my immediate family behind the casket

our family

The last picture we took with Grandpa Riding

Last weekend we went up to Heber with the youth in our ward to play in the snow. It was a lot of fun we went to a place that has a lot of slopes to sled down and some of us ended up playing a game of whiffle ball.

Nena and daddy
Nena was wearing a snow suit but she didn't like it at all because it was too small and she couldn't move so we put some jeans on her but she kept sitting in the snow so her bottom was soaking wet and very cold so we had to change her clothes.

Nena loved the snow, she kept picking it up and eating it! It was a fun trip!!

Last week Nena climbed out of her crib all by herself and got on top of her changing table that is right next to her crib and opened her bedroom door. We have been talking about getting her a toddler bed but we were planning on doing that in a few months when we move but because she can now climb out of her crib all by herself, we decided that we should probably not wait on the toddler bed and get one now because we don't want her to fall out of her crib. This is her new bed, she loves it!!

She has been sleeping in it for almost a week now and she has done so good! I was so worried that she would never go to sleep and that it would be so much work to get her to go to sleep but it has not been hard at all. She pretty much lets me know when she is ready for bed by taking me into her room and laying down on her bed and pointing to where we keep her pacifier so I give her her pacifier and put her to bed and she goes to sleep. My baby is growing up way too fast it's a good thing we're going to have another one soon!!

IT'S A...........

GIRL!!!

The baby was moving around all over the place but would not really open it's legs at all. The doctor said he couldn't really see any sign that the baby is a boy so it is probably a girl and so he said he would just write down girl ? and that we'd look again next time to make sure. So we are probably going to be having another little girl!! I am so excited to have two girls close in age and whenever I see pictures of Nena as a little baby I get so excited that we are having another little girl so she can wear all of Nena's cute clothes again because Nena definately didn't get to wear any of them long enough!!!