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a Surprise and a first.

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Jon is sneeky. He decided to surprise me for my birthday weekend. I was SOOO surprised! Friday morning at 6:30ish AM I went to check (I had to pee and thought since I was up I may as well get stuff started.) on Regan and get his morning formula ready so I could just hand it to him in bed when he came to get me in and hour or so. Well I was SO scared when I saw a man shadow waving at me from Kaylee’s bed! It took me a moment to realize it was Jon and he was in Kaylee’s bed with Regan (Kaylee climbed in bed with me at about 5:30 AM). I took out my ear plugs and he said, “Surprise!”

It was great (once the shock/fear was gone). That night we had some friends over for dinner and games. Then Saturday morning headed down to St. George to watch conference with my family.

Usually we watch conference, celebrate my birthday, and get new family photos taken. Well since I had no idea that Jon was going to surprise me I told my Mom that I wanted to wait until Jack’ee’s visit to have a party. So poor Kaylee has to wait a few more days until she can blow out my candles.

 Still it was AWESOME being a family again. (Even if it was for just a weekend.) Best birthday gift EVER!

Between sessions of conference we went and got some pictures at the temple. There are several I love and am having a hard time deciding which one to use for our Christmas postcard.

This morning (my actual b-day) I got to take Kaylee to her first ultrasound. Kaylee has had too many UTI’s and so we need to find out why she keeps getting them. She NEVER has bubble bathes, she no longer wipes herself (bums me out, but UTI’s bum us all out so we wipe her…), and she drinks straight cranberry juice (she LOVES it and calls it her “special juice”) daily. So she REALLY should NOT be having UTI’s at all.

I was SO proud of how awesome she did. She was SOOOO scared and told me so, lots. She also said she was going to cry (a little boy was bawling right before her name was called). I’ve been explaining what was going to happen for a few days to prep her. So we went prepared. She got to take her Lamby AND her Barry blanket.

The Tech we had was SO sweet. She showed Kaylee what she was going to do first on my hand then on Kaylee’s and let me lay on the table with Kaylee. Kaylee even requested that Nancy find her gum she had JUST swallowed. So Nancy did (not sure if the white blob really was gum or not, but super nice of Nancy to humor Kaylee).  And Kaylee thought it was SUPER cool being able to see her insides on the “t.v.”

Kaylee was just chatting and giggling the whole time. Telling me and Nancy stories and how excited she was about getting chocolate ice cream. She and Nancy had a long discussion about which was better, chocolate ice cream with or without nuts.

Thanks Nancy for being the BEST tech EVER!

After we were finished I took Kaylee to a local soda fountain (super cute old school fun) for a chocolate ice cream cone. She thought it was the BEST.DAY.EVER!

Let’s face it she got to see gum she swallowed, plus eat a HUGE chocolate ice cream all without Regan there. It was a pretty cool day for little miss. We find out the results in a few days. 

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Happy 29th Jon

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(Later that night: Eating leftover Father’s Day ice cream cake and lounging on the “new” loveseat.)

After a crazy long work week Jon drove down to St. George with his Dad to pick the children and I up from my parents house (visiting/helping out for several days), and also pick up our new to us couches.

Not the most fun way to spend his birthday. Forking over a chunk of change and then having to do all the work getting them home.

But my Mom did insist on having a mini super fast “party” for her favorite child. She had my Dad and I throw a birthday meal together, then she and Dad ran out to get Jon a birthday pie (Croshaw’s Apple). She couldn’t not celebrate (he’s really really the favorite). She even got him a balloon (mostly for the children). We ate, sang, Jon and the children blew out candles, then we left to get the couches.

Although it was a ton of work (took a couple hours to clean it up nice AFTER getting them home) Jon was very happy to be able to sit on something that wasn’t literally falling apart on his birthday.

So HAPPY HAPPY BIRHTDAY JON!!!! We LOVE you more than we can say.

MUAH!

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She’s 3 and a Kayleeism

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We had her PARTY on Saturday. Despite some hiccups it turned out great. I’ll post all about it later. I have LOTS of pictures to sift through.

It’s crazy to think my little baby is 3! That she went from this:

To this!

She is SUCH a great child. She is so different than I could have EVER imagined my little girl being. And you know, she is SO much more fun than I could have ever imagined because she is so different.

She LOVES:
anything ORANGE, dinosaurs (triceratops is her favorite), princess movies & stuff, nail polish, lip gloss, soccer, books, coloring, singing, dancing, going on walks, going anywhere, guitar hero, monkey ball, piano, motorcycles, and parenting herself (& others). ie:

I look over and see her lifting up the garbage can lid and say: Hey!

She then says: Hunny, get out of the garbage. Go to your room! (runs away crying)


Then she comes back after a few minutes and says: I so sorry. I needa leave the garbage alone.

Yup! She’s a phenomenon. She is curently on day 4 of wearing her new tutu I made for her. It’s staring to look kinda sad. She has slept in it a couple of nights so that doesn’t help. She got lots of new nail polish and has wanted new nails everyday since her party. She also picked out her first pair of flip flops last night and is in love with them. She says things like:

Thank you very much.
Listen to ME.
I so sorry.
Come on MAN. (in an exasperated tone)
O, my gosh!
Hunny (followed by any number of things.)

She’s still SO stubborn and feisty. She is also such a little Mama, and loving and kind. She is incredibly clumsy (like her Mama) and today you can count 3 different band-aid areas plus a new cheek bruise. We think she is wonderful and we really wouldn’t change a thing about her.

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