Sunday, October 12, 2008


Well- where do I even begin- it has been a crazy couple of weeks. We have had lots of company(which we love), lots of "projects" (which I love) and even went to colorado- which was amazing.. there are pictures further down!! This is my absoulte favorite time of year!! I absolutely LOVE the fall colors, the fall candels, fall decorations and fall crafts.. which I really wish I was better at- but we have fun tryin!! Abbie and I have fun going outside and pickin' pumpkins to give to family and friends and decorating our house with. I can't believe she is already 4 1/2 months old!!!
These pictures are kinda out of order but this is my little babe all bundled-up in Colorado. Luckily I had just given her to Justin because me and Justins cousin and aunt went on a walk and ended up getting rained on! Of-couse it started raining when we were on a trail, far from the road and cabin so by the time we got back we were DRENTCHED!!
Abbie loves her grandma Sego!!
Ok- so this is one of the projects I was talking about. Sometimes Justin comes home and asks if I'm in "the mood" - which at our house means he can tell that I am getting the urge to do something drastic to our house - or in this case the furniture. Poor- Justin because everytime I start a project he always ends up having to help me .. I'm terrible at measuring things and using tools! So whenever he can tell I'm in "the mood" he has now started to be too busy with something else! But anyways- this tabel was alot of work- it has six chairs and two inserts. To make a long story short if anyone is thinking of doing this after trial and error we found that before you stain wood you should first put on wood conditioner, it makes the stain more even, and when you paint we like satin best cause its not too shiney. Actually I take all that back - never do a project like this- just buy one it is MUCh easier!!!
Abbie is now rollin like crazy!! She loves to be on the floor where she can play by herself. Her favorite toys are her hands. She love to watch them and figure out how she can get them in her mouth. She also love her uncle Garrett!! He is single (so if anyone knows any single girls let us know - we are all looking at this point :) so he is at our house all the time. We always joke that our family consists of me, jusitn, abbie, and garrett!! :)
These are the BEAUTIFUL pictures of colorado. I have never seen colors like that before, it almost looked fake. We took a long drive to an old miners town that had been abandoned. It was really interesting looking at all the old houses and shopes and wondering what those peoples lives were like way back then. Of couse we also did a bunch of deer and elk watching (which made us drive like 5 mph so we wouldnt miss anything!!) But we did see a baby deer which was really cute.. I took a picture but he was too fast.





This is Justin and his dad just below the cabin checkin on the cows.... they're both in heaven!!


Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Ok- before I post what I was planning on today the funniest thing just happened.. we noticed Abbie was being very quiet so Justin went over to her and he started laughing b/c her eyes started going cross-eyed, nostrils flared, and then the EXPLOSION!!! This picture doesn't even really do it justice- it was everywhere. But the funny thing is that it went mainly up her sides - I had never seen anything like it!! So of course Justin started freakin out (gagging/laughing), we then made a deal I take off her diaper (I always get the worst part of the deals :) if he puts her in the bath. When it was Justins turn, as he was undressing her he got poo all over her tummy, arms and HAIR!!! Of course he made Garret his bro help him and they were both dieing!! I tried to take pictures of them but they wouldn't pay attention to me, they were too busy FREAKIN OUT!! It was honestly the funniest thing to watch them. But know everything is clean and sanitized and she is sleeping! :)





Abbie is now 3 1/2 months old!! We try to do tummy time everyday but she absolutely hates it, these pictures are just before she has her breakdown! She has been sleeping through the night now for about 2 weeks and every morning we through a party!! She has discovered her hands and it is so funny to watch her concentrate so hard on how she can get them into her mouth. Some of her favorite things are trees, fans and when we sing and dance together! Justin makes fun of me but Abbie and I love it!! Although it was pretty embarrassing, the other day Justins mom and sister came to the door and witnessed the famous song and dance- they busted up laughing- I didnt think it was that funny- I think I have some dang good moves and voice... although no one seems to agree! :)


The annual "gettin wood" trip. Of couse our chain saw kept breaking down so justin was constatly trting to fix it. ( I think he was just tryin to get out of work) :)

Mine and Ki's battle wounds, they really were bigger in real life.
Abbie and Paysons (Ki's baby boy) 1st wood gettin trip. They really enjoyed watching us all work!


So I'm really trying to get our food storage built up and since we had millions of tomatoes I got this really DUMB idea one day that I would try and be all domesticated and can them. BAD IDEA!! It took me all day and I kept busting the jars b/c they weren't hot enough when I put them in the boiling water so they would seal!! So between Abbie and busting jars I only canned about 20. I called my dad afterward to tell him about it thinking he would be all proud of me- but his comment was.. you know you can get two cans for a dollar at the store!!!!

We went with some of our friends to the UNM vs UofA football game. It was alot of fun and perfect weather. Justin kept texting my fam b/c they are all big UofA fans and talking trash b/c UNM won again.
Abbie enjoying watching all the crazy UNM fans
Ben and Skye have a little girl that is a few months older then Abbie so we like to get together so they can "play" As you can tell Abbie loves it!
I noticed that we hadn't been taking many pictures of us with Abbie so this is us and her before the game.




Monday, August 25, 2008

This year I finally got Justin to help me plant a garden!! In the years past he would just tell me to go and plant it in the coral (i think that is how you spell it :) b/c he didn' t want to help me put up a fence so the horse wouldn't get into it! Whatever- who plants a garden in a coral ?!? Anyways he finally gave in and he ended up planting it right in the middle of all my boards so I really didn't help much ... so what did we end up with.. a garden with tuns and tuns of zucchini (he thougt one row of it was cucumbers), squash, and 20 yes 20 tomatoe plants!! So here is a picture of some of our produce this year. My favorite is the one with the yellow flower :)Everything was planted way too close together so our garden basically looks like a jungle! But I can' t complain b/c I know I couldn't have done any better. Next year we will know better!!

My grandma and grandpa came up to see Abbie, it was so great to see them. My grams picture is at the bottom- still workin on this bloggin thing!
Abbie is getting so big, she has definetly mastered giving the "dirty looks", if you can't tell! I always tease Justin that she is definetly his daughter b/c she always needs constant attention! She loves to be talked to and her favorite thing is to go on walks, so every night I load her up and we go walkin. The other night I was holding her on my lap and she kicked her legs for a straight 30 min- it was so funny! She had beads and buttons on her socks so she liked the noise they made when she kicked. She is so much fun !

Karli came and stayed with us and she loved to tell Abbie princess and cheerleader stories while Abbie swang. It was the cuttest thing b/c Abbie would would just stare at Karli like she knew exactly what she was saying.
2 1/2 months- I can't believe how fast she is growing!!
oops!!! :)

Sunday, August 10, 2008

I was really bummed b/c I forgot my camera for the 24th - but it was alot of fun. It was great to see old friends and family. So I thought I would make a slide show to show some of the things we have been up to this past year!

Sunday, July 20, 2008

I already stink at this whole blogging thing- but better late then never right! Well the fourth was alot of fun we were is SJ for part of it and RV for the rest. These pictures are really out of order but at least there up... thanx kally!! :) Playin at the park in RV for Justin's family reunion. Justin as you can tell
espically had fun.....
.. except he kept getting stuck when he tried to go down the slide!
Waiting for the fireworks at Lyman Lake!!


Justin and his mom preparing for a "serious" game of throw the ball and the rack!
(I don't know the name of the game, but it was fun)


We all rode in the forever long parade it - was soo HOT and surprisingly Abbie did great! SJ's parade is so short compared to this one!

Yes- Crazy I know ... Abbie is as big as my "little" brother Zach's shoe
Justin grillin up the hot dogs with Karli and Riggs help





Thursday, June 26, 2008

Oops.. I just noticed all of these pictures went under seperate posts- someday I will get good at this! :)