Be Mine♥

Me and my little Valentine. Valentine's day was special this year because our niece Brooklyn was baptised!

Logan is incapable of waiting til an actual holiday to exchange gifts. Every birthday he BEGS me to open my gift early. He insisted on giving me my valentine's gift the night before Valentine's day... so we exchanged gifts on February 13th.
We call Baylor our little bookworm. He just wants to read all the time. I love it when I find him just quietly reading books. That makes me a lot happier then when I find him playing in the toilet water! haha

This is just a cute picture of Baylor. I think he is adorable!

Things to do...

January has been a busy month. Not so much with 'fun' stuff but with things to do! Boring/hard stuff like, Baylor's shots :(, getting the oil changed, taxes, talk in church, getting new health care (not an easy task) etc. I have been working on checking things off my list all month. I think I am about caught up! Here are some things this month that I have enjoyed doing...

I love hangin' around the house with my best bud Baylor! His current favorite things: Anything Toy Story, and his bowling set that he got from his Grandpa and Grandma Chapman.

Here he is in his Buzz Lightyear PJ's enjoying a nice game of bowling. This is a daily activity for us. Okay a ten times daily activity.

Natalie was in town for a week. Of course I love it when she comes to visit! Since she was here for more then two days we were actually able to hang out a couple times!! We went to my favorite store, Camas Antique and this is us with our kids at Rob's reception.

I have been working hard and am just about caught up on my 2009 scrapbook! I love these pictures my sister Mackenzie took in November!

I had the opportunity to do my friend Katie's baby shower this weekend. It has been a long wait for this shower, so it was so exciting to finally be able to do it!

Katie and I have been friends for about six years now. I met her in the Clark ward. The first time I saw her (before I met her) she was wearing a skirt that I had been coveting from Nordstrom. It was at that point that I knew we would get along. I know that sounds really materialistic, but I was right! Katie and I have been friends since. We have SO much in common and NEVER run out of things to talk about! She is a great workout partner, shopping buddy, confidant and of course, friend!

Katie, I'm glad I was able to do this shower! Thanks for being such a great friend. I love you like a sister! I am so excited for you to be a MOM!!!!! (YAY!)

I can't leave Logan out! He has had a very busy month at work so that is great! His office flooded in December and was not able to work there for almost a month, so it is great to have his office all fixed up and running again! He re-painted his whole office himself which has kept him busy too!

Baylor has taken after his Dad, he LOVES to watch movies. Logan and Baylor love to sit down at night with a bowl of popcorn and watch a movie.

I love these boys!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

I haven't been the best blogger lately. I'm not the best at toting my camera around, but here are a few pictures from December!

Our tree! One of my very favorite things at Christmas time is wrapping presents! All of my gifts are wrapped immediatly and under my tree!

Every year we look forward to Lori's annual 'Gingerbread house birthday party!' This year she went all out and made homemade gingerbread houses. It was awesome. And I loved snacking on the extra gingerbread men!
Our good friends Brenna and Matt introduced us to the game 'Settlers of Catan.' Have you played it? If you like Monopoly (long drawn out games that require a lot of strategy) then you will LOVE this one. It's right up my ally. I 've got both my brothers hooked. I'm still working on Logan though.
Here's Baylor on Christmas eve. He loves Grandpa's train, as do all the grandchildren!

Lori does a live nativity with all the grandkids every year. This year her and Lindsi made this awesome backdrop. 'The guys' were all wisemen, and Baylor was a sheep with the other two 'babies' (I should start calling them toddlers but whatever, they are babies to me!) They were perfect as sheep... they did lots of grazing. So much that I didn't get a good picture!

When Logan came out for his part Baylor got so excited and started clapping. It was quite adorable! Afterwards we watching our Lip Sync Video's and opened gifts. Then we headed out to Battle Ground. At this point I was camera-less since I forgot mine at the May's. (So typical of me!) We played a white elephant game and sang Christmas Carols. (A tradition since we were little!) My Mom said she wasn't doing the PJ tradition for us kids anymore, just the grandkids... but she surprised us. I must admit it wouldn't feel like Christmas Eve with out a new pair of Jammie's! Baylor got some from BOTH Grandma's so he was lucky to have a new pair for Christmas Eve and Christmas!

We had our own little Christmas morning at home. It was wonderful! I love the 'Christmas morning MESS' it's probably the only time I like to see a mess! (Who can complain about wrapping paper and presents!)

Lori and Verne stopped by for a short visit and then we headed out to Battle Ground for a big Christmas dinner, more presents and lots of laying around. (Just the way Christmas should be) I unfortunatly felt flu-ish the whole day... so I took it easy, and did not take many photos. Despite that, it was still a wonderful Christmas! Hope yours was great too!

We had a really fun get together at the Jensen's on New Years Eve! New Years just wouldn't be the same without Martinelli's!!!

Me with two of my very best friends Katie and Brenna! I LOVE that we are all pregnant at the same time!!!!! There was lots of baby talk that night!

Every year I think I will be so sad that Christmas is over, but after a couple days I always get super excited for a new year! We have been doing lots of projects in the house, including getting our rooms ready for 'the boys!' We are so excited!!! I'll post some pictures once we finish what we've started!

It's a Miracle!!!

After years and years of begging we finally got a family picture. My Mom decided to invest in tri-pod and take the pictures today (Sunday) since that is the only day we can all manage to get together. I think it turned out pretty dang cute. I'm SO happy! Thank you Mom!

It's a...

BOY!

We are so excited to add another cute little boy to our family!!! I'm so happy that Baylor will have a new little best friend brother!

Can't wait for April!

What a Weekend

This last weekend Logan and I had a fun stay at Skamania Lodge. It is in Columbia Gorge.

Baylor had a fun sleepover with Grandma, and we had so much fun RELAXING! We had a yummy yummy dinner, enjoyed the hot-tub (me for only a couple minutes, and then I enjoyed the step.) and of course we enjoyed the ambiance of the lodge and our cozy room. We ordered room service a couple times too and that was fun!

I can't beleive how much I missed this guy from just one night away. The next day was Halloween. Baylor was a cute little monkey. We decided not to take him trick or treating. Next year we will for sure. We went over to Lindsi's for a little while. So he was able to run around with his cousins a little bit. Afterwards we headed back to our house where we had fun with some of our good friends and ate wayy to much food!

Logan in his super scary mask!

Fall is here {Finally!}

I loved this weekend. It was great!

I got to see my good friend Natalie & her adorable baby girl Jane.

Logan and I had a fun night out with our friends and did this corn maze on Sauvie Island, followed by dinner at Stanford's. Baylor did good for the babysitter too which was icing on the cake :)

We went to our ward's 'Hillbilly Ho-Down.' It was so much fun and the theme was too cute. I was dying over all of the creative decor. Good job Callie and the activities committee :)

Logan has been doing lots of pumpkin carving. He made a really cute Elmo pumpkin for Baylor but it is now smashed in the street thanks to the punk kids in our neighborhood. It was cute while it lasted. RIP Elmo. haha

AND.. Lastly, I made my way OUT of the first trimester!

Yes, I'm pregnant and SUPER excited!