Finally...

Wanted to finally post some pictures of Iris' first birthday along with a few others of her. We had a nice barbeque at a park with a few friends and family for her birthday. It was fun and she had a good time. She was so funny with the cake. She didn't really want to get dirty so she would just take little pinches of it. When Evan smashed her hand into it, she got a little mad but started licking it off and decided that she liked it. She even shared a little with her dad. I was pretty proud of the cake that I made. She really likes dogs so I put a little dog on there with paw prints around the side and a paw print on all the cupcakes for everyone else. The other pictures are as close to her one year pictures as we got. I had the studio set up to do some other photos and while I was waiting for them to come, I put Iris in there and got some pretty cute ones. I think there's one of her in her car seat too. Not the most comfortable postition.

For those who are wondering...

Well we went to the doctor today and got the ultrasound done. And for all those who were betting on what we were having... it's a boy!!! We are very excited. I must admit, I had a feeling it was a girl. Mostly because this pregnancy has been very similar to how I was with Iris. And most people have told me that it is usually different with the opposite gender. So there you have it. Iris is going to have a little brother.

Apology

Sorry I've been such a slacker and haven't posted anything new for a while. I am going to promise some new updates and pictures soon. We're right in the middle of a very busy wedding season and I am trying to keep caught up with all that. So please accept my apology and my promise of good things to come.

An Announcement

So for those of you who don't know yet... We're having another baby!!! I am almost 4 months which puts my due date on November 13th (our anniversary). We are really excited and when we find out what it is we will let everyone know. Just wanted to put that out there for everyone to know.

Our latest adventures

We have had some fun this last month. For Evan's birthday we went to Carson City and hiked up to a beautiful waterfall. It was a gorgeous day. We were going to go back down and wander around the shops in Carson, but by the time we got back to town it was pouring down rain. Crazy! As we were driving through Carson we saw a street named Iris so we had to take a picture.





Then we went to Oregon to visit Nana. Iris loved the ocean and got her first sucker from Nana. She loves candy! We also dressed her up in Nana's belly dancing beads. She liked how it made noise when she moved. We also got to go to the Tillamook cheese factory and ate some yummy cheese. We saw a couple lighthouses. I had never seen a lighthouse except in the movies. Most of them aren't even used anymore with GPS and technology like that. We were at Goodwill and found this wig and thought it would be funny to put it on Iris. She just left it there and was wondering why we couldn't stop laughing.

Ouch!

Iris got her first real owie the other day. She made friends with the coffee table. She got a little cut and scrape from it. Wasn't too bad. It's got a good little scar on it now. I'm sure it's the first of many to come. I also got a new haircut about a month ago and wanted everyone to see what it looked like after I came from the salon. I can never get it to look the same as they do it there so here is a picture of what it looked like. We were setting up for the prom and those were the backgrounds we used.

Lots of fun

I have a lot of pictures to post. Some from Houston. Some from Easter. Some from Virginia City. We went there last week and wandered around and got some of the old fashioned pictures done at Garters and Bloomers. It was pretty fun.
The weather is finally starting to get warmer. We had a wedding in Incline Village on Saturday and it was gorgeous. And Sunday was beautiful too. Makes me want to get out and play some softball. Of course the rest of the week, when I had planned to work in the garden, the wind is blowing like 90 miles an hour. Today is supposed to be nice, so maybe I can get outside.
I just have to vent for one minute about the airport. I checked my stroller at the plane in Houston so that it would be waiting for me when I got off the plane. Well...I waited and waited and finally asked if someone was going to bring me my stroller, (this was at midnight, mind you, and Iris was asleep in my arms. They called someone and asked if they were going to bring it up and they said it got put on the truck to take to the baggage claim. So I had to carry Iris all the way through the airport. I wasn't happy. Until I saw Evan. He was waiting with a dozen white roses for me. What a sweetie!! But then we waited at the baggage claim. Got my suitcase and car seat, but no stroller. So we went and asked the lady where it was and she said they had it and would be bringing it right down. We, of course, didn't want to wait since it was almost 1 in the morning so we left our address and told them to deliver it to us. Well...it was over a week and we finally just had to go pick it up. It was just sitting there in the office. Obviously, no one was going to deliver it to us. What a headache.
Anyways, on a lighter note, Evan got some more chicks and two turkey chicks. They are getting big fast. Pretty soon we'll be able to take them out of the garage and slowly introduce them to Hopper our big chicken and Bill the Duck. Hopefully these chicks will make it and we'll be able to get some eggs out of them. Hopper is laying about every other day. So that's nice. It'll be fun to see how it goes with the turkeys. Evan wants to raise one for Thanksgiving, but I don't think he'll be able to kill it. We'll see.
I'll have to take some pictures of them and put them on here.














The picture of Iris screaming and hitting Kade with the basketball, was typical behavior the whole time we were there. Kade knocked her over once and she never forgot it. Any time he would start to come towards her, she would scream and take a swing at him. She is such a bully!