Another blog...

I have another blog going of my tales in the bridal business. Here is the address:

http://brattybrides.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!

It's a Boy!

Yep! Baby number 2 is on the way, and Ella is going to be a big sister to a little brother! Tom and I are VERY excited! When the nurse first did the ultrasound, she said it was a little girl...but then as she was looking around she changed her mind and said, "Nope! Definitely a boy!" Maybe he's just a little shy ;) Tom is SUPER excited to have a little man around the house. Now he'll have someone to watch football with! :) The babys name will be Thomas Rex ("Rex" after my dad) and his nickname can be T-Rex! Tom says thats what we'll put on all his jerseys. ;)

So far all my Dr.'s appointments have been going well (all two of them! haha!) The ultrasound looked good and all my blood levels are normal, so that's nice. I had kind of weird impressions of my Dr. the first time I met him, but yesterdays appointment went much better and I really like him. So that's a relief :) As for the pregnancy in general, it has been going pretty well. I have been SUPER tired and there are days of just general discomfort and nausea, but overall...not too bad!

Everything else is going pretty well. Ella is NOT doing very well potty training and it is kind of frustrating. Hopefully she'll pick up on it soon...everyone is sick of changing dirty panties. Ew...much worse than dirty diapers.

That's about all that is new for us, though. We were in Utah this last weekend for Baby Kyle's first birthday. It was super fun! You can see pictures on Barbara's blog. Ella did pretty good traveling - it is about an eleven hour car ride, so we watched LOTS of movies and tried to get her to sleep through a lot of it! We were glad to be home, though...for sure.

Baby Poll!

Okay everyone - what do you think I am having? The winner (or closest) gets a prize! I'm not sure what the prize will be...but I'll think of something :) I have another five months, so no rush...

You have to answer the following questions:

Boy or girl?

Due date? (I am due July 13th, but I was 12 days overdue with Ella and had to be induced!)

Weight? (Ella was 7.6)

Time born? (Ella was born at 5:35p.m.)

So yeah, put a comment and let me know what everyone thinks! I find out if its a boy or a girl on Monday, so even if you are wrong for that but right on everything else, you may still win! :)

Videos :)

Yes, I am on an updating spree!

Picture Update 2!

Again, another set of long overdue photos!

St. Maarten Zoo

Ella loved getting the peanuts and feeding them to all the animals. There were these little monkeys, though, that she didn't like. When she tried to feed one of them a little peanut, it accidently grabbed her finger instead of the peanut and she FREAKED. It was kind of funny :)

It was SO hot at the zoo! Thankfully the fabulous Spouses Org provided slushie juice boxes and treats for all the kids!

Piano Students on St. Maarten

Performing at the "Christmas/Farewell to Laura the Teacher" Concert :) Seriously.

Trying to potty train...its still going on...its a slow process....

Pretty princess day! Ella LOVES her tutu!

Food prep for Book Club! We discussed The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. It is a fabulous book about a book club!

Memories of St. Maarten

This is for all you med students out there....a beauty salon on Front Street...love it. I don't think I'm getting my hair cut there, though...heheh :)

Just a little reminder of Maho... hahaha!

And a reminder of Cheri's Restaurant

Ella's Birthday Party!

Layla's, St. Maarten

Ella's pretty princess cupcakes!

Ella was having a blast opening presents and licking the frosting off her cupcakes!

Happy Two Year Birthday, Ella!

Dancing with Papa in her new sparkley shoes! This picture doesn't do them justice. They are COVERED in white sparkles! Ella loves them!!

New costume jewelry for her birthday!! :)

Heading to the Butterfly Farm!

It was kind of squishy in our full car! :)

Ella loved the butterflies and kept trying to chase them!

Lounging at Sarafinas...I don't know where she learned to lay like that,

but it is pretty freaking cute :)

More Memories of St. Maarten

A makeshift chapel they made across the street from my piano ladys house. It is just in a vacant lot surrounded by broken down cars :) It makes me smile...

Ella watching the singers at Cheri's

She was quite enthralled.

Ella and Daddy in Maho

Mommy and Ella in Maho

Yummy desserts at the Creperia in Simpson Bay

Mommy and Ella in the Jolly Jump outside of Burger King...before it started pouring!

Sugar Apples. Definitely NOT my favorite fruit...

Baby Bananas! YUM!!

Starfruit! Yum! They taste like apricots!

Picture update!

Okay, here are some posts with pictures of all the things I have been telling about! :) Haha!

CHRISTMAS: Chicago and Salt Lake City

All of us at the Jelly Belly Factory in Wisconsin! It was fun :) We got to ride the Jelly Belly Express!
Giant floating Jelly Beans!!

Daddy and Ella waiting in line! Woo!! Jelly beans!

The Jelly Bean store. It was CRAZY insane! So much jelly bean goodness! :)

Ellas new "mean face" Just for fun :)

Mommy, Daddy, and Ella on the Jelly Bean Express!

Ella in the COLD COLD weather in Chicago!

This was supposed to be a super cute picture of Ella with Santa Claus....but needless to say she had a complete MELTDOWN when we got up to Santa....so we took her on the merry-go-round instead...we are such suckers...

Flying from Utah to Chicago!

Uncle Seth and Ella riding the little train in the Mall in South Jordan. Ella LOVED it! She would say "Choo choo!!!"

NAMM: National Association of Musician Merchants
Anaheim, California

I saw Weird Al. I waited in line for a LONG time to meet him, but they cut off the line 10 people in front of me! Grr....So here is a picture anyway...

Same story with John Petrucci *disappointed sigh* Lead guitarist of Dream Theater

I did get to meet Jordan Rudess, though, which I was SUPER stoked about!! :) He was a really nice guy! I also saw him give a demo on these new synthesizer products that was AWESOME. Two thumbs up for Jordan Rudess (keyboardist of Dream Theater)

I met David La Rue and Steve Morse (recording artists for a lot of bigwigs!)

Display dedicated to a guitarline based around the old Bat Mobile

Peter Frampton!! Such a nice guy! He had fabulous teeth, bytheway!

Alice in Chains. They were super nice. When I asked them if I could get a picture, they said, "Of course! It always looks good for us to get pictures with hot chicks!" Ha! They said I was hot!!! Talk about a good self esteem booster :) Hehe...especially being three months pregnant! Woo! I've still got it! :) haha!

Crazy Busy!

Well, it seems as if I've fallen off the "Internet Earth" for a while! I deactivated my facebook, didn't check my email for weeks, and didn't post a blog for a month! I'm slacking, I know! But now I'm back! My facebook is activated, my email has been checked about three times just this morning, and I'm posting a blog. I still dont have pictures, though, because my computer doesn't get the internet...soooo again I'm having to use Toms! Don't worry, when my computer starts working completely, there will be an overhaul of pictures! Haha! :) So here is a brief update without pictures.

We flew to Utah on December 14th and was there for a week visiting family and friends. We even had a Vasa smorgesborg (sp??) at Karey's house, which was faaaabulous! Ella got to play with some of her cousins and we got to socialize with some adults! haha! :)

While we were in Utah, we celebrated Tom's birthday by going to The Roof in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building for dinner. YUM. Soooo delicious. They have the best little creme brulees, yum yum. It was nice being able to celebrate with Tom's family. We also spent one of the nights up in Logan with Dana and Joseph and their puppy Claire. Ella loooves the puppy. She follows it around saying, "puppy! puppy!" It was pretty cute :)

Then we flew to Chicago on December 21st. We were there for a little over two weeks staying and Tom's aunt/uncles house. There were a TON of us crammed into one house! There were nine people in just Tom's family, plus the aunt/uncle and their two kids. It was pretty crowded, but manageable. We had a good time, even though we didn't do a whole lot. We saw Sherlock Holmes and the Princess and the Frog (my new Disney favorite. LOVED the music! Such a cute movie. I highly recommend it. Even Ella loved it and would dance to the songs! So cute.) We went down town one day and looked at the windows at Marshall Fields and the big silver bean, then ate at the Water Tower in this cool place called Food Life. All in all, it was a very fun trip! We ate at SOOO many good restaurants! I think I ate almost a hot dog a day! Haha! Love those chicago dogs! :)

For Christmas we just celebrated it with the family. On Christmas Eve, AAALLLL the nearby relatives came over for a big hors duevers (sp?) party and everyone just got the biggest kick out of Ella. She is quite the party stealer. :) She was showing everyone her "tricks" and how to dance. It was pretty cute. Then for New Years we went over to Tom's aunt/uncles and played poker, black jack, and ate some yummy food! Ella even lasted until midnight! We had sparklers and poppers outside, but it was FUH-REEEEEEEEZING!!!! So we were only outside for a few minutes :) Ella liked the sparklers, but not the poppers so much. She kept trying to look really close at the sparklers, though. That was kind of scary. At least we didn't lose an eye or anything! Ha!

So the trip to Chicago was super fun. We ate good food. Had good company. And had a really fun Christmas/New Years. A few downers of Chicago, though: it was SO cold. One night it was 2 degrees. TWO!!!!! I can't even FATHOM two degrees!!! Ooooh man...it was SOOOOO cold!! I texted my dad and he texted back, "I just cleaned the pool. It is 75 degrees. We are going swimming." Yeah, that made me want to cry. Hahaha :) The other downer was all the dogs. Tom's aunt/uncle have two yappy dogs and a big mean cat, plus Dana brought her yappy dog. So there was A LOT of yappy dogs in that little house. Ella liked them, but the cat and one of the dogs is kind of mean so we had to keep her away from them. The kept pulling on her clothes when she would walk and she would say, "No, puppy!" It was pretty cute :)

So now we're back in California living with my parents for a while. It is going to be interesting living with my parents. Haha :) We feel like big losers. Yes, my husband and I are living with my parents, with our toddler daughter. Oh, and I'm pregnant. Ha! Such a losers. :) Oh well. At least we are both going to be working, so we're not COMPLETE drains on society or anything. Haha :) I'll be working at my moms shop and Tom is going to either start up his airplane cleaning business again, or work at the hospital. Trying to earn some serious moolah this year! haha! :) Tom will probably start his clinicals in September, but we're not sure where. So until then, we are just living it up at my parents house! :) So far, its been GREAT!

So that's whats new with us. I'll try and keep this updated better and will put pictures up soon, I promise! I have lots of pictures to post!