Ok, so I know it's been a while!

Well, for those of you who haven't heard, Corey and I are in California for a while. We moved in with our grandparents to help them stay in their home and hopefully not have to move into a nursing home. It's been an incredibly hard transition and we are still adjusting to our new life and living out of boxes again! Yuck. At least we are beginning to explore our new, beautiful surroundings and figure out how to get around this area. Corey hasn't found a job yet but Kim might have landed a job and the local vegan restaurant, yeah!

I added some pics here and on facebook for those of you who miss my Lydia. Corey and I have been enjoying the extra time we get to spend with her. It almost seems like we are more busy than before, though, when we were both working full-time! Everything is so expensive here and I am the sole provider for a family of 6 now but we are trying to make things work! Hopefully this experience will be good for us and my grandparents. We'll see.
If anyone knows any 25-30 somethings with little kids who like yoga (optional) and eat vegetarian (optional) let me know! I left all of my friends in Utah and I would like to spend some good quality time with some people other than my immediate family. Same for Corey.
We miss all of you. Keep in touch!

Lydia wanted to be shipped back to Grandma and Grandpa in Utah!

Little poser!



Ahh, the beach!

My Baby Girl is 1!

My little girl is all grown up, she turned 1 today! She loves getting into everything and we call her The Little Destroyer! She will eat almost anything and loves to feed the dogs too during meal times. She loves her dog Chewy so much that we ended up adopting another dog from a shelter so that she would always have someone to play with, his name is Meathead and she loves him, too.

I can't believe how much has changed in just a year, I swear I just had her! She is starting to point at everything and trying to talk. She can say Dadda very well and Momma on occasion. She loves playing, reading, being tossed in the air, and being tickled.

She is going to have her first taste of cake on Wednesday and she'll get to open presents. I can't wait to see how she does with all the attention on her for a night! Happy Birthday my Little Sweetie, I love you with all my heart!

New Endeavor

I will be starting a new job August 1st to hone in on my nursing skills more. I also can't stand working for my manager, she is impossible. It used to be so good at my job but lately nothing has been going right and I have been having issues with anxiety and never knowing when I have to work. It used to be great when we would all call each other and work out the cases, now, we have to work out scheduled shift only and no one will help anyone out anymore, and when I call the lunch person, they don't come in so that I can pump while I'm still breastfeeding. This way Corey and I also won't need a baby sitter and I'll always know when I am supposed to work and I'll get potty and lunch and pump breaks. We'll see how it goes, I am PRN at my old job so as to not loose my seniority if this new job doesn't work out and I decide to go back. I just need to see if this is what I need right now in my life to make me happy because I haven't been for quite a while now except when I look at my daughter and that is why I'm trying this. I love everyone at St. Mark's (for the most part) and I hope they understand. Wish me luck!

Cute Pics!

It's overwhelming sometimes to think that I am responsible to teach Lydia everything she will know and learn for the first years of her life and I hope that I can do a good job so she will know she is loved and cared for deeply. I can't stand to be apart too long from 'the Sweetie' and I can't believe Corey and I could make such a beautiful baby with the absolute cutest personality! Everyone should try parenthood, it's a blast!

Working Mommies

Why is it that we have to work? I wish we could all just live together and work off the land...but that's so not practical, especially when I have an addiction to ridiculously cute baby clothes that my daughter so doesn't need. Maybe I just need a new job that isn't so stressful or demanding so that I could spend more time at home with Lydia. You would think with my RN, BSN, CST, FA-C credentials I should be able to do that. I really like my job most days, but after spending an entire week with one particular Dr. I don't know if it's worth it anymore. I'm going to move to a farm. And wear bonnets and aprons, and drink milk straight from the cow. You know, the simple life!

Green acres is the place for me!

Farm livin' is the life for me!



Land spreadin' out so far and wide,



Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside!

New Cousins!

Lydia has two new cousins, Layla and Makayla! She thinks that they are just something else to stick in her mouth, in fact, she ate Layla's foot the first time she met her. She also gets really excited to see her older cousins Max and Alina and Tateleigh. She giggles and screams to get their attention. I can't wait until they are old enough to get in to trouble together, 7 months is not that far apart after they all start walking and talking!

Notice foot in mouth.

Also, notice foot in mouth.



Three Little Trouble Makers



Cheese!

6 Months Has Come and Gone!

I can't believe Lydia is 6 months old already! That means just one more month until she gets to meet her new girl cousins, Layla and Mikayla!

Here are some of the things we've been up to; Lydia loves to sleep in our bed (a bad habit we are trying to break), she can sit up unassisted for a short while, she laughs when you change her poopy diapers, she sticks anything and everything in her mouth, she has tried several types of fruits and veggies and likes them all, she has had her first cold/fever, she took her first vacation to Phoenix, she can roll over both ways, she smiles when we get out the camera, and when we come home from work she is happy to see us! Time flies when you're having fun!

A must have for Phoenix sun!



Hiking in the 'mountains' in Phoenix



'Auntie Nicole'