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| I love seeing these little smiles when he is sleeping! He does these cute little laughs too when he sleeps! It makes me wonder who he is talking to on the other side and what funny stories they are telling him!! This is what makes the middle of the night feeding well worth it! |
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| My baby girl turned 4!! Poor thing didn't get much of a birthday though... We hurried and did a little "party" with just the 4 of us. Grandma was awesome and brought over a cake and some dinner to us earlier for Madi because I was only 32 weeks pregnant and having contractions regularly so I was staying on the couch trying to get them to stop. Well they didn't and right after Madi was done opening up her presents Brett and I were off to the hospital! |
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| A month before I had him so I was about 31 weeks pregnant here. |
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| This was my present for my birthday from my amazing husband!!! I LOVE my new car! I have never wanted a mini van! In fact I have always sworn I would never ever ever have one!! Well here is my Chrysler Town and Country and I take back all the mean things I said about mini vans because this one is amazing!!!! Thank you so much babe!!!! |
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| Easter with the kids!! I have to tell you these two both weigh 33 pounds and are just about the same height! Lately everywhere I go everyone asks if they are twins!! |
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| Look how long her hair is! This is Easter at Renee and Bridgette's (Brett's sisters) apartment! They did a little Easter egg hunt for their boys and Madi and Weston the kids loved it!! |
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| Later that day at grandma and papa's house! Those are my cute little nephews! Kai was so cute with his bunny glasses on! He refused to take them off! |
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| The race was on with the 4 grand kids! Weston followed Kai around a little but mostly he and his daddy went Easter egg hunting! Last year he would run up to the other kids and steal eggs out of their baskets! This year he caught on to finding his own eggs! He kept getting distracted though wanting to open them and eat the candy! |
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| Our princess! |
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| The traditional adult Easter egg hunt! I was on bed rest and was told by everyone I couldn't compete..... But at the last second my brothers gave me a bag and let me participate! Let me tell you though they still love to tease me because they decided it would be so funny to give me the bag with a huge hole in the bottom of it! I didn't even realise until all of my eggs fell out everywhere!! Thankfully my mom had my back and brought out a bag with no holes in it so I could actually keep my eggs! |
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| Seriously how can you look at this picture and not laugh!! This is one of those fake stick on mustaches! Brett and I couldn't stop laughing at this kid! He is such a goof and loves to be center of attention! If he isn't then he will make it that way by doing something goofy and silly!! |
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| Look how cute these two are! She is such a big helper and Brett is so good and patient with her helping her and teaching her! They were putting the Easter eggs in boiling water to get the "shrink a dinks" to stay on! They are buds and love to have fun together. In fact both of my kids are stuck to his hips as soon as he walks through the door. Seriously I couldn't ask for a better husband or daddy! |
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| After 4 weeks on bed rest and a short active labor our baby boy Casen Jay was born April 16 at 1:22pm! He was 4 weeks and 2 days early! He weighed 6 pounds 1 ounce! This is the first time Brett got to hold him! It was only for a second because they had to take him to the NICU because he was early and having a little breathing problems. Brett was an amazing support through the whole thing and while I was in the "observation" room he was so funny and kept me up and walking around and laughing! After all the funny weird things I kept doing and dancing and jumping I'm surprised he didn't put me in the psych ward after Casen was born! |
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| These two are in love with their brother! Casen had to stay in the NICU for about 5 days...... It was hard going back and forth trying to balance being with Madi and Wes and being at the hospital. Thankfully I have an amazing husband that took care of them and me and everything at the house and anything and everything in between! He didn't complain once! He did all this on top of working full time and going to school! My mom would take the kids during the day when Brett was working and I was at the hospital and as soon as Brett got done working he would grab the kids spend some time with them and go to bed and start all over the next day not to mention trying to find time to come to the hospital to see Casen. Let me tell you how excited we were though when we were finally able to bring Casen home! We were both emotionally and physically exhausted him even more then me! Somehow we made it through that long week (it seemed forever!!) and are settling in at home very nicely. |
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| You don't realise how big your "babies" are getting until you bring a tiny new born home! |
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| So handsome! He looks just like his daddy and big brother! |
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| The beginning of Feb. Brett and I had a weekend get away just the two of us down to St. George! My bestie watched our kids and even cleaned my house! We ate out, hiked around, he sat in the hot tub while I put my legs in and we just relaxed! It was nice to just get away together!! |
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| I lived in St. George for about 6 + months and never "hiked" Dixie Rock so this is us on top of it! It looks over the whole city it is way pretty and I'm sure is absolutely gorgeous at night especially with the temple in the middle of the valley. |
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| This is me about 25 or 26 weeks pregnant. I don't look like that anymore!! I'm glad we went down when we did because if we had waited a couple weeks it would have not been fun walking around and hiking around like we did!! |
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| My cute mountain goat husband!! I was jealous he got to go to the top of this rock because I was eye balling it and decided it wasn't very smart to go up it with a belly!! |
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| Look how hot my hubby is!! He kept having to remind me I couldn't do all the things that I could have if I weren't pregnant. So we had to find the easier paths to climb up and everything..... I'm glad one of us was remembering I'm clumsy and could easily fall on my tummy! I just wanted to hike up the hardest paths just to prove I still had it in me! |
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| Here is the gorgeous St. George Temple where Brett and I were sealed! My grandpa was able to seal us which made our special day that much more special. I have always loved this temple it is just so beautiful and has so much history involving my family. You should see it at night it just glows! |
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| Our two beautiful babies!! They are such goofs together! This was on Valentines Day! |
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| Standing outside aunt Desi's house!! |
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| Yes my son is a total ladies man!! He gave the girls chocolate flowers!! Madi gave aunt Desi a bouquet of flowers! |
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| This is going to be in their wedding video one day!!!! |
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| This year Brett had the job of handing the kids the ornaments and I got to help them decorate the tree!! These two had so much fun! Madi actually loved hanging everything herself and Weston just loved running back and forth giving me as many ornaments as possible. |
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| Our fully decorated tree!! |
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| The kids wouldn't stop begging me to go outside and play in the snow so I finally bundled them up and let them run outside!! There unfortunately was no snow on Christmas day but that's okay. |
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| She didn't want to take a picture she just wanted to run outside.... Oh well she at least held still for a second so I can get a decent picture of her! |
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| We went to the mall to see Santa and the kids got to ride the merry-go-round. Unfortunately they didn't get to talk to Santa because when we got in line they had stopped for an hour or so and we didn't want to wait forever! We were supposed to go to Temple Square after with Brett's sisters and our nephews but Weston got a little to riled up at the mall and ended up throwing up because his asthma was making him cough so hard! Poor thing..... Hopefully we can keep it under control this winter and keep our kids healthy! |
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| It was so much fun Grandma and Papa Reeves came and stayed with us for Christmas! This is our second Christmas with them since we got married so it was just so much fun to have them around! |
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| Grandma reads a Christmas story on Christmas Eve which tells the meaning of Christmas and the symbolism of a lot of the things we use and see at Christmas time. It is so awesome and she copied the story for all of us laminated it and gave us a Santa bag with everything in it so we can continue the tradition in our own families! |
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| These two were cracking up at Weston attacking Papa!! |
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| This is Weston doing anything and everything to get what he wants from papa!! |
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| Papa just laughing so hard at Weston after he was attacked!! |
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| Cookies and milk for Santa, Carrots for the reindeer and letters. Madi and Weston kept taking bites out of Santa's cookies so we had to replace a couple and let them eat a few! First thing they did was check to make sure Santa had eaten all the cookies they didn't even race to see presents it was all about the cookies lol! Madi was excited to see them gone and I think Weston was mad because there was only crumbs left for him to eat!! |
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| Right before bed on Christmas Eve!! Madi has chocolate in her teeth just so you know!! |
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| This everyone is our baby BOY!!!!! Yup Boy!!!! Some may agree some may not because it is an ultra sound picture but this is another Brett mini me!! He looks just like Weston did and anyone that has seen Weston and Brett next to eachother know Wes looks just like his daddy!!!! I am so excited to hold him!!! My due date is May 16 but I'm guessing the first week of May he will be here! Madi came 2 weeks early Weston 4 weeks so I'm hoping for only 2 weeks early nothing earlier then Weston though that's just scary to have a baby that early! He kicks me like crazy and is just as hyper as his daddy and big brother already! Madi loves to pet my belly! They both love to kiss my belly and poke it and everything! The coolest thing is is that Madison was able to feel him move the other day ad got so excited!! Brett has felt him a few times too and thinks is cool but he is a guy feeling the baby isn't as exciting to them! Guys get excited when the babies start interacting and playing with them lol!! We are excited for him to come into our little family and make it complete!! |
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| My two boys in their Michigan attire! Weston is such a daddy's boy. He is attached to Brett's hip when he is home. The other day I was trying to let Brett sleep in so I was trying to fib to Weston and tell him that daddy was at work but the little bugger is so smart he knows what daddy brings to work and he saw his daddy's work jacket and computer bag and kept pointing to it saying "daddy fogot!" Then the smart little guy decided to go check to make sure daddy wasn't home and snuck upstairs when I wasn't looking and found his daddy!! It is so cute the bond Madison and Weston have with their daddy. I couldn't ask for a better "daddy" for my kids and for a better husband. |
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| So Brett's sister Bridgette loves to tease Weston about Brett! So she will grab Brett's arm and say "MY DADDY"!! Weston does not take kindly to that and will get this mean look on his face and yell at her "Bidette yet go now wight NOW!" and go running over to Brett and try to take her hand off of him. This is him pointing at his daddy saying "MY DADDY!" This time Weston went as far as to sit on Brett's shoulders and wrap his legs around Brett's neck and then wrapped his arms around the top of his head and just sat there wrapped around his daddy's head yelling "MY DADDY MINE!!" We were all laughing so hard. The best part is is the I FINALLY got the whole thing on video!!!! |
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| One of our date nights! My sister in law did my makeup since I am makeup challenged!! We have been doing a lot more date nights which has been so nice! They are even funner now that I have not been having morning sickness! |
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| This is the best picture that I got on Halloween! We had so much fun! We went trick-or-treating with my best friend and her husband and 2 girls and my sister in laws and their boys! We went around my moms neighborhood and actually made out with a good amount of candy! It was fun too because my brother and his wife and two kids were at grandma's so we all got to go together! It was so much fun watching the kids running up to the doors and seeing their excitement when they got candy!! Weston however was actually more interested in asking everyone to see their dogs then to get the candy!! |
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| This is my cute little two year old!!! He turned 2 on the 7th of this month! Its so crazy that he is so big!!! He was 5 lbs 13 ounces! now he is 29.5 lbs! he is over the 95th percentile for height! He is a comedian. He loves making people laugh and if you aren't laughing at what he is doing then he will continue to try new things until you just bust up laughing at him! He just has the funnest personality. He is just about the same size as Madi which makes for some pretty funny wrestling matches!! |
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| He is stuffing the ENTIRE cupcake into his mouth! He learned that one from his daddy that's for sure!! hehehehehe |
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| this is what was left of the smashed cupcake! The rest surprisingly made it into his mouth! Well minus a few crumbs here and there! |
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| Thanksgiving we went to grandma and papa's to eat! My dad is a proud owner of a backhoe!! And Weston loves the thing! He wanted in it as soon as he saw papa by it! Brett put him in it one time before and he loved it! He is fearless which is a good but bad thing all at once! |
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| She however was absolutely terrified to get in the backhoe. I had to lift her up and Brett had to grab her and hold her and talk to her for a minute before she calmed down. Then he started moving the bucket and all of that and she actually started enjoying it and having fun and helping move the bucket around! |
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| Madi was such a huge help!! Uncle Nick was putting napkins on the table and Madi went and started helping him! |
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| Our neighbors have this tree that loves to shed in our backyard...... Leaved in the fall and these annoying seed petle looking things in the spring.... But this fall it worked out really well because the kids loved playing in the leaves!! I have an amazing husband that got up with the kids and let me go back to sleep for a while and he took them outback and raked leaves and let them jump and play in them forever! |
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| Weston is looking down like what happened to my legs!?!? hahaha!! These two are so funny! They love to come pat my belly and talk to the baby. I am excited to see them with the baby! We might find out in a couple weeks what we are having! I'm excited!!! |
