20 of my FIRSTS.

Well folks I'm actually bored, there are a million things I could be doing especially with packing things to get ready to move, or cleaning the dishes, or a load of laundry, but I'm bored of doing all those things, so while Zaylie is sleeping I thought I would do a tag. Here are 20 of my firsts.

1. Who was your FIRST dance date? Ben Dallet

2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love? No

3. First time you got stitches? Never had any

4. What was your FIRST job? Well I started teaching piano when I was 12, but my first real tax giving/taking job was pretzel maker in the mall when I was 15.

5. What was your FIRST car?1990 Nissan stanza

6. Who was the FIRST person to text you today? Courtney Bond

7. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning?Well, Archie since he was right next to me...
8. Who was your FIRST grade teacher?Mrs Hopkins.

9.Where did you go on your FIRST airplane ride? Oak Harbor, Washington when I was probably a few weeks old.

10. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk? Mynette Hill, and my family gets her family's christmas cards still, but thats the extent of it.

11. Where was your FIRST sleepover? My friend Kristins house in 1st grade.

12. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today? Archie

13. Whose wedding were you in for the FIRST time? My roommate Lindsay

14. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning? Watch Backyardigans with Zaylie

15. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to? Wynonna Judd when I was 8

16. FIRST trip to the hospital? I was 8 and my earring infected my ear so badly that my ear swelled up completely enveloping the earring into my ear...you couldn't even see it. gross huh.

17. FIRST piercing? Ears at 7.

18. FIRST foreign country you've been to? Canada

19. FIRST movie you remember seeing at the theater?Little Mermaid

20. When was your FIRST detention? I never had detention, I never got in trouble at school, I was an angel in class... it was after school that I got into trouble :)

Well Zaylie had her second birthday on February 17th, so I want to document a little of it for my own records, since I haven't touched a piece of scrapbook paper since before I was pregnant with her. We were able to take a night off from working on the house to have a birthday party with family, and it was a blast. Zaylie and Brennen worked on their beat box routines, she got a new guitair that plays little songs, and Zaylie made Brennen push the buttons for her all night long. She also got a power four wheeler, that she totally loves, but in order for it to move you have to push a button by the handle bars, just like a real four wheeler. However she doesn't understand how to hold it down for a long period of time, so she'll push it, let go, push it, let go, push it etc. Its dang funny. Its just so crazy how different she is from her last birthday, when she turned one she was eating in her high chair not quite sure how to handle eating the cake, and this year she is sitting at her table like a big girl taking bites with her fork talking in sentences. Crazy. Oh and she was dang fat and had the roundest face last year, and this year she's super skinny.

Zaylie last year.

This year I made her a monkey cake, because she loves the "silly monkeys" as she would say in Jungle Book and Madagascar. It was a big hit, she loved it and still asks for her monkey birthday cake.

Okay so a few things Zaylie can do at this point in her life:

~Zaylie can count to thirteen and then starts saying other numbers it goes like this 8.9.10.11.12.13.5.3.7.8.2. its pretty cute.

~Zaylie can sing her abc's however when she gets to the LMNOP part she says L M N 2 P. No idea why.

~She knows all of her colors, she sometimes gets yellow and purple mixed up, but hey thats okay at least she knows red, blue, green, black, brown, pink and white :)

~She is talking in 2-4 word sentences

~One of my favorite things she says is "Oh my goodness sakes" Sama and Papa Ames taught her that and its freakin hilarious. (Zaylie came up with Sama, we don't know why because she can say grandma, she just calls her Sama)

~Zaylie LOVES to pretend and play in her play kitchen, she will first wash her hands, use her fake soap, then put some water in a pan and put it in her play microwave and tell me to be careful its hot. Her specialties to serve are corn on the cob in her play collander, and eggs on a plate. She pretends to eat it and makes the noises and everything. Its crazy the things she does with pretending because I swear I don't teach her that, maybe she is just more observant than I realize.

~Zaylie is obsessed with the Jungle Book. I brought a bunch of my parents old vhs tapes home and put in Jungle book one day and now we watch it every day, and if she isn't watching it its usually on in the back ground. She knows so many lines in that movie, and will say them at the same time the character does on the movie. Some of her other favorites are Madagascar, 101 Dalmations, and Peter Pan.

~Zaylie is in the 75th percentile for height and 25th percentile for weight. She's a stick but has such a huge belly she looks like one of those ethiopian kids. So clothes are a bummer, they are either to short, or to big around.

Zaylie got new stick on earrings and glasses and she had to see what they looked like.

HELP!!!

Okay people, I need some helps and preferrably in the next few hours, I need to decide between two families of lights for my house. Please be honest and let me know which ones you like the most, Arch and I are going tonight or tomorrow night to pick them up, so if you have 13 seconds, put in a quick vote.


This is the progress series, they have seeded glass, and are much bigger than they appear in the picture. If you want a closer look check out this quick video, http://studio5.ksl.com/?nid=59&sid=5617349 and click at about 1:55. I feel that these lights look more Pottery Barn ish while the other ones look more rustic.

This would be the entry


This would be the kitchen table light



This is the Lowes lighting series

Kitchen table

This would be the entry

We are sort of still alive

Well everyone, I actually have a very rare but very needed moment of spare time while Zaylie is napping and I thought I would blog about the comings along of our new house. However as our camera chargers are stuffed away in our storage unit the only pictures of our house are on Arch's phone, but don't you worry I'm taking a camera over this after noon because.... we are getting our cabinets installed today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY! Okay I know way too many exclamation points, but seriously folks this is a big deal. Things have been going so slow on the house that it seems like we are never going to move in, but now that the cabinets are going in we only have the plumbing and light fixtures left, and then we can move in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Again sorry about the exclamations. Its just been a long time coming and Arch has worked so hard, he comes home from work around 6:30 or 7:00 and then changes and heads straight to the house and comes home around 12:00 sometimes 1:30, and then saturdays too. He is SOOO ready to be done with this house, but its looking awesome. Pictures to come soon!

Here are some random pics that I have from the past few months from other peoples cameras or blogs because again, we haven't had ours for six months.

Me and Averi at Christmas time, we had a superfun girls night with Joeli and Dawn, and now she has moved away from me all the way to AZ....miss you Aves, get a nice tan for me.


Arch's sister Jenna got married in January so we went to her wedding in Denver and had a great time here are some pics from the event.

Zaylie and Sassy

Why won't kids ever look at the camera?

Me and my BFF

Oh Yeah I had a bit of a mid 20's crisis and looking exactly the same as I have since I was 16 so I went blonde. I'm not totally sure how I feel about it yet, I like the change, but I'm not sure if I like it enough to keep it up. The other day some Mexican guy was walking by me and started saying something to me in spanish. I just smiled and walked on (that happens to me a lot, people think I'm Mexican and just start talking to me in spanish...no joke) Anyway I called Arch and asked him what he said to me, and Arch started laughing and said, "He told you to stop dying your hair" Nice huh.

At the Denver temple


Arch and Bren

Zaylie and Brennen Beat Boxing, this is the funniest thing to watch, Zaylie busts out dance moves and puts her hands up to her mouth while Brennen makes the noises. Dang cute.

Early Summer

The following is going to be an enormous post of all our doings this summer, I'm going to do it in seperate postings so that its easier on me, so keep scrolling down and see what we've been up to.


Zaylie's Favorite things this past summer:



She LOVES the pool~ these were taken back in June, its now November and she still points outside and says "pool all gone" in the saddest little voice. Sometimes in the middle of the night she'll wake up and the first thing she will say is "pool all gone" Maybe Idaho isn't the place for us...we only get the pool 2-3 months out of the year here :)

Yes this is Zaylie peeing :)

Wanting to be just like daddy!

The Slide:

And of course the DIRT:

Sam and Ambers Wedding

Sam and Amber coming out of the temple!

One of my favorite things to do is take pictures of me and whoever I'm with while I'm holding the camera... I just think they always turn out fun. So I started out taking the pictures...and got fired from that job as you can see why. Apparantly I'm vertically challenged and height is required when taking pictures with taller peeps.

Now Arch took over the camera...the faces didn't really improve but at least you can see his forhead :)

Blue Steel (zoolander)

When Sam came home from his mission he brought Zaylie back this little Indian outfit, and we were able to squeeze her in it for their Indian themed wedding. She looked like a little genie, she was dang cute.

Zaylie and Sa-ma (thats how she says grandma)

For some reason all night she would put her hands behind her back like this.

Zaylie would always try to sneak the candy boxes on the tables, again with her hand behind her back

These pictures were taken a couple months later in Denver at Sam's wedding open house.

I don't know about any of you out there with children, but I have about 6 pictures total of me and Zaylie together even including the pictures of her birth, so when I saw I had this picture I was so happy I just had to post it.

My Roomies!!

Colonial 207 Reunion!!! Well only three of us were able to make it, Lindsay was in Utah visiting her family so Katie and I drove down to Provo to see her. We stayed in a hotel, stayed up till 3 am laughing, talking about old boyfriends, looking up old boyfriends on facebook and blogs, retold old roommate stories, it was the best. We went out to eat, shopping, went and saw Mama Mia, which was hilarious...the part in the beginning when the older women see eachother for the first time in however many years, they go all crazy and have these secret handshake type deals... we all looked at eachother and said, "oh my gosh are we going to be like that in 20 years...probably" Seriously it felt like it had only been 6 days since we had been living together instead of 6 years! It was so good to see them again, so lets keep the tradition going girls, and next time lets get the rest of the bunch to come too! YAY!