Time Keeps on Fly'n

Every year summer just goes by faster and faster and I hate it. I can't believe we are already in the fall. Not really looking forward to the cold weather in store. I also can't believe my baby is going to be ONE in a couple of weeks! We have had a fun, busy and eventful summer. So here are some of the highlights:

*June-

We had Aunts, Uncles, and cousins in town (for Papa's funeral). We were able to spend a lot of time with them. We went to the zoo, the cabin, the candy factory, and got some ice cream along the way. We also went to the pool for the first time and Kaylor LOVED it. She is such a water baby.

*July

-On the 5th Kaylor decided she finally wanted to start crawling. She has been on the go ever since, exploring new things, and enjoying this new found freedom. She still likes to have people around, so if you aren't in the room with her she will start to cry and then try to come and find you.

-We were able to spend a few days in Laramie with my cousin Steph and her three kids, and Grandma Foster. Caroline (Steph's youngest) is 3 months older than Kaylor. Kaylor didn't think too much of her, but really liked her brothers. We went to the pool a couple of times, which again Kaylor loved.

-Kaylor learned how to clap, and use the "phone". When she picks things up like the remote she will hold it to her ear. And anytime she is holding the phone and you say "Hello" she will hold it to her ear. So cute.

*August

-On the 3rd we took Kaylor to her first Rockies game. Too bad they lost bad than night.

-Kaylor and I took a trip to Utah for a week to surprise grandma Kiki for her birthday. So Kaylor had her first airplane ride. She did really well too. We also went to Vegas during that trip for a few days. We hung out by the pool, saw the MGM lion cubs, ate, and spend lots of time with the fam. Kaylor tried lots of new food during that trip. She tried all of the following and didn't spit any of it out:

-Salmon

-Ginger (which she really liked)

-Frozen Yogurt (courtesy of Grandpa)

-Black Beans (loved them)

I'm sure there were more I just can't remember all of them.

*September

-The day before Kaylor turned 11months old (Sept.14th) she decided to FINALLY cut a tooth, with another one is on it's way. We thought for sure she was going to be like her dad and not get any until she was a least 13 months.

Those are most of the memorable highlights of our summer. Now that we are in full swing with Volleyball season time will just keep on flying.

Here are some pictures of our summer moments: Papa's Funeral
Kaylor's first time at the pool
8 Months old

Fun at the cabin
The Candy Factory

Kaylor 6 AND 7 month old Pictures

Totally slacked on this, but better late than never. Here are some cute pictures that I took of Kaylor of her at 6 and 7 months. Next week she will be 8 months already! It's quite the task keeping up with her.

6 Months Old

Here are some 7 month old pictures. She wouldn't smile very much for me, I'm not sure if it's because it was bright outside or if she was just grumpy.

7 Months Old

Pictures of the House...and Kaylor.

Just like I promised here are some pictures of the new house.New House

Front Bedroom/Office

Bathroom
Hallway

Laundry Room

Family Room

Kitchen/Dining Area

Master Bedroom

I just have to point out the awesome headboard, the chandelier, and the lamps. Headboard was used, which just happened to match our dresser perfectly, purchased for $75. The chandelier on sale for $113, which matched the headboard perfectly (we had to buy one because the previous owners STOLE the fan/light!). And the lamps on clearance for $10 a piece. I'm very happy with our new bedroom, we got it all for a pretty sweet deal.



Master Closet

Here are some before pictures just so you can see how ugly the paint colors were before we covered them.

Family Room Before/and the other fan they stole when they moved out!!!

Kitchen Before

Does it remind you of ketchup and mustard?
Seriously why would you paint this color on your walls? YUCK!

I don't have pictures of Kaylor's room yet because I still need to paint in there. Right now it has torn up wall paper and blue paint half way down the walls. Hopefully I get to this soon. Again, we love our new place. If you ever need a place to stay in Denver, we have plenty of room and would love to have the company!

Slacker.....with good reason

I've totally slacked in the blogging area, but like I said, with good reason. We bought a house! We have been pretty busy getting settled in and trying to work and take care of a baby. We have been in our new house for a month now, and we love it! We have twice as much space as we had before, Kaylor now sleeps in her own room, even though our room is bigger than our old livingroom and dining combined. We can now park our cars in a garage, and our kitchen is ginormus! We were able to get our house thanks to Jeff's grandpa (Papa). Sine my credit has gone to crap, thanks to a investment deal gone bad, we needed someone with good credit along with Jeff on the loan. We asked Papa if he would be willing to be on the loan and live with us. Jeff and I talked with his mom and uncle and we all agreed that it would be a good idea to have him move in with us. Papa liked the idea too. So we set out and found this house. It was a short sale so it was a VERY drawn out process. We had to turn in 3 different offers the bank took so long. Well about 2 weeks before we were scheduled to close Papa had a stroke. He had to be intubated for 24 hrs and stayed in the hospital for 1 week. In the hospital the doctor kept telling us that he's probably only going to live for a few more days. We had 4 more days until we closed and it seemed a long way away. If Papa died we wouldn't be able to get the house. Well Monday came and Papa was alive and home at Mark and Rita's. Jeff was able to have Papa sign a power of attorney for the closing the day before the stroke. We went to the closing and everything went well. We are offically homeowners. So over a month ago we weren't sure if Papa was going to be around much longer, but he's still with us. He is bedbound now and will be until he passes away. Mark and Rita have been amazing. They take care of him, Jessica and on the weekends Kaylor too! They are two great examples of selflessness. We aren't sure still how much longer Papa plans on staying with us, but were sure glad to have had him around this long. He's had a very fullfilling 96 years on this earth, and we're excited to know that he and Grammy will be together again soon.

Since I'm posting this from my new i-phone I can't upload any pictures. Pictures will come later just wanted to give a quick update.

Milestones!

Kaylor eating rice cereal for the first time!



The past couple of weeks Kaylor has decided that she wants to do new things. Just so I don't forget I wanted to make sure that I recorded them somewhere. Where better to do that than the blog!

The fun things that Kaylor has been doing this month are:

-Holding her own bottle
-Grabbing and holding on to her feet.
-Eating rice cereal

And her biggest accomplishment....
ROLLING OVER! Yay!

It's so funny to watch her do this. She started out only doing it when she was mad. Then she decided it was ok to do anytime. She first gets to her side, then gets both arms behind her, and then rolls. She ends up trapping one arm under her and getting mad that she can't get it out. I'll post the video one of these days. Anywho that's what the bug has been up to these days. She just gets more fun everyday!

17 inches.......GONE!

I finally did it. I've talked about it for months and months. Just ask Jeff, he told me to "Poop or get off the pot". I guess he was sick of hearing me talk about it. I hesitated for so long that a friend of mine finally just made the appointment for me. She and I went together to get our hair done. It was funny, the hair dresser didn't know what was coming. I showed her the picture and all she could say was "Wow!". I think because I was thinking and talking about it for several months I wasn't even nervous when the time came to just do it. I was really excited about it actually. She did an awesome job. I absolutly love it! Now I just need to color it. This is the first time my hair has been it's natural color since I was in high school. It's too plain, that's why I color it. It feels so weird not having any hair on my neck, or to run my fingers through. It totally feels like I'm wearing a wig, a cute wig! I'll be sending 14 inches of it to Locks of Love. It's the first time I've donated my hair, so I'm happy to do it. She ended up cutting a total of 17 inches! The most I have ever cut at one time. Sad, but good too. Here is my little goodbye note that I wrote on my Facebook page:
Dear luscious locks, you have been so good to me the past 4 years. We have had our good and bad times. You look fantastic when I want you too, you don't fly away, and you hold your color like a champ. I love the compliments that I get because of you (the old ladies especially love to compliment and touch you). You have so many different looks it's hard to choose which way to wear you. My favorite though is when you are long and curly I feel so pretty when you hold that curl. I'm sad to say that our time has come to move on. You must go now to someone who needs you more than I. Someone who isn't able to grow you the way I can. I hope they will enjoy you as much as I have. Be good to them, and continue to look as beautiful as ever. Tomorrow will be a sad, but great day, a change for both of us. Goodbye long beautiful hair, you will be missed.

Oh my gosh it really is gone, AHHHH!

Like it so far

WOW! Is that really 14 inches

Don't cry Kaylor, it'll grow back so that you can grab it and pull on it again!

So SHORT!

This is Caity, the one who made me go!

Sushi, Family, FUN!

Jeff wanted endless sushi from Benihana's for his birthday. So that's what we did. It saved me from having to cook. It was totally worth it too!

We arrived 15 minutes early so we killed the time taking some fun family photos

This was round 1

Jeff enjoying his sushi....(he he :), he's gonna kill me for posting this one)

Round 2

We couldn't finish round 2, we really thought we would be able to eat more. It was still worth it though, we ate more than our money's worth. It was so yum!

Kaylor TOTALLY loved the high chair. She was letting everyone know she was in the restaurant being very talkative. Then she decided to pass out before our food came.

Happy Birthday again Jeffy! Hope you had a wonderful day!

The big THREE OHHH!

Today is Jeff's 30th birthday. I had been plotting for at least the past year of what I wanted to do for his 30th. I thought to myself, "What would Jeff want to do for his 30th birthday? Or better yet where would he want to go?" He has told me several times that one of his top places to go some day is Rome, so that's where I wanted to take him. I got buddy passes from my dad, started looking at places to stay, and even borrowed some Italy travel books from a friend that was going to go this year. Since I work the graveyard shift I have a lot of free time on my hands, so I thought for sure I would be able to plan this trip no problem. One night I printed off a March calendar with dates on it, and decided to write on it where I wanted to be on those dates. I was hoping to visit three cities while we were there, Rome, Florence and Venice. So I wrote on the calendar which cities we would be in and for how long. I folded this up and put it in my pocket. When I got home the next morning I emptied my pockets, and put this on the counter under my lunch box. You can probably see where this is going. Stupid me left it there, not just for one day, but for at least three days. Well if anyone knows Jeff, he like his house tidy. He was tidying up the kitchen one day, and was about to just throw the paper away, but then thought to him self that he'd better look and make sure he can throw it away. I was in the room getting Kaylor out of her bassinet and in walks Jeff, this is how it went...............

Jeff: "Um, Nicole, if you want to keep secrets from me you probably shouldn't leave stuff like this lying around." (Shows me the paper)

Nicole: "DAMN IT!" (excuse my language, but what else could I say, my secret was RUINED.)

Jeff has a big smile on his face, so he was obviously pleasantly surprised.

Nicole: "Well, would you like to go to Rome for your 30th birthday?"

Jeff: "Hell yes I would!"

Nicole: "Good, now you can help me plan it. It will be easier to plan it now anyway."

I was soooooooooo disappointed that I didn't get to surprise him, and see the look on his face. I love doing things like that. Especially since I had been thinking about it for a while on how I was going to surprise him. In the end it turned out to be a good thing he found out. Before Jeff ruined his surprise we had begun our house hunting process AGAIN. We also made the decision that we would like to have his Papa (grandpa) move in with us, so that someone could be with him more often. He is 96 and lives on his own. He does well taking care of himself, but he doesn't eat the way that he should. It would also be good to just have someone there that would be able to make sure all is well on a daily basis. So we ended up finding a house that we thought would be suitable for all of our needs, put in an offer, and have played the waiting game ever since. (More on that in a later post) Since we put in this offer, we realized that we need to save some more money for the down payment. So we talked about it and decided that yes it would be nice to take a dream vacation to Italy right now, it would be even better for us to finally own our own home. So that is the decision we made, Italy will have to be some other time. It all works out any way, as much as I am disappointed we aren't going. We wouldn't have taken Kaylor, which meant I would have had to pump while over there, and had to start her on solid food earlier than I wanted to. I'm glad I didn't have to do all that. So Rome will have to wait, but we hope to be in our own place here in the very near future.

Back to the main reason for this post. I wanted to give something to Jeff.

30 Things that I love about Jeff (in no particular order)....

I love.....

1- that you are such a wonderful Husband.
2- that I can call you my best friend.
3- that you love the gospel.
4- that you have the same passion for volleyball that I do.
5- that you have so much devotion to Broomfield High School.
6- that you are such a great coach, to your volleyball team, and your family.
7- that you show me what being a great coach means.
8- that you are always teaching me something new.
9- that you make me laugh on a daily basis.
10-the way you make Kaylor laugh and smile.
11- watching you be a great father.
12- that you are always reasonable.
13- that you REALLY LOVE your new car.
14- that you like your Job, and rarely have something negative to say about it.
15- that you love to play basketball twice a week, sometimes three times a week.
16- that I can come to you about anything.
17- that you clean, and that I never have to ask you to do it.
18- that you don't get mad at me for being messy (or that you keep it to yourself) :)
19- that you can play the guitar, and when you play it for me especially.
20- that you can speak Spanish. It's fun to hear you talk so fluently.
21- that you love your nieces and nephew.
22- that you love your sisters, and understand all the girly stuff thanks to them!
23- that you have so much love and respect for your parents.
24- that you love Papa, so much that you want him to live with us. I love that you can get him to tell stories from back in the day. They are so great to listen to.
25- the way you stick your tongue out when you play video games.
26- it when I can tell you about your crazy nights when we wake up in the morning.
27- the bedtime routine that you have Kaylor used to...works like a charm EVERY night.
28- that we can spend so much time together and never get sick of it.
29- your hot bod, and that you don't look 30.
Last but most certainly not least
30- you for being you.

Happy birthday sweetie I hope you had a wonderful 30th birthday.
p.s. Don't look at 30 as being old, because you don't look a day over 24. I just like to give you crap for being old because I'm not 30 yet. You can let me know how it feels when I turn 30 in two years.

5 Months

It's that time agian! Kaylor is just so dang cute, and so much fun. She is growing so fast. Her personality comes out more and more every day. She is such a happy baby. She only cries when she's hungry, she likes it when you change her diaper, and she has the cutest little laugh! I love her more and more each day. I just can't get enough of her.

Dentist

Yesterday I had my final visit to the dentist for a while, for two reasons. 1-They have officially robbed me. The stupid bill is going to be close to ONE THOUSAND BUCKS....GRRRRRR! I can think of a thousand things that I would rather spend $1,000 dollars on! 2-It feels like I got punch in the face today! The left side of my face is so sore. I had to think about why it was sore this morning, the first thing that came to mind was "Did Jeff elbow, punch, or kick me in his sleep last night?" No he didn't do that but he did rip the blankets off of me, went out to the living room and slept for a couple of hours. I'm officially done with the dentist this year! Ok at least until August when my next check up is. Did I mention that the reason for this last visit was to get re-work done on stuff that had already been done! Stupid Utah dentist that screwed up my mouth, and now I get to pay for it, again! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

4 Months

Yep she's 4 months old already! Time flies! Her first birthday is gonna be here before we know it. Thanks for the warning Jo. I can't believe Noah is 1 already. This time last year we were in Seattle visiting you and the little guy. Now he's walking, crazy! Our little bug is still enjoying her hands. She has started to enjoy tummy time more. Meaning it takes her about 10 minutes to start crying instead of 5. She holds her head up a lot longer now too. She hasn't quite figured out how to roll over, but she sure loves to drool (see pictures below). She had her 4 month check-up and received her 2nd set of shots. NOT FUN. It was better this time around, thanks to Jet for the hot tip on giving her Tylenol BEFORE she got the shots. She cried but not nearly as bad as last time. She is still growing like a weed and eating like a champ.

4 Month Stats:
Weight-14lbs 59th %tile ..........gained 2lbs.
Height- 26in 96th %tile (that's right she'll be tall!).....grew 2 inches.
Head- 16.5 in 76th %tile (smart too!)

Bath Time with Kaylor

I finally figured out how to do a photo mosaic, and it's a pain in the butt! However it's way better than posting a million photos separately and making the post a mile long. You'll be seeing a lot more of these on here because I have so many cute pictures to share!

Bath time is so much fun, and it's only gonna get better. She loves getting clean, but she doesn't love staying clean. Right after bath time she is pretty consistent with pooping in her clean diaper and spitting up her dinner all over herself.

3 Months

This post is a little late, but oh well. Kaylor is now 3 months old, she is more fun everyday. It seems like she is doing something new or different than the day before. Her little squeels are getting more frequent and louder, sooo cute! She brings so much happiness to Jeff and I, we couldn't have asked for a better baby!