Addiction

  So Cheznie is a very fun baby. Everyone seems to find something different that she likes. My mom and Adam find a lot of movement keeps her happy. I have found the swing is one of her favorites and a must at our house. The binkie is also very important in our lives!

  But Adam and I have found the best thing and Cheznie is addicted to it. I saw this mobile online and it was kind of expensive ($30 for a mobile is a bit much for us) but I loved it so much that we budgeted for it and I finally ordered it. It is like a regular mobile with the canopy and music but it will shine a moving picture on the ceiling also. So when we first introduced this to Cheznie she watched it for quite a while and just smiled and cooed. But the wonderful thing about this is that it has continued to be a favorite for her. She loves to watch the animals go around and talks to them and smiles. It is the best investment we have made yet I think.

  Now here is some fun stuff we have been doing lately. For everyones birthdays this year my parents took everyone to Lagoon. We like to go when it has Frightmares because of all the haunted houses. It was tons of fun and the lines were not all that long. Except the night before I sprained my ankle at my brothers house. The porch step is a little dangerous if your not paying attention! But I could walk on it and it just hurt when using stairs and it was quite swollen for a few days. So the night before going to Lagoon is not a good time to hurt yourself.

   The picture below shows us standing in the longest line all day and it was for the train(the only thing Cheznie could ride). My mom and dad dont really ride too many things and so they watched the babies and children as needed. The Frightmare things were a little trickier.  Mom was off with Payton and Crystal while the rest of us tried to go through the haunted houses but not to have to take the babies in. So we would all stand in line, the strollers included, then when we got to the front a couple of people would stay and the rest would go in. Then we would come out and switch with hopefully the person able to go in right away. We went up until the park closed and then went out and had sandwiches at the car. I think Adam and I were one of the very last people to leave the parking lot.

  Also pictured below is Stacy taking both babies so the rest of us could go on Rattlesnake Rapids and get completely soaked! Thanks everyone for the fun and helping to watch Cheznie.

This is Cheznie with her new cousin Quinn. She is 2 1/2 months older than her and looks so big compared to her. But then again Cheznie was never that small.

  Now for some sad news! We will be moving to Vernal, Adam got a job up there and he actually is starting that today. I will be in Moab for a few more weeks until we get an apartment and I get everything else squared away. It was so sad to see Adam leave yesterday and since he could be working 6 days a week I am not really sure how often he will be able to come home. I will go up as often as I can but I watch a little boy a couple of days a week and we still have vending machines for a little while longer. But I am excited for this new adventure and a little better job.

So long Louey and Tuke

  We have some sad news, last weekend while we were at the Holyoak Reunion we had our fish commit suicide. That might sound weird, but we had a plecostomus that my old boss gave to us about a year ago, that was as tall as our fish tank. His son told us his name was Two but Adam misunderstood and so he was named Tuke. What they did not tell us about this huge fish is that he liked to jump. He would scare me at night thinking some one was trying to get in our house until we figured out that it was this huge fish jumping and hitting the lid of the tank. One time he even knocked down part of the light from his jumping. Well anyway while we were gone he jumped though the hole where the filter is and landed behind our TV. It was pretty funny the day after we got home and I noticed he was not in the tank. Adam was sure someone had stolen him (and left everything else?). So after a bit of looking we found him dried up behind the TV (i guess it was quite warm back there).
  Now on to Louey... along with Tuke my boss had given us 3 other fish that we named Huey, Dewy, and Louey. Adam told me he had died, so I went over to the tank to look at him and he was still breathing. So we left him to see if he would perk up. We would see him swim and eat a little but I couldn't decide if he would get better or if we should just put him out of his misery. About a week of this on the day we found Tuke I finally decided to let him go. Adam scooped him up in the net and went to flush him. While trying to get him out of the net he shook it and Louey hit the side of the toilet. After two fish gone in one day I am a little bit done with our fish.

  On to happier things in the middle of the reunion Cheznie was blessed and given a name. Adam gave a beautiful blessing and she had a lot of people who love her in the circle. Thanks to everyone who was able to be here for it. I love that Adam is so wonderful and holds the Priesthood so he can bless our family with it.

Meetng cousin Alex for the first time (He is 6 months older)

  That evening we went to the mountain for the traditional Brothers Dinner part of the reunion. I love going up to our cabin and having so much family around. We ate, visited, played and worked together and then had to come home back to our normal lives. But it was so much fun while it lasted.

Scow Reunion

  Cheznie had her first trip to the Cabin this last week. It was the Scow reunion Thursday thru Saturday, so Adam took off Wednesday and we headed up to the mountain Tuesday night. My Parents were there until Wednesday night and so we spent time with them and played games. Then Adam's family showed up on Thursday. We visited, played games, went on the 4-wheelers, and ate lots! It was so much fun. Other than Al and Anna Marie and two of Holly's friends we all stayed in our cabin. It was the most people we have ever had sleep there at once (32 people), but it turned out really good. All the adults had beds and a couple of the big kids and the children had a huge slumber party on the floor.

Adam made sure that there was a good fire pit for everyone. Then my husband who loves fire so much stayed out there for over an hour even though no one really stayed out there with him for very long. But him and Jacob sat out there singing camp songs. 

  On Friday it was Cheznie's 1 month birthday, it is amazing that a month has gone by so fast already. Adam and I were getting ready to go on a 4-wheeler ride, but Cheznie was not letting us go by ourselves and leave her with someone  at the cabin. So we decided to take her with us and she loved it, the only time she cried was when we stopped. The next day we went for  a walk up to blue lake. Because of the moisture we have been having there were tons of pretty flowers and I made my family get a picture taken in them.

We had so much fun and everyone loved Cheznie so much and spoiled her by holding her so much. But that actually affected her opposite from what you might think. She would cry until we put her down by her self for a while. Then on saturday night she slept for 8 hours because she was so worn out. When we got home from the cabin we all needed to clean up. After Adam and I showered we bathed Cheznie in her new bath tub. I hope Carson likes it, I know he wanted to get it for us. Megan gave us one she got from a yard sale but it didn't really hold water so we decided to get this fun one. So Lindsay and Carson should come visit us, to give Cheznie a bath in her fun tub.

The Princess has arrived!

So our little Cheznie Mae is finally here. I cant really say finally though becuase she is very prompt, when the doctor origanlly said July 12th she took that to heart. She arrived the evening of the 12th and we were so excited to have her join us. She was 8 lbs 2 oz and 20 inches long. We had to stay in the hospital for two nights becuase of a chance her hips clicked. So we were just waiting on a specialist to come and see her. All day they kept saying she was coming, finally at 2:30 she came and then we waited around until 4:00 to finally be released. So after nearly 3 full days in the hospital we were able to bring our little Princess home.

And right now she is curled up so cute on my lap because today she has decided that is the only place she can sleep. I love this little girl soooooo much.

We had our first outing today to go to church. My cousin was here to bless her baby and so we thought we would go. If not for this I would have held off on going back to church just yet. First off let me say church pews are very uncomfortable and when my dad got up to help with the blessing trying to let him get by was not easy. But it was a very good meeting and we are all glad we went. Adam gave the baby to the first person he saw as he walked through the door (he said he could not tell his Bishop no, so Paul and Kathy took her) so for the rest of the meeting I had everyone looking at me so strange because I had no baby that was suppose to be here. But after church she got all the attention she could stand.

One Year Later

Oh my gosh, Adam and I have been married a year! And an extremely crazy one at that but it really doesnt feel like a year. Thank goodness Adam has put up with me through it all.(Hi, this is Adam just wanted to interject my own opinion here. Tori is the one who has not only been putting up with all the crazy pregnancy stuff but also her 31 year old child!) After 7 months of being sick and the hospital visit that scared my father to death,(AND her husband) I finally started to feel better but have no energy to do anything.
We spent the weekend in Colorado for our anniversay, because I would not let us go to far from our doctor, it was fun though to just stop where ever and do anything. But of course I would have to sit down a lot and of course my amazing husband was just fine pampering me and we had a ton of fun(She is awesome for saying so because I made her go to country jam and sit in very hot weather for a long time with loud drunk crazy people all around). At one point I said "I am sorry we couldnt do that" and he got upset because I was apologizing. But then I had to explain that I was sorry for me too and informed him that we would have to come back sometime to do it.
It really is great being married to my best friend and we have so much fun together.(She took the words right out of my mouth.) I am now going to attempt to post some pictures from our weekend.

What Adam did while I rested.

The Big Pregnant Lady in a Dinosaur Heart!

Things Are Changing

The other day my sister told me I should start a blog, another sister had been telling me that for a long time. So here it is, dont know how successful this will be.

We are counting down weeks and days until our baby girl will be here. We thought we had a name picked out but we kept hearing it everywhere, so now we are rethinking it. So any suggestions are appriciated. We bought a book that was labeled 60,000 Baby Names, but we have renamed it 60,000 Baby Names You Don't Want. Some of Adams favorites from the book are Bazoka, Bacon and Ha. Yesterday Adam and a friend came up with Helen Mary-Jean after my grandmothers but I think that is a bit much for such a little girl.

We are trying to get everything ready but the vending machines keep getting in the way. After the baby shower we took everything home and set it in the front room. Then we had to do the shopping for the machines and guess where that stuff landed...yup, THE FRONT ROOM. So I have been working hard at getting things to fit somewhere. Adam and I were moving things around the other day. When he headed off to work I thought I would sit down and take a break but there was no where to sit! Everything was full: the couch, the chairs, the bed, the rocker, even most of the floor. So wish me luck as I continue to sort through the mess we call home.