Recent Pictures

Here are a few recent pictures...of Tyson of course!!

Heart ache

My heart aches for my brother and his family...just glad no people got hurt. But still sad for their all they lossed.
http://www.9news.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=1456820484001

UGH.

Let me take a few moments to complain. I try really really hard not to be a complainer. I mean I have an amazing life, with an amazing husband who loves me and a handsom son who brightens my day. I dont have any major trials going on in my life. I have a nice home where my family is safe. My life is pretty darn great and there are people in a lot worse situations than me, so I have no right to complain... But lately its really hard to hold it in so let me just vent for a moment.
My belly is getting so big that I can hardley hold Tyson anymore and when I do, I feel so much pressure I can barely stand it. I try to get down and play with him but any position I sit in is uncomfortable. He is getting more and more adventurous and I'm getting more and more tired and more and more uncomfortable. I am so tired but cant seem to get comfortable at night or during the day to take a nap.
Some times I have to go to peoples houses who have breakable things and Tyson seems to go right to those and wont leave them alone. I chase him around, ware myself out and try to hold him on my lap which I said before I can not do anymore.
I really do love being pregnant and feeling the baby move and grow but I am SO READY to be done. I know it will be hard when I am trying to give two babies attention but I will actually be able to bend over to play with them and really give them both the attention I want to!
 I'm tired. I'm worn down. And I'm grumpy. Thats my complaining for the moment. The end.

Wyoming is cold!

                Like I said I went to see my family in WY for a week...here's a little peak of our fun!

The big 2-5.

UGH. That means Im half way to 50! That is really scary :)

Well my birthday was almost a month ago but as you know I am way behind. And since I am skipping my nap today, which I am already regretting. I figured I would blog a little.

I went to Wyoming to see my family for a week. That is the LONGEST I have ever been away from my husband. Including while we were dating. It was hard to be gone from him but nice to get out of my daily routine in Nevada. While all of my family live with in a 3 hour circle of each other you would think it would be easy for me to see everyone and spend quality time with each of them...but its not! Each have a different schedual of course. So everyone planned on coming to my parents house for one day to get together. This isn't unusual. Like I said, everyone is busy and has different scheduals so we usually are able to get together for atleast a couple of hours. As my nieces and nephews started showing up, they got out balloons, ribbon, party decorations and again I thought nothing of it. Just kids finding things to do at Grandma's house I suppose. As we started to play games, I started to get a wiff of lit matches which I just shrugged off as pregnancy nose catching someones fireplace or something. Then all of the sudden out of the blue my sister and her husband come around the corner with a cake singing happy birthday and suddenly I realized that this was all for me; making sure everyone was able to come, the kids blowing up balloons, the smell of the buring candles they were lighting on the cake. I dont know if it was suppose to be a suprise or not but it was! And it was great! I'll have to get pictures from my Mom since she took all of them on her camera. But it was really really great and I felt very very loved!

When I got home my husband greeted me in the airport with a big hug and kiss and 2 birthday presents; a movie and child cabnet locks. I really did need to put some locks on cabinets so I again assumed he was getting me a practical gift. When we arrived home, there in the middle of the living room sat a cherry wood DVD cabinet with doors that close and will fit all of our movies from 2 shelves into one. Tyson constantly liked to pull movies off the open shelves and Kurt knew how much a closed cabinet WITH LOCKS! would mean to me! What a great way to spend my 25th Birthday! I got a lot of amazing gifts, was suprised a lot and got to spend it with people I love!

Baby boy #2

We had our 20 week ultrasound yesterday and found out we are having another boy! Kurt and I(and everyone else I think) thought it would be a girl...then the ultrasound tech lady asked if we had any guesses and when I said the word "girl" I knew in that instance it was going to be a boy! He was being a little shy at first but after alittle shaking and wiggling he decided to show all! And there are no doubts that he is infact a boy! I think some where deep inside, Tyson understood. Because for the rest of the day he was extremely hyper! We were chasing him around last night while he laughed, trying to get his P.J.'s on and I couldnt help but think how fun it will be chasing two little guys around! Call me crazy but I am excited for those times.

Lets start with Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was low key this year. Kurt, Tyson and I stayed here in Nevada. Our families live far away and in places where it likes to snow a lot. So instead of spending the outrageous amounts of money that airlines like to charge over the holidays and instead of risking our lives through the ice and snow storms, we have decided to spend the winter holidays at home and travel to see family in the safer summer months. I must say it was hard to be pregnant over Thanksgiving! I wanted to eat everything before it was even made and when thinking about eating one thing it would trigger another craving. I tried to keep the "steph" foods to a minimum but I still made way too much and ended up not eating half of it! But I did attempt to make everything from scratch which I did except for the mashed potatoes!

 My mom makes awesome pies and knows how to fold the edges just right to make them look perfect. Mine however....did not look so great!

 I am not very good with baking things that require yeast and raising. But this year I made a recipe of my Mother in Laws which turned out great!

 Kurto even helped make the stuffing!! Such a good husband I have!

 We also continues my families tradition of playing cribage...which I won!

The day after Thanksgiving we put up Christmas Lights on the house for the first time!!

 And decorated the tree! Sometimes I wish we could travel and see the whole family over these Holidays but I really love making our own traditions and making memories in our home with our new family!