Saylor's Frozen 5th Birthday!

So going back to March...Saylor turned 5! She of coarse requested a Frozen party! Ty's super talented cousin Alyssa made this gorgeous Elsa dress for Saylor.  Say made a pretty cute Elsa!

 My mom and sister came for the week and helped me soooo much with the party! I couldn't have done it with out them.  I was still feeling pretty awful from pregnancy so they saved my life!  My mom made this darling Frozen cake.

 Say has lots of friends so we had quite the houseful of kids over! When everyone first got there we built Olaf's out of marshmallows.

 Oaks favorite part was eating it!

We cut out tons of snowflakes and hung them all over the walls and from the ceiling to transform our kitchen into "Saylor's Ice Castle"

 The kids in line to play pin the nose on Olaf...

 It's funny to look back and see how small my belly really was but I remember feeling huge at this point haha! I was around 16 weeks and my clothes were no longer fitting me!

 Lisa and Stacy were so awesome to come and help paint all the kids faces.

 Lisa painted a beautiful butterfly on Say's face!

 Marshall was also so good to help...here he is playing musical chairs with everyone.

 Sky made the cutest little puppy dog!

The kids all playing freeze dance.  Say told me this was her very favorite part of the party.

 FREEZE!

 Lots of cute princesses!

 We had a few fun snacks that I tried to make go with the Frozen theme...

 

 

Getting ready to sing to the birthday girl!

 What a fun group of friends Saylor had in Missouri!

 The next day on Say's actual birthday we had cake and ice cream with our family and Lisa and Marshall.  They taught us the game where everyone goes around the table and tells their favorite thing about the person whose birthday it is.  We all told Saylor how much we loved her and why and it made her so so happy!  I loved watching her face especially when I told her birth story from when she was born. I still can't believe I have a 5 year old! 

 

She has been especially sweet to me since I got pregnant and is always offering to help clean the house, rub my feet and is constantly hugging and kissing "brother" (my belly).  She told me that when brother is born, I will take care of Oaks and she will be taking care of baby brother. 

Saylor is such a smart and beautiful girl.  She loves to sing, dance, swim, go to school, draw, write and play with Oaks.  She is also extremely strong-willed, stubborn and dramatic. When she is happy, her being dramatic is hilarious and makes things more exciting and fun.  When she is mad....watch out! Haha we are so much the same it scares me sometimes.  Saylor is still a complete Daddy's girl.  Saylor is extremely affectionate and loves to kiss! She has already been caught kissing a boy!  Aaaahhh! She is only allowed to kiss Ty on the cheek because she gets too smoochy when she kisses him on the lips.  Saylor is boy crazy! She tells me about boys she loves in her class and she will tell me she is worried about who she is going to marry.  This part of her did not come from me! I'm just hoping she gets all this boy craziness out young or else I'm in a lot of trouble!  It doesn't help that she is completely gorgeous and she knows it. We sure love this girl!

Major Catch Up!

So I just realized that I haven't blogged for 7 months! Sad day. The main reason is because our computer has been broken for just about that long but I'm also pregnant and things have been super busy with Ty finishing up his 2nd year of med school, studying and taking boards and MOVING TO UTAH!

 

My blog is the way I journal and scrapbook so I fully intend on catching up and posting pictures of the last 7 months.  It has been a really hard last 7 months, but we of coarse did a lot of fun things in between that need to be documented!

 

This pregnancy has been a super rough one. I felt way sicker than I ever have and have had some health issues which have made it no fun. My doctor restricted me from exercising this time around which has been so hard for me! I need to be active in my life! For a while I was taking daily shots in my stomach and I have really had to take things easy.

 

The six weeks leading up to Ty taking his boards were soooo hard! Ty studied all day and all night, 6 days a week.  We are used to him being gone a lot, but this was the busiest and most stressed he had ever been.  I packed up our entire house all by myself. Luckily my mom came to help me clean the few days before because I never could have done it alone! One of my best friends Stacy was also super amazing.  She took my kids and came and helped me scrub my house until it shined.  She was on her hands and knees scrubbing things with a toothbrush, pregnant and all!  She is the greatest and I miss her dearly!

 

Leaving Kirksville was so bittersweet. We had been there 4 years and we had grown to love it so much. We had so many amazing experiences and we met some of our dearest friends. Living in Missouri was our first time we had ever lived away from family and I really feel like we "grew up" and learned how to be a family on our own. Tyler and I had to rely on each other and on Heavenly Father so much. Our friends became our family.  We wouldn't trade our experiences there for anything. But as sad as we were to go, it was time to move on.

 

So far third year has been the BEST!!! Ty is usually off by 5:30 and has had several days when he gets off early and lots of days when he just has the day off! Even the fact that we have Saturdays with him has been a dream come true! I can finally actually look forward to the weekend instead of dreading it! I love that we had to go through some hard things because it makes the good so much better:) 

 

We love being in Utah! It's fun being here and not having to live out of a suitcase.  Our house is beautiful and has the most gorgeous view of the mountains!  I definitely cried the first time we pulled up and saw the mountains from our house. Behind our house there is a giant farm, train tracks and a fruit stand. We see horses pass behind our house all the time. We kind of live in the country but we also are only 5 minutes away from the mall, costco, hobby lobby, and any other store or restaurant I could ever want! My girls have loved being so close to their cousins, aunts and uncles. We love being by Grandma and having a babysitter whenever we want! I have been spoiled and haven't been to the grocery store alone with my girls not even once. We are loving the non-humid weather and the cool summer nights. There are so many fun things to do! Last night we saw our sixth firework show! (and I really love fireworks!!!) We have been to Lagoon, 7 peaks, splash pads, rodeos, parades, up the canyon, to my cabin and so many other things. 

 

My doctor here in Utah took me off my daily shots and I have been feeling so good! I think all the fun things and being around family have distracted me and I don't feel as miserable and uncomfortable. I got big really fast with this pregnancy and people have been asking me for months if I am due any day haha! I currently have 26 days until my due date. I'm super ready to be done being pregnant, get my body back and be able to move but I'm also super scared to have 3 kids! 2 kids is still so hard, how will I ever be able to handle another? I feel like I forget how to take care of a newborn, how to nurse, how to get up all night long. It will definitely be nice having family around this time though.  We are also so so excited to be having a BOY!

 

So that is the update for now. We just bought a new computer so I will post pictures from the last 7 months soon!

Fall Happiness

The girls and I savor the random Saturdays when Ty gets to be home with us. One Saturday we played outside in the leaves and enjoyed Fall...and Dad.

 I love my cute, crazy girls!

 Cannon ball!

 It makes me so happy when my girls play together

Quick Family Shot 

 I love that my girls are so brave.  They let Ty throw them right into the pile.

 One of my most favorite things of the whole year is KCOM prom!!! I LOVE a good dance party! Ty doesn't love it quite as much as I do, but he's a good sport and dances crazy with me! I'm sad this was our last year going, we had such a fun night!

 We actually wore the exact same thing we wore last year haha, thanks for the dress Autumn!

 Ty only got 3 days off for Thanksgiving this year but it was still a welcomed break! We had Thanksgiving with the McGrews, Warners, Nielsons, Crossleys and Vidinhas.  We had TONS of food and it was all sooo good!

 We are so thankful for great friends! I told my friends it's sad to be away from family on holidays and I'm so excited to be living by family next Thanksgiving....but next year I'll be missing all my friends! They have all become like family to us.

 Thanksgiving was such a great day!  I have so much to be thankful for.  The perfect husband that is sacrificing so much right now to be in medical school but still somehow always takes care of us and makes sure he spends every spare second he has with us doing fun things, adorable kids that have made my heart fill more than I ever thought possible and are so hard but make me laugh and make me a better person every day, amazing friends who help keep me sane living in a tiny town with a husband always gone and who teach me to be a better mom and two super supportive extended families that we can't wait to see soon!

 The day after Thanksgiving we were ready to start celebrating Christmas!  We went with a group of friends to go cut down a tree!

They have the cutest little tree farm out here with the most adorable little log cabin.

Scoping out the trees!

 Oakley fell in love with this dog and kept trying to hug him!

 Helping Daddy cut it down!

 We got one of the biggest trees they had! It barely fit in our house!

 They have a machine that shakes the trees to get out all the bugs/spiders/loose pine needles.  Oakley would freak out and start dancing every time they turned it on!

 Oaks loves her friend Owen

 We made Christmas sugar cookies for Family Night this week! We tried to fit in as many Christmas activities as we could before Ty got completely overwhelmed with school and finals coming up.

 Silly girls

 These pictures are actually from back in October but I had to post about Ernie's baptism! Ernie's wife Chauntelle is a med student that Ty and his friends met at school.  She was baptized as a child and grew up in Hawaii never really being active in the church.  Ernie and Chauntelle became our really good friends! They started coming to our ward about a year ago after our friends Lisa and Marshall invited them and Ernie started taking the discussions a few months ago.  Ernie and Chauntelle are some of the most amazing people I have ever met!  They have such a desire to learn about the gospel and do what's right. It strengthened my testimony so much to be a part of some of their discussions and see their testimonies grow.  Ernie's baptism was such a perfect day! We felt so blessed to be a part of it!

Chauntelle's grandparents are the only active members of the church in her family and they flew all the way out from Hawaii to be at the baptism! They were amazing and we felt so lucky to get to meet them!

We wanted to do something special for Ernie and since he is from Hawaii we decided to smoke a pig! I posted pics on instagram of the pig on our kitchen counter, it was huge! 

So I never really posted about it but we found out we are moving to Provo, Utah in June for Ty to do his rotations! We are SOO excited!! We are also driving home in 2 weeks for Christmas! My little brother got home from his mission in Mexico City last week so we can't wait to see him! This is the longest I've ever gone with out seeing family so I've been a little bit homesick and just can't wait to see everyone!