The Breakfast of Champions... cookies

Addysin and I went to bed too late last night and when she woke up this morning I wasn't quit ready to get up so I let her play in our room while I "rested". She was being so quiet and I paniced and thought "where is she?!" I looked over on the floor and saw her eating all of the chocolate chips out of the cookies that were in my purse from last night. She was so happy with herself.

I joined her and ate some of the cookie parts that she didn't want. Honestly, who doesn't love cookies for breakfast? Maybe I'm just a sugar addict.

Hoover Dam

Last sunday we drove about 1/2 hour to see Hoover Dam. It was really cool, and amazing that it was built in the 30's. It was a HOT day (like 108 degrees). Of course we forgot the stroller, but we weren't there too long and we had 6 different people to pass Addysin between. It was a fun sunday outing. I have never wanted to jump in a lake as bad as I did that day though.

Ok, a few facts:
It took 4 years to build
Lake Mead took 6 years to fill
The dam is on the border of Nevada and Arizona

Utah... I love being home

Addysin and I came back to Utah this week. We spent three weeks in Vegas with Chris. They were 3 fun and hard weeks. Due to her going to bed so late and then the sun shining right in our windows at 5:30am, and on top of that our bedroom situation (see my previous post for details), Addy and I got very limited sleep. Usually 5-6 hours was about all and we woke up every hour during that precious time. I felt like death every morning and evening. It was so fun to be in the sunshine at the pool and to be able to see Chris every morning and night. I also had some fun girlfriends there to hang out with during the day. The best part was they are in love with Addysin and would babysit her while I went grocery shopping or just took a nap! Thank you Jamie and Amanda Jo!

After getting such poor sleep and having a grouchy little girl everyday, I was a little ready to come home. I was so sad to leave Chris and maybe shed a few tears on the way home, but honestly what doesn't make me emotional these days. I knew this was what was best for us. And besides, Chris flew to Chicago that same day for the week so I didn't have a reason to stay.

Anyways, here is the cutest story. Addysin was asleep when we pulled in so I carried her upstairs and layed her in her crib. Just then she cracked her eyes open and was about to cry but then looked around and saw that she was in her crib in her home! She smiled and kicked her legs. I picked her up and she was sooo happy. She couldn't stop talking and pointing at everything. I can just imagine what she was saying..."mom, this is my room! Look at all of my stuff, cool, wow!" The funniest thing was she had to hold this random bear that is sitting up on a high shelf and she has never even held it before. She cuddled it like it was her long lost toy.

Ohhh, my little girl is starting to have a memory of things she loves! She loves her home and she has been sleeping like a gem! You know what that means? So have I!

Our funny little girl

Here are some CUTE baby boy clothes I bought a month ago. I usually dont love boy clothes as easily as girl clothes but when I was at Babies R Us everything was looking so cute and cuddly. I cant wait to put him in the two middle outfits because they are newborn size and will fit right off. The striped one is shorts, not a skirt like it looks. Aparently I was liking red that day. This is how exhausted Addysin was while we were in Vegas (p.s. we're back!). She has never done this before. I was doing dishes and she just layed down on the ground with her blanket and fell asleep. Getting her to sleep was really hard there because she would be soooo tired that she would cry and whine instead of falling asleep. I was so relieved when I saw her... it was one less thing for me to do.
The last week we were there I found all her favorite shows on Playhousedisney.com and she would sit there for an hour (at least) and watch. She wouldn't even press the keys. She LOVES "My Friends Tigger and Pooh", "Little Einsteins", "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse", & "Handy Manny". And I mean LOVES them. They are cute cartoons and not annoying. They also sing songs that she loves. Actually, she just loves any music.
Ok, look past the cute face and at all her wounds. First let me just say that I CANNOT take a shower without her bawling her eyes out because she wants in, even if I just gave her a bath 5 minutes before. So I have two stories, both happened this week.

1. In vegas we had a tub/shower and she would sit at the back and play while I showered (keep in mind that if Chris or I dont let her in she will try climbing in fully clothed). This incident happened with Chris. She was sitting there and a shampoo bottle fell right below her right eye and made it bleed. Chris was yelling for me and I was so scared, but it turned out to not be that bad. It surprisingly didn't swell up, nor did she get a black eye.
2. Then 2 days later, back in Utah in our stand up shower, she cryed and cryed so I let her in the shower. Happy as can be, she stood up and took a step on the slippery ground and face planted on her lip with her front tooth. The spirit told me it was going to happen 2 seconds before and I ignored it. I frantically dried us off and she was screaming. Her mouth was full of blood. I thought "how am I going to get to the hospital like this" (Chris wasn't there to help us). I let her suck on a wet rag and that helped. Then she suddenly stopped crying and was tasting the blood. She was nodding her head in approval (thats what she does when she likes something tasty). Her lip instantly had swelled up and she obviously couldn't feel it because she was biting it and making it worse. I have never been so thankful for the blanket she sucks on than I was right then. That was the only way I could get her to stop biting it. So anyways, it stopped bleeding pretty quick and she fell right to sleep. Thank goodness. By morning the swelling was gone.

Ok, you think she has learned that showering is dangerous with us? NO, of course not! She still crys like she is going to die through my whole shower. But dont worry, I dont give in anymore.

26 Weeks

Wow, this pregnancy is going by really fast and I'm so glad. From here on is when my aches really bother me though and I dont sleep well at all. I cant wait for those pains to go away in 3 months, but then I'll have a whole new set of pains. Maybe in 5 months i'll be feeling good, yay! Here is another reason I'm not sleeping top notch. Just look at the pictures...

We are staying in the living room of our friends Jamie and Leo while I'm here in Vegas for a couple of weeks. Its not bad at all but just not like having a bedroom, and seperate from Addysin. We have a super nice air mattress with a memory foam mattress topper so its super comfy. Everytime addysin lets out the smallest cry in her sleep though I wake up (and its A LOT during the night). We have this nice little cutout that is "her bedroom" and our place for all of our stuff.

Its been a challenge with Addysin, but its worth it so we can be with Chris for part of the summer. This will be the last summer of moving around though. Yeah, I know we said that last summer, but really... next summer we are not moving. Our family is getting too big. Weird...Chris and I have a family :) That just make me laugh, and so happy!

My Family- The Bleazards

I was just looking through pictures on my computer and I saw this one of my family. Its a year and 5 months old, but the most recent. I love my family! There are 8 girls and 2 boys. I have 2 in-laws (a brother and sister), 3 nephews now, 1 neice, and another one on the way from Melanie!
Congratulations to Kara! She just got engaged to her boyfriend Adam!!!

Kara is the 2nd one from the left in thepicture. They dont have a wedding date yet, but I'll be sure to post it once they know.

I want to show you Chris' side of the family, The Lee's, but we dont have a picture. We are getting one though in July when we have a family reunion. I'm really excited.

Las Vegas we're back

Well "summer" has started which means Chris is hard at work selling and managing a summer sales group. He works for Security One selling residential and commercial security systems. Its a great job and he only has to work hard for 1/3 of the year so he can go to school the rest of the year. Previous summers we lived in North Carolina and Minnesota. This summer its Las Vegas. Its so nice that its only 5-6 hours from Orem so we are going to be back and forth a lot. For now I am in Vegas with Chris. My summer will be full of traveling between Vegas, Utah, and Washington. Its been a little hard for me and Addysin to adjust to different sleeping arrangements but it definitly has gotton better the longer we've been here. I will post pictures soon of our apartment.

Here are some random pictures I've taken since we've been here. Of course they are all of Addysin. Here she is with her new baby boy. She is soooo cute with him. I hope she learns some things from having it. Sometimes I hold it and rock it like a baby so she will get used to the idea. She just gets jelous that I am holding her baby and comes and takes him away. Yes, she is still very attached to her blanket, probably even more than ever. I am in no hurry to wean her of it. It works like a charm to get her to sleep and calms her down everytime she gets hurt, which is really often.


Wow, I cant believe how warm/hot it is here. Its instantly summer for us. I think its usually somewhere around 75-90 degrees and always sunny. We've been to the pool a couple of times but the water was too cold so I didn't put addysin in. We just hung out outside of the pool and blew bubbles. This is her beach chair that she fell off of too many times so we'll wait a couple more months to pull it out again. she really loves it though.
And for fun we stuffed her swim suit so she could be like the big girls. She liked it and wanted me to put all 4 of the squishy balls in her swim suit.

Kara's graduation

Things have been really busy, and fun, for me the past few weeks (which is the reason I haven't updated this in so long). My sister Kara graduated from the MBA program at BYU at the end of April so my family came down to Utah for a couple of days. Well my mom flew here before everyone else (on Monday April 21) and the rest of the family drove down on Thursday. They left on Sunday so it was a really short trip but tons of fun. I'm so mad at myself for not taking pictures while they were here. Sorry family! Here are some from the restraunt we ate at after graduation. Its called "Cracker Barrell" and was really down homey. I was sad to say goodbye to them when they all left.