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It's almost time for us to move to our new home in New Mexico! We are so excited. Then we get to go home to Utah for Christmas, we can't wait to see the snow! Oh yes, and our family!! Here are some recent pictures of my little angel and her one and only cousin, Duncan.

New Due Date

As it turns out, I am only seven weeks pregnant. What a let down. I thought I was almost through my first trimester until I had my first ultrasound yesterday. The measurement of the baby said it was seven weeks and one whole day. I am totally bumbed. Although now my due date is July 8th and I don't have to worry anymore about it coming on Kiera's or my birthday and I will most likely be able to travel home in May for when my brother comes home from his mission. Really, it's a good thing, but almost four weeks less than I thought.

Here is a cute picture of Kiera a daddy on the carousel at the local mall here in Florida. I love going to the mall this time of year. I LOVE all the Holiday decorations, the smells, the people. It's just so fun. I know many people, like my husband, disagree with me 100%, but I love going to the mall and Christmas time.

Kiera is...

Going to be a big sister! Baby number two is on it's way!! Not such great planning on our part, (as if we planned to get pregnant the month we did) but I am due on my birthday and Kiera's birthday is four days before mine. So I guess June is our month for having birthday's. I am only nine and a half weeks, which means a lot more to go.

Three things I HATE about being pregnant:
1- If I don't nap with Kiera, I'm ready to go to bed by 7:30pm
2- I hate making bathroom trips everywhere I go
3- Most of all I very much dislike being nauseated. I was doing great until Sunday, then it started. I was praying that this pregnancy would be complete opposite of the first.

Three things I LOVE about being pregnant:
1-Feeling the baby move (obviously hasn't happened yet)
2- Getting a new wardrobe (about to happen)
3-The beautiful gift from Heaven that I get to hold at the end of the nine months

We are extremely excited as a family and feel very blessed!

Happy Halloween!

My sweet little Halloween Princes!

Duncan--not so happy that he had to sit for a picture!

Yummmmm

This is our favorite Mexican restaurant of all time! Now that we are back in Florida, we quickly found ourselves on the hour long drive just to eat dinner. It was worth every second and every penny of gas! Since I have been craving their chimichanga for one year now, I was simply in heaven.

Living "TLF" style

Here are pictures of our beautiful TLF! I really can't complain, it has plenty of room for two months and is equipped with most everything we need in the kitchen. Even better, there is a playground right out our front door.
We are enjoying our time here in Florida, though we have only been here one week. We took a quick trip down to the beach and it is just a beautiful as it was a year ago. We have spent two wonderful weekends up at Ft. Rucker in Alabama with Brandon, Christy, and Duncan! It is so fun for Kiera to have a cousin to play with now.

Last Blog for a while

This will be my last post for an unknown amount of time. Hopefully not too long. Yes, it is time to move again. Although, this time we will have managed to live here in Enid for 11 months and ten days! That is a new record for us. We have the packers coming on Thursday and the truck comes on Friday to get our stuff. I am so not ready for this move and I can't seem to get myself into gear.

I am going to back-track to the weekend now. On Sunday evening our friends had a going away dessert party for those of us moving this month. It was so much fun. I want to say Thank you to the Calls for hosting it at their house. It truly was wonderful. Good luck to the Fryer's and Monks' in Texas. It's going to be a party down there with many of our friends flying the B-1!
Saturday was the air show here at Vance. It was cool. Of course my favorite was the Thuderbirds. I am not personally interested in looking at the static displays but I do like to watch the planes fly. That evening we went out to dinner with our good friends the Watts'. That was too much fun.

Thursday and Friday we were down at Clovis, NM looking at houses. What a draining effort that is. I always thought it would be fun, but not so much. It is tough! I guess the fun comes when you find a house that you like and want to buy, which we managed to do, but now we have all the other work that follows, filling out paper work, making an offer, praying that they except it or at least make a counter-offer, paying all those closing costs, and last but not least MOVING! Not to mention that we have to make a two month stop to Florida before we get to New Mexico. I get wore out just typing about it.

I'll stop blabbing now and post some pictures.

Saturday morning after Kiera got out of the tub, she told Ryan she was cold, so he piled all these pillows on top of her. She thought it was so funny!

This is Kiera exactly ten months ago. I just wanted to compare it with the next two pictures with how much my baby is growing. Life is moving so fast these days! I love Kiera so much!

On the move

What a wonderful five and a half week trip we had to Utah. We're missing our family already but so excited that Ryan has survival training over with. I took so many pictures that I will just skip posting any more. I would have to say that I am official SICK of driving! I don't know what I was thinking when I thought it would be a while before we had to drive a long distance again (by long distance I mean more that 12 hours). Instead, when Ryan went back into work on Monday he was given his training RIP that stated he starts pilot training for the PC-12 on October 14th in Florida. Do you understand this? Now we have to drive to Florida! Besides the driving, we have to get ready to move in two whole weeks. For me, that is not much time, I guess we'll make do. So the plan is: we pack up and DRIVE to Hurlburt Field in Florida. We will be there until December 15th then we will get in the car again and DRIVE to New Mexico. I feel like screaming, but what would the military be without short notices and plans that don't make sense to anyone! I guess the only two things that can make me feel better right now is finding and buying a house quick and that the process goes smoothly. Second, girls night with my dear friends on Friday, which I am counting on to be the best night of this week!
I suppose I'll go take care of my daughter now and do some more cleaning. I am still not unpacked from our Utah trip, what makes them think I am ready to move?! Oh, if anyone has advice for buying a house, please feel free to let us know. This is our first experience and I am a little nervous!

Fun in Utah

It's been a while since the last post. It is more difficult to take time for the blog when there are so many people to see and other fun things to do. But here is a little recap of our recent adventures.

Kiera has been potty training and she has been receiving LOTS of candy and Popsicles. This really isn't as hard as I thought it was going to be, all thanks to my mom!

Here is a picture of Kiera catching candy at the Peach Day's kiddie parade. She wasn't interested in the loud fire trucks but loved the train.

The derby... this was not any regular domolation derby, it was a truck derby. The best I have ever seen. Unfortunatly it ended early for Kiera and I because she suddenly threw up all over and my aunt graciously drove us back to my parents house so I could clean her up.

Back to UTAH

We are back in Utah again! This time Kiera and I are here for five weeks while Ryan is off to more training. We have had a wonderful time so far. Kiera finally got to meet her Uncle Kyle and Aunt Jessica. It has been nearly three years since we have seen them and it was so great to be with them again.

Kiera and Droopy are becoming better friends with each visit. It is so cute to watch them together. Here is a picture of the two of them watching to garbage truck at Grandpa and Grandma Andreasen's house.

Yesterday my good friend Krista ran in the Top of Utah half marathon. Since my parents live two miles from the finish line, I got to go cheer her on to the finish. It was so exciting to watch her cross the finish line. Good Job KRISTA!