What the heck just happened!

So i guess i fell off the planet for the past almost two years!!!
Quick update:

March 2014: Levi started working with the road crew in western ND :(
April 2014: found out we were pregnant!!! :)
June 2014: Miscarried :'(
August 2014: Alissa, my best friend, came to visit me from AZ!!! :)
Early September 2014: Mom came to visit me! :)
Mid September 2014: Got a job with Intermountain Healthcare on the Mother Baby unit :)
Late September 2014: Moved in with Thara in Eagle Mountain UT :)
October 2014: AWESOME Halloween party with Thara and her ward
Early November 2014: Levi got a job with Oasis Petroleum
Mid November 2014: we moved into our own place in Spanish Fork UT
Late November 2014: Had Thanksgiving at Thara's with Thomas & his family & my Dad and Cindi
December 2014: Found out we were pregnant!!! :)
Early January 2015: Levi started working at his new job
Mid January 2015: Miscarried again :'(
May 2015: Went to Hawaii with Alissa and Tyler!!! :)
July 2015: Bought a house in Santaquin UT
August 2015: Moved into our new house
Early September 2015: Payton started Preschool
Late September 2015: My year anniversary at Intermountain Healthcare
October 2015: Present Day

Hopefully I will be able to start blogging again, Life is so busy with an absent husband, an almost 3 year old daughter, and working full time night shift. But I will make it a goal of mine to post something at least four times a year ;)

Valentines 2014

Happy Belated Valentines Day! Here are a couple pictures. I will post more in a week or so…hopefully!

Catch Up

Little Miss Princess Pay
I am so behind! I just got lazy/busy and stopped taking pictures and stopped posting! I feel so sad about it! Payton is now almost 16months old, she's 31.25 inches long and weighs 21lbs 10oz! can you even believe that!? And she has turned into this little girl…i find myself asking, "Where did my sweet precious little tiny baby girl go?" She is still sweet and precious and i still call her my 'baby girl' but she is no longer a baby. :( It makes me so sad! She sleeps through the night, she eats big girl food, she signs  (as in sign language) a lot of words like milk, potty, banana, pretty, sleep, cracker, mom, dad, dog, shoes, and socks, eat, all done, baby, book, please, sorry, more, fish, grandpa, and thank you, she blows kisses, and she throws fits. She is so much fun! I just can't get enough of her. She loves reading time, snuggling, riding her toys, throwing all her toys all over the house, playing in all the pillows when they're on the floor, hide and seek, eating, eating and eating…I feel like she never stops eating! Her hair is starting to get so long and curly! When we give her a bath it is down to her shoulders. She likes to give kisses and has started giving bear hugs! I LOVE her bear hugs! She is very independent and wants to do things her way, she is sooo smart and learns so fast its incredible! She is always putting my shoes on and wearing her Daddy's camo beanie hats, its adorable. We took a small break with potty training, but we are going to start again, so wish us luck!

Life
Life for Levi and I hasn't changed much. I'm still working part time and Levi is still off for the winter. We go to the gym together often. We have started swimming a lot--I didn't realize how hard and tiring swimming was. Payton loves going to the pool with us too. We are moving out of the farm house and into an apartment by April. We would love to have a baby #2 and thought that since we already have one child that it would be easier to get pregnant this time. But it isn't easy. Its hard and frustrating and emotionally painful, again. We are so happy to have Payton in our lives and we would love for her to have a couple siblings all close in age, so hopefully it doesn't take more than 3years again... We would like to move more west of here and I have been applying for jobs in Utah and Northern Idaho. We really want to be closer to family, especially now that we have Payton. So that is one of our goals. I guess that's all I can think of for now.

One Year Older and Wiser Too!

Happy Birthday to Payton!!! (Nov. 3rd)

Payton and Mimi!

Three Generations

I just can't get enough of that smile!

 I can't believe she is already a year old! Where did all the time go? I feel like yesterday she would curl up on my chest and just lay there and snuggle with me. Now when i try to snuggle with her she wiggles and cries and smacks me and laughs till she gets to where she wants to go. She doesn't even look like that cute little baby in these new born pictures I have! I miss that little baby! But at the same time it is sooo much fun to watch her grow and learn. Like for instance today when i was nursing her she unlatched herself and sat up and looked at me and smiled then signed 'more' and went back to nursing. It was so stinkin adorable! Also I'll be in the kitchen cleaning when i hear her jibber jabbering and i turn around and she is sitting on the floor with all her books scattered around her with one propped open on her lap and she is turning the pages and talking as if reading her book out loud the way I read them to her! and another: Today I started playing 'Round and Round the Rickety Road' on her palm the way that my Mom played with me when i was a kid and after I was done she grabbed my hand and did it back to me. Or after her baths when I brush her hair and then put the brush down she very quickly grabs it and brushes her hair some more as if to say "i can do it!." She makes me smile every day and I'm so happy that I am the one lucky enough to be her Mom.

We had a blast at her birthday party. We had a lot of great friends over and had lots of cupcakes. And Payton started walking on her birthday and has never gone back to crawling! Now she pretty much runs everywhere!

Halloween

For halloween we dressed up as characters from Alice in Wonderland. Payton was Alice, Levi was the Mad Hatter, and I was the Cheshire Cat. I made Paytons costume, then i randomly came across my ears and tail at a thrift store, we bought a small hat and turned it into a giant top hat for levi and then found a diva red wig at the thrift store that i teased to make it what we needed. It was a lot of fun putting your costumes together. I think total with all three of our costumes at the most I spent $50.
We went trick-or-treating at my work so all the residents could enjoy Payton, then we drove to a friends house and then we picked up Lisa, Levi's mom from the airport. We didn't do a lot but it was a lot of fun with very little stress, which is my kind of night!

Fall Family Pictures

We decided to take family pictures again. We took them out in our yard after I got off work. I think they turned out great. There is no editing done to these. Maybe if i get some time someday i will edit some of them…

We Tried to get some of Daddy and daughter but Payton hadn't seen me all day and all she wanted was for me to hold her. As soon as Levi took her from me she would start screaming. It was kinda funny. 

I love my little family!

Life of Pay

I cant believe that Payton is over 10 months old! She is going to be a year old in a blink of an eye! Where did all the time go? I cant believe she is pretty much a toddler and no longer a baby! I feel like her life is rushing by me.
I love the stage she is at right now (although it keeps me super busy) she is walking around all the furniture and grabbing everything she can get her little hands on. We bought her a musical play walker that she walks all around the living room with. When she pushes it, it sings music to her and she loves it. Payton LOVES music! When a good beat comes on she stops and starts dancing (which looks like mini squats, its adorable.)
She likes to pull all the books off my bookshelf and takes the book covers off and then when I tell her 'no' she gives me a crooked smile that looks just like Levi. She stands at my desk and pulls the mouse and keyboard to the floor. Anything that is within reach she pulls down. And she is tall for her age. She stands at my printer (which is touch screen) and pushes all the buttons and watches it light up, so I have to shut it down after each use. We have a stool next to our bed as our night stand since we gave our bedroom set to Levi's brother, and Levi kept his hand gun there. Key word is 'Kept.' Past tense. She started reaching for it and I was terrified she was gonna pull it down on top of her head and knock herself out. Now she just pulls the stool over on top of her, then cries for me to free her from her trap. Right now as I type she has found my box of envelopes and is pulling them out and spreading them all over the living room :) She pulls on the bottom of our curtains, she stands up in her pack n play and pulls everything off her changing table, she stands at my dresser and tries her hardest to open the drawers and when she is unsuccessful she starts pulling anything she can touch off the top of it. We can no longer keep anything on our tall lamp which has 3 shelves; we cant keep anything on our coffee table; nothing on our little drawer shelf thingy...Ive started packing things away. My thought process: "Were not gonna be able to have this again till she's about 5years old." So I just pack it away.
Payton also loves peek a boo and starts playing it on her own until you catch on. When she wants you to play patty cake she starts clapping her hands until you start singing it to her, then she smiles really big. She loves food. If you are eating around her she will beg like a little puppy until she has some food too. She likes to stick her tongue out in all directions. Which I think she gets from both my Mom and Dad. When they concentrate real hard they either stick their tongue out or bite their tongue. She LOVES to wave to people like Miss America, its pretty cute. *Off topic-She has a LOT of ear wax. IDK where she gets that! I clean my ears maybe twice a month and hardly ever have any wax but I have to clean hers weekly and its gross!
She is not a good sleeper. She gets up about 3 times a night, which is miserable for me. She goes to bed around 10-10:30pm then wakes around 1:30-2:00am and levi brings her to me in bed. When she is finished eating Levi usually brings her back to her bed. Then she is up again right around 4:00am and when she is finished eating I just let her stay in our bed (which is not a smart idea.) She thrashes around in her sleep. She tosses and turns and I end up getting No sleep after she is in our bed. Then she is up around 6:00am to eat and then falls asleep again until anywhere between 7:30am and 10:00am. Then during the day she will nap anywhere from 12:00pm-3:00pm and again usually around 6:00pm-7:00pm. If you have any advice on how to make this more manageable please feel free to share!
Potty training is going really well. She goes PooPoo in her potty almost every day! Ive also started putting her on her potty first thing in the morning, a few times during the day, and right before bed, and almost each time she goes TeeTee. Its exciting! She doesn't ever tell me when she has to go but I think that will come when she starts talking more.
She isn't all perfect. She does throw her fits and cries often. She doesn't like to be held by Dad if Mom is around, she will cry until I hold her and then smile at Levi. I think its kinda funny/cute but it bothers Levi :( She LOVES to play with Levi when you hear her laughing really hard its usually because her Dad is playing/picking on her. And its really cute and fun to watch but I cant get too close because if she sees me then all she wants is me to hold her and all the play is over :( She loves to be chased. She will crawl really fast to you and smile then crawl a short distance away and look back at you and smile again, as if saying "you cant catch me, nah nah nah nah" then if you crawl really fast towards her she  squeals and tries to out  crawl you. Its fun.
Do you feel like you know Payton? That is my objective. Since none of our family is around and no one knows Payton I hope this blog has helped (sorry It is so stinkin long!). We love all of you and miss you very much!