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We're 14 weeks pregnant!!!! Due January 26, 2009. Everything looks good so far. We've had an ultrasound and heard the heartbeat 10+ times.

(Grandma and Grandpa Gillie, if you see this before we talk to you, we tried calling you a few times to tell you in person, but haven't been able to get a hold of you. We left messages, and wanted to tell you personally, Sorry)

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Alaura and Eric fixing Daddy's cars last Saturday! She LOVES him sooo much!!!!!

Terrible, Horrible, No good, very bad day!!!!

I got bit by a bug or something on Saturday while helping my parents with their packing, and when I woke up on Sunday it was all red and swollen and warm to the touch. This morning when I woke up My fingers were so swollen I couldn't get my ring to budge and my arm neck and shoulder were so sore!!!! So, I called the Dr to schedule an apt. It was 8:30 I was in my PJ's and they told me the only available apt was at 8:45! So I ran out of the house with alaura our hair not fixed teeth not brushed just plain old not ready and stinky!!! Alaura didn't want to get in the car and was kicking and screaming at me not to touch her...we got there at 8:55! I filled out all of the paperwork, and got in for my apt pretty quick while in there the Dr asked me when the last time I had a tetanus shot was...so my left arm is also stiff now from the shot! I can hardly move either arm with out hurting really bad. He said he thought it was a spider bite and that it was a pretty bad infection so he put me on antibiotics. Then we headed to the Library...closed! Then we ran to a fabric store so I could pick up some material for baby pictures...my 40% off coupon had expired! Then we went to the downtown library (Alaura has been asking for a week now) while we were in the car she started hopping around in her car seat saying that she needed to go potty...so I told her "hold it until we get to the library. When we get to the library you can go potty, ok?" We pulled up to the library, I jumped out of the car ran to the other side flung open the door and she said "Are we at the library?" "Yep" I said...then she said "Ok I let it go now" AND SHE PEED ALL OVER HER SELF AND THE CARSEAT! I guess I did tell her that when we got to the library she could go! We ran into the library and I kept her standing up and wouldn't let her touch anything, grabbed the 20 books we wanted! ran to check them out and while I was waiting in line I started feeling really sick, while the lady was checking out my books I had to run to the bathroom dragging alaura behind me kicking and screaming at me not to touch her again! I finally got out of the Library and went to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription and it was $50!!!! I couldn't believe it! Any way, I'm finally starting to feel better. But today really wasn't a very good day :( Hopefully it'll get better!!!!!

Yesterday in the car Alaura proudly announced "Mommy I'm getting Married!" "You're getting Married?" I said "Yep, I'm getting married in the Temple!" I can't believe how she catches on to things sometimes. We have a picture of the LA temple in our dining area, and I told her once that it was a temple and that's where Mommy and Daddy got Married and she grasped on to it...

She also recently took to the word "Boo-ya!" She cracks me up! She talks in full sentences now and picks up on big words. She says I accidentally did this! Or Mommy I actually flew did you see? Yesterday we went to a swimming activity for Moms and their kiddos at a members house and she jumped off the diving board!! I'm amazed at all the things she's doing!

She decided out of the blue almost a week ago that she was done taking naps! This has been really hard on both of us because she REALLY needs more sleep, and I really need the time to get stuff done...Hopefully it's just a phase, but I'm not fighting it right now, we're trying to help my family and Nap time just gets in the way. They're all staying with us for a couple of nights next week, so there's no use trying to get her back onto the schedule until after life gets back to normal.

Well, I'll post some pictures and try to catch up better soon!

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The 4th of July

Getting ready for the fireworks...I guess bubbles taste good!!!

We have a family tradition of going to Shafter high school to watch the free fireworks show on the 3rd, we take doughnuts and lots of water and brave the heat to watch them. Here are a few pics from that night

Here's little Leyna in her 4th of July outfit. Alaura Loved her Doughnut with "sparkles"

She would wave her hands or fingers at the fireworks to make them come faster. Here's a pic of the two of them making the fireworks come faster!!

Eric very proud that he taught alaura the "neener" face (for lack of a better name) "neener neener neener..."

On the 4th we had a BBQ at my parents house and played with sparklers. Everyone there tried to write their name with them. Here are ours.

(Eric did one a while ago and didn't want to do it that night)

Here's alaura playing with hers

June 27, 2008

We went camping about an hour and a half away at a place called Alder Creek. I was surprised that there something this pretty this close to home...I was also a little disappointed how HOT it was. We had a good time though. Here are a few pics:

Checking out the sight...

Alaura LOVED the tent trailer

Making Smores

"See my Chocolate!!!"

Cooking pancakes without a spatula...oops

The swing Eric Made for Alaura, he's so handy!!!

Heading out to go fishing

June 20-22 2008

Happy Anniversary Honey!!!!

Five years ago on June 20, 2003 we were sealed in the LA Temple! This has been an amazing five years! I've been married to the best friend I've ever had in life! We've been through quite a roller coaster between jobs or the lack of jobs, illnesses, the miscarriage...but on the flip side there have been some great moments too! The birth of alaura, purchasing our first car, looking for our first home, Eric getting this great job with AT&T and just all of the wonderful moments that we get to share together each day. I hope that I express it enough, but i love you soooo much honey!

For our Anniversary this year we decided to splurge and stay in a hotel for two nights (Our first time with just the two of us since our honeymoon) in Buena Park. On our way up on Friday night we stopped at Claim jumper and got dinner, we got this huge plate with pork ribs, beef ribs and rotisserie chicken,Roasted Veggies a HUGE baked potato, cheesy garlic bread and a salad to share!! We got to the Hotel around 8:00 and found out that we had been upgraded to a room with sleep number beds. They were pretty nice! We were in the middle of everything, but we stayed in the hotel room in the AC and relaxed because it's sooo hot outside, plus we were both in need of quiet time. As any parent can attest to, you don't get quiet time once you've had a kid :)

I was a little nervous about leaving Alaura alone for the first time, but she did great! In fact when I called to tell her "Goodnight" the first night, Lynette couldn't get her to talk to me! She had so much fun with them, when we came home she didn't want to come home with us. we picked her up at the church, and when we walked in she looked at me and said "I'm going back to Mimi's house!!!" She talked about going back to Mimi's house for the next week!

Anyway, back to our trip...We stayed in a Radisson which was nice. We were next door to Medieval Times (a jousting tournament dinner show) and Ripley's believe it or not. We could see Knotts berry farm from the front of our hotel. We went to Ripley's...just a warning, don't waste your money! Saturday night we decided to go to the Pirate's Dinner Adventure...It was soooo cool. It started at 8, but they told us to show up an hour early for appetizers...they had so much good food it was hard not to stuff yourself (after seeing the dinner though we wished we had eaten more of the appetizers though) then at around 7:40 the started the pre show. they pulled some guys up from the audience and had them do some pretty funny stuff, it's always fun watching other people make fools of themselves!!!! Then everyone got take hostage by the Pirate captain. We all had a specific pirate to cheer for and were seated according to who your pirate was. They served dinner and did the show at the same time. There were sword fights and acrobatics and explosions and singing and there was even a love story in there...I LOVED IT!!!! As I said earlier the food wasn't very good but the show was great!! Unluckily I don't have the pics from this because my wonderful little cannon camera got stolen shortly after we came home and I didn't unload the pics :(

The next day we went to Laguna beach It's really pretty there. We climbed around on the rocks for a little while and looked at the tide pools, snapped some pics, but decided to leave cause we needed to get home and it was PACKED!!! Here are a few pics that we took with the Nikon

The one and only time I will post a picture of me in my swimsuit ;)

I kept hoping a wave would wash over him while I was taking a picture of him...No such luck ;)

Ooops here I am in my swim suit again...

We got back into town around 4:30 picked up alaura and after some bribing went to my parents house to celebrate my Birthday with them. We had some really good grilled chicken and veggies!!! Then I got to open my presents!!! I got a ton of clothes! Thanks you guys here are a couple pics from that night

You probably can't tell in the picture but Alaura blew out my candles while I was smiling at the camera!!!!

Cheese!!!!

June 19 2008

Happy Birthday to ME!!!!! ;)
Wow I'm 25!!!! I was able to celebrate my Birthday with almost all of my immediate family on Tuesday the 17th at Chilis!! (I LOVE Chilis!!!) It was so fun getting both sides of our family together. Mom and Dad Olsen Gave me a bracket for my Camera which is going to come in extremely handy when I get going with my photography!!! Thank you so much!!

(I had a picture of it on my Camera, but my cannon, not my Nikon luckily, got stolen after our anniversary trip along with a lot of really important pics :( )

I spent my Actual birthday at Enrichment since I'm the coordinator. It was fun, we had a backyard BBQ with swimming and they sang happy birthday to me. I love my ward!

Before I left Eric had me open my present from him!!!!

He got me an SB 800 Flash!!! The best one they make for Nikons!!! Lets just say I was surprised and very excited!!

I'll figure out a way to get a picture of my camera and flash mounted on the bracket...It looks Sooooo professional!!!!!