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I'm sorry these last couple of entries are out of order. These pictures are from out trip down to see Nana Great. We were going to leave on a Thursday night after a volleyball game. I was all pumped up and wired because it was a big game and we lost. Nana was tired but I assured her I could drive to Salt Lake and we could stay over night at my wonderful aunt Dorothy's house. We got all packed and at the last minute decided we should sleep here and leave in the morning. Probably a wise choice, after the adrenaline wore off from my game I was exhausted and the drive would have been grooling. So we set the alarm from 4:30 and left at 5am. Nana drove the whole what to Salt Lake...thank God, Lilly had been up all night and I was so dang tired. Anyway when we got to Salt Lake we stopped at "Grand" aunt Dorothy's work, and dragged her to a McDonald's so Stevie could run around a little bit. We had a nice visit and then got back on the road. We decided that it would be better if we didn't arrive at Nana Great's house empty handed and tried to make a quick stop at a grocery store. Easier said than done. We looked and looked for a store and it took us about 30 minutes to find one. I bet we drove right by several that were maybe one street over but it took us forever to find one on the street we were on!

We finally found a Smiths and picked up some goodies. Stevie insisted on riding in one of these carts and Lilly is stable enough so we put her in too. They were so cute together. Stevie made sure she didn't fall out and they had a great time. If you can, blow up this first image and look at Lilly's face. She had the biggest grin on her face!!! TOO CUTE!




We made it to Nana Great's house and had a wonderful visit. I just wish we lived closer. Go figure, I seem to live too far away from a ton of close friends and especially family!

I'm not dead...I promise

I'm not dead, just busy...there are never enough hours in the day for everything I would like to do. So we have just been busy. But I have some very cute pictures to show everyone so I hope you have time to read a couple of these entries.

My daughter loves to conduct music and that is why in every picture her arms are in the air. She is just too cute!


And Stevie now has to do everything Lilly does...I think we have a little green monster in the house. It is ok though because even though he is jealous, he is still so cute and sweet with her. And she absolutely adores him.

Lilly was going through this phase where she wouldn't let very many people hold or love on her. She only wanted me or Papa. And you can tell that Papa just hates having to hold her... These pictures were taken about a week ago and she will now let Nana love on her too.

I love this shot...it makes me think that this is what it was like when I was a baby.

She and her papa are pretty dang close. I hate that Steve is away from us...but a bright note is my kids will really be close to their grandparents.

The Holt Family Tour

We did the family tour this weekend and it started at Grandpa and Grandma Holt's house. We had a very nice visit with not only papa and nana great but Aunt Tiffany, Uncle Mark, and cousin, Janel stopped by too. Janel and Stevie hit it off like old friends. They did chalk on the drive way, played with bubbles in the back yard, and wrassled!


Here is our family. Papa and Nana great, kids, grand kids and great grand kids.

Papa Great and Lilly.

Janel and Stevie playing bubbles!

It was great to see everyone. Our visits are always too short. We stayed the night and went to breakfast the next morning. It was good to see everyone!

Shellin' Peas

This is a time honored tradition of shelling peas...and Stevie has officially joined in the ranks. Nana, when she knows I will be here for the pea crop, will plant an especially large crop and this year is no different. Because I have pretty severe allergies, she does all the picking and then we both will shell and process them. These are the sweetest most delicious food known to man. But they take forever to shell and freeze them all. Stevie jumped right in and helped. He has his own little pan, a towel, and away he went. The only difference between us is my peas were cooked and frozen where as Stevie made a nice little pile and ate them all!

Halloween ScrapCrap

I'm so happy with these 2 pages. I did the spider webs with glue and silver cord...it took forever but I love the effect. This was such a great day for us. I was 5 months prego and it was Stevie's first pumpkin carving. He had a ball drawing all over his. After he finished drawing his face, his dad helped him (did all the carving) with the knife!

The interesting part was what happened when Steve and I were finishing our pumpkins, but Stevie was done with his. We should have known from the silence in the house that something was wrong...We turned around to find Stevie coloring with a black marker all over the back of our couch. In his hands were a permanent marker and a washable crayola maker. Both markers had the lids off. We had a 50/50 shot at having a ruined couch. Luck must have been on our side because he had used the washable one and we were able to dry clean it all better.

We went to a cool Halloween party all dressed up. My only option was the M&M costume because that was the only thing that fit over my prego form. The only crappy part was we didn't get a picture of Steve in his costume. Bummer!