family pictures

Our friend Connie took our pictures last Saturday. I really wanted some pictures taken here in Okly since its so pretty & green! I was so sick this day, i could feel my fever coming back & I was trying so hard not to sneeze or i wouldnt stop. also the 100 degree humidity, being a genius & wearing a longsleeve plaid shirt didnt help much. But i was so happy with how they turned out. Connie did such a great job! These are just a few, I loved all of them. She posted more of our pictures on her photography blog if you wanna see..also the pictures are way bigger on her blog so they look better:)

http://www.conniebphotography.blogspot.com/

our last weekend in okc

after being stuck in the house, sick all week..the weekend was a major high! there is a railroad park nearby that has train rides every other saturday. I knew my boys would love this since they're all still in love with choo-choos. i could tell they loved being at a train station being able to ride a real train. to embry every train is the "po espwess"

afterwards, we walked through the train yard & looked around.

they had this old box car that some guy told us they are currently filming a movie inside it.

this is the inside. not a very good angle but there was so much detail in here it was crazy! Its killing me, i need to know what movie!

bastien was pretty upset (putting it lightly) when we had to go. i dont know, but it seems like his tantrums are crazier than ever. they are filled with.."you're the meanest mom & i dont want a family anymore!" the best/weirdest one was when we left the zoo & bastien yelled at me "I hope a spider bites you mommy!" they mostly make me laugh because what else is there to do!?

after steven came home from work

(after today, saturdays are normal saturdays again!)

we ate cupcakes for dinner at a place called "cuppies & joe" (cause cupcakes are always a good dinner, right?)

at the mall, people had built oklahoma city out of legos, it was pretty cool.

and jappy got a haircut! it was way overdue.

doesnt he look so handsome?

that aint no etch a sketch...

even though i've had this blog for 3 years, its the first time i've gotten to anounce being pregnant on my blog! i started this blog in 2007.a month after i found out with the twins. today i was fighting the urge to buy a test. but then i remembered that i found out with bastien & the twins on this same day. (the first day of my missed monthly fren) so in keeping tradition I drove to target, bought a test & the result was welcomed. I've been suspecting it. not just cause we were trying..but the past couple weeks my body was acting not in the norm. first- is the constant pimples. & not just the tiny ones i'll get every now & then..but those crazy underground monsters that no one can see at first, but you just cant stop touching & then they let their beastly selves be seen by all. am i painting a pretty picture of my face?

second was- ever since july 1st i have been rocking my diet & excercise. i jog every morning mon-sat at the park across my house. & have been really keeping my diet in check with just a couple slip ups. for me- that is great. and i was losing weight!Until a couple weeks ago to be exact. its been like pulling teeth to get the scale to go down.

one thing i'm scared about being pregnant again- is gaining my usual million pounds again because i think i have a free pass to eat m&ms all day. it took me too long to lose the twins 30 lbs & dont even get me started on bastiens baby weight. (which isnt fair to blame bastien for :) but i figured if i treat this pregnancy like i'm on a diet, i will actually maintain, ha! (dont worry mom, my diets are not real diets) & hopefully only gain that 30 lbs of baby & water weight i always do the last 2 months. (*ps- my mom is so funny when i tell her i need to lose weight. she always says "just dont become anorexic" HA!! i wish mom. )

we are excited. obviously i would be so happy to see what our girl would look like (& i'm dying to dress one!) but i would be so thrilled with another boy. i almost want a boy because i'm in love with my next boy name & i want to use it! plus i would love a boy because all my boys look so different. maybe we'll get a curly blonde or a redhead. or a black baby! :)

(image via google)

change in sight.

we leave oklahoma in 3 weeks! steven has been here 13 weeks, us 9. we are getting really excited to come back to az. but i also feel like this place has majorly grown on me. i love looking out my window & seeing big green trees. I love being able to jog at 8:30am in the summer without dying of heat stroke. i love steven leaving for work at 9:15..i always wake up in a better mood when steven is still there in bed. dates here are like disneyland, the sitter has prices like disneyland, too. (what happened to 10 dollars being amazing for the whole night?) but it has always felt so worth it since i never see steven as it is. let alone just the 2 of us! last saturday the boys made their goal & we got taken out to a dinner & a movie. first we went to a mexican restaurant called alfredos. it reminded me of that Cravings place in Queen Creek. it was allright. i think i'm just biased to my precious Rosa's. Then we went to the 9:30 showing of "Inception". That movie was like mind boggling. i couldnt stop thinking about it for days & actually dreamed within my dream a couple nights later. I loved all the actors in it..Leo is amazing. His movies are always nuts. Has anyone seen The Beach or Shutter Island? ( not that i recommend them) I liked seeing Ellen Page outside of her usual Juno character. I love her & i'm glad she has more to her as an actress than just sarcastic comedy. (which i still like)

Anyways, it was way fun to hang out with the Moxie group & i cant wait for our Cali trip! it has been fun having Steven work for a company with fun things to look forward to! We get to go to Newport for 4 days after we get back to AZ-kidless! I have been dying for a vacation. its long overdue! not really dying to wear a swimsuit but i have only myself to blame for that. My 30 lb summer goal has only been 7. booo to myself.

i think this summer has been really good for me. I have appreciated Steven so much more. I got really used to the 6-3pm schedule he had before & took it for granted. I realize how much I need Steven to feel like a better mom, but at the same time I have felt like I actually can do things by myself & i dont need to rely on steven (or my mom:) for everything. does that make sense?

I'm looking forward to getting back to seeing Steven before 10pm. and i'm so looking forward to seeing my family & friends! see you soon..21 days to be exact.

ps- dont you like the ingrid michaelson songs on my playlist? it always feels like striking gold when i find great new songs!

a decade with steven

MOnday was our 7th anniversary!

but i always just go from the year we started dating because i pretty much knew i was going to marry that boy early on. I cant believe its been a whole decade of us. i do feel like we've been together a long time but i dont feel sick of him even a little. i hear alot of people say that when you get together young its easy to grow apart because you are not the same person at 26 that you were at 16. that last part is true but i think steven & i have always been very compatible that its just always been easy to be with him & easy to like him. i like him alot! here's to another great decade with my bestest friend!

i dont have any new pictures cause all my pics are in storage right now. but here are a few from our dating years.

this is how steven answered me to christmas formal soon after we started dating & i tried to leave these stars up as long as i could. ripping them down was my nephews favorite thing.

this is a year & a half later & you can see a couple stars there on the right.

we had just gone to our stake pioneer trek & our morp theme that year was cowboy take me away. i had to convince steven into getting back into these clothes. (it was so much easier to sweet talk him those days..whats up with that?)

steven & i at my graduation.

i love this picture of Steven. or maybe i just love this picture cause it has my newborns in it & that reminds me how much i want another human growing in belly right now. look how white embry was! (he's on the left)

nature & books

unless you live by a mountain..mesa is pretty lame when it comes to finding beauty in nature. (besides the sunsets) so it has been awesome to see things that you just never do at home. last night it was thundering & lightning & they sky looked like this. this doesnt really do it justice, the sky looked amazing.

after all the rain this week we got all these freaking huge mushrooms.

remember when we first got here steven found a turtle right outside the apartment? well this morning when i was walking back from a jog at the park across the street..the same turtle (well he looks exactly the same & it was the same area) was right by the curb next to our car just staring at me. He was basically asking me to take him home. I dont want him to end up in the road again so later today we're gonna take him to the park across the street. he's so little & has the cutest face. Bastien is begging to keep him but i feel like a jerk keeping two turtles unless we made them a cool area to let them roam around outside. & since we only have a few weeks left here, that's probably not gonna happen.

this cute little creature was waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs after i ran back in the house to grab something...so i kept him.

these books saved me a few days last week when i felt like i was going to poke my eyes out with boredom. You know those books where you wish you could re-read them again for the first time? They were really easy reads & they were over too soon. I wanted more of these cute characters. Dont let the covers fool you that they are too girly or cheesy. I love it when the author is actually a funny witty person because it comes off in her characters.

read these..you'll like!

moOoOooo!

we got free food at chick fila! & thats all it took was 5 minutes of cutting leftover black & white paper..saweet!

(yeah, the ears were pretty bad.. but we walked in.they gave us free food. it worked.)

my little brown cow didnt want anything to do with his white spots.

my cute skinny cow is always holding on to his pants when he runs.

its been randomly bright& hot, then dark& rainy all week. we went swimming on thursday morning then woke up from our naps to a crazy thunderstorm that felt like our roof was going to crack.

rainy fourth of july

we were pretty bummed when it started raining nonstop after church yesterday. we drove to the festival anyways & saw they had postponed everything until today. we were making the most of it with our sparklers on our balcony when we got an invite to go see the show in Norman that was still happening. (it had stopped raining!) the show started when we were still on the freeway but it was pretty long so we had time to pull over right in front of it & see a pretty fantastic firework show. fourth of july just isnt right unless you see fireworks..

and say happy birthday to my mom!

jasper prefered to watch from a safe distance.

afterwards we went to benji& jackie's house. on their balcony they have a cool reptile room that bastien has been talking about every day since we last saw it. he wants an iguana, salamander, frogs&water turtles just like ben.

bastien letting josh know that he has an iguana on his back.

then we went outside & finished up our sparklers.

embry just liked to stick them on the wet ground & watch them sizzle out.

(cute belly jackie!)

there were like 10 frogs or more in this little pond by their apartment where they were all croaking loudly & doing their biness. bastien was having fun catching them...

..and making them kiss eachother.