Gratitude

I guess its that time of year again THANKSGIVING! A time that makes you think about everything your grateful for! This year I am so grateful that I got put on call last night and get to spend the day with my family. I am so grateful for my amazing husband who is my rock and my partner for life. He is such an amazing dad and Bentley is definitely a daddy's girl! I just love seeing those two interact! It makes my heart melt seeing the two of them together! I am grateful for my baby girl! I am blessed to have a child and she makes me want to be a better person. I am grateful that I get to watch her grow and dance (she is dancing to the cheerleaders on the Macey's day parade as I type). I am grateful that we have a roof over our head in this tough economy. I am grateful that we have jobs and have an income right now. I am grateful for our health! We have had a healthy year and I hope to keep it that way! I am grateful for my parents who are the most amazing people I know! They are the most generous and selfless people I know! They seem to be taken advantage of over and over again and they continue to give and help people! I say this all the time, but I really do want to be just like them when I grow up! I am grateful for my brothers and sister. I truly am lucky to be so close to my siblings and I love them so much. I am grateful for my in-laws! I married into a wonderful family who love me like their own. I am grateful for the great friends I have! And most of all I am grateful for the savior and for the blessing that he brings to our life! I am grateful to have a priesthood holder in my home. I wish that I could be at church more but unfortunately I have to work a lot of weekends, but that doesn't change the testimony I have of this gospel and our prophet. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Update

Bentley had her 16 month check up earlier this month and everything checked out perfectly! She now weighs a whopping 21 pounds (21st percentile), She's 32 inches tall (50th percentile) and she is finally growing into her head (40th percentile). Of course we did her immunizations which she hated! We also had the fun flu & H1N1 shots. I feel so bad taking her in for shots, but being the nurse I am I know that these are all for her protection!

This girl is just a crack up! She tries to repeat words that you say to her, even though she can't say half of them she is trying! She loves shoes! She walks around in my shoes all day long saying "shoes?". "Thank you" is her new favorite word and she actually uses it the right way!

One of my favorite times of the day is laying in my bed at night while she has her sippy cup watching mickey mouse or so you think you can dance and cuddling with my girl! Thats about the only time she will cuddle with me so I take advantage of every moment! She still lets me rock her a little bit and sing to her before going to bed and I cherish every moment! She has the biggest attitude right now! And I have a feeling Chad and I are in big trouble with this girl! I can tell you that I am pretty sick of the word "NO" because thats all she says to ME these days!

This girl is obsessed with raspberries! She loves them more than candy as you can see! I set both of these out to see which she would pick and I was right she chose the raspberries! In fact after a few raspberries she went for the chocolate and spit it out as you can see on the counter. HAHA silly girl! Hope she keeps that habit :)

Halloween

I had to work again this year so when I got home from work we took Bentley over to see Pa-Pa in her costume. I then took her to a few houses around their neighborhood to see how she would like trick or treating. She loved it! She just kept truckin along to each house so excited to get the candy. She would have to go to the door with her bucket and a piece of candy in the other hand. She was so funny! Chad handed out candy while I was working and he said she got so excited to see all the people at the door. She had to greet everyone with "Hi, Hi, Hi" and wave and say "bye,bye,bye". In fact she got so excited that she choked on a piece of candy and puked 3 times! But don't you worry the second I walked in the door and cleaned the puke off her face she was smiling so big saying "Hi" and running towards me. Oh I just love this girl! She is so funny! I just love this age!

my little lady bug

Yep you guessed it....a lady bug for halloween! I was crafty this year...well kind of. My amazing mom made her cute tutu and I made the rest. I decided to try it on her and make sure it all came together. She liked it for a second and then...she hated the antennas! Oh gosh hopefully I can keep her distracted come Saturday! Wish us luck!

Dancing Queen

I just had to post this girl dancing cause she makes us laugh so hard! This is an everyday occurrence :) Enjoy

29 and counting....

Yep I am officially 29 now! Oh man! I remember growing up 29 was the year my mom always reverted to...so does that mean that 29 is the best year??? I SURE hope so :)I think this could be an amazing year! Not that the last 29 haven't been which means I may be on a roll of good years :)

I had such a great day! My amazing husband got me some beautiful flowers and wrote me such a sweet card! Then he ordered me a camcorder since I haven't had one since Bentley was 4 months old because yes I dropped it and broke it! So now I get a new camcorder YEAH!!! I had a nice visit from one of my BFF's Shana and her husband Jake and their cute kids. Then had a nice dinner at a Japanese steak house which was so Yummy!

What a great birthday I had! Mom...Britt, Brock and family I did miss you though!

Swine Flu???

So our little monkey is sick! Yesterday morning she was fine running around like her normal self, then we went to lunch with Chad and she didn't move! She sat in my lap and actually fell asleep which is totally unlike her. I took her home and she had a temp of 101.6 so we did the tylenol and she fell asleep for 3 hours. She woke up that afternoon and was still not acting like herself. My dad came over to have dinner with us and she wouldn't eat or drink anything. She wouldn't even eat strawberries (one of her favorite foods) so I knew something was up. I checked her temp again and it was 103.6. We couldn't get her into the after hours clinic so when she started breathing funny we just decided to take her into the ER. We got there and they actually got us in pretty fast. They gave her some Motrin there which she puked up in the waiting room. The Dr. looked at her listened to her and he said she has all the symptoms and thought she had the dreaded swine flu! He said we could do the test but it would take 24 hours before we got the results or we could just start the medication and see how she did. So we opted to not put her through the nasty H1N1 test. She was mad enough having to have the ER bracelet on! We decided to just go ahead with the Tami Flu prescription and see how she does. She did ok last night. Her temp was down before we went to bed. She moaned a little off and on through the night and I got up to give her more tylenol once. This morning she still has a mild fever but is acting more like herself. We'll see what the afternoon brings. She still isn't eating anything or drinking much so hopefully that improves. I have to work tonight so hopefully she feels better for daddy and they both get a good nights sleep tonight.