So excited for baby boy!!!

The big news for this update is that we are having a baby boy in a few months!! We are beyond excited for this sweet little boy to join our family! Maylee loves giving baby brother kisses in my belly and now we have all felt this little boy kick and squirm. I was thinking he was a little on the lazy side but that is definitely not the case anymore and feel him quite often! My favorite is when I am cleaning patients teeth and he tries to give them a little kick in the head! :) Right now I am in my 23rd week and this pregnancy is FLYING by! We had a little fun with our family before we went to the ultrasound and had them all dress up as a boy or a girl to submit their votes of what they think the new addition will be. Here are the pictures from that.... and this is the awesome riddle Grandpa great wrote for the game. 

I am sending you this little riddle

For you to decide what’s in the middle

Is it boy or girl it’s for you to decide

And send me a picture with you inside

Is it a little princess or a tough cowboy

So dress yourself up as Cinderella or Roy

Please send me this as soon as you can

So then I can say that you also ran

As you can tell we are a little excited about having a little boy around here! We have been preparing for him in other ways too... Maylee got her "big sister" bed and is basically potty trained! We still have a few accidents here and there but she has done AMAZING! and loves being a big girl!

We have also had some family fun since the last blog post we have got to go to the Young Family Reunion in Monticello and to Lake Powell! The trip was a blast! We spent the weekend in Monticello and got to play with all our cousins and then went to Lake Powell from there and spent 4 days on Uncle Mike's houseboat! We had a Rock N Roll birthday party for Kord's 5th birthday while we were there and spent most of our time swimming! Maylee was a little fish and would scream the whole time she was in the water swimming! I was worried she would never sleep while there but every time we got on the boat she would fall asleep in someone's arms which was fun to have some snuggle time with this active little girl!! 

We have also taken a trip to Beaver to visit Sam's Grandpa for his birthday and to see some of Sam's friends from Logandale. We got to take Maylee on rides on grandpas fourwheeler and spend time with Joan, Delmar, Kaitlin, Dallon, and Grandpa. We hung out with Sam's friends at the lake and all the boys decided they could all fit in the raft together to go out swimming. Maylee loves her grandpa great and gets so excited to take trips to see family! 

The last trip we went on was with Strawberri and her kids down to St. George for Zoey's first birthday party and labor day weekend. Dad had to stay home because he was on call but us girls had a lot of fun with family! Zoey's birthday was at the Washington city pool and Maylee had so much fun! She loved the lazy river and would swim all by herself (in her vest of course) down the river and squeal the whole time! It is so fun to see her so excited about life! It just makes me enjoy everything so much more! Zoey needed some help with unwrapping her gifts and eating her smash cake so Maylee was right there to help her out :) 

This summer flew by and the leaves are already changing I can't believe how fast time is going and just want it to slow down for just a minute! But I am enjoying every minute of it! We have so much more we could update you on but this post is getting lengthy as is!So I will end with a few fun facts about Maylee...

• She is now potty trained. It has been a few weeks and we have had less and less accidents and today a little light switch turned on and now she will tell me she has to go potty on her own. Which before I would have to ask or just make her go potty. 
• She moved into her big girl bed this week. but she calls it her "big sister" bed. She transitioned really well but sometimes naps are a little harder and I have to lay by her until she falls asleep. 
• She loves books and is getting really good at counting things. She can count to ten and then after that it is 11, 12, 14, 16... so fun to see how fast she is learning. 
• She loves to sing. her favorite songs are itsy bitsy spider and the ABCs which she is getting better and better at. 
• She loves spending time with her cousins (Alli, Saydi, and Kord) and her little friends Nora and Claire. 
• She loves going on trips and asks all the time to go visit family. She will say "Nana's or Grandpas house... lets go!" 
• She will play hide and seek all day long if we will play with her! 
• Funny things Maylee says/does:
• I do it May May self
• She compares sizes to Mom, dad and maylee size! if its big it is definitely a daddy one! 
• When I actually get dressed (out of sweats anyway) May will tell me nice shirt or PRETTY! 
• When she puts on a dress or a skirt its always a "princess" dress or skirt. 
• She loves to pretend to be kitty
• She started singing (after Sam had said it) MayMays got the poops! and danced around the house!

Time for another update...

So many changes since last post! We now have a two year old plus a few months, Sam Graduated from Vandy, We took a family vacation to Gatlinburg, We moved to SLC, Sam is working at the University of Utah hospital, I am 16 weeks pregnant with baby #2, and summer is FLYING by! First off we are BEYOND excited for baby #2 to join our family on Jan. 2nd, 2015. We found out we were expecting on Maylee's 2nd birthday so it was a fun little surprise for her birthday that she is going to be a BIG SISTER! Which she loves to say but I don't think she knows exactly what that means because it is usually followed with that she has a baby in her belly. I have not been very sick with this pregnancy. I didn't feel 100% those first few weeks and my tummy was always a little nauseous but I thought it was due to the stress of Sam graduating/us moving across the country to start a new adventure. But overall, this pregnancy is a breeze compared to what I felt with Maylee. I am always really tired but that is even starting to get less and less now that I am in my 2nd trimester. We have had an ultrasound to see how far along I am and we are already in love with the little guy/girl.

 

Sam is convinced we are having another girl but I am leaning towards boy since I haven't been nearly as sick. But Sam was right last time so time will tell if he is right again! We would be thrilled with either and can't wait to find out! Here is a picture of how we announced this pregnancy.

We will have to go back in time just a bit and catch up on what we did before we left Nashville. Maylee turned 2 and we had a fun day playing as a family. And threw her a little birthday party the next week along with her cousin DW who was turning two the next month.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sam also graduated from Vandy that same weekend and so we had all of our family in town for that to support him! It was so fun to be with everyone and I am so proud of Sam! Top student award and definitely deserved it! :)

 

 

 

The next week we spent in Gatlinburg, TN with most of Sam's family in a cabin. It was beautiful and so much fun to be with family! We did some hiking, touring Gatlinburg, swimming, and played lots and lots of games together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We then moved into a townhouse in Millcreek area which has been really nice so far. We love the area and Sam is really close to work which we love. We definitely miss our Nashville friends and Nashville in general but we are adjusting well and having a great summer. What we love most about being in SLC is that we have had family visit us A LOT more than they were able to in Nashville. And we love being close to some cousins... Maylee is in love with Jayson and Strawberri's kids and talks about "Saydi, Alli, and Kordi" all the time! Here are some pictures of family visiting and getting to play with those cousins....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a little bit about what Miss Maylee has liked to do this summer and what she has been up to..

• She loves loves loves swimming and becoming pretty brave going on BIG slides and jumping off the diving board.
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She loves to go to the library and read books or just read books at home... She is our little book worm and could do it for hours. I love that she has some of the books memorized and will read them to me or one of her baby dolls.

• She loved the fourth of July and throwing pop its (or stepping on them) and doing Sparklers.

  

  
  

  

  
  

  
• She loves Minnie Mouse and every morning she comes running into my room with all her stuffed animals/blankies to snuggle in bed and watch an episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on my phone (which I don't mind because I just go back to sleep and I get to snuggle with my favorite girl)
• She loves going to the park and going on her swing in the backyard. Grandma got her a swing for her birthday and she loves to go high!
• She loves to play dressups and be a princess which is absolutely adorable! She loves to play outside in the dirt but she is definitely our little girl!

  

  
  

   
• I could keep going and going but overall she is one of the happiest and sweetest little girls I know! She loves to give kisses and hugs to everyone. She loves to take care of her babies and help mom whenever she can. She is such a wonderful little girl and has so much personality! I can't wait to see her continue to grow!