Nathan, Tera & Brielle

Leavenworth, WA October 1-3, 2010

2010-10-26T17:18:00.000-06:00

So yet again I didn't take very many pictures of a trip we took. I only took some at the restaurant that we went to the first night and like two in the festival. These first pictures are at King Ludwigs (I think). Brielle and Tripp were having a great time together. They loved that there was live music so they could be as loud as they wanted to be.

I'm not really sure why but they wanted to show us their bellies and they are pretty cute little bellies if I do say so myself!

Brielle insisted on having this HUGE fork and like a half a chicken on her plate. It entertained her for awhile and was pretty funny. Oh and that cute little baby I'm holding is my newest nephew, Deklan :)

2010-10-26T17:08:00.001-06:00

Brielle's cousin Tripp and Uncle Randy

They were so cute bustin' their moves to the polka music! Everyone in the restaurant loved them :)

This is one of the bands at the festival, The Polkatones. They were pretty entertaining, well so were all the drunk people trying to dance to their music.

The Rest of our Summer

2010-10-24T08:13:00.000-06:00

This is Brielle's super cute 4th of July dress that my aunt Linnea bought her.

This is my house after I got all my flowers planted, they looked so good. I wish I would have taken more pictures of my flowers a few weeks ago because they grew to fill up the beds. This front corner bed is now overflowing with wave petunias. I will definitely be buying those flowers again.

These are my lilies, my very favorite flower, they are just gorgeous right?!

We also got to go on Nate's parents boat a lot this summer. We love boating, especially when we're in Palisades because it means we're staying at the cabin.

2010-10-24T08:03:00.000-06:00

Nate and I took a weekend trip to Las Vegas with his friend Justin and his wife Naomi. I only took three pictures and this is the only one with us in it. This is us at the M&M store, we bought Brielle the cutest rolling M&M back pack and she loves it. We also went to Lance Burton's magic show, it was pretty amazing and frustrating at the same time because the whole time I was thinking "how the heck did he do THAT." So it was pretty cool.

This is what happens when you buy markers and leave the bag they're in on the floor where your 18 month old can find them.

I let Brielle help me wash my car. She had a blast and got soaking wet. She loved it so much that every time I made her stop washing a side, so I could rinse and dry, she would throw a fit. It was pretty cute, I hope she retains this love of washing cars because I can see "wash the car" as one of her chores in the future.

2010-10-24T07:52:00.000-06:00

My mom asked us if we could pick her up from the Boise airport around the beginning of August, if I remember right. So we decided to make a trip of it. We took my cousins Camdon and Ellie and went to the stayed in a hotel and went to the water park. The evening we got there we asked Cam and Ellie if they would babysit so we could walk over and eat at Joe's Crab Shack. Nate and I love crab and Nate had never been to Joe's so we HAD to go and it was delicious! This is us before our food arrived, we were definitely ready, bibs and all : ).

We also went to the cabin quite a few weekends this summer. We love it there, it is so beautiful! This is Brielle sitting on the steps by the fire pit.

Zelda Maebe

2010-10-24T07:34:00.002-06:00

Brielle and I brought Zelda home with us from Colorado so Zayna could have a little break. Zelda is a very rambunctious little girl and kept escaping out of their apartment and so far the neighbors have called the cops on them, I think, three times because Zelda was outside unsupervised. They had tried everything to keep her in and nothing worked, they told her strangers would steal her and hurt and she didn't really care. So I took her home with me so she could run around in my yard for awhile. I also took on the task of potty training her and it went very well. She was well trained by the time Zayna came to visit and pick her up. Brielle really enjoyed having a sister to play with, she really needs a little brother or sister : ). I enjoyed having a little girl that had long enough hair to do fun hairdos. I did all kinds of things with her hair and they were all super cute so I can't wait until Brielle's hair is longer.

While she was here my aunt invited her over to help make some cookies.

In case you're thinking I misspelled the title, I did it on purpose. When Zayna was pregnant with Zelda my Grandma LeFevre asked her what she was going to name the baby and she said "Zelda, maybe." Then she was born and she named her Zelda Mae, and now my grandma calls her Zelda Maybe. I just replaced the y with an e because that is how her name is spelled.

Bear World

2010-10-24T07:22:00.000-06:00

While Zayna was here we went to Bear World with my mom and Taryn. The kids loved seeing the animals and loved riding the kiddie rides even more. As we drove through anytime Brielle would see anything furry she would yell out "Puppy!" The deer and elk were puppies along with the bears and bison.

Colorado Trip

2010-10-20T22:31:00.003-06:00

Brielle and I flew to Colorado Springs to visit Zayna in June. It was my first time ever in Colorado. We had a lot of fun we went to some fun parks to let the kids play, the zoo, the Garden of the Gods, and got to go out one night thanks to Steve's nephew, Jon, babysitting the kids. I only got pictures of the zoo and the Garden of the Gods and a few of Zelda and Asher all dressed up for church but I didn't post the last ones. The zoo was huge and on a mountain so basically everywhere we went was an uphill climb until we headed back to the car. Just googled it and its called The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. The admission to the zoo includes access to the Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun, which was quite amazing. We drove up to the top of the mountain then got to go in this building.

This is a picture I copied from the zoo's website of the Shrine because I don't remember but I'm guessing my camera was dead yet again because I don't have any pictures of it.

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Brielle loved the monkeys, especially this adorable baby chimp!

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One day we were there we went to "The Garden of the Gods" its a state park I think with all of these amazing rock formations. They are so big! I don't really think the pictures can do it justice. As you can see it was really bright, but what you can't see is that it was extremely hot! We doused the kids heads with water more than a few times so they wouldn't get too hot. I was amazed how fast they would get dry and really hot again.

The whole gang well minus me and Zayna.

Jon (Steve's nephew), Brielle, Zelda, Asher, and Steve

2010-10-20T22:19:00.001-06:00

This one is called the Sleeping Giant. I'm sure the others have names too but this is the only one I ever heard. Can you see him?

Cruising

2010-10-20T22:04:00.002-06:00

Nate and I went on a cruise in May, it was a four night cruise that stopped at Catalina Island and Ensenada, Mexico. In Catalina we went parasailing and in Ensenada we kayaked to La Bufadora. It was kinda like mother's day/Nate's birthday/ our anniversary trip. It was relaxing, but I think it would have been more fun if we were with a group or if it was warmer. What I wanted to do most while on this trip was lay in the sun and go swimming but it was too cold so we couldn't just lay out. Oh and the round building above is the cruise terminal.

We got there early so we looked at these little stands and found some replacement hair for Nate.

He shaved his head bald right before we left.

Oh and if you're wondering why all these pictures are split up in different posts its because I have been uploading through a program called Picasa and it will only upload four pictures into each post. I just discovered this and I love it because it uploads pictures to the blog it seriously a fraction of the time. So I might actually blog more often and not get so far behind :)

2010-10-20T21:58:00.001-06:00

This is right after we got on the boat with Long Beach in the background

Nate had to pose in front of the Rex Dance Club so we could show his dad. We never went there but had to take the picture.

2010-10-20T21:53:00.001-06:00

Catalina from the boat

The Carnival Paradise. We took little charter boats to the Island so we took this picture on the way over.

Nate's sweet little message in the sand :)

More Cruise Pictures

2010-10-20T21:34:00.001-06:00

Panoramic picture of Catalina Island

Frog on our bed

This is the only picture we got in Ensenada because we forgot to charge the camera

Biker Dudes

2010-10-20T21:18:00.003-06:00

Nate bought a motorcycle in the spring of 2010. Its a Yamaha 650 and he loves it. His friends Dave Carlson and Jordan Alvarez also bought motorcycles this year and they they formed a biker gang called "The Wolfpack." They were planning on taking a really long road trip on Memorial Weekend (I think) but the weather was not cooperative, so the only trip they got to make together this year was to Nate's parent's cabin in Palisades while I followed in my car. It wasn't quite the trip they were hoping for but it was still fun.

This sign is on the highway heading out of Idaho Falls, I think it is hilarious. If you can't read it, it says "WARNING TO TOURISTS Do not laugh at the natives"

This picture was taken right after they passed the dam.

This picture was taken right in front of the cabin, so yes this is the view from the cabin. Gorgeous isn't it?!

Paint!

2010-10-20T21:06:00.001-06:00

For my birthday last year my mom bought me some paint and then came over to help me paint our master bedroom. Best birthday gift ever! As you can see from the before pictures, my room REALLY needed a coat of paint! And yes it really had robin's egg blue trim. I LOVE it now. I am so grateful that mom is so good at artsy things, I never could have done the finish on the walls.

Seattle

2010-06-08T15:27:00.005-06:00

My dad had an emergency medicine conference or something in Seattle around the first of March so me and Brielle went too. We got Seattle city passes, which includes the Seattle Aquarium, Argosy Cruise, Woodland Park Zoo, Space Needle, EMP/Science Fiction Museum or Museum of Flight, and Pacific Science Center. We made it to the first five and tried to go the the Pacific Science Center but didn't know that the only day they are closed is Tuesday. I also would have much rather gone to the Museum of flight because unless you are a total sci-fi nerd sci-fi museum was kind of lame.

We went to the mall one night and the kids played on the toys

This is a Chinese buffet we went to one night while Tasha was at work. Brielle had her first ice cream cone of her very own and she loved it. Tripp was enjoying his too.

Waiting in line at the zoo in Tasha's sweet double stroller.

Well....

2010-06-08T14:35:00.004-06:00

I decided to catch up a little since we carved pumpkins a lot has happened. Like Christmas, Brielle's first birthday, a trip to Seattle to visit Tasha and Randy, Nate and I went on a cruise, Brielle and I went to Colorado last week to visit Zayna and Steve then we brought Zelda back to stay with us for a few weeks.

Pumpkins!

2009-10-18T11:53:00.004-06:00

We carved pumpkins last night, Brielle's first ever pumpkin experience. Here she is with her pumpkin, and trying to eat the guts of mine.

The guts were her favorite part!

Kind of a scary picture of me, but Brielle is having fun.

This is the finished product all lit up.

This is mine, a tigger pumpkin.

Brielle's cute one that has the same amount of teeth as her!

This is Nate's dragon.

Pumkins in the light.

I blew the candle out right before taking this picture, if you look close you can see the smoke coming out of his eyes.

Bored!

2009-10-14T12:58:00.003-06:00

Well I have no pictures but I'm going to update this thing anyway. Really I just need an excuse not to study/ watch my anthropology class so this is whats happening in the life of me. First of all and most recent I must record this monumental event that has just occured, jk but really I have never seen such a thing. Brielle has had blowouts before and while a little gross, not too bad, about thirty minutes ago I had to go stop Brielle from destroying my printer. So I go over and at first I said what is that on your pants, then I realized what it was and was like whoa NATHAN I NEED YOUR HELP! It was like a huge clump hanging out the top of her diaper. It wasn't really that bad to clean up, she needed to take a bath anyway! I'm halfway done with the semester, pretty glad about it, that means its closer to Thanksgiving break and the best yet CHRISTMAS my favorite time of the year, just ask Nate. I love the decorations, the lights, everyone is nice and caring, even church is more fun, and best is the Christmas songs. I love it all. This year its Brielle's first Christmas and I am so excited to be Santa Claus. I got Brielle a stuffed reindeer at the DI for 25 cents, and last week she was playing with it and I got down on the floor to play with her and told her about what happens on Christmas. She didn't really care but I had fun telling her about Santa. Well enough about Christmas. My mom is moving back from Fruitland, ID, she got a job at the site and starts on Monday so the last three days we have been driving all over Idaho Falls trying to find a place for her to live. We found two places that she really liked but neither were very good for Boo, her little yorkie. She thinks she'll stay at this temporary apartment for a month so she is not so rushed and can decide if she wants to rent an apartment or a house for a year. Her job is pretty good, they will pay for her food and rent for the first year, which is really nice for her because she owns a house in Fruitland. Nate has has the flu all week and hasn't been able to go to work so hopefully me and Brielle don't get it. Mostly I'm worried about Brielle, I don't get sick very easily, but she is so little and I hate it when she is uncomfortable and there's nothing I can do about it. Well I guess thats it in my life for now, kinda boring but I don't mind .... too much jk. Well see ya later alligator! Or as Jaxton used to tell us see ya later crocadile : )

Lots and Lots of PICTURES!

2009-09-15T16:52:00.007-06:00

So I am officially a horrible blogger. So I just went through my camera and put a few pictures from every event since the last post, and a lot has happened and as usual I didn't get pictures of all of it and when I did take them I didn't take enough. The first two are from today, then the pictures get older as you go down.
This my mom and Bill on our bike ride. My mom's friend puts on a cancer benefit called pedal for patients. You can go 100, 68, 40, or 20 miles, we did the 20. My cousin Ellie came with me along with Bill's daughter Breanna, Brielle even came. My mom pulled Brielle for 10 miles in the bike trailer. Bill and the young girls didn't want to finish so they went back after 10 miles. My mom and I finished the whole 20. It was kinda hard, but I bet my mom thought it was cake after riding her bike across Iowa (500 miles) in 7 days!

This is about mile 8.

Zayna left some of her baby toys at my mom's house and Brielle loved playing on all of the big kid toys. We even brought home this little walk behind toy.

The next few are from the Hammond family reunion. I didn't know most of the people but it was still fun. This is Jaxton's cucumber boat. His grandpa helped him carve it out the we took it to the pond and I helped him put little viola flowers in there so they could be the people and we bent sticks so they could have oars!

This is Nate's great aunt Marge. She was pretty funny. She busted out the harmonica and sang some songs, then she broke this out and I have no idea what it is but it was pretty cool. Oh yeah and she yodels.

This is Brielle discovering how cool big cups are.

Had to throw a bath picture in here. It is her favorite thing to do, she loves the water, especially because she gets to splash all she wants.

This was the Chidester camp out, kinda like a family reunion, and I took a grand total of three pictures the whole weekend and two of them were of Logan in this "cool" jacket. (Its my grandma's, I don't think he noticed until we did)

So I didn't even know these pictures were on my camera. They are from Ross park, from the week I had Zelda and Asher while Zayna and Steve were moving all their stuff to Colorado and finding a place to live. I had to work so I couldn't go with them, but Brielle looks like she had fun.

This is at my house, I like the next two because Brielle and Asher both smiled, but not in the same picture.

Zelda really liked to put on Brielle's clothes, even though they are way too small for her. I wish I would have taken some pictures of her in the other clothes, they were so small on her that she had to take her diaper off so they would fit.

We also had a weeny roast with the LeFevre family, most of them hadn't seen our new house so we had to have a party. LeFevre weeny roasts are the best because my aunt Netso always makes popcorn in the fire. She never really wants to but we all love it so much that she does it anyway.

Well I guess that's it for now. Hopefully I will get the drive to update this more often. It will probably be easier now because I quit my job : ) ! YAY! So now I can just focus on going to school and being a good mommy!

Been Awhile

2009-07-21T22:27:00.005-06:00

Well it has been a long time since I have blogged. During school I never felt like it because I was so busy with work, school, and my little Brielle, and since then I have been busy putting stuff away in my house and lately cleaning our flower beds because the weeds were as tall as me! I have been meaning to take pictures of our house to put on here but I haven't yet. I was kinda waiting until we painted but I'm not sure when that is going to happen. We moved in in May and have been so busy since then, and the trim in my bedroom is like easter blue so thats one of the reasons I was waiting to take pictures. This weekend we went to visit my mom and sister in Fruitland, ID but it turns out that my mom was going to Iowa this week so I only got to see her for a few hours on Friday night. She is so crazy, she went to Iowa for this bike trip called Ragbrai, they ride a bike across the whole state, but so far judging by the pictures she is having a lot of fun. Well Zayna and I and the kids still had fun. Brielle loves little kids doesn't matter what they are doing she loves just looking at them. Zelda really liked to play with her, a little too much, because if you know Zelda she has a hard time controlling her excitement, but she is getting better at it. Asher just wanted to steal her toys and binky and then say "tnkoo." Now for some pictures...

We went to the park and Zelda and Asher loved the tube slide
Yeah the dates on these are totally wrong! Zelda wasn't even born in Jan 06

Brielle liked the park too.

Here's Asher with Brielle's pretty pink sunglasses

Brielle in Asher's saucer she really loved it!

Zelda loves to put on pretty dresses and look like a princess!

Blue Line

2009-05-24T18:15:00.002-06:00

Well I figured out what the blue line was, although I know you can't see it anymore. Its like a link to the picture above it. If you arrow over it you can see the line, only now its orange, and when you click the picture comes up. I don't really know how I did it or how to undo it.

I'm Going to Try Again

2009-05-23T16:54:00.005-06:00

This is Brielle in her bumbo chair. She really likes it because she can look around and she doesn't have to lay down all the time. Well I don't know why it underlines my posts in blue sometimes and other times it doesn't but I don't know how to get it off.

This is the classic Brielle mean face. She always makes these funny faces. In this one she kind of look like a fat old man, but still very cute.

This picture is on Easter at Grandpa LeFevre's house. I don't know if you have seen Nico in awhile Tasha, but I thought that you should see how much he looks like his daddy. He's like a little clone boy, and he has a very cute smile in this one. He really liked Nate.

This is on a Sunday at Grandpa and Grandma Hammond's house in her favorite little seat. I love the bow, but this is the only outfit that I have that even comes close to matching and it only kind of matches.

This is in our new backyard. We had our first fire in our fire pit. It was really nice outside and sunny so we had to go get this adorable hat for Brielle, and it even kind of matched her jammies.We invited the whole neighborhood, and they all happen to be named Hammond. And there it goes underlining again.This is our fire pit. It looks pretty good huh.Grandma Hammond and cousin Jaxton. The neighbor's little puppy came to the party and Jax had a lot of fun with her running around.This is today. I bought her these cute little sunglasses the other day and Grandma Hammond brought her this new headband and I had to put them on her and take a picture because she looks so cute!The glasses are a little big but still really cute. Nate called her an Elvis baby, maybe because the glasses were big, but I'm not really sure.

Pictures of my Angel

2009-05-18T17:51:00.006-06:00

This is going to be a long post because I have to catch up! The pictures will be out of order because I uploaded them and then I deleted some of them so I will write about each as I get to it.

This is Great-Grandpa Hammond holding Brielle one Sunday in March. He is always so excited to see her. It was Jaxton's turn next.

Nathan and I went to Idaho Falls with his parents and we were taking pictures of Brielle because she was making faces like this. It was hilarious This is her first stuffed animal. I think it is very cute.

Well it won't be a long post after all because I am already sick of waiting for the pictures to upload just to delete them and have to upload them again. When I would delete words it would delete all the pictures so I am done for now.

2009-04-18T12:16:00.007-06:00

Brielle loves to make bubbles. Her whole front gets all wet, but she has fun. Yesterday she was making a buzzing noise with her lips so Nate started doing it. She would look at daddy doing it then as soon as he was done she would do it. It was so cute I got the video camera out. I turned the camera on and Nate made the noise and........ Brielle did nothing! She was copying Nate for like two mintutes and as soon as I get the camera she stops! I did get a little on camera after I had it out a few minutes.

Brielle got a new dress yesterday. While I was picking it out Brielle is sitting in her car seat in the cart wrapped in her bright PINK blankie and Heather Carter walks up and says "oh HE'S so cute!" I was thinking did she really just say HE! I'm looking at dresses and she's in a pink blanket. A little later she says "he is a boy right?" I said "No she's a girl, I wouldn't put a boy in a pink blanket." I guess like mother like daughter. My mom told me that people would say that about me when I was a baby dressed in a pink dress, but I still think she looks like a girl.

I think she looks like a big girl in this picture. She's looking right at the camera and is sitting in her bumbo leaning on the arm rest. See my little picture shelf in the background, can't find any cute wallet size and 3" x 5" picture frames.

We had to work today, It sucks because its finally a nice day. The sun is shining and the wind is not blowing! Poor baby has to work at such a young age!

Our laptop is still broken, but I will get our other pictures on here eventually. They won't be in chronological order but oh well. She wore a very cute dress on Easter that Nate's aunt (I think) got her from Mexico and Doris made her a little bracelet to match. She's actually wearing it in these pictures but she wiggles too much so you can't see it. Someday I will get the Easter pictures on here.

Pictures

2009-03-26T17:48:00.003-06:00

Well, the disc drive on my laptop is broken so I haven't been able to put these pictures on, so I'm using Nate's computer to put them on. I must say we have a pretty adorable little baby girl!

This is my favorite one of her.

Grandma's House

2009-03-13T22:13:00.003-06:00

We went to see Grandma last weekend. She was so cute in her little Pooh Bear outfit that cousin Zelda gave to her. She loves to make these funny little faces.

I did Zelda's hair it was very cute, but you can't really see it in this picture.

Brielle and Daddy

2009-02-20T00:07:00.003-07:00

We realized when we came home from the hospital that we had no pictures of her with her daddy so we had to take some, but she wasn't very happy to be awake.

I just love these shoes even though they are a little big for her.

Pretty Valentine's Dress

2009-02-19T23:55:00.003-07:00

Brielle just had to wear her pretty Minnie Valentine's Dress for the holiday, and she looked so cute I had to take some pictures. She's in her new Pooh Bear bouncy chair, we decided that it was a good Valentine's present.

More Brielle

2009-02-19T23:20:00.005-07:00

Brielle and Grandma Hammond about an hour after she was born. She was screaming until one of the nurses went and got her a binky then she was happy.

I love this picture. She is only one day old and she looks like she's smiling!

I love this picture too. She just looks so content.

This is her with Grandpa LeFevre. He had to work the day after she was born so he spent about an hour with us. (on the clock!)

New Blog

2009-02-12T22:06:00.000-07:00

Well I never thought that I would have a blog, but now I have a baby to brag about so I thought I would try it. Brielle was born on January 13, she was 8lbs 5oz, and 20.5 inches. She is so beautiful, its hard to believe that she is finally here. She is a very good baby, rarely ever cries, and usually only wakes up once a night. We can't wait until she can smile and laugh.

These are the pictures the ladies at the hospital took.