The boy is ours!!!

Bub did it; he finished his first semester of Medical School! How many does he have left? We just don't think about that question. Bub did not have to study this weekend so we had a fun filled weekend as a family and with some friends.

We took the girls on a "Santa train ride" in little Boulder city ( 5 min. away) It was not the "Heber Creeper" but it was a lot of fun.
Just before we were returning to the train station Santa and Mrs. Clause showed up! Hailey liked Mrs. Clause but did not really like Santa.
Mia loved pulling on Santa's beard.
Mia loves her tongue.
I was sneaky and got a picture of this train guy. He looks awesome and fits the part completely! He is like straight from a movie.
My girls!
Here we are, on our way to board the train!
We went to a Christmas party with our med school friends who husbands were all able to hang out now. The kids decorated this ginger bread house. They did awesome!

Happy birthday to Hailey and Asher!!!

Thanksgiving in Las Vegas!

My parents and my sister came to Henderson for Thanksgiving! It was so nice to have them, I wish they could have stayed longer. We tried to fit a couple of activities into one day while they were here, so we took them to see the big horn sheep. And the girls went and saw the New Moon, movie. :)

Liza is in stealth mode!
I am thankful for my family, and I can't wait to have my brothers back for future holidays! Our family feels small with them gone.

This is the biggest Christmas tree I have ever seen. We had to get a picture by it!

Update on my girls: Hailey is busy, busy, busy. It really takes all I have to attempt to stay caught up with her. She is so much fun and has been learning a lot of songs at preschool, so, she sings and sings all day long! Oh yes, and she gets into my make-up.

Mia: This girl just warms everyone's heart. She is super sweet and guess what she says? "Momma" It's true, I'm pretty proud. :)

I feel like life is just crazy and hectic right now but I am so glad we have holidays and times where I can take a breather and see all that I am blessed with including all those who we love! Happy Holidays everyone!

Halloween & the White Coat

We found mountains! We went to Mount Charleston and it reminded us, just a tiny bit, of home!We had so much fun this Halloween. It was so nice to not be freezing while trick-or-treating! Hailey really wanted to have a fire and roast marshmallows. So she made one with her cousin and the pretended to roast candy pumpkins.
We took the girls trick-or-treating at an outdoor mall and Hailey found someone very important. "Mom look it's Santa, he wanted to come and help give people food." Santa did not see her but we reminded her that Santa knows if she is being good or not.
Bub and the girls getting some candy!
Hailey was a dragon this year. She love her costume because it was uncle Bruce's from last year. Mia was a cute little giraffe (longenecker) Get it! I still think the Longenecker/ giraffe thing is cute after 6 years.
Bub had his white coat ceremony for Medical school last weekend. It was cool to watch all of the students get to put on there white coats for the first time! Bub's brother and his family came and so did my Mom! We had a lot of fun with everyone. Thanks for coming!



My Mom and the girls got to play together this last week. I started a new job ( we will see how it goes) but my Mom was super grandma and came to watch the girls for us for my first few days of work. It helped put me at ease to know my girls were with Grandma. And thanks to some awesome friends for helping out with our girls too. You guys are the best!

Birthday Time

My pictures are out of order woops!
Bub had his 28th birthday! Hailey loves parties and she was so excited to pick Diego party hats and soccer plates. Bub got a fun game called Blockous! We play it a couple times a week. Mia's first time eating food. She was such a mess but it was so cute to watch her try to eat.

Mia was supposed to be taking a nap when the phone rang and I went to get it. I came back to my room and found this. Hailey immediately said, "Mom don't worry, I'm just being a good big sister." I love that she got a wipe and put it on Mia's head. She is my little nurse in training.

Bub is not a cake kind of a guy. But really, you can not have a birthday without cake. So, we got him a little piece and the three of our shared it with a lot of ice cream.

Dad, brother, sister, baby,....WHAT?

Me: Hailey put your seat belt on babe.
Hailey: Why did you just call me babe?
Me: Cause' you are my baby too.
Hailey: I'm your baby too cause I came from your belly like Mia did?
Me: Yep

Hailey: Well, why does Grandma call you babe?
Me: Cause I am her baby.

Hailey: ...................Huh..............................................

A minute goes by


Hailey: Well why do you call Dad babe, is he my brother?

Washington DC

Bub's little brother Jaymes just got married to the cutest girl named Emmalani. They really are a cute couple and we are excited to have her in our family. They were married in the Washington DC temple so Bub and I took Mia, ( Hailey went to her favorite place ever- Grandma & Grandpa Wilson's).

Me and my sister-in-laws - minus the bride!

Little Mia and her Daddy!

The bride and groom! Look how cute they are! I got lucky and got to take some cute pictures of them at the temple. Check my photography blog to see more from their special day!

We loved getting to see the Longenecker clan again. My neice Kate loved holding Mia, it was cute!

It's National Geographic

There is an awesome park in boulder city, which is 10 min. from where we live, where hundreds of big horn sheep come down from the mountains and graze, fight, and yes as Hailey learned, they mate! It's totally National Geographic right in front of you, it's crazy!

"What are those things" Mia's eye's were huge the whole time just looking at the big horn sheep.

These sheep come to the park every night and you can get pretty close to them. There are warning signs posted saying that these are wild animals and to not confront them. I wonder if anyone has been attacked. I was scared when two of the sheep started to fight but Bub was in front of us so we were okay.

I took the girls to the Children's Museum in Las Vegas. It was so much fun we were there for 6 hours and we only played with half of the stuff at the museum. Hailey loved it, I think she is the perfect age for playing there.

There was a cute kid size grocery store. Hailey played here forever. I started telling her that I wanted some grapes and other groceries when she said, "Okay well you are my sweetheart and I will get whatever I want for you- Okay!" I thought it was funny.

There is a outdoor carousel at this mall by our place.


Panda bear and Horse ( Hailey's favorite stuffed animals) come everywhere with us since we have moved to Henderson. They come to preschool, car rides, grocery shoping, water parks, bed, everywhere. I hope this just slowley ends by itself soon.

6 Years and counting...

THEN...

YEah, today is our 6th wedding anniversary!!! Wow, I can't believe how fast time flies, 6 years, two kids, and tons of fun times!

NOW...

This is my favorite picture from our wedding day! This is our first picture as a married couple and we are all smiles and so happy that this day finally had come!

I Love You Bub, you are my best friend!

Touro-A Jewish School

Moving to Henderson has been a great move for us. It is still crazy hot here but there are so many great things that have happened that makes the heat not an issue.

Perks-
We live in an awesome ward.
We have made great friends.
Bub loves what he is learning!
Hailey is in preschool and loves it!
Oh yeah, Bub has a new calling, he is in NURSERY!
I'm still at home with the girls!

And another great perk--
Touro is a Jewish school and the students get Jewish holidays as well as the normal holidays off. I love this! I have never paid close attention to the Jewish holidays until now but I have learned that this time of year there are a couple. YEah, we will get to have Bub home more often. Bub had this last Friday off so we had a game night with some friends. I was tons of fun!

Oh yes and my favorite perk ever-
Bub has a class called osteopatic manipulation (something like that). Anyway, he comes home and gets to practice on me and Hailey! We love it, it's basically like an awesome massage!

$GAS$

I was collecting some garbage from my car while filling it up with gas when I started to hear gas dripping on the cement. All I could think about was, "Oh no, there goes my money!" I hurried over to the gas hose and pulled it out of my car and gas continued to shoot out of the hose at full blast. I thought maybe the handle was stuck, so I squeezed the handle but the handle was completely loose. I pushed every button I could see to get the gas to stop coming out of the hose but on and on it came. A very nice guy was on his way back to his car when he heard me yelling, "Help, I need some help." He came over asking if the lever was stuck and he tried everything to get it to stop. He handed the hose back over to me and he ran up to the gas station building and pushed the emergency shut off button. Yeah, the gas finally stopped. It seemed like it was going on forever which I think it had because now there was a small river of gas from me all the way to the building and down the gutter. The gas station lady came out asking the guy what he thought he was doing then she looked down and saw the river and started freaking out. She started to put up cones so nobody could come into the gas station to fill up, not like it would matter now that the gas had all been shut off. Then my nice helper started yelling, "Nobody light up, nobody light up." Anyway, it was pretty exciting and I was covered in gas meanwhile Mia is crying in the car and Hailey is screaming, "I need to pee let me out!" We are safe, got all our money back and got a free car wash! YEah!!!!

Take me out to the ball game.

We went to watch the Las Vegas 51's baseball game with the Longenecker's. We had cotton candy, drinks and yes, peanuts. It was so much fun! Thank you Longenecker's for the tickets, we had so much fun hanging out with you.

Sorry about the belly shot.
Hailey loves hanging out with Jaden and Alissa (her cousins). Alissa and Hailey being silly while eating a yummy treat!
The girls and I went to Utah this last week while Bub had his first block (test) week. We got to sleep over at Cam and Addy's and we had so much fun. Hailey and Rio played with babies all night and the next day. Rio saw me with my nursing cover on while I was feeding Mia then the next thing I saw was cute Rio with the cover around her neck and she was holding a baby. It was pretty funny but really she was just wrapping her baby up in a blanket that goes around your neck? :)
My Mom and Dad teach temple prep and family relations class at a singles ward. I went to listen to the lesson and was a little out of place with my Mia. Anyway, my Mom and Dad are awesome teachers!
My Mom got to drive back to Henderson with me and it was 15 times better to have her there. She drove the whole way while I took care of the girls! Thanks for all your help Mom!

Awww, So scared!

Cute little Mia was sleeping so well. So, I pulled out my camera to snap a picture of my sleeping beauty. I got right above her when all of the sudden, BAM, her eyes popped open and all she saw was a camera in her face. Yeah, I think she was a little scared.

Mia is three months old today! Time did not go by this fast when she was in my belly. My girl is growing so fast and she has to most awesome thigh rolls that we all just love to pinch. We love pinching her cheeks too, her face cheeks that is.

Her personality has totally burst out of her this last week. She is such a smily girl and loves to talk. Oh and she is very ticklish. Bub can get her to giggle when he tickles her. Super cute!

3 months old!

I am so in love with my girls and we have been having a lot of fun getting to hang out over the last 3 months.