This is my ugly hair. It looks horrible right? Yes it does. It also takes way to long to do and makes me super hot all the time so I decided to finally get it cut.

My wonderful aunt Nancy came to the rescue and gave me an awesome haircut! I look so cute! I have never had my hair this short and I was very scared but I love it! Thanks Nancy I love ya!



These pics are after sleeping. Isn't that so great that she did such a good job that I can sleep on my hair and it still looks this good!

The kids playing with marshmallow blow guns


My crazy mother in law made up another triathlon and crazy us, we participated. I call her crazy but we love her and she does an awesome job planning these things. They are honestly so much fun even though it kicks our butts. This race was actually planned as a four generation triathlon (cool huh?). Now let me just say that I was seven months pregnant and I did it! I walked 3 miles, biked 8 miles and hiked 3 miles. Tom and most others ran the first three miles while Janeal and I walked because we are the pregos. Then Tom and I rode a tandem bike and actually came in second place! After the adults were done, they had a little triathlon for all the kids. It was so cute and totally fun to watch all the kids. Alyssa ran like 1/4 mile non stop! Then she got tired and fell asleep on a four wheeler ha ha. After the kids were done we were fed a yummy lunch and just had a great time hanging out as a family. Sadly I didn’t remember to get my camera out until after lunch so I only got a few pics.

These are just pictures of fun times playing with friends. Once was with my friend Kim and her cute little girl Bailey. We played in the hose and collected worms. Then there was once with Steph and her kids. They came down for her doctor appt. and stayed to play. Then there are pictures of Alyssa holding my friend Lauren's sweet baby girl Aleksa. We love to have visitors now that we can actually play outside!

I guess I never blogged about moving into my Grandma Grange’s rental house back in January. We sold our townhome in December, moved in to my sister Cami’s basement as a temp until we could find somewhere to go (thank you so much!), then Grandma’s house became available and we took it. We love it because we are in a great ward, we have a yard to play in and we have wonderful neighbors to play with. So now… we had ducks in our front yard! We irrigate our lawn instead of having sprinklers. One of the first times we irrigated these ducks decided it was their personal pond. They hung out all morning. Alyssa loved it but she scared them away pretty fast because she wanted to play in the water just as bad as they did.

Mothers Day

My Mothers Day this year started a little early. My wonderful mother in law takes all of her daughters and daughters in law to Women’s Conference at BYU every year as part of our mother’s day gift. This year we went from April 29th to May 1st. It is so much fun because we get to go shopping and have an uplifting girl’s weekend without kids. Thanks Laura! We go in a pretty large group with friends and family and I get so busy that I forget to take pictures so here is all I have.

Here is where mother’s week (as I like to call it this year) got really good. I didn’t tell you that my car broke down for the fiftieth time right before I left and Tom was trying to fix it. The day before I left he decided it was maybe time to start looking for a new car (something I didn’t expect). So I happily went with him to look at one he found on KSL that day. I fell in love! It was a nice car for the price range we were looking in, and I was maybe a little over excited to get a car, so I told him to buy it. He waited and waited and then the guy sold it to someone else. I was so so sad but, I left on my vacation and had a good time. When I got back, Tom, Alyssa and this car I had fallen in love with, was in Laura’s garage! On it was a note that said “Happy Mothers Day, Happy Birth Day and Merry Christmas Kaycee Love Tom and Alyssa”! I can’t tell you how happy I was! The deal is that he lied to me and actually got the car the night I left! I love my man he is the best ever!

So I got a car a week early but that’s not all. I also got to drag Tom shopping with me to spend the rest of the money my mother in law gave me. He hates shopping with me so that was the sweetest thing ever. Then on Saturday, the day before mother’s day, Tom took Alyssa and me on a hike with him. I am seven months pregnant and to most women that may sound not so fun, and it was hard, but for me it was one of the best days ever. I can’t explain how fun it was to just be with Tom and Alyssa. On actual mother’s day I spent time with my Mom and sisters and also with the Baldwin side of Tom’s family and both were so much fun but I forgot my camera so no fun pictures, sorry.

Easter

Easter was a blast! Tom was lucky enough to have a six day weekend over Easter so we were able to go to Simpson Springs with my dad. We were also lucky enough to be able to borrow Layne and Laura's camping trailer and four-wheeler, and Matt's motorcycle! Thanks everyone! It was so fun to spend time just playing. The Easter bunny left candy and swimming suits for Alyssa and my unborn baby boy. Oh yeah I AM HAVING A BOY!!!!! We are super excited! So yeah Easter was way fun and I hope you like the few pics I remembered to take ha.

This is my baby driving a four wheeler by herself, sorta, Tom had to be close because she cant steer and she takes off pretty quickly sometimes ha ha.

These are just some pics from boring days at home. Yes my little girl loves to pretend to shoot us with daddy's BB gun and you can see it in her evil smile. She also likes to make jewelry with play dough, perfectly rounded child if you ask me ha ha!

My sisters in law and I had a mommies day while our hubbies went hunting. We decided to let the kids make Valentines Day cookies and they had a blast! Alyssa's cookie got broken but it started out in the shape of a heart.

Alyssa turned two on January 28. She was probably confused because for the entire month of January we got gifts and had little celebrations so by the time her real birthday came she had already celebrated it too many times. However it was a lot of fun and she got great gifts from lots of people. These pictures are of her actual birthday and the amazing cake was made by my wonderful sister Cortney. Thanks to all who helped make her birthday month so fun!