Family Update: 2009 so far…

Well I’ve been telling you all a lot about what’s going on in the world of Abby-May, but some of you may be wondering what’s going on in our lives besides developmental stages being reached. Well I will do my best to provide a short summary of 2009 for us so far.

Joe is still working his IT job and is still part owner in his business. I am still watching the two boys throughout the day regularly. And I don’t do any work for the business any more – I quit a couple months ago. Joe is a Sunday School Teacher for the youth, and I am still the assistant secretary in the Relief Society.

My little sister had a wonderful baby boy in January, so we flew out to Utah for the blessing the end of February. It was fun to see everyone, even though it was just a quick trip.  Oh, and little Matias is such a cute bubuh!

January through mid-April, we were busy with our next-door neighbors’/good friends’ backyard wedding. Abby was teething, and I was still working for the business, and was making plans for the bachelorette party (also super fun), so it was a pretty busy couple months, but tons of fun! They were married April 11^th, and it was beautiful and flawless! The evening flowed perfectly, the food was great, and there was a lot of dancing!

Our little town of Maricopa celebrated the opening of the first Walmart!!! It was very exciting stuff people. Now if we need baby supplies, or clothes, we don’t have to drive 30 minutes to get there! It’s right around the corner from our house!

Abby May turned 1 year old!! I made a big deal out of it. Everyone warned me she wouldn’t remember it, but I always replied that I would! There were a good 30-35 friends and family members there for the backyard BBQ. Joe made his delicious ribs, we set up a fun sno-cone station, everyone swam, my friend Rebecca put together an awesome mix of music that we blasted, and my friend Kellyn made Abby the most beautiful tutu! Our friends Mike and Chrissy bought the perfect, most gorgeous cake! We hung a banner, pitched the umbrellas, filled the balloons, Abby stuffed her face with cake, and we had a blast! Abby got TONS of presents, toys and clothes galore!

When I was pregnant with Abby, everybody else I knew was pregnant too! So naturally, the month of May was full of friends 1^st birthdays to go to. Babies everywhere!

The end of June/beginning of July we drove out to Utah for another trip. This was Abby’s first road trip ever! I was so worried (as always), but it wasn’t too bad. She wasn’t feeling great and was kind of out of it the whole time, which was sad for her but kind of nice for us. She was like that both ways. We drove our new Malibu because it gets better gas mileage, and broke that puppy in! It was a super busy trip! We went out for Joe’s Gma/Gpa Hall’s 50^th anniversary!! It was a fabulous party, and tons of fun to see the ENTIRE family all at once! Joe and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary while we were there. Since we share our anniversary with his mom and dad (Lucretia and Joe) AND his aunt and uncle (Mel and Jason), we tried to plan something for all of us. But we ended up going out with his aunt and uncle to dinner and a movie, which was fun. We stayed through the 4^th of July, going to the balloon launch in the early morning, then the Provo parade, more family/friends visits, then fireworks at Thanksgiving Point! It was tons of fun, and a very busy day. Every day we were visiting with someone else, we have so much family and so many friends in Utah, we miss living there so much! So it was hectic and busy busy, but apparently, that’s how we like to live (go to our flickr site for all the pics!)

Our A/C broke….AGAIN! This is the 2^nd summer in a row, and the only two summers it has ever performed! What the heck!?! It’s getting up to 120 degrees around here outside, we need it to work. And it’s overworking to try to stay cool which is making our electric bills sky high! What a pain. They’ve had guys out here to fix it a good 5-7 times just this summer!

The end of July we made another very short weekend trip to Utah for our buddy Jason’s wedding!  That’s two road trips in a month, Abby was not happy, so nobody was happy.  I’m done with road trips forever!  Not really forever, but for now forever.  The weekend wasn’t really busy until the actual wedding day.  Joe and I helped out a lot and chased Abby all over the property, it was very exhausting.  But we’re happy for Jason for his engagement finally turning into a marriage.  They recently bought a nice house in AZ too, so lots of milestones for them this year!

Coming up, I’ll be preparing my body for another change as baby #2 is on the way! We found out July 20th.  So far I’ve been feeling nauseous but I haven’t thrown up once.  With Abby I was throwing up for the first 6 months, ick!  So I’m very pleased about that.  I am 100 X more tired and 100 X more emotional though, blah.  Very little house work is getting done each day, which bothers me a lot.  We had the first ultra sound last week, we’re 3 days further along than we thought, wahoo.  This changes our due date from Apr 1st to Mar 29th 2010.  Abby came to the appointment with us and was very interested in the black and white screen, hehe.

The beginning of August, the shipping and customers service department moved out of our house, wahoo!!  We have a little more space available for US in our tiny house.

August 3rd we bought 2 Australian Shepphard puppies!  Two boys named Edward (for Edward Cullen) and Bauer (for Jack Bauer).  They’re cute, but since I’m the one home training them all day every day (which I didn’t want to do) they’re kind of getting on my nerves.  Oh well, hopefully they’ll grow out of their puppy-stupids.  Joe and Abby are head-over-heals for them, so that’s what matters.

Sat, August 8th was my 22nd birthday.  Friday night Joe took me to a night-time water park and it was so much fun!  And Joe bought me a fabulous pastel PINK Dyson vacuum!  Don’t worry, it’s not like it sounds.  Our old one crapped out, we needed a new one anyway. Joe found an awesome deal on a refurbished one, and it was pink! I’m very happy with it.

Quick Abby Update:  She got another cold and ear infection right after our 2nd trip from Utah (the first infection one was right after the first trip  to Utah).  So she got stronger antibiotics and is doing fine now.  We moved her next weight check up to her 15 month regular check up since she probably fell behind in her weight goal due to another cold.  The appointment is tomorrow, so cross your fingers!  Abby switched from 2 naps to 1 on Aug 13th.  She all of the sudden just stopped sleeping during her first nap time and I had to move her second one up.  Funny how things like that just happen automatically.  She was already saying “doggie” but right before we got the dogs and Joe was getting her all hyped up for them, he taught her to kind of bark after saying doggie, so now she says “doggie, whoo whoo!”  So cute!  Aug 19th she started saying “cheese” and not in context with the food cheese, but when I’m taking a picture and I say “say cheese!” she says “cheese” and smiles!  Also on Aug 19th she started pointing to her nose when I tell her to.  Such a smart-goose!!

Yay, I think I’m finally caught up! Visit our facebook pages and our flickr site for more pics and info!

We love you all!

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