Our weekend of Temple fun

I love this temple. Although I may be bias cause I was married here, but this is a great temple as all of them are. I hadn't ever been there other than being sealed to Jimmy, but over the past month I have been there a few more times. We had the opprotunity to go with some friends in our ward to the temple. This was their first time. On Friday night we went through so they could receive their endowments. What a great experience for them and us. On Sat night, they were sealed with their kids. Wow, the power of the spirit. One of the greastest things ever.

Villareal Family, it was already dark outside when they had pictures done on Sat.



Salt Lake Temple

My funny girl

Jimmy put Hailee in her bouncer to let her play with the toys that hang down from it. Usually she will lay down and just grab and hit at them from laying down. Lately she has been wanting to sit up, who could blame her. She is getting better and better everyday and is falling over less and less. She loves it. She loves it so much I guess that she decided to just sit up in her bouncer and the toys hand right in her face. She would just smile at us, although she wouldn't when I got the camera. She is a funny little girl.

My sitting lovin baby

Outting to the park

I am so excited that it starting to warm up again. I have wanted to take Hailee to the park. It was a nice day and it was warm so we put on her sun gear and headed out. She loves to be in her stroller and go for walks. She liked to the swing too. She should though cause we put her in her swing at home. I think that she liked being outside.

Hailee's First Easter

****Just a warning there are a lot of pictures.****

Our festivities started out yesterday with a 9 am Easter egg hunt. It was a cold day so we all bundled up. Me and my sister took Hailee and my 2 other nieces to the hunt. The 2 girls cried since we couldn't go into the ropes with them to help them, so that was kinda a bust. They had an adult hunt after all the age groups went. You think kids are ruthless, I think that adults are the worst. They had rules set, but no one kept them. I was picking up stuff and things were taken out of my hands and I was pushed around and so I just left, it wasn't even fun. I will just buy my OWN candy.

Hailee at the hunt all bundled up.

Later that day we went to my parents home and had our Easter party. We dyed eggs or should I say the two older girls dyed eggs, we had a hunt, which Hailee was sleeping, and had our BBQ.

Some of the dyed eggs.

Hailee with bunny ears at grandma's house. Hailee got a new sundress with cherries on it and a new toy that looks like a mouse and rattles. Both are soo cute

On Sunday, I decided that the Easter Bunny would wait to do Hailee's basket till after church, we have early church. The Easter Bunny left Hailee with two stuffed animals, two shirts, a pair of jean shorts, a Easter book, and eggs which were suppose to have candy. We kinda had a few peices here and there and well there wasn't too much left. She can't eat it anyways.

Hailee's basket

Right when we put it by her she grabbed it.


She dumped it all out

and wanted to just eat the basket.

The Party

It was fun to go to the birthday party. They had tons of food, I even tried this bean thingy and I am not to hot on bean thingys. They were called Ranchero Beans. They smelled really yummy and so I thought if it smells this good then I should try it. Can I just say they were so good that I just ate them. I guess it is a Mexican dish, it has of course beans, ham, sausage, hotdogs, and I am sure there was a lot of other things like spices and stuff, they were just good.
Soccoro had made all of these pinatas for the party, I think she made 2. She made a sponge bob, a carrot and this zebra Juan got while he was working out of state. It was huge.

They wanted Hailee to hold the stick and take her picture. It was cold outside, so she is all bundled up.

The party turned out really good and the kids were all excited about the puppy they named Cubbie.

A new visitor

Look at our new puppy!!!



Ok, so we bought the new puppy, but it isn't ours. We have some friend that live in our neighbor hood and their kids are celebrating their birthdays today. We just kept the dog here till today, so Ruger was lucky to have a little visitor for a couple of days. Ruger was a little upset the first day, but now they have gotten use to each other. They had a little dog named Yoda and it was stolen out of their car. We were trying to decide on what to get for them. They are older, so you really can't go and buy a toy like you would for a toddler. They have been wanting to get another dog, so Jimmy thought that it would be fun to get them a dog. So we found this cute lab/chow mix. It is the cutest little dog and is a pretty good dog. It hasn't really cried at night and has adjusted well with the new surroundings, although it will have new ones later today. And yes, we did check with the parents before we bought it for them.

Hailee's new pictures

Happy Green Day

Family traditions are great. There are many things that I can remember that my family did while growing up that we did every year. Since I can remember every year on St Patrick's day we would eat cornedbeef, potatoes, and cabbage. I like the beef and potatoes, but the cabbage just isn't good.

On St. Patricks day, people might think about their luck. What luck I have. If it is luck as in winning something, drawings, gambling (which I don't do cause I am unlucky) ect. my luck runs short all the time. But I am lucky to have Jimmy. He is so great. He does so much for me and latley I feel spoiled. I feel like I really haven't done a whole lot and he does everything, but he never complains about it. He is so great with Hailee and if I am getting her ready for bed or something and there is a sink full of dishes, he has them done. If I am tired, he lets me go to sleep and takes Hailee so that I can make sure I get enough sleep to function the next day.

Also, the rest of my family and the support they show me and my little family. I am lucky to have the parents that I have and the willingness to support or help whenever there is need. For the time they spent on me to teach and love me. To support my decisions and things that I wanted to do. To instill in me how to be a great parent to my daughter and do all the fun things that I want to do with her to make her the best that she can be.

So in that respect of luck, I am a lucky person!!!

Where did she go??

We used to lock Ruger up when we would leave either in the basement or outside. Now that she is older and had been trained she knows where to go potty and not anywhere upstairs. It has been getting warmer and so we have started to put her outside when we leave. On Sunday, it was really cold outside since we just had a nice little snow storm and so we left her inside. When we leave her inside she usually will jump on our bed and just sleep till we are home. We got home from church and Ruger will greet us at the door and get all excited cause we are home, usually. When we opened the door she wasn't there, so we thought that she was being lazy and didn't want to get off the bed. Jimmy called her and we didn't hear a thing. He ran upstairs to get her. She wasn't there. Jimmy asked if I had seen her yet. I hadn't seen her where could she have gone. So we start to look around the house. The basement door was open, but I went down there to make sure she wasn't laying on some blankets, not there either. We looked outside, why? We left her inside, just to look. All this time we have been calling her name and didn't hear anything. Jimmy looked all upstairs, so he thought. I then asked him if he looked in the closet, he asked how could she get in there it was closed. Not closed cause I pushed open the door and Ruger jumped out. We were so baffled that she didn't even make any noises to let us know where she was. I don't know if she had been in there the whole time we were gone, but she probably could smell Hailee's Easter candy and pushed on the door and it opened. The door closes by itself when you open it, not tightly. So then I was worried that Ruger ate all the candy, nope it was all there still. We had to just laugh, it was so funny.

First words

My last post I said that Hailee was babbling and said DADA, well now all she likes to say is DADA. She has mastered her first word. She does babble others words but they are not consistant like DADA.

6 months already

Hailee had her 6 month appointment today. She now weighs 16lbs 2oz; 60%. She has grown in length a little bit, she is 251/4 inches; 50%. So she is growing. She has been babbling a lot latley. She will say A-DA alot. Tonight she finally said DADA a couple of times. I was so excited. She also has been babling MA but not MAMA or MOM, close though, and the sound of the B. She has started to think that it is so funny that whenever you put food in her mouth that she spits and blows it off the spoon or out of her mouth and then she will either smile or laugh. She will spit or blow whenever she had liquid in her mouth too, like for formula. I tried to record her doing this cause tonight she just was fully of giggles. I had the hiccups and she thought that it was the funniest thing ever, although I would move the camera everytime I would hiccup.

Picture Day

Today we went to get pictures of Hailee and her cousins at Target. They all had on their Easter dresses and they turned out really cute, although I don't know if I would go back to that Target to get pics done again. The camera girl wasn't the nicest. She seemed in a hurry to take their pics. I will post them when I get them back on the 18th.

We are planning on going on a vacation to Oregon coast in May. I am so excited to go and more so that I have Hailee and my parents are going to be coming with us. I have been so excited that I went shopping crazy. I bought her a swimming suit, sundresses, sunglasses, and some hats. She looks so cute in her glasses I had to take a pre-vacation pic of her in them. I am going to have to keep putting them on her so that she will leave them on eventually. Right now, she just takes them off to put them in her mouth.

Temple Night

Last night was Stake Conference Temple night. We have been wanting to go to the temple for a little bit, but I of course had kinda been dragging my feet to get the Stake President to sign my recommend, well it wasn't all me, Jimmy to had things come up too. Anyways we went to the Salt Lake Temple and the DeMelo's came along with us. It was really cool to actually go through a session there. I was married there, but never had been back. Afterward, we went to eat at Letherbys. What an experience we had. We first get there and we are standing there waiting to "be seated", they didn't say anything to us until Angela asked if we could seat ourselves. Their reply was " We like to seat our customers so we know who we've not helped yet", they were soooo busy that they couldn't see that we had just gotten there and that we haven't be helped yet. Ok, they were completely dead, they had one other couple in there that was all lovey dovey, and then us. Well I wish I could have recorded the rest of the night, Franco couldn't keep hold of his coke and spilled it all over Jimmy and the whole floor, I think that he was trying to give the workers something to do, and then we got this giant banana split that Jimmy and I split. All we did was laugh, it was so fun!!! Thanks to the Crosses for watching Hailee so that we could have a enjoyable night. Neither me or Angela had a camera, so we had a pictureless night.

New discoveries

I have been wanting to catch Hailee rolling on camera and I finally did, a week later. Last week she did roll, but now she has the hang of it. When you put her on her tummy, she rolls almost instantly.

She is so funny, she thinks that it is so cool that she can roll. She discovered that she doesn't have to stay on her tummy when we put her there.

She has for a long time now lifted her legs and grabs onto her feet. I don't think that she really knew what they were, she would just hold onto them. Well today is a lot of first I guess, cause she grabbed her feet and then saw that there was something there and guess where it went? Of course where everything else goes into her mouth.

Hailee's Camo

Jimmy has a lot of different hobbies and likes to do different things. One thing that he likes to do is go to different show at the South Towne Expo depending on what show it is. Well, one that he usually goes to is the gun show. It had kinda been a tradition for him since we have dated, maybe even before that, I am not sure. He would usually go with his Dad and brothers, but now that his Dad moved to Idaho, he finds other to go with him. If not, he knows just about everyone there.
Anyways, when I found out that I was pregnant, we didn't know if Hailee was a boy of a girl yet. This one guy there who sells camo clothing and stuff had some baby camo onesies. So Jimmy came home and he had bought one of each, a boy and a girl one. He was so excited and couldn't wait to put it on her. Now it finally fits her and she looks so cute!!! What a great job he did picking out cute things for Hailee.