The Chappells

1 year old!!

2012-01-23T14:55:00.000-08:00

I can't believe Reagan is 1. It was an exciting day and also a day of remember whens. We had a little party on Saturday and he loved having all the attention. Grandma and Grandpa Crosland spoiled him like crazy and brought tons of balloons! He still is pulling the strings and dragging them around the house. He had his 1 year check up today and he is 22 lbs (60th percentile) his head is 19 inches (95th percentile) and thanks to the Rees genes he is 28 1/2 inches long... (10th percentile!!!!!!)

I really do have myself a little Ben but thats okay I love it. I don't care if he's short. He's the smartest little guy ever. He's doing things his dr. said most babies don't figure out until closer to 16-18 months of age. He is still a wild man and pretty much runs all day long. He's a good sleeper and a good eater if he can feed himself. So he eats a lot of fruit loops and pasta :) I'm trying to get rid of the bottle which is not going so well but we will figure it out. :) Here are some pictures for you to enjoy :)

What happened?

2011-12-13T19:08:00.000-08:00

Once upon a time I had a sweet, cuddly, cute, peaceful baby.....

Now....

I have a wild thing...

He has learned how to terrorize everything in his path. He climbs on the couch, he starts the dishwasher, he pulls out all the pans, he throws his food on the floor, he throws everything out of his crib if he doesn't want to sleep, he has learned how to take his own diaper off, he dumps out all his toys, he climbs stairs, he runs around naked, he pulls things out of drawers and off of shelves....... and he says more....

but.... he gives me the sweetest kisses every morning :)

Let's play catch up

2011-11-17T18:45:00.000-08:00

Sorry I've been out of the blogging world we haven't had a computer but I will pick a few pictures and update you the best I can :)

Reagan is now almost 10 months old!! He's soooo much fun. He's walking and climbing and causing all sorts of trouble. He will not hold still for 5 seconds. I can not believe how much energy the kid has but I love it. He recently had his first dentist appointment and he doesn't like Dr. Chappell as much as Grandpa Chappell but he did good and Kevin said his gums felt strong and all the spots were in the right spot. So even his teeth will be perfect :)

9 Months 20 lbs 28 inches

Halloween was so much fun. Reagan was a dragon and he would growl at people. It was so cute. We only went to a few neighbors houses and then people we knew that lived near by and he got lots of candy and everyone loved him :)

8 months old and he got his first tooth on his 8 months birthday. His second one followed a couple of weeks later :) His new favorite toy is the pots and pans ha ha.

7 months old he is crawling and getting into everything and sleeping great at night. He's such a bottle baby and he no longer is spitting up FINALLY! We went to California with the Chappells. He loved the beach until he got cold and he was a pretty good traveler. He has also mastered standing up in his crib so we had to move the crib down to the lowest setting.

6 months old. He's a master sitter now and he loves fruit. We just moved into a house the end of July and he likes to play in his own room. He loves when his dad reads to him and he's struggling to sleep at night by himself.

5 months old he is as cute as ever. His favorite words are da da and sometimes ma ma. He mostly just babbles and no one understands him but he's such a joy. We love him to death.

Reagan is our whole life. He's a spoiled baby and he loves attention. :) He also loves the cartoon Super Why haha It's the one time during the day he will sit there and focus without trying to run away. Our house is coming together finally. It still looks like a tornado hit but we are trying to get it all perfect. Home remodel is hard with a baby!!!

I hope this satisfied some of you since I was getting crap for not blogging (kati....) :) Love ya all!

Loves and Hates of a 4 month old

2011-06-03T10:45:00.001-07:00

Our little Reagan is 4 months old! He's so fun and has such a personality.

He knows what he likes and doesn't like and it's funny to find out.

He LOVES Rice Cereal and Pears. He has only had Pears and Apples. Both were a hit.

He had Bananas one day and they didn't work out so well so we will try them again later.

He hates socks! He will pull on them or once in a while he will fuss and as soon as you take the socks off he will smile and be much happier. Silly little boy! I guess he will be like me and only like flip flops :)

He LOVES holding his own bottle but he can't really do it so I have to prop it up or help without him knowing :)

He LOVES to be up and going. He's a social baby so this toy has been a life saver!

He LOVES to be wild and crazy. He has always made the funniest faces.

He LOVES to put everything into his mouth!

Even his little toes :)

He HATES blankets on him. He gets this from Ben and will kick all of them off of himself.

So I have to be sneaky and cover him once he's out!

He HATES getting his picture taken. :) Ok not really

I think he just gets sick of me taking it a million times a day so he hides.

Little Danger is so much fun. I know I say that all the time but he is! He's entertaining and talks a lot! He's a good sleeper now and likes to be outside in the stroller. Oh he also likes to go shopping :) Mostly because he gets a lot of attention and everyone stops and talks to him and he flashes them all a big smile!

He has the CUTEST laugh. Ben got his laughing so hard the other day that he couldn't stop. It was hilarious. :)

My little family

2011-05-28T15:24:00.001-07:00

Between Ben hating pictures and trying to convince a 4 month old to smile this is the best picture we got ha ha :) I love my little family!!

Catchin up!

2011-05-18T09:01:00.001-07:00

These are Reagan's 3 month old pictures. He's almost 4 months now so I figured I better post them before that day :) Our friend Kati took a few shots of him for us and they are super cute.

He's a very social baby. Whenever we go somewhere he smiles and talks to whoever will talk to him. It sure makes the old ladies at the grocery store happy.

He can almost sit up by himself.

He sleeps through the night now :)

He is a very happy baby and likes to laugh but he's also a handful.

He likes to be "in the know" and always wants to do whatever we are doing.

He is definitely not a mellow baby.

He likes to be standing up and hates being on his stomach.

He is a morning person and I am not! Luckily his dad is and so they play

at 6 am while mom sleeps in :)

My birthday was on Sunday and for my birthday Reagan thought it would be fun to say Da Da.

He doesn't say it on command but it will just randomly say it. I don't think he's quite figured out that his dad is Da Da because he just randomly says it.

Now for my mini vent. As you know Ben works at US Bank and a girl there is pregnant and she thinks its weird that I am a stay at home mom. Ben will tell her sometimes that Reagan likes to be held and played with by us and she will make comments like yeah he's spoiled because his mom stays home with him. Yes I admit he is spoiled. He has everything he could ever dream of and I think every outfit Carter's clothing sells and he usually gets what he wants because I don't let him cry for very long because he starts to gag himself if I do but I think it's important that I am home with him. I don't want my son to spend time at a day care. I don't think she means it rude and there is nothing wrong with taking your babies to day care, but when Ben and I were dating he asked me what I wanted to do with my life. I told him I love my paralegal degree and I had so much fun doing it but my goal in life was to be a wife and a mother and that is one of the things he loves most about me.

Life is great. We gave up the house hunt but now we are ready to start again. So wish us luck!

3 Months Old

2011-04-20T14:56:00.001-07:00

Update on Reagan :)

Well my baby is 3 months old today!! He's seriously so much fun. He's sleeping good and napping good which I am in love with. He loves to play with the toys on his play yard and loves to check himself out in the mirror. Reagan can roll onto his side and he LOVES pears. We got to start him on baby food a few days ago and he's only had pears so far and well he loves them. He doesn't really understand the spoon yet but he's getting better at it :)

He is a very determined little boy. He knows what he wants and when he wants it! Its going to teach me patience now but it will make for a wonderful man someday.

Sometimes he says Hi. It's not just a noise you can actually tell he's trying to say hi.

He absolutely loves his daddy. In the mornings he wakes up about the same time as Ben and Ben will go talk to him and Reagan gets so excited. It's really cute.

Oh Reagan also loves his bears :) His mobile has 3 bears on it and he will sit and talk to them and smile when we turn it to make them move.

He loves getting his diaper changed ha ha. I think it's because he likes to not have clothes on. He will sit and smile and talk to you when you do it and he gets mad when I start dressing him again.

Reagan has definitely been such a joy to have. He's not a mellow child, he's very alert and active and likes to be in the know.

Blessing Day

2011-04-14T18:33:00.000-07:00

Reagan was blessed on Sunday April 10th, 2011. We blessed him in Ben's home ward in Richfield. We had a great weekend and it was so nice for our family and friends to be there. I really appreciate those that came and supported us. Love you guys. Ben did a great job. Reagan was eating when it was there turn to go up and they took his bottle out soooooooooooooo he was pissed. He screamed the entire blessing. You couldn't hear a lot of it so Ben wrote down what he said and the thoughts he had. It's perfect. For those of you who came I can tell you what it said if you'd like to read it. :)We don't have a lot of pictures of Reagan in his outfit yet but here are some she took of the weekend.

Reagan loves his dad!

Grandma Chappell

Aunt Chelsea
Papi

Reagan and I

My Cute Happy Smiley Darling Son

Heaven help me.

2011-03-30T15:47:00.000-07:00

He's mastered the pout...

The past 2 months

2011-03-22T15:21:00.000-07:00

We have had SOOO much fun the last 2 months. They have been the hardest, most tiring, most rewarding 2 months ever. Reagan is such a joy to have. He definitely keeps me on my toes. At first it was so hard for me to find balance between being exhausted and taking care of him and being a wife, but I think I've got it figured out now. :)

Reagan had his 2 month check up yesterday and he is now 12 pounds and 22 1/4 inches long! He's in the 50 percentile so he's average size :) I think he's big though! Dr. Shakula said he is very active and alert for his age so I must be doing something right! Some of his milestones are; he smiles at me all the time. Ok he smiles and whoever talks to him and sometimes he just smiles at the ceiling. He can now focus on objects in front of him and he can follow you around. He can also roll over to his side :) Reagan eats like crazy! I can't keep up with him. At nights he eats every 3 - 4 hours and during the day he eats every 2.5! Some days he isn't so demanding and will go 3-3.5 hours and other days he thinks he needs to eat every hour!

He has had some spit up problems. Not like an extreme and it doesn't cause him pain but when we went to the doctor I asked him about it and he said it's a reflux thing but it's not bad enough that he needs medicine. So he said I can either feed him smaller meals MORE often or thicken up his milk with cereal. Although it's only been 1 day he seems to be doing much better! He hasn't hardly spit up at all. Hopefully he will decide he can stay fuller long now with the cereal in his milk :)

Reagan is most definitely a Mama's boy :) I love it except when I don't feel well! He loves his dad too. He plays with Ben and it's so cute. If you can't tell from my post Reagan is a spoiled little boy but I can't help it. He's just too cute!

Oh and we've been house hunting... We've found 1 we really like but are undecided on if we want to make an offer on it. It's in Taylorsville but Bangerter is in it's backyard! It's really not noisy in the yard though but we just haven't decided. Our Realtor is being great and patient with us even though I swear she'll probably end up showing us the whole salt lake valley but hopefully we will find "the one" before she does. :)

Ben is doing AWESOME at US Bank. He's hitting bonuses and doing so well. I'm so proud :) He loves it there and I love that he's got bankers hours :) Also the people he works with are so much fun. I love them too and of course they all adore Reagan!

The house hunt has begun

2011-03-08T11:09:00.000-08:00

Ben, Reagan and I went house hunting saturday. We found one we really like and we will probably put an offer on. It's in Taylorsville. It needs some tlc. The bathroom is so outdated and ugly and the kitchen will need to be updated sometime soon but we really like it. :) Hopefully we will get it, but it's a short sale so we are still looking for other homes. :) I'll keep you posted if we find the one!

Oh and here is my cute son. 6 weeks old!!!

Baby Fun :)

2011-03-03T20:02:00.000-08:00

Okay so being a mom is the best job ever. He's so fun and cute and I just love it. He LOVES baths. I fill up the tub and hold his head and he moves his arms and legs around and just loves it. He is now 6 weeks old 9 lbs 14 oz and 21 inches long :)! My baby is getting big!! He finally fits into size 1 diapers so no more buying newborns! He's normally a very good baby. He does get kinda fussy at night but I think thats normal. He smiles when you talk to him and can focus his eyes on things now! We just absolutely love Reagan.

We are starting our house hunt on Saturday :) I'm excited and can't wait to get into our own house! Wish us luck!

New Pictures

2011-02-22T17:29:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of our cute Reagan. He's getting so big now and is so much fun. I will be switching to private so if you haven't already sent me your email do it :)

Sneak Peek of my cuteness

2011-02-11T16:05:00.000-08:00

Isn't he precious?

The time has come to go private.

2011-01-31T10:42:00.000-08:00

Now that our little one is here I've decided it's time we try the going private thing again. Send me your email and I will invite you to view our blog :)

Story time of the past week!

2011-01-25T15:42:00.001-08:00

Warning: This might be TMI for some of you :)

First of all Ben got a new job with US Bank and we are MOVING! It's horrible timing but it will be wonderful. He starts January 31st. So! Last Monday the 17th I was having blurred vision and I had been having higher blood pressure so I went down to Walmart and it was 141/94. So Monday morning I called and they told me to come in on Tuesday. We went to the doctor and it was high when we went in so they did a NST and the baby was just fine, but they were concerned about the blood pressure so I was told to do a sweet 24 hour urine collection! That was the lamest thing ever! Anyways the next day we decided since Ben had the morning off we needed to go up to West Jordan and find a place to live since we knew the baby would be coming the next week and he was scheduled to work everyday until then. Anyways we ended up finding a place and headed down to my 39 week check up at 2. When we get to the doctor they take my blood pressure and I have to look at the scale at how huge I am and then we wait. The doctor comes in and checks me and I'm only dilated to a 1 and 80% effaced. So I assume yep at least another week. THEN!!!!!! The doctor says your blood pressure is getting to high and it worries me a little I think we just need to get you delivered. Instantly a million emotions are running through me and I'm like okay sounds great! Then he says I will call the hospital and you guys should head over after you get your errands done. Then I kinda start freaking out. I'm so excited he's coming but so nervous at the same time. We leave the doctor and go to Ben's work and he makes arrangements to get people to cover his shifts and we head to the hospital. They get us all checked in and my 6 p.m. they start me on a cervix softener. I can't remember the name of it but it was a pill I took every 4 hours. So they keep checking me and checking me and the most I get to is a 2! I'm like great this is going to take forever! Finally at 6 a.m. they decided to start me on Pitocin. She says now this can bring on really strong contractions and I start bracing myself for it all to begin :) by 9 a.m. I was having really painful contractions and they were 1.5-2 minutes apart. The nurse comes in and she goes sweetie don't just try to be tough do you want your epidural? I'm like don't have to ask me twice (even though I was terrified of the epidural) So the doctor comes in and gets me the epidural and I'm thinking that wasn't so bad it was just really cold going down my spine. After about 10 minutes life is great :) No more pain and all I get to do is lay there and listen to my babies heart beat. BUT!!! I'm still at a 2. I stay at a 2 until about 3:00. Then the nurse comes in and checks me and I'm at a 4! YAY Progress!!!! She says Dr. Drewes is going to come in and break your water. So by 3:15 he comes in and breaks it and says I get off at 6:00 and since your a first time mom you probably won't dilate all the way until sometime this evening. I say to him see ya in a hour because I want him here already I'm way to excited. Then at 4 my back starts realllllllllly hurting and I'm like what the crap I'm suppose to be numb! I can feel lots of pressure and so about 5 minutes later the nurse comes back and I tell her and she gets the doctor and he gives me something for my back labor and then she checks me. It's about 4:25 by now and she checks and I'm at a 9!!!!!! So she says okay I'm going to go ask Dr. Drewes how he wants to proceed. She comes back in with the baby scale and a bunch of gadgets and says okay we are going to do some pushes to see. So she puts the transformers bed together and I do 2 sets of pushes with the contractions and she says ohhhh I can see hair! She pages the doctor and he comes in at about 4:45 and I do 3 more sets of pushes and at 5:15 p.m. I hear little baby screams :) It was the most amazing sound I have ever heard. The spirit is so strong in a room when a new baby is born. In fact I'm such a baby now that I'm crying writing this. Anyway It's kinda an overwhelming experience.... Ben cuts the cord and instantly his heart just melts. He is completely smitten by this little boy. They get him cleaned up and I get to hold my little angel and he stops crying. He weighed 7lbs and is 19 inches long. Then they get me all fixed up and Ben goes with them to the nursery. Ben said he didn't cry when he got his shots and he just held onto his finger. Finally we get moved down to the Mother and Baby room both sets of Grandparents were there and they got to hold there first grand baby. I'm pretty sure he is the most loved little boy in the entire world. At about 11 p.m. they take Reagan to the nursery so that we can get some sleep. BUT Oh man was I hurting. I swear the recovery is worse than the delivery by far! So needless to say I didn't sleep at all and I missed my baby. The next day my parents and little brother got to stay and spend lots of time with him. He loves them and even whimpers in his sleep like Grandpa Crosland. While my mom was there I finally got to get in the shower.... oh can I just tell you how much pain relief I got from that shower oh and TUCKS are the most amazing product ever invented. That day we got visits from Angela Oakeson and Carter and Steph made it up to see him. The entire day my phone is going off from all the sweet messages people were leaving me on facebook but My Aunt Julie left me a comment that says. "Oh how I wish I had a voice, I have a hundred things to say, Before I forget I'd tell you of God, I left him just yesterday. (again crying because its so true) Newborns have the sweetest spirit and I am just overwhelmed with love and gratitude. Anyways back to the story. We kept him in our room until 3 a.m. that night until they had to go get his checked for Jaundice. Then at 8 they brought him back in and by 11:30 saturday morning we got to go home. When we got home my sweet mom and dad had lunches made and my house clean for us. It was so nice to have her help. This day is Carter's birthday so we all just hung out at my house and Reagan got spoiled with love. Grandma and Grandpa Chappell even came back to visit him. Everyone just loves him to pieces and he really is a very good baby. He hardly ever cries and he is a good eater. I was worried at first because my milk didn't come in until day 4 but now it's much easier to breast feed and he is doing great. We had to take him to the doctor on Monday to get his Jaundice checked because he was at an 8. They say it's low and doesn't require a light and should clear up on its own but they want to check his levels again tomorrow. I hate getting it checked because they poke his foot and he cries a lot while they do it and well i'm a softy and it makes me upset! They said he is in the 17 percentile for weight and height and his head is in the 34 percentile. He's already on a schedule and so far life is just absolutely amazing. I love being home with him and taking care of him. The hardest part is not holding him all day because he is so cute that I just want to snuggle him all day long! He eats well and sleeps pretty good at night and he smiles all the time. :)

Thank you to my parents for helping me out so much! I couldn't do any of this without your support and love, and thank you to Ben's parents to loving him so much and helping us every way you can. :)

I am so grateful for him and that he is so healthy and perfect. My life has changed so much in the last 5 days and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I love this little boy more than anything in the entire world and every time he smiles I fall in love all over again. He is the most precious thing heavenly father has ever given to me and I feel so blessed that he trusted me with such a perfect little angel. Ben is an amazing father and I love him so much.

Reagan Danger Chappell

2011-01-22T20:28:00.000-08:00

Our son was born on 1.20.2011 at 5:15 p.m. He weighed 7lbs and is 19 inches long. We are absolutely smitten by him. He's perfect in every way!

Ready for our boy to come!!

2011-01-11T10:32:00.000-08:00

Due date is in exactly 2 weeks! I am so so so so so excited! We have everything ready for him except for putting the car seat in the car but Ben wants to do that after he cleans it. :) Thanks again to everyone who has helped us get ready for him! I'll keep you all posted when he arrives :)

I love life.

2010-12-23T10:04:00.000-08:00

I took this picture yesterday and I just love it.

The End.

50 days left!

2010-12-06T10:32:00.000-08:00

Reagan will be here in 50 days! (yes we decided on a name) You say Reagan like President Reagan. Some people have been saying it really weird ways so that has been the easiest way to describe it. He is getting so big! We had an appointment last wednesday and the doctor said his head is finally down. I can now feel his little feet up in my ribs. His kicks still don't really hurt but sometimes he will kick me or stretch in a spot that I just have to go... OUCH! but thats okay :) Doctors always say he is very active which is good and his heartbeat is still super strong so I am grateful for the kicks. He already seems to have such a personality. He is super stubborn and he loves his dad already. He gets excited whenever he hears his voice and Ben says he's the favorite but I'm sure I am the favorite. We technically have 7 weeks until his due date but the doctor says I am measuring ahead and my mom had all of us kids early so they think he will come sooner. I am totally okay with that idea :) We go to the doctor on the 15th and then the 29th and then after that we go every week until he comes. It's getting so close and I can hardly wait. Now I just wish my crib was here! My sweet in laws got us one for my baby shower and it's still in Richfield. I just want it here so I can get the bedding all ready and the saying I'm making up on the wall. His nursery is also our guest bedroom so it won't be strictly just a baby room but it looks so cute in there even if I can't paint it and make it perfect.

On to other things...... Ben has been working sooooooo much lately. I now officially hate him working in retail at Christmas time. I've always heard people say how crazy it can be but I had no idea it would be this bad. Its okay though! Come January I will have my husband back :) As for me I feel fine which is good because I'm cleaning the house and getting baseboards and all of that fun stuff done. I did it a few months ago but it's time to get it all done again before I'm to huge to lean over haha :) Oh and I'm washing his receiving blankets and the onezies. I'm not sure if its really necessary to wash things but he will have sensitive skin i'm sure so I figured its a good idea.

I am so excited for Christmas! My house is decorated but I don't have presents bought haha. I'm a little bit of a slacker and I can't decide what to get people. Sorry I am just rambling. I really don't have anything exciting to say. Hopefully next time I post I will know when Reagan is coming :)

One of my favorite parts about Christmas...

2010-11-30T18:02:00.001-08:00

Yes I love The Grinch. I think the movie and cartoon and book are all fabulous. I have already watched the movie twice this month and I love it more every time I see it. Yes, it's a bit of an obsession but oh well. I even helped my mom decorate her tree this year and I talked her into buying new bright colorful decorations... her tree is fabulous! It looks like something you would find in whoville. Everyone who has seen it LOVES it. :) I'm glad I got her to do it because it really is soooo cute. Someday when I have a house and room for it my tree will be cool like that. The end.

Ah ha! He has a schedule!

2010-11-18T13:38:00.001-08:00

I have finally figured out baby's schedule. BUT! It already gets screwed up when his dad is home. Right now when it's just me at home I feel him move about every 3 hours and around lunch time I feel him every hour. But No matter what time Ben comes home and he hears his voice my stomach starts moving like crazy! I guess he really does like Ben more than me.

So thankful!

2010-11-08T17:54:00.000-08:00

I had my first baby shower in Fillmore on Saturday and I had so much fun. We played some games and they were actually fun games and the guests got a prize. I sucked at most of the games but oh well it was fun. Sammie did such a good job. I'm so grateful for Kim for helping and all my family that helped. I am so blessed. Thank you to the friends that came! I'm so glad that you did.

Baby Chappell (yes he is still nameless) got spoiled! So many cute things and I love em all. After I got home from the shower I got to show off everything to my in laws which magically appeared at my door step and it was so fun. Then after dinner I got to show it all off to Ben again. I love it! Right now the stuff is all piled up in my living room. Ben and I are going to get the extra room cleaned out on wednesday and then we will have room for baby stuff. Also my amazing mother made the changing table and it's darling and then today we found a dresser on ksl for 45 bucks and were going to paint it black to match! I will post pictures later this week when my mom comes up and helps me make a cute room :)

Thanks again everyone!!!!

Little projects :)

2010-10-27T12:32:00.001-07:00

Yesterday I decided we needed some football stuff for the baby and I looked online for Texas and Utes football clothing and I just think it's way to expensive for something he will grow out of so quickly. I might still get a few things I have found but for now I went to walmart and got these white onezies on sale :) and found a little bit of orange and red fabric and ta da Baby has football clothes :) Now I just need some pants haha.

I was going to put chappell on the back of the texas ones too but after doing one in red with those teeny tiny letters I decided against it :) Ben says it needs a number on the back so I guess we will have to pick on and then I can add it.

Ben's still hard at work. He is so busy running two stores that I feel like he's never home. I wish I had a job to keep me busy but instead I am a stay at home wifey that has done a lot of scrapbooking and blanket making. I am now just over 27 weeks! 90 more days left until the due date :) I had my glucose test next wednesday and I am not excited for it at all. They gave me the little drink at my last appointment and told me to drink it an hour before my appointment and it looks really yucky. Next Saturday (nov 6th) I have a baby shower in Fillmore and I am so so so stinkin excited. I love getting little baby stuff :) It's all just so cute.

25 weeks.

2010-10-12T09:52:00.000-07:00

25 weeks down 105 days to go! He's getting bigger and stronger everyday. Today I had the laptop barely resting on my lap and he kicked it sooooooooooooooo hard that it fell on the floor. If his kicks are this strong already I am in for some painful kicks & punches :) He is now around 13.4 inches to 14.5 inches long and weighs around 2 pounds :) If he takes after his dad height he's probably 13.4 inches but he sure is tough. We go back to the doctor on November 3rd and thats about it.

Good news!

2010-10-06T19:48:00.000-07:00

Thumper :)

Well good news! Thumper is getting better. He has had great big swollen cheeks and we read online that he could have an abscess infection and if we didn't get it fixed he would die :( So we took him to the vet today and yep he has an abscess. It's not like the kind we get. It started in his ear and spread so the poor little guy was so swollen. It was sad to see. Anyways the doctor sedated him and cut open his ear and cleaned it all out. We have to give him shots in the muscle every night for a few days so he can get his antibiotic. I know if sounds silly to take a turtle to the vet but he's my little baby! I have become so attached to both of our turtles that we gave in. The picture is right after we picked him up. He's still pretty dazed so thats why his eye is closed. He's already doing much better and tomorrow morning we can put him back in his tank.

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As for our baby boy :) He is growing right on track and it is absolutely fantastic. When he starts kicking me I can lay on my back and we watch my stomach move. It's amazing. I've officially gained 12 pounds and I'm still a little depressed about that but the doctor says it is healthy that I am. They seemed a little worried I was a few pounds under normal last time I got weighed but now I am right on track! Today when we went to my 24 Week appointment the doctor got the heart rate monitor and put it on my stomach and the baby kinda kicked at it. (he doesn't like cold) and the doctor was like oh active little guy :). He's so cute already. We can't wait for him to come! I'm almost officially at the 3rd trimester! Woot Woot!!!

I'm a tv junkie now days.

2010-10-01T11:14:00.001-07:00

Can I just tell you all how much I love TV lately?! Ben gets home from work and usually his knees are killing him and I'm super lazy after 5 p.m. haha so our nightly thing has been to eat dinner and watch tv together. It's lame and not productive but I love it. Last night was awesome. I always hated The Office but Comedy night on NBC is just to funny to pass up. We love Community, The Office, and Outsourced. It's definitely stupid humor but if you aren't watching you should be.

Anyways-

I'm getting my house all decorated for Halloween/Fall time and I love it. It will be cute :) We are both getting more and more excited for Baby Chappell to come. My mom got Ben some newborn Texas Longhorn stuff and He LOVES it. It's super cute but so tiny! The little booties aren't going to fit him for very long but he can wear it home from the hospital :) Also, I finally went in and did some baby registry stuff. My lovely sister in law and my family are doing baby showers in November so I needed to start deciding on what we need. We weren't at the store for very long but we did get a free goody bag for going in. :)

Well sorry my posts aren't very exciting. Our lives are pretty much the same right now but it's crazy to think how much it's going to change next year.

OHHHH That reminds me.... I do have something else to say :)

I am so so so grateful for the blessings of paying our tithing. This last paycheck we decided it was more important to get caught on up tithing then anything. So once we mailed off our huge insurance premium check we wrote out a tithing slip and just trusted in the Lord that he would provide us a way to pay the rest of our bills. Well last night we officially decided to sell our old beat up 4x4 truck. Ben put it on facebook around 6 p.m. and we had so many offers on it right away. We thought it would be a stretch to get $600 for it and we ended up selling it for $700. I can not even describe how grateful I am. I'm so glad we had the faith to trust in the Lord. He knows best. :)

Life is sooooo good.

2010-09-14T11:54:00.001-07:00

I love life. Yes we are broke because insurance is so expensive but I love life. Ben makes me so happy and we're enjoying the little things. Baby is doing great, he's just over 10 inches long now and he's so spoiled already. Grandma Crosland and Aunt Angela have already given us gifts. My mom got the cutest little lamb bouncer thingy (I don't know what they are called) I have a whole little tote full of newborn clothes and the cutest little shoes she got us and she ordered some Christmas presents! What a cute grandma :) My Aunt spoiled us with the cutest puppy nightgown and blankets. Then Grandma Chappell scored us a deal on a stroller. I am so grateful for them. I don't know what we'd do without everyones help! Oh and I'm super spoiled too :) Kimmy is letting me borrow 3 totes full of maternity clothes. Thank You for your help guys. Love you lots.

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Ben's loving his job. He now is managing 2 t-mobile stores in the Provo Mall and he is super busy. Even when he is home his phone goes off all the time. Oh Well, I'm grateful for his job and how hard he works for me and baby :)

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This last week my Dad has been super sick. I'm so glad he's out of the hospital and getting better each and everyday. I'm completely a Daddy's Girl so it's hard for me to see him sick, but we went down and saw him on Saturday and I think seeing his favorite child made him feel better because he's been getting better everyday since :)

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Update on me: I have pretty much had the easiest pregnancy ever. I didn't have morning sickness and yes I was tired but I'm ok with sleeping all day. :) We're at 21 weeks now and my only complaints have been that my back hurts! I am carrying him so far back and low that he is literally pushing on my Sciatic Nerve. It's causing some pain and sometimes it makes my hips feel numb. I also feel him kicking me super low and I feel lots of tingles in the stomach which I'm pretty sure is the baby doing somersaults. I still get a little nervous somedays when I don't feel him but I just have to trust that all is well.

Well thats about all that is new with us :)

We finally found out!

2010-09-08T11:57:00.000-07:00

We're having a Boy! We are both so excited. The baby is super strong and healthy and everything looks good. It's sitting sooooo low. After about 20 minutes of checking the brain and organs and making sure he was perfect I finally had to get up and do jumping jacks and walk around for a few minutes to try and get him to move up. Well he finally moved to his side a little and we got the shot! Yay! We both have always thought boy but lately almost everyone has said it's a girl so I started thinking they were right because they have kids but nope it's going to be a boy and we are both just so excited. Now on to the boring stuff I have gained 8 pounds and I am showing. It's still very small but it's there and I love it. The End!

Move baby Move!

2010-08-20T16:51:00.000-07:00

Week 17 has brought lots of movement from baby chappell! I love it! Ben has felt it but it's so hard to feel. We're so excited to find out what it is. Boy or Girl we can't wait! The 8th can not come soon enough :)

Lucky Girl :)

2010-08-16T09:05:00.000-07:00

I just have to tell you all how lucky I am. Life is so good for us. We are completely spoiled. Mostly I am spoiled. Ben works so hard for me and takes such good care of me. I love him so much and am so grateful for him. We are so excited to be pregnant. He says the cutest things sometimes but I won't embarrass him. I can't wait until we know what this baby is. I'll be happy as long as it has Ben's blue eyes :) And I'm going to have to stock up on Longhorn baby clothing lol Boy or Girl thats what Ben thinks it should wear all the time :) he's cute.. Well thats really all I had to say!

4 months down 5 more to go!

2010-08-12T08:35:00.000-07:00

Woot Woot! We went to the doctor yesterday. It was kinda a pointless appointment. haha all he did was go oh yeah there is the heartbeat... sounds good and strong... any questions? You feeling good? Awesome since everything looks great at this point lets just schedule the ultrasound! I went YAY!!!!!!!!!!! So the day we find out is Sept 8th :) I got the earliest appointment I could because I can't wait :) I have been doing pretty good. I've figured out what makes me sick so I've been doing better. I have energy now and feel like I can actually get work done! Dr. Pepper and I are not friends and it really makes me sad. The fews times I've had it lately it makes me sick :( I hope our friendship can continue in January because I will miss him dearly.

Oh and baby looks like this!

The size of an orange...really?

2010-08-03T12:54:00.000-07:00

Baby is 4 inches long and weighs 2.5 oz. I know thats tiny but it actually looks like a little baby :) I can feel him or her fluttering around every once in a while and I love it. I wish I could feel it every single day. We have our next appointment on August 11th and I can't wait. I love hearing that heart beating. We haven't gotten anything for the baby yet. I think about it all the time and want to go look around but I don't think Ben is into it yet.. Hopefully we can go someday. We still have 5.5 months until the arrival of our little one. I wish it would come sooner but I can be patient. I love this baby so much already and can't wait to meet them.

January 25th can not come soon enough

2010-07-14T17:15:00.000-07:00

Baby Chappell :)

Sorry it's so blurry and tiny but I took it with my camera phone.

12 weeks and 1 day

So far so good!

2010-07-07T09:21:00.000-07:00

Well, we just got back from our very first doctor's appointment. He says everything looks great and put me at 10 weeks instead of 9 weeks! Woot Woot! They are doing a dating ultrasound next Wednesday so we will know our exact date and we will get to hear the heartbeat. It's finally starting to feel real! :)

I love these.

2010-07-02T18:06:00.001-07:00

I love these. They bring so much happiness into my life...

Oh and I go to my first doctor appointment on July 7th. Keep your fingers and toes crossed (carter excluded) that everything is ok!

The end.

moving.

2010-06-16T10:00:00.000-07:00

There is lots and lots and lots going on in our lives right now but no details to report on so I can't really update all of you yet! Hopefully we will know in the next week what our plans are but for now just stay tuned :) haha.

We got all moved to Santaquin but that might all change.. one of those things I can't fully update you on yet.

Also, Ben's mom is doing great! I went and helped her escape from the hospital a couple weeks ago and for the first time in 3 years she is not in pain. It's amazing! Priesthood blessings do come true!

Sorry I don't have details but I will soon.... i hope!

The happenings...

2010-05-21T07:43:00.000-07:00

*Ben graduated!!!

*Ben got a great job!!!

*I'm officially done being the General Manager at Subway!!!

*We're moving on the 29th to Santaquin!!!

*We're going to be Morgan's neighbor!!! :)

*Oh and we bought this....

Springtime!!!

2010-03-17T13:36:00.000-07:00

I am so ready for Spring! I hate winter because I have to wear real shoes so I've been lovin this flip flop weather! :)

Not much is new with us. Ben's sister got married and that was fun. Ben's still sick of school but he graduates in 44 days :) Then on to a new adventure!!! Hopefully we get the Seminary job but if not Ben's got sweet back up plans :)

The End.

(sorry I just don't have anything to say)

592 wonderful wonderful days

2010-02-09T20:28:00.000-08:00

Ben and I have been married for 592 days :) I love it.. I love it more every day. We've never spent a night apart and I hope we don't have to for a very long time.

Us February 2008

Engagements March 2008

Monterey Bay Cali June 2009

San Fran June 2009

Anyways I had nothing to blog about and I don't have any exciting news. I just love Ben. Oh and we're going to ALASKA on a cruise in July .... Yes, we're spoiled. :)

sneak peek..

2010-01-04T16:27:00.000-08:00

We got family pictures taken in November to give to my parents as a Christmas gift. I'd upload all of them, but they are huge and its not workin out for me so you just get a sneak peek!

Just a few things I'm thankful for

2009-11-25T13:41:00.000-08:00

Ben. :) He's the best. I love him.

Ben's family. They are all amazing and so much fun.

My family.

They keep me grounded and they are absolutely amazing. I'm so lucky to have such an amazing mom and dad. I also am grateful for Colton. He's such a great little brother and we always have so much fun together. I love them!!

And Carter and Stephy.. Steph has been so much fun to have in our family. It's so great to have them live close by so I can see them often. Love you both!

And yes there are a million other people and things I am grateful for but I just wanted my families to know how much I love them and how thankful I am for all of them :)

One year ago today....

2009-11-16T17:17:00.001-08:00

One year ago today Ben and I were coming back from visiting my family in Fillmore and getting new tires on my car. We were just north of the Panquitch exit when Ben said, "Do you feel that vibrating?" I said, It's probably just the road, and he said I think it's our tires. Well, as this conversation was happening we were passing a diesel. Just after we got back into the slow lane we ran over a bird bone.... yes a bird bone.. it was 1/4 of an inch long and it blew up our back passenger tire. We started fish tailing, seconds later the diesel hit the front driver side of our car. It spun us backward barely missing the back of the trailer and another truck. We spun several times into the median, but luckily we were both wearing seatbelts. I always wear mine, because my Patriarchal Blessing says to avoid being careless in a vehicle and to also be responsible. SOOO that was a big red flag of Ashley wear your seatbelt!!! I am so grateful for Patriarchal Blessings. I really do think that it saved my life. I'm also grateful for my wonderful husband who was instantly by my side that day. I love you Ben!!!

A whole bunch of Randomness

2009-11-01T16:30:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the picture overload. We just thought we'd update you on everything we've been up to :)

I also wanted to update you on Ben's seminary job.

So far he's done amazing. The only real criticism he gets from the evaluators is that he's to casual.. (sounds like my ben) The students love him, the other teachers love him, and he's doing an amazing job!!!

Meet Thumper.

He's the newest addition to our home. He's funny. He's definitely not shy at all, he can't find food easily cuz he's kinda a dumb dumb, but he does eat out of your hand which is fun. :) We call him thumper because when we got him he kept trying to get out of the container and he's keep falling down making a thumping noise.. so he's Thumper :)

Meet Little Foot. We got Little Foot back in June and he is getting so big. He's shy.. very shy. He was the smallest of all the turtles when we got him and we think he's a wimp, but I love him anyway :)

This was a crafty project I made a while ago. I still need to frame it, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. The picture is blurry but it says Manti Temple, Dedicated may 21 1888 by Lorenzo Snow and then the other side says Always & Forever June 27th, 2008 Ben & Ashley :)

This is a random picture of us I look funky but Ben's cute so I put it up :)

Ben took this picture.. lol You will always find these in our car. :)

next up is a bunch of pictures of the Baby shower I threw for my cousin Kimmy.

This is the baby advice book I made for her and some delicious cupcakes, and also the door :)

This is a DARLING cake I made. :) It's made out of diapers

I also made up her cute invitations and wrote on the inside of it for her.

We also went to Lagoon this summer. I hate roller coasters... with a passion but they were free and it was a company party. It was probably a waste of time but Ben was really into this police game so I had to post the picture :)

WAY Back in August Ben's parents had a little party. There were all these events that you could win money... anyway I learned I really really suck at throwing darts so when I actually hit a balloon and a dollar was inside I was pretty stoked!!!!

And this is Cherisa being a rockstar :)

The end!!!

Life is good.

2009-10-12T18:07:00.000-07:00

Ben and I are doing great!!! He's loving Seminary and hating college but thats okay :) He's just ready to be done!! Only 7 more months!!! He's doing awesome with his teaching. The other teachers come in and see me sometimes and tell me how much the students love him! I'm so proud!!!!! :) Work for me is just dandy. It's been really busy lately but thats good! We haven't done anything super exciting lately. Except my family came down and watched conference with us and that was fun and then Saturday afternoon we randomly went up to Richfield and saw Ben's family. It was so much fun. His dad and I were really bored Sunday afternoon while everyone was sleeping and we made the BEST pumpkin cookies.. and the recipe is super super easy. If you want it let me know :)

Family Pictures

2009-09-14T18:32:00.000-07:00

Ben's family got family pictures taken a few weeks ago. So I thought I'd share the pictures of us :)

Pictures of the wedding :)

2009-08-18T16:54:00.001-07:00

so cute!!!!!!!

Carter's Weddin'

2009-08-17T17:52:00.000-07:00

Carter and Stephy got married on Friday. It was absolutely amazing!! I cried, but pretty much everyone in the sealing room cried... except for Ben he's to tough to cry. Lol. I'll post pictures of it when they get back from the honeymoon and steph gives me the pics :) A week before the wedding they had an auction/dinner in Fillmore. A family friend put together the whole thing and it was amazing to see how much love everyone has for Carter.. I cried again.. the whole entire time. It was just so special. I'm a cry baby when it comes to Carter. Anyway, they got enough donations to get a van with the ramp and everything so because of that they got to go to San Diego, just the two of them for there honeymoon. It was amazing.. I loved it. I absolutely love Steph. She's an amazing girl.

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Ben's brother comes home from his mission this week! He's been serving in New York. I'm excited, but nervous because I've never met him!!

Ben also starts teaching Seminary on thursday and he's pretty much super excited. And I think he's even more excited for College to start :) ok ok jk thats a lie he's not excited, but I am!!! I just want him to be done and get a job with the church so we can move on with our lives and settle down and stop moving :)

What we've been up to

2009-08-07T17:22:00.001-07:00

Lately we have been all over the place! We went to a family reunion in Fruitland weekend & I wen to Steph's Bridal shower that Saturday. Both we're so much fun. We didn't get to stay at the family reunion for very long, but it was nice to see people while we were there. Yesterday we went to Fillmore for an auction and a dinner for a fundraiser for Carter and Steph. It was absolutely amazing!!! I was crying the whole time because I was so happy for them and so grateful for all the donations. The people in Fillmore are absolutely amazing.. Tomorrow we are headed to Salt Lake for Steph's endownment day and then its the wedding next week!!! I'll post more and pictures once life slows down a bit!

Update on us.

2009-07-18T14:10:00.001-07:00

Not much is new. We've both been busy. I work all the time and Ben's been busy with getting his classroom ready and his seminary lessons prepped for the next school year. Carter came down this weekend and chilled with us. Its been fun. We've played ALOT of Bang. If you've never played Bang you need to get over here and learn. It's so much fun!

We've got TONS going on the next few weeks.. Ben's got a family reunion, and we've got a whole bunch of wedding stuff coming up! We'll probably make 3 trips to Salt Lake in the next few weeks! Which is fun except that its 4 hours away! Oh well.. its worth it. We're super excited for Carter and Steph :)

Somethin strange is going on...

2009-07-13T14:56:00.000-07:00

Okay so! The weirdest craziest thing has been happening today. Here is the time line and the story...

This story is based on actual events... (lol)

Location: My kitchen table.

Date: July 13th, 2009 :)

Time: 1:06 p.m.

My Cell phone goes off.. Text reads.. Hey its kylie this is my knew number. (yes she spelled New wrong)

I'm like what the? Who's kylie...

So I text back.. Kylie who?

She says.. haha funny do u want to hand out with me and tay to day

I'm all... Who???

Unknown texter girl says.. Taylor P.

I text back.. Who do you think this is???

She says.. Wait what is this taylor or ashley!

(now I'm thinking ok weird that she's randomly texting me but even more weird that the real girl she is trying to get ahold of is named ashley!!!)

back to the story

I say this is Ashley C.

AND SHE SAYS!!

haha ok so do u want to hang out lata today?

By now I have tried a lot of things to figure out who this is but I have no idea and I'm pretty sure I don't know them and its all just a crazy mix up where we both have the same name...

So I continue to try and figure out who it is... So I say.. Sure where do you live?

And she says silly you, you've been to my house!

THEN! My little brother texts her and goes... Okay your starting to weird the bajeepers outta me! I dunno if I can come over today.

And crazy texter girl says.. haha okay! Well text me if you can come..

I'm all this is odd I'm done texting her.. cuz I don't know her!

AND THEN the unthinkable happens! I get yet another random kid texting me!!!!

Time: 3:25

Text from unknown says! Hey this is ammon and my new number!

I was like again!!!!! So I say How did you get my number???

Ammon says.. How do you think babe?

I say! Hmmm babe??? And I have no idea.

Ammon says hahah.. my sister gave it to me..

I say: Who's your sister?

Ammon says.. Whats up with you today?

I say: Are you sure this is the right number?

Ammon says: Yeah I'm sure.. Are you ok?

I say: Yeah fine just trying to figure out whats going on here.

Ammon says: haha crazy girl.. We are all going to Ice Age at 4:15 at Fiddlers 6 if you want to come!

So I decided what the freak.. This is weird.. 2 random people text me and both think I'm ashley!!! WHAT IS GOING ON!

So I just decided not to text back anymore.. what if these are like 12 year old boys.. lol

And even now as I'm sitting here they just text me and said hey are you coming? We're at fiddlers..

Ben and Colton are both like.. Lets play with them.. tell them you are there.. and tell ammon you'll meet him in the back of the theater.. lol and I'm like no way.. what if they are little highschool boys.. I think there is a law about this..

Anyways.. hopefully the texts messages will stop. I didn't write the whole convo but I honestly did try and tell them they had the wrong ashley but nooooo they don't give up!

The end..

Has it really been a whole year?????

2009-07-06T16:49:00.000-07:00

Ben and I had our 1 year anniversary on the 27th of June. :) He planned this big fancy get-a-way to vegas in a freakin 5 star hotel and it was all a big surprise and guess who thinks it will be fun to get sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ME! Yeah ruined the whole thing, but instead we just hung out and he made me feel all better! We we're going to go on his big trip this weekend but now I have to work.. Bummer huh? Oh well. It was still fun.

For the 4th of July we chilled in Cedar City!! My family came down and we got all settled into our new house! Which I absolutely love!!!! Its so nice! AND CLEAN! AND NEW!!! :) Someone should come move and be my neighbor cuz we need a neighbor :)

Update!

2009-06-21T17:02:00.000-07:00

Here is what has been going on in our life! Carter got engaged.. this is his darling fiance Stephanie. They are so happy and its so cute. I really like her! They are getting married August 14th in the Manti Temple!!

We went to San Francisco!!!! We were there for a week and absolutely loved it! It was fun to go and just get away for a while. We did lots of shopping, spent time at china town (which is awesome) and just hung out. It was nice to spend a week with eachother!

THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ben and I adopted 2 baby turtles.. Mine is about the size of a quarter and Ben's is a little bit bigger... We love them :)

Next!!! Ben's family came down for Father's Day. It was fun to see them and they got to see Ben teach his last sunday school lesson! We like the ward we're in but the new house is out of the boundaries so we'll be going to a new ward next week..

Saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is our 1 year anniversary! Its crazy to think its been a year! It's been a great year and I fall more in love with Ben everyday!!!!

Last week we made went to my parents house and cut some big circles. We're going to make the plan of salvation for his classroom! It will be sweet when its done!

Oh boy..

2009-06-20T19:21:00.001-07:00

I'm not pregnant.. I just have baby turtles :)!

I'M GOING TO BE A MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-06-15T17:46:00.000-07:00

To a baby turtle :)

Playing Tag thanks to Bridget!

2009-06-14T13:37:00.001-07:00

Tagged by Bridget

Here are the Rules
1. Mention the person who tagged you
2. Complete the list of 8's
3. Tag 8 other people to play and let them know they are tagged!
4. Have a bit of fun!

8 things I am looking forward to
1. Moving into my new condo!
2. My 1 year anniversary!
3. Having a clean house :)
4. Being a mom (SOMEDAY)
5. Ben being a Seminary Teacher
6. Having Colton near us.
7. Not working at Subway

8. Being with Ben forever.

8 things I did yesterday
1. Worked
2. Went looking for Wedding Ideas
3. Hung out with my amazing family.
4. Got a washer and dryer in my new place :)
5. Saw Ben's office and classroom!
6. Made a card box for Carter/Stephs wedding.
7. Kissed Ben a few times lol
8. Missed Angela.

8 things I wish I could do
1. Travel all the time
2. Stay home more..
3. Find more time to help Ben.
4. See my family and Angela more!
5. Get Aubrey married :)
6. Have the moving stuff over with.
7. Take more pictures.
8. Be a better boss.

8 shows I watch
1. We don't have TV so I only watch movies or Seinfield :)
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7.
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8 favorite fruits
1. Apples
2. Oranges
3. Banana
4. Strawberries
5. Pineapples
6. More apples
7. Purple Grapes
8. Papaya

8 places I'd like to travel (only 8? that's tough)
1. Italy
2. England
3. Mexico
4. Egypt
5. Jerusalum
6. Bahamas!
7. Tonga!
8. Hawaii

8 places I've lived
1. Cedar City, UT
2. St. George, UT
3. Fillmore, UT
4. Holden, UT
5. Logan, UT
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8 people I've tagged
1. Morgan Kinyon
2. Kati
3. Chelo
4. Cherisa Terry
5. Megan Davies
6. Laura Lou
7. Sarah Blad
8. Natalie Drying

LIFE IS FULL OF SURPRISES.

2009-05-26T17:57:00.000-07:00

Story time!!!!

Okay so 2 weekends ago my older brother Carter's girlfriend came down for my birthday and we all had a fabulous time. We went hiking with the Powells on the 16th and then we all went hot tubbin. Then sunday Ben taught in church and when we got home from church we hung out with Steph (carter's girlfriend) and Carter for a little while. Then she left and we were all talking and watching Extreme Home Makeover.. which always makes me cry.... anyways! We decided we really liked Stephanie and Carter was like yeahhhhhhh me too. THEN the following tuesday he told us he was thinking about marrying her.. and we were like cool.. maybe they'd get engaged in the summer... totally not thinking it was going to happen the next day!!! So.. carter ben and i had plans to live in this darling house, but since they were talking marriage we decided we couldn't live there because Ben and I can't afford that much rent a month.. So now its thursday and ben and I are like we have to find a place today because we thought at the time we had to get out of the apt. we're in now by the 29th so we'd only have a week to find a place and move to it. Anyways we found a bran new, vaulted ceiling 2 bed/2 bath, granite counter tops, stainless steel applainces, new carpet, never ever ever been lived in condo for $600 a month!!!! OH how this economy is great for poor people lol...We talked our landlord into letting us stay here so we didn't have to rush the new landlords into putting carpet in and letting us move in, in 5 days.. oh yeah sorry they don't have carpet right now they put it in when the tenants pay a deposit. SO on JUNE 27-28 we get to move in! Which is perfect cuz it gives us time to enjoy San Fran and get summer games over and then move so i'm freakin excited!! OHHHH And Carter is getting Married August 14th.. We think.. nothing is completely offical yet because the ring is getting re-sized.. I'm so excited tho.. She's darling!!! Okay I'm done blogging!!!!

Easter Pictures, Institute Gradute and Seminary Student Teacher!

2009-05-06T17:34:00.000-07:00

First of all I'm sorry I'm such a slacker and updating our blog. This is what has been going on!

Easter time!!!

First of all we went to Fillmore and saw my family and had a great time with them and then we went to Richfield and had a Jesus Dinner.. It was cool. We ate foods that Jesus would have eaten :) THEN....

Ben graduates from Institute :) He got an Advance Certificate.. so its like he has his masters for institute.. cool huh! Anyways.. So we go to his graduation, and for those of you that know Ben he HATES big ceremonies. So we get there and its like 7:00 and he leaves to go in the room with the gradutes and I'm just chillin in the Chapel. Then the grads walk in and by now its like 7:18 ish. And I text him and I'm like sit by me not by the gradutes! Because I'm a loser and hate sitting

alone. But much to my suprise my reply to that text was.. Let's Jet.. I'm thinking.. what? Your really going to leave right before it starts.. and I text back saying.. well whatever you want to do but I think you should just come sit by me. AND THEN the unthinkable happens.. Ben stands up with another kid and I'm thinking ok they are just going to talk to someone.... oh no.. he walked into the room where his certificate was and I get a text saying.. Meet Ye' in the Foyer. And i was like oh... only my Ben.. ... So we did go to his graduation! But.. missed the talks and all the graduation stuff.. :)

On to my next new exciting news.. Ben found out Tuesday he gets to teach 2 high school classes next school year. He is so excited and I am so happy for him! He'll be such an amazing teacher. I hope he gets picked at the end of this next year :)

Thats about all the news for us.. Its Birthday month for both of us.. mine is on the 15th and his is on the 25th. We're going to party!!!! Oh and we're going to San Francisco on May 29th with Ben's family.. That trip should be awesome, but I'll blog about it then :)

Exciting news!

2009-05-05T17:38:00.000-07:00

Ben got hired on to be a Seminary Student Teacher for the next school year! He's so excited and he'll do an amazing job! I'm so proud!!! :)

More news to come.. and pictures of what we've been up to lately..

Easter

2009-04-27T09:40:00.001-07:00

I haven't updated our blog in a long time so since I'm sitting home doing nothing right now I figured I would post some pictures and update everyone. It's finals week right now and Ben has one everyday this week. I'm sure he'll do good tho, cuz he's smart. He also started student teaching last week and absolutely loves it!!! If he gets picked he'll be an amazing seminary teacher. He finds out in a couple weeks if he's been selected to student teach next year. And nothing is new with me.. except I got a raise :) Yay! oh and these are the easter cards we sent to my mom, ben's mom and my best friend Angela :) Cricuts are amazing things.. :)

So I'm a little behind...

2009-04-01T17:30:00.001-07:00

Okay. Here is the update on me:

I have lived at the hospital lately. Okay thats a huge lie, but I did go to the doctor 3 times last week.. if you want all the details about why I hate my doctor I'll let ya know them :). So at first they thought I had PCOS.. but I don't. So then I thought I had something else... and I don't have that either.. So pretty much everything is normal which is FABULOUS!!! A new doctor fixed me in the 3 seconds.. and now I'm on some medicine that I take for a few days and then ta da!!! Fixed. I love it. Anyways.. Ben is insanely busy.. So I don't get to see my darling husband as much as I'd like to, but he's quitting one of his jobs.. I think his last day is Saturday so I'm happy :).. Last week my beautiful mother had surgery so we went up to see her and help her our for the weekend. She's been remodeling her bedroom/bathroom and I absolutely love it! I think it will be beautiful when its done, but my mom has amazing taste so It will be great. Its fun to go up and visit my family. I have 2 darling cousins who are 3 & 2 and they love Ben. Jaxson calls everyone Ashee though which makes me feel loved. My little brother was there and it was fun to see him. I never get to and he's such an amazing guy!!! I love him. And my Dad's funny.. and goofy.. but mostly funny. I love him too! Oh yeah! Mom's doing much better :).... on to a not as happy note.

Ben's mom is sick again. :( She was admitted into the hospital today. I think she's at Utah Valley, but i'm not 100% sure on that. I just need her to get better so that in the future when we have kids she can watch them!!! lol okay I need her to get better for other reasons too. She's so much fun. Its funny to watch how she acts with her kids.. I'm probably the only one that notices little things like that but I absolutely love it. Anyways.. Thats about it for us. Married life is wonderful. I love it.

Countdown Day

2009-03-21T21:51:00.001-07:00

So 1 year ago today Ben proposed. :) He calls it Countdown Day because its.. March 21st ... 3...2...1! Its crazy thats its already been a year!! I've loved it though. Life is amazing!.. Oh and on thursday we went to the St. George Temple.. Here are some pictures of that!

Update on us!

2009-03-12T18:11:00.001-07:00

So it has been awhile since I updated our blog. So since I'm home alone with nothing to do I decided I'd let you all know what we've been up to! School had kept Ben really busy. He's got some tough classes but he's smart so I know he'll do well. Work has been crazy lately, but its good to be busy. Time seems to be flying by so fast!!! Last week we had a bit of bad news, Ben's dad called him and said his mom was in the hospital so we made arrangements to get out of school and work to go up to see her that Friday and stay until Sunday.. BUT! Then on Friday right before we were getting ready to go Ben's dad called and said she had been released from the hostital and that he was going to pick her up! We were so excited!!! So instead of going to Salt Lake we went to Richfield to see her. It was fabulous. We were all lazy and ate delicious food and had fun playing games and watching movies.. I love going out of town because it gets me away from my job and it lets me see Ben for like 75 hours straight. Which I think is just the best thing ever!

This week! Ben started another job.. He know works to much. He has a paper route from 5:30 a.m. until about 7:30 or 8:00 in the morning ( I hate this job ) and then he goes to school and day and on Tuesday he started working at Chinatown. Its our favorite restraunt in Cedar. He gets 20% off whenever we decide to eat there so it should be great!! He seems to like it so far but tonight is his 2nd night there. Work is still busy for me, but I work a minimum of 45 hours per week so it will probably always seem busy. I had a doctors appointment today.. He gave me a guess of what he thinks is wrong, but I have to go get blood work done in a week or so and then another doctors appointment so I'll know the details then. As of right now I have no idea what the deal is. Well thats pretty much all thats going on with us. Until next time! :)

Our 1st Valentines day MARRIED!!!

2009-02-15T18:16:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was Valentine's Day. Usually I am anti-valentines day, but this year was different. I LOVED it. We both had to do work related stuff in the morning but then we had the whole day to do nothing. So we went to Hollywood Video and rented 3 movies and then came home and had lunch. After lunch I jumped in the shower and when I got out Ben had suprised me with a single rose. It was perfect then I looked by the bed and instead of flowers he got me this milkskake looking gift full of candy I love it! So instead of going out to dinner and doing the usual valentines day stuff we just chilled all day, watched movies, and ordered in a pizza.... It was perfect. My job has been really stressful and yesterday Ben just spoiled me all day. He's amazing.

Smiths grocery store

2009-02-13T21:01:00.000-08:00

So recently Ben has been delivering papers for his cousin Jason & every Sunday both the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News have lots of coupons in them. (I'd recommend subscribing) anyways.. He brought a copy of both of the papers home with him Sunday. So before church I sat there and cut out all the coupons. Tonight we went grocery shopping and guess how much we saved!!!??????????!!!!!!???? If you guessed $50 dollars you were wrong.. we saved....................................................... $73.41.. Yeah how amazing is that! I know I'm a dork but we were both super super excited about it. I was so excited that I saw Amanda and Beau Gibbs there and I just had to stop and brag for a second. Anyways thats my exciting news for the week. :)

Luckiest girl alive!

2009-01-30T18:20:00.001-08:00

So today Ben got me a CRICUT! I absolutely love it! He said it was "Our Valentines Present" but we all know he won't use it.. He just wanted to make me smile.... He's amazing I love him! I'm seriously the luckiest girl!!

My Project..

2009-01-24T21:49:00.000-08:00

This is what I made today! Sorry I don't have a better picture. We didn't get them hung up until 10:30 and the lighting in our bedroom is bad.. I'll take a better picture sometime soon!

Craft day is tomorrow!!

2009-01-23T19:48:00.000-08:00

I am so excited! My cousin Amber wants to make what I'm making and I think my other cousin Kimmy does too! (its because its just that cute) and we're doing it tomorrow.. I found my stuff at Roberts today and I was so excited but then I went to walmart and the things I bought at Roberts were 7 bucks cheaper at walmart!! So yes, I'm taking them back. lol I know its only 7 dollars but still! Thats a costa vida salad right there. :) Anyways so I'm excited for tomorrow. I'll post pictures of our creations!

Teach me!

2009-01-22T18:55:00.000-08:00

How do you get the list of your friends and family with there blogs on your site? Does that make sense? I go to peoples blogs and they are darling and they have a list of all there friends on the right side... How do I do that? Or am I just lame and can't do it.. dumb.. okay bye.

CRAFT DAY!!!

2009-01-22T18:48:00.000-08:00

So, I've got like a million new fun things to do to our apartment. My house is darling, but its time for a change.. its been this way since we got married... which was ohhhh 7 months ago!!! CRAZY! Anyways.... I think I'm going to do it next Saturday. Kim is going to do it with me.. She doesn't know yet but she will join cuz she loves it! Anyways.. I've got so much scrapbooking to do, but I need a teacher... I'm new to scrapbooking.. I started up when we got married and I love it, but I'm just not that good at it yet.. any volunteers for the position????

A little update on us

2009-01-18T17:41:00.000-08:00

So Ben and I have had quite an eventful year so far already. School is keeping Ben super busy because he is a Senior and his class schedule is all over the place and I've been sick with the most annoying head cold! So I've been taking medicine and vitamins daily trying to build my immune system back up..... Also, We've been looking into moving into a new apartment because ours is a little expensive for us now but a miracle happened this morning. Its funny how the lord works sometimes. My cousin Kayla is going to move into a spare bedroom. We're excited to have her and it will be helpful for us. She struggles with being away from home and she stresses over everything. So we're pretty much opposites but she's a great girl and we are so happy that she wants to stay here. I think it will be good for both of us! I love the girl.. Anyways-- Work keeps me busy, we're kinda slow right now but its going to pick up in a couple of weeks so I'll probably wish it was slow again! Oh and about New Years resolutions.. I finally decided that i'm not going to make one. haha I know it sounds dumb but I never keep it anyway. Ben set one to get into shape and he's been going to the gym everyday, but I'm just not a fan of working out.. I've decided once my metabolism stops working then I'll go to the gym :) Well thats pretty much all I can think of right now. Except that I love ben.. he's great. He seriously is the nicest husband ever!

Christmas 2008

2009-01-13T17:30:00.001-08:00

I love Christmas! We got to celebrate it 3 times this year!!! On the 23rd we had our own Christmas, Ben got me a beautiful picture of the SLC Temple doorknob.. it sounds weird but you'll have to come see it.. and I got Ben a Nintendo Wii.. :) Christmas Eve we spent the night at my parents house were we got a FREEZER! I think its awesome! I got scrapbooking stuff (which I love) and Ben got a cool shirt and we got Nutcrackers because I'm a little obsessed with them. Pretty much it was an amazing Christmas Eve oh! and we had the best food ever. My mom is such a great cook. Then on Christmas day We went to Ben's parents house where they were patiently (haha) waiting for us to arrive and we opened presents again! We got a sweet book with Christmas stories/poems in it, and a new computer, and movies, and all sorts of fun stuff!!!! Then Ben's mom made us more delicious food and we watched lots of movies. The the saturday after Christmas we drove up to Temple Square and saw the lights. It was beautiful. I loved it! We are so so blessed and have such amazing families.

Ecuador!

2009-01-13T17:12:00.000-08:00

In July of 2008. Ben and I got to go to Otavalo Ecuador on a 2 week Humanitarian Trip! IT WAS AWESOME! We had so much fun and it was so rewarding to go and help the people of Otavalo. We had some amazing experiences and got to learn so much! We went with a group from Richfield that Ben's parents organized. We met so many amazing people and did a lot of hard work!!! Those Ecuadorians never stop working! Its amazing to me how fortune we are to live in the U.S.A. We are so spoiled here. At least we can flush toilet paper and brush our teeth with the water that comes out of the sink!!! Here are some pictures. We have tons and tons so I'll only post a few!

Car Accident

2009-01-13T17:07:00.000-08:00

Hey Everyone! It's been a long time since I updated our blog. In November Ben and I were involved in a Car Accident coming home from visiting my parents in Fillmore. We will both beat up pretty good but we're recovered for the most part now.. Ben still has some neck pain but other than that were great! I put some pictures on here so you could see!

Wedding Day

2008-12-20T14:07:00.001-08:00

We were married June 27th, 2008 in the Manti Temple. Our parents helped make the day so special for us! My mom decorated the prettiest reception I have ever seen. It was perfect! I loved it! Here are a few of our wedding pictures for you to see :)