What a Nut!

I haven't blogged for a long time and I actually have a lot to blog about, just not enough time. But, before I forget, I had to post something that Brooklee said the other day that cracked me up. Lately she wants to climb on anything and everything and then jump to Sam or I. Well, the other day, I was standing up on a stool and Brooklee came running up to me with her arms out and said "Jump to me, Mommy! Jump!".

My little girls are so much fun to have around (most of the time:o) but they keep me so busy that I don't have time for much else! I am also teaching full time and a few weeks ago I was called as the 1st counselor in the primary presidency which meant that I was responsible for writing the primary sacrament meeting program for next month! So I think it goes without saying that I have been extremely busy. But life is good:o) When I have a few more minutes I will post pictures of our cute little girls and give some updates on our little Allie who is growing like a weed!

Allie's Big Day...And More!!!

So it has taken me soooo long to publish this post! I get a little done, then have to get a sippy, or a bottle, or run to the store, etc. Anyone with kids knows how it goes! It has really taken me literally days to get this done. Anyway, Allie was blessed in church this last weekend and we had a lot of family come to town. It was really nice having everyone there.

We are lucky enough to have been assigned to the new building next to the temple and we love being able to see it every week. Every time we drive in to the parking lot Brooklee yells "temple!" and is sooo excited. Here is a picture of our little family at the temple.

We didn't really ever have time to take pictures of Allie in her blessing dress, so this is it for now. I am hoping we can just put her back in the dress in the next couple days and get some cute pictures:o) That might be cheating, but oh well!

She looks really silly in this picture, but i finally caught a smile so I decided to go ahead and post it anyway:o) Allie also had her 2 month check up on July 30th and here are the stats:

Height: 22.5 in (35th percentile)

Weight: 10lbs 12oz (15th percentile)

She is currently on the smaller side, which I don't expect to last long because that is how Brooklee started out. I never posted Brooklee's stats from her 18 month appt, but she was 95th percentile for height and 50 for weight. Speaking of Brooklee.....

Here are some of Brooklee's mad photography skills:o) She loves taking pictures and looking at them afterwards.

She wanted to take a picture of Allie, but got her feet instead:o)

And this is just a cute picture of my sweet little girl:o)

Now there is a story behind this picture of Brooklee on the table. I went out the back door the other day to get the mop and our back door knob has always had issues, but this time it locked me out when I shut the door behind me! I was freaking out because Allie was in her little chair where Brooklee could reach her. Brooklee loves her sister a little too much sometimes and smothers her, or else tries to feed her things that Allie shouldn't be eating. So I was so afraid to even run to the neighbors house because I was afraid of leaving Brooklee with allie. I could still see them through the back window. Brooklee even tried to unlock the door, but mostly she just thought it was funny that mommy was stuck outside! I took my chances and ran to the neighbors house to call Sam real quick. The neighbor came over and was able to get the back doors open with a screwdriver(good thing my blog is private! :o) and when we got there, Brooklee had climbed onto the table and brought her dolly and blanky along with her and was eating the ice out of the cup I had left on the table:o) I am just thankful that she left Allie alone while I was gone! That whole ordeal definitely got my adrenaline pumping!

This is yet another random picture, but when we were on our way back from Snowflake for my 10 year reunion (didn't take pictures and not much to blog about) we passed some floats that people had made for the 24th celebrations in Eagar and this was one of them! I thought it was awesome and had to take a picture. It was built on top of some type of motorized vehicle, but we couldn't really tell what it was. Whoever did it did an amazing job!

Happenings....

So this post is pretty random and definitely not in order! It has been a while, again, which explains the randomness:o) Also, I lost my good camera, again, but found it and that is why I am posting pics from there as well:o)

Sam's nephew Cody earned his Eagle and had his Eagle Scout of Honor this last Sunday. Almost all of Sam's brothers and sisters were there, which is rare, so we took the opportunity to take a photo. Kristi and her family are missing, as well as some in-laws and nieces and nephews. He has 8 brothers and sisters, which makes for HUGE family gatherings when everyone is there:o)

Change of scenery! This starts the camping pictures part of the post. My parents decided they wanted to go camping, but just for one night, so we decided to go with them. I wanted to see how the girls would do and use this as our trial run since it was only a one-nighter. Both of them did wonderful! Allie was such a good baby. I think she just needed a change of scenery as much as I did! I think she really enjoyed the fresh air as well! Anyway, this is a picture of Brooklee and Allie together. That is actually Brooklee's favorite blanket. She is such a good big sister (most of the time:o) and always wants to share with Allie...I just have to keep a close eye and make she she doesn't smother her! :o)

Here is a picture of Grandma and Allie while we were camping. Allie is actually wearing one of Brooklee's shirts. I guess while I was packing her stuff, her clothes were left on my bed instead of making it into the bag:o) I am still getting used to the packing for two kids thing!

Here is Brooklee showing me what she found on her nature walk with grandma. Don't you just love her outfit and hair? :o)

Grandma and Brooklee on their nature walk

Cute picture of Daddy and Brooklee camping...once again, don't you just love the clean clothes and face! Aaaw the joys of camping! The best part is that you don't have to care if your kids get dirty because there is no way to clean them anyway! This picture was taken after only being there a couple of hours. It looks like brooklee had been living in the forest for weeks!

We took Coree, Sam's niece, camping with us because her parents were out of town. Brooklee LOVES Coree! Mostly because she bosses Coree around and Coree will do anything she's told to do! Poor Coree probably won't want to be around Brooklee for that amount of time ever again! She is such a trooper!

This is just a cute picture of Allie. I found some pictures of Brooklee at this age and they look sooo much alike! I didn't think so until I had pictures to compare. I will have to post pictures of them at the same age, wearing the same outfits so everyone can see how much they look alike!

So Brooklee actually let me do her hair the other day! (Only because Phineaus and Ferb was on and she LOVES that show:o) I was able to do french braids! Okay, so it didn't last long because her hair is so short and thin, but it was cute while it lasted!

Ok, so this picture is really random, but it was one of the pics from the camera that I lost and I never posted my last belly pics before having Allie...actually I hardly posted any compared to what I did when I was pregnant with Brooklee. Anyway, so I found it and decided to post it for the record. And you wanna know something absolutely crazy? Looking at this picture almost, and I repeat, almost makes me miss being pregnant! Yes, having two kids really does make you go insane!!!!!

4th of July

The 4th of July was a lot of fun...of course it was celebrated on the 3rd with the parade and fireworks. I have not been good at all about taking pictures lately, but here are a few...

Here is Brooklee in her 4th of July outfit..she love to wear suglasses, so I got her these star ones:o)

These pictures obviously aren't in order, but Sam took this picture of Austin, Aubrey and Haley at the fireworks.

We had the arctic cats in the parade again for Pace Gardens. Haley and McKay rode in the back of my parents' and this is what they looked like after the parade:o)

Here is Brooklee getting ready for the parade to start!

My mom and dad during the parade!

1 Month

So I decided to go ahead and write this post now, while I was thinking about it, or it would never happen. That is why there will be no pictures to go along with this post, but at least I did it for the record:o)

So our little Allie is one month old already! It is so crazy how fast the days fly by. It definitely makes me appreciate every little moment. Well, most moments anyway:o) Allie isn't doing so well sleeping at night...she does great during the day!!! Not that I am really happy about that! Sam and I are both sleep deprived at the moment. I told him that I will start sleeping with Allie in the other room so that at least one of us can get a decent amount of sleep! :o) Hopefully it gets better in the next few weeks. We were just really spoiled that our first baby was such a good sleeper.

Allie is looking more like Brooklee every day (to me, anyway...everyone has their own opinion:o) She has started to smile (not gas grins:o) and respond when I talk to her. I love it when they get to this stage. Well, hopefully I will post some updated pics of her and Brooklee in the near future!

INTRODUCING.....

Allie Larynn Curtis

Born May 28th at 7:43am...6lbs 13oz 20in

So I hate putting this picture on the blog, but these are always sentimental because it is the first time you get to hold your baby, so I went ahead and put it in for memories' sake:o)

My sister Sarah took these amazing pictures of allie...isn't she so stinking adorable?!!! I think so anyway:o) Labor was SUCH a breeze compared to my labor with Brooklee. I woke up at 1:30am and my water had broke, but I wasn't really having contractions. I went to the hospital and I was dilated to a 4...they had me walk around for an hour to get my contractions going, which worked, and went back and I was a 5! It took me hours, no, days to get to that with Brooklee! I asked for an epidural, which they were afraid to give me thinking it would slow down my labor, which in lots of cases it does, but I told them that it sped it up last time so they went ahead and called the anesthesiologist. It was wonderful! My contractions weren't too bad up to that point, and then I just didn't feel anything! She was born a little less than an hour after I got the epidural, so it worked just like last time!

Brooklee absolutely LOVES her little sister and can't get enough of her, which is scary at times:o) She wants to hold her and feed her and burp her...it gets a little overwhelming, but I wouldn't have it any other way! It is crazy to think that we have two kids now, but I am slowly getting used to the idea of it:o)

What we've been up to!

So i figured I'd do a quick post of what we've been up to lately since it has been so long. I am also currently dilated to a 3 and having mild contractions, so the baby may come any time and then it would really be a long time before I posted again! So this first picture is of my belly at 37 weeks. I should probably get one more before I have the baby, but it really hasn't changed much since then!

Here is a picture of our garden! I really should have put a more updated pic because it looks sooooo different now! It has grown so much in the last couple weeks. You actually can't even see the dirt anymore, just green! It has been so much fun!

My little brother Brian and his wife Allison had their first baby on April 27th! Her name is Ruby Ann and Brooklee just LOVES her! She is soooo cute with her so I am really excited to see how she will be when her little sister makes an appearance!

Sam rigged up the arctic cat so that Brooklee's carseat would buckle in the middle and it has been so much fun! We can take it anywhere now and Brooklee just loves it! This particular day we went exploring and found a little wash to play in...Brooklee absolutely loves the water!

And this last picture is of our baby girl's first day in nursery! She is loving it almost as much as we are! :o) She does so good (i hope:) and it is so nice to be able to sit through our other meetings in peace:o) She is growing up so fast, but I guess it's a good thing because our next will be arriving soon and it is going to be hard enough as it is! But we are soooo anxious and excited!