Our House/Memorial Day

I finally found a picture of our house. I think it's from the Inspection report, so it has the previous owners cars in it, but hey, you get the idea, right? So, here it is-our very own house!
We still haven't gotten very much done. Ben got the kitchen unpacked last week, but everything is still pretty much crammed into our living room, like this:Ok, I think it might be minus a couple more boxes right now. But, pretty much the same. It's hard when I've been instructed not to do anything and Ben is busy with work and side work (plus we have to play a little, right?). We will get there though. We had someone come start on the painting upstairs, so once that's done it will also be easier to get more unpacked. Hopefully it will get done soon.....

One of the first things on Ben's agenda when we moved in was to get in the pool. Him and Baylee have been swimming just about every day. Baylee wakes up in the morning and begs to go. This is the first testing out of the pool by Baylee and Ben:

We are so excited to have a house that we can entertain in, so for Memorial Day we had my family come over (we know they won't mind our moving mess). We hung out and also played the Wii while Ben cooked his yummy turkey burgers for dinner (we still haven't tried out the grill though since he didn't want to clean it off). Baylee got her very own Disney Princess Wii game that we had to play before anyone came over. Look at that concentration we have going on:
I have to add in one of the funny things Baylee said last night. My brother was playing Hungry, Hungry Hippos with Baylee and after one game she said to him "Scotty, you have trash and I just kicked it!" It was pretty funny.

After eating a yummy dinner, it was time for the pool. It looked pretty calm when I first walked out....

...but not really!

The guys (and Baylee) were busy trying to get all the water out of the pool? Or at least that's what it seemed like.

Eventually the tidal waves stopped, and my sister and I got in too. We had a fun time having people use our pool with us!

I was so excited for dessert. After swimming we used our firepit and had smores! Baylee kept calling it a campout. Here's my dad, Annie, and Scott roasting their marshmellows:
Ben helping Baylee with hers:

They were pretty yummy! We had caramel vanilla marshmellows. Baylee loved them.

And of course, here's me and Baylee. The firepit is kinda low for me to be bending down to roast marshmellows. It was a little bit of a challenge for me. Baylee loved watching the fire.

My dad, Annie, and Scott (my mom seemed to be missing for all the picture taking):
We had such a fun Memorial Day and can't wait to have people over again!

We're In!

I just thought I would do a little update.  We made it into our new house!  Since our baby is already trying to make his way out, I wasn't allowed to help at all (along with the fact that I also couldn't do any heavy lifting).  I was told I could sit on the couch and supervise, but instead Baylee and I just hung out at my parents house (it kept Baylee out of the way) while Ben had a lot of help from family members getting everything moved over.  Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who helped!  We are so lucky to have family here to help!  Ben got the kitchen unpacked, but has been so tired and busy with other things that everything else is still piled mostly in our living room.  So, sorry for no pictures, but I don't know where any of our batteries are.  Ben and Baylee have been taking advantage of having a pool.  I think they've both basically been swimming everyday since we've moved in.  Baylee and I went in the other day, and last night we had our first family swim.  We are looking forward to getting the rooms upstairs painted so we can get everything organized and unpacked soon!  It will be nice to have all of our stuff unpacked!  We love our new house!  I will post some pictures once I find some batteries!  

Celebrations

We had quite the busy weekend, full of a lot of celebrating!  Thursday was Ben's birthday.  Unfortunately, I had a doctor's appointment that Ben had to leave work a little early for, and then Ben and Baylee had gymnastics that night.  Luckily my appointment was fast, so we were able to come home in between to let Ben open some presents.  Baylee was so excited for Ben's birthday, and Ben was a good sport to let her open up all of his presents.  She was really excited for the toys we got him for our new pool. 

For Ben's final present, Baylee and I had set up a scavenger hunt (they call it Blue's Clues). Baylee was so excited for this present. It had been quite a hunt for us to find the present for Ben since I wasn't smart enough to pick it up when I first saw it (it was on a good sale-thanks dad for helping me!).  When Ben had gotten home from work, the first thing she told him was that his present was upstairs (which is where it was hidden).  She helped Ben with all the clues, and even though I had a talk with her about not telling daddy what his present was, she slipped and told when we headed upstairs for those clues.

Ben finally found the hiding spot!  And the big present was.......

Guitar Hero!!!!  I think Baylee was more excited for it than Ben was.  But hey, it has two guitars so she can "play along".  Or so she thinks.....

Ben surprised Baylee and I with presents as well!  Baylee has been asking for Hungry, Hungry Hippos for awhile.  She was so excited to see that daddy had gotten it for her!

She also loved these goodies that Grandma and Grandpa Hall had sent daddy for his birthday.

After gymnastics we hit Joe's Farm grill for dinner.  Ben got to eat free for his birthday, and had already hit up one of their other restaurants, Liberty Market, for a free breakfast.  We didn't get to cake and ice cream since Baylee had fallen asleep in the car and Ben was too full from dinner.

Friday night we went over to my parents to celebrate Ben's birthday with them.  Baylee was really sad when I told her we weren't doing a party for Ben, so this worked out well for a party.  We had pizza and played games and hung out.  We brought over the cake Baylee had helped me make and decorate.  It looked lovely with Baylee's wonderful icing drawings.  

Saturday Ben and I went and got a couples massage while my parents watched Baylee.  Afterwards we ran our errands, then headed back over to my parents in time to see my sister before she left for Prom.  Then we ditched Baylee again so we could have a bday dinner with just Ben and myself.  We didn't know we would be surrounded by Chandler high schoolers who also had Prom that night.  We got a little table next to a big group of them at Cheesecake Factory, but it was still a nice break from Baylee, which was what Ben wanted for his birthday.  

Sunday my back and neck were sore from my massage, and my body just felt all off, so I spent most of the day in bed.  Ben made crepes for us, and later we headed over to my grandparents for Mother's Day dinner.  We had a fun time with family there.  We always do!

Now this week we are busy trying to get our new house ready for us to move into.  It's been quite the busy, stressful week, and we still have half of it left!

Happy Birthday, Ben!!!!

Today Ben is 27!!!!!  Happy Birthday, baby!  I hope it's a great one!  We won't get to celebrate too well today (Sorry Ben!), but I hope that I can still make it a good day.  Ben is the best husband I could ever ask for.  He does so much for me, and I really appreciate everything.  Baylee loves her daddy so much, and I know the next baby will too.  I'm not good at expressing my feelings, so I hope this will do.  Happy Birthday!  We love you!

Living the Wildlife

We had a fun weekend!  Friday night we went to Joe's Farm Grill with our neighbors.  They have a boy the same age as Baylee, and the two of them had a blast.  Joe's Farm Grill is so nice because we could sit outside, and the kids were so cute playing tag and hide and go seek together.  Baylee is really good at inviting herself into their house, but since they were having computer trouble she got a free pass to play over at their house while Ben fixed it.  We all needed a late night treat later that night, so we threw the kids in jammies and headed to ColdStone.  Heather got this cute picture of Trey and Baylee:

Saturday we decided to check out Wildlife World Zoo and Aquarium.  It sounded pretty fun, but we weren't too impressed.  We still had fun though.

Baylee had fun with Ben in the petting zoo.  I think Ben carried her half the time though.  She was a little suspicious of the animals inside.  She eventually warmed up.

One of the best things at the zoo was feeding the giraffes.  A guy was so nice and gave us some quarters so Baylee could feed them.  So, here's Ben dropping food pellets on the giraffe's tongue.

And Baylee trying to do the same.  The aquarium was alright, but definitely not the best we've been to which explains the lack of photos.  Also it was hot outside so it was a little crowded.  

We finished our day with a high class dinner and browsing at Ikea, followed by our weekly food shopping.  Yep, we are wild ones!  Keeping Baylee up past 11 on a Friday night, and then our Saturday adventures!  Watch out now!

Ben signed the papers for our house today, so we close tomorrow and move in next weekend!  We are excited!