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Monday, July 20, 2015

May, June & July

So.... I guess I'm a little behind on this blogging thing.

Time for a some catch up - Get ready for a long post with a lot of pictures!

May

He always has his hand above his head.
Clayson sleeps like this every night.

First things first: We're having a boy!

We made them take the ultrasound early because I turned 26 and got kicked off my parents awesome insurance.

That was sad.

Alyssa and I have birthdays one day apart. We went to Buffalo Wild Wings at work to celebrate.

We were in Burley for Mothers Day and they gave all the mothers flowers. I got a few extras to plant my first "garden".

I learned that gardening is not my strength. These flowers are completely dead now.

Alyssa and I went to Denver for a work conference.

This is the hotel lobby that we stayed at. It was nice.

Dr Cannon got me dried pineapple!

For breakfast we would go to the hotel restaurant. I would get oatmeal (the cheapest thing on the menu, but so delicious) and Alyssa would bring her own fruit and breakfast bars. We had the same waitress every day and she was so sweet. I think she felt bad for us and the last day she bought our breakfast for us. We left her all the cash we had for a tip and wrote her a thank you note on random pieces of paper we could dig out of our purses.

She was the best waitress :)

Also in the month of May, we went on The Heber Creeper with family to celebrate Memorial Day

June

I went to the doctor and he told me that I needed to gain more weight.
He recommended ice cream.

I think I can handle that!

I realized after I came home from the doctor that I had forgotten to tell him I was sick the previous 3 days and was pretty much living off of honey water. So yeah, I had probably lost some weight, but I don't think it was as bad as he thought.
But if it gets me ice cream, I'm good with that!

Maternity Shirt!
23ish Weeks

Now my weight is, in his words, "perfect."

It's good to hear that sometimes.

We had a full house for the month of June! My brother Griffin and Clayson's cousin Taylor both stayed with us. It was a party every night! We watched a lot of Star Wars and basketball and played a lot of Coup (a really fun card game).

I was definitely out-numbered by the boys, but Clayson keeps reminding me that I should just get used to it. I guess he's right!

Supporting the Jazz
20ish Weeks

Next time we need some girls to stay with us so we can watch chick flicks and paint nails.

Any takers? :)

Reading - Clayson is definitely the favorite

My parents offered to watch my brothers kids for 10 days while they celebrated their aniversary.

We went to Rexburg the first weekend to help my mom out a little.

Picture Credit: Evelyn

I always love spending time with these kids!

We took a trip to Bear World!

They had baby bears, but no one was watching them because this peacock was across from them.

I always thought bears were more exciting than birds, but I guess I was wrong.

The petting zoo at Bear World

The highlight of the day was the rides!

We all had a good time at Bear World!

Evelyn had fun with my phone.

It was a busy and fun trip!

Clayson says we might just have two kids and call it good.

So much for his starting line up for his basketball team :)

July

The whole Searle family

We went to Burley to pick up Clayson's brother, Zach, from his mission.

We crammed 16 people into a 12 passenger van. Good times :)

All the Siblings back together

We also celebrated the 4th of July in Burley!

We spent the day at Dirkes Lake swimming and cliff jumping.

Clayson working on the farm

Clayson always gets some farm work in whenever we go to Burley. This time, I joined him for some of it!

His siblings call him "City Boy" but he's still a farm boy at heart :)

The next weekend we were back in Burley for Zach's homecoming talk and a family reunion.

This is me trying to get both Savannah and me in the picture.

I've never been good at selfies.

Now we are home again and finally starting to get ready for baby boy!

Every kid needs a penguin pillow. Right?

Way to make it through 3 months of catch-up!

Now I'll hopefully stay a little more up to date on this blog.

Life is good!

Sunday, December 28, 2014

There and Back Again

This is the first weekend we have gotten to stay home in a long time!

Here's a quick review of our travels:

November 7-9

Burley - Turkey killing!

I already blogged a little about it here.

November 21-23

Rexburg - I took my sisters family pictures!

These pictures would not have turned out half as good without my fabulous assistant, Clayson.

He is the best :)

One day Allison Kay Photography will be alive and thriving!

(There is still a lot of work to do on it)

One day....

We told Bennett if he was good, we would take him to see the Mario wall.

I don't think he was impressed with it as we were.

November 26-30

Rexburg - Thanksgiving!

It was so fun to be with family!

(Again, I already blogged about our craft project here)

Bennett is the master of the block towers!

Too bad Patton is the destroyer of block towers.

We went bowling!

The only down side was that Clayson and I both got sick Sunday, so we quarentined ourselves in the bedroom all day.

December 1-2

Salt Lake - Jazz game!

For Clayson's Christmas present, we went to a Jazz game.

It was made even better because Carlie & Tyler came with us! We love getting to spend time with them.

The Jazz lost to the Nuggets, but it was a close game.

It got so loud!

After, Clayson and I walked around Temple Square and looked at the lights

This is Clayson's picture with the "sun" (Temple) moon and star.

It's symbolic....

We stayed at a hotel that night. Such a fun get away!

December 5-7

Burley again

December 12-14

Rexburg - Melissa's Endowment

December 19-21

Burley - Nathan & Melissa's wedding!

We had Sydney, Lynzey, and Annalese in our car to and from the temple because we are the fun car!

They wanted to stop at McDonalds.

I told them that when I was growing up we only got $2 each when we went out to eat. Luckily, Clayson is nicer than I am and got them Happy Meals.
He justified that the dollar was worth more when we were growing up.

That made me feel old.

Then the girls were blown away when we told them that we didn't have a TV in our car growing up.

It's a miracle we both turned out ok :)

I didn't think the "back in my day...." stories would start this soon in life.

It was a long day of wedding-ness and by the end I may have been losing it a little....

I should have goten a picture with Nathan & Melissa, but alas, I did not.

So here's a picture of us instead :)

December 23-25

Burley - Christmas!

They have a recent tradition of having an Nerf war on Christmas day.

Last year was Nerf Guns, this year was Nerf Bow and Arrows.
They whistled as they flew and hurt more than the guns. I'm afraid of what's coming next year.