Billy, April, and Trayson

My Summer Sweetie

2011-06-25T11:31:00.000-07:00

This is my summer sweetie...
He could spend all day outside with his cousins

He loves eating popsicles on the back deck

For some reason my summer sweetie is obsessed with wearing grandpa's socks around the house.

Going to church

Me and my sweetie

Oh boy does he love basketball...

And baseball.....and golf...(don't have a golf picture)

cruisin in the summer sunshine

Eating popcorn on the back deck

This is my summer sweetie...

Congratuation!

2011-06-25T11:30:00.000-07:00

I'm a bit behind in this post but Billy has graduated from the University of North Dakota with a Master's in Occupation Therapy. We almost never thought this day would ever come. He has worked so hard the past three years to get to where he is today. We are very proud of him and he will be (and already is) a great therapist. He has been working for a few weeks now and just loves it. Nothing like getting a pay check insteads of paying thousands!

Trayson could have cared less about the graduation he ran all over the place. I'm glad it was a short ceremony.

Billy and his parents

Congrats Billy!

The BIG 1!

2011-04-02T16:46:00.000-07:00

We had a monkey party for our little one year old monkey yesterday! It's amazing to me that he is already 1! It has been a wonderful year having him as our son!

Dad helping Trayson color his monkey puzzle

Tray got lots of awesome presents and he loves them all. We didn't get to many smiley pictures for his birthday party. I could tell he wasn't feeling well and after he opened presents he had a major unconsolable cry attack. Poor little guy was teething on his birthday. Life isn't fair.

My little monkey....sad monkey

I think the stuffed monkey was the hit. He cuddles with it constantly and slept with it all night last night.

Sorry to brag but I was pretty proud of my first ever birthday cake. A lot of work to make a cake and just cut a chunk out of it! But it was fun.

The little man and his red eyes from cryin so hard. I felt so bad cuz it's so unlike him to just cry and cry like that. But we finally got him calmed down and he chowed down on his monkey cake!!

I'm 1!

Trayson has a new obsession with cell phones and whenever he gets ahold of one he puts it up to his ear/back of his head and says "HI!". Grandma and Grandpa gave him a play cell phone for his birthday and we got a video of it. He has always said "HI" and "HEY" all the time but I'm pretty sure he knows what he is saying and we are calling it his first word.

We also got him this walker that changes so he can ride it. But we decided to give it to him a week ago because he is so close to walking and didn't want him to start walking before we even got to give it to him.

Happy Birthday to our sweet little Trayson!

2011-03-02T13:08:00.000-08:00

Things are still going good for us. Billy only has about 3 1/2 weeks left to be in Evanston.

He is ready to be done. And we are ready for him to be home more.

But he is doing a great job and we are proud of him!

My brother and his wife just had a new little one born on the the 17th of February. His name is Lucas Owen Allred and he was 5 lbs 15 oz. He's just a little thing and so so cute!

Trayson is doing great and having fun terrorizing grandma's house all day. I am getting excited for when I can take him outside and play on the grass. I know he will love it.

Every once in a while I watch my cousins little boy and he and Tray play an play. Trayson just loves having someone that will play with him and gets so excited when he sees him!
They will be very good buddies some day.

Trayson and Deegan

Tray absoluetly love this little red monkey that Grandma Kennington gave him for valentines day.

2011-01-03T12:40:00.000-08:00

We had a great Christmas this year. I think having a child makes Christmas ten times more fun. Even though Trayson wasn't quite old enough to know what was going on he still got spoiled. And you can't beat having two Christmas mornings with both sides of the family! My sister Autumn and her fam got to come down. And I got to meet cute little baby Reagan. She's a doll! We got to relax, and hang out and play games whenever we wanted. We also got to Skype Billy's brother Jayson who is on a mission in Florida. That was pretty cool.

Christmas Eve Santa came to check on the kids!

Trayson in his "My first Christmas" jams.

All the cousins who were there for Christmas

I guess you could say he liked what santa brought him

My cute sleepy family on Christmas morning.

We went for a walk in the snow. Trayson wasn't sure what to think at first. But then he warmed up to that cold white stuff all over.

My sweet little boy is growing up too fast! He's going to be a year before I know it. He is 9 months and I still can't make him stop smiling. I think he's the happiest little guy out there!

Eat your heart out

The End of the Beginning

2010-12-10T13:35:00.000-08:00

It's crazy to think how fast the past three years have gone. It is already time to leave Casper! We have had such a good experience here and met such great people. We are leaving a lot of friends behind! But we are ready for the next adventure.

We are moving to Star Valley while Billy goes back and forth from Evanston for his last internship at the State hospital. This is his last thing he needs to do before he can graduate. This past week he has finished his master's thesis and project. He has spent so much time on it and is very relieved to finally have that stress behind him. We are so proud of him!

Trayson is still just as fun as ever. He is almost 8 1/2 months now. He is so so sooo close to crawlin. Any day he will take off I know it. His 5th and 6th tooth just popped up on the bottom and I'm hoping we have a break from teething for a little while. He does NOT sleep well at night the last couple months. He wakes up anywhere from 3 to 13 times a night I swear. I am hoping he grows out of this stage soon!

Yes he is still full of spunk and energy. What a fun little boy he is. The other day Billy and I were talking and I said (jokingly, not to frighten the grandparents) "Do we even want to have anymore kids? We can't get this lucky twice right?" :) We are just so in love with this little boy and are so grateful for him.

Still loves his mornings with Baby Einstein.

Chillin with Dad. Too cute

Me and my babe all bundled up

7 Month Pics

2010-11-02T11:14:00.000-07:00

It's been fun watching Trayson learning new things that last little while. He loves eating cheerios, grahmn crackers, and little puffs. He hasn't quit figured out how to get that little cheerio stuck in his fist into his mouth yet though. He loves taking baths in the big tub. He isn't crawling yet but he rolls wherever he wants to go. A couple times he has rolled completely under the futon and was playing inside. He's such a cutie and we have so much fun with him! The other day he was playing with toys on the floor and I said, "Trayson...I love you." And just as clear as day and in the exact same tone and inflection that I did he babbled..." I uh yoo" I'm glad Billy was there to hear it. We were shocked. It sounded like he mimicked me exactly. It was pretty awesome.

The last couple weeks have been pretty crazy for us. We have become very close to our neighbors ,the Romeros, the few years that we've been here. They have been so great to us we've pretty much adopted them as our second parents. They've had such a fun time watching Trayson grow up. Tammy Romero found out she had breast cancer about a year and a half ago ( around there I don't really know). And the last 7 months she has been struggling with her health. It has been so much fun for Trayson and I to have her right next door. Whenever I was bored or needed to get out of the house, we would walk into her house and go in her bedroom and sit on her bed and talk to Tammy for a while. I think Trayson always made her feel better.

We spent hours on her front deck talking and playing with little Tray. She slowly was getting worse and having a hard time walking so the past few months I had been driving her to appointments each week.

The past few weeks she was feeling so much better. She didn't need her cane to walk, she drove herself to town, and she was just feeling pretty good.

Thursday the 14th we drove home to Star Valley around 4:00 and that day I was busy getting everything packed and ready to go. I had just come back from getting some things from Wal mart when I pulled in the drive way and saw Tammy sitting on the deck. I had so much that I still needed to do in the couple hours before we left. I almost just said Hi and went inside to get busy, but I felt like I should go talk to her just for a minute. Well just a minute turned into half an hour or longer. She also got to hold wiggly crazy Trayson for the first time in a long time all by herself. This made her sooooo happy. I'm so glad I took the time to talk to her that day even though I had other things to do because that was the last time I talked to her.

We came home Tuesday night and early Wednessday morning Dave came over to our house and told us that Tammy was in the hospital. She had gotten worse everyday that weekend and wasn't eating or drinking. That day he called us again and told us that Tammy was expected to only live 3 days. We were able to go see her in hospice a couple times before she died. I was shocked at how much she had deteriorated in just a few days. She wasn't responsive and you could tell she was struggling. But I'm glad we at least got to see her. Tammy passed away on Friday Oct 22 surrounded by her family.

We really miss her and it's hard to think that she is gone. I'm grateful to know that I will see her again someday. She was a great friend to us we loved her very much.

On a happier note!...Billy is getting closer to being done with school! About the second week in December he will be done with classes. Then we will move to Star Valley! I will be living with my parents while Billy will be back and forth from Evanston doing his last internship and the State Hospital there. We are excited to have a change but we will really miss many people here in Casper.

What's Cookin for Halloween?

2010-11-01T12:41:00.000-07:00

Trayson was a lobster for Halloween and Billy and I were the Chef's! We had so much fun. Friday night we went to our ward Halloween party and I was surprised at how many people took our pictures and especially of Tray "cookin" in his pot! They just loved it. It was fun to see everyone's faces when we walked in the gymn with our overgrown lobster.

Trayson was pretty content in his pot. He had toys and

cheerios stashed inside and was perfectly happy

I really could eat him up!

I didn't get many pics of our pumpkin carving this year and this one is the only one worth sharing. The Trayson look-a-like pumpkin. Can't you tell?

6 Month Spaz Attack

2010-10-03T13:00:00.000-07:00

Happy half year Trayson! Listening to conference this weekend has reminded me of exactly 6 months ago when I was listening to conference while holding my two day old baby boy. I did more sleeping than listening honestly. But I can't believe how much he has grown since that time! What a blessing he has been in our lives. The world is better because this sweetie came into it.

Trayson is sitting up by himself now and plays good with toys on the floor. He loves reading books and chewing on them. I think he may be teething on the top now but I can't see anything yet.

To celebrate being 6 months old he got his first bonk on his head. I was on the computer and holding him. He dropped a toy and went to grab it and bonked his little head on the edge of the desk. Just in time for these pics we took today.

At least he forgot about it now....happy boy

Thanks so Aunt Gina for this cute outfit. I love it

And I had to post these other cute ones too.

He loves his new ball. I'm constantly putting it back

in his lap after it rolls away from him

Bright!

Ya....so no one told me that when they turn 6 months old their personality triples. We really have noticed this in Tray the past few days. He can get soooo hyper all of a sudden and start screaming and squealing (happily) and throwing his arms all over. I got a video of one such "spaz attack."

I Love To...

2010-09-22T20:36:00.000-07:00

DROOL!!

Enough said

The last couple weekends

2010-09-12T19:45:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we went to Pinedale for the Antelope hunt. I wasn't sure how everything would work having a baby this time. But Trayson was so awesome. He's our huntin babe! He rode in his carseat bumpin up and down through the sage brush all day for 2 whole days. We're starting him early! He even has some little camo jams he was sportin.

Taylor and Grandpa Jody with their kill

This was Taylor and Jody's antelope that they shot. We have a picture with Billy's but I thought it might be a little bloody to post. The sucker just didn't want to die! After two bullets and a slit throat it still lived for a few minutes after. I couldn't believe it. Poor guy but I guess that's huntin for ya.

The week before labor day Billy had no school or work so we decided to go do something fun. We just drove to Cheyenne and took a couple days to do whatever we felt like.

Let's go Mom! I love that he's figured out he can look up at me and Billy. I

love starin back at those big eyes.

We toured the old governors mansion.

Then walked around the capitol

Swim time! Tray didn't know what to think about the whole swimming deal. Besides the water was really cold and this is as far as we went in.

We've had a fun couple weekends that I needed to catch up on!

The Best Baby Sitter...

2010-09-07T11:51:00.000-07:00

Baby Einstein!

I just love to watch Trayson's face when he is watching Baby Einstein. He is so focused on it and gets so excited. It is adorable. It really helps when I need to get something done around the house, but sometimes I sit and watch him.

Picture Overload!

2010-08-12T08:10:00.000-07:00

Trayson is 4 and 1/2 months now! He didn't have an appointment at 4 months but he will go in next week.

Trayson

Already has two teeth and is biting Mommy
Chows down on his rice cereal every night
Loves to watch Baby Einstein (The puppets make him giggle)
Rolls over
Giggles when Daddy throws him in the air
Loves to be outside no matter what we are doing
Loves screeching in the highest pitch possible
Loves to play in his new Bumbo and Aunt Gina let us borrow.
Would rather stand than sit. He can stand for a long time. He has very strong legs.
Gives me the sweetest smiles when I get him out of bed.
Drools uncontrollably
Is still the sweetest little boy ever.

Enjoy the picture overload!

What do I do with this?

He loves the winnie the pooh bear the Pom Pom gave him

I spend the majority of my day kissing this cute little face

Summer Stuff

2010-07-30T09:27:00.000-07:00

We went on another walk to the falls a few weeks ago and got some cute pictures. Every time Tray would look at the waterfall it would scare him and he'd almost jump out of his skin! Trayson absolutely loves being outside no matter what we are doing. He is good for hours as long as he outside.

What a sweetie.

Last weekend we went camping and once again Trayson was wonderful. He sat and stared at the fire the whole time we were talking and laughing with our friends. We didn't hear a single peep out of him the whole night. And he slept much better than I did!

All wrapped up ready for bed!
Good morning Tray!

Such a happy guy

I just noticed that Trayson is getting his first tooth already! I was so shocked to see it in there!

3 Months!

2010-07-02T09:15:00.000-07:00

July 1st marked three months of life for this sweet little boy!

Sometimes taking pictures isn't all that fun for little boys.

Baseball Boy

2010-07-02T08:50:00.000-07:00

Billy is on a softball team again this year and whenever we go we love to get Trayson decked out in his baseball stuff. These are his baseball pj's and our friend Calli brought him this hat to wear. Isn't he just a stud? I took lots of pictures cuz it was just too cute to pass up.

Daddy and Tray

Too cool for you

Mommy and Tray

All tuckered out after the long games.

Pics & Updates

2010-06-21T10:14:00.000-07:00

We are starting to enjoy our summer now that it has stopped raining! It has really greened up and has been very nice weather. I just hope I can manage being in our apartment with no a/c all summer.

I think Billy had a good first Father's day yesterday. He is such a good daddy to little Tray. Tray loves it already when Billy gets home from work. He just won't stop smiling. He sure does love his daddy!

A few week ago Trayson had his two month appointment. He did well with his first shots. Of course they were no fun but they didn't effect him much. Here are his two month stats:

Weight - 12 lbs (50th percentile)

Height - 24 1/4 (90th percentile!)

Who would have thought we could produce a tall kid! We'll see though. There are some tall Kennington genes somewhere.

Trayson is still the light of our lives. He is so happy and smiley! I'm so glad I will be his Mom FOREVER!

Pathfinder Dam

2010-06-18T08:43:00.000-07:00

The other day our neighbors took us for a drive to see the Pathfinder dam that has overflown. It is designed so that when there is too much water in the resevoir that it will flow over and it creates a beautiful water fall. It was so amazing. It flows over all these big rocks until it plunges over into a 300 ft waterfall.
I couldn't believe how much extra water there was. And it just kept coming non stop. It was pretty cool. The last time there was enough water to do this was in 1984. So it has been a while and there were tons of people that came to see it.

My Growing Boy!

2010-06-07T12:40:00.000-07:00

I can't believe how fast two months has gone! My baby is growing up so fast. He has an appointment this week and I'm anxious to see how much he weights. He is still such a sweet little baby and I love him to death.

We spent the past three weeks in Star Valley with our parents. Billy had a break in between school and his first internship so we decided to make the most of it. Even though it was pretty rainy most of the time we were there we had a lot of fun with our families. We were there so long that it felt wierd coming back to Casper. We are so glad that summer is finally here! The sun feels great and we are ready to do some fun stuff instead of stay inside all the time.

I love my little family!

Hope you liked the pics. I would write more but it takes forever with only one hand!

Sad Tray...Happy Tray!

2010-05-13T11:47:00.000-07:00

Sometimes Trayson gets the crys right before he goes to bed and the only way to get him down is to let him cry it out. I got this video of his sympathy cry. Poor little guy. Don't you just feel so sorry for him?

Sad Tray...

We have a really good schedule down now where we do a bath, tummy time, feed him, then put him down and he goes right to sleep now. So that is working great!

The last few days Trayson has started to babble and smile a lot. In the mornings, after I feed him, I lay him on the couch and he looks out the window and just goes crazy. What a cutie.

Here is the Happy Tray!

Baby Blessing

2010-05-06T09:34:00.000-07:00

We had Trayson blessed in Star Valley this past weekend. We had so much fun seeing everyone meet Tray and he's just soo much fun to show off! Billy gave Trayson a wonderful blessing and wouldn't you know the only time he EVER screams during church is during his blessing. LOL. But it still went great and he was a little angel the rest of the day.

Here are a whole bunch of pictures.

My sweetheart

I just love my boys!

Grandma and Grandpa Kennington

Four generations on the Kennington side

Grandma and Grandpa Allred

Four generations on the Allred side

Here is the most recently update Mckell Allred Family picture. It never takes long for our family pictures to be outdated. There are already two more babies on the way. One in July and the other in October! We love babies.

One Month Old!

2010-04-29T10:12:00.000-07:00

I can't believe it has been a month already! Trayson has already grown so much. We are leaving for Star Valley today to bless him there. We'll see how he does on the long drive. I am so excited for him to meet all of his aunts uncles and cousins! It will be a great weekend! Sorry I can't write more I have to finish getting everything ready!

So Blessed

2010-04-20T12:23:00.000-07:00

I am so very blessed to be the mother of this sweet little boy. I am having the time of my life being a mom. It is hard but I am rewarded 10 times for every minute I'm up during the night with him. Some may think I'm a little young to already have a baby but I guess I've wanted this for a long time. I couldn't be happier.

I took Trayson into the Dr. yesterday and he is up to 8 lbs even now. He is still 21 and 1/2 inches and the Dr said he looks great. The poor little guy screamed and screamed during his PKU test.

The past week has been very relaxing ( as relaxing as possible with a newborn) Billy had the whole week off so he got ahead on his school work and we watched lots of movies and took turns snuggling with Tray. I'm so glad I have a snuggly baby! We borrowed 5 seasons of the office from our friends and have been watching those at night while we get Tray to sleep so that has been fun. We used to think the Office was so stupid but when you watch them from the beginning they are hilarious.

Well everything is going great with us. Hope you like these pics of our little guy. You're probably going to get sick of me posting pictures all the time. But I just love to show him off.

The Whole Story

2010-04-06T17:45:00.001-07:00

The past few days have been pretty crazy! But they also have been some of the funnest I've ever had. We are so in love with our little Trayson and could not be happier. Just a warning this is a VERY long post, but the pics at the end are worth it! So here is the whole story from start to finish.

I am still amazed at how perfect the timing was. It couldn't have worked out better if we planned it. I wanted my Mom to be able to be with me through the delivery and she is 6 hours away from us. I have been praying for a long time that everything would work out where she could be there and the roads would not be bad and she wouldn't have to drive in the middle of the night. So last week I was talking to her and she just felt like she should come on Wednesday. So my Mom and my Dad both drove down on Wednesday and got here around 4:00. And wouldn't you know....contractions started at 5:00. They weren't painful just uncomfortable and would come every 5 to 6 mintues. I have had tons of braxton hicks contractions most of my pregnancy so it was a normal feeling. We didn't feel like waiting around to see if they got stronger so we ordered a pizza and then went to a movie. Through out the movie they were still consistant and were getting stronger. We went home and packed our last few things and decided that it wouldn't hurt to go check it out. I really didn't think it was the real thing yet.

We got to the hospital at 12:00 and I had only dialated 1/2 a centimeter since my Dr appointment that afternoon. So in 7 hours of contractions, not much had happened. The Dr on call told me to go walk for an hour and see if anything happened. I could tell my contractions were getting stronger but there were still no changes. Thankfully the nurse talked the Dr. into coming in because she thought I was for sure in labor. I'm am very grateful that the nurse didn't send us home because by the time we got into our labor room the contractions were much stronger and the pain meds she gave me only seemed to work for 10 minutes at a time. The nurse asked if I wanted my epidural now. I was still only at 4 centimeters. The pain was tolerable and I didn't feel that I needed it but I told them to get it coming so I wouldn't have to wait if I was desperate. I'm also glad that I did this because by the time the anesthesiologist actually got there I was dialated to a 9 and was getting pretty desperate. Trayson was posterior so it was causing pretty bad back labor. There were 2 other women that got an epidural before me so I had to wait my turn. My water hadn't broke yet and I was praying that it wouldn't until I got the epidural. I got the epidural just before 6. He did an awesome job...even though he seemed to really take his time.

After that I was feeling much better but could still feel the contractions. The Dr. came in and broke my water. I couldn't start pushing yet because he was still up to high. So I had to labor down for two hours and let the contractions move him down more. A little after 8 I was ready to push and because he was posterior they had me lay on one side and push then lay on the other side and push to try and get him to turn the right way. After an hour and a half of pushing the Dr. decided we needed some help so he used the forceps. In all honesty for having an epidural I felt a lot more than I wanted to, but it was do-able. So with the forceps and an episiotomy my little boy was born at 9:19 in the morning on April 1st. April Fools!

It was the most incredible experience when I saw my little guy. I was absolutely in love right from the start. They just wouldn't give him to me fast enough. I was sitting there with my arms out to him until they gave him to me. I'm sure it was only a few seconds but it was driving me crazy! The poor little guy was a little beat up from using the forceps as you can see in the pics I posted last time.

It also worked out great because my Dad was able to see Trayson that morning before he left for Star Valley. Again, we couldn't have planned it better. And I am so grateful for the support that my husband and my Mom gave me through out the whole thing. I couldn't have done it without them.

I just can't even explain how much I love little Trayson. He is so special and such a sweetie. It has melted my heart to see Billy fall in love with Trayson even though he is a "newborn" and can't play baseball. The first night home was pretty rough but they are getting better. Well sorry for the novel but I know some were thirsting for all the juicy details!

All curled up in his boppy

So in love

Welcome to the world!

2010-04-03T18:08:00.000-07:00

Trayson Kyle Kennington

Born April 1st 9:19 a.m.

7 lbs 10 oz

21 1/2 inches

I will post more on the whole story a little later. For now we are adjusting to life with this wonderful little addition. We couldn't love him more! Enjoy these pics for now.

Full Term and READY!

2010-03-17T14:42:00.000-07:00

Our little baby boy is officially a full term baby! And It is wonderful to know that he could come anyday and be perfectly fine. No more worrying about a preemie baby. We are getting so excited to meet this little guy and I am oh so ready to have him out of me. :) Next week they will check and see if anything is going on yet which I hope it is. And these pictures will hopefully be the last that I post. I almost didn't post the 37 week one. I feel absolutely hideous so don't expect anymore of these! haha At my appointment yesterday the Dr. guessed that he is around 6 1/2 pounds right now. But he said it's easy to be way off on the weight.

This week has been so nice and I've been able to go outside and walk around a bit. I still have tons of BH contractions so it makes it a little hard. Spring is such a perfect time to have a baby I decided.

I thought I was big enough in my 35 week picture and was surprised at how much I had grown in just two weeks. I'd hate to see what I look like in another two weeks! Billy is home now from both of his week long clinicals. So it has been nice getting those out of the way. It's always a worry when he has to be gone a week at a time. But nothing exciting happened and now this baby is free to come whenever he is ready! Come on little one!

35 weeks

"Yikes!" is all I can say

37 weeks

Pregnancy Pros and Cons

2010-02-20T12:17:00.000-08:00

Things I like about pregnancy:
1. Tiny hiccups
2. Big kicks
3. Singing to him in the car
4. Actually looking pregnant
6. Back massages from Billy
7. Hearing his heartbeat
8. Decorating his room
9. Organizing his room
10. Folding and refolding his clothes
11. Constantly baby shopping online
12. Buying clothes
13. Looking forward to being a Mommy
14. Baby showers
15. Imagining what he will look/be/act like
16. Getting the “oh how special” look from old ladies.
17. Constantly having my hand resting on my belly so I don’t miss anything.
18. Just sitting in the rocking chair in his room
19. The excuse to take a nap whenever I want
20. The anticipation
21. Giving into cravings without feeling guilty (The baby told me too)
22. Thicker hair
23. Parking in the expectant mother’s parking spot at the mall.
24. Helping to bring a new life into the world.
25. Being part of a miracle

Things I won’t miss about pregnancy:
1. Back pain
2. Hip pain
3. Dizzy spells
4. Sore feet
5. Stretchmarks
6. Literally not being able to walk after a day at work
7. Being so sleepy
8. People telling me I look like I should be having twins.
9. People telling me the right way to have my baby
10. Hard core rib kicks. (They still make me smile though)
11. Can’t bend over
12. Can’t sleep
13. Can’t stop crying!
14. “Can’t breath!”
15. Leg suddenly giving out
16. Restless leg syndrome (yes it’s a real thing)
17. Stares from strangers, like they’ve never seen a pregnant lady before
18. Trying my hardest not to waddle in public
19. Icy sidewalks and stairs
20. My fast walk is slower than a turtle
21. Up half the night with contractions
22. Worrying that he’s okay when he’s still for a while

31 weeks
32 weeks

Only about 6 and 1/2 weeks until my due date! I can't believe it. I'm almost 34 weeks now. It will be here before we now it. I'm really having fun getting everything ready. I've had a long list of baby things and we've been wittling away at it for a while.

I have had a few nights where I have been up with contractions for four to five hours. But my Dr. checked everything and said that everything looked good and to come in if they were any worse than they had been. I haven't had any nights like that for a couple weeks. Just a few contractions here and there. Like last Sunday when I was giving a talk in church. I felt my face get really hot and I almost skipped to the end and sat down. But I decided that my talk was already short enough that I should finish. It wasn't the funnest thing though. I'm just glad that it's over. It was a long week worrying about that stupid talk...poor Billy. He has been wonderful to me. My Dr just had her baby a couple days ago so now she won't be there for a month. So he has to stay in there for at least that long!

Rockin' the Baby Gut!

2010-01-09T14:49:00.000-08:00

I'm officially "Rockin the Baby Gut" now. I've grown a lot over the last few weeks. I pretty much can't fit into anything unless it is maternity. I feel like I'm huge already but I know I'm going to get much much bigger before this is all over. Everything is still going great at my appointments and there haven't been any concerns of anykind. He is growing great!

Nothing has improved with my back and hips though. It's the only thing I don't like about it all. I have trouble with my siattic nerve mostly on the left side. It gives out on me sometimes and in the mornings and can't put any weight on my leg without it hurting. My Dr said that if it's not better by now it will probably just get worse the bigger I get. Oh...joy. But it's all good I just love feelin him kick and squirm around. It is by far the best feeling ever! I'm so lucky.

I had a baby shower in Star Valley over Christmas break. It was a great turn out and gave us a good start on things we need for this little boy.

27 weeks down....12 to go!

24 Weeks

27 weeks (today)

I just have to brag about the cutest crib bedding that I found on ebay. So So cute! I wanted to do something that wasn't just the ordinary baby blue. It came with all the bedding, pillows, diaper stacker, 2 valences, toy bag, and 3 decorations. And here's the killer....it was only $50 plus shipping! Ah! I love it even more because we got such a deal.

It's a WHAT?!.....

2009-11-24T18:19:00.000-08:00

Surprise!!...

It's

Boy!!

That's right! A bouncing baby boy! What a surprise for us! We thought we were being open minded about what it could be. But we were pretty darn sure we were having a girl. Even way before we got pregnant I just knew we would have a girl first. But NOPE! Tells you how much mother's intuition I have! But we could not be more excited and the best part is that everything looks great and HE is as healthy as can be. HE was moving like crazy through the whole ultrasound. There was only a few seconds when HE didn't move. Crazy little GUY.

I wasn't really ready when the Dr. told us what it was. I was expecting her to say something like, "Okay I'm going to tell you what it is....Are you ready?" But all of a sudden she just said, "And there's the Boy parts." I looked at her and said "Boy parts?!?!?" I really couldn't believe it for a second.

So far we know that our little tike is a wiggle worm, HE weighs 14 oz, has a big head, likes to punch Mommy, likes to arch his back, has a sweet little face, crosses his ankels and likes to play with the umbillical cord.

We love our little guy already!

Boy Parts!

Time to go shopping?...

2009-11-18T19:06:00.000-08:00

So tonight I decided to do a little pregnancy cleaning. I thought I'd organize my drawers and put away a "couple" things that I can't wear. One by one I tried my jeans on and one by one they were folded into a box. Eventually I had to say good bye to 11 pairs of pants, 3 capris, and 4 shorts. This is what I have left....

I think this justifies some shopping...

And probably an additional box for storage.

Half Way!

2009-11-15T15:23:00.000-08:00

I can't believe I am already 20 weeks along! 5 months! I will actually be 20 weeks in a couple days but oh well I'm calling it 20. I'm half way there and I know the second half won't be anything like the first half but I'm excited!

I started feeling the baby at 16 weeks! It was about 3:00 in the morning and I was half asleep when I felt it and I couldn't go back to sleep for about an hour I was too excited. The first few times I felt it, it was for sure a kick. I had no idea it would be so strong and it would scare me everytime! But now I feel mostly the little flutters and twisting around in there. It is so awesome. Billy was able to feel it kick last night for the first time. I don't think he was expecting it to be as strong as it was and was very surprised. He yelled, "IT'S ALIVE!" haha. Ever since I started feeling it I fall sleep with my hand on my stomach so I can feel it. It just makes it all seem so much more real now.

We get to find out what we are having a week from Tuesday! The 24th is when I'm scheduled. I will actually be 21 weeks because Billy couldn't come if it was this week. He is at a clinical all week long. I can't even tell you how excited I am to find out! It's been fun to see the votes on what people think it will be. If you haven't voted please do!

So far I love being pregnant. The sickness is over and I am very glad for that. I have a very strong sweet tooth. (But only for candy, not for desserts. Kinda strange) I have been very surprised at how much my back and hips hurt already. I've been told a few times that I already walk like I'm 9 months along. Then I turn around and have this tiny belly. Yikes. It all started hurting around 11 weeks. Not looking forward to what it will feel like when I'm really 9 months.
Here are just a couple pics of the last few weeks.

17 Weeks

20 weeks. (Today after church) People are starting to notice! :)

Baby Shower

2009-11-15T15:11:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I drove to Laramie to go to my best friends baby shower. It's crazy that me and Josie were married a day apart and now are having babies a few months apart. They chose not to find out what they are having, so I am anxious to know. I don't know how they do it. She is due on December 21st and is such a cute prego lady! I'm really glad I got to drive down to see her again before she has the baby. She had a good turn out to her shower and got lots of fun gifts. And as usually we played all the baby games. For once I tied for first in three of the games! That's definetly a first I'm usually terrible at those games.

Sarah, Me, Josie and Alicia were all there together and we had a great time catching up. I love that we are still best friends even though we don't see each other much.

A Zombie and A Fairy

2009-11-01T18:22:00.000-08:00

Our Halloween costumes never really correlate. They are always last minute things we do so this year Billy was a Zombie and I was a Fairy. Next year hopefully we can think of something early enough so people actually know we are together. Billy had a project to promote the Occupational Therapy program, so I tagged a long and we went to a Halloween carnival at the college. Along with candy we slipped an OT pamphlet into their bags so the parents would see it. They had buckets of peeled grapes for eyeballs, noodles for brains, pretzals for bones, and cherries in jelly for blood. And they had to guess what each one really was. It was fun to see all the 200 kids that came through the carnival.

I think my favorite was a little girl dressed up as Cruela DeVille. She had the black and white wig, the fur coat and everything. Before the kids stuck their hands in the buckets we had them put on hand sanitizer. NO germs! And this little girl held out her hands and said, "Hold my rings!" So I took them off for her and gave her the germ X. We all giggled at her a little and she looked at us and said all smugly "Please don't laugh at me," and went on her way. Talk about playing your halloween character!

I did Billy's makeup and if I do say so myself, he looked pretty creepy.

How would you like to see this in your rearview mirror at night?!

A Zombie wearing a seatbelt... :)

I thought it was fun to wear the eyelashes. I've always wanted to try them. Although they almost drove me insane!...they were pretty fun. Although I think the glue that came with it was close to super glue...not fun to yank off.

I don't know if you can see this video very well, but at the carnival they had a fog bubble machine! It was the coolest thing I've ever seen. It was a regular fog machine but along with the fog were these big gray bubbles. I thought they were large ping pong balls at first. But then they pop when you touch them. I had to get a video so you can see how cool it is. I could have played with this all night.

Halloween Crafties!

2009-10-17T13:05:00.000-07:00

I love decorating for holidays. It was one of my favorites things growing up. Changing decorations to fit the occasion is always exciting to me. I love the fall and decided I needed a few more Halloween decorations. And since Billy was gone all last week on a clinical I decided to put my lonely time to use and make something. I found a pattern for this cute little swag on the internet and thought I would give it a try. They had a pattern for the shapes you could print out and everything. It was a pretty simple project but very very time consuming. You have to cut out all the little shapes (even the eyes for the ghosts) and then sew them together and stitch around the edge of everything with different colors. It took me quite a while but I think it was worth it. It turned out so cute! If anyone wants to make the attempt here's the web site:

www.holiday-crafts-and-creations.com/homemade-halloween-decorations.html

A close up. The decoration on the internet only had two pumpkins and three candy corn but I thought the pumpkins were cute so I did three of them. But I realized that they are the hardest to put together so that's probably why they only made two.

The complete project

Then I also bought these thin cardboard

letters and bought some halloween scrap paper

and ribbons and voila! another decoration!

And what's halloween without carving pumpkins?
Johnny, Callie and Mandy came over for the annual carving.

Billy's and my pumpkin all lit up. Mine's the dopey one.

We all decided that Johnny won the best pumpkin award with his elk bugling. Even though I gave him the idea, he still gets all the credit. Pretty cool huh? I couldn't get a good pic of it in the dark with a candle because it didn't show bright enough in the picture.

Great News!......

2009-09-26T12:09:00.000-07:00

WE ARE PREGNANT! No beating around the bush here. We are now expecting and could not be happier. I am due April 7th so I am 3 months along now and everything is going great this time. A couple weeks after we found out we decided we couldn't wait till my first doctor's appointment so I went and had an ultrasound done by a lady who does it for free cuz she needs so many sessions for some kind of certification. So we were able to see the tiny little babe in there! And we were able to see the little flicker of the heartbeat inside. It was so awesome. And such a relief to be able to see that. This made me not so anxious for my first doctor's appointment. Billy took a little video of the heart beating on his phone:

So my first appointment went great and she said everything looked fine. My second appointment was last Wednessday. And this time I got to hear the heartbeat. It was amazing. I will look forward to hearing it again next time.

Now being almost 13 weeks I will be glad when the sickness starts to wear off. It hasn't been to bad cuz I've still been able to go to work, but at the same time hasn't been any fun at all. Everything still makes me gag. But being sick is such a good sign.

So we just wanted to get our good news out there! And we can't wait until November when we can find out if we are having a baby boy or girl! AH!! SO HAPPY!

Lately...

2009-08-23T14:32:00.000-07:00

I have a little bit of catching up to do. First of all, a couple weeks ago we had our first ever Mckell Allred family reunion. It takes callin it a "family reunion" to get everyone together now I guess. This was the first time we were all together at the same time since Billy and I were married. We all drove to Oxbow Oregon where Kory and his family live. For once they didn't have to go anywhere and we came to them! We all drove/flew a total of 8,890 miles to be together. But oh it is so worth it! We all caravaned it from Boise to Oxbow and all arrived there at the same time to invade Kory and Lisa. Here's what we did for the weekend...

Went on a tour of Hells Canyon Dam
Went to the Visitors Center
Made felt hats that the kids decorated
Played with the Kittens
The guys went shooting
Had races
Played badmitten
Went for a hike
Picked Blackberries
Swam in the river
Painted pet rocks
Had a manicure/pedicure for the girls
Had a water ballon toss
Finger painting
And took tons of pictures and laughed and ate in between everything

It's always so sad that wonderful times like this can only last the weekend. But we will take what we get! And Monday morning we all left for our long long drives home. Here is the new family picture we got (which will be out dated in October when baby Daxton arrives).

Couldn't leave this unblogged (hope you can enlarge it)

Then the next weekend Clay and Joni and there two little girls came for the weekend. We went camping by Alcova on Friday night. And to our surprise didn't even get wet! We left after a rainstorm, decided to go anyway, and were lucky and came home just before another one hit. We got to go on a little hike Saturday morning.

Macy and I were pooped by the time we got to the top

Summer seems to have gone by so so fast. As it always does. Billy will be hitting the books hard again starting on Tuesday and won't be stopping till he is completely done. He has had a good break for the summer though and is ready to get going again. Well I think thats the latest with us. Hope everyone is great!

The Wild, the Wet, and the Wonderful!

2009-07-05T15:24:00.001-07:00

Wow, what a weekend. Mom and Dad came down since they wouldn't be having any company for the 4th this year. We are so glad that they came. We had a blast! We definitely made some long lasting memories thats for sure. They came Thursday night. Billy had to work for a few hours Friday morning so while he was gone mom, dad and I went on a little walk on the river. This is Mom at the edge of the water.

cute cute

Then after lunch and a nice nap we went miniature golfing. Miniature golfing is a perfect activity because it doesn't matter your age or how skilled you are at golf it is always fun.

Billy and his lucky blue ball.....notice the clouds....hmm

Dad pointing at his ball which has somehow ended up in the water. Thats wierd.

Mom and I both got a hole in one on the same hole. Fun!

I like this picture. Again notice the threatening clouds. We had a few more holes to go and it started to rain so we ran inside to take our clubs back. Then it started raining harder and harder so we waited inside for it to quit. The building we were in was flooding. Water was coming through the tops of the doors and through the bottom of the doors and was creeping along the floor everywhere.

So when the rain died down just a little,we decided to make a run for it. Billy ran to get the car and we came after him. We couldn't BELIEVE the HUGE puddles there were already!

This was one of the holes that was completely filled with water. We had quite the crazy drive home. We tried going one way but there was so much water going under the interstate that we couldn't get through. We turned around and tried a different route.

We were in downtown Casper and the drainage in the streets couldn't keep up with all the water. It was insaine. Never been in a flash flood before.

Tons and Tons of water. At one point that water was coming up over the hood of the car. Thats when it got a little scary. But our car made it through. Some others we not so lucky. While we were going really slow at a light a guy in an avalanche came zooming right by us and his wake covered our car and scared me and mom to death.

So that was quit the adventure but it turned out all right cuz since we hadn't finished golfing they gave us rain checks and we went back the next day for free! :)

If you go to http://tribtown.trib.com/post/Groups/WyoWeather/blog/flash_flooding_in_casper.html

there is a slide show of other pictures taken of the flooding in casper.

Day 2 and mini golf. Billy won the first day and Mom won the second day. Ya Mom!

A cool tree outside the golf course.

Then after lunch and another nice nap we went to the park and while me and mom read, Billy and Dad played catch.

Saturday night we went to the minor league game. Casper Ghosts against the Ogden Raptors.

Dad was just like a little kid in a candy store. He loved it! Then we drove to a good spot and watched the fireworks before another rainstorm came with warnings of a flash flood. What a fun and enjoyable weekend we had with them! We just did whatever we wanted, when we wanted. And if we wanted to take a nap then thats just what we did!

Love you Mom and Dad!

Water World!!

2009-06-21T13:24:00.000-07:00

Yay!! We FINALLY got to go to Water World in Denver! We tried going last summer and got all the way down there and it just rained and rained. There was only a 10% chance of rain for this Friday so we weren't going to pass it up! It was storming like crazy Thursday night when we drove to Denver though.

We couldn't have asked for a better day to go. It was prefect! We got there right when they opened and only left 30 min before they closed so we could beat the rush. Since I couldn't take my camera all over, I got some pics off the internet of some of the rides.

This is the revolution. It was pretty fun. We had to wait for 45 minutes and here I am getting all nervous like I do before every ride and we could hear everyone screaming as they go down. But the ride was probably under a minute and I'm not sure it was worth our precious time. but not bad.

This was one of our favorite rides. You can race with six people on mats. We LOVED it! The line went fast so you could just keep going. Billy and I were getting competitive. I would always beat him out of the tubes but then somehow on the way down he would cruise right past me laughing. We were talking about how we could see Dad, Kory, Aaron, Dal, Kelly, and Billy having a major tournament with this slide. Maybe next years reunion. :)

Billy went on one of these crazy slides that I think is more of a free fall then a slide.

Some rides were more relaxing,

but only after you hauled your huge

tube all the way to the top of it. hah

These are the only pictures we got of us for the day.

This is in the parking lot all excited and ready to go go go...

And.....

This is after. Amazing what 7 and 1/2 hours

of sun water and lots of walking can do to a body.

But we had an awesome time and hit almost

every ride there.

Mmmm...even got my cotton candy. I will always love that stuff.

Saturday we woke up and went to the temple and while we were there we saw my best friend ever! Josie! We were so surprised to see each other there!

So now our long awaited weekend is over but we had so so much fun and are glad that it didn't rain on us!

AWESOME Lightening Storm!

2009-06-14T19:23:00.000-07:00

I don't know about anyone else but we got one CRAZY storm here last night. I've never been in anything like it in my life! We walked out of the movie and it was raining really hard then we got in the car and started driving and the sky was black everywhere we could see! It was lightening in every direction. One would got off every second I swear. Then it started to rain even harder and then hail. We were afraid there would be dents in our car. It was seriously a storm from the movies. There was one point on the drive home on Wyoming Blvd that I grabbed Billy's hand because it got so bad we could only see if the lightening was close enough. :) I was just a tad nervous for a sec. I was glad when we got home. I got some video of it, but don't get to excited the video doesn't do a smidgen of justice. I guess you just had to be in it.

We got home and ran to our neighbors front porch to watch the rest of the show. He said that while we were in the movie there was a funnel cloud or two and the tornado sirens went off too. I didn't even know we had them.

I took like 15 videos trying to get a good one.

So that was our world last night and then we wake up this morning to beautiful blue skys and nothing is even remotely wet. Guess it was a much needed storm .

2009-06-07T11:43:00.000-07:00

So one of the things on our summer list was to got to Independence rock. Billy has never been there and since we live so close it was a must. We would still like to make it to Martens Cove sometime soon too. It is such an amazing place. So we drove out there and hiked straight up and we had the whole huge rock to ourselves! Fun place to play!

It really is straight up! Sorry the pics turned out a little blurry

It was fun to look at all the carvings in the rock and find old dates.

There were some engravings that seriousely looked like caligraphy. Thats talent

This Weekend

2009-05-03T19:58:00.000-07:00

So this weekend we went to Rexburg for Chase and Kami's wedding. Me and Kam are way good friends from school. They are such a cute couple and are perfect for each other. Kami was so beautiful and looked so happy. I got a couple good pictures of them but it was kinda hard I was in the back of herd of photographers.

So happy

I got to see some friends that i haven't seen since our wedding. This is Kayla one of my other roommates at school.
And don't forget Brittany! She just got back from her mission from Chili!We got to see kelly and brittany for a bit and went to lunch at Craigos! I love laughing with them!

Last week

2009-05-03T18:59:00.000-07:00

I have a little bit of catching up to do for the past couple weekends. Last week we went to pinedale for the blessing of our newest neice. Emry Elisabeth Kennington. She is the sweetest little thing ever and she was actually born on my birthday! April 11th 8 lbs 3oz, 20.5 inches. She is such a good baby. It's easy to forget she is even there. She'll only make a couple squaks when shes hungry. She can make any person baby hungry. Billy's mom made her blessing dress and it was adorable. After they got her dress on her the first time she had a slight explosion of the diaper but luckily were able to get it cleaned and ready for church again! :) Here are a few pics of sweet little Emry.

Aaawwhhh

Personally I think a baby fits us

We have the cutest neices and nephews ever. Our babies better be just as cute but it will be hard to get any cuter!

First Hike of the Year!

2009-04-22T11:56:00.000-07:00

Last night after work and school we took advantage of the last few hours of sunlight. All the snow is gone and we were getting major cabin fever! So we went on our first hike of the year. This is around Alcova, the lake where we live. We got to the very top and it was so beautiful! I"m glad we brought the camera cuz we had a blast!

There were tons of these huge boulders balancing everywhere. They seriously looked like a little shove could push them down the mountain.

We got extra excercise jumping a hundred times to get a good picutre mid-air. It's harder than it looks! My C-jump is still in tact. :)

And then we had a time trying to jump right when the timer went off.

Love this pic!

And this one!

We are very glad to welcome the sun back and are looking forward to a fun summer! We wrote down a list of all the things that we want to do like, hiking, camping, swimming. Our goal is to do them all.

Slacker! Slacker!

2009-02-08T15:04:00.000-08:00

Man! I can't believe it has been so long since the last time I posted anything! I don't even have any good excuses either like not having any internet or being too busy. I just haven't had the motivation for a while.

Billy and I really haven't been up to anything new lately. Just the same old daily stuff and we are looking forward to spring break in March. I always like having something to look forward to. When christmas was over and we came back to casper I wasn't sure if anything exciting was coming up for a while. But now we are looking forward to another break!

Billy is still working hard at school and is in his third semester now. He has this whole summer off from school so we are excited to be able to do more this summer. Soon we will find out where we will be going for his first internship, which won't be until next summer. He works construction on the side for a friend of ours whenever he can. And I am still working as a Dental Assistant.

That's really all thats going on. I told ya, nothing new. We will be glad when spring is truly here. It has been teasing us for quite a while. It was so nice after christmas for a couple weeks and all the snow was gone and then it dumped and dumped on us. Now the cycle is starting over and the snow is almost gone but I know i'm not lucky enough for spring to really be here yet. Its still February! Hope everything is going well for everyone. Sorry for my slackin on the posts!

Autumn, Summer, and Teegun!!

2008-11-16T16:56:00.000-08:00

Last weekend we went down to Star Valley to see Autumn and her cute as cute kids. Kelly and Brittany also came down and it was fun to see them too. Here are some pictures of our quick visit. I'm so glad we got to see them! I've missed them so much!

Teegun

Summer

Teeg's tiny footprints in the snow

These kids loved the snow!

Silly Summer. Never a dull moment with her around. Me and Autumn!

Pumpkin Carving!

2008-10-12T08:28:00.000-07:00

I love carving pumpkins. We spent last night on these messy smelly projects. They turned out way awesome! They probably aren't going to last till Halloween so I guess we'll just have to make some more!

A work in progress
Calli and Johnny. Notice Johnny is still drawing on his when everyone else is carving. haha Billy's and my jack-o-lantern.

Calli's cyclopse and John's skull. Pretty cool.

They looked so awesome on the steps in all the new snow. But the camera just doesn't capture it like we saw it. It either doesn't show the flames or doesn't show the snow.

Happy Halloween!

One Word Answers

2008-10-07T16:28:00.000-07:00

Autumn tagged my to do this post. I thought it was pretty fun. It was hard for me to just use one word. I wanted to blurt out sentences.

Where is your cell phone? desk
Where is your significant other? couch
Your hair? ponytail
Your mother? sweet
Your father? happy
Your favorite thing? sleep
Your dream last night? baby
Your dream/goal? baby
The room you're in? extra
Your hobby? Scrapbooking
Your fear? pain
Where do you want to be in 6 years? Wyoming
Where were you last night? Home
What you're not? Mischevious
One of your wish list items? Piano
Where you grew up? Wyoming
The last thing you did? Cook
What are you wearing? Scrubs
Your TV? trash
Your pet? none
Your computer? friend
What do you think of Tags like this? cool
Your mood? relaxed
Missing someone? always
Where would you rather be? Home
Something you're not wearing? shoes
Favorite store? Porters
Your summer? awesome
Love someone? tons
Your favorite color? all
When is the last time you laughed? yesterday
Who will participate? Mom!

haha Thanks Autumn. That was fun but so many times the more correct answer was two words! Hobby Lobby is my fav but couldn't use it.

2008-09-18T19:52:00.000-07:00

Last weekend I joined, for the first time, the annual Kennington antelope hunt! Billy had been looking forward to this weekend for a long time. You would have thought it was Christmas. He was so excited that he couldn't sleep the night before. We all piled in three trucks and headed off early Saturday morning. We all started together but at the sign of the first heard the trucks bumped to a hault and doors flew open and out jumped men in orange and all of them shooting! I thought it was a lot of fun myself. Eventually we all split up. Taylor, Stacy and little Macer came with me and Billy. It didn't take long before we came around the corner, slammed on the breaks and Billy was out the door and up a hill before I knew what was going on. I saw him shoot at the top of the hill but didn't see it hit. He was pretty excited but his hunting lasted all of about 30 minutes. It was such a fun day driving through bumps and sagebrush chasing these crazy animals all day. Here is a picture of Billy with his trophy. I'm afraid this might be my new friend hanging on the wall here soon. :)

Billy the kid's 101

2008-09-11T19:11:00.000-07:00

Here it is. Sorry it took me forever. Hope you enjoy….
1- I was born on Jan. 1. That’s right the New Year’s baby. You always see the New Year’s baby on the front page of the newspaper with all these gifts from the hospital around them. That wasn’t the case when I was born. That was the only year the hospital didn’t give the parents presents. Bummer huh?
2- I was born in Afton, Wyoming and soon after the rents moved to Riverton, Wyoming. We were only there a short time and then moved to Mountain View, Wyoming for a few years. After a while Mom and Dad moved back to “God’s Country” and I grew up in Afton.
3- I used to be a morning person, but now I’m getting a little lazy and like to sleep in.
4- I’ve noticed, especially since starting grad school, how much more sleep I need every night. I must be getting old or something.
5- I have three brothers and one adorable sister.
6- I am 22 years old and that would make me second in the pecking order.
7- I used to be the tallest in our family until I came home from my mission and now I think that the two younger brothers have passed my up.
8- My Dad is my hero!
9- I wish so bad that we could do things like we used to do.
10- I remember one time I was sitting in a class in high school and Dad came through the door and pulled me out and took me hunting. It was the best!
11- My parents never missed a game that I played in. Whether it was school ball, church ball, or city league one of them was always there.
12- My Mom is the sweetest, nicest lady I know.
13- I know she would do anything for anyone of her children. She’s the best!
14- I love her croissant rolls.
15- I’m a worrier and I guess I get that from my mom.
16- I am the skinniest of all my family. I’m 5’ 11’ and weigh 143 pounds. It’s not fare! Ha Ha I would do anything for 20 pounds! I’ve kind of given up on that one.
17- I love country music and I think I’m converting April!
18- In high school I dated two of the Draney grand daughters and after the mission married the third. (I guess I have a thing with Draney girls!)
19- April is the best thing that has ever happened to me.
20- I love her more than anything and am so excited to spend eternity with her.
21- December 21, 2007 was the best day of my life!!!!!!!! It was the day I married my best friend!!!!!
22- We were married in the same room in the Logan temple that my parents were.
23- We hope to move back to Star Valley one day and buy or build a house between our parents.
24- I love coming home to a clean house, folded laundry, and the smell of dinner in the oven. My wife is an amazing! She’s everything that I’ve always dreamed o f!
25- I love me and Ape’s heated games of Egyptian Rat Killer. I’m sure you can hear us screaming down the street. Our neighbors probably think we’re crazy.
26- April ended my winning streak the other night so I’m going to have to challenge her again here shortly!
27- I have the best family in law! (I just love all of you and count you as my own!)
28- I love looking at everyone’s blog and seeing all the nieces and nephews.
29- My favorite color is blue.
30- I have an addiction with sweet ties.
31- I can’t wait to go back to Korea and get way sweet ties for like 2 bucks.
32- My biggest pet peeve is when people snore! I hate it!
33- I know how crazy it is, but I enjoy public speaking.
34- I would rather give a talk in public than sing.
35- I’ve always wanted to ride bulls. Dad never would let me and I guess it was a good thing.
36- I grew up on a ranch and love everything to do with the outdoors.
37- I thought I was going to die this summer being stuck in a classroom all day!
38- It was way cool and interesting, however, having the opportunity to dissect cadavers and learning human anatomy.
39- I broke my first horse when I was 15.
40- During high school I worked for two fencing companies and Call gravel. I got to drive all sorts of cool things like: front end loaders, dozers, graders, tract hoes, dump trucks and skid loaders.
41- I’m an outgoing person who likes to meet new people. I guess you could say that I’m somewhat of a social person.
42- I always have to be doing something. Lounging around drives me crazy.
43- A couple of months ago we bought a grill for a dollar at a garage sale. Grilling and BBQ has quickly becoming one of my favorite past times.
44- McKell’s dutch oven is the best! I can’t wait to have it again.
45- I love just taking time from the craziness of everyday life and just going on a walk or a bike ride with April.
46- I have this obsession for hunting anything that moves. (I’m addicted like Kory!)
47- I learned how to load and shoot a rifle when I was four.
48- Most of my fondest memories are with my dad and brothers up Grey’s River chasing huge bucks and Dad always shooting them. He’s so lucky!
49- We are going antelope hunting this weekend and I’m stoaked!
50- Before I die I want to go on a safari hunt in Africa and red stag hunting in New Zealand. (Kory how about we go together!?!)
51- I have also always dreamed of the day that I can take my Dad to Alaska and hunt Dahl sheep.
52- I’m so jealous of my older brother because he finally drew for a moose tag this year.
53- I love Chevy trucks.
54- I am an avid fly fisher.
55- Bait fishing drives me crazy!
56- I caught a ten pound brown on the Salt River with a dry fly.
57- I graduated from high school in 2004.
58- I’ve love politics.
59- I try to follow the polls and debates daily.
60- Sometimes it gets me in more trouble, but I’m always willing to voice my opinion.
61- I served a mission in Pusan, South Korea.
62- I’ve eaten some pretty crazy things other there including: sea cucumbers, squid, jelly fish, shark, whale, horse, dog, and cat. (Pretty much everything was weird, but I learned quickly not to ask what it was, just eat it.)
63- I spent six months on a tropical island called Jejudo and could listen to the ocean crash on the rocks all night from our apartment. It was sweet.
64- I have size 9.5 feet.
65- My most embarrassing was one night over at the Allred house. So there we were….. eating popcorn or something and McKell hands me a glass of milk. At this point April started to laugh. I had no idea what was going on so I took a drink. It went all over me! I was so embarrassed. Come to find out McKell had purposely giving me a dribble glass. I don’t think Mckell, Glenae, or April stopped laughing for ten minutes! I wanted to die.
66- I was in a car wreck five days after I got home from the mission. I broke my arm and wrist in like 15 places.
67- They told me after a five hour surgery that I probably would never regain function in my left hand.
68- I hated therapy!
69- I don’t know what I would have done if Heavenly Father hadn’t sent me an angel to get me through that ordeal. (I love you April!)
70- A few weeks after we had started dating, Mckell and Elder Woods (a general authority) gave me a blessing and my wrist hasn’t hurt since.
71- I am able to do anything that I used to.
72- I went to Snow College in central Utah.
73- This summer I started a professional program in Occupational Therapy through the University of North Dakota.
74- It’s been kind of crazy with the work load but I just keep telling myself that it will be so worth it in the end.
75- I was asked to represent the program at the Wyoming Occupational Therapy Association’s annual conference in two weeks.
76- I will graduate with a master’s degree in 2011.
77- I hope to be a hand therapist and eventually own my own clinic in Star Valley.
78- We have pink carpet in our computer room.
79- My family are all Wyoming fans.
80- I married into family that are BYU fans.
81- I just don’t know where I stand anymore. Ha Ha maybe Yoming?
82- I want to go with McKell to a BYU-Wyoming game.
83- I want to see Wyoming beat BYU!
84- I’ve never been able to spell. Thank heaven for spell check!
85- I love to go to movies with Ape!
86- I love shakes at Johnny J’s!
87- My favorite food is pretty much anything accept olives, tomatoes or beats!
88- I’ve been to Mexico and Korea.
89- States that I’ve been in are: Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, California, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, New York, and Florida.
90- Hopefully April and I can travel. I want to see the world!
91- I want to go to Hawaii, Philippines, Alaska, New Zealand, and back to Korea.
92- I want to go on a cruise.
93- I’m a very competitive person
94- I’m almost done.
95- I talk and walk in my sleep. Not lately though.
96- I can’t wait to be a Dad.
97- I wish that my wife didn’t have headaches.
98- I don’t like to chew gum
99- I wish everyone lived closer!
100- I can’t wait to see everyone together!
101- I’m done!

Midnight Madness

2008-09-06T10:05:00.000-07:00

So the other night I couldn't sleep at all and it was about 2:00 in the morning. I was going crazy and I didn't have anything to do. Then all of a sudden I get this stupid idea to freshen up on my geography skills. Ya I know. Who would think of that at 2:00 in the morning! Anyway I googled map games and found this one that has a whole bunch of geography quizes on it. You can do anything. I was completely blown away by how much I have forgotten, even when it comes to the 50 states! So now I have relearned the countries of Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, All the 50 States and their capitols. Give it a try! It's fun. And I had a hard time stopping till I got 100%.

http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/usaquiz.html

101 Facts about me!

2008-09-05T16:18:00.000-07:00

I decided to do this too. I thought it was a lot of fun! When I was at about 80ish I saw Autumn had posted 101 things about her and I realized how much of them were the same! Funny! Here goes....

1. I am 20 years old
2. I’ve been married for a little over 8 months. And it’s been wonderful!
3. I live in Casper Wyoming
4. I work as a Dental Assistant
5. If I could hire someone to do something for me, it would be to do my shopping for me and keep my shelves stocked. I don’t mind cooking but never look forward to grocery day.
6. I love to scrapbook. It’s the best
7. I love taking pictures. It’s so addicting.
8. My new favorite thing to do is blogging. It’s addicting too.
9. I love being with my family. We don’t even have to be doing anything just sitting around talking and laughing. Can’t get any better than that if you ask me. I have the best family ever.
10. I love it when the power goes out. I don’t know why it’s just so different I love it. But for too long it would really be a nuisance.
11. I hate going to bed when my feet are dry. Can’t stand it.
12. I’ve always loved boxes. Little ones big ones whatever. They are all so cute. Half the time I don’t have anything to put in them but I have a ton of them.
13. I love going to bed with my hair wet.
14. I’m terrified of cooking for someone and them finding a hair in it. That’s the worst! AH!
15. I always have been and probably always will be a Mommy and Daddy’s girl.
16. I loved being married. It is the best ever
17. I have the best husband I could ask for. He treats me so well and I don’t’ deserve him.
18. I always have to have background noise whether it’s music when I’m cleaning, scrapbooking, or whatever. I’ll even turn on a movie and never watch it just hear it. I can only stand it quiet when I’m reading then it’s perfect!
19. Someday I would like to learn how to play the harp

20. I love to dance. It’s what I do when I’m home all alone and have extra energy.
21. I can be really shy. It depends on who I’m with I guess. I hate it when people tell me I need to talk more. I talk when I want too! I wish I was more talkative but I’m just not.
22. I love to play the piano. I’m ward choir pianist and primary pianist in our ward so I’m getting my practice. When I was little I didn’t think there was anyway I would ever just play the piano for fun. It was just a chore. But I love it now and can’t wait till we have our own piano! Thanks mom!
23. I have the absolute best sister-in-laws in the world. They are the sweetest and I miss them all like crazy! I am so lucky to have them in my life.
24. I write lists for everything. Shopping lists, to do lists, goal lists, work lists, and random facts lists. I’m always finding papers with my old lists on them. It makes me feel more organized I guess.
25. I can’t wear jeans when I’m home. The moment I walk in the door I have to change into something more comfortable. When I was little I hated jeans too.
26. I have pretty small feet. They haven’t grown since like 6th grade I think. I was shopping with a friend once and she thought it would be funny to see the smallest size I could fit in. I could fit in to a childrens size 1. Shoe shopping is hard sometimes. If I find something I like and if fits, I’m excited.
27. I like to clean. And I’m glad too. It I hated it life would be so much harder for me haha.
28. It seems like every other week I have a new song that I’m obsessed about and listened to it all the time.
29. I love shopping. I don’t’ have to have anything I’m looking for in particular. It’s my stress reliever.
30. I love movie nights. I like chick flicks, comedies, and action. I like most kinds of movies. Just not those really old western movies.
31. I love little house on the prairie.
32. My all time favorite movie is probably Phantom of the Opera.
33. I loved High School but hated college. (just the school part of college though)
34. Nothin makes me feel better than a good hard laugh
35. I like bubble baths
36. I talk in my sleep. Never knew that until I had roommates in college.
37. I can’t wear fingernail polish very long. I just pick it right off!
38. I love our family home videos. I’m the youngest so I wasn’t there for most of them. So I have watched them all over and over again.
39. I love kids and babies. I would say babies are my weekness. I just love all my nieces and nephews to death!
40. I love jerky. I would choose it over candy anyday anytime!
41. I hate it when people take my shyness for being stuckup and snobby
42. I love extra onions, extra butter, and extra extra cheese!
43. Favorite meal is Chicken Alfredo.
44. I love music.
45. I love kittens. Cats are ok but I just love holding baby kittens.
46. I love everything about Christmas.
47. I still have a blanket that I sleep with everynight. Its one that Pom Pom made for me when I was in high school because she never made me one when I was a baby.
48. I love Pom Pom. I smile just thinking about her.
49. When I die the first person I want to meet is Grandpa Allred. He’s like the perfect grandpa I never knew.
50. I would be a much happier person if I didn’t have a constant headache. Someday
51. I’m terrible at any sport. Anything that involves getting a ball somewhere. But I do have fun playing with my family when we are just goofing around. Competitive people intimidate me. Thank goodness I found dancing!
52. I love doing things for people and making them happy.
53. I always worry about offending people by what I say. So I pretty much agree with everybody.
54. My earliest memory is Aaron pushing me around in the popcorn bowl.
55. I have always looked up to my one and only sister Autumn. All growing up I did everything she did exactly how she did it. I loved to color with her just to watch her. ( She was so good at it.) I loved to sleep down in her room with her any chance I got. I don’t think it’s too much of an exaggeration to say that everything I’ve done it’s because Autumn did it first haha.
56. Most of my childhood was spent playing Barbie's and dolls.
57. I cried when I got my first kiss. I thought I was a terrible person.
58. For the most part I’m a follower. Occasionally a leader.
59. I’m a pushover. You could probably get me to do anything
60. My favorite color is never the same
61. If I could have one wish it would be to stop time whenever I wanted. Then start it back up again.
62. Eversince I was little my nickname has been “Sweet”. Autumn was “darlin” and I was “sweet” And I still answer to “sweet” I love it.
63. My cars name is “Dory”
64. Politics bore me
65. Driving makes me nervous.
66. I think my biggest fear is anything happening to anyone in my family.
67. I’m major ticklish
68. Someday I want to go on a cruise or to somewhere tropical
69. I could eat subway everyday and never get sick of it. I’ve had the same sandwich there for years and I still love it.
70. I don’t like Chinese food.
71. I hate anything cherry flavored except Jolly Ranchers and I love those! I also love cherries.
72. I miss my high school dancing days.
73. Fruits over veggies anyday.
74. E.T. stills scares me
75. I love sleeping in.
76. I think tying shoes is a waste of time. I usually wear slip ons when I’m not at work.
77. I love being outdoors
78. I love playing in the water.
79. I love having a clean house
80. My favorite part of myself. My eyes
81. I love science. Mostly Geology
82. One thing I wish I could do was draw and paint. I’ve tried countless times and get so angry. I can see it perfectly in my head but it’s useless.
83. I like rainy days as long as I didn’t have anything fun planned for that day.
84. Someday I want to find one of those huge shells on the beach somewhere. I’ve always wanted to do that.
85. I can’t wait to have our own house then I can decorate it however I want
86. I can’t wait till I am a mother. I think I’ve been baby hungry my whole life
87. My best friends growing up were Sami and Katie!! Best memories ever
88. When I was little I hated to take a bath or brush my hair. Now I can’t stand if I don’t.
89. I love days when I don’t have to work. Who doesn’t right?
90. I’m so grateful for my Mom and Dad. They have such an awesome relationship.
91. I love going on dates with my husband.
92. The thing that makes me cry easiest is leaving my family. I always always ball. Just the thought of it makes me sad.
93. The only thing I like to do in front of an audience is dance.
94. I love packing to go on a vacation. But struggle at unpacking when I get home.
95. I hope I can be as good of a parent as my brothers and sisters are to their children.
96. I love getting dressed up sometimes and I also love lounging around in pajamas and no makeup. Both make me happy.
97. I have a hard time holding completely still for a long time. I have a major bouncy leg at church.
98. I love being the baby of the family.
99. I love fireworks!
100. I love polka dots!
101. I love me!

Go Pokes!

2008-08-31T16:44:00.001-07:00

Saturday we went to the Wyoming Cowboys' first football game of the season. It was way fun. When we were driving there, everyone else that we past was all decked out in brown and gold and were all excited and speeding. We had our own little caravan of crusing cars as we drove there. The Cowboys won 21 to 20. It was a good game. We sat close to the student section so ya most people were drunk and crazy. It was a really hot day! But fun! And as Dad would say.... "Go Yoming"!

Clay and Joni came to watch the game too!

Even little macy was decked out in her Wyoming gear.

Me melting in the sun

Billy cheering on the Pokes!

Saturday Nature Walk

2008-08-24T19:40:00.000-07:00

This is a waterfall that we went to this weekend. It wasn't even much of a hike to get to it either. It was really pretty. And of course Billy takes one look at it and starts climbing up it. He eventually got me to come along too. We climbed a little higher and ate our lunch on the very edge of this cliff and people would come to see the waterfall and wouldn't even see us. Two drunk guys even came while we were up there and they were wobbling all over the place. We were temped to chuck a rock at them. It was really funny that they never saw us. Besides the drunk, foul mouth guys it was a very peaceful place for lunch!

This is Natural Bridge Park that we also went to on Saturday. It's this big rock wall that the water eventually carved a pathway through.

Denver

2008-08-24T19:15:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we drove to denver. The whole reason we went there was so we could go to Water World! We heard that it is really fun and have been planning to go for a while. We were all excited as we drove the 4 hours there; thinking warm, sunny, wet thoughts. Turns out wet was all we got while we were there. It POURED the whole time! There went our plans! But oh well just a different water world then we expected. But we had fun anyway! We went to the 16th street mall and shopped and also went to the Downtown Aquarium which was really fun. So despite the cold wet whether we had a great time.

Sting Rays are really squishy and bumpy! ew! It was fun to touch them.

I really wasn't as scared as I look in this picture

There were some really beautiful fish there.

I exhausted my battery taking pics of them all!
Billy's job was to make sure the piranhas stayed in line.

Just can't get enough of them!

2008-08-07T18:35:00.000-07:00

It's so true....I just love all my nieces and nephews to death and I can never get enough of them...ever. We had such a fun weekend with them. Kory and Lisa came to SV to bless little baby trevor. It was awesome. I played barbies, and dress up, and polypockets and had so much fun laughing at the boys. haha especially Kamron. What a crack up.

Here he is! Trevor Kory Allred.

Grandma and Grandpa holding Trev

Cute family of 7!

Sweet Sisters

Big Brothers

This is what happened whenever we told Kam not to put his hands over the baby's head. :)

How can you resist such a sweet thing?

Me and Mikayla playin dress up

I miss them already! Love you!

Grover Bridge

2008-08-07T18:18:00.000-07:00

While we were at the Kenningtons we deciding to go jump off grover bridge. Yes I was being girly and didn't want to have to shower again. haha But I had fun being the photographer! They had a boy from Japan staying with them for a few days, to "improve" his english. His name is Masaki and he was very good at English I thought. He was a lot of fun. He was so hilarious to watch because he was so scared to jump off. Then he just kept going after he did it the first time. I remember when I jumped off this bridge once when it was snowing. Bbrrr.... Here's some fun pics!

This one just absolutley kills me!

My Masterpiece!

2008-07-15T17:26:00.000-07:00

Since I have this whole week off I decided to have a project that I could work on. I had so much fun with this! I made some of these blocks for my friend Josie when she got married and have been wanting to make some for me too..and now I finally did. It was so much fun! Here is the finished product!

I just LOVE not working! haha

Life's too short for brown marshmellows!

2008-07-07T18:18:00.000-07:00

This was the funnest weekend ever! We went camping up Draney Creek! The Mosquitos were terrible and the fish were not cooperating, but we still had a blast! We had a conversation while we were sitting around the fire about how "Life is too short for brown marshmellows." All that time waiting and turning and peeking, is it really worth it? Dad, Kelly and I are all for the 30 second scorcher and then it's time to chow down. Brittany, mom and Billy are against us in saying "Life is too good not to have brown marshmellows." What do you think?

My lovely burnt marshmellow

Setting up our tent!
The happy yellow couple
I just love this picture of Mom and Dad! It's so cute!

Billy let us shoot his gun for a while.

Just say Mmmmmm......Mmmmmm

Brittany making her first cast at fishing

Star Valley is so pretty. It is still so green! I just love that place!

I am NOT a red head!!

2008-06-27T15:52:00.001-07:00

Billy has been telling me how much he liked it when I died my hair darker. It had all but faded and today I decided to SURPRISE him with dark hair. Now I'm waiting for him to come home and I am just a LITTLE dissapointed. I am not a red head! It's darker thats for sure but it looks like I once had flaming red hair, died it black and now its grown out. I HATE it....to say the least. It looks dreadful. These pictures don't even do it justice. These were taken without a flash too. And no it's not reflecting my orange shirt. Some surprise.

Me venting to my mom. It actually doesn't look half bad in that one.

Up close you can really see it. What's Billy going to say?

Happy Father's Day!

2008-06-15T08:00:00.000-07:00

Bon Fire!

2008-06-09T18:07:00.001-07:00

Yay! Our first bon fire of the summer! I just love them. There's nothin like the lingering smell of campfire on your clothes and in your hair. This was kind of a spur of the moment thing we did Saturday night. We went with our friends Shawn and Angela Wilde. We hung out a lot in Laramie and they decided to move to Casper for the summer. We are glad they are here so we can play!!

My hottie

Shawn and Angela
I don't know why taking pictures of fire fascinates me but I love it!

Welcome to Grad School!!

2008-05-30T10:56:00.000-07:00

Tuesday was Billy's first day of school and his first lab exam was today (friday). He studied for over 20 hours and was feeling a little overwhelmed. He took the test today and felt that he a bombed it.......which he did with a whopping 38%.......the high in the class!!! This is going to be a long three years!! haha

Scrubbie Buddies!!

2008-05-30T10:51:00.000-07:00

Billy started grad school for Occupational Therapy this week. He is going to be pretty busy. Now we both get to wear scrubs everyday!!

Billy the Headless Handyman!

2008-05-27T19:36:00.000-07:00

Billy is going to kill me but I just have to post these. When we were unpacking and setting everything up Billy was cracking me up so bad. I've never laughed so hard. I got a couple of insidents on camera. Yes this is Billy the headless handyman. He was helping me put decorations on the wall and I told him to put his head down so I could see if it was straight. I was laughing so hard and I told him to hold still till I took this pic!
We had emptied everything out of this blue tub and the lid was just sitting on the top. Billy went to go sit on it and kerplop!!.....fell right in. He just looked at me like "How in the world did that happen?" Another time I couldn't stop laughing.

Last day with Dr. B and staff

2008-05-27T18:55:00.000-07:00

We FINALLY have the internet now so I'll be able to keep up on the bloggin. Yeah!

Billy and I have moved to Casper now and have been here about two weeks. We think we are going to like it here. It's a pretty fun place. Laramie was great but I think we will like it here. I just miss my good friends at work! Here are some pics of my last days or so with them.

This is Carla Becker. She is crazy and super funny! She is the full time hygienist there. She always kept me in line and kept me laughing.

This is Chillon Guzeman. She is crazy and super funny too! Whenever we I didn't have anything to do I would go up front with her and we would chit chat.

This is Dr. B!! She is the craziest and funniest of them all! I just love her to death. She could out do me in absolutely everything!
I do miss it there at Dr B's office! Because of these three ladies it was always so much fun to go to work. There was never a dull day and I just loved how we could talk and laugh the whole day!! I will miss working with them and hope to see them again!

Our first home! Before and After!

2008-03-01T14:18:00.000-08:00

BEFORE

AFTER! YAY!

Florida!

2008-03-01T13:31:00.000-08:00

I'm finally a blogger! It's taken me a while but I'm here! Here are some pictures of our honeymoon to Orlando Florida! What....a....blast!

This is the first resort that we stayed at. Cypress Palms. We were up on the top floor overlooking the swimming pool.

We rented a convertable PT Cruiser. We got a little attached to "Petie"

The Orlando temple was closed when we were there but we took pictures by it anyway

And of course we had to go to the beach! Let me remind you, this was about the 29th of December! And we had our white wedding only a week before this picture was taken.

We went to universal studios for a day. We didn't even get to do everything there. My favorite was the Return of the Mummy roller coaster. I screamed like a baby! Billy's favorite was the Hulk roller coaster. Jurassic park was also great!

This was at Gatorland! We watched gator wrestling and ate gator ribs! I wasn't to crazy about them!

Bonnet Creek Resort. This was probably the nicest resort we stayed at. They had a big screen so you could watch movies and swim! They also had miniature golfing.