Little Miss Kimbri

Kimbri is such a beautiful little girl. Of course I am biased since I am her mother. Her mother. I love the fact that I get to be a mommy. It seems like every moment of every day I catch myself saying things like, "Let mommy put your bib on so mommy can feed you lunch.", or "Come with mommy to get the laundry from downstairs.", or "Kimbri, mommy loves you!".  It seems like no matter what I'm doing, whether it be dishes or laundry, or reading books or playing with Kimbri, I'm always referring to myself as mommy. And I love it. I'm so grateful that I get to be a mommy...Kimbri's mommy. 

I love this little girl so much. She is such a joy in my life. One thing about Kimbri is that she tends to be pretty dramatic. But even though sometimes it's dramatic with tears, she so often is dramatic with her laughs too! When you get her to laugh, it is the most hearty, deep laugh. And I love hearing it! When she gets excited about something, she really gets excited! I can't say it enough, but she really is a bright shining star in my life. I can't imagine living without Little Miss Kimbri! 

Here is a picture of Kimbri with her "new" toys from DI. She couldn't get enough of them. She had to hold the rings from one toy while sitting on the other. We had originall bought a green version of the walker/ride toy that Kimbri is sitting on in the picture below from off Craigslist. It worked great as a walker toy but the handle for when you turn it into a riding toy was missing, so when we saw this one at DI for $4 we bought it and sold the green one for $10 - what we paid for it - on Craigslist. It's perfect because now she's at the age where she'll be able to learn how to use it to ride instead of using it to walk, since she's got the walking thing down!

Her other toy we got from DI for only $1. We wiped down
 good with a Clorox wipe and now it's as good as new!

Here are a couple of Kimbri's favorite pastimes lately...

She LOVES looking at books and having me read to her,
she'll often times go to the book shelf and pull one book
off at a time and look through it, and then on to the next one!

Kimbri LOVES coloring! I think she likes using a pencil
over crayons but uses both.  Look at that grip that
she figured out all by herself! Maybe she'll be an artist:)

And of course, she LOVES helping mommy bake,
or rather, eating!! Here she's licking the batter from when
we made Tuxedo Brownie Cups.

I don't think she could get enough of it!

She loved it! Of course she would. And she cried
like it was the end of the world when it was all gone.

And here is Kimbri in her fun new snuggly fleece pj's that Grandma Haycock gave her. We could just have her wear this for Halloween and be a Zebra. Haha:) 

More of the cute pjs and of course, her new favorite thing, her stuffed animal...a monkey that we bought her for .75 at DI, because she has recently had this obsession with really soft stuffed animals. 

She literally can't hold in her excitement when you hand her a fuzzy stuffed animal. She grabs it and hugs and squeezes the day lights out of it. 

She has become best friends with this monkey.

Along with these picture updates, I should also mention that a couple days ago she hit the 14 month old mark! She also has added to her teeth collection. Two top molars broke through and a couple molars on the bottom are starting to come in, which I guess explains all the extra drooling lately:) 

Oh, and another fun thing - we finally bought this girl some shoes! As a newborn she never really needed shoes. And even when she advanced to the crawling stage she didn't really need them. But as she started to walk I thought that we would need to get her some shoes. I put it off for a while but after she got a splinter at the park last week I felt so so bad and we made it a priority to get her some shoes. It was NOT an easy task. Her feet are so fat, the tall way. So every shoe we tried on this girl would seem to be fine length wise but her foot would just not fit! We looked at tons of pairs of shoes at DI and even made a trip up to Orem to look at Ross. I even looked at the little girl shoes in Hobby Lobby but with no success, at any of the stores. Finally we found a pair of black and a pair of white shoes that fit great from Signs and Wonders, a boutique sort of store that also has a children's consignment in the back area. So we got her two pairs of shoes for $6. I thought it was a pretty good deal for some good, used shoes. Anyway, this girl hasn't really ever worn shoes so it was SO funny to see her try and walk in shoes!! It was like she had to learn to walk all over again, being very wobbly and insecure at putting one foot in front of the other. But I think she's got it down pretty good now:)

Well, that's my update for Kimbri right now. We sure love our Little Miss Kimbri!

Visiting Spanish Fork and Salem ~ Cosette's Mission Call

We spent a good chunk of Tuesday and Wednesday at my parents house. Tuesday we went down to help pick up and drop of siblings here and there since my parents were still out of town. On Wednesday Rick dropped us off in Spanish Fork on his way to the hospital in Payson for work. He had to go back to Provo to participate in some stress testing for his stress psycho-biology class so after that he came back to Spanish Fork. We ate some delicious chicken enchiladas that my mom made and some homemade salsa my dad whipped up. 

Here is Kimbri in the little cubby hole underneath the stairs. My mom put batteries in the lights and it's a favorite thing of Kimbri's. She loves to push the white part of the light and it turns on and off. She loves playing with all the toys in there! And Kimbri is just the right height to walk right in and out of it.

After eating dinner we headed over to Salem to be there for when Cosette opened her mission call! It was so exciting!! Since it was way past her bed time, we put Kimbri upstairs in the pack n play in Mike and Sundee's room and she went right to sleep. We helped wash vegetables, cut up the desserts and of course taste tested the delicious salsa that Cosette made:) Some of Cosette's roommates and friends came along with their Grandma and Grandpa Stone and Grandma and Grandpa Clark and of course all the immediate family members. It was a great get together all for Cosette's very special moment in opening her mission call. 

And she got called to go to the Argentina, Resistencia mission! Spanish speaking of course! I'm so so happy for her. What a wonderful opportunity! We love Cosette!!!!

A Weekend With Enoch

Enoch spent this past weekend with us! My dad had to go to New York for a business trip so since it was over the weekend of my parents 24th anniversary my mom went with him! So we had Enoch over for the weekend and we had a blast! My parents dropped him off on their way to the airport on Friday night and he hung out with us until Sunday night. 

Friday night we mostly just got his bed all ready on the couch and went to sleep since it was already pretty late. But the next morning we got up and had french toast for breakfast! While I was getting breakfast ready, Enoch got out all of Kimbri's toys and made what he calls, "Kimbri Land" for when Kimbri woke up. I snapped this picture when later on when Kimbri woke up. She just sat there not really knowing what to do. Haha:) I think it was just because she had just woken up and had to finish waking up before being in the mood to play. But she had a blast in Kimbri Land! 

After breakfast we had a very relaxing morning! Rick got most all of his homework and stuff done Friday so that we could all just hang out together on Saturday. It's always nice to have a day like that once in a while! So Rick and Enoch watched Kung Fu Panda 2 - I kind of dozed in and out during the morning, and Kimbri enjoyed playing with toys and looking at books. It seriously was just relaxing and  enjoyable to just hang out and have a lazy day.

For lunch we decided to get pizza from Dominos, thanks to my parents. They sent money with Enoch so we could have an easy meal:) We picked up our pizza and then headed to the park! We ordered a sausage and a chicken alfredo pizza. Yum! We went to the park at the elementary school between Center Street and 200 N in Provo. They have a pretty cool playground and is very baby friendly, which was good for Kimbri cause she was able to climb all around and have tons of fun too! 

We took a big blanket and found some shade on the woodchips and ate.

Kimbri enjoying her food, as always!

Daddy crawling through the tubes with Kimbri on the playground.

Enoch going super fast down the slides
by swinging from the rail above.

All of us inside the pirate ship at the play ground.

Kimbri going down the slide with Daddy....

...and Kimbri's face right after sliding. She loved it!

The pirate ship and our blanket where we ate lunch.

We wore Kimbri out! She fell asleep right when we got home and took a nice nap. While she napped Rick, Enoch and I played some Mario Kart. Enoch brought the Wii and three controllers with him from my parents house so we could all play! 

Again, we just chilled and relaxed the rest of the afternoon. We went to our ward party at 5:30 and took some homemade cookies. They fed us sloppy joes and then everybody else brought either a salad, chips, or a dessert. It turned out really yummy. Enoch had never had a sloppy joe before! And I couldn't even get him to try one!! So since he was still hungry when we left we dropped by Macey's and used some more of the money my parents sent with him to get him some Tony's pizza, Tiki Punch, and two packs of donuts.  Haha! Not the healthiest but he sure loved it! He was convinced that I should cook BOTH of the pizzas and he assured me that he could eat them both. Well, he did pretty good and ate almost one and a half of them! And Rick and I finished off the rest. He was so stuffed that he couldn't fit too many donuts in his tummy so he saved them for Sunday. 

Enoch wanted to watch The Princess Bride later that night after eating his pizza. I think that he wants to watch that same exact movie every time he comes over! He loves it. So he watched it while Rick and I watched a movie in our bedroom. Enoch fell asleep pretty quick, well, maybe halfway through the movie. We don't really know when he fell asleep. So Rick and I went to sleep to since we had to get up early the next morning.

Sunday we got up and headed down to Salem for the Brigham City Temple Dedication around 7:45. Since it was only for those 8 years old and older, we dropped Kimbri off at Rick's parents house and went to the 9am session. Afterward we watched Megan and Cody so that the rest of their family could go to the 12pm session. It worked out perfect! Enoch seriously had a blast at the Stone's house! He's already asked me multiple times when I am taking him back to play with Nicole and Megan:) I guess we'll have to make that happen. They all seemed to play really well together. And I think Enoch is in love with their backyard! 

We had a very delightful rest of the day, visiting and getting dinner ready. Rick's Grandma and Grandpa Clark came to dinner along with his Grandpa Clark's sister and her husband and their Uncle Shawn and his friend. It was a house full of fun and it was great to be able to visit for so long! 

Enoch was worn out by the time we left. It was not even 8pm and he was practically falling asleep on the short drive from Salem to Spanish Fork. We dropped him off in SF with Nolan, Zach, Wyatt and Olivia so they could get him up the next morning for school and then we headed back to Provo. It was a fantastic weekend!!!

Kimbri Update ~ 14 Months

Wow! It has been a very busy morning. But well worth it. I have this love/hate relationship with cleaning. I often don't love doing it but what I do love is having a clean house afterward. 

So Kimbri and I got right to work this morning, her eating strawberries, bananas, and cheerios for breakfast and I eating the off brand of Grapenuts with strawberries on top. It gave us just the jump start we needed...and it was super delicious!

We started off by getting the bread mixed up in the bosch. Then we started cooking a pan of ground beef on the stove. We got some out to save for lunch and then added peppers to the other part. We got out the tortillas from the fridge and made beef with cheese burritos, wrapped them in wax paper and stored them in the freezer. Now we'll have some quick easy meals for when we need them! 

By that point we rolled out the bread dough into the pans and let them start to rise. Meanwhile, Kimbri enjoyed pulling the tupperware out of the middle drawer below our microwave and scattering them all over the kitchen, before putting some of them back in the drawer. Then it was on to the fridge where she likes to play with the magnets. She spent a while looking at books and playing with the toys in her toy drawer that pulls out from underneath the couch and eventually found the crayons. She has discovered drawing and loves it, however, she also loves to just dump the crayons out and then put them all back in her crayon box and then proceeds to dump them out again. :) Ah, the things 1 year olds love to do!

While the bread was rising in the pans I started up lunch so that it would be ready to stick in the oven right when the bread came out. We grated more cheese, cut up the pepperoni, cooked the noodles, opened the red sauce and mixed it all in with the meat that I saved out from early that morning. This is another meal that Rick really likes called pizza pasta. In fact, we all love it! And it's pretty easy and quick to make!

Kimbri often goes to the oven and likes to peak in to see what's cookin'. This picture wasn't from today's bread batch but she seriously does this every time. She loves to just stand there and look at it. She probably knows what's coming and just can't wait to get her hands on some more food. Haha :)

My little Kimbri is quite the help when it comes to being in the kitchen...mostly just a big help in eating whatever I cook, because like I've mentioned before, she loves loves loves her food!

She carried around the bag of powdered sugar the other day while I was making banana bread. (We made it for a Neuroscience lab dinner that we were going to go to Monday night, however, we showed up and it was the wrong day! It had got switched to next Monday. Quite embarrassing to show up the wrong day to Rick's professor's house! Haha.) Anyway, I had the powdered sugar out to make the frosting to go on top and she thought it was fun to try and carry it around the house. It was quite the load for her little arms to carry, so it became more of a drag:

What a big helper!

We put the bread in the oven and it got done just in time for the pizza pasta to go in the oven and be done just as Rick got home from class. He had to eat fast so that he could head on down to Payson for work at the hospital. 

After lunch Kimbri followed me around as I vacuumed the front room and the two bedrooms. Now that she's just a walkin' all over the place she's really good at just following me around as I vacuum. We finished up the few loads of laundry together. I folded and put away while Kimbri did what she does best when it comes to laundry...playing in the laundry basket! 

It has been a busy busy day! Rick is still at work and Kimbri is down for a nap, hence, my time to catch up on our family blog/journal:)

Now for a few other random pictures I wanted to include:

Kimbri knows how to point to her belly when we ask, "Where's Kimbri's belly?" It's so funny to me! She's got quite the cute, squishy belly:) When we ask her where her belly is when she has a shirt on she looks down and tries to find her belly, sometimes actually figuring out how to lift up her shirt and touch her bellybutton. It's so cute! My mom also recently taught her "ears" and "hair" so she's getting good at those, too, along with "eyes" and "nose" that she's known for quite a long time. Yet another thing that she does that makes her seem so grown up!

Here's another random picture but I just had to include it. This hole under the couch is where Kimbri's toy drawer slides in and out. This day I pulled the drawer all the way out and threw the ball inside and she of course went after it. She couldn't quite figure out how to get the ball and turn around and get out all at the same time, but it was kind of funny to watch her try:) She just loves to explore and try new things! 

Kimbri fits into 12 month and 18 month clothing, depending on the brand. Some brands seem to run larger but this pink shirt she has on in the next few pictures are from my Mamaw Sadler. When I was pregnant with Kimbri my mom and I went on a trip down to Louisiana and Texas and came home with tons of little baby girl clothes for Kimbri. Let's just say we found so pretty good deals! My Mamaw Sadler bought Kimbri a couple of 18 month shirts and she finally fits into them!! Kimbri definitely is "Mommy's Little Lady"- we get to hang out all day together, everyday! Like today, we did quite a lot of things together. She is my little buddy and I'm so glad she's my little girl! 

She has such a sweet, contagious little smile!

And I love Kimbri's eyes!

I guess I'll finally end this post with a few pictures of the sun setting. It was so much more pretty in real life, plus we were driving so they turned out kind of blurry. I was trying take a decent picture, trying to dodge the power lines and trees but it's always difficult to take a good picture in a moving car. We were on our way home from Spanish Fork and this was a beautiful sunset, I just had to try and get a picture!

Life at the Stone home is great and we are so happy. I'm so grateful for all of Rick's hard work. He is so dedicated and is such a good husband and father. We feel so blessed to have Kimbri in our lives and to have a little baby boy on his way! We can't wait to meet him. I'm getting so so anxious! If January could only come a little faster... 

Lately...

I haven't written for a while. The past little while has been a little busy, and a little lazy too (for me at least), because I've been feeling a bit under the weather. Rick started out by feeling a little under the weather and then then inevitable happened...somehow I got sick too. I wonder how that happened. Ha! But for some reason, I blame being pregnant and having a worse immune system at the moment, I got hit with the sickness harder. It started about one week ago and started out as a bad sore throat, turned into an awful runny nose on Friday, a continuation of a runny nose along with a pounding headache and by Sunday I started feeling a little better, except then it turned into a deep congested cough. I feel much better now but still have a yucky sounding cough here and there, mostly in the morning and at night.

Anyway, as for an update on Rick's medical school applications status. I mentioned in a previous post that he got an interview at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences! Well, he now has gone and came back from his interview. I went to the airport and picked him up today and it was so good to see him! Kimbri and I took him to the airport on Tuesday afternoon. He had a flight to Los Angeles and then got on another flight that took him back across Utah to Kansas City, Missouri! He stayed at a hotel pretty close to the airport that had a free shuttle to and from the airport so that was nice. Then he bought a cheap day pass for public transportation to get to the school for his interview on Wednesday morning.

Here is Rick right before he left for his interview in his nice new suit that his parents got for him:

It was torture waiting to hear from him on Wednesday! I kept my phone by my side juts waiting for a call. I couldn't wait to hear from him to see how his interview went! He finally called around 3pm I think it was, but really 4pm where he was at. He told me all about his day, that they got a tour of the campus in the morning, then had lunch and then had interviews in the afternoon. He felt really good about how the interview went so we are very hopeful! But I guess you just never know. They will notify him of a rejection or an acceptance in about two weeks! Rick said that after visiting the school that he loves the school even more than he already did from researching about it. It's crazy to think that we could end up living in Missouri! The school is about 4 hours from Dawson and Stacie's in Nebraska so close enough we could visit each other on weekends or for holidays! But I guess I better not get ahead of myself:) We'll see if he gets accepted first and then start thinking about the possibility of living there. He also is still waiting to hear from a few other schools that he's interested in as well so who  knows where we'll end up! He did get another interview to a school in Washington and so that one is scheduled for November 16. However, if he gets accepted to Kansas City University he won't go to the Washington interview. Its crazy that we could be living anywhere by next time this year! 

Well, while Rick was gone Kimbri and I stayed the two nights in Spanish Fork. We had fun just hanging out and spending time with family! Thankfully Kimbri slept a lot better this time in the pack n play than she did last time we spent the night in Spanish Fork when Rick ran the Ragnar in Arizona. She's just so used to going to bed in her own room in her own crib. Sometimes change messes her up. But she did great! This morning my mom watched Kimbri so that I could just leave early to pick Rick up at the airport by 7:45am. It sounds like she had a lot of fun for the two and a half hours or so that I was gone eating french toast and running around playing and getting worn out. She must've played hard because she went down for a nap after I got back to SF and it wasn't even 10am! 

The drive up to Salt Lake was pretty good, a little traffic but not too bad. It was great to see Rick after not seeing him for two nights! We talked and talked the whole way home. He told me more about his trip and I told him about what we had been up to. We stopped by our home and I made Rick a breakfast burrito since we were out of milk and then took off back to SF to pick up Kimbri and gather up our stuff so Rick could take a nap and catch up on his sleep!

On our way back to Provo, Kimbri and I stopped at Walmart for a few things. I decided to just look around at the baby stuff. I can't help it! I've looked at girl things so much the past year, actually more than a year, that it's fun to look at all the fun little boy clothes now. I'm getting so excited to meet this little guy! He kicks so often, especially as I'm going to sleep at night. He's constantly reminding me that he's there and I can't wait to meet him! 

Anyway, as we were browsing through the baby aisles one lady passed by me and told me how cute Kimbri was. She had a little girl too sitting up in the front of her shopping cart. The mother asked me how old Kimbri was. I replied that she was about 13.5 months. She then looked at Kimbri and then me and said, "She's small!" I was kid of shocked and kind of fumbled over my words trying to figure out what to say. I most definitely could NOT agree with her. So I asked how old her cute little girl was and she was 8 months. I guess she thought her baby was big or something compared to Kimbri. It was just kind of a funny conversation and left me thinking about how much Kimbri is in love with food that at each doctors appointment she is well into the seventies or eighties in percentage for weight! Haha... just look at this face and her love for food!

Kimbri eating pasta and green beans...and obviously loving it!

Well, we finished up grocery shopping and headed home. We got there and Rick had just woke up about 10 minutes earlier. I'm glad he was able to catch up on his sleep! Then Rick worked on catching up on his homework from missing classes for his interview and Kimbri and I straightened up the house a bit. Later on we decided to make poppyseed chicken, one of Rick's favorites, for dinner. He went to class and came back for his 40 minute break in between classes and we all had dinner together. Then he went back to another class from 6-9pm and Kimbri fell asleep around 6:45pm. 

It's been a crazy last week or so! I just wanted to give an update on things, and also say that I love being married to Rick and having our little girl, Kimbri, in our lives! And I can't wait for baby BOY Stone to come along!! I'm so grateful for forever families :)

She's Growing Up

Just recently we installed Kimbri's new 'big girl' car seat in our car. We have the other car seat base still installed because we occasionally use it still. Ever since we got it out of the box when it arrived in the mail Kimbri has absolutely loved it! She is obsessed with climbing in and out of things so the car seat occupied her for quite a while. She climbed into it, would turn around and sit down in it, and then climb back out again and then repeat all those steps! She would get so tickled at herself while doing it and I would just give her a big smile and giggle with her.

Anyway, every time that I drive now I can't help but glancing back through the rear-view mirror and looking at my sweet little girl. She's growing up so fast. I wish I could freeze time for a while! She just seems so grown up sitting upright in a front-facing car seat. She loves to look out the windows as we are driving and just observe the world. She sits there and looks at books while we're driving places. I look back at her and she has her fingers in her mouth, feeling her four bottom teeth, discovering new things everyday. She looks back at me in the mirror and our eyes lock together and it just makes me smile so big! She is my little angel and I can't imagine my life without her! I love you, Kimbri!

Luke Dawson Haycock

I want to meet this little guy right now! But he is in Nebraska so I will just have

 to wait, or sneak on the next plane ride there:) 

My brother Dawson and his wife, Stacie, just welcomed little Luke into the world. Yesterday at 12:20pm, Nebraska time. He weighed 8lbs 7oz and was 20.5 inches long! 

He has stolen my heart already. Luke and our little boy will have to be bets buddies 

growing up! They'll only be about 4 months apart! 

Here are some pictures that Dawson sent to my email and I'm anxious to see 

more of my newest little nephew!!

What a great big sister!

Our 2 Year Anniversary!!

Wow. I can't believe that Rick and I have been married for two whole years! On one hand it seems like we've been married forever but on the other hand it seems like the past two years have just flown by! Probably because a whole lot has happened in these two years. Getting married during the first week of school was crazy! But we waited so that Dawson could be there since he didn't get off his mission until the very, very end of August. So the first week of school it was!

Rick and I sat in class Wednesday night together, the night before we got married! Who does that? Haha. And after sitting through 2.5 hours of class together, we decided to drop the class anyway! Why? Because the teacher was expecting us to read a whole book and right a report by the next week! And that is definitely not what we wanted to be doing on our honeymoon...so we dropped the class and were happy we did! 

September 2, 2010 

This was the day that I married the love of my life! I'm so happy to be married to him!

 I always tease him about how I had had a crush on him for forever and that during our freshman year at BYU, after recently asking me out on a date, he called me again, and I was so excited that maybe he was going to ask me out again!! But my heart was crushed when had called and asked for my roommates number!!! I don't think I'll ever let him forget that:) It's too funny.

We also think it's kind of funny how I helped one of my friends ask Rick out to a dance in High School. She wanted to go to the Christmas 'girls ask guys' dance and had recently moved to the area and asked if I knew of any good guys she could take. I told her about Rick and how he was just such a good guy and that I had known him forever and that she should just ask him. Secretly, I was so so sooooo jealous that she was going with him because I really wanted to go with him, however, I was too stubborn and didn't want to have to ask a guy out on my first date after turning sixteen. So she asked him. I got scheduled to work that night at Pier 49 Pizza. And where do you think their dance group went for dinner?! Pier 49 Pizza. And yes, my little jealousy spout erupted all over again. Rick claims that when he saw me that night, serving their dance group their pizza, that he thought that I was really pretty. I guess as pretty as you can get after standing next to an oven and cooking pizza all night! Ha:) We laugh about it now...

...And just for the record, the next year for that same Christmas dance, I asked out Rick Stone!! That was our first date ever and it was perfect!! I kept our dance tickets in my journal and wrote all about how I liked Rick Stone so much and had such a huge crush on him. Little did I know that we would someday end up getting married!! 

It's crazy to look back at our freshman year at college and how we had our Child Development class together....and no, we didn't plan it that way, it was total coincidence. And when I found out that I was going to have a class with Rick Stone at BYU I was super excited! We sat by each other every day and went to devotionals together on Tuesdays after class. We had so much fun together! 

Little did I know that I'd get to have another class with him after his mission! We wrote during his mission and towards the end we started talking about how we would both still be at BYU and he suggested that we should take another class together! My heart was jumping for joy because I still had a major crush for this guy. We decided to sign up for our religion class together. We took New Testament. Again, who knew that we would be married while taking that class during that fall semester?!

It's so fun to just sit here and type all the things that we talk about and reminisce about all the time. I could go on forever and ever but I have to stop sooner or later, so I guess I'll just talk about how we spent our 2 year anniversary!

We kind of just celebrated all weekend long. Our actual anniversary was on Sunday this year, so we decided to just celebrate it on Monday. Especially because I wanted to make Rick breakfast but it turned out to be fast Sunday so I couldn't even to that! Haha...so we just did all the celebrating on Monday.

Anyway, it was a busy but very fun weekend so I'll just start with Friday night. Rick was scheduled to work at the Payson hospital so Kimbri and I planned on spending the evening in Spanish Fork so that my mom and I could go to Joann's Fabric and get some towel material so that I could make Stacie some burp cloths before my mom left for Nebraska for the birth of Dawson and Stacie's baby. Rick ended up getting off super early because the ER was super slow. After finishing up the burp cloths, we made a last minute decision to go see the new Spider Man movie in the Spanish Fork theaters. We had a buy one get one free so it was only like $1.75 for both of us to get tickets! Kimbri was asleep up in my parents room and they let us just leave her there while we went to the movies together! So that turned out to be a fun, unexpected date that we got to go on. After the movies we had a buy one get one free frozen yogurt coupon so we went to Yogurt Bliss after the movies and enjoyed a frozen treat together in the parking lot by Macey's grocery store. 

Saturday nigh we went to The Piano Guys concert. The Piano Guys are Jon Schmidt, the pianist, and Steven Sharp Nelson, the cellist. One of Rick's mission companions, Ee Chien, and Rick had always talked about on their mission that they wanted to go to a Jon Schmidt concert when they got off their missions. Well, the first year they were off their missions we were on our honeymoon during the Thanksgiving Point Jon Schmidt concert and the second year we had a newborn and it just didn't work out. So a couple of months ago Ee Chien got a hold of Rick and asked if we wanted to go this year and we said yes. So we made it a double date. Ee Chien invited a girl from Barcelona, Spain, named Ima, and we all went out to eat at Pier 49 Pizza in Provo and then headed up to Thanksgiving Point for the concert. At Pier 49 Pizza we ordered the dinner for 2 for $16.99. It was really yummy! We got half and half, one side was the Nob Hill (garlic alfredo chicken) and the other side was the Embarcadero (pesto chicken). It also came with a honeybutter and cinnamon dessert pizza and cheesy breadsticks. YUM! Then we headed off to the concert. And it rained like crazy. We looked online and they said the only way it would be cancelled is if there was a thunder storm and to bring ponchos, blankets, etc...

Oh boy. I ended up bringing a huge blanket that Rick and I can easily both wrap up in. Ee Chien said that he would throw a blanket in the back of his car too. Well, his blanket resembled a little baby blanket, or I guess maybe a little bit bigger. Parking was crazy! The lady helping usher said that they sold 4,000 seats to this concert and it was sold out! Because Ee Chien had pre ordered the tickets online for all of us, he ended up getting the reserved seating. And I was so glad he did. Instead of sitting on the grass we got sweet seats, that were actual seats right in the middle of the amphitheater. We couldn't find four seats together in the reserved seating area so Ee Chien and Ima were one row behind us and a few seats down.  So we couldn't spread our big blanket over them. I think they got pretty wet. It didn't rain the whole time but when it did, it poured! But it was still a way fun concert! And Sundee babysat Kimbri for us so a huge thank you to her!! Here are a couple photos I snapped. They turned out a little blurry because it was dark and rainy but here they are:

Jon Schmidt

Steven Sharp Nelson

The Piano Guys doing their rendition of:
"What Makes You Beautiful" - By One Direction

On Sunday, we slept in because Kimbri was nice and slept in. It was a typical Sunday morning. Rick showered while I watched Kimbri, I showered while Rick watched Kimbri and then we gave Kimbri a bath. We got ready for church and took off to the Locust Lane church building. 1pm-4pm church is a little bit hard since Kimbri usually takes a second nap sometime during those hours but it's SO hard for her to fall asleep at church. Occasionally she'll fall asleep on the way but not often. So after sacrament meeting Rick and Kimbri went to Sunday School and Priesthood together. I'm the primary pianist so Rick takes Kimbri with him to class every week so I can do my calling.  I thought for sure she would fall asleep. Since she slept in that morning she didn't need a morning nap so I thought she would be nice and worn out for Rick during the last two hours of church and fall asleep. When church got out I asked if she slept any and I was shocked to here that she did not sleep at all! 

On our way home, it was just soooo hilarious to me to watch Kimbri. She was sucking on her binking, staring into space and I could tell that she was oh so tired. She had to be! I so badly wish I had my camera with me because it was the funniest thing in the world! I wanted to keep her awake until we got home so that we could change her and then put her in her baby car seat, the rear-facing one, so that she could fall asleep and we could just carry her inside when we got to my parents house for dinner. 

Anyway, to make a long story short, she was super drowsy and was finally about to go to sleep but I wanted to keep her awake for the 4-ish minute drive home so I kept saying her name and talking to her but she just couldn't fight it any longer. Her head was bobbing up and down and her eyes were slowly shutting, then peaking back open and then slowly shutting again. It was so hilarious! 

We got home, quickly changed her and put her in her other car seat and she was out! She slept all the way to Spanish Fork and during dinner. We ate an incredible meal that my dad made because my mom is out of town in Nebraska right now. Most everything on our plates for dinner was from the garden. He made corn on the cob, a fresh garden vegetable stir fry, fried rice to go with it, a cucumber and tomato vinnegar dish, and cantaloupe that he grew in the backyard. It was so delicious! Kimbri woke up right as everyone was finishing up so she ate a little and then we had a fun rest of the evening hanging out on the deck outside and just having a relaxing time. My dad made peanut butter oatmeal cookies later on in the evening and they were a hit! Especially with Kimbri, but she seems to love everything, except tomatoes:)

Kimbri stayed up super late that night and I think she ended up falling asleep on our way back to Provo. Because she stayed up so late she slept in until 10:20am!!!! Wow! I couldn't believe the time when I woke up. What a good nights rest that was! Rick is better than me and got up after getting enough sleep but Kimbri and I had a great time sleeping in!! :)

I made french toast and Rick made some orange juice to go along with breakfast. We stuffed ourselves with a delicious breakfast and just lounged around with Kimbri for a while. It was way nice to just be together as a family, playing on the floor with Kimbri, talking and just being together. It was a great way to start out the day for our anniversary celebration! 

Surprisingly, Kimbri went back to sleep only two hours after waking up, even after a super long night of sleep. So Rick and I indulged and watched a couple episodes of Psych. Kimbri slept for about 2 hours! She must be going through a growth spurt or something. I can't believe how fast our little girl is growing up! 

Anyway, after Kimbri woke up we got ready to go out for our date. We drove Kimbri down to Salem to spend the evening with the Stone's. Another huge thank you to Sundee for babysitting Kimbri so we could go out and celebrate our anniversary!! 

We had planned on going bowling, a favorite activity of ours. We had taken a survey online to get a free game of bowling at Fat Cats. Also, online it said that their .99 per game bowling went through September 3. Perfect! We could do like 3 games of bowling each and rent shoes for only $7 ish.  Well, the lady rings us up and enters our names into the bowling alley and says that it's regular pricing on holidays and that we couldn't use our coupon for a free game on holidays either! What?! So much for that idea. No way were we going to pay nearly $20 for bowling. So we sadly left and decided we'd have to go another time. We did find out that they extended the .99 bowling thing til the end of September so we just had to raincheck that activity. 

We decided to just go out to dinner at Brick Oven. They told us about this special that they were trying out called the Brick Oven Sampler. It's like an all-you-can-eat buffet type thing. It comes with garlic bread and garlic sticks, the salad bar, 10 different types of pizza along with dessert pizza! There's a designated waiter that comes around and delivers each type of pizza. Those who have the sampler deal eat on bright green plates so that the waiter knows who to deliver pizza to. We were sold on that idea. I loved the salad bar there and ended up having two plates of salad. Rick had some fruit from the salad bar and I think he tried all the different kinds of pizza. I tried a few different kinds too but my favorite was the garlic chicken! Since it was a Monday night we both got FREE root beer too! 

We were so stuffed by the time we left there. I think I felt extra stuffed since I have a baby inside me too! But either way, we were very, very full and it was a delicious dinner and fun to get to go out for dinner together!

After eating, since our bowling activity got messed up we decided to use or Seven Peaks passes to go up to Trafalga in Orem and do a round of miniature golf. We did the indoor track because it was too hot for me to be outside. There was hardly anyone else there so it was kind of fun to just take our time and have fun together. The final scores = Rick 50 and Alina 47.

Originally we had thought that we would maybe go out for ice cream too, for our anniversary but because we ended up doing an all you can eat deal we were both so stuffed that ice cream just did not sound good at all! So we just headed back to Salem to pick up Kimbri. We sat and visited while Kimbri slept and then headed back home to Provo around 10pm. It was a great night and was so fun to celebrate our first 2 years of marriage! I'm so glad that we have eternity to go!! 

I love you, Rick!