The Laundry Basket Incident

Kimbri figured out how to get in the laundry basket!  I had just finished bringing the laundry up from the basement and set the basket in the front room. Kimbri quickly crawled right over and stood up using the edge. Then she began to try and pull herself into it!! It was so funny to me. She is such a determined little girl in EVERYTHING she does!

She eventually was able to pull herself in using the side of the basket. And then she got stuck because she pulled herself in the short way...so her torso was down in the basket but her head and feet were sticking up on the sides. And so naturally, I took pictures before helping her out :) But she didn't seem to mind. She was just looking at me and giving me some classic Kimbri faces.

After taking her out I was curious to see if she would do it again. And sure enough, she did! This time she crawled in the long way and was able to eventually get to her knees and then her feet to stand up inside the basket! Haha...this little girl makes me giggle oh so often. I love her!!!

She made it in...

...and then made it to her knees...

...and finally to her feet! And she seems so proud of herself too! Look at that adorable smile ;)

Kimbri Update ~ 10 Months Old

Wow. I know this is a phrase that everybody probably says but I can't believe how fast she's growing up! I honestly cannot believe that she's 10 months old! She hit the 10 month mark on May 25. Has it really been that long? Kimbri is just the joy of my life! I'm glad that I get to be her mommy! 

So far she has 3 teeth and another one is trying to poke through on the bottom. I've been meaning to write about that for a while. She got her first two teeth right after we got back from Nebraska around the first part of May. So she was about 9.5 months old. I guess it took her a while to start getting teeth:)

We take her to her next checkup in about one week so we'll know the more specific details of her growth and development but until then, she weighs about 21 lbs. And she seems to be getting so tall/long. Sometimes when other people are holding her and I can see her all stretched out, I just can't believe that she was once small enough to be inside me. And now she's getting so grown up! Ah!

Kimbri is also getting SO good at getting around. She's been crawling for quite some time now and is pulling up on anything she can get her hands on. She goes from the couch to the tv stand to the table to the chairs and can even over to the piano. She has learned that she's tall enough to reach her little hands up and play the piano keys. She will stand there forever just reaching her little heart out to try and push down on the piano keys. It's so cute. 

She also has learned where I keep the bread and fruit :) I keep it on a little shelf/stand thing next to the fridge and yep, she's definitely tall enough to crawl over to it and get whatever is on top of it! The other day I was doing dishes and she was crawling around the kitchen, standing up using my legs, etc... but what seemed like seconds later she had crawled over to that little shelf and had the bread bag down and open and eating it as fast as she could! Haha!! And naturally I had to snap a picture of her going to town on the bread :)

If you couldn't tell from the above picture, she is really loving 'big people food' nowadays! Even if I have just fed her, she will grunt and flail her arms and legs until she gets whatever is on mommy's plate:) What can I say? She loves to eat! She's trying new things almost every day. Her uncle Nolan is especially bad when it comes to giving Kimbri new food. He's always trying to give her soda, brownies, treats and anything else that would probably make her like him more. Ha! 

These next few photos are just some random ones that I took the other day. I put her little black stretch pants on her head and she apparently thought it was hilarious, and I did too ;) Don't you just love those little chubby legs?! 

And this is a picture Rick snapped the other day. She was trying so hard to arch her back up to see what was going on. I love my little love bug! She's a cutie!

Kimri also loves going to the park! We go pretty often cause there is a little park just a few blocks from our house. She loves to swing in the baby swings and crawl around on the grass. She just loves to be outside! And we're looking forward to this summer when we can go swimming all the time! Cause she loves the water too!

I love you Kimbri!!

5K Fitness Day Race with Olivia

Well, these are the only two pictures I have of this not so lovely day... Maybe it would've been cool to have taken some pics of the disaster that happened, but maybe it's best not remembered! 

It all started out when Olivia invited me to run a 5K with her for her school fitness day during the last week of school. I thought that it sounded fun and had her sign me up! The day got closer and closer (I think it was May 22 that this all went down) and I was pretty excited to run this race with her. It was a smokin' hot day!! So, the race started and we decided to try and run the whole way. That should be easy, right? After all, I had just gone 7 miles with Rick just a few days before. So run we did. 

My mom snapped these two photos as we came running toward the finish line, and just a little while later was the part of that day that I'm still recovering from...

Soooooo, after we crossed the finish line we went and picked up our times and then walked over to get a water bottle and a granola bar. We walked back over to where my mom and Kimbri and a few other people that we knew were waiting. I started to feel super light-headed, so I walked over to some shade and just figured I needed to stretch and cool off. Like I said before, it was seriously a smokin' hot day! Not to mention we were running in all that heat. After a few minutes I got up and walked back over to my mom. I started to feel sick. You know that feeling you get when you're so hot that you start getting cold? My head was hurting and I knew I needed to go. My mom started pushing the stroller and offered to just drive me home and that we could pick my car up later. Well, for some reason I thought that if I could just make it to my car and sit down with the air conditioner on me that I would start to feel better. And let's face it. By this point I was feeling really bad. 

Well, I was trying to get to my car - which by the way was parked just on the other side of that portable classroom in the pictures above - and suddenly just felt totally crazy. My car was like 5 feet away but I felt the need to lean on the portable to just rest my head for a second. I remember my mom walking by and asking if I was going to just ride with her. That's when I  think she knew something was wrong and asked me if I was okay. And that's when I don't remember anything else. From what I'm told, my mom said that I turned toward her after she asked my that last question and then I just fell forward. My right arm sliding along the extremely scratchy side board getting all scraped up, my knuckles luckily breaking some of the fall on the asphalt and my nose also hitting the asphalt. I also received a slight bruise and scratch on my left knee and a little scrape on my chin.

Yep, I passed out. 

It was my first experience passing out in my whole life. 

The next thing I remember is my mom saying "Alina! Alina!". She had seen me start to fall and tried to run and catch me but I was too far away and fell too fast. I awoke and saw blood all over my hands and my nose was bleeding. One of Wyatt's friends used their longboard to prop my feet up and a jacket to prop my head up. It was the weirdest feeling. I felt a lot better right after waking up than I did just before! But as soon as I tried to sit and stand up I started feeling the exact feeling as before and had to just lay back down. A bunch of people were, of course, surrounding me and I was just totally embarrassed by the whole situation. I ate a granola bar and drank some more water. Everyone was asking if I had eaten breakfast and drinken enough. And yes! I had some Rice Chex that morning and almost a full water bottle during the race but I'm tellin' ya...the heat was bad!! I just had to lay there for quite a while until I felt that I could sit up and then eventually stand up. What a weird experience!!

My mom gave me a ride back to her house and I just rested and took a long nap while my mom and Olivia took car of Kimbri. What a day! What a day! My nose is finally feeling almost all better - still sore but showing a lot of improvement. And I still have ugly looking scabs on my knuckles which made it really hard to bend my fingers for several days...but they are also feeling much better. I'm just really grateful that my knuckles broke the fall, otherwise my face (especially my nose) would've been much worse off!! 

Anyway, I'm grateful for all the people that were there to help me and especially my mom for taking care of me and watching Kimbri the rest of the day so I could rest! 

I'm not so sure if I'm going to love the idea of going running for the next while....maybe I'll start up swimming again :)

Pizza Picnic at the Park

A little over a week ago we decided to go on a walk to Little Ceasers and then to Joaquin Park for a pizza picnic. At first it was a very nice walk but then it started to get really hot! So when we got to the park we just sat under the pavilion and ate our pizza and crazy bread (as long as Rick is a student we get crazy bread for .99 - wahoo!). It was delicious....and Kimbri loved the pizza too :)

Isn't she just adorable?! 

We had a grand ol' time and it was fun to go on a walk and to the park and eat pizza! Yum!!

Janelle and Brandon's Wedding ~ May 12, 2012

So after Nolan getting home, graduation, family pictures, our trip to Nebraska, and a wedding we (Rick, Kimbri and I) all hopped back in the car with my parents in their big white van and headed off to Colorado for Janelle's wedding! Wahoo! We got to stay in an incredible house of some people that Doug and Kathy knew from the ward. They built it themselves and it was magnificent, and not to mention gigantic! It was seriously better than staying in a hotel. My parents and siblings that went (Zach and Olivia stayed home for choir and soccer), Dawson and Stacie and their kids, and Rick, Kimbri and I all stayed in their house. We all had seperate rooms with our own bathrooms connected to the rooms and in our room they even had a full sized crib for Kimbri! It was SO nice because she doesn't sleep very good in those pack-n-play things. Sadly, though, I didn't take any pictures, darn. But it really was such an incredible house!

We drove all day on Friday, May 11 and got there that evening in time for a delicious dinner of the good old Haycock enchiladas!! Yum! We got to visit with everyone for quite a while until everyone headed to their sleeping quarters for the night to get some sleep before the wedding the next morning! 

On Saturday, May 12, 2012 my amazing cousin Janelle got married to the love of her life, Brandon Nygard in the Denver, Colorado Temple! Congratulations to them!!! I was so happy that we were able to attend their sealing and celebrate with them on their special wedding day! Also, a huge thank you to all the cousins that helped watch Kimbri, along with the numerous other babies- and I mean numerous! - while we were in the temple!! Thanks especially to Maryella, Catherine and Camille! You all rock:)

While we were waiting for the bride and groom to make their appearance outside the temple Kimbri ate and then zonked out pretty much the entire time pictures were being taken. Haha! Oh well. 

So here are several picture that I snapped of people that were there for Janelle's wedding day:

Coming out of the temple...Yay!

Enoch and Oaklee - Uncle and Niece. Haha!

I missed it but she was showing off her
cowgirl boots that she was wearing!

My dad and his two brothers:
 Doug (father of the bride) and Matt

Brandon, Janelle, Grandma and Grandpa Haycock

The gorgeous bride, Janelle!

The Colorado Haycock's
(minus Spencer & Jeralyn who are on missions)

My dad and ALL of his siblings! Such a fun occasion!
Margaret, Dad, Doug, Camille, Matt, Carla

The Denver Temple

While pictures were being taken, Enoch and
Oaklee were finding worms in the flowerbeds. 

After the temple we went to a luncheon provided by the Nygard family at a nearby church building. After the luncheon we went to visit Camille and Tim's house. They also live in Colorado. And then we all went to get changed into our casual clothes to go help get the reception ready. Oh the weather. The day started out beautiful and over the course of the day got worse. It was beautiful weather at the temple but not that great at the reception. We started setting everything up outside and then it started to thunder and rain so we tried to move some tables inside in the basement. The line with the bride and groom was inside at first and then outside and then I think they had to go inside again because of the rain. But they came in and cut the cake and throw the bouquet, etc and it all worked out! In the end, the weather doesn't really matter because it's your wedding day! You're just happy to be married to your love for time and all eternity!! 

They ended the night riding off into the sunset, or rather the dark, cloudy and rainy sky on a horse together! And although we heard that by the time they got to their truck they were soaked with Janelle's mascara running down her face, they were HAPPY! And just so thrilled to be married and together, and that's all that matters!!

It was such a great trip! I'm so happy for Brandon and Janelle and wish them luck with their future. We drove home the next day. It was quite the drive. Kimbri was not so very happy but we made it! And now, after all the crazy busy-ness of the last few weeks, I'm excited to be home with my wonderful little family!

Some Cute Random Photos of Kimbri :)

Kimbri is just so photogenic and cute. Obviously I think that because I'm her mother :) So I just have to  sometimes post the random fun pictures that I take of her oh so often. 

These first few are of her climbing on Daddy. She'll crawl up to him and then grab is face and hit is nose and slap his head. It was quite funny.

And she gets such a kick out of it too! Just look at that face!

All ready for church!

I love how she scrunches up her face when
she smiles:)

Kimbri was SO tired that she fell asleep in her highchair while I was cooking dinner. Sorry, but it was just hilarious!! I was at the stove stirring something and kept glancing over to her. Her head just kept sliding down to her shoulder and then would pop back up and then wobble back down and then she finally just gave up, rested her head on her shoulder, and just went right to sleep!

These are some tutus from Auntie Olivia. 

She made the brown one and bought the purple one for Kimbri. 

Note that her big purple flower bow, the cute onesie and the purple bracelet are also from Olivia. 

Thanks Auntie Olivia!