Easter

We woke up to beautiful sunny spring weather on Easter!  It was so nice!  We got ready for 9am church and I attempted a few pictures of Lucy before we left, which was very unsuccessful.  Lucy had a pretty rough day on Easter with a lot of meltdowns and only wanting her mama.  We went to church in Alpine and then came home to put Lucy down for a nap.  When she woke up, we gave her her Easter basket, which she quickly ate as much as possible from, and then melted down when we told her no more before dinner. My dad and grandma joined us at the Martin's home for Easter dinner.  Mark and Janae made a yummy meal of ham, cheesy potatoes, rolls, green beans, and the traditional jello/pear bunnies.  For dessert, we had Magelby's chocolate cake.  It was all delicious and Janae made the table beautiful with pink tulips and cups of candy for everyone.  After dinner, we went outside to enjoy the good weather and let Lucy open her cute Easter basket from grammy and papa Smith.  My mom saw a picture of some tutu baskets and told my dad that he had to make them for the grandkids (he can mail things super cheap and wouldn't even have to mail one for us since we would be out there, which is why he did them).  Lucy loved to run down the big hill in the backyard over and over.  It was her happiest time that day, for sure.  When we came inside, we watched a couple of Easter videos on lds.org.  Finally, right before Lucy's bedtime, I was feeling bad that we didn't get even one good picture of Lucy on Easter, so thankfully Ryan and Janae suggested we try again really quickly.  So, we put her dress and tights and shoes back on, and I put her hair back up in ponytails and we went for.  I'm so glad we did because we were able to get some cute ones of her where she is actually smiling and not crying.  Overall, we had a great Easter and loved spending it with family!

She looks SO big to me in these pictures.  She's definitely a little toddler and not a baby anymore!

Going in to church on Easter.  During church, Ryan pointed out that it was nice to be in a different ward for Easter Sunday because we got to actually sing Easter songs.  Our ward here in Columbus never sings holiday songs and we don't understand why not.

These are the bunnies I mentioned.  It's a pear half on green jello with cloves for the eyes and nose, a marshmallow for a tail, and this year the ears were made out of candy corn (usually it's little pieces of cheese but this was easier and still cute).

 This picture cracks me up!  Lucy couldn't get the food in her mouth quick enough.  Seriously, her whole handful would go in her mouth at once.  We just put yogurt covered raisins in her eggs and she couldn't get enough of them!

 Shortly after that, we made her stop because we were about to eat dinner, and this is the meltdown that pursued:

 And as all of her meltdowns do, it ended in a dramatic collapse to the floor.  Silly girl. :)

Lucy got her first peep from papa. This girl is happy to eat just about anything so I'm not surprised that she liked the peep.

Lucy's favorite part of the day: running down the hill... and falling, getting back up, repeat.

Once we came in, Ryan was trying to lure Lucy upstairs for her bath and he asked if she wanted a piggy back ride up.  When she said yes, he told her to get on his back and this is how she did it.  haha.

Big Sister!!

I'm sure most people know this by now (thanks to fb and instagram- and unless you're immediate family then that is probably how you found out and I'm sorry but I'm just not good at calls while I'm pregnant and feeling sick), but Lucy is going to be a big sister!!  I am 14 weeks along and due October 8th.  

(This part is super boring, I'm sure, but it's for my own records.)  I have felt terrible, yet still a little better than I was with Lucy.  I called my doctor right after I found out and begged for zofran from the get-go.  Thankfully it didn't take much begging and they sent in a prescription asap.  Between that and the fact that I don't have to get up and ready at a crazy early hour for work and try and stay awake all day, I have managed the sickness much better this time.  I feel like I'm already past the worst of it, which didn't happen until 17 weeks last time.  We will find out the gender at the end of May.  Also, it's so true what they say about the second pregnancy going way faster than the first.  I can hardly believe I'm already a couple of weeks into my second trimester.

Overall, we're really really excited (and also really, really nervous) and I think Lucy will be a GREAT big sister!!  Any infant car seat that she sees on the ground at church, she will run up to it and start rocking it back and forth and then she tries to put the baby's pacifier in its mouth (after I tell her she can't put it in hers! ha!) and sometimes even tries to sneak in a little kiss.  She could really use a little friend around sometimes besides just her mama. :)

Our trip to Utah

We flew out to Utah on Wednesday, March 27th and stayed for a week until Wednesday, April 3rd.  Ryan was going to fly out for his cousin JR's wedding by himself for a few days because tickets were way too expensive for all of us to go.  Then one night at YW's another leader  randomly told me about a deal that ended that night for flights between Columbus and SLC.  Thanks to her, we found a deal for the cheapest tickets I have ever seen between Ohio and Utah, which made it so we could all fly out and make a little family vacation out of it.  So not only were were there for the wedding, but we also got to spend Easter with family and spend time with everyone out there.  Here's the breakdown:

Wed: Left super early but had an awesomely fast flight with virtually no layover because they were already boarding our next flight when we arrived and got in to Utah at about 10:30am. We swung by Janae's work to say a quick hello, then I had an orthodontist appointment, then we spent quite a bit of time checking out the new Scheel's store in Sandy.  We ended the evening by eating dinner at In-N-Out.  Yum!

Thurs: Awesome weather, spent a bunch of time at City Creek, met my dad and grandma at Cafe Rio to eat dinner.  Sara Beth came to Alpine to visit with me in the evening.

Fri: Lucy got yet another bad cold, we ran some Easter errands at Target, Bed Bath & Beyond,  Magelby's, AT&T, and a Jamba Juice that turned out to not exist, found some baby cold medicine that helped Lucy a ton, went to dinner at P.F. Chang's.

Sat: Breakfast at Kneader's with some friends, dropped Lucy off for the rest of the day with my dad, went to JR and Jenn's wedding and dinner/reception, picked up Lucy and got home late.

Sun: Easter!  Pathetic attempt at Easter pics, then we went to church, Easter basket for Lucy, nap for Lucy, my dad and grandma joined us in Alpine for Easter dinner and dessert, played outside in the amazing weather, dressed Lucy back up in her Easter gear and re-did her hair for attempt #2 at a good Easter pic right before bed.  Thankfully it was worth the effort.

Mon: Moved slow in the morning, ran to a few stores we wanted to go to in the afternoon, ate lunch at JDawgs, watched a movie at night.

Tues: Ryan and I had to close out an old bank account, cashed in an old gift card for See's chocolates, got a Jamba Juice, spent a few hours in SLC with my dad and grandma, packed and got ready to leave, headed to bed a little earlier.

Wed: Flew home at waaaay too early of an hour (flight left at 6am).  Had waaaay too long of a layover in Denver (3 hours), Lucy had 2 BAD near-blowout diapers on the plane during bad turbulence where we had to stay in our seats for most of the flight which ended up giving her a BAD diaper rash, I finally just got up and changed it and got scolded by 3 flight attendants... that I ignored and went into the bathroom anyway, and Lucy refused to take a single nap.  And some lady chose to sit in our row, when there were several other ones with seats open as well.  It was a mess and we were glad when we finally got home.  The fun part was that Ryan was wearing his BYU hat and we had a couple fellow Cougars stop us in the airport in both Denver and Columbus (we were even on a shuttle with a girl about to go visit her parents who were mission presidents in Argentina).

The end.  Here are the pics.

Poor girl kept rubbing her eyes and was so tired... but she was still so well-behaved all day.  It was amazing!  She was pretty happy with her balloon and just being able to run around outside for a while.

 When she saw this fake-castle thing in the Disney store, she squirmed out of my arms so fast and ran right inside.

We waited in the car while Mark ran an errand and so we let Lucy out of her car seat.  She climbed up on the center console and started waving her hand out the roof.  It was cute, except that it made it way harder to get her back into her car seat. :)

Ryan was the best man at the wedding and gave a little speech at the dinner.  JR spoke at ours four years ago and made up some crazy story about Ryan streaking in public (that we're pretty sure some people actually believed), so we made sure JR was a little nervous for later on when it was Ryan's turn. ;)  This picture made me laugh a little because right before we left for the temple, Ryan stuffed his suit coat with food as an emergency for my nauseous stomach.  I told him not to worry about it but had to laugh when he sat down in the sealing room and opened up his coat pockets to show me the bag of crackers he had for me among a bunch of candy. So when this picture was taken, we didn't realize until long after all of the formal pictures were taken that his coat was still bulging with food.  haha.  Oh well!  This was the only picture I got from the whole wedding, but it was all beautiful and super classy!

That about wraps up our Utah trip!  I have too many pictures from Easter, so it will get its own post.

Pots and Pans and Lucy

Lucy really does not have much interest in toys.  She has a big basket of toys and stuffed animals and yet she always goes for her "bedtime basket" of lotions, toothbrush, comb, etc.  She can also play with anything in the lower kitchen cupboards for a significantly longer time than she does with toys.  Silly girl.  One day when my mom was here, we looked in the kitchen and Lucy was getting in the drawer beneath the stove where some of our pots and pans are.  She thought it was hilarious that she could actually stand in the drawer.  Then she figured out that she could take everything out and actually sit in the drawer too.  Her excitement and expressions were enough to entertain all 3 of us for a little while (I have a funny video of it too but it's taking 95 years to download right now)!!

Another Grammy visit

My mom came to visit a couple of weeks ago and it was perfect timing... for us, at least, but maybe not my mom.  I suggested that she come visit when she did because Ryan was going to be out of town for a while for work (Nashville and then South Carolina) and I wanted some company.  It turned out that me, Lucy and Ryan were all super sick that week.  Luckily Ryan was still well enough to travel, but Lucy and I were the sickest we'd been in a long time.  Poor Lucy was super fussy and only wanted me to hold her, but I was exhausted and sick and couldn't all the time.  My mom cleaned, did some laundry, ran errands for me, did a couple of projects I asked her to do, cooked us meals, fed Lucy a lot, etc.  I honestly don't know how I would have survived that week without her.  Thanks, mom!

This picture is from her first visit a few weeks ago.  She had to move my grandma's car to the other side of the driveway and let Lucy "drive" with her.  Well, now anytime Lucy sees Grammy getting her car keys, she runs and grabs her shoes and coat to go outside and "drive."  She was not very happy when Grammy had to leave and she couldn't drive the car with her.

Ryan, Lucy, and I then went to Utah, and when we came back, my mom had to come visit again and bring some stuff that they were getting rid of from my grandma's old house (baby stuff she had around- like a stroller I wanted and stuff like that).  This time Lucy was totally back to her normal self and having an absolute blast with her grammy!  We'll be sad to not have her so near when she goes back to Utah soon (but that's okay, because we won't be here forever either).

The weather in Utah was very spring-like and warm, so she got to play outside a bit.  Ever since we got back, she begs to go outside, even though it's freezing cold.  My mom is much nicer than I am and was willing to brave the cold with Lucy for a while.  It totally made her day.

 They took a long stroller walk, sat on our front steps chatting, walked around looking at all of the trucks and tractors doing construction around us, ran around our backyard, and then rode Lucy's bike.  We're going to have a blast this summer, and probably spend 99.9% of it outside. :)