Girl's Weekend!!!

I was invited on a girl's trip to Salt Lake City last weekend by some friends, but unfortunately I wasn't able to go. I was bummed about it so I planned a girl's trip to SLC with my mom and sisters. We have NEVER done this before since any of us have had kids/been married so it was so much fun! I have never left Drake for longer than 4 hours so it was really hard for me to leave him. I cried all the way over to my mom's house about it and I called Trevor 12 times on Saturday (he counted). Thank you so much for taking care of Drake and letting me go Trevor- you seriously are the best husband in the world! We left Saturday morning and shopped all day long. It was a dream come true to shop with no kids. We ate at Tepanyaki (our favorite place) and then we watched a movie in the hotel. Then we came home on Sunday. It was such a blast! It helps that I was with three awesome ladies! I love my mom and sisters!!!

Me and my beautiful mommy

Me and my sister Breanne. It was fun to just lounge in the hotel after a long day of shopping and eating!!

Thanks for the trip mom

We had fun laughing, talking, and making fun of each other

Cool shades Breanne... they are her daughters!

We also stopped and said hi to my mom's uncle Dell. He is such and nice guy and is so much like my Grandpa!

Hopefully this can be a yearly occurance!

Playing outside

We have been playing outside every time we get a semi-warm day. Drake is loving getting out of the house and exploring outside. The only problem we have is a HUGE temper tantrum when it's time to come inside!

Playing at the park
Ready to go for a walk with Elmer and Ernie

Please spring warm up so we can go out and play more!!!

CrAzY dReAmS...

They say the when you are pregnant you have wild and vivid dreams. I am one of those people who never has dreams, but lately I am in dream land while I sleep!!! I don't really like it because most of the dreams are bad dreams. I just thought I would share where my imagination was last night...

Dream #1: I was in a forest with people (don't remember who) and there was a huge fire... I had to use all of my survival skills. For example, eating bugs, going potty in the forest, starting a fire with rocks and sticks even though there was a huge forest fire, and running away from scary forest animals. It wasn't a very fun dream!

Dream #2: Some mean person (unfortunately I don't remember who) made me lick a fire hydrant clean after a huge pack of dogs peed all over it. Why in the world would I dream about this?

Dream #3: The last dream, I was obsessing about writing on a poster board and hanging it on a strangers house. I was advertising for a girl's night out. I couldn't quite write well enough for my liking and I was very ticked off about it.

Let's hope I can sleep dream-less from now on.... Or at least have pleasant dreams.

Just a start...

Anyone that knows me well, knows that our little girl is going to have the hugest hair bow and pinkest outfit on at all times. I am so excited for this little girl to come. I haven't wasted any time, and I started on her bow collection! When we found out that Drake was going to be a boy I said to Trevor, "It's probably a good thing that our first one isn't a girl, because I think I would kind of feel bad for her because I would dress her up ALL THE TIME." I thought by the time the second one rolled around, the excitment of changing your baby all the time would calm down.... But I don't think so. I think it is just a GIRL thing! Don't worry, I really won't torture her... too much!

Drake is going to have a baby..........

...........................SISTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We found out tonight that baby #2 is going to be a girl! We are so excited! I really didn't care which gender we had, but I can't wait to go shopping and make cute little hair bows now!

Little Things....

I haven't taken any pictures lately because we haven't been doing anything exciting. I just wanted to write about the "little things" that I LOVE.............

• I love it that Trevor and I can still stay up talking for hours (till 2am) in bed about when we first met, and how we each can remember what each other was wearing on our first date. He also reassures me that he thought I was the cutest out of all my friends, even though he tried to date two of them before me (Stinker)!!!
• I love when Drake blows uncontrollable kisses to the world as I'm walking him up the stairs to go "night-night".
• I love it that Drake gets super upset if Trevor and I are wrestling around...... and always wants to save me even if I'm the one who is hurting Trevor. haha
• I love talking to my mom on the phone a million times a day about nothing.
• I love it that I saw Trevor cry in a movie for the first time ever the other day.... And it was because a man's wife had died and I just thought it was so sweet (sorry Trev).
• I love getting unexpected e-mails from friends that I haven't heard from in forever.
• I love looking at Drake and almost get tears in my eyes because I can't believe I've been blessed with such an adorable, amazing, sweet, healthy boy!!!

Little Things Matter Most

Weekend tidbits...

We went on a date over the weekend!!! We went to see Avatar finally. It was a good movie, but not really my type of show. I am more into the romantic-comedies!! But we had a great time and Drake had a great time with Grandma and Grandpa Petersen!

Just us two! We weren't looking our best (haha) but we still had fun!

Can you tell I was excited??? We hadn't been on a date in FOREVER so it was much needed!

Drake has been taking really long naps lately..... not that I'm complaining! After he woke up from his nap, Trevor went to get him and he fell right back to sleep. He has fallen asleep on our laps probably one or two other times ever!! Trevor was loving it! Also, I would like to proudly announce that he is completely done nursing. It has been a little over a week and he is doing great. But now I have him addicted to bottles. Oh well, we are taking it one step at a time I guess.

Drake's 1st Haircut

This was Drake's 1st real haircut. I have trimmed up his mohawk before, but never really fully cut his hair. Although he still looks like he doesn't have much hair, he was starting to get some really long hairs.

This is the before picture. He was starting to look like an old man that was losing his hair. Poor guy... so I made him look much more handsome!!

He enjoyed his haircut by eating candy in his highchair!

There was much more than this, but I had do document how sweet and fine his little hair is!

Wow.... Sexy boy!!!!

Valentine Getaway

Our little family went to West Yellowstone for a little Valentine stay! It was so fun to get away, it was so pretty, and we had so much fun!My two Valentine's!!!

We went swimming lots and Drake loved it! His favorite thing was to jump in to daddy!

There was even a kiddie pool which he thought was super cool!

We all had fun swimming...

We ate lots of yummy food. This is at our favorite ice cream place Arrowleaf! Yummy!

And we did more eating... like usual, we eat too much of vacation!

We always go to West Yellowstone in the summer while we are at Trevor's family cabin, but we haven't been in the winter in a long time. It was super fun!

Weekend fun!

This BIG doggie was Drake's Valentine gift from Grandma and Grandpa Petersen. Drake loves it and so do our dogs!!!

We went to Leo's Place (A.K.A. Germ Fest) with my family this weekend too. It was lots of fun and the kids had a blast!!!

Grandma, Drake, and Maddox

Mammy, Grandma, and Drake

Sophie and Maddox

Our favorite Christmas present!!!

Two days before Christmas I found out we were expecting our second baby!!!! I was so excited, but I wanted to wait and tell Trevor a special way on Christmas... Well, I was way too excited and I couldn't wait. I immediately wrote up this silly card and told Trevor. We were both very surprised and very happy! I guess you can say it was a perfect Christmas gift for the both of us. We are super excited! This baby will be joining our family at the end of August. It is so weird to look at Drake and think he is going to be a big brother. We feel so blessed and we are so excited!!!!

A love/hate relationship

Drake does not like to watch TV very much yet (unfortunately)..... My mom has this DVD called "Baby Songs" that she let us borrow, and it is a bunch of annoying songs and kids from the 80's. All I can say, is it is MAGICAL!!! Drake goes into a trance when this is on and he will watch nothing else. Me and him have been sick the last couple of days and this has been playing a lot- just so I can get him to lay down for a short time! I love it and hate it at the same time!!

Pathological photo taker

Drake and I have been beyond bored lately. We are sooooo ready for summer! Today we had a photo shoot together. Yes, I am a wannabe photographer. Maybe someday I will get real backdrops and props! For now, this will have to work! I think he is cute no matter who takes his pictures though!!

Sledding!!!

My friend Whitney and I took our boys sledding by her house.... We had SO MUCH FUN! I think we may have had more fun than the kiddos! Well, I think they had lots of fun too! We have been extremely bored lately.... just hanging out indoors. So this was a much needed day to play outside!

All bundled up...

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee................

Can you tell I was having fun?

Whitney and QuintonWow- it is a workout climbing back up the hill. Whitney did a lot of climbing!!!

The boys went down by themselves and loved it!!!

Drake loved playing in the snow!

So BIG...

It seems like this last month Drake has changed from a baby to a little boy! He is doing things that are so BIG and he is getting so SMART. It is so much fun to watch him change! This past week he has been eating like an elephant. For breakfast this morning he ate 2 fried eggs (all to himself), an entire yogurt, and some cereal. As I was feeding him, I was wondering if it was wrong of me to just keep shoveling food in his mouth. He ate more than me!!! He got shots yesterday and he weighs 22lbs exactly. I think he is going through a major growth spurt right now. Lately, he has turned into a monkey. It is driving me crazy. He climbs on everything!!!!

Gets up on the chair and plays on the computer and empties the drawer...
Jumps on the couch... and falls off the couch a lot of the time...

Climbs on end tables..

And climbs on the window seal. He was trying to watch daddy snow blow the drive way here...

He is so much fun to watch grow up!!! But he just might be entering the "terrible two's" a little early!

Family FUN...

I recently dyed my hair brown. I just wanted a change. I would like to add some highlights though. It's hard to believe, but in jr. high and highschool I had just about every color of hair (blonde, brown, blue, maroon, and black). I have always been pretty brave when it comes to my hair, but I don't think blue would look that great anymore!

Drake loves to play at Grandma's house. He thinks sliding down her banister is such a fun game!!

We went to visit my sister in Victor over the weekend. It is always nice to go for a long drive and just get away for the day!

Drake LOVES the big dogs... When he comes home he thinks he can ride our little dogs though!

We all had fun playing out in the snow!

Drake and Ivy are so cute together. Too bad they weren't first cousins, because they would be such a cute couple!!!

I took my sister's family pictures. I think there were some that turned out adorable. This one is my favorite!!! Trevor and I were laughing the whole way home at how we are such opposites from Afton and Ross, but for some reason we always have a great time hanging out with them. I think my sister has the funniest/craziest blog ever. A recent post of hers was on "What you NEVER see on a blog post". I found it hilarious and so true. She was saying that on everyone's blog you seem to find everyone posting about their "perfect" family, their boogerless kids, and all the fun things they do together. Well nobody posts about the crazy things that happen practically everyday that makes you completely "normal".....

So I will add to her post and post some of my 'not-so-proud-of moments'

• I am still breastfeeding my 15 month old son.... I've been trying to stop for 3 months and by the looks of it, I may be breastfeeding until kindergarten.. hahaha
• I try to cook good dinners, but I'm not the greatest cook, nor do I love it, so I make up stories (like.... I forgot to get the meat out of the freezer, or I burnt dinner) so we can just go out to Taco Bell!
• I let Drake put make-up all over his face (and in his mouth) so he would leave me alone while I was getting ready the other day. Chapstick also works great for this same problem!
• Drake ate a push-up for dinner the other night because he refused to eat anything else and I didn't want to fight with him!

There you go! Check out my sister's post at http://www.aftonnoelle.blogspot.com/