Since the last post....

Since the last post we have been crazy!! My sister came in for her husband's parents homecoming from their mission. It was so great to see her even though it wasn't as much as i would have like to spend with her!! But it was so nice to see her and my nephew and niece....they are growing up so much and they cracked me up the whole time!! Cael is so funny and the things he says you wonder where in the world did he learn that!!! I miss them already!!

Johan turned 22, yes still a young one, but he is the best!! I hope he had a great birthday and wanted to thank his family and Catania for coming to his birthday dinner!! It made him feel so good that he had people around to help us celebrate his birthday!! It was a fun time and I am so thankful for everyone that helped me!!

Johan is going to be graduating on April 30th and we are trying to set up a party to celebrate him in doing so well and working his butt off to provide for our family. Its getting down to final projects and he is so frustrated and grumpy lately!! Its hard for me to not take anything person but when i am trying to take care of Kaiya, go to school and do all my final projects, and i have been trying to get healthy, so he has been so busy that its hard for me not take anything personal......I know he is working hard but i need help too sometimes....but i am proud of him in all his hard work and hope whoever can come to his graduation party on April 30th i will let you know more about it when i get more of it figured out!! I love everyone in my life and thanks for everyone's help through our crazy lifes!!

Some Cute things Kaiya has done!!

I know that i am always saying how big my baby is..........but this time i want to write things she has done so I remember and everyone can see how smart she is!!

2 months old:
* Learned to talk (coo)
* Started Smiling
* Would only wake up at 6 eat, then go back to bed (thats better than how she sleeps NOW)
* Found her fingers
6 months old:
* Could crawl (maybe more around 5 1/2 months, but 6 months she was good!!)
* Started to pull herself up
* Got her first tooth!! (it would come up and down for weeks she was 7 months when it finally came through!)
* Would laugh and talk to you
* Could stand alone for a very long time
10 months old:
* Found that she loved Blue's Clues and Bee movie
* Has four teeth now (finally, she had the bottom two forever)
* 10 1/2 months she started walking
* Could say: Mom, Baba (bottle), Dad, moe moe (more, more), Kitty, puppy, baby, and stop! (when we would play fight with anyone she would get so mad and scream!! Still does that)
* She is a very protective little girl! She loves to laugh and have fun but the second someone starts screaming or saying no, dont, stop.....She FREAKS out!! Its so sad and funny!!
1 year old:
* She loves to put her babies (she loves her babies) in the stroller my mom got her for Christmas, and push it around! Run into things, hard, then back up and run with the stroller.
* Loves when her Grandmas chase her! She loves to run away!! Which is AWESOME!! I can't wait till I hate it when she does it in the stores or something!! The other day Andrea and Kaiya were playing with coats and those girls have to have the thing the other has! So Andrea wanted both coats and would NOT let Kaiya have one so Yojana gave one to Kaiya and one to Andrea, and of course Kaiya wanted the one Andrea had and Andrea wanted the one Kaiya had! So Andrea grabbed the coat from Kaiya and dropped the other, so Kaiya grabbed it and RAN!! Andrea ran after her to get it and Kaiya was not giving it up this time without a fight!! She ran from the Kitchen table to the living room, around the couch, and back to the table behind me! It was so funny and cute!!
* Loves to pretend she is playing the video games with us! She will jump and laugh!
* Says think (from Blue's clues), woo ( when she spins herself, or stomps on the ground and turns in a circle, which is SO funny!!
* Sometimes my mom will say "Uno, Dos, Tres" and she copies her!! (well sounds pretty close)

She is my baby and yes i want to pull my hair out and she makes me so MAD, but i am SO in love with her!!! I love when she cuddles with me and gives me kisses!! I love my little princess and cant wait to see more of her personality come out!! I love you Kaiya and forever and always!!

~The loves of my life!!~

My baby girl, is so many things to me and i am feeling so bad that i get so frustrated with her at time......and Johan too....he is always busy with school, work, or homework and i lose my mind slowly but I want them to know that i am trying on being more patient and learning how to not let the little things get to me....Thank You so much for be patient with me while i am learning to be more patient too.....I love you guys so much....My life wouldnt be complete (well almost complete just waiting to add the last kiddos in our life)without you two, even with the craziness and the stressful times!! I love you two with all my heart...and I also love my mom too!! She is going through a rough patch and i hope that i can put my anger, bad attitude, and stress to the side to help her realize how thankful i am for her to help me with kaiya when i need her and she does even when she is sick!! So thanks mommy!!

My baby girl is ONE!!!

Kaiya turned one last Monday!! We had her party today (Saturday) and it was great!! It was so nice to see everyone that cares about Kaiya there. Only sad part was my sister and her family couldnt make it, they will be here next week so we can plan something then!

She loved having all the little kids there, well until it was time to open the presents and all the little kids wanted them. She has this sharing problem! She ate a lot of pizza but just made a mess with her cake!! She tasted it and didn't really like it!!

I am so amazed on how fast it came! It feels like just yesterday I first laid eyes on my beautiful baby! She looked so much like her daddy and now she looks like me and Johans mom!! She is the funniest baby!! She has such a fun personality, she has my attitude thats for sure!! I waited so long to get her and it was a painful road to get to the spot i am!! I am so thankful for the wonderful people around me and my family!! Thank you everyone for being there for Johan and I!

I love my little family and can't wait to add to it!! I have a wonderful husband and a beautiful baby! I am truly blessed that it has been a wonderful first year with my beautiful Kai~bean!!

Here are some pictures of her 1st Birthday party:

Bodacious Blondies

So i want to make this recipe called Bodacious Blondies that i found on a website! They look so good and i was thinking that i could use the Christmas colored M&Ms instead of the different colors, and give them as Christmas gifts to all of our neighbors! They look so good i cant wait till i can make them and try them!!

Thanksgiving 2009

Kaiya getting in to Mommy's camera bag!!

Watching Blue's clues...Her favorite!!!

Mommy and Her baby!!

Kaiya and Andrea fighting over the same toy....like ALWAYS!!

The boys playing the Wii!!

We had such a fun Thanksgiving!! We got to have two of them, one at my moms and then one with Johan's family! They were both very good!! Kaiya loved mash potatoes that is all she ate, she did eat a little turkey but she is just like her mommy loves those mash potatoes!! It was Kaiya and Andrea's first Thanksgiving, i tried to get pictures but of course the girls weren't very helpful they just wanted to play!! But all and all it was good....My favorite part is the Black Friday after Thanksgiving! But not this year!! Both of us are going to school and don't have money but next year Johan graduates and will hopefully have a good job. So we can have a place of our own FINALLY!! Johan's parents can get rid of us!! Maybe then i can feel like a wife and mother!! Its really hard when you dont have your own place!! But i love being with them and i am very Thankful for them letting us stay with them!! They are great!! I am Thankful for my mommy who helps me with Kaiya while me and Johan go to school!! She is so helpful i dunno if i show her enough!! I love my family down in St. George and I hope they had a great holiday! I wish my daddy lived closer so he could be around Kaiya more! I am very thankful to have TWO great sisters in my life!! My sister Tiffany who helped me with getting my books for school!! Plus she is a great person to talk to and lean on!! She is the best!! Then Johan's sister Yojana, she is there to help with Kaiya and anything i need!! I dont know what i would do with out them in my life so THANK YOU!!! I am also very Thankful for my friends and most of all Catania, who pretty much are my friends! You are always there when i need someone to talk to or lean on!! Thank you so much for being a good friend!! I love you!! Of course i am Thankful for my husband and baby girl!!! they make me so happy and i feel so loved!!! I love you guys more than anything in the world!!! I am so happy that Johan picked me to be his wife (i hope i do good at that!) and Kaiya for picking me to be her mommy!! I may wanna kick your butt through your life but i will always be there for my sweet baby girl!!! I love you both so much!!!

Happy Holidays Everyone!! I love you all!!!

My baby girl is so big

Everyone told me that when I was pregnant that she was going to grow up so fast and to enjoy it when she is little, boy were they all right!!! She was such a good baby and still kinda is, she of course has her precious diva bratty moments, but i just cant get enough of her. I try to be a good mom and be there for her when she falls or when she wants me, but i also try to leave her alone to let her grow and discover things on her own without me hovering over her! She will be one in three weeks and i am so sad! I feel like she is just growing up way to fast, of course when she was a baby i had to have 2 surgeries cause of her being so big! I got a really bad hernia and gallstones and so they had to be separate surgeries cause the doctor said both would be to much on my body. So when Kaiya was 2 months old right after she was blessed i had my gallbladder taken out, gallstones hurt so bad if you every get them! WORSE THEN LABOR! Well to me anyway others might not agree with me!! Then i had my hernia fixed in the last of June! So i didn't get much time with my baby!! But she is the best!!

She is so smart it honestly scares me!!! Yojana bought these safety things to go on the cub bard doors and of course Kaiya figures out how to get it off to open the door!! She loves to give kiss to anyone and everything...last night she gave me a kiss then daddy and then the remote!! Then she just laughed cause i started laughing and she thinks she is just so funny!! She loves her grandpas!!! She is very lucky and has 3 of them...Grandpa Felix (Johans dad), Grandpa Greg (My daddy!), and then she has Grandpa Kevin (My step dad, and oh man is she his favorite or what!!). She just loves everyone! Well excepted Johans friend Matt she is so scared of him and we dont know why. Every times she sees kids she does this strange laugh we call it her kiddy call!! She just learned to blow, suck, and go shhhhh! She started walking a couple of weeks ago and has got it down she doesnt really crawl anymore! Anyways i am going on and on, ill put up some pictures from here first bday party, after it happens of course!!

Here are my favorite pictures of her!!! My sweet baby girl!!
Kaiya at her first visit to chuck-E-cheese!!!



Kaiya laying on Daddys knees this is his fave pic!!

Laying with her daddy!!
This one is silly but she loves her uncle Daniel!!!
And this is right before we left the hospital on a snowy winter day!