Thanks babe!

I got such a cute surprise from Taylor at the baby shower, he had written me a note and had Mauressa (the host of the shower) read it to me and all of the girls. I forgot to put it with the baby shower post and just came across it. Taylor is such a good writer and has made some really cute poems for me and his mom. He wrote me the CUTEST poem last year for our anniversary and I would love to share it with all of you but he would be so embarassed and so I will settle for this cute little note.

"Chelsey is a wonderful mother! The hair must be perfect, the clothes must match, the teeth must be brushed, and the tummies must be full, and that is usually all before dad can ask what he can do to help. Chelsey always thinks of the kids first even if it means she has to go without something. She is always the first one to get up at night and the first one to get up in the morning. Her energy is truly amazing especially since she is pregnant. Kamryn, Brynlee and I are so lucky to have someone that is so thoughtful and works so hard to keep us happy. We love chelsey and appreciate very much all she does for us"!

Baby Shower

My neighbor Mauressa was so sweet to think of me and throw me a baby shower (her husband is a law school student as well and they are in our ward). I felt really dumb and kept telling her not to worry about it, but she did it anyways and I am glad she did. It's always nice to have an excuse to get out and hang with the ladies. Most of the girls have gone home for the summer so we had just a few people show up and I actually was glad cause I always feel dumb at showers. I hate having all eyes on me! I am in the Primary Presidency and the presidency surprised me and showed up to the shower. They found out about the shower and asked Mauressa if they could come and support me. It was so sweet of them to come! I am so blessed to have such good influences around me and to have such amazing friends. I had a blast that night and it felt good to get out of the house. It doesn't matter if you are having your first child or your fifth child I think every mom deserves a shower and you can always use new stuff for the baby. Thanks Mauressa!

Top Left: Me, Mauressa, Heather, Kim.

Bottom Left: Megan, Ashley, Alicia, Erin.

The girls had so much fun playing in the presents. Kamryn kept saying "Look mom, it's baby brother's". I got some way cute stuff and I have to say that I like shopping for boys now. I used to think that girl stuff was way cuter but I have come across alot of cute boy stuff too. We are super excited for baby Tayson to be here (especially me), and can't wait for that special day. Kamryn loves to rub my belly and say hi to baby brother, she really is excited to have a baby around the house. Two more weeks! Woo hoo!!!!

Spokane River Falls

Last weekend we went to the River Falls to see the floods. The Governor of Washington declared a state of emergency because of all the flooding in Spokane and the River Falls were crazy huge. This winter was so crazy and all the snow is melting off of the mountains now and creating some major floods. People were kicked out of their houses, roads were closed, and the water levels in the Rivers are ridiculously high. The water was so beautiful and we couldn't believe how high the water was. Here are a few pictures of the water.

If you look really close you will notice that water comes up to the bridge and splashes people. We went across the bridge to get wet and the girls loved it. The next day they actually closed the bridge because the water had gotten so high.

Ice Cream Shoppe

About a week ago Taylor asked Kamryn what she wanted to do and she told him that she wanted to go to the Ice Cream Shoppe. We have no idea where that came from. Neither one of us has ever called it the Ice Cream Shoppe and we haven't really ever taken her there. We thought that it was so funny. We have just been giving her Ice cream sandwiches the last little while and she was happy with that, but I decided that since she wants to go so bad that we had better take her. I loved watching the two of them scarf down their ice cream with big smiles on their faces. It was so much fun to go with them and it totally made me feel so good to make my kids happy! Brynlee LOVED her ice cream cone and she ate it so FAST! She ate it so fast that the ice cream didn't even have time to melt and get all of her clothes. The only mess that she really had was on her face from trying to lick every last bit of the ice cream out.
I had to scoop off some of the ice cream and put it in a cup so that it wouldn't all fall off on the floor. Well...when Brynlee was finished with her ice cream cone she decided that she hadn't had enough and kept telling us "A bite, a bite". So Taylor fed her some of the ice cream out of the cup. She made us laugh cause she kept saying "A bite" and then she would open her mouth wide open. She finally grabbed the spoon from Taylor and fed herself, I guess he wasn't fast enough.

Dance Pictures

I just got Kamryn's dance pictures back and I have to say that I am not real impressed. It's partly because Kamryn didn't want to take pictures, but also I feel like I could have done this myself. I could have easily put up a sheet and taken some pictures and it wouldn't have cost me anything. Oh well! Next time I am just gonna take her into kiddie kandids and get them done. These were the only pictures that worked out of all the pictures that they took. And Kamryn has her eyes closed in almost every one of the pictures (she smiles so hard that she can't keep her eyes open). Two of the pictures are Kamryn's dance class and the other is her in her princess dance costume. Better luck next time I guess!

Random stuff

Our good friends Brian and Emily just moved back to Utah and we are so sad! Brynlee loved their little baby Drake. She couldn't get enough of him and was always wanting to hold him. Brian graduated from Law School a week ago and we are so happy for them, but are gonna miss their good company. They had a rough time getting home (well I should say that Brian had a rough time), but they made it. Good luck with everything and we hope to see you guys in August!
I give the girls a bath every night about a half hour before their bedtime, but it isn't enough for them. Every morning when I would get in the shower I would find two little girls trying to get in the shower with me. So for quite awhile they got cleaned twice a day. But now that Taylor is home I make him entertain the girls while I take a shower alone. So we are back to the regular schedule of taking one bath a day (for awhile anyways). I would leave the girls in the shower while I dried off and brushed my teeth etc... and they LOVED being in the shower without me. They both would lay down and just let the water hit them.
Kamryn found her Ariel swim diapers the other day and she has been asking to go swimming ever since. She wanted to go swimming so bad that she finally put the swim diaper on over her clothes. It kept her content for awhile, but then of course she got right back on track and kept asking to go swimming.
She has this new cheesy grin that makes me laugh!
So after many days of Kamryn asking to go swimming, Taylor and I decided to go to wal-mart and get a sprinkler hook up for the hose. It wasn't exactly swimming but she was happy with it.
Brynlee on the other hand wasn't a big fan of the sprinkler. I think it might be because she still isn't feeling well.
Her dad taught her how to jump over the sprinkler and she had a blast jumping over it.
For those of you who don't know Spokane very well....let me tell you how far behind it is with modern day technology. Everything in Spokane is old!!!!! Buildings, houses, stores, cars, and much more. It is so far behind that most houses don't have central A/C and you are lucky to get one of those wall units that blows out cold air (we happen to be one of the lucky ones). Most houses don't have a sprinkler system (that is why we bought a sprinkler for the hose so that we can water the grass). The lighting in the houses is terrible. They have lights in the bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchens but for everywhere else you have to buy many lamps to light up your house. I could go on and on about how old and far behind Spokane is, but I will stop there! The newer houses have a few of the luxuries that we don't have, but I am gonna be honest...there aren't to many new houses here. But even for the new houses, you have to request those luxuries when your house is being built. Can't wait to get back to Utah! Needless to say, the weather is warming up and it is getting hot in the house and I miss all of the luxuries that I had in St. George. It is gonna be 86 and 89 this weekend and it is getting pretty toasty in our house!

Poor baby

Brynlee has been sick the last 5 days and she has not been herself. She just wines and cries and lays on the couch. She is really clingy and wants to be held all the time or she wants to just lay down. We took her to the Dr. and he said that she has 2 ear infections, pink eye, diarrhea, runny nose etc... Her fever was really high and she wouldn't eat or drink or do anything for 4 days straight. She lost about a pound and her little arms and legs look so skinny. The dr. gave her some antibiotics and she is feeling better and is starting to act somewhat normal and is eating better. Now that Taylor is done with finals and is home Brynlee has become daddy's girl. She won't leave him alone and has to be by him at all times. He can't walk away or leave without her crying. His back was hurting the other day and he asked if I would pop it and Brynlee didn't like that I was stealing her dad. She wasn't feeling good and wanted him to hold her but he couldn't so she just settled for laying on his back. She stayed there for quite awhile to.

Spring has sprung in Spokane

The weather is finally looking better. The last few weeks it has been rainy and in the 50's (60's if we were lucky). It wasn't the greatest weather for playing outside. But now that the days are sunnier the girls have been taking advantage of the great weather. They love to go outside and play in the grass.

This tree is in our neighbors backyard but it happens to fall in our backyard as well. It is such a pretty tree (but there are a lot of bee's that like to play in it). It reminds me of the song "Popcorn popping on the apricot tree". From a distance it really does look like popcoron on a tree.

The leaves have started to come out on the trees.

We have a few Tulips in our yard and they are so pretty. I think Tulips are my favorite flower now. I didn't see them much in St. George but in Spokane they are really popular and there are so many different colors. I love them!

We have been doing alot of yardwork lately now that it is warm. And just like the vaccuum, Brynlee LOVES the lawnmower. She will follow it around the yard until you let her push it. She loves big loud noises. The other day I was making milkshakes in the blender and she came over by me and just danced every time I turned it on.
What a big helper!

Goofy kids

The other day I left the girls closet open and Brynlee happened to find Kamryn's pull ups and was walking around the house with the pull up inbetween her legs trying to put it on. So I put it on her and then she wanted another one on her head. And of course she got sick of it and pulled it off.
Kamryn didn't want to be left out of all the fun and so she decided to do the same.

1 year down and 2 more to go

Finals are finally over! Yay! All of us wives are so happy to have our husbands back! Today was the day of the last final for the first year of law school. I can't believe that we are finished with our first year. Now we have 2 more to go and we are done with school forever. Seems so close and yet so far away. We have met so many people and have made so many good friends. We picked the right year to come to law school. The year that Taylor started was the year that they decided to take more students. This year they are taking less students and raising the tuition. Lucky for us. We can't believe how many LDS students there are, especially for a catholic school. It's crazy how many people we have met who have the same beliefs as us and it is such a relief. So to celebrate finishing up the first year of school we had a BBQ with all of the law students and their families. It was great! We all have kids around the same age and they get along so well. We are so blessed to have made some good friends and we are sad to see some of them go back home for the summer. But there are quite a few of us who are staying and we are excited to have those who leave to come back. The place that we went to for the BBQ had a river that ran along the side of it and we happened to catch some people river rafting. The river was so beautiful and the sound of the water was so peaceful. There actually happened to be three rafts on the river. It looked like alot of fun!



Here are all of us at the park! The crazy thing is that there are quite a few families missing.

Here are the lovely ladies.

Last but not least.....the fellas!

Brynlee's cute words

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Brynlee has been talking up a storm lately and I can't believe how much she can say for a 15 month old. This morning she woke up and wanted to watch Baby Einstein but instead I turned on the Disney channel so that I could get ready and the Little Einstein's happened to be on and the first thing she said was "Einstein". I was shocked and didn't know for sure if that is what she was saying so I turned the channel and flipped it back and she said "Einstein" again. So I went and turned on her Baby Einstein video and she said it again. So after the tub tonight I decided to video her and try to get her to say all of her words but she got a little distracted and so I am gonna have to do it again. But she is doing so well verbally and I am shocked at how much she says. I am sure that she gets alot of it from her big sister. The two of them fight over everything and say "Mine" to everything. I am gonna have my hands full when they are teenagers!

Recipe Swap

All of us Law School wives got together the other night and swapped recipes. We each brought our favorite dish and then exchanged recipes. It was alot of fun and there was some really good food. Our husbands have been studying for finals the last few weeks and we figured we might as well get together and hang out. It was a blast and we are all so lucky to have each other. Finals are really hard on the husbands, wives and especially the kids and so it is so good to have each other and to get together and chat. Taylor has taken 2 finals so far and has 3 more to go. Which means I have a week and a half left till he is home. Yay! He has been studying like crazy the last 3 weeks and is hardly ever home. It is really tough and I am so excited to have him back. He usually leaves the house around 7 a.m. and gets home after we are all in bed. Good luck to my husband and to all the other husbands who are working so hard.