Halloween happenings!!!

So I have soooo many pictures that I need to post and I want to be better about posting and actually explaining the pictures so I can get my blog made into a book for our family. My camera fell into a hole of water in Oregon so I am stuck using my phone, it takes pretty decent pictures. Hopefully for x-mas I can get a new camera. I am just going to start posting the current happenings and when I get over to my mom's and get the pictures I have taken off her computer I will go back and upload where they need to be.

So here is the beginning of our halloween decorations. Regen LOVES halloween, she likes to be scared and she liked to say the word, "Pumpkin." Its pretty cute!

This is our door poster that I got at walgreens for 2 bucks. Everytime we come home Regen runs up to it and says, "my pumpkin, my pumpkin!"

The first halloween decoration I bought and Regen loves the little candies on it.

This picture is out of order, but its the end to our halloween decoration decoration night, a nice new pair of spongebob jamies. She is obsessed with spongebob.

We went to Walmart to get supplies to decorate some fun halloween things to hang. I went down the isle that has glitter, paper, yarn, pipe cleaner, googly eyes, buttons basically anything crafty you can think of. Regen's eyes got so big and she gasped, "OH THANK YOU MOMMY!!" Then she got out and started collecting everything she thought she needed and I bought ALL of it.

These are the three decorations that we have made so far. Its only the beginning of October so we have a whole month to craft as much as our hearts desire. We made a glittery pumpkin, a spooky spider with lots of eyes and a bat in the shape of Regen's little hands.

She was glueing the pumpkins nose on and was getting frustrated that it kept sticking to her finger.

Here they are hanging from the ceiling. I need to buy something to hang them on the wall better, for right now its duct tape....pretty tacky. Hhaha, Regen loves her new spooky stuff!!

Oregon 2009

I am here visiting my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins here in Oregon for 2 weeks..yeeee haw!!! No 118 phoenix weather!!! I just figured out that I can put my camera card straight into my laptop and upload without the usb cable...DUR!!! So all my sea world and museum pics are on my moms compute and I will upload those when I get back home. So for now I am going to just update the Oregon pics every couple days as I take them. Oh yeah, Regen threw my camera and now it is stuck on zoom so I have to back up REALLY far to take a pic. It wont turn off or anything. Looks like I need to buy a new camera!!

We walked down to the beach and right before we got to the ocean there was this super cute white bench. It was super windy and it was drying out my contacts so I only got one picture. I am going to go back and try to get some way cooler ones cause this is the perfect photo spot.
This is the trail we took to get to the ocean. It seemed like it went on FOREVER!!

Regen playing on the slide at GREAT grandma's house

Regen was chasing a kitty around and calling it, "puppy, puppy" it was sooo funny

She finally caught up to the kitty and she was petting it sooo cute and talking to it sooo precious. I don't know where she learned that from.

My cousin Chantrell...aka Michelle Tanner from full house (mary-kate and ashley olsen) You can see her twin Brenna with red hair in the background. I took a pic with Brenna but she was wiggling around and it was to fuzzy to post. We will try again.

Here is Chantrelly making a kissy face with her piggy tails

Regen being naughty

The TRIPLETS!! Lol. Regen is on the right and she is about 10 months older than them. Brenna on the left and Chantrell in the middle are twins.

Just some random cute pics

We are going on our 1st family vacation to.......

That's right!!!! Sea World!! We are going next weekend and our hotel is right on the beach. In fact when I reserved it I reserved the room with the bay view out our window....WOO HOO!! Graham and I have never been anywhere together, not even out of our city. And going to Utah for the weekend for the military thing does not count, cause it was not fun and very stressful. I am so excited. I showed Regen some video's of sea world and she was screaming, "fishy fishy." Then I told her we were going to go there and she can see all of them and then she HUGGED AND KISSED ME. It was soooooo cute and well worth it. I can't wait to see her face when we are there. I took Regen without Graham when he was deployed to sea world before she was one. She had fun but she didnt understand at all. Now she totally understands!!

I finally got my camera back and I have a few fun pictures and videos to upload of Regen's swim lessons. I will do it on Friday cause I am going to school mon-thurs for 3 hours and then I have like 5 hours of hw a day and its math. Yuck. Infact, I should be doing it right now...lol

Cooking time!!!!

Here are some pictures of April and the beginning of May. I need to get my camera back from my mom's so I can take more pictures and not use Graham's poopy camera.

We went to the splashpark today and Regen loved it. She has a matching bathing suit to mommies. She just started swim lessons with aqua tots. This program teaches infants how to roll over and cry for help if they fall in the water. She is almost 2 so now we are learning how to hold or breath and roll over to get to the edge. Once she is at the edge we are teaching her how to crawl out or monkey crawl to the steps. Pretty cool.
I took this picture when we went to Utah in April for the yellow ribbon drills they have for the families. It was really cool and boring...lol. We had to sit and listens to horrible talks, but we got a free hotel room.
Sorry these are out of order, this was the end product of our cooking extravaganza!!
Here she is waiting so patiently for the cookies to bake.
Here she is mixing and being such a big help. Her new favorite word is "MINE"
Here is Regen tasting the cookies dough. She had to make sure it was stired enough.

She wanted to do all of it herself and no help from mommy.
This was another day when we made blueberry muffins. She was so cute eating the batter with her finger.
She had to scoop and put the batter in the pan herself, she let mommy help just a little bit.
"Mommy hurry and take the picture, I want to cook" So far Regen has helped me cook every dinner for the last two weeks. I rather spend two hours cooking dinner with her being a happy girl than 30 min with her screaming and pushing at my legs.

Easter 2009

Here we are EASTER 2009, I think its the first holiday in two years since we have had Graham with us. He was always at military training or Afghanistan. Looks like we might have another year of that ahead if Graham gets this new job. Oh well, thats the life of a military wife and war.

We were trying to get a cute picture but Regen decided to join us.
The sun was so bright and she did NOT want to sit still, I am surprised we even got this one. She wanted, "CANDY!!!" That is Regen's new favorite word. I guess she has developed a memory and she remember Easter all right and all the candy. Everyday I have to bribe her with candy, or its the first thing she asks for when she wakes up. We are brushing our teeth a lot at our house.

FINALLY!!!! A decent family picture in I don't know how LONG!!! Except Graham was looking away at SOMETHING. Typical boy to ruin the picture, oh well, Regen and I look nice..haha

I love this picture of them walking. She loves her daddy sooooooooo much. She was being stubborn that day and would not hold his hand. When he tried to get her to she would shrug her shoulder and walk off into the rocks. Little diva already.

Checking out her loot!

I had the flu and we waited until Saturday to get her easter stuff. We were at Target and decided to get stuff. BAD IDEA!! That place is expensive for Easter. Her daddy HAD HAD HAD to get her the clonetrooper easter basket.

She was pretty good at finding eggs.

MMMMMMMMMMM, this was before she discovered the candy. I didn't put any in her basket, she got crackers instead.

Showing us all her cool stuff. She got stickers (which she is obsessed with), a firestruck and some crackers. She is only one so we didnt going crazy this year. Not sure why Regen got a lot of boy stuff...haha

I'M POSTING.....IT'S A MIRACLE!!!!

TO BE CONTINUED....I have a lot of pictures to catch up on!!!!!

So its been a long time since I have made any post. Things got realllllllly crazy around here. We moved out of our apartment into a house (we meaning my parents, aubrey and david and I cause Graham was in Afghanistan) in July of 08. December of 08 I was given a huge raised and told how wonderful I am at my job and possibly going to be able to be considered for a manger position and then the end of the week a few days before christmas I was pulled into the office and told I wasnt needed any longer. I wasnt the only one, apparantly many other people were told various other reasons why they needed to go. I am really upset about it still cause I LOVED my job there. So in Jan of 09 we received a letter from our property management company that we were renting our house from that the house has been forclosed on and I had a month to move out. Well actually what really happened was I opened the owners letters that kept coming to our address and found this out and then cornered the property management company into telling me the truth. So we found ourselves moving AGAIN. This time I hope its for atleast a year cause I am sooooooo sick of moving.

Graham finally back from Afghanistan and has been home about 3 weeks now, so we are getting use to normal life around here. Today is our 2yr wedding anniversary. I dont think we have actually lived together but a few months since we have been married with all the deployments and army training. He needs to get use to being normal again cause he came home from work today and didnt even have flowers for me...shame on him.








Here is Regen at the hotel the morning we got Graham in Utah eating cereal like a big girl.





This is right after I picked him up. It was 445 in the morning in Utah and FREEZING cold. This is the only picture we have cause everyone was so busy we couldnt get anyone to take one of us so we had to do it.

Regen meeting her daddy again. LOL. She hadnt seen him for 5 months but she wouldnt let him out of her sight after that.

This is at 400 in the morning right before we left the hotel to go and get Graham. Regen was soooooo happy to hear that we were finally going to go and get him. I think she was starting to think I was lying about me telling her daddy is coming home soon.

This was last week when we took the kids to the park. I just found out Graham got photo shop in Afghanistan for really cheap so I cant wait to play around with that. I am thinking about buying a nice camera and maybe starting up a little photogrpahy business. I love taking candid pictures of Regen outside and I think other people would love special effects with their pictures.

Regen and daddy playing in her lady bug tent we got her at ikea. Yes, Regen has her own play room. Actually she has two at our new house, I know, I know she is spoiled.

This is just Regen at the Lake, I was scared she was going to fall in so I couldn't play around to long taking different angles.
This is us in Utah when we were waiting 8 hours for Graham to check in his gear and paperwork.
Regen picking a cute yellow flower.
I love this one with the mounitains in the background. We were at the base in Utah still waiting for daddy to be done and playing outside.