I won!

Okay, so every week I check out Oneity's blog give away and leave a comment in hopes of winning, but of course, it never happens. I am so excited to say that I just won a $50 gift certificate there! Yay! They have some pretty cute things, and I can't wait to go shopping for Caylin! (For those of you who want to check it out, it's oneity.blogspot.com and they post a new give away every Tuesday)

100 Things You Didn't Know About Me . . .

Okay Kelsey, I'm going to try it. I don't know how far I can get, but it sounds like fun, so here we go!

1. I have a major sweet tooth
2. I love puzzles - crosswords, Sudoku, word games, anything
3. I used to do puzzles every night before bed while Colby watched TV, and then along came Caylin and that doesn't happen anymore
4. I hate it when people don't use their turn signals
5. I lost 73 pounds in one year
6. I am afraid of gaining 60 pounds again when I get pregnant
7. I eat my pizza with pineapple
8. I am a night owl (if you couldn't tell by the fact that most of my posts or comments are done after midnight)
9. I love that Caylin usually sleeps in until 8:30 or later
10. I am afraid of something happening to Colby or Caylin
11. I am afraid to get old
12. I love summer nights
13. I love thunderstorms
14. I love the smell of Spring flowers and melting snow
15. I love the smell of Autumn leaves
16. I have run 3 marathons and hope to run many more
17. almost everything I cook is a low fat version
18. I make delicious low fat ginger cookies!
19. I could live on cereal alone
20. I don't drink soda
21. I love that Colby is such a hard worker
22. I am a blog stalker (come on, who isn't these days!)
23. I never had detention
24. I was never grounded
25. I had a 3.9 GPA in high school until I met Colby
26. I have to go on at least one errand a day just to get out of the house, even if it's to Target or Wal-Mart to just walk around
27. I love to scrapbook but never get the time to
28. I always wanted to play the piano
29. I love strawberries
30. I hate chili
31. I love hearing Caylin laugh or talk to herself
32. I slept in my car twice during high school
33. I do at least 400 crunches a day
34. I love the movie Pearl Harbor because I think Josh Hartnett is hot
35. I love peanut M&Ms
36. I don't eat popcorn at movies
37. I developed eczema on my hands really bad when Caylin was about 4 months old
38. I have to shower and bathe Caylin with rubber gloves on because of my eczema (I know, it's pretty sexy!)
39. I cannot wear smelly lotion
40. I watch Days of Our Lives
41. I hate cleaning the bathrooms
42. I love watching Caylin react when she sees animals or other kids
43. I won an art contest at the fair in elementary with a picture of clowns
44. I always wanted an older brother or sister and would tell my brother we had one, they were just on a mission
45. I subscribe to the Sunday paper just for the ads
46. I clip and use coupons
47. I am quite thrifty
48. I didn't use to be so thrifty
49. I was in labor for almost 42 hours (the last three of which were spent pushing)
50. the best shower I have ever taken was the first one after having Caylin
51. I loved the smell of the soap in the hospital
52. I wish I were better at keeping in touch with people
53. I had Toxic Shock Syndrome (yes, the thing they warn you about on the tampon boxes)
54. I was once stung by a bee in the butt
55. I love bread
56. I love banana bread and cornbread that is slightly undercooked in the center
57. I used to eat hamburgers with peanut butter
58. I am very particular about the way my bath towel is hung because I always use the same part of the towel to dry the same part
59. I love clean sheets
60. I love math
61. I keep a journal for Caylin
62. I regret not taking more videos or pictures of Caylin when she was teeny tiny
63. I haven't officially changed my last name, and I've been married for 5 1/2 years
64. I love being a mom
65. I hate smoke - cigarettes, fire, any kind
66. I hate restaurants that make you smell like food after you leave
67. I hate having my house smell like food after cooking, so I have to have all the windows open, even if it's freezing outside
68. Colby used to call me egg, don't know why, but he did
69. I am not a dog person
70. I have to sleep on my side with my hands by my face
71. I went on a date once with someone who made me dinner and then had his parents join us to eat it (it was a first date, and needless to say, there were no others)
72. I love frosting
73. I have never broken a bone (okay, I had a hairline fracture on my nose, but that's it)
74. I am lucky enough to have found and married my best friend in the whole world
75. I love the way Colby smells (I guess I should put most of the time!)
76. I love to bake
77. I love Cream of Wheat with milk and sugar, sometimes raisins
78. I love to look at the stars
79. Colby and I once got up and left at a restaurant and left only a few dollars because the service was so crappy
80. I have walked out of a movie for being crude
81. I have had chicken pox twice

I think that's as far as I am going to get. I know, pretty boring. If I think of more I'll update it. I am putting this out there for anyone who wants to try it, it's actually kind of fun trying to come up with things! Good luck!

Zion

This past weekend we took a short but much needed vacation to Zion National Park for my family reunion. Caylin had lots of fun running around on the grass chasing bubbles, going swimming, and even did great on our easy (and paved) hike (who wouldn't when you have someone pushing you around in a stroller!). I couldn't believe how beautiful it is there, and the weather was perfect. The last picture is of Caylin sitting with my dad reading a magazine. She sat there and turned the pages over and over again for at least twenty minutes with him. It was the cutest thing to watch!

Books!

Caylin has really become interested, and quite attached I might add, to her books. I find her in her room all the time just sitting in a pile of books she has pulled off her shelf just turning the pages over and over. The other day I was in my bedroom, and I had left her in her bedroom for a bit, so I decided to check on her. I couldn't find her anywhere, and finally found her sitting in her old carseat reading a book. She was talking away, and it was the cutest thing!

My grandma gave Caylin this little rocking chair that she loves. She climbs in it and says "rock, rock." Well, today she had to take her books with her. She just sat and read until either the book fell off or she threw it off, and then I had to retrieve it for her. Can I just say that I love little $1 board books from Target!

Officially a midget

Caylin's nicknames are midget and munchkin, and for good reason. Today was her one year check up at the doctor, and the numbers just support the fact that she is little. Caylin weighs 17 lbs. 6 oz. (2nd percentile) and is 27.4 inches (4th percentile). I just laughed as the nurse told me the numbers. One good thing, though, she has a big head. Yes, she is in the 84th percentile for her head circumference. Hopefully that is because she has lots of information stored up there or something! Caylin was doing pretty average until her 6 month check-up, when she went from the 40th percentile to the 2nd percentile for weight, and has stayed there ever since. One good thing is that she has gotten a ton of use out of her 6-9 month clothes, because that is what she is still wearing! She is my little munchkin!

Easter

I don't know whether Caylin was a little eager for Easter or what, but her Easter started at 4:30 in the morning. She wasn't sleeping well, and when I went in and fed her at 4:30, she was wide awake. I tried to get her back to sleep, but she saw the basket the Easter Bunny left on her changing table and that was pretty much the end of things. I took lots of pictures and got out the video camera because she was pretty cute going around and finding everything that had been hidden. She first found one of the eggs in her room and when she realized there were Cheerios inside, she got pretty excited. The first picture was taken at 4:30 in the morning with that first egg (notice the Cheerios all over the floor!).

egg hunt at Holly's

Caylin and cousin Connor
going for a walk after dinner

Birthday Party!

Caylin's birthday party was full of food and family. She got so many cute clothes and toys, and the hit of everything was her purple doll stroller. Once we opened it up, it was hard to get her away from it. The cake was a hit as well, as you can see from the pictures. I still can't believe it's already been a year since she was born, but I wouldn't trade the last year for anything! By the way, the purple string you can see in the pictures is a balloon. It was cute because when I went to pick up her birthday cake, the lady at the check stand took it off her register and clipped it to the shopping cart. Caylin wore it around all day long, and it was a good way to keep track of her!

Caylin's new doll in the beloved stroller

Grandma and the birthday girl

she tried to blow out the candle, but mom had to help

our cute little family!

the cake

Caylin's one year pictures

Thanks for the hat Ashlee!

A year in review. . .

Where has one year gone? As I think back to the excitement and fear that filled me a year ago, I could never have imagined how drastically my life was going to change. It has been amazing to watch Caylin learn and grow each and every day, and turn into the little girl that she is today with her spunky personality and inquisitive mind. She is so curious and independent and smart, and I know that I am in for a whirlwind of activity and trouble in the years to come. I can't imagine what I would do without her and just want to wish her a happy first birthday!!!

Caylin had a fever when she was born, and so had to have an IV. The diaper is there to keep it in. We called it her boxing glove.

This is the dreaded bilirubin bed that Caylin had to spend the first four days we were home on. I can't tell you how much I hated that thing!

Caylin's first trip to Disneyland at 6 weeks old.

her first Real Salt Lake game

Hawaii at 5 months

go Utes!

Happy Halloween!

Happy New Year!

I love you Caylin!

Rascal Flatts!!!

Colby and I were lucky enough to spend this past weekend in Vegas with his parents and his brothers and sisters and their spouses and his boss and some of his kids and spouses. We flew down Friday night and returned early yesterday morning, so it was a short, but exciting trip. Saturday morning and afternoon the boys went golfing while the girls went shopping. We had a fabulous dinner at Nero's Saturday night followed by the highlight of the trip - the Rascal Flatts concert at Mandalay Bay. We were fortunate to have some pretty great seats as well - second row! It was such a great concert and such a fun weekend. The only drawback was that I had to leave Caylin at home. We have left her overnight only once before, but this was two nights. It was hard, but luckily we were so busy, I didn't have time to miss her too much!

me, Amanda, Mel (and Tyson), Mindy, Lisa, Heather

Lisa, Brett and Mel had front row tickets. They finally got a handshake after several attempts!