The Olsons

Life Lately

2012-01-31T11:01:00.000-07:00

Our life lately is pretty good! Lukas loves his new job at adobe, they are treating him reeeeeally well. They've already given him a new iPhone 4s (which he gave to me, hehe), an upgraded Macbook Pro, and a new iPad 2. On friday they took him to play laser tag for the last few hours of work. Talk about spoiled!

Camden is reeeeally fun these days. I can't believe he'll be 2 next week! He is starting to talk a lot more and looooves to sing. All the time he just breaks out in song and is really good at doing the right tune so we know what song he's singing. Here's a video of him I took a little while ago. Excuse his pajamas and messy hair!

Ashlyn is unbelievably cute lately. She'll be 3 months old next week. SAD! Babies grow waaay too fast. She is such an easy and happy baby. She loves to lay in her jungle gym and bat her little hands at the animals. Yesterday she actually grabbed one and held onto it for so long. She was pretty happy with herself. She also loves it when we make her fly in the air. This is a video of the other night when we realized she liked it.

I am LOVING being a mom to these kids. They make me unbelievably happy. I really appreciate Lukas too and all he does for us. He amazes me more and more every day and I love him soooo much. I really am the luckiest girl alive.

Ashlyn Brooke

2011-12-01T14:19:00.000-07:00

She's here! Well, she has been for almost 3 weeks already...time flies when you're having fun, right? Everything went really smoothly for the surgery (besides that they had a student do my spinal and he missed at least 6 times...still in pain from that). The recovery from this C-section has been so much easier than it was with Camden, which I'm verrrry grateful for.

Today is my second day alone with both kids and it's been going alright! Today has been much easier than yesterday was because she actually let me put her down some today. So nice of her, huh? Not that I ever want to put her down...she's so snuggly and perfect.

Camden has been a trooper through it all. He hasn't been jealous and has been very gentle with her. He likes to find her blankets and binkies and bring them to her. He also likes to suck on all of her binkies...which we're still trying to prevent, but whatever. Yesterday while I was feeding her he came over and laid his head on my arm and started to softly stroke Ashlyn's hair. He did this for like 20 minutes. It was the most precious moment of my life. I don't know how I deserve to have the sweetest little boy in the world, but I I'm so grateful I do. Here's a video of Camden noticing her in the hospital. This is the first time he saw her not all wrapped up in blankets and awake he was really excited about it.

She turned out pretty darn cute if ya ask me.

Yeah, we made that.

Monkey Boy

2011-10-30T20:24:00.001-06:00

Camden makes a very cute monkey. Don't ya think?

He loves balls and airplanes, so this picture suits him perfectly. :) We love our little monkey boy.

Buds

2011-10-30T20:13:00.001-06:00

Can I just say how much I love my boys? Just look at them. They are such great buds.

Just 11 more days until we have a baby girl join our family. I'm enjoying our cute family of 3 while it lasts...but I'm super excited to have a little girly bud.

Blogging...I am.

2011-09-21T13:31:00.004-06:00

First of all, I wanna talk about our lil dude. You know, the one that has taken over the topics of this blog?

On Monday we decided to do a little FHE with him about temples. We started off by singing Jesus Wants me for a Sunbeam...he wanted to sing it again, and again (of course). Then we pulled up lds.org on our tv to show him some temples. I had NO idea he was going to love this so dang much. We flipped through the pictures for 15 minutes or so and when each new picture came up he got SO excited and was saying things like, "OH, WOW" "What is it?!?!". I think the reason that he kept saying "what is it" is because I kept saying that so that he would tell me it was temple. Instead he copied my question. We then decided to tell him to say bye to the temples and turn off the tv and he had a meltdown! First of all, you need to know that Camden is a VERY laid back kid. He never cries about anything, unless he's injured. He does whine if he wants something and says "please" a lot, but never does he bawl...like he did at this moment. We decided to show him some more temples and then start a fun bubble bath to distract him before trying to turn it off again. Aren't toddlers just so precious? Why did he like looking at the temples so much? I don't know...but it was dang cute.

Here are a couple videos of our little guy. So we can remember how cute he was at this age. This is definitely the funnest age so far!

Now onto other topics. Lukas has been working on the side making a website for a company in Australia. We will have to show you the finished product...he should be all of the way done any day now! He is just finishing putting up the design that I created. It has been a fun project to work on together and the extra money has been nice too. :)

Me? I'm doing great. I cannot believe how much easier this pregnancy has been. I am not in mounds of pain yet, I don't have gestational diabetes, I am not throwing up anymore, ...the list goes on and on. Thank you Ashlyn for being much easier inside of me than Camden was...now let's just see if you can be HALF as easy as him when you actually get here. He's gonna be hard to beat!

18 Months

2011-08-15T15:44:00.002-06:00

Camden has turned into quite a funny character. We love having him in our family. He is so laid back about things and doesn't throw tantrums (yet). He is so sweet and is always giving kisses to us and his animals and elmo dolls. He loves his bed and laughs hysterically when we put him in there because he's just so excited to go to sleep. The only hard thing about him is still his eating habits, but we're working on it. We had his 18 months appointment today and learned that he's still growing and healthy, so that's a relief! He went to nursery for the first time yesterday and he did great. They said he didn't whine or cry once and that's rare for a first timer. He's awesome, bottom-line.

Here's a video of Camden...we have no idea where he caught onto farts being "funny". We have this talking tomcat app on our phones that he loves and if you push a certain thing it makes the cat fart and the very first time he pushed it he laughed so hard. We were like HUH? Okay. It makes him laugh every time though and we love that little laugh.

Update about lil Ashlyn: she's doing great in my uterus. She is kinda wild sometimes and makes me pee a lot, but I love her. Only 13 more weeks until it's time for us to see how dang cute she is. Excited, we are.

The Curse Breakers.

2011-06-06T12:26:00.001-06:00

In Luke's family everyone only has one gender. Because of this I have been nervous that I was going to have all boys and never have a girl. Well, we found out today that we are having a GIRL! Isn't that just the best news ever? We think so. Here is the picture of her girly parts. She was going so crazy that the ultrasound tech couldn't get a good picture, but she said she was positive it was a girl at least!

I know, I haven't even announced my pregnancy officially yet, but I thought it'd be fun to wait until we knew the gender. The pregnancy has been going pretty well so far. I was really sick at first, but got on some medicines that helped me control the puking (yum). I have been trying to go on two walks a day and it has been helping me not gain as much weight as I did with Camden. Hopefully I can keep it up.

{ Isn't she a cutie? }

The original due date was 11/11/11, but when I got my first ultrasound they moved the due dated to 11/19/11. I was way bummed about this because I wanted to schedule my c-section for the 11th, since...what a cool birthday, right? Well, when we met with the doctor he said we could still schedule it for the 11th. So...all I need to do is not go into labor before then...which I don't think will be a problem (hopefully).

Here's one more picture...because pictures are fun, right? This one is her opening her mouth. Awww, her lil tiny mouth.

We're so excited to meet you Ashlyn!

Oh, here's a belly picture we took a little over a week ago. Because, I know I'll be bugged by people if I don't upload one. :)

k bye. :)

Oh my heck?

2011-06-01T13:07:00.000-06:00

Has it really been that long since I've updated this blog? That's just ridiculous.

Camden has grown up so much it's crazy. He is really getting good at communicating instead of whining when he needs something. He can say tons of words and phrases and can copy pretty much anything we say (not perfectly of course). He is very easy going and mostly always happy. He entertains himself for the most part (and it's pretty funny to watch him make up activities that he thinks are SO important). He has a couple of girlfriends and had his first kiss at church on Sunday.

At his 15 month appointment he hadn't grown much, but the doctor said that's pretty typical. His head was bigger though! Finally at a decent percentile...tiny headed kid. pssh.

He's still obsessed with balls, or anything that resembles one. Being outside is his absolute favorite. He is always content when we're outside. He says outside really cutely and anytime he says it it's so cute that I have to let him out there. haha He loves to ride in the car (lucky me) and anytime we walk into the garage he gets so excited knowing he's going into the car that he just about jumps out of my arms.

We love absolutely everything about him and couldn't ask for a better kid. We are so blessed.

Here's a cute video of Camden dancing ish you wanna watch it.

Lukas has been obsessed with this WordFeud game on his phone for quite some time now (it's just like Scrabble, but you play with other people online). He made a website where he sets up tournaments and people sign up and play each other. He reached over 500 users the other day and the website has only been up for a couple of weeks! We are a pretty awesome pair because he can program websites and I can design them. We made this bad boy in just a few days. Check out the site here and sign up!

We will have some pretty awesome news to share early next week so stay tuuuuuned. :)

Ball Lover

2011-02-23T20:31:00.001-07:00

Camden finally realized it's not the end of the world to try to walk with shoes on and that he could actually do it. When Lukas went out to bring the trash can back up to the house we decided to let Camden take a walk outside. He was having a blast, took off, and walked way down the street...this is what happened when he came up to a house that had a basketball outside.

Best of Friends

2011-02-23T14:16:00.000-07:00

We took the babes to the Bean Museum yesterday and they loved all the stuffed, dead animals. :)
Whenever these two see each other they both get so excited. It's the cutest thing ever, pretty much.

Future Soccer Player

2011-02-18T22:34:00.000-07:00

Just thought I'd put this video up we took of Camden kicking his little BYU ball around.

He's adorable, yes?

Partaaaay

2011-02-12T20:42:00.001-07:00

We had a little birthday party for Camden today and he had a blast. At the beginning he was just walking up to each person and tackling them. He was so excited everyone he loves was we here at one time. We started the party off by showing a dvd that I made of Camden's first year. Then he opened his presents and loved each thing that he got.

My mom, brother and sister...Luke's parents...and Camden's two girlfriends and their parents were all able to come to the party. Here he is with the two cuties.

We were able to get a birthday cake for him for freee at Maceys and it was a hit. The red frosting was impossible to get off of him though, so if you are going to be having your first baby's first birthday soon maybe stay away from the dyed frosting. :)

We were glad everyone could make it and hope they had as much fun as we did. :)

12 Month Percentiles

2011-02-11T14:01:00.001-07:00

Sorry, this is more for our records so feel free to run away from this page before beholding the stats, if you please.

Height: 31 inches - 86th percentile
Weight: 20.79 pounds - 21st percentile
Head: 17.72 inches - 15th percentile

Also, he has 8 teeth and a whole lotta hair. He screamed the entire time we were at the doctor today. He just knew those gross shots were coming.

The end.

Welp, he's a toddler.

2011-02-10T21:15:00.001-07:00

Everyone told me that babies grow up way too fast, but I never realized HOW fast until now. My little baby is now a toddler? When the heck did that happen? It creeped up on me. He is funner than ever. Every day he starts doing something new and exciting. Here are some updates about our little dude.

He start walking a few weeks ago, but would only walk if he was prompted and if he was walking to somebody. It's like he didn't realize he could just do it all the time and would only think about it when we told him to walk to us. He was REALLY good at it though so it was kinda weird that he hadn't switched over yet. Crawling was still his main source of transportation until last night when he finally realized, "Hey, I can walk everywhere and it's actually faster!"...or whatever babies think in their cute little brains.

{ please ignore my annoying commentary and voice }

I decided to take some pictures of him on his birthday and he pulled a silly face every time I put the camera up to take one. He thinks he's sooooo funny. Well, he is.

He loves to play peek-a-boo with doors. He does it multiple times a day and sometimes shuts it all the way, on accident, so he can't open it back up to get back out where we are.

He still loves his dad more than anyone else in the whole world.

We started him on whole milk only the other day because he completely started hating formula. He loves it and actually drinks whole bottles now! Joy.

He rode in his new front-facing car seat today and had an absolute blast. He thinks it's hilarious to be able to see me while I drive.

His new favorite word is "uh-oh". He can say it perfectly and says it all day long. I have never caught it on video besides this one time...it's not a very good one since I prompt him to say it and he doesn't say it very clearly, but it's all I got so deal with it. OKAY?

He loves to help me put things away, put things on his head (and other people's heads), read books (but he always wants to turn back to the cover between each page), be silly and make us laugh. He still loves Elmo. Any time he hears music he dances and "sings". He's completely obsessed with climbing the stairs...we have created a blockade that's quite annoying to get around when we actually need the stairs, but if it's not there he never leaves the stairs all day. I could go on and on, but I'm sure everyone has stopped reading by now so I will end this long blog post about my favorite little guy on the planet, shortly.

Camden is everything we could ever want in a son. We could not be happier with how he has turned out, thus far. He is so sweet and funny and easy-going. He rarely cries, even when he's had permanent ear infections/fluid in both of his ears since September. He is getting surgery in a week and then his ears will be as good as new...I'm excited for him to not be in pain 24/7. How does he not always cry with those gross ears? I'd be crying all day long if it were me. He's tough and awesome and we adore him to pieces. I mean how could we not? Have you seen this kid? :)

This has been the best year of our lives and I'm excited for the years to come.

The Walker

2011-01-20T21:50:00.000-07:00

I had some friends over today who all have babies around Camden's age. One them told me her little boy started walking by himself on Saturday and that the way they got him to do it was to hold onto the back of his shirt so he would think he was being helped and then let go. I thought that was interesting, but didn't necessarily think it would work on Camden. When Lukas got home tonight I told him about that and told him to try it and Camden just started walking immediately. He had only taken about 3 steps (up until the following video) and then he'd get nervous and sit down. Less than 10 minutes after trying Camden just took off and started walking like a pro. We caught it on tape the first time that he took more than 3 or 4 steps. We were all really surprised! After this video he walked a lot more than this, but we had stopped taping and then he had to go to bed, sadly. I'm excited to see how he is tomorrow! :)

Here is the video:

Isn't it so cute how happy he is about it? Every time he did it he would laugh and smile so big. So would we. :)

Chrippus 2010

2011-01-07T10:20:00.000-07:00

Christmas was really magically jolly this year at the Olson home. We wish that more of the family could have made it, but we still had a grand ole time. It was really fun to see Evan, Chelsea, and Emmy who we never get to see since they live all the way in Chicago. Luke's mom is an amazing host every time we visit and makes the most delicious food and also provides fun activities for us to do! She taught (well attempted to teach) me how to crochet and we also made duct tape flowers (sounds weird I know, but they are the cutest things ever). We made homemade chocolates and had a lot of fun dipping them and then eating the yummy german chocolate off our hands.

It was Camden's first christmas! He got some toys and he had a lot of fun playing with each new one as they got opened. He got his very first cars and he really likes them, it's the cutest.

Luke's grandparents came down from Idaho on Christmas day to spend some time with us. It was really great to see them, I haven't seen them since our wedding (when I first met them). They are the sweetest people ever and I hope we can start seeing them more often.

Here's the Christmas Card I designed for us. I did not send it in the mail, cuz I'm dumb like that I guess.

Updates about our lives:

My sister Brooke moved in with us on the 28th of December (the day of our 3 year anniversary) it has been fun having her here and nice to have a babysitter available when we need one.
Camden is going to be 11 freakin months old in 3 days. How did that happen? He is more hilarious than ever and we are having tons of fun being his parents. He loves to walk while holding on to one of our hands and has taken a couple steps by himself a few times. We're excited for him to start walking, and so is he! I don't want his 1st birthday to come though, cuz that's just weird. I want him to stay a lil bebe forever.
Lukas is still loving his new job and things are just getting better and better there. They made some changes to the already great health insurance starting Jan 1st and we are so excited about it. I already made eye appointments, physicals, and dental appointments for Luke and I. haha
My blog design business slowed down a lot during Christmas season, but has picked up fantastically since. I have been staying pretty busy and making lots of fun spending money.
We got a Kinect for Christmas and it is awesome. I got a workout game that is amazing and I've been having lots of fun working out during Cam's naps. The sports game remains the best though.
We are really blessed and really love how our lives are at this moment. Can you pause time now world? Thanks.

9 Months Old

2010-11-10T16:48:00.004-07:00

I wish I could put into words the feelings I've felt these past 9 months having this little guy in my life...but I stink at putting my feelings into words, as I'm sure you've all realized. Camden is the perfect baby and we could not be more blessed. I can't imagine life without him now.

His 9 month stats are:
Weight : 20.02 lbs - 42nd percentile
Height: 29.3 in - 83rd percentile
Head: 17.13 in - 8th percentile

Here are some updates about Camer-Jam (mostly for us to remember stuff about him).

He is very independent. He is totally happy just crawling around exploring the house all day with no help from me whatsoever. Of course he's happier if I crawl around with him (he actually thinks it's hilarious when I crawl around like him).
He loves his daddy. When I hear Lukas get home I say, "DADDY'S HOME!" and he immediately looks at the garage door and waits for it to open. The second he sees Lukas he gets really excited and then the excitements turns to whines because he wants Lukas to come hug him so badly and can hardly wait.
He loves to eat whatever Lukas and I are eating. If we are eating something he crawls up to us, stands up, opens his mouth, and waits for the food to enter.
He is very good at going to bed, but sometimes says "MAMA MAMA MAMA" from his bed until I come in and hug him and then he falls right asleep.
He loves Sesame Street and thinks Elmo is the funniest monster on the planet.
He learned how to wave and once said "hi mama" while he waved at me.
He is such a blabber mouth. Most of the day he is just talking and talking and trying out new voices. He does this really funny high pitched voice that makes us laugh every time.
He still does his "fake laugh" all the time and sounds like a llama.
He also still does raspberries all day (actually he's doing that right now in his bed while he's supposed to be taking a nap - stinker)
He knows how to say "mama" and "dada" and knows the difference between them. When Lukas isn't home he crawls around the house calling out for him. When I go in the other room he follows me calling my name.
He also says "baba", but doesn't just limit it to his bottle. He also calls ours drinks "babas" and loves to sip from our cups.
He loves blankets and stuffed animals, but loves his Rubber Ducky the most of all...I think hearing him say "ducky" is the cutest sound I've ever heard.
He is a very happy, easy going baby and I could go on and on about him. We love him to pieces.

Here are some videos of everyday Camden.

I need to take more pictures and less videos. I will try harder. K peoples?

Rubber Ducky Lover

2010-11-05T13:10:00.001-06:00

Camden's official first word (besides mama, dada, daddy, hi, baba...okay I guess it's not his first word) is DUCKY. Camden loves his rubber ducky so much. Anytime I say "Camden where's ducky?" he crawls around searching for it and when he finds it he says "du du ducky" over and over in the cutest voice and gets so excited. I love it

{Random photo I know, but doesn't he looks so cute in his shirt and tie?}

More Crawling Bideos

2010-11-03T12:12:00.000-06:00

I realized that the video I chose to show Camden's crawling skills was kind of weak. I just thought it was cute since he was crawling to me. haha Here are a couple better ones. The first one shows pretty much what he does all day. Crawls from one thing to another and stands up. He also follows me all around. I finally get him to leave the toilet by pretending I'm leaving. haha. I love that he follows me around. Cutest thing ever. Do I love his need to stand at the toilet? Not particularly, but it's still cute cuz everything he does is cute.
This next one shows what Camden does when he gets to the tile, if he's not wearing pants. He hates the feeling of the tile on his bare knees, so he has fashioned a monkey-ish crawl. Also notice how verbal this kid is. Always "talking".
I also got a video of him kissing himself in the mirror this morning, but it is being weird and not uploading. Here is a picture of him doing it in the meantime...in his tiger costume. He was the cutest tiger ever. Also, other tiger pictures for you all who haven't seen them yet.

{Camden managed to open a bag of m&ms at the trunk or treat while sitting on my lap. I did not notice until it was too late. He was pretty happy about it.}

Don't him and his girlfriend Brynlee look so cute? Camden is in the middle of talking in that last one if you couldn't tell. He looks like he's about to bite someone with those teefers.

{.the end.}

Pictures and Videos

2010-10-19T10:10:00.000-06:00

We went on a walk one morning while we were at the cabin with my fambily. This was the first time Camden had been in kinda cold weather since he was just a little guy so he was acting really funny. This is when he first started doing that scrunchy face thing from the video in the previous post. We captured a picture of it below. He looks so chunky in these it's kinda funny.

This was at one of the luncheons for our family reunion. Camden was really tired if you can't tell.

Here is a video of Camden crawling. He usually doesn't stop as much as he does here...but he kept wanting to look up at me. Since I was what he was crawling to and I wasn't at eye level.

The other night when we had our friends over Camden kept shutting his eyes every time Lukas did a zerbert on his neck. He did it to him like 20 times and he ALWAYS would shut his eyes.

So there you go! I finally posted some shtuffs.

Personality

2010-10-17T22:19:00.000-06:00

Camden has a pretty funky personality (just like his dad and me) and we love it. I just thought I'd share this video with you that shows off his personality a little bit. He loves to try to make us laugh and succeeds a lot.

Crawly Man

2010-10-08T11:24:00.000-06:00

My lil guy just started crawling this week. It's the cutest thing ever. I love it.

I do have a video of it and some other cute videos and pictures that I will post soon from when we were at the cabin with my family.

Camden is learning so much so fast. What a crazy lil guy I have.

He's da best.

Fast Learner

2010-10-04T14:45:00.000-06:00

All within the past couple days Camden has learned to sit up from the crawling position, pull himself up to a standing postion in his crib, and walk along the crib bars. Before my biggest concern at bedtime was Camden rocking on his hands and knees instead of sleeping...suddenly I'm lucky if I go in and he's not either standing up or just sitting there staring at me. He has so much fun now in his bed that he NEVER wants to sleep. The weirdest part was that one second after he learned to pull himself to standing he was walking along and got pretty far without falling at all. He finally fell when he let go of the bars and just had his hands on the wall...it didn't help that his jammies were all tangled either. Here are some pictures that we took during the act.

He also does a fake laugh all day long now. Here is a video of him doing it.

Yet another picture of him watching Baby Einstein.

Isn't he to die for cute? I just love being this little dude's mom.

Oh dear.

2010-09-09T13:25:00.001-06:00

My baby is officially obsessed with Baby Einstein. I got this new one called "On The Go" from the library and Camden is crazy about it. He laughs hysterically the entire show and is the happiest little dude on the planet. Even if he is tired and hungry and has a poop he still is deliriously happy when this is on. Here are some pictures I snapped of him watching it today. In the one where he is laughing you can see his two little teeth!

And here are a couple of videos of Cam showing some other stuff he's obsessed with. One being towels (or anything that is made of cloth really) and the other being raspberries. He has the funniest little personality and we just love seeing the new cute things he does daily. He's the best OKAY?

My Boys

2010-08-24T10:43:00.001-06:00

Aren't they great? Camden loves his daddy so much. He gets SO excited when Lukas comes home from work it's the cutest thing in the world...and then he doesn't want Lukas to leave his sight for the rest of the night.

I love my life.

Growing Up

2010-08-15T14:34:00.005-06:00

My little baby is getting WAY too big. Last night we realized that he has two teeth on the bottom that have already broken through. WHAT? I had no idea he was even teething at all...

Now look at him - standing up by himself in his crib? This is too much.

Oh, also. He squeals with delight now. Sorry that the video is blurry I guess my iPhone was having a retard moment.

6 months old? What the buh!

2010-08-10T12:25:00.003-06:00

It's reeeeal hard to believe that our little guy is already half a year old. Time has gone by so fast and it has been so fun having him in our lives. He's our lil buddy.

He is 16.5 lbs (33rd percentile), 27 in long (72nd percentile), and his head is 16 inches around (5th percentile). Purdy tall and skinny with a tiny head.

Here are some pictures of him and shtuffs. A couple of them are him with his girlfriend, Brynlee. :)

Gotta love that random curl swooping up in that last picture. haha I do have videos too, but I'm too lazy to put them up right now. Look forward to them ALRIGHT?

Words

2010-07-14T12:41:00.000-06:00

I wanted to write down the words that Camden has said so I don't forget. I know he doesn't know the meaning of these. He just copies what we say.

The first time he actually said a word not babbling was about a month ago and it was "mom". I had just gotten him out of the bathtub and I was walking down the hall holding him and he said it in the sweetest voice. It sure was cute.

The next word was "dada". He just randomly said it.

A few weeks ago I was singing a song to him and it ended in the word "away". He just looked up at me and actually sang "AWAY". It was really really funny and cute.

He does say "mama" a lot while he's babbling, but says it the most when he's really mad. I think he's trying to tell me something...like, "MAMA THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!"

He also says "baba" while he's talking a lot and "dada".

The end.

5 Months Old

2010-07-12T19:18:00.001-06:00

Wow. I cannot believe that our little guy is already 5 months old. He is such a fun kid and we adore him. Sorry I'm a couple days late on the 5 month old post.

Here are some fun facts about him:

He loves reading books. He reads along with us and tries to speak louder than us. He also tries to turn the pages like a mad man.
He loves to sit on Luke's lap while he plays the piano and sing. No joke. He sings. He also tries to interrupt the pretty songs by trying to play himself.
He learned how to sit up on his own and it is adorable. I love it.
He loves to have blankets on his face (as you will see in the video featured below).
He loves to blow bubbles and do raspberries with his mouth. He thinks he is SO funny when he does it. He will do it and then look at us and smile like, "EH? You like that?
He now eats rice cereal before bed each night. We let him drink a little bit of water in the tub afterwards and he thinks it's SO funny. After each sip he kicks his legs and does this pant like a dog thing that he does a lot lately.
He is scared of loud noises. I literally cannot blow-dry my hair if he is within 1 room of where it is going on. He is such a scardey cat. Anyone know how to make a baby not so scared of everything?
He loves looking at himself in the mirror. We stand him up on the counter and he dances and jumps and stomps his leg. That can cheer him up anytime. I think he must think he's cute or something...I agree.
He is SO ticklish. The most ticklish little thang on the planet.

We love him so much and could not be happier. Here are a few pictures and a cute video.

Could he look more scared? ... Told ya he scares easy.

Our Laughy Guy

2010-06-18T20:28:00.000-06:00

Our HD video camera decided to freeze RIGHT when we needed it most. This is from my phone's camera...not too good of quality, but you can still hear the cute laughs of our little dude.

If that's not the cutest sound in the world I dunno what is.

Oopsie Poopsie

2010-06-03T14:16:00.004-06:00

I just realized that all I really talk about on here is Camden...which I'm sure is more interesting than hearing about Lukas and I as well...but I'm gonna update you anyhow.

A little while back Lukas updated his resume on monster.com...not to find a new job, just to have it ready for when he would be looking again. Right away he started getting recruiters contacting him. He was so weirded out and ignored their emails and calls. He finally answered one of the calls just to tell one of them to stop calling him and the guy was like well can I ask you how much you are making right now yadi yadi. Lukas told him and he said he could find him a job in Provo with better salary. He set up an interview for Lukas with a company called Simplifile and Lukas went and impressed their pants off. haha The funny thing is that after meeting with the first interviewer he was waiting for the next one and almost just left because he found out it was a contract-to-hire job and didn't really think it was worth his time. Right before he was about to get up and leave they came and got him for the next interview. That day we got a call saying that they wanted to hire him and that they liked him so much that they were just going to hire him as an employee to start instead of a contractor. Do I have an amazing husband or what? He gave his 2 weeks notice and he started his new job on the 1st. He is learning a lot and likes it so far! We are so blessed that this happened because now we have good health benefits and fun stuff like that. If only we had had this job when we had Camden we would have saved so much money. Oh well, we'll have good insurance for our next lil bebe now.

I am still keeping busy taking care of my little baby and have much to do while he naps during the day with HotBliggityBlog. We are so blessed that we were able to create a site that gets so much traffic (for advertising) and that I can do custom orders and make some money to help out! I love it so much and am so grateful that I can do something that I love from home.

We just recently went to Colorado last weekend so that Lukas could say goodbye to the house he grew up in because his parents are moving to Perry, Utah in a couple of weeks (we're so excited that they'll be living closer to us and we'll be able to see them more). They threw me and Lee and birthday party on my birthday and it was so much fun to see everyone. I have the cutest nieces and nephews in the world and the best sibling-in-laws and parent-in-laws ever. It was Camden's first vacation and he did pretty well for the long car ride. He was a little bit nervous meeting all of his cousins and aunts and uncles. I don't think he's used to having so many people give him attention at once - he made many boo-boo faces when his cousins would come up and hug him tight. Good thing his boo-boo face is the cutest face ever invented.

My little sister Brooke is living with us for the summer and it has been so fun having her around. I miss her so much when she's all the way in Arizona. She has been a big help with Camden and I love her company. She just started her job so I won't be seeing as much of her, but I'm so proud of her!

I think that's about it in our lives. I told you it'd be boring.

New Walker

2010-06-03T13:53:00.002-06:00

Since Camden always wants us to stand him up and let him walk around we decided to get him a little walker...even though it says 6 months and up and his feet barely touch the ground. He loves it. He hasn't figured out how to walk around in there yet, but does go backwards at times. haha Can't believe he's gonna be 4 months old on the 10th! We could not be having more fun with this kid. Is he not the most adorable thing ever? We love his sticky outey ears.

I'm trying to update more...can you tell? :)

So tell me...

2010-05-19T12:26:00.001-06:00

is he not the cutest thing you've ever seen?

Growing Up

2010-04-30T14:00:00.004-06:00

My little Camden is growing up too fast. Yesterday Lukas put him in his crib to see what he'd do and he LOVED it in there. He was just talking to his bumper pad forever and then took a nap happily in there. Then at bedtime Lukas put him in there and he went to sleep so we decided to let him sleep in there. I wasn't prepared for this huge step, but it worked out great! I guess he's gonna be sleeping in his own room now. What a big boy he is!

Yesterday he started doing the cutest thing. I would stick out my tongue and make a noise and he'd stick his out and make the same noise. Then I would start laughing and so HE would start laughing. It was so hilarious to have him copy me like that. He does copy me when I make baby cooing noises, but I didn't think he'd be old enough to copy me sticking out my tongue. I guess he is!

We love him so much.

Morning Cam

2010-04-20T13:31:00.002-06:00

Camden is so happy in the morning. Look how cute and talkative he is. He gets so serious when he tries to talk. Please ignore annoying me in the background. :)

2 Month Check-up

2010-04-12T17:49:00.001-06:00

Camden had his 2 month appointment today and everything went pretty well! He cried harder than I've ever seen him cry when he got his vaccines, but was quickly consoled once I was able to pick him up. He is such a sweet little guy. He is 10 pounds 13 ounces now (the 26th percentile) and 23 inches long (43rd percentile). He has a tiny head only the 12th percentile...think he got that from his tiny headed mother, me. Here are some things about him:

- He rarely cries and when he does it's a very calm one
- He LOVES to smile at his daddy - Lukas can almost always make him smile just by talking to him
- He coos and/or grunts all day long. We love how verbal he is.
- He loves to fall asleep in his swing.
- He loves to cuddle with us, which we love, but sometimes wants his alone time. He loves to sit up all by himself on the couch.
- When its bedtime and we put him in his bassinet he usually just coos until he falls asleep.
- He loves taking baths SO much and only gets sad when he has to get out.
- We got him a little gym (which you can see in the below pictures) and he just loves that thing. He loves batting at the toys and cooing and smiling.
- He already has such a cute personality and makes the funniest faces all day long.
- He only wakes up once a night to eat and goes right back to sleep (he's been doing this since he was 2 weeks old when we found out we didn't have to wake him up every 3 hours to feed him)
- He loves to stand up and always moves his arms and does a little dance.
- He is very obsessed with a few pictures/wall-hangings in our house. If he hasn't seen them in a while and spots them again he smiles.
- The past couple of days it has gotten warm enough to hang out on our grass on a blanket with him and he LOVES it out there.
- He loves going on walks in his stroller. Today we went for a walk to a duck pond in Provo and fed the ducks.
- He loves lifting up his head and looking at everything he can as fast as he can. I am sure he is going to be the most hyper little kid on the planet.

Okay, I could go on and on about my little man...but I'm sure I'm boring you by now.

Smiley Guy

2010-04-11T09:29:00.007-06:00

We have ourselves a smiley, happy, cute, sweet, perfect, wonderful son. Ok? We are loving being parents...loving isn't even a strong enough word. Here are some pictures we've taken the past couple days when we were able to catch some of those cute smiles.

He is 2 months old now. Crazy? Seems like he just entered our lives yesterday. He just now started to grow out of his newborn stuff. He is a small guy. His 2 month appointment is tomorrow so we'll let you know how that goes!

I took my blog off of private as you might have noticed. I think the creepers might be gone now. Hopefully.

PS> If you're wondering where all his hair went we buzzed it to make it all even. He was losing it on the top and in random spots like an old man. Can't wait for it to grow more and be even!

First Shoes

2010-03-24T15:01:00.003-06:00

Camden has had these little blue pair of shoes since before he was born. I didn't think they'd fit him ever so I never tried them. Today all of his normal clothes were dirty so I tried some 0-3 month clothes on him and they fit him! I then realized the blue shoes would match and put them on him. The clothes and shoes are a little big, but he just looks like a little adult. I took a video and some pictures. Here is the video and one of the pictures. He is six weeks old today and looks different every time I look at him. Stop that Cam!

Camden's Blessing

2010-03-24T14:55:00.002-06:00

Camden was blessed a week and a half ago and it was such a great experience. My entire immediate family was able to make it and that really meant a lot to me. Luke's parents and some of his extended family and our close friends also came. For some reason we didn't get that many pictures, but here are a few. His outfit was way too big for him, but he still looked like a little cutie anyhow.

Blogger won't let me upload pictures right now so CLICK HERE to go to facebook album. OKAY? Okay.

Thanks everyone for being a part of such an important day in our lil guys life.

moments

2010-03-23T10:57:00.000-06:00

i just wanted to jot down some moments i want to remember. the other night camden smiled at ME for the first time while awake. because he thought i was FUNNY! :) i made a funny noise and squeezed his cheeks and he smiled. that rocked.

yesterday morning at about 6 am he got a little fussy so we decided to let him go lay down by the heater because he loves that. then after about 45 minutes he started to make noise like, "hey, mom, come get me!". so i got up and brought him in bed with me and started to cuddle him and he smiled SO BIG. then he just laid there so still and fell asleep in my arms. if that is not the cutest moment of my life i dunno what is. my little baby being sooo happy to cuddle me? ok. i can die happy now.

i'm so excited that he is starting to know who we are and starting to smile while he's awake instead of asleep.

I LOVE BEING A MOM AND I LOVE THE CAMDY MAN.

Newborn Shoot :)

2010-03-11T16:44:00.002-07:00

Camden

2010-03-10T13:46:00.003-07:00

Okay, I know I need to start posting about my little man. He is 4 weeks old today and I haven't even blogged about him. BAD!

What can I say? We are having the times of our lives being parents. Camden is the most easy going, cuddly, sweet baby ever. We can tell he starting to be able to see a lot better and that is so fun. Here are some videos we took a week and a half ago when Grandma Olson was here staying with us (and helping us out a psycho lot). This was the first time that he smiled multiple times as a reaction while he was awake. It was a fun night. He did it about 6 times, but we didn't get them all on video, sadly.

I know, we seem like way bad parents in that last one. We didn't realize he was hungry and looking for Luke's boob until after. We feel bad for laughing at him when he was hungry. haha. Oh well, it was funny. For pictures you can visit my facebook album here. Don't worry you don't need a facebook account to see them.

We got a newborn photoshoot done with him when he was 2 weeks old and I haven't looked at them yet, but they are coming home with Lukas today. I'm so excited to see them and post them! Be excited too, please.

Videos - first born.

2010-03-10T12:32:00.000-07:00

Videos of Camden when he was first born. So cuuute.

Bad Me

2009-12-09T11:27:00.005-07:00

Oh man. I've been so bad at updating this blog, haven't I? Here I go...attempting to update people on the lives of Lukas and Casey and Camden.

About 2 months ago we moved into our new house in Springville and we are totally loving it. We love our new ward as well and with the almost 700 members I'm sure we'll be able to make a lot of friends! Also, with the over 60 babies born so far this year and the over 60 expected next year Camden will be able to find friends too! We couldn't be more blessed, or more happy.

For Thanksgiving we went to see my family in Arizona and it was a lot of fun. We're so glad we decided to go. I'm not gonna lie and say that I was comfy for the 12 hour drive, but I survived nonetheless! My wonderful friend Stacy threw me a baby shower while I was there and also took maternity photos of Lukas and I! We got a lot of great stuff at the shower and were overwhelmed by the graciousness of everyone there. We couldn't be more grateful and we had so much fun hanging up all his new clothes in his closet and putting his stuff on his shelves. SO FUN. Stacy has only edited 2 of the pictures so far, but here they are:

We are getting excited for Christmas. We actually bought a Christmas tree and decorated it all prettily. My whole family is going to be staying here at our house for Christmas and we're gonna have a blast.

The pregnancy is going well! Camden is getting really big and moving around a lot. His favorite time to go crazy is when I'm sleeping, but that's okay. He's my favorite thing to wake up to. We had a gestational diabetes scare when I failed the first test. I had to go take the dreadful 3 hour long one at the hospital where you have to fast forever and then get your blood drawn 4 times. It really was not fun. The results of that test made us happy though. I was just barely under the bar for having gestational diabetes and just have some insulin resistance. The doctor put me on a diet and I've been following it pretty well!

Okaaay, I know people have been asking for pictures of the house, but you'll just have to wait a little bit longer...cuz I'm too lazy to take them. :)

Luke's Demand

2009-10-11T23:32:00.003-06:00

I demand more pictures of Haylee, Erika, Sophie, Isabelle, Ethan, Caleb, Logan, Ben, and Emmy.

Thank you very much.

It's a .... (insert drum roll here)... BOY!

2009-10-05T21:24:00.004-06:00

The final gender poll results:
Boy: 6
Girl: 22

At first we thought that we must have really psychic friends when we saw the results were high on the girl end, but it turns out our friends are bad guessers. We're having a BOY!

Today, I was at work and Casey was texting me and saying that she wasn't feeling well. She was too excited to wait to go and find out what we were having. Nevertheless, she stuck it out. I came home and we went to have the ultrasound.

It was really weird, because we usually wait for like at least 20-30 minutes before we finally get in for the appointments, but today we got in really quick. We went in and the ultrasound tech started looking around, and said that our baby was being really shy. She couldn't find anything at first, so she went along with getting other measurements. Casey and I were so anxious. They got some good pics of the baby including a thumbs up showing that the baby approved of its parents.

Finally, after searching for a few EXTREMELY LONG minutes, it came into focus: our baby's "boyness," as the ultrasound tech called it. We both were in shock and so excited.

So, it's settled. The only people who were correct and told us before we found out were our Dads (and the people in the poll who just wanted to be different). Oh, and I guess the people who said, "I thought it was gonna be a boy; that was my first guess" after we told them it was a boy, and they had already guessed girl. (hehehe)

Here is the evidence:

We got really excited and celebrated by going out and buying a couple of cute outfits for the baby.

I'm really excited that I'm gonna be a dad, not a mom!

weirdness

2009-09-14T10:56:00.001-06:00

okay, so i just checked the results of the "gender poll" and 13 out of 13 people have said GIRL. not one person has voted that we're having a boy. pretty weird and funny if you ask me.

we will find out october 5th what the true gender identity is. if the answer is girl then we have some pretty psychic people in our midst.

Large Decisions

2009-09-01T13:34:00.005-06:00

So, first of all we have decided to stay in Utah for at least a few years and Lukas accepted the management position at his work. He really loves his job and we're really excited about it. Second of all, we realized that we hated paying rent since all that money was going to nothing each month. We decided to try to find a house as quickly as we could so that we could get in on the 8,000 tax credit deal. After talking with a loan officer and getting pre-qualified we realized it really was a possible thing for us to be doing right now. So, we found a house, made an offer and are currently under contract! EEEP. It's kinda scary, but also very exciting. We are soooo very excited to close on the house and move our happy bodies into it. The estimated close date is October 26th. Here are pictures, they are small cuz they are just from the listing. When we go back there for inspections we'll have to snap some more pictures with our personal camera. I honestly don't think these pictures even do it justice. It's BEAUTIFUL and PERFECT. :) Oh, also, it's in Springville and is 4 bedrooms 3 bathrooms (I know way bigger than we need right now, but we want to be able to sell it easily).

okey...

2009-08-11T18:07:00.005-06:00

Want to know some good news from the lives of Lukas and Casey?

Then click here!

:)

Crafty am I?

2009-07-11T15:12:00.006-06:00

So, I made my first craft ever basically. And I pretty much like it a lot. I made it from total scratch and I want to look at it for the rest of time and kiss it and love it.Lukas had a really good time in California and thinks the interview went well. He's dying to work for the lab because it'd be really fulfilling. We won't know for 3 weeks or so if he got the job and even if he does it'll be a couple months before he starts working after that. They said the government works slowly like that and they have to do so many security things that it takes forever. So even if we end up moving there we'll still be utahns for a while more! I'm gonna try to get Lukas to blog more about what he'd be doing cuz the stuff is way too intense for my brain to handle.

goodbye.

I'm a bloggin'

2009-06-30T10:38:00.007-06:00

Okay, well Luke is being a punky face and won't blog about being done with school. I was gonna let him do the honors, but OH WELL. Lukas took his last finals on the 17th of June and then on the 19th we headed to good ole Colorado to spend time with Luke's fam. We had a really great time and we love them to death.

Lukas has a job opportunity in California to work at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He'd be doing actual Bioinformatics stuff, not just Computer Science...which he is really excited about. He'd be working for the government so the benefits would be reeeeally yummy. He is flying out for the on-site interview on the 10th. We're hoping he gets the job and that the offer is substantially better than the one here to weigh out how much more it is to live there and stuffs.

OH. Hot Bliggity Blog has been doing really well! We get an average of 4,350 page loads and 1,055 unique visitors daily. Yesterday we got over 6,000 page loads. It has tripled in monthly views each month it's been running, which is really cool! We've been getting a lot of custom orders which are really fun for me to do and I make a lot more doing that than my normal job. I love it!!

AND, here is a video of Ethan singing into a cup. It is cute. I'm sure his parents will appreciate it. :)

OKAY, Okay, okay. I'll update.

2009-05-28T22:21:00.002-06:00

I've been asked many times lately, by many great people, to update. SO OKAY, I'll do it. Even though I feel as though my words bore the world.

First of all, my birthday is tomorrow...which leads to my next bit of news. Lukas was sneakily birthday shopping with my sister tonight when someone ran into them at Target...in our brand new car. Lukas then had to call me and tell me he wasn't really at school but in fact, with Brooke...birthday shopping for me. And had in fact had a run in with our beautiful lover of a car. They surprisingly hit us where the only scratch on our car was...so that's pretty happy I guess. We can still drive it but it's hard to turn left (Lukas says) because the fender hits the back tire.

Second of all, we are giving talks on Sunday. Scary. Why is that scary do you ask? Because I haven't given a talk since High School...it's been at least 7 years. I've only given the youth speaker talk which is very short. Plus I'm scared of public speaking....aaaaand I'm gonna stutter and speed talk my way through it.

Third (and last) of all, I have an amazing husband. And I love his cute, wonderful soul. He got one of my birthday presents in the mail a couple days ago and was too excited to not give me it immediately. So he did. And it's a wondermous camera and I love it with my hearty heart. If you were wondering...it's a Nikon P60 and it's black and sexy as can be. I want to do something special so I can take pictures like a mad woman. I guess my birthday will suffice. SO expect wonderful pictures of tomorrow...the day I turn 24. Jolly ho.

Goodnight. Time to play Dr. Mario with Lukas...because he just started playing in front of me and now I'm jealous and want to play too. :)

Hey...I blogged. Happy now my little friendsies?

Staying, for now.

2009-05-13T09:18:00.005-06:00

I thought I'd write a quick post and let everyone know that we declined two of the offers (one here and the Wisconsin one) after a lot of thought. The offer we have not declined is actually with the company Lukas already works for. Since he already works there we don't have to get stuck in a contract...which means we will be looking for jobs elsewhere. Mostly in Arizona and Colorado. We never had the chance to actually look for jobs yet, in places we would want to live...since the other companies found Lukas at a career fair last year. We'll update you, but we won't really begin the search until June since he's not done until the end of June.

Also, I have to show you something amazing that Lukas woke me up this morning to show me. I love it most dearly in my heart. See if you can tell which two songs it is. This is Jon Schmidt by the way...and some cello guy.
PS. Please watch until at least 3:18...where Johnny boy gets psycho pants on the pinano.

okay. bye.

Leaving or staying...that is the question.

2009-05-09T16:30:00.003-06:00

So, Lukas rocks. I love him. He has been offered 3 jobs this past week (all pf the ones he has interviewed for so far). Two of them are here in Provo, and the other is the one in Wisconsin. They are all good offers, but all have their different perks. This is a hard decision. We haven't decided if we're staying or going yet. But, we'll keep you updated. Here is a little picture of us outside our humble abode to feast your eyes upon. Aint that a lovely tree in our front yard? We think so...hence the picture.

By the way...this was originally a picture of just me in front of the house..and another of just Lukas. Yeah...I used my Photoshop skills to make it look like we were both in front of the house at the same time. Can you tell? Probably not...why? Because I rock.

I'm boring.

2009-05-03T15:21:00.001-06:00

I never know what to post about anymore. The blogger juice has drained out of my soul. Am I a lame head or what?

Chicago Fun

2009-04-27T12:12:00.004-06:00

Epic was nice enough to set it up so that we could fly out of Chicago instead of Madison so that we could go see Chelsea and Evan and Emmy! We are SO glad that we did this, it was so much fun. Chelsea took all of the pictures while we were in Chicago so we got no pictures of her, sadly. But, she is such a good photographer and we love the pictures she took. They live right in downtown Chicago so, we got to walk around and see the sights. It was wondermous in my soul. But, sadly...my body is kinda sore. I need to work out more this tells me. Also, our good friend Claude drove us from Madison to Chicago, which was very kind of him. Here are pictuuures.

We took pictures on our camera when we rode the train to the airport in Chicago yesterday. I have been too lazy to get the pictures off my camera. I will do that later tonight. So expect pictures from Madison, an update on how the interview went, and maybe those train pictures later.

The House

2009-04-20T21:36:00.005-06:00

Okay, I finally took some pictures of our house! Here they are!

The little fireplace is my favorite thing about the house. But you can't really see it that well in the pictures. OH WELL. :)

Young Soldier

2009-04-20T12:14:00.003-06:00

I know it's weird that I call Lukas "young soldier", we both have no clue where it came from or when it started. I have the best husband in the world...did you guys know? He is such a hard worker and I am so proud of him. I went to bed at 2 am last night after waiting for him for hours to be done studying and getting ready for his finals today. One of his finals was a presentation...so he was mostly working on that. I asked him this morning what time he finally got to bed...the answer astonished me. 5:30 am! What a trooper. I'm glad I didn't wait up for him any longer though. ;) He is in class right now waiting to do his presentation and then he has his LAST FINAL. We are both so excited for him to have this semester done and then only spring semester to go until he is done!

So, tomorrow is our last day in Provo before our trip! I have a pretty exciting thing going on tomorrow. I signed up to be a part of this research thing called EAGeR. It's for women who have had at least one pregnancy loss and who want to get pregnant again. Tomorrow is just kind of a "nice to meet you" appointment and stuff like that. As soon as I get my period they will give me this fertility monitor to help me know when I'm ovulating and stuff. They are also gonna give me free folic acid supplements and free pregnancy tests and stuff! This program is so cool. They help you get pregnant and then make sure everything is going ok during your pregnancy and monitor it very closely. They pay me for my visits and reimburse me for money spent on gas to get there. At 6 and a half weeks they are giving me a free ultrasound to make sure everything is going according to plan. This whole thing really excites me since I was left in the dark my last pregnancy. I had NO CLUE anything was wrong until my ultrasound...this made me so scared to get pregnant again. Now, I'm excited and less scared! When we were waiting for me to get my ultrasound at the hospital we saw the brochure for it. What a lovely study. You probably wonder what they are studying...it's the affects of aspirin in conceiving and pregnancy. They will give me the study pill that I have to take everyday when I get my period...it will either be a placebo pill or a baby aspirin. No one will know what it is until the end I guess? I kinda hope I get the aspirin since it's supposed to help women conceive and help the baby develop correctly.

I'm excited to go to Chicago and Madison, Wisconsin since I've never been to either place! This will be a very fun trip and will definitely get my mind off things. Yaaaay. Plus, the "free" word is the best part about it.

Okay, I wrote a lot of boring stuff. SORRY. :) Also, I guess this post was mostly about EAGeR instead of Lukas. Sorry for the misleading title. Goodbye.

Confusion in my brain

2009-04-18T15:52:00.002-06:00

Has anybody heard how long you are supposed to wait before you start trying to conceive again after getting a d&c. I'm confused. My doctor didn't tell me anything about that when I got my d&c. I have heard such mixed things...like 6 months, 3 months, one cycle, and YOU DON'T NEED TO WAIT. I've also heard that it's easier to get pregnant right after a d&c and I've also heard it's much harder. I'm confused...to say the least. I want to start trying NOW because I want to be pregnant again so badly, but I also hear that if you try right away your chance of miscarriage and infection increase. But I've also heard, that's not true.

I went to my cousins baby shower today and wow...her sister did such a great job planning it. I'm not gonna lie...it made me really emotional, but I'm glad I went and showed that I'm happy for her. It made me want to get pregnant again immediately though. I don't want to wait at all. What do I do? Help please.

Today is a good day.

2009-04-12T20:21:00.003-06:00

Today is good. Yesterday...pretty much the worst day ever. It is crazy how significant the difference in how I feel is. Before today the doctor had me taking this really mean little purple pill. Guess what this pill did? Contracted and shrunk my uterus until I died of pain. Yesterday my entire body hurt, literally every inch. I went to bed last night thinking I might die...I woke up in the middle of the night feeling exceptionally good. I prayed for like an hour...a prayer of gratitude. I all the sudden saw everything so clearly and realized that in the end I am grateful for this awful trial I went through. I learned so much that I never could have learned without actually going through it. I won't go into detail. But I am so grateful...which may sound weird. My heart is full and I am so excited to start trying to get pregnant again. This time I will be a much stronger, more compassionate, and grateful person.

So, yesterday all I did besides sleep and moan was keep my mind busy by being creative digitally. At first I made a lot of backgrounds for my website, then I re-designed my blog. THEN we began completely re-designing and upgrading our website. We just launched it a few minutes ago. Go check it out. It is very sexy, if I do say so myself. And there are a lot of new features! I will dance now as you look.

Go ahead...click on this button --->

Also, if it looks weird at first it's because your cache stored the old background image. So, simply hit 'ctrl' and 'f5' simultaneously. SHANKS.

Ummm.

2009-04-09T21:23:00.002-06:00

I'm getting the surgery done at 5:45 tomorrow morning. I guess maybe I should get to bed kinda soonish huh. Laaaame.

Update

2009-04-07T21:18:00.002-06:00

Okay, so since my body hasn't naturally passed the tissue...I have decided to get a d&c. It was a very hard decision, but it seems like it'll be the best so that I can actually move on. I still feel completely pregnant...with no cramping or spotting. I have had such bad morning sickness all day today. Tomorrow morning I am going to the hospital to get a transvaginal ultrasound just to make entirely sure before I get the operation. After that I will schedule it. I am very nervous...and most likely will not sleep tonight, just like the past few nights. I hope I will recover by Friday afternoon for my Grandma's funeral (she passed away yesterday).

One of my good friends is going through complications from a miscarriage she had last week. I am very worried about her and if you could keep her in your prayers that'd be great.

Happy stuff:

We found out we're going to be able to spend a few days in Chicago with Luke's brother Evan and his wife and daughter when we go to Wisconsin for the interview.

Our door has been very hard to unlock and every time I come home I'm scared I'm not gonna be able to get in if Luke isn't with me. Miraculously the maintenance guy came today to fix it...I guess the previous tenants put in a work order for it months ago and it wasn't taken care of yet!

I called our insurance to see what the total bill was so far for the pregnancy and they hadn't put the claims in yet. Only two lab charges were there...they were each hundreds of dollars...but for some reason we only had to pay a co-pay. Which really makes no sense because we are supposed to pay 100% of everything related to pregnancy. I was shocked and felt so blessed. I also found out that they cover complications of pregnancy and my d&c will be covered...when we originally thought we'd have to pay for the whole thing.

I loved conference and it has really helped me cope with every thing that has been going on.

Okay, that's all. I wish there was more.

Oh by the way...I LOVE EVERYBODY.

Kind of a weird day...

2009-04-01T21:54:00.004-06:00

Today started out really well. Lukas and I both kept saying WHOA EVERYTHING GREAT IS HAPPENING TODAY! We were both really excited for our appointment this afternoon since we were gonna hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time. We had an appointment set up after the OBGYN appointment to go buy a new car. Which was also really exciting.

Well, when we got there the doctor asked me some questions about if I had been tired and sick and I said yes. He said, "GREAT that's a sign of a healthy pregnancy". Yadi yadi. So then he says let's see if we can hear a heartbeat! I seriously said, "I hope so!" (I really thought at this point that nothing could possibly be wrong since everything has been normal throughout my whole pregnancy.) So he starts using the machine and trying to find it...it felt like years as he searched and searched and every second that went by I got a little more worried. We actually heard a heartbeat and Lukas and I both made a happy face and then the doctor said, "Sorry, that was your heartbeat...the baby's will be much faster than that." So after a few minutes the doctor decides to stop trying and says we need to get an ultrasound. Right away I could tell by the face on the ultrasound lady's face that something was weird. She wasn't talking at all and she just kept looking a little worried. She then said, "I'm so sorry". Right then I bursted out crying. Immediately Lukas ran to my side and hugged me and whispered that everything was gonna be ok. What a great husband I have huh? I am so in love.

I guess that my baby wasn't developing right so it died and then somehow absorbed into the sac? So there's no way to know when it happened. But the sac was still growing and so was my uterus and my body still thinks everything is fine. So, yeah. There isn't a live baby inside of me anymore. But, my body now just has to figure it out and naturally get the sac out. If that doesn't happen they will have to surgically take it out, which kinda scares me. Well, both ways scare me. So I guess all there is to do now is wait. I don't feel like it's completely hit me yet. I've been crying on and off all day when I think about it...but it still seems unreal. So, there you have it. I know we maybe should not have told so early, but we were just SO excited. And could not hold it in. Now we get the added bonus of letting everyone know what happened. I just want to get it done with quickly so we can start moving on.

Since we had set the appointment to go pick up our new car right after the Doctor's appointment...we wiped our tears and went. We are really excited about the new car and it's really reliable...which we can't say about our old car. It's a 2006 Honda Accord and it's sexy as can be. We were kinda glad we had something to take our minds off of it all for at least a little bit.

So there you have it. We will be ok...I just can't wait to be pregnant again and actually be able to hear a heartbeat! I want to be a mom so badly, and I know I will be. I guess the time is just not right for us right now.

Thanks for everyone's love and concern that they have already shown.

Annoyance.

2009-03-29T22:38:00.003-06:00

So, we had a long day in SLC yesterday and when we got back around 9:30 pm we were pretty exhausted. We then had to go to walmart because we needed T.P. and measuring tape to hang up our mirror...we were gonna finally take pictures of our place. So we get home and can't find the screw driver anywhere. We still have no clue where it is. BUT while we were searching Lukas says, "oh no". I was so scared about what he was gonna say. He says, "UH weren't we supposed to be completely out of our old apartment by today?!" Yeah, we moved out of there and never cleaned a thing and it was 11 pm and we realized we had to go make the place spotless. I was soooo tired, but we went and cleaned until about 1 am before we gave up. We probably won't even get our whole deposit back now. We hung up the mirror today with nails instead of the special screws you are supposed to use since we can't find the screw driver. But we didn't take pictures cuz I wanna clean some more. TOMORROW PEOPLE! So be excited in your bodies.

Grammie Fletcher

2009-03-27T22:46:00.006-06:00

Death is really hard. I know it's much harder for people out of the church, but it's still very hard..even knowing we will see them again. My mom came into town today to say goodbye to her mom who is about to die. Lukas and I drove her to Salt Lake to see her. It was really hard to watch my mom hugging her dying mother. Grammie mumbled for us to look through her jewelry and pick out some to take. After being with her for a minute we went into the bathroom to pick out some and my mom just broke down sobbing. It was really hard for me to watch and made me think a lot about life. How hard must it be for my grandpa to lose his wife who he's lived with the majority of his life. I really hope I die before Lukas because I won't be able to handle it. Luckily, I haven't had many people I am close to die. I need to learn how to handle it better. We will be going back to Salt Lake tomorrow to spend some more time with all the family that is in town and say goodbye to Grammie one last time. She will be missed, but will be in a better place.

Here is the piece of jewelry I picked out to remember my Grandma by:

New Spring Backgrounds

2009-03-27T11:54:00.006-06:00

We have made a lot of new spring/easter backgrounds lately on our backgrounds website. We've made 9 so far today. Go check them out!

Ugh

2009-03-25T19:53:00.001-06:00

I can't find my credit card. Who hates that? Me.

I'm 11 weeks today. Coolness. I hear the heartbeat next Wednesday. I'm excited pants.

Once I decorate this place I'll take pictures. Okay? Okay.

The Bellay

2009-03-22T12:34:00.010-06:00

Hey, I took my first belly picture on Friday. This is like the only shirt I can really wear now besides night shirts - my other ones look too tight and weird. I'm wearing it again right now actually. Yum.

Do I have twins in there or something because I feel like my stomach shouldn't be this big yet...the weird thing is I haven't really gained any weight according to my scale. I'm like losing weight other places and gaining in my stomach. Haha.

Free Vacation?

2009-03-20T11:58:00.003-06:00

So. Lukas interviewed for a Software Engineer job for Epic Systems just on campus about a month ago and since has been taking assessment tests and such. They now want to fly him out there for an interview (Madison, Wisconsin).
And guess what the best part is? They are paying for ME to come too! This will be a fun little vacation for us, even if we don't end up moving there. I know, it's cold there. But Madison is actually one of the top ranked places to live. Plus, Lukas went on his mission to that area, so that'd be real fun for him. We're excited for our little trip. His interview is on April 23rd so we'll be flying out on the 22nd, we believe. We haven't received our itinerary yet. But we're excited!

We're supposed to move on Monday, but guess what? Yeah, we haven't packed yet. We were gonna get workin on it yesterday but I felt so dang sick all day. I also now get the added bonus of Pregnancy headaches on top of my nausea. Great huh? :) We're going to this comedy club type thingy with some friends tonight instead of packing too. We have a long weekend ahead of us. Yes, we do.

Advice

2009-03-18T12:04:00.002-06:00

So, the OBGYN office called me the other day and informed me that my Pap smear results were "abnormal", but that they can't do a biopsy because I'm pregnant. This makes me immediately regret never getting one before I got married. They say I have to wait until I'm 26 weeks pregnant and they will do a Colcoscopy that will give them more conclusive results. Is it weird that I feel annoyed that I have to wait that long to see if I may have cervical cancer? GAH. That's a long time to wait. If any of you have ever gone through this and know a little about abnormal Pap smear readings then give me some advice. Or ease my mind or something. Hehe.

Also, my uterus hurts.

Goodbye.

Testing

2009-03-13T10:40:00.002-06:00

Blogger is being very weird. Some people say they never got an invite when Blogger says they have, Blogger is also changing addresses once I put them in. I know this is weird. In order for me to make sure everyone that asked received the invite I'm gonna need everyone who can see my page to make a short little comment showing me that they received it and everything is working properly. Sorry about this. If you don't comment, but your name is still listed on the invite list I will most likely remove it thinking it does not work properly anyway. Please comment. Thanks.

I've done it.

2009-03-12T10:58:00.005-06:00

As you all see now I finally made the switch. If some of you are annoyed because you use google reader or some other website to know when people post on their blogs and now you can't, I hear ya. I am going to be using my old blog so that people can still be notified. Add that blog to your feeders and whenever I post on this blog I will announce it on my old blog so that people are notified. That's the best I can do!

Also, thanks to everyone who have visited hotbliggityblog.com and super thanks to those who have used a background and are helping promote the website.

I know, it's late. ok?

2009-03-11T00:31:00.005-06:00

But, I'm up late...because we've been working on OUR NEW WEBSITE. It's finally done, for now...until we change it up more. My friend Alisa and I had the idea when I started making layouts for fun, she rocks at website making. Plus, Lukas has been helping me tonight as I fine tuned all the details, he's such a great husband. So here she blows. Please visit it, use the free backgrounds, and spread the word!

Hot Bliggity Blog

Also, I will be switching to private tomorrow night so if you haven't emailed me yet, please do. I have loved finding out all of the people that like to look at my blog that I didn't know looked. It's been so much fun for me.

Goodnight peoples.

The 6th Picture

2009-03-09T12:13:00.007-06:00

I was tagged by my radical sister in law Aubony to put the 6th picture from the 6th file on my computer on here and explain it. I guess I'll do this before I go private, since I'm still waiting for more people to email me and see the post.Now for the explaining. When Lukas and I were dating I got two bug bites on my neck that were close to each other and I called it my vampire bite. One day when we were hanging out I was like, "HEY I think my 'vanpiper' bite is almost gone". I then realized what I had said and we laughed together about how weird that sounded. Later that night I got on my computer and the desktop image was this...Lukas had made this little drawing of him as a "vanpiper" in paint and put it as my desktop image. He's so weird and funny.

The end.

Going Private

2009-03-08T19:20:00.003-06:00

I thought that I would never do this, since I like people being able to know when I post, but I feel like it's the best thing right now. I have been hearing a lot of stuff about kidnappings because of people watching your blog and finding out where you live and wanting your baby. I kinda want to keep my baby...so that is why it has come to this. If I know you in any way at all, I will be glad to send you an invite to my blog. Don't be embarrassed if you don't know me that well, but still want to look. As long as I know you aren't a kidnapper I'll be flattered that you like it! Send me an email to caseylyn@gmail.com and let me know which email you use for your blogger account and I'll invite ya. Oh. Or just leave a comment with your email. That works too.

Thanks.

Dang happy news

2009-03-05T11:47:00.004-07:00

Since the prenatal appointments are so expensive and we found out that we have to fully pay for them until we reach our deductible we started looking around for a cheaper place to live. We had no idea we'd find such a good deal, but we did. In about 2 weeks we'll be moving into an awesome 2 bedroom house for 100 dollars less a month. It's only a block away so the move will be really easy. We just got back from signing the contract. We posted our apartment last night on craigslist and ksl and a lot of people wanted our apartment. So it was easy to sell our contract. Everything just worked out so perfectly and we are ecstatic about our new place. This is the only picture we have of it, sadly.

BOOYA.

The Appointment

2009-03-04T18:52:00.003-07:00

So, it wasn't as painful or dreadful as I thought it was going to be. Granted it was a little weird and uncomfortable getting my pelvic and breast exams. ;) I guess I'm just going to have to get used to that eh? The doctor said that my uterus is measuring at 8-9 weeks...and I'm only 8 weeks! So the little bugger is growing beautifully. Happy eh? The best part of the appointment was that the nurse was able to get my vein on the very first try when taking my blood. This is not a usual occurrence for me. Usually about 20 nurses have to try and they all miss and I have bruises and I'm crying by the end. It was pretty magical if ya ask me.

Cross your fingers...

2009-03-04T11:41:00.000-07:00

something very happy might happen to us.

hey,

2009-03-03T11:39:00.000-07:00

I have my first prenatal appointment tomorrow.

Any advice?

Weirdness

2009-03-02T12:29:00.002-07:00

So yesterday my right calf muscle started hurting when I'd walk and it just got worse and worse. I tried to have Lukas rub it last night before bed but it just hurt way too badly. This morning when I got up I couldn't walk at all it hurt way too bad. This kinda weirded me out so I started wondering if it could have something to do with my pregnancy since I know I never hurt it. I started researching and it turns out it IS to do with my pregnancy. My baby has taken all my iron and potassium and that is what has caused this. So right now I'm trying to drink one of my smoothies since there is a banana in there. Hopefully this will start helping and I won't throw up the smoothie. JUST STAY DOWN LITTLE GUY.

Ummm, yeah.

2009-02-27T11:25:00.013-07:00

Sorry guys, the million sub giveaway is over at Quiznos. It only lasted the day I posted about it and then they were all gone, I should have posted about it the day before that. Oh well. Some of you I know got them.

Also, I have made about a billion blog layouts...but my website isn't up and running yet, sadly. It will be...ready? Hotbliggityblog.com ... isn't that cute? haha. But yeah, don't go there because it's not even started yet. I have all the layouts to put on once it is though. My best friend Alisa and I are doing it together and she is the website maker and has been too busy to do it.

I have been thinking a lot lately about when Lukas and I were dating and engaged. We knew right from the start that we'd marry each other and were so crazy about each other and inseparable from the start. My favorite thing that we did together was go to the Provo temple every night and read the scriptures and the eternal marriage manual. I always learn so much reading with him...he's a smartay. Here are some pictures of that time that make me smile.

Oh man, I am so glad that I found him. How lucky am I? We are so happy and so grateful for our marriage.

You Gotta Get This Guys

2009-02-25T10:55:00.003-07:00

Okay, so yesterday Lukas and I signed up on here and each got a free sub from Quiznos for dindin. I love free stuff. Just click HERE and you can have free lunch or whatever ya want. Quiznos is so yummalicious too. Mine took me a few meals to eat since I can't eat very much at a time, but I almost finished it the third time and then Lukas ate the rest. Haha.

I am 7 weeks along now. I seem to be getting more and more sick and throwing up more and more times daily. Happy huh? No. I haven't gotten my 7 week email yet...they don't send it until the afternoon. Kinda lame. My first appointment is next Wednesday, I'm kinda scared for it I'm not gonna lie. It's gonna be a painful one. Wish me luck that I become tough suddenly.

Bye all. Get a SAMMICH.

Likey?

2009-02-22T19:21:00.002-07:00

I made my blog all weird and different and wide and stuff. I was sick of the post section not being wide enough. Tell me if you like it. OKAY?

It is time...

2009-02-19T11:04:00.005-07:00

...for another post. Not much has gone on lately, I haven't left the apartment all week...I've been feeling rotten lately. Luckily I've been able to work from home since my job rocks.

Our Valentine's Day was very grand. Lukas made me a homemade card, brought me roses,

we went to Los Hermanos for lunch (my fave), made a salmon candlelight dinner,

watched a movie together on our pull out couch, and I got inside a big pile of warm laundry.

It sure was a great night and actually the last day before I started feeling as rotten as I do now.

I am six weeks along now, which is pretty cool. I have been getting these weekly emails from babycenter.com about the baby's development which make me happy. Here is a snippet from this week's email: "This week's major developments: The nose, mouth, and ears that you'll spend so much time kissing in eight months are beginning to take shape. If you could see into your uterus, you'd find an oversize head and dark spots where your baby's eyes and nostrils are starting to form. His emerging ears are marked by small depressions on the sides of the head, and his arms and legs by protruding buds. His heart is beating about 100 to 160 times a minute — almost twice as fast as yours — and blood is beginning to course through his body. His intestines are developing, and the bud of tissue that will give rise to his lungs has appeared. His pituitary gland is forming, as are the rest of his brain, muscles, and bones."

So, yeah. That is my life right now. Just trying to deal with the weird changes my body is making that make me so sick and tired and moody. Haha. I haven't eaten real food all week, just crackers and tortillas and bread and pickles. Hopefully soon I'll feel up to eating some real food.

Lukas has been looking for jobs in Arizona and I have been looking at the cheap, lovely houses there. We so hope he finds a job there so we can buy one of them. Keep your fingers crossed for that!

More Adventures with Claudius Montivideus

2009-02-13T17:31:00.009-07:00

Claude Scott, of Wisconsin, made a visit with us a few weeks back. For those of you who don't know, I met Claude on my mission. He loves the missionaries, and he and I have become particularly good buddies. He is crazy. He calls Mom and Evan (and soon, Spencer... sorry buddy) all of the time. He calls me pretty much every day (sometimes every other day) and rebukes me for stealing his girlfriend (he met Casey right when she and I started dating, and had a crush on her).Whenever he comes to Utah, he makes a visit to our place (see this post from a long time ago when he visited and did the hula with Casey's sister, Brooke).

This year, he was in for a special treat.

When he got to our house, he asked if we had any food. We gave him a slice of pizza, but then he became thirsty. We gave him a drink of Tampico, which he found to have an interesting, tangy taste.

Well, he was still hungry after the pizza. We asked him if he wanted some Ramen, and he said that he did. He asked if we had any hot sauce, so we gave him some, and he poured it on his Ramen.

It turns out, he thought it was "Tobacco" (Tabasco) sauce, but it was actually Sriracha sauce, which is much hotter. He then proceeded to add Tabasco sauce and soy sauce to his Ramen, which didn't help, as you will see.

It is always exciting when Claude comes around.

My New Love - da lovelay healthay smoothay

2009-02-11T21:40:00.003-07:00

Well, we took Luke's mom's idea and now make the famous smoothies I used to be a little scared of. So far we've made them with frozen strawberries, a banana, milk, orange juice, and BABY SPINACH LEAVES. I know, that's the scary part. But guess what? You cannot taste them at all and can only see little tiny green specks. Haha. I gotsta get my greens somehow eh? It makes me feel real good inside that I'm being healthy. We also bought multi-grain bread at costco and it's real yummy. If you have any healthy smoothie ideas for me do tell do tell.

We got our drums and microphone finally for Guitar Hero and MAN has it been fun. Luke is way good at those drums, I'm good too...on medium.

I'm 5 weeks along now. This pregnancy is going to go so slowly, I can feel it. I just want the baby here so badly already. GAH.

Luke has been going to a couple interviews for potential jobs for when he's done with school. He has another tomorrow afternoon so wish him luck!! Luke may do a post soon about Claude and post the new videos we have from when he came to visit. You should be excited, they're hilarium in a bottle.

Changes.

2009-02-08T17:33:00.003-07:00

Well, there have been a few changes in our lives lately that I will share ok? ok. One being that the company I work for rocks so much. They have been so understanding about the pregnancy and how I can't work as much anymore. The president of the company called me on Friday and congratulated me and told me that since I may not be working as much they will be switching my job duties. They switched me to data entry, which is what I wanted to do in the first place and said I can work as little or as much as I want and they will just work around me. Isn't that amazing? Most companies do not do that. So that takes a lot of stress off of me. I was scared before because I didn't want to be in the middle of a call and have to throw up suddenly. That would have been really awkward. But now, no worries. Just jolliness.

Secondly, Lukas and I got a new calling. We are now Ward Missionaries! I had no idea until now how much Ward Missionaries actually did. This week we have to go to every home in one geographical area, knock on doors, and find out who lives there. We will then look through records and determine who we need to reach out to. I guess there are only two full time missionaries assigned to six Stakes here. So, they really need help. We will be teaching all the lessons and the actual missionaries won't step in until baptism. We got set apart and had our first meeting today. I was very very nervous about it until I got set apart. It was an amazing experience for me, our Bishop is truly amazing. Also, I'm so grateful to have a husband who served a full time mission, it makes it a lot easier that he isn't nervous at all. He says he'll do all the talking until I feel comfortable and get the hang of it. What a stud huh?

So, I've been reading about the baby's development and this week the baby's organs are starting to develop. So it's a pretty important week! I've been trying to eat as healthy as I can without feeling too sick. My mornings consist of just eating saltine crackers until I feel well enough to try something else. I also wake up frequently during the night because of my new nightmare situation and I always feel SO HUNGRY so I eat crackers then as well. I try to eat them kind of quietly though, to not wake up Lukas. Chewing seems so much louder when you are trying to be quiet.

We are so very blessed and so very happy and so very great and love each other so very much. YEAH.

the happiest news of our little lives

2009-02-04T20:36:00.004-07:00

Remember all that talk about me being baby hungry? Well, now I have a baby that is making me hungry. So yeah. Pretty exciting eh? I don't think it's totally sunk in yet. As of now I'm just sick and tired all the time. I haven't gone to my job the past two days because of it. Dangy. I hope that I start to not feel so sick all the time. It's weird because I feel sick when I'm hungry but I don't feel like eating and then I eat anyway and I feel sick still but a different kind of sick. Does that sound familiar to any of you mothers out there? Lukas so kindly went to the store tonight and bought me ginger ale and saltine crackers. The crackers really help me, so yay! Oh by the way, we're about a month along and our due date is approximately October 14th.

I CANNOT WAIT TO HOLD MY LITTLE TINY BEBEBEBEBEBE. I'm more excited than anything. ever.

Goodbye.

Updatey

2009-01-31T13:25:00.004-07:00

Well, I've had some requests to update everyone about my new job and how it's going. The reason I haven't done this is because I've been so busy and so tired after work. The reason I've been so tired is because I haven't exactly been doing the job I will be doing yet. They bought some new offices in the building so my first day I was moving desks and setting up new desks and chairs and working my little hiney off. This was not good for my neck and back might I add. I wasn't able to rest enough to get it on the mend until today, it's felt way good to be able to lay down when it hurts me. But we did this for a couple days and I've also been working on sending out 1,000 some odd packets to potential clients. We have to send all of them out before we can start calling them. So yeah. That has been a lot of work. I'm hoping we can finish them all on Monday. Right before I left on Friday everyone moved to their new offices and desks and I was assigned my desk. Yay huh? My computer hasn't come in yet, I'm excited for that a leetle bit. So, it's been going alright but I really haven't started doing my actual "job" yet. If that makes any sense. We'll see how the calling goes, I'm a little nervous about it...but I hope I'll do alright.

So, right now I have dye all over my little head. Cool eh? It kind of itches and I can't itch it or I'll get dye on my hands. I hate this feeling. haha.

At 3 we're going to the temple with Nate and Stephanie and then we're going to the spaghetti factory. I've never been there, I'm very excite. Tomorrow they're having a super bowl party at their place. Yeah buddy!

Ten minutes until I wash my hair out, I'm gonna go see how little Lukey is doing. Ok bye.

Welp...

2009-01-26T12:14:00.002-07:00

...I start my new job tomorrow morning bright and early. I hope that I will be able to sleep tonight. I've been having troubles sleeping lately. On Saturday night Lukas and I played so much Mario that I dreamed all night that I was Mario, jumping on blocks across lava and stuff. I kept waking up after each level I completed...to celebrate? Who knows. We need to stop playing so much bintendo (that's what we call it ok?), but it's fun. In the past few days we've completely beaten Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario World. We're proud of ourselves ok? .

I will need to actually sleep tonight and wake up early forevermore. Wish me the luck inside of you ok? ok bye.

Bummer.

2009-01-20T15:15:00.007-07:00

Well, I'm a little regretful today. Since my Uncle is Bob Bennett, one of the senators of Utah, we could have gotten tickets to the Inauguration. The only thing that held us back was the money it would have taken to fly Luke and I to DC...and taking time off work and school wouldn't have been good either. My brother actually got a ticket and went with the Bennetts and our cousins the Stacks. He found out yesterday that he'd be sitting in the V.I.P section on the stage. He ran into Steven Spielberg, Leonardo Dicaprio, Denzel Washington, Arnold Schwarzennegger, Magic Johnson, and John Cusack on the stage before it started. On cnn.com they have something called "the moment" where they combined thousands of pictures to make a 3-D image of the moment he was inaugurated. I went on there and searched the crowd for my brother and took a screen shot of him. He looks cold. He's the one in the red beanie.

Here is him and Spielberg.

So, Lukas and I could have been there for this moment in history. But we weren't. And that's the regretfullness of today. This would have been a crazy cool experience. Watching it all by myself on tv was pretty cool too, I guess.

New Job?

2009-01-16T14:14:00.002-07:00

Exciting news everyone, exciting news. In a couple of weeks I'm going to start working where LUKAS WORKS! I'm very excited because Lukas loves his job, he is constantly talking about how much he loves the company and how well they treat him. I've never been treated as well as he does at a job. Plus, now I get free massages and haircuts and snacks too. hehehehe. I like that. I'm not gonna lie though, I'm a little nervous. Starting new jobs always gives me the heebeegeebees.

Also, I have a new obsession. Photoshop. I've never used photoshop before...until now. I just got it the other day and ever since that's all I've done. I edited all our engagement pictures already and most of our wedding ones. They look a BAJILLION times better now. Our photographer never edited them...stupey guy. But yeah, ones I never liked I love now. Also, you should want to take a looksy down at the Cruise pictures. I edited a lot of them and they're much more perdiful now. I may put a slide show on here of some engagement and wedding pictures I edited. Shall I?

DDR workout?

2009-01-14T17:14:00.004-07:00

I have a new years resolution guys. Ready? To burn 300 calories on Dance Dance Revolution a day. There is a workout mode on there! You put your weight in and put how many calories you want to lose and it does non-stop songs until you meet your goal. It's like jump-roping for a long time straight. It really is a workout. I know this may seem like a silly workout to most people...but COME ON! I haven't worked out a day in my life. Okay, that's a lie...years ago I ran everyday for like a week. But yeah, I figure I should probably start shedding off the pounds I gained from the cruise...and from being on birth control. Now that I'm off of that stuff I want to get back to my old self again. So here I go...

Shingles?

2009-01-12T12:30:00.002-07:00

Okay, so about a week ago Lukas and I noticed these blister-type things forming on Luke's shoulder and neck. They just seemed weird at first, but didn't bother him too much. They just got worse and worse from there on out. He couldn't really describe what they felt like, they'd sting and burn and itch. They started getting blackish in the center. Some were huge and by themselves and others were small and in a huge patch of them. Last night Lukas couldn't sleep because they were bothering him so badly...I saw him get up and I thought he was sleepwalking. I laid there scared for a while and then peeked out in the living room to see what was going on. I was very relieved to learn that he was acting normal. Okay, so we went to the dermatologist this morning and we were informed that he has Shingles. I guess this usually only occurs in old people. But stress can also cause it to surface...and poor immune systems. We think it's pretty weird that they appeared right after the most relaxing week of our lives. But we got a couple prescriptions and hopefully they will start to feel better rather quickly. The sad thing was that we learned Luke's health insurance doesn't have pharmacy coverage right before we found out one of the prescriptions was $387...ridiculous huh? We called the doctor and had him call the pharmacy and yadi yadi we luckily got a different one filled that was much much cheaper. So we came home and I had a job interview at 1, but Luke's bike wasn't working so he had to take the car. Therefore, no interview for me.

Also, that video was my first time ever using that electric toothbrush. My mouth is much more used to it now. But man, that was the most tickley thing I've ever felt in my mouth parts. But thanks Dad Olson for giving us that...my teeth always feel especially sparkley clean when I'm done brushing. It's magical I tell you. I feel like smiling all around the world.

Okay, I think I'll go use our magnificent shower head now. All of you out there wanting to get one too, just do it. Okay? Okay.

Shower heads, tooth brushes, and my cute wife

2009-01-09T21:59:00.006-07:00

We were pampered by the cruise. We loved the shower heads that you can detach and that have several settings. So, we splurged and bought one for ourselves. We had a heck of a time putting it on. It was ridiculous. Actually, putting it on was easy. Removing the old one was the difficult part. We attempted to unscrew the old shower head, but the entire pipe came loose and unscrewed because the shower head was on so tightly. So we ended up buying the pipe (wall mount) as well. Then, after I had bought the new pipe, I went back home and unscrewed the shower head really easily. Weird, eh? Anyway, it's now installed and showering is a magical journey.When we got back from the cruise, we had my dad find us an electric toothbrush. We started using it, and it is a tickling fest in the mouth. Here is a video of Casey that is evidence:

Wow, she is hilarious and cute.

Holiday Cruise Post Time

2009-01-06T10:55:00.041-07:00

I will apologize in advance for all of the pictures...it was hard to narrow them down and so yeah...there are a lot. I'm going to put all of them on Picasa so that everyone in the family can view them and download them. I just haven't finished doing that yet. I'll let everyone know when I do.

Okay, so the trip...amazing. Thanks so much Mom and Dad Olson for the amazing memories and experiences. It was so cool to get to know Luke's family better since I had only seen most of them one or two times. They are all so wonderful and I'm so glad to be part of their family now! Okay here we go...picture time.

The name of the ship was Ms Oosterdam and the cruise line was Holland America. The ship was so nice...if you are thinking about going on a cruise I highly recommend Holland America.

When we got on board they just directed us directly to the buffet on the lido deck. There was so much food, I was astonished. Throughout the cruise there was always food at the lido deck...unlimited good food all the time. We went there at like 11 o'clock every night to pig out. Good idea? I think not. Fun idea? Yes. So after that we went to our rooms and zonked out for a few hours until the safety drill or whatever. This is me in my life vest.
Each night we had dinner at the Vista Dining Room. This is us at dinner that first night. We have no idea at this point how much fun we're gonna have. I felt rich each night as the waiters pulled out my chair and put my napkin on my lap. It was a weird feeling.

Anniversary
Yes, we spent our anniversary on the ship. How great is that? It was our second sailing day and the first of two formal nights on the ship. At dinner they sang "happy anniversary" to us to the happy birthday tune...and gave us this anniversary cake. Great eh?

After leaving dinner we returned to our rooms to find our very first towel animal waiting on our bed. Each night they left a different one...it rocked. If you want to see more of them, they will be on the picasa web album I'm gonna make.

Fun on the ship
There was always really fun stuff going on while we sailed. My favorite were the shows they had each night. My favorite show was the magic show. The Magician was amazing. Best magic I've ever seen. The Singers and Dancers were a little on the corny side for me. I also liked the juggler/comedian. Here is a picture of some of us eating lunch at the dining room. I'm mad that I didn't get a picture of all 14 of us together.

We just had to get a picture with this weird bench. If you can't tell we're imitating the weird blue haired men things.

Puerto Vallarta
Our first port was Puerto Vallarta. This is us being weirdos right after getting off the ship.

Look how pretty the beaches were. It was like a jungle. I liked.

Mazatlan
In Mazatlan we went around downtown and then caught a water taxi to the beach. The coolest thing we saw downtown was this church. It was amaaazing. This was new years eve day.

There were birds everywhere and I could barely scare them away they were so used to people. It was weird. This is me trying to run around and be scary to them.

At the beach Lukas and his brothers caught so much sea-life. This was just one of the many starfish they caught. They also caught a couple crabs, one hermit crab, and a clam. We put them all in a bottle and took them "home".

New Years Eve

Yes, we got to spend New Years on the ship. I'm not gonna lie...it was the funnest New Years Eve of my life. It was the other formal night.

The complimentary champagne we joked about selling the entire trip. I think his parents still may sell it...they took it home. Also, Luke wearing my mexican skirt on his head and being his weird self.

We bought this really cool shell thingy on the Mazatlan beach from this really really nice guy. He was selling them for just a dollar and you could tell he put so much work into them. He wanted to give me a free one too, but I wouldn't let him. When we told him we were from Utah he asked if we were Mormon, we said yes, and he told us he was too! You can't see it too well, but it's a turtle made out of shells on the side of those shells. It also says Mazatlan on it.

They had this dance party thing out on the deck while everyone waited for midnight. It was so much fun. We danced the night away. It was so beautiful too...there were ice sculptures and stuff. Lukas and I had never danced together in public before...kinda weird. We've only danced around our apartment and in our kitchen.

The New Years kiss. A big piece of confetti-ish ribbon landed right on my face right as we kissed. Haha.

Cabo San Lucas
Our last, and favorite, port was Cabo San Lucas. It was the most beautiful place I've ever been to. We are going to go back there and just stay in a hotel someday...we hope. The ship couldn't dock at the shore because the water wasn't deep enough so we had to ride tenders (life boats things) out to the port. From there we took a water taxi to the beach, it was a glass bottom boat...we saw hundreds of tropical fish under the boat. We were able to go on a tour before stopping at the beach...we're so glad we did. You'll learn why.

We stopped to drop some people off before our tour began at a different beach. We were the only ones on the tour. Look how cool this beach is...but don't worry Lover's Beach was much betta.

On the tour we came up to this rock with at least 30 Sea Lions on it. It was the coolest thing ever. I've never seen anything so cool in the wild. After this picture was taken we got even closer to them...we coulda touched them. But, too scary.

Lover's Beach was amazing. This was the Gulf of Mexico side of it, but on the opposite side was the Pacific Ocean...where we spent most of our time.

Right when this picture was about to be taken Lukas spotted like 20 black crabs on the rock behind us. That is why we're turned around and pointing. You can see our ship in the background.

This is the Pacific Ocean Side. The Water Taxi Driver called it "divorce beach". He also told us not to swim in there because there was a rip tide. We were daring and did it anyway because it was SO FUN. The waves were so powerful. It would just make us body surf all the way out to shore and then pull us all the way back out. We couldn't control it at all. It was a blast. Lukas and I were in there for the whole time mostly. We only stopped once to Snorkel.

The Last Night
After Cabo San Lucas we had one more sailing day and then disembarked the following morning. The last night was extra special. Dinner was a little bit earlier than most nights, but that was because it took longer. The waiters had many things in store for us.

Lukas put his glow stick in there. He's cute huh? You'll see where we got the glow sticks from in the videos below.

We got to get a picture with all of our waiters throughout the week and our beverage waiter (in red). They were awesome.

Here are videos of dinner that last night. It was fun. They did dances and marched around to put our napkins on our laps and then to give us our salad and then to give us our baked alaska dessert. That is where the glow sticks came in. They then all sang a farewell song and danced, but I didn't put that video on here.

Hopefully someday, when we can afford it, we can go on another Cruise. Thanks so much for giving us the greatest trip of our lives.

I have the cutest nieces and nephews EBER.

2009-01-05T14:44:00.013-07:00

Before the cruise I got to spend some time with the nieces and nephews I never get to see. It was so fun watching all of them open their presents on Christmas, it was awesome. I didn't get to see Logan and Ben which I was sad about. I also didn't get any pictures of Haylee and Erika(the oldest nieces) which I'm also sad about. Emmy (9 months) and Caleb (6 months) got to come on the cruise with us. Having them come made it so much more fun for me...I lub dem. Here are some pictures and movies of the cuties.

Emmy and Me - taken on New Years Eve

Isabelle and Caleb and Luke...taken on Christmas Eve.

Me and Caleb on the patio thingy outside Mom and Dad's roomMe and Emmy at the beach in Puerto Vallarta...our first stop. We then went to Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas.
>Me Caleb and Ethan - taken right before we came back to Utah last night.

Luke and Isabelle on Chrippus (that's how my dad says Christmas)

Me and Cute Emmy. I'm in Mommo's robe cuz I was cold. ;)

Caleb and Sophie and me on Christmas eve. Aren't they adorable?! Ah, I already miss them.

Now for the movies. All of them taken on the Cruise besides the first one.

I am way way WAY baby hungry now. So watch out. ;)

I'll do the cruise post in a little...maybe manana.

My Oh My

2009-01-04T21:50:00.003-07:00

I know I already posted about my not likingness towards airports, but we've had bad experiences this trip. Flying from Provo to Colorado to begin our trip our plane was delayed 8 hours...until 5 am. Luckily we were able to get on an earlier flight so we only ended up waiting a few hours. Right now were are waiting at the Denver aiport...our flight is delayed once more. It was supposed to leave about 20 minutes ago...we've been here for about almost two hours now and have about another hour and a half to wait. Hopefully it doesn't get delayed further. At least this airport has internet! We will probably get home about 2 am and Lukas has school in the morning. I don't know why I'm blogging about this... most likely because I'm bored out of my brain parts. I don't feel like doing the blog post about Christmas and the Cruise right now...it's gonna be a doozy. We took hundreds of pictures and had the times of our lives. I won't even be able to explain the intense fun I had and I'll want to put every picture on. Haha. Don't worry, I won't. Ok I'm gonna take this Christmas layout off now and replace it with another layout I made. Goodbye. But be expecting a very happy post soon.

We Lied.

2008-12-22T14:44:00.005-07:00

Once Lukas was done wrapping my gifts on Saturday we were both really anxious to open them...I mean all those presents were just sitting there...all by their lonesome. So we made a deal...Lukas said "we'll watch one Friends and one Seinfeld episode and if either Christmas or Presents are mentioned we will open our gifts tonight". I thought that was a pretty good idea, so we did. In the Friends episode Chandler gave Janice contact paper for his drawer as a gift...that was our answer! It's really not that bad guys...we were gonna open them tonight anyways. We took a lot of pictures. Here are some of them.
We were really excited...I don't know why I'm holding his chin like that. Looks like I'm forcing him to look excited. Bad. haha. I wasn't though, right babe?

Lukas is funnay....

Yes, Elixir nano-web guitar strings. Do I rock or what? Haha...I found out those were good from Jared. Sadly, I don't know which Guitar Strings are best on my own. Although, I could have guessed at the guitar store seeing as these were a lot more money than the rest. Haha.

I have wanted these for so long...HAPPY.

THE FORMAT!!! My favorite band. I wear my one Format shirt like every day. Yay, now I have diversity.

What a lovely disaster.

I put on my clothes immediately...they don't match too well. OH WELL.

Lukas stringing his guitar (I got for him for Christmas last year) with the new striiiiiiings. Well those are the old ones coming off in this pic. But you know what I mean. It had gotten all dusty since he's had a broken string for so long. Good, now he'll play more.
They're all on. Happy. And now he is playing gorgemous Christmas tunes. I will record that now. (were my thoughts I reckon)

We lined up all the presents on the bed so that we can remember what we got each other our first Christmas being Marriiiiiiiiiied. (Luke's cute idea)

Oh yeah, Luke's a cheater. He made a budget for us to spend on each other and I followed that budget and HE DIDN'T! I demanded that I get him more when I saw how much he got me, but he won't let me. SNEAKY HEAD.

The Olsons

Life Lately

Ashlyn Brooke

Monkey Boy

Buds

Blogging...I am.

18 Months

The Curse Breakers.

Oh my heck?

Ball Lover

Best of Friends

Future Soccer Player

Partaaaay

12 Month Percentiles

Welp, he's a toddler.

The Walker

Chrippus 2010

9 Months Old

Rubber Ducky Lover

More Crawling Bideos

Pictures and Videos

Personality

Crawly Man

Fast Learner

Oh dear.

My Boys

Growing Up

6 months old? What the buh!

Words

5 Months Old

Our Laughy Guy

Oopsie Poopsie

New Walker

So tell me...

Growing Up

More Videos

Morning Cam

2 Month Check-up

Smiley Guy

First Shoes

Camden's Blessing

moments

Newborn Shoot :)

Camden

Videos - first born.

Bad Me

Luke's Demand

It's a .... (insert drum roll here)... BOY!

weirdness

Large Decisions

okey...

Crafty am I?

I'm a bloggin'

OKAY, Okay, okay. I'll update.

Staying, for now.

Leaving or staying...that is the question.

I'm boring.

Chicago Fun

The House

Young Soldier

Confusion in my brain

Today is a good day.

Ummm.

Update

Kind of a weird day...

Annoyance.

Grammie Fletcher

New Spring Backgrounds

Ugh

The Bellay

Free Vacation?

Advice

Testing

I've done it.

I know, it's late. ok?

The 6th Picture

Going Private

Dang happy news

The Appointment

Cross your fingers...