THE LANG FAMILY

Trafalga

2012-01-31T09:51:00.005-07:00

Well it has been quite some time since I have blogged... I will have to eventually update Christmas and everything else in between. We have been doing good. The kids are getting big; it's weird to me that I have kids. period. and then to add how old they are is just crazy to me. For Christmas, my brother and his wife gave me and Curtis a gift certificate to Trafalga. Since we hadn't been to the one in Lehi, we thought we'd give it a shot. It was a lot of fun! We took the kids and Curtis' sister, Celeste, came with us too! We decided just to do the arcade and got like 140 tokens. Shaylie got to do the bowling and us adults spent the majority of our time on the big wheel of fortune, Deal or no Deal and the bass fishing game. We ended up with about 1000 tickets. Shaylie was pretty excited to get a little turtle stuffed animal. And of course, Ozzy was thrilled about the ball he got. While we were there, Shaylie kept begging to play the Dance Dance Revolution game. I didn't really want her to because there was always a line of big kids wanting to play... but finally I decided that if she wanted to do it, then by all means, let the girl dance! Like I have mentioned PLENTY of times on here, She is a dancer! Curtis got up there with her to show her how it is done and she had a great time. I have a video of it, it's kinda long but I just couldn't stop recording all the moves! Again, just lay your head on your little shoulder and enjoy! Sorry, I don't know how to flip it.

At one point, Shaylie had gone up the play place thingy and hadn't come out and Ozzy was dying to go up. I took the plunge and went with him. Along the way, I became search and rescue for a couple of kids. It was a tricky one, I had to ask a 7 year old how to get to the slide and she explained it like this"go up that, around the corner, down the little tube and around that corner" HOW IN THE WORLD DO THEY TO EXPECT KIDS TO KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN THE 24 YEAR OLD CAN'T EVEN FIGURE IT OUT?! Not saying much, I do struggle. But there were 2 little girls along the way, crying for their moms. So I had shaylie's boots, Ozzy and 2 little girls that I had to drag around that place until we got to the slide. Then I got to take all of them down with me. What a treat that was.

Thanks Brian and Mal! We had lots of fun!

Happy Halloween!

2011-11-01T10:54:00.003-06:00

This year for Halloween, Shaylie was a bumble bee. Curtis was Troy and I was Liz from the show Swamp People. Ozzy was our Alligator that we were hunting. My nephew Jake also was an alligator so we decided to get him in on our picture of the Swamp People.

I am SUCH a good mom... I taught Shaylie this song. I am not sure how to turn it, so just put your head on your shoulder and enjoy her cuteness!

Also Of course, I need to post our pumpkins. And by our pumpkins, I mean Curtis' pumpkin. Since his is the only one worth looking at. He decided to do Charlie Sheen this year and put Hallo-Winning on it. I thought it was cleaver. Shaylie's is Boots (Dora's pet monkey, of course), Ozzy's is ghosts and mine is the face. After doing Shaylie's and Ozzy's, I was over it so I did something easy.

Hope everyone had a fun, safe Halloween!

Happy (LATE) Birthday, Little Friends!!

2011-09-26T15:06:00.006-06:00

PS... THIS IS A LONG POST..

Well on Aug. 31 Ozzy turned 1! I can't believe it's already been a year since he was born. This was a rough year for me full of adjusting, acid reflux and momma's boy syndrome. But I wouldn't have traded it for anything. This kid is SO full of energy and such a happy boy, I just enjoy having him around! We had a get together at a park and he got lots of great things! Thank you everyone for your gifts!

Things Ozzy did by the age of 1:
*walking like a mad man!
*Says ba ba (for his bottle or now sippie), ma ma, da da, she she(shaylie), bye bye, uh-oh!, thank you and ball.
*Takes 2 naps a day (and NEEDS them)
*goes to bed around 8 on a normal day and wakes up between 8 and 9.
*Still LOVES to torment Shaylie. He knows that certain things bother her and he gets that look in his eye and does it just for the reaction!
*He is a MOOCH. This kid thinks he needs to eat ANYTHING that anyone else is eating, whether he is hungry or not.

OZZY'S STATS:
30 1/2" (65%)
22lb 13 oz (43%)
47.8 - Head Circ. (83%)

Chubby guy! 5 Days Old

7 Months old

9 Months Old

BIRTHDAY BOY!!!

Now on to Shay Shay! This little girl is a spit fire! She is so funny to be around and (thankfully) is to an age now where she doesn't just have screaming fits all the time. I can usually talk to her and explain, and she is ok with my answer. She thinks she is Ozzy's mom and she is quite the bossy pants to him! She had a GREAT birthday! We went down to my parents and had a party for her and her Aunt Sarah. And then on her actual birthday we had a little get together with Curtis' family. She got lots of great presents and she LOVES them! I wasn't able to get pictures from Curtis' family's party (I forgot my camera... I know, SO smart!) but I got some pictures from her other party!

SHAYLIE STATS:
28lb 8oz (30%)
36 3/4" (44%)

Shayile says so many funny things everyday and she is getting so stinkin smart! Sometimes I can't believe the words that come out of her mouth... here is the latest...

Shaylie: Mom, Let's play a game, ok?
Me: ok, that sounds fun
Shaylie: Say Koo Koo
Me: Koo Koo
Shaylie Laughs
Shaylie: Let's play another game. Say Stinky!
Me: Stinky!
Shaylie laughs
Shaylie: let's play another game. Pour that water on your head!!!
Me: Uh... no?
Shaylie: MOM! It's just a funny game!

I have no idea where she came up with this stuff, but she sure thought she was pullin one over on me! Crazy girl!
1 day old

1st birthday

2nd birthday

3rd birthday!

Deer Creek

2011-07-27T12:40:00.004-06:00

On Monday we went to Deer Creek to spend the day with Curtis' parents. His brother Kyle and his family was there as well. We had a rubber raft that we took Shaylie and Brooklyn on and just hung out. It was a fun and relaxing day. Thanks for the invite!

Aunt Crystal, Brooklyn and Shaylie

Brooklyn, Shaylie and Ozzy

Splash Pad

2011-07-27T12:17:00.004-06:00

Eagle Mountain just opened a splash pad and we love it! We have been there 4 times in the last week. I love that it is free and the kids love that it is water and there are other kids to play with! Fun stuff, Eagle Mountain! Feel free to keep things like this comin!

Swimming at Grandma and Grandpa Lang's

2011-07-27T12:12:00.003-06:00

We were bored one day and Shaylie wanted to go swimming so we took our pool over to Curtis' parents house for a little change in our every day life. Presley was there being babysat so she was able to play with us! A little later Brooklyn came over to swim too! Having fun with the cousins!

Brooklyn and Shaylie hanging out

Presley, Ozzy, Brooklyn and Shaylie

Presley

Shaylie and Ozzy

Brooklyn

4th of July

2011-07-27T11:35:00.004-06:00

Every year we go down to Moroni, where my parents live, for the 4th of July. It's so fun to get together with the fam and have a fun small town celebration! We had a horse shoe tournament here as well and it came down to Greg and Sarah and Mom and Dad. They decided to call it a tie because it was dark and they didn't want to play anymore. We pulled out a sprinkler and let the kids play in it for a while and they enjoyed that. Ozzy loved the fireworks! He would raise his hands in the air and try to grab them! Funny boy!

Cute little Abbie

Shaylie waving to the pageant girls

Evan, Dallin, Shaylie, Cody, Uncle Todd and Ozzy... Yes, Ozzy's flipping the bird

Shaylie and Cody (cute little friends!!!)

Greg got this idea from some girls in his ward... yes young girls gave this grown man this idea... but hey, it worked! We got more candy than our hearts desired and we had people walking over to stand by us because we were getting so much.

Ozzy reaching for the fireworks

Daddy and Ozzy

The "winners" of the horse shoe tournament

Grandpa and Ozzy

Shaylie and Cody playing in the sprinkler

Boating

2011-07-27T11:33:00.003-06:00

My brother Todd works with a lady who takes us out on her boat once or twice a year. We were able to go with her a while back and we had a blast! Shaylie had a great time on the tube! She thought she was so big!

Curtis showing us what he can do

The Meadows 2011

2011-07-27T11:21:00.004-06:00

Every year we go down to the land that Curtis' grandparents own by St. George for a family reunion. This year, like every other year, we had a lot of fun! Curtis and my brother Todd had gone down the week before with their scouts and went exploring in the lava tubes. Basically you hike down into the earth in caves where there had been a volcano years and years ago. So we took a big group and went and did that. When we got deep enough and there was a big enough space, we sliced open our glow sticks and played hide and seek. It was a blast! We also had a horse shoe tournament and curtis and I were the winners!!! It was a fun reunion and very nice to see the whole fam!

Winners!

Shaylie trying to hit down the pinata!

Lava Tubes

Ozzy boy

Curtis' parents

Cam and Presley

Celeste and Shaylie

Connor won the "Minute to Win it" game. He was so proud!

Unlce Todd playing in the sandbox with Ozzy

Ozzy 9 Months (2 Months Late...)

2011-07-27T11:12:00.002-06:00

I know it's way late but I wanted to post Ozzy's stats at his 9 month appointment.
29 1/4" Long (82%)
20 lbs 12 oz (54%)
46 cm for head Circ. (70%)

He's still on the bigger size but definitely thinning out from his rolls he had when he was born. Ozzy has been crawling since he was 5 1/2 months old and been pulling himself up since he was 6 months. He has taken 1 or 2 steps here and there but he prefers to crawl. He gets around real fast these days (I don't blame him for not wanting to walk... he would go a lot slower). He says ma ma (for me) and ba ba (for bottle). He takes 2 naps and goes down for the night between 7 and 8. If it is later, it's because of us. He is always ready to go down earlier. He has been such a great baby. His acid reflux just completely went away one day around 7 months old and we have been so grateful to be done with that. Love this boy! I can't believe in one month he'll be a year old!!!

Neighborhood BBQ

2011-05-24T10:45:00.003-06:00

When we first moved to our house I HATED the fact that we all share a front yard. I wanted MY OWN yard. When we first had Shaylie, I still felt the same. But as Shaylie has gotten bigger and can play with the friends in our neighborhood, I have come to absolutley LOVE it. Yes, I don't have my own yard and I can't do what I want with it. But I have a fenced in yard, with 14 other kids (not counting my 2- and all under the age of 6), and a play ground that they all can play on. When the weather is nice enough, us mom's come out with our camping chairs and hang out for HOURS while the kids play. It is so fun! I really love it and love how close I am becoming with my neighbors. I love that Shaylie is able to play with friends her age and I love that I am able to play with friends that are my age! The other night we had a BBQ with some of the neighbors. As is got later we pulled out a fire pit and we had smores and hung out around the fire. We stayed out until midnight just laughing and sharing good times with each other. Some of our very best friends out here are moving this weekend so it was one last hurrah before they take off :(. We will miss you guys SO SO SO much!

Florida, Day 4

2011-05-17T07:29:00.006-06:00

So yesterday we were going to go to Siesta Keys beach, the number 2 beach in the USA, and Shannon was helping us load the car and some how broke her finger! She had to go to the Dr. but told us to go to the beach anyway since it was our last day here... so we went to the beach without her. The weather was AMAZING for us Utah folk. It was 80 degrees, a little overcast and a really nice warm breeze. We stayed for 6 hours! The kids were great and we loved it! Wish Shannon could have come too instead of being in the hospital getting X-rays! On our way home, they have a small little pond in their community and we spotted an alligator!! We were able to see some cool stuff while we were out here. We went for a walk one day in their community and stumbled upon a TINY little deer! It was maybe a couple days old. We also saw a turtle in their community! And now this Alligator! We are going home today in a couple of hours... back to 50 degree weather and cold rain... BOO!!!

Serious hottie out on the beach!

Florida, Day 3

2011-05-17T07:13:00.004-06:00

Sunday, they had a bunch of their ward members come over for Sunday dinner and it was a lot of fun to get to know everyone and hang out! Also, when the boys went fishing, Curtis caught a Sea Snail and on Sunday night Aubrey and James were able to pull the snail thingy out so we can have just the shell. It stunk so bad!

Florida, Day 2

2011-05-15T15:06:00.004-06:00

Florida, Day 1

2011-05-15T14:51:00.004-06:00

FLORIDA, BABY!!!

2011-05-15T14:44:00.002-06:00

Last Wednesday we (Curtis, me, Shaylie, Ozzy and my brother Todd) got on the plane and headed out to Tampa Bay, Florida where my sister and her family lives! We got in at 11:30PM so we weren't able to do much of anything that day. We are still here but my mother (whom I love so much) is whining that I haven't posted any pictures yet... so thought I'd put on what exactly we've been doing since Thursday. The kids went to school so we just hung out at their community pool and their house pool. Thursday night, we went out to eat with just the adults and Aubrey and Jaymz got to watch my kiddies. Friday we went to the beach and swam at the community pool again. Saturday we went shopping at the flea market and outlets and the boys went fishing on the pier. Today (Sunday) we have just been hanging out not doing too much. Curtis, Todd and Damon took Shaylie on a walk and found a turtle! Tonight they are having 40+ people over for Sunday dinner (that's the usual Sunday dinner for them, apparently) and I am excited to meet all their friends and have a little party! Will update again soon!

Happy Easter!

2011-04-25T11:27:00.002-06:00

Easter this year was a lot of fun! Shaylie got a kick out of the Easter Bunny coming to our house and dropping his candy on our floor. We did some egg dyeing and an egg hunt. Shaylie and Ozzy each got a gold fish and one day after having them, one was dead. Shaylie keeps asking about it... it's kind of hard to explain to her what 'dead' means. Other than that, the weekend was a success! Under this post is another one with the video of Shaylie following the trail the Easter Bunny left, from my room down the stairs, to her stash of stuff!

Easter Video

2011-04-25T11:22:00.001-06:00

Furlow Friday's

2011-04-19T09:55:00.011-06:00

Curtis' work cut back hours so every other Friday he has off.They call it Furlow Friday... not sure why... but that's what it is called. We have been trying to make the best of it and have done some really fun things on his days off!

We had a chance to go down to Blanding to see my brother Brian and his family. They blessed their sweet baby girl that weekend and we were all able to stay at a lodge and hang out for the weekend.

Having fun in the car. They usually don't sit right next to each other so that was pretty fun for them to be able to play!

Playing with the cousins!

Just licking the spoon off of the brownie batter... don't judge me.

My mom, Me, My neice Olivia and Shaylie. Can you tell we're related?

We also got to go down to Hurricane (St. George) to see Curtis' grandparents on Conference weekend. We were so glad to be able to see them again and the weather was so nice! They live by a park and that is all that Shaylie needed... we didn't love that so much, but she sure had fun.
Grandma Lang and Ozzy

Little nervous about the curve in the slide... look at that face

Knew her best option to go back to the park AGAIN was asking Grandma and Grandpa

Great Grandma Lang playing with Ozzy

Great Grandpa Lang and Ozzy

This last Friday we decided the weather was decent enough to go fishing at Deer Creek. Curtis brother Eric and my brother Todd were able to come with. It was a bit windy and we (and everyone else around us) weren't able to catch anything but we still had a good time. Shaylie has a Barbie pole and we attached a rubber fish to the end of it. We would throw it out into the water and she would reel it in. She had a blast and was very entertained the whole time! Ozzy found the rocks and was happy as long as we let him play in them.

Eating and very much enjoying a Dorito

Just waiting for another bite!

Loving the rocks

Eric and Ozzy

Todd and both kids trying to stay warm!

Reeling in her fishy!

It stinks that we have had to cut back hours but at least we're taking advantage of the time we have and enjoying it!

6 Month's!

2011-03-05T10:13:00.002-07:00

Ozzy's now 6 months old and I can't believe it! He is such a happy baby and we love having him around. I wanted to write down a few things that Ozzy was doing by 6 months...
*He crawls EVERYWHERE.
*He has 2 teeth.
*He has just learned how to pull himself up (which means PLENTY of bruises on his head).
*Not so sure about solid foods except for bananas... loves them!
*He has to jump ALL the time. If you are holding him up, he'll just sit there and jump like crazy!
*Already loves to annoy the heck out of his big sister... he can just get next to her and she flips out. Just wait little girl, it's only going to get worse!
*Still spitting up ALL the time. Can't wait for that to be done.
*Has started to dance with music... he gets on all 4's and rocks back and forth.
*Sits up all by himself.
*Loves his naps. I can put him in his crib when he is tired and he usually doesn't make a peep... just goes down. Such a good boy!
*Loves his baths. Since the day he was born, baths have ALWAYS been in the morning... but every night when we take off his clothes he smiles from ear to ear and when we start putting on his pajamas he just breaks down. He thinks he's getting a bath EVERY night and he never does. Such a disappointment for him.

One cute thing that I also wanted to put on here is that Shaylie loves him a lot (well... most of the time). She calls him Ozzy Boy and I love it. It's never just Ozzy. Pretty cute.

We had his 6 month appointment yesterday and he is 17lb 13 oz (55%), 27 1/4" long (77%) and his head circumference was in the 65%. We are so grateful to have him in our family and don't know what life would be like without him. Here are some pictures of him in the last week or so... love this little guy!

You can kind of see his little teeth in this one...

All smiles... happy kid

I walked in to get him from his nap and there he was just a standin up... first time I saw this.

Always sleepin on his tummy with his bum in the air

Crawling...?

2011-02-08T11:47:00.004-07:00

This last month Ozzy decided he was going to figure out how to get around! He is a complete wiggle worm and I guess got tired of not being able to move. He learned how to get up on all 4's and lunge forward. He has gotten better... and can move around to wherever his little heart desires. Shaylie didn't crawl until she was almost 9 months... so for him to be crawling (or whatever you want to call it) by 4 1/2 months was pretty wild for me. I haven't gotten it on video... maybe I'll try to do that and post it... but here he is getting ready for his lunge!

Building a Snowman

2011-02-08T11:43:00.004-07:00

It snowed pretty good a few weeks back, so Curtis and Shaylie went out and built a snowman! It stayed up for about... 3 minutes... but we got a few pictures anyway! Here are the results!

Christmas

2011-02-08T11:36:00.004-07:00

This year for Christmas we were able to spend with Curtis' family. We decided to spend the night at their house so we could just be there instead of doing a lot of driving on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day. Shaylie isn't a morning person and it usually takes a little bit before she isn't cranky but she woke up and we told her Santa had come and she was ALL grins! We went down stairs and because EVERYONE in Curtis' family was there, there were A LOT of presents and she was just shocked! It was a lot of fun for me to see that she is acutally starting the get the concept of Santa. She got a wagon, blocks, 2 baby dolls, clothes, a sleeping bag and a few other toys! Ozzy got a rattle, blow up lion and some clothes. We had a very good day and were glad that we could spend it with family!

The Polar Express

2011-02-08T11:28:00.002-07:00

Curtis heard about the "Polar Express" from someone that comes into his work. It is a little train ride through a neighborhood and the best part is... it's free! So we signed up and went. They start off the ride with polar express music and you get to see all sorts of christmas stuff. About halfway through you, stop at santa's workshop. I had tried getting Shaylie to sit on Santa's lap 3 or 4 times before, but she wouldn't... but for some reason, she got on his lap and we got a cute little picture! I was pretty excited about it! Then Santa talked about the true meaning of Christmas and as when we got back on the train, we passed pictures of Christ's life and listened to songs about Christ. It was a really fun experience and I can't wait to go back next year and do it again!

2 Months

2010-11-18T19:47:00.002-07:00

Ozzy turned 2 months on Halloween. I know it's late... but I thought I'd jot down his stats and a few things about him

AGE: 2 MONTHS
LENGTH: 23 1/2" (75-90%)
WEIGHT: 13 lb. 8 oz. (90-95%)
HEAD CIRC: 40 cm (50-75%)

Ozzy is so much fun to have around. He has started smiling and just LOVES Shaylie. She can walk up to him at any given moment and he grins from ear to ear. I love seeing them interact and can't wait to watch them as he gets older. He has acid reflux which is yucky but he has some medicine that, I wish would help more, but still helps enough. Since my post a few weeks ago, I have really figured out the '2 kid' life and things are pretty good now. I've adjusted and am happy about that. Ozzy is the most tolerable baby I've known. Shaylie gets right up in his face or falls on him accidentally and he doesn't even cry. He just makes a face like, 'oh boy, there she is again'. We are so grateful for his sweet spirit and can't even imagine our lives without him.

Halloween!!

2010-11-01T11:38:00.004-06:00

This year, Halloween was more busy than I've really ever known. I suppose that it will be like that every year for as long as I have little kids. Friday I took the kids to Curtis' work to show them off. Saturday, we went to a party then went down to Orem to meet up with my parents at my brother's house. After that, we went and visited both of my grandparents and then went over to Curtis' parents house. Curtis's family was hungry so we all went to IHOP and got some food! This year, Shaylie was a sunflower and Ozzy was a banana. Curtis and I dressed up on Saturday and were Robots. It was a really fun day!

At Curtis' work on Friday

Saturday...

The Monkey (my nephew, Jake) and his banana

Shaylie is on a kick of picking her nose ALL the time and thinking it is hilarious... Thanks uncle Eric!

Carving Pumpkins

2010-11-01T11:28:00.004-06:00

Every year we meet up and carve pumpkins with Curtis' family. This year they came to our house and hung out! Curtis did his amazing work on the pumpkins. He first carved Dwight from 'The Office' and then also did our Bishop and took it to our ward party. Michelle did The Joker, Celeste did a cat and Cam did Homer Simpson. Curtis' mom came too and played with the kids (lots of help for us!). All of the pumpkins turned out great! I didn't get a picture of mine... I carved Minnie Mouse. But, I'm not that great at it so don't think you're missing anything.

Pumpkin Patch

2010-11-01T11:18:00.002-06:00

Last week we went to the pumpkin patch! It was fun to see everything decorated so cute... we couldn't bring ourselves to buy pumpkins for $8 a piece when we could get them for 9 cents a pound... so we just enjoyed the atmosphere and took a few pictures.

Football Game

2010-11-01T11:12:00.004-06:00

A few weeks ago we went to the Westlake vs. Timpanogos Football game. We live right by westlake and we went to Timpanogos when we were in High School so we thought it would be a fun outing to do. My brother, Kyle, coaches at Timpanogos so we got to see him too! It was pretty cold but we had fun.

We're so glad when daddy comes home!

2010-10-12T19:33:00.004-06:00

Curtis got home from work at 7 last night and we were so excited to spend some time with him before we had to go to bed. We just vegged and watched a little of the world series. The kids just snuggled up to him and enjoyed their time with him. Nice to have daddy home!

Just relaxing with daddy

Flexing those muscles!

Silly girl

Cute little guy

I just think these 2 boys look a lot a like!

Ozzy LOVES the vacuum! Anytime I want him to stop crying instantly, all I need to do is turn on the vacuum... keeps the house nice and clean. Tonight, I put him in the Bumbo and started to vacuum. Only took 2 minutes and he was out!

Ozzy's Blessing

2010-10-11T15:25:00.003-06:00

Ozzy was blessed yesterday and I didn't even realize what a cool day it was! It was 10/10/10! Anyway, I didn't get a picture of just him in his cute little outfit, but we took a family picture for the event. I am so blessed to have these kids in my life. There are definitely days that I wonder what I was EVER thinking (one being the day of my last post) but I have days and plenty of little moments when I am so grateful to be their mom. After Ozzy's blessing, Curtis' dad was called to be the Bishop of his ward and so we went over for the rest of the day for their sacrament meeting, his setting apart and dinner afterwards. Good, long day full of blessings!

Pity Party

2010-10-07T16:30:00.002-06:00

Well... I have decided to throw myself a pity party and everyone is invited! Just to start off... I LOVE my kids and am so grateful to be a mommy and be able to stay home with them. That being said, having 2 kids is hard! I don't know how in the world my mother had 7 children in 11 years. Not to mention the fact that today she is sane and still living after all of that! Shaylie was an INCREDIBLE baby, so anything less than that would be considered 'hard'. Ozzy is probably a regular baby but I only know incredible and I am learning huge amounts of patience. I didn't really think that patience was something that I needed to work on, but apparently the Lord thinks I do.

My days consist of dealing with a 2 year old who thinks she owns everyone and everything. Anything less than that or if I say different, causes her to go into a state of hysteria. Typical 2 year old, I get that. What makes it even more wearing on my patience is a month old baby who thinks he needs to be held ALL day long. If I put him down (heaven forbid) within 5 seconds he is hysterical. I have no problem letting my kids cry... in fact, it drives my mom nuts how I let them cry. I just tune them out. Problem is, I can only tune them out for so long (about 20 minutes) and the poor little guy just wants to be held. So I pick him up after I am done doing what I need to do. That's when Shaylie decides she needs me to do something for her. If I don't help her IMMEDIATELY, I get to listen to her scream at me.

I pulled out the backpack carrier and Ozzy has been loving it. It's great for me, because I have free arms and he feels like he is being held. Not so great for Shaylie. Some how, him being in that backpack causes a lot of grief for her. She tugs at my legs all the time, she is SUPER whiny and if I am out of her sight, she cries and won't stop once I return.

Ozzy has a way more sensitive stomach than Shaylie. I could eat and drink anything I wanted with her and nothing bothered her. I have had to give up my beloved Dr. Pepper (hence the awesome headache that I have ALL the time) and I have had to give up Chocolate. Not that I eat it all the time, but it sure would be nice to eat a candy bar if I wanted one. He also has acid reflex. I know that many babies have this and he is probably a way lower case than most... but it is not the greatest feeling to know as soon as you are done feeding him, he is going to SPEW everything up on either you, the couch, the carpet or himself. I finally took him the the doctor and got him on some meds for it. It is helping, but he still is spitting up enough to dread feeding him.

Right now, Ozzy is laying across my lap on his tummy, screaming. Shaylie has no shirt on, yogurt all over her face and she is pretending to vacuum our carpet (which you can't really see because her toys are thrown all over it...I guess she thinks she is cleaning up her mess?) and I am sitting in my sweats, not showered for the day. It is 4:51pm. And I have Ozzy's spit up all over me.

Curtis works a part time evening job and is in the Young Mens. Tuesday nights he comes straight home from his full time job to go to YM. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, after his full time job, he goes to his part time job. I consider it a lucky night if he is home by 8. Saturday mornings he works his part time job again, and we either tag along for a bit or we don't see him until after 1. I am SO grateful to him that he is doing what he needs to do, to help us in our financial situation. But it is wearing on me to be at home ALL day by myself. His truck is out of commission right now, so until it gets fixed he takes my car to work. Which leaves me without a car. So even if I wanted to get out and just take a drive to do something... I can't.

I am just having one of those days, I guess. Most days, I enjoy being a mom and love these kids more than anything. It's just quite an adjustment for me to go from one kid to 2 and trying to keep them both happy all the time without coddling them too much.

Sorry I am such a complainer, my next post will be MUCH better... Also, if any of you have had babies that think they need to be held all the time, this question is for you... WILL HE EVER GROW OUT OF THIS???

2 Years Old... I can't believe it!

2010-09-29T14:14:00.006-06:00

On September 16, Shaylie turned 2! It is crazy to me that she isn't my baby anymore... she has grown up so much and I just want it to slow down!!! I wanted to write down some things that Shaylie's learned to do in the past 2 years (more for my benefit than anyone's)
-She was completely potty trained before her birthday
-She can count up to 13 (skipping 6 of course... can't quite remember that one)
-Form sentences... here are a few of the MANY "You made a mess!", "I woke up!", "I don't want it", "That's Shaylie's!!!", "Ozzy's Tiny", "I want to swing", "I want food", "Stop it!", "I need my nails done", "Fix my hair", "I want Elmo", "Ozzy Pooped, SICK!", "Food is cookin!", "Love(Lub)you", "Mama, Softball!", "What's the matter Ozzy boy?", "I need help" and plenty more!!! She is a talking machine!!
-She can open doors, which isn't always a good thing!
-She can twist on and off caps to bottles of water and anything like that!

There is plenty more that she can do, I just can't think right now... so much for helping me remember things, when I can't even think of them now! Shaylie was so excited for her birthday, we had been talking it up for a few days before to get her real excited and now two weeks later, she is still mentioning her birthday and how she got presents. We took her to the park and had family come play with her on her birthday. It turned out real nice and Shaylie got lots of fun stuff! We got her clothes and a magna-doodle. I didn't go crazy on the toys because I knew that was what she was getting from everyone else and really, how many freaking toys does a 2 year old need? She got a scooter/bike, a kitchen, a grocery cart, Elmo jammies (which she LOVES), some games and some stuffed animals. Shaylie is like a little person now, who doesn't need me to help her with everything. I love that I can talk with her and she talks back and understands what she and I are both saying. She is such a good little girl... she has her days of being a terrible 2, but she is so helpful with Ozzy and helps me with anything that I ask her to do (she takes several trips to the garbage can with stuff to throw away each day). We are so grateful to have her in our lives. She is such a fun personality; She has to be life of the party and I love that about her! I hope that never goes away! She is so sweet and always gives hugs and kisses. Through out the days, she will look at me and say "Lub you, mama" I just love this little girl and look forward to the years to come! I hope she always says that she lubs her mama!

First thing she opened that morning!

At the park for her party!

Lovin on Jake - she LOVES her cousins... especially Jake! He wasn't sure how to take it though... a little embarrassing for him.

Chillin with Cody!

Loving Ozzy

One example of her being the life of the party... she does something, we laugh... and it's all over from there.

Another example... little bit of a dope show... but love her anyway!

The other day we took her to Curtis' co-worker's house and she has horses. Shaylie got on to my surprise and thought that was great fun! It took about 3 minutes and she was over it and got real nervous but she had a good time!

Strawberry

2010-09-29T13:57:00.003-06:00

I never got around to posting this before Ozzy came, so while I am posting today, I thought I'd throw this one on too! In August, we went camping with Curtis' mom and dad at Strawberry. Curtis has been on a HUGE fishing craze this summer and he wanted to go fishing so we packed up the trailer and headed out. A co-worker of Curtis also works at Strawberry and was able to hook us up with a fishing boat for the day. Shaylie had a great time on the boat and thought she was SO big.

He is here!!!

2010-09-06T20:47:00.008-06:00

OZZY CURTIS LANG
August 31, 2010
4:26 am
10 pounds 0 ounces(yes, that is right.... 10 POUNDS!!!)
20 inches long

He made it! Last Monday (Aug. 30) I started contracting around 11:30 pm. I kept getting woken up by contractions from 11:30-1:30. At 1:30 I decided to take a bath to either stop the contractions or to see if I was really in labor. After about 10 minutes I realized they weren't stopping so we got Shaylie, packed up the car and headed out to the hospital. On our way in to the hospital we called Curtis' sister and had her meet us there to take Shaylie for the night. When we got there, they checked me and I was at a 4 and they said that I would be admitted. At that point I had to choose whether or not I really wanted a C-Section. I decided that I would just do the C-Section because I was measuring bigger than I measured with Shaylie, and at 8 pounds, I couldn't deliver her. We got to the hospital at 2:45 and at 4:26 Ozzy was born! HERE HE IS!!!!

Ozzy came out with low blood sugar levels and was put into the Level 2 NICU Nursery. He was in the exact same spot that Shaylie was in when she was in the Level 2 NICU during her stay. Apparently, it is very common in large and small babies to have low blood sugar. I was able to stay in the hospital until Saturday because I had a C-Section and luckily for us, Ozzy took a turn for the better on Friday and was able to leave with us on Saturday. While he was in the NICU he was border line of having jaundice so they thought that while he was there, they may as well put him under the lights. He was only under them for about 24 hours and was able to get out with a lot lower levels. He has been a great baby and Shaylie has been such a helpful big sister. She loves him so much and thinks he is just so cute. She keeps saying "Ozzy, Tiny" and we just laugh because he is anything but tiny for a newborn. We love him so much and are so happy to have him here with us. He looks exactly like Shaylie did when she was a newborn. He has the cutest little dimples and the chunkiest cheeks! I know I am totally biased, but I think he is so freaking cute!
Also, I realized that I didn't take one picture of myself while I was pregnant, so while we were in the parking lot of the hospital I had Curtis take a picture of me. Here I am the night I went into labor (looking incredible, as usual)

More pictures of the cute little guy to come!

Dancing Queen

2010-07-21T14:34:00.005-06:00

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 I posted my 27 week photo of my belly (which I know, I haven't done yet and I am now 33 weeks along... I am just a slacker at the blogging thing. Hence the 5 or so posts in one day summing up our summer.)Along with that post, I wrote: "I am pretty sure that she is going to be a dancer... or love music because any time we are listening to music or watching TV and a commercial comes on that has fun music... she has her very own dance party! It's quite entertaining to me that she reacts to music that way!". TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE!!!! Anyone that knows Shaylie will completely agree with that. When she was first born, she had a favorite CD that we could pop in at any time that she was crying and she would INSTANTLY stop. Now, she'll shout out "Let's dance!" when we are driving and we have to turn on music for her. She is very picky though; I kind of assumed that she liked any music, but she doesn't like Country. Don't try to slide that one past her, she'll let you know what she thinks. One morning we were flipping through the channels and she started dancing like crazy when we got to Hannah Montana... so we though we'd rewind it and get it on tape. This is just another day in the life of Shaylie. Please ignore how White Trash she looks... it was morning time! Don't judge!

Softball Chick

2010-07-21T14:30:00.002-06:00

This last week, we were at our softball games and were between games. I had taken my cleats and socks off and next thing I know, Shaylie has them on and is putting on my mitt. My first reaction was to how gross it was that she was wearing my dirty, sweaty socks and shoes but then I decided it was a good thing and thought she looked so dang cute. This picture says it all. I was sure she was going to ONLY be a dancer, but this gives me hope!

The Meadows

2010-07-21T14:18:00.004-06:00

Curtis' grandma and grandpa Lang have property out in Enterprise down by St. George and each year they do a family reunion and we camp on the property. It is really fun and the young kids have a blast. They usually have a bounce house, a carnival and other really fun things for the little ones to do. We went to Enterprise reservoir to catch some Cray Fish but found that when they drained it last year they didn't put any back in; So we threw rocks in the water instead! Shaylie really enjoyed the Chickens and the jump house. She was either asking to jump or asking for chickens. We had 4-wheelers up there and Shaylie got to take a few rides and enjoyed that as well.

The Zoo

2010-07-19T17:22:00.005-06:00

On June 1st we celebrated our 4 year anniversary. I can't believe it has been that long already but then it feels like we've been married for longer (in a good way!). For our Anniversary this year, we decided to take Shaylie up to the zoo to see the animals. She LOVED the monkeys and the elephants.

Shaylie has really hit her terrible 2's stage and when she THREW herself down for a tantrum, I chose to take a picture instead of take care of the situation right away. People walking by just laughed but I am sure they weren't impressed that I would take a picture of her rather than take care of her.

They had a carousel there and when we were about to leave, we let Shaylie take a ride. She didn't want to get off of the thing! She was pretty giddy about it all. Cute little girl!

All sorts of stuff!

2010-04-24T12:25:00.002-06:00

Well a lot has been going on since I last posted... my mom, Shaylie and I went out to Alabama to visit my sister and her family. We had a great time; we wish we lived closer so we could always spend time with them! We spent the week just hanging out and enjoying the great weather that Alabama had to offer. While we were there, we had 70 degree weather while Utah was having snow! We were sure glad to be away!

Curtis and I went down to Las Vegas with Curtis' brother Eric, his wife Chris and Curtis' sister Celeste. We were able to stay with Curtis' grandparents down in Hurricane and just drive down to Vegas to play. The in-laws took the opportunity to visit the grandparents as well, so I was able to have Shaylie on the trip too! They jsut took her while we went to Vegas. We had a lot of fun gambling! I ended up about $8 ahead. I'll count that as a win.

Shaylie has now gone bowling 2 times and LOVES it. She thinks she needs to throw the ball each time. We went down to Blanding and visited my brother Brian and his family and had lots of fun. We were down there around my birthday and I wanted to go bowling so we headed to Moab and played for the night! We have a real cute video of Shaylie bowling so I will have to post it later.

Yesterday we found out what we are having.... IT'S A BOY!!! I couldnt' believe it! I was 100% sure that it was a girl. The doctor said "what do you have at home?" and I answered, "a girl" and he casually said... "well how about a baby brother for her?" and I just stared at him and after about a second of staring I said "IT'S A BOY?!" and I just started crying! I am not the type to cry over something like that, but I was so shocked I didn't know what else to do. We are so excited to have 1 of each! We can't wait to get this little boy here and become a family of 4. I CAN'T BELIEVE WE WILL BE A FAMILY OF 4! I feel so old. Anyway, I don't have my camera with me so I can't post new stuff but here is a cute little picture of Shaylie driving her aunt Celeste's car!

New Adventures!

2010-03-04T15:02:00.003-07:00

I have a few adventures that I want to share with everyone! Some are older and some are newer... but either way they are adventures that not everyone knows about!

ADVENTURE #1

About 2 years ago my mom decided that she was sick of going to jewelry parties where all of the jewelry was super expensive and so she went on a mission to find how to get affordable jewelry. Well... after a few attempts she found this great company to order her jewelry from wholesale and she, my sister and I have been doing jewelry parties ever since. I haven't really pushed this before because I was just doing it every 3-4 months at my house and that was good enough but we have decided to branch out and see if there are other people who would like to host a part for us. To get an idea of what the jewelry looks like, check it out at: www.splashjewelry.blogspot.com We have a pretty great variety of stuff and NOTHING is over $10! Most items are between $1-$5 but we do a few more expensive items. But seriously, who can beat that? It's real cute and I am just throwing it out there to see if anyone is interested in having a party for me. If you choose to host a party, you recieve $25 worth of jewelry for free as a thank you! Please leave me a comment or email me at: jenniferlang@hotmail.com or you can call me if you have my number!

ADVENTURE #2
A few months ago Curtis and I made a kind of scary decision and decided to build ourselves a website. Since we both LOVE softball and spend most summer nights at the ball field, we decided to sell softball (slow pitch and fast pitch) bats. Our website is: www.softballbatter.com and we are really excited for it! Right now we are only working with 1 company but hope to continue to build up our business. For those of you that know what I am talking about, we sell DeMarini bats. DeMarini is our favorite brand and were so excited to work with them!

ADVENTURE #3
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Here we go again! This isn't my ultrasound, I stole one from online but we are very excited to have baby #2 on the way! My due date is September 7th; one day earlier than Shaylie's due date! This definitely will be an adventure.

I'M BACK!!

2010-02-10T19:54:00.008-07:00

Well there has been a mixture of the Holiday's (not really an excuse) and not having the internet at our house for my absence of 4 months. I feel like such a crappy mom; I haven't blogged about Shaylie's Christmas or anything. Shaylie is getting so big; I can't believe my little baby is basically gone and now I have myself a little girl.

Christmas was a lot of fun this year. She still doesn't quite get it, but she sure had a great time getting new toys! On Christmas Eve Shaylie was getting a molar in and it was miserable for her. We were glad that she didn't understand what happens on Christmas so we were able to sleep in a little bit. We slept over at my mom's house and spent the morning there. In the afternoon we came back up here and spent time with my grandparents and Curtis' family.

Shaylie has come across some new things that she thinks is great fun. Of course, a box. What little kid doesn't love to be pulled around in a box? The other picture is her on Christmas day giving loves to a stuffed animal. She loves anything soft. She is kind of gross... anything fuzzy that she touches she picks at and eats. Usually it's a blanket or stuffed animal, but she has gone as far as clothes or even our carpet. For those of you who know what I did as a child with my blankets... I guess it runs in the family. I'm not at liberty to say what I did... because this post is really about Shaylie. Maybe another time.

We took Shaylie sledding while we were at my parents house a few weeks back and we had a great time. It took a few times for Shaylie to warm up to it and not be so nervous and then she just loved it! It was a great time!

Here we are trying to fit me, Curtis and Shaylie all on a tube...

...and here is Curtis making his exit right after we started.

A few weeks ago Shaylie got this really random rash... but it really wasn't a rash. It was like huge welts all over her legs. I called a family friend that is a nurse and she said it could be a reaction to my brother's dog that was at our house but that she thought it was a virus that some kids get instead of getting sick. Well we gave her bennadryl and it went away within 2 days. Right as it left Curtis got the stomach flu, which then meant that I got it and Shaylie got it as well. I was grateful that we were able to have it all together so that I didn't have to take care of a healthy baby while I felt like junk. Shaylie got it the worst and wasn't able to hold food down for several days. It was really sad. Right when she got better she got another rash. This rash is more of a rash instead of welts but still weird. We let it be for a few days and when it continued to spread we decided to go to the dr. He diagnosed her to have Dermatitus. Basically he claimed that something touched her skin that her skin didn't like. He perscribed her a cream to make it better. 4 days later it wasn't better. We took her in again and got a second oppinion. The other dr. told us not to use the cream because it wouldn't help and that it was a virus that kids get. So apparently Shaylie may get this rash quite often. Bennadryl has become quite a great friend of ours because this rash makes her itch like crazy. It's been sad but I'm just grateful for her health. It's just felt like one thing after another with her lately.
Here is the first spurt of the rash... or welt... whatever it was. Sorry, you see a little of her bum, don't be offended. That picture was just the best one to show the welting.

Here are the pictures of her arm and her hand. They really don't show how bad they really look but I couldn't hold her still long enough to get a good picture.

Curtis' sister, Celeste, invited me and Shaylie to 'free grand slam breakfast' day at Denny's yesterday. We only waited about 10 minutes and it was a fun outing. There was a balloon lady there and we got Shaylie a butterfly. She liked it a lot and had a great time hanging out with her Aunt!

And the rest of the pictures are just because she is so stinking cute and I just can't get enough of her! She does this really cheesey smile everytime I tell her to smile... little stinker

We are trying to get our internet problem fixed. And I will really try to be better at blogging. I do alright at taking pictures but seriously... who is still reading this ridiculously long blog? No one. Well... maybe my mom....maybe.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

2009-11-02T19:01:00.008-07:00

On Thursday we carved pumpkins and of course Curtis' turned out as great as it always does. I carved a pumpkin on my pumpkin... Shaylie's was a lady bug (I did it and it turned out pretty bad) and Curtis... well you'll see which caracter from Sienfeld he did. For Halloween Curtis was Balloon-hand man... inside joke with his family, I was some sort of Gothic person and Shaylie was a little lady bug. Here are the pictures from the past week and our Halloween fun that we had!

Shaylie with her cousin Brooklyn

Shaylie with her cousin Cody (Such a cute costume!!!)

On Wednesday, Curtis' grandpa Babbel passed away and we are going to miss him very much. He was a very sweet man. He had dementia and it is nice to know that he doesn't have to suffer with it anymore - thank goodness for the knowledge that we have of the after-life. I met him after he was already so far gone... but he was so sweet and I had a tender spot in my heart for him. We went down to Manti to visit them a few months ago before they moved to NM. He was so sweet with Shaylie and I'm so glad that we were able to go to have that time with him. Curtis and his family went down to NM this weekend to bury him. Shaylie and I stayed back because I get VERY car sick and she gets VERY cranky when she's cooped up in the car for long amounts of time. We missed Curtis on Halloween day but were glad that we were able to play on Friday night and pretend it was our Halloween. We'll miss you, Grandpa!

So since Curtis was down in NM this weekend Shaylie and I went down to Moroni to spend time with my mom and dad. I just hate being home by myself so we took a few days and spent time with grandma and grandpa. Well... tonight my mom and I were sitting in the kitchen just chatting when all of a sudden we heard this loud thud on the front door. We thought that some punk kids were throwing something at the door or her YW in the ward were pulling some sort of prank on her. I went to the door to see what it was and this is what I found...

A DEAD BIRD! Silly bird, you hit the door and now you're no longer alive... it's kind of sad but really funny too. Just WAY random! Poor, poor little birdie.

Curtis' Buck

2009-10-19T10:41:00.003-06:00

This post is for my brother Brian who just recently threatened my life over the telephone if I didn't post these pictures... Curtis, my dad and some of my brothers went hunting on Saturday. After a morning of no luck, some of them headed home and a few of them went to another spot to stake out for the evening. While they were hiking, they stopped for a minute to rest and they saw a buck. Curtis got a good shot and snagged him! I'm looking forward to some DELICIOUS jerky! Curtis didn't have the camera with him because he was certain that no one was going to even see a buck let alone shoot one. So... sorry, the pictures that we have are of the head after it's been cut off from the body. Just thought i'd give you a heads up if you weren't too interested in looking at a head of a deer.

Shaylie's 1st Birthday Party!

2009-10-19T10:29:00.004-06:00

One Year Ago...

2009-09-16T14:47:00.008-06:00

I looked like this until 9:18pm.

8 days late, 9 hours of waiting, 3 hours of pushing and a C-Section to top it off, Shaylie joined our family and made it so much better. I'll never forget the first time I laid eyes on her; she was so beautiful and so worth the wait.

At 8 pounds and 19 1/2 inches long she was a chub from the get go and continued to expand in the cheek, gut and thigh area.

Curtis has been the BEST dad from the very beginning. He loves her more than anything and blows me away each time I see him with her.

Although we had a little bump in the road and by little, I mean little. Shaylie had to be on oxygen for a few days; at the time I thought it was awful... I've learned that I'm a drama queen and that it was indeed, a little bump. We are so grateful to have her here with us and we couldn't imagine our lives with out her.

I can't believe that she is a year old today! How time flies when you're having a BLAST!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAYLIE!

I know, I know...I'm pathetic!

2009-08-18T16:28:00.005-06:00

Well... here I am after 3 months of absence. At least I have taken a few pictures since then. Summer has been great for us. We've done a lot of swimming and playing in the sun. Shaylie LOVES the pool and I love that she is dead tired when we leave. We have also done a lot of traveling as a family. We haven't gone too far, but have still been able to get away quite a bit. My sister and her family came out from Alabama for the whole month of July and it was so great to have them here! We miss them all SO much but Shaylie especially misses the kids (AUBREY). We spent a lot of time down in Moroni at my mom's with them. We also went down to St. George to hang out at Curtis' grandparent's ranch. Shaylie loved the chickens and wanted to watch them all the time. She had a good time getting strapped into the backpack and going on hikes. Shaylie now has 5 teeth (almost 6), is crawling like a maniac, pulling herself up, standing alone until she realizes it and sometimes will take a few steps before realizing she isn't holding on to something. Her hair is FINALLY long enough to do pony and piggy tails and I am taking full advantage of it! Sunday was her 11 month mark and I can't believe that in less than a month, I'll have a 1 year old. WHERE DID MY BABY GO?! Things are going great and I'm sure everyone is glad to know that we are all still alive and doing well! I will try to do better at the blogging thing... I guess I'm just lazy. Here are pictures of our summer so far...enjoy!

Bee's Game, Park and Wedding

2009-05-20T16:53:00.005-06:00

Things have been pretty busy lately. A couple of weeks ago we went to the Salt Lake Bee's game with Curtis' friend Brian and his girl friend. They also had a few people come as well... it was a really fun game. They had back to back grand slams - it was incredible!

Everyone that came along
The Fam Cute Shaylie Check out those teeth! Nothing like a little Stink Eye! We finally took Shaylie out to try out the Swings! SHE LOVED IT SO MUCH! She wasn't sure about the slide, but we'll definitely be making trips to the swings regularly.

Curtis' brother, Eric got Married last Saturday. It was a really nice wedding and turned out to be a great day! We're so glad to have you in the family, Chris! Congrats you guys!

Rub a Dub Dub...

2009-05-01T18:24:00.003-06:00

Oh how we love the big girl tub! We've been giving Shaylie 'Big girl' baths and she loves them! She thinks she is so big and so cool! She just smiles and splashes like crazy! Here are some cute pictures of her in the bath.

Shaylie's 6 Month Photos

2009-04-18T13:13:00.003-06:00

I finally got Shaylie's 6 month photos in. They are SO CUTE! I know I am totally biased...but I love them!!! ENJOY!

Cousin Brooklyn and other stuff

2009-04-17T10:10:00.005-06:00

Curtis' brother Kyle and his wife Crystal had their baby on April 6, 2009. I know it is a little late, but I thought I should post some pictures of her so the Lang family can see the little girl! She was 6 lb and 19 inches long. She has a ton of hair; It's longer than Shaylie's! I can't believe how quickly babies grow in 7 short months; Shaylie was HUGE compared to her! Shaylie was so cute though, she really liked the baby and would kick her legs and kind of squeal when she would see her. It was pretty funny! Here are some pictures of little Brooklyn. Shaylie has a Jenny Jump Up. It is something you hang from your door way so babies can learn to stand. Well, Shaylie doesn't care for it very much unless we are swinging her in it. I can't wait for the summer when we can take her to a real swing set. Please don't look at the disgusting pantry behind her!

Shaylie now has 2 teeth and they are getting big. I'll try to get a good picture of them sometime! We have been giving her baby food and have learned what she likes and dislikes. She loves Green Beans and Squash and HATES Peas and Rice Cereal. It is hilarious, when we give her Peas she dry heaves and makes a gaging noise; already full of drama! I'll try to get that one on video for a good laugh. Other than that, things are all the same and life is good!

New stuff

2009-03-30T14:37:00.008-06:00

I know... each time I post, I apologize for being such a slacker. My problem isn't taking pictures, but it is posting them.

Shaylie has been up to quite a bit lately. Curtis' grandpa is getting very old and his grandma decided to go to their daughter's house in New Mexico for some help with taking care of him. Curtis' mom and I made a trip out to Manti to see him before they go, because we aren't sure if we'll ever see him again. It was a very sad but good trip. Grandpa LOVED Shaylie so much - he just wanted to play with her the whole time. He doesn't know us or remember us at all but he sure loved the little baby that came to see him.

My mom coaches the softball team down at North Sanpete High School and their team went down to St. George a few weekends ago; Curtis couldn't miss work, but Shaylie and I tagged along with the parentals and my brother Todd. Shaylie loved the sun and really enjoyed just vegging outside; too bad we had to come back to this snow and cold weather that we've been having. She was so cute in her sun hat just hanging out in the stroller.

Shaylie has found her feet and sure loves to eat them. She is quite flexible and is basically ruining all of her socks because she pulls at them all the time. She has also learned to sit up by herself and thinks that she is such a big girl.

Shaylie got her first tooth!!! You can't really see it quite yet, but it's there and we're glad that we've got one down! Shaylie also got her ears pierced last Thursday and was pretty upset with me for about 15 seconds. She looks so stinking cute, I just love it!!!

Other than that, I celebrated my 22 birthday - I can't believe how stinking old I'm getting!! Curtis is still working his life away and we are so grateful to him for his hard work! We are enjoying life and are just a happy little family!

Tongue'n it!

2009-02-02T13:55:00.008-07:00

Lately Shaylie just blows Raspberries and sticks her tongue out ALL day. It is so dang funny! Here she is in the video blowing the raspberries and the picture is basically what we see all day every day.
We have started giving Shaylie Rice Cereal and she likes it, but the chunker gets irritated because it isn't coming quick enough! For Christmas Shaylie got a Jenny Jump Up. She still doesn't quite get that you can bounce in it, but she twirls and just looks around. She's kind of a nosey baby; if I am talking to someone while she is eating, she stops and looks up at me to see what I'm saying. So while she is in the Jenny Jump Up, she is just happy to keep an eye on mom and dad.

Blessing

2009-01-06T10:15:00.003-07:00

On Sunday we were able to bless Shaylie. It was such a great day full of family and friends. We are so blessed to have this sweet little baby in our lives. Here are some pictures from the day.

Shaylie and Cousin Dallin

Mom and Shaylie

Our little family

Shaylie in her pretty dress

Baby Tag and Catching up on a LONG time away!

2008-12-29T16:50:00.004-07:00

I have been absent from the blogging world in quite some time. From Dec. 8-12 my mom, Shaylie and I flew out to Alabama to visit my sister and her family. We had such a great time. I love them very much and wish they lived closer! Once we got back, I got into the busy-ness of Christmas. Christmas was really good this year. It was fun to have Shaylie even though she could have cared less about any of it. We spent Christmas-Eve at Curtis' parents house and had Christmas at 5am due to Curtis' brother needing to leave for work at 6. We just relaxed the rest of the day and had a great time. We met up with my parents and some siblings at my grandparents house and spent a little bit of time with them. It was a great Christmas.
Shaylie on the airplane - She was such a good flyer.

Shaylie with Cousin Aubrey in Alabama.

Shaylie with her Winnie the Pooh blanket toy that she LOVES to snuggle with

Shaylie with cousin Olivia

Shaylie with Great-Grandma Bilbao

me and Shaylie napping on Christmas Day

BABY TAG
1. Where were you when you first found out you were pregnant? At our house
2. Who was with you? Curtis
3. How did you find out that you were pregnant? Home pregnancy test.
4. What was your first reaction to finding out you were pregnant? Really excited!!!
5. Who was the first person you told? Curtis
6. Did you plan to get pregnant? Yes
7. Did you tell everyone else right away? We told Brian and Mal and then everyone else!
8. Was everybody happy for you? Yes.
9. Did you go out and celebrate? Yeah, we went out to dinner. Nothing fancy.
10. Did you want to find out the sex? Of course!
11. What was the sex? A girl
12. Did anyone throw you a baby shower? Yes, 2.
13. If yes, who? My mom and sisters and my mother in-law.
14. Did you get any outfits at the baby shower that you knew you would just not put on your baby? You betcha.
15. How much weight did you gain? 30 pounds.
16. Did you lose all of the weight that you gained? I've got about 7 to go!
17. Did you get a lot of stretch marks? Not until the last 2 weeks! When I got them, they just blossomed!
18. What did you crave the most? Candy. I couldn't get enough of it. I'd go grocery shopping and come home with only candy. I craved ice ALL the time too!
19. Did you crave anything crazy? Nope.
20. Who or what got on your nerves the most? I'd say... but I don't dare!
21. Did you have any complications during your pregnancy? Nope, it was a really great pregnancy thankfully!
22. Where were you when you went into labor? In the labor and delivery room. I was induced.
23. Did your water break? Yes, with all the help from the doctor.
24. Who drove you to the hospital? Curtis
25. Did you go early or late? 1 week and 1 day late.
26. Who was in the room with you when you gave birth? 2 doctors, and anathesiologist Curtis and a couple nurses.
27. How long were you in labor for? 13 hours
28. Did you have any drugs for the pain? Yes... best invention EVER!
29. Did you go natural or have a c-section? After 3 hours of pushing, we had to do a c-section; little Shaylie just didn't want to come!
30. What was your first reaction after giving birth? I cried. Glad it was all over. Once Curtis and Shaylie left with the nurses, I zonked out. I was dead tired!!!
31. How big was the baby? 8 lbs. 0 oz. 19 1/2 inches long
32. Did your husband cry? Nope. I thought he might, but he was so into everything he didn't even think to have much of a crying moment.
33. What did you name the baby? Shaylie Renae Lang
34. Does her name have any significant meaning? We just liked the name Shaylie and my grandma Bilbao's name is Renae.
35.Did you have any visitors? Lots of family!
36. Did the baby have any complications? She was running a tiny fever and her oxygen levels were a little low. She had to stay in the level 2 nursery on oxygen and monitors for our stay at the hospital.
37. How old is your baby today? 3 1/2 months old
38. When is the next one coming? Hopefully not before a year and some odd months.
39. If you could, would you do it all over again? Absolutley! Best thing that ever happend to me!

Shaylie's Giggle

2008-12-10T21:32:00.003-07:00

Well my mom and I came to Alabama to visit my sister and her family. We came on Monday and are leaving on Friday. We are having a really good time and are so glad we had the chance to come and play! Shaylie has recently started giggling and my brother-in-law got her really going last night. Curtis called me today quite upset that I hadn't posted it yet... so here it is!

Catching Up

2008-11-24T17:49:00.005-07:00

So... it's been a while since I've posted. Here are a few things of what's been going on in our lives.

On November 16, Shaylie turned 2 months old! I can't believe how quickly time is going! We went in last Tuesday and got her first dose of shots... 2 in one thigh and 3 in the other. She was a trooper and barely even cried. That night is when it was a little tougher for her. She was really tired and sore and she just cried and cried. By bed time, she was exhausted and slept fairly well. She gives me 8-10 hours a night of sleep (such a good baby!) but on that first night after the shots, she only slept for about 7. Definitely can't complain. They weighed and measured her and she is just a growin! At birth she was 8lbs even and 19 1/2 inches long. She now weighs in at 11 pounds 10 ounces and is 23 1/4 inches long. I can't believe how big she is getting!! Here she is that first night with her 2 princess bandaids - Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.

2 weekends ago we went down to St. George to visit Curtis' Grandma and Grandpa Lang. It was so good to see them and just relax for a few days. Shaylie had a good time meeting her great Grandparents from the Lang side. While we were there we were also able to meet up with some of Curtis' Uncles and Aunts along with his Great Aunt Annabelle.

Shaylie and Great Grandpa Lang

Shaylie and Great Grandma Lang

Shaylie and Great Aunt Annabelle

And this is just a picture of her cute Dragon Fly bow that I made and was so proud of!

2008-11-11T14:51:00.005-07:00

Last Friday we went to The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D with Curtis' brother Connor, sister Michelle and her fiance Cam. It didn't jump out at us like we had hoped but it was something new to do and we were with good company! We had a good time!

It is so amazing to watch how quickly Shaylie is growing. On Sunday she'll be 2 months! I can't believe how time flies. She is SUPER smiley and likes to tell us all kinds of stories. These last few days we've even gotten a few giggles out of her. It seriously melts my heart to watch her grow. I am really looking forward to all the new things that she'll start to do... but at the same time, it makes me sad because it just means that my little baby is growing up and there's just no stopping her. Here are a few pictures of her throughout the past week.

All about High School...

2008-11-03T19:52:00.004-07:00

1. DID YOU DATE SOMEONE FROM YOUR SCHOOL? Yes... I was pretty weird about it though. I would like a guy and once he liked me back I was bored. I did better with guys that were just friends.

2. WHAT KIND OF CAR DID YOU DRIVE? I drove Cleatus... a green ford and then Rosa who is still my car today... a white Plymouth Neon.

3. DID YOU PASS YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE TEST YOUR FIRST TRY? Yes

4. WHERE YOU A PARTY ANIMAL? Well... I didn't go to a lot of parties but I sure did have fun!

5. WERE YOU CONSIDERED A FLIRT? Yes, I was quite ridiculous. I flirted with MANY boys... I never really liked the poor guys to begin with, I just flirted 'cause it was fun.

6. WERE YOU IN BAND, ORCHESTRA, OR CHOIR? I was in Choir only because it was an easy A.

7. WERE YOU A NERD? I don't think so...

8. WERE YOU ON ANY VARSITY TEAMS? Yes - the Softball Team.

9. DID YOU EVER GET SUSPENDED/EXPELLED? Nope

10. CAN YOU STILL SING THE FIGHT SONG? Nope, I can't even remember it.

11. WHO WERE YOUR FAVORITE TEACHERS? Mr. Saxton, Ms. Connie and Coach Brammall.

12. WHERE DID YOU SIT FOR LUNCH? We never really stayed for lunch... we usually did a Del Taco run.

13. WHAT IS YOUR SCHOOL'S FULL NAME? Timpanogos High School

14. WHAT IS YOUR SCHOOL'S MASCOT AND COLORS? Timberwolf. Navy Blue, Forest Green and White.

15. DID YOU GO TO HOMECOMING AND WITH WHO? Yes, I went to Timp's Homecoming with Kevin Willmore Jr year and Brad Clegg Sr year. I went to MV's with Cole Colliard(Jr Year) and Evan Gunnell (Sr Year)

16. IF YOU COULD GO BACK AND DO IT AGAIN WOULD YOU? I don't think so. I was really glad when it was over. I really enjoyed softball and the people that I met (most of them anyway), but I was more than ready for it to be done and to move on with my life.

17. WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER MOST ABOUT GRADUATION? I don't really remember graduation, more of the Senior all-nighter that night.

18. WHERE DID YOU GO SENIOR SKIP DAY? They went to a park and played games... I stayed home and played with some friends.

19. WERE YOU IN ANY CLUBS? Nope.

20. HAVE YOU GAINED SOME WEIGHT SINCE THEN? I sure have... getting married and having a baby sure adds a few pounds.

21. WHO WAS YOUR PROM DATE? Sophomore year I went with Ryan Zobell, Junior year I went with Kevin Willmore and Senior year I went with Cory (I can't remember his last name, SAD!)

22. ARE YOU PLANNING ON GOING TO YOUR 10 YEAR REUNION? Nope... a 10 year reunion from Jr. High is what I would go to. I would really like to see everyone from OJH; I didn't care for many people from High School though.

23. DID YOU HAVE A JOB IN HIGH SCHOOL? Yes, I worked at Tahiti Tan, PMI, and the Orem Rec center at the softball fields and basketball courts.

I tag: Arlene, Shannon, Ashley Rowbury, Kelsi Gray and Kali Poulson

Mr. and Mrs. Uni-brow

2008-11-01T22:06:00.004-06:00

For Halloween, Curtis wanted us to have uni-brows... all I can say is that I feel so bad for anyone that seriously has one. We had people staring at us all night... Curtis caught a girl doing a full turn to take a peek. SAD!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

2008-10-31T15:26:00.003-06:00

I know I'm biased... but she's just so stinkin cute I couldn't just pick one picture to post today.

Carving Pumpkins

2008-10-30T10:04:00.004-06:00

Last night we carved pumpkins with Curtis' brother Connor, sister Michelle and her fiance Cam! It was a good night with good company.

My brother Todd came over to show us his Halloween costume and since he is the only one in my family that doesn't have a blog, I figured I'd post it for everyone to see. He is a white trash cowboy.

Curtis carved Chuck Norris, I carved a spider and web and Shaylie's was a pumpkin face with a diaper.

Michelle carved Sponge Bob, Conner carved a skull and Cam carved the Grimm Reaper.

Shaylie with her pumpkin

Gardener Village

2008-10-27T10:15:00.002-06:00

Last Friday my mom and I went up to Gardener Village. We both had never been there before and we figured we'd go walk around. They have the cutest decorations! We bummed around MANY stores between Sandy and Orem all day. Shaylie was SOOO good for us! We were gone shopping and walking around from 10am until 5pm and she only got fussy once and it was because she was hungry - such a good baby! Thanks for coming and spending the day bumming around with us, mom! Here are some pictures I took at Gardener Village. It was really cold and Shaylie was asleep so she isn't in any, sorry!

Slacker

2008-10-23T11:50:00.004-06:00

Okay I know that I have been HORRIBLE at updating this blog! Sorry!! Well... last week Shaylie turned 1 month old! I can't believe she's already a month! On Saturday Curtis and I packed her up and headed down to Moroni to visit my mom and dad. Derek, Cindy, Bryce, Olivia, Jake, Todd, Kyle and Tiffany were all down there as well and we had a great time playing American Idol on the Wii. Jake LOVED Shaylie - it was really cute. Any time he could get his hands on her little feet, he would grab them and just hold them! Here are a few pictures of the past week.

Showing how tough she is - look at those muscles!

Playing with Jake

Playing with Grandpa

Just relaxing...

1 Month Old!!!

My New Life...

2008-10-09T12:29:00.006-06:00

My new life consists of sleeping, feeding Shaylie, staring at Shaylie (it never gets old!), feeding Shaylie, feeding Shaylie and feeding Shaylie. I'll tell you, sometimes I feel like a stinkin cow - just latch on and take all the milk you could ever want and need! I'm her little buffet! This last week Shaylie got a stuffy nose. Apparently it is very common with newborns in Utah. The air is really dry and can stuff them right up! So... we've been dealing with that. We're using the blue sucky thing that the hospital gave us, to suck out the blockage... and she HATES our guts when we do it! I don't blame her though; having something do that in your nose... can't be the best feeling... gross! My sister-in-law, Mallory and her son Brody came up to visit last week and stayed for a day or so. We had a great time and I was glad she came up! While she was here, we had a photo shoot with Shaylie... the first picture is my favorite that we took. The others are just a bunch of random pictures that were taken through out the week. Other than trying to get used to our new lives, nothing new has happened!

Shaylie and Grandpa taking a little nap during conference.

Thanks for the cute shoes, Grandma!

Curtis' grandpa made Shaylie a bracelet... thanks so much Grandpa Lang!

The first of MANY

2008-10-02T11:25:00.003-06:00

On Tuesday night Shaylie spent her first evening of MANY down at the ball fields. Curtis is playing on 2 slow pitch teams and it is tournament play so he had games at 6, 7 and 9. I wanted to get out of the house for a bit, so we though we'd give it a try and she did great!

First Week Home

2008-09-29T10:39:00.009-06:00

Okay, so I apologize for being a slacker and not posting in over a week... I have been yelled at by quite a few people... so again, SORRY! Things have been going really well. Shaylie sleeps great and is a pretty easy baby to take care of (which I am SO grateful for). This will be a long post... but I am getting back into the swing of things, so hopefully it won't take as long for me to post again which will mean, less pictures in my posts. Here are a few pictures that I think are really cute.

Grandma came to help out a lot last week and we both were glad for her to come and play! Thanks mom!

Each night when Curtis comes home from work, this is what happens for the rest of the night. He loves his daddy, daughter time.

We figured that we'd try her out in the swing and she loves it! She'll stay there nice and content for hours!

Here she is just hanging out with mom

Okay, so this isn't a "cute" picture by any means... but I think it's pretty funny! She gets a little irritated when you put her in her car seat and between that and her crazy cross-eyes she does every now and then... this is what you get!

Shaylie's embellical cord came off yesterday so we were able to give her a real bath rather than a sponge bath. She LOVED it. When I was pregnant (especially toward the end), I would take at least 1 if not 2 or 3 baths a day and I'd like to think that she recognized it and it reminded her of the womb that she so very much loved and refused to come out of. Here she is at bath time last night.

On Saturday night, Curtis' brother had a Texas Hold 'Em tournament. We didn't play with money or for money for the record. There were about 30+ people there and we just played with chips to win an engraved mug that my parents made. After about 5 hours of playing, the champ was given his mug... who was the champ, you ask? Why, it was the one and only Curtis Steven Lang! He was so proud... he took his mug to work today to show it off... what a weird boy! But if it makes him that excited, it is okay with me! Here's the champ!

Just what you've been waiting for...

2008-09-20T18:34:00.009-06:00

Okay... starting from the beginning. (WARNING: This post WILL be VERY long)

Here I am at 41 weeks prego and ready to get the little girl out of me!

Tuesday morning Curtis and I got up at around 6am and got ready. We were planning on going into Orem to get a good breakfast at Denny's or somewhere like that since once I get admitted to the hospital, I don't eat until the baby comes. At 7:20 we got a call from the hospital telling us to be there at 8:30. We picked up a quick breakfast and headed over! It was really happening!!!

Curtis spent the day playing Suduko and playing Nurse to anything I needed. He was an incredible help; I couldn't have done this without him!

The pictocin kicked in and we were on our way to consistant contractions by 11am. When I first got there, I was 90% effaced and dialated to a 1 1/2. By 2 I was 100% effaced and dialated to a 4; By 2:45 I was dialated to a 6; by 4 I was a 9 1/2 and by 5:45 I was completley dialated. I started pushing at 5:50 and pushed until 8:50. After 9 hours of labor and 3 long, hard hours of pushing we decided she wasn't really moving and we were going to have to do a C-Section. We had a waiting room full of family just waiting for the baby to come... sorry it took so long!

Shaylie Renae Lang was born on September 16, 2008 at 9:18pm. She weighed 8 pounds even and was 19 1/2 inches long. She is such a sweet little baby and we can't imagine our lives without her.

Shaylie was having trouble with her oxygen levels and was placed in the Level 2 Nursery. Basically what it is, is a Nursery that is for babies that need a little extra care but don't need to be in a NICU. As you can see in the pictures, she was hooked up to oxygen and all sorts of wires. We are grateful that her levels are now normal and that we were able to come home together as a family. She is doing great and I'm recovering well from the surgery. Life is great and for now, we couldn't be happier!

Still just waiting...

2008-09-12T16:25:00.003-06:00

Well here we are... it is now the 12th and still no baby. At this point, I have lost all hope that she is going to come before I get induced. I truly believe that she is content enough to stay there for as long as she possibly can... I chalk that one up under my name. I don't like to do anything that is out of my comfort zone. So, Like mother, like daughter I guess. I have actually been feeling really good; don't get me wrong, I definitely have had my days... but for the most part, I feel pretty dang good. I would really like to thank Curtis for his patience with me... I know I can be a nut case sometimes (or most of the time... you decide) and he does such a good job of never letting me know that he thinks it! I would also like to thank my mom and sister, Shannon, for listening to me on the phone EVERY day talk about how I'm still pregnant! I'm sure you just roll your eyes everytime you see it's me calling... but I really appreciate you guys letting me just ramble on about the same thing over and over again! It's nice to want to talk about something and know that you'll listen, whether you care to or not! Curtis and I are going to try and play like crazy this weekend... seeing as this is our VERY LAST weekend without kids, EVER! So... we'll see what we do, but I'll take pictures 'cause this blog has been more about me and my pregnancy than about us and that isn't what I wanted! I shall post again in a couple of days; unless of course, the baby decides she wants to come on her own before we force her out in 4 days!

Happy Due Date!!!

2008-09-08T10:47:00.002-06:00

Well... I've made it! I'm offically to my due date and still have no baby! I was scheduled to be induced next monday, the 15th, but the doctor that was on call that day is my LEAST favorite, so I pushed it back one day to have a doctor that I like. I figure, if we're basically controlling when this child is going to come out, I may as well plan to have her on a day that the doctor I like will be on call. What's one more day right? I mean... I've just been pregnant for what feels like an eternity... one more day shouldn't hurt me. I've changed my little floating baby on the side to the date of the 16th - so don't get confused! It's crazy to think that no matter what, this little baby will for sure be here in 9 days at the VERY latest! I'll keep you all updated...

Nothing New

2008-09-04T13:01:00.002-06:00

Just thought I'd post real quick to let you all know that she still hasn't come. 4 days is all I have until my due date! Crazy!!! We went to the doctor today and I'm only dialated to a 1. We're feeling a little devistated since I'm not really making ANY progress... but dialation doesn't really mean anything until you're in labor... so we just keep trying to tell ourselves that! This little girl is just so content in my belly... I don't know what to do to get her out!!

On Tuesday the ladies in my ward had a baby shower for me and it was really nice! We're in the Primary so sometimes we feel like the only people we know in the ward are the kids! It was really nice of them to throw a shower for me - we live in such a great ward! I forgot to bring my camera, but we got a lot of really great things! Thanks to the ladies in the ward!!

Well... I'm off to do some work, I'll try to keep updating (even if the update is that there is nothing to update).

Belly Journal - 39 Weeks/Labor Day Weekend

2008-09-01T20:55:00.003-06:00

This weekend was a lot of fun! Curtis and I did A LOT of relaxing and it was so nice! On Friday night after work, we just came home and did a whole lot of nothing. Saturday, we woke up and took off to Park City for a few hours to hit up the outlet mall for the weekend sales. Curtis got a lot of real good stuff (and much needed stuff) for real cheap and I got myself a pair of tennis shoes for a decent price. It was nice to just get away for a bit with just the two of us. Sunday was our last week teaching our primary class until we're ready to get back into the whole swing of things after the baby comes... so that was a GREAT feeling! Then today we lounged around for a while and then went to Moroni to spend time with the family. My parents just bought a Wii so we all played some games and had a BBQ. It was a really fun weekend!

Here I am at 39 weeks... 1 more to go!!! Hopefully the next picture you see of the baby is NOT my belly but the actual baby! I shall keep you all updated because now I'm a ticking time bomb and she could come at any moment!

Baby Shower #2!

2008-08-25T14:49:00.001-06:00

On Friday night we had a baby shower at my Grandma Allen's house. Thank you so much to Grandma Allen for letting us have it at your house, Sarah for all of the cute decorations, Cindy for the fun games (sick... but fun!), Tiffany and Mal for the yummy Refreshments, my mom for putting it together and everyone that came! I was quite overwhelmed with how generous everyone is. We are so grateful for all of the gifts that we received; this little girl is coming into a loving family and we really are so glad to be bringing her into it! Thanks again to everyone and we'll keep you update on her arrival(hopefully sooner rather than later!). In the mean time, below are some picutres of the shower and all the fun we had!

2008-08-25T14:47:00.001-06:00

Guessing Game!

2008-08-16T17:43:00.004-06:00

Okay so I thought it would be fun to do a guessing game for the baby. Just leave a comment with the day you think she'll be born, the weight you think she'll be and the length. It should be fun! And believe me... the winner won't be disappointed with the totally awesome prize!!!

Baby Shower #1!

2008-08-15T08:55:00.003-06:00

Last night I had my first baby shower at Curtis' mom's house. We got some really great stuff! We got a swing, bouncer and a bumbo! Then we got LOTS of cute, cute, CUTE clothes! We are so grateful for everyone that came (and those of you who couldn't!) - thank you so much!! Thanks to Poiette, Celeste and Michelle for putting it on! Here are some pictures of the evening.
Here are the bubble gum babies that we had to chew and form! On Wednesday morning I had my first exam to see where we were at... I'm not dialated at all but I am 80% effaced. The baby's heart beat is great and she is head down. So things are just moving right along for us! We are getting very anxious and very excited for our little friend!

Belly Journal - 35 Weeks

2008-08-05T08:29:00.004-06:00

Alright... here we are at 35 weeks - only 5 to go! I can't believe how quickly it's coming! We are as ready as we're going to be for this little girl(which means we aren't ready at all)... so now it is just waiting time. I've been experiencing Braxton Hicks contractions and they're a little more intense than what I've been used to, which is fun. I'm sure I'm going to LOVE real labor contractions - just like everyone else does! We went to the Doctor last Thursday and he scheduled me to be induced on September 15th if I haven't had her before then. My actual due date is the 8th; so if I do go over, I at least have a day to look forward to. Hopefully she'll come a little sooner than that though... we keep having pep talks with her telling her anything and everything she wants to hear, just so she'll come early. We'll see how well she obeys her parents. A lot of you have been wondering what we're going to name this little girl... and the answer is... we have no idea! We're playing with a few names here and there... but I think we're going to wait until she makes her debut before we decide. Not because we want to see what she looks like, but because once she is here she'll need a name! So, only time will tell what we really do end up naming her.

"Camp" Trip

2008-08-02T12:51:00.004-06:00

Last night we went up onto our little mountain right by our house to go camping. We got there and had some hot dogs and just hung out. It was really nice. We blew up our air mattress and put it in the bed of the truck to sleep under the stars. Well... the bugs were EVERYWHERE and after drenching ourselves in bug spray and swatting for hours... we finally just packed up and came home to sleep in our own bed without the stinking bugs! Here are a few pictures of our adventure!

We picked up a few hitch hikers along the way... here's one of them!

Really pretty view from the top of the mountain
Curtis caught a little lizard friend that was hanging out in our fire pit
View from our "camping" spot
Here is the "camp" site Enjoying a dog or two with the hubbyWay pretty sun set that we got to enjoy from our spotThis is us saying "No, No, No!" to the bugs as we left our spot for the night... we were pretty annoyed with those little buggers! (Get it? Buggers? HA!)
All in all it was a fun night with just the two of us. We are 5 weeks away from this baby and Curtis and Jen time will no longer be so it was real fun to have this night together - just the 2 of us!

Latest Project

2008-08-02T12:46:00.002-06:00

Okay so lately I have been working on bows and headbands for the baby... here are the first 4 I have completed... I put them on a jar so you could kind of see them better, so hopefully you can!

South Fork Rain

2008-07-29T08:52:00.003-06:00

This last Saturday my brother Todd, brother Derek, his sons Bryce and Jake and Bryce's friend Trayer, Curtis and myself went up the Provo Canyon and roasted Hot Dogs, Marshmellows and Starbursts! It was a lot of fun but we were unable to spend too much time there because it started POURING rain. The lightning was pretty close and the rain was just pounding us. Here are a few pictures of us trying to stay out of the rain!

Derek, me, Todd, Trayer and Jake under the tree

Bryce under the table...
Bryce and Jake just hanging out in the rain
Curtis standing alone in the rain while we all took cover

Pretty DANG exciting!

2008-07-26T14:30:00.004-06:00

Okay... so first of all... I know that all of you have been asking yourselves this question... the answer is: Yes, I am still alive and well! I know it has been like 3 weeks since I last blogged... and honestly I have NO excuse! We've been doing a lot and I just forget to take pictures and then there becomes no blog for the stuff we do!

I would just like everyone to look at the date that this post is posted on... that's right, a SATURDAY! Today we got internet at our house! 2+ years of being married and we are finally moving up in the world and now have some contact with the outside world when we're home! It's amazing! I wanted to hug the guy that installed it for us... but I didn't. All I have to say is Mr. and Mrs. Jones, WATCH OUT! The Lang's are moving up!!!

Curtis and I painted the nursery about 4 months ago (yeah... I know, jumping the gun a little) and I refused to post it because we had done it so early and I didn't want to look too crazy but seeing as we have about a month left I can show you all now! Here it is!!!

This picture makes the wall look WAY green... it's not that bad, I promise!

Here you get a better idea of what color of green it really is

Here is the bedding... the wall matches the green perfectly... I think it's pretty dang cute!

Here is the changing table/dresser... as you can see we're already stalking up on the diapers. We have tried to get a pack each time we grocery shop so it isn't so bad once she gets here... but we all know that it still will be bad. They're expensive!

Here is our stroller and carseat in the travel system. We're getting real anxious to bust these babies out!!

We still need to get a few things up on the walls but we're basically done with the room! Now it's waiting time...

Belly Journal - 31 Weeks

2008-07-07T10:19:00.004-06:00

Well here we are at 31 weeks. Everything has been going great and I'm 2 months and 1 day away from my due date! Hopefully this last 2 months can be as great as the last 7!
I'd like to apologize for being the biggest slacker on the face of the earth! I completely forgot my camera this last weekend so I was unable to take any 4th of July pictures to post. We went down to Moroni and spent the weekend at my parents house. It was a lot of fun! We played card games, went to the shortest parade ever (it was awesome!) and watched an incredible firework show that was RIGHT above us. We had a great time - again, sorry for no pictures!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CURTIS!

2008-06-20T08:42:00.004-06:00

Today Curtis turned the big 25!!! I thought I'd do a quick post with some pictures that I enjoy of him!

This is my ALL time favorite picture of him!Playin' at Disneyland! One of our best trips ever!
Busting a move with Beyonce at the Wax Museum in VegasClassic Disneyland Picture!

Trying to prove he's a stud on our Wedding Day!

I love you Curtis, Happy Birthday!

What a night!

2008-06-17T08:06:00.003-06:00

Last night Curtis' little sister got engaged!! She and Cam have been dating for over a year now and we are so excited that they have decided to tie the knot! They still aren't sure about the date of the wedding... but we're excited for them and happy to welcome Cam officially into the family! After the engagement get together, I went over to the ball fields to help my mom coach her accellerated softball team. These girls are 14, 15, 16 and 17 and should be pretty good at softball... well that's what we thought anyway! The other team was warming up on the field and the next thing we knew a ball SMACKED into my moms head!!! It was so loud that I was sure I was going to see blood everywhere and that she was knocked out. Luckily, it didn't break any skin and she just had a HUGE goose egg on her head. She had a really bad headache and was dizzy the rest of the night... hopefully she gets feeling better soon! The very next game, our team was warming up and the next thing I knew, I got smacked in the back of my leg! I'm so grateful that it wasn't my stomach... but it sure hurt a lot! It started bruising immediately and this is what I found this morning...Pretty eventful night!

Tagged again!

2008-06-12T10:17:00.003-06:00

A-Attached or Single: Attached
B-Best Friend: Curtis Lang
C-Cake or Pie: Cake - Cheese Cake!
D-Day: Saturday - Curtis and I are usually quite lazy and I love it!
E-Essential Item: I really can't think of anything...
F-Favorite Color: Probably Pink... a good Cotton Candy Pink!
G-Gummi bears or gummi worms: Definitely gummi worms
H-Hometown: Orem, Ut
I-Indulgences: Lately... Icee's from the stands on the corners... Peach and Coconut! YUM!
J-January or July: Definitely July... January is too bitter cold for my likings.
K-Kids: Baby Girl due in 3 months!
L-Life is incomplete without: Family
M-Marriage Date: June 1, 2006
N-Number of Siblings: 6- Shannon, Derek, Todd, Greg, Kyle and Brian
O-Oranges or Apples: Oranges
P-Phobias or Fears: Rats, Snakes and Spiders
Q-Quote: Although we live in a failing world, we weren't sent here to fail.
R-Reason to Smile: We're having a baby! It makes me smile ALL the time!
S-Season: Fall is my favorite... the pretty colors and the cool, crisp air! I love it!
T-Tag Three: Shannon, Ashley and Cindy!
U-Unknown fact about me: I have an obesession with drive-thru gas stations. I will pass SEVERAL gas stations to get to one that has a drive-thru window to get a drink... Curtis is really trying to work with me on that one... it's ridiculous! I just love them!
V-Vegetarian or Oppressor of Meat: I don't think I could live without meat
W-Worst Habit: I spend too much money most of the time...
X-X-Rays or Ultrasounds: Ultrasounds
Y-your favorite food: any kind of pasta - I LOVE italian food!
Z-Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Belly Journal - 27 Weeks

2008-06-10T11:06:00.003-06:00

Alright... here I am at 27 weeks. The belly is just a growin'! I can basically feel our little girl all day every day now... and I love it! I am pretty sure that she is going to be a dancer... or love music because any time we are listening to music or watching TV and a commercial comes on that has fun music... she has her very own dance party! It's quite entertaining to me that she reacts to music that way!

52 Hour Puppy

2008-06-04T09:11:00.004-06:00

My brother Brian and his wife Mallory bought another puppy. His name is Tug and he came from Idaho. Since Brian and Mal live in Blanding, it's kind of hard to get a puppy from Idaho all the way down to Blanding... so Curtis and I are babysitting the little guy. We got him on Monday and will hand him off tonight to my brother Todd, who will be going down to Blanding first thing tomorrow morning. He is the most snuggly and playful puppy I've ever known (not that I've known many in the first place...). I have really enjoyed having Tug around - it almost gives me a glimpse of how things are going to be when I have a baby. Curtis and I went to work yesterday and with a full day at work and our commute that we do, we're gone about 11 hours each day. I felt HORRIBLE leaving the poor little guy all by himself ; so I left early and went and got him and then drove clear back into Orem to pick Curtis up. It was worth it though... 'cause he's so cute! But it gave me that excited feeling to come home to see my little friend and it made me realize that it is a good thing that I am going to be working from home... because I don't think that I would be able to leave that little baby each day to come to work if I was having a hard time leaving the little puppy. Here are a few pictures of the cute little guy!

Blanding

2008-06-02T09:09:00.002-06:00

This past weekend we went down to the big town of Blanding, Utah and played with Brian and Mal. We had so much fun!!! We got there on Friday afternoon and did some swimming and fishing. On Saturday we went out to the Indian Ruins and explored a little bit. After that we were all dying of heat... so we went to the pool only to realize that we only had a few minutes left to swim! So, we ditched that idea and decided to go fishing again. This time we brought hot dogs and stuff for s'mores. It was a really fun time! Sunday was Mallory's 22nd birthday and mine and Curtis' 2nd Anniversary! I can't believe how fast time goes! We just hung around the house and when it was lunch time, we went to Mal's parents house and had a BBQ. The boys fried up their fish that they had caught and us girls had a little chicken! After that, Curtis and I made our trek home. It was a great weekend and we really did have a blast! Here is a slide show from the weekend!

Blanding Weekend

2008-06-02T09:06:00.002-06:00

St. George Rain...

2008-05-27T08:34:00.006-06:00

So this past weekend we went down to St. George... well actually Enterprise, UT (a small town outside of St. George). Curtis' grandpa turned 80 and we had a surprise birthday party for him. It was going to be an awesome weekend hanging out at the Ranch that his grandpa owns. We had 4-wheeling, camping, card playing at the picnic tables, horse shoes, gun shooting and much, much more to look forward to and what happens? Oh, don't worry... it rains and is bitter cold the WHOLE time. We spent our whole weekend in a Motel in Enterprise in a smoking room because they only had like 2 non-smoking. On top of that, we had the surprise party at the Enterprise church... so we spent the whole day on Saturday in a Cultural Hall rather than on the ranch. The highlight of the trip was playing Texas Hold 'em in the Motel room whenever we could. We played a little Rack-o in the Cultural Hall occasionally... but nothing too spectacular. We came home on Sunday only to enjoy the rain storms on our day off on Monday. It honestly wasn't a bad trip... it was just a major bummer that we had all these fun plans and none of them we were really able to do other than playing some card games. However, it was great to see the whole family and spend some time with everyone! Here are some pictures of our weekend!

Here we all are crammed in the Blazer - heading down for the weekend... Look at me and Curtis... such a good looking couple (haha!)

This is the whole group of family waiting for Grandpa to come to the party!

Curtis and his Grandpa at the party!

Us playing Rack-o and a little Texas Hold 'em

Belly Journal - 23 Weeks

2008-05-14T07:58:00.003-06:00

Alright... here is a picture of my growing belly at 23 weeks! I can't believe how quickly it is going! Only 16 weeks and some odd days to go! Scary! I'm working on my first blanket for the baby... so when it is done, i'll be sure to post it 'cause I think it's pretty dang cute!

In other news... there isn't much to say. Curtis and I are both still just working and playing ball. We'll see how long I can stay playing... things are starting to get a little uncomfortable for me and I'm sure that come a few weeks, people are going to be dreading when I get up to bat because I'm so dang slow! But I sure do love it and the exercise is always good! We've got a big few weeks coming up... this weekend we're going down to the big town of Moroni to spend some time with the family and have a BBQ for Mothers Day since we weren't able to last weekend. Then the following weekend we'll be down in St. George and the following is our 2 year anniversary and we're planning to go down to Blanding to play with Brian, Mal and Brody! So be ready for some pretty sweet posts of all the fun we'll be having!

Family Fun

2008-05-05T09:01:00.003-06:00

Yesterday was a really fun day! Curtis and I went to Riverton to spend the afternoon with my brother Greg and his family. His son Dallin was blessed and his son Evan had an early Birthday Party. Here are a few pictures of the cute little boys!

Curtis Tagged / Belly Journal - 21 Weeks

2008-04-29T08:25:00.010-06:00

CURTIS HAS BEEN TAGGED - SO HERE GOES!1. What is his name? Curtis Steven Lang
2. Who eats more? Definitely Curtis
3. Who said I love you first? Curtis did - I knew it FAR before then but refused to say it first.
4. Who is taller? Curtis
5. Who is smarter? Curtis - that kid knows more worthless information than anyone I know! No, he really is a smart guy!
6. Who is more sensitive? Definitely me!

7.Who does the laundry? I do

8. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I do
9. Who pays the bills? I do
10. Who cooks more? It's a toss up... he helps a lot - I'd say it's a tie!

11. What meals do you cook together? Most meals we cook together - he does the meat and I do the rest.
12. Who is more stubborn? I think we are both equally stubborn

13. Who is the first to admit they're wrong? Pretty equal but I would say that he is more willing to admit it than I am.

14. Who is more clean? I would have to say that I am more clean- but he isn't bad for a guy!

15. Who has more siblings? I do
16. Who wears the pants in the relationship? I think we are both pretty equal

17. What do you like to do together? Everything. We like to hang out with family, play softball, play card games... pretty much everything we do is together.

18. Who eats more sweets? I do. We both LOVE and prefer salty snacks but since I've been prego I crave the sweets!

19. Guilty pleasures? Golf, Nerdy Computer Games, Softball and Snowboarding

20. How did you meet? Brace yourself... The Singles Ward (so Utah, I know.)

21. Who asked who out first? He asked me out after talking to guys in the ward to make sure we weren't serious or anything(for some reason he thought I was dating several guys... and I wasn't dating any of them! Good Ol' cautious Curtis)

22. Who kissed who first? Curtis kissed me first - I refused to kiss him first(I guess you could say I'm a little old fashioned).
23. Who proposed? Curtis did - and he did a fine job!

24. His best features? His Dimples, his eyes and his personality.

25. What is his greatest quality? He always goes more than out of his way to make sure everyone is happy.

Alright... so I'm now 21 weeks along and the belly is just a growin'! Here is the latest picture!

Mild Panic Attack

2008-04-28T09:28:00.005-06:00

Okay... So last night and all the way through right now (and I'm sure it shall continue) I have had some serious panic attacks! I mean, PANIC ATTACKS!! I will be going about my business, just doing what I do, and I realize that even though I have 4 months left of pregnancy, I could have this child in 3 (hopefully not any sooner than that) and I am in panic mode. I start off by feeling extremely excited and then BAM! I'm having a nervous breakdown because I don't know if I'm quite ready to be a parent. I keep taking these deep breaths to calm myself down... but it's not really working. I need some serious help. I feel like we are so unprepared and unfit to be parents and I am assuming that feeling doesn't EVER go away even after the baby is here and growing up! I am definitely blaming the hormones on how I am becoming a nervous wreck about this - I just wish it would stop! I wish that I could just be excited about the new addition to our family and get over the fact that we could possibly be the worst parents on the face of the earth. We have the crib, changing table/dresser, bedding and have painted the room so in one moment I think we are jumping the gun a little and getting everything done way too early, and in the next moment I feel like we are so behind schedule and that we have so much more to get done before this little baby comes! I'm not sure if this a normal feeling or if I am seriously having some major issues that I need to work through... Either way, I need to work on not being nervous and just being excited.

On another note, I do apologize that I haven't posted more; especially more pictures. I have my camera with me EVERYWHERE I go but for some reason I just forget to take pictures of what we are doing. And on top of that, I refuse to just blog about Baby... cause this is a blog about me and Curtis - not just the baby! So... basically what I am saying is that I will continue to try to take more pictures of events going on in our lives other than the baby... and I will continue to update you with my belly pictures! I'll post one in a few days so you all can see the 21 week photo!

It's a...

2008-04-03T10:49:00.009-06:00

GIRL!!!

We just got back from the Doctors office and found out that we are having a girl! There is the slight chance that it could be a boy(just because it isn't quite 20 weeks - but the doctor basically let us know that it was a girl) her legs were open and there was definitely nothing in there... if it is a boy, I feel HORRIBLE for him; can you say Inny?! Anyway, we are VERY excited and can't wait to start getting some things accomplished now that we know what we are looking for! I don't have a scanner so I can't show you any ultrasound pictures - so I do apologize... sorry!

Belly Journal - 17 Weeks

2008-04-02T12:56:00.003-06:00

Here I am at 17 weeks and 2 whole days! I am definitely at that point where people are looking at me and I can tell they're thinking "Is she pregnant or is she just getting really fat?" I'm in the stage where I can't quite wear maternity clothes without feeling weird about it... but I am sure busting at the seams of my jeans! I've the got the whole rubberband thing going on with my button on my pants.

I've got a Doctor's apointment tomorrow and I am REALLY hoping that they'll check to see if it is a boy or a girl... and REALLY hoping that if they do check, that we have a baby who wants to show us if it's a boy or a girl! I'll keep you updated! Hopefully I'll have great news to share tomorrow!

Remember Rocks

2008-03-28T14:34:00.006-06:00

My mom and dad have a family business that they have been working on for years and personally, I love the stuff they do! They engrave on Rock, Slate and Glass. They have set prices for the products that they sell - so depending on what size or specific product you want, it is a set price no matter what you want engraved on it; they don't charge you for every letter like most places. I figured since I love their stuff so much - I may as well put it on my blog so maybe all of you will love it too! You may be asking yourself... what exactly could I get? Well... let me give you a few ideas that you can run with!

Rocks:

*Welcome Rocks
*Pocket Rocks (for anything - but a great idea for missionaries to remember their families!)

*Garden Rocks

*Pet Memorials

*Temporary Headstones

*Prayer Rocks

Glass:

*Pictures (Curtis and I had a picture frame on every table at our wedding reception that had an engraved saying or our names and date of our wedding - it looked great and it's a new idea for wedding receptions, gifts, or to remember your wedding day by!)

*Last name on Casserole Dishes (great for ward get togethers so you get yours back!)

*Popcorn Bowls(or any bowl for a gift basket)

*Mirrors
*Cups/Mugs

These are just a few examples of what they can do; the possibilities are endless! The products that they engrave are gifts that everyone will love whether it be for yourself or someone important to you! Customized gifts always mean more!

Check out their website and give them or me a call with any questions or any ideas that you have! Like I said, they will engrave basically ANYTHING that you would like them to for a set price! Here are a few pictures of what they do - all of the pictures I have are of rocks... but you can do anything on glass as well!

Garden Rock Example

Heart Shaped Pocket Rocks Example (Great for Weddings)

Pet Memorial ExampleSlate Clock ExampleTemporary Headstone Example (if any of you have had a loved one pass away you know how long it can take to get the headstone... usually months! This way, you can have your temporary headstone set in place within a week of ordering it! Once the main headstone is in place... you have the temporary to keep.)Check out their website at www.rememberrocks.com for prices and more info!

Easter Weekend

2008-03-24T08:01:00.004-06:00

Curtis and I had a really good Easter Weekend this year. After work on Friday we went down to St. George to watch some softball games. A lot of the High Schools were down there and the team that my mom coaches ended up playing my old High School (they are also the girls that I coached a season or two ago) so I thought i'd go down to watch that game along with a few others. We had a lot of fun and got some good sun! It was about 75 degrees the whole time which made it even better. I didn't take any pictures while we were down there... since we really only watched softball games... and I didn't feel the need to take pictures of random softball players. On Saturday night we came home so we could spend Easter Sunday here in Northern Utah. We went to my Brother Greg's house for Easter dinner and got to spend some good time with the fam! Here are some pictures from our little get together.

My sisters-in-law Cindy and Sarah and my Brother Derek and My dad.My Dad, Mom and my brother Kyle.

Curtis and my brother ToddGrandma Allen and baby Dallan

And here I am with baby Dallan. He is just a couple of months old and just so snuggly! I had a great time holding the little guy!

Belly Journal

2008-03-21T07:55:00.009-06:00

So I decided that I would start a "Belly Journal" so everyone can see the growth through out this pregnancy. I figured this week would be a good week to start... since I am definitely starting to poke out! Here are 2 pictures of me at 15 weeks and 4 days.

Wendover

2008-03-17T07:53:00.009-06:00

For my birthday Curtis took me to Wendover - I had no idea what he had planned until right before we left. He figured since I was turning the big 2-1 I should celebrate by gambling all of our money away! It was really fun! I stunk at most games - but did win a whopping $20 at a game similar to the Wheel of Fortune. But of course, I then blew it somewhere else. It was really fun and I had a great time! Here are some pics of our little trip.

We spent all of our money here at the Montego Bay!!! It is the newest Casino in Wendover... but still of course reaked of smoke.

Here I am right as we walked in to the Casino... I was so excited! For once, I walked into a Casino and I was actually legal!

Here I am at the game like Wheel of Fortune (I can't remember what it was actually called) showing my ticket! This is the time that I won the $20 and I was way excited!

Here we are cashing out our chips and tickets so we can go get a buffet for dinner!

I had a really great time and Curtis did a real good job for my birthday!

Thanks Curtis!