new pics

Here are some recent pictures of the kids. We are all looking forward to Christmas and our visit to Utah.

my love of pictures

I love pictures. I may not update my blog enough but I take a lot of pictures. I enjoy taking them, sharing them, collecting them, especially of my kids. My motto is-

You can never take too many pictures of your kids!

I had Aaron take this picture of Paige and I during our visit to the beach. As I was looking at this picture, I realized that I need to take more pictures of me with the kids. I told you in my previous post that my face is still a balloon after having Heston but that's no excuse. I even have a tripod so I REALLY have to excuses now.

I need to go shower and get through my to-do list for the day.

Thanksgiving 2006

We spent our Thanksgiving this year in California with Aaron's older brother Matt and his family. They live in Temecula, it's about an hour north of San Diego. On Friday, we went to the beach in La Jolla to take some family pictures. We were hoping the kids would get a chance to play in the sand and look for seashells but the tide was too high. I didn't get any pictures of my sis-in-law Alisha!!! I need to have her send me some! I need to include some pics of me with my family but I just had a baby 3 months ago and my face still looks like a balloon, need I say more?!

We've been staying busy with school, soccer and other activities. We are looking forward to Christmas. Christmas is so much fun with little kids! Mom always used to tell me that the best times in her life were when Wes and I were little kids during Christmas. We will be spending it here in AZ and then we are planning to go up to Utah after Christmas for about a week. I'm looking forward to going home. I'm looking forward to see my grandma and grandpa. I can't wait for them to meet Heston. Heston's middle name is Robert, after my grandpa. He's so tickled about that and can't wait to meet his little namesake. It will be great to see all my family and friends back home. And to play in the snow for a little bit!

Our baby boy is FINALLY here!

Our little boy is here!

Heston Robert Hammond
Born August 20, 2006 at 10:53 p.m.
8 lbs. 14 oz. 21 1/2 inches

We are enjoying every minute of him. He looks like Braden and Paige but he has his own little look.

Is it August 13th yet?!

I live in Arizona and it's August and I'm a week away from my due date, my doctor won't induce me, enough said!

it's been a while...

I forget that I have this blog...I've been a huge slacker about it.
This is what's new in my life since October

-Braden enjoyed his fall soccer and t-ball. I really enjoyed being the soccer mom this year and Paige is so excited to play soccer just like her brother.

-Braden's enjoying school and hanging out with his friends. Paige is now a Sunbeam and is so happy to be in Primary with Daddy and Braden.

-We went home to Vernal this year for Thanksgiving. Everyone was so excited about hanging out together and just having a great time. The mood this year was different. My cousin Luke passed away on November 12th. He fell from a ladder at his house, he was only 24. He called me right before we left for our trip to Disneyland. We grew up together, I used to babysit him... he was like a little brother to me. He served as a Marine for 4 years and had been working in Fort Hood, Texas as a firefighter. He always wanted to be a fireman. He was fasinated with fire trucks and he was our little pyromaniac. He was living his dream...something he always wanted to do. One of the fireman that he worked with sang, "I Can Only Imagine", it was amazing. Having his fireman "brothers" there helped all of us. The Vernal firefighters put his casket on their trucks and we all followed behind them in our cars to the cemetary. He would have loved it! When I see or hear a firetruck, I miss him.

-We spent Christmas here in AZ. We had a great, low-key Christmas. I made homemade waffles that morning and a turkey dinner that night and in between we just played and enjoyed each other, it was great.

-Another big change in our lives in the past little while is that we're going to have baby #3!!! We get to find out on Thursday what we're having so that will give me a good excuse to update my blog. Paige wants a girl and Braden is fine either way. I was very sick the first 3 months. I was so happy to be feeling better around my 3rd month. I was so miserable! But I'm feeling great now. I'm a little scared about taking care of 3 kids...having 2 was super hard for me. I'm hoping I'll adjust easier this time around. And if I don't, I'll just do what I did last time and just roll with it. Moms can be so hard on themselves sometimes...I think we expect too much at times. A baby is an adjustment and it takes time to get a "normal" routine going. Lack of sleep doesn't help either. It'll all work out...

I'll check back in later to tell you what we're having!
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