About Me

Oslo, Norway
Welcome to my blog! I am a wife and a Mommy of three. We have 2 daughters, Reagan and Hayden and a son, Grasyon. Here I write about our life happenings and try to capture memories the best I can. I hope this helps keep those close to us, in Texas, Iowa, Illinois, and beyond, a little more up to date while we're away. Enjoy!

Friday, October 29, 2010

Disneyland Weekend!

I am just now getting up the energy to post about our last weekend to Disney. As you can see we took TONS of pictures. I can never pick which photos I want to post because usually I love them all, so I knew this post would take me a while . However, we had a great time and I am so glad we got to go one last time before leaving. Reagan loved it and had a blast the entire weekend!

First morning waking up, she loved playing in the hotel!



We had breakfast/brunch in our hotel at Goofy's Kitchen. It was buffet style, the food was okay, not great, but all the characters were so fun. They all come to your table for a visit, of course Reagan only wanted to wave to them from far, so once they got up close she started clinging on to me.







"Hi Goofy!"

About every 20 minutes they put on a little show or dance for all the kids to come up and get involved. It was really cute, here Goofy was baking a cake and gave all the kids a pretend spice and a towel to help him make a cake.








This picture makes me laugh. We were walking through Disney Downtown to get to Disney and out of all the toy stores and places to go into, we walked by Sephora, and she turned and said, "Daddy, go in. Come, Daddy." Darrin thought it was hilarious, he couldn't believe out of all the places, she wanted to go in to Sephora!



















"Hi Minnie! Minnie, you go potty? You go potty Minnie?" Thats what Reagan kept saying over and over while we were there. We were waiting in line to see Minnie and she left so a short break, Reagan said "Where Minnie go?" We told her she went potty. So the next 2 days every time she would see Minnie or Mickey she would ask, "Minnie/Mickey/Goofy you go potty?"

Then of course its our turn to talk to her and take a picture and she wanted nothing to do with her.

"Bye Minnie"

Playing in Minnie's house.







Here she is asking again, "Goofy you go potty?"





She LOVED LOVED the tea cups. We rode them 2 or 3 times, and she had a blast on it. I kept telling Darrin, "not so fast, slow down, don't scare her." But she loved it!




























That night they had a fireworks show, a costume party parade and "trick or treating with the characters." They closed the park to the public at 7pm and unless you had a ticket to the event you couldn't enter. I thought it was going to be getting candy from the characters, but it was just staff members passing out candy! There were people waiting in LONG lines just to get candy from the Disneyland employees, I couldn't believe it. Of course we didn't wait in any lines for candy so we went and rode all the rides. Since everyone was waiting on candy the lines for the rides were empty! We could just walk right on to a ride, so fun!



My sweet little bumblebee.















"Nonna, what you doing?"

"Hi, Nonna!"





















We didn't get an early start the next day since we got to bed after midnight, but we spent the day California Adventure Park. We didn't do much but some shopping and looking around before heading back to the hotel for naps. We were all pretty worn out from Disney the day before. Since we stayed at the Disneyland Hotel it was a short walk to and from our room so we took advantage of going back for naps. Later that night we had a nice dinner at the Jazz Kitchen in Disney Downtown then we headed over to get our spot for the World of Color.

















Last time we went to Disneyland the World of Color was not up and running yet, so we were really excited about seeing the show and it was everything and more than we thought it would be. It was SO, so neat. It not only was colored water show, but they had music and some sort of projector that showed different parts of the kids favorite movies. (Toy Story, Little Mermaid, Nemo, Aladdin, Monsters Inc, Lion King, etc) I think it was the best part of our whole trip! It really was amazing!






We had a wonderful 2 days at Disneyland, it was nice getting some time away just the 3 of us. Next stop, Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch!

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Taylor Swift

It's no secret we all love Taylor Swift around here, in fact I think Reagan comes pretty close to being her #1 fan. We were finally able to replace our old Taylor CD with her new one. Her new CD came out today so I took Reagan to get it and she was so excited! Taylor is coming to San Diego this weekend for a concert, I wonder if Reagan is still too young for concerts? :)







Here is a video of her just reading and talking to her CD cover. She has looked at it and talked to it all day! So cute!


All the songs on the CD are really good, but "Never Grow Up" just brings me to tears. Such a sweet song.

Your little hand's wrapped around my finger
And it's so quiet in the world tonight
Your little eyelids flutter cause you're dreaming
So I tuck you in, turn on your favorite night light
To you everything's funny, you got nothing to regret
I'd give all I have, honey
If you could stay like that

Oh darling, don't you ever grow up
Don't you ever grow up, just stay this little
Oh darling, don't you ever grow up
Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple
I won't let nobody hurt you, won't let no one break your heart
And no one will desert you
Just try to never grow up, never grow up

You're in the car on the way to the movies
And you're mortified your mom's dropping you off
At 14 there's just so much you can't do
And you can't wait to move out someday and call your own shots
But don't make her drop you off around the block
Remember that she's getting older too
And don't lose the way that you dance around in your pj's getting ready for school

Oh darling, don't you ever grow up
Don't you ever grow up, just stay this little
Oh darling, don't you ever grow up
Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple
No one's ever burned you, nothing's ever left you scarred
And even though you want to, just try to never grow up

Take pictures in your mind of your childhood room
Memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home
Remember the footsteps, remember the words said
And all your little brother's favorite songs
I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone

So here I am in my new apartment
In a big city, they just dropped me off
It's so much colder that I thought it would be
So I tuck myself in and turn my night light on

Wish I'd never grown up
I wish I'd never grown up

Welcome Knox Reed Hinds!




Knox Reed Hinds
October 28, 2010
6lbs 15 oz, 19 1/2 in

Congratulations Morgan & David! He is absolutely perfect, and looks just like his older brother! I know you guys are in heaven with your new little blessing and I can't wait to meet him!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Happy Birthday Daddy!


Thank you for all that you do for us. We are so grateful to have such a hard working, loving man in our lives. We hope you have a wonderful day today! Here's to another great year and being the last in your 20's!

Monday, October 25, 2010

23 Weeks

Today I had another sonogram appointment to check the low lying placenta and the insertion of the cord. The placenta is still low, if I was to go into labor now I would have to have a c-section, but it does seem like it has moved a little and it may continue to do so. I have to go back every 4 weeks for an ultrasound to check the movement and the cord. It's kinda fun because we get to see our little guy every time we go in! He is growing right on track, measuring at 23 weeks and 5 days and a little over a pound!




I have tons of pictures to post from our Disney trip last weekend, we had a wonderful time and it was nice to have 3 whole days of family fun!

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Sunday Funday!

Phew, that was a long 2 weeks! And I am sure it was even longer for Darrin! He was having to work from 6am to 9pm everyday and then wait in line for about an hour or longer to cross the border. He always works on Saturdays, but last week he even worked on Sunday. It was TERRIBLE! Our days seemed so long and it took everything I had to think of errands to run, places to go and things to do. But, its over and I am now more appreciative of the time we do have together. I used to complain about his work schedule before, him not getting home until 6:30ish and working on Saturdays, but now I am looking forward to having him home at 6:30. We can actually have dinner again together!

It made me really think about the military wives who have to go months without seeing or even speaking to their husbands. I don't know how they do it. Not to mention, having to worry about their safety. It would be a really hard situation and I am grateful it isn't us.

This morning when we woke up Reagan noticed Darrin wasn't in the bed. (she is sleeping with us, I will save that for a post on its own) Every morning when she wakes up the first thing she says is, "where Daddy go?" I always say, "he's at work, he will be home later." But today I yelled from the bed "gruuun," (which is what we call each other grun) and he came into the room. Usually we can just give Reagan some milk and she falls right back asleep, but today she was not even trying to go to sleep. She had her eyes on her Daddy the entire time making sure he was not leaving. It was so sweet, you could tell she had really missed her Daddy. After about 30 minutes we decided to just get up and go have breakfast.

We had breakfast at our favorite spot, Mission Beach Cafe. Then we walked the beach for a little bit, it was kinda drizzly so we didn't stay out to long. Then before we came home we stopped at a small little pumpkin patch to let Reagan look around at the pumpkins. The weather was terrible, so I didn't even bother with getting to many pictures. Here are a few of her and her pumpkin and her and Daddy feeding the goats.

She has a new cheese and I am not a fan!













Here she is telling the goat, "NO NO GOAT!" She had some food and he was getting to close to her, she kept wanting him to get back!



Again, "No No goat!" She thought he was to close to Daddy.







Boo-tiful!