Let it Snow!....and then let it stop!

Ok, so I haven't seen this much snow for a long time! It started snowing last week and hasn't stopped. Yesterday it snowed all day long and then the wind started blowing in the late afternoon. I'd say we had a blizzard! It was wild wind and snow blowing everywhere, huge drifts, cars off the road. We had our Hammon family Christmas party last night and we ended up turning it into a sleep over due to the road conditions. Crazy times! When we got home this morning we had huge snow drifts in front of our apartment and the snow blew right up to our door. 

It's fun to see the snow at Christmas time, but I think we can call it quits for now. We have enough to last us for a couple weeks. Ryan is working for the city of Idaho Falls plowing snow, so if it stops snowing then he doesn't have to work, so lets hope it doesn't snow on Christmas!!

Pictures of the snow piles in the middle of the road. 

Grey bein cute!

Merry Christmas!!

Butterfly Birthday Party

Our Thanksgiving!

Grey turned the big ONE on Thanksgiving this year. What a fun time for all of us! We started the day with blueberry muffins, Grey's favorite, and a few gifts from Mommy and Daddy. We then spent the day with both of our families, which is a gift in itself, for a all of us. Grey loves to play with all her cousins and Ryan and I love being close to family and getting the chance to hang out with everyone. We have so much to be thankful for this year! With it being Grey's birthday I couldn't help but think about the day she was born and how grateful we are that she is healthy and here with us today! What a great day to celebrate your first birthday!

Slowly, but surely...

The tree is on it's way up. Christmas tree that is. I cleaned today and made room for the tree and decided to put it up while Grey was sleeping. We will decorate it this weekend. Can't wait! I don't even think Grey has noticed it. I was worried she wouldn't stop bugging it, but so far she hasn't even touched it. Lucky me! 

So I'm probably the first person to put up my tree, but I haven't been able to for two years, so I just couldn't wait any longer. I'll post pictures when it's all decorated. Happy Holidays!!

Cutest Chair

Grey's new chair. (Courtesy of Aunt Jamia)

She loves climbing in and out of it. She fits so perfect in it. Too Cute!!

Halloween!

Another update!

11 months old and Grey is officially walking! She walks all over the place, exploring all there is to see. It was so fun to watch her accomplish such a huge thing. Life is different with a little walker in the house. She can get away quicker during a diaper change, goes from room to room, carries things around the house, (leaving us wondering where everything is) and best of all, walking over to give us loves! We couldn't be prouder of little Grey! 

( As soon as we find our camera I will post pictures of her and video. We seem to have lost it in the move.)

We are in Rexburg!!

Hello Everyone! It's been a while since my last post. We have been busy moving home and trying to find a place to live. We found an apartment in Rexburg last week, so we are in the process of unpacking and settling in to the new place. We live at the village on pioneer road. We like where we are. Ryan is starting his new job this week. He is still working for Sound Security, he just has a different job title. So all is well here! We love being close to family and it's been fun for Grey to play with cousins and get to know everyone again. She's still a little shy at first, but she'll get used to everyone sooner or later. If you are in the Rexburg area come visit us. We love to have company! As soon as we are settled, I'll be sure to post some pics and get back into the blogging world. Have a good one!!

Goodbye Florida!

These are our last days here in Florida and we are trying to make the most of them. We wanted to make sure and go to the pool before we left, but not sure if that's gonna happen. It's supposed to rain until Thursday, sorry Grey! We have really loved living in Florida. Ryan loves the heat, I love all the places to go shopping and Grey loves having a pool. We will definitely miss this place, but we are excited to be heading back to Idaho. There's no place like home! 

We are leaving on October 1st, so this will be my last post for a while. Wish us luck on our super long drive home! If you have any ideas on how to keep Grey entertained in the car, we would love to hear them! See you in Idaho!!

She wants to walk!

Grey pushes anything and everything around the house these days. She's getting pretty good at it too. It won't be long until she's walkin on her own. Yikes!

No.

I've been saying the word "no" a lot lately. I feel kinda bad, but I can't feel too bad because Grey doesn't know the meaning yet. I think she hears me say it and she knows that she is getting attention from it and it just eggs her on. So I am going to start saying yes and see what happens.

This is how it all starts.

Hey Momma! I'm just stretching and playing good. Don't mind me...

Why do you keep looking at me? I'm just standing here doing nothing!

Go away already! 

(I walk away for not even a minute) Grey's thinking, "nice barocade mom. Not gonna stop me." 

Oh no! She caught me!

But Mom! 

And this goes on all day long. We need a gate!!

Fun at the Lake

The lake was beautiful! Ryan was out riding the jet-ski! He had fun!

Grey and I loungin! She was sleepy!

Is this the nude lake? I laughed at this pic cause it almost looks like Ryan is naked too, but he's not! Bwaa ha ha hah heee eh he heee ha ha ah ha!

A storm came and we left.

The end!

Here it is....

This is our house in Orlando

Doesn't it kinda look like a doll house?

Ryan and Grey by the work truck.

Grey bein cute on the porch.

Where in the World are Ryan and Katie?

We have moved, yet again! We now live in Orlando Florida and who knows how long we will be here. I guess this is one of the perks of Ryans job, we get to see the country and live places we probably wouldn't have even visited. It's kinda cool to get to do this, but it gets old after a while. We are ready to make our journey home! 

We live about two miles from Universal Studios. (seriously) We went to city walk the other day, which is part of universal, but you don't have to pay to get in, you just walk around and there's cool stuff to see and little shops and stuff like that. We took a little boat ride. (and I didn't puke, I was so proud of myself) It was a beautiful day. We had fun! 

Our apartments are nice. They are townhouse apartments, so bedrooms are upstairs. As soon as we moved in Grey figured out how to climb them, so already we have an accident waiting to happen. She is getting so brave. Our house is pink! It looks like a dollhouse, no joke. I need to take a picture of it. We have a nice pool, which Grey loves. I don't know what we are going to do when we get home and there is no pool, baths will have to do I guess. 

All in all we love where we are! There are actually some other married people with children, so I will have someone to hang out with. We had some people over the other day so we could get to know each other and Grey managed to make both of their kids cry. I hope that didn't ruin my chances of making a friend. Grey can be a bully at times. Ryan was proud of her! (of course)

I will post a few pics of what we've been up to. Bye for now!

Ryan's way better at this than I am.

Grey was staring out the window...I thought it was precious.
Universal Studios Orlando

Me with this gorilla

All about Ryan

1. What is his name? Ryan Lee Hammon (Gator)
2. Who eats more? Ryan does, cause he's a boy and that's what boys do?
3. Who said I love you first? Ryan said it first and worried that I wasn't going to say it back.....but I did.
4. Who is taller? Ryan is. (have you seen me?)
5. Who is smarter? Oh, I hate to say it, but Ryan is smarter.
6. Who is more sensitive? I am
7. Who does the laundry? I do the laundry and thats how I want it to be.
8. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I do
9. Who pays the bills? Well, Ryan makes the dough so he runs the show. (hehe I just made that up.)
10. Who cooks more?  I cook more, but I think Ryan wishes I cooked even More!
11. What meals do you cook together? When Ryan's home we try to cook together, but he's always adding weird things when I'm not looking, so I have to keep an eye on him. 
12. Who is more stubborn? I asked Ryan this question and he looks and me and says, "Who gets their way?" and I was like "Oh." So that would be me.
13. Who is the first to admit they're wrong? Ryan does. I have a hard time with that. (hence the stubborn-ness)
14. Who has more siblings? That would be me. 3 vs. 8
15. Who wears the pants in the relationship? We both wear shorts, so lets call it even.
16. What do you like to do together? Play with Grey, swimming, cuddle, play guitar hero, go for walks. 
17. Who eats more sweets? I do, but when Ryan finds them he helps me eat them.
18. Guilty pleasures? Playin video games and facebook
19. How did you meet? We met at Club Strata (a.k.a Retrix). Ryan was home over christmas break and decided to hit the dance floor, and me, well, I was there every week. (no surprise there.) He finally got my number 2 months later and we've been together ever since. 
20. When did you fall in love with him? I fell in love with him over the phone. We were dating long distance, so phone conversations we very important. He was so easy for me to talk to and we had a lot in common and his voice is sexy too. 
21. Who has changed the most since you married? I think we both have. Once Grey was born we both realized we had to grow up a little bit...okay a lot. 
22. Who proposed? Ryan proposed, but he always tells people that I did. 
23. His best features? His smile, his eyes, his laugh, his jokes and he has really soft feet. Jealous!
24. What is his greatest quality? Ryan is so caring. He's always making sure everyone is taken care of at work and at home. He is a great father to Grey and a great husband to me and I couldn't ask for more.

I was tagged by Kathryn

I tag Brooke, Erin, J'lene, Crystal, Amy H.

Time flies when you don't want it too!

Well, Grey is officially 9 months old! I can't believe it. This sounds so cliche, but it really does feel like just yesterday she was born. I remember it so clearly. From day one I've always said "I can't wait until she does this or that", wanting her to do all these things and now I want time to go backwards and just have my little baby sleeping in my arms....or just sleeping period. It just seems like she is growing up so fast. Now she is crawling all over the place, finding tight spaces to get stuck in, objects to put in her mouth; Ryan and I just marvel at all these new things she figures out every day. Sometimes we just sit and watch her. She has so many facial expressions, it cracks us up. She's always smiling, but every once in a while we get "the glare". And I have a feeling we will be getting used to that one. (I need to catch that on camera.) 

We love our little Grey! She is truly the light of our lives. 

So Happy 9 months Grey!

She's Crawling!

Grey has been crawling for a few days now, we are so proud of her, but now we have our work cut out for us. She has already managed to get into trouble and we always have to be on our toes with her. She started out slow and is getting faster by the day. She thinks she can stand up to anything her size, (i.e  furniture, boxes, toilet, entertainment center, laundry baskets.) The list grows every day. Just this morning she found the toilet and from now on the bathroom door stays closed. The last thing I need is her falling in there. Every things is just so interesting to an 8 month old. She loves to crawl to the computer and type or should I say pound on the keys, that seems to be her favorite at the moment. (Just ask Ryan...hee hee)

But even though Grey is getting into EVERYTHING, we couldn't be happier that she is crawling! We love watching her grow and we are proud that she is our little girl. 

Our Trip Home

I was tagged!!

Kathryn tagged me

Link the person(s) who tagged you.

•Mention the rules on your blog.
•Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
•Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking them.
•Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged

Here I go:

1. I enjoy standing on one leg! I can't tell you when it started, but it's comfortable to me. I just rest my foot on the inside of my thigh, right above my knee (kinda like a flamingo). It's awesome. Why tire both of your legs? 

2. I like to buy things for scrapbooking, but I don't scrapbook! I am drawn to the cute paper, stickers, photo albums, and I buy it and it just sits there. I tell myself that someday I will start, but to this day, I'm still telling myself that. Help?!

3. If it smells funny, I won't eat it. I smell everything before I eat it. I try to be discreet about it, especially if I'm eating at someone's house, but I do it everytime!

4. I believe that our dreams are trying to tell us something. If I remember a dream, I analyze the heck out of it. Nothing has ever really come of it, but I still think that someday my dream will somehow predict the future. And sometimes someone really random will be in my dream, like an old friend, and then they end up calling me or emailing the next day and to me that's weird. 

5. Since becoming a mother, I have made up so many different songs. I sing about whatever, whenever. Like, I have a diaper changing song, a bath time song, a food song, a walking song, a running song, you name it, I will have a song ready. I don't know what it is. Grey likes it now, but as she gets older she will be begging me to stop. I hope it stops too, cause I don't want to be the weird mom. 

6. I can belch really loud. Louder than Ryan at times. It's great! 

I tag Brooke, Erin, J'lene, Crystal

( I need more blogging friends)

I love Family!

For the past two weeks I have been at home in Idaho and let me tell ya, it rocked. Ryan stayed behind in Florida and we missed him, but we did not miss Florida. Huh Grey? (she says ya..) I love hanging out with my family and being in familiar territory. We enjoyed every minute of being home. Grey loved all the little kids and I think she enjoyed the attention as well. Who wouldn't? 

Here is a list of what we enjoyed while at home:

*being with family

*going to big springs (even though there were a ton of bugs)

*Grey meeting her Uncle Jason, Aunt Jamia and her cousins Macy and Ava

*swinging at Brooke's house

*going down grandma's slide

*pepsi parties

*doing the letter crafts (do I owe someone $$ for that?)

*driving the 4-wheeler

*girls day in town with Julie and Emily (and James)

*the other girls day in town with Mom, Janeal, Erin, Brooke and all the kids (c'mon you guys..it   wasn't that bad....)

*riding the bike at grandma's

*Grey getting her top teeth

*probably more, but I can't think at the moment

I could go on and on about all the fun we had, but that would be boring for some... all in all we had a blast and we were very sad to leave. I cried and Grey cried and then I cried again because I knew Grey was sad. I also have a ton of pictures that I will post soon, so you can see all the fun for yourself. Thanks fam for all the good times! Love you guys!!

At the Zoo

New loofa?

I had been cleaning the bathrooms and after I cleaned the toilet I set the toilet brush into the shower while I finished everything else. Well, I had forgotten about it and in the meantime, Ryan had come home and hopped into the shower. As he is showering he yells out, "I love this new loofa!" I thought to myself for a moment, "what new loofa?" Then it hit me... Oh no, the toilet brush!! As I hurry to tell Ryan that's no loofa, I find him laughing to himself. He new it wasn't a loofa and he was just trying to scare me and he did!! It would have been funnier if he didn't know, and then to see his face after I told him it was a toilet brush, but oh well. At least I didn't have to deal with a stinky husband.

Have you laughed today?

If not, you can laugh at this. We did!!

A Few More...

These are just a few more pictures from last weekend with Ann and Cole. Grey was looking cute in her pink dress so we couldn't resist taking pictures. 

  Our little Family
    Huh?
Give that phone back Daddy!!
   Another Picture?
If this dress is so cute, maybe I should eat it!

Weekend Adventure!

We went to Sarasota last weekend to visit Ann and Cole. We had a lot of fun! I'm not going to write to much about it, just watch the slide show and you will get the story of our weekend.