The Pettersson Family

6 months

2011-12-03T18:00:00.000-08:00

These are iPhone pictures as you can tell....but she looks too cute not to put it on here

Wow, here we are half way to the birthday cake! It's hard to believe!

Khloe is so sweet these days. Not that she wasn't before, she is just so active now. She wants to reach EVERYTHING she sees, and usually gets to it one way or another :). She rolls like a pro and sits perfectly for the longest time. She has two bottom teeth and LOVES to eat. Oh my she can down the whole container of vanilla custard banana pudding in 3 min, and that's just breakfast my friends. Her favorites are pears, sweet potatoes, applesauce and sweet potatoes and sweet corn mix.

She still sleeps great, loves to be outside and is truly a sweet, happy baby. I love her laugh, it always melts my heart to hear that sweet sound. I love seeing her big cute smile in the morning when I come get her from her crib. And her favorite time of the day is still at night when she takes a bath. Every night, if she is not in the tub by 7p.m. she lets me know that it's time for me to put her in and boy does she enojoy every minute of it. Kaylee likes to get in with her and washes her feet and hair and is really sweet to her.

So to say that these past 6 months have been the happiest months of my life is a understatement. I love my family, I love my beautiful daughters and life is good :)

Happy 6 months Khloe girl, I love you!!!

5 months

2011-11-04T14:31:00.000-07:00

Happy 5 months Khloe girl.
I love you so much more Khloe, then I did when I was writing your 4 month post. You are still one happy baby that LOVES to eat, take a bath and cuddle. You love rice cereal, bananas and pears. You flew all the way to Europe and took your first trip do Disneyland Paris this month. You met your very first cousin that's only one week older than you for the first time and I think you liked each other. You also got to meet your sweet auntie Petra for the first time, uncle Brian, grandma and grandpa Jurcakovi, great grandma Ana and lots of other extended family members. You still sleep through the night and have no teeth yet. You sit all by yourself with no help and you laugh so loud and cute when daddy kisses your neck. You are perfect and we all love you so much.
Happy 5 months babe. I love you!!!

Khloe's blessing

2011-10-23T04:45:00.000-07:00

my princess on her day

Our little Khloe was finally given a blessing last Sunday. I felt so bad about waiting for so long, but it was really important for us to have some family there. Summer is extremely busy with Ryan's schedule and his dad travels for work so much that we couldn't find a weekend where we could all get together. We had two options with one being doing it in Alabama with just to four of us or wait and have at least his dad there with Ryan. Since Kaylee already had two birthdays and none of her grandparents were ever there, I just didn't want to be sad about them missing another event in my kid's lifes if I can help it. The blessing was beautiful, Ryan did a great job. Although Khloe was crying almost the whole time, I loved it. It was a beautiful and happy day. We are so happy to have Khloe in our family and in our life. She brings joy and happiness to us every day since the second she was born and we all adore and love her more that she'll ever know.

with mom and dad our family

Sisters

Texas state fair

2011-10-16T12:48:00.000-07:00

Our summer ( this was our fifth) of selling alarms finally came to an end and since Ryan is all done with school we are able to take a real vacation this year and don't have to hurry back to Utah before the semester starts.

We are leaving for Europe tomorrow and we are so excited. It's been almost three years since I saw my parents and they have never met Khloe. The last time I was home was 6 years ago, I have a new cute nephew in Germany that I can't wait to kiss and my grandma and the rest of my extended family have never even met my husband so this trip will be amazing.

We are at Ryan's parent's house in Texas right now, enjoying some time with them too since we don't get to see them as much as we would like to.
The weather here is beautiful in October. It's still so warm outside, around 85 degrees and I love it. Another thing I love about fall is the state fair. I have never been to one in Texas so we made sure we went last week. Here is a picture overload:

That was a first

2011-10-07T19:33:00.000-07:00

I was brushing my teeth in the bathroom last Sunday when Kaylee walked in. She was just standing next to me for a few seconds watching me and then she said something about her nose. I looked at it and didn't see anything wrong with it. She said "mommy! Look in my nose." Oh no..... My little Kaylee put a piece of a crayon up her nose. It was about a size of my finger nail on my pinkie. So pretty big for such small nose and it was pretty far up there. I'm not going to lie, I was freaking out. I was running around with tweezers at one point but I would never try to get it out by myself. I went to look for my phone to call a doctor when Ryan called me to go over there and I guess as he was holding her down and she was moving so much because she didn't like it the darn thing came out. Thank goodness. She never ever tried to put anything up her nose before so I never thought I would have to worry about this happening but I guess there is a first for everything....

4 months

2011-10-06T18:56:00.000-07:00

Baby Khloe turned 4 months old few days ago. It's hard to believe that she is getting so "old" so fast. I see her every day so it doesn't seem to me that she is changing that much, but when I go through her old pictures where she was brand new or a few weeks old I can see the difference. Big difference. Her eyes are still beatiful blue color, but that's no surprise sine both me and Ryan have blue eyes. Her toothless smile is to die for. I love seeing in ever morning when I reach over her crib to pick her up. Two weeks ago she weighed in at 15,6 lbs. Still chunky and I love it. I tried feeding her rice cereal few days ago and she did like it. She had a hard time keeping it in her mouth tho as she was pushing it out with her tongue, but she'll get a hang of it soon.
Khloe still loves her bumbo chair, paci, mommy, bath and she loves to be outside now that it's a bit cooler. It's definitely not fall here yet, still 85 degrees, but it's bareble so we take advantage of it every day.
Tummy time didn't make it to her favorites yet, but we are working on it. She managed to roll over from her back onto her tummy couple of times and she also can sit up all by herself for like 10 seconds. Go Khloe!!
And we are about to take her on her first plane ride. We are going to Europe in 10 days. I'm already so stressed out about the 10 hour flight that awaits us, you have no idea. But she needs to meet her little cousin Eli, auntie Petra, uncle Brian before he deploys to Afghanistan, grandpa and grandma, great grandma and the rest of the family. They all love her so much and can't wait to hold, kiss and love on her.
Happy 4 months Khloe. I love you so much more than I did yesterday and the day before.. You are as sweet and cute and cuddly and beautiful as you can get, and we are so happy to have you in our family!! Love you!

Lucky

2011-09-23T08:49:00.000-07:00

Sometimes, especially in the morning when everybody is still a little tired and just lays around, or at thing after the girls take their baths, have their jamies on and watch a show before bed, when everything is calm and quite, I just sit back, look at them all comfortable, Khloe in my arms and Kaylee right next to us, and wonder how on Earth did I get so lucky to have these two beautiful, healthy babies in my life. Ever since i became a mom, life is different. Better different. Much better. Thank you girls for coming to my life and making it better than I could ever imagine it. I love you!! all clean, ready for bed.

Rain

2011-09-21T19:27:00.000-07:00

If there is anything I love about living in the south it's the storms. You don't hear a real thunder in Utah. And the lightning that comes with it...it's just beautiful. Sometimes you see the storm coming and sometimes you only have 5 seconds to run inside before you are completely soaked. Each drop is like a gallon. There is nothing like it I tell you. Well, when you are enjoying it from the comfort of your home. I'm sure it's a whole another story when you are outside in the middle of it all.

We got some rain today. It's wasn't as bad as it can get, so I let miss Kaylee be a kid and run around in the rain, jump in the puddles with her little bare feet and poke the bubbles that formed in the water that gathered on the road. Boy did she have a blast. I just watched her from the porch just being happy. I love these moments when my kids show me what life is really all about. Love my happy girl. (both of them).

3 months!!

2011-09-01T19:00:00.000-07:00

Every blog post with a title that mentions my kid's age begins with "wow, I can't believe it's been x amount of months/years since she was born" but I really am amazed at how fast the time flies. I really can't believe that Khloe joined our family 3 months ago!! It seems like she has been with us forever, she belongs with us, but on the other hand it also seems like it was yesterday when I was waddling around town tired of being so huge and ready for the babe to be here.
We really are beyond happy that we have Khloe in our family. We have our routine and actually had one for a while and I seriously don't even remember what our life was like before she came. Here are some facts about that pretty baby of mine:

-Khloe doesn't really nap, snoozes a lot when I hold and snuggle her, but the second I put her down she is looking around to see what it is that I need to do that I have to put her down. So, not a lot of cleaning gets done around in this house during the day, but that's ok.( I feel guilty to just put her in her swing).

- she is a great night sleeper. Goes down between 9pm - 10pm and gets up at 7am.

-not a fan of tummy time. I mean, she starts crying almost immediately after I lay her face down on a flat surface so I cheat by stacking a couple of pillows on top of each other to make it high enough, so when she put he elbows on top she is kneeling instead of laying....we'll work on that one.
-loves to take baths. I bathe my kids every night. Kaylee because she gets so sticky/dirty during the day playing outside and by feeding herself... and Khloe because she spits up a lot and I think it's good to have a routine. I usually put Kaylee in first while Khloe sits in her bouncer next to the tub and just watches Kay color all over the walls. She gets so excited when I let the water out and start filling the tub again because she knows it's her turn then.

-she doesn't like to be alone at all. If I have to put her down on the couch or our bed or somewhere for a minute she is happy as long as she sees me but the second I leave her sight she lets me know that that's not cool. I think it's pretty cute.

-she loves her paci. Has it in her mouth almost all day long.

-Khloe is a good eater. She weights 14.2 lbs!!! Chunky monkey!

- wears size 2 diapers and clothes size 6-9M. My kids are tall.

-humidity and hot weather is not her favorite. She gets that from me. So, we have to go outsite in the evening and not stay too long, which is fine by me.

- she loves it when we talk to her and she "talks" back and laughs out loud which is the cutest thing ever!!!

- she has been sitting in her bumbo chair for over a month now and does great in it.

- she does like her swing a lot, but I don't put her there very often. The mentioned guilt...

- she has the biggest smile on her face every single morning when I lean over her crib to pick her up when she wakes up. It shoots me right up to 7th heaven.

- she got her shots a couple of weeks ago and cried only for the second one. I on the other hand was a wreck and we all survived, but I am definitely NOT looking forward to the second round...

- she has gone to the beach in Florida few weeks back and cried the entire time we were there. I can't really blame the girl, it was very hot and she got sand everywhere from her eyes to her diaper... poor thing.

Well, I think this is it and I hope I'm not forgetting anything. Khloe bug, you are such a sweet baby. We are all so in love with you and we are so happy to have you in our life. These past three months had been the best for our family because you complete it. Happy 3 months pretty girl. We love you to the moon and back. Twice.

Mom, Dad & Kaylee

4th of July

2011-08-30T18:55:00.001-07:00

Better late than never. I have finally started to make some time to catch up on here because I know the longer I wait to worse it's gonna get. And I think my kids are just too cute not to be bragged about over and over again. So, here is what we did on the 4th. We went to see some fireworks, came home and did some of our own as well. I don't have pictures of those, but you can bet Kaylee had a blast shooting them!Khloe did so go with all that noise for one month old.This girl sure knows how to shake it.

Floaties

2011-08-30T16:20:00.000-07:00

Best purchase of this summer. Kaylee LOVES water, and going to the pool when you live in the south is a must. Me not being able to go into the water for a few weeks after Khloe was born made me drive over to Target and get these babies for her. She loves being independent and was a natural the second she put them on. She just swims and swims and loves every minute of it.

Hospital pictures

2011-08-25T20:49:00.000-07:00

I never got to upload these pictures of Khloe when she was just born and I feel really bad about it. I hope she will not be mad at me for it later.....

Looking at these makes me realize how much she has changed and grown. She has lost little bit of hair and filled up (she weights 14 lbs now, chunky little monkey :) ). She still likes to sleep and nap and her absolute favorite is to be held. Oh how she loves to be snuggled!! She actually gets quite worked up if I put her down and leave the room for a minute (usually to help Kaylee). But that doesn't happen that often so I can say that I have one happy baby on my hands. Love you Khloe!!

Is there anything more heavenly than your new born baby?? I think NOT.

Going home!

Taking my baby home!!

(do I look huge or do I look huge?? Don't answer it).

Ruby Jane Taylor

2011-08-18T15:32:00.000-07:00

This sweet, beautiful baby girl passed away a week ago awaiting a liver transplant. She was 7 months old. I unfortunately didn't know her, but her story touched me so much. I have been following her family's blog to see how she was progressing and I prayed and fasted for her and her family. And I still do. I even wanted to be considered as a living donor for her, but our blood type didn't match. My liver would probably be too big for her anyway, but I would have tried, because looking at her picture.... I just couldn't stand the thought of her mom loosing her.I'm not sure why I feel so strongly about Ruby's story since I don't know her or her family, I guess it's the mother in me. I just can't even begin to imagine what her beautiful mom is going through right now. My heart aches knowing that Ruby's mom will have to wait a while until she can hold her baby girl again, kiss her cheeks and see her pretty smile again. And because of this, I am a better mom today. I love and enjoy waking up in the middle of the night to feed my baby girl and to snuggle and kiss her some more. I am more patient, more loving and I drop whatever I'm doing that "needs" to be done so I can roll around the floor with Kaylee, tickle her and laugh with her because there are moms out there that have their hands empty, and I would be ashamed to waste this precious time.....
So today, and every day, when your kids drag mud inside the house, when they spill a glass full of juice on the floor, when they creatively paint your walls with crayons or loose your favorite pair of earrings, remember Ruby, be thankful that you have someone to clean all this mess after and try to kiss and hug your loved ones more often. This is for you Ruby, I will never forget you.

If you would like to read Ruby's story, go to http://www.aniandmatttaylor.blogspot.com/
If you would like to donate to help cover the Taylor's medical bills, please go to http://www.rubyjanetaylor.blogspot.com/ or you can go to the same page to be a part of auction that will donate all the profit to the Taylor family.
Or go to http://www.bowsforruby.org/ to purchase a bow or a head band for the same cause.

Two months

2011-08-06T19:26:00.000-07:00

So, I'm a little late on this post. Khloe is two months old already. How did this happened? I don't know. Time sure flies by way too fast. It was just yesterday that I was complaining of being pregnant for sooooo long and today, my little baby sits in a bumbo chair like it's no big deal. Well, it is to me. I just love to hold a brand new baby that is curled up in a fetal position every time you change it's diaper or just unwrap it's blanket. My husband would send me to the psychiatrist for saying this, but I am already baby hungry again. I was like this when Kaylee was just a few weeks old too. No, we are definitely NOT having another baby any time soon, I'm just saying that they grow way too fast, that's all....
Anyway, Khloe has been such a good baby. She had a rough few days back in Jackson when she wouldn't stop crying all day long but thanks to gas drops she got feeling better and now is her happy self. She sleeps good, eats great, she loves to sit up and watch what's going on around her, she likes her swing and she absolutely loves to be held and I am not complaining about that one :). She is smiling now when I make silly faces and boy do I love that smile.

She really is a happy baby, but there is one thing she doesn't enjoy too much and that's being outside for too long. Can you blame her when the heat index is between 110 and 115 every day? Her back is soaking wet when I pick her up from her car seat after being out for a bit so I try to do stuff indoors for the most part or go to the pool after 5 when there is more shade. Oh, and she also isn't the biggest fan of the beach. We decided to go with a few girls down to Florida one day and it didn't go so well. Kaylee LOVED it, but it is a challenge with a small baby. She had sand everywhere from her diaper to her eyes. It was all over her bottle, paci.... well let's just say we won't be going back for a while :) I didn't take her to her two month check up yet, but I will soon so I'll update her stats later. I just want to say that the past two months have been the best time of our life. Being a family of four is so much better than I ever expected it to be. Kaylee is a great big sister, Khloe is the sweetest baby and we really feel so blessed to have these two beautiful girls in our life.

You bring me so much joy and happiness every single day Khloe, you will never know how much I love you. You are a content, sweet and curious little girl, you love when I hold you in my arms and you smile when I talk to you which melts my heart every.single.time. You coo more and more every day and I absolutely love your sweet voice. You have beautiful blue eyes, you get around two million kisses a day and you get to be stared at by your mommy every single night after you go to sleep. You eat a lot, go to sleep at 10 every night and still wake up between 4 and 5 a.m. to eat, but I don't mind because I get to hold you and give you few more kisses before the morning comes, so it's ok. Really.Well, I can't believe it's been two whole months since you joined our family. It seems like we have known you forever. You are ours, you belog with us and we love you too much! Happy two months baby!

Mom of two

2011-08-02T21:12:00.000-07:00

(don't mind me in this picture. I have zero make-up on and about 4 hours of sleep....)

The computer is finally fixed. I'm so happy, because I've really missed blogging and feel guilty that I haven't been doing as many updates on Khloe as I did on Kaylee when she was born. It's not because I don't care, I promisse Khloe. I have not been able to but now that I am, I will catch up on everything.

I LOVE being a mom of two. I was kind of scared before Khloe was born, because every time I talked to someone who had two or more kids, they all said that having two was the hardest. Harder than having three or four. So I was prepared for the worst but let me tell you, I really LOVE it. Sure it's hard sometimes, the lack of sleep, having two kids crying at the same time (which honestly doesn't happen more than few times a week, lucky me!) not having enough hands to carry everything I need, running trough the grocery store carrying a bag of chips with my teeth because the infant car seat and a two year old take up all the room there is in one shopping cart and due to those missing hands metioned above I can't dragg another cart behind me to get everything I need, I seriously can not complain one bit. Khloe is the sweetest baby there is. Always happy, crying only when she is hungry. Kaylee is very patient which makes it all so much easier on me. She is so independent and understanding that it's hard to believe that she is only two. I just love her to pieces. And I really don't mean to brag about my kids all the time, but I really am as happy as I ever was. My girls bring me so much happiness I'm surprised my heart hasn't burst yet. I get teary eyes on daily basis. Happy tears.

So being a mom of two is the best thing that ever happen to me. I love my babies more than anything, and having a husband that loves all three of us more than life makes me the happiest girl on this planet.

Shout out to Kaylee

2011-07-16T20:38:00.000-07:00

Due to our constant moving across the country ever since we got married and me being from Europe and having all of my family back there, we don't have a lot of the same people around us most of the time since we change wards every few months and Ryan's family is living in Texas which is closer than mine, but still far enough that we don't get to see them as often as we would like. But where am I going with this you ask?

It has been me and Kaylee most of the time, since she was born. Of course Ryan spend as much time as he could with her, but poor guy was beyond busy (and still is) working his tail off every single summer and when he wasn't doing that, he was a full time student staying up late working on his homework, writing papers and studying for thest. So you see, me and Kaylee were together all the time, every single day, 24/7 since day one. I can probably count on one hand how many times she was babysat and that was usually for an hour or so.It got to the point where we had to practice sometimes me leaving for a few minutes and Ryan staying home with her so she is without me for a little bit and gets used to it. She would scream every single time like she was on fire.... She wasn't really into playing with other kids when she was younger so even when we did arrange a play date with some friends, she just wanted to play with me and nobody else. When we went to the park, she wanted me next to her the whole time, because I was her buddy you know? So you can understand that I was a little worried about her getting use to having to share me with her little sister. I was worried about those two days I had to stay at the hospital, because when she wakes up in the morning I'm the one she wants. She walks up to my side of the bed, throws her blankets at me and says "mom, come on!" And I get up, follow her to the living room and turn one of her shows on. Every morning. And when I happen to be exhausted one of those mornings and ask Ryan to go with her, she won't go. He tries to help me, but she prefers her mom. So when I imagined the morning of me being in the hospital when she wakes up I kind of freaked. I knew she would be ok, but it's just that motherly feeling you have when you know that your baby wants you and you are not there. And she doesn't know why. She is confused and doesn't understand what's happening. You probably think I'm crazy for making such a big deal out of this, but it's ok. I love my kids and that makes me a little crazy I guess.

So, the big day arrives, I get up very early in the morning and get ready to leave for the hospital. I kiss Ryan good bye ( I didn't want him to go to the hospital with me at 4:45 in the morning, because I wanted him to be there with Kaylee when she gets up, so they can eat breakfast together and come after that). I kissed Kaylee good bye, told her I loved her and that I was sorry I wasn't going to be there when she wakes up. I left, had a baby and when Ryan walked into the room with Kaylee, I swear she looked so much different. She seemed so grown up to me all of a sudden. It's like she knew. She knew that she couldn't jump on my bed because I was in pain. She knew she had to be gentle with this little baby mommy was holding and kiss her softly. She gave me my space after the delivery. She was fine leaving with dad to go get lunch and was ok with me not going with them. She kissed me good bye, told me she loved me and left. Just like that. I was so proud of my little girl. And so relieved that this whole thing wasn't hard on her. Ryan got me some flowers, cupcakes and a balloon at the store and Kaylee LOVES all three of those, but for some reason she didn't want to keep them to herself. She ran into the room with the bouquet of roses and the balloon and handed them to me with a big smile on her face and kissed me afterwards. I was amazed. She had no problem leaving to go home at night either. I was standing outside my room watching Ryan and Kaylee walk down the hallway to the elevator and she kept turning around yelling "bye mommy", waving and blowing me kisses. I might have shed a tear or two that moment. I was so happy that she was happy, that she was ok with all this craziness that was going on. Us moving couple of weeks prior to adding a new member into our family, then us moving again and me spending so much time with this new little baby and not having so much time to play with Kaylee anymore..... it must have been a lot for her and she handled it perfectly. I feel like she didn't even go through the "getting used to this" period. She just went with the flow from day one. I'm so so so proud of her for being so understanding, patient and loving. She is such a sweet little girl. She asks me if Khloe is ok when she hears her cry, and she tries to make her feel better by holding her hand, kissing her forehead and giving her her paci. When I tell her that we are going somewhere, she goes and puts her shoes on. Then I remember to check the diaper bag to make sure I have everything and put the missing items in, by the time I'm ready to walk out the door Khloe needs a diaper change or an outfit change because she spit up all over herself and then I remember that I haven't seen Kaylee in the last few minutes. The sweet girl has been patiently sitting in the stroller all ready to go since the minute I told her we were going somewhere. I can't even explain how in love with her I am. She really is the sweetest two year old there is. I hear a lot about "terrible twos" and I swear that I have no idea what people are talking about, because my little girl turned into an angel. She has her moments of course, but she is as sweet as can be most of the time. I try really hard to make it all up to her and spend some good quality one on one time with her when Khloe naps, because I just feel so guilty sometimes for telling her to wait when she wants something. I try to include her in everything I do with

Khloe, like giving her baths, changing diapers.....and she is the best helper out there hands down.

Kaylee, you are such a sweet little girl and you make me so proud of you. You are so patient, loving, selfless, understanding and giving and I hope that I can be more like you one day. I'm so lucky to be your mom and Khloe is one lucky girl to have you as her big sister. I love you so so so so much baby girl my heart could burst, and I hope that you will always know and remember that. You are my sunshine.

Love, mom

Loving baby Khloe

2011-07-15T20:40:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since I posted something on here, it's obviously not because I have nothing to blog about, but because someone in this household broke the computer.....again so I'm now using our friends laptop and that's why there are no pictures in this post but I do take like a 100 every day so there is going to be an overload soon :o).

We are now in Mobile, Alabama and we love it here so far. It's way better than Jackson, MS although that place will always be dear to my heart, since we welcomed our little Khloe into our family there. I have been feeling so many different emotions lately and wanted to document them here for the girls to read one day.

I never really took the time to express how I feel about being a mom for the second time. Oh how I love ever minute of it.

There is just something about newborn babies that makes the world stop.They are so innocent, pure, perfect....they just came here from Heaven and the do look and feel like little angels.

I still remember the feeling of indescribable happiness and love I felt when I first laid my eyes on my little Khloe. I was holding her on my chest and it was just us two ( Ryan missed her being born because she came so fast), looking at each other, feeling peace, comfort, happiness and unconditional love. She looked deep into my eyes and I felt like I have known her forever. And although we missed having daddy there with us, those few minutes we got to be alone together made up for him not being there. It was just so special to finally hold my precious baby after those long 9 months of having her in my belly and feeling her move, kick and hick up, seeing her on ultrasound and imagining what she will look like. And here I am now, 6 weeks later, thinking to myself that I thought I loved her then. And of course I did, but that love has grown so much more since then.... I have tears in the corners of my eyes almost every time I get to hold her and look at her for a few minute and realize what a miracle it is to create this perfect little person, and how lucky and blessed me and Ryan are that we are trusted once again with another little perfect girl. I cherish those moments, when it's just me and Khloe again, especially in the middle of the night, when it's quite and calm and the world stops for a few minutes as I get to hold her, look at her perfect little lips and nose, I kiss her perfect little cheeks and hold her perfect little hand, look into her eyes and tell her that she will probably never know how much I love her. I tell her how beautiful and perfect she is, how thankful I am that she chose to come here and how happy I am to have her, her big sister Kaylee and her dad in my life. And then, she looks deep into my eyes again like she did 6 weeks ago, and tells me through that look "I know mom. I'm happy that I am here too, and I love you too".

Khloe, you really are a special, perfect, sweet little girl. You are so content and patient. You are so loved by your mom, dad, sister, grandmas, grandpas, aunts and uncles, and you bring so much joy and happiness into our lives. I hope that you will always know and remember that. I love you and your sister to the moon and back. Times million. I can't wait to see you two girls play and laugh together and become best friends. You two make me and your dad happier than we could ever imagine being. And now I'm going to kiss you both good night and look forward to tomorrow to kiss you two a million times more!

Love, mom

2 weeks

2011-06-16T20:32:00.001-07:00

Took Khloe to her 2 week check-up today, she now weights 7 lbs and 6 oz. ( Kaylee's birth weight).When they weighed her at 4 days old she was 6 lbs and 10 oz so I guess she is doing great gaining weight. Other than that she is healthy and happy :o). Love her.

( I look like a whale in this picture, but I don't really care because look what's in my arms...so worth it!!)

Ahhh...

2011-06-16T20:23:00.000-07:00

.....my kids are so beautiful. Inside and out.

( can you see the "painting" on the wall behind Kaylee? )

Caught

2011-06-16T19:18:00.000-07:00

These pictures were taken about a week ago so Khloe was only one week old or maybe not even that. I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth when I heard noises so I come out and what do I see? Miss Kaylee jumping in Khloe's crib right next to her. She knew she was in trouble before I even got to tell her ( in a slightly loud voice) not to do that ever, so she started kissing her because she knew that always melts my heart. She is a sweet big sister. Loves to hold baby Khloe, gives her too many kisses, helps me change her diapers, put a paci in her mouth, holds her bottle and helps me to give her a bath as well. These girls are the best things that ever happened to us and we are so happy to have them both!

One week

2011-06-08T15:07:00.000-07:00

Can't believe it's been a whole week since Khloe arrived! Time goes by way too fast once they are out. Seems like there isn't enough hours in a day for me to do everything that needs to be done and I still feel like I got hit by a truck and then it dragged me at least 30 feet....I'm so tired that every time I get to sit down for more that 10 min I almost fall asleep and have to get up before I do. But oh how I wouldn't change it for anything in the world! These two girls are just my everything, love them to the moon and back. Twice. Here is to many many many more weeks of changing diapers, burping babies, kissing boo boo's, wiping tears and laughing and snuggling my beautiful healthy babies.

Rapunzel

2011-06-08T11:35:00.000-07:00

Kaylee is way into princesses lately. She loves her Barbie dolls all of a sudden, princess outfits, shoes, lip glosses....you name it. I'm going to write another post about how sweet she has been lately, but this dress she got from dad for being super patient, easy going and sweet while I was at the hospital. Doesn't she look beautiful? Oh how I love my sweet Kaylee :o)

Thanks for the dress dad!

She has also been sleeping in a big girl bed for a while now and does great. Way too much jumping going on over in her room, but that's ok :o)

Perfect

2011-06-06T07:12:00.001-07:00

Khloe's birth day in pictures

2011-06-03T20:48:00.000-07:00

Leaving for the hospital, in all my glory (41 weeks) at 4:45 am

First bath. She was screaming the whole time right after we took this picture.

one proud papa

Kisses from big sister

Daddy and Kaylee brought flowers, balloon and yummy cupcakes.

Khloe's late and FAST arrival

2011-06-02T15:52:00.000-07:00

(Late -meaning one week past the due date and fast- meaning 3,5 hours from when the doctor broke my water to when our little girl was born...)

Well, by now everyone knows that my due date rolled around and there was no baby in sight. My doctor didn't want to induce because on the ultrasound she did at 38 weeks the baby was measuring about 2 weeks smaller and she didn't want to risk me having this tiny baby being born early. So the wait begun and as the due date came and went, I was getting more and more anxious, cranky, tired of being pregnant....you name it. And the 100 degree weather combined with Mississippi humidity was making me miserable and every day that went by was like 70 hours long. I was finally fed up with everything, called in and told them that I was done. They scheduled me for induction one week past my due date,

on Wednesday, June 1st.

I checked in at 5 a.m. and got hooked up on the IV. My doctor came in to break my water at 7 a.m. and started me on pitocin. The contractions didn't take long to kick in but were bearable, plus I didn't want to look like a pansy and ask for the epidural right away although I loved it when I had Kaylee. They asked me if I ate something before I came in and I did have 2 pieces of toast because I remembered all too well that they don't let you eat or drink while in labor and since my first one lasted 20 hours I was not going to be starving all day. BIG mistake. The nurse told me that I wasn't suppose to eat anything if I was planning on epidural, so now I'll have to wait a few hours before I can get it. Great. She didn't even get done announcing this "awesome" news to me my contractions doubled in pain and came closer together. The doctor checked me at 9:30 a.m. and I was at 5 cm. About 15 min later I asked the nurse if she could get the anesthesiologist because my contractions were getting way too strong, way longer, way too close together and that was something I wasn't prepared for. I never took any classes so I was just trying to breath through each one as well as I could. She told me that he could come little after 10 to give me that dreamed of epidural. Every minute seamed like a week at that point. The dude was taking his sweet time because she rolled me over on my side to get me ready around 10:15 a.m. and he still wasn't anywhere near. And that's when it happened. I felt a horrible urge to push. My eyes almost fell out of my head as I realized that that was it. They yelled at the doctor, she came in and as she wanted to go ahead and check me to see what am I talking about with this pushing non sense, she says "oh, the baby is right there! You just have to push her out honey". And yes, the stupid anesthesiologist walked in right that second! Great timing don't you think? I'm not going to write down all the things I wanted to do to him if I had the strenght.

So, out the door he goes, I push two times and a beautiful baby girl is born. All the pain is gone just like that, and all I feel is happiness, joy and so much love for this little person I just met and my little family. It feels like she has been with us for forever. I don't even remember what it was like before we had her and that was just two days ago. She definitely belongs. She is ours and we all love her so much.

And that's the story of us becoming a family of four.

Khloe North Pettersson

2011-06-02T08:55:00.000-07:00

Khloe North Pettersson

6.1.2011 at 10:29 a.m.

7 lbs. 1 oz.

20 1/2 inches

Welcome to the world and to our family sweet Khloe. We are so happy to finally have you here with us and we can't get enough of you! You are such a sweet, quite, content, happy little baby and we are all in love with you so much already! We can't wait to bring you home tomorrow and start our life together as a family of four.

Love and kisses,

daddy, mommy and your big sister Kaylee

Mississippi

2011-05-31T13:37:00.001-07:00

So I'm finally getting some pictures up from MS. We've been here for a month now and I'm getting used to it. There isn't that much to do which is hard when you have a child, because you want them to be outside, play and have fun and it's getting so hot out that it's hard for me to be at the park with Kaylee when it's 100 degrees not mentioning she is running around and getting hot too.

There is a children's museum not too far from our house and it's actually really neat. They have a lot for the kids to do there and opened up a splash area just a couple of days ago and oh boy I don't have to mention how much Kaylee loves water. So here is just a few pictures of her having a good time playing.

Eli Holford

2011-05-24T07:09:00.000-07:00

Eli Holford

5.23.2011 at 8:57 pm.

7 lbs. 6 oz.

21 inches

Welcome to the world sweet baby Eli!

We are so happy to have you in our family and we all love you so much already!

My daughter for sure

2011-05-16T08:11:00.000-07:00

My mom sent me some pictures of me when I was about Kaylee's age and well, I can't help but think that we look like sisters in these. Don't you think so?

(I'm obviously the blond one in the middle :) )

Last couple of weeks in Utah

2011-05-13T19:32:00.000-07:00

We've been here in Mississippi for 2 weeks now, and I came across these pictures from Utah that I think are too cute not to post so here is WAY TOO MANY pics of my beautiful daughter. I'll get to posting about Mississippi soon. Have a great weekend!

We went to the park like always on a nice warm day

We played in the snow in April (only in Utah....)

We returned to the park when the sunshine came back

Went to Church

went to see some horses with Carol and Claus

My BYU graduate

2011-05-09T09:05:00.000-07:00

Ryan graduated BYU couple of weeks ago and you can only imagine what a happy day that was for all of us, but mostly for him.

I've seen him spend hours and hours a day writing papers, doing homework, working on presentations and studying for tests. He spend as much time with me and Kaylee as he possibly could after he came home from school and then had to make up for that time spent playing with Kaylee and being a husband to me by staying up until 3,4 or even 5 AM catching up on homework and studying.

And when the semester finally came to an end each year, he helped me pack all of our stuff, drove 2 days to wherever we were going to live for 4 months and worked harder than most people I know all summer long. And when each of those long hot summers were over, he started school again just couple of days after getting back to Provo. We never really had time for vacation between semesters.

I'm so proud of Ryan. I really don't know anybody who works harder than him almost all year round to make sure our family has everything we need and more.

I'm beyond grateful that I was able to stay home with our daughter and didn't have to leave her for hours each day to go to work. That's pretty impressive for a full time student, don't you think?

Now, I'm so happy this chapter of our life is over but I'm even more happy seeing these pictures of my handsome, hot husband in his cap and gown sm

iling and knowing that all of his hard work finally payed off.

Congratulations babe, you DID IT!!!!!!!!

YOU ARE A BYU GRADUATE!!!

2011-04-23T21:24:00.000-07:00

I am very lucky. Lucky to have a beautiful wife that loves me, lucky to have good friends that offer to help us move without even asking (Tanner, Brad, German thanks to you all), lucky to have a job and graduate from college.

I rarely post online, either here or on Facebook, but I would like to take a chance to say that I have...

Every year we move at least twice, each time with Erika doing a majority of the packing while I'm studying for my numerous school finals or working during the summer. In addition, not only does Erika get to clean my dirty clothes and pack my things, she has an added bonus of either Kaylee clinging on her or the excitement of refolding clothes after Kaylee knocks it over for the third time.

Last night we stayed at Willie and Michelle's place (they were angels for letting us stay on such short notice and so we could be together before I drove to Texas). We stayed on their twin beds (which their kids sacrificed for us, bless their souls), with Erika on one, me on the second, and Kaylee on the floor. In the morning, I awoke to see my beautiful, pregnant, and sacrificing wife asleep on the floor with Kaylee in the second bed. She did this as Kaylee was waking up, crying each time, and she wanted me to have a good night sleep so I could make the long drive home. My heart broke into a million, rather a billion, pieces. Erika literally is one of the most selfless and benevolent people on this earth. Always concerned about others more then herself, she is literally an angel on earth.

They say behind every great man is a greater woman. Let me be clear, I am by no means a great man, yet I am confident that with Erika behind me and through her love and support, I will become one.

Erika sacrifices every year, without seeking praise, and I often take her for granted. Therefore, it's my pleasure to bestow upon you the Best Wife Ever Award 2011. Thank you Erika, thank you for all you do! Love ya babe!

Feelings on baby # 2

2011-03-27T21:48:00.000-07:00

I haven't really been good about documenting this pregnancy for some reason. I'm not sure why that is. Part of it is because this time round I'm busy with Kaylee and don't have time to read baby center three times a day, spend 3 hours sitting at the computer searching for baby names and other stuff like that. I also need to take more pictures of my growing belly because I only have 9 weeks (or less) left.

My feelings about this pregnancy at the beginning were kind of mixed. I had a miscarriage after Kaylee and before this one, so I was super excited when I found out we were expecting again. I didn't want to get my hopes up so I tired not to get too crazy about it but I had a good feeling that this one was a keeper :o). When we found out that baby #2 is a girl, I was even happier. Not that I wouldn't want a baby boy, but to think that Kaylee will have a sister to play with is a great feeling because I have one and she truly is my best of friends. Sure we got into fights growing up, but believe me when I tell you that there is no better friend for better or for worse that your own sister. I love mine to death, and I hope that Kaylee will feel about her little sister the same way.

I also had a few moments where I felt like I was "cheating" on Kaylee in the sense that she has been my only one for 2 years now, I almost never go anywhere without her (including shower), she is with me every second of every day and has no idea that that's about to change big times. I really hope that it's not going to be hard for her to learn to "share" me. I'm planning on including her into everything I do with this little girl, like baths and stuff so she never feels left out.

And of course some days I just feel so overwhelmed thinking about packing, moving to another state, flying with Kaylee alone (we've done it a few times before but never at 9 months pregnant haha) and unpacking just 4 weeks before my due date, getting a new doctor, adjusting to having two kids and not really having much help with it. Ryan is going to be working 6 long days a week like every summer but he will stay home for a week after the baby is born which I am so thankful for. His mom is also planning to come for a week after he goes back to work which I'm excited about because I honestly can't imagine what I would do it alone. I know there is a lot of women who have even more kids and have to just do everything by themselves, but looking at Kaylee's schedule for the past few months where she doesn't like to nap and stays up at least until midnight and think that I'm gonna have to wake up with the baby every 2 hours all night long and stay up with Kaylee all day long drives me into a panic mode. I'm sure I'll figure out a way how to do it all ( I don't really have any other options) but no matter how hard it is going to be, I know it will be all worth it. I really am so excited to welcome this little girl into our family in just a few weeks, hold and kiss her and introduce her to her big sister. I know us girls are gonna have so much fun together this summer. We'll miss having daddy around most of the time but we'll be one big happy family when we'll be all together.

One thing I'm sooo not looking forward to is to have a post-baby body in the middle of the summer. There isn't a day that goes by without me thinking about being down in the hot south and not really being able to wear much to cover up my jiggle belly and all the extra fat after the delivery. It wasn't as hard with Kaylee since she was born in February, and this time round I'm really stressing about it. I'm sure though that once I see that little bundle of joy, I won't care as much (at least I hope so...).

And last, but not least, I have fallen in love with my husband even more lately. I have always loved him to pieces, but it's just kind of different, better if you will when I'm pregnant. When I see him help me clean up because it's hard for me to bend over for me these days, or he paints my toe nails because I can't reach them anymore, puts my socks on (for the same reason), tells me to go take a nap when he has a minute to watch Kaylee and many other things, I just want to squeeze him and never let go. It means so much to me that he loves me and Kaylee so much, takes care of us and spends every break he takes from studying and writing papers with us. I love him to the moon and back and I hope I let him know that every day.

So, that's all for now. I hope you all have a great week and that Ryan can finish his 35 page paper on time and nail it!!

Sunshine tease

2011-03-07T10:05:00.000-08:00

I'm not even trying to get use to this nice weather we've had these last few days since it's suppose to be raining/snowing today, but I sure like to enjoy it when it comes before it goes again.

Friday was one of those days. We went to the Provo Library for story time, then headed for lunch with our friends Mike, Steph and little James. I was hoping Kaylee would take a short nap after that so we came home for a bit but as I mentioned before, my daughter thinks naps are way overrated so I gave up and took her to the park. So glad I d

id, because we had a wonderful time. And of course we couldn't go home without driving to campus and chasing the ducks around! Thank you sunshine for

showing up for a few days, and Spring, please come soon!

So glad daddy took a break from studying and homework and came along!

My BIG two year old

2011-02-24T20:18:00.000-08:00

Kaylee had her 2 year check-up today and she is as healthy as can be, growing and growing.

She is 36 1/2 inches tall (96th percentile) and weighs in at 29 lbs.

She is super tall for her age. She wears size 5 diapers, 3T size tops and 2T jeans (but that's gonna change soon to 3T as well because some of those are already short), her dresses are all 3T and her shoes are size 7.

She is such a girl! I love it! She has been playing with make-up and jewelry for a very long time, but I still love watching her put on my lipstick and lip gloss, eye shadow and blush. She loves getting into my jewelry box as well and tries on everything, but one necklace is her most favorite and she wears it 7 days a week, all day long. Pearl necklace I got from my father in-law. It's not mine anymore. She puts it on first thing in the morning and I have to wrestle with her at night to take it off when she goes to sleep. She does have her necklaces, bracelets and rings but I guess we have a real diva on our hands because she'll only wear the real deal original pearls :o). I also love her sense for fashion. She'll drag me into her closet multiple times a day to show me which dress she wants to put on and I help her get it down and put it on. We do go through quite few of them every day, and skirts and tutu's as well. I love it!!! One thing she does hate is getting her hair done. She won't let me brush it, put it into pony tail or piggy tails, none of that. But she is cute anyway so it doesn't really matter :o)

Kaylee is talking more and more, learning new words every day and repeating everything we say. She has the cutest voice and I melt when she says " I love you", "kisses" (when daddy is leaving for school, she says, "bye, I love you, kisses" and makes the most adorable thing with her lips waiting for a kiss), "please" and "thank you". She is very polite, says "please" almost every time she asks for something and "thank you" after she gets what she asked for. When it comes to discipline, I'm not the one for the job. The girl has me wrapped around her finger and she knows it. I'll have to get a lot better at being the boss. I do have to laugh though when I tell her to do something, like lay down and she doesn't listen, I start to count to 3 and after I say "one" she says "two" and I'm dying from how cute she is. And the same thing goes the other way around. She asks me to come when she needs something and if I don't jump right up, she goes: "one, two...". Funny little girl that Kaylee.

One of her favorite things to do at home is to color, read books, play a tea party, play a dress up, take a bath and watch her movies before bed time.

We can't wait for Spring to come because Kaylee LOVES to go outside. Swinging is her most favorite thing to do in the park, then going down the slide. Feeding the ducks is always fun for her to do, not so much for the ducks as she chases them around like it's her job, and riding the ponies will never get old to her. She could do it all day long.

She is a little better when it comes to eating, but still not as good of a eater as I want her to be. The only fruit she'll eat is a banana, vegetables are limited to broccoli and corn, favorite foods are mashed potatoes, scrambled eggs, mac and cheese, pizza, corn dogs, rice and snacks are reese's peanut butter cups, fruit snacks, cheese, strawberry apple sauce, ice cream....

I could go on and on about my little girl but I'll save a few things for another post.

I still can't believe my little baby is not a baby anymore, she has been a part of our family for two years already and believe me when I tell you these past two years has been the best years of our life. Kaylee brings so much joy, laughter and happiness into our every single day and she makes us want to be better people. I love her more than words can ever express and my heart just wants to explode just thinking about how much love I have for her. I'm grateful that I get to stay home with her and don't have to miss out on anything she does. I love when she comes to wake me up in the morning, kisses me good night, helps me cook and bake, vacuum and dust... I love having her by my side every minute of every day. I love how patient she is with me, how she forgives me when I'm not so patient with her sometimes, how she loves me and wants to do everything I do and wants to do everything with me....

Kaylee you are one special little girl that makes me happier that I could ever imagine being. You are beautiful on the inside as much as you are on the outside and I'm so proud to be your mom. I love you to the moon and back times million sweet girl. I'm gonna keep telling you that every single day so you never forget. Happy Birthday again sunshine.

Love, Mom

Partaaaay

2011-02-23T18:45:00.000-08:00

The celebration took place at Kaylee's favorite playground, the Kangaroo Zoo. Boy did she have a blast!?! And I assure you she wasn't the only one who really enjoyed it. The kids were running around the whole time having the time of their life.

I couldn't be happier with how the whole evening turned

out. Thanks everyone who came to celebrate our little princess's birthday with us!

smoochin on grandma Carol :o)

Pizza, diet coke and cake. What more could she ask for?

Happy second Birthday Princess!!

2011-02-20T23:44:00.000-08:00

My baby is TWO today!!!

Happy second Birthday sweet girl, we love you to the moon and back and these past two years has been the best years of our life! You bring more joy to our lives that we could ever imagine and we feel so so lucky and blessed to have you in our family. You are the best thing that ever happened to us. Hope your day is as special as you are.

Love,

Mom and Dad

Newborn

One years old

Two years old. Beautiful, healthy, happy little girl. We are so lucky to have her!

The farm

2011-02-16T22:05:00.001-08:00

We had a chance today to go to the Farm at Thanksgiving Point with our friends Stephanie and James. We wanted to take advantage of the weather being so nice the last couple of days and get the kids out......it ended up being super windy and cloudy but we still had a good time. Thanks Steph and James for coming with us! We enjoyed your company and hope to see you soon again!

They look like pretty good friends right? Don't get fooled. Kaylee wasn't the best at sharing, she wouldn't let James play with almost anything. But when he walked away she was watching his every move waiting for him to come back. She does like him :o)

Oh how this girl LOVES horses and ponies. I couldn't get her off that little guy. Can't wait for the spring to come so we can go more often!

Birthday Boy!!!

2011-02-11T09:16:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Brian!!!!!

We wish we could be there today to celebrate your day with you!!! (but we two pregnant women in the house how much cake would be left for you?? :o) )

We love you and are so happy to have you in our family! We miss you guys and think of you every day.

We hope today is a great day for you, and that you got to spend it just the way you wanted!

Happy Birthday Brian!

We love you!!!!

Ryan, Erika and Kaylee

New Years Eve - Kangaroo style

2011-02-05T16:56:00.000-08:00

I'm embarrassed to post about our New Years Eve in February, but these pictures of Kaylee having a blast are just too cute to not share. Yes I have quite few but I can't choose just a couple so deal with it.

So as you probably know from the title of this post, we took Kaylee to Kangaroo Zoo on New Years Eve and she really enjoyed herself! She was running around, climbing and jumping without any breaks for a while. We had a hard time to keep up with her :o).

I love seeing her laugh and have a great time. We can't wait to go back for her birthday in a couple of weeks!

Now the picture overload:

I can hardly stand how beautiful my little girl is. I'm obsessed.

Stopped for a corn dog at Iceberg on the way home. What a good day ;o)

Mami

2011-01-21T22:04:00.000-08:00

vsetko najlepsie k narodeninam. Dufame, ze si dnesok uzijes, a uz sa nemozeme dockat ked Ta aj s ockom uvidime za par mesiacov! Prajeme Ti len to najlepsie......

S laskou,

Erika, Ryan a Kaylee

December 2010

2011-01-14T23:50:00.000-08:00

Since we are 2 weeks into the 2011 I thought it was about time to go through my pictures from last year so I can put them up now before it's way too late.

So first, I took Kaylee to see the live Nativity at the Provo Tabernacle. It was our first time going and I'm glad we did since the Tabernacle burned down just a couple

of weeks after that.

There was like a 20 min play which was really nice and then they had a few animals outside on the lawn. Kaylee didn't really care for the play, but we did spend a lot of time petting the donkey, camel, sheep and a goat.

And of course we couldn't miss the Temple Square lights. We didn't go the previous year for some reason but we couldn't miss it this time. It is beautiful there.

Playing/warming up at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.

Some thoughts. Mostly on family

2011-01-11T12:00:00.000-08:00

I don't even know how to start here. I don't really blog about my feelings much, especially the ones that are not so happy. Maybe it's because I don't want to go back on my blog a year from now and think I was stupid for feeling bad for myself, or I don't want my kids to think I wasn't happy, or I don't want to sound like I'm complaining. Ryan doesn't like complaining and I don't think it's very attractive when someone does complain a lot, but I'm a girl. Girls need (and love) to talk. We want to talk about what made us angry, sad, happy, stressed out, depressed, smile..... At least most of us do.

I talk to my mom most of the time. On Skype of course since she is all the way in Europe, but it does help. The only problem I have with that is that I don't want to be talking about my not so happy thoughts and feelings to her too much, because she is my mom. I know she always wants me to be happy and it hurts her when I'm sad and she can't hug me or help me in any other way but listen to me. Don't get me wrong here. Her listening to me helps a lot. But I mean her watching Kaylee for me when I'm sick for example.

Like today.

I woke up feeling good, made a sandwich for Ryan to take to school, and played with Kaylee after he left. Then after I changed a diaper and got up, my stomach turned up side down and I threw up. Not a good feeling. I hate it. So I text him and asked if he could come home sometimes soon to help me with Kaylee and he of course said yes, but only for an hour. Hm. Ok. That doesn't really help. I'm not blaming him for not wanting to help of course. He has more than enough on his plate right now. This is his last semester of BYU, he is taking 18 credit hours and 2 online classes on top of that. How does he do all that? I have NO idea. He doesn't really complain about it either. He is almost never home when the semester really starts, works even on a weekend and he really doesn't get too stressed out about how much he has to do. Let me just tell you that I could NEVER do what he does.

So I don't blame him for not carrying about me enough or anything like that. The point of this post is me realizing more and more how much I miss having family around.

Not just in these situations when I need their help, but that's when it hits me the most I guess. Kaylee's second birthday is coming up and my family will miss it once again. It makes me sad. I try not to think about it too much because that's just life.

I'm not really sure what I'm trying to say here, but since I'm home alone (with Kaylee but she doesn't understand these things yet and even if she did I wouldn't be telling her all these things anyway) I just wanted to get this off my chest.

We move so much. We live 8 months in Provo and 4 months somewhere else. We have moved for 4 summers already. We have almost been married for 4 years (in March) and we have moved 10 times. When we come back to Provo we don't come back to the same apartment and ward so new people every time. I'm not super outgoing if you must ask. I love getting to know new people and talking with them, but I will not make the first step so if you come to talk to me in Church, great! But if you don't, I don't talk to a single soul. Therefor it's hard for me to make friends fast and since we move every few months I don't have many.

So on a day like this, when I throw up, have a headache and stuffy nose, I don't have anybody to call. I can't have my mom come over, spend some time with Kaylee so I can rest since I have another baby girl in my tummy, I don't have my sister here to come hang out, not anybody.

It's hard for me. It was this past summer too when I had a miscarriage. I was at home with Kaylee and Ryan was 3 hours away from our house working. He didn't drive that day so there were 4 other people with him and he couldn't take the car and just leave them all there and drive 3 hours back home and then 3 hours back to get everyone else and bring them home while I was having terrible contractions every 2 min for 8 hours straight. Kaylee didn't understand that I couldn't get off the couch and help her with whatever she needed or wanted from me.

I did end up calling one wife that helped me out for like 2 hours since she had a baby on her own and couldn't stay the whole time, but I wasn't comfortable doing that at all. I didn't even do it for myself as much as I did it for Kaylee so she doesn't have to sit next to me on the couch the whole day.

Ryan eventually came home, took me to the hospital, they gave me some morphine and I was feeling better. But the point is that I didn't have anybody to help me. Anybody close to me to come and be with me.

Just like today. Just like the next time I get sick.

Kaylee has no cousins to play with, celebrate her Birthday with and when her mom is sick she doesn't understand why am I not getting up right away when she needs help with this or that and I'm waiting for her to figure it out by herself or just start whining/crying. It makes me really sad.

And we are about to move yet another time. What bothers me about it is that we don't really know where to. Maybe we'll stay here in Utah (but not in Provo), or we'll move to Louisiana again and if that happens I don't know how long will we stay there, or we'll go wherever Ryan gets a good job. We are about to have another baby in few months and I'm just kind of tired of never knowing where are we going next, how long are we staying there for and all the little details that come with it. But wherever that might be, I know one thing and that is that I'll be alone there. At least most of the time.

But enough of me complaining. I doubt anybody is reading this anyway, but I'm feeling better already just getting this out.

Now I have to go suck it up, take a shower or something and try to make this day as good for Kaylee as I can. I don't have any sick days that I can take out today so maybe some other time.

Have a great week.

Happy New Year

2011-01-02T21:39:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year of 2011 to all of you. I hope it will be a great one for everyone. We can't wait to become a family of four, for Ryan to graduate BYU this year and for my little sister to have her baby boy! It's going to be a great year for our family!

18 weeks

2010-12-29T12:43:00.001-08:00

Little girl is growing!

Christmas

2010-12-29T11:01:00.000-08:00

I'm a little late on this post. Ryan has been home from school so we are just trying to have a lot of fun and do things since it's going to be crazy again starting next week...Our Christmas was really awesome. Although I missed being with my family, we had Ryan's side of the family come from Texas and spend the holidays with us.We had a big yummy dinner together on Christmas Eve (that's the actual Christmas Day in Europe) and opened our stockings after dinner since we open all of our presents in Europe after dinner that day. Then we played games and stayed up way too late :o).

We woke up a little late on Christmas day due the slumber party that happened the night before, ate breakfast and got on Skype with my family so they can watch her open her presents. She got spoiled like she always does. She loves her new outfits, play kitchen, princess tent and everything else Santa brought.

I can't believe another Christmas came and went. We'll be celebrating Kaylee's second birthday in just 2 short months. It seems so crazy to me. Now we are just about to welcome the New Year of 2011 that's going to bring us another sweet little girl into our family, a college degree, Kaylee's very first cousin and many more adventures I can't wait for. Hope everybody's Holidays were filled with love and time spent with family and those close to your heart. Have a happy New Year!!

Sunday

2010-12-14T17:04:00.001-08:00

Last couple of days....

2010-12-14T16:47:00.000-08:00

....it has been warmer so I wanted to take advantage of it and took Kaylee to the park a few times. She LOVES to go outside. We only lasted about an hour because it's still not warm enough for us to spend the whole afternoon there and by the time we got done her little nose and hands were ice cold. But she enjoyed herself which always makes me happy :o)

SISTERS

2010-12-09T16:57:00.000-08:00

Kaylee is a very lucky girl to be getting one in May!!

That's right! We are having a GIRL!!

I know sisters have a special relationship. I don't have a brother so I can't really compare it but me and my little sister are truly BEST FRIENDS. The love we share between us is out of this world and we really would do anything for each other. I'm so happy for my sweet Kaylee that she will have her own little best friend forever. Her little sister to play with, fight with, cry with, get into trouble with, talk about boys with, get manis and pedis, shop and do almost everything with. I'm so happy and can't wait to have this little girl here with us in few months!

Happiness

2010-11-28T21:14:00.000-08:00

I love this picture.

Her beautiful eyes say:

"I'm happy."

"I'm loved."

and

"I too, love."

She is gorgeous.

My happy little girl.

I love her to the moon and back.

Twice.

Let it snow

2010-11-28T20:46:00.000-08:00

We woke up to this this morning. How beautiful...

And we couldn't resist and took the sled out. Kaylee wasn't big enough last year to really enjoy snow so we wanted to show her how much fun it can be! Oh she really enjoyed herself. That girl loves to be outside no matter how cold it is (which kind of drives me crazy because I have to deal with hysteric crying when I say it's been enough and get her in the car because she is shivering...). Kay also loves to go feed the ducks on campus. She always runs around yelling "ducky" and chases the heck out of those poor things. But hey, at least she has fun right?

sometimes she helps herself to a slice :)

It was great to spend the last day Ryan gets off all three of us together. I really loved having him home for few days. He makes me happy. He loves his girls so much and sure spoils us. Christmas can't get here fast enough so we can have him all to ourselves for almost three weeks!

Santa came early this year.....

2010-11-27T19:56:00.000-08:00

....and he brought us this beauty. I have been wanting one for a while so you can only imagine how happy I am. My husband really loves me (he is the Santa). Thank you honey for spoiling me. I don't even deserve it. I can't wait to learn how to really use it and take some amazing pictures and videos of our family!!

This is the first picture I took. Yes, I have a LOT to learn...... but I love it already.

26

2010-11-10T15:27:00.000-08:00

Ryan turned 26 on November 3th! We had a great day together (at least I hope it was great for him), however I didn't make him a birthday cake on his actual birthday day-which was the very first time in 4 years, because our sister in-law Sabrina celebrates her B-day on the 6th (Happy birthday again) and they came over on Friday so I decided to just make one on that day.

Friday was a crazy day. Ryan wanted a red velvet cake so I bought a box like week early. He didn't know his siblings were invited to come over that day so I couldn't really start preparing anything until he was on his way to school and just when I needed him out of the house early morning his first class doesn't start until 11am! So the second he drove off I start baking. I decided to make two 10 inch round pans because I thought it would look better. I used up all of my cake mix on one because they are quite big. So I went to the store to buy another one while the first one cools off. You are no going to believe me, but 2 and a half hours later we returned back WITHOUT the red velvet cake, because for some strange reason I couldn't find it in ANY store that's somewhat close to our house and drove around Provo for a while before giving up. Then I couldn't find any decent strawberries in the closest store to our house so over to Sam's club we went. Picked up some pizza and blackberries as well and off to the store to get a whole another cake. I grabbed the chocolate mousse one which was a great idea because it ended up tasting like heaven with all those chocolate covered strawberries!

But back to the story. I get home to a disaster of course little before 3pm. Everyone is suppose to be here at 4. Great. I could really use some magic right now. Kaylee is playing on the back yard and starts smiling a saying daddy. Crap. Ryan is home an hour early! I'm covered in chocolate and flour, there are strawberries all over the counter, cake in the oven....the surprise is ruined. Oh well.

He was nice enough to take Kaylee to the park so I can finish everything which helped so much. I moved the party to 4:30 and got done one minute before his sister showed up!
I still don't know how I baked those two cakes, covered all those strawberries in chocolate, cooled them, decorated the cake and cleaned in hour and a half but I did. I guess I do work some magic after all :o)

Happy Birthday again honey, I hope it was a good one. We love you to pieces and want you to know that we are two super blessed girls to have you in our life.

Kisses,

Kaylee and Erika

Better late than never

2010-11-04T18:56:00.001-07:00

Yes, I'm talking about Halloween. A week late, but I really want to document this. It was Kaylee's second one but the first one she got to really enjoy because she was still kind of young last year.

I took her to Macey's grocery store in the morning because they were having trick or treat bags for kids and also free balloons which Kaylee is OBSESSED with. Then we went to feed the ducks on campus because Ryan was at work until noon. We came home to put her down for nap and then off to the mall we went. It was busy but so fun. And by the time we came home it stopped raining so Ryan took her trick or treating around our neighborhood and we still have candy in our house from that day :o).

I really think Kaylee had a good time. She was super cute in her BYU cheerleader costume. I couldn't get over how perfect she is.

Hope you all had a good one! Here is proof that my daughter is the cutest cheerleader there ever was ;o)

(she did have pom poms which by the way took me like 2 hours to make, but didn't care for them that much to carry them around. )

Big sis

2010-11-04T16:30:00.000-07:00

This is the face Kaylee makes when I tell her to smile.

Baby Pettersson coming this May. We are so so excited!

Loosing my mind

2010-10-23T07:41:00.001-07:00

Ever since we came back to Utah, Kaylee's sleeping schedule and/or habits are hmmm how would I say it.....NON EXISTENT!!

She use to be put to bed wide awake every single day for her nap and bet time at night. Never had any problems with it. Fell asleep without making a single noise and slept for 2 hours every afternoon and for at least 11 hours at night without waking up once. She actually was sleeping through the night since she was 5 weeks old. No lies. I'm serious.

I curse the day we moved into our apartment in Provo because she will not get near her crib when the nap time is here and forget it at night as well. I tried to leave her there to cry it out over and over again and she screams/cries so much that she ends up throwing up. It's not a spit up, it's all over the carpet (because she is standing up holding the rails), all over her sheets, the crib rails and her. So then we have a half an hour process of cleaning everything and giving her a shower and by the time it's all done she is wide awake and I can forget even that half an hour nap. NOT WORTH IT!!!!

So she gets to fall asleep on the couch watching a kid movie. Sometimes I dare to move her to her crib and some days it works out great and some days it ends her "nap".

This all sounds bad enough right? Well I'm not finished. When the night time comes and I'm beyond exhausted from not taking a break all day long,going to the park, doing laundry, dishes, cooking, coloring, reading, showering, grocery shopping and million other things (and on top of that my husband leaves the house early in the morning to go to school and usually returns at night and does homework until 2am) she seriously runs around the house with her shopping cart or a stroller, jumps on the couch, chases the dog around....she is full of energy driving me insane. Then she FINALLY get tired around 11pm (the earliest) so she lays down on the couch to watch Shrek or something, I'm asleep right next to her 10 min later and my husband is waking me up past midnight telling me to go to bed. She eventually falls asleep and is moved to her crib. Couple of hours later she is screaming for dear life, is moved back to the couch where she falls asleep and stays until the morning comes. Wakes up between 6-8am and I'm ready to pack my things and book a week at the extended stay.

I have NO idea what happened during that move but as much as I was excited for the summer to be over and be back in Utah I curse that day now and wish we never came back.....

Loving this weather

2010-10-14T09:27:00.000-07:00

We weren't able to go to the park and play outside all summer long because it was too hot so we have been going every single day since we got back to Utah. Kaylee loves it. Especially the swings. She'll go on the baby one here and there but her most favorites are the "big girl" ones. She'll sit there forever and I just push her. We are not excited for the winter to come. Hopefully in won't for a while....

Kaylee got her cute purse from gma Carol a couple of weeks ago and won't leave the house without it. She has some fruit bubble gum in there (which she LOVES), strawberry chap stick, cell phone, pink nail polish and a necklace. She is such a girl! I love it!

....

My three favorite people

2010-09-28T11:53:00.000-07:00

Yes. It's my sweet little sister Petra, my husband Ryan and beautiful daughter Kaylee.

These three are my best friends and I love each of them to pieces. Unfortunately, I can't have them all here with me....

My sister's husband Brian serves in the military and was transferred to GERMANY! Yes, that Germany far far away in Europe (is there any other one anyway??). It's not fun.

Bubu, (I've been calling her that for years) is my only sister, and a sibling for that matter. We grew up sharing the same room for 18 years and then she moved. She went to BYU and I went to live in London, UK. It was hard. I knew I would miss her, but I didn't know how much... She came to visit me once and those were the best few days in 7 months I have had there. I moved back home shortly after her visit but she was still at BYU. My parents are awesome so it wasn't a bad thing to be back home with them, but I knew I wanted to explore the world. Long story short, I ended up in Park City which is so much closer to Provo than Slovakia and I had my sister back!!!! We had some fun times together.

I got married, she graduated and moved to Oklahoma, then Virginia got married and now lives in Germany and we are on two different continents again. I miss her. I miss her a lot. I can't wait for her to get skype so I can see and talk to her again. (she is not the best at taking pictures so I can forget about those...)

Here are all three of my besties together when she came to see us and say good bye to us when we were in Louisiana. I had the best time with her. She spoiled Kaylee like she always does and was patient with me like she always is. Yes, I have my moments and my sister is the only person except my husband that really gets me, understands me and loves me the way I am. The relationship between two sisters is just different than any other relationship there can be. We fought like two boys (if not worse) growing up and we were as different as two people can be but when it came to the worst, we ALWAYS stuck up for each other. Always. We were always a team. I wasn't always the nicest to her which I regret so much now, but she forgave me. Just like that. She loves me anyway. And boy do I love her back! I hope we'll be reunited sometimes soon, even if it's gonna be just for a couple of weeks.....

Thank you Bubu for coming, I hope Germany is treating you nice. I love you to pieces sis and miss you terribly. I'm so lucky to have you as my sister and I wouldn't trade you for the world.

Have a great time in Europe, say hi to Brian from us and be happy!!!!

(I really don't know why is Kaylee sticking a straw in her nose...)

Love you!

Kaylee's new BFF

2010-09-28T11:37:00.000-07:00

Anybody who knows my daughter knows that she is deathly afraid of strangers. Or anybody for that matter except her mom and dad. It is getting better now but before and at the beginning of this last summer....it was bad. She would walk around the store all happy and the second somebody would say hi or something to her she ran screaming for dear life. Well the summer started and as she went to the office with Ryan every day, she got a little better since everyone wanted to hold her and play with her (without any success :o) ). One boy was different tho. Mark Whetten. Ryan's childhood friend. She was seriously in love with him. He could hold her, (she even reached out for him when I was holding her!!!) play with her and even take her for a ride in his car and take her to his apartment for a bit without any problem. Impressive. Mark is back in Texas and Kaylee hasn't asked if she could call him yet, but I'm curious to see what happens next time we see him!

Brad Paisley

2010-09-28T10:33:00.000-07:00

My sweet husband surprised me with tickets to Brad Paisley a couple of weeks ago and it was great to get out and listen to some great music! We've been to his concert before so we knew we were gonna have a blast!!!

Kaylee came along as we didn't have a sitter but that's ok, she came along the last time with went (in my belly :o) ). I think she shook it more that anybody else in there. It is no secret she likes music and dancing, but I didn't know she was gonna enjoy such loud music somewhere strange... We all had a great time and would go again!!

is she my daughter or what?? haha

yummy cotton candy

Gone wild

2010-09-14T20:57:00.000-07:00

Jumping on the parents bed is always fun.

She is right

2010-09-14T20:55:00.001-07:00

New Orleans Aquarium

2010-09-12T19:54:00.000-07:00

New Orleans was only a little over an hour away from where we use to live in Louisiana so we went down there a few times. I love that place. Some people say it's kind of dirty and I guess there is something about it since every single restaurant is a bar as well, but there is something different about N.O. The houses look so different, the food is great and I guess I can say that it's one of my favorite places. Ryan's family came to visit in August so we took them to New Orleans and had a great day. It was way too hot so we went to the Aquarium since it's indoors, went to grab some great food after and enjoyed family time. I love it when people come to visit during the summer. It's too hard to get through it without having family around. But summer is finally over so I'm not gonna talk about it anymore. Here are some pics, enjoy.

Cinderella

2010-09-12T19:13:00.000-07:00

Kaylee has learned quite a bit about cleaning this past summer. I mentioned before that she is always handing me dishes from the dishwasher, she can load it too and you've seen her sweep, mop and vacuum in previous posts. Well here is one more "chore" she has mastered before we move onto cleaning the toilette :)

State Fair

2010-09-11T20:08:00.000-07:00

I'm finally back in the blogging world and boy does it feel good!! Our computer was broken and then the camera broke as well so I couldn't get the pictures out but everything is working again so I'll catch up on the last two months of our life sometimes this week.

We are back in Utah after completing summer number 4. Of alarm sales that is. I'm very proud of my husband for yet another summer (a very hot one) of hard hard work. Louisiana was great, too hot and too humid but work went awesome and even though it feels good to be back "home" I'm excited to get out of Provo in few months when Ryan finally graduates. We have NO idea where we'll end up after school, but I can't imagine it will be worst then good old boring Provo :).

Anyway, we went to the fair yesterday and had a blast. Can you believe I have never been to the fair before?? I know, crazy right? Well I loved it, and so did Ryan and Kaylee. We ate, watched the rodeo, ate again, took Kaylee on a few rides and yes, we ate some more after that too. We finished off with a pony ride (Kaylee did, I don't think the poor pony would survive me jumping on him..) and went home full, happy and tired. Hope you are all having a great weekend, I'll be back with a LOT MORE pictures from the summer soon!!

That little "farm" was the cutest thing ever. The kids get in, feed the cow (fake one of course), milk it too, pick some apples, seed some vegetables, ride the tractor, get some eggs and take care of the sheep. It was super cute. At least I thought so.

That girl LOVES pony rides. I wish I could get her one for Christmas, but where would we keep it.... :/Kaylee loved the rodeo as well...

Saturday

2010-07-18T13:49:00.001-07:00

Splash park - video

2010-07-18T13:44:00.000-07:00

If there is anything I love it's watching Kaylee laugh and have fun. I loved yesterday because that's all she did.

Splash park

2010-07-18T13:24:00.000-07:00

Oh how Kaylee loves water. Drinking it, going to the pool and just lounging in it or running through it, she loves it all. I took her to the splash park yesterday and as I suspected it was a success :o)

Besties

2010-07-18T13:23:00.000-07:00

Mani & Pedi

2010-07-18T13:14:00.000-07:00

As I told you in the previous post, my daughter watches EVERYTHING I do and that goes for doing my nails and toe nails as well.

Going solo

2010-07-17T09:14:00.000-07:00

I always get excited when Kaylee learns something new, especially when I don't take an extra effort to show her how to do it and she learns on her own because it's amazing to me how much she observes but on the other hand it makes me sad because I feel like she doesn't need me anymore. I know she does, but it just makes me sad seeing her growing up so fast....anyway I never really showed her or thought her how to feed her self with a fork, well she has been watching me do it for like a year now, but I almost never let her do it by herself because I didn't want to clean up the mess after she was done. I would just stick the food on the fork for her and let her put it in her mouth by herself but lately she has been doing great without my help. There is hardly any mess left, only a piece or two on the ground. She has been eating like this for some time now but I just now recorded it. I'm proud of her

Crocodile whisperer

2010-07-17T09:06:00.000-07:00

So since the weather here is unbearable we go to the pool almost every day. It's not really refreshing because the water is so warm it feels like you are in your own bath tub but it gives us something to do and Kaylee loves it. She has a floaty she doesn't care about at all, because her friend Brody brought this cool guy to the pool. He was nice enough to let Kaylee play with it ( and even if he didn't I don't think he would stand a chance because Kaylee started to scream "NO" at everyone that got too close to her and the crocodile.....anyway, she does look super duper cute with it!

She dragged the thing everywhere....

Keeping up the good work

2010-07-17T08:59:00.000-07:00

I love this stage Kaylee is in right now. She watches me do EVERYTHING and repeats it right after me. She loves to change the trash bag, empty the dishwasher (she takes everything out and puts in on the floor or hands everything to me and I put it where it belongs. Team work :o) ), take the laundry out of the dryer, sweep and mop the floor, wash the dishes in the sink and plenty more. Here is my helper sweeping the balcony for me:

Summer lovin

2010-07-17T08:55:00.000-07:00

Ryan works like a horse of course, what's new there. Kaylee enjoys having him home that much more. She cries every day when he opens the door because she knows she won't see him for a long time after he closes it behind him. I let her stay up late until he gets home so she can kiss him good night and oh does she love "daddy kisses".

Naaaasty

2010-07-17T08:51:00.001-07:00

Good old south...It is terribly HOT down here every single day and I'm not even going to get into that "humid" part of it. Anyway, with all of that "hot" and "humid" comes a lot of "nasty" and "big". Bugs that is.

I know know if you can see it well but that white circle thing right from that bug has a house key attached to it so you can imagine how big this bad boy was....ew.

Bath time = FUN

2010-07-17T08:38:00.000-07:00

Kaylee has always enjoyed taking baths. She still does, but we try to get different toys and things to make it interesting so she doesn't get bored. I think we are doing a good job ;o)

Chuck-e-cheese

2010-06-16T13:52:00.000-07:00

Every year our apartment complex has a playground for kids but not this year. There is a pool we go to all the time, but no outdoor place for Kaylee to play (I don't think we would even go if there was one because it is so hot here all day long) so it makes it difficult to keep her entertained sometimes. We do go to Chick-fil-a play place and stuff but I like to change it up so she doesn't get bored. There is Chuck-e-cheese right across the street from our apartment so we went this past weekend. Kaylee had fun, ate a lot of pizza and got worn out. Mission accomplished !

She sure likes pizza. I wonder where she gets that from ;o) She ate 2 whole slices all by herself!

all gone...

She didn't let go of her princess cup for one second!

Virginia

2010-06-11T15:01:00.000-07:00

We didn't have much time to explore Virginia because we only got to be there from Friday to Monday, but we had a great time hanging out with my sister, her husband and his family. They got married on Saturday in Luray, Virginia which is a small town up in the mountains and it is so beautiful there.

We got the whole Sunday to eat, relax and just hang out so we all got together for breakfast and then headed to Luray Caverns. I'm so glad we had a chance to go. It w

as beautiful, see for yourself:

all of us at breakfast

the cave

this one is from the wedding, isn't Kaylee the cutest little girl you have ever seen?

this is the "wish fountain" in the cave. It's cleaned out once a year and the money is donated to some charity that I forgot the name of. They have been donating the money for some time now and people have thrown over $700,000 in there over the years. Pretty crazy!

The Holfords

2010-06-11T14:37:00.000-07:00

My sweet little sister got married last weekend so we flew up to Virginia for a couple of days. The wedding was beautiful, the bride was breathtaking (Brian is one lucky man ;o) ) , cake was delicious and the time we got to spend with our new family was great. I'm so happy we got to be there. Here are some pictures of the newly married

couple.

Mr. and Mrs. Holford

how pretty is she??? gorgeous!

they are so cute together!

just us girls. Brian'm mom Jackie, Petra, me and Petra's new sister in-law

Alicia

Holfords and Petterssons

Brian and Petra, it was so nice to see you get married and spend a few wonderful days with you. We had a great time and we love you guys. We wish you all the happiness in the world and we hope to see you soon again! We miss you!

Love,

Ryan, Erika and Kaylee

15 months

2010-05-22T13:45:00.000-07:00

I know I missed the 14 months post due to moving and all the other stuff that was happening around us so sorry Kaylee. I won't miss any in the future, I promise :o).

So, 15 months... Kaylee is skipping her check-up (well not really skipping it, it's just postponed till August) because when we did her vaccinations in Washington last summer, they didn't put it in the same vaccination record book so when we came back to Utah, she got some of those shots again...I know. It wasn't nice of me to let that happened and I felt HORRIBLE about myself trust me. So her doctor said that it's ok to wait until August with this check-up and I will do just that. I will have her stats then so I'll share those later. And other that that, Kaylee is still happy, FULL of energy and I think she is a better eater too. Still a little picky but she does eat more. (no fruit or vegetables of course..that little stinker). She has been wearing 18 month size clothes since she was 12 months old and that still didn't change, although I do get some of her dresses size 24 months. Shoe size: 5 or 5 1/2. She also talks all day long, but most of it is Japanese :o).

I'm very very proud of her for falling asleep without making the tiniest noise when put into her crib wide awake every day for nap and at bed time. I never ever let her cry it out when she was younger (I know some of you think I'm a bad mom, but I don't care. My baby wanted me and I wanted to be there) so I thought she would never learn how to fall asleep all by herself but she just one day did it, so I kept putting her down every time she had to go to sleep and it has been working for quite some time now and I love it! It makes my life sooooo much easier! Thank you sweet Kaylee. She still takes only one nap a day, but she does sleep a bit longer that she use to, which I also like ;o).

Kaylee always loved making a huge mess and that one she still enjoys. I have lip stick, blush and shower gel marks all over the carpet, mine and her clothes are always pulled down from the hangers, ice cubes from the freezer are melting on the kitchen and living room floor, forks, spoons and spatulas are taken out of the dishwasher and left on the floor all over the house. Cans and other food items somehow travel from the pantry to our bedroom and the bathroom gets flooded every now and then when the water in the tub miraculously turns on by itself and switches to the shower mode while the curtain is wide open.... Yes, I have my hands full with little miss Kaylee. But it's so much fun to be with her all day. She also loves the pool. She jumps in without any hesitations and gets mad at me every time I take her out. There is a lot of kids to play with here this summer and it's great because she always enjoys hanging out with people her size ;o). And she really likes going for a walk. Well, I walk and she sits in her stroller. Right after i put her shoes on she climbs into her stroller, sits down in it and closes the safety bar and waits for me to get out the door. So cute. Her comfort blankie isn't a blanket but a cloth bib. Not a specific one, just any cloth bib will do for her and when there is few of them laying around, she has to have all of them. Funny.

And I guess that's about it. Kaylee continues to be the joy of my life and I hope I am the same for her.

What a life

2010-05-13T19:45:00.000-07:00

I don't have to tell anyone that it has been pretty hot down here, so we have been doing a lot of this:

Just being cute

2010-05-13T19:41:00.000-07:00

That's what she does best :)

Still loving her car

2010-05-13T16:29:00.000-07:00

Kaylee has a lot of toys she is tired of after a week or two, but she sure still enjoys riding her car

Such a girl

2010-05-13T15:33:00.000-07:00

I did mention once before how Kaylee loves to go into my closet and pull all the shirts/blouses/cardigans she can reach off the hangers. Than she picks her favorite, pulls it over her head and walks around the whole house being all stylish. I never took a picture of her making a mess in my closet but I did capture these ones:

Kaylee's closet before Kaylee's visit

cought!

After Kaylee's visit :)

What a helper

2010-05-13T14:39:00.000-07:00

Kaylee has been so much fun lately. I'm not saying she hasn't been before, but she wasn't really picking up on the stuff I was doing and repeating in after me when she was younger. Now, she watches everything I do and tries to repeat it right after me. Like she walks around the house wearing my flip flops or I catch her going through my make-up and putting my lipstick on.... It's so cute.

Here is my sweet daughter helping me make cupcakes:

found mom's lipstick :)

New Orleans Zoo

2010-05-13T13:32:00.000-07:00

We live in Baton Rouge, which is only 1hr and 20 min from New Orleans so we took a trip down there a couple of weeks ago and had a great time. Since we only had few hours (Kaylee needs her nap and stuff) we went to the Zoo only and boy did she have a blast! It was hot of curse, but Kay was happy to cool off in the water sprinkler and really enjoyed spending the day with both her parents which doesn't happen as often as we would all like...oh well, that's those crazy summers. New Orleans was great and we are planning on going back really soon!

Can you tell what a show off this monkey was? haha

The trip

2010-05-13T13:12:00.000-07:00

So this year, since Kaylee is too old to sit in the car seat for 27 hours without going crazy and too young to be interested in TV for that long, we decided to take the easy way out of this and flew to Louisiana while dad and Coby went on a road trip together. Kaylee is not one of those kids who can sit still for longer than a minute so I was worried about flying with her without Ryan, but she did great. Slept for the most part on the flight to Dallas and stayed entertained the whole hour on our second flight to Louisiana. Thank you Kaylee.

Before I post a few pictures I want to thank Grandma and Grandpa Ranglack for letting us stay at their beautiful home for a few days after Ryan left. We always enjoy your company and food and can't wait to see you in few months!! We love you!

All of these pictures are from the SLC Airport. They have this aweome area with toys for kids and Kaylee had a good time waiting for the boarding time :)

Last month's happenings

2010-05-13T12:50:00.000-07:00

Yes, the Internet is finally working. I can't even express the happiness I feel right now. Well let's start on the update shall we?

First of all, congrats to Ryan for getting another semester down!! His grades were great and I'm really proud of him for working and studying so so hard this past four months. He was busier than ever and did great.

After the semester was over, we moved of course....again! I tell everyone after each summer that that one was the last one, and it never is. Well this year we started summer number 4 and moved for the 9th time since getting married. No fun packing and unpacking every few months, but practice makes perfect so we are pretty much pros by now :). And I almost forgot to say where we moved to! LOUISIANA it is! This is my first time here and I really like it so far. The weather is perfect for us going to the pool every day, not so much for Ryan working all day long out there... I feel so bad for him sometimes. But I do appreciate him very much for all he does fr us.

We also found out we were expecting again, but couple of days before we moved out here we found out that the baby didn't have a heart beat and was measuring almost week late. Not exciting news of course and the timing was all wrong with all that stress from moving but things happen. We are sad, but we also know that worse things happen to people, and we are grateful that we have Kaylee with us and can't wait for more of those little Petterssons to come one day :).

Also my little and only sister is getting married next month and I'm so excited for her. She is my best friend and I love her so much. Congrats Bubu, I can't wait to see you on your big day!

I have a lot of pictures to post, s I'll break it into more posts with stories so I don't have an overload :)

Update coming soon

2010-05-07T10:19:00.000-07:00

I have a lot to blog about and I will soon, we have been just having a hard time getting people hook up the Internet in our apartment and it should work on Monday. I'm not getting my hopes up anymore so we'll see. I have great pictures of Kaylee to show you so come back soon :o)

Have a great weekend!!

13 months

2010-03-25T14:13:00.000-07:00

I don't know what else to say except that Kaylee continues to be the joy of my life. Maybe what she likes to eat, how may words does she say....non of that really matter tho. If she didn't talk at all I would still love her. Although I do wish she would enjoy more than corn-dogs and mac&cheese I know it's just a stage she is in right now and I love her anyway.

However one thing makes me extremely happy and that's her change of naps. For a past few weeks she has been only napping once a day and goes to bed around 9PM. (it is earlier if the weather is nice and we go to the park that day because she gets so tired from climbing on everything and sliding the whole time :) ). I can't wait for the weather to be nice every day so she can have fun and be happy outside. Here is few pictures, doesn't she look much older that 13 m?? She does to me. Love you Kaylee-bug!

Sunshine

2010-03-16T11:05:00.000-07:00

How I LOVE this warm sunny weather!! I couldn't wait for it to get nicer outside so I could take Kaylee out to play. She enjoys it so much. She rides her four wheeler, runs around with kids, jump on the trampoline....you name it. This is what we were up to yesterday and what we are gonna be doing this afternoon as well :0). Have a great day everyone!

Kay got to ride her car of course and got in the accident in all that traffic :o)

Sunday

2010-03-14T14:51:00.000-07:00

I would like to update my blog more often. Some people do it daily, but I usually don't have anything exciting to blog about every day (at least I think that I don't). Anyway, it's been a week since I posted some new pictures of Kaylee so here are some for this week. My sweet child going to Church today.

No she doesn't take her car to Church, but she wants to ride it all the time....She loves it.

Three years

2010-03-09T20:18:00.000-08:00

Three years ago today I married my friend. Sometimes it seems much longer than that but I think it's because of we have had quite few adventures in our life. The crazy moving started just two months after we got married and it's not over yet... we have moved EIGHT times total up to date and we have another move coming this next month.

I got pregnant in Indiana (summer of 2008) , had total of four doctors while pregnant (because of all the moving) and we welcomed our sweet Kaylee into our family here in Utah on February 21st of 2009. Life can't get any better than that.

Ryan is a great husband, DAD, friend, he is the hardest worker I know, and I truly am so happy to be married to him and have a Family with him. Although life doesn't always go the way you want it to I would never want to learn these life lessons with anybody else by my side.

So Happy Anniversary honey, these three years have been more than I would ever expect and I can't wait to see what will the future bring!! I love you!!!

Kangaroo Zoo

2010-03-06T17:23:00.001-08:00

We took Kaylee to Kangaroo Zoo today and we had a great time! Kaylee was so happy running around, jumping around and sliding....we can't wait to go back!

Kaylee going down one of many slides!

Kaylee's fun presents

2010-02-25T16:19:00.001-08:00

Kaylee loves to ride her electric four wheeler. She rides it at home too.....

She likes her blow-up princess tent. Can you tell?

Look at that smile! I love seeing her happy!

Look at those beautiful blue eyes!!

Eating the cake (video)

2010-02-21T22:01:00.000-08:00

Kaylee eating her very first birthday cake. And singing Happy Birthday!

Kaylee's first Birthday party

2010-02-21T21:31:00.000-08:00

bought one cake

and made way too many cupcakes....

Birthtday girl with mom and dad

Kaylee with dad

Birthday girl with mom

Kaylee with Grandma Carol

first bite

few of many presents

Lesly

Willie

ONE

2010-02-21T20:39:00.000-08:00

It's here. My little baby girl is ONE today. I have a little toddler now. This past year has been the best year me and Ryan had so far and that's just because of our sweet Kaylee. She is such a blessing in our lives!

Kaylee 2/21/2009

Kaylee today

Happy first Birthday Kaylee! You are the best daughter I could ever wish for and this past year has been the best just because of you. Thank you for being patient with us and for being you. You are the sunshine of our lives, we love you unconditionally and hope you had a great day.

Love,

Mom and Dad

Finally!

2010-02-10T22:44:00.000-08:00

The day Kaylee's hair was long enough to actually do something with it is here!!! I can't even tell you how much her hair drove me nuts! It was (still is) so long on top that she couldn't wear ANY headbands because it was making her hair look messy. It would always move around and her hair would stick out everywhere so we just used clips. I would check every day to see if I could put it in a pony or something different and nothing has changed for a long time so I gave. Today when she was just sitting on my lap, I tried for the heck of it and ta-da!!

Playdate

2010-02-05T12:24:00.000-08:00

We went to see my good friend Summer and her little sweet Maybrie yesterday. The girls had a good time and Maybrie did great sharing her toys with Kaylee. Even her walker "Leo". Kaylee has the same one so she thought the whole time it was hers but there were no fights and tears :o). Thanks Sum for having us over. We hope to see you soon again!