Ainsley Brice.. I have a new niece:)

Ainsley Brice was born Monday September 5, 2011 at 5:17 AM.. I am so excited to be an aunt again. She is absolutely beautiful. It is the most amazing feeling to hold a new born in your arms and know that they have just left our Father in Heaven, makes you feel so close to Heaven. Her and Madison have a lot of similarities but they are a lot different as well.. I can not wait to get to spend more time with this precious little one.

Babysitting Madison..

I have to tell you I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the world. Lindsay and Chase asked Todd and I if we would babysit Madison while they were at the hospital having Ainsley. I was so thrilled that I got to watch her I love this little girl so much and she is so much fun. We went down Friday late afternoon cause Lindsay and Chase had to be at the hospital no later than six that night and we got to stay until the next night. Madison was soooooo good for us. I was a little worried about how she would react with her mom and dad not there but she seriously was amazing. We had a lot of fun playing outside, she loves chasing people around the yard. I love this little girl so much and I am so grateful that I have the opportunity to be her aunt..

Todd's Home Away From Home

This past weekend we were really busy. It all started Friday afternoon when we finally found a trailer for Todd to stay in while he is down working. We bought it from an older couple here in Twin and they have taken AMAZING care of this trailer. Its a fifth wheel and my dads truck only has a goose neck ball so we ended up meeting my parents in Burley that night to switch vehicles and then had to run out to Dietrich to borrow an adapter from a guy out there. And then Saturday early morning we headed out for Crescent Valley Nevada. It took us about four hour to get there.. We found the spot and got Todd all set up and ready to move in. I am so glad that we finally got a trailer down there for him this is a HUGE STEP!!! I told Todd Friday night that we had to leave early so we could be back in time to watch Boise State play.. I even wore all my BSU gear down to Nevada. I had to laugh cause we stopped in Wells to gas up and they had tons of BSU stuff there and NO Nevada stuff lol:) Here are a few pics of our trip mostly of the trailer:) Abbey was loving her new home away from home. And of course I had to take pics of us all decked out in BSU clothing.

I had to take these pics on the way down cause they just crack me up. Just outside of Elko the freeway goes through the mountain, the first time we went down there and had to go through this I totally had a flash back of when I was little we went through this tunnel to a ropin for my dad. And then there is the Hitchhiking sign every time I see there I just laugh so hard. This sign is right by Carlin and when Todd was first looking into this Job he was thinking of putting his Camper in Carlin but once we saw this sign we rethought things :) And then the bottom pic of the Mountain is where the mine is that Todd is working at..

Survived the First Week

Wow I cant believe that Todd's first week of work has come and gone. And he has already left to head back for his second week. When he got home Thursday night all he did was talk and talk about his new job and all the training that they had to go through for the first week. He worked ten hours a day for four days and all they got to do was sit in a classroom. I guess they have done some studies and the studies show that if you have something in your hands to keep you busy you pay attention more so Todd said that they had play-dough and little pipe cleaner things and some other stuff on the tables ever day to play with-- lets just say Todd kept himself very entertained:) This week he starts working 12 1/2 hour days and he has to work four days this week and then hopefully he will have five off and be on the schedule he is suppose to be on. The days that he is gone go by so slow and then the days that he is home seem to go by SOOOOO FAST!!! Last week before Todd left Abbey would follow him around all day and then when he left she laid down by the front door. About an hour later she finally came downstairs and laid on a backpack that Todd had left behind and then later she went upstairs and laid down on a hoodie of Todd's she wanted nothing to do with me. It is so crazy to me I know that she knew exactly what was going on and she was missing Todd just as much as I was. It took her till the next day to finally warm back up to me and want anything to do with me. We are still looking for a camper for Todd we have found one in Burley that we like but we are making sure that it is the BEST DEAL.. Everyday that goes by I just get more and more anxious to move away from Twin I am really hoping that it happens soon very soon.. I can not wait to be closer to my family..

This weekend we went down to Burley to the fair on Saturday. We went to the horse races Saturday afternoon and then to the Rodeo that night it was alot of fun. Todd and Chase were going to do the Wild Cow Riding but they decided to wait till next year:) My poor little sister is so ready to pop(love you lindsay) and we are all soooo READY for this little one to get here:) I cant not wait to hold her and give her all sorts of loves:) Being an aunt is one of the Greatest Blessings our Father in Heaven could have given us.

Here's to our new Beginning.. (vent post)

I need to write because my heart is so full right now. Todd left about half an hour ago to head down to Elko for his new job.. I am so excited for this new change and the things that are in store for us but I am very heart broken right now. I knew it was going to be hard to let him go but its killing me right now. I am sounding like such a baby right now because he will be back on Thursday but not having him here every night is going to be so HARD and this isn't just a short term thing this is how it is going to be for a few years. I feel so alone here in Twin I can not wait to get moved to Malta where I will have friends and Family. I am so thankful that I have little Abbey to give me some company.. She has not left Todd's side today everywhere he would go she would be right there with him its amazing how animals can sense something is going on. I hope my Father in Heaven is ready to carry me through this hard time for awhile cause I am pretty sure I am going to need him to make it through these first couple months. I love my husband so much and am so grateful for all he does for me and for the things he is willing to do to provide for our family and for our future... Todd you are my world and I love you so much.. I know that we are going to become even stronger through all this, and that we will be OK:) I love you babe...

Happy Birthday Madison

We had Madison's birthday party last night at their house it was a lot of fun to all get together. I cant believe that it has been two years since this little angel has come into our lives. Time has flown by.. I am truly one lucky aunt to have such an amazing little niece.. Todd and I get her a little princess tent, she loves playing in boxes so I figured a tent would be perfect and she loved it. It tipped over on her once so she was a little hesitant to get back in it but she finally did and loved it.. Chase and Lindsay got her a tricycle and she was loving it. Every where she went the tricycle had to go with her:) Happy Birthday Madison on the 9th I love you so much and am so blessed to be your aunt.

Fun day in MALTA!!

I got to go to Malta last Thursday and watch Madison we had so much fun.. We went outside to play in the water and I gave her the hose first off to play with and all she would do was chase me around, so I started to look around and my Mom had these yellow buckets so we cleaned it out and filled it up with water.. Madison had so much fun playing in our homemade swimming pool:) She is so much fun.. I put her in there with her clothes on but that only lasted about ten minutes then Madison wanted everything off she wanted to run around naked:) I caught her once squatting on the grass peeing, only in the country can you do this:)