January 18th, 2009
Any day now! I've been "nesting" like crazy the past couple of days, trying to get the house clean and ready for our new little baby. 
(Front Room)
Here is my mom (far right) with all of her brothers and sisters.
We love Christmas time! David and Hazel made a snowman outside our house together after the first big snow. Hazel loves to EAT the snow more than anything else. There are two things that she asks for lately: snow and wipes. She's a little OCD (where does that come from?) and likes to always have a wipe on hand which she uses to clean her face or just keep in her hand for an hour or so (she also likes to take one to bed). As soon as she sees the snow out the window, she asks for "ice" constantly until we bring her in a snowball to eat. 
After our trip in Chowchilla, we rented a car and drove up to my mission and stayed with our bestest friends, Ben and Camille, in Pleasanton. Here's some highlights:
Bradley took care of Hazel for most of our China town expedition...good practice Bradley!
Love this girl.
We visited some members from my mission and attended the Spanish branch that was formed at the end of my mission in Livermore. I love these people. It felt so good to be there.This is definitely back-tracking a bit, but with the move, I've fallen a little behind on my blog. We had the AWESOME opportunity of flying out to California this Thanksgiving to spend some time with my Dad and grandparents in Chowchilla. I wouldn't be surprised if none of you have ever heard of Chowchilla because it's one of those small towns that takes about 10 minutes to drive through completely, about 30 min north of Fresno. I was SO grateful to have David with me this time since flying with Hazel on your lap at her age is quite a feat. Since my lap is nearly non-existent at this point, David did most of the work while I tried to snooze.
Here's a few quick laughs I want to remember about this flight:
~Dumping red pepper all over our pizza slices as we ran to the gate; by time we were seated, we had extrememly spicy cold pizza, a fussy daughter, and spilled water in my shoes.
~Having way too much stuff with us; jackets, stuffed animals, stroller, carseat, baby, diaper bag, blankies...and a partridge in a pear tree.
~Looking over at eachother as Hazel was screaming her head off and just laughing at ourselves, wondering why we ever agreed to fly at night with this girl.
~We had a lengthy layover in Vegas, where David showed Hazel how to work the machines...This was the point where she was so overtired that she started to get silly and then on that last flight, inconsolable. (We were actually asked to remove Hazel from the gambling area at this gate).
We spent a few days at my grandparent's new home in Chowchilla, ate great food, watched way too much TV and caught up with my beautiful sisters who are growing up way too fast!
Here's my cute grandparents with Hazel Jayne.
My sisters brought the new and improved Monopoly game where you swipe credit cards and Boardwalk cost $4 million instead of $400. What is the world coming to?
Brenna, who is ten, was Hazel's best friend the whole trip. They played forever on this exercise ball. Hazel loved it.
Isn't my sister Gianna beautiful??
I love taking pics of other people sleeping mostly because I could never do this!
Ah, the most beautiful couple in the world.
All the girls
My grandparents' backyard is bordered by this beautiful lake.
Seven months pregnant., whew! The best part about it is that David and I shared a twin bed this entire trip. At one point, David actually fell off the bed onto the floor. It still makes me laugh.
I know, I know; this is disgusting but I have no idea who took this picture (well, I could probably guess who) and I just thought it was hilarious. This is Lottie, the dog.
We took a little canoe out on the lake after Thanksgiving dinner. I think we were all a little heavier than we thought because we were pretty low in the water and any slight movement caused the whole thing to rock.
