Daddy's Home!!!!

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This is one of my many favorite times of the day, when David comes home. Nico gets SOOOO excited!

Oh how I love these two boys! They know how to make mami smile :) It's so fun to watch them play together!

Nico is walking everywhere! That's all he wants to do all day, it's very cute! He also loves to smile and show all of his teeth. It melts my heart! I need to get a picture of him doing that!

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Not much has happened this week, but here is what we've done.

On Tuesday, Nico and I drove to Grand Island. It is a two and a half hour drive east of North Platte. I had to go for my final eye check up. I LOVE my doctor and the ladies that work in that office.

(The third guy on the right in white is my doctor)

From the very beginning they have treated me so well and have done everything to fix my infection and all of the other problems. The cause of my eye infection is that I sleep with my eyes semi opened so it dries my eyes out causing the infection. I have to now use a special solution and a special contact case and put on a gel inside of my eye every night. I'll probably have to do that the rest of my life! Yipeeee! :)

Anyway, I wanted to do something really nice for everyone at the office and so I got them a huge cookie, at this awesome cookie shop, with eyes on it and it said "Thank You." It looked soo good! They loved it and where so happy! They love Nico and we just love going there!

The hardest part about living in different towns here is that we've met amazing people everywhere we've been and it's been hard knowing that I might never see them again.

Other than that we've been playing with the other kids and it's been really fun! The hotel people let us play in the conference room they have, the kids can go crazy!

I love the wives here, they are so fun! I wish the ones that have left us would come back! They are all great and I have learned a lot from them!

Today, Whitney, June (her gorgeous two month old girl), Nico and I drove to Kearney (an hour and a half east of here) to go shopping. Whit had a great coupon for Old Navy and Gap. We got some really good deals! I got Nico lots of winter clothes and his halloween costume. He is going to be a....SHARK! I'm so excited!

I miss living in Kearney, it's so much more nice and more things to do. Oh well, it's probably a good thing that we are not there. They have too many shopping temptations :)

I loved hanging out with Whit and June.

June is such a good baby! I only heard her cry twice when she was hungry and that was it! I miss those baby days.

I have loved being here this summer! We've had awesome and horrible experiences. We've met amazing and mean people at the same time. All in all it's been great! I can't believe we didn't do it before. It's been so nice to be able to pay all of our debt off! I highly recommend it! :)

Hope everyone's week has been as good as ours!!!

HAPPY THURSDAY!

One year has gone by...Happy Birthday Baby!

I can't believe my sweet boy is already 1! It feels like it was just yesterday that I went into labor and gave birth to my beautiful Nico.

I'll never forget that day. It was a week before my due date; I had my nail and eye brow appointment and had plans to go to the pool all day with my sisters. I just wanted to be ready for the delivery day.

I remember waking up around 7:30ish to the most painful contraction. It felt like someone had stabbed me in the back, OUCH! I didn't want to wake David up, so I started to work on my breathing. The whole time I thought I was having just normal contractions, just like before. So, I started to walk back and forth from our room to Nico's room. It got to the point where I couldn't even walk anymore or even talk. I decided to wake up David so he could start timing the contractions. I was so afraid that I was going to have the LONGEST labor and didn't want to go through it laying on a bed. I tried bouncing on my big ball, taking a bath and the pain was soooooo not bearable anymore. All I remember after that is just getting ready really quick and heading down the stairs. I tried to grab something to eat because I had heard that you should eat something really big before you go to the hospital because once you get there you can't eat anything, but when I tried I about threw up. I was having back labor and sitting down was really painful. The whole 30 min drive to the hospital consisted of my hitting the dashboard and maybe saying a couple of bad words...sorry :)

When the nurse checked me I was already dilated to a 7. I wanted to go natural but the pain was too strong. I just cried till the epidural started to work its magic!

Then, before I knew it at 11:43 am on Friday, August 21st, 2009 my boy was laid on my stomach for me to take a look at him! What an AMAZING feeling that was! Words can't even explain that feeling. You just feel amazing all around: physically, emotionally, and spiritually!

I have LOVED every minute of this journey! I remember a lot of people told me that I should send him to the nursery the first night so that I could sleep. But I just couldn't do it! What if he needed me and I wasn't there?! Even now I have a hard time leaving him. It's really not even an option for us to leave him. We have a lot more fun when the three of us are together.

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I was sooo excited for Nico's birthday! I woke up early on Saturday and waited for him to wake up! He would smile so big every time someone would tell him HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

We went to dinner with the office at the Depot, pretty nice place! David got Nico's some balloons and he was so THRILLED!

We were so glad that everyone could make it! Nico had a blast!

David thought that he should cut the cake before we sang happy birthday! :) Good thing I caught him in the middle of it.

Jenny made Nico this awesome chucho string. He loves it! Thank you so much!

ADORABLE!

THANK YOU ALL THAT CAME TO DINNER AND FOR THE GIFTS! YOU MADE NICO'S BIRTHDAY AN AWESOME ONE!

Since David had to work all day Saturday, we decided we'd take Nico to a fun park on Sunday after church and a loooong nap :)

This ride was faster than what we thought. We couldn't stop laughing! Nico loved it!

We kind of met up with Whitney, Mike and their kids!

Aren't our boys soo gorgeous?!

Daddy's turn!

On our way home...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the best boy ever! We love you so so so so much and you make mami and dadda oh so very happy! We can't even imagine what life would be without you or how we went so long without you! You're the best thing that happened to us! :)

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Nico's highlights:

1. He is pretty much walking. He walks more than crawling

2. He talks a lot

3. He can say mami, dadda, alla (there in spanish), there

4. He can dance and has great rythm

5. He ate his own poop on Friday and didn't like it

6. He is really good with sharing

7. He is very passionate

8. AND he is the best boy who ever lived in the whole wide world :)

Can't Sleep...

I woke up this morning at like 5:30 thinking about a lot of things...

1. Nico is turning 1 TOMORROW

2. I have to finish packing because we are moving to North Platte

3. I'm anxious to go back to Utah and finish planning Nico's birthday party

4. AND I still dislike BYU football very much :)(sorry byu lovers, nothing against you)

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We found yesterday that we are going to North Platte today. I wasn't too excited because I really like Kearney and also, I ordered a birthday cake for Nico and had a place picked out to go eat. Oh well, everything happens for a reason. I can't believe that tomorrow Nico will be one. How come time goes by so fast?

I wish he'd stay this little for a bit longer. He is so much fun and such a busy boy! I'm so excited for his birthday party in Utah. I want it to be big and really fun. He only turns one once...

Of course byu had to play the day of his birthday party...and of course it has been a problem. I just didn't grow up watching them, I don't get the game, it's boring, and it's just not my thing. Maybe if Nico ever plays football I'll get into it more but for now...I rather do something else :) Lots of people have said this is the biggest game of the season, but if you ask my husband every game is the biggest game of the season...so I'm not buying that anymore. It's just a game...

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Yesterday was a fun day...for the most part. We found out that Jerica and her family (our hotel neighbors) were going home. It's sad that it's almost over, I just wish the girls would leave when we leave :) We sure miss our neighbors!

(can you guess which one is Jerica?) :)

Nico is soo scared of their little dog

Isn't he so cute?

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After saying goodbye to them, Ellesse and I took our kids to the park! Nebraska probably has the coolest parks!

Best buds

They are leaving us sunday...I'm pretty sad about it! I love hanging out with Ellesse, especially because Nico and Noah get a long great. Who will I have long chats with? The good thing is that we are all going on a cruise together and they are coming to provo in October, so we'll get to see them again!

What a fun day! Wish I would have gone to this park more. Can't wait to see what North Platte has to offer!

HAPPY FRIDAY!