Scott, Kaylee & Annie

2012

2012-01-25T10:17:00.000-08:00

New Year's weekend we spent down in UT. New Year's Eve is one of my favorite holidays. No stress just a party! New Year's Eve day our family was ALL together and we decided to go to the temple. We got dressed up, found babysitters, and were on our way. Until we discovered that the temple closes by 10 on New Year's Eve. Whoops. Then we got to have Christmas #2 with my family. It was perfect.

Annie NEVER holds still for pictures anymore. Ever. So with my camera she's blurry in just about all my pics. Oh well, you get the idea.

Trying to get a pic. of the two girls in their skirts Kiera made. Not happening.

My little fam :)

We rang in New Year's just like allways, minus the snowman and snow. Tons of fireworks, family, and friends.

At least my dad didn't shoot fireworks at children this year. Just our neighbor's roofs.

Something for everyone.

Happy New Year!

Merry Chirstmas!

2012-01-09T11:26:00.000-08:00

Christmas was wonderful once again. Nothing beats this time of year. This year we spent Christmas in Boise and it was so great to be with ALL of the Bairds (even Brad who skyped from Jamaica almost the entire Christmas day).
Christmas Eve was hilarious with a late night visit from Santa (will Annie ever forgive me?), dinner, Christmas Eve program, ugly sweaters, pj openings, and a white elephant gift exchange. Here's a few candid shots of almost everyone.

Annie was not a fan of Santa. But I am a cruel mom and made her sit on his lap (Adam is a kind soul).

The Christmas Eve festivities were a little late, so after Annie was traumatized by Santa we put her to bed. :) We did our own Christmas Eve singing with Annie, and here she is joining in. Christmas just gets better every year with her!

Christmas morning was glorious. So many presnts and surprises. All the kids walked around sharing and playing in the wrapping paper. Annie loved her baby and elmo chair, but mostly her cousin Sophia's cat. Luckily she didn't notcie we didn't take it home.

Thank you Drapers and Bairds for a perfect and wonderful Christmas!!!

For we need a little Christmas..

2011-12-12T12:49:00.000-08:00

Here are our Christmas lights. In the pic. they don't look that great, but they are red and white (my favorite) with sparkling snowflakes. Scott did them very professionaly :)

At one of the light shows by our house. Annie is facinated by them.

Annie loves to sleep on her tummy and knees. She was sick and fell asleep on the floor. When I went to check on her she had scooted under the Christmas tree.

Sweet Annie watched me wrap all the presents and put them under the tree. I told her nono you can't touch them. About an hour later I watched Annie scoot to my diaper bag, take out the wipes and put them under the tree. When I tried to pick them up Annie told me nono. I guess I'm getting wipes for Christmas.

Our Chirstmas ornament. Perfect for this year because Annie scoots on her bum!

I can hardly wait for Christmas!

Disneyland!

2011-12-09T09:31:00.000-08:00

It was magical.
Annie was an angel and it was that much more perfect having her there ( I was a little worried about how she would do). As long as she held her button they gave her on all the rides she just sat still and soaked it all in.
The whole family was together.
There were hardly any lines and the longest ones were about 20 minutes max.
Between child swap, grandparents, and kid friendly Disneyland, we got to do everything we wanted. Poor Scott got sick towards the end but stayed pleasant :).
Now I want to go back!

It was Kyla's "birthday"

Feasting and Swimming.

2011-12-04T10:54:00.000-08:00

For Thanksgiving we drove the LONG trek down to California :). It was my grandma McRae's 80th birhtday and a great time for a reunion. Almost all the cousins were there and best of all, it was 80 degrees with a heated pool. My grandma just moved into a dream house and our ENTIRE family stayed at all the old house. A small family reunion inside a big one. I love these people.

At the old house there was just a tiny old TV with a VHS player, so at night we actually had to talk to each other (or watch home movies). Here is Jakey telling us mission stories.

Here is the last house we lived in in CA, where most of my memories are. Kenton was born while we lived here, so that's why the giant is in front.

Black Friday shopping at the Palm Desert mall. Annie HATED Santa Clause. I've tried several times since to show her happy pictures. Nope, still hates him.

The early birds in the family. Annie doing what she does best.

My grandma plays piano beautifully. Annie does not.

Annie's first haircut. One random morning we chopped off Annie's mullet (thanks Kiera). Much better. Her first haircut, tear. And yes, I am one of those moms who saved all of her hair in a bag.

Thanksgiving evening as we were all way too full and lounging around, Scott told me Annie had a surprise for me. I went in the kitchen and she was holding a Minnie Mouse pillow. Scott surprised me and took me to Disneyland!!! My whole family went.... but I'm bored so next post.

He's Back!!

2011-11-11T10:18:00.001-08:00

Jake came home from Chili!! After 2 years it was great to have our entire family toghether again. It's just not the same with anyone missing. I love that no one lives too far away (we are the farthest in IF) and we get to see eachother often! All the boys.

Precious. The only neice Jake had when he left.

Patiently waiting.

The kids playing at Olive Garden after. Jake's request of first food. (Annie is naked due to a horrible accident that even filled the highchair. So fun.).

Yes this happened Aug.6th....

2011-11-10T12:55:00.000-08:00

But I finally got around to getting my pictures back! Annie's b-day was Sat., Aug 6th, the day after we got home from Bear Lake. What a crazy time. The next day I got stomache flu AND drove to Washington. And right after her park party with perfect weather there was a huge storm. So perfect timing.

I just realized I did all my pics in backwards order. So you can start from the bottom and read up, or not.

At the end all Annie really wanted was to roll the pop cans around.

She LOVED all her presents.

Our birthday queen. We thought there was no way she would her cake (she just throws food) so I didn't bother to make her anything specail. She ended up eating three mini cupcakes. So proud :).

Annie had a concerned look on her face most the party. But I think she had fun.

Cupcake and polkadot theme. Annie (and Scott and I too) loved all the family that came! We are so lucky!

The night before having the traditional bday dinner at Garcias with the Sonbrero. Too bad she couldn't eat her ice cream and mom had to help her. haha.

Halloween Night

2011-11-09T09:17:00.001-08:00

A puppy, ballerina, rag doll, and monster. I'm sure we scared our neighbors.

Halloween afternoon. Ava and Lisa came from Pheonix for a fun Halloween surprise!

Happy Halloween!

2011-10-31T13:04:00.000-07:00

Scott wanted something easy, free, and comfortable. So he picked his own costume.

A ceiling fan.

And here is my little dolly.

Fall

2011-10-21T15:39:00.000-07:00

It's officially Fall and we are lovin it. Scott and I made a fall to do list so we aren't wishing we had done more things when winter comes around. And the top of our list? Mesa Falls to see the colors.

Kym, Adam, and baby E came along!

Friday night football game. We were a little worried about taking Annie, but she liked it more then anyone. Annie fell asleep on the way home and when we woke her up to dress her she immediately started clapping. Our little cheerleader.

Annie NEVER would take a pacifier as a baby. Now every morning she finds a pacifier and scoots around the room as if she is doing something good.

Watching conference with good friends. Annie LOVES little boys.

Watching Elmo on her belly. Annie can say Daddy, mommy, ni-night, elmo, and No. She probably says no the most.

Annie's favorite past time. She reads books ALL DAY LONG. She loves them. And I'm quite impressed with her concepts of print already.

Well, just a small Annie update. Life is good!

September.

2011-09-28T12:32:00.000-07:00

I can't believe it's almost gone. I feel like I'm going to be saying that the rest of my life sometimes. I'm actually ready for fall (just not the looong winter) and am counting down the days to decorate for Halloween! Here are some pics of a little of this and a little of that.

Annie deciding if she should throw a fit or ham it up for the camera.

She decided fit.

My sweetheart.

First slide attemt. She was neutral.

Tractor ride. I promise she had fun, I know her face says otherwise.

The Torrances came to visit! Annie loves having Jake and Abby around, we have missed those guys! I love Jake's hand on Annie's back.

Corn maze. Thankfully we took the kid route.

Real men carry babies.

A zoo outing with the Eastmans. Ezra and Annie, they look thrilled.

Very nervous and excited to pet the goats.

Annie and MiKayla in matching bows!

Labor Day Love

2011-09-06T16:11:00.000-07:00

Labor day is one of my favorite weekends because it's a day off work (or a day off work for Scott which is just as happy) and it means Cub River Camping!
Lots of pictures...all in backward order.
On Monday Scott went dirtbiking with his buddies and then took us to the fair! It's an interesting place but we had a blast with Annie. We played a dart game and won her a little pillow "chum" that she snuggled until she fell asleep at the end.

We took Annie on a train ride, the carousel, and this random spinny ride. I had never seen it going and asked the carnie running the ride if babies could go. He didn't speak English and let me on so I figured we were good to go. This ride was NOT meant for babies. It took you around fast while going up and down and spinning. I was pretty nervous the whole time.

Afterward we found the sign that said you needed to be 36" to ride with an adult strapped in (Annie was on my lap) or 42" to ride by yourself. I guess we learned our lesson. Annie is on her tippytoes in this picture.

Scott took all the pictures but had just as much fun as we did. At the end he even watched Annie while I did a big scarey ride. I love him :)

Friday we left for the cub river and came home Sunday night. It was Annie's first camping trip and she did great! Then nights were a freezing but she slept deep, the only time she struggled was in the morning when she wanted to be awake and play but it was too cold to be away from the fire.

My dad and his dirty pride and joys. He had all of them pretty tight, until Annie almost scooted in the river.

Annie's first fish!

My fav. pic of the weekend. Dirty and as happy as can be!

This girl loved the hammoc. She took all her naps in there and was the camp hammoc hog. Sorry.

Just lounging on Grandpa.

Stealing Kyla's camp chair.

The entertainers.

What we hiked along.

Terrible family picture... but it's the best we got.

Poor Scott, Annie is no lightweight.

On Friday was also our last day of Mommy and me swim lessons. Annie did great, learned how to kick and tolerates being dunked under water.

They even have the little babies go off the diving board.

My sweetheart.

Farewell Kenton

2011-09-01T10:09:00.001-07:00

Scott and I are always wondering if Annie has said her first word. She says mama and dada but we kindof think she is just babbling. One thing is for sure: her first word is now KENTON. I wouldn't believe it until I heard it with my own ears. She looks right at him and says it clearly. Kenton is such a great uncle and takes good care of Annie, he even took her grocery shopping to give me a break once. We went down to UT for his farewell and are sure gonna miss this guy. What a bittersweet feeling when a missionary leaves.

Kenton's going to the San Pedro Sula, Honduras mission. He flies out the exact same day my other little brother, Jake, gets home from Chile.

Kenton and our cousin Conner leave at the exact same time for the exact same mission. We almost thought it was a mistake. Here they are enjoying some of their last few days.

We got to go boating with Kenton. It was a beautiful day but a little windy so we pulled out the good ol water weenie and had a blast.

Annie, Kalia, and Claire. It's so fun to watch them play together, although they all have a secret desire to poke each other's eyes out.

Annie's been doing a lot of traveling latley and has become quite attached to her soft blankie. But she's a champ and adjusts pretty well.

Goodbye little Kenty, see ya in 2 years!! sniff sniff...

If anyone wants to write him:

Elder Kenton Will McRae

MTC Mailbox #228

HON- SPS 1101

2005 N 900 E

Provo, UT 84604-1793

Oh Darlin don't you ever grow up..

2011-08-26T09:25:00.000-07:00

"Your little hands wrapped around my finger
And it's so quiet in the world tonight
Your little eyelids flutter 'cause you're dreaming
So I tuck you in, turn on your favorite nightlight

To you, everything's funny
You got nothing to regret
I'd give all I have, honey
If you could stay like that

Oh, darling, don't you ever grow up, don't you ever grow up
Just stay this little
Oh, darling, don't you ever grwo up, don't you ever grow up
It could stay this simple

I won't let nobody hurt you
Won't let no one break your heart
No, no one will desert you
Just try to never grow up, never grow up"
Taylor Swift

Annie is now one! It's a bittersweet thing watching her grow. I love to see who she is becoming and what she can learn, but I will always miss the tender newborn stage. I am an awful photographer but decided to take a picture of her month birthday every month. Watch her grow:

Brand New!

1 month

2 months

3 months

4 months

5 months

6 months

7 months

8 months

9 months

10 months

11 months

1 years old!!

I'll post more on her birthday later. I love my Annie Kay!

Bear Lake

2011-08-23T10:04:00.000-07:00

Here are just a few pictures of...

Baird Family Reunion at Bear Lake!!

It was awesome.

Boating, wakeboarding, family, dirtbiking and 4wheeling, cousin babies, hottubbing, the BOBS (best of bairds crazy pj style), sweet house on the lake, Raspberry days, hot parade with lots of candy, eating amazing food all week, going on walks, campfires, spelunking...it was epic. Can't wait to do it agian!

Some of our favorite things...

2011-07-28T07:04:00.000-07:00

Where's Annie? Where's Annie?

Peek-a-boo!!

And a little bit of Patty Cake.

Sweet little beautiful...

2011-07-18T10:11:00.000-07:00

"And his heart belongs to that sweet little beautiful, wonderful, perfect All-American Girl."

Carrie Underwood

11 Months!

2011-07-13T12:49:00.000-07:00

Annie turned 11 months last week. She's our little sweetie, excpet for when she wants to nurse. Then she bites and cries(we are in the process of weaning her). She loves walks, pulling out baby wipes and tissues, her momma and daddy, and swimming. She is still our scooter bug and has no interest in crawling or standing. She does what she wants and we love her silly personality!

Here's a good shot of her 5 little chompers. Scott has crooked teeth and I have gappy teeth so we thought our children would have a chance. Instead her front teeth are gapped and her bottom are crooked :). That's a laugh/cry she's got going on.

Annie is still mesmerized by Kidsongs and a little bit of Elmo. Deathly terrified of Little Einsteins though and I have no clue why. She must have had a bad dream or something. At least she's warmed up to balloons.

This little mover is getting harder and harder to take pictures of! Here she is in all her tissue pulling glory.

4th of July was an amazing week...I also forgot my camera. Scott and I went down to Utah and had a wonderful time. We swam, went walking and biking up the canyon, I helped with a bridal shower for one of my best friends Roo, Had Bryce, my mom, and dad's birthdays, BBQd, got to meet Stephen's cute girlfriend and eat at Tucanos...the list goes on. My parents spoil us and I love just hanging out with my siblings!

We then got the sad news Scott's uncle Mark passed away so he went home on Tuesday to work while I stayed in Utah and then joined me on Friday for the funeral. It's always sad to see a loved one go. The funeral was really inspiring and put a lot of good perspective back into our lives. What a great man.

4th of July was sweet, just the way we like it. The BEST (don't argue) fireworks show (Scott and I stopped in WY and bear lake on the way down), bbqs, family, girl's dessert trip, and boating all day. Annie had her first boat ride and loved it, and then fell asleep. I am thankful for this free country and for a wonderful family.

Annie, Grandpa, and Kalia. These babies sure love their grandpa!

The annual burning of the Christmas Tree

Annie chillin with her buddy Bryson at a prefirework show with friends.

I LOVE SUMMER!!! Now to rest for a couple weeks before the madness of August hits..

5 years!

2011-06-14T07:28:00.000-07:00

We did it! Not that we ever thought we wouldn't...but we made it to 5 wonderful years! It's amazing how much your love can grow every day and in different ways.

For our anniversary we went down to Utah. We were able to go to a nice dinner and watch the Summerfest fireworks while my parents watched Annie. We also got to go to the parade, canyon, and play with cousins! Here's the best cousin shot we could get.

And we went to see this guy. He just got back from Hawaii and let me do his hair. I always wanted a little sister :)

Cotton candy for Annie!

Annie and Kalia enjoying the parade. But mostly the cotton candy.

And we sold our trusty little civic. It was a sad day. I didn't know you could be attached to a car. My parents gave us the car when we were engaged. We went through a lot in it. Our first car, drove clear across the country, brought home Annie in it... so many memories. It was a blessing we sold it so fast and now have our new bigger car to enjoy (rav4) so hopefully it likes its new family!

10 Months!

2011-06-07T08:05:00.000-07:00

I can't believe Annie is 10 months!! Ok, I say that every time, but it really does go by too fast. She had no desire to smile or hold still for pictures. She's still not crawling, but fully mobile. She scoots on her bottom in a sitting up position (see facebook for video) or steamrolls. She loves her toys and to tip anything over. She is quite the adventure and Scott and I can't get over how much we love it.

Grant and Annie after a Sunday stroll.

Our billy goat.

Annie and Papa!

I forget Annie can move sometimes. I found her in the shoe closet the other day (yes, the bottom of our pantry is our shoe closet).

First motorcyle ride. But really it was a razor. Scott's already trying to train her.

Visitors!

2011-05-29T17:14:00.000-07:00

I can't promise you Idaho Falls is the most exciting place to visit... but I can promise you Scott and I would love it! My mom and Kiera with her three little ones came to visit us and had a random week of nice weather (seriously the only nice weather we had all year..).

Here are the two girls in their matching dresses and matching fake smiles.

We think Annie likes swinging.

Kyla has turned into quite the little swing daredevil. I remembered what an underdog was and how much fun swings are!

We had a wonderful day at the Tautphaus Park Zoo. Bryce had a runin with the monkeys that scared him to death.

Annie is like her momma...loves those oreos! (and they are dairy free :) )

Annie would prefer to be read to all day. Or watch kidsongs.

Feeding the geese by the river. What a good grandma.

The easiest baby in the world. Miss Clairey berry pudding and pie. Adorable.

Baths with Bryce AND Kyla? Awesome day.

Phoenix, I miss you.

2011-05-26T11:59:00.000-07:00

For our birthdays Scott and I were able to go to Phoenix and visit his sister Lisa and her family. It was 90 degree weather and perfect. I wouldn't have minded never coming home.

We can't thank the Maxfields enough for showing us around! It was so fun to see Ava and Annie together, they loved to talk, laugh, and scream together.

We were introduced to our new favorite place to eat. Oreganos. It was Amazing!

We were so excited to take Annie swimming for the first time. She loves her baths so you would think she would love the pool right? Wrong. She HATED it.

We finally set her up in the shade on a wet towel and she pleasantly played until she fell fast asleep and had a looonnngg nap.

The daddies and their babies.

The boys got us pedicures for Mother's Day!!

Maybe I love Phoenix so much because I was born there. I lived there for 2 weeks and had never been back. This is the house my parents brought me home to. If Scott wanted to move their tomorrow I totally would. Good people, good food, good times.

9 Months!

2011-05-25T14:53:00.000-07:00

My little sweetie turned 9 months! We were supposed to leave at 11 to fly to Phoenix, but our flight was delayed until 4. So we hung out in the airport and Annie took her long nap that I had timed perfectly to happen on the flight.

Annie's first airplane ride! She was wide awake for all of it (a whole 2 hours) and seemed to have fun. The space was a little tight for the squirmer, but it worked.

Pink toenails. She is my daughter afterall.

Babies don't keep

2011-05-20T15:53:00.000-07:00

(This has always been one of my favorite poems.. and how my life is going right now)

Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth
empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
hang out the washing and butter the bread,
sew on a button and make up a bed.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I've grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue
(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
(pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).
The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew
and out in the yard there's a hullabaloo
but I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren't her eyes the most wonderful hue?
(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).

The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
for children grow up, as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton

28 years for Scott!

2011-05-11T14:37:00.000-07:00

If you ask him he will probably tell you he is 29 (becasuse "I'm in my 29th year, it makes more sense"). We had a fun party with dinner and family and friends! He requested it this way. That night we packed for Phoenix and had an awesome weekend (next post).

He decided to blow out his 8 candles this year with his arm. It actually worked.

To my favorite 28 year old: Love you!

The Rest of Easter

2011-04-29T09:33:00.000-07:00

Easter morning the Easter bunny came and Annie loved her basket (but more like I loved making it for her)! Then we headed over to my sister's house for the blessing, delicious brunch, and Easter egg hunt. We finished the day off with naps and a delicious dinner at my moms and then drove home.

Matching Dresses!

The three girls. Probably impossible to get a good shot of all of them at once.

My neighbor knitted her little sweater!

And thanks Great Grandma for the beautiful dress!

Claire's family!

We had to help Annie get the eggs. Once she found one she lost all interest in the rest.

Dyeing eggs. She didn't actually make one, but she did suck on one and her lips turned blue.

We hope you all had a wonderful Easter!

Easter Part 1

2011-04-28T08:05:00.000-07:00

Easter was spent in Utah with my family and for Claire's baby blessing! As always, what a fun trip. It seems we go down about once a month for something going on... but I'm not complaining. Friday night we were able to hang out with my best girlfriends which was a blast (Jessica and Kevin's graduation party and April's b-day). Just Dance, lots of good talking and Dennys after midnight is needed every once in a while :) (we took lots of pictures...with a camera that we can't get the pics from...ooops.).
Saturday we started the day with watching these two beautiful models in a Nordstrom's Fashion Show. They were adorable. And Bryce is turning into quite the litte hunk.

Wathcing her older cousins with her Grandma.

She actually likes to wear sunglasses.

Train ride around the mall. Annie looked out the window the whole time and loved it. I may have been slightly trainsick by the end.

Breastfeeding Awareness moment...haha. When one is hungry, they all are!

And the best part of the day, on the way to die eggs, my little brother called with his mission call! We rushed home to Skype, and Kenton is going to the San Pedro Sula, Honduras Mission!!! We couldn't be happier. He leaves Aug. 31st to the MTC. What a great missionary he will be. My cousin Conner got the EXACT same mission call the day before... same place, same time. So that is kinda cool.

She's growing up..

2011-04-17T08:54:00.000-07:00

...she can now wear a clip in her hair!! Good growing little one.

Chubalicious.

Still won't take a pacifier or bottle, but will take a blanket?

(Wal-Mart must have a secret stash of lost baby socks)

And of course Daddy's hat is much cooler than any old bow.

(one day Scott and I may appear on our blog again)

8 Months!

2011-04-07T10:55:00.000-07:00

This little darling turned 8 months yesterday! My how time flies. She has two new little teeth, attempts to crawl (puts her head and belly on the ground and kicks her legs), can't live withoug Kid Songs and books, sleeps wonderfully through the night, plays peek-a-boo, is learning to throw a fake fit, is ...starting ... to eat more solids, loves her toys, and has the cutest little laugh. We adore our Annie!

My little model only lasted so long.

Utah Weekend!!

2011-04-06T14:56:00.000-07:00

Went down to Utah last Wednesday and stayed through the weekend. Scott was a busy man so we took Salt Lake Express down and had a blast. Lots of cousin time! There was a beautiful two days we got to be outside and woke up to tons of snow the next day. My grandparents were down and we did lost of shopping and hanging out.

Kyla and Annie played forever in the baby toy. It was all good until that tree in the left hand corner fell on Annie's head.

My dad wanted a picture of all the grandkids. Notice the new little one in the middle. Clairey is a sweetie pie and a darling baby!! Congratulations to Kiera! Another new little neice to love.

The four granddaughters. Annie, Kyla, Kalia, and Claire. Annie's fat pose cracks me up.

My mom knows how to make everyone happy! Her homemade wholewheat waffles can't be beat. The kids made little tables.

Annie doesn't get waffles. She gets spoons.

Chillin and watching KidSongs. Annie's most favorite thing in the world.

Shopping at JC Pennys for Eastar Dresses!!

This is what Bryce likes to do while shopping:

What a fun week, but it sure is nice to be at home with Scott!

(I'll post pictures of the 8 month! baby tomorrow)

Me and My Girl

2011-03-26T12:11:00.000-07:00

Somedays are meant for doing nothing except enjoying the little things. Such as a nap in the sun.

And best of all just being together.

Kiss Me, I'm Irish

2011-03-17T10:38:00.000-07:00

This little leprechaun is my good luck charm!! Happy St. Pattie's Day!

7 Months!

2011-03-07T06:53:00.001-08:00

This little silly turned 7 months yesterday! The above pic. is of her blowing her lips. It is one of her favorite things to do... especially during sacrament meeting when she makes all the kids laugh around her the WHOLE time.

Annie can often be found whith her tongue sticking out. No teething yet..she just likes it.

Annie lives for bath time. She brings both feet way up in the air and splashes up a storm. My little chub!

The future is here!

2011-02-23T19:09:00.000-08:00

In April 2007 Scott and I were able to go to Chile with his work for a month. We had an awesome time there and went hunting for lots of cool trinkets to bring back home. We went to one huge market and I just had to get a baby outfit. They were so cute and I can't help myself around baby clothes. My sister was pregnant so I bought her a jacket...and then something for our future child. :)

And here is our FUTURE CHILD in her llama sweater! (yes I know her bow is GIANT, I just had to try it out.)

Crazy.

The Latest

2011-02-17T12:31:00.000-08:00

Today Annie got her shots. She cried for about 30 seconds and has been fine. She's almost 19 lbs. and 27 inches long which keeps her in the 90th percentile for weight and 85th for height. The doc. banned her from dairy until she turns a year old. She is developing her little personality and is quite the crack up. She thinks she is a dancing queen. Her hair is also growing... but she tends to appear bald because her hair is so fair. Our little Snow White. The blonde version. We love our Annie Kay!

And I chopped off my hair. Sorry I'm not the best at photographing myself, and please excuse the messy desk.

Valentine's was my favorite this year. We didn't go out or do anything fancy, in fact we ate grilled cheese at home (Scott and I went on a date in Utah to the Chocolate...yum!!) but it was perfect. Two Valentines are better than one.

Scott's keeping busy with work, finishing the basement, working on our cars, and being daddy.

I stay at home and keep busy with Annie. I was able to spend a little over a week in Utah which was a blast. I got to hang out a lot with my sister Kiera and her kids. I was supposed to be helpful but I'm not so sure I was. At least we had fun. I think Annie is having grandpa and grandma withdrawals. I definitely am missing my nieces and nephew!

6 Months!

2011-02-10T14:24:00.000-08:00

Miss Ann turned 6 months on Sunday! Kiera let me borrow her new babies dress, so adorable!

He Makes Me Laugh

2011-02-03T20:58:00.000-08:00

Scott had to be to work at 7am this morning for important business meetings and introductions. At 8:30am I hear him come home. The reason? Look at his shoes. I was still asleep so he got dressed in the dark so he wouldn't wake me. Bless his little heart. Too bad he had to go back.

Island Park

2011-01-27T19:08:00.000-08:00

Well, we (me and Scott, Kym and Adam, and Megan and Joseph) all decided we needed a little break from life. We went up to Island Park to remember why we actually like winter. Adam is from Iland Park so he got us the hook ups and we went to stay the night. We had so much fun we ended up staying the whole weekeend. We ate too much, snowmobilled, hot tubbed, and talked and laughed the trip away. It was hard to come home.

The boys on their ride:

Yes they are holding hands:

Ahh, good times:

The lovely pregnant Kym and Adam:

Snow in love, haha

About to go out for our night ride once Annie was asleep:

All About Annie

2011-01-21T11:25:00.000-08:00

So this blog may just turn into a million pictures of Annie. But we can't help it. She's our favorite.

Here is Annie with her Dolly from Christmas. She LOVES babies, little kids, and puppets.

She also loves Grant. And to wear no clothes.

She is very squishable.

And she sits! She's a little tipsy, but we're workin on it.

We have many pictures of her eating for the "first time". She doesn't like food. She won't take a bottle or pasifier. She is very picky. But we try every day and she will take a few bites now here and there.

She is also allergic to dairy. Here is a pic. of what happens to her skin wherever the milk-based formula touched her.

She is one hilarious little girl with so much personality already!

We love our Annie!

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Dec. 12, 2010. Taken by the wonderful Miriam Lusk. Here are just a few of our favorites:

Ski Bum

2011-01-10T14:37:00.000-08:00

Or should I say snowboard bum? Only time will tell...will Annie ski or snowboard (it probably really depends on will mom or dad teach her)? We were lucky enough to spend two days on our Christmas break at the Canyons-one of my very favorite places. Annie has issues with bottles so she came along and hung out in the lodge. My mom and I took turns watching her (mostly my mom) and Annie just hung out. I love my mom :).

It was an awesome break to say the least. I forgot to take picture of Christmas morning (I know, I know, babies first Christmas is the Chrsitmas I don't take pictures) but luckily my mom took some that I will have to get.

5 Months!

2011-01-06T14:19:00.000-08:00

McRae Nativity

2010-12-28T21:56:00.000-08:00

Our nativity can always be a little special. This year was extra interesting. But oh so fun to be with the family and think about the Savior for Christmas. Here is a peek at this year's cast.

The innkeeper

Joseph, Mary, and baby Jesus receiving gifts from the wisemen. Annie pooped out so my mom subbed.

The angel and Scott playing Joseph's lullabye

Kiera the angel carrying her little angel (one hot momma!)

Shepard #1:

Shepard #2:
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The Narrarator, donkey, and Joseph riding the donkey? Yes.

Closeup of our donkey:

Christmas Tree!

2010-12-14T12:05:00.000-08:00

We have a beautiful Christmas tree this year, and the best part is Annie loves it!! She will stare at the lights for hours...or minutes.

Annie and Papa (Scott insists on being papa not daddy) sleeping in the glow of the lights.

Thank you Shutterfly!

2010-12-10T16:03:00.000-08:00

I love getting anything in the mail...except bills. That's why I love Christmas cards so much! I have tried to do cards every year, and it all worked out except last year. I was sick and pregnant and wasn't a fan of anything last year, so Christmas stuff just didn't happen. This year is much better, because I am WINNING 50 free Christmas cards from Shutterfly. What a great little Christmas treat. Check out there huge selection ofChristmas cards here.

Shutterfly is an awesome website where you can not only get allyour printing done but do some pretty cool projects. If you are looking for last minute Christmas gift ideas click here. I think a mug would be a pretty fun idea, especially for those people that you just can't think of anything to get for (grandpas!). Check them out here. And who doesn't love a good calendar? Check them out here.

There are lots of fabulous cards on Shutterfly. Here is one favorites, although I have no idea how I'm going to pick which one I'm going to use.

I can't wait to use Shutterfly for future experiences, especially their photo books. They always look amazing and are super easy.

All I had to do was blog about Shutterfly (which I really do love) to receive my FREE Christmas cards. You can do the same, but hurry, registration ends Dec. 10 (yes, today). Click here for more info.

4 Months!

2010-12-06T18:07:00.000-08:00

HAPPY 4 MONTH BIRTHDAY ANNIE!

A Week of Thanksgiving

2010-11-29T09:30:00.000-08:00

We had two Thanksgivings and have much to be thankful for! But most of all I am grateful for this girl. My little cutie. And Scott. My big cutie.

I am grateful we got to spend the week in Boise at Mindy's house. I was worried about how Annie would do but she was great. It was so fun to be around so much family. And a huge thank you to Mindy for everything. She even watched Annie while we went to Harry Potter 7. It's going to feel lonly at my house this week! We had amazing food and amazing fun!

(picture 12/2009)

I am grateful that we made it there and back alive! Here is just a sample of what our roads were like almost the whole way!

I am grateful for a talented hubby who loves his little girl.

And that the hubby got some guy time. He deserves it after all the shopping and visiting I made him do.

Our first Thanksgiving Kym and Adam (THANKYOU!) invited us to Island Park to stay at a cabin, eat, and go snowmobiling. We had such a fun time and I am grateful again we are alive (we almost burned down the cabin and the roads were trecherous once again).

Dinner with the Eastmans! And it was delecious!

Grant and Annie. Aunt and Granny.

Now on to trying to lose weight after all that eating..yeah right.

Christmas Angel

2010-11-22T12:06:00.000-08:00

Ok so I know Thanksgiving hasn't happened yet and these are Christmas pictures, but it is a winter wonderland outside and I am just in a Christmas mood (although I won't listen to Christmas music yet for Scott's sake). These pictures were taken because Kiera needed Christmas pictures for a calandar she was making, so we faked it.
Last Christmas I was pregnant and so sick. I didn't take any pictures, do Christmas cards, or anything exciting. I kept thinking about the next year and how much better it would be with a baby. And it is! I am so excited to have Annie here for Christmas!

She hated wearing the dress and bawled until I took it off and then gave me the biggest smiles, that is why she is nakey in most the pics.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

A name and a blessing

2010-11-18T14:32:00.001-08:00

This post might be a month late... but Annie was blessed 10/10/10! It was a perfect day. We can't thank enough everyone that traveled and made her day so special (My fam from Utah, the Bairds from WA, and Lisa and Ava from AZ)! Scott did such a good job on the blessing, I was nervous for him but it was beautiful. She slept the whole time and the rest of the sacrament meeting. After we had a big fall luncheon at the house and just hung out. Such a good day and we are so grateful for all the support!

Little miss Annie. She wore my blessing dress (and Kieras) from when I was a baby.

Annie Kay

Why we chose her name: Scott and I had a hard time picking a name. I stressed a lot about it and Scott was sick of talking about it. We wanted something that wasn't on the top ten name lists but that wasn't made up. We were at one of our favorite restraunts (the Snakebite) and just saying random names and Scott suggested Annie. I have always loved the name Anne, it is my middle name. I wasn't sold becasue my favorite name at the time was Molly. We finally decided it was too hard to pick a name until we saw her. When she was born we pretty much had it narrowed down to three names. Annie just fit her, and it was the only name we liked with special meaning. We named her Annie and the next day decided on Kay for Scott's grandma Kay Baird who he never had a chance to meet. Her name is also my name backwards, Annie Kay...Kaylee Anne. We love our little Annie who already has a million nicknames. Here are just a few: Sweetheart, Sweetie, little darling, Boobaby, Boo, Missy, Anabanana, Annabell, Annie Pannie, Smiley Cyrus, Baby girl, etc...

The McRae grandkids before the blessing. Aren't they precious? (We'll have to take some good Baird grandkid pics over Thanksgiving..)

Halloween 2010

2010-11-15T14:13:00.000-08:00

Annie's first Halloween! We went down to Utah because Halloween is pretty fun at my house, but the best part was little miss Anna Kalia McRae (my brother's baby) was born!! She is a little beauty! It is so crazy to see Annie next to a newborn. They grow so fast. I wonder how many times I will type that on my blog..

Anyway, everything seems so much more fun with a baby! She was pretty grumpy all day but that didn't keep us from taking her trixk-or-treating. I was always one of those annoying kids that trick-or-treated until...college. Yes it's true. So I was very excited to go out again even if Annie had no idea what was going on.

My house and my dad. Annie is still too little to be scared of Grandpa on Halloween.

For Scott's work they go all out and each department has a different theme. Scott's was toy story. He was big baby from the third movie and did a pretty good job. I think he looks the best in the second picture.

Scott and I didn't dress up this year, we don't really know why. But we did carve pumpkins and had a fun night! Kiera's family wins the best costume award, Dopey is my favorite! They were nice enough to let us carve pumpkins with them.

Happy (late) Halloween!!

3 months!

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

Baby Annie is three months old today and all smiles!

I laid her on her tummy for tummy time this morning, and she ROLLED! We made her do it three more times just to make sure it stuck. I can't believe this little girl can roll.

I love this pic because she looks extra fat. I love fat babies!

Here she is just happy to be on the bed

Fall photo shoot

2010-10-25T22:46:00.000-07:00

Hey look, Scott and I still do exist:

Miriam Lusk took these pictures, and I am in love!

If Annie had to be famous for something it would be blowing bubbles or grunting.

Little Lady

2010-10-23T10:20:00.000-07:00

Our little lady bug, Happy Halloween!

Just hangin out

2010-10-18T15:06:00.000-07:00

She is such a smily girl now!! She is especially happy when daddy speaks Chinese.

Grant and Annie during the cake boss party!!

This is Annie's chair where she sits during dinner and when I can't hold her. She loves it!!

Matchy Matchy

2010-10-12T18:59:00.000-07:00

My mom, Kiera, and her kids came to visit for the weekend! Annie was blessed and it was a beautiful day (another post on this later, I lost my camera in the chair for the weekend :( ). I got the girls matching PJs, and they were so cute together. Kyla didn't really get it at first and kept asking, "But what are we going to be?"

Two Cute girls!

2 Months!

2010-10-06T18:17:00.001-07:00

Love this baby! And at 2 months she is such a sweetie. Nothing makes me happier than seeing her smile.

I attempted some 2 month old pics. Next time I will leave that to the professionals.

She is a little chunky.

Not exactly the smile I was going for.

Gardner Village

2010-09-29T16:13:00.000-07:00

This is the first fall I have not gone back to school since I started kindergarten. I went to school growing up every year as a kid, went to four years of college, then taught school a year. It's been kind of weird, all though I wouldn't trade staying home with Annie for anything. Staying home does have its perks. I was talking to my sister and she was telling me how her, my mom, and grandma were all going to Gardner Village. I decided I wanted to go and that was that. Scott was super busy so I left him behind and went to Utah for a couple days. Annie was a great little traveler and it was fun to just leave on a whim.

Gardner Village is the best to go to in the fall. Everything is done up cute and is witch themed. Unfortunately This is the only witch picture we got. Shopping is a whole new world taking aorund 3 kids (Annie, Bryce, and Kyla). Kyla was a little scared to stand so close to the witch and took some convincing.

Bryce eventually got the duck. Good thing it didnt' bite.

Annie and Grandpa McRae. So sweet.

My lucky parents spent 2 weeks in Hawaii. Kyla trying on her Hawaiian outfit. Isn't she cute?

The Nursery

2010-09-25T10:10:00.000-07:00

I've been meaning to post these pics. forever. When we first moved into our house the thing I was excited for most was to finish her nursery. I told Scott what I wanted and he finished it. He spent lots of hours figuring out how to do crown molding, put up beadboard, painting, and finishing everything. And he did a pretty awesome job! There's still a few finishing touches I want to add, but for the most part it is done.

The curtains with a double window sill and crown molding:

My favorite piece, the chandelier. The pic. doesn't do it justice:

The furniture was from my room when I was little, along with pretty much all of her decor.

My sister made the awesome blanket on her crib. She's pretty amazing!! The little heart shelf was from a garage sale that I painted and the pottery barn bedding I got a sweet deal from ebay.

My grandpa made me the big heart shelf when I was little. We ordered the chair and I love it! It is where I spend a large part of my night :)

And the best part of all? The little girl whose room it is:

The Sweetiepie

2010-09-18T13:11:00.000-07:00

Gangsta Babe:

How we love this baby!

Quick Trips

2010-09-13T15:38:00.000-07:00

These last two weekends have been awesome with a little bit of crazy. Over labor day baby Grant (Megan's baby) was blessed. The Bairds came down from WA, and other places, and we had lots of parties :).

The three cousins at Smitty's pancake house:

Annie looking sweet:

Annie and the handsome Grant on his big day:

The next weekend we rented a van with the Bosters, loaded it up, and drove to WA for Scott's little brother Brad's farewell.

The Girls:

The Babies:

The boys. Drinking their caffine, we got home from WA at 3:30am. That is way too late!:

Saying goodbye to Brad. He will be awesome in Jamaica!

Scott and Brad jamming one last time:

We got to stay at my grandparents, this is what I woke up to:

The babies at the park. Bonding in thier sleep I guess:

Now hopefully we can start to catch up on our sleep...

1 Month!

2010-09-08T09:09:00.000-07:00

Aug. 6, 2010

Sept. 6, 2010

Is it too soon to say my little girl is growing up to fast?

Beautiful Baby

2010-08-31T18:39:00.000-07:00

These pics were taken when Annie was 6 days old by her wonderful Aunt Kym! These are just a taste of all the cute pictures that turned out.

3 weeks!

2010-08-29T19:58:00.000-07:00

Ok so now that we have a baby and all I am going to try to be a better blogger. We will see how it goes because I am horrible at the computer and pictures.

On Saturday we dressed Annie up (I usually keep her in a nightgown because they seem to be the most comfortable for her and easy for me) and took her out! We went to the farmer's market and out to lunch with friends, then came home and ordered pizza and watched a movie. I love having a little baby and being a family of 3!

Here is our little model

She loves to suck on her hands, when she can figure out how to get them up there

All tuckered out and ready for a nap

We filmed her too, I'll have to see if I can get that to download.

Sweet Dreamin

2010-08-25T17:12:00.000-07:00

This little cutie sure likes her sleep! Loooking at all the pics. we have so far, I have realized she is asleep in most of them. I guess it makes taking pictures easier. We love our baby Annie!

After a long hard walk in the stroller.

A muscle pose, dreaming to be strong like daddy.

My two favorite people, she actually likes his snoring.

Such a sweetiepie.

And how does it get any better than this?

Isn't life great?

2010-08-20T12:21:00.001-07:00

Our little Annie!

2010-08-17T16:47:00.000-07:00

I'm having trouble downloading pics., and I can't figure out how to delete these last two pictures, sorry.

2010-08-07T11:06:00.000-07:00

She's here! Annie Kay Baird. 8 lb. 9 0z. and 20 inches long. She is beautiful!

No baby!

2010-07-29T16:10:00.000-07:00

Well, my due date has come and is slowly going...and still no baby. No signs either. I am 3+ cm dialated and almost all the way effaced. But nothing. The doc won't induce me for a while either because of a previous ultrasound. Not that I am super excited for labor, but I can't wait to have the baby, and not be pregnant! What will she look like? What will she be like? What is it like to be a mother? What will Scott be like as a dad? I waited 9 months and am sick of waiting. But the waiting game begins... wish us luck.

Something New

2010-07-20T14:25:00.000-07:00

We did it! We moved!!

Scott and I have had a different type of summer. Normally it's play and vacation...but this has been new. No Lake Powell, Oregan Coast, camping etc. But we got a house! And a baby! Well almost the baby. We have loved it and love where we live.

Our new house:

Still need the landscaping, but it will all come

My attempts at a belly shot for those who keep asking :) 9 days until due date. There are a million ways to describe how I feel, I just hope everything goes as it should.

Home Sweet Home

2010-05-04T14:13:00.000-07:00

Our new house! It should be done by June 30th. Cross your fingers.

Scott and I have been wanting to buy a house for a while, we just couldn't decide where. A week before the tax credit ended we decided we would be in Idaho Falls for the next little while, so we should buy a house. Trying to do that in a week was a little crazy and stressful (I would not reccomend it). But somehow it all worked out and we found something in our price range that we are really happy with. Moving while I am 8 months pregnant might be a little crazy, but I am so excited for our little girl to have her own room. So hello to Idaho Falls, we will be here at least three more years!

Think Pink

2010-02-25T17:49:00.000-08:00

"Sugar and spice and everything nice, ribbons and curls because she's a girl"

It's a little girl!!

We couldn't be more excited!

Over Valentine's weekend Scott and I drove down to UT to do an ultrasound at a place called the Fetal Studio in the Southtown mall. We couldn't wait to find out the sex of the baby, and just like I always peek at my presents if I can find them, I had to have a sneak peak of the baby. I thought for sure it was going to be a boy. I convinced myself it was a boy so when I found out I would be super excited. But secretly I painted my toenails sparkly pink in hopes that it was a girl. Not that painting your toenails has anything to do with the gender of your baby...Anyway, everyone was predicting boy. Everyone but my sis. and niece Kyla (who thinks my baby's name is grumpy after the seven dwarfs, hopefully it is not a sign). Scott, my mom, and Kiera and kids all came with. They bring you into a room with a big screen and it was so quick. I couldn't believe how fast the picture came on the screen. Right away you could tell it was a girl. I was in shock. Scott cried a little (he wants a little girl) and we couldn't be happier!

No, we do not have a name. Not even close. Sorry. Luckily the Fetal Studio is in the mall. Scott left to go do manlier things, and us girls went shopping!! Thanks to Kiera and my mom I have some darling outfits! Of course I already know I'm going to do her room (or half a room) in pink and green, my favorite color combo. since forever. My old room was pink and green and I have all my stuff saved, my wedding colors were pink and green, and my house would be pink and green if I wasn't married to a man. It's such a weird thing knowing I will have a daughter. But here she comes, I hope we will be ready.

I haven't posted much because I have been sick. I decided if blogging sounded more like a chore I wasn't going to do it. But now that I'm 18 weeks I'm starting to have some good days mixed in with the yucky days, and life is getting back to normal. Maybe someday I will enjoy pregnancy. Scott treats me like a queen and takes care of me as well as his work and school. I am surrounded by kids all day. Today we had a conversation about whether or not Jesus has a bellybutton. These are the things I deal with.

A reason to smile

2010-02-03T18:46:00.000-08:00

Baby Baird due July 29th! :)

Longer update later...

Happy Thanksgiving!

2009-11-19T17:51:00.000-08:00

My favorite part of Thanksgiving? The Pumpkin Pie!

AAARRR! That be Captain Brown Baird

2009-11-08T17:18:00.000-08:00

Life is good and I am a bad blogger. Things are good but busy for us now. Between our frequent (and fun) trips to Utah and all we have going on, sorry if we are not the greatest friends. We are in Idaho Falls, both working plus Scott is going to school at night for his MBA. We live in a Duplex in a neighborhood in Idaho Falls and love it, it is my favorite place we have lived so far (move #9). I might take pictures one day. Our back-up camera, an old one we have been using since our new one broke in Hawaii, decided to break on Halloween when I was taking pics. of my class, so we have no camera and therefore no recent pictures. It seems like this fall love is in the air and we were able to go some awesome weddings. Congrats Kym & Adam, Jake & Kelsey, and Matt & Veronica. Kym, Scott's big sister, was married in Rexburg and all the family came into town. It was a beautiful wedding and perfect fall reception and so fun to have all the family in town without having to travel. We love you!

Here is Jakey. He left on his mission Oct. 28 and will be missed. It was hard to say goodbye but we are all so proud of him. We have set up a blog for him if you want to follow: www.elderjakemcrae@blogspot.com

My school has a literacy night where the parents and k and 1st graders come in and get a free book. It was pirate themed and their guest pirate backed out so I volunteered Scott for the job :). We rented a pirate costume from BYU-Idaho and he was pretty awesome, there were TONS of people and he managed to get everyone's attention. He was Captain Brown Baird, and by the end of the story his gotee started falling off. The next day all my kids were in awe that I was married to a real pirate, but some felt the need to tell me that they figured out his costume was fake. For Halloween we both had to dress up for work, Scott was a pirate again, just a dead version, and I was witch. I was going to be creative but everything I thought of a 5 year old would not have really got.

My job is a lot of work but a lot of fun. I do title one so my program is supplemental to what their normal kindergarten class is. I have two classes, one with 16 students and the next with 18. My afternoon class is a lot more challenging so when I get home I feel wiped out everyday. Those kids keep me on my toes but you learn to love them right off. Here are some things you might find me saying throughout the day:

Please act like a human

No, your last name is not Hannah Montana

Do NOT eat the glue....

Thank you for the hugs

They are a fun bunch.

Summer Snapshots!

2009-09-28T15:53:00.000-07:00

Summer came and went.

Goodbye summer. Here our some of our favorite memories:

Lake Powell and Fourth of July. My mom and Bryce's B-day

Hawaii!!!!

Camping and mountain biking up Kelly Canyon

To end it all, Cub River

ABCDEFG.....

2009-06-19T16:44:00.000-07:00

Going ons:

-I got a job!! I get to be a title one KINDERGARTEN TEACHER!! I couldn't be more EXCITED! and nervous, but I can't wait. I don't know the little details yet, but here I go!

-Scott is putting in long days doing his military fitness class, internship, and working at his new job at Melaluca business development speaking Chinese.

-Scott also turned 26! And we had a birthday BBQ. Now he has an awesome mountain bike and is always looking for a quick break where he can go.

-Our 3 year aniversary! 3 years have cruised by with my wonderful man! We enjoyed a nice late night drive to Boise. Yipee...not. But the next day we went to PF Changs {my favorite!} and put all our money toward plane tickets to Hawaii in Aug. with my family. Can you say Aloha!!

-We are almost forsurely moving to Idaho Falls at the begining of Sept. unless we can get out of our contract sooner.

-Scott's baby sister Megan got married to wonderful Joseph and we went to Washington to celebrate with family {congrats!}

-I don't have a summer job, so while Scott is overly busy I am underly busy. Anybody need an employee for 5 weeks? Anybody want to play?

-My sis. Kiera is about to have her baby, wahoo!! I got to go visit her for three days and play with Kyla, so cute. {not currently working does have its perks}

-Becasue I like posts with pictures, this is a random picture of a rainbow. It just won't warm up here, rain rain rain! We pulled over during a rainstorm because it was so cool, it went all the way across and if you look close you can tell it was a double rainbow. We were really hoping to find a pot of gold.

We're done!!

2009-05-06T13:24:00.000-07:00

We graduated April 10th!!! Me: Elementary Ed. Scott: Business Manangement, Minor Chinese.
It was a wonderful day with family. We went to Fridays to celebrate after the graduation and had a great time! Now that we are done Scott is doing an internship with Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg and still working at his old job. I am hoping to teach in the fall.

It was nice to graduate together. There were 70 married couples that graduated together. Neil A. Anderson spoke at commencement and our convocation which was pretty neat.

D-Land!!!

2009-04-21T20:35:00.000-07:00

So Scott and I both graduated...pictures and details to come later.

And then I went to DISNEYLAND!! Scott has been on tour this week and will still be next week in Southern California (sound tech). He bought me a ticket so I could meet him in Disneyland. It was a BLAST! I flew in Saturday and hung out with Scott's awesome sis Jeni, and we had the best day ever. We went to the beach, I got sunburned, pedicures, and Hollywood. No pictures, every attempt we made was not meant to be. Sunday we went and got Scott, and Monday was D-land! It was excellent because there were no lines to 5 min. lines. Perfect day.

We did start out with a bit of a fiasco. Scott got 85spf sunscreen in his eyes which caused them to swell and turn red and he couldn't see. After my man attmepts to get it out, we ended up in the ememrgency first aid room first thing in CA Adventures where he got his eyes flushed. Poor guy.

I have always wanted to eat in the Pirates of the Carribean ride. And we did!! It was delicious!

It was magical.

We got some sweet shades.

Oh yeah. Thanks Jeni for a great weekend and showing us the ropes!

Now I am home again waiting for my hubby to return. It's good to be around family and just relax. Lovin it.

Conference

2009-03-30T11:55:00.000-07:00

Just a random little bit of information- Scott is going to be singing in the Priesthood session of General Conference. So for all you males out there that are planning on going, keep your eyes peeled.

Guitars Unplugged- better video!

2009-03-25T17:47:00.000-07:00

Ok, here is another Guitars Unplugged video--I liked this one much better!

Guitars Unplugged!

2009-03-24T20:28:00.000-07:00

Scott, Megan, and Jospeh all rocked Saturday performing in the Best of Guitars Unplugged! They were the best!

Party time!

2009-03-15T13:39:00.001-07:00

I turned 22 years young! It was a wonderful day! I left school sick the day before, so I didn't go to school on my birthday. I slept for 14 hours, woke up, watched a movie (the BFG), then took a three hour nap. After that Scott came home and took me out to dinner. He said he didn't really do anything because my present was coming the next day, so he rented Titantic and we were just going to watch a movie. I was kinda bummed but I got over it. When we got home Megan & Joseph (who are now engaged!! Congrats to them!!!) and Bren & Chantal were there and we had a little surprise party. It was just perfect. I had two beautiful boquets of flowers come in the mail from my fam and Scott's parents. It was sweet becasue spring is refusing to come to Rexburg. (Sorry for all the pics of just me...I guess I should have a kid soon and my blog might be more exciting). Pictures Below:
1. Our house trashed the next day.
2. The party animals
3&4. My beautiful flowers!

Bear Cub

2009-03-09T16:20:00.001-07:00

Driving an hour to Firth and back everyday gives me a lot of time to listen to the radio. On the way home one day I heard an advertisment for Bear World, they had ten 2-month old black bear baby cubs. And it was free to go see them! We went to Bear World on my day off (thanks to a small school discrict that gets a day off school when the basketball team goes to state) and got to hold the cutest bear cub ever! It was a little weird at first once we realized we were the only ones there without little kids, but we had a great time. Sorry about the bright light on the pic., my scanner wouldn't work so I took a picture of our picture.

January update

2009-02-01T12:35:00.000-08:00

January cruised by wihtout me even realizing it. Scott and I have been very busy, busy, busy--trying to be responsible yet still have fun... and such. For me student teaching has brought many surprises and learning experiences. I defy death every morning by driving on trecherous roads every morning for about an hour. I have also realized Fith does things a little bit different out there. I love my cooperating teacher and the students, they are just a little ca-razy. We had a dog in our classroom for a while, and I had to come up with a whole behavior modification system. And through all this what have I learned? Well, I've come to wish I was Mary Poppins.

Scott is very busy with school. He goes to school in the day, sometimes works, and then does homework all night. And he lost his wallet, so if anyone finds a missing black wallet.... Through it all we try to find time for friends and fun, but most nights I'm so worn out nothing sounds better than wearing my jammies and cuddling up and watching a movie. Pathetic. Scott's brother came up for a weekend and it was good to see him. The next weekend 4 of my bestest friends came up to visit, partay! (maybe pics to come) Anywho, we really are doing awesome and hope everyone had an awesome January and built lots of snowmans (not snowmen).

As far as picture? Hmmm, the only one I have is a little silly, but if you know me you won't be surprised:).

Rollerskatin. How could you do it normally?

Hurray for 2009

2009-01-04T16:25:00.000-08:00

New Year's Eve has always been one of my favorite holidays. Not because I make resolutions that I never stick to or write the wrong year for about a month, but because of my family's traditional party! My brothers build a snowman and we burn it to death and light all of our sweet fireworks off of it. Family and friends show up and we eat all the neighborhood Christmas treats, play games, and bang pots and pans for about 20 minutes.

Death to the snowman.

My dad, the pyro, does all the firewoks.

Some of my bestest friends come every year. Jess, April, Me, Marissa, and Jared
Cheese!
ANother year together. I look pretty excited, Scott looks....scared.
We love Shelby!
Mexican train game is me and Kiera's new favorite game. Oh so fun.

Christmas the McRae Way

2008-12-28T15:20:00.001-08:00

We hope you all had a very merry Christmas! Our Christmas was wonderful and relaxing and it was great to just be home! Our break has been filled with sleeping in late (it's going to be a hard change coming back to school), relaxing, snowboarding, Christmas shopping, and not having a schedule.

~ Our Christmas Eve was very untraditional but special. My family and I piled up in the Suburban and went up to Salt Lake to visit my Grandpa and Grandma (my Grandpa is going through cancer treatments). We were able to talk and have a good time and do our Christmas program there. We then decided we were all too hungry to go home and found one of the only open restraunts in Salt Lake- Macaroni Grill. Delicious.

Santa Clause never misses our house--my dad loves his Christmas lights! Watch out Clark Grizwald!

The star of the morning~ Kyla. She loved her pony!

My not so favorite pic. of us on Christmas morning...but the only one we have. Thankyou for all the wonderful presents family!, especially Santa Clause;)

My pretty mom and me. She puts Christmas together and makes it wonderful

Scott and his new office chair!

Mr. and Mrs. Clause

Jakey and Kenty. They both got the new banana boards, pretty awesome.

Bren, Chantal, and the babe

The Bockholts

SNOWBOARDING!-A way of life at my house.

(don't ask what I'm doing)

Skiing, we are still trying to get Scott to see the light

My not so little baby brothers.

Christmas Tag

2008-12-19T18:41:00.000-08:00

The Christmas edition of getting to know your family and friends! I got this as an email but don't have very many email addresses, so here it is. Consider yourself tagged if you read this and are in the mood to do one of your own. Merry Christmas!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping Paper with lots of ribbons and bows!
2. Artificial or real tree? Real all the way.
3. When do you put up the tree? As soon as we can get to it in December
4. When do you take it down? When we get home from Christmas vacation
5. Do you like egg nog? Yes, but only if it's half mixed with milk
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Probably Betsy Wetsy or some other type of doll
7. Hardest person to buy for? My husband
8. Easiest person to buy for? Kiera or my mom
9. Do you have a nativity scene? 2 very minature ones
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail... I love getting christmas cards!
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I got a barbie doll from my aunt and uncle when I was a teenager, I hadn't seen them in a while and I guess they forgot I grew up.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Christmas Story
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? After I make my list...which is whenever I have extra time.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes. 0
15. Sled, ski, or snowboard? Snowboard for me, skis for Scott (he's the black sheep in my family
16. Lights on the tree? Yes. I have plain white, but I miss the blinky colored lights.
17. Favorite Christmas song? O Holy Night
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Travel to mine or Scott's house.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? You know dasher and dancer and prancer and.....
20. Angel on the tree top or star? Star
21. Open presents on Christmas Eve or morning? One on christmas eve and the rest on Christmas morning. If we are at Scott's we open pjs on Christmas Eve.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Traffic
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? Scott and I pick one out every year
24. Favorite food for Christmas dinner? jello jello jello
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? A surprise
26. Do you eat fruitcake? No thankyou.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Sees Chocolates and neighborhood treats that sit on our counter and tempt me all day

Dun,dun,dun,dun, DONE!

2008-12-15T19:15:00.000-08:00

One more semester down, and only one more to go!! Finals week was not... my favorite, but it's over and I don't have to think about it ever again. Scott did awesome as always. I had to pass a math test that my mom tried to get me to do since before my freshman year-to get out of math 110, and at this point to do my student teaching. I kept putting it off and putting it off, until finals week I spent all my spare time in the dreaded math tutoring center and passed it by a miracle.

-To celebrate finals we went to a delicious dinner and then watched The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. If you ever are in the mood to celebrate do not watch that movie--watch it only if you want to be depressed for the next few days.

-I had my student teaching placement switched. After observing in a spectrum class several times, I could see some benefits-- but it's still not for me. So there was another little drama and now I am in 5th grade, so pumped. It is all the way in FIRTH Idaho...but what can you do.

-I had to say goodbye to my fourth graders, sniff sniff. They wrote me sweet notes and gave me a student teacher starter kit (thanks to Mrs. Watts). I can't believe how attached you can get to students in a short amount of time.

-Now we are in Utah and sleeping in until ten and wear our pjs all day. It's just wonderful.

My student teacher starter kit

Our Christmas Tree: yes we do get a real one every year and are never home for Christmas. We just can't help it.

Our Christmas ornament for this year. It is perfect for us because we want a yellow lab so badly. When Scott's mom was here she took us to the mall and told us we could pick out one anything we wanted. Scott picked out a desktop calendar with a lab on it for every day of the year. Figures.

Thanksgiving!

2008-12-06T12:51:00.000-08:00

Time fies. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with the Bairds. And a great week break from school. Of course my goal was to get caught up on all my homework over the break, and as always I didn't even pull it out. Oh well....I have had some late nights. Before we drove up to Washington we went down to Logan for our good friend Rusty's wedding. Scott DJ'd and him and Megan sang. They did awesome. Then we drove up to Washington. Scott's whole family was there except for one sister, and it was so fun to see everyone and a constant party the whole time! There were 18 peopele for Thanksgiving and a full house. This Thanksgiving I decided I am grateful for all the family love and support I have and have realized how lucky I am to have so much!

There were so many people we had to rent tables from the church. Scott's mom and sister megan and I made trukeys for place settings and decorated the table.

This is my awesome nephew Tanner who found some stickers and decided to bedazzle himself :) I love this boy.

Cody the cutest puppy ever! Scott and I want a yellow lab so badly.

Rusty and the beautiful bride at the reception!

Scott and Megan singing Can't take my eyes off you and sounding great! Too bad I didn't film it.

Student Teaching

2008-11-24T16:13:00.000-08:00

After lots of hard work and problem after problem, I now have my student teaching placement! It's in Idaho Falls in a spectrum class (grades 1-3 in same classroom). I am glad I don't have to travel any farther than Idaho Falls...but I don't have a very high opinion of mulit-age classrooms. Hopefully this experience will change my mind and will go great. I'm doing my senior practicum in a fourth grade classroom and I've absolutely loved it so this will be a change. One of my new favorite quotes is from Elder Worthlin, "Come what may and love it." So here it comes.

Cress Creek

2008-11-16T21:08:00.000-08:00

Today we took a little Sunday stroll up at Cress Creek. It was fun because we went up there the second time we ever hung out...a long time ago. We watched the sun set and had a lovely evening, then went home frozen and starving.

I guess the place is called cress creek because you can eat the cress that grows in the water, or something like that. I made Scott prove it to me.

Halloween Festivities

2008-11-06T17:57:00.001-08:00

We hope you all had a scary Halloween! Scott and I went down to Utah and had a wonderful time! We tried going to a the Dreaded Grove, but the power went out so it was kinda lame. Halloween was a blast and just having a break from school and seeing family and friends was great. We got to go to Salt Lake and see my grandparents and go to the Old Spaghetti Factory...yum.

Our sweet pumpkin. I gutted it and Scott carved it.

My Scary Parents, aren't they cute! My dad dresses up as Frankenstein every year and decorates our house all haunted. He scares kids and makes them run away, so fun!

The girls were all witches, Boo!

Now don't laugh too hard. I made Scott dress up when he didn't want to. I opened a tub of costumes and told him to pick what he wanted to be. He decided to be a Village Person (singer of the YMCA, Macho Man, etc).

Kiera, Seth, and baby Kyla. Too bad I couldn't get pictures of everyone. My little brothers were Master Cheif and Bob Shwartsky which was pretty cool.

Me and the Kyla. Just look at those cheeks. She had about five suckers, I've never seen a baby so hyper!

Our death kiss.

No these are not our Halloween costumes. Long story...

Our new favorite country band is Lady Antebellum. We got to see them in concert for Idaho's meth project and it was so cool! We sat on the 7th row and got to meet them afterward...sortof.

Scott mixed the band for the Halloween concert. Don't ask me how he knows which button is which on the board. But he does and he was awesome.

Fall Fun

2008-10-22T14:51:00.000-07:00

I love Autumn. And Halloween. Haunted houses, PUMPKIN flavored anything, warmish days and cool nights, the colors, dressing up, etc.

All week long I do school school school. I like it but I'm already to be done and it's only midterms. Weekends are Me and Scott's time to have fun. We made the journey to Utah over conference weekend, the next weekend Scott's mom and sis. Kym came to visit and we partied. We spent a night in a hotel and drug Scott along to all things girly. Last weekend our friends from Utah came up and we just played.

Over conference weekend my grandparents came from WA and my Aunt Becky and her baby Chancho :). We watched a lot of conference, and found creative ways to keep awake. My dear sister Kiera taught Scott how to cross stitch. He did it for about two minutes and was done, it was just too hard for him.

When the boys go to the Priesthood session they get to go to a nice dinner, and it is tradition for the girls to have a girls night out. My cousin Chelsea and Uncle Ben and his family came down, and we all went to gardner village and went shopping, a boy's worst nightmare. That place is so cute and the food is delicious!

Me, Chantal, and Kiera. We liked the yarn.

We went and braved a haunted corn maze with our good friends Mike and Kelly. I had heard it's supposed to take about an hour if you're good, and it took us about 15 minutes so I guess we're really good.

Scott liked to think he was supposed to scare everyone around him because the maze was haunted.

Who can pass up a good ol fashioned Halloween party? It was a Baird cousin party and it was good to see/meet so many relatives. Scott's Aunt Jean made delecious homemade spudnuts, a Richland, WA tradition.

The Bairds eating and eating and eating...those spudnuts were good.

On Sunday Scott and I went on a long drive up thorugh Twin Bridges to Kelly Canyon. It's so gorgeous up there and it was really good to just get out of the house becasue our days of being able to go outside without turning blue are numbered.

ps. I have troubles viewing my blog in internet explorer, it just doesn't load all of the way most the time. Does anybody else who uses explorer have that same problem?

New Truck

2008-10-17T17:20:00.000-07:00

Out with the OLD...

In with the NEW!

This is Scott's new favorite thing. He's ALWAYS looking for cars/trucks to upgrade into, and this is his newest truck. I think he's in love.

Field Trip

2008-10-09T13:45:00.000-07:00

Right now as I'm typing it is snowing outside, weird.

What's also weird is that I saw a huge dead black bear on the side of the road. Either bear world had a break out or wild bears have come to attack....

Anyway, Yesterday I got to go on a field trip!! I was excited like a little kid again. We left early, and made the 21/2 hour bus trip to a pioneer museum. We then headed to a cemetary and Soda Springs, cutting out our stop at a potatoe expo due to time. I slept on the bus ride there and back, while the other teachers were amazed that I could do that through the noise. Guess I was just really tiered. We saw some way interesting things, but here were my highlights:

This is my class in the wagon simulator. It bumped you around like you were really in a wagon, with cool ligt effects over the top of us. It was fun at first, until I started to feel a little sick and it just kept on going and going...

The purpose of the cemetary was for

the kids to see the wagon box grave. It is a place where after a family of seven were massacred, they were buried in the same grave all inside their wagon box with their belongings.

R.I.P

Outside of Soda Springs at the end of a long day.

This is Hooper Springs. It looks nasty but I guess it's safe to drink. Somehow under ground the water gets carbonated. We all drank some and it was pretty gross. Then we added kool-aide and drank our own strawberry pop! So cool!

Tagged

2008-10-07T16:40:00.000-07:00

Tagged
List 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, and 3 random surprises about yourself.

3 Joys...
1. Scott and my family
2. Summer nights
3. Holidays. I kinda get into them.

3 Fears...
1. Cancer
2. Getting a disease from a public bathroom
3. War

3 Goals...
1. Work out more, eat healthier,... just the usual
2. I really want to go to Disneyland before I have kids
3. Graduate with some sanity left

3 Current Obsessions...
1. School
2. Lost
3. Scotty

3 Random Surprises...(I'm not a very surprising person)
1. Mushy bananas make me gag, even though I like the taste
2. I only like to brush my teeth with warm or hot water
3. I'm sometimes very outgoing and sometimes very shy, depending on who I'm around (if you know me well this is probably not to surpising;)

I am now tagging...
1. Kiera
2. Sierra
3. Sissa
And anyone else who enjoys these kindof things

Mesa Falls

2008-09-28T20:09:00.000-07:00

I decided I was gettin a little jelous after Scott went Mtn. biking and then dirt biking this weekend and all he could talk about was how pretty things were. So today we went up to Mesa falls and it was gorgeous!!! I love fall colors! It was so nice to be up in the mountains after a hard week of school.
Just the two of us
Mike and Kelly, our awesome friends, and their little cutiepie Caiden.

Scott and Michel, they have been best buddies since the time they were just little, roomed together in college, and still talk just about everyday!

Wondering how many times Scott is going to try to take my picture.

Caiden was so excited to be outside and was very entertaining. I wonder what it would be like to be one again...

Quickwater Ranch

2008-09-24T20:36:00.000-07:00

Life is crazy and moving so fast! Thank goodness for weekends that give us a break from school for a little bit. Scott's job has it's perks, and this last weekend we were able to go to Quickwater ranch with Vocal Union for a retreat. It was beautiful, the leaves were changing colors and on the second day there was a huge thunderstorm. Being that we went with a music group, there was of course LOTS of singing, and if anyone knows my singing ability it's safe to say I got a LOT of homework done. Scott brought up a projector and we all wathced Mr. Beans holliday which I thougth was hilarious! It was fun getting to know the new group!

It was so beautiful! The camera doesn't do it justice.

We went on a hike and got all muddy.

We played some fun games, but this one was kind of corny. We had to go out blindfolded into the forest and be led to a "friend". Then we were supposed to be able to find it afterwards using our senses. My loving husband led me to a thistle and had me grab onto it.

So afterwards I made him poke his fingers.

This is some of VU discussing the game, it kinda felt like I was a beehive at girl's camp:), plus it was poring rain It was such a fun weekend and a great break!

A little about Kaylee

2008-09-21T12:02:00.000-07:00

Sorry for those who don't like surveys, but I think they're fun! My sis. got this in an email and decided to do it in a blog instead. I tag anyone who wants to do it.
Place an X by all the things you've done and remove the X from the ones you have not. Answer the 30 questions at the end and tag your friends!
(x) Gone on a blind date
(X) Skipped school (way too much)
() Watched someone die
( ) Been to Canada
() Been to Mexico
() Been to Florida
(X) Been on a plane
(X) Been lost
(X) Been on the opposite side of the country
() Gone to Washington , DC
(X) Swam in the ocean
(X) Cried yourself to sleep
(X) Played cops and robbers
(x) Recently colored with crayons (today actually)
(X) Sang Karaoke
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't
(X) Made prank phone calls
(X) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
(X) Danced in the rain
(X) Written a letter to Santa Claus (still do!)
(X) Been kissed under the mistletoe
(X) Watched the sunrise with someone you care about
(X) Blown bubbles
(X) Gone ice-skating
(X) Been skinny dipping outdoors
(X) Gone to the movies
1. Any nickname? - bubba toadies, Kayler, Kalub, Kaylee lingeraley,....and many more emabarresing ones
2. Mother's name? - Mindy
3. Favorite Drink? - The caramel,vanilla bean, irish mint, whitechocolate drink from the cocoa bean
4. Tattoo??? Sometimes, they're the cereal box kind
5. Body piercings?? just my ears
6. How much do you love your job? What job?! I am excited to be a teacher though.
7. Birthplace? AZ
8. Favorite vacation spot? Lake Powell for the first few days, and then the beach
9. Ever been to Africa ? No
10. Ever eaten cookies for dinner? yes, I actually had cookies yesterday for breakfast...whoops.
11. Ever been on TV? Yes
12. Ever stole a traffic sign? Yes..hehehe
13. Ever been in a car accident? Nothing major, and it was definately worth it when all is said and done and we made money
14. Drive a 2-door or 4-door vehicle? 4 day civic
15. Favorite salad dressing? Rasberry vinagerette
16. Favorite pie? Pumkin!
19. Favorite holiday? Christmas
17. Favorite number? 7
18. Favorite movie? probably Phantom of the Opera. I'm kinda a Lord of the Rings nerd.
20. Favorite dessert? anything chocolatly, gooey, and warm.
21. Favorite food? Depends on my mood...
22. Favorite day of the week? Saturday, no school!!!!!!
23. Favorite brand of body wash?? Just as long as it smells good I don't care
24. Favorite toothpaste ? Arm and Hammer baking soda whitening stuff
25. Favorite smell ? Fresh rain and warm and cozy smells
26. What do you do to relax? take a nap, read, or sew
27. How do you see yourself in 10 years? Hopefully a mommy with 4 or 5 kids, probably going crazy
28. What is your favorite kind of music? country
29. Furthest place you will send this message? Who knows
30. Who will respond to this the fastest? Anyone who wants to

Scott's BooBoo

2008-09-12T10:40:00.000-07:00

We are officially all moved in and have started school!! Scott had a little accident. The day before school we mounted the projecter above our new to us couches. During the movie it all the sudden went dark and we heard a loud crash. We flipped on the lights and Scott is holding his head with blood dripping out from under his hands. The projector and the board it was on landed from a high place right on Scott's poor head! We took him to the emergency room and were there for 3 hours, till 1oclock in the morning. They were going to staple his head but since his hair was short for scarring purposes they did 11 stitches. He's doing just fine. For those of you who know how much I hate blood, I did just fine too. I've even been scrubbing blood out of the couch and wherever the last couple days. (thanks Mike and kelly for helping me out!)
School for us is going good. Just the usual. I'm doing my sr. practicum in IF in a 4th grade classroom. We'll see how that goes. And two math classes in a row, yuck. Scott is taking required classes, plus an intro. into hospital administration to see how he likes it and a mountain biking class. Our apt. is great, a little farther from campus than we are used to but we love it. Maybe I'll take some pics. later.