Our Crazy Life

So I am finally updating my blog page. Its been forever I know. Well I quit my job and I am just a stay at home mommy! I love it. Its such a handful and harder than I thought it would be but I wouldn't have it any other way. We moved into our house at the end of Jan. and we really really love it. We are working on our yard and holy crap it takes a lot of work and a lot of time and money. But it will be worth it in the end.
Our kids are getting so big now. Rimez will turn 8 months this month and Italia is 3 and getting super big. She is probably a little more than half of me and has the attitude of a 16 year old. The other day she went into her room mad and at me and told me to just leave her alone. Oh how I am not looking forward to that but I had to laugh a little. She is a great big sister though and loves her little brother, and I have to say he loves her too. Rimez is rolling around everywhere sitting up and he got his first tooth! Yay!!!
Josh is still working at Nielsons Construction but is exploring his options to start some schooling. Student Loans I believe you are definately in our future and for a long time : ) I am excited for him though and proud of him for wanting to go to school. We had our one year anniversary and its been a full year of trials but its been full of learning and adventures and lots and lots of blessings, laughs, and great times!
But I better go because my son is awake and chewing on my sleeve : ) my little chunk is a hungry I think

Our Little Boy

Our Handfuls!



Daddy as his boy, yes he might have woken up while I getting ready to take the picture but its still precious




Our New Addition Rimez Joshua Dunn (Rimez like Leann Rimes or Busta Rymes haha)



Mini Josh 7 pounds 15 ounces 20 inches long



Proud Big Sister



Italia with her sparkling personality : )


Well we had Rimez on Sept 8th 2010. He was healthy and Josh was totally excited! I had to fight him to be able to spend time with him. We then packed up our stuff and moved to an apartment in Price so that we could all be together as a family. I took 6 weeks off of work and now we are split up during the week again. Its super hard on us but it will hopefully be over soon. We are building a house out in Westwood that should be done in Febuary. We are both SUPER excited!!!! Italia turned 3 and Rimez is two months now. They are both healthy according to the doctor. Funny story, so we went to the doctors knowing that Rimez is getting shots but we had no clue Italia was. So we were teasing her and just playing about her getting shots. Well Josh went to talk to the receptionist and told Italia that he was going to tell the doctor to give her shots. Later we found out she was actually getting shots, we felt awful. She cried for a little while and we felt so bad. She walked out to the receptionist saying, "Dad why did you tell the doctor to give me shots!" then the receptionist said she is not happy, Italia turned around with tears in her eyes and said "IM NOT HAPPY AT ALL!" We couldn't help but laugh and feel bad for her! I love that personality she has : )

30 weeks

Here Cassee : ) this isn't a close up pic of my belly but you can definately see me poking out! I think I am about 30 weeks in this and the little boy is definately running out of room.

Summer!

Pictures, lots sorry

Updates

Sorry I haven't wrote for some time now. I have been going through a lot lately and haven't really had the chance to sit down and write updates on everything. As most of you know Tracy passed away about 3 months ago. His funeral was very nice and I think everything went well. Even though we had our issues and we were going through all the battles and the seperation and everything it has been very hard at times to realize he is gone. I think that is one of the reasons its taken me so long to write. I finally got some closure with some past letters he had written me about 4 years ago. Amazing what you find when you look back and things.
Italia is doing really well though. She is getting so big and just talking and giving me attitude. She has started this whole I want this I want that and we are working more on please and can I have and things like that. Lol. Gotta love her still though. Sometimes she just says I want um... I want I want and she doesn't know she just wants : ) The potty training well... no comment. hehe She told me her full out ABC'S the other day and counted to ten all by herself. I couldn't believe it. She still counts to ten but the ABCs are harder to come by now : )
I have taken a few trips and done some fun stuff though. I went to Vegas to see one of my best friends for a few days and just have a vacation! I went and we dyed hair and talked and had breakfast, gambled a little it was a blast. I got to see her baby bump which is adorable. I also went to Joes Valley for a family reunion. It was really fun and I got to see a lot of family I haven't seen in years. Most of us had kids so there were little ones running around everywhere!
This is a lot to take in, but I also started dating Josh Dunn after Tracy and I seperated. He has been great and we have tons of fun together. Italia seems to really like him and get a long with him really well which totally helps.

Easter Weekend

Here are some pics from the weekend before Easter. We had a great time and the kids loved getting stained from head to toe. So we decided to go swimming afterwards and rinse all the die off. We were all worn out by the end of the weekend.

Wonderful Weekend!

This weekend was so much fun. The sun is finally out and shining bright! On friday I went to Logan to see my sister and also pick up my NEW CAR! Well new to me, used to everyone else. LOL! But we had a blast. Italia and my nephew Tyler get along really well, and Kelsi loves Grandma. So we had a really good time. When I got home my other car was gone and the guy had come and picked up it and so I had a nice chunk of change waiting for me. Hehe. Which is only going to stay there for about a week when I right my check for the loan for my new car. Oh well what ya gonna do. Then on saturday my mom & I took Italia to the park and met my sister in law Laura and Trey there. It was a little breezy but it was really fun. Italia loves to swing so whenever we say park she is always like swing, swing. So we had to swing first, and then she got attached to the slides. She was loving it, she would get down on her hands and knees and crawl backwards and tell me buh bye and then away she would go. Then wonderful grandma was always waiting at the bottom to catch her. We had a good system going on. Then we had to make sure and go and swing one more time before we left. Then we came home and ate lunch, then Italia took a nap. Afterwards we went on a mommy daughter date to the aquarium. It was packed, there were so many people there. I though holy cow she is going to get restless and upset, but she did so good. All she wanted to do was look at the tanks for the like 5 seconds then she said, done. So we would move on to the next one, I think that she enjoyed walking on the little rock steps stones more than the actual fish lol. It was so funny because there was a plastic crab that was sitting there where the little kids can go through the coral, and she touched it and was so scared after that of it. I probably didn't help at all because I gave out a shocking "Oh" right after she touched it. Then on sunday she woke up a little early and we got ready, thanks to grandma for helping Italia get dressed, and we went on our way to church. LOL, well yeah today was not a day for italia to go to church. She was not having it at all. I think me and grandma and grandpa all took our time out in the hall with her. Gotta love church, I can't wait for nursery hehe. But then we got home and it was beautiful outside so we all went for a long walk. Italia loves to ride in the wagons no matter the size. Also she has had this thing about footballs and basketballs lately. We have had to have them on the tray with her while she is eating, one almost had to go in the bathtub with her, lol. I am just waiting for the day that I have to put one in the crib with her. She is hilarious. The football isn't small either, she has to have the full size one, but the basketballs are just her size. She is the best! Love you all hope you have a good week!

The Update

Hi everyone, Sorry I have not posted for a while. I am been a little stressed. Tracy and I are getting a divorce, but honestly its for the better. The only depressing thing is that we can't agree on the custody of Italia. So for the past 3 weeks and for the next 6-8 months possibly, we will be going through a custody battle. I just want to thank everyone for their support and love this far. Thank you all! Love you!

December

The Holidays

Hey! Sorry I haven't posted for a while. December was definately a crazy month. First Tracy's birthday, then Christmas with the watsons, then Christmas with the Jones family, and then New Years in Jan. It was a really good holiday. Michelle and TJ were able to come out for a whole 2 weeks and Carol was about to come out for 3 days. Jenn was able to come down and then Eric and I live close enough that well we practially lived at my moms for a week. Went home to sleep and sometimes shower, and then back again for breakfast the next day. It was a blast. I really wish that we all lived close to each other so we could have times like that all the time. But I guess it just makes you treasure them more when they can't happen as often. My mom borrowed the WII from my grandparents, I didn't get a chance to try it, but everyone else seemed to have a really good time with it. Mom told me that is what they actually did on Christmas day lol. Italia was old enough and she was loving unwrapping everything. She even kindof acted like she was excited for what was inside. It was way fun. We also had a fuseball tournament. I can't remember who won but I think either Torrey and I won or we came in second. The little kids all played together really well too. I think that Italia and Tyler have a love hate relationship. They have a lot of the same personality, its funny to watch them play together. Trey even started walking so that was really cool too! Then it was time to say goodbye and celebrate the second half of our holiday. We went down to Tracy's moms house for Christmas. It was a blast too. We got tons and tons of snow and we decided to take Italia out in it and see how she would do. Well she loved in. Then she face planted it and it was time to go back in and get warmed up. While Nanna warmed her up Courtney and I went and had a great time of the fourwheelers. Big Tracy had to work the whole time we were there which was kindof a bummer, but that little girl sure loves her Poppa! New years was good we just went to dinner and watched a movie. Well I watched a movie, Tracy fell asleep. Then you could look out our windows and at 12 there was about 5 sets of fireworks going off, so that was cool to see! I hope all your holidays went well. Oh I forgot Italia can say the sounds of 90% of the farm animals. She amazes me every day! Luv you all!

Finally, The Birthday Pics

Scariest Mother moment!

Hey! Sorry I haven't posted in a while I've just been busy busy. Well things are going good. We had a good Thanksgiving at the Jones' house and we had spaghetti along with turkey and I made a pecan pie! YUMMY!!! Tracy's family is a big pumpkin pie family and since I am not to big on that I was glad I made the pecan and yeah I ate probably half hehe! Then they always do the Christmas party the weekend after so we were able to make it for that too, so that was good. The family was kindof having a hard time since this was the first holiday without "Poppy" but I think it was good that all the family could be there together. Italia is a little stinker as mom told me that she got 3 molars over that weekend. Silly girl! She is getting so big and just growing growing. I went and say Rachelle last week and Trisha was there with her little girl and they played so cute togeher. Her daughter is 19 months and is shorter and light than Italia. Where and who did Italia come from, WHO KNOWS? hehe She has been talking so much lately. Its the cutest thing ever. She even sometimes talkes in her sleep. The other night she stood on her head and said hey! lol. Then the last couple nights she has been just gibber gabbering but who knows what she is actually saying. She had a ruff night last night and gave me quite a scare. She was just really whinny for about 3 hours after putting her to sleep. So I brought her in with me and that didn't seem to help much at all, come to find out her little tummy did not agree with her and she just starting pucking. It was really scary for me because I had to keep holding her on her side to get it out because all she wanted to do was lay down. She got it everywhere I felt so bad. She would just shake and she was scared, so I put her in the tub and she didn't stop until about 4 this morning. I felt horrible because she didn't know what was going on and everytime she would finally relax it would hit her again. The last couple times was a dry heave and that was even worse. Sorry for the graphic but that was my scary mom moment and I just wanted to let all the knew moms know that it is scary when they get rid of actual food. SAD! Sorry on a lighter note, everything else seems to be going good. Just getting ready for Christmas! Love you all!

Italia cleaning out her Pumpkin

Italia's early steps at 10 months

ONE YEAR ALREADY

Hey All! Well its already been 1 year. Italia turned one yesterday. I can't believe it! She is getting so big. We had a really good birthday party and all of our family members that could make it were there so it was really nice. (We did miss all of the family that was not able to make it, so there are pics coming) She got a ton of stuff, I could not believe it. She also loved opening the gifts just ripping and ripping sometimes little by little lol. She had a good time! So I just wanted to give a little recap of her first year because of all the milestones and everything else that has happened.

This is the best time of the year. Italia was born on 11/09/07 8 pounds 6 ounces. Bright eyed happy little girl.

I can't remember how old she was, but this is when she was really starting to smile and have some personality. She loved and still loves being naked!

This is when it all the trouble started, she was rolling over, sitting up and working on her crawling.

This was the hardest day of my life. Italia went into surgery and was in for a few hrs. She had to get slits into her skull so that her brain could grow and reform her skull.

This is how she is now. I know there aren't a lot of pictures of her starting to sit up and feeding herself and starting to crawl, and talking but one day I will learn how to put videos up. This has been the best, hardest, fulfilling, life-learning, patient, joyful, trial & error, year of my life. And there are only more to come. Being a mom is amazing and I hope that all of you are able to experience it. I luv you all! Have a good week!

Italia's first Halloween

Halloween Fun

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a great halloween! We had a really good time. First we had a really good party at my work. We definately know how to Party! Me and 3 other girls at work decided to dress up as Jem and the Holigrams. We did our best to match their costumes, but lets face it, DI only has so much. We had a good time. Our whole office dressed up which was really fun. We go all out for sure. We had to make up our own skits and go through a little obstacle course. It was great. Thursday night we carved our pumpkins and that was fun. Italia had a good time cleaning out all the gook. She did a good job too. She hit all the piles on the floor and all over the table. She only tried to eat it once, so that was a record. I was having a hard time putting the faces on them because Walmart was all out of their carving knives so I had to use our kitchen knives, yeah not easy at all. Lets just say I forgot to take a picture of the finished product lol. Friday was a blast. We went to Logan and went trick or treating with my sister and her husband and their family. It was a little chilly but not to bad, and the kids didn't mind the weather at all. They had a great time. Italia was funny because she always had to have one peice of candy in her hand at all times. So we took it from her right before she got another one. It worked out pretty good. We went trick or treating through her nap time so she was exhausted but she was definately a trooper. So that night we dressed her up in her Lion costume and went on our way trick or treating house to house. She hated her hat on at first so I was really worried but then I took her and let her see herself in the mirror and told her how cute she was, and well it was all smiles from then on. We went to grandmas and took pictures and grabbed the wagon to pull her around in. It was a little rainy by this time but she didn't seem to mind. I think she had a good time. When we got back Laura's family was all there and so we got to see all their cool costumes too! It was a good Halloween. The rest of the weekend was cleaning and resting. Well we watched some sad excuse for football watching the Broncos loose. What the heck? Well I hope you all had a good holiday and enjoy the week!