::My new nephew::

My sister n law Grace had a new baby boy. I had the privilege of being in the room when she delivered him, it's always such a spiritual, amazing experience! She did AWESOME, only pushed like 2 times. She was a CHAMP & HE IS PERFECT.

Tyson James Manokisi Hughes
Born April 16th, 2011
7lbs 8oz & 21 inches

How stinkin cute is he in his car seat?

I'm pretty much obsessed with him.

We went to Arizona and spent almost a week there. We had a BLAST! Between my sister n law Grace & my Aunt Jillinda, they spoiled us. I'll do another post later about our Arizona trip, when I have more time.

::Advice please::

For all of you nursing mother's out there, I need some advice! I only nursed Jett for 6 weeks, I nursed Bryton for 4 months and he would take a bottle as well, so eventually I just stopped nursing and gave him a bottle. Well, with Oakley, she's NEVER taken a bottle, or even been a slight bit interested in one. That or a binky. I've only nursed her.

She just turned one and I want to stop nursing. I'm gonna start getting some weird looks considering how tall she is. My 18 year old sister "gags" when I feed her. haha. HOW DO YOU WEAN A BABY FROM NURSING?? Any tips? What worked for you? When did you quit?

I've tried sippy cups (3 different kinds to be exact) sure she'll drink out of it, but NO WAY to go to sleep for a nap or at night? I HATE living in an apartment, because people surround us and I HATE letting her just cry and annoy everyone. I swear there is ZERO kids that live near us. I give in and just nurse her. I heard that if you wait till they're like 14 months, they communicate better with you and it's easier?? HELP ME.

::withdrawls::

I love Facebook. I love keeping in touch with everyone, looking at pictures, being nosy, reading statuses, etc. However, I spend WAYYYYY TOO MUCH time on it. I've had the "promptings" to get off of it for awhile now, after General Conference I finally did! I need to spend my time more wisely on being a better parent, wife, cook, cleaner, etc. heck, maybe I can actually get a workout or two in! If I spend as much time as I did reading the scriptures or Conference talks as I did on FB..... I'd be doing REALLL good! Anyone that knows me knows this is REEEEEEALLY hard for me. I'm a "FB addict" haha. Some people are giving me crap for it, I tell em, "Sheesh, have a lil faith in me!" haha ;)

I'm jealous of those of you who can limit your time on it, who actually have a life. haha. I can't. If I'm given an inch...I take a mile!
(No wonder I've been updating my blog so much recently)

:: Yum Yum!!"::

Have you ever tried frozen grapes?? If not... GO BUY SOME RIGHT NOW!

Take them off the "thing" (what's it called? the plant?) haha so the stems aren't in them, put them in a zip-loc bag and freeze them! Then... eat them...seriously... CANDY! So healthy too. You'll be addicted.

::ONE & twenty seven::

Happy 1st Birthday to our "Pwetty Pwincess" "Oaker Doker" "Ooooakwee Juwee Niu" "Oaks"!! (she turned 1 on the 30th of March, I've just been a huge blog slacker) Crazy how time flies. I remember her being born just like it was yesterday.



She brings our little family so much joy. She is a little DIVA already. She walks around already being bossy to her brothers..and Dad ;) It's kind of embarrassing when she is being a stinker to other kids/babies, because she's used to protecting herself from her 2 older brothers. She thinks anything & everything is a cell phone. I'm having a blast with my baby girl. We love her so much!






& guess who turned twenty frickin seven on the 31st? ME. Yup, I'm a grandma pretty much. Ahhhh!! I hate my birthday. I always hype it up to be such a fun, exciting, all the attention on me type of a day...and it never is. :( Yup, I'm a baby. "It's my party and I'll cry if I want to!" My husband is of course always good to me, maybe I just have a bad attitude? I don't love surprises, maybe that's why? anyways.. I'm OLD. Sheesh.

PS-My cousin's wife, Andrea, took the "1 year" pictures of Oakley, she did such a good job!
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