Poor Grasshopper!

So the night before we moved, we were sitting on the chairs in our house just chatting, and Brian and his friend had just cleared out all of the furniture of the house to load it up. So the door had been open and shut for about 2 hours. So we're sitting, and Brian does this little jump thing in his chair and swats at his back and then just sits back again. Then like 45 seconds later he jumps up and starts doing the funniest dance I have ever seen! Then he rips his shorts and undies off, and a full size grasshopper jumps out of his underwear!!!! I was seriously cracking up harder than I have in a long time. It was soooooooo funny. I have never seen Brian move so fast! Of course now that the grasshopper was out on the floor, I was freaking out and immediately told Brian to kill it. He said, "I don't know, I kinda feel like I should take it out for lunch, I mean after being in my butt crack and all!! I kinda feel bad for the guy!" It was so funny I just wanted to share it with all of you!

Brian's Birthday

I haven't blogged in FOREVER so I have to catch up on all the major events I missed! So on July 19th, Brian turned 26 years old!!! He's getting up there! It seriously was probably such a crappy birthday for him, but he's such a trooper. He spent the entire day painting my parent's house....for free! What a sweetheart huh! My dad came home late that afternoon with a cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory and a pizza and said happy birthday....which coming from my dad, is HUGE! I can't remember the last time my dad even called me on my birthday, or got me a gift! (Not that I'm complaining, because I love my dad to pieces, and he's awesome, but that's just how we work in our family!) All I did for Brian was get him this cream cheese brownie from the deli at Fry's that he had to share with me, and then my little sister Trina...AKA "Klepto" came down and stole it when we weren't looking! I feel so bad but I really didn't do anything for him. But his parents totally scored and got us a hotel room for 2 nights at the New York New York in Las Vegas for the end of August for his B-day, and he's super excited for that. But anyway, I just have to say how much I love Brian. He's such an amazing father, husband, friend, and LOVER!!! :) I just can't get enough of him. I wouldn't trade him for anything or anyone and I'm so lucky to have him as my husband!

Psycho Crickets

Okay, so we've been in our apartment for about 2 weeks now, and seriously, it is infested with crickets. And these crickets are not just any crickets, they are psychotic crickets!!!!! I'm not even kidding. I've lived in AZ pretty much my whole life, so I'm pretty used to crickets chirping in the night, but these are the most ferocious, psycho crickets I have ever dealt with! In fact right now, I'm sitting on my bed and I have seen 2 crickets hop by on the floor, in the past 2 minutes. We went shopping tonight and when we came in, there were 8 crickets in our kitchen, and it's a tiny kitchen. I have been cleaning like crazy and being super obsessed with keeping everything off of the floor, in hopes that they will go away, but they're STILL HERE!!!!! Okay, and a few nights ago, there was an extremely psycho cricket in our bathroom. It had the loudest freaking chirp I have ever heard!!!!! NO JOKE! It was so loud it kept waking me up, so I would go in the bathroom and look for it only to find nothing. Then that morning Brian even got up and searched for it. He kissed me goodbye in the morning and said he tried to find the cricket but had no luck. So that stupid cricket on crack chirped the loudest chirp of my life until almost 11:00am! I sprayed stuff all around the bathroom but still couldn't find it. Then we went to bed the second time, trying to sleep over the chirping. At about 3:00am Brian got up on a mission to kill the DANG cricket! He searched and finally gave a big whack with a shoe to it and killed it!!!! We both got much better sleep, the rest of the 2 hours until we had to get up! Yeah, so that's been a huge complaint of mine in the new place. Oh did I also mention that Brian caught an enormous spider probably the size of an egg. He catches some of the crickets and feeds them to the new pet. Ya, I don't know what I'm going to do with him! So anyway, I just wanted to share with all of you my psycho cricket story, because I'm going crazy over them!!! At least that one is dead!!!

So Long Farewell...

This where we live now!

Well we flitted and we flutted and we flee flee flee flee flied, and we're finally somewhat settled into our new place (Anyone ever seen the Sound of Music???). We said goodbye to good old Queen Creek, and our beautiful house that dropped more that 50% in value in 2 1/2 years, and moved into an apartment in Mesa off of Power and Baseline. It wasn't an easy decision but we really felt like this is what we were supposed to do. With Brian's commute and even mine from QC, it just made more sense to move closer to everything, and lower our gas bill....drastically. It's definitely a bittersweet feeling though, I'm not going to lie! We had a lot of good friends in our Queen Creek ward, and I'm already missing them a TON!!! And it's also hard to get used to living in an apartment again, after being in a house. But I LOVE being close to all of the shopping and my family, and work. I'm sure in a few weeks we'll totally feel at home. So anyway, for all those who want to know, here's our new address:
7205 E Superstition Springs Blvd #1174
Mesa, AZ 85209

Look how the belly has grown...

Here's my belly at 28 weeks

Okay, so this is for Niki, Chira, and of course my sisters, and all of my other friends who I haven't seen in a while!!! Look at how my belly has grown!!! Okay, here we go! This is from the last 8 weeks, and next week, I'll be 32 weeks, so you'll get to see how enormous I am now!!!!! Yes, people are already asking me, "any day now huh!" And I say uh no, any day in about 2 months!!! Ya, first day at our new ward the Bishop's wife thought I was joking when I told her I was only 7 months, and she kept saying "No really, you look like you're going to pop any day now!"..... So anyway, here's the belly a few months ago, and the next picture won't be as cute as these!! :) I love you guys, so PLEASE be nice with the comments!
Here's my belly at 24 Weeks

Here's my belly at 28 weeks

Pictures from 4th of July Vacation!!!

Okay, here are some pics from the vacation.....finally!!!
We had so much fun in San Diego! We went to the beach on the 4th, and Logan just LOVED the ocean!!! He had so much fun in the sand and the water, and with Daddy, Meaghen, and Grandpa Davis! (Notice, I didn't say Mommy,or Grandpa Davis....we were relaxing and enjoying watching everyone else play with Logan!!) We cooked dinner that night and were all too tired to go watch fireworks, so we just stayed in and made bazookies and watched TV. Oh yeah, me and Brian went kayaking at the beach and saw a TON of sharks, leaopard sharks and guitar nose! It was really cool, but I was a little freaked out about tipping over in the middle of the ocean and not being able to get back up on the kayak, so we went back after a little while! We played in the waves, and just had such a good time, and none of us got bad sunburns....for the first time!!!!!
So here's the pics from the beach!!

Meaghen and Logan at the beach

On Saturday we went to the Del Mar fair and had a blast there! We got super lucky and some lady gave us two free tickets to get in, and we just had such a good time. Logan got to ride a real pony all by himself, and he loved it! Then he went to the petting zoo and had a blast feeding the animals and petting them all! Grandpa Davis even had a good time feeding the animals.....how cute huh! :)Brian and Logan shared a giant barbeque turkey leg...and it was seriously disgusting to watch them eat it. Mostly Brian, because he refused to wipe his face until he was done eating. We all had such a good time there too! And here's the pics!!
Logan and Grandpa Davis:

Grandpa so sweetly feeding the animals! :) (He even had to pay for the food!!!:))

Logan on the horse

Logan on the horse again

Brian with the nasty Turkey leg


That's pretty much it! We had such a good time in San Diego, and are sooo thankful for the time that we had as a family. We had a BLAST!!!!

Independence Day Vacation!!!

Okay, so I have been horrible about blogging lately! It seems like this summer has been so busy, and going by so fast! A few weeks ago Grandma and Grandpa Davis got swim lessons for Logan! He started of a little weary in the water....okay, he full on screamed the first 3 days and was mad at me the whole time. I would tell him we were going swimming that day and he started crying and flopping on the floor because he didn't want to go! But then on the 3 day I switched with another mom (she took Logan and I took her kid) and he did a lot better with her. We switched again the next day too, and since then, Logan just started improving drastically every day! It was awesome! Now he can almost find his way to the wall of the pool and pull himself out! And now he LOVES to go swimming! He also mastered his backfloat all by himself! I am so glad that we did the swim lessons! Thanks so much Grandma and Grandpa Davis!!!!
Okay, so on thursday we went to San Diego for the weekend! We left early in the morning, only to take about 8 long hours to get there!!!! We had a few bumps on the way.....the first one: we got to Gila Bend and the car starts making this horrible flapping/clicking noise. So we stop and look at what's going on. We don't find anything and get back on the road. Then the sound gets worse! We stop again and Brian pulls out this giant rubber thing that's supposed to be there, and thinks that should solve the problem. We get back on the road again, and the sound yet again, gets worse! Then we stop again, but this time as Brian steps out of the car to see what's going on, his foot sinks in the dirt and he sees that his tires are completely burried in the dirt up to the rims! Oh yes, and did I mention that it's about 110 degrees outside??? And we're in the middle of no where!!! Needless to say, I'm getting a little nervous and even more nervous when Brian gets back in the car, and tries to drive out and we get even more stuck! Then Brian tells me to get in the car and steer while he pushes! Okay, I was pretty much silently freaking out at this point! Worst case scenario is going through my head, and I'm thinking we're all going to die from heat exhaustion by the time we get rescued! So Brian starts to push, and nothing happens. Then he has this brilliant idea to put some towels under the front tires. Then he pushed again, I floored it, and we thankfully got unstuck... in a matter of only maybe 15 or 20 minutes. Oh and in the meantime of being stuck in the dirt, Brian figured out what was making the noise on the car! It was the flap under the front tire. It was ripped a little bit and so it was flapping against the tire. Luckily, nothing that can't be fixed with duct tape! So we got back on the road, and I'm telling Brian how smart he is for thinking to use the towels and how impressed I was that he got us out! Then he tells me he's been stuck a few times...... of course!!! :) Anyway, with another stop at Walmart for Duct tape, a stop for lunch and 3 border partol checkpoint stops, we finally arrived in San Diego at 3 in the afternoon!
(I wrote this post a week ago and my computer froze in the middle of it, so I'm just posting this like it is, the draft that was automatically saved, and I'll pick up where it left off another day...but in the meantime,here you go!)