as of late...

we have been busy getting settled in around her- it is unbelievable how hard it is to go from a BIG house to a little apartment. We LOVE our new place.. I have been sewing curtains, collecting rugs, and hanging artwork like a mad woman. Hopefully we will be able to take pictures soon- it is just not quite there yet. Trevor spent last week in New York?! it was a surprise last minute trip he was invited to go on with his school, Alianza Academy. They went to NY to visit a bunch of other schools that have a similar curriculum to them. They didn't get much free time, but they did get to meet

ELMO!! hazel was totally jealous when she heard over the phone who papa got to see! She has this picture framed in her room now. :)
Other than trying to make the house feel like home we have been busy visiting lots of friends and family. We have also been baking up a storm. We made the most DELICIOUS banana bread with chocolate and candied ginger (Trevor LOVES ginger) the Recipe is HERE.
Hazel has been talking SO much more than ever, she copies me all day long whatever I say. She kept saying "habbie ballimtyindaaaaai" on valentines day. It was so cute. The other day I wrote down a few of her most used phrases (phonetically)

Dada juice (Dada is her word for bottle)
Mimi (passifier)
Papa and mama
No no hazey shuuss offf (her way of telling herself that we don't want her to take her shoes off)
Pleeeese hazey upp mama pleeese?
Yeuuuuh
Tintu (thank you)
Iluluou (i love you)
Mama wachh hazey
See (when she shows you something)
Beep beep (when she wants you to move over)
Please elmo ninny? (asking if she can watch her favorite elmo movie)
Ninny (nap)
Papa ninny? (Asking to sleep with papa at night)
No no ninny
Nack nacks peeease (fruitsnacks)
Hayzel pwotty (telling us when she has to go potty)
Nono pwotty,
Duyyyy (guy)
Eeassee (swing and slide and park)
Boys (what she calles her twin boyfriends)
Anitss (Anders her friend)
Ohhtayyy!
Oh mama juice (diet coke)
Nore peease (more please)
Nore please mama juice
Nana
Adda (abby)
Jillo (jillian)
Delli (kelli)
Deniccce! (Be nice)
WhEhhhaahhouu? (Where are you)
HAZEY DO!!!
Boots
Books
dets on (dress on)
tooday (today)
buhhh (burr, as in its cold)
owiiess (when she gets hurt)
NO no what waaa (go away doggie)

{this moment}

Our Friday ritual. one photo without words - that captures our week. "A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember." inspired by soulemama

{this moment} is from Trevor's new school - he led a schoolwide project that commemorated the 10th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Each child wrote out a message about what they love and respect about other cultures. they all took turns reading the messages out loud, then they 're-built' the towers.

missed out on fathers day. and our 5 year anniversary.

missed out on fathers day.... in fact i forgot that it was fathers day all together. Well i did have presents, I knew it was on the way - i just had forgotten that it was last Sunday. I woke up at 6 in the morning with hazel and deliriously made us cereal and oatmeal - needless to say i did not make trevor anything special. when he woke up around 8:30 he was all confused and said 'you didn't make breakfast?' I was so mad - i had been up all that time wrestling with hazel.. I told him to make himself cereal if he wanted to eat. then he said something like 'on all other days you make breakfast and today of all days you don't' ha ha dummie me. I didn't ever clue in until we got to church. sheesh. well to make up for that- and also for forgetting to mention our 5 year anniversary i wanted to write out a little something in honor of my man.

trevor is the greatest man in the world. he never complains, he is always willing to help me in any way that i need him. he has never missed anything important in my life, even embarrassing softball games. he always remembers any birthdays or anniversary's - and he will subtly remind me when he realizes that i forget. (it happens all the time) trevor is the perfect match to me. he fills in all my weaknesses and faults with different weaknesses and faults, and i love him for that. we are not perfect, we never have been - and probably never will be, but I feel complete and whole only when I have him around. he is the greatest father to hazel. he loves and adores her with a gentle kindness that i can not believe. he has come into it with not much experience at all, and has become the most wonderful man that i could have ever dreamed to imagine. he is the best. he makes me happier than i have ever been in my life. I know he loves me and hazel and would do anything to protect us. we are safe with him around. I am so lucky to have him. i love him more and more as time passes on. it does not feel like 5 years has past. but it also feels like we have already lived a lifetime together. i know that i can get through anything with him by my side, and i am so grateful for the comfort that gives me. i love trevor and i can not wait to live the rest of my life with him.

the big apple..

last week was a long one, Trevor was in NEW YORK! He went with his art program at BYU. Here are some photo's of his adventure.

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we took hazel on another campout, and this time she did SO well, she slept perfectly and we were very cozy despite the freezing weather.


the other day I went to check on hazel, she had been playing in her crib and this is what I found, a sleeping babe.




Hazels hair is growing SO much every day, this photo was from a few weeks ago, you can get the idea of what it is like up close..

Here is the proof:: hazel has two new teeth!!

We have been making lots of things, here is some of what we have been working on (hazel was kind enough to model):

september

hazel is growing like crazy, she is on the verge of sitting up by herself. She LOVES food and she is always trying to eat whatever it is that we are eating. So far she eats rice cerial, squash, fruit and juice. Her hair is growing so fast. It is perfectly even all over her head. She grabs at anything and everything that comes her way. On her 5 month birthday she made sleeping all the way through the night! YES!! she had been keeping it up for the past few days... we are trying not to get our hopes too high as I am sure it is just a stage she will grow out of.
We went to a harry potter party and dressed hazel up as baby harry potter. I made a death eater cake.. it was most likely poisonous as we all felt sick after eating it.. except malfoy. From L-R Jillian was Trelawney, Kya was Kreacher, Tosh was Neville, Edan was Malfoy, Trevor was Lupin, and Hazel was baby Harry Potter, I was Tonks..

Trevor started school last week and he made it home past 6 almost every single night. It is hard to get adjusted to such an long schedule but he is excited to be back into the art world. He is taking tons of very intense BFA art classes. He is also a TA for one of his favorite professors Peter Everett, Here is some of Peter's work you can see why trevor likes him. Trevor it also working full time. He is such an amazing man I am so helplessly in love with him. He is the best father and greatest man and I love him more and more every day. Hazel is crazy for trevor, she lights up every time he comes home.

I got a job a few weeks back, and have been tortured leaving hazel. I do not see the point in leaving her, I know that I need to make money but leaving her is not working out. So I am leaving my job behind and going full force into freelance photography work. I am really excited and nervous, but it is the right thing to do. I am also working on selling more and more books I have my etsy website going, but I am going to try and sell more to stores and that sort of thing.

We are off camping tonight to timpanookie (i think).. I can't wait. I will post photos of that later!

fathers day

Trev's first father's day. He got new converse high tops. Then we went to visit his Dad. It was a good day. We missed our other fathers, who were too far away to visit!

trevor huish

I am SO lucky to be married to the greatest man in the entire world. I love Trevor so much that it scares me sometimes. He just recently won the Mayhew art show at byu! He is so incredibly talented... I hope so much that our children will get his artistic genes. I'm so proud of you Trev and I love you to the moon!! (here are some photo's from the piece that took juror's first choice!! read more here)

the last vacation