Two new milestones...

Today was Kaitlyn's first day of preschool and she loved it. When I dropped her off she barely looked up to give me a hug and a kiss. It was great that she did so well, but on the way home I have to admit that I got a little teary eyed. I went home and snuggled with Lexie the rest of the day and told her not to grow up...yet.

That brings me to the second milestone. Today Lexie turned 9 months old. She is so different than Katy in so many ways. One of the biggest differences is that she is a little daredevil. We were playing at the playground at chick-fil-A (my fav fast food restaurant) and while I was talking to my friend, Lexie climbed half way up the slide! I wanted to see if she could make it the rest of the way so I continued to follow her and she made it without my help! Katy can barely do that! Anyway, she finally has 3 teeth and is working on a fourth. She is such a doll and really brightens our lives.I realize this isn't the best picture, but she wouldn't stay still for 2 seconds!

One of Lexie's favorite things to do is crawl around the house and lick the knobs on our cabinets

She loves the bath!Jared built them a fort with the couch pillows - so much fun!

Happy 5th Anniversary babe!

I can't believe that Jared and I have been married for 5 years! I feel so lucky to have such a great husband who supports me in everything I do. He works so hard to provide for his girls and is such a good papa. I still get butterflies in my tummy when he walks out wearing a cute outfit or when I smell his cologne. I thought it would be fun to tell how we met. We were both in college at BYU and I was hanging out at my apartment with my roommate Natalie when our other roommate Erica came over with her boyfriend Dan. This night Dan happened to bring over his roommate Jared. Erica was on the women's BYU rugby team and Dan and Jared played together on the men's team. It was 9:00 on a Friday night and I was totally already dressed for bed. I was wearing basketball shorts and a white T-shirt (how attractive). Anyway, I thought Jared was good looking, but I totally was not interested in boys or dating because I had just gotten out of a serious relationship. Jared sat next to Natalie on the couch and we were watching t.v. Dan and Erica decided to leave and Jared was like "I'll stay here". Natalie and I kind of looked at each other like "why is he staying if they are leaving", but we were fine because we were having fun. Anyway, I laid down on the couch while we were watching tv and put my legs up on Natalie. Apparently, I put my legs all the way across Jared's lap and he totally thought I was flirting with him. I still hold to this day that I was not intentionally flirting, however, since he ended up asking me out and I eventually got a husband out of it then I guess I'm okay with that. Here are some wedding pics of me and my hunky hubby. Happy Anniversary honey, I love you!

Lexie's photo shoot...

I followed Lexie around with the camera. She loved it.

Hit and Run part II...

I brought the girls to the doctor to get them checked out this week to make sure they weren't injured in the accident. The doctor was talking to Katy while she was checking her out and this was part of their conversation:

Doctor: Your mommy will always keep you safe.

Katy: (With a determined look in her eye) No, Heavenly Father keeps me safe.

The doctor thought that was sooo adorable! The girls are injury free, but just as an update the Sheriff found the guy the car was registered to and it turns out that his brother was driving. Apparently the brother told the sheriff that I took off so that's why he didn't stop. Good thing I have two witnesses. He did more than not stop, he sped off! The bad news is that after googling the names of the guy who hit me and the name of the owner of the car I found out that the owner of the car is a sheriff in the same office that is investigating my accident! If you ask me the whole thing is very sketchy. I'm a little concerned about this guy getting off. First of all the sheriff took over a half an hour to get to the scene of the accident. Secondly, he only took the statement of one of the witnesses after I repeatedly told him that the lady in the post office saw the whole thing too. Third, the sheriff investigating the case gave me the name of the owner of the vehicle, but never told me that he worked in his office - I found that out on my own. Actually, it took several days before anybody at the sheriff's office would confirm that. Anyway, I hope I'm not venting too much. I really feel blessed that we're all okay and that there were witnesses that actually stopped.

Hit and Run...

Today I was involved in a hit and run. Besides some back and neck pain we're all okay - thank goodness. Here's what happened. I was driving Katy to her Gymboree class and I looked in my rear view mirror and noticed a white pickup truck switch lanes into my lane. You could tell he just wanted to go faster and that the car in front of him was going too slow. My first thought was, "oh, he's going to be disappointed because I'm about to turn right and he's going to have to slow down again". I proceed to turn on my blinker and then slow down. I looked in my rear view mirror again and this time I think, "wow, he's going pretty fast, he better slow down". I never thought he would hit me though. Before I knew it he slammed into the back of me with his huge truck and pushed me off the road and into the grass. I looked out my window and as he's driving away he looks me in the eye and then keeps driving. I was bawling. I get out and check on my kids, who seem to be fine and then called the police (who by the way, took 30 minutes to get to the scene). Luckily there was a witness who got his license plate # and got a description of him.

I am just shocked and appalled that somebody could hit me and then take off. It's not like he didn't know that he hit me. The sheriff is supposed to go to the home where the car is registered tonight, but who knows if he still lives at that address or if that is even his car. My feeling is that if someone is willing to risk being charged with a hit and run they were either drinking, on drugs, in a stolen car, have no insurance, have other tickets or warrants or they are just plain stupid. Please say prayers that the police catch this creep and throw his you know what in jail!

I was driving our Mitsubishi, which is 9 years old, but I was planning on driving it into the ground for the next year or two until we succumb to buying a van. However, I have a feeling that the adjuster is going to tell us that the car is totaled, because it will cost more to fix it than it's worth. We'll see, maybe I'll get that van a lot sooner than expected! It was nice having no car payments though!