Well November just flew by!!!!!

Sorry I don't have any pictures.... :( But we had a lovely thanksgiving with friends and later, family. I also stayed in line for hours for black friday (or I should say black Thursday).  It was a long, cold wait, but totally worth it. I saved us over $100.00 on Christmas presents for the kids.
   And for those of you who do not know, we had our reveal party for our baby and my husband's twin sister's baby (she is five weeks behind me so we decided to have a double reveal party). So I am happy to say,

Precious is she and Oh So Sweet!
Tiny hands and adorable feet!

Christine and I are both having girls!!!!!  We are super excited! Soooo sorry I don't have any pictures, I was too excited to take any. But, let me just say, I AM SUPER SHOCKED! I thought for SURE we were having a boy. So much so, that I already had a boy named all picked out. So now I am stuck. Girl names are SO hard for me to pick. I am sure we will find the perfect one for this little princess though. Until then, I am going to enjoy the constant kicks and playful nudges this little girl gives me for another three months or so. :-D 

Happy really belated Halloween. LOL

We had sooo much fun on Halloween! This was the kids first real trick or treating experience. We went family, and had a nice little group going. Kylie was Repunzel of course. I made her dress (if you remember my last post) and she wore it at our branch Halloween trunk or treat. She also got barbeque sauce all down the dress so I had to wash it. Unfortunately, the dress kinda fell apart. With no time to fix it, I ran to Target and actually found a Repunzel dress, AND IT WAS ON SALE!!!  I was elated! Matthew decided he wanted to be Buzz Lightyear again, which saved me more money, so therefor, made me happy. :) We also carved a pumpkin for the first time. I let the kids pick out a stencil from disney characters. They chose goofy..... I carved goofy out and let the kids decorate the rest of the pumpkin with some disney stickers. We had tons of fun. And, the kids were so polite when we went from door to door. And, yes, I made them say, "Trick or Treat!" I realized nowadays, parents don't tell their kids to say it anymore. They just knock and shove their bags in your face (and often forget to say, "Thank You," as well). Well that is my shpeal for now. Hopefully I can get some good pics of my reveal party this weekend and blog about it next week. Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that. My sister-in-law Christine, and I, are having a reveal party to reveal the gender of our babies. It is this weekend and we are SUPER excited!!! I will try to remember to blog about it, but......not making any promises. ;) LOL!!!

Fun in October!

I am finally getting around to posting about Kylie's birthday party. It was a great success! There were probably over 25 people here. We did a craft, ate pizza, and lady bug cupcaks. And, of course, we opened presents (unfortunately I ran out of room on my camera so no present pics...sorry). Here she is just before the party in her party dress (thanks Shanilee for lending this to her, she looked beautiful). She was a little under the weather but a piece of candy cheered her up right away. :)

They didn't have any lady bug birthday banners at the store so I made one especially for Kylie. It was fun! The whole thing said, "Happy Birthday Kylie."

A nice cheesy smile with candy in her mouth...hahahaha, she cracks me up!

This was the lady bug craft we did that I found online. It was sooo much fun, and a perfect thing to do considering the weather (it was raining cats and dogs outside during the entire party).

Kylie twirling with a balloon and waiting for guests to show up. ;)

Finally digging into her cupcake...yum!

These were the cupcakes I made with my friend Shanilee. The lady bugs are actually Snackwell cookies dipped in frosting. With Mini M&Ms for the dots. The leaves they are sitting on are actually rolled out green gum drops. We had soo much fun making them!

CLOSE UP! That is about all the pictures I had for her party. The rest of the pictures are the Halloween costumes I made for Kylie and I.

I made this dress for Kylie since ALL of the Repunzel dresses were either sold out or too expensive. Since Kylie has the perfect hair for Repunzel, I was determined that she was going to be her for halloween. I made the dress in one day (without a pattern).  It turned out WAY better than I thought it would. I also got a little creative and made her sleeves from an old pair of Kylie's pantyhose.

This shirt I made for myself. Since I am 21 weeks pregnant, and definitely showing I decided not to really dress up and just wear a cute t-shirt.  My sister-in-law Christine emailed me a really cut t-shirt for Halloween but it would have cost me $30.00 to have. I thought, "I am not going to spend that much on a shirt I only plan on wearing once" Soooo, once again I had to get creative. I was going to paint the design on a black t-shirt I had, but realized I had no paint...nor money to buy paint. And, thanks to an AMAZING website called, "Pinterest," I was able to find another way to put the design on my shirt. I first got a white colored pencil and drew the design, and then, just got a paint brush, some bleach water, and painted the design on the shirt. And this is how it turned out!......

I have to say, it came out better than I expected and it came out cuter than I expected. Oh how I love crafts!

Sorry it's been sooooo long!!

So much has happened with our family, so sorry to have kept you all in the dark. First off, we bought a new house!!! This is the front (I might post more pix of the house some other time). It is three bedrooms and two bathrooms. So much more roomier then the duplex. That place was just getting smaller by the minute. ;) That white Ford Expedition in the driveway is also a new edition to our family. We LOVE it!!!

And if you are wondering what this is.... It's the first meal I cooked in our new house. A made-from-scratch pepperoni and cheese pizza. YUM!!!!!

We also got some brand new leather furniture to match our brand new home. And, yes our house is literally brand new! We are the first people to occupy it, in fact they finished building it and doing last minute touches the day before we closed on the house. It's been a major blessing!!!!

And, Nathan finished school at Metro tech last month and is now working at Tinker Air Force Base in Midwest City, Oklahoma. I am soooo proud of him! He has sacrificed so much for our family. And it's all paying off! Unfortunately he still isn't getting any sleep because he is working full time at both Tinker and Kimray (his old job), so that we can get rid of as much debt as possible before...............

DILL BABY NUMBER 3 ARRIVES!!!!!  That's right, that just happened! I am about 19 weeks along today and the baby will be here around March 3rd, 2012. We still don't know the gender but will find out soon enough. :) This pregnancy has been the worst pregnancy so far. All through the first trimester and partially through the second, I was super sick with morning sickness (more like all day sickness). I couldn't even keep water down. I eventually had to get some prescribed antinausia medication. Now I am feeling great though. I am not on the medication any more and don't really feel sick (unless I eat too fast or eat too much). And, that my friends, is why I have been away so many months. All is well now and hopefully I will be better at blogging in the future. Oh, and my little Kylie just turned 2 last Sunday and we are throwing a ladybug themed birthday party for her. Hopefully I can remember to take some video and pics so I can blog about it.....Until then, I hope you enjoyed the blog. :)

Bragging Rights!!!:)

 I have been extremely cranky the past two days (I blame it ALL on PMSing). I hate how yucky I feel inside when it's almost "that time of the month."  But, I finaly have some time to myself. And, while all day today and yesterday I have been barking at my sweet children and exhausted husband, I find myself filling up with pride because of my family. I feel the need to brag about this amazing blessing of mine that I have been givin of which I call my beloved family.
  I first need to brag about my AMAZING husband. Unfortunately, I complain a lot about how unromantic he is. But, there is more a merriage and to a best friend then romance. He is the best friend I have ever had. He sacrifices all his time to make our lives better. And even though he only gets on average, about, 30 hours of sleep a week. And, he works and goes to school, he still finds time to spend with his children (and me). He is extremely tender hearted and LOVES us very much. He always makes me feel beautiful by telling me so every day. And last but not least...He has the strongest testimony of Christ and His church I have ever seen. And his love for his Savior is undescribable!  I love my husband so, so much.
  Now on to my first born.... First off, while he (Matthew Bruce Dill) is not perfect. I must brag that he is the BEST and Most well bahaved toddler I have ever seen! Yes he does have toddler moments. But, they are few and far between. He is also potty trained and I am so proud of him. It only took about a week. I have also to brag about how smart he is for a 3 year old. He knows allof ABC's, Mmost of his 123's , all of his basic colors, shapes, most of his lower case letters, can dress and undress himself. He also knows many, many songs. He was also the only one in the Nursery who knew who Jesus is (when he first went to Nursery). He also knows all his basic animals and knows lots of tropical animals (like his favorite, the Scarlet Macaw). On top of being really smart, he has an AMAZING imagination and he also has the best sense of humor and keeps us all rolling from laughter. I love my little bubba sooo much.
  Now to my youngest...my little princess. Although she is amost the complete opposite of her brother, they are best friends and she could not live without her big bro. She is shy but in a beautifuly misterious way. I love how serious she can get and yet if you look at her in a certain way, she falls over laughing. She aso has such  big heart. Every time I cough, sneeze, or make some unknown noise to her, she never fails to ask right away, "You okay Mommy?" And she is genuinly concerned (most of the time). She is also my shaddow all day (until Daddy comes home, then it's hard to seperate them). I have, on many occasions, had to scold both Ky-Ky and Nathan bacause they were spending to much time together and Daddy has to sleep (LOL, it's heart breaking to see both their faces). I so love my gentle little bundle of joy!
 So, I think that's enough bragging. Just had to do it. It was a LONG post and hopefully you got through it without being too bored. TTYL.......NDD is out, Goodnight.

To a deserving father....

I know it's not Fathers Day yet but before I forget, I wanted to blog about my husband (who is an Amazing Dad).  

On May 1st, 2008 you became a Father! 

You brought home a beautiful baby son.

  And, seventeen months later, came your gorgous daughter.

Wasn't easy, but I said, "We aren't done..."

Money's stretched really thin, and you NEVER sleep!

I know right now it's not easy,

But to make things better is to keep

On making us laugh, by being cheezy.

To your son, you are his loving hero.

And to your daughter, her best friend.

One thing is for curtain, you're no zero.

Your children have your love, which won't bend!

Yet you are not only an amazing father

to our children young Matthew and Kylie.

You are a super hero and what other?

A most perfect, outstanding, handsome, strong, prayerful DADDY!

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Matthew......His Dad was so proud of him!!!.

 I'm not sure if this video will work because I sent it from my phone. But Matthew is having soooo much fun on this this and he laughed so hard the entire time!!!!

I know I'm a slacker! :)

It's been a couple of months so I have some catching up to do. I had a picture of Kylie at her first gymnasics class but I accidently deleted it (since I'm blogging from my phone, I can't add the pic. back in unless I publish a different post :( ). Anyways, My little Kylie is growing up quite fast, and loves to do thing by herself....

Here she decided to get into to he tub by herself LOL. Another event I failed to blog about is Easter!!! Itwas basically the kids first Easter (where they kind of knew what was going on). Here are some pics....

It was also Matthews 3rd Birthday!!!!. My big handsome boy.:) We had a fun little party with just family (we even Skyped my parents so the could "be" there too). I also made a Thomas the Tank Engine out of cupcakes  for his Birthday cake. Oh, and we also figured out te "potty training" thing.   A LOT more has happened these past two months but I simply do not have time. I hope this is enough for now. :>\ Until next time readers.... Have a good month of June!

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Potty training woes and What to do with that hair?

 Sooo, Matthew has been showing ALL the signs that he is ready to potty train. He stays dry through the night and through nap times, he occasionally asks to go on the potty, and he tells me to change his diaper EVERY time he poops and sometimes when right after he pees. So, Yesterday I decided it was time to switch from diapers to pull ups. But, to him, it's just a cool diaper that has buzz lightyear on them. And, when I just gave up and made him go naked all day, he went to the potty EVERY time without fail (that includes pooping), and I didn't have to ask him once! I figured, he pee on the floor once and then I explain to him what to do...no explanation necessary, he figured it out on his own and we were "accident" free all day. So, I thought well maybe he just thinks pull ups are diapers and I should try putting underpants on him....Well that DIDN'T work!!!! I can't just let him run around naked all time can I? How do I get him to go when he has clothes on? Any advise?????.......



Now on to my little princess. Growing up most of you know I was a tomboy and as a result, I never did my hair in any sort of way, except wild and tangled. Well now I have this beautiful girly girl who loves everything, well...girly. She likes me to do her hair "pretty" but All I know how to do is pig tails, pony tails, and I can do a little bit of braiding. What do I do with all that gorgous hair? Does anyone know of any creative way do girls hair? I would LOVE some advise!!!

Meet our soon to be new house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is the link....I will try and take pix and blog it later. :) SOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!http://denver.okcmetrohomefinder.com/homes/12358461/OK/Moore/805-N-Morgan-Dr-73160/.

Hoping for a better weekend....

With all that's been going on, I forgot to blog about last weekend. Most of you know that Nathan's twin sister and two children were in a bad car accident while they were visiting in Oklahoma from Nebraska. For those of you who don't know, she and the kids miraculously walked away from a TERRIBLE crash. Her car lost control on a dirt road, flipped over, and as she tried to free herself and her children, the car was on fire (something you only hear/see on movies). Luckily the worst injury out of all of them was her son having a jammed thumb. But, after that (which was on a friday), our weekend kind of got worse. You see, a few weeks ago I purchased some tickets to go to the circus (none of us have ever been). We were going to go last Saturday afternoon. But we were in Stillwater visiting Nathans family after that aweful event friday evening. So we didn't leave Stillwater until 10 min. before 1:00. Which meant we didn't get into the City until 2:00 (which is when one of the three shows on Sat. started). I didn't care about being a few minutes late. But, Nathan is all about punctuallity so he wanted to go at the 7:30 pm show. The only problem with that is it's 30 min. before the kids bedtime. Soooo, we went. Here are some pix of the elephants.......

 About 10 minutes after arriving, both children were SUPER cranky and as a result so were Nathan and I. After being there 30 minutes he wanted to leave. But I wasn't about waste $20.00 for 30 minutes of whining children (that includes Nathan LOL). So we stayed the ENTIRE 2 1/2 hours!!!! And I enjoyed almost the entire thing. The kids finally stopped whining towards the end it was a fantastic show. Maybe next time someone will listen to me and we will go in the afternoon, regardless if we are late. Ha ha ha. I do love my husband immensly, it was just one of those weekends when nothing was working. And on top of it this is how behind I am with the house chores......

......that's a TRUCK load of laundry that needs to be folded and put away....better get to it I guess, cause it's not going to fold itself. And, hey, at least I FINALLY finished the 4 loads of dishes! One big accomplishment down, a few more to go. So I am going to tackle that laundry with full blast music and dancing hips. ;)

A little bit o F.Y.I.

Just a little blog on what is going on in the Dill house hold...

as you know Nathan and I have been married four wonderful years. The last year has been hard but so worth the sacrifice.  For those of you who do not know, Nathan has been going to school for almost 13 months to be an Aronautic Maintainance Technician (AMT or Air plane mechanic). He has a little over 5 months to go. What has been so hard, is he works nights; Sunday night to Saturday morning (8pm-7am), then he goes to school; Monday through Friday (8am-2pm). Which, gives him roughly 5 hours of sleep a day. Regardless ...we don't see him much (20 min. a day at the most except Sunday at church, which I only see him during Sacrament meeting because they just put me in the Nursery). So, yes it's been hard. But, like I said, so worth it!!! With his new career, most starting positions start at $25hr. Which is more than he makes now.........
So, there might be some changes in housing in the near future! Nathan has been a real trooper through this aweful schedule. And regardless of how exhausted he is, he still finds time to be with his children and have conversations with me. He loves his family and is very patient with us (especially on days when the house is a wreck and the kids are unusually loud). I love my Nathan bacon (he hates when I call him that he says it doesn't rhyme lol) with all my heart. He is my best friend and the best father our kids could ask for. He makes me laugh constantly and loves me even when we annoy eachother......
    Now on to Matthew. He is a really good toddler who does what I ask 90% of the time. He does not test me much, of which I am extremely thankful for. He is definitely a joy in our household. He LOVES trains, plains, and Toy Story. He also LOVES to sing and sometimes wakes up singing. :) He is turning 3, May 1st. My how time flies. He loves his Daddy and Mommy and Sister. He constantly looks out for her and loves to share with her (unless she tries to play with his trains, that's when the fights break out, LOL)....

Speaking of his sister, Kylie is growing up sooo fast. She is talking a lot for her age. She LOVES shoes and pretty much anything girly. But she doesn't mind getting dirty either. :) She LOVES LOVE LOVES her Daddy and has him wrapped around her little finger. She is also very stubborn and is the one who likes to test me, but overall she is very sweet and loves to cuddle. She absolutely loves her big brother and loves her "Mimi" (that's what she calls me). She also LOVES slides and running and CLIMBING. She climbs on everything. She is also a big joy in our family. I just love both my kids little personalities.

As for me, I am taking a little break on having children and concentration on the munchkins I have now. I am also focusing on my artistic talents and learning more about sewing. I am still working on illustrations for the childrens book my aunt and uncle wrote. And, that's about all I can think about. Hope you enjoyed my little schpeal. :)

Lots to blog about

To start off, I had an AMAZING weekend!! Nathan and I have never had such a fun time in our lives. We also have never laughed so hard before. :)  We started the weekend by dropping the kids off at Granny's in Stillwater (where they had a blast by the way). That was Thursday. Then on Friday morning Nathan got home from work and went to sleep, and I went to get my hair cut. It turned out super CUTE! Then we went shopping for Nathan so he could look good for dinner. LOL We then got all dressed up and went to Mickey Mantel's in bricktown. It was amazing!!! Although we did spend over $100 on dinner, it was worth it to spoil ourselves for once (in my case it was the first time I allowed myself to spoil us). Then I reserved a night at a cute B&B where I suprised Nathan with a special order of sparkling grape juice and chocolate cover strawberries. It was crazy romantic and we loved it. On Saturday the B&B brought us breakfast in bed which was delicious. Then we checked out and went to Celebration Station for a few hours. And that was an adventure in itself. LOL The Lord was definitely looking out for us that day. We decided to ride go karts most of the day. And, the first ride of the karts, we were in line with a bunch of 12 year old girls. One happened to be the birthday girl. This girl was TERRIBLE at go karting and my guess is this was her first time. Because she couldn't even get up the hill until the workers told her to push down on the green peddle (the gas hahahaha). Well after this incident, things weren't so funny. Oh and I should tell you that we were going to ride with this group in a double passenger go kart because all of the singles were taken. Well, at the get go, our go kart kept dying, and then the worker tried one last time to start it up and the starter cord broke. Which meant we couldn't ride and had to wait in line for the next go around.

Well, the birthday girl kept running into other go karts and into the side railings...so the workers had to stop the race early and asked all of the girls to park their karts. Well the "birthday girl" still wasn't understanding the workers and thought she could go another lap while the others parked. She was the last one to come into the lane and was going pretty fast, and the workers were screaming for her to slow down but she panicked and hit the gas instead of the break and she hit a curb going FULL speed. So to make this long story shorter, the workers had to call the ambulance because she had really bad whip lash and couldn't move her toes. :( So Nathan and I had to wait a half hour before they opened up the go karts again. Besides that fiasco, we had the time of our lives this past weekend!!!

    Now on to the rest of this blog....and that's weight loss!!! So, to start I will confess that the first picture of this blog is of me at my heaviest. Right after having my daughter Kylie, I weighed a whopping 198 lbs!!! Two weeks later I lost a lot of water weight 20+ pounds or so. So, that put me at about 175 lbs. Well, I weighed that much for about a year because I can't lose weight when I breastfeed (trust me I tried). As soon as I cut down on breastfeeding and Kylie started eating solids (around nine months), I started to workout, didn't lose anyweight though because as I said before, I was breastfeeding. In the pix of my sister and I, it was last June and I still weighed 175. I also started working out right after this trip. As soon as Kylie turned 1 year old, I quit breastfeeding, and worked out like a mad women (average of 4 hours a day). In three months I lost 30 pounds. Then, life got crazy and I stopped. But, my motabalism is back to normal and I lost an additional 15 lbs on my own without working out. So, I can now say that I went from a size 16/17 to a size...................................................

....................................................................SIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tada!!!! Who is that hott mama? Oh that's me! YAY!!!! It's about time, it only took me 2 1/2 years!!!! LOL Sorry if I sound arogant or egotistical, but I have never acheived such an awesome goal. I just about never stay focused enough to acheive something like this. So, yeah I am a little bit proud of myself. And, for the first time EVER I actually feel attractive and pretty. That has never happened. Well, I am finished being totally honest and personal. And, sorry it was so long but I couldn't leave out all those details. :)

Happy St. Patty's!!!!

I LOVE St. Patricks Day! And not because it's a catholic made up holiday, but because this is the day (four years ago) that My husband and I were sealed/married for time and eternity. And, it has been the BEST four years of my life!!! It was not an easy road getting to the temple but my incredible husband got me there. If it wasn't for him, and Heavenly Father of course :), I would be in a dark place I'm sure. And after we were married I received some bitter comments from people I thought were my friends. One in particular called me "stupid" and that within a year of being married I would be miserable and know I had made a huge mistake (she said this behind my back of course). Well all I can say is, four years later and I am the happiest I have ever been. With an extremely loving husband and the most beautiful two children. So who is the ignoramious now? Definitely not me! I made the best dicision EVER!!! And not choosing Nathan would have been stupid and a mistake. It's been awesome and I wouldn't change a thing.
    Anyways, on to the fun part. For the past three wedding anniversaries, Nathan has planned (and they all were super awesome and romantic). I was also pregnant for the first two anniversaries and breast feeding the last one.  So, this time since I am neither prego or have a baby latched on to me Nathan asked me if I wanted to plan it this year. I totally excepted the "challenge" LOL and have the most awesome weekend planned. Hopefully I will remember to blog about it. So, I will hopefully be writing on Monday and will HOPEFULLY give you a report of the fun we had. Until then, Happy St. Patrick's Day, wear lots and lots of green, and have a LUCKY Day Laddies and Larses. :)!!!!

What a week!!

It was such a crazy week!!!!! It all started with my son tugging on both ears February 13 and took him to the doctors on Valentines Day and the whole week he kept spiking a fever (coencidentally it spiked every time I gave him his medication).  But he finally stopped spiking a fever this past Sunday.  During all this, my sister in-law was staying at my house with her 4 month old while my brother was out of town for military stuff. I also babysat my 3 year old brother in-law over night because my fathr in-law had to get a colonoscopy.... well the next night I babysat my four month old nephew the next night. By this time it was Saturday morning (my brother got home finally and picked up his son). Along with not sleeping all week, I had a baptism of a family member to go to and had to make refreshments and write a talk for said baptism.  On top of which I had to clean my wrecked house! Plus I received a new calling in my ward. So my week was exhausting, but there was some good things that came out of it. :) Oh and the picture is of Kylie and I at the grocery store havong a good time. Isn't she cute? :)

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Living the warm weather in Oklahoma

With the weather being so amazing my kids finally got to play outside almost all day! Look how happy thay are. I am so ready for this warm sunshine to stick around. I also noticed how much happier my kids and myself are with this warmth. Can you tell that I despise cold weather? LOL I don't mind the snow, but it doesn't have to bring -4 degree weather.  I also have a picture of what I did for Nathan for Valentines Day. This was waiting for him when he got home for school. He didn't expect this at all. :)   I made him a plate of his favorite cookies (peanut  butter). And the pictures of the kids and the baby is Matthew and Kylie playing with their cousin Isaac (Seth's son) and his toy. They love their little cousin! :)

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