Easter, Birthdays, Visiting Family, and Yellowstone

It's been quite a while since I have posted new stuff so I thought since I'm out of school for a week that now would be a good time to do so.
EASTER: Adelaide isn't walking yet so we decided not to do an easter egg hunt or anything so we just did a nice dinner at home. The day before our apartment complex did a big easter hunt and all the kids in the complex woke up at like 6 and starting running around for eggs. So we woke up pretty early. I took spud out and our downstairs neighbors saved an egg for Adelaide. I took it and went back upstairs to tell mike that maybe we could just have her crawl to it, or I could help her walk to it. She loved it. She thought it was really cool to have an egg. It had a tootsie roll in it and a play plastic bug. She likes tootsie rolls, by the way. (:

For my birthday we had a small party and then we went to a friends comedy show on campus. It was pretty fun. I don't remember if I wrote about this already. But mike made me a birthday girl shirt and made me wear a pin, and a crown. So I took a couple of pictures to let everyone know how dumb I felt wearing what I did. He also made me a turtle cheesecake that turned out amazing. It looked more like a marble cheesecake but it was still really good. (:

Mike's mom, little brother, and step dad came to visit during Blake's spring break since they weren't able to make it for Adelaide's first birthday. Blake came in on friday, the 6th, and then mike's mom and step dad came in on the 10th. We had a pretty good time. We didn't get to do as much since there isn't really anything to do in Rexburg. So the friday before they left we all went to West Yellowstone. We went to this bear and wolf retreat thing and just walked through and looked at them. It was pretty cool with the wolves because we got there in time for feeding. The bears were kind of boring, but still massive.

They had these cute little sunglasses so we put them on Addi, she didn't like them. 

She kept trying to eat the bar...

"work it!!" 

She doesn't like shoes so she just wore socks that day

Giant stuffed polar bear that was killed and then put on display

They had a snowball fight...blake won. (:

We also did a small little birthday thing for Adelaide while they were here. We just did a dinner, cake and then the present that they got her. We did go shopping for her but we decided to wait to give her the stuff that we bought her. She was super cranky up until dinner, and then all through dinner, so we had to put her down for a nap, which didnt go well. We finally just fed her some food, even though she already ate, and then let her open the present while I made her cake. She loved it! They got her a walking thing. She pushes it and it had a bunch of things to play with on the front. It will really help her with walking, at least I think it will. I didn't get any pictures of it yet except for ones on my phone and I haven't uploaded them yet. I think she had a pretty good time. She didn't like the cake very much though.

Sadly, we have to give spud away. After all the trouble we went through he does not do well with adelaide. He wants to dominate her at every turn. One day, he knocked her over and sat on her! I couldn't believe it. Every time she touches one of his toys he freaks out and runs over to her and steals it. He just needs more room to run around and it doesnt look like we will be able to get a house any time soon. So we figured it would be better for him to have a yard to play in and maybe not such little kids around until he gets older. He is doing well with potty training though. You have to make sure to take him out about every 1-2 hours or he will pee in the house. He also got worms. :( It was really gross so we had to get him some medicine for that, hopefully he will get better. He doesn't seem to affected by it. He just has weird poops. I really liked him, but he was too rough with Adelaide and didn't know when to stop playing. Next time we get a dog, which will probably be sooner rather than later we will probably get a girl, and she will be older. One that is already house trained and better with kids. Mike thinks a lab would be good. (: So we will see.

Busy Bees

We have been so crazy busy lately. This past week we had so much stuff to do. I had to try and get all of my visiting teaching done, group projects, my birthday, and our car broke down. So most of last week was spent on the go.

Friday was my birthday. I already got my presents so mike just got me something small for the day off. Oh...we got a puppy!!!! That was one of my presents. His name is spud and he is an Australian Shepherd/Blue heeler/Border Collie mix. He is super cute and very energetic. We got him as a puppy so right now he is 8 weeks old. He isn't as cuddly as I would like but he is pretty fun to play with. We are crate training him while we also potty train him. It has been very difficult to potty train Spud. He has good days and then very bad days. It's difficult but we are determined to make it work. (:

So for Friday mike got me a birthday shirt, birthday pin, and a birthday tiara. Yes...a tiara. I only wore it for a little bit because it was too small and dug into my head. We skipped class to make a day of fun and laziness. Well while mike was getting the car washed (not the truck) he went to start it up after and it wouldn't start. Needless to say we ended up spending my birthday at the dealership trying to get another car. Luckily we saved some of our tax refund money, so we used a little of that to get a new car. We got a 2007 Pontiac Grand Prix. It's really nice and only had 122,000 miles on it. It gets very good gas mileage and is pretty spacious. While buying a car wasn't exactly how I wanted to spend my birthday I started to feel really bad. So I just went home and took a nap. 

We ended up celebrating the next day, Saturday. We had a couple of friends over and we had hamburgers and baked beans. It was pretty delicious. Mike even made me my mom's special turtle cheesecake! It turned out so good! We also went to a friends comedy show on campus and then came home and opened some presents. It was a pretty fun, chill day. It was a pretty darn good birthday. I got to spend it with Adelaide, Mike, and some friends. I had a good time. (:

This past sunday was Easter!!!! (: What a wonderful holiday to celebrate! We had lamb, mashed potatoes, rolls, broccoli, and deviled eggs. I never had lamb before, and I liked it! It was pretty good! We had a good day skyping family and just spending time together. 

Adelaide has been so silly lately. She says so many words now. She can say, "uh oh," "dada," "cheese," and "up." She has one of her upper canines in and the other one is right behind it. I'm pretty sure she will have a lisp but it will be super cute. (: Here are some pictures of her...until next time....