So Belle is learning to feed herself and hahahah it is working out great!!! And of course I let her wear a white shirt!
This is Belle's smile when I say say cheese!
And this is DEEDEE her favorite toy in the world!!! she brings it everywhere!! kisses it, bites it, sleeps on it, growls at it... you name she does it!
Even when she plays with other toys she has to have DEEDEE (she always calls that dog that)!
Well Monkey has decided... We will be living in Forest Grove, Oregon for the next 3-4 years of our life starting next August. It is beautiful... a little on the older side... but beautiful!
This is Pacific University!!! it looks like an old mansion! Monkey is so excited to start optometry school!
The Mullins Family!!! minus Katrina who is teaching english in China and Ariel who is serving a mission in California!
It was sad when we got to Oregon Belle got so sick. the first night was awful she woke up every 30 minutes to an hour just screaming. She got a temp of 101, she couldn't really breathe so we had to suck all the stuff out of her nose every 20 minutes, she got an ear ache, a huge rash, and she gained another tooth... Poor Belle was miserable but she tried to stay happy..
hahah this was after all her treatments! hahah so sad
Thanksgiving day taking picture waiting for everyone to arrive and waiting to stuff our faces!!!
The master chef!!! Chloris is an amazing cook!!! everything was so good!
My favorite part!!!!
Caleb and I... we make fun of eachother most the time but atleast we got a picture of together of us smiling!!! hahah
Everyone loved Belle! she felt a little bit better in Thanksgiving!
GRANDPA!
The tables were set..... (those rolls were out of this world good!!!)
And it was time to feast!
FILLED AND HAPPY! Thanksgiving was awesome and so much fun! I love The Mullins Family! I got so blessed to be apart of this family! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!
Monkey and I waiting before the dinner!!! we were straving and so excited!
I was in charge of the turkey! And that thing almost gave me a heart attack!! hahah being pregnant and cleaning it out... not a good combo! I had never cooked a turkey in my life... I was so nervous... but it wasn't as hard as I thought!
My mom's famous pumpkin pies... They didn't turn out like my mom's but they turned out pretty good!
I was so proud that I didn't burn any of the desserts!!!
Jeremy and Meredith came over early cause I made Jeremy crave the turkey!!!! hahahah he did an amazing job! Thanks Jershon!!
Mere and Belle!!!
The food was arriving!!!
oh and it was soooooo good!!!! Thank you everyone for bringing what you did!!! so yummy!
who all came: Meredith, Jeremy, Todd, Martha, Maura, and us! Jill and Emma couldn't make it!! we missed you guys! It is so fun having a lot of family here in the Burg!
WHAT A COUPLE!!! hahahaha Martha and Maura had the same socks!!! hahah love it!
So I thought it would be funny to dare monkey to go do a snow angel and at first he wouldn't do it... but then he told me if I did something I didn't like he would do it...
I think I had a harder time doing my thing I didn't like then he did!!! My favorite part of the night was this little video...Meredith and Jeremy got Belle to take her first steps!!! It was so awesome to see!!! She is going to be walking in no time!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING THIS WEEK TO EVERYONE!!!
So on Monday we headed off to Utah so I could drop Monkey off at the airport and he flew to Arizona for another Optomerty interview.... Belle was so awesome in the car Thank goodness!!! hahah hopefully she is that good when we got to Oregon again next week for Thanksgiving! So Monkey got to Arizona and stayed with my cousins Doug and Sara! Thank you guys so much!!! His interview went really well he said he loved the school! we got home and found out he had been accepted to Pacific University and now he is torn because he loves Arizonas school as well! we will see in 2-3 weeks if her gets accepted to arizona then he will make his choice!! Which he probably will get accepted because Monkey is soooo smart!!
Anyways while he was in Arizona, Belle and I stayed with my amazing sister Natalie! Her kids are in love with Belle!! hahah wow! Halle is like Belle's babysitter the whole time I am there! she took this picture of Belle and I!!! I was still in my pj's hahah but she insisted! she should be a photographer when she grows up!
Halle and Belle they have a lot of the same clothes and this little number is my favorite!!! I hope they love each other when they are older as much as they do now!!!
Lukey joined in the fun!!! hahaha he was cracking me up! the whole time I was there is kept saying out of the blue... "hey mamie... i love u!!" hahah he is the sweetest little boy!
Belle couldn't stay away from Halle even when she was getting her hair done!!!
We got to go spend some time at my other amazing sister Jaclyn!! Ohh dear when we are together I bet people think we are so annoying because we laugh like crazy and forever!!!! Jaclyn is my favorite person to go shopping with... hahah which we did... Jac sorry I almost killed you like 3 times driving you definatley should have driven! hah she seriously can put a smile on anyones face! I had so much fun with her and blake!!! Blake is so awesome~ he is SO good to Jaclyn! I am so glad he is in our family now! He is way good with computers he was buliding one when I was there! oh and he is so kind he took some family pictures of us when we were there! Thanks a million Blake!
ok winter and Belle go great together!! everything she wears is so cute!! even if it's ugly!
hahahahah when we got home Belle stayed in the bath for what felt like hours!!! she loves the bath, finally she wanted to get out when I showed her the rabbit towel Natalie gave her!!! I have to brag about my sister Natalie!!! She is absolutley the most giving person I know!!! She gave us 2'12 garbage bags full of clothes for Belle and the new baby!!! They are so cute! I have gone through them atleast 100 times since I have been home just admiring them!! She is so welcoming and everyone loves her!!! Everyone wants to be like Natalie! she is so wonderful! Thank you Nat!!
don't ask me what face she is pulling!!! hahaha she makes the craizest face lately!!! hahah but for the people that asked me about when Monkey starts school and all that..... He hopefully graduates in April 2010 and if not he has like 2 credits he has to take in the summer... if he does graduate in April we will either move to Oregon or Arizona in April depending on what school we go to to settle in and get use to the area... or... we might go sell pest control again in VA all summer and then move to Oregon or Arizona to start Optometry school at the end of August! We will see!!! I am so excited for these next few months cause our lives will be changing so much! 
