IT'S ABOUT TIME

Isn't there a saying about "Good things come to those that wait"?

Don't give up on me.  

PLEASE!

(although my sister says that no one reads blogs anymore so if that is true...then what am I stressing about???)

I have been a little preoccupied (READ: really, Really, REALLY preoccupied)

but...

I'M BACK 

(and learning to blog with a little munchkin on my lap takes skills...skills similar to nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer skills...and YES I am super lame and googled that like from Napoleon Dynamite)

Since I'm told that everyone is sick and tired of looking at my croquet victory picture from the last post (HEY I never, ever win croquet so can you blame me for leaving it up for 4 months???) here is what we have been up too.

 Crossed "Watch Fireworks over the Water" off of our bucket list (4th of July in Miami)

On the small island of Nevis we (ok Clayton) learned how to drive with everything opposite of what we (Clayton again) were used too

(right hand side of the car on left side of road)

and just when I got used to Clayton's driving and the thoughts of "oh he is going to kill us" subsided we were thrown a curve ball and were given a normal car (steering wheel on left hand side of car) but still had to drive on left side of road on the island of St. Kitts.

We jumped off of things

We tried to see turtle eggs hatch early in the morning without success...

but we did see a turtle shell...sans turtle

Worked on my balance

Due to a bout with Scleritis I was forced to go contactless and become a pirate for a few weeks

Celebrated our 7th anniversary in August.  One of the things we did was visit Baby M's BFF's in the Provo NICU.  The twins were supposed to be born 4 weeks after our baby, but decided to surprise their mom and dad at 29 weeks.  The beautiful twins are now home and are doing great.

Speaking of pregnancy and birth...

We would like to announce...

Clayton's pregnancy

Oh I'm getting ahead of myself

Before his conception he took me on a fancy date in the big city to see WICKED

ummmm...

LOVED IT!

How do you know that I loved it????  It started at 8:30 pm and I stayed awake for the ENTIRE THING!  True story.

We went to our first and only (sad) BYU game of the season.  

They won.  Seeing how this season has turned out we had a 50/50 chance of a win.  

Dear USU, 

You can have the turnover king, Mr Reily Nelson back now.  

Sincerely Heidi

Let's see what else went on this summer?

Oh yeah!  Remember how we were pregnant?

(pics below were done by the amazingly talented Kristin Brown.  More to come on a later post)

Well guess what was delivered...

OUR BEAUTIFUL MONKEY

Just kidding.  Well not about the beautiful part.  We had a beautiful (and hairy like a monkey) little girl on a sunny day in mid September 

Meilee Jo meet the world.  

World meet Meilee Jo.

Special thanks to Inbleu photography and Kathrin Paul photography for the pictures below

Well now you have met our little family of three.  We love Meilee more and more each day.  I never would have guessed that I was capable of such a deep love for such a small precious being.  My life is forever changed and I wouldn't have it any other way.

More updates to come...

hopefully next week and not 4 months from now.  I promise to be better...if anyone is out there reading this.