Hempel Family

Christmas

2012-01-01T12:23:00.000-08:00

Christmas Eve was spent the day with my family at Aaron's house.

The got to open their jammies

Ty had dinosaur jammies
The 3 grand kids got Mickey and Minnie this was the favorite by far

Ty and with Mickey he was so happy

Kylee and her Minnie and the Minnie is twice her size

After we were done at Aaron's on Christmas Eve we went over the Wayne and Julie's to stay the night and have Christmas morning with them.

The kids woke up around 7:30 but we had to wake everyone up before we could open presents and see what Santa brought.

The kids really enjoyed opening presents I am what kid doesn't like to do that.

Kylee got a princess castle for Santa

Ty started crying because he didn't want to open any more presents he just wanted to play

Kylee kept asking for another one to open

More presents

Kylee riding her new scooter on Christmas Day. Wait a minute there isn't any snow this hasn't happened since I have lived in Utah so 8 years we have always had some kind of snow.

We had a great Christmas and enjoyed our time with family.

Random

2012-01-01T12:09:00.000-08:00

I have been a little behind on my post so hope you have enjoyed the few I have posted. I have been busy with my first semester of nursing school but am done and going to start my second semseter in a week. I had a good first semester and enjoying my time off.

Stuggling with daddy
Kylee has to put bows on her dogs too

Kylee playing on the tablet and Ty watching but he sure looks bored.

This little turkey get puts to bed and then sneaks out of his bed and sneaks into our bed. He is so cute. This was the first night he did it and it was while I was at one of my rotations and Joe was watching the kids. I came home and couldn't find Ty when I went to check on him.

The kids playing on the play ground at the mall.

Halloween

2012-01-01T11:59:00.000-08:00

Ty ready to go trick for treating
Kylee and Ty trick or treating

Kylee with all her candy. I was out with Kylee for 3 hours because she didn't want to stop and I didn't mind staying out and trick or treating her it was a lot of fun.

The two cuties

Fun in the leaves

2012-01-01T11:54:00.000-08:00

So one day I decided to rake all the leaves in the back yard. Well the kids wanted to help and play in them of course. They ran through them and jumped in and had a blasted playing in the leaves.

Family Pictures

2011-11-16T13:20:00.000-08:00

. Family pictures taken on BYU campus by my wonderful sister-in-law Rachel

These two were so cute while taking pictures

This is my favorite one of Kylee

She is getting so big and will be 5 in January

My little Ty

This one is my favorite of this little guy he is so dang cute!

Ty's Birthday and the Zoo

2011-08-23T21:18:00.001-07:00

For Ty's birthday we took him to the zoo. He loved it! He was Ooo and Ahhing at everything. It was fun to watch both kids' reations to everything

Ty pointing at the elephants
Kylee and Joe

Looking at the monkeys

Ty getting excited because he spotted a dinosour

Ty and Kylee were terrified of the T-Rex

This one ok because it was smaller

Kylee on the train around the park

Ty loves my sunglasses

Waiting for the train

Opening presents

He got bubbles, cars, dinosours, and a tonka truck

He was scared of the candles it was funny and just cried when we sang to him. But after they were out he wanted to eat it.

What a cute little boy

When we got home he had another toy waiting for him

Pinecrest and Tahoe

2011-08-23T20:19:00.000-07:00

We went to Pinecrest before my family reunion. We were there over the 4th of July and had a blast. Pinecrest is one of my favorite places to visit and is so relaxing.

Kylee sitting by the camp fire

Ty also sitting by the camp fire

Ty just couldn't help himself he had to play in Brigham's toy. He would climb in and then start crying when we was all done playing and needed help out.

Brigham, Kylee, and Ty on the 4th on July

Kylee and Ty

Kylee playing at the lake

Kylee and Ty playing in the lake

Grandma reading her book while Ty is playing

Ty, Kylee, and Brigham watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on Uncle Aaron's IPad

Joe and I hiked to Cloe's Bath while we were in Pinecrest. This is Joe at Cloe's and it was still gushing water in July. There was no swimming in it because it would have taken us down and well it's melted snow so freezing cold too.

At the top looking down at Pinecrest Lake

Joe and I at the top

Alan at Eagle Lake (I think that's what it was called) in Tahoe

Joe and I at the same lake. While at the family reunion half of us went on a hike to Eagle Falls and this Lake was on the way. It was a pretty hike and I enjoyed talking with cousins and aunts.

Joe and I in front Eagle Falls but don't think you can see it.

Cousins playing games at the reunion. I had a blast at the Barth Family Reunion. My aunt did a wonderful job organzing everything and it was great to caught up with everyone.

Kylee and Ty playing in Lake Tahoe

Ty and Joe eating lunch at the beach

Kylee playing in the water

Ty and I playing in the lake. I thought the lake was going to be cold but it really wasn't that bad. I got in a few times with the kids and my cousins. The reunion at so fun I can't wait to do another one!

Lake Powell

2011-08-23T19:56:00.000-07:00

Memorial Day weekend we decided to take an adventure to Lake Powell. We took our little tent trailer and kayaks. We had a lot of fun camping and kayaking with the kids.

Ty tried to help

Playing at the beach

Playing in the lake

Having snack

Playing in front of the tailer

Our trailer, kayaks, and car

Easter

2011-05-30T20:25:00.000-07:00

My cute kids
Ty has has such a cute cheesy smile and he wouldn't let the sippy go

Checking out the goods

Kylee and the things she got fromt the easter bunny

Saturday afternoon we went to Steve and Val's for an easter egg hunt, egg dying and dinner

There's that smile again, cute kid

Kylee after the easter egg hunt

All the eggs she found

Finding all the easter eggs. She had so much fun!

Joe helping Ty find eggs he finally got it

I decided to take them to the city Easter Egg Hunt. It was crazy so many people and the kids only got one egg each. But you gotta go for the experience.

Kylee after the hunt

Ty after the hunt

California over Spring break

2011-03-22T15:04:00.001-07:00

I decided a week before spring break to drive out and see my parents. I left at 7 am on Friday morning and get there at 7pm Friday night. I got there in pretty good tim with two kids. The trip started off bad but got better. As soon as I got on I-80 Ty throw up then a minute later Kylee did. I thought oh great now what. I cleaned them up and changed both of them and went on. Ty then throw up again about 30 minutes later. Stopped and cleaned him up again. After that they both fell asleep until Elko where we stopped for lunch. After that we stopped in Reno and then Home.

Grandpa took the kids for a mule ride a few times and they loved it. They went over to Brooke's and Kylee was able to play with Abby for a little while.

Kylee

Ty playing with grandpa's glasses

Ty loved to play in the back yard and it was so cute

Kylee found she could play on grandpa's Ipad and wanted to play on it all the time.

Our way home:

Went ok until Lodi where Ty throw up again and Kylee right after. So we stopped and Mickey Grove exist and cleaned them up. Then Ty throw up again on I-80 in Sac. After that they fell asleep until Fernley where we fulled up gas. We stopped a few more times on the way home and wasn't as good of a trip there, but we got home safely and were happy to be home.

Kylee's 4th Birthday

2011-03-22T14:49:00.001-07:00

Kylee making her cupcakes on her birthday. I had school that day so we made cupcakes before the kids went over the racheals. So the kids frosted and eat cupcakes at Racheal's

Kylee's friends she had over for her birthday party

Emily, Kylee, and Isabell

She is 4

eating yummy cupcakes after making princess hats and necklaces

Cinderella

She loves money

Memory and princess dress up

Family Pictures

2011-01-04T15:41:00.001-08:00

Didn't realize it was so hard to get a good picture with only two kids but then you have to add two adults. There seems to be always one person not looking or blinking or mad and crying. I'm glad we only have 4. Rachel did amazing with our pictures.

The family

My kiddos

Ty 18 months

Kylee almost 4 years

Halloween

2011-01-04T15:29:00.000-08:00

Holy cow it's been a while since I've posted. I went through all of my pictures and orangized them and well that took longer then I thought. So now I now what to post on.

Halloween was so fun. Kylee was a pink fairy and Ty was a tiger. It was raining that day so we thought when it stoped we would head out. So about 5pm we went out trick or treating. Well after about 10 houses maybe 30 minutes it just started to pour. Luckily we were just across the street but still got soaked as we ran home. We then stayed home and handed out candy to all the crazy little kids out in the rain. After about an hour it stopped again and so I took Kylee out to get more candy. We did about 20 more houses and then she said she was done. So we had to go back and I asked her if we should stop at more houses on the way back but she said no she just wanted to go home. It was a fun Halloween.

Camping Labor Day Weekend

2010-10-02T11:13:00.001-07:00

Labor Day Weekend we week just up provo canyon to Deer Creek. It wasn't the warmest weekend so we didn't end up getting in the water at all but we still had fun with the camp fire and enjoying being with family.

If only he would stay in the chair but he would always get down and walk all over the place.

Kylee and Jacob eating cupcakes for Grandma's birthday

Me and Joe and the campfire

Since he was always walking everywhere and falling all over the place I put him in the stroller a lot and walked around.

Kylee playing with her wagon and getting dirty

Back to School

2010-09-07T21:08:00.000-07:00

My first day of school.

I decided to go back to school to get my nursing degree. After researching all the schools in the area and their RN program I finally decided. I went back and forth for a while but finally decided to attend Provo College. I am taking Chemistry and Math 1010 this semster. The classes are at Provo College but are broadcasted from Utah State. Next semester I will be taking Anatomy and Math 1050 and then will be applying to the nursing program for next fall.

I am so excited!

Ty's 1st Birthday

2010-07-28T09:14:00.001-07:00

For Ty's birthday we went to Joe's parents house for a pool party
Ty loves the pool and had a ton of fun

He had fun figuring out how to open his presents

But Kylee had to help a little and she loved that

He got blocks, balls, rollie toy and some clothes

He wanted to play with everything after he opened it and didn't want to move to the next present

He wasn't sure about the candle and just wanted to grab it

But he LOVED it!

It was a great birthday and we all have a lot of fun!

California part 2 of 2-- Pinecrest

2010-07-11T20:03:00.000-07:00

The Pinecrest Cabin

This is the cabin
This is the view from the deck

Saturday night we made tin foil dinners so we had to make a fire. Well I went out to start it and then here comes my dad and before I knew it the fire got up to at least 6 feet tall. The family calls it a White Man fire. I have to admit it was pretty cool and it even got people to stop and look.

My dad, Ty and me sitting by the fire.

Ty and Kylee by the fire.

Ty and Kylee at the beach.

Kylee playing in the lake. It was 55 degrees!!! And I have to add that Aaron said if she puts her head in the water he would give her a redvine. haha I told him there and no way she will do it. But sure enough he walked down to the beach and she walked in and dipped her hair in the water. Wow I think I need Aaron around more ofter to get Kylee to do things for me.

Playing in the sand. The rock off to the left in the picture is the rock I played on when I was little. I love Pinecrest Lake and how pretty it is.!

Kylee and Abby. Cami and family came up for the day to visit with us. It was so great to see them and Kylee loved playing with Abby. She still talks about it. They play so good together I miss having them around too.

One morning my dad went fishing and sure enough caught a few fish. This is the favorite place to take your picture after caughting a fish. Every year when some one caught a fish you would get your picture taken here. My dad cooked them up and they were tasty.

Ty playing in the cabin. The car in his hand was his favorite toy while at the cabin. He even slept with it in hand and he would still have it in hand when he woke up. Silly boy.

Kylee on the wonderful 80's couch. Can't ever forget about the couch and we can't ever replace it.

Ty got half way up the stairs until I caught him. Woops forgot to put up the gate.

California part 1 of 2-- Ocean

2010-07-11T19:42:00.000-07:00

After being at the cabin for 5 days I went back to my parents house to have fun with friends. So Thursday Shandi and I decided it would be fun to take the kids to the ocean.

They all had so much fun playing in the sand. Even Kylee played in the sand my little girl who hates to get dirty.
This was our trek to the water. We went to Santa Cruz and how to get everything down and only wanted to do it in one trip. So Everyone had something to carry. I pushed the stroller with Ty in it as well as chairs, umbellas, beach mates, towels, and some toys. It was hard but we made it there and back ok.

Ty loved playing in the sand. He also loved eating it.

Kylee enjoyed soaking up the sun just like her mom.

Kylee and I after playing in the water

Back at parents house Ty loved to climb in any place he could find.

This was another one of his favorite places. He would climb in and the try and sit and fall off because it wasn't that big. He still loved it.

Feeding Ducks

2010-07-11T19:18:00.000-07:00

We went to the park the other day to feed the ducks. It was fun but weren't too many ducks so we played in the park for a little while.
Ty had a blast ont he swing!

He enjoyed eating the bread we were feeding to the ducks.

This was the pond we went to. It was fun but would have been nicer if the ducks were more interested. They didn't care that we can bread for them.

The Kids

2010-06-15T10:24:00.000-07:00

Rachel took some great pictures of the kids at Gardener Village In Salt Lake.

Ty was so great and smiled for all his pictures and looked so cute.

We took so many of Kylee she was being so a drama queen. But TRachel was able to get some good ones of her too.

Camping to Burraston Ponds

2010-06-09T10:16:00.000-07:00

About a month ago we went camping to Burraston Ponds. It was alot of fun to get out and going camping again. We should be going camping a lot this year. I really enjoyed this place too. I am learning how to like Utah and all the cool places to go.

Kylee and Joe went fishing. This place had about 3 ponds to fish in.

Kylee loved that she was going to go fishing with daddy. she loves to help carry things.

Kylee loves that dady helped her fish for a little bit

Kylee doesn't enjoy being in the stroller much anymore and always wants to walk so she wasn't very heppy being in the stroller

Kylee had a ton of fun playing with nathan. She got a wagon and sand toys that she loves to pull around and play with.

Sitting at the camp fire getting ready to cook tip foil dinners. Everytime we go camping we have to have tip foil dinner because they are just so great when camping.

About a month ago we went camping to Burraston Ponds

Ty's surgery

2010-05-06T15:36:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Ty had his surgery for chordee release and circ. I was really nervous for how he was going to take everything. I was hopping that he would have surgery at 6am but was way off. He was scheduled for surgery at 11:45 but we need to be at the hospital at 11:15. So he couldn't eat anything after midnight but he could have apple juice and water until 8:45am but nothing after that. So Joe wake him up at 11:30 pm to have a bottle. He then woke up at 7am and I gave him a bottle of apple juice. He was just fine and didn't have any problems with just having apple juice. We then left at 8:45 for Teresa's to drop off Kylee. Ty fell asleep in the car which was great. We got to the hospital at 10am because of course I am always early. Ty was then awake and we went into Primary Childrens Hospital to same day surgery. We then checked in and Ty just played. We were taken back to a room to take vitals and Ty got some hospital pjs to put on. They were then taken into the waiting room for surgery.

They had all kinds of toys for the kids to play it. It was so nice to have him occupied. he didn't start to get cranky until about 12:00. Of course they were behind. Dr. O came out and talked to me at 12:30 he explained everything that would happen and if I had any questions. Then the anesthesiologist came out and talked to me about what he was going to do and if I had any questions for him. We then walked out to the doors of the OR and he took him off through the doors. So I didn't get to see anything which I am sure was a good thing but I was kinda interested to see them put him out. And I wouldn't have minded watching the surgery either because I like that stuff.

So he was off to surgery at 12:45 and I didn't get to see him again until 3:45. I was able to go get some lunch and then watched some TV in the waiting room. I really didn't have a problem with him being in surgery I knew he was going to be just fine. He did take a little bit longer to wake up but as soon as he did I was able to go back and see him. He was so cute. He had an IV in his foot, BP cuff in his calf and an O2 sat on his big toe. I was then able to hold him. I loved it, he was so cuddly. He chugged two bottles of apply juice and his vitals were great so we were about to go home at 4:45. He slept the whole way home. Once we got home is was a little cranky but gave him some pain meds and feed him. He then did pretty good and started crawling around. Today he is doing better almost back to normal. He is crawling around like normal and eating fine just needs a little more attention and is crabier then normal. So far pretty good and it can just get better. 4-6 weeks until he is completely healed and then a F/U visit. Everyone at Primary's was so nice and Dr.O was wonderfull!

Camping Conference Weekend

2010-04-08T09:55:00.001-07:00

We went camping conference weekend at Antelope Island. It was cold but fun to be out.

So those of you who are wondering yes we got a trailer. All of Joe's family has one and now we are in the in crowd. So we plan on going camping a lot this summer mostly over the weekends. I remember going camping when I was little with our trailer and having a lot of fun and now I want my kids to have fun too. Also I have found there are a lot of good places to go camping so we will be exploring this summer.

We roasted marsmallows by getting everything ready inside then ran outside to roast them and back in to eat it. It was fun.

Kylee on the top bunk. She loves the top bunk and wants to go camping all the time.

Playing with the tea set, she loves to play tea party.

Ty playing on the floor with his toys. He is getting close to crawling.

Ty and Chandler cousins that are only 4 months apart. They will have so much fun when they are a little older. Kylee is 4 months older then her cousin Emily and they have a blast together. and now Ty as an older cousin that is 4 months older, how nice!

What next?

2010-04-05T08:21:00.000-07:00

Since I am not coaching year what should I do? Honestly it has been so nice to be at home and not have to worry about anything. But knowing me that won't last long. I need to stay busy. I have applied back at the doctors office I use to work at, I loved that palce. And it just so happened that they have an opening the same time I am interested. I could go coach at Mountain View High with an amazing coach there. Or I can go back to school. I just thought about going back to school the other day. But unlike a job you have the pay not get paid and I love to have extra money so I can go do things I enjoy. So after thinking about school some more I have some more choices with that.

Go to UVU take one class at a time so I can get a 4.0 in my classes so that I can get into the nursing program.

Go to Salt Lake Community College and wait 5 years to get into the nursing program

Go to a trade school like Stevens Henager pay the big bucks but be done in two years.

Lots of choices and now what do I do?

rolling and scootting

2010-03-31T13:18:00.001-07:00

This little guy is rolling all over the living room and now starting to scoot. He has some good aim. He rolled across the living room and then scootted back under the entertainment center. Had to take a picture of that one. He is getting so big and is finally thinking about crawling.

Nationals 2010

2010-03-30T12:05:00.000-07:00

Nationals was a lot of fun with the girls. We got there Thursday night and stayed until Monday night! They made it to finals and took 5th place! They did awesome and have come so far this year. We had a blast in disneyland and I was able to show the girls how much fun disnayland can be. I loved being able to run and get fastpasses for everyone and going on a ton of rides. I have to thank Aaron for showing me how it's done.

I was able to see my cousin Chad while I was there and that was great!!! He seriously made my day and I wish I could see him more!
Unfortunately I am not with the team anymore. I have had a great time with the girls for the pass two years and will miss them. But of course it's for the best and now I can move on to bigger and better things. I have the choice to go back to the doctors office and work or go be a coach at another school with another amazing coach and build up their program. I am so happy I was able to share some great times with these high school girls.

Gift for my cheer girls

2010-02-13T13:03:00.000-08:00

So the latest fad here in Utah is flower clips. The girls love them. So for Senior Night I decided instead of real flowers that die I thought it would be fun to make flower clips. So to make it look better then just clips I put them on sticks and put them in a vase. So they may not all match but they need to have all different colors. Hope they like it as much as real flowers.

Memory Mixer

2010-01-20T20:11:00.000-08:00

I finally got the new update for my Memory Mixer program. I have had too much fun playing with it. I have been staying up too late orangizing and editing pages. I also got a external hard drive so I am able to store everything on there so I'm not looking through three different computers trying to find what I need. Still in the process of trying to organize it all and getting everything on the hard drive. Great idea so I won't ever lose anything if one of the computers crashes.

Also in playing with my new program I got an email from Artscow.com for 10 free 8x8 20 page books. So I am making some books for Kylee. I made her an ABC book that turned out great so I have made a numbers, shapes, and colors books. I am uploading them right now. Here are some of the things I've been doing.

Kylee helping me cook

2010-01-02T08:07:00.001-08:00

Kylee is starting to want to help when I cook. It's kinda fun to have some one in the kitchen with me. So I try to find things that she can do. I was making meatballs this time and she was breaking all the crackers and loving it.

She loves helping me in the kitchen

Thanksgiving Dinner

2009-11-30T09:49:00.000-08:00

I ended up making rolls for Thanksgiving dinner and they were yummy. Thanks to Cami I can now make rolls and they are so easy.

We had a great Thanksgiving dinner thanks to everyone's help. It was great to be all together with my family.

Ty

2009-11-18T10:24:00.000-08:00

He starts on the play mat
Moves a little

and then ends up off the play mat

Ty has no desire to roll over. So instead he scoots around on his back. He will roll onto his side just so he can watch TV. I will but him on his play mat and he will just scoot off.

Cute things Kylee says

2009-11-14T05:20:00.000-08:00

So Kylee has been saying some cute things lately so I thought I would share.

-In a minute mom and puts her finger up---which means she doesn't want to do whatever I asked and is pretty much putting it off.

-Let me do it---She is almost 3 and has to do everything herself

-I'm not cute I'm a princess---She says this when I tell her she is so cute

-I'm not a princess I don't have my princess dress on---told me that last night

- no mom he's handsome-when I tell Ty he's cute

Then we have the polite Kylee, which I love.

-If she asks for something I ask what do you say, please mom

-Then if I give her something, thank you mom

-If she does something wrong and knows it she will come up to me and say, mom I wanted to say I'm sorry and gives me a hug.

Sometimes it's hard to deal this emotional little girl but the things she says is so cute and makes up for everything especially when she tells me she's sorry.

Jam

2009-10-26T08:23:00.000-07:00

I made home made jam the other day, I was so proud of myself. Last time I made it I had Cami's help but this time I was by myself and it still turned out!

So I have been trying new things lately. I canned apples with my sister-in-laws, that was a first, and it was fun! I also have tried making different things for dinner. But sadly most of those haven't turned out. I also would like to make home made rolls. I tried once it didn't work. I told my mom I would make home made rolls for Thanksgiving dinner but I may not be able to if I can't figure it out. Anyone want to help me?

Conference Weekend

2009-10-05T10:01:00.001-07:00

Conference weekend we always go camping. I guess it's our tradition now. This time we decided to go to Payson Lakes. And of course the weather is always not what you want. So yes there was snow on the ground and it was in the 40's but it was still fun. I finally went camping in a place that I liked. We always go camping with Joe's family and they always go to the desert. So for 6 years I have always thought of Utah as well desert because that's all I knew. Well I am so excited that Utah has pretty places too.

One of the best things was to see the trees in all the different fall colors.

On Saturday we walked down to the lake so Joe could do some fishing. It was cold but we bundled up.

This is the lake and well it was prettier in person. And Joe says that this is my pinecrest and well I think he is right. I think it is as close as it comes. The lake is about 1/4 of the size but it's great for fishing, canoeing, swimming, and it even has a path around the lake too. I love it!!! I can't wait for next summer to go camping there when it's warm.

Joe tried out some fishing for a few hours but didn't caught anything. It was fun to watch Joe fish and have Kylee play and want to fish too.

Kylee and Ty both in their monkey PJs so cute. Kylee is getting better with Ty and now want to hold him. So I let her hold him when she wants and try to snap a quick picture since she only likes to hold him for a minute.

We ended up taking Joe's parents RV for the weekend. And well it was so nice. We were warm the whole time, we would have froze it we were in a tent.

Kylee and Emily

2009-09-28T20:30:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we watched Emily, Kylee's cousin, while her mom had surgery. It was so much fun. We had her Friday night to Sunday afternoon. Saturday we had to go to the school for cheerleading tumbling class so I thought it would be fun to dress them a like, so I did. I had shorst that were the same, shirts that were the same just different colors, and did their hair the same with matching bows that were the same. They even worn the same sandals, saltwaters. It was so much fun! They looked like twins it was cute.

Saturday evening when Joe got home we went to the park. They were so excited to go play so we took the stroller down to the park. They had a blast going down the slides and Kylee loved the swing.

Lunch time

He's getting so big

2009-09-15T17:51:00.000-07:00

He is getting so big! He is just about 2 months old now. He is 24 inches long and is out growing his clothes because he is too long. He is so bald and I swear he had lost hair since he was born.
He is starting to smile and is so cute when he does. He has rolled over just a few times from his tummy to his back. He is being a great baby. He is sleeping for about 5 hours at night and goes right back to sleep it's wonderful. Then when we have to go to cheer in the morning he just sleeps the whole time. He is a great baby and we love to see all the new things he can do.

Life with two kids

2009-08-10T20:38:00.001-07:00

So I think this is my favorite. Rachel did an awesome job at taking these pictures! I had a hard time figuring out which were my favorite because I love all of them.

He looks so peaceful and I will have to say he is a great baby so far. I fee like I know what I am doing with this one, as with Kylee I felt like I had no idea, because well I really didn't. I know how is all works. I have my days down pretty good, it's the nights that I am still have problems with but he is only 3 weeks old. So I had to break out the Baby Wise book and I started reading that again today. And yes I am reading a book amazing! And it's the second time, that means it must be good right. It's because of Baby Wise that I realized what to do with Kylee. I didn't hear about it until she was 3 months old so I was a little late.

I just got my joggling stroller and I love it! Every morning we go for a walk down to the school and Kylee plays at the playground. It's great because I get my walk in and she gets to play and I can spend time with her. Then we get home and I work in the yard and Kylee gets her budget and shovel out and plays. So we have another win win I get something done and Kylee has fun too.

I have also started up Cheerleading practices again. We started last Monday and they have been going great. One of the girls in our ward comes over and watches Kylee while I take Ty with me to practice. Kylee loves her babysitter and has so much fun with her. It took me a while to get some one from the ward but I finally did it and it has worked out great! So I take Ty to practice with me and he does great. He pretty much sleeps the whole time, which is wonderful.

So that's our life so far. Things are going great and I love to keep myself busy. It's great to have structure to my life. I get up go on a walk, do things around the house, get ready for cheer, go to cheer, get home relax for a bit, make dinner, then I get the evening with Joe. Life is great!

First Pictures

2009-08-01T13:17:00.001-07:00

Rachel came by and took some pictures of Ty the other day. Theses are two of her favorite and I can't wait to see more. I love them!

Kylee loves to give her baby brother kisses and hold him, but just for a few seconds then she is done. She's a big help throwing diapers away getting Ty his binky or anything I may need. She is though a little jealous I think. She gets mad when I have to hold him or feed him and she want my attention. So I am working on giving her as much attention as I give Ty. We have been playing outside, coloring, painting, doing puzzles, and reading books. It's great being home with both of them

Ty Joseph Hempel

2009-08-01T08:13:00.000-07:00

On July 19th at 4:11pm Ty Joseph Hempel was born weighting in a 7lbs 14 oz and 20.5 inches long. My doctor was so great and induced me at 39 weeks. I went into the hospital at around 9am. They started me at around 11am. Things were going good and I got my epideral around 1pm. I visited with family for about an hour and then the nurse came in to check me. I was a 10 plus 1. Wasn't expecting that so fast. They paged my doctor and I had that baby in just two pushes, that was great! The cord was wrapped around his head twice, but all was ok. The labor with Ty was so much easier then with Kylee, at least I think. My epideral work so much better this time. I didn't feel a single thing, it was awesome!

My mom then brought Kylee down to see me and her new baby brother. When she saw me she looked concerned because I was in bed hooked up to all these machines.

Proud daddy, we have a son now and Joe is so happy. Joe was great for the whole thing. I don't know what I would do without him. He helped me with whatever I needed. He went and got me food many times because I have to say the hosiptal food was horrible! When i had Kylee and Utah Valley they had decend food but at Timpanogos it was nasty! But they did have my favorite shortbread cookie lornadorna so I loaded up on those.

All in all everything went over great and we have a new baby boy!

Cheer Camp

2009-06-26T17:42:00.000-07:00

So we just got back from cheer camp today. I am so on top of it already getting a post up. I am usually months behind. I am emailing all the girls pictures so I thought it will just take a minute to write a little and post some pictures. We left Tuesday morning and got back today Friday the 26th.

The girls did an awesome job at camp. They learned so much and are getting so much better! This year we are going to be on top of it and have half times ready along with cheers and sidelines, well because you know me I am crazy orangized. Well at least I think I am. I am so pumped I have half times and sideling danes all picked out for every game. The girls aren't the only ones doing things. We had coaching meeting which was nice so we could see what other coaches did and how the delt with issues. So both the girls and I got a lot done this week.

These girls are so awesome! They all get along so good and we don't really have any issues with any of them. They all work really hard and will do anything you tell them to do, it's awesome! We are already doing stunts that we couldn't do until the end of the year last year. I am just so excited for this year of cheer and to have awesome girls to work with.

And of course Kylee didn't come with me she stayed with Teresa Tues, Thrus, and Fri and Karie on Wed. Joe was so good and got her for the nights. Don't know if she ever really missed me because she had Joe and he never talked about me to avoid the issue that would cause. But I sure did miss her. And of course I am 36 weeks or 8 months pregnant too. So was just a little worry being away for a week being so far ago pregnant. Everyone at camp thought I was a little crazy but that's ok. It was a little hot but I delt with it and everyone was so nice to the pregnant lady. It was fun even though I am so huge!

All in all we had a great time and can't wait to for year to start!!!

Cheer Nationals

2009-04-19T11:53:00.001-07:00

Nationals was a blast! First night we got there USA had an 80's party in California Adventure. We got there at 11:30 at night and got back at 2 am. It was awesome have the whole park to just the cheerleaders.

We had so much fun in Disneyland! Even though we didn't do the greatest at Nationals we still had a blast. So we got there Friday night, performed on Saturday, played Saturday night and all day Sunday and Monday. We returned home on Monday night. Our flight went from Salt Lake to Long Beach on Jet Blue. Which I have to say Jet Blue is the best airline ever. You get the watch TV the whole time and the sits are bigger and have more space. And one other thing Long Beach in the smallest airport ever! I think it is even smaller then Modesto. But this was great trip and I can't wait to do this again next year!!! Which is another thing. I am going to be the head coach at Timpanogos High School this next year. I am so excited and have already done so much!

My all time favorite ride now at Disneyland or I guess California Adventure. Toy Story!!! Although I'm not very good it's still fun. I think my highest score was 150,000.

My crazy girls!

Me and Kayla

Just before they performed. And I also have the say playing the music is the scariest thing ever. I had to play the music and it is a huge sound system I thought I was going to mess up the music. But of course I dind't but it was still scary!

We performed at 1:15 pm and were up since 9 getting ready. The girls all had to do their hair and make up the same. Kayla and I were both helping everyone get ready. We also thought it would be fun to do our hair and make up the same.

GUESS WHAT

2009-04-02T18:43:00.000-07:00

GUESS WHAT!!! I'm pregnant! Oh wait I've only been pregnant for 24 weeks now. I know I am so lame and never post anything new. So here are some ultrasound pictures. I am so lucky and get ultrasounds all the time. I got some when I was 9 weeks, 12 weeks, 16 weeks, 17 weeks, and 20 weeks. I found out I was having a boy when I was 16 weeks and it was confirmed at my 20 week ultrasound. We are so excited but can't decide on a name yet. We can't agree on anything. So hopefully we can in the next few weeks.

2009-01-24T07:20:00.000-08:00

So I am caughting up now. Here are the Christmas pages I just did. Thanks to Cami I found out how to download free scrapbooking stuff from different websites and therefore I started making more pages for Kylee's scrapbook. So all these pictures are pages in Kylee's scrapbook. This way I get her scrapbook done and I can post the pictures on the blog at the same time. So I am caughting up and should have her Birthday up next. I am so excited. I'm still not as good as Cami and don't know if I will ever get there but I am working on it. I am trying to get more creative on my pages and some days it's harder then others.

So Christmas was great. We stayed in Utah since we went to Disney World for Thanksgiving with my family. We went to Wayne and Julie's for Christmas eve dinner. We had t-bone steaks, mashed potatoes, and salad it was yummy. Then we stayed the night and woke upi Christmas morning at there house. We opened presents around 9 or 10. Kylee was excited but still didn't get the whle idea. She loved the things she got. She got a baby doll and stollor from Santa. She got puzzles and another mickey from grandma and grandpa Barth, a bag to use when going to grandma's house from grandma and grandpa Hempel, then she got a tent, mickey and minnie characters, and an Ariel. She loved the stroller most of all. Although she does throw her baby out of it and puts Minnie in it and pushes her around. It's cute and we love to play with her.

Disneyworld

2009-01-20T14:35:00.000-08:00

SO yes I know I am so far behind. Yes this is Walt Disney World. We went there over Thanksgiving week. We were with my whole family. It was so much fun to see everyone and enjoy our time together with them. We stayed at the Port Orleans Riverside Disney hotel. It was great to stay in a disneyland and use their transportation even though it was slow at times. I have a wonderful brother Aaron and Sister-in-law Rachel who planned and orangized so much for our trip. If it wasn't for them we wouldn't have been so prepared! We enjoyed every park but of course loved Magic Kingdom most of all. Kylee wasn't a fan of the characters which was fine with us no staning in line to see all of them. She did like to see them from a distance which was nice. We loved to see her face when she say Mickey and Ariel. She just lit up it was price less. She wasn't a big fan of the rides either. I would hold her and she would just cry because she was scared. But we all took turns on the big rides so we still had fun. It was nice not being the only on with a baby. Now Adam and Shannon have a little one now. Kylee warmed up to everyone which was so nice. She enjoyed it when Aaron would get her. And she loved grandpa! We had a blast!!!

Halloween

2008-11-02T16:50:00.000-08:00

Happy Halloween!

We went to Mike and Teresa's house for Halloween. Teresa made yummy chilli for dinner. After dinner we went trick or treating around her neighborhood in Riverton. Kylee was dressed up as a bee, I was a 50's girl, and Joe was his same thing every year, death or a scary guy to little kids. He loved scaring all the little kids that came by the house. Which means Kylee was terrified or him! Joe went to go hold Kylee and she just screamed, who was the scary guy. But besides being scared by Joe she had fun trick or treating. After the second house she figured out that she got candy. She loved it. At each house she saw the bowl or candy and just grabbed what she wanted. She saw candy and figured out that they were just giving it to her so she wanted to get it herself and put it in her bag. That was a big thing putting the cany in her bag. If she didn't grab the candy and they handed it to her she had to put it in the bag. We went to about 10 houses and then came back. I went back out with the older kids and Joe stayed to hand out candy and scare kids. Kylee's favorite candy was suckers and anything chocolate. We had so much fun that night!

2008-10-28T13:56:00.000-07:00

Saturday we went to Lagoon. We had a blast! We call it out test run for Disney World. Even though of course Disneyland would have been better. Kylee had so much fun. She loved going on all the little rides. She didn't have a problem standing in line. Note that Lagoon ride lines are shorter then Disneyland rides. She was fine in the stroller for the most part. I do think I will have to buy one of the dog backpack leash things. I know I always hated to see kids with those but they are pretty nice. This way she can get out a walk around and I won't lose her. What do you think? So is it a mean thing to do or a good thing to do? Then another thing was she took a nape in the stroller. I was so happy, that is one thing I was worry that we might have to go back to the hotel in Disney so she can take a nap, but I really think she will be ok in the stroller. So over all it was fun and a good test run for disney.

Bath Time

2008-10-10T12:28:00.001-07:00

Well sorry I don't have any pictures. My camera is still not working. But I had to tell everyone the good news. Kylee is finally able to take a bath without crying! I never thought is would every happen. She has always hated to take baths. Lately since we have gotten a tub she wants to get in but not with water in it. So the other day I was taking a bath and she said she wanted in so I really didn't believe her. But I was worry she really did want in. So I got her in the bath and she didn't want out, she was having so much fun. So then I thought it was just going to be a one time thing. But NO, she has now takin 4 baths all my her self. This is so exciting bath time will not longer be a screaming fight.

Kylee's 18 month pictures

2008-09-20T07:15:00.001-07:00

So it's a little late but oh well. Rachel took these pictures in provo. Kylee is actually 19 months old in the pictures. And now she is 20 months old so I am kinda behind. Rachel did such a good job! She is awesome at taking Kylee's pictures. We always go somewhere outside and Kylee just does her own thing and Rachel can get some great pictures. We try and get her to sit and be still but that doens't work so well. We should probably take some more pictures before it gets cold outside. And the leaves are changing colors in the canyon so maybe we will do that next.

And our camera broke some how so I hope to get that fixed so we can take more pictures of us. my old camera doesn't take the best pictures, but for some reason Aaron's camera takes awesome picture and it is the same camera. So I have to fix one of them so I can get more pictures of us.

Kylee is now a Cheerleader

2008-08-21T14:14:00.001-07:00

So the school gets new uniforms for the girls every three year. So I decided to take one of the old ones a make it into Kylee's size. Well how did I do? I think I did a good job and I am impressed with myself. And I was going to take it to a alteration place but I am so glad I didn't and that i could do it all by myself. I'm sure they would have done a better job but now I can say I did it and everyone can be impressed by my wonderful talent. SO I just wanted to show everyone because I was so happy with it. Now I just need to wait for Cami and make a bow to go with it.

Oregon

2008-07-27T21:34:00.000-07:00

So this is Day 5 the trip is almost over. So we went to Fort Stevens today. This was actually a lot of fun, didn't think it would be, you know history and everything not being my most favorite thing in the World. So this was a WWII battle place. So Joe and I were saying it reminds us of Lost for all those fans out there. just look at some pictures and you can't tell me it doesn't.

So we also visited some other places too. We went to where the Clombia River meets the Ocean and also this cool ship wreck. It was a fun trip for the day. We can back and Joe and I went to get our hair cut. Then joe went and flew his kite some more. He loves that thing, but it is kinda fun I have to admit.

Oregon

2008-07-26T20:17:00.001-07:00

So I am so happy I can write. I wasn't able to the other day because the computer here would let me.

Day 1

So we left for Oregon Wednesday morning. We left Kylee and Steve and Val's. We flow to Portland where Wayne and Julie picked us up. We went to the Portland Tempel and then to Seaside where we were staying. We get there and it is beautiful. We stayed in the Worldmark resort right on the beach. And I mean right on the beach. We are on the 8 floor looking out to the ocean. We can just sit out on the deck and watch people all day if we wanted to. So that's what we did day one.

Day 2

We went up to longbeach, Wa which was just 45 mins away. We went to bunch there and then to a lighthouse. We just enjoyed the scenery and how beautiful everything is. We came because and went to dinner and shopped a little. We also take a nice walk on the beach down to the river. And of course I found some sand dollars. And it seemed like Joe and Julie had never seen on before.

Day 3

We went to Cannon Beach to the tide pools. That was a lot of fun, although they weren't as good as California! We sent about a hour there and then went to haystack rock. Where they say part of the goonies was filmed. That was fun. Then we came back and Joe bought a Kite and we flow that for a while and then played Frisbee on the beach.

Day 4

We decided to sleep in and relax. Joe and I went to the outlets and then out to lunch and then came back to the resort. Then we decided to go see a movie. Man was this the smallest theater I had ever been in. It held about many 25 people ok maybe a little more but it was small. We saw Hancock. It was ok that the best movie we all thought.

It is SO windy!

And that is it for now I will update when we get back.

Cheer Camp

2008-07-19T14:50:00.001-07:00

I just got back from Cheer Camp. I was gone from Monday to Thurday afternoon. It wasn't so fun at the beginning but on Wednesday I am began to have a lot of fun. We have 15 girls on the squad and they are so much fun. They work hard and are getting better and better. Their final eval the nailed perfect!! Kayla and I were so proud of them. Wednesday night we dressed up as bling bling nerds, that was SO much fun. Some of the coaches did a skit for the whole camp that night. The girls saw a different side of me and realized that I can be fun when you can be. They also realized I can dance better then them and have better facials. I told them a lot that if I can do it this good then so can you. So it was really fun and the girls got to know me a lot better. This should be a fun year!!!

PIGGIES

2008-07-11T18:55:00.000-07:00

So I picked Kylee up from day care today and she had pigtails. I was like, what, how did you do that. It looked so cute. And how did they ever get her to stay still long enough to do it. Well since I liked it so much I went downstairs to all the bows and found two matching ones that Cami gave me. So I put them in and it was so cute. You know this is a big deal. She is a 18 months and is finally getting some hair. So I took so pictures to show everyone. Hope you enjoy as much as I did.

4th of July

2008-07-06T21:12:00.000-07:00

So on the 4th we went to Joe's parents house also known as the in-laws. We went swimming, had dinner and of course did fireworks. Kylee loves the pool, don't know why she hate's the bath. So we had fun swimming with everyone and just talking about everything going on. The fireworks for fun too. Kylee loved those! See wanted to hold her one sparkler, it was cute. All in all it was a fun day.

So Kylee loves animals! She can say Izzy, the dog's name, and Kitty but not mama. Her and Izzy play so good together. Kylee will throw the ball and Izzy will go get it and bring it back to her, she loves it! She also loves the kitties. She holds them and gives them big loves. She also likes to pull their tails, who doesn't. So we spent a lot of time outside playing since she loves it.

I guess it's time for a new post!

2008-06-23T21:08:00.001-07:00

Well people have been bugging my about posting something new on my blog. So I think I figured it out. Well our bathroom is STILL NOT DONE!!! But it is getting close. oh so frustrating it been now 4 months. AAAHHHH.

We are all doing good. Joe has passed the series 7 and 63 so now is a licensed banker at Wells Fargo which means he can do investments for people along with everything else. I am still working at the clinic 8 hours a week and still loving that! I did just get a new job as a cheerleading coach which I am also so excited about. I have always wanted to do this since I graduated high school. And for the summer I bought a season pass to seven peaks so we are getting tan this summer! The one thing I don't get is Kylee loves to go swimming but lates the bath. Does that not make sense or what? So that is about it for this time maybe I will keep this updated now!

Bath remodel

2008-03-01T08:37:00.001-08:00

We are now remodeling our bathroom. It is about time. We have to though. The title was falling off and was all moldy. So Joe started last night. He will start again today and hopefully get things back up. We have picked out new title which has taken a little while. SO for the mean while we are using the 2nd bath down stairs until it is done. I can wait to see the finish product!!!