Brett Alivia Degan SaDae

SaDae 8mths

2011-03-13T22:54:00.002-06:00

My lil girl is now a crawling moving baby. I was curious if she was gunna skip this phase and go straight to walking, but she does crawl, over to things to stand up ha. I love her and we have so much fun watching her learn new things everyday. Her and Degan already fight over toys she gets him in trouble by exaggerating things and he pesters her. But they LOVE each other and in the mornings when they wake up its like love at first sight every morning. Degan will kiss her and say "she's awake" and then give her a kiss. SaDae smiles SO huge.

Christmas and anything inbetween

2010-12-30T23:21:00.005-07:00

My Computer is being gay so these pictures are all out of order.. but oh well..

Christmas was fun this year with 2 kids.. Degan wasn't too sure about Santa Claus but he did understand presents so we bribed him with those for 2 weeks, but it doesn't help his birthday is a week before so he got a present almost everyday for 2 weeks that kid is spoiled and has so many toys.

He is getting better about sharing he doesn't let SaDae have any toy , but he will give her one he doesn't want at that time. He loves his sister and now that she can sit up they play alittle on the floor together.His birthday party was fun we went to fUnTiMe Inflatables, and a few friends came we let the kids play. The afternoon he got a lil sick so he didn't enjoy it as much as he could of but he still had fun.
SaDae now 6mths is just growing up so fast and I hate it. She is definetly a girl if she doesn't like something she will let you know, but she is pretty easy going, unless she isn't but she is a lover and likes to cuddle. She loves to watch her brother dance and move she just giggles and sometimes for no apparent reason at all.
We have had a REALLY busy 2 months. Grams had to have open heart surgery to replace a her mitravalve, and so we were in the hospital with that, and then the week after she got home from the hospital , my mom had rotary cuff surgery. So then I was helping take care of them, and if not down in STG I was up here working. Brett was my saving grace he handled the kids for almost 2 weeks by himself with me peeking in every now and again. I love him and so THANKFUL for all he does, i know he sometimes feels neglected.
WE all hope and pray for a good 2011 and that no more hospitals or surgeries and everything gets better.

Fall Travels

2010-11-12T14:45:00.007-07:00

This fall started out crazy and hopefully it is over with.
Family pics before the leaves all fell.

The kids and I went to Texas for 4 days with my mom and grandma for a cousins wedding. We flew and it was so fun. It wasn't much of a vacation but we had good times and the kids enjoyed meeting their relatives for the first time. They got married at this Windmill museum so there were windmills from all over and from so many different time periods.

Then it was halloween and im not a very good mother, Rachel took all the pics so I only have like 2 .. :( Degan was a tiger and SaDae was a kitty. They both didn't mind their costumes, which was nice. Degan never did say trick or treat but he sure knows how to say "candy".

Then last weekend Brett and I am some friends went to Cali for a wedding. It was a quick trip but we had a great time and got to sleep in and with no kids in my bed and not have to worry about diapers or nap time, it sure was nice. I did miss the kids but we all got a well deserved break.

Summer has past

2010-10-07T15:01:00.005-06:00

This summer was a really busy one for us. Our precious SaDae joined our family and Brett was busy working with fire and Degan.. well he is ALWAYS busy. We really haven't gone many places other than StG. Our travels begin in late october, so excited.
Degan will be 2 in December and he acts like he is 10 he thinks he knows how to do everything including hold and carry his lil sister. He learns new tricks and things every day. His newest is pushing his trucks up to the fridge to get a drink and drowing himself and the floor in the process.
SaDae is getting so big so fast, she has rolled over and loves to kick on the floor while watching football (with mommy). She is so happy smiles at just about anyone she is almost always happy except when she is mad there really isn't a middle ground with her. She continues to be a good sleeper usually sleeps from 10 to 7 and eats and goes right back down. I am so blessed with her. It will be really soon when she is chasing Degan and causing extra mischief.

SaDae Tatye Swapp

2010-06-27T21:51:00.003-06:00

She has ARRIVED!! SaDae was born Monday June 21, 2010 @ 3:55 pm. She was 6lbs 7oz and 18 in long. As most of you know Grandma Brink passed away on Wed June 16th, and I really didn't want to miss the funeral or go into labor during so I was really hoping that I could have the baby soon so I could attend. So Saturday night I went to StG to play and have fun and not sit at home waiting on the way home I started having contractions and thought oh yes this might just be it.. 6 hrs later NOTHING. So I went to bed got up for church and nothing so I went to church and was just so sad I was still pregnant. Sunday night, I thought I gotta do all I can my days are running out to have her and recoupe before the funeral so .. you know.. and about 4 am I starting having some contractions but I wasn't getting my hopes up since the night before I had them for 6 hours and then nothing. They started to get stronger so I kinda got excited I told Brett before he left for work that just maybe I would have this lil girl today. As Im cleaning, going for walks, playing with Degan I got a phone call from my Dr.s office and I thought they were just reminding me of my app the next day, but no.. she was calling to say my that at my last ultrasound the baby's head hadn't grown as much as they were hoping and wanted me to go see a specialist in StG today. I told the nurse that I was having contractions did she really want me to go? She she talked to the Dr and she said nope just come into the office right away so she could check me and see if I was in labor they would just keep it going. So I hang up the phone and start freaking out cause I had planned on having a lil time to make arrangements for Degan and talk to my mom and so I just bawl.. call Brett fill him in tell him to come home. Find a place for Deg to go, then I decided I'd take Deg to Brett and go to the drs to see what was going to happen. I get there they take me right back she checks me says Im a 3 and then proceeds to strip me and says I think we are going to have a baby. She then calls the specialist and asks him what he thinks about the babies head and he says just get her delivered and IF anything is wrong we can deal with it better. Im just crying and Laurie says there could be nothing wrong we just have to be cautious. So she says go down to Labor and Delivery. I get down there and the nurse says we have no rooms right now so your gunna have to wait and if we have to we can put you in a room but we'd rather not. So I got a hot pack on my boobs and just started walking the halls. Luckily my friend Bobbie had her baby that morning so I went and visited her and wasn't SO bored. I waited about an hour n a half for a delivery room by this time my contractions were about 2 min apart and getting VERY intense I was getting nervous I was not gunna get my epidural. I got in my room at about 2:15 pm, hurried and changed into a gown, the nurses wanted to start my IV and get everything goin she checks me and im at a 5, 90% effaced. Luckily since they had been so busy the anesthesiologist was already around so he came in and started my epidural at 2:35 . Laurie comes in to check me and break my water and I was a 7. I started to feel relief and then this weird slight pain I thought probably just a contraction but i asked the nurse she checks me again and I was a 10. She goes to get Laurie and comes back to say, bad news she is delivering another baby. But since I wasn't feeling much it wasn't too big of a deal. My mother was on her way up but hadn't gotten to the hospital yet, it was just Brett and I. Laurie comes in and says lets have a baby she was so excited and couldn't believe how fast things had gone. They called respiratory in JUST IN CASE our lil girl needed some help. I pushed once, Laurie massaged for a second I pushed again and out she came. The nurses were amazed at how easy this delivery went, with how crazy the hospital had been that day. All in all I think they delivered 10 babies that day. So out she came and cried looked normal and NOTHING was wrong with her all that worry for no reason. She was born at 3:55 amd then my mom arrived, she has just barely missed it. I was so blessed to have a good pregnancy and a fast delivery. Our family is now 4 and we are adjusting be loving it. Degan is the best BIG brother and he loves his sister.

Father's Day..

2010-06-20T13:05:00.004-06:00

I don't know if Brett or my Dad will ever read this because they don't blog, but I wanted to tell them how special they are to me. I love them so much and am SO very grateful for all they do in my life and Degan's and already for SaDae (who still isn't here yet).

ANY day now..

2010-06-11T14:55:00.004-06:00

We are just waiting for SaDae to come and join us. We almost have everything ready, so I guess she can come now. Degan is getting so big and just SO much help with everything, he acts like he is SO big and I know he will make such a great big brother. Last weekend we went fishing at Kolob and did a mini trip with the 3 of us before Brett started working weekends and before our family became 4. Im so excited to meet this lil girl and see what great things she will bring to our family. I guess the next post will be after the baby since any day she can come and I know she wants out she kicks me and moves so much it hurts haha.

46 days left.. ..

2010-05-13T14:49:00.003-06:00

I remember I was so good on posting with Degan, but lil SaDae hasn't gotten all that love. I am actually having mixed emotions about her getting here. We finally got the shelves up the garage and now I am working on cleaning out the bedroom so she can actually have a room of her own. There are only 6 full weekends left before she comes and thats if she waits (Im not sure how much she is loving it in my belly haha)
Degan is getting so grown up already he loves to help anyone that will let him. His favorite thing right now is to help Brett mow the lawn, and he knows how to start it ( thank goodness he is not strong enough to). I have him give SaDae kiss's in the morning and if you ask him where his lil sister is he points to my belly button. I sure hope he is this easy going when she actually comes.
Mothers Day was a good day I didn't change 1 dirty diaper it was such a wonderful day, we spent it in Kanab with Bretts family, got some good time in with Grandma Brink.
I know theres so much more I could tell but I need to clean before Degan wakes up.

my birthday and easter

2010-04-07T16:35:00.003-06:00

This year My Birthday and Easter were on the same day I was really quite happy cause that meant it would be EXTRA special.. haha.. Well I turned 25 and this year was kind of a hard one, I really felt old but I know I still have alot of years left so this was nothing. The weekend was jam packed full of family parties and bbqs and so much fun. Saturday was fun we were @ the sand dunes with all the Brinkerhoffs I wish I had pictures (everyone send me some) Degan would not really play with all his cousins he just had to be on the four wheelers the ENTIRE time, even while asleep I hope someone got that picture.

Sunday we had a Easter egg hunt with The Ashcrafts and Degan was pretty good at finding eggs, got to enjoy some fun with friends and then that evening we had a wonderful birthday dinner planned. All the food was prepared said a pray to start eating and then Brett started choking and had a really bad episode. He could not even swallow his own spit so I took him to the ER in st.George, they gave him some medicine to relax his esophagus and to just relax him and that did nothing. So they called in a GI doctor and he came in and they scoped him and removed the food that was blocking his esophagus and then proceed to stretch it out. Since he has hemophilia we had Becky run us some factor from Kanab, just in case there was alot of bleeding. Needless to say I didn't get to enjoy my birthday dinner, cake or presents I was spending nice quality time at the hospital with Brett. The next day we were off to Vegas to pick up Brett's parents from the airport we had a room and tickets to a show, but since Brett couldn't eat we didn't go and just did some sight seeing and shopping , neither one of us enjoyed ourselves too much since we were so tired from the night before but I'm just glad my hubby is alright. We will never forget my 25th birthday!

6 mths prego and Degan 15 mths

2010-03-15T21:09:00.003-06:00

I know I say this every post but I have become quite the slacker when it comes to blogging. I am happy to say Im finally 6 mths pregnant and cant wish time to go any faster till this lil girl gets here. I am ready for her but not for Brett to go back to work and have two kids to take care of but I CAN DO IT! This pregnancy so far has not been bad at all, I am so blessed to have it so easy. Degan kind of understands that he is getting a new sister but I dont think he will really get it till she is here. Degan is such a lil crazy kid lately. He still wont really talk and he does NOT listen but he understands everything and if he doesn't know how to work it he will. He is so smart and BUSY. Tonight I got home from work and he was wound up running around spinning and the whole time he would go cross eyed from watching his hand, Brett and I were laughing so hard. He is always making us laugh which is good cause it helps forget how mad I am at him sometimes for not listening or constently getting into things he shouldn't be. I dont have much more to say, but I just wanted to post about things before I forgot.

GiRl !!

2010-02-03T16:09:00.002-07:00

Today we found out we were having a girl, in the pictures Brett nor I were fully convinced but I had never really seen any pics of the girls so I came hope and put the two side by side and sure enough they are different. I am really excited and trying to control my urge to plan and start doing things, at least for a lil while we still have 21 weeks but its so hard. I already know her name which is .. Sadáe (not sure on the middle). I want her room to be light and bright pinks with light yellow. Brett is going crazy already because my wheels are just a spinning on all the things I want, but this is easier cause I can focus on a handful of things where with Degan I needed and wanted EVERYTHING!

2010

2010-01-10T16:19:00.004-07:00

I dont know why , but my blogging has really been lacking the end of 2009. So my new years resolution is to blog better and more frequently in 2010. So we had a wonderful Christmas , New Years and Degan turned 1. Wow.. I really dont understand how once you become a parent the time just goes so fast. We really haven't been to busy just chillin and enjoying each others company. Most of you should know this but we are going to have a baby this year. #2's due date is July 4th, but im hoping the end of June, but the 4th would be a cool birthday you would always have fireworks and a parade how much better can it get? We should find out this month what we are having and to be completely honest I kind of want to let it be a surprise even though I HATE Surprises.. but Brett wont let me , he says that is silly and we have to find out. Here are some pictures from October to January...

Slacker

2009-10-28T10:21:00.007-06:00

I have been slacking big time on my blogging responsibilities.. I have not even been that busy I'm always on the computer I just haven't uploaded and posted. So here we go lets play catch up..
We did the pumpkin patch around the first on October and that was way fun.. Degan wasn't sure what to think about it he didn't like to touch them. I really enjoyed it and we decided to make it a tradition so that's a fun thing.

Degan has learned to walk, he is still Frankenstein but its okay.. and everyday he gets better and better, Its so fun watching him learn and do it all on his own, I just don't want him to start running away from us that will not be fun. He had been standing up walking on furniture since he was about 7 or 8 mths so I thought he would of started walking sooner but that's just fine with us he is busy as it is. He just plays all day with his "titty" that's how he says kitty its so cute, they are just the best of friends, she is way nice to him I'm surprised.

Along with his walking he LOVES to push his fire truck around and stand on it to reach things, and he climbs on the stove I have never heard of this before, but Im so glad we have a lock on ours its so nice.

This past weekend we went to the Heritage Livestock festival, aka the sheep parade, I knew Degan would love to watch the parade and see all the sheep, he was so intrigued the whole time you could hardly get his attention. My mom came up so hang out and we had a lot of fun, watched the parade, then played some games, then went to the tractor pulls and walked around and then went to watch the sheep dogs.

Degan was kind of weird at the rest of it, he LOVES steering wheels and so we thought he would love to sit on some tractors but we were so wrong he cried and I have never seen him be so shy.
Yesterday was the first snow fall luckily we were in STG so I thought we missed it but boy was I wrong, we woke up to about 3 inches and so we went out to play in it but without the proper clothes we couldn't stay out too long.

Bedtime Habits

2009-09-29T22:46:00.002-06:00

My sweet little boy has NEVER been a good sleeper, but I am told neither was I so its just payback. Well.. yes im guilty he has always slept with us, I nursed him so it was so easy and I HATE getting woken up at night so life was good baby slept and so did I. Well now that he is 9 mths old and tosses and turns in the bed Brett and I decided it was past time to get him in his own crib, that I made such a fuss about getting. I had him a on great schedule before Brett got home from his last detail on the New Harmony Fire, and then I went to Salt Lake with the fam and he WILL not sleep alone anymore. So after LOTS of sleepless nights and crying for HOURS ( no joke he cried for 4 hours one night) and time spent in the crib with him showing him it was ok and safe we had no such luck. We were both just so exhausted and fed up, weren't quite sure what to do, but we knew we had to be strong and ONE day it would pay off. Well for now we have decided he hates his crib, he is sleeping in his pack n play in our room but not our bed, two nights ago he cried for 40 min, the next night we stayed in StG a lil nervous if we would make progress but we did. Only screaming for 15 min and tonight he only cried for 5.. WOO WOO! now if we can just get him in his own room this story would be complete.
This picture was suppose to be of Brett and Degan in his crib but when I ran to get the camera Brett jumped out so this is just Degan with a huge smile and tears, because he wasn't alone. Man I love this kid, can you see why we had a hard time saying NO!

Soccer in SLC

2009-09-18T10:44:00.006-06:00

Last weekend Nic had two games in Salt Lake @ Westminster so we us girls and Degan got in the car and went to watch. He did awesome this was our first time watching him play with his new team. Degan's first time ever watching his Uncle Nic play, Im not so sure he loved it but we had fun anyways, we always do.

Friday afternoon, they played and lost 3-1 and then saturday we went up to park city and did some shopping at the outlets.

Sunday he had another game they didn't do so hot that time, but oh well. Monday Adams state played Dixie. It was really neat for Nic to play some of his old team mates, he made the Spectrum so that was fun. They Tied but I think they would of won had it not been for a PK that they made. I am very glad we got to spend some time with him, just wished Brett wasn't working so he could of joined us.S
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The bestest son...

2009-09-04T23:31:00.005-06:00

All of August (pretty much) it was just Degan and I.. and then of course we would spend alot of time in St.George at my parents so we could play with our friends and not be so bored. I will be happy when fire season is over so Brett can come back to us. and maybe I'll get a little break.. here are some pictures from the past little while. I sure do love this little boy he does the funniest things.. and I am not ready for him to walk but im sure soon enough there will be a video of his first steps.. When we are at Grandma's we hardly wear clothes.. so this is my lil one showing off his muscles. His first oreo.. (this was all Tera's idea)

Degan has been watching the dogs going in and out of the doggie door so he decided that it was his turn to try. I dont know why I didn't put my camera on video mode, but here are still shots of him going thru.

He is learning SO much and so quickly its amazing.

1st Annual girls trip

2009-08-28T22:39:00.005-06:00

So.. back in like May, my friends and I decided that we needed to get together and go away for the weekend, since we all have little kids we took them, and boy was that fun. It really wasn't that bad we had a good time and all the kiddos did really good. There were 6 of us ladies and 4 babies. We left friday afternoon and played went to dinner, and then tried to Shop on saturday but none of us were really in the shopping mood. Steph made us all a delicious dinner and then that night went on an adventure to Big Deluxe and watched Kristin get her tattoo. That was fun.. weird but fun. Wen out to breakfast sunday morning and then back home we went. A short but VERY fun trip. here are a few pictures of the occasion but I only got ones of Degan so I borrowed these from the other girls.

Anniversay part 2

2009-08-12T11:36:00.004-06:00

I just found these pictures and for some reason it wont let me add them to my previous post so.. here is another one.

3 wonderful years

2009-08-04T09:48:00.008-06:00

So it has been 3 years since Brett and I got married (well tomorrow). We have grown so much as people and as a couple. He has given me so many things I never thought were possible. I love him so much and I don't know if or when he will read this because he is on a fire and who knows when he will be home, but I love You SO much. I am so very blessed to have you as a husband and father to Degan and any other kids we will have. Our Journey began on New Years Eve 2005, we got engaged on May 14? I never can remember the exact date and then we got married on Aug 5th 2006, bought our first house on August 29th 2008, had our first son on December 19 2008. There are many many more wonderful things to come for us and even though we wont be together on our anniversary this year, I know you are always in my heart. Here are some pictures from our live thus far.

Car Accident

2009-08-02T11:04:00.002-06:00

So.. this week has been pretty busy with lots to do. Well.. We went to St.George on Thursday for Brett's doctors appointment and I wanted to just stay the night and go home Friday night after Tammy's Party, but Brett had to WORK again.. so I decided so I could spend more time with him I would just make two trips to St.George. I also had Kenzie with me, and I promised her we could go swimming so Friday we woke up and got ready to go back to St.George. I was trying to gather all our stuff for two kids and then get the dogs (Palmers) stuff together so I could take them back home. We finally got headed out of town a lil before 10. We are just cruising.. ready to go play and have a fun day.. when all of a sudden this tie-down strap comes loose of a truck, ( let me back track just a little. A long time ago on our way to Las Vegas , Tammy was driving and this semi had something come loose from his truck and bounced in the road and right thru our windshield. So I am VERY afraid of semi's and things falling off. I know I over re-act but I just can't help it. ) Ok back to the future well past but the recent. As I see this debris floating in the air I hurry and tried to swerve to miss it but I was going TO fast and starting swerving all over the road and could not get control of the car, all I could think was to slow down try to slow down so you can get better control of the car. Some how in the midst of all the chaous we spun around not sure how many times and then went off the road and hit a linear post. We could of very easily rolled off the edge, but didn't. I know that Heavenly Father was watching out for us. No one was hurt we did not hit another car, and I think I missed the tie-down. No one say what truck it was and he didn't stop but I am just very grateful that the kids were okay and had NO injuries. I of course was panicking and shaking and about crapped my pants. Called brett and thankfully he had not gone out on a fire yet so he came to my rescue and we switched cars and we continued our journey to St.George. We didn't have that much fun the rest of the day but we did make it to TAmmy's Surprise 50th birthday party and had fun. Here is all the damage it did to my car.. We are VERY lucky !

Sleeping on the job

2009-07-15T22:42:00.004-06:00

I know you have all heard stories and seen pictures of babies who have fallen asleep while eating. Well tonight was the first time Degan was so tired that he did that. It was so funny. Brett was feeding him and I was finishing my dinner. Degan just kept nodding off, so I got the camera and filmed and took pictures. They aren't the greatest because of the window but you get the idea, and don't mind Brett's voice.. I wanted to keep Degan asleep but couldn't stop laughing so he got mad at me.

4th of JuLy 09

2009-07-06T12:34:00.004-06:00

This year we went to Kanab, this will have been my 4th year going over there its our family tradition Brett says. We had alot of fun being with the family. There is just so many of them its crazy and wears you out but we had so much fun. Degan just loves all his cousins and aunts and uncles, and he doesn't even know that they are related yet, it was kind of weird leaving cause we had to take him around and say bye to everyone and im sure next year will be even harder for him. Melinda had decided a few months ago that she wanted to do the 5k but it wasn't a 5k just a "Fun Run" (2.5miles) she had started to prepare and I thought I would just go and walk it with Degan in the stroller well not sure how they convinced me to run it, but I did.. I came in like 4th from last in my division but we finished it in 30 mins. I was pretty proud that I even got up in the morning to do it, but I think that was the start I neeeded now Im gunna work out more here. We went swimming a few times at the new pool, but mainly just hung out with family. We did get a Swapp family picture Im excited to see those. While we were taking them at the "old barn" these people were watching and asked if we were doing a family reunion.. and we said no this is just one family. they were shocked. But since the last one they had, the family grew by 5 grandkids and me the new daughter in law. Fourth of July is such a fun time, and Im very grateful for all the men and women who fought and died for our country so we could have an Independence day.

Sewer Boy

2009-06-29T12:26:00.004-06:00

This morning Brett came home from his PT and wanted breakfast burritos so I got up to do it. We ate them Degan sat in his bumbo on the table like normal. I remembered I hadn't changed his morning diaper so I picked him up and started to do walk to get a diaper. Swinging him around singing "somebody needs his diaper changed, somebody needs his diaper changed." then I smelled him and he kinda stunk like sewer.. as I went to put him down I felt gross warm poop all over my arm so I started freaking out, dry heaving I gave Degan to Brett to hold until I got the poop off my arms (by this time it was on them both). Bretts of course laughing until he starts dry heaving because it stinks SO bad. I took his clothes off of him and hosed him off in my sink. We have had some blowouts but this one took the cake. It has been 6 months and I haven't ever almost puked while changing his diaper and I thought I was doing good but this morning I wasn't sure I was gunna pull thru. I took a few pictures of the after math I wish I could of caught more of the action but man.. you dont think of those things till after.
Here is also some pictures and a video of Degans best friends.

1st trip to Phoenix and Sand Hollow

2009-06-29T12:06:00.004-06:00

So.. this is a late post but I worked pretty much the whole month of June and so I am just now trying to catch up. I give all you moms that work and take care of everything in a timely manner props cause its hard to work full time and do everything. Anyways.. back to Phoenix. We went down to hang out with my aunt (the ones that SPOIL Degan). It all started out that just Degan and I were gunna go but then I wanted my mom to come and so then my grandma decided to come and then since my grandma had been wanting us to put some hard wood floor down for my aunt.My dad then came so we could work. I thought that this trip was going to be one day of work and the rest play and swim and sun and shopping. OH NO! we worked ALL day friday and ALL day saturday. We got the floor in dejunked my aunts house, helped her get a fresh start with her new floors. We had ALOT of laughs and a great time, but man were we happy to be home.

Degan did really good in the car I think we only made like three stops on the way down and four on the way home. We did have one emergency stop, Degan was just chillin playing with his toes in his car seat when my mom looked down and there was green slime (feces) coming out of his diaper, we hurried and pulled over and took him out and had to clean him off change his clothes and luckily it didn't get all over his seat. Here are some pics of us playing and the drive home.

Sand Hollow
This was Degans first time to the lake, and I was excited to go. Brett had to work so we just went and met my family and all our friends. The wind was HORRIFIC but we did manage to enjoy ourselfs for a few hours. I didn't think Degan would like it because the water was cold but he sure enjoyed playing with his Grandma.

1st Family Photos

2009-06-08T07:43:00.005-06:00

Thanks Errin for coming up to Cedar and taking our pictures. I just love them, I cant decide what one Im going to get big for our living room. Here are some of my favorites.

Camping attempt #2

2009-06-03T13:33:00.005-06:00

This past weekend we went camping for the second time this month. Nic was turning 21 and this is what he wanted to do for his birthday. I really was dreading going up to Pine Valley and camping without a trailer, but it was really fun. I went up friday night and spent the night without Brett, and he came up on saturday when he got back from fire school. We played games and mainly just ate, but we still had fun. Tammy, Jeanne and Patty came up and stayed and the Barry's came up to visit for a lil bit. I do miss doing fun things with my family like we used to but, Im sure we will do alot more once Degan is a little bigger. Here are a few pictures of us around the campfire singing cumbyyaw (im not sure how you spell it I know that isn't right).

Camping and a baby

2009-05-26T16:24:00.002-06:00

For memorial day we didn't have much planned. Brett's sister was going up to the unitah flats to go camping so we decided we could go for one day and night. since this weekend we are going again for my brothers 21st birthday bash. Im glad we went up sunday because saturday they said it rained like the whole time. Degan did pretty good it was alot of work up there just just wasnt his normal self but we made it. Here are a few pictures of that. We will get more of camping this weekend.
Brett started his new job at the beginning of this month and that was been going great. He went to fire school today and Im already missing him. He will be home friday night and i know that it is not very long but geez.. I just got up this morning and had nothing to look forward to. Tomorrow Im going back to work at Wheeler for a few weeks while Teri has surgery, and Im excited, nervous how Degan will do for 8 hours without me, but I know he and I will survive. WEll I will post more next week after our 2nd camping trip.

Easter, Birthdays and a Backyard!

2009-04-29T10:57:00.007-06:00

I have been so bad on posting, whoever got me into facebook its their fault.
Well where do I begin? Easter was a good time, Brett had to work the whole weekend so I just went to my parents and spent the weekend in St.george and had a great time in the warmer weather. I didn't even want to come home. I helped Degan color his first eggs , he wasn't too enthused but its ok. I got the pictures!

Then it was birthdays, well actually my birthday was first but who cares, once you get older its not that important anyway, maybe next year when I turn 25.

Bretts birthday was on friday and we did a lil surprise party for him, not that many people were able to come but we had a good time anyways.
Then the day before that I finally got my grass put in my backyard. It totally changed the look of it, im way excited so now when Degan is old enough he can play outside!! So this summer IF my husband is ever home we will have some fun BBq's everyone's invited just byom.

and thank you kirk, nat and cooper you were a big help!
Degan also turned 4 months old, and he is huge last time I weighed him on our scale he weighed about 15.8 this kid just keeps growing and I know they are suppose to grown but I think Degan is like extra fast.. haha.. but he is getting to be so much fun. We just laugh and play all day, he has become quite the mommy's boy since we are together alot but that's alright im sure one of these days he will want to go with Daddy and leave me so I am enjoying it while it lasts.

R.I.P Zeek

2009-04-09T15:59:00.003-06:00

I already talked about my missing (possibly dead cat) but I wanted to pay tribute to him. I really miss him and I hope that wherever he is he is happy. Love you ZEEKERS!

Turning 24 !

2009-04-09T15:46:00.003-06:00

Last Saturday was my 24th Birthday, and I usually celebrate all week. Well it was kind of a bust on Friday it snowed ALL day and then saturday Brett's mom took the baby to my mom and Brett had to plow snow because of how much we got the day before and needless to say I was home alone till about 3:30. I should of enjoyed the time to myself but I was so BORED that i just drove myself crazy and to make matters worse I had kicked my cat outside on Thursday while I cleaned and had Bunco at my house, and he NEVER came back. :( I wasn't that sad till saturday and I really was ALL alone. When he finally got home we went down to St.George did a little shopping and then out to dinner with my family. I wanted to go to Island Pizza and take everyone but man was that the wrong place to go on a saturday night with a dance competition going on. Oh well it was neat and we all enjoyed it for a lil while. Then we went back to my parents and I opened some presents and had my ice cream cake (probably my favorite thing ever). Got a few pictures watched the NCAA game that was on and let Brett take a nap since he had been up since 3:30 am, then back home we went. Sunday watched conference (oh I did get to watch all conference sessions on saturday)then we had a BBQ with our great friends Kirk and Nat and Jason and Kailey. Kenadi and Cooper had a grand ol time playing in the back yard in the dirt, I cant wait till we have grass and its warm and we can all be outside. The weekend came to a close and it turned out alright but it did not start out ok and I was a little sad but I guess as you get older Birthdays are just not as fun as they used to be.

3 months old

2009-03-25T21:59:00.005-06:00

Wow im so horrible at this posting stuff now. Well he is now 3 months its so crazy i read Andrea's post about the new baby and I feel like I just had mine but not the case. Degan is just so much fun he has got THE cutest laugh , I discovered it one night when I was gettin him into his pajamas. I will have to get a recording and put it on here. The Swapps haven't really been up to much just staying busy and enjoying our time together before Brett goes to work for the BLM this summer and we will never see him. I have finally got Degan on a night time schedule so he is going to bed about 9:30 and waking up at 4 then back to bed till about 8 so I have some time to myself and its kinda nice. Well my birthday is next saturday so I will be posting some pictures from that I told Brett he had to get me two presents this year one from him and one from Degan so we shall see how good of a shopper Degan is, but if he is anything like his momma he will be great!

Degan on his 3 month birthday!

Degan trying to eat his frogs toe while I cooked dinner.

My first lunch with my girl friends since the baby.. and man do we need alot of table space now for all our children. We will need even more when April and Karli come with their lil ones.

2 months old

2009-02-25T17:16:00.003-07:00

Time sure does fly when you have a new baby. We took Degan to his 2 month check up today I thought at his last appointment he said we'd talk about shots.. well we didn't just talk he gave them too him and I had no idea or I would of been prepared given him a little tylenol before hand but no.. here comes these two nurses and jab him in both his legs i felt so bad but his daddy held him so Degan really didn't do too bad. He was asleep so and awful way to wake up but after like 30 seconds of crying he went back to sleep. He now weighs 12 lbs 7 oz he has doubled his birth weight. Dr said babies usually dont do that till they are about 5 months so he is just cruising right along. Brett says I have really good milk, i guess so.. haha..
Last weekend Degan made his first trip to Salt lake we went up to visit Steph and Jason and then went to the Draper Temple Open house. It was a good trip and the baby did really well. I was a little nervous that he wouldnt sleep that well but he did awesome. And of course we had to stop at Cabelas , Im not so sure Degan really enjoyed it just yet but Im sure one day it will be hard to get him and Brett out of there.

Degans New Trick

2009-02-16T19:31:00.005-07:00

I know the video is not the best but.. we were just chilling watching tv and Brett was having Degan lay on his belly and just today I told him that I thought if we put him on his belly more he would roll over.. so what did he do today? ROllED OVER.. haha the first time we both missed it. Brett just looked down and he had gone from belly to back so we made him do it again and then I decided I needed to video it to show his grandparents and uncle so by this time he was a little sick of bein on his belly especially since he already hates it. But my lil one is growing up too fast!

Degan's Blessing and more..

2009-02-12T12:24:00.004-07:00

Wow time just flies It feels like I just posted but I looked at the date and it was 2 weeks ago , life is so busy. Well on February 1st we blessed Degan. It was such a crazy busy weekend because our neice Jesi was baptized over in Kanab so we went to that and then hurried home saturday night because our church is at 9 and so we had an early morning and not just us but all of bretts family. Then it was SUPER BOWL .. so of course we had to have a party. Well most of you bailed on that part but its okay we enjoyed your company while you were here.

So I made Degan a lil Cardinals jersey it was super cute I still dont think I got a picture of him in it because before the game started to pooped in it and got it everywhere so we had to change him. I told him that if the Cardinals didn't win because he pooped on them it was all his fault.. haha.. a funny story we will tease him about forever.
Then the following week my Aunt and Uncle came from Pheonix to visit us and meet their great nephew for the first time. not a good picture but the only one I got of him in Vegas.
My Mom, Degan and I went to Vegas to pick them up from the airport that was fun it was his first time to vegas and on the way out we drove down the strip for a block or two so he could see the lights and he loved you should of seen his face he was in heaven. Then while they were here we celebrated my mom and grandmas birthday.. that was an adventure like anything with my family.

Well thats what the Swapps have been up too nothing to exciting but just busy. I want to thank EVERYONE that came up to Cedar at 9 am for Degan's blessing it meant alot to have you all here. We love you all !!

2009-01-29T12:18:00.005-07:00

We finally went and got Degans pictures taken. Errin does such a great job. I was a little nervous of how he would do, but gave him a bottle right before and he stayed wide awake the whole time and was such a model already. I would have to say that mom's photogenicness rubbed off already HA JK..

We did get one family one.. but we werent expecting to , but oh well..
this one he looks old.. but thats probably just cause of his face and clothes haha.

1st Snow suit

2009-01-29T12:12:00.003-07:00

We got some snow sunday-monday and I really wanted to go play in it with Degan and make a snow man but thats really hard to do by yourself cause some one has to hold him or the stroller but it doesnt go very well in the snow, so . here are a few pictures of him in his snow suit.

First Christmas

2009-01-05T10:58:00.003-07:00

I know this post is a lil late.. but man with a new born you barely have time to wipe let alone blog and do all the other things I used to while I was patiently waiting for him to get here ...
Christmas this year was a lil strange.. with the new baby and all the bad weather.. to be honest Degan and I spent alot of time alone.. but that was alright. My family and some of Brett's came over for a dinner at our house but didn't get to stay ALL day cause of the storms.. and then brett had to work and so it really didn't feel like christmas at all.
But I am very grateful our families could come and spend time with us on this special Christmas.

Degan Reed Swapp

2008-12-21T20:18:00.003-07:00

So first things first: ALL of you that voted I would go late, you were WRONG haha.. and those of you who voted early GOOD JOB!! you all had the faith like I did. Ok. so now the details on my lil miracle baby.
He was born on Friday December 19th @ 11:53 am. He weighed 6 lbs 10 oz and was 19 inches long. I went on Thursday for my appointment and since we were gettin closer and closer to the new year and I was SOO over being pregnant, I asked her to strip me and she decided it would be ok, but she didn't think it would put me into labor.. WELL.. after she did she said " Call me at 9 pm and let me know how your feeling, so that was a good sign that just maybe it would work. I went home from the appointment and finished shoveling the snow on my side walk (my brother inlaw was doing the rest on the 4wheeler) I knew I had to do as much as I could to help the process along and yup.. soon enough I was having contractions.. they started at about 5 pm and just continued to get Stronger and closer so I went to my nieces dance recital , Brett had to go to work and I wasnt gunna sit home alone and wonder if It was for real (even though I was pretty sure). After the recital I came home called Laurie told her yup im pretty sure this is it so .. yada yada.. I knew I was going to have this lil boy in 24 hours. I had always told myself I was gunna try to stay home as long as I could stand it because its much more comfortable and I only live about 3 minutes away. So.. I lasted till about 2 am.. The contractions weren't horrible but I just wanted to sleep cause I knew once this baby came .. that part of my life was over. I went in hopeing for some drugs to help sleep but I was to a 2+ so she let me hang out and if in an hour I progressed I could get my epidural, well when she came back I was at a 4 and 90% effaced so they called the anithesiologist (miracle worker) but he didn't arrive till about 6:30 am.. so by this time I was really starting to get cranky from no sleep and the pain. PS I hate IV's I think i might of went in to it already knowing that but it was worse than childbirth all together haha.. anyways.. I got my epidural started feeling it about 10 min later was so happy and it does not hurt I dont know why people think of it as this MONSTER needle and all that it was definetly my friend. anyways.. a funny story.. I was gettin my cathider (sorry TMI) and the nurse asked me to grab my gown to get it out of the way .. and I said ok.. "whats that? and she kinda looked at me like uh I just explained what im doing, and I said no this.. I was rubbing my OWN LEG.. I had gotten SO numb that I didn't even know what my own leg felt like... I could feel it with my hand but I could not feel my own hand rubbing my leg that was the start of all the laughing and enjoying my sons birth.
I had a few minor complications.. my BP started dropping pretty low so I had to get some medicine for that and then come to find out Degan's cord was only 9in long so he was having a hard time his heart rate would drop unless I was laying in the right spot so I had to have oxygen on for the whole time and lay on my right side.. The nurse kept asking me to let her know if I had the urge to push and it was really hard to know cause I was pretty numb but finally.. i said oh.. i think I do so we got my nurse and she came and checked me and said OOH.. yea.. we are ready to have a baby.. so we all get excited.. and the pushing began oh.. i forgot to say that the whole time Degan was posterior and so it was taking labor a little longer to progress because of that.. so he finally turned the correct way and I went super fast and we began pushing.. and then he thought it would be funny to turn AGAIN.. and his lay on his cord so I had to stop pushing and turn on my side AGAIn.. let his heart rate come back up, relax and turn back.. I think we waited about ten minutes and then I pushed two more times and out he came into this wonderful world. I got to meet my son... All these wonderful emotions just hit me and I was bawling he was bawling my mom was bawling and I look over and so is Brett.. It was such an amazing expirence, I dont even know how to explain it, it really made those 10 long months disappear and just be happy to have gone thru it all.
We got to come home yesterday and man was I happy to be home.. their is just something about being at your own home that is wonderful. Plus I got to start using all the great things we got for our lil boy. My living room looks like a bomb went off with all this baby stuff. Well I guess I have rambled on enough about me and my baby. Thank you to all that have helped me through these crazy 10 months.. they are over and now my new journey begins being a MOM!

Just WAITING...

2008-12-11T21:19:00.002-07:00

I need you all to give me advice.. this waiting game is going to drive me CRAZY. I know its totally normal and I know I have a few other gals that are feeling my pain at the moment, but I need some suggestions on what you ladies that went before me did. How do you get thru this waiting game in one piece. :) I thought that with Christmas coming I would have enough on my mind to keep me occupied and our family has had alot to deal with these past weeks, but still all that is on my mind is wanting to know when? when will this child come and join our family. I know he will come when he is ready and to be completely honest Im sick of hearing all the right answers I just want to know already. haha ... So Ladies what did you do the last few weeks before your child came into this world??

100 things

2008-12-04T11:58:00.002-07:00

Copy this and bold the things you have done:

1. Started your own blog

2. Slept under the stars

3. Played in a band

4. Visited Hawaii

5. Watched a meteor shower

6. Given more than you can afford to charity

7. Been to Disneyland

8. Climbed a mountain

9. Held a praying mantis

10. Sang a solo

11. Bungee jumped

12. Visited Paris

13. Watched a lightning storm at sea

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch

15. Adopted a child

16. Had food poisoning

17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty

18. Grown your own vegetables

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France

20. Slept on an overnight train

21. Had a pillow fight

22. Hitch hiked

23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill

24. Built a snow fort

25. Held a lamb

26. Gone skinny dipping

27. Run a Marathon

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice

29. Seen a total eclipse

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset

31. Hit a home run

32. Been on a cruise

33. Seen Niagara Falls in person

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors

35. Seen an Amish community

36. Taught yourself a new language

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

39. Gone rock climbing

40. Seen Michelangelo’s David

41. Sung karaoke

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant

44. Visited Africa

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight

46. Been transported in an ambulance

47. Had your portrait painted

48. Gone deep sea fishing

49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person

50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling

52. Kissed in the rain

53. Played in the mud

54. Gone to a drive-in theater

55. Been in a movie

56. Visited the Great Wall of China

57. Started a business

58. Taken a martial arts class

59. Visited Russia

60. Served at a soup kitchen

61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies

62. Gone whale watching

63. Got flowers for no reason

64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma

65. Gone sky diving

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp

67. Bounced a check

68. Flown in a helicopter

69. Saved a favorite childhood toy

70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial

71. Eaten Caviar

72. Pieced a quilt

73. Stood in Times Square

74. Toured the Everglades

75. Been fired from a job

76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London

77. Broken a bone

78. Been on a speeding motorcycle

79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person

80. Published a book

81. Visited the Vatican

82. Bought a brand new car

83. Walked in Jerusalem

84. Had your picture in the newspaper

85. Read the entire Bible

86. Visited the White House

87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating

88. Had chickenpox

89. Saved someone’s life

90. Sat on a jury

91. Met someone famous

92. Joined a book club

93. Lost a loved one

94. Had a babyI hope soon

95. Seen the Alamo in person

96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake

97. Been involved in a law suit

98. Owned a cell phone

99. Been stung by a bee

100. Totally copied a post from someone else's blog to your own?

thanksGIVING 08'

2008-12-02T07:57:00.006-07:00

Happy Thanksgiving to those I missed on Thursday!!
Thanksgiving this year was a little different, we still got to spend time with family but Brett had to work at Chrysliss in the afternoon/evenings and so I didn't get to spend very much time with him. But oh well.
Thursday we got up early and headed to St.george to start cooking the turkey on our Keg Roaster( Brett's bright idea). My brother (the lil chef) found a recipe to marinate it all night long in a 5lb bucket and then put stuff under the skin and then we put a can of beer in with it to help keep it moist. That turkey was the best dressed bird I had ever seen, it was definetly the most interesting thing we had done.
For those of you who don't know my family our tradition is to make something a lil different every year the only constant thing at our house is Potatoes :) We cooked this thing out side on the deck and poor Brett was the chef since it was his Keg Roaster, and it was drizzling outside so he had to sacrifice.. Here are a few pics of that time.

We ate our lovely turkey it had the best flavor of any turkey I had ever tasted, Great job Nic and Brett!
I had good intentions of getting completely ready for the day but once I got to my parents I lost all hopes of actually acomplishing the task. We did take a few pics a couple of my belly but im sitting down so you dont get the full extent but thats alright.

Friday I did not want to go shop so we didn't , my grandma did need something from Bed Bath and Beyond so right before the sale ended at ten am we hopped into the store got what we needed and got in line and paid and out we went it was the fastest Black friday shopping I had ever done. I then met Brett in Hurricane and we headed over to Kanab , we got to spend a few hours with his parents before we went to Orderville for the Brinkerhoff family meal, but as usual they ate about an hour after we were told to be there, so we grabbed our turkey dinner to go and back over the mountain we went so Brett wouldnt be late for work. I then went home and took a much needed nap and waited for him to come back so I could cook dinner and we watched a Christmas movie with Eric (a guy Brett supervises). The rest of the weekend was a lil mellow but nice. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and got to spend it with your loved ones around.

Happy Birthday Dad!

2008-12-02T07:47:00.002-07:00

Last sunday we had my family come up to our house and we had some awesome steaks and dutch oven potatoes (I made them). They were so delicious.. and it was so nice to have Nic and Tera there home for Thanksgiving. Since we moved into this house my WHOLE family had not been in my home all at once. Dads birthday is always around Thanksgiving so sometimes he doesn't get a seperate party or anything but this year we made it a point. I made cheesecake and brett picked out Trick candles we sang and it was a lovely evening.
Dad Thank you for all that you do for us and I know you are going to be such a great Grandpa. We love you SOO much !!

Weekend Fun

2008-11-12T07:54:00.003-07:00

So Saturday I had my second shower in St.George. WOW is all I can say. THANK YOU to all who came and sent gifts and everything, Degan has everything he could ever ask for. We had such a great turnout, it was so weird and nice to see all the people that I care about and have gotten to know sometime in my life. It was fun cause at one end there was all my friends from 6th grade and up with their moms and then ladies that go to my parents church (who watched me grow up),and lets not forget Mandy, she kept me company since they had me on my own island, then family, Grandma's friends and other ladies that are like my second grandmas, and then other friends from high school and clients and ladies from the salon and other co workers.. it was so much fun, the only thing I regret is that I didn't get to speak to anyone that much cause there was so much to do but wow.. THANK YOU! Randi, Erma and My mom did such a great job at putting the shower together I loved the games, but then again I love games period. Randi you are amazing, being as pregnant as I am, chasing almost a one year old and doing all the work for the party you are so great. and yet again NO pictures I was so sad I didn't get pictures of all of you there, but I will never forget you all.
So all my friends from highschool we decided that we wanted to go on a lil girls night out after the shower, it was alot of fun wish more of you could of came but Steph, Aubs and Kristin and I had a grand ol time catching up and just talking girl talk. and yet again we didn't get a picture until I was leaving and remembered. so the three of us posed in the middle of Target parking lot and used our self timers and got some wonderful pics (ha).

8 Things

2008-11-10T08:14:00.002-07:00

8 Things Tag

8 TV Shows I Like To Watch...

1. All my Children
2. CSI (ALL of them)
3. Lipstick Jungle
4. Biggest Looser
5. Brothers and Sisters
6. Hills
7. Grey's
8. As of late, The starter wife

8 Things That Happened Yesterday...
1. Started Organizing Degan's room (didn't get to far)
2. Went to Walmart because we honestly had NO food. like we had mac and cheese but no milk, we had hamburger for something but no bread .. it was awful.
3. Started making more Thank you cards
4. Watched football while my husband, played on the computer is there something wrong with that, most households its the complete opposite
5. Visited with Lane and Amanda.. thank you for the gift really its so cute
6. Watched Brett put Degan's pack and play together (hilarious) and for all of you going to be new parents make sure you buy batteries LOTS and a few of each kind man..
7. Found the cat sleeping in Degan's crib.. he is getting used to his stuff and thinks he can play with it and its all for him haha
8. FINALLY had a good nights sleep

8 Favorite Places To Eat...
1. Olive Garden
2. Costa Vida
3. Jimmy John's
4. In n Out
5. Applebees (but just for the spinach dip)
6. Lately just at home I have been a good wife
7. Whatever I crave at the moment
8. ??

8 Things I'm Looking Forward To...

1. Thanksgiving with the family, even though Brett has to work but its okay he has already taken time off for Christmas
2. Degan's birth, WOW im so ready to meet him
3. Starting my family
4. Christmas
5. Having my body back, loosing my basketball belly
6. Brett holding his son for the first time
7. Everyone meeting Degan
8. Bunco Tomorrow Im gunna win a prize..

8 Things On My Wish List...

1. To go into Labor a few weeks early
2. To be a good example to Degan and raise him to be a worthy priesthood holder someday
3. To be as kind to my family as they are to me
4. New perfume for Christmas
5. Labor and Delivery to go smoothly
6. Bostyn Michelle to be able to come home early
7. Lots of clients to come to my home for their hair and not have to work outside of the home :)
8. To be able to travel

8 People I Tag...
1. Anyone that wants to give this one a shot

bAbY sHoWeR

2008-11-03T07:18:00.002-07:00

Thank you Thank you!! Really thanks to everyone who came it was a fun time, im excited for this weekends baby shower and then Degan will really be set. Thank you Natalie for all your hard work and cute invitations, then everything else you did was so cute it was great. So like normal my brain wasn't functioning as well as it used to and I forgot to take pictures so, sorry kind of a boring post but I just wanted to thank everyone for their wonderful gifts and support.
If you missed this one you can always come to the one in St.george. It will be at 3pm on saturday @ Comfort Suites.

Deer Hunt 08'

2008-10-24T09:47:00.007-06:00

This year Brett and his Dad went out hunting alone, the wifes stayed home. Well that was the plan...
I had to do Kariann's hair saturday morning (opening day) and then her wedding so I just thought I would spend the weekend in St.geroge. Boy was I ever wrong. I did my duty and the bride looked gorgeous.

Hung around for the wedding ceremony and it was so beautiful I cried, but im almost 8 months pregnant so Im allowed :) Then I decided I couldnt stand being away from my husband for 5 full days. Normally I would of been fine and I wanted to him to go Hunt and harvest a deer and have such a wonderful time, BUT my pregnancy hormones got the better of me and I decided I needed to be with him for at least the day. So I headed out to Kanab, then bright and early sunday morning went out with my brother and sister inlaw to hunt and met up with him. I loaded my big ol self in the jeep and out we went looking for the BIG buck. I think we had only been drivin maybe fifteen minutes when Brett spotted what he thought was pretty decent, out the window. He stopped hopped out grabbed his rifle and took his shot. The deer humped up and off he went after it, Bobby (his dad) jumps out the other side takes off down the road to help and I try to get in the drivers seat to move the jeep off the dirt road incase other people need thru. Mind you Im 30 weeks pregnant and climbing between seats is not that easy to do... So they went off I tried to drive up to where I thought they were, and I couldnt see them anymore so I decided I was gunna take a lil snooze till they came back. Who knows how long I was asleep but bobby came back and said lets go, drive over to where they had tracked him down and gutted him, so off we went.

Since we were in the jeep, this is how we transported the lil guy.
When we got back to camp we found out that not only did Brett kill, but so did his brother James and his uncle Bob. So there was a lot of work to be done, 3 deer to skin and hang haha.. that sounds so morbid.

After all the work we had a wonderful dinner sat around the fire and enjoy ourselves.
I spent the night out there and I honestly slept better in the trailer than I had the past two nights so that was great. Monday afternoon I headed back to town and then back to cedar. Brett stayed out till Tuesday night , but I at least got to spend two days with him so I was alot better and wasnt having withdrawls. We had a sucsessful hunt but boy am I glad hunting season is all over with now its a count down till the baby gets here.

My Sweet Brett

2008-10-17T07:54:00.001-06:00

What's your husband's name? Brett Reed Swapp
How long have you guys been married? 2 years 2 months
How long did you date? 8 months
How old is he? 24
Who eats more sweets? He used to, but now that im pregnant with his child I eat alot of sweets :)
Who is taller? Brett
Who is a better singer? me, but he tries
Who is smarter? Well that depends on what the subject is. We both are smart
Who does the laundry? I do, but if he needs something and im not doing laundry that day he will do his own
Who pays the bills? I do
Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I do
Who mows the lawn?Brett does and he loves it.
Who cooks dinner? Well I usually do, but lately life has been so busy whoever is not tired does
Who drives? Brett, he would like it if I drove more
Who is the first to say they are wrong? uh.. we both will if we are really wrong
Who kissed who first? well it was new years so it was kind of mutual
Who asked who out first? Brett when we got back from Vegas but it was NO FUN lol
Who wears the pants? uh.. I would say me but he would say him.. haha Degan soon will

Puppies

2008-10-06T16:46:00.006-06:00

So my dog Kloee had her puppies on October 1st, this is her second litter and so its not as exciting as the first but then we found out she was going to be having 5 so that made things a little more exciting. Here are a few pictures of the lil guys they are Minature Daschunds, we have 3 boys and two girls, and we are also selling 4 of them so if you know anyone that is interested or if you are let me know. The two that are all black will be selling for $250, and the two spotted ones will be selling for $350. They are 100% pure bred, both parents are owned by my family the father is AKC registered the mother is not. They will be ready to go about the end of November. If you or anyone you know is in the market let me know. These are great dogs, VERY loving and if raised around kids, they do very well. They are just little, the mother and father weigh about 5-7 lbs, they do shed a little bit but you dont have

Catch Up

2008-09-23T10:20:00.003-06:00

Wow.. things have been a little wild and Im not sure they are going to slow down EVER..... Well I hope so. So we have been staying busy here are some pics of some of the things we have been doing.

We had my nieces and nephew a few weekends ago so I made everyone get up at 7 on a saturday and we went to the Skyfest. I took one picture of the kids so we had proof we got up early and went and did this. But as you can see we didn't get ready we went in our pjs and blankets cause it was early. I hadn't been to the skyfest yet and it was really fun. Out of us I was the only one that has been in a hot air balloon so I was trying to explain to the kids and Brett how it all worked. Kenzi sure liked the smiley face balloon. For those of you that haven't gone you should its really neat to be surounded by all the different balloons.
Then this last weekend we went to Glenwood Springs , CO to watch my lil brother play soccer and visit with my aunt and uncle. I love going back to Colorado it just feels like home even though I've lived in Utah way longer now but I was born there so I can still consider it home.. :) So we arrived Thursday evening had a good lil dinner and then got up Friday morning and did some site seeing but Im a horrible person cause I forgot my charger for the camera and it died so we only have like four pictures and let me tell you Brett was very unhappy and I dont think he will ever let me forget this one. We went to Aspen, Co which is just like 30 minutes away and its so nice.. a pretty chilly but lovely. Then we went on a tour and say the Maroon Bells I really had never heard of them but I guess they are pretty famous... As we were driving we passed the airport and there were so many private jets it was unreal. We did see one that had a Redskins helmet on it not sure if it was there's or just someone who liked the team. My uncle had his camera so Im going to have him send me some pictures..

After the bells we headed back to Glenwood Springs and went on this lil tram that takes you up to some caves a mini amusment park.. They had like those funny mirrors and wow Im sure you all stepped in front and got a good laugh but you should try it pregnant cause its even worse.. I thought I was going to pee my pants we were all laughing at me so hard. Then later that night we went to my brothers soccer game and they WON yipee.. I guess they played the best they had ever played and I know its cause we were there:) We then went to a lil hole in the wall mexican place and man this place was FOR REAL mexican almost to real that I didn't like it but my dad and his brother felt right in place they even had to help us order cause not all the people spoke english.. Then we headed to bed got up saw part of another game and then off to Martin's Wedding in Richfield.
Marting is one of my dad's bestest buds and we didn't make it for the ceremony and we were sad but Richfield is farther from Glenwood than we thought. Brett and I posed for photos and said hello and then back in the car we went. Brett was a little reluctant to take this trip because he was going to miss the Dixie Round Up Rodeo well we made it back to St.george at 7:30 just intime to see the last night. To be completely honest it wasnt as good as years past (I thought) but it could of been that I was just REAL tired and sick of being gone. But we sat with the family so it made it better, then after we headed to our home and our kitty was SOOO happy to see us he had gotten hungry ripped a hole in his bag of food and dumped it all over the laundry room, I dont think he likes being left home alone. well for now that is all that we have done but there will be more too come. Hope you all are doing well.

FlashBack

2008-09-09T07:32:00.002-06:00

Well.. over the weekend I was going thru old boxes at my parent's house and I found some OLD pictures of us one of them is ten years old I can't believe that time goes so fast. But by the looks of us you can totally tell its been a lil while. Brett even said.. "honey you guys weren't very cute" and I just laughed and told him Im sure he wasn't that hot either ten years ago and Im pretty sure that is correct cause at the time I was at least in fashion and boy knows he still needed help when I met him.. :) jk .. but anyways.. hope you all get a crack out of these pictures and everyone thats in them hope I dont embarrass you. If you have any of us I would love to see them.

gDiapers

2008-09-04T08:42:00.001-06:00

So my mom and grandma found these and thought it might be a way to go. I have read all about them and Im not sure what I think. Go to the website www.gdiapers.com and let me know what you think??

FINALLY

2008-08-29T07:52:00.003-06:00

So yesterday after two weeks of hoping and waiting we FINALLY signed on our house. It has been one crazy hassle and I am so glad it is over and im not sure I want to EVER buy a house again but, i'll just have to wait and see if I forget this mess. We are going to move in today and get settled over the weekend and Im really happy. I will post some pictures after this weekend. In a few weeks we will have everyone over for a BBQ !

MoRe PiCtUrEs Of DeGaN

2008-08-22T07:25:00.005-06:00

Yesterday I had my "medical" ultrasound and everything looks great. He is still growing to be here on Christmas day. So, I have come to except the fact that I am going to be in labor on christmas a wonderful present but, not a very fun thing to do on that day. Brett keeps sayin he'll come a week earlier and I hope so I really do but Im not getting too excited cause I dont want to be disapointed if it doesn't happen better to expect the worst. Not that giving birth to our little boy is the worst just the timing of his entry to this world, but I already love him so much that it wont matter when he comes.
For those of you who have seen his other pictures, he sleeps with his hand on his face and then yesterday he was awake but had his hand or hands up by his face or on his face the whole time. This time he was awake and it was neat to see him opening and closing his mouth and kicking and stuff, Brett had to work so he missed all the action AGAIN but thats ok, Degan is shy so he probably wouldnt of moved anyways.

Today is 22 weeks and that means only 18 more to go.. yipee .. thats still alot but I hope it goes by fast.

BaG tAg !!!

2008-08-15T09:24:00.006-06:00

Here are the rules:

1. Take a picture of your bag

2. Show a picture of ALL the contents in your bag and then name them
NO CLEANING OUT FIRST!!!!

3. "Bag Tag" five to ten people

4. Leave a comment on their blog that says "You've Been Bag Tagged"

Contents: Appointment book, Wallet, gum, keys, sunglasses, tylenol, lotion, chapstick, bobby pins (in a tin and scattered), white earings, bracelet, vitamins, tuachan ticket to Les Miserables, reciepts, money, cards ( insurance,credit,debit, gift, business, hospital, checks, tithing slips)

I TAG: Aubrey, Mandy, Erma, Randi, Lex, Ang, Kailey, Andrea, Errin , Amanda, Casidy, Kassi Leavitt, Kassy Stuart

HALF way !!

2008-08-08T07:58:00.003-06:00

Today I according to the doctor I am 20 weeks!! yea..

This picture was actually taken a week ago but close enough for my post. I really dont mind being pregnant, its been such a blessing and a miracle. Don't mind the fact that I dont wear any makeup anymore , especially on a saturday morning.. haha..

Happy Anniversary to me..

2008-08-05T08:04:00.004-06:00

Today it has been 2 years since we got married and I know two years isn't that long to some people but for Brett and I that is the longest we have been with anyone. This year we thought was going to turn out to be pretty boring and just the two of us but that has all changed. We are going to have our baby in December and then we just found out yesterday that our offer got accepted on a house and we will be moving into our own home by the end of the month. I can't believe it , it is all finally working out, I have tried to be patient , which most of you know is really hard for me to do. So I would have to say Im pretty spoiled to get a house and a baby in one year, but I just have a wonderful husband.

Here is a picture of the house, all this house needs is a little TLC and she will be brand new. I know this is random but all I can think about is having a SUPER BOWL party... :) you are all invited ...

Farewell Tera and Nic

2008-07-30T20:16:00.003-06:00

My brother and his girlfriend Tera are going back to Wyoming for school. Its really kinda sad cause he has been around since we found out we were going to have a baby and now he is going to miss me getting bigger and bigger and I wont see him till like october so I will be pretty big by then or at least I think so. They both lived at my parents house this summer worked together and we were all just one big happy family. Tera had only been to Vegas a few times and it was quit a long time ago so, saturday we were trying to decided what to do for her last weekend in St.George, and it wasn't the best weather for a lake trip so we decided that Vegas was a good option. We did a little shopping walked the strip and saw the sites and ate at The pink Taco in the Hard Rock.
On our way out we thought we would watch the treasure island show , it has been like 5 years since I have seen it, well needless to say we walked from the belagio to Treasure Island in twenty minutes which took us like an hour to go the other way to see the show, and guess what they closed it due to high wind conditions. We were all pretty bumed since we walked so fast to see it , then we got stuck in a crowd of people my mom got sandwiched between to big guys and couldn't breathe very well and I was trying to pull her out. It is pretty funny now but I got a little nervous at the time. Well we all had a good time glad we got to spend time together before they go back to school.

Degan Reed

2008-07-21T09:16:00.004-06:00

So.. we went and had an Ultrasound done on Saturday when we were up in Salt lake and... we are going to have a BOY!! We are going to name him Degan Reed and we are really excited. Brett was so happy as you all know he just knew we were having a boy. We also went to Lagoon on Friday that was fun lots of walking and sitting for me but it was still fun everyone else had a grand ol time. Here is the only picture that I even took at Lagoon , at least they all look cute in it.
I got to go to lunch with a friend from school its been a year since we have seen each other so it was really nice to catch up. She even got to sit in on the ultrasound so that was neat.
Thanks Steph, miss ya!!

The 4th

2008-07-11T12:11:00.006-06:00

Brett and I headed over to Kanab and stayed there all weekend. It was nice to see family and friends..
We went to the parade but this year all our nieces and newphews were in the parade so we didn't have anyone to get candy for us, so thats a bummer but they were all cute and waved..

Then saturday we went to east fork with tyler, and jarrett and took them fishing. It was pretty fun everyone caught some fish, but they were like minnows.. but we all had fun and got to enjoy the great outdoors. Brett got a taste of what its going to be like when we take our kids fishing and your constantly putting on worms and fixing there tangled up lines and he thought I was bad.. it was pretty funny. I helped some but I got sick of that real fast so I made him step in. Charlene even tried to fish but she was almost as bad as the boys, but I got a few pics for proof that she at least tried it.

Then this week has really been hot so I gathered up Whitney and Kenzi and we went swimmin at the Parowan pool on Wed, it was really fun.
Kenz and I had fun swimmin around trying to keep her from drowning. She would do all these things and then say ,"am I going to drown?" and I kept telling her no. .. no.. no.. so finally when I was ready to get out I was making her get into the baby pool and she didnt want to so I said if you dont get out you will drown without me. so she got out and went in the baby pool. she is a real funny girl... oh and I had a real embarrassing moment I probably shouldnt share but its kind of funny too. So I put on a swim suit the butt felt kinda small but since im slowly gettin bigger I just figured it was that. Well we swam and then I got home go to change and realize that my swimsuit had been twisted in the crotch and that was why it felt so small on my butt. So sorry people and children at the parowan pool. I kept my towel and skirt on most of the time so im hoping that not too many people saw but.. yea. I shared apart of me I probably shouldnt have.. ..

Jesse and D

2008-07-08T08:14:00.004-06:00

Thanks gals for coming over, it was fun. So I would have to say im so happy that Jesse and D are engaged and planning a wedding in 2009. I am sad for Jason cause I really thought she was going to choose him, but I think him being older and already having a child , just made her realize that she would be fast forwarding 5 years in her life. But I am happy!! I think im the only one.. well besides the love birds.
Thanks again for coming over and hangin out with me, we now need to find a new show to watch.. maybe tomorrow I will post pics of our weekend in Kanab for the fourth.

JESSE!!!

2008-07-01T07:25:00.002-06:00

Last night Ang, Lex , Kristie and I got together and watched the Bacholertte it was so fun, you all missed out. So we are sitting there, (we recorded it so we could fast forward thru the commercials so we weren't watching it in real time) Lex gets a text and she's like ah man.. and so we ask what and she says they ruined it for me, I know who she picks.. and I HATE surprises so the whole time im just looking at her trying to figure out by her face which one it was. But lex is a way good actress and I didn't even know. But I have got to say I love love Jesse I have since like show #2 so I definetly want him to and "D" to fall in love and get married but I will have to say that Jason is a really sweet and great guy, when he shaves, so whoever she ends up with will be really lucky. But next week is the finale so lets get together again, we can all come over to my house and watch it snack and enjoy each others company.
Who do you think its going to be????
Jesse or Jason

Graham / Baby's first heartbeat

2008-06-24T07:15:00.002-06:00

So I dont know if you all are Bachelor fans, but I am and when Brad left Deanna , and TOTALLY ruined the show I felt so bad for her even though I wanted Jenny to win. Well this season since they brought Deanna back, I have been so faithful to watch every episode and really have high hopes for who she is going to pick. Now out of the last four guys my favorites went Graham, Jessie, Jason and then LAST Jeremy. So when she said goodbye to Graham yesterday I was really sad, and I thought it was dumb that they didn't let the guys do like a letter or a video message or something. Graham did have some communication problems, but he was really cute and you could tell she was most excited to see him on their home dates. Well she sent him home and then she was crying (like usual) and she said "I was starting to fall in love and now what if I dont find love... " that broke my heart. I really hope she picks Jessie or Jason not Jeremy because their is just somethin about him that just isn't normal or human and it really bothers me. Anyways ladies let me know your takes and who your favorites are. Oh.. I really love Jessie cause he is just so real and so sincere, like just barely kissing her because he wanted their connection to be real, he doesnt just want to get in her pants. He does need a hair cut which hopefully he will get but he is a snowboarder and they need longer hair so they dont get cold. I hope that she makes the right choice.
On to my next subject.. I went to the doctors yesterday and I convinced Brett to go with me, well my doc was running behind because she had a emergency c section and then the baby had some complications, which on a normal day I would of been sad for the mother, and I was sad, but brett and I decided that we weren't going to have any of the special tests done to see if our child could possibly have something wrong with them. I know that God has a plan for us and if it is to raise a special needs child then, ok. I have such a peace about all of this and it is just amazing how not worried about any of that I am. So, anyways Brett had to leave before the Doc came in cause he had to get back to work, so he wasnt there for the actual heartbeat but I recorded it on my phone (thank goodness for technology today) so he got to hear it afterwards. I was just so happy to hear those little beats and know that my baby is ok and is going to be a real person someday. Then last night I had a little melt down, Brett was asleep and I had just finished the Bachelorette and I cuddled up to my husband and held my belly and just felt so blessed that I have a wonderful husband who loves me SO much and who I love so much and then our little baby was safely growing in my womb and at that moment I felt SO lucky , I just couldn't hold back my tears of joy. But I guess I will stop being all emotional .. GO JESSIE!!

Summer Games

2008-06-16T14:57:00.002-06:00

I dont know if you all went but the Summer games opening ceremonies is probably the coolest thing to do in Cedar. They had all the maskots from the teams in Utah there, and we were sitting right where they were all hanging out so we got some pictures with them Kenzi just thought Cosmo was the coolest thing.

Crazy Weekend

2008-06-10T08:33:00.007-06:00

Sorry mandy but I forgot to take my camera into the concert so I didn't get any good pictures, I was real sad about that.

But for those of you that don't know, Brett and I went down to Vegas on Friday and went and saw Kenny Chesney and Leann Rimes. It was really fun (even though we went ALONE) Kenny sang for like an hour and half just him, Unlce Cracker came out and it was his birthday so we sang to him, and Kenny tried to rap with him singing I wanna be a cowboy. The only bad thing was we had a lil girl behind us that was screaming bloody murder like thru the whole songs, not even when you do scream, so that really sucked cause I already had a headache from how loud the music was. We then drove back to my parents house arrived at 3 in the morning and then got up at 8, packed up stuff drove back to cedar packed up our camping stuff, then went and got food and then started our journey up to fish lake. It was ALOT of driving but I have a great husband that did most of it so I got to relax. We spent the night up at Fish lake with Lynsey and Dustin, Baca, Micheal and Jessica, my lil bro and Tera. They had rented lil fishing boats so when we got there we got to go fishing, and of course I still had flip flops on so I about lost my toes to frostbite. But I caught a fish and Brett didn't so I was pretty proud. Brett drove the boat while Baca and I fished. For those of you that don't know him, you should because he just amazes me. He only has one arm but yet he can do stuff better than just about anyone. He definitely out fished us all. As we were making our dinner for the night, I heard Tuffy start to kind of whine and a low bark/growl , so I look over to see who or what was there , I see two lil black feet and a lil bit of a white stripe, so instinctively I yell SKUNK... everyone starts like what where, Brett thought I was looking like far away, but NO he was digging in the trash that was tied in front of Micheal and Jessica's trailer. This was like about 8 in the evening , it is still light and we are all out and being loud. So.. the guys start to try to scare it off , throwing a few rocks, Brett keeps saying chase it , as long as it is running it can't spray you. They tried to get it out from under the trailer but the brave little thing didn't want to leave. So Micheal goes and grabs his rifle and tries to get a good shot in but the thing moves, mind you we are all screaming don't shoot it right here, chase it out, so on... Finally we hear BOOM, and then we look down its like moving a little, we all thought maybe he didn't kill it good enough, then the stench began. The little guy's head was blown clear off , but his nerves were working in his tail and he let off a little spray. Needless to say not only did we smell like gross camp fire but also a little bit of skunk. There were skunk guts all over the trailer some flew and hit Dustin in the pants, and some were on their cooler and spray. It was pretty awful and since I can't handle smells I began to throw up what little dinner I had already eaten. It was horrible no one wanted to eat after that little skunk was gone. Sorry If that is too graphic but these are true events. But after that , there really wasn't any more crazy things, just went to bed about froze got up made breakfast and started our long journey back home to teach our primary class. We got home twenty minutes before we had to teach, so we jumped in the shower REALLY fast put some clothes on and headed to church. Our weekend was really quite full of adventure but it was fun definitely something to remember.

May

2008-05-28T15:37:00.004-06:00

May has been a pretty busy month for us, not as busy as april was but close. We found out we were having a baby , then we had a trip planned to moab which I still haven't posted pics of. Then it was memorial and we did some fishing even though we didn't catch anything. So here are a few pics of our past month

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December 25th.

2008-05-19T07:57:00.004-06:00

Well on friday our baby measured 1/6 cm. he is gettin SO big.. haha.. but the not so welcoming new is they said he is measuring to be born on CHRISTMAS.. CHRISTMAS.. I keep trying to be ok with everything and I know baby's dont ever come on the day the say but I just know mine will because I really dont want him to come on that day.. so I guess we will do birthdays in July for sure since my child will not be able to get a birthday party and a christmas party. I know this is not the end of the world, I even told Brett that we are having a Jesus baby and he said, he wasnt really born on that day and I said I know but that is the day we celebrate it and he's all yes. Which is kind of cool , can you tell im trying to convince myself this is going to be ok? Help me really truly convince myself...........

So I better clarify its not a him, I really think we are having a girl but I would love a boy first. I just dont like to call my baby and it..

Night sickness !!

2008-05-13T10:35:00.002-06:00

So i have felt sick a lil every day but last night it over took me and I had to let it all go.. and I HATE puking.. its so gross and your mouth and throat feel gross for like two days.. anyways.. I am very lucky that this was the first time and im about 8 weeks but still no fun.

Im Having a Baby !!

2008-05-05T08:52:00.004-06:00

So , when I wasn't even expecting it to happen , It did.. So we are going to have a new addition to our family by the first of the year..

Its a little weird this pic is my third test I took cause I didnt believe the first one cause I've wanted it so bad for so long I was very surprised and so was Brett. Thank you everyone for making me believe it would happen some day as long as I was patient..

Puppies

2008-04-24T08:46:00.005-06:00

These are my dog's puppies but i like to consider them my own .. i just love them I wish we could keep them all.
P.s. how do i add music to my blog I can't figure it out.

Pictographs

2008-04-21T16:47:00.004-06:00

We got invited to go camping and fourwheeling over the weekend, plans didn't turn out like I hoped they would but we still had a good time anyways. Plus I got a new camera on Friday so i was excited to get to use it. We went out the Pictographs in Kanab , they are so cool im not sure the (1.5 miles) was necessary but it was cool anyhow. I just can't help but think about all the other people that wandered around there before us and how they did it with no shoes and hiking and running and hunting and all the cool things they accomplished without anything we have today.

2008-04-16T16:53:00.002-06:00

So, I didnt get to start reading until monday.. and Im 2/3 of the way thru the book its SOO good... Im amazed I feel that way about it.. now i know why all you ladies are so crazy for it. and PS. I do Love Edward so much.
And im DONE.. it only took me 4 days. .. now im headed to Walmart to buy #2 !

Twilight

2008-04-11T10:37:00.001-06:00

My book arrived , so im going to start reading tonight. They better be as good as you all say they are.

BuNcO !!

2008-04-09T07:10:00.003-06:00

So last night was what we thought was the last bunco till everyone returned from selling. But we decided to have another and Im really excited cause it is really nice to hang out with you ladies , without our grumpy husbands.. Lex, I wish you were awake and close to my work cause Im pretty lonely out here on Hwy 56. Thanks ladies for such a fun event to attend every month, you all are great thank you for letting me in your group.

2008-03-18T11:46:00.002-06:00

So im gettin the hang of this now.. You have no idea how many hours of company time i have spent. :) I of course have nothing else to do so its ok.
We FINALLY got a Wii on Sunday (brett was not happy about it coming on that day) We have had people over just playin away its so fun. Im so good at golf you can just call me Tiger. Brett has gotten really good at boxing he might need to change his name to Lennox, but we'll wait on that one. You all should come over an we will play its so fun and im not one to watch others play video games but this is super fun.

Finally !

2008-02-04T19:59:00.000-07:00

Well. Mandy I finally found two seconds to make this blog just for you. . . so now people you can know how boring of a life Brett and I really live.