Lots of posts!

Chris went to Seattle and our Halloween.

Our Thanksgiving weekend. 

My grandma passed away, all about her here.

Londyn turned 18 months!

And a super long post about everything else to catch up on!

Private...

All right folks, the time has come....

This blog is going private for good.

You may have noticed a lack of posting, and that is due to my inner battle of public vs. private.

Our new private blog is chrisheatherlowe.blogspot.com

You can keep following this blog as I will update here to let you know when I have posted on the private blog.

If you want to follow along feel free to leave your email address in a comment, or email it to me at loweheather1@gmail.com

And MOM! you better remember your password this time around because you are the reason I stayed public for so long! :)

p.s. new posts on the private blog: our September and half of October and a visit to Utah!

Hello Again

We are alive!

Here's what we've been up to:

Keeping our child trapped inside.

Just kidding.

 

This horse fly was probably the size of my entire thumb.

I hate Missouri solely for the reason that the bugs are PLENTIFUL and HUGE.

We tried to go swimming as much as possible this summer.

In July Londyn helped me organize things and was very proud of herself. 

Reading books became an obsession.

Matchy matchy!

More pool time in August. 

I turned 25 and had a quarter life crisis.

Ok not really, but everyone is having crises these days so I felt like I should too.

But I did have the BEST chocolate lava cake ever.

I started my first painting project...

Londyn = the cutest little gremlin.

On Labor Day we went to a Royals game with our friends Taben and Liz.

Londyn was SO good and watched almost the entire game.

I transitioned Londyn from 2 naps down to 1, which means she zonked in silly positions by the time her 1 nap rolled around.

(She was waking up at 6-6:30 am and not napping in the afternoon very often so I switched her to 1 nap a day at 1pm. It was a very hard transition on both of us but we made it and now she sleeps in until 8am! Worth it).

When the weather isn't too hot we go for a walk in the evenings.

Londyn's first time back in a swing since Pocatello.

She obviously loved it!

Enjoying some brazilian rice and beans.

"Moon! Moon!"

Londyn discovered the moon on one of our later night walks.

She said "moon!" almost the whole walk while pointing to it and always looks for it now when we are outside.

In September Londyn discovered how fun it is to sit in a "big girl chair" all by herself!

This is the face she makes when I ask if she can "blink".

We love facetiming!!!

 

Some days church completely wears Londyn out.

She was seriously dead asleep like this.

Driving the car. 

We went to the KC zoo with some ladies from the ward and had a great time.

The polar bear was putting on an awesome show.

Interestingly - after telling my sister about the polar bear she said the one at Hogle zoo does the exact same thing. Do they train them to do that?

The following pictures demonstrate just how crazy/silly/goofy Londyn is:

She loves mirrors.

Just hanging out.

On our way to get a shake at Sonic.

It tasted like toilet water...but that's a story for another day.

Just out for a walk. What a silly girl!

Londyn destroyed my nicely organized sections of summer clothes to put away and fall/winter clothes to go through...and now loves sitting in the box and moving the clothes around.

In this picture she is actually naked, reading a book in the box.

If you can spot Londyn through the disaster you will see that she has a sweatshirt on her head.

She walked around like this for a good 20 minutes. Should we be concerned?

Nah, we are just highly entertained.

Londyn also loved hanging out inside the laundry basket.

Oh that girl... 

It only took me a month...but I finally finished my painting project.

And I still can't decide if it was worth it!

Seriously, this girl?!

I piled all those clothes on her and she just lounged in there reading a book for a long time!

In other news-

 --Chris is staying insanely busy with his residency but he is loving it (last I checked).

--We got a major itch to get moving a few weeks ago when we hit the 3 month mark. (Quarter of the way done in one week! Woohoo!) It feels like it is time to be moving back home, since this last year we always headed home after 3 months of being away. 

--Londyn is talking like crazy. Instead of listing all her words, here are my faves: "beep beep" (She was in my way one day and I said "beep beep" to try and get her to move. She just kept repeating me and blocking my way). "String cheese" (one of her favorite foods). "Ta-da!" (Chris taught her to say this with her arms out after she builds a tower).

She repeats a lot of what we say and it is pretty darn cute!

--We went through a rough patch of teething when Londyn was getting 8 teeth in at once, including molars! She's up to 11 teeth now.

--After a traumatizing experience at the pediatrician I told Chris that Londyn and I are moving back to Salt Lake after this year and if he wants to live with us he BETTER find a job there! No more Mrs. Nice over here. I'm done moving to new places and finding new (crappy) doctors and new mechanics and new everything! I LOVED our docs in SLC and want to go back to them. And even more than that I want to be around family!

--One more...real life stinks when it comes to time off. A week off every three months, what? Three week long Christmas break what? Being students had its perks.

Over and out.

10 reasons I know I am getting OLD

I have a birthday coming up. That always pushes the feeling of being old on you.

1- Summer is no longer my favorite season. I never thought I'd see the day! After being pregnant during summer last year only until JUNE I had enough! I am so sorry to anyone that has to be pregnant through the entire summer. I've been ruined on summer ever since. Welcome to my new favorite season = fall! Get your butt here already.

2- I'm going to be half way to 50. HALF WAY. I'm no longer in my early twenties, the prime of life. I'm no longer a "young" mother. I have a child over 1, people are wondering when #2 is coming along (not anytime soon fyi), and we are no longer students.

3- Every stage of life I find the people in the previous stage annoying. 7th grade = elementary kids are annoying. 8th grade = 7th graders are annoying. 10th grade = jr high kids are annoying. freshman in college = high schoolers are annoying. Grad student (thru association of my hubby) = undergrads are annoying. I feel old because I no longer feel annoyed by most people in previous stages. I smile at their endearingly annoying qualities instead. What the crap?!

4- I've become a sunscreen Nazi. I no longer care about getting tan, I care more about not getting skin cancer! I may be whiter than white, but I'm hoping to reverse all those years of burns.

5- I recently read an old journal from elementary school and I had written down my wish-list for Christmas. It included things like an N64 paddle, fake cell phone, gameboy color, etc. Holy outdated and old school.

6- Chris and I team-teach the 12-14 year olds for Sunday school. When we tell them to look up a scripture they ALL pull out their phones or ipads or tablets. What the crap!?

7- I NEVER sleep in. I've turned into my mom, getting up before the kid(s) because you can get so much more done! And as long as I get to bed at a decent hour, I don't really miss it!

8- Vacations/traveling/outings are no longer relaxing. I'm always thinking/worrying about how to get somewhere, what needs to be taken care of, how certain things will work out, and always, ALWAYS trying to keep an eye on Londyn, keep her happy, and take care of her. (I still have fun, even if I can't totally let my guard down!)

9- There are not enough hours in the day! Really I just need to use my time more wisely, but isn't that such an old person thing to say? 

10- I'm always thinking about boring things like finances, bills, health, and whether or not to make brown rice with dinner since Chris loves it even though it won't be as tasty as white rice. (I usually make the brown rice).

Bonus! 11- I make mature decisions, like making brown rice instead of white. (Stupid brown rice).

Yep, I'm definitely getting old.