Back to Hawaii

We are back! Its been a really LONG time since I posted so I am updating on both of the girls.

Presley ( now 23 months) learned how to crawl in and out of a crib over the summer so we had to get her a toddler bed ASAP. This took a few nights of super nanny-ing it over and over & OVER. But after a week she is sleeping through the night, not getting up wandering around the house @ 3am and loving her nap time.





























Layla (now 3 months) has become a chubby baby who literally rolls over every time I put her on her belly. She is so sweet and calm all of the time.

Presley Update

P has been having a blast all summer! She is at a good age to start site seeing. We went to the KC Zoo, T-rex exhibit, planetarium, Chuck-E cheese, water park, playing at the dock on grandpas lake property-- you name it. She is becoming a good big sister (this took a while-- I think she thought Layla was a play doll for a while-hahah).. Plus she is really talking now. I cant count how many words she knows and she greets us every morning with a "hey mom, what you doing?" so cute..

Layla Update

Ok, I know its been a while. We are at my parents house in the mainland for the summer (Ben is interning in KC) and their Internet is a little in the dark ages!--haha:) But here goes--- this is a short update on what we have been doing (I don't have a photo editor on the comp--so you have to deal with red eye;0)

Both Presley and Layla are doing well and growing like weeds. Esp Layla-- I think she is even bigger then P was at her age (if that's possible:)... Enjoy--

Layla-2 weeks old

4 Weeks

6 weeks

8 Weeks

Introducing Layla May Cloud

Sorry it has taken me sooo long to post new pics of our new addition. I guess its the lack of sleep:) She was born May 22nd @ 6:40 pm. 7lbs, 2oz, 19in long. She is already growing like a weed and weighs over 8lbs now. Its funny how each of your children take on a different personality. Presley is the obnoxious one and Layla is so quiet and easy going. Thank goodness!!!:) Here are a few pics from birth to now of our pretty little girl. Enjoy.

Presleys last week as baby and only child

So this is it! Our new baby is coming tomorrow and poor Presley just spent her last week as the only child and our baby:( But she at least got to be spoiled from Grandma Nelson (who flew into HI on Tuesday night). We have been spending the last 2 days visiting local sites while Ben is on Hospital rotations. Presley has been having a ball with grandma and seems to have taken up with her quite a bit (thank goodness, because she is going to spend all day alone with her tomorrow:)! Oh- and did I mention I am soooo excited its my last day to be pregnant!!!!!!

(at the airport)

(At the Zoo - its a really small-- free zoo, but P loves it)

(At the Lava Tree State Park. )

Presley an artist in the making

I don't have much to blog about right now other then the normal (I need to have this baby now, I am miserable, can't sleep, uncomfortable--hahah:) So I thought I would take pictures of P coloring because who knows when I will update this after the baby comes. Presley needs another post before we have a new baby to blog about.

As you can tell Presley loves to color. She finally doesn't try to bite into the crayons. But I have to tape the paper down otherwise she colors on the table. (why do kids always do exactly what you don't want them to??) hahah. Kids-- Gotta love em. PS-- if you look closely she mainly colors with her left hand-- she may turn out like her daddy and be a lefty.

My new stroller-- I LOVE it

Ben and I have had our share of stroller problems. Partly because we bought a crappy stroller that was in our budget when P was born and it fell apart. Then I just used a small umbrella stroller for P after that (needless to say it worked better for her then the old one).. But we decided we needed a double stroller, mostly because my favorite thing to do is walk at the park every day. So Ben researched and found a double tandem stroller he loved and we found a good deal on Amazon for it-- with free shipping to Hawaii!!. The good thing about it is that is pops in any other infant car seat/carrier. So we could recycle our old one, but they didn't match and I didn't like the way they looked together. But thank goodness for E-bay!! 15$, free shipping and 3 days later we got in a perfectly matching car seat cover that looks great. (I had been searching online FOREVER to find a car seat cover to match-- they were all 50+$, then Ben said, check E-bay-- duhhh!!! )) Anyways, check out all the cool ways I can change up my new stroller. Can't wait to use it:) (My favorite thing about this stroller is that the seats lay all the way back if the kids fall asleep--so great).

They can face each other















They can face forward















With the new car-seat cover (the old one was navy blue checkered-gag!)

Another Post about Presley

We recently walked Presley down to the Merry Monarch Parade (it was literally 4 blocks from our house). She LOVED it, but got really tired on the way back as you can tell.

















This is a dancing video of Presley a few days after Easter. As you can tell she still likes playing with the plastic eggs.

Presley's 2nd Easter

This Easter was a little more fun for P. She is starting to understand how to hunt for eggs and she definitely knows what candy is now:) We had a fun day hunting for eggs, BBQ with friends, eating TONS of candy and relaxing as a family. Enjoy the pics.

Happy B day to my sister

Today is my sisters birthday.

These are a few of my favorite memories of her:


1) Twirling a fire baton in a red polka dot uniform at my 2nd grade Assembly (she had super long hair and I kept thinking it was going to catch on fire).
2) Playing barbies together for HOURS or until our legs fell asleep from sitting with our legs crossed.
3) Letting me go out on my friends graduation night even though I was supposed to be grounded (mom and dad left her in charge:) Don't worry-- your too old to get in trouble now-hahah;)
4) Going to movies with me when mom and dad moved us to Missouri the summer before my senior year in high school (I didn't know anyone yet so we hung out alot).
5)Taking a propane curling iron to girls camp so she could make sure she could curl her famous bangs under any circumstances (just in case a boy happened to sneak into camp--hahah just teasing Tiff).
6) Sitting in moms white Lincoln (in our drive way) listening to "Winds Beneath my Wings" by Bette Midler- she listened to it over and over until she had all of the words of the song written down so she could memorize it.
7)Singing "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme me What I Cry For..." solo as part of your 8th grade choir program.
8)Singing Reba Mcentir's song in your leather-fringe outfit at the local county scholarship pageant.. (for those of your who didn't grow up in Duncan-- this was actually normal-- but still super funny--hahahah)

Happy B day sis:)