Mixed Feelings...

My little sweet angel-face one year old just took off for her first trip without mommy and daddy and I am just not sure how I feel. Now granted, Jersey went with my mom, her "Granny", and with some of her other cousins, so I know she is in excellent hands. However, I totally got teary-eyed when she drove off smiling, waving and saying "BYE". My little Jersey-Bers couldn't have cared less that she was leaving me, while my heart, on the other hand, broke just a little. She will be gone for 3 and a half days which leaves me some free time to do...well, whatever it is that people do when they only have one kid, who is super good I might add. SO...on one hand I am really sad that my lil' princess is gone, but at the same time, I might actually get out of the house and do something fun for myself. I can't believe I thought that one kid was hard. Only having one to take care of seems like a piece of cake after having two. It helps when the one that is gone is the crazier one of the two...grin. So you all can see how I have some mixed emotions here. I think I might try to scrapbook or maybe Nathan and I could actually go out on a date (who knew...grin) or exercise some of that baby fat off. Gosh, the possibilities are endless...

Photo Shoot

Before Ava was born, I had my friend Keira take one-year old pictures of Jersey and she also wanted to take some maternity shots of me as well. I wasn't too sure about the prego. pics. but after seeing what a fabulous job she did, I didn't think I looked too chunky monkey-ish:). Seriously though, Keira Poulsen is SO flippin amazing...I was deliciously happy with how the pictures of Jersey came out. Keira totally gets in the moment and gets some fantastical photos. Personally that is what I think makes her such an amazing photographer. I couldn't be happier with the results. She also got a few good shots of Baylee too. You ALL NEED to check out her blog it's: www.klp-photography.blogspot.com/

INTODUCING AVA ASHLIE LEAVITT

I know, i know...I'm slacker-late as usual. However, now I actually have a valid excuse because now, I have two babies...grin. Well, Ava was born on May 31st, 2008 at 5:28 p.m. She weighed in at a whopping 7 lbs. 7 oz. and was 21 inches long. My delivery with Ava was nothing like my delivery with Jersey. I went in to the hospital at around noon and was dialated to a 10 at like 4:15, then I started pushing at around 5:15 and lo and behold, less than 20 minutes later, out came Ava. I pushed for 2 hours and was in labor for 17 hours with Jersey!!! Pretty dang crazy if you ask me. Nathan was the sweetest guy ever, living up to his usual standards. Seriously, he is one of the most attentive dads I have ever seen. He just adores all of his girls.
So, some of you may know that we were planning on naming her Asia or Savannah....but the weekend before we started thinking about other names like Ava, Riley...etc. Now, when she came out we just weren't sure what she looked like. So she pretty much went nameless for about two days (crazy I know) and I was getting very frustrated. Everyone in the hospital was calling her "Baby Girl Leavitt", sad but true. Finally, Nathan was just all, "Ash...she will look like whatever name we decide, we just need to pick a name". Since I had chosen the name for Jersey, I knew Nathan was rooting for Ava, so that's what we started calling her. Can I just say that she totally looks like and Ava....grin. Of course I was selfish and named her middle name after myself...grin. But come on now, how cute does Ava Ashlie Leavitt sound?
We were surrounded by friends and family for the couple of days that we were there which was nice. It feels good to be loved. Ava is my angel baby...she loves to sleep and eat. She is getting so chubby, we call her Ava the Hut, get it...like Jaba the Hut. Ha, I kill myself. Welp, I am going to try to start posting more, I am home all the time, so i should be able to post at least once a week. However, we will have to see if I actually do it. Can't wait to catch up on all your blogs.

My little baby is all grown up!! She had her 1st birthday on April 14th...I seriously can not believe that she is ONE!! We had such a fun day. I documented her whole birthday with pictures that I will upload in a few days. Jersey of course had no idea why we had such a fun day, but for the most part, she enjoyed the "royal" treatment.

An Unexpected Suprise

Welp...I'm pregnant...again...for the second Christmas in a row....and we are TOTALLY excited...nervous but excited. Wow...that was a run-on sentence! I am about 4 months and I get to find our what I am having on the 2nd of January. I know I have been out of the "Blogging World" for a few months and now you can see why:). Obviously this was a bit unexpected, but we want more kids so, yea. My due date is May 27th, so Jersey and Baby Leavitt will be about 13-14 months apart. So Brooke...I'm gonna need some advice:). So much has been going on these last few months so get ready for some major blogging from the Leavitts.

If Hillary and Allysa read this I need your e-mails, you both went private and I had no idea. I need to see you and your cute kids.

Oh My Pampered Chef Retreat

I love Pampered Chef!! About a week ago, I went on a Retreat with some of my team members up at our cabin and let me tell you it was PHENOMENAL!! My Director Kelly Church (also my adoringly beautiful sister:)) put it all together. Basically what it was, was a training for a few days about different things concerning our Pampered Chef Business's. I could seriously have listened to Kell all weekend long, she is such a motivating person and could easily be a motivational speaker. We went for one night and two days and I seriously have not learned so much or laughed so hard in my whole entire life! The group that went was seriously freakin' funnier than funny. It was my first night away from little Jersey, and I did shed a few tears but I got to sleep in the next morning till 9:30 and let me tell you, it was glorious. I basically had the best break in about 6 mos. :) and I am so super happy that I went.

This is a pic. (above) of the everyone that came to the Pampered Chef Retreat. Todd (the funniest man alive) me, Lindsey (funniest girl alive), Edith (she knows EVERYTHING about anything) and Kelly (our fabulous director and the most motivating person I know.

We took a break and walked to the famous "Country Store"




As you can see we got a little "picture happy" and we just couldn't help ourselves in takin some fun , funky pictures!

Bay Turns Lucky #7

Miss B's birthday was actually August 20th but because I am a slacker-face I didn't get the pic's off my camera until now. Welp, our oldest is now numero 7! Can you believe it? I remember when she was 3 and so little and tiny and so very mature for her age. Seriously, time flies when you are livin life. For her b-day we had a small, intimate little gathering of me, Nathan and Jersey. We do parties on the even years when they start gettin a little older and on the odd years we do a little party with just our little fam. But little-miss-bay has so many people that just can't get enough of her that she wound up going out to eat like 4 times with all of her many grandparents! She ate twice at Texas Roadhouse...does this girl have good taste or what! Anyway, we love our Baylee-Boo and I can honestly say that my life would be boring without her. She is the best big sister and can't wait for us to have more kids:).

Okay...if you look super close, you can see that I am sweating...big time. The reason for that is little-miss-jers would close her eyes every time we took a picture with my camera (those pics will come later) and so Nathan and I were going inside the house and outside the house. Inside-outside-inside-outside!! SO finally my fabulous friend Dori took the pic with her exceptionally fabulous camera. And that is my sweating-for-a cute-smiling-picture-with-Jersey-story.

Cousins Galore

MY AMAZING AFFAIR

OKAY....I AM OBSESSED WITH THESE BOOKS!!! I had heard from several people that these books were fabulous and my hubby heard they were awesome too. So, being an avid reader myself, I got the first book, Twilight. I got through the first couple of pages and then "motherhood" called and I didn't get to it until the next day. HOLY-FREE-HOLY...I was up until 2 AM reading and I didn't want to stop. I finished it the next day at around midnight and I HAD to have the next book, New Moon. Nathan (being the wonderful husband he is) went to Walmart at 12:30 AM and got me the second novel. I proceeded to stay up the WHOLE ENTIRE NIGHT. I did not slept at all!!! I couldn't help it, it was like something took over my body and all it wanted was Bella and Edward! Needless to say, I was done with the second book in a day and of course I was itchin for the third. I went to two different book stores and I got the LAST Eclipse the store had. I read that one in less than a day! Basically, I finished the three books in three and a half days. I was pretty much worthless to my family and poor little Jersey...I probably looked like a vampire by the time I was done reading them. Wow, scary. For those of you who don't know me, I have pretty much loved to read ever since I could read THE END. My second home for awhile was the Mesa Public Library (who knew). I love reading just about everything!! However, I have never felt this way about a series before... I am so enthralled with Bella and Edwards lives that I can hardly go a few hours without thinking about them. Now I am going to whisper this in hushed tones... I may like this series a tiny bit better than Harry Potter!!! Ahhhh...can you even imagine. Although... I have been obsessed with Vampires for quite sometime. I own all 7 seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer...need I say more. Basically, anyone who has read these books and wants to have a major chat fest...I am totally up for it. For those of you who haven't, you are truly missing out on amazing writing and a fabulous story line. I am starting to re-read Twilight because I just miss the characters so dang much. The end of 2008 can not come quickly enough. I love you Bella and I love you Edward...THE END.

The Vaders

So, we had my nephews birthday and it was a Star Wars Theme (obviously) and they had a pinata in the shape of...you guessed it :)...Darth Vadar. So here we have Nathan Vadar, Ashlie Vadar , Baylee Vadar and Jersey Vadar. My favorite is Jersey Vadar...so scary and intimidating. And P.S. I know i haven't posted for forever. What can I say, I am a total slacker-face:).

Precious Angel

So when Jersey was about 3-4 weeks old we got some pics of her...Lara Ellingson took them and they turned out F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S! In about 90% of them, good ol' Jersey has her tongue stickin out but what else is new. There are some of THE sweetest pictures of her and I know I am totally "picture happy" but I just can't help it....grin, I had to share.