The Razee's

Pregnancy Update!

2011-03-16T14:57:00.000-07:00

I am in my 22nd week. I am doing very well. I think this pregnancy is harder but I think that is because I have a very active two year old I am chasing around. We are so excited to be having a girl. Alex is also excited (or so he thinks) to be having a little sister. We are slowly getting ready for the new arrival. Since it is so hard to know exactly when I will be having this baby we don't want to be unprepared when she comes. I am hoping to make it to 36 weeks. I go in a couple days to see how the growth is going for our little girl. I will be going every 4 weeks for growth ultrasounds. My big ultrasound a month a go everything was great with the growth but they want to keep on top of it. Hopefully we will know a little more this ultrasound because my placenta is on top of the baby which is not very good. They are hoping that it will move. We still have lots of time. Either way I am going to have a c-section so it won't matter too much.
Alex is getting so big. He is talking so much. He loves watching movies including Cars, Thomas the Train, Toy Story etc. I can't wait for it to get warmer so he can get outside more. I think he can't wait to be outside more also. We are getting a few more warm days. Not only is he talking more but he is talking back more. I don't love the word "no." He says it often. He is having a little bit of a hard time not getting everything he wants. I am confident he will grow out of it. Pretty sure it better be soon though. We are kind of working on potty training. I really would like him to be potty trained before the baby comes because when the baby comes I will only have a few months to get him ready for pre-school. He isn't super interested. He knows when he needs to go but he doesn't want to take the time to do it. We have tried bribery, but he isn't buying it. Till next time.

July 2011

2011-01-20T14:46:00.000-08:00

In July our little family is going to grow by 1. We are excited to welcome a new little one in July of 2011. Well at least that is the hope. I am about 14 weeks pregnant and feeling good. It was extremely wonderful that we got pregnant when we did. It will be so fun to have a new one in our home. We have wanted a new little one for a while. Heavenly Father knows exactly when these little ones need to come to our homes and ours should be arriving around mid July. I am thinking it will be more like mid to end of June, but I can hope for July. We are definately going to find out what we are having but that won't be until the end of Feb. We are hoping for a girl but we will take whichever girl or boy. Two of my sister-in-laws are also expecting this summer. It will be so nice to have some other cousins for this new little one. Alex has plenty of cousins his age. 5 in one year to be exact and he loves to play with them. Also our ward is exploding with new babies this spring and summer meaning more friends for this new little one. I will be going to the doctors next week to see how things are going. I went last week to the cardiologist and everything looks great. My pressures are the same as they were when I was pregnant with Alex which means my pulmonary hypertension is very mild. When I was pregnant with Alex my pressures actually decreased. So hopefully the same will happen again. Again we are super excited to add to our family.
In other news Alex is doing great. He is talking so much it is great. Last night I was listening to him play and he was able to count to 9 without any help. If I help him he can count to 15. As many people know Alex is extremely active and doesn't have a lot of time to learn things but he is a smart little one. He will ask me to fix or do something if I can't then he says he will either ask his daddy or pop-pop because they can do everything in his eyes. He is already getting a little spring fever which is going to be hard since we still have a few months of winter left. He does keep himself entertained with watching his Thomas the train movies, Elmo and others. But we are excited for the weather to warm up and to play outside with friends. Till next time.

Christmas Post

2011-01-07T14:11:00.000-08:00

I suppose a Christmas post is in order. Better late than never right. I actually took some pictures of Alex and the ones that aren't fuzzy from him moving are quite cute. Christmas Eve we went to my mom and dad's and had dinner. Alex was able to open his presents then and he got lots of Thomas the Train tracks and movies. He got some clothes too but the hit of the night was his Thomas the train toothbrush and he "puter" as he calls it. Pop-Pop picked out a little leapfrog computer which he loves. The next morning we slept in till 9 am. Wonderful I say. When we got up Alex opened his presents. Santa got Alex a little dvd player and blocks. We got him a Chuggington track and some trains to go with his Thomas and Chuggington sets. He also got plenty of movies and toys. Here are some pics from those two events above.

One day I'll figure out how to really blog until then I'll improvise. Christmas afternoon we went to my dad's so Alex could see them before they went to dinner. He got some cool Dr. Seuss books, a cool outfit, and a puppy -stuffed animal dog. So fun. He had more fun going outside and exploring. Then we went back to my parents for ham dinner and the other grandkids got to open presents. Our final stop was Chris' parents were we visited. We are extremely blessed and had a wonderful holiday.

Style

2010-10-13T14:08:00.000-07:00

I am always looking for new clothes. Most of you know I love to shop. Since I had Alex the majority of the money I spend on clothes goes towards him rather than me now. I have some days where I feel like I need a new style. I am extremely stuck in a slump of I don't want to spend the time to get all dressed up but I don't want to look dumpy or lazy in how I dress. I am not posting this to get compliments on my style but more as a venting tool. Unfortunately because of my size and budget I am limited in my clothing choices. I am sure there are clothes made for little women like me but I don't have the money to buy clothes and shoes from high end stores. But on the other side I am feeling like I am getting a little older and not so juniorish. I wish I could find a happy medium. In fall/winter especially I struggle. I get in the slump of wearing a t-shirt and a zip up hoodie. I want to look nice without lots of work and little ironing. Then my next gripe is when I was in high school my skin was pretty clear. Now I am getting older and I think my skin is getting worse. I don't wear lots of make up and I normally clean my make up off when I am ready for bed. I am so frusterated with my zits and I wish I could find a solution. I don't want to take prescription medication for the problem because I would love to have another baby soon and I know you can't take acne medication while pregnant. I am pretty sure some of my acne could be from my lack of good sleep and not drinking water. But then if I drink lots of water I'm not getting enough calories. I have been to a few doctors recently and I have been told that I need to gain weight. Many of you know that gaining weight for me is probably as hard if not harder than someone trying to lose weight. Many doctors don't realize I am not a big girl, neither are my parents. Thankfully we all have the freedom to take doctors advice only as far as we want. Also I am grateful for Heavenly Father and Jesus have their own plan for our families. I strongly believe Heavenly Father only gives us what we can handle and even though everyone struggles with their own trials we are all blessed differently.
On the good note I was able to introduce Alex to my brother Christopher. Christopher has never met Alex. The last time I saw Christopher I was pregnant with Alex. Through many chain of events Christopher and I haven't seen each other. Many things having to do with my sister and my neice. Anyways..I was able to see him and talk to him a little. Most days don't go by without thinking about my brother and sister. It was nice to have some contact with him. He also reached out to me via facebook. I am not going to think that we will become close. We live very different lives but at least we have some contact. Alex can always use more family.
Well sorry for the rambling post. Next post will be more uplifting and about Alex cause he is just funny.

Summer 2

2010-09-08T14:36:00.001-07:00

This is us at Sea World. Picture taken by us.

Alex was more content playing in the sand.

Watching Daddy out in the ocean.

Alex is attempting to go out to the ocean with Dad.

This is Alex and Kiersi his best friend!

As summer is coming to an end I guess I'll write about what we have done. We have had the great opportunity to go camping a couple times and we also have been able to go to San Diego with friends. Alex really enjoyed going to Sea World. We were able to go to Sea World three times. Definately able to get our money's worth. We went to Legoland which was fun for Chris mostly. He got a kick out of all the lego people. At Legoland there is a new water park which we were able to go, besides the fact it was cold Alex liked the lazy river. He loved that we were able to build on the tubes. Our neighbor Devin and Chris had fun making towers on their tubes to see who's was tallest. We also went to Coronado island and went to the beach one night but it was freezing. Our husbands went all the way in the water but Cami and I weren't brave enough. Alex and Kiersi didn't brave the water either. They sat and shivered. I am posting some pictures with the kids playing in the sand. Alex had sand everywhere!! He had fun though. While Devin and Chris were swimming in the ocean they saw a small pod of dolphins swimming. It was really cool.
Other than our couple trips we have stayed home and played. Alex loves to be outside no matter the conditions. He loves to play in our pool and he loves to play with the hose. Chris had to take the hose bib off so Alex couldn't turn the hose on. He also loves to be naked, and outside. The first couple times it was embarrassing but now I just try my hardest to keep his clothes on. The neighbors should be used to my streaking son. He must get it from his dad! Ha.. Alex loves to play with his friends. Normally those are his first words in the morning. He asks where all his friends are. We are extremely grateful for our neighbors not only for our friendships but for the kids friendships. I can only hope that they will continue to grow.
Alex is getting extremely independent in some things. He wants to dress himself whenever we change clothes, but along with that he is extremely impatient.

I am a little sad for the changing weather because then we can't spend as much time outside but on the other hand I can get more cleaning done. Since Alex loves to be outside I haven't been the best at cleaning my house. Why is it when you have a home you want to change things all the time. I would love to do lots of things to my house but I don't have an unlimited source of funds so..I just improve it in small ways. Here are some pictures for your enjoyment. The pictures are at the first. Don't understand. Oh well.

Summer

2010-07-26T20:48:00.000-07:00

Summer so far has been wonderful. We have been having lots of fun playing outside pretty much every day. Alex's favorite things to do are ride our neighbors bike that is a 12" bike with training wheels. Alex also loves to help daddy mow the lawn with his mower. Alex also loves to play in his pool. For his birthday party we let the neighbor kids play in the pool.
It's official we have lived in our home for 1 year! It is so wonderful to be in a home with plenty of room for all of us and our things. We LOVE our neighbors and get along great with everyone. We are truly blessed to have moved when we did.
Our upcoming fun includes some camping and a trip to San Diego with some friends. So exciting to go somewhere since we haven't been on a trip since our trip to Washington in 2006. We are excited.

Five and Two

2010-06-15T20:59:00.000-07:00

Well as we (Chris and I) are approaching our five year anniversary next week I am so thrilled that we have made it this far. I always knew that I would spend eternity with Chris but the road wasn't always easy. We have both grown so much since getting married at 20 and 19, not only have we aged by birthdays by we have grown emotionally and spiritually. I am so blessed to be married to such a patient and loving husband. He truly spoils me.
Next on the agenda is my son. Alex will be two in a matter of weeks. I can't believe that he is getting so big. He is talking so much. Lots you can't understand and some you can. He can normally get his point across when he wants something. And believe me he knows what he wants. He is extremely stubborn and extremely fearless. Time has flown by since Alex was born. But in the same sense lots of things have happened.
As I said before Alex loves being outside so my dad decided that he needed to take swimming lessons. We enrolled him in a parent tot swim class which he is loving. We have been three times and it is like a nursery where the kids swim. They sing songs and play little games. He has fun. A few weeks ago we went camping up to Pineview Resevoir Alex had a blast. He wasn't thrilled with the water but it was freezing so we understand. There was lots of room to run around and he loved the tent. He just liked to play in the tents. He was always playing in ours or my mom and dad's. We had tons of fun camping and it was a good break. Hopefully we will be able to do some other fun things this summer.

More Spring

2010-05-24T13:49:00.000-07:00

Chris said to me yesterday that Alex was getting too big. I would have to agree. We have a hard time believing that he is going to be 2 pretty soon. He is quite independent except for the sleeping. We have never had a good sleeper on our hands. I haven't helped matters but Alex just doesn't sleep good.
Alex is in love with being outside. He could be naked and want to go outside. This crazy Utah weather hasn't given him enough outside time as far as he is concerned. Last week Chris finished out swingset we purchased. Alex loves it. Most of it he can play on but the monkey bars make us a little nervous. I'm sure we'll have a few falls but he will learn eventually. He is definately fearless. But we have been lucky so far no super bad falls.
Alex is trying to potty train. I am not completely ready for him to potty train but he is ready to be naked all the time. He enjoys sitting on the toilet but most people don't have the entire day to play on the toilet. So probably by the summer we will be potty trained.
I am extremely ready for the weather to warm up and stay warm. I have enjoyed planting flowers and I am going to plant some tomatoes when the weather cooperates. In June Alex and I are talking swimming classes. We will see how that goes. I think he will love it but ya never know. Sorry no pictures I will have to post pictures of the swingset next time.

Spring

2010-05-03T05:42:00.001-07:00

Well even though the weather hasn't been so wonderful we have tried to take advantage of the weather when it is nice. Alex loves to be outside and so we have played as much as we could. Chris and I have been trying to get the backyard in good shape since the dog has pretty much destroyed a lot of it. She gets bored while I am at work or while we are gone. She digs lots and we are at a loss as what to do with her. We are trying to fix all her holes and fix the flower beds she has dug in. That has been keeping us busy.

Chris' next project is a swingset we bought for Alex this weekend. We got it at Toys R Us on sale. We'll see how long it actually takes to put it together. It says 8-10 hours. I'm sure Alex will love it when it is ready for him.

Last Tuesday on April 27th my parents and I were able to attend my neice's adoption hearing. What a blessing to have her adopted in our family. My uncle and aunt adopted her and will now be able to truly call her theirs. She has been living with them for the majority of her little life and they are her parents. I can't wait for the day when they will be able to be sealed to her. It reminds me of when I was sealed to my parents. Even though she will be younger I am sure she will feel how special the time is. Also on Tuesday my friends and their kids were able to attend the Tulip Festival. That was super fun but...lots of walking. Its always the uphill that kills ya not the downhill. But none the less it was enjoyed by all.

Well here are a few pictures for the past month or so.

Bribery & Bargaining

2010-02-20T16:28:00.000-08:00

I think part of being a mother is bribing your children. Just a little while ago I bribed my son to put his pants on by giving him a Dove chocolate heart. He loves chocolate and so..he took the bribe and put his pants back on. Another thing I have encountered with my son is bargaining. In the mornings I tell him that he has to get his socks and shoes on so we can leave to go play with his cousins. He will normally sit and let me put his socks and shoes on. Funny what we learn when we become parents. I wouldn't trade any of it though. We have so many fun times that it makes up for the hard stuff.

Valentines was a good holiday as far as holidays go. Chris and I went to dinner at Noodles and Co. and then went to the mall and walked around. Kind of relaxing without a child. Saturday night we went over to my parents and ate steak and crab. Yummy!!

Even though the weather hasn't exactly gotten warm we did some cleaning outside. We raked up lots of leaves from our tree out back. Our dog has probably successfully dug up most of our yard. That is the downside of a big dog. She is a digger. Hopefully that is a puppy thing that she will grow out of.

Till next time.

Holidays

2010-01-20T17:14:00.000-08:00

Well a little update. We had a wonderful holiday season with both family and friends. For Thanksgiving we went to my mom and dad's and had a wonderful dinner as always. Christmas was as crazy as usual. Christmas eve was spent with my mom and dad. We went over to their house and had dinner and opened presents which was pure chaos. When you have two babies opening presents it is chaotic. For our big gift from my parents we got a wonderful new camera. Christmas day Chris and I exchanged presents and I was excited to get some new movies, wallet and a new dutch oven. Alex was of course spoiled beyond belief with so many toys he doesn't know what to do with them all. Christmas morning was spent with my parents with a brunch at their house and then we went over to my dad and step-mom's for a fun evening. Alex was the only child so that was fun but other wise we had a great time and wonderful dinner. We hurried our way up to Chris' parents for a gift exchange and hanging out. Needless to say it took us a couple days to recover since Alex didn't have good naps for like 3-4 days.
After Christmas we had a high school friend get together including spouses and children. It was a lot of fun. We got a new fridge. Super exciting. After the holidays Chris unfortunately had to go back to work but thankfully he has a job. We were truly blessed with a wonderful holiday season.
Now Alex is 18 months and off to nursery. Week one=good, week two=not so great. We'll see how week three goes in a few days. Well I better see what Alex is getting into now.

A post with some pictures...how nice!

2009-10-23T20:22:00.000-07:00

Well I actually have a couple of free minutes so I will post a couple of pictures. Here is a picture of Alex brushing his teeth. He loves to brush his teeth. Some of the other pictures are just random ones of him. Two of them are when we went to the pumpkin patch in Farmington last week for family home evening. We took Alex and picked out a few pumpkins. He thought he could just pick up any pumpkin. He is pretty strong but those pumpkins weighed alot. We got four pumpkins and they weighed 80 lbs combined. At the first of the month Alex went for his 15 months check up and he weighed 21 lbs 2 oz and was 30 1/2 inches long. He is doing well. He is full of energy and loves to climb on anything he can.

Long Time No Post

2009-09-04T15:58:00.000-07:00

Well since our wonderful moving post we have finally moved. We have been in our nice home for about a month. In between our move we lived with my parents for a little over a month. It was suppose to be two weeks at most (haha). While living at my parents Alex turned 1 years old. And he decided since he was one he would start walking. Now he is walking like crazy but he still a little too clumsy to run yet. We moved into our house the weekend of the 24th of July. We are still trying to decorate but we have most of our boxes unpacked. Just a few decorations left in boxes waiting to be hung. But I don't have a lot of help from my shadow (Alex). He doesn't like me to ignore him. We love our neighborhood in Woods Cross it is super nice with tons of kids Alex's age. Well sorry for the short post. I will download pictures this weekend and we will have tons of pictures of 4th of July, Alex's birthday, and our new home.

Selling and more

2009-04-26T14:51:00.000-07:00

As you move into your first place you don't think you will grow out of it so quickly but unfortunately we did. We probably just have too much stuff and so we are going to move. Where we aren't quite sure. We have found a few homes we really like but until we sell our own home we can't do much. We haven't put our house on the market because we have some work to do. But it will be soon. Trying to fix up your house while watching a nine month old is a little bit difficult. But we are working on it. The next big project is getting it "open house ready" ha..ha.. That is the big thing. We have to pack a bunch of stuff even if we aren't moving just so it doesn't look so lived in. We are looking at homes from Bountiful to Layton. We are excited to have our own home and yard. Alex is getting big and getting into everything. And if any of you have been around him they know I'm not exaggerating. Now that the weather is starting to be nicer we have played outside a little more. Here are a couple pictures of Alex.

Life is as follows...

2009-02-23T18:10:00.000-08:00

Well I figure I should post something since it has been a week. I haven't had a chance to upload pictures although I had the best of intentions to do so today. Alex is crawling way too fast for his own good. And now he has figured out how to pull himself up on things. He doesn't realize that many things can't support him such as: guitars, love sacs, toys etc. I have a feeling the bumps and bruises are just a start of things to come. Alex is learning how to do stairs. He doesn't catch on quick with those which I am not too upset about. At work he tries to go up and down but fails both ways. This week Alex will get a new cousin in Virginia they are going to name her Kaydee (sp). Unfortunately all of Alex's cousins that are close to his age are girls. He will have four girl cousins within an 11 month span. So we will have to make friends with little boys in the ward or something.
Chris is working four ten hour days so he is able to be home with us on Fridays. I don't work Fridays either. Chris is working on learning his guitars better both acoustic and electric. Most of his spare time is spent playing with Alex. Most of my time is spent chasing Alex or trying to do laundry. I wish I could say my house was spotless but...that isn't the case. But I was able to vacuum today. That was an accomplishment. I'm working three days a week these days. I am doing some of the book-keeping and invoicing. Things are getting harder now that Alex is mobile. I spend lots of time chasing him. But that is all part of life. Well I better go.

Valentines etc..

2009-02-16T19:55:00.000-08:00

In our family Valentines isn't as big of holiday as many others. But Chris and I went out to dinner on Thursday night to beat the rush. We went to MacCool's in Layton, which was great. My mom watched Alex which was very nice. Then we ran to the mall for a couple things. It was great to have my mom watch Alex because he is on the go now most of the time. The only time he slows down is to eat and sleep and that is rare.
On Friday Chris had the day off and we ran some errands and looked at a couple houses. Then we went over to Missy and Brandon's house and hung out with Missy and the kids for a while. When I was feeding Alex on Friday night I decided to give him some of the cereal puffs. We have attempted to give him puffs on a few occasions. He hates them. He gags and normally throws up. Our pediatrician says just keep trying every now and then. So we tried once again on Friday night and the results were similar. He gagged on them and tried to spit them out.
On Saturday for the actual Valentines day we hung out with my family. My sister was up here and we hung out with her and she spent time with Alex. Who by the way loves Brittany. As some of you know Alex isn't friendly sometimes.
On Sunday we decided to go to my parents church since it was later. I decided to try to gel Alex's hair. It was pretty funny and it stayed in until this morning when I bathed him. Here are a few pictures.
Sorry the pictures are kinda weird. Still learning how to arrange and rotate pictures.

Alex is 7 Months

2009-02-09T13:59:00.000-08:00

Alex turned 7 months on February 5th. Here are a couple pictures of what he did that day. He is getting so big. He is starting to crawl and I think he is trying to get some teeth. He is extremely chatty and he loves to get into things. He is still figuring out what animals are but he liked sitting on Chelsea.

Feeding Time

2009-01-29T15:26:00.000-08:00

On Tuesday after I was done feeding Alex lunch I decided to get myself some lunch. Alex was just sitting in his high chair entranced with something on the counter but I couldn't figure out what it was. Then I noticed him nodding off. He finally fell fast asleep in the high chair. Even though it was hilarious I was trying not to wake him up. But I was able to snap a few pictures of him.

Calling for Help

2009-01-29T14:04:00.000-08:00

So since I started this blog not much has been going on. But I do have some problems. How do I make it so nice and cute like so many are? Give me some websites or suggestions or something.

Clarify

2009-01-23T12:23:00.001-08:00

I suppose I should clarify that Desi isn't my child. Most of you know that I just have Alex. Destiny is my sister Brittany's little girl. But she has been a very big part of our life and we love her very much.

Happy Birthday Desi!!!

2009-01-18T14:36:00.000-08:00

I can't believe it has been a year since Des was born. She started out small but now she has blossomed and grown into a beautiful little girl. She is very close to walking and she makes all sorts of sounds. We love her so much and are so glad she can be with us.

Frank Ramirez

2009-01-15T09:37:00.000-08:00

Please have Frank Ramirez in your thoughts and prayers throughout the week. He was involved in a severe work accident yesterday. We don't know his status but there is injuries to his back and his head. As much as we have disliked him we still never want anything this awful to happen to anyone. Please just pray for both him and his children. They need all the support they can get. Thanks-Krys

Halloween

2009-01-03T20:54:00.000-08:00

For Chris' birthday we just hung out with my parents and had dinner. We decided to take some pictures of Alex in his monster costume. As we were taking the pictures he decided to explode in his outfit ruining it for the night. I guess that's what happens with a small baby. Thankfully we had pictures done at Target a few weeks before.

Hi

2009-01-03T08:17:00.000-08:00

We decided to start a blog so people can see what our family is up to. Chris, Alex and I are very busy but we would love to keep in touch with our friends and family. Hopefully I can keep this up to date with fun things that happen in our lives.