Cold and Cozy

Little Eliza all nice and cozy.

She is a perfect mixture of my nephew Jacob and my neice Tuesday.

I got myself and my girls all bundled up and went with Shane up to Lake Quyamaca on Monday morning. He took the day off, it was our anniversary day observed since we couldn't do anything the preveious Wednesday. It was 45 degrees and so super windy up there and for the first hour or so you could only see 15 feet infront of you it was so foggy on the lake.

Olivia was so excited to go fishing with daddy and had been for a few days.

Once she figured out what fishing was she was less excited.

But she loves her daddy and had fun anyway.

She gatherd a ton of pine cones to feed the squirls but they didn't come to eat them.

It doesn't look cold.

It was.

She was afraid of the bear.

The wooden bear.

I was too when I first saw it. I thought it was real!

It scared the heck out of me!

Three Years of Marital Bliss (mostly)

Happy Anniversary to us!!!

Maybe its a little silly but I figured I would show you all some of my fabulous wedding memories. The quality isn't so great because these are actually pictures of pictures because I can't figure out how to get a photo from my scanner to my computer to my blog and make it look half way decent. Actually I can't figure out how to get it from the computer to the blog.
I loved my cake (it looked better than this).

Me (obviously).

I loved that I didnt have to help with my own flowers but I did do Shanes boutonniere.

Hi There!

Olivia Was at her Beautiful Grandmother Pamela's house this past week. (my mom had been gone for a month so we were pretty excited to be there).

Olivia is the third youngest of all of the 16 grandchildren and all of the "big cousins"

stack all of my moms dozens and dozens of pillows into the "pit" (sunken area of the living room) and jump in from the top step. Livi usually just goes all the way in and jumps. However, Olivia decided to take advantage of being the only "jumper" there on Friday and jumped from the top step for the first time! Yay Livi!

This picture is of Eliza this week at Grandma Karens house.

And this sweet photo is a snapshot of a nightly occurance. I tell ya, this man loves his girls. And since it is our anniversary tomorrow (thats why I put the wedding photo up top. I'm feeling lovey). I can say that I love this man!

Yay! Eliza is Here!

So it's been forever hasn't it? This is gonna be a quick go through because I don't have the time to go over the last three months in detail. This was me in February days before the little one was set to come.
Me inbetween pushes. i checked into the hospital at 11:30 a.m., didn't see my doctor until 1:00 p.m. I had no regular contractions but was 5 cm. dialated. They started me on antibiotics at 2:00 and pitocin at 5:00 then was dialated to 7cm. at 7:30. The contractions were getting really bad so i got my epidural at 8:00. I was 8 cm at 8:45 and they broke my water. at 9:37 p.m on february 17th after 15 minutes of pushing
Eliza Joris Hoy
was born. Joris is like Doris but with a J (obviously). Joris was my maternal grandmother's name with whom Eliza shares a birthday.


This is the first ever picture of Eliza.
She weighed in at 7lbs. 11oz. and was 191/2 inches.


The first picture of me and Eliza.



The first picture of Eliza and her daddy.
Shane held her the first night so I could get some much needed sleep.

Eliza on her blessing day in our antique blessing gown thet Olivia also wore.

Eliza on Easter

Olivia on Easter.

Olivia at the San Diego Temple the day her uncle Jeremy and aunt Melisssa were married.

Dancing with her daddy at the reception.

I Love Christmas!

So, not to brag because I have to give Martha Stewart some credit, but I am pretty sure I made the best Christmas cookies ever this past week! They were amazing without the icing and got even more yummy once decorated. But did it take forever! I don't recommend doing cookies like these unless you have tons of time on your hands or are like me and you don't so you make time by staying up till 11 or 12 or 1 in the morning 3 nights in a row.

Shane had me make gift baskets for all of his employees that had 6 sugar cookies, 12 chocolate chip cookies, a loaf of cranberry banana bread (all of which were home made), almond roca, candy canes and a bottle of martinellis. Fun but stressful.
Last night we went to Oceanside for Tuesday's (my niece) birthday. For .2 seconds Liv wanted to dress up in the tea party clothes. But not a fraction of a second longer.

Thanksgiving Weekend

It was really nice to have Shane home so many days in a row. Olivia got used to having her daddy around that she is now asking for daddy all throughout the day rather that just in the evenings. We had a really Nice Thanksgiving even though I was up until 2:00 a.m. baking pies. Not a good idea when you are in your seventh month of pregnancy.

Shane played soccer in the rain with some people in our ward while I finished up the pies and then we headed up to my moms where the dinner was wonderful and then we headed down to the States home for the Hoy/States dinner.

Shane Finished putting up the lights around the house and i think that my inside Christmas decorations are almost all up. I'll be sure to take some pictures and post them soon.

This is kind of a dull blog, it's probably because I am tired. Better luck next time!

Hello Again!

So Its been six months since I last updated this darn thing and I will be quick with it.

The morning of Fathers Day Shane was told he was gonna be a daddy! (again)

From the next morning until mid-september I was miserably sick!

Our landlords sold the house they were living in and decided that they wanted to live where we were so we broke our lease early and moved a mile away. I was really sick and it was ridiculously hot (August). We now live in a nice house that is big so it's too expensive to furnish or decorate, so every so often when I let that get to me I am in my own personal hell.

We have found out theat the next addition to our little family will be little girl #2.

We are pretty happy about that.

so here is my update in a nut shell. I got pregnant, I got sick, Livi turned 1, we moved, it was hot!, and here we are!

The day we found out that cheese was one of Olivias favorite foods.
Olivia and Emma really excited about the 4th of July.

. . .and not so excited

Olivias Huge birthday cake that took me two days to make!

Livi loved opening her gifts.

At Bates Nut Farm getting a pumkin.

( not a pumkin under my shirt)

Olivia is getting shy.

My mom had a big Gypsy themed birthday party.

I raided her everyday wardrobe for my costume.

And we end with my little gypsy family.