invasion of privacy

our little one has always been a mama's girl. but since we've moved out to wisconsin, she's slowly switching sides. no hurt feelings here.

when tyler comes home katelyn runs to him and showers him with hugs and kisses and follows him around the house. pretty cute. no lie.

on one of these daddy days, tyler had to take a little bathroom break. naturally, he closed the door. i guess katelyn didn't want to miss anything daddy was doing because i found her like this...

trying to take a little peek under the bathroom door!

dear sisters,

i miss you. i wish you were here. i could always count on you to do dumb things with me.

(i'm sorry two of you are missing in this picture).

love,

brooke

oops

living in a new place you expect to encounter some new people and some new places to visit. well, in our place we have also unexpectedly been greeted by these new little guys.

i happened to walk into the room both times and did a very good job of screaming for tyler's help.

after doing a little research i found out that these critters are called house centipedes. wikipedia claims they are considered beneficial because they eat household pests. Yeah right, they are the household pest! I guess that they can bite, but their bite is not harmful in anyway.

last night katelyn woke up at 4:00 a.m. crying. we helped her calm down, got her a drink of milk and put her back in her crib. as i was laying her back down, my finger brushed something bumpy underneath her back. i reached back under and felt it again, so i quickly grabbed it and threw it at the wall.
when i got back to bed i mentioned to tyler that i thought i had just thrown a bug from katelyn's crib, and i was pretty sure it was one of those centipede things. of course, after that i couldn't get to sleep. i kept worrying that katelyn must have been bitten.
in the morning i went to investigate to see if i could find that bug. i was looking in the area i threw it and looked down and saw one of katelyn's hair elastics that wasn't there last night. i picked it up and rubbed it between my fingers and realized that my "bug" was actually one of katelyn's hair elastics! Oops. at least she walked away without any bites from the hair elastic.

look who decided to put those legs to good use

we are so excited that we finally have a walker. katelyn started to really try to walk between us at the beginning of month. she was getting really good at it, but i think she waited to become an official walker until we could be home with tyler again. the very next day we got back from utah she was walking! oh, and notice the very loved (translate: very dirty) elephant in her hand. that little guy goes with her everywhere. i have a hard time stealing him away to wash him.

this little one is very much like her mommy. always taking her sweet time to get things done, but once she puts her mind to it there's no stopping her.

p.s. abby, maybe this gives you little glimpse inside our apartment.

family pictures

since i've been sitting at my computer for far to long, i am just going to give you the link to our slideshow of our family pictures. after trying a number of times to post it right to the blog, i failed. so, hopefully this works.

http://picasaweb.google.com/tyhedin/FamilyPictures/photo#s5236689220606018706

these pictures were taken right before we left utah. there are plenty of katelyn. not much of us three. everytime we were all sitting together and the photographer pointed the camera at us, she cried. good little girl.

I'm back...

Dear Girls,

I miss that old tree, I miss chatting and most of all I miss you guys and your cute kids. I'm back in Utah, so save me a seat outside! I'm coming to visit tomorrow!

Love,

Brooke

The Badger State

We have officially made it to Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. After a fairly easy drive across six states, we finallly made it! These pictures only show Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming. Nebraska by far was the best state to enter. There is a HUGE statue of Jesus greeting us as we drove by. Kind of random considering we were in the middle of no where. We weren't quite sure what to think of it.

Before we left for our 21 hour drive, we were planning for the worst with Katelyn. We imagined a screaming child desperate to get out of her car seat the whole way there. Surprisingly, she did very well. She slept a lot of the trip, played with toys and ate whatever we handed her from the front seat. Now, I'm not going to lie and say it was perfect the whole way. She had her moments, but we survived. We purposefully planned to take three days to make the drive so we could take some longer stops to let Katelyn get out and move. This seemed to help.

Left to Right: Katelyn chillin' on the floor of our car during a gas stop, visiting Winter Quarters, Nebraska and the Winter Quarters Nebraska Temple, Katelyn swinging.

At one point of the drive, I heard Katelyn giggling in her carseat. I looked back only to find that Katelyn had somehow reached the Circus Animal cookies from the seat next to her and was happily digging in the bag eating to her hearts content.

Katelyn chillin' on the air matress with Daddy

As we were getting closer to Wisconsin, we receieved a call from our moving company saying that our stuff, which was originally supposed to be there on Friday, was actually going to get there on Monday. That meant we wouldn't have any of our stuff for four days. We decided to tough it out in our new place. So we went and bought an air matress, blankets, towels and some hand soap. Everything we would need to make it.

We are happy to be here and have adjusted well so far to some changes around the Wisconsin area such as: the accents-beg instead of bag and getting lost in this city over and over again! We think the other members/students know what it feels like to move far away from family and friends. They have quickly taken us under their wings and we feel very grateful for that!