Believe

Believe in yourself... Believe you are a child of god... Believe that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love you... Believe that there is a purpose and meaning in your life... Believe in Heavenly Father's plan for happiness... Believe in Joseph Smith and the first vision... Believe in the Book of Mormon... Believe that Thomas S. Monson is a prophet of God... Believe that you can follow the prophets course... Believe that you can find joy and happiness in your life... Believe that there is beauty and goodness in the world... Believe that being positive and optimistic is the best way... Believe that Christ was born in Bethlehem... Believe that Jesus Christ lived and taught true principals... Believe that he died for you and atoned for your sins... Believe that you can repent and change... Believe that Christ was resurrected and that he lives... Believe that you too will live again... Believe that your family can be eternal...Believe in the magic of Christmas!

We had such a wonderful, eventful and memorable December. We are so lucky to have such wonderful friends and family to celebrate the life of our savior with. This Christmas was even more special because Shane's mom came to spend the holiday with us. We had such a great time with her! I'm pretty sure Ty is still on overload from Christmas with two Grandmas, one Grandpa, one mom, one dad, one Aunt and one uncle all in one house on Christmas morning= spoiled to death.

Here is a few of our favorite things about December...

Decorating our very first "real" tree since we've been married.

Seeing Santa

Christmas Cards! (We were slackers this year with Christmas cards! Maybe New Years cards instead?) We still loved getting all of yours!

Picking out the perfect tree.

New Christmas Jammies. (Bri and I swear we too had an exact pair of these in the 80's!)

Parties with great friends.

Hot Coco.

Mmmm...So good!

Ward Party.

Hanging out with some of our favorite people.

Making Gingerbread trains.

Writing letters to Santa

Giving.

Stockings.

Leaving cookies and milk out for Santa...

and carrots for his reindeer.

Realizing that Santa is real.

Being completely spoiled.

And last but not least. I have been HORRIBLE at taking pictures and documenting this pregnancy, but here is the belly at 29 weeks. I feel bigger this time around than I did with Tylie, and I keep growing bigger everyday. I am now 31 weeks and I really can't imagine what I will look like in 9 more weeks...quite frankly, it scares me!

HALLOWEEN

I'm bias, I am, but all I can say is this is the most Delicious cupcake I have ever seen, and I've seen a lot of cupcakes in my day!

We took pumpkin carving very serious this year.

Note to self: Never have Tylie pass out candy! Her philosophy: one for you, two for me...she is no dummy.

She kept shaking her pumpkins hand and would say "I'm Tylie, nice to meetchya."

And she heads out for some trick-or-treating...

COUSINS!

For the first time in a VERY long time Shane's whole side of the family was able to come together, and I'm talking about everyone! 1 mama, 6 kids, 6 in laws and 21 kiddos. We had some very important family business to take care of, 2 baptisms, 1 baby blessing and a welcome home to Shane's brother Jason who came home from Iraq just for 2 weeks to meet his new babe and bless him and then had to go back until June. Like always, we had a ton of fun catching up and making new memories!

The happiest place on earth.

We were so excited when we found out that 2 of our favorite people were coming into town! Cori and Kingston, all the way from Pittsburgh. We went to Disneyland for a day and had a blast. We played so hard and chased these little cuties all day, to say the least we were exhausted when the day was over! Jeff and Kristen came and met up with us too. After Jeff spent an afternoon with Kingston, to say the very least he is thrilled to have a nephew on the way! He LOVES Tylie but girls and boys just play so differently! Here are a few pics from the day...

We haven't set a date yet, but their wedding is definitely still on. Wouldn't it really be cool to pick your kids in laws?!

Catch up!

WOW how does time go by so quickly?! I guess life is just really good and really busy at the same time! We are so happy, grateful and excited about a lot of things that our near future hold. Just to name a few...We recently moved and love our new/old little townhouse, and more importantly LOVE the location and love it's convenience! Shane has almost completed his first semester in grad school with a 4.0 (not easy to do with a crazy internship, a crazy two-year old and an expecting just as crazy wife) His dedication and love for his field amaze me and know this is what he was born to do. Not only has he had to juggle these things, which is like having a full time job (an unpaid full time job ;)) he now on top of that has added a job in the mix (a paying job :)). We really feel like this truly is a blessing! He barely has any time to spare but the time he does have, he will be working. Jobs are not easy to come by these days and especially a job that fits perfectly into his schedule. We never thought this would be possible because his program is so rough and they advise you not to have a job while going to school. Obviously they don't know how expensive it is to live in CA! Regardless, I am grateful for such a hard working husband who is willing to do anything to make sure his family is taken care of! Lastly, we are so excited about this baby boy onboard! We are counting down the days...I am 6 months along, 25 weeks and 3 days, about 102 days to go...don't worry I don't have this memorized, I cheated and looked at my sidebar.

Well, now that you don't need a Christmas card from the Bulkley's because clearly you know our life story...it's time to do something I swore I would never do! You know those people that don't update their blogs for months and months on end, and then all of the sudden there is post after post after post?! Come on, i'm not pointing my finger at you or judging, i'm just say'n, we all know "those" people. I like to call it BLOG THROW UP. I promise to not make it a habit, but I have to get caught up so here it goes...

The Friend

Thanks to Grandma Bulkley for ordering the Friend magazine for us. Clearly Tylie loves them! My friend Carrie had come over and we were hanging out and talking, we looked into the living room to find this...

None of these pictures were posed. Carrie grabbed my phone and started snapping away. Her expressions are so funny!

Love's of my life

One day last week Shane got out of his internship extra early. He picked up Ty and the two of them had dinner all ready when I walked in from work. So lucky to have such a thoughtful hubby and little girl! Tylie inherited a lot of her sweetness from Shane. I don't know what i'd do without these two. I love them more than life itself!

On the menu...Heart shaped pizza <3

P.S. Please excuse Ty's nudeness. This girl loves to run around the house in nothing but her undies.

Uncle

Last night we went down to Santa Monica to Uncle Jeff's work for a Season Kick off Party. We had a blast. Tylie thinks the world of her Uncle Jeff and thinks he is the coolest dude around.

They had a ski simulator that Ty was dying to try out...

Thanks for a fun night!