HERE IS ROKA BEING SO STINKIN' CUTE!

She has just started laughing.  Guy caught this one on tape!  Thank goodness.

Last night she was HILARIOUS at Mimi and Papa's:
Mimi was holding her during dinner and she just BURST into laughter.  We have no idea why.
We started to TRY to make her laugh; we had no success.
A few minutes later, she burst into laughter again.

Apparently she was thinking something completely hilarious.  We weren't funny at all though.
She is so cute.  Here's some little laughs:





Can I just say how much I love my in-laws?  They are amazing.  I can't believe how blessed I was to marry into such a wonderful family.
With that preface, let me just say how much we adore Beebs.
We love her.
She is our best friend.
We kind of are obsessed with her.
(e.g. we basically have no lives when she goes on vacation)

SO - anyways, we had a wonderfully fun night with Aubrea and we gave little Roka a bath.  She was so sweet and aunt Beebs helped and washed her hair.  Roka was being so funny staring at herself in the mirror!!  She loved it!

(this is what Roka looked like staring at herself in the mirror)
We made a terrible decision to watch The Parent Trap.  Basically it was so amazing, that we had to watch THE PARENT TRAP 2  (yes, it exists) and it is the most terrible thing in the entire world.

I can't even believe the message of this film we watched!  Terrible, terrible, terrible!  Seriously, don't ever watch it, EVER.

 We were laughing so so hard.  

Also, we want Megan and Luke to re-do the film, since the man has brown hair and the lady is a blondie.  LOVE THAT IDEA!

anyschmoo, don't watch PT2 :)


Happy Birthday, Me!  I am 23 years old.  I think.  I am getting so old that I can't even remember what age I am - this is my formula for figuring out my age :  take the year it is (2013) and the last number of the year is the last number of my age.  I KNOW i'm in my 20's, therefore, I am 23.
Easy Schmeezy!
Too bad I even have to do that to know how old I am.
SO - I HAVE THE COOLEST HUSBAND.  Take a look at these decorations he did BY HIMSELF!
He is cute.
I love Him.
Did I mention green is my favorite color!
This is what I woke up to.  Lots of presents!  He is a little sneak, because we weren't supposed to buy presents.  


I had the best day ever, and I even ran into Tammy (used to watch her CUTE CUTE girls) at the movie theatre.  We were going to go see the Hobbit, but we were a little late and the line was SO SO SO SO SO long I couldn't even believe it, so we just rented some movies and went home!  It was so fun.  The older I get, the more I just don't need things for myself.  All I really want is time with my family.
I'm SO gald we finally have the internet.  We got to FaceTime with my parents and it is always so good to see them.
It is so hard to have your family in another state!  We miss them so much!  I'm so glad that I had a wonderful day though, thanks to my sweet husband.  I love him so much!






 Happy Valentine's Day!  Guy and I decided not to get any presents for each other since we got a really expensive gift for Christmas :)  Our sweet Roka!  It was seriously the best though.  I just love spending time with my husband, that's all I ever want!


Miss Roka was VERY talkative today, she was cracking me up.  She seriously was talking all day long.  Here she is:









So, Roka and I went to the Pediatrician to find out that Roka now weighs 10.2 lbs.  She is chunkin up!  She is growing so fast.  She got some shots today, which was the saddest thing of my life.  I've never seen her so sad!  I even asked the nurse lady if all babies scream this much.  Thankfully (but sadly), she said yes.  Roka slept for much of the day after that!  

The day before was her 2 month birthday.  Here's what she looks like at 2 MONTHS!












Sooo - Guy, his dad, and Michael went to the N.A.M.M show this year!  Pretty awesome stuff, but they left some lonely girlies at home.  It's ok though since we just had cupcakes from The Sweet Tooth Fairy all night long while watching Romantic Comedy's (don't worry, Roka already loves them.  She even "cooed" at the kissing scene)!












This is Al Schmidt with the boys






Here are some awesome piano's Guy saw!  They are amazing!  Take a look :




January 6, 2012 - Roka's Blessing Day

So grateful for my wonderful husband being able to bless sweet Roka!  All who were in the circle:

Grumps (Grandpa Raymond)
Papa (Grandpa Gibbons)
Dave Callister
Michael Gibbons
Eric Larsen
Luke Flinders
Ben Raymond
Justin Chidester
Dave ZoBell
Bishop Matthew Chidester

It was so fun to have family there!  My dad bore his testimony about Great-Grandpa Tingey (I'm pretty sure it was him... i'll have to double check) who served a mission in New Zealand and met a sweet Maori girl named Roka - named his daughter Roka, and now my baby is Roka!  Guy also bore a sweet testimony.  I love my family!  





We had crepes at the studio afterwards (thanks to my family members!  Namely Lucie, Momma Ray, Megan, Aymee, and Cha - and their spouses :).  Here are some of the decorations -


and here is the sweet pea herself.  Mimi (Lucie Gibbons) made her BEAUTIFUL flower she is wearing.  A great day to be thankful!


Roka Lee has so many nicknames like such as :

Sniglet
Snig
Tika (the twins - Lucie and Lily - can't say Roka, so they say Tika)
Roka Boca

can't think of the other ones.  i'll put them down when i remember.



Roka is 1 month old!  Can't believe it.  Time sure is flying by.  She is getting so big!  I swear she was posing for these pictures.  She was being SO good, just looking at the camera and staying still.  Or, as you can see -  her princess pose (the pink picture).  She stayed in that position for a little while, and giving us some gems.  What a cutie!

Today it snowed like 15 inches.  It is freezing outside.  Since we could not drive anywhere with the awful weather, we had to think of how to take the pictures at home.  So, these pictures are brought to you by the help of cheap equipment at our own apartment.  Guy used his camera, and we used a light bought from walmart  covered with a white shirt.  She is laying on a cheap green sheet - you'd never know with my husbands magic!


 Our sweet Roka Lee came to us on December 11, 2012.  Her due date was 12/8/12, so she was waiting to come on her daddy's birthday (her ultrasound on the first doctor's visit said she'd come 12/12/12, so we don't really know if she came "early" or "late").


right after she was born - when they put her on me.  They originally put her a lot lower than that, but she used her strong leg muscles to crawl up me!  She finally stopped when she had her cute head nestled into my neck.  She is a snuggler already!  She was 6 lbs, 14 oz, and 20.5 inches.  Long, skinny, and super cute!



                                      daddy finishing cleaning after giving Roka her first bath.





taking her home 12/12/12 in her cute outfit that is too big for her! :)  I love her to death.  She is the cutest thing in the world.  We are so blessed to have such a beautiful princess!





                                               WOWZERS - what a handsome man!


Happy Anniversary to my love!  We have been married one whole year.  What a great thing!  I woke up to the yummiest breakfast in bed, and a single beautiful red rose.  I love having our Anniversary around Thanksgiving.  We get to focus on all the things we are grateful for, and what an amazing blessing it is to be married to your best friend!  I am excited for many more anniversary's to come.  I love you, Guy Richey!




Did I mention how much I LOVE to teach piano?  I love seeing things click and my students being able to read music better and progress!  I wish I could teach all day long.

I am getting SO PREGNANT!!!!
31 Weeks and 4 days pregnant (today)


Guy claims I don't look pregnant from behind, so he took a picture to show me. - I definitely don't look like what I used to, let's just say that (been packin on the lbs! 21 to be exact).
(I just really love those cute boots Guy bought me on our honeymoon last year!)


This week has already been awesome.  For those who don't know, I get the opportunity to watch 4 little girls (usually not at the same time due to school and such) most week days.  They are SO SO cute.  I've been getting to spend some extra time with Olivia (2nd oldest) since Ava goes to school later, Sophie naps, and Ivy usually is just a sleepin' cute baby.  Olivia has been telling me the most AMAZING stories such as how vampires exist and where they came from.  Apparently, they are from Farmington, Utah.  They come from a different "Earth."  It was WAY more elaborate than that, I just don't remember it because it was making zero sense.  Amazing I tell you.  I get to hear awesome stories like this every day.  


             This is on Family Night (Monday) about to go sing for a family (friends of the Gibbons).


Today we had our Dr. Appointment!  Listen to this . . . our appointment was set for 3:30, and we didn't see the doctor until 5:15!  We got to the office at 3:10 - 3:15 ish, so we literally WAITED for two hours to see our doctor (by the way, the office closes at 5 so there wasn't even anyone there except for us). All she personally did was check our baby's heartbeat which takes about two seconds, so let's just say that didn't make me very ecstatic to be waiting that long for a two second thing.  This same thing happened last go 'round, so we're going to get a midwife in SLC.  Highly recommended :)  We're so excited to finally be taken care of!

 I got a flu shot today, along with Guy, and it was a lot better than I thought.  Just a quick little poke, and then it was done!  Thank goodness!  Apparently, when I get the flu shot, it enters my blood stream and my baby's bloodstream, so she essentially is getting the flu shot without having to actually get it (which is good because she won't be allowed to have one when she's born anyways . . . too tiny and cute!).

I can't even wait to have our baby girly.  We currently don't know what to name her!!!!! AHHH!!!!  We are going through names like crazy.  We can't talk about names without joking how hilarious it would be naming our child names like such as:

 - Lieutenant Santa Claus Gibbons
 - Kuy (pronounced like Bon Qui Qui) Gibbons
 - Jumbalaya Gumbo Gibbons (classic)
 - Guy (french pronunciation) Buttersnaps Gibbons
 - Shoelace Gibbons
 - Robama Gibbons
 - Garbagecan Gibbons
 - Eugenia Olga Gibbons
We can't get through a "what shall we name our baby" conversation without a name like this coming up and then us laughing about how amazing that would be, then the conversation ends without any groundbreaking.

WISH US LUCK.


                                                                     30 WEEKS


So... I am 30 weeks and 5 days pregnant today.  I thought to myself that I should probably post my 30 week picture before I am 31 weeks( which will be in 2 days :)  so...   here it is!  (30 week mark was last saturday)



Sorry for the Les Mis reference...  There doesn't seem to be much to say at the moment-So I'll be brief.

Last night for family night Kelsey and I went down to Sugarhouse Movies 10 (The Dollar Theatre) to see the avengers. We went early for fears of not getting tickets. After purchasing the tickies we went to Nordstrom Rack to see what was seeable. While there we found a really cute shirt that was just Kelsey's size :) It's kind of a deep coral rose/lipstick color. After that we went to get some dessert at TCBY frozen yogurt. Those frozen yogurt joints are a dime a dozen.


(Above is NOT a picture of what we ate, but of Kilee's infamous cup of yogurt at Sweet Cece's, amazing.)

 We went to the movie and enjoyed ourselves. T'was a good family night to be sure. After zat we were feeling "sicky-sicky parm parm" (ten bucks to the person who names that reference). When we got home Kelsey gave me the best neck-back-scalp rubbin I ever had... I slept like a sleeping baby.

That's it. I quit for tonight. Bye!!!


This morning Kelsey and I had a primary program run through for the primary program tomorrow. Kels and I teach the cute CTR 4 class. Every single kid in that class cracks us up. We've got kids that can flare their nostrels upside down-kids that have "petted a dinosowe"-and kids that start their prayers by saying "Dearly Beloved." Do I even need to say that primary is amazing in our ward?
   This morning's program run through was no exception. One little girl did not want to sing, but instead wanted to stare at me and chat it up for a good long while. She would look forward for a moment and then turn her head 180 degrees to stare for a while longer. She is the girl who has "petted a dinosowe" and is having a birthday party soon and LITERALLY "EVWEEONE in the wowed is invited."
   Later during the program Kelsey spotted a classic. One of the boys in our class was having a hard time paying attention, but that's not news- what really got our attention was the fact that he had his shorts on backwards. He was being really fidgety, and we couldn't figure it out, until Kels noticed the poor blokes britches. I leaned over and told Kelsey that there is no way that he is comfortable right now. We decided not to say anything because we didn't want to draw attention to it. We figured that his mom (the primary chorister) would notice and take care of it.



This picture is of the three kids in our class that made it to the program run-through today as well as two kids from the class just younger than ours. The three on the left half are in our class. the other two are so funny and cute.

Also! Kelsey started her third trimester today!!! We are super excited and grateful that so far things have been going so well. Well I will surely have more to post later depending on the outcome of the Utah-BYU game. GO COUGS!!!





So, yesterday we decided to FINALLY go to the Brigham City Temple open house since it will be over on Saturday!  We drove up with Barry & Lucie, Beebs, and met up with Luke & Megan's fam when we got to the temple.  So beautiful!!  Guy says it looks like a toy temple, but still is somehow huge on the inside!





We were able to listen to some people including Elder Holland (recording) who said the sweetest things about wanting to be with his wife and children for all eternity and how that is made possible with temples!




This temple BLEW ME AWAY with all the marble designs and just how beautiful it was.  Every temple is so incredible and amazing with every single detail.  This temple surely was no exception!



We of course went to MADDOX afterwards to eat yummy yummy food.  We even accepted the hour long wait just so that we could partake of the splendor! oh yum.  Brockton was being hilarious and said, "i'm ravous" (trying to say ravenous) and chomping his teeth/snorting as if he were an animal.  He is so stinkin cute.  We got to our cozy little table and ordered the hugest meals you could even think of. I can't believe how much food came with my meal!  and ... the rolls are DIVINE.  especially with the raspberry butter!! creme de la creme de la edgar!!! MMM!






We ( Guy, Aubrea and I) rapped about raccoons on the drive home.  It was getting late and we all needed lots of sleep :)  It was one of the most fun nights we've had in a long time!  It's amazing what the Lord can do when you let Him into your life :)


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