Evil Monkey

Secret powers the force has shown me! I appear to have updating blogging ability on my sister-in-laws blog and seeing as she doesn't blog EVER! I'll do it for her. I'm going to try and do it like her as well. So here we go!

Allright, it has been awhile since I've blogged last. Since October 14th, the last time bossy sister-in-law Ellen forced me to!

We are in Pullman and Caleb is finishing up school. He will graduate in December. Then off to more school! Obviously our first choice is to move next to Josh and Ellen in Arizona where the weather is perfect this time of year and the sun always shines. Yes it gets hot during the summers but Josh is so cool just being in his presence counteracts the temperature. So we are also busy sending off lots of applications to schools. I am busy with school as well but doing great. I am working still in the mornings and liking that as well.

Abagail is starting to say a few words and loves to make noise. She is a noise making machine. She also takes the worlds cutest pictures. Here are a few recent ones.

Okay well that is pretty much all that is going down with us. We are doing good. I solemnly swear before ya'll and the KoolAid man to blog more regularly. - Beth

Written on behalf of Beth by: Evil Auntie Ellen who has secret update capabilities!

Captain Quirk is on the Move!!!

Alright Ellen this one's for you, I know I've been slaking in the blogger world.

Quirk 1: Every morning the bed has to be made AS SOON as everyone is out of it. Seriously Caleb won't have made it to the the dresser before I am throwing the blankets back over the top of th e bed. And it has to be done a specific way the pattern on our Lana quilt has to be going perpendicular over the bed, anything less is unacceptable.

Quirk 2: If for some unseen event has taken place and the bed is not made in the morning before I get in bed for the evening I will make the bed and then get in. The covers must however remain in a neat and orderly fashion. If for example after freshly fluffing my hair if the covers get somehow in a disarray I have to make the bed again before re-entering. Ask Caleb he thinks that I"m ridiculous, he once messed up the covers on purpose to see if I would let it go and was a little annoyed to see that made him (with a little force) make the bed before I could fall asleep. and be comfortable. I have a disease, I know.

Quirk 3: When I leave for the weekend, my apartment must be clean!!!! I mean clean every piece of silverware and dish must be in it's proper place in the cabinet. The floors have to be swept and mopped, vacuumed, counter tops wiped off... I mean clean. This is another thing that Caleb would forgo if he could.

Quirk 4: Anytime we drive somewhere I have to chew gum. It's absolutely crazy and makes no sense but I have to chew gum, no matter how short the distance or if I'm going to eat something as soon as I get out of the car.

Quirk 5: When we are at church sitting in the pew or in the chairs either one I cannot have the aisle seat. The hot spot where the deacon passes you the sacrament tray. I can't sit there I always have someone trade with me, usually Caleb. I don't know what it is... Deacons must be scary.

Quirk 6: Anytime I read a Jane Austen, Bronte or rally anything from that era I tend to think my words with and English accent. This oddly is something that I'm not embarrassed about it actually makes me laugh just thinking about it. I would say try it but I think you have to be half a bubble off a plum to master this art.

Okay there are my six quirks so know you have to post your six quirks link the person and mention the rules. The six fellow bloggers you tag need a comment to let them know they have been tagged.

Alright have at it!!!

1st Birthday

Abagail had her first birthday one the 1st of August. We did a really small gathering of family that was in the area. Hopefully these will kind of give everyone an idea of what it was like. Caleb decorated Abagail's birthday cake, he's the artistic one. It was a German Chocolate Cake, and soo delicous.
This is Abagail having some of her birthday cake and was too busy watching everyone watch her that she had this very intense look on her face. It was pretty funny it took a while to get used to everyone stand around her with camera's.
Abagail had a great time opening her presents, I think she enjoyed the wrapping paper and bags rather than the actual presents but it was fun to watch her tear them all apart.
This was a little book that Lana gave her. It's a cow puppet in the center of the board book; right after this part Caleb scared her to death with it. Abagail was just about to go and pet the cow and he made it jump at her, she backed up real fast and almost started to cry. She still doesn't really like the book as much as she might have.
This is one of her presents from Great Grandma Padilla, it had a really cute collar that you can't see under the bib. We're on the back portch, it's nearly impossible to keep that girl in the house!!

Okay that was pretty much all that went on with her birthday, like I said it was really a small thing and kid of set up at the last minute. i must be a bad mom to not spend so much time on her first birthday. oh well. We wish everyone could have been there it would have a lot more fun! We all need to get together, Abagail has cousin's she's never met and we haven't seen everyone in forever.

Humbolt State Park

Okay it has been a while since we have updated, so it will take me a bit to catch up so I figured I would start with the oldest thing first. This was our first vacation of the summer, we came camping here as a substitute for not being able to camping in Oregon (due to it still snowing there) like my side of the family ususally does. Uncle Mark being used as a brace for Abagail's wandering around, she has to walk down hill a little bit right there.
Aunt Melanie and Abagail enjoying a break in the ride. She liked Melanies saddle better than anyone else who was riding a horse she could be on. We had a lot of young horses on the camping trip with us.
All of our little family eating lunch on one of the fallen redwoods. We went on a ride for the afternoon that lasted about 4 or 5 hours. I was impressed with Abagail she enjoyed every minute of being on the horses. She snacked and napped on the horses.
After our ride we went and did the tourist stuff so here we are at the Founder's Tree. This guy is 346.1 ft. tall the diameter is 12.7 ft, the circum. is 40 ft, and the hight to the lowest limb is 190.4 ft. !!!
This is another redwood that was huge, this is Caleb and my brother Mark hagging out in the roots of this tree, the people on top are my brother and sister, Ryan and Melanie and my Dad.

California Here We Come!!

Okay!! Well today is our last day in Pullman, at 5pm today we will be leaving for the Tri-Cities to visit with family for a couple of days and then off to California, warm weather and lots of fun!!
My whole family will be there for most of this summer except for my oldest brother so I'm planning on having lots of laughs. Heather will leave first on the 21st of May for the MTC and then Chris will follow on July 2nd. Chris leaves just 2 weeks before my family goes to the High Lakes for a three day camping trip. We're taking all the horses who are worthy to make the trip, so this summer we'll be getting them in shape so not everyone is sore once we get in.
Caleb took his last final this morning at 8am and right now is shadowing a doctor in the area, he's getting all geared up for taking the MCAT in July.
This last weekend Abagail and I were able to take a trip to Provo. I had the privilege of being one of my sisters escorts through the Provo Temple, that was an amazing experience! I highly recommend! It's a totally amazing view how families are forever. After the temple since everyone was together we took family pictures outside the temple. On Sunday my oldest brother blessed his new daughter, they named her Callie Rose Padilla, it was a great event. We had a blast in Utah, I saw old roommates and family that had never seen Abagail got to see her. On top of it all we got to help everyone move out of their apartments; Ryan, Mark and Lisa all graduated. Ryan is going home to California to prepare for grad school, I think and Mark and Lisa are moving to Texas where Mark will be going to Baylor Dental School (I think that's how they spell it) in Dallas. Of course after they have spent the summer in California with everyone.
Well we are ready for the summer vacation and trying to enjoy the fact that we won't always be able to once Caleb starts his career. So family reunions here we come!! Oh nobody has told us when the Haws Family Reunion is, does anybody know, we're trying to get everything worked out so we can make to as many as possible. Is it over the 4th again?
Now for Abagail... Last time I had written she was just starting to crawl everywhere and know she really is everywhere! she used to confine herself to the living room, I'm not sure if it was the color change from carpet to tile or what but she figured it out and she is everywhere!!
The other night we were watching a show a looked around and didn't see Abby anywhere, we went into the bedroom and lo and behold there was Abby in the closet playing with all the shoes!! She has also gained a love for things that sparkle, she's such a girl!!l

One Month Left!!

Hey everyone. Well we have one more month until summer, Caleb has all of his finals the last week in April and into May!! We are so ready for summer, this winter has been really weird and very cold. At the end of last week we were still getting snow! Don't worry though we are finally warming up, today we finally hit the 60's!!!!
Abagail has been into everything Caleb and I thought we had everything out of the way for to be crawling around and it seems like everyday we find something that she has found she get to. Her new fetish is the dog's food and water dish. We haven't decided if she keeps going back because we keep taking hr away form it or if it's because she actually likes the taste of it! UGGH! Over Easter her fetish was the bottom of the Bakers Rack as you can see. While she ws doing that old water jugs were her favorite toy, and it took at the self control that Cezar had not to go and take it away from her as it is usually him who is taking them off the shelf. Cezar has been really funny with the whole thing, he cries if Abby is going to get into any of his toys or is heading for his food. Thanks to Cezar we can keep a closer eye on her :)
This week is the first week in a month that Caleb hasn't had a test!
Congratulations goes out to my cousin Jessica!! who will be getting married June 6th in the Bountiful Temple!! Welcome to the family Cameron! Jessica we would all like to see him and the Nebeker reunion is the next weekend so if you could make it that would be fabulous.
Well my hour window is up and so is Abby. So I guess I"ll up date a little later.

California

We just got back from California this last Sunday evening, it was a great vacation; very nice to get away. I had forgotten how much i miss that country smell, not the poop just that good clean smell. Anyway it was fun at least for me ans Abagail. Caleb spent almost the whole time studying for a test that he has tomorrow. Who has a test three days after Spring Break anyway??
It was a lot of fun to get to do the things that I wasn't able to do last summer because of the pregnancy, but it was also a rude awakening to see just how out of shape I am. I got to trade with my little sister Melanie and for a couple hours she watched Abagail for me and worked horses. Spring Break was a great get away from Pullman while we were there it was always in the high 60's or low 70's, a fantastic change from the Pullman 40's and wind. So we took some pictures to document the event.
We had a couple fun and exciting things happen while we were there, Abagail learned to crawl!! It was kind of funny all the sudden she could crawl, not very fast but she was moving forward this time. I was so excited for her to learn to crawl but it only been a week and I wish she'd just stop moving!
On Monday we took some cows to Orville for a friend of the family and on the way home stopped by to see our friend Joe Shelton, he runs a rescue facility for Thoroughbred horses, and we ended up taking home a horse. His name is Custom Design and he was born in Florida at a big fancy barn. He was kind of a dud of a race horse though, he only made $3,000 on the track so hopefully he'll be a jumper for me. He's a sweetheart of a horse though. So now we need to sell some horses so you know of anyone who wans a Quarter Horse you can send them my direction :)
FYI: it's thundering and right now, and my big brave Doberman is hiding under the bed crying, while Abby sleeps.
To fill up time I also started training our Quarter Horse mare, I was surprised she was really really good. She knows absolutely nothing but is really smart and easy going. It was nice exercise.
The other really exciting news of the week was my brother and sister both got their mission calls!! They waited so they could open them together so Sunday afternoon everyone in the Provo area got together at Mark and Lisa's i think and we were on Speaker phone in California. Heather is going to Chile, Santiago North mission and Chris is going to Spain, Malaga mission. It was a lot of fun, my other brother Mark went to Spain but in the Bilboa mission but our cousin went to the same mission that Chris is going to. Heather reports to the MTC on May 21st and Chris on July 2nd. THen the day we got back here to Pullman another one of my friends called to say that she had gotten her mission call as well and that she is going to the San Diego mission and reports to the MTC on May 7th. It will be fun I hope Heather, Chris and Paige all run into each other in the MTC. that would be so fun! IF you couldn't tell we're all pretty excited for them. Oh and bothe Heather and Chris are Spanish speaking, Paige is English.
This last week really made me realize how much i missed the farm life. Anyway I think Cezar finally woke Abby up with his crying so I'll finish up later.
Oh, CONGRATULATIONS PAIGE!! since I never actually called you back, sorry!

Soo Fun!!

This Blog thing is awesome!! We've heard from people we haven't seen or talked to for like a year! It was good hearing from all of you! Yesterday we had some good news and some bad new, mostly good though. Over the weekend we went out to lunch with Scot and Lana and to keep Abagail from letting everyone in the restaurant know exactly where we were sitting we gave her my phone, such a bad idea. when we got home i tried to call my dad (he is doing our taxes for us) and he couldn't hear me!! Abagail had given my phone water damage!! It was not exactly what I was thinking would happen to it. I've dropped my phone in water dishes and didn't have anything happen to it, I guess Abagail was the straw that broke the camels back. So we got on ebay and bought a new phone and yesterday i called my mom to see if it worked and wha-la (however you spell that) it worked!! but I'd already bought another one, I just have an extra now.
Okay, on to the more important stuff. Caleb and I have started the medical school thing. We're in the process of deciding where we're going to apply to school. Caleb is planning on taking the MCAT in July and applying for school in August, so we're just doing the final selections and trying to figure out how much $$ this is going to cost so we can be planning. I personally am voting for back east, i thought the University of Kentucky sounded like fun, but I wouldn't be upset if he got into UC Davis or UCSF, you know, a California school, as long as we're not too far south. I'm getting nervous and I'm not the one that has to apply!! My hat's off to you Lindsay there are a lot of big choices to make.

2 more days till Spring Break Starts!! then we're off to California for a week!!!

Hi Everyone,
Just got this set up so it may take a while to get everything going the way we want. Caleb is still going to school in Pullman at WSU, he will graduate in December of 2008 with a degree in Biology and 2 minors in Spanish and Chemistry.
Abagail is doing well, she is just starting to crawl!! She's got the shifter stuck in reverse though. The other night she got stuck in the corner of the living room.
I am still working at Safeway in the Produce Department from 4am - 8am..UGGH ! my life stays pretty much the same.
Cezar is doing good he mostly lays around the house except at bath time when he tries to hide from you or pretend to be asleep. He's adjusted to Abby pretty well and is finally pretty set on his rules. Every now and then you can tells he's jealous, he tries to get in on all the attention but is still very careful around Abagail.
The Picture above was taken in the begging for February when she was just starting to sit up on her own, this used to be Scots background on his phone. The picture to the right was taken on Christmas Eve right before the Haws Christmas dinner enchilada-fest. Abagail's outfit was from Uncle Josh and Aunt Ellen.