Thanksgiving in Santa Maria

Nathans family
Everybody... Nathans sisters and husbands and kids... and Steven
Grandparents and all the grandkids.. Trenton, Bella, Jackson, Kaycee, and Tanner

The Speaker Grandkids
Kaycee Bug on her first Thanksgiving.. She was such a happy and good baby!

I know this is a little late, but this thanksgiving we had the chance to go to Santa Maria with Nathans family. It was fun having all of Nathan's sisters and their husbands and kids, and Nathans brother Steven. Since we were all together we were able to take a big family picture.
We had a ton of fun all weekend eating tons and tons of food, playing ping pong, tennis, volleyball, and of course some surfing for Nathan. It was a great sunny thanks giving, and now we are geting ready to have CHRISTMAS in freezing cold Utah here in a couple of weeks!

Kaycee's Blessing Day

All the Casey girls except for Katie (RJ's wife) they couldn't make it to the Blessing
We just love her and all of her little smiles that she gives us all day long!
Four Generations... Kaycee, Me, My Mom and My grandma Karen
Kaycee and her Grandma Casey at the park after her blessing




On November 1, Nathan had the chance to bless Kaycee. She was sooo good, and Nathan gave her such a beautiful blessing. He said he was really nervous, but he did great! We finally got to take some family pictures that one of my best friends Kristin took, and they all turned out soooo good. Kaycee looked so beautiful in her blessing dress and we are so happy to have her as a part of our family. I can't believe that she is already 7 1/2 weeks old. She is such a blessing, and we are so glad that she is here.

All Smiles

This morning Nathan got some cute pictures of Kaycee smiling and laughing.. Soooo cute!!

A Day At The Beach

We went to the beach on Monday with Nathan's family. Kaycee loves the beach. This was her third time. She got to watch mommy and daddy play beach volleyball for a couple of hours. This was my first time since I have had Kaycee that i have gotten to do any real physical activity and it felt so good! She was such a good girl and she could just lay there for hours watching us play. I cant wait til she is old enough to play at the beach herself.

Recent pics of our little Kaycee Bug

We wanted to take her to the Bahamas with us, but we couldn't :(

Happy Birthday Nathan/Kaycee's 1st trip to Disneyland

Yesterday was Nathan's 27th birthday, and we took Kaycee and daddy to Disneyland. Nathan and his brother in law Joel and our nephew Jackson were part of the washboard band and everyone around sang Happy Birthday to Nathan :) We were hoping to get a picture with one of the characters for Kaycee's first trip, but we didn't see one, so we weren't able to. :( But we did have a lot of fun :) Happy Birthday Nathan!! I LOVE YOU!!
Than this morning we went to the beach so that Nathan could do some surfing, (because that is really what he wanted to do for his birthday) so today was Kaycee's first trip to the beach too. This is just a week of firsts for our baby girl :)

I love being a Mom!

I don't even know what to say, I just love love love being a mom! Kaycee is just so precious and i just love every little thing about her. Even though she put me through a lot and still trying to recover from the C section, she is worth every minute of pain and all those sleepless nights. She is just so beautiful to me and Nathan!
She only wakes up once or twice a night and usually the second time we have to wake her up because i am afraid she isn't getting enough to eat if i don't wake her up. She is such the snuggle bug. She love love loves be snuggled up with people. She just wants to be cuddled all the time and i just love cuddling with her. I think i am a little bit of a baby hog :)
And i also just want to say that Nathan is the best Daddy and husband that me and Kaycee could even ask for! He has changed almost every single one of Kaycee's diapers and has done all the laundry and cleaning and has made most of our breakfasts lunches and dinners. It has been so hard for me to do much of anything since the surgery and Nathan has been there for me.. He had to even help me take showers at first and is so gentle and loving. I couldn't ask for a better husband than him. He is the best! I LOVE YOU NATHAN!
Here of are some pictures that one of my best friends Kristin took of Kaycee. I just love them!

Kaycee Laine Speaker

Kaycee finally at home sleeping all safe and sound
Kaycee sleeping on her daddy at home. She loves her daddy :)
Getting ready to bring Kaycee home from the hospital
Mommy and Kaycee in the hospital .. Mommy just got out of the recovery room
Uncle RJ holding Kaycee

Daddy and Kaycee while mommy was in recovery

Kaycee Coming out weighing 9 pounds 8 ounces

Rj, Mom, ME and Kaylee right before going into the operating room
Me and Nathan right before going into the operating room

Saturday morning on our way to the hospital to meet our beautiful baby girl Kaycee

Friday is the Day!

So it looks like we will be having Kaycee this Friday. She is still breech and still a big girl. The doctor is cutting me open on Friday and we will finally be able to meet our precious baby girl! I am so excited, but at the same time i am soooo nervous. I have never had an operation before so it is kind of scary.. I am so relieved that i know when she will be here, and so relieved that i won't have to be pregnant anymore!! : ) So just 5 days to go!!

37 week Ultrasound

We went to the doctor on Friday an got an ultrasound done because the doctor thought that Kaycee was huge. (Which she is) They measured her at 8 pounds 1 ounce, and we still have 2 weeks to go! She is also breech, which isn't looking too good for me, so hopefully she can turn around somehow even with how huge she is, and hopefully she doesn't come too much later because i'm not sure i really want her to get any bigger.
We kind of figured she would be a big girl because Nathan was born 8 pounds 9 ounces and i was born 9 pounds 3 ounces and i was the smallest of 6 kids. So this was kind of expected.. What was not expected was how stinkin painful it is to walk and get out of bed in the middle of the night. Her butt and her back are sitting right on my right hip, so that doesn't really help me too much.

Baby Shower

Right before i got back home 2 weeks ago, my sisters threw me a baby shower in Utah whith allof my close friends and family. It was super fun and Kaycee got so many cute outfits! My most favorite dress that she got was her blessing dress. It is so beautiful and i cant wait to put it on her! :) It was so good to see friends that i haven't been able to see in a long time, and I always love hanging out with my aunts and cousins and mom and sisters! There were a bunch more pictures, but i am not good at taking pictures these days... I look soooo awful! So here are a few..

7 1/2 weeks to go!

Im 32 1/2 weeks now, but this picture was taken at 31 weeks. Just when you think that you really can't get any bigger, you wake up in the morning, and you get bigger, and bigger and bigger. I have 7 1/2 weeks left and i couldn't be more excited! It seems like it is so far away, yet it is soooo close.. She is quite the acrobat in my belly. She is constantly moving around and sometimes I think she is doing flips in there, i'm sure of it! I love it, but I really hate it at night when i'm trying to sleep. Nathan can't figure out why I sleep in so late, but i'll tell you, it's because she is practicing her gymnastics during bed time :)
We don't even have anything for Kaycee yet. My mom has bought her a few outfits but that's it. My sisters are throwing me a baby shower in Utah on the 19th so we will see what we get there, but i know that Nathan and I have a lot of shopping to do when we get back home to California. :) I'm so excited for it, but Nathan isn't so much.. He is not much of a shopper.

Quick Utah Trip...

Nathan and I had the chance to go to Utah last weekend. Nathan had to go to a training retreat for work and i was lucky enough to come along so that I can see my family. It was a very fun trip. (Except for the 8 hour drive there and back .) Nathan got to do some wake boarding and had a ton of fun and learned a lot more about this new company we are working for.
I just hung out with my mom and we did some shopping for Kaycee and got to visit with my aunts and uncles and brothers and sisters. It was nice having people to hang out with all day long. Being away every summer gets pretty lonely when you have a husband gone all day. :( But in 2 weeks i get to go back for 2 weeks while Nathan finishes up working here in Colorado, and i am sooooo excited :)
I wish we would have taken pictures while we were there, but we totally forgot.. The only picture we took were at church sittting in the foyer. (Its too hot and stuffy to sit in the sunday school room, so Nathan sits in the foyer with me.)

Denver, Colorado

This is kind of late news, but 2 weeks ago Nathan and I moved to Denver Colorado. We love, love, love it here! At least i know i love it way more here than i ever did in Minnesota. It just feels so much more like home here than Minnesota ever did. I think the fact that I crave Del Taco and Chic Fil A and Panda quite often makes it a lot better out here too! They don't have any of those places to eat in Minnesota.. Not to mention they have a Claim Jumper here!! My all time favorite restaurant :) That means Nathan has to take me there for my birthday next week! :)
Nathan seems to be doing a lot better here so that makes the move 100% worth it! :) It was probably the longest drive ever to me! I swelled up like a balloon during the 12 hour drive but it was nice to do the long drive in one day. When it gets dark we like to watch movies on the lap top to make the drive go by a lot quicker. :)
There is one negative thing about the move, and it is only the fact that we got unfurnished apartments.. And let me tell you, it is sooo difficult to be getting up and down from the ground constantly because there is nowhere to sit. Luckily Nathan found us an ugly brown couch with orange stripes, but it is super comfortable :) It only cost us $20 off of craigslist.
So, overall this was an awesome move! And knowing that i am only 6 or 7 hours away from my family makes it a lot better :)

Pictures...

These are some of our pictures of our trip out to Minnesota. Nathan insisted that we take pictures at every state line that we came to. We go all the states but Iowa.. Iowa's state line was above the freeway so we didn't really get the chance to stop. I forgot about these pics, they have just been sitting around in the camera so we finally were able to put them on the computer last night. :)