Two Weeks to go!

This is a horrible picture. The lighting was funny and a crazy background, but you get the idea. I am large and in charge!!! :) Two...more like three weeks to go!! We can't wait to welcome our sweet little girl into the family....well, let's hope she is sweet. :)

Star Wars Movie Night

About a week ago the boys had a Star Wars Movie Night. No viewing of Star Wars would be complete without the Light Sabers in hand...of course.
Derek is using "the force" on you.

The Days After Christmas

A couple days after Christmas we celebrated with my side of the family. My mom made a white elephant party for us and we exchanged gifts between families. And I cannot forget that we ate the traditional cheese fondue for dinner. Yum!

Taylor and cousin Kari from Oregon.
My sister and her family brought their Wii to my parents' house. It was a hit among the kids and adults. Taylor cracks me up in this picture.
The next day the fathers and their kids went sledding while us women were shopping! Dave took these pictures. It looks like I missed out on some fun.
Derek and his cousin Cameron. I was told that they were inseparable.
And here's the best father and husband ever!!

Christmas Morning (part 2)

(continued from previous post)

After presents and breakfast, we packed up and drove to Dave's brother and sister-in-law's house in Layton. Dave's parents, brother, and sister drove in from California, so we spent the rest of the day eating dinner and opening presents with them. Dave's mom and dad were so generous. It was great being able to spend time with them. (And not because they were so generous...he he he.)


Dave's sister Janene, her husband Devin, and Dave's sister Lindsay. What a beatiful bunch! :)

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

Christmas Day (part 1)

Our Christmas morning was so great. It started after Dave spent two hours shoveling snow, but at least it was a white Christmas! It was especially great this year since we actually had a tree and the boys are old enough to anticipate the day coming.

I took the boys to the dollar store and let them pick out presents for daddy. Taylor chose this grenade that Dave can throw at them while playing games. Derek chose a ninja weapon set. I asked him if he was thinking of Daddy or picked it because he wanted it. Derek said quickly "I picked it for Daddy." Then a few seconds later asked "but he can share, right?" Hum.

One of the presents the boys received. I found these ninja costumes half off after Halloween. Don't they make cute ninjas?

Derek's Kindergarten Christmas Program

Derek demonstrated his vocal talents on December 18th in his Kindergarten Christmas Program. He had been looking forward to this day for...well...days. He did such a wonderful job. He held still so well, even though the boy next to him moved constantly the whole 45 minutes. He even held his jingle bells still during the parts they had asked him to. When the teacher handed out the bells the kid next to him started jingling them wildly. However, Derek shook his head to remind himself that they were supposed to be silent. And the end of each song Derek grinned as if the whole audience were clapping for just him. Funny kid. Loves the attention.
He told me that the "biggest kids were on the top step and the little kids were on the bottom step". I asked where he would be and he said "the middle biggest". There he is right in the center.
This was a cute song titled "I'm the happiest Christmas Tree".

The "click click click" part cracks me up. I think I'm just a proud parent.

Remember me?

Okay, okay...so I've been a total blogger slacker this last month. Here are my excuses: I got so caught up with getting ready for Christmas that I let the blog slip, then Christmas hit and we had two weeks full of fun with our families (watch for future posts), one week after Christmas we moved to a new apartment, and now we are settling our stuff in, this week I've been at my sister's house almost everyday...so there you have it. And for some reason I feel like I can only add a post when I have a picture to go with it. We bought a new camera for Christmas and I haven't sat down to figure out the upload process for it yet. So here I am, adding a post without a picture just so I don't become an "inactive blog", as I call them.

We had a great Christmas season and loved hearing from and seeing so much family. I'll add pictures and write more about that soon. I especially loved the break from taking Derek to school early in the morning. It has been hard adjusting back to that schedule these past few days...especially with the tons of snow we've had!!

Like I previously mentioned, we moved the beginning of last week. We are now in a 3 bedroom apartment and LOVE the extra space. The boys have taken over the extra bedroom and it is "the Lego room" until the baby comes. And when I say "boys" that includes Dave of course. Taylor spends most of his day in there. I guess there are worse things they could be addicted to.

I am getting close to my due date, however my doctors think that this delivery will be like the rest....overdue and induced. YEAH!! I really hope so. I like how my last two deliveries went, so I would take the repeat. I like being in the hospital for the entire labor. It's a comfort to know that if anything were to go wrong the baby would be monitored and taken care of. I also love knowing that an epidural is only minutes away as opposed to suffering at home in pain. I guess I just don't know any different, so I am happy with my short painful induced labors. I am curious to see how this one will go. But I am at the point that I am just so curious to see my little girl and get to know her little quirks and personality. I can't wait! I am down to weekly appointments at the OB and that makes it feel so so close. I feel HUGE, but most people don't agree with me. It is getting harder and harder to move around...just the usual aches and pains of pregnancy I guess. I'll miss it when it's over though...sigh.

So I'll figure out our new camera soon and post tons of pictures