December 2010

First Christmas as a family of five.







The girls coming out on Christmas morning.

I love my sweet boy.

We made Santa Claus shortbread cookies with butter cream frosting, I think he liked them because they were all gone by morning.

Emily is so fun to hang out with all day. She is always chatting and being silly, she's at such a fun age.


These are both Emily's dress-ups but some how the Cinderella got designated as Myra's, and Snow White is Emily's, they never switch.

I love Emily's face as she unwrapped her dress-ups.




For Emily's 3rd birthday she requested a pink kitty cake. I was pretty happy that it turned out, considering I didn't have a lot of time, it was easy though, and she was happy.

Myra is such a cute little stinker, she loves to nibble apples then leave them in secret places.

Trying to take a picture for the family calender...

Every year our stake does a nativety display and they decorate the whole church with hundreds of different nativety sets. Members and non members participate every year. It was really beautiful, everyroom was set up with all the different nativeties and Christmas trees, and you would walk through and look in the rooms.

We got to take a picture in the manger. Jeremiah was the perfect baby Jesus!

Just some pictures we took for fun.

Jeremiah is 3 weeks in these...

Jeremiah's first week

We are having so much fun with this little guy! I can't believe he is almost 4 weeks already, he's almost not a new newborn anymore, how does it go by so fast? He is the sweetest little boy ever, he definatley had my heart from the moment I laid eyes on him, and I just keep falling more and more in love. The girls and head over heels as well. Emily loves to hold him all the time, and she is always happy to help take care of him with baths and things like that. He is such a good baby, and so cuddly, and cute as a button!

We loved having Nana here, it was so sad when we had to say goodbye. I of course cried all the way home from the airport. Emily was very sweet and empathetic, she kept saying "Oh, do you miss your mommy? It's OK she'll come back" With sweet little tears in her eyes.

Turkey dinner! Jon did all the cooking this year and it was great!

This is the face Myra does when you tell her she can't have anymore Tok-at (chocolate). Yeah, she knows how to work it.

Halloween 2010

Almost forgot to post pictures from Halloween this year, here's my little giraffe and butterfly!

Things are wonderful! (submitted by Jon)

Emily's face says it all. We are happy.

Child birth is easy. Follow a few simple steps: 1.Show up at random hospital. 2.Conform your manner of dress to the hospital dress code (the governing rule is cheeks free to the wind.) 3.Take a nap. 4.Experience pain 5.Welcome new baby.

I find that if done correctly childbirth is a wonderfully relaxing experience, I'd do it anytime. I love naps and babies.

Although appearing barbaric the newcomer undergoes various hazing rituals before gaining acceptance into the group.

Emily presents her trophy to Nana while, "I'm not the baby anymore" settles into the deep corners of Myra's soul. On a further note, thank all the powers that be for Nana. Not only is she by far the girls' favorite person on earth, her patience and endurance made a lot of this possible...Especially good ol' step #3.

The rituals continue...The rituals will never end. By the time the boy is 6 we should have plenty of embarrassing photos.

When not being bombarded with affection or hazed, the boy prefers chillin.

This is me right now...

No wonder I feel miserable!

38 weeks....

I really haven't documented much about this pregnancy, I've been busy with my two little snug bugs, and soon I'll have another snug bug but still only two hands... not sure how I'm going to handle that but I will!
To anyone else the next 9 days will fly by, but for me each day will be it's own small victory! For some reason the last month or so has been hard on me, I hurt a lot more than I did with the girls. My back, hips, strange muscles I didn't know I had are bothering me. I'm big, I can't sleep very well, the heartburn is a constant annoyance. On top of that I have to settle screaming matches and prepare and clean up after meals, bathe, potty train,and all the million things moms do. OK enough complaining!

I just can't wait to get my reward for this 9 month journey, I can't wait to hear that precious cry, to know that he's here SAFE, for those eyes to connect with mine, the sweet smell of his little head, those quiet moments that I get a little taste of heaven, and our family will be that much more complete.

Summer Wrap-up

This is me at 26 weeks, now I am 35 weeks and much bigger!
Jon and the girls before church
Jon was mowing the lawn and found a family of baby bunnies, the girls thought that was great.
My mom had her 50th birthday while we were in Utah and we threw her a suprise party.
This is the awesome cake my sister Camille made!
Preparing for the party while Karen out with my mom stalling.
Emily got lots of good cousin time, she loved it!
Playing at the splash park.



We got invited to swim at our friends neighborhood pool, that was fun!

For something new we tried out the this lake beach. It was actually a really fun beach, they loved playing in the waves and digging in the sand.

We went on a family camping trip this summer, here we are at the lake trying some fishing, when that didnt work out some of us went swimming.
Myra with aunt Laura.


Our little back yard swimming pool turned out to be $20 well spent. It saved us on those days that it was too hot to go anywhere. We had a good summer, but I'm glad it's over! Being pregnant was rough, but now we are loving the beautiful fall weather and anticipating the arrival of our little guy, only 5 more weeks!!