Daddy Daughter Date

I am soooooo super jealous of this! I was supposed to go on this date as well, but because of my predicament, David said absolutely not. They went to the Mormon Tabernacle Choirs Christmas Concert. :(
It was fun however, getting Cait all dolled up and then seeing how beautiful she looked.  I really hope they had fun and I am glad they got to spend some time together.

The Feast of Fools! And my predicament.

David started a little tradition with our family a few years back. The day or weekend after Thanksgiving we decorate our tree and eat a ridiculous amount of junk food.  We call it that because who eats a bunch of junk food right after the biggest food holiday of the year? Only fools do, thats who. We also have a tradition of getting a new ornament every year that represents one big thing that happened that year. This year our whole lives CHANGED, and changed quickly. With the surprise baby coming, moving far away from family and friends, the only thing we could think of is that life was so different. So we collected a small bag of CHANGE with 8 significant coins coins in it. There is a coin for each of our birth years, the year we got married, the year we bought our home in Tooele and the year we moved. It just so happens that 8 is also the number of years we lived in our first home. 

This pic cracks me up. He just found the Pickle. Why do we hang a pickle on the tree? Well because Santa leaves an extra present for the kid that finds the pickle. The kids love this little strange tradition and he was so excited to find it and hang it on the tree.

As far as my predicament goes, I have been put on semi-bedrest. I started having contractions during this pregnancy a lot sooner than with the others. The doctor always just told me that if I had more than 4 or 5 in an hour to go see him. On more then one occasion I have had several contractions in an hour, but on Monday afternoon they started and wouldn't stop. Nine or more in an hour for four hours. I went to the hospital and they gave me a terrible shot to make the contractions stop. I am also already dilated to a one. Which normally isn't a bad thing, but to also have contractions and pressure down below makes for a very bad thing. So, I am stuck at home, doing nothing but sitting. I can't stand for more then a couple of minutes and I can't do any lifting or bending. I am only 26 weeks, almost 27, which is wayyyyyy to early to be having a baby. Chances of survival are okay but it is survival with a lot of complications. If I can just hold him in for at least 3 more weeks there is less of a chance of long term complications. However, 6 more weeks would be even better, and heck for that matter 10 or 12 weeks is better than that. 

So here I sit and catch up on the blog, because what else am I going to do? If you are in the area come visit, give me a call, or send me ideas of books, tv shows and movies that you just can't live without so that I can survive being bored. 

Temple Square

The day after Thanksgiving a few of Dave's siblings decided to go see the lights turn on at Temple Square. Super fun to go with more people then just our little family. The kids enjoyed it more, Dave enjoyed it more, which made it much more enjoyable for me. We walked around forever and then went to the Joseph Smith building and had DELICIOUS hot chocolate. It also gave us time to sit and visit. You can't visit much when you are walking around the crowded square. 

It is so hard to get a picture with the lights in the back, even harder when you hand the camera off to someone else. :)

I took so many pics of this pose and this is the closest we got to a normal pic. But there is a lot of movement, no one is looking and the little guy in the stroller that you can only see half of was not happy to be sitting there. 

This was going to be a fabulous picture and then some dope (Jason) walked in front of me, on purpose. He had been photo bombing my shots all night long. I called him a bomber out loud after this shot and his 10 year old son asked his mom what that was. She explained, he laughed and said "I am going to do that to my sister-in-law when I get married." Like father, like son.

These final three pics were taken by David. Oh, we make some super cute kids!

Feet of Snow.

On the weekend of November 9th, Centerville got two feet of snow. I don't think it stopped snowing until 11 a.m. Sunday morning. It was so pretty and fluffy! Too bad it melted by the end of the next week. 

I adore this picture of Cait. So magical and totally caught her not expecting a picture. Love it!

This is one reason I love this neighborhood so much. There are kids to play with. Particularly boys! Dawson seriously needed some friends his age and lots of them. There are 4 boys on the street that are right around his age. LOVE it!

Halloween!!!

Halloween 2012 was OKAY. I wasn't feeling great. The first offer on our home had just fallen through, so I was a little depressed. But, I tried really hard not to ruin it for the kids. We went to Dave's work first, where we always get tons of candy and then we went trick or treating. Lots of walking but the kids, especially Cait, loved it. Cait ended up filling her bag to the top. She went out with friends after we had already been out. 

We added an extra day of Halloween when we went to Gunnison to have our party. We tried doing it carnival style this year. Instead of walking around with the kids to the games, we just let them go on their own which was super fun for adults and kids alike. My booth was a picture booth (obviously), but we also had a fortune teller (David), ring toss, pin the wing on the bat, football toss, and one or two more that I can't remember. Super fun and everyone but Grandma and Grandpa dressed up. 

We were really late starting the festivities so we used trucks and the swather (hay cutter for those that don't know what that is) for lights. I really like the way the lights made this pic look. Plus the little girl is super cute.

These two ALWAYS dress up. This year is very mild compared to earlier years. Ken's shirt says "I've dressed up like an idiot for the past 13 years to make my wife SUPER happy!" And trust me, he has dressed like an idiot but, it makes all the parties SUPER fun. Wendy is preggers so her shirt fits her perfectly.

Look, do you see something strange? It's me! I am never in the pictures.  I handed the camera to my sis and managed to make an appearance in front of the lens this time.

The whole crazy crew. 

Why Oh Why?

One day I will get all three of my lovely children to look at the camera and smile. One day?

We went hiking yesterday and we came across this cute little bridge. My kids didn't look fabulous but I still wanted to take a picture. Daddy decided that the dog needed to be in the picture as well which made it just too hard for Miss Belle to look at me and Dawson didn't want to smile because we gave him so much grief about it the last time we tried to get a good picture of him. So this is the picture I got yesterday. Yikes???

One thing I have liked about living in Centerville is all of the trails that are near by. David has been using them as his exercise routine and every once and a while the kids and I get to go along. Only problem is that every time we go out we come home with more rocks. I have a whole collection on the dryer that I take out of pockets before jeans get washed. Small price to pay for fun I guess.

The Last Apple

I am feeling very sentimental of everything that comes from our home in Tooele. I was prepared for it to sit on the market for months. That would give me time to let go and get used to our new surroundings. Well.... I guess that was just not the plan. We received an offer 4 days after we posted it on the market and it will belong to someone else within 20 days. I am struggling only, oh say, every third hour. I really miss our home. However, I know we did what Heavenly Father wanted us to do. We are where we are supposed to be, whether I like it or not.
This last weekend we were in Tooele to get some stuff and our beautiful apple tree was ready to be picked. Unfortunately, most of the apples had fallen or had been eaten by birds so we only got a small box full. So, Sunday afternoon I made the last apple pie I will ever make using apples from that tree. I was really sad about it. So I kept out the most beautiful apple and took a picture of it, so I can keep just a piece of that apple tree forever.

Now that I am done being sad over an apple I just wanted to share my kids birthday presents with you. Yeah, Yeah, their birthdays were months ago but they just spent their money the other day and all three chose to get a scooter. Cora's scooter has lights in the wheels so I had fun trying to catch those lights at night. I still need a lot of practice with the shutter speed but I thought these pics looked cool.

Where'd she go?

There she goes!