Christmas.

The Holidays have been fun this year. And crazy, what with having a new little one to tote around!  I can't wait for school to start again!!! The girls are kind of driving me crazy.  And the weather has been so yucky that we can't really go anywhere.  For Christmas Eve Joe and Sherrie came up and ate dinner with us and let the girls open the gifts they had for them.  It was so peaceful and we really had a good time.  Christmas day my family came to eat dinner and stay with us for a couple of days.  Oh and I have some awesome news! Andy is getting married!!  We are so excited for Him!  He and Lisa came by Christmas day to visit and show us Her ring. Which I love!  They are so cute together and our girls love Her to pieces already.  They are getting married this spring.  I guess I better stop scarfing down Holiday treats and try to lose the baby fat.  Which seems to have expanded in the last few weeks.  I don't want to look all pudgy in the wedding photos.  Oh  and my wonderful Mom babysat while JR and I went to see Avatar!  It was so so so awesome!  I want to go again.  I got so into it that one part where there is a fight scene I actually yelled out "No! Turn around!" It took me a minute to realize I had yelled out loud but nobody seemed to have noticed.  I guess I wasn't the only one that was totally engrossed! Oh and by the way our kids woke up at 4 Christmas morning!!! Flippin 4 in the morning!!!! Can anyone beat that!

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It's TIME!

Woo Hoo!  Tonight I go in to start the induction and Ruby's birthday should be tomorrow. Friday the 13th!  Is that good luck or bad?  I'll just say it is good luck because my sis Gina was born on Friday the 13th and she turned out awesome.  I am nervous and excited but mostly I can't believe I have to do this again!  Birth is not my fave thing in the world.  Some people think it is magical or spiritual and I just think it is mostly painful and gross.  Until you meet your little sweetheart and then you forget about the yucky stuff and then  eventually the bad memories fade until you end up prego again and then to the point where I am, wondering why you signed up to do this crap again!  Today as I was driving around doing some last minute errands I found myself noticing all of the women around that had kids and thinking "Wow women go through so much to bring kids into this world and then they have to raise the little buggers too!"  Yea I know boo hoo!  I love my girls and they are very precious to me and I love to see them with JR.  Sunday on Liv's real birthday she blew out her candles and I asked her what she had wished for.  She said "for my Daddy."  That's the kind of stuff that keeps me going.  I love the moments when you feel strong family unity and love.  That's what makes it all worth it.  And those are the times when I look at my awesome hubby and think "I could totally have a million of His babies!"  SCARY!  Well #5 here we go!

Dance Performance

The girls had a performance Saturday at the Craft Fair down town.  They were so cute in their little costumes and they did such a great job!  We are definitely proud parents!  I didn't know how Liv was going to react when she saw all of the people watching her, but she didn't seem to mind.  She had a big smile on her face the whole time and she remembered a lot of her dance.  Last night we played games for FHE and Olivia kept beating Gracie at connect four and JR and I were laughing so hard while watching them.  I don't even think Liv knew what she was doing but she kept beating Grace!  Well I am still pregnant and have no signs that Ruby will be arriving any time soon.  I go to the doc tomorrow so we will see what He thinks.  I can't wait to meet this little sweet heart!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

We had a great Halloween!  JR's parent's were coming up to see the kids so we decided to have an impromptu birthday party for Olivia. Her birthday isn't until the 8th of November but, since we don't know when Ruby is going to make Her entrance we decided it would be smart to celebrate a little early.  My Mom was on Her way home from visiting Gina in Vegas and made it just in time for cake and trick or treating. My Dad had mandatory overtime at the plant and wasn't able to come.  We miss Him a lot!  I made a pumpkin shaped cake and I guess I should have overbaked it so it would be more stiff and stay together because it had a blow out on the bottom and the top layer started slidding off!  Oh well I tried!  And it tasted really good and moist.  Gracie was the corpse bride, Allison was a vampire, and Olivia was a ladybug.  She wouldn't wear Her antennae so I just did cute pig tails.  We had a lot of fun and while we were leaving the trunk or treat we saw the Headless Horseman!  He looked so cool!  He came galloping down the road holding a lantern and then He went around the park where the trunk or treat was.  I love people that get into the Holiday spirit!  We missed trick or treating at Dave and Calie's because they were in Orangeville.  But the kids were sick and so was I so we just loaded up at the trunk or treat and went home.  Andy came down and brought His new girlfriend Lisa over to meet us and brought Liv a birthday present.  It was fun to hang out and talk with them for a while.  The girls have a dance performance this next Saturday.  Think I'll make it?!  I don't know!  It would be funny to see JR try to get them ready for it!  He's just not a hairdoin' costume kind of guy!  Well, I hope everyone had a fun Halloween!  Can't wait to see the pictures of all the cute kids!

HALLOWEEN 2009!

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Stuff.

I have been busy. Really. I have. I have been working on getting the quilts for Olivia and Ruby's room done. I finished the baby quilt and right now I am quilting Liv's twin size quilt. The whole thing was kind of a nightmare because there was this awesome pattern at the quilt shop that I really wanted and the ladies there told me it would be available in September. This was back in July so I said "No way can I wait until september, I'll just buy the fabric now and start on it. Well they only had half the fabric but they said it was already ordered, so I bought what they had. And I waited, and waited, and went crazy waiting for this stupid fabric that I just had to have. In the mean time I made the twin quilt for Liv. Well to make a long story short the fabric was finally discontinued and the lady that had come up with the pattern for the quilt I wanted decided she didn't want anyone else to have this particular quilt so she wasn't selling the pattern! So I had to improvise and find a different pattern and mix and match with different fabric lines to come up with something because TIME IS RUNNING OUT! So in the next few weeks I am going to try to pull the room together. Amidst all of that baby nesting junk the girls started dance classes at the first of september and they are loving it! Even Olivia! A couple of weeks ago we went to "Into the Woods" at the Scera Center in Orem to watch my Aunt Laura. She plays the witch and she was AWESOME! It was a really fun night. Gracie and Allison love school and are doing really well. Olivia goes to Joy school on Tuesdays and I know that she feels like she is such a big girl! Life is fun and hectic and I am anxious to see what this new baby girl is going to be like!

Me at about 34 weeks.

Olivia's twin quilt. Basted and ready for quilting!

Baby Ruby's Quilt.

First day of Dance Class!

Yes I am ALIVE!

That is the longest I have ever gone without posting something! My nesting instincts have completely taken over me. Like the need to organize every drawer and cupboard in my house. And to have every little project done that I can think of even if it has nothing to do with the baby. It has been so long that I am not even going to try to catch up. I'll just throw some more recent stuff on here and try to never again get so far behind!


We went down to JR's parents property in Salina canyon for Labor Day weekend. We went searching for some twisty wood that Aunt Pat wanted and JR took this picture of him and Liv by a gigantic drop off. I can't look at it, it makes me dizzy! She kept telling JR not to drop her.


















The girls had fun painting rocks and sticks.























The Guys had fun shooting their shot guns.




































Allison and Gracie got in on the action too! Kinda Scary!





































Gracie first day of SECOND grade! Can you believe that 2nd grade! She loved her first day and was very excited to be back in school.
























Allison had her first day of KINDERGARTEN!!! YEA! I feel old...























She was a little bit nervous but I think it was because she was so excited.























She said it was the funnest day ever! I'm so glad my kids love school!



















The day before school started I took the girls to Thanksgiving Point to the Dinosaur exhibit. It was so crowded! I guess everyone had the same idea. But the girls had a good time.









































We went to East Canyon the weekend after the 4th of July. JR's brother has a time share condo up there. It was really fun! I hope we do it again next year. Maybe on a different weekend though because it was during our 9th wedding anniversary. Oh well, we spent our first anniversary in Lake Powell on a house boat with JR's family! SOOO Romantic!


















All the girls wanted to do was swim in the pool!



















Liv and her cousin!



















Awww! So cute!



















I braided all of the little girls hair! It took forever but they looked really cute when I was done and then we didn't have to do their hair the whole time we were there!




































We spent a few days out on the lake boating. We had a really fun tube that all the kids seemed to love. Gracie was the only chicken that wouldn't get on it.


















JR FINALLY landed a backflip on the wakeboard and guess who missed the shot?!! Oh well at least you can tell that He is upside down.























A picture of me, happy now, I hate pictures of me.


















For those of you who maybe haven't spent a lot of time with Dave, He is a really SPECIAL guy. Really REALLY SPECIAL.(emphasis on SPECIAL!!!!!)

















































































JR and Dave were gladiating on the tube. It was really funny to watch them! I don't know if you can see but poor Taylor was still in the tube and was ducking to keep from getting smashed!

Yesterday was such a beautiful day! The weather was perfect and the girls played outside most of the day, which meant my house stayed clean! Yipee! And the best part of all was that JR FINALLY came home! It had been two weeks since we had seen Him and man you can miss a lot in two weeks. He missed my cousin Heather's wedding and reception, my birthday, our niece's Birthday dinner, and the birth of His brother's first baby! We are so glad to have Him home for Mother's Day weekend. I couldn't have lasted another day.