Our Gummy Bear

So here is how my morning went. Got to the doctor's and waited forever to go back. Then had to answer a bunch of questions. Not bad. Well then they tell me they want to do an exam. Well goodness it is a good thing I shaved my legs! So he does the exam and everything is great. He gets out his doppler and listens forever and can't find the heartbeat. Not such a big deal. He tell's me maybe I am not as far along as we thought, maybe it is because my uterus is tipped back, but in any case let's get you in for an ultrasound. Well I had one scheduled already for Tuesday but asked if we could do it earlier cause then I don't have to freak out all weekend. (And yes I would have worried cause that is what I do). So off we go to the ultrasound and there one the screen is our beautiful little gummy bear waving at us and it's little heart beating at 171 bpm! So relieved. Oh and I made sure that she was sure there was only one in there. So all of you that thought that it was twins you are all wrong sorry. But we are glad to have one that is strong. Seeing it on the screen really made it real. We are really gonna have another baby. (not that the morning sickness wasn't convincing enough.)

Vinyl contest

My friend's friend is having a contest on her blog. She is giving away a vinyl sign or nativity scene. It is really beautiful go check it out and leave a comment and you will be entered.


www.udreamitvinyl.blogspot.com

First snow

Today I took the kids to the mall to play in the play area and when we walked out there was snow gently falling all around us. I love when it is snowing. I love the cozy feeling of it.

I know I have been slacking on this blog lately. But we really haven't been doing anything that is blog worthy. I took the girls to the gingerbread display and they got to put together their own house. They had a blast. Rylee just ate the candy as I decorated hers.

So some of you want to know details about this pregnancy so I will fill you in briefly. After trying to get pregnant since last December it finally happened 8 weeks ago. We are so very excited to be having a new little one in our family soon. I am due July 10th. This pregnancy is way different then the other 2 so I am convinced it is a boy (or 2). I have not thrown up yet and am so grateful for that. I feel very blessed. Even though I have bad morning sickness it is bearable. I was on the same dose of Chlomid as when I got pregnant with the twins so we will go in on Dec 16th to find out how many are in there. The girls are very excited about the baby. They are always wanting to sing to the baby and kiss my belly. It is very sweet. Paige wants a girl baby but I am doing my best to convince her that we should have a boy baby and name him Eli Marcus. I will keep working on her. Anyway we will keep you informed as our appointments come. Thanks all for the well wishes. We love you all.

Priceless

3 months worth of Chlomid: $120

10 HPT'S: $25

1 Gallon of Ice cream and a jar of pickles: $8

Announcing that we are pregnant: Priceless

Christmas Tree

Do you see my new little Christmas tree over there. It is very pretty huh? This will be the only tree that we put up this year (sad). We are not going to be here for Christmas so we are going to take all our Christmas stuff home. But what is truly amazing about that Christmas tree over there is the number that is on it. That is right people only 43 days left until Christmas. Holy cow!! I love this season. I love the smells, the traditions, the warmth, and just the overall snuggly feeling.

Sweet sounds at my feet

This is what was at my feet as I made a wonderful dinner for family the other night. This being the sounds of my little girls talking, getting along, and working on their letters. Paige was asking me how to spell different words and every once in awhile would ask me how to write different letters. She has her O's down well. I love my family and love nights like this when the girls are getting along and I am able to prepare a warm yummy meal to nourish my children and wonderful husband.

Halloween Chilli/Soup Cookoff

On Friday night we had the JRC Halloween Chilli/Soup Cook off. It was a lot of fun. The kids all dressed up in their costumes and were so cute. Some of the adults dressed up as well. We had a great turn out. Here are some pictures of the fun activities we did. (Yesterday we went to Boo at the Zoo. I will get those pics up soon.)



We did a donut eating contest. I was close to coming in first but Rachel beat me to it.

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving

Being that I am from Canada and it is Thanksgiving in Canada today I thought that we should kind of celebrate it at our house tonight. It was so good if I do say so myself. This is the first 'bird" I have ever cooked and it turned out moist and yummy! All I did was stab a few lemons and shove them in and then made a wonderful herb rub for the top and baked it. Mmmmm! For dessert we had chocolate mouse pie. What a great meal and great excuse to make a wonderful dinner. Thanks Canada for celebrating Thanksgiving early so that we could do. Enjoy the pics but please for the sake of your computer try not to drool to much.

Not Dead Yet

No we did not fall off the face of the earth. We are still holding on by a little bit. Blake's computer died so he sent it in and that means that he has to take my computer so I get about 10 minutes to check my e-mail and stuff. So as soon as I get to use it again I will post pics of the Pumpkin Patch and other fun things we have been doing.

Blessed

When Blake and I were getting ready to move to Kansas I was really worried that we would not have any friends. We have great friends back in Idaho and were really sad to leave them. Well much to our surprise we have got some amazing friends out here. In a way they have become like family. Last Monday I was having a hard day and so my friend Sally showed up on Tuesday with this wonderful cupcake. It is from a cupcake place here named Daddy Cakes. Let me just tell you that it was absolutely sinful. I was very touched by her thoughtfulness. We are so blessed out here to have found as great of friends as we have back in Idaho.

Big Girl and Freedom

Oh no here goes the neighborhood. Rylee has known for awhile now how to climb out of her crib but was really good to stay in it. Until recently. She has started climbing out about 6 times a night so I finally relented and took her crib down so that she wouldn't hurt herself. So she is now in a big girl bed. She still gets out a lot but at least she won't hurt herself by doing it.

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

I came across this video yesterday while I was looking at a friends blog and wanted to post it here. I had never heard of this organization before but it is an amazing thing that they are doing. I wanted to get the word out that this organization exists and thought that if you know anyone that goes through losing their child you could suggest this to them. I am so grateful that we have so many pictures of Keagan. It is the only thing that we will ever have of him. Anyways I will put a disclaimer that this video tugs on the heart strings. I cried when I saw it so if you don't think you are strong enough please don't watch it. Just know that there is an organization called Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep that will come to the hospital and take pictures of a baby that was still born or that is not expected to live very long. They are all volunteers and so it is free to the family.




If you would like more information or to find a photographer in your area or even if you would like to donate some money to this wonderful organization please go to www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org

Preschool

This is kinda late but I have a good excuse. My computer is on the fritz, it will shut off at random times. So I have to use Blake's computer so I won't lose all the stuff I did.

Anyways, Paige started preschool on August 18, 2008. She loves it. She gets to ride the bus and I think that is why she likes it so much. The bus picks her up right at our door and drops her off here. So I have almost 4 hours to get stuff done because Rylee takes a great nap at that time as well.

Her backpack is rather large but we couldn't find anything smaller, plud we figured she could use it next year as well.

Of course when I told Paige to get her backpack on Rylee had to get hers too. She is so cute when it comes to this. She gets sad when Paige has to leave so I usually take her over to the park for a while after we get Paige on the bus. Well the first day she kept asking where her bus is. And when she gets up from her nap, as soon as I walk in there, she says she wants her Paigee. They are such great friends.

Kids say the darndest things

Paige comes up to me this morning and asks if I will get her a drink. I said "sure hunny". She gets this big grin on her face gives me a hug and says "thanks mom I knew I could count on you!!!" I absolutely love this little girl.

Science World

We went to Science world before we went to the aquarium and had a blast. It is right on the water front. It is a huge dome shaped place that is entirely devoted to kids. It is all hands on and they have some really neat things.








This was my favorite thing. It is a water table thing that the kids can put the balls into a vacuum thing and shoot them to the top. They then come down through a series of things. You could also take your ball up the stairs and drop it from up high and watch them come down.


We went to a little Alphabet movie that I thought would be great for Rylee, it ended up being the corniest movie I have ever seen. They had totally random things for the letters and it was just dumb!

Paige had a blast with all the fun things to explore. She got a taste of what life would be like if she had been a sextuplet.


There was this one illusion that you had to try to grab the apple. Well Rylee was not content to just sit there and try she was going to go get that apple and ran right into the glass. I felt kinda bad for her cause she hit hard, but it was quite funny.

Vancouver Aquarium

The next day we headed to the Vancouver Aquarium. They had recently had a baby beluga whale born and we got to go down and see it. That was Paige's favorite part of the whole trip. We also got to see these really cool Jelly Fish. They had a display of them that went all the way from the egg stage to the big stage. It was really neat.

Canada Trip part 1

After spending about 2 weeks in Smithers with my family my mom, step-dad, little sister, the girls, and I headed down to Vancouver for a few days of fun. Blake decided to surprise us and showed up there to spend it with us. It was nice to have him there.

First we hit the water park. I am in love with water parks. Whenever we go anywhere I have to see if there are any around that we can go to. This one had this huge tube ride that you went in a huge tube. It was awesome.








Paige absolutely loved this slide she went on it about a few dozen times.


Near the end of our day we realized that Paige could go on the big slides with us. She is truly my child though and didn't want to go with us. She wanted to go all by herself.














After the water park we hit the Castle of Fun by our hotel. We got to ride on the Go Karts, play mini golf, do the arcade games, and ride the bumper boats.














Near the end of our mini golf game we found some slugs on the coarse. Blake couldn't believe how big they were so he had to take a picture.
















I will post later about our other activities.

Drag racing

While I was in Canada we went to Terrace for the Drag races. We camped there for 2 nights and had a blast. The girls love camping.


My step dad races a Harley. It is freaky watching him go down the track.


When he gets to the end he has to shut his motor off so someone has to go down and pull him back. Usually my sister Brooke does this. Paige was sad that she couldn't go down so grandma took her on lots of rides.

Rylee had a ball just running around. She wouldn't wear the pelters to cover her ears from the sound and Paige wouldn't take them off the whole weekend. Even if there was no races on she would still wear them everywhere. It was really cute.

Baby announcement

So I had posted earlier that I was thinking about doing baby announcements, I thought that I would post this and see what you all think. This is the baby announcement that I made for my sister-in-law. I think it was really cute. Dianne wanted something not pink. So this is what we came up with, what do you think?

Mattea Maray

One of the main reasons that I came to Smithers when I did was to see my new niece Mattea Maray. She was born the Thursday after I got here. She is so cute and so sweet. I am glad that I got to be here to see her when she is so new. It has also been fun to see my brother become a dad for the first time.






My sister-in-law Dianne and I did a photo shoot yesterday with her and right at the very end I just happened to get this picture of her smiling. It made the whole thing worth it (she wasn't happy about the pictures).

Update

We have been having a ton of fun here in Smithers. UInfortunitely I forgot my camera cord so I can't add pictures. We have been having fun going to baseball games, visiting and holding my new neice Mattea, playing yatzee, going to the park, swimming in the hot tub, and lots of other things. We leave on Saturday to go to Terrace for some drag racing and then on Monday we are leaving for Vancouver to go to a water park, science center, the aquarium, and what else we can fit in. Then it is off to Idaho again to see my wonderful husband. When I get back I will post a bunch of pictures of the fun we have had.

Best memory

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn’t matter if you knew me a little or a lot, if we’ve actually met in person or not, anything you remember about me!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It’s actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I’ll assume you’re playing the game and I’ll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don’t want to play on your blog, or if you don’t have a blog, I’ll leave my memory of you in my comments.

Alive, busy, and travelling

I know it has been a while since I have posted. I just wanted to let you know that we are alive and well and so busy that I haven't had time to blog. The girls and I are leaving tomorrow for Canada. We will drive to Blake's uncle's house in Washington and spend the night. Then we will head for Vancouver to see my Grandma that is in the hospital and will meet my step dad there and then him and us will head up to Smithers. It will be a long trip but so worth it to see my family, especially my brother's baby that hopefully soon they will have. So when I get to Smithers and have some time I will post more. We have done some really fun things here so will post those later.

Scooter Fun

One of my in-law's neighbor owns this scooter, and the other day she brought it down. So of course we had to try it out. They are the funnest things ever. Some day I would love to go to Italy and rent one of these and go around seeing Italy on it. It would be the best.

Ampesi

Blake's brother Blaine got back from his mission in Africa and wanted to make us a meal. So he made us ampesi. It was interesting. You pick up a plantain or a potato with your hands and dip it into the sauce. It wasn't bad tasting but it wasn't the greatest meal I have ever had.

Balloons for Keagan

I know that these are a little late but we have been really busy. So I thought while I was here in Idaho I would catch up on my journal/blogging.

On June 20 we went out behind our apartment and let go of 41 balloons for Keagan. We do 41 because that is how many days we had him here for. This year we thought that we would draw pictures and write messages to him.





Paige loved doing this. Her picture is of Keagan and Jesus and Mary. It was going to be Heavenly Father but then she changed it to Mary.















When we woke up the next morning Paige asked if we could go find where the balloons came down. So to avoid driving around forever and waisting precious gas I told her that Keagan caught them and has them. She luckily accepted that answer and didn't make us drive all over.

Clouds and dripping ice cream

We have had some interesting weather lately in Topeka and so I took some pictures of the sky because t was really neat to see the different clouds and things.




























One day we were getting some stuff done and all of a sudden the tornado siren went off, which was weird because the sky was blue and it was nice outside. So my friend called me and said that she had seen a funnel cloud. So what do we do? You guessed it we loaded up the girls and went for a drive to see if we could see it. We went and got some ice cream and as you can tell it was a disaster so we put them in the tub when we got home so they could finish. Oh and we didn't get to see the funnel cloud. Maybe next time.