excuses no more....

I get on here probably at least twice a day and think- "isn't someone supposed to be updating this" and then comes the "oh yeah, that's me..." and so I close it back down promising myself tomorrow. Well tomorrow has turned into months and now pictures on Brian's phone got erased and so well if I had been on top of things I would have had them on here.... so here's to no more excuses. (I know I can here you all saying we'll see how long this lasts...)

Shall we begin with December..... (Dave sorry for all the writing and not many pictures)

December was fun with Holiday baking for friends and neighbors. We added yummy cinnamon rolls to our list of rolls, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and apple pie. I think we will keep them as many ordered and loved them! Yeah us :)

T man loved Christmas- I mean what kid doesn't. He helped everyone wrap presents and was REALLY good about not telling us what we were getting. Testing my 3 year old I'd ask what Daddy got me and T would say "Can't tell you it's a Christmas secret.." wahoo now if only these locked lips will last. He enjoyed helping decorate the tree and putting up decorations around the house. On a side note, Brian's brother Kevin is allergic to Pine trees and so I was told that this year I got to put on my big girl panties and have a artificial tree... Brian being the super

husband he is got me my own little tree for our room while I was in UT working. He had it up

on my nightstand when I got back. T and I loved decorating it and turning the lights on at night. (If I had been on top of things I had a pretty picture of it... but for some reason I took it with B's phone not mine..) Along with those pictures were fun ones that t and I took

of each other w/ our rudolph noses and antlers. (My mom sent us blinking noses and reindeer antlers- T loved wearing them- I could get up and get into the Christmas boxes and take new pictures but as you can see it's not happening) BFS

January!

January brought us alot of changes! For New Year's we thought it would be fun to let T stay up- I'm not sure what I was thinking, but don't worry he made it to mid-night and then thought he should get up at 8- HA... the joke was on me for sure!

Our biggest change has been that Brian GOT A JOB!!!!! Wahoo! He works at a nice upscale restaurant out in Roseville (about a 25-30 min drive from our house) Should you want to look at their website it's www.crush29.com. He's really enjoying working and learning more about the industry. It's been an adjustment as he works about 35 hours and goes to school on top of it all. We appreciate the time we get with him on Saturdays and miss him in the afternoon/ evenings.

Nesting has set in a bit (I'd say for the whole family) but I got tired of trying to organize

T's toys and not having places for everything so having the handy husband that I do. He made a toy box/ organizer/ stand thing that I'd seen in IKEA. Of course the one in IKEA was hundreds of dollars and he was able to make this one for less than one hundred dollars including the buckets. T of course chose the color and LOVED helping Dad build and paint. He was quite the helper. Again our little camera was broken at the time and I took pictures of T helping but those were also on B's camera (see why I kept putting all this off.... I wanted to post the pictures oh well) But I do have a final picture of the organizer. I LOVE it!

I'm sure there have been some funny things that I should post, but my mommy brain has kicked in and I don't remember.....

February has kinda been a blur with work, being sick, T being sick, we've done lots of painting and re-decorating. T has loved helping w/ all the painting!

The count down is on.... I'm 32 weeks and starting to feel pregnant! If it's not life or death I probably don't have the energy to do it.... I've gotten a little bit of understanding of how Brian's Mom has felt the past few years with her anemia as my last lab tests showed that I was anemic. I've started taking more iron and I'm doing better, but for a few weeks there I was really dragging, on top of a nasty cold/ flu. My belly is sticking out and Brian and Tyler love "teasing" the baby by blowing raspberries and poking my tummy. He sure likes to kick LOTS! It's been interesting to see how he responds to Brian and Ty. When T is close/ talking to my tummy he kicks and punches something fierce. He'll do the same to Brian, but when Brian puts his hand on my belly he stops and calms down. I don't have to worry about kick counts for sure! Well I think that gets us close to catching up.... I promise to try and do better

Ice Skating

Way back in December... yikes is it really the 8th of January already??? On a side note where did December and Christmas and New Years go to???

Anyways as I was saying- early in December we all went ice skating for FHE. We had a blast! I am NOT a competent skater so I took a bench view, but T had so much fun with his Daddy, Aunts. Uncle, and Gran! The rink had rubbermaid buckets that they turned upside down so that the kids could use them like walkers to go around the rink. T got ahold of one and was off like a rocket, although he really just liked holding everyone's hand and going with the big kids. For the week after all I heard was "Can we go Ice Skating today?" .... maybe I will have an ice hockey player after all....

Thanksgiving.... a little different

This year I have been a little overwhelmed and tired... imagine that a pregnant girl tired :) Anyways I saw in a magazine how a couple of restaurants have a thanksgiving burger so I thought hey why not. So for Thanksgiving we had turkey burgers, with cranberry sauce, stuffing on our burger and fries. YUM it was good, didn't feel like thanksgiving, but they did taste good. I am thankful for my blessings. I know I have been given many many many of them. Here are just a few of them

The Forgotten Carols

Papa Joe had bought tickets for the Forgotten Carols on Brian's birthday. Unfortunately the other couple that was intended for wasn't able to make it so Brian and I got to tag along. Despite searching for 45 mins to find where the heck we were supposed to go and pouring rain we had a good time. I had never seen or really heard the Forgotten Carols so it was fun to see. I'm sure everyone thought I was an emotional mess as I ended the night in tears. One of my favorite Michael Mclean songs is "We can be Together Forever". Well he ended the evening singing that song several times and having the audience sing with him. Well- long story short "Together Forever" was a favorite song that Sharon, Danielle's and I shared. It brought alot of emotions for me and how I am glad that with our knowledge of the Gospel I know that we can be together forever.

Happy Birthday Brian!

Yes, yes, if you can't tell things have been a little crazy and B's birthday was nothing less.... Unfortunately it seemed like everything that could go wrong- did so needless to say it's Dec 15th and he still hasn't gotten a birthday cake :( I know I'm a horrible wife, the shirts I got him were the wrong size and he had to make his own dinner.... oh well maybe 32 will be better. We do love him though and are thankful for all he does for us. Happy 31 babe!

Sad day

The week of Thanksgiving we found out that Cleo (Brian's parent's English Bull Dog) and Tank (Our Boxer) had a "Barry White- Let's get it on..." moment that wasn't stopped as soon as we had hoped. After x-rays it was confirmed that Cleo was having puppies and not just getting fat. As a side note- did you know dogs only have a 9 week gestation period I think we should get that too... After a week of ups and downs Bulldogs have to have c-sections she went into the Vet. She had 10 puppies! Yikes ok so maybe I'll take the 1 baby and 9 months vs 10 puppies and 9 weeks... anyways unfortunately she lost one invetro. The Dr got the rest out and one by one they all stopped breathing. They think that because there were so many of them there wasn't enough room for them to grow properly.... I was mentally prepared to loose 2-3 but thought there would still 3-4 that would survive. I was ok until Brian described them to me, with lots of Tank in them.... I'll be honest that a part of me was relieved as we were not prepared for 10 pups, but sad. It has given T and I many interesting conversations about Heaven. It's amazing to me how much he does understand.

It's a..

BOY

against everything we thought it's a boy and he sure is proud of it. My due date is the 18th however since I'll have a c-section he'll probably be here a week earlier. We're excited although stumped on names- I don't know why I had several before we even got married but now my mind is a blank. T is excited to be a big brother although I think his world is going to be turned upside down...