Coming this Fall...

The nauseousness, extreme tiredness, and clothes getting tight isn't going anywhere anytime soon. We are so happy to announce baby #2 will be making its arrival the end of October!

It has been a long wait, lots of tests, lots of money, ovulation fun, and a round of Clomid, but we couldn't be more thrilled!

Yellowstone Bear World

This past weekend (and the next 2), Yellowstone Bear World is having half off admission so we decided to check it out. It was definitely worth it. David loved seeing all the animals. As we were driving through the bear part, you are to drive about 5 mph and encouraged not to stop. Well, what do you do when a bear is walking right in front of your car? STOP! Haha. Mark and David did not enjoy this (Mark, because the bear was "decreasing the value of our car" and David just because.)

They had a nice petting zoo that had chickens, ducks, goats, a pig and a few more. David throughly enjoyed running through the chicken house and splashing in the puddles.

They also had little feeders all along the petting zoo so you could feed the animals.

There was also a little exhibit of baby bears that are being hand raised. 

 Here are just a few other random pictures from our little trip. We will definitely being going back.

Stitches

This is not going to be a happy update like I had planned. We have been such beautiful weather the last couple days (which is very welcome especially after last weeks snow fall). Anyways, with this beautiful weather, we have been spending a lot of time at the park. Today was no different, beautiful weather, slight breeze, until IT happened. David was playing on the playground equipment. All of a sudden, another mom is carrying my child to me and says he fell off the top step and hit his face. I stand him in front of me and give him a good look over when Mark sees blood on his hand and then I see it gushing from his chin. My heart sinks. I call the Doctor because I can't tell how deep it is due to the large amount of blood. They tell me to bring him right over. We walk in and try to clean it up and he freaks out even more. They numb it and let it sit for a few minutes before he does the stitches. I lay back in the chair and hold him along with Mark and Paola (my favorite nurse). He was thrashing all over, screaming, crying, sweating. It was awful. As soon as they were done, Mark took David out to the car while I got all the instructions and made the (dreadful) follow-up appointment.

Then we took him out for ice cream. Ice cream can heal the world as my dad says. And its true, it helped David feel better. His poor chin/mouth was a little numb so he dripped a little.

He is fast asleep now, I've got some laundry to do (blood to get out of clothes), but I will update happier things soon.

Snow day!

It is very unusual for us to be a little more than half way through January and not have piles and piles of snow upon us. We have unusual weather-30s to high 40s, rain, but not snow.

Well, we got some last night, not much, and it is pretty icy right now. But, in hopes that we could ware David out enough to take a nap before church, we bundled up and went and "played."

I think that catches up...for now. Hope you all have a great week. And a special birthday shout out to Julie!

Day Visit

Our friends the Days came back for a very quick trip to get their stuff out of storage. It was so good to see them (and I hope that it works out that David and I can go with Mark to WA this summer and see them and their cute new baby!)

Joelle was a second mama to David when he was weeks old. I am hoping one of these jobs in Washington work out because I would love to live near them again!

It was quite an ordeal to get their truck loaded, but it all (mostly) fit in the end.

Lunch time

These are just 2 cute pictures of David. Mark had just started back to school. I gave David his peanut butter/jelly sandwich (yes, on white bread-this doesnt happen very often) and he just went to town.

Christmas 2011

I'm once again behind, only a month though. Christmas 2011 was great! We decided to stay in Idaho for it this year, something we have never done. It was slightly strange not to be apart of the hurry up and pack so we can catch our flight scene, but oh so nice to spend it as a family of 3 this year!

Before Mark went to Iraq, he had gone snowboarding a couple of times with some friends. He liked it. He wanted a snowboard. Big time. But, I told him there was no sense in buying all the gear just to have it sit in storage for a year, and that when he got back, we would do it. Secretly, I was hoping he would forget about the whole idea. However, when you are in 135 degree weather and you are a snow/winter lover, it's hard. Marks mom bought him the board and various family members on my side helped out with all the stuff.

He went snowboarding...that night. He has slowly gotten others to join in the excitement.

My grandma sent money for David. With it we bought a Thomas & Friends tent and chair. He loves them both.

Christmas Eve came and we opened up our new pajamas. I still am not sure if they are from sent or from Mark and I. (What does your family do?) After we put David to bed, we moved all the presents from various places in the house under the tree.

Christmas morning came, and it was magical. We kept Davids tool bench in the bathroom until breakfast was over. He was so excited!

David loves Thomas (or choo-choo as he calls it). There was no shortage of this. We were able to skype with a good portion of the family and hear of some of the fun things happening at their houses.

We only had Sacrament meeting, which included a nice Christmas program. After church, we came home. David napped, and I baked like a crazy person (rolls and a couple of pies). THen we went over to our friends house (Jake & Janell Hargrave-which, small world, he is Marks old roommates brother!) and had dinner while the kids played.

I think that about covers Christmas. There is still more to blog, but I need to go rock David to sleep it looks like. With the new year brought Church at 1:30...right in the middle of nap time :-)