Just Practicing..

...With the new baby coming in only 10 short weeks. We decided we needed to gear up the kids for helping with there new sibling! So we did what every normal person does..

we had them bottle feed baby calves.



Whitley thought it was the neatest thing ever, She thought it was so funny that cows drink from baby bottles.


Karden Liked feeding them but wanted to know if our baby was going to have poop and flies on him too!( yes he is a typical 7 year old boy I am told)


Dad even got in on the action- He needs practice too! :)


Now we have the feeding part done.... On to diapering!

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We had our ultrasound today and everything looked great!! The baby is healthy so we couldn't be happier. and definatly my kid as the hands were constantly covering her/his face so people wouldn't look at her/him. :)

We decided we wanted this baby- our last- to be a surprise!! I held my ground, Ryan waivered a little, but I got my way and we have no clue what kind of baby we will be getting in August!

We told the doctor we didn't want to know and he said he wouldn't tell us. The first half of the ultrasound he referred to the baby as "him". I was thinking this was totally subconscious and was convinced it was a boy. The second half she started withe the "she's" So now I'm all sorts of confused.

We will see come August!! Any Guesses?

Floored!

We finally got floored! I am so excited. The 90's vinyl floor is gone.
There were no tears shed!!

We created a walkway from the front door to the kitchen and got rid of the dirtiest carpet ever!!
I am so happy with the end result!

Gimme A Break!!

We were all excited for Spring Break this year!! A whole week off from school... Okay so maybe I was dreading it just a little bit!

We decided(Ok I decided) that we were going to go somewere. Our first choice was Yellowstone
but it would still be too cold this time of year we headed off to the next best place...




Salt Lake City.
Yup you heard me right. And Yes you can be jealous. We went on "vacation" 40 minutes away from our house. We did the tourist thing and ended up having a great time.

The first day we toured the Mrs Field cookie Plant
and the Sweets Candy Factory.
After our sugar high leveled off we headed to Kennecott! It was a really big hole. :)
The kids loved to watch the huge dumptrucks and diggers working.
We had to have the stadard picture by the BIG tire.
Then back to the hotel for SWIMMING! Safety First :)


Friday we started the day off at The Living Planet Aquarium,
followed by a ride on Trax for our train obsessed nephew.
Wowza there are some "Special, Scary, Strange" people who ride trax.

We got off at the Clarke Planatarium were we checked out the sights and visited a few different planets
before watching a 3D movie. This is were I found out that popcorn and my nephew Bryce don't mix! Okay so Amber found out!! :) After another eventful ride on trax back to the cars.
We headed back to the hotel for more swimming.


Saturday we headed to Logan and took in the cheese factory, pepperidge farms, did a little (or a lot) or shopping and of course more swimming!
The dads were starting to get "swimmed out". I didn't know that was possible!

We headed home on sunday, It turned out to be a good break!!

Goody Two Shoes....

I never thought I would be this excited about a person who has two shoes on!!

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But I am giddy! So is Ryan- He hasn't wore two shoes since November! Ya you read that right- 5 Months!! Almost half a year!! Oh the thing we take for granted!

Happy St Patricks Day.......

............From out 3 Lucky Charms!!!









Baby #3 coming August 25, 2011!!!

{ 7 }

Karden Turned 7 on the tenth of March!! He is no longer a little kid he is starting to look like and act like a boy!
He woke up early and was so excited to be 7! He got to open his presents from mom and dad and Whitley before school.
The fact that he couldn't play his new DS game until after school about killed him! He was super excited to take cupcakes to his class and after school he had his "Friend Party!!"
He decided to go to nickle city and play laser tag!
It was an awesome place for a birthday party. There was probably only about 15 other people in the entire place besides us. That helped alot with my stress level. I didn't want to lose someones elses child! But it was easy to keep track of the boys!! They played games to their hearts content and then they played some more.

and had pizza and pop.

We played laser tag
( and yes the boys ran full speed for the full 15 minute game) When they came out of the room they were all red and hot and sweaty and smelled like little boys. ( ya know that dog smell) It was funny to watch them.
Ryan thought it was fun to hide behind a barricade for the whole time and sniper them. Really Ryan- Whose the adult! :)
After we cooled off with cake and ice cream and presents!!
WOW- He got spoiled!!!!
Then to the dreaded ticket redemption center-
oh how I hate that place- It seems as if they always want the toys that cost 3,000. tickets and they have 120. But after showing them what they could afford they all chose a flute(A heartfelt apologies to the other moms) and some other junk toys!!

It was a great night!! The best part- NO CLEANUP!!! Now that's my kind of party!

Happy Birthday to my favorite 7 year old! Love ya Buddy~~