Blog Overload

I finally had a minute to update the blog. Beware, it is an overload of information and pictures. Hope everyone has a wonderful Halloween. More to come in the next week. Parker turns 5 on Monday!!

I Have Missed This

I have been gone it seems like every weekend for the last 2 months and I have missed gettting a bountiful basket. Well I finally got one today after a long time and I am so excited to use the fruit and vegetable. The kids went with me to pick it up this morning and it was sooooo cold outside!! Which makes it even more exciting to be getting fruits and veggies I wouldn't normally buy this time of year. We came home with 2 head of lettuce, 2 english cucumbers, 1 lb of green beens, 5 seet potatoes, 5 tomatoes, and 2 yellow squash. Also the fruits we got were 5 bananas, 5 apples, a bag of huge red grapes, 3 pears, 1 pkg of blackberries and a whole pineapple. What a bargain for $15!! Sometimes I still can't believe the bargain. So we will be enjoying our friuts and veggies for the next week or so, YUMMMY!!

Pumpkin Carving

We have made pumpkin carving a tradition at our house and Parker has sure remembered it. As soon as there were pumpkins out at the store he asked if we could buy some and take them home and carve them. I held out as long as I could and finally bought some last week so that we could do them on family night. As they sat in the kitchen waiting to be carved, Parker was eager with anticipation asking a few times a day when we would finally carve them. So he was so very excited when we told him we were going to do pumpkins on Tuesday night (we were at the carnival on Monday). We got out all the necessart tools and began our activity. Parker was very into the whole idea and cleaned his pumpkin out all by himself. Paige on the other hand wanted nothing to do with touching the inside of her pumpkin. She just kept on saying "its uki" (its Yucky) over and over again. So I did nost of her pumpkin for her before starting on my own. Matt helped Parker out on his since he picked a pirate to cut out. After Matt had spent 20 minutes tracing the pirate on he didin't want Parker to mess it up, so he ended up carving most of Parker's. I found a fun witch that I decided to carve on my pumpkin and I think she turned out quite well. Matt decided to drill a bunch of holes all over in his (I think he had had enough after carving one pumpkin already) They all turned out great and we had fun time together doing them. But I do have to mention that I hesitated to put them outside because of our squirrel problem. But I ended up putting them out and spraying them with cayenne pepper hoping that would keep the pesky animals away. But they have eaten my witch's nose off, so she no longer looks like a witch, but all the other pumpkins have remained untouched. So it may have worked after all, my pumpkin with just had to be one they tried out first!!

Halloween Costumes

The kids were able to get good use of their costumes this year, which I am happy with. We went to a Family Home Evening on my mom's side of the family. It was like all her cousins and their kids, and their kids' kids. It is something they do every year. It was a fun evening and the kids were able to play several games and get quite a bit of candy. Parker had his Preschool Halloween party on Thursday and dressed up for that and tonight we have out ward party/carnival. So the costumes have been put to good use. Parker is a Ninja (it had to be something with weapons of some sort!) and Paige is a Butterfly.

My Birthday

I turned 28 this month, closer to 30 than 20!! We celebrated my birthday early because I was going to be gone 2 weekends and it just worked out better for all of my family to do it a little early. Who was I to complain, it was like celebrating a few times!! We got together on Sunday the 3rd and had a nice dinner. My mom surprised me and made deep fried pickles. They were so yummy. We also had bacon wrapped, jalapeno stuffed chicken and baked potatoes. It was yummy! Then I opened gifts. I got some cash from my dad, a necklace, a new shirt, and an awesome pin cushion from my mom. I got 2 book and a movie gift card from Mike and Charyn and Matt and the kids surprised me with a new Amazon Kindle!! I was way excited!! I had told Matt that I wanted one, but wasn't getting my hopes up, so I was really surprised when he got one for me. I have finished reading the two books Charyn got me so now I can start downloading and reading on the new Kindle!! I can tell it is going to be so nice, I am already in love with it!! The weekend right before my birthday I went with my mom and Charyn scrapbooking and we had a lot of fun. So I considered that part of my birthday as well, a getaway without the kids. It was a nice break. The day of my birthday we just hung out at the house and had Pizza Hut for dinner. (Who wants to cook on their birthday?!) So it was a great birthday celebration and I am lucky to have such wonderful family!!

My Mother's Daughter

I am so my mother's daughter that it has become quite comical. People tell me all the time that I look like my mom and that I am very similar to her and share some of her attributes and personality characteristics. I think that is a great compliment because I love my mom and the person that she is. So if I can be just a little bit like her that makes me happy. We often have each other over for dinner when we are making something that is a big recipe or to help each other out on busy days. We also often make the same things within a matter of a few days of each other without knowing that the other has made the same thing. It has become pretty funny and happens a lot. Today for instance I called to see if she and my dad wanted to come over and have minestrone soup. Before I told her what I was making I heard her chopping in the backgrouns so I knew she had started their dinner already. I asked her what she was making....she said Minestrone soup!!!! What are the odds of that??? we were both making Minestrone soup, on the same day!! We both laughed and now we are both trying to come up with friends to share it with. It is a big recipe and I know my family won't want to be eating it for the next week. So today I am definitely my Mother's Daughter!!

Pregnancy Update

20 week prego picture.

The kids insisted on their picture being taken too.


Our cute little baby's profile


Well I am officially halfway there. I am 20 weeks and 2 days (I think, they keep switching my due date almost every time I am at the doctor). So I guess I can start the countdown until the baby gets here. I am feeling relatively well, tired a lot more than with the last two. But that is probably because I have two more kids to chase around and take care of than before. I can't believe how fast it has flown by and I am sure the next 3 months will fly by fast as well with all of the holidays coming up. It will be the last 6 weeks that will drag on forever. We had our big 20 week ultrasound today and the first thing I said to the technician was that we did not want to know the sex of the baby. I wanted to make sure she didn't accidentally tell us or show us. The baby was being a little stinker and did not want its picture taken. When the technician would move the thing(what is that called anyway, I cannot think of it for the life of me) to the right the baby would go left and vice versa. It made it very difficult to get all the measurements she needed to get. The baby looked good all of the measurements were normal. Normal amounts ouf amniotic fluid, 4 heart chambers, 2 functioning kidneys which meant a working bladder. A good size placenta, a nice thick umbilical cord, and all the right parts in the brain. So the baby looked perfect. We are excited and grateful that it looks healthy so far. Matt was able to go with me today, so it was the first time he had heard the heart beat. I think that made it more real to him. As we were leaving I asked the technician if she would have been able to know the gender if we had wanted to and she said that she knew, but she would keep it a secret. So she is the only one that knows. I watched the monitor the whole time and I don't know so we are looking forward to February when we will find out.