Wrestling is over!

Matt just returned from state wrestling in Boise this weekend, which means that wrestling season is officially over!! I am really excited to have my husband back around and Parker is even more thrilled to have daddy around more to play with. I am sure glad that this baby won't be here for a couple months so we can get things ready for her arrival. I am about to the point where I would like her to be here, but I know she needs a few more weeks. I am hoping to give the house a "spring cleaning" before she gets here. I have sure had a fun time buying and looking at girl stuff. It is so different than shopping for boys things.
We must be a pretty boring family, because I have found it pretty difficult to find things to say in our blog that aren't boring. I hope that once spring arrives we will be out and about more often doing things that are more fun. Parker is really getting to the point where he has had enough of being indoors and wants to play outside. About a week ago it seemed like it was warmer outside than it had been and I asked him if he wanted to go for a walk. I was thinking a walk around the block would be enough to get some of his energy out. Well we ended up walking about 7 or 8 blocks to grandma Y's work. I was cold and tired by the time we got there and so was Parker. Good thing she was about to get off and was able to give us a ride home. I haven't been the role model pregnant woman and haven't been regularly excersising, boy how easliy it is to get out of shape. I am really going to have to kick it into high gear after the baby is born.

January Blues

I can't believe it has been this long since I last posted something. After the holidays life doesn't seem quite as busy, but the days sure go by fast. I only have 90 days left in this pregnancy and I can hardly wait. I am already tired of being pregnant and I still have the worst three months left. I think it will go by pretty fast and I am looking forward to having the baby in the spring. Matt has been super busy this month with wrestling on top of school and work. Parker and I have hardly seen him this month with him gone almost every weekend for tournaments. We are counting down the days until wrestling season is over and we have some family time again. Parker is sure a little mess maker. As soon as I finish cleaning a room there he is right behind me making another mess. I sometimes feel like I don't accomplish anything some days, because my house looks like a tornando came through. I am hoping this is just a phase and that soon he will learn to help me clean up. It has been bitter cold her the last few weeks. I do not like the wind chill factor, it sure has an effect on how cold it feels. We are aching for nicer weather to be outside and play for a while. We have got some cabin fever!!!

Christmas

We had a wonderful holiday here at our house. We all got spoiled and enjoyed every minute of it. We celebrated on Christmas Eve at my parents house so that Charyn could be there. Parker hadn't had a nap all day and finally fell asleep at 6 in the evening. I didn't want him sleeping long because then he wouldn't sleep thru the night. When we woke him up to open presents he was not a happy boy. It took him a while unwrapping a few presents to finally wake up. I think both Matt and I got everything and more that was on our Christmas lists.
On Christmas day we opened some gifts from "Santa" and enjoyed a brunch at my parents house. After that we went to Matt's mom's house for a little while and visited with her. Then we went to Matt's aunt's house and all his cousins and aunts and uncles were there. We do an annual white elephant gift exchange. You are supposed to bring a gift for everyone praticipating. So for us 1 girl gift and 1 boy gift (The kids do their own exchange drawing names). I thought it would be hilarious to regift the present Matt ended up with last year, a Chia Pet. There were a few hot items that kept on getting passed around, but when the Chia Pet got opened, no one wanted to trade with that. It was pretty funny. After a great time there we went to Matt's dad and stepmom's house and yet a again got spoiled. We sure had a great time spending the day with family and loved ones. It is such a fun time of year to really celebrate what is important in our lives!!!

It's a girl!!!!!

We went to the doctor a few weeks ago and got some wonderful news!!! We are having baby girl!! I am so excited I can hardly stand it. I was starting to feel a little out numbered around here and now this baby will even things out! I can't wait to find some cute girly things with lace and ruffles and flowers. It will be totally different than having a boy and I am excited that we will get to experience both. I think Matt is pretty excited too, but of course he doesn't show it like I do.
We are still busy getting last minute things ready for Christmas. I can't believe it is only a week away. I am can't wait to be together as a family and to celebrate this wonderful time of year together. Parker will have a great time and can say HoHOHo when we talk about Santa Clause. I am still waiting for enough snow to fall to take Parker out and drag him around the yard in his sled and to build a snowman. Hopefully we will have a white Christmas. Happy Holidays to you all!!

Ginger bread house

Last week Parker and I went to my mom's house and Parker made his first gingerbread house. Well I guess he helped me and my mom make it. He wasn't as into it as I thought he would be. I guess he is still a little bit too young. But he sure enjoyed eating the candy as we were making it. I have a picture of the house, but when I went to download it from the disk, the disk was blank. Thanks to WalMart. So hopefully I can get it fixed and posted soon.

Thanksgiving

This year I volunteered to cook the turkey for our family dinner. I got a really good recipe from one of my aunts and decided that I could probably figure it out. I got all the stuff ready the night before and had the bird all ready to go in the oven at 6:30 in the morning. I set my alarm the night before so I could get it in the oven on time. Well I woke up about a hundred times worrying that I wouldn't get the turkey in on time and what happens. The power went off at about 4:00 in the morning and didn't come back on until 8:30!!! So needless to say, we ate dinner later than we had planned. It turned out pretty good, and we were all stuffed for the rest of the day. So now I can say that I have cooked a turkey and it turned out good.
I have crossed over the line of craziness!! I got up today at 4:00 in the morning to go to one of the early bird sales on BLACK FRIDAY!! I don't know what I was thinking. I also don't know what I was expecting, but it was so chaotic!!! It is amazing how many people rush thru the doors to find a good bargain. I never thought I would do that. I don't really like to be pushed into people or run over by shopping carts, but there was a great deal on a portable DVD player and Matt and I wanted to get one for Christmas for Parker. So there I am in the midst of a ton of commotion. I got what I went for, barely. There were only about 20 players and 300 people, go figure. After the experience I decided that when going shopping for an early bird special on black Friday, you need to have a team of people working together to get the things you want. One to go to one end, another for the other end and then a gathering place. Next year I will know and Matt will have to get out of bed too!!!