Christmas 2011

We had a great Christmas!! We hope you and your family did too!


E and cousin K being angels in the Nativity Reenactment.

B as Joseph and cousin M as Mary

Oh, I love the look on his face here!

E with her present from B on Christmas morning.

Christmas is always exciting, but I think we are all more excited for our baby to be born on Dec. 30th. Only a few more days to go!

E's First Missing Tooth

E lost her first tooth when she was just barely 5. We were in Disneyland and her uncle M (a dentist) asked to wiggle her tooth. After he was done it was just hanging on by a thread and so her daddy finished it off. Since she lost her tooth in Disneyland the tooth fairy gave her a special locket and some money. Lucky Girl!

Summer Recap

Yes, I know we are almost into winter, but here are a few things that kept us busy this summer.

E's Birthday

The 4th of July

B's Birthday Party

B's spaghetti and meatball birthday cupcakes

It was a fun summer. I am glad that the pregnancy sickness was finally gone at the end of summer.

I Haven't Forgotten!

I have a ton of things to blog about that require pictures. Too bad I can't find my cord to load the pictures up to my computer! Maybe some day I will find it. I should probably just ask M to look. He is the "finder" in our house.

I thought I would mention that the Dr. is 96% sure that the baby is a boy! B is thrilled! E is mad! Oh well. We knew those were our odds going in. One of them was bound to not get their wish. It's weird that we can start calling it "him".

Exciting News!

Just incase anyone missed my Facebook post, I am finally pregnant!! Yeehaw! After more than two years we have a little bun in the oven. I am due Jan. 8th. B and E are excited, but I think B is a little more. One night he said"I can't fall asleep because I'm so excited to have a baby". B wants a boy, E wants a girl, and M and I don't really care since we already have one of each.

We have all been praying for a baby. I feel like our prayers have finally been answered. Who knows better than God when the perfect addition will come.

I am feeling yucky of course but just so happy to be having a baby!! I always had a feeling that I would have twins when I got pregnant so I was pleasantly surprised when the ultrasound showed just one baby! Thanks to everyone who kept us in your thoughts and prayers. Hopefully everything goes just a smoothly as it did with B and E.

New Dress Design

I bought a cheap tank top from Target and then added some stuff. I really like it. I wish it were a tiny bit shorter, but at least E will have some growing room.

B's Soccer

M coached B's team in soccer this year. They were the Razorbacks. They won one game all season, but showed lots of improvement. Especially after the coach started offering 20 dollars for a goal. :) B got so much more courage this year compared to last. He is fast too!

Easter 2011

We had an interesting Easter. B had the stomach flu! Bummer! I don't have any cute pictures of the kids in their Easter clothes because we didn't go to church. Oh well!

B after the egg hunt

B at Grandma and Grandpa H's house. He was cracking me up!

All of B's loot

E with some of her loot

E the Fairy

E had her Creative Concert on Friday night. She was a fairy. He costume and dance were so stinking cute!

B and E

E and her cousin A

Of course I'm biased, but E did soo good! She had the whole dance down with a smile.

Maui Wowee with the Kids

Warning: Lots of Pictures! Over spring break we decided to go to Maui with the kids. M's sister and her family were going too. We had lots of fun!!

M trying to teach B to snorkel. B never did get the hang of it.

E playing on the beach

All the cousins at the Pool.

B, E, and cousin A on the road to Hana.

E on the black sand beach.

B running in the waves at the black sand beach.

A family photo taken before we went to a Luau.

Baby J

B and E LOVE babies!! I was babysitting my nephew baby J and the kids were just eating it up! They will be such good a good big brother and sister when we get a baby!

E the Ivy

E had her second ballet recital. This time the ballet was "Romeo and Juliet". It was fun to watch! The girl who played Juliet was amazing!

E on stage

Before the Show. We are working on teaching her to do a good smile for the camera. :)

B and his silly faces! He wanted to give E something after she was done so he asked M for a dollar, which he gave to E.

Ragnar Del Sol

M and I did the Ragnar in Phoenix last weekend. It was so much fun!! It is such a great sense of accomplishment for me! Here are some of the pics:

Before my first run. I was runner number 7 on our team of 12 so I went first in our car.

Whole team photo. Seriously such a fun group of people! And we had an awesome team name. "Who's your roadkill?"

Here are the runners in our car at the finish line.

Success!! My last run was a BEAST of up and down hills. I hadn't trained on hills because my run got changed a week before the race so I felt awesome finishing it...other than the burning legs :)

I finished at least 5 minutes under my projected times every run which was great for me. I'm still a slow runner, but I beat my usual time so that was good.

New Skirt Design

I saw a similar skirt on Matilda Jane's website, but it was very expensive and way more funky. So I thought I would make a similar one.

This is the left pocket of the skirt. I am in love with this fabric!

From the front.

Cute E Pics

I'm feeling a little guilty about not having any pictures of B lately. But it must be that I am at home most of the day with E so I catch her doing cute things:

She's got her babies and her stuffed animals all lined up reading them books.

It's kind of hard to tell in the picture, but she has on a shirt, skirt, apron, cap, shiny slippers, and a pirates hat on. Not quite sure what she was playing :)

My Curly Sue

E has got the most amazing curls! I'm a little sad because it looks like they might be growing out. But I wanted to document this.

Not her best smile. I made that shirt btw.

I couldn't get her to hold still for long enough to take a picture, but you can still see those awesome curls... and the line where I think it's growing out. Boo!

Top 10 Loves

Happy Valentines Day! I hope you are enjoying yourself, whether you have a Valentine or not. Here is my list of Top 10 Loves:

1. B and E

2. M

3. Chocolate Covered Cinnamon Bears

4. Flowers for no reason

5. Warm weather

6. Where we live

7. Traveling

8. Running (I know, weird huh?)

9. Sewing

10. Cooking and Baking

Wow, I kind of sound like a June Cleaver with the sewing and cooking comments.

Our House Through E's Eyes

E wanted to take some pictures this morning. She wandered around the house for about 5 minutes and took 55 pictures. These were her best work!

Her bedroom doorknob

Pictures in our entry way

Leftovers from breakfast (we had ebleskievers)

I guess this is how she views a lamp. Not looking down on the shade, but up at the light bulb.

Lollipops from our favorite store that I haven't put away yet.

Maui Wowee

M surprised me this Christmas with a trip to Maui. Isn't he the best husband?!? We went there on our honeymoon and on our one year anniversary but it was miserable because I was pregnant with B. On our first Anniversary, not our honeymoon. :)

This was a medium size shaved ice!

The waves from Kapalua Bay. I was trying to take a picture of a turtle but obviously didn't succeed.

We did the "Road to Hana" for our first time. It was pretty cool! We went to a black sand beach.

Self portrait. This was by a waterfall we saw on the road to Hana.