26.5 Weeks

Time sure is flying by! Some of you know I was a guinea pig again and had another sonogram a couple weeks ago so my doctor could practice on his new sonogram machine. We got a DVD of the sonogram and I tried posting it, but can't get it to work. Sorry to those who were looking forward to it. It's just not going to happen. However, I've had a few of you begging for a new belly shot, so I took a picture of me yesterday for you. Today at church I was told I had a "growth spurt" this past week! Here I am!

Sledding

Today a bunch of our friends in our ward got together and went sledding down the best sledding hill you'll ever find! We all had lots of fun and there were no broken bones! (That's the best part!) Even though I couldn't sled, I still had lots of fun being the photographer. Here are a couple shots I got.

That's good air, Mark!

Candace got good air, too, I was just a couple seconds late. This is her landing.

Josh

Ryan is in that pile somewhere.

Mark and Ryan before they fell off.

How many girls can you fit on a tube?

And how many boys can you fit on a tube?

There was fun for everyone! (Cassie and Gavin)

23.5 Weeks

I had my 20 week sonogram a few weeks ago and haven't got around to posting pictures of it. Here's a few of them. And Ryan was correct with his inspiration, we are having a little girl! Hope you enjoy the pictures. A few people have asked to see pictures of me so I put one of those in, too.

Our Christmas

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. We sure did. My parents took my whole family on a cruse for Christmas this year. We boarded on Christmas Eve and got off the boat on Friday, the 28th. It was a lot of fun and we have great stories from it! First of all, I discovered I get sea sick! I like to blame it on the pregnancy, though. We had really rough waters and it seemed to feel the worst in the dinning room. The first night, I didn't feel well but didn't know what sea sickness felt like and surely didn't feel like I was going to throw up. Well, towards the end of dinner, sure enough, I tossed my cookies in front of everyone! And poor Ryan, got some of it! I'm glad I can laugh about it now but it sure is at the top of my list of most embarrassing moments. The other good story is some of my family went on an expedition of horseback riding in Ensanada. On their way back to the boat, off the mountain, the bus' breaks went out. The emergency brake saved them. So that was quite the adventure. But besides all that, we had a great time and created some memories that will last forever. Thanks Mom and Dad! We love you! Here are some pictures of our trip.

Here we are in front of the boat before we boarded.

My sisters and Mom thought they should walk in the mornings to burn off all the yummy food we were eating! I used pregnancy as an excuse!April's Titanic Pose
We were all exhausted at times!
This is how I felt on the first night
Julie (sister-in-law), Tayson (nephew), Mom, Me, April (sister), and Kara (sister)

My two sisters, my little brother, and Ryan went on a kayaking adventure around the Catalina Island. They had a lot of fun!

I think palm trees are cool!

This is at the formal dinner on Christmas day.

This is my oldest brother...what a nerd!

But isn't his son the cutest?

Here's Ryan on the deck of the boat.
The next pictures are all taken in Ensanada, Mexico. That's my family (besides my oldest brother and his family) sitting around the table and on the beach. They fed us chips and salsa while we were on our tour.






A relaxing night in the hot tub after Mexico!

Anniversary Trip

This past weekend Ryan and I took a trip to celebrate our anniversary. We especially wanted to do it knowing it was our last one without children, which is not a bad thing! We didn't pick a very good weekend because of the big storm and bad roads, but we made it. We went to the Salt Lake Temple Friday and then walked around Temple Square to look at the lights. Saturday we did a little shopping and hung out with my brother and his family in Provo. I have to tell you about my find! I was wanting to buy some maternity clothes because there is no where here to shop and I knew I was going to need them soon. I especially wanted some dress pants for when we go on our cruise in 2 weeks. I went to Old Navy to find ALL their maternity clothes on sale 40% off! I got 3 pairs of pants and 5 shirts for $122.00! It was a great buy! Saturday night we went back to SLC and went to a Jon Schmidt Christmas concert. I love Jon! He inspires me. That night we stayed at the Armstrong Mansion Bed and Breakfast, which are what the pictures of. It's a great place to stay for a get-a-way! We had a great trip.

Here's a couple overall pictures of the room.




And here's a close up of us!

'Tis The Season

We also finished putting up Christmas lights on our home today. I thought I'd post a picture of it because I thought it turned out very nice. Thanks Ryan! And yes, that is lots of snow! It snowed from 8:00 this morning until about 6:30 this evening. We are loving the snow and grateful for the moisture!

Saturday, that's play day

We had great plans today to go up the mountain with some friends to cut down a Christmas tree, roast hot dogs, and go sledding. However, by this morning, all of our friends had backed out on us. We don't have a 4 wheel drive vehicle and it would have looked funny driving our little car with a tree on top. Also, with me being pregnant and can lift a whole lot and with Ryan's injured back, we decided it probably wouldn't be the best thing for us to do by ourselves. I was pretty disappointed. Everyone decided to go up next weekend, but we'll be out of town, so we ended up going and buying a tree. It's a tradition for us to go cut one down every year. This is the first year we've had to go buy one. Anyways, we still decided to do dinner but it turned out to be a BBQ. We had six families at our house and lots of little ones running around wild. We ate and then played Battle of the Sexes. If you've never played that game with Ryan, I'll warn you now: he's good at it! Needless to say, the girls lost. But it was close! Ryan also had fun playing with the kiddos and got beat up a little. Here are some pictures of their dog pile! We had a great night.