Baby Girl!

We are so excited and still in complete shock/unbelief that in June we will be welcoming a baby girl!

It has been a bumpy road so we did not share the exciting news with anyone for a very long time. Between 8-12 weeks I had a horrible cold that turned into pneumonia. When you are pregnant they don't like to put you on medication but thankfully finally put me on a z-pack (strong antibiotics). At my twelve week check up I mentioned to the doctor that I notice these hard lumps on my lower stomach that were kind of irritating. I have multiple inguinal hernias, both sides. Only 3% of woman ever get these -lucky me! Mostly like from the intense coughing when I had pneumonia. Not a big deal but it looks like I will get to have yet another surgery...hopefully after baby!

At 13 weeks, I had what they call a subchorionic hemorrhage. Apparently 20% of women get these during there pregnancy but they are relatively small around a centimeter or two. Mine happened to be six to seven centimeters. They don't know what causes them but it possible for the clot to get between the placenta and uterine wall and cause a miscarriage. This landed me on bed rest until the hemorrhage hopefully resolved itself. So we decided it best to keep the news to ourselves and see how things continued. At 15 weeks I had another hemorrhage but thankfully all is still going well. Our immediate families found out the news over Christmas time. My parents found out a few weeks early due to the fact that we were supposed to be heading up to Logan and I ended up in the hospital with the hemorrhage instead.

For Christmas we gave our parents a photo book. The last page in the book was a picture of the ultrasound with the caption, "Coming June 2013." My parents found the news out early so we did not get to see their surprised faces but Tim's parents did not have any idea...

The news spread a little through our family but not much since we were still unsure how things would end up playing out. Even our boys did not know that they would soon both be big brothers. We finally made it to 20 weeks and had our big ultrasound to determine the gender and make sure everything was still looking good.

Ian had been drawing these pictures of our family since before we knew that we were expecting. About a week before our ultrasound he drew this one. So I asked him if I could write down their names of who they were. As you can see I started to write Tim and Ian corrected me...duh, did I not notice the long hair. I love that we are all holding hands. The last one is named Ironman (he told me how to spell it), however do you notice the long hair. Keep in mind he had no idea that we were going to be having another baby. When we finally told him the news he was ecstatic!

We brought the boys with us to the ultrasound. They were great and Ian loved watching the screen. He would point out the babies hands and feet. This was his favorite moment, when the baby was waving at him.

We explained to the kids that we would find out if this baby would be a brother or a sister.  Throughout the beginning of the ultrasound Ian kept asking, "Where is his pee pee?" We then found out the exciting news that it was a GIRL! For the next 20 minutes he kept asking the ultra sounds tech, "Is it a boy yet?" She thought it was hilarious, as did we. I tried to get some video of the boys to share with family but as you can see the boys were not very excited. They just wanted ironman or hulk and not a "boring girl."

We are so excited but I have not dared to buy anything. I have another ultrasound next week so maybe I will finally get up the nerve to actually buy something pink :)  So while the road has been bumpy it looks like things are starting to smooth out. I still have to take it easy and try not to do to much. No lifting, etc. But the hemorrhage seems to have resolved so now it is just hoping that with all these other random symptoms I don't go into early labor. I still can't believe it's a girl! So excited!!!

January

The month of January has come and gone! We have been loving all of the crazy snow storms and only hope for more. Ian has been loving skiing as usually. Plus, my family has been able to come down a couple of weekends (so the guys usually go snowboarding and skiing).  Tim always were his contacts when he goes and Aaron is having a hard time understanding that he does not have contacts as well. It is pretty funny.

With all of these crazy snow storms cars have not been able to make it up our hill...thank heavens for 4-wheel drive! The boys love watching and occasionally get their cars out as well. We finally broke down and purchased a snowblower which means -it hasn't snowed since :( Hopefully we can expect some great snow storms in February as well.

As usually all this snow also brings out crazy drivers. Literally. My poor brand new van :( 

A teenager that just moved here from California was playing and getting used to his new jeep. Clearly he needs more practice. Tim was driving and we were all in the car. Thankfully no one was hurt. I was not exactly polite to the poor scared spit-less teenager and had to wait in the van. Three weeks, and four thousand dollars in damage later I finally got my van back. Don't worry we did not have to pay a cent :)

Since Aaron was born things have been known to go missing. We have lost many many shoes and now are in the habit of looking through the trash before it goes out. Somethings we just never find. I don't know where they disappear too. Tim was moving the subwoofer and could hear odd noises from inside. So he pulled it apart and look what we found! The apple TV remote has been missing for almost a year. I don't even know how he manage to get all of these things in there. Now we are searching for Tim's wedding ring...yep, his wedding ring. He took it off when lathering Aaron in aquafor for his eczema and hasn't been able to find it since. Don't worry we already pulled apart the speaker, no such luck.   

In the meantime we have also been having a lot of fun indoors. 

The beanbags the boys got for Christmas have surprisingly been the most entertaining. I figured they would lounge in them for a movie or reading books. Nope, way more fun to superman into them. I keep waiting for them to get tired of jumping and flipping on them, but they don't. January is over, and while I am writing this February is nearly over and they are still busy jumping and flipping.

Ian has decided that he can do backflips now....oh dear.

Aaron's attitude/personality grows stronger each day. While laying on the couch the other day I turned around to find him playing with all four Finn McMissile cars. He also loves Lucky Charms! Correction: He love the marshmallows in Lucky Charms! He will ask for a bowl then pull out all the marshmallows, line them up, and eat them one by one.

He is just so so cute!

The boys have always loved to help in the kitchen. Daddy has been quite the cook lately and I think the boys might be enjoying it more than when I cook :( Although daddy doesn't know how to make the good stuff....dessert! Our current obsession is bbque chicken crepes (the boys and I like to add olives as well). Ian had a friend over and they stayed for dinner. Ian had two bbque chicken crepes and his friend would not touch his plate. Ian asked, "what's wrong with you, aren't these the best things for dinner ever? You should eat or or you won't get any dessert." Tim and I could not help but laugh at how baffled Ian was. Sure enough his friend went home with no dessert.

Ian has been loving legos. Everyday he tells us that he wants all the superhero legos for his birthday. I then remind him that he birthday is not for four more months.

If Ian cannot be found playing with legos he is usually writing or drawing a picture in his notebook. This is a song that he wrote for me! It is three additional pages that look just like this front and back. It always makes me laugh.

Ian loves making me presents and surprises. While Tim's parents were here over Christmas his dad watched me recycle one of Ian's drawings. His remark was, "You are not going to keep that?" I think I may have laughed a little because Ian draws a lot of pictures. So I decided to start making a collection...the picture below is two days worth of "surprises." He loves his mother! Can you imagine if I actually did keep them all. So, the answer is a definite nope! Don't worry though I do keep a few that I love and I tend take pictures of some of my favorites (like the one above)! 

These boys are our world! The picture below is just before bedtime. They decided they were glued together and would have to stay that way all night!

Weekend Family Fun!

This weekend my family came down! I have still been feeling under the weather so it was a huge help to have them here. My mom cleaned our entire house from top to bottom which was not easy Christmas had still exploded everywhere. Then the guys all headed to Sundance for snowboarding and skiing!

Hunter, Tim and my Dad heading up early in the morning. Then that afternoon my mom and I brought them all lunch and Ian! Ian loves going skiing and is getting better and better each year.

Here he is skiing that afternoon...no sense in going around the ski school practicing might as well have fun going right through them. He thought it was hilarious.

Aaron and Grandpa eating lunch.

Aaron so excited to finally be up on the mountain playing in the snow.

Aaron trying to pull Hunter up so he will go and get in the shower.

My mom decided that poor neglected Pike need a bath as well. He was much happier. Maybe that is why he loves her more than anyone.

Aaron and Grandpa watching sports and enjoying a drink.

Aaron reading a superhero squad book with grandpa before heading to bed.

The boys found an easier way to get to their bedrooms!

Thanks for coming down! The kids had a blast and we are so grateful for all of your help!

Christmas Finale

The boys woke up nice and early ready to open their stockings Christmas morning. We started the oven for breakfast (juicy rolls) so it would be ready by the time we finished going through our stockings. After breakfast the boys had to wait on the stairs until we were all ready. They were not to happy to be waiting. I remember my parents making us wait upstairs as kids and anticipating the moment you got to walk down to the tree and see all of the presents.

Santa did not miss them! This is also the only picture that I have of the tree the boys decorated all by themselves! So pretty and unique!

Ian was tearing into presents faster than you could blink. 

Aaron decided he would rather play than open anything.

I am not sure that Ian moved from this spot the rest of the day.

We finished the evening off with a delicious dinner: ham, potatoes, corn, rolls, etc. The rest of the day the boys played with some of their new toys and started moving them to their rooms. While the rest of us relaxed on the couch watching Christmas movies.

The rest of the week poor Tim had to work pretty much every day. So we took advantage of our evenings when possible. One night we headed to Ian's favorite restaurant Tucanos. I love that both of the servers are smiling picture perfect. 

 Aaron is also a fan... but mostly of dessert!

Jimmer and Amy were able to spend a few more days with us as well. Papa came down with a horrible cold. So while Papa, Me, Ian and Aaron all headed to bed early one evening. The rest of them headed to Pho Plus and may have had a little too much fun :)

While they were here we got a lot of great snow! The boys absolutely love sledding! We live on the mountain side and therefore are surrounded by great hills for sledding. Is works out great that the boys (and Tim) can just go right outside our front door and find mild hills to extreme hills. While I sit inside and take pictures of them from the window. Clearly they love sledding...and the snow!

While Ian and daddy continued to enjoy playing in the snow Aaron came inside to lay down with mommy! Which is the absolutely best!

It was great being able to visit and spend time with family. It is truly what makes the holiday's so wonderful!

Christmas take 2...3...4...

The month of November and December was a little rough for our family. Colds, Colds, Colds. The boys would bounce right back but the air outside was horrible so it is best to keep them indoors. Plus mommy was down for the count with multiple hernias, intense nausea. and all kinds of "fun" stuff. So since daddy was busy at work and mommy was stuck on the couch the boys enjoyed Christmas all month long! I had been collecting things for the boys since January. Needless to say their was plenty to keep them occupied! One of their favorites being their car blutrack. 

Don't worry they still had their moments. Aaron is starting to really master the pout.

Ian worked hard signing letters for gifts to be mailed to family. He sounded all of our names our and spelled them, pretty impressive.

Papa, Nana, Jimmer and Amy arrived a few days before Christmas.

It did not take long for the boys to show them how things go around here. Superhero's attach!

Usually the boys are somewhat tame when play fighting. Not this time with Daddy and Jimmer having turned evil they had to act fast. Ian starting getting a little crazy but it was absolutely hilarious (sorry jimmer) and when Jimmer was holding him over his head and Ian shouts, "For Asgard" followed by a double kick to the face. If you are not caught up on your superhero comics Asgard is Thor's home planet. I even managed to get it on video :)

The next day most of the family headed to Brighton for fun skiing.

Aaron tried to get them to take him but unfortunately they would be gone for too long.

That night we had a mini Christmas with Jimmer and Amy before they headed to her celebrate with her family. The boys love the tent that Amy made for them! We also gave them the presents the we got them for Christmas and wouldn't you know out of everything they received this holiday both of them love their 30 cent avenger and spiderman notebooks! In fact I am not sure why I got them anything else...silly boys.

On Christmas Eve we woke up to a complete white out! We had planned to head to Heber Valley to ride the Polar Express. Thankfully we decided to brave the roads anyway.

Aaron was not so sure about the train and decided to get a little reading done before we began our journey to the North Pole ;)

 

The polar express was great! The kids had a blast and loved riding on the train to the North Pole and seeing Santa. Santa even hopped on the train and gave each of the children a bell. The boys loved singing and dancing on the ride and just looking out the window.

Although it was quite exhausting for this one.

When we got home the boys ran inside put on their snow clothes and headed outside to play in the snow.

Christmas Eve was beginning to come to an end and we hadn't even made cookies for Santa. So we had a little too much fun decorating cookies, while Aaron ate the frosting.

Then we opened our pajamas, read the Night Before Christmas, and about the Birth of Jesus in the scriptures. The boys were exhausted but the thought that tomorrow was Christmas kept them going strong. They quickly put out food for the reindeer, poured some milk for Santa and made sure the Christmas lights were on. Then it was off to brush there frosted teeth and head to bed!