Today is the Day!

This is the day we have been waiting for since our first trip to the ER at 18 weeks, with preterm labor.I have been in to labor and delivery 4 times and have been given whatever shot it is they give you to stop labor. Since that first trip to the hospital I have been on very strict orders of restricted activity, almost to the point of bed rest. Which has been killing me! No exercise or even walking much, lifting heavy, or anything strenuous at all. Which has not helped with me not gaining extra pregnancy weight. But today is the day we have been waiting for. As of today I am 34 weeks along. Which means that if I start labor at any time they will no longer stop it! Hip, Hip, Hooray! So any day now you may be seeing pictures of our little girl.

A Peter Pan Party

Turning 3 can be hard to do. But when you have faith and trust and a little pixie dust, it sure does make it a lot easier. That is why we decided to have a Peter Pan Birthday party for Tagg's 3rd Birthday. And we had an arrr..some time! Dressing up as pirates, lost boys, Indians and Peter Pan. Hitting the Captain Hook pinata and eating Birthday cake. It was such a fun day we loved being able to have our family celebrate with us.
It's hard to believe that my little boy is all grown up. He has such a fun sense of humor he does something silly and says "I'm so funny!" and starts laughing at himself. He has such a great imagination and loves to pretend. Plus, he loves to sing and even if he doesn't know all the words to a song he will just belt out the words he knows. I love this little guy and am so glad that he has decided to be like Peter Pan and never grow up.

I love these pictures of Tagg practicing his pirate face in the mirror. That kids cracks me up!

Its a ..........

GIRL!!!!!!!!!
When we went to our twenty week appointment, we decided to have the ex-ray tecnition put the sex of the baby in an envelope on Monday. So that we could open it up with our family Christmas morning. It was the first present we opened. I couldn't stop jumping up and down screaming "It's a girl, its a girl!" It was so fun to be able to share all the excitement with our family. I secretly hoping it would be well...maybe not so secretly hoping for a girl. I love my little guy. But I can't wait to hold that little girl.


Finding out that we having a little girl isn't the only exciting thing that has happened this month. We have had all kinds of fun celebrating the Christmas season.I don't want this to be one of those forever long blog posts and since a picture is worth a million words I thought I would let the pictures do most of the talking

We had great time at Town Square riding in horse drawn carriages, shopping and meeting Santa. The best part it was all free!
For family night we meet our Wonderful friends the Julander's at temple square for a fun but very crowded night looking at the Christmas lights. It was a bit of a change from last years cactus Christmas lights.
We also got a surprise visit from Mr. and Mrs. Santa Clause (a.k a. Richard and Sharron our wonderfully sweet land lords) a week before Christmas. Tagg wasn't to sure about them while they were here. But the next morning I work up to him talking all about Santa coming and his sleigh.
A week before Christmas we got almost 2 feet of snow in Heber. Tagg my sister Becca and I loved sledding and making a snowman. Tagg loved the snow so much!
I found this Santa suit in my Mom's dress ups. Tagg put it on as soon as I showed it to him and went outside telling the dog, and cat " I'm Santa!" He then found my Dad and helped in shovel the snow singing bits and pieces of Christmas songs. It was the cutest thing.
We took a ride down the Provo River with our good friends the Laws, on a Christmas cruise. Boy was it cold!


One of the best things that happened was that we were able to go through the temple with my brother James. He is the other hansom man I am standing next too. I am so proud of him. And am so excited for him to leave on his mission.


On Christmas Eve our little Santa surprised the Goodrich family after dinner. He got to sit on everyone else's laps and tell them what he wanted for Christmas. But he loved sitting with Dan's mom the most.
Waiting at the top of the stairs Christmas morning. Need I say more? You can see the bags under the adults eyes and their arms trying to keep the kids from going down the stairs.

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas. And that the New Year brings each of you joy and happiness.

BUN IN THE OVEN!

Yep! We have another little bun in the oven. And we are so happy ! We have waited a long time for this little baby. I am almost 15 weeks along, and am due on May 17. Three days after Dan's graduation. Sooo... the baby will be coming out a week or two early so I can go to graduation. Because that is not a day I am going to miss!
The morning sickness has not been bad at all due to my new favorite drug Phenergen. I take it each night and Viola, no morning sickness at all the next day. It has saved me from being a very sick and cranky Mom and Wife. Which I am sure Dan and Tagg are grateful for.
I think we are having a girl. But that is only based on the fact that the pregnancy has been so different then last time.Either way though boy or girl I am just so excited. Dan doesn't seem to feel anything about the sex of the baby. He just wishes it was already here. He has been baby hungry for a long time.

A Family Murder Mystery

We had so interesting charters show up to our home a few weeks ago. To help us solve the mysterious death of Al Capone. Let me introduce you to the gang.

Ernie G. Ambler: Who is quite the gambler
Molly M. Awbsterr: A dame N.Y with all kinds of dough
(Dan's Mom and Dad)

Sly: A smooth talken' reporter who hits the hooch to often


S. Terighton Harrow: A sweet talken' dirty D.A
Millie Vanillie: A librarian who smuggles hooch and guns
(Also known as my brother and sister-in-law, Scott and Cori.)


Torchy: A night club singer who's not only musically talented but know how to handle a Tommy gun.
(My little Sister Becca)


Eddie "(socks") R. Gyle: A fashionable golfer, who is quite the gambler
"Silky" M. Adam: A shady sultry night club owner.
( Mom and Dad)

Billy("The Kid") Thrower: A Chicago major league baseball player, who like the ladies and his liquor.
Coco : A flapper who works evenings in the high society night clubs dancing.
( My little brother James & sister Mickey)

Now that you have meet everyone. Who do you think did Capone in? Well I'm not going to revile who the murderer was. All I am going to say is that it sure was fun to start the Halloween season off with such a bang!

A Camping we will go!

Yes, this is a picture of my naked child. Doesn't he have the cutest little bum? Well I couldn't talk about our camping trip this weekend. Without showing you a picture of how Tagg spent most of the time. Naked! He loved playing in the stream, and since I only brought so many diapers and cloths he got to run around naked most of the time. Which he loved.

I love camping, especially with my family. But this camping trip was something special. Which I should have picked up on right off the bat. When five minutes after we set up camp a moose walked right through our camp! Which was exciting and a bit scary. But what really made it fun was that it was the last hora before my 3 younger siblings head off to school. I guess I just soaking up this times with them. Because you never know where everyone may be in a year and what will happen.

Mickey, Tagg, Me and James

Well now that I have rambled on. I will just give you the skinny on the trip. Dan caught 3 fish! Not bad for his second time fly fishing, hun? And Dan and Becca ate the monster of all smores! Which consisted of two gram crackers, 4 slabs of chocolate and one of the huge camping marshmallows. Way to go guys! Tagg became a log walker. Well that's what he called himself as he walked across all the logs on our hikes. And I had a killer nap and wonderful time reading and hiking.

The log walker


The smore Monster!

WHY SO LONG

Have you ever felt so behind on something; that you decide it's better to start from the present rather than back tracking? Well that's exactly how I am feeling about blogging. There have been many fun adventures and happenings over the past few months. But the biggest change with our little family is that we have moved to Utah. Yep, we are back in Happy Valley again. And I have to say it feels a little weird. We moved back so that Dan could finish school. The last year of Physical Therapy school is all clinical affiliations. So after this year he is DONE! Hooray!
Now for and update on our little rascal. In our new little apartment we have a yard and a few flower beds with no flowers. Tagg will just play outside all day digging with his trucks. When he comes in to play its all about his trains. And all I can hear coming from his room "tickets pees " "all aboard-dd". It is super cute. But the funniest thing he is doing now is this little chordal. He does it when he is really excited about something. Here is a little video so you can hear it for yourselves.