I'm Stll Alive

Well baby is here (has been for 6 weeks), which has made my blog die a painful death. However, I plan on updating this week. Well at least by next week. I have a lot of catching up to do!

More Preston Pictures

Here are a couple more Preston pics. He looks a lot more peaceful in these, don't you think? He is hooked up to a lot of machines right now, but he doesn't have anything wrong. He was a little traumatized at having to be delivered with forceps, so they wanted to moniter him for a while. He should be off everything tonight. I can't wait to get some of him with Jacob and Natalie. I told Jacob to get on that!

Preston Is Here!!

Jacob and Natalie's baby arrived at 9:30 this morning. He was 6 lbs. 12 oz. and 20 inches. I am so excited I can't stand it! I'm so glad he's here and everyone is ok. Enjoy his first pics. Not quite happy, but what can you expect? Can't wait for more!

Oh BOY!!

We went in for our "official" ultrasound today. I almost forgot about my appointment. John and I were sitting around our empty house, working on packing the last odds and ends, and I was suddenly like "Oh! I have an ultrasound in 30 minutes!". Good thing we weren't busy. We barely made it there in time.

As you can see we are having a boy. We already knew, because I had another "unofficial" ultrasound at John's work and found out a couple weeks ago. But it was nice to hear it again and see everything is ok. I have to confess, when I found out that I was going to be having a boy, I got a little teary eyed. After having 3 girls, I really thought that I was just destined for daughters. It is so exciting to think that I am actually going to be having a boy. It is also exciting that I will be having him a few months after Jacob and Natalie have their boy, so he will actually have a cousin his age - unlike the rest of our kids. So here's to looking forward to lots of shopping for cute little baby boy things, something that I have never gotten to do. Although my husband probably isn't too excited about it, I can't wait!

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Definitely a boy!

Bubble Girls

What do you do when your house is all packed up and there's nothing to play with? You take your little sister outside and share your giant bottle of bubbles.

On The Move

So we signed on a house. And no the house is not in California. And no it's not in Tennessee either. It's in American Fork. That's right, we're staying right here in good ol' Happy Valley. For the time being at least. We needed to get out of the house we are in now (it's up for sale since we won't be buying it) and the new house is month to month, so that if we need to move somewhere else we're not locked in for a year or whatever. So the job search continues, but in the meantime I'm happy with where we're headed.

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The new house is a rambler with full basement. It's 44o0 square feet (which is 1000 sq ft bigger than we have now) and 100% finished. It has 5 bedrooms and 3 full bathrooms. It's fully landscaped with a completely fenced yard (something we don't have now). It's also right across from a big park.

The best part?

It's CHEAPER than the house we're in now!!

That makes me so excited that we will get more house and a finished yard and save money at the same time.

So now we're just finishing packing up and we'll be out of here the end of the month.

The only thing I'm not looking forward to? Driving the kids out here for school every day, which is a 20 min. drive. And I have a pm kindergartner so that means more than one trip. Good thing school gets out the end of May.

Easter Baskets - Finally!

Here are some pics of the kids tonight after they finally got to go through their Easter baskets. Boy were they excited, since they had been waiting all day. Unfortunately it was late, so they got to look at everything, eat a few pieces of candy, and then it was off to bed. They will have plenty of time to play with all their little things tomorrow.