More Fun!

First of all...I can't believe that school starts 2 weeks from Monday!  I just realized it's really really close!  I am so not ready to have a first grader!  :(  Ask Jenica if I am happy or sad and she will tell you I am sad...she's seen me crying!  I'm sure once she starts school it will be fabulous!  Especially after the babies are here!  It'll be nice to have her occupied during the day!  And Kaitlyn starts pre-school at the beginning of Sept.  Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for 2 1/2 or 3 hours.  I can't remember!!

Anyways, onto the pictures!!  Yesterday we had a blast at the "Pirate Pool" here in Bountiful!  Jenica is getting braver and braver...she used to be so anti getting her face in the water.  Now she jumps in, doesn't want to wear her floaties, loves goggles, and her new favorite:  CannonBalls!!  Check out her form!!

Kaitlyn loves her goggles too, prefers to wear her floaties, and loves to jump in from the side of the pool!!  It's so fun to watch how much fun the have swimming!And here are my cute girls before I had to drag them out of the pool to leave!  They were having too much fun!

And lastly, tonight I decided to escape for a little bit!  I went to walmart and got a pedicure!  I can't tell you how needed it was!!  The last time I had one was...4 years ago...when me and my friend Aimee (with our total of 4 kids) went to California to see her family!!  It was so nice and relaxing!  I even splurged (for an extra $5) and got the "deluxe" pedicure and got my legs (up the the knee) massaged and scrubbed with a sugar scrub!  Ahhhhhhh!  So nice!  My feet aren't that cute, but here they are in all their prettiness!  :)Tomorrow Josh come home!   Yay!!  I don't pick him up until after 11pm...so we'll be at my parents until I head to the airport to pick him up!  Then we'll just head home!  Tomorrow my mom and I are going to go down to the Gateway to do some shopping (I have a friends and family pass from my sil that works at Gap...and it's also good at OldNavy).  I am going to finish up the last few things Jeni needs for school.  And then we'll let the kids play in the fountain!  Hope it's not too hot, but I can only imagine it will be...

Bam!

Lately Josh's mom keeps telling me I don't even look pregnant from behind...

And then I turn around and BAM!  lol  Thought it was funny, so I had my dad take some pictures so I could illustrate my story!  And it made a decent *almost* 28 week belly shot at the same time!!I am feeling large, but I guess I should enjoy this smaller stage because who knows how large I will get in the next 8 weeks!!  I try not to complain...but I am very uncomfortable!  Sunday I couldn't even sit through church...Josh took me home after sacrament meeting because my leg kept falling asleep!  Sitting is just not a good position.  On Monday we went to lunch together before he flew out to Vegas for the week and he was a gentleman and dropped me off at the door of Chili's so I wouldn't have to walk.  Walking from our table to the door for him to pick me up was bad.  My legs were dead!  

Since Josh is in Vegas for work for the week, I am up at my parents until we go pick him up at the airport on Friday night.  My mom offered to have me and the girls come out and give me the week off.  She'd take care of the girls and cooking and everything.  So we did it!  Yesterday I learned the knitting basics and I am working on some little pumpkin beanies for my little fall babies!  When I woke up this morning I laid in bed enjoying some morning kicks, and I got really really excited to meet these little wiggle worms!  It'll be here before I know it!!  

Well, I won't write any more...gotta get ready to go to the pool!!  The kids have been wanting to go to the pirate pool since we went right after school got out...and here it is, almost time for school to start.  It'll probably be our last trip there!  

i need a nap!

I am officially the biggest slacker!  I can't believe it's been 9 days since I last updated!  Guess I can blame it on pregnancy...like everything else!  lol  I am so tired, but I decided before I take a lil' nap I would post my pictures from last night!!  :)  

Yesterday was the big Bountiful Handcart Days celebration.  Last year we went up and walked over to the big firework display because it was close to my parents house.  Then we all went back and had banana splits and everyone (except me) slept on the deck.  So I guess we've made a tradition of it and went again this year.  The fireworks up there are fabulous!  huge!  loud!  It's just so much fun!  Back to last year real quick...it's weird to think of the way things could have been!  I was about 7 weeks pregnant at that time...only to miscarry a week later.  It's weird to think if I had had that baby in March...I definitely would not be pregnant now.  I haven't mentioned this before, but when I went to the hospital for the ultrasound the confirmed there was no baby I was sitting in the waiting area and I had one of those what if thoughts.  What if I was supposed to have twins and it didn't work out this time?  And look at me now!  I feel like sooo many things were said, thought, or happened back then that made the miscarriage a lot easier on me.  And now things are great!  Anyways, sorry to get so far off track!  Back to yesterday!

On the way to my parents house I stopped at the hospital to do my glucose test.  I drank the delicious orange goodness and headed up.  When I got there I signed the paper work and such and went to sit down next to Kaitlyn.  Jenica was on the other side of her so Kiki had to rub it in that she was sitting by the babies.  The girl sitting next to me asked if she said babies, and then asked if I was having twins.  Long story short(er)...she is also having twin boys!  And even cooler, she is due 3 days before me.  We go to the same dr office, and will go to the same hospital!  After they drew my blood I sat and talked to her for about half and hour, I didn't feel like I could just leave and never talk to her again, so we exchanged blogs.  I'm so dorky!  So Hi, Jocelyn...if you are reading this!  :)

After the hospital we finally headed for Bountiful!  My dad smoked up some delicious ribs for dinner and one of my brothers and his family were there also!  At about 9:15 we headed over to the fireworks.  The walk is very up and down...looooots of hills, so Josh drove me and my dad over and dropped us off right across the street from where our blankets were.  He went back and walked over with the rest of the group!  Here are so pre-firework pictures!  

We are so dorky!  
Kaitlyn and Nana (my mom)
And with Papa (my dad)
Parker and Jenica
Parker and Jenica attacking Nana
I discovered I have a firework setting on my camera and got some pretty cool shots


This makes me laugh!  My dad had parked her truck across the street from our blankets earlier in the day so he could drive big ol' pregnant me back to the house.  Everyone ended up hopping in the back for the ride home.  Luckily I got a nice seat up front, there's no way I could've hauled myself out of there.  The kids had a blast!  After the fireworks Jenica let me know that this was the best day of her life!  We enjoyed banana splits and then shortly after midnight we all went to bed.  I slept in the guest room with Kaitlyn and everyone else slept on the deck.  It was lots of fun, and now we're home, Kaitlyn is sacked out on the couch (Jenica napped half the way home), and now it's my turn!  I am exhausted!!

26 Weeks!!

Alrighty, so here I am in all my pregnant glory!  :)  I feel like I am all belly!!  What do you think?  lol  Lucky for me...I still have at least a couple more months of growing to do!  This ought to be fun!  So yesterday I went to the dr.  I had my ultrasound, everything looked great.   He said there may be something going on with one of the cords inserting the placenta in the side or something, but he didn't give me a lot of info, but he said not to worry about it!  I measured 34 weeks.  

Baby A is on my left side...head down, way down low, right on my bladder.  He measured 1 lb 15 oz.  Which put me a few days ahead.  Couldn't get a profile shot of him because of how he's in there, but here is a frontal shot, you can kinda see his face in there.Baby B is on my right side...He is head up, waaaay up high in my ribs.  His back was pushing out my right side, which explains the hard mass I constantly feel bulging out my side.  He measured 2 lbs even.  Check out his cute profile we got! 
So I am trying not to worry about the cord thing, but it's me...I worry about everything!  I'm sure everything will be fine!  He doesn't want me back for another 4 weeks and he said they won't do another ultrasound until the appt after that.  So that makes me think things really are ok, otherwise he would see me sooner.  Right?  

I am exhausted!  We just got back from Wingers, dinner with Willy and Angie and family.  Not sure if we will see them all again before they fly out Friday, that made me sad.  It was good to get in another visit before they move!

Busy Week!

I can't believe the week is over and a new one has begun!  We have definitely been kept busy around here, or so it has seemed!  Tuesday we went to the new Kangaroo Zoo up in N. Salt Lake.  We met Nana (my mom) as well as 2 of my sister in laws and all the kiddos.  I had my camera with me, but I was useless...I only took like 4 pictures...I was too lazy to follow the kids around.  Angie, on the other hand, took my moms camera and got a bunch of pictures, so I guess I figured I would copy those from her!  We got a picture with Nana and all the kids, but that's on her camera, so here is Nana and all the girls.  Jenica, Paige, Kaitlyn, and Molly!  Kaitlyn is so taken by little Molly...I hope I have to wording right (correct me if I'm wrong, Ang) but she went up to Angie and said "I think your baby is so cute.  I want to pet its head!"

They had a great time!  We got there at 2pm and ended up staying until 8!!  Jenica went home with Paige and slept over at their house.  Kaitlyn and I went and picked up dinner and took it to Josh's work (since we were so far North) and ate there with him and then we all came home in Josh's car.  We went back up with him late Wednesday morning so that I could go pick up Jenica from my brothers place.  (That's why we only brought one car home, to save gas since I had to go back downtown again).  Anyways, I ended up picking up Cafe Rio for me and my sil Haley and we ate outside while the kids played in their pool.  Then she offered to watch the girls and I ran up to the outlets in Park City to see if there were any good deals.  I was just sooo excited to get away without the kids!  It was heavenly!  :)  I don't think I got home that day until after 7.  

Thursday the girls and I went to University Mall to check out Childrens Place and I had a $25 gift card to the Disney Store.  I'm excited they finally have one in Utah again!  After we were done down there we met up with Tamara for lunch and then came home and Tamara was wonderful and came and did my dishes and cleaned the top of my stove!  Thanks Tamara!  :)  

Anyways, fast forward to Saturday...the big day!!  We met in Bountiful and then all headed up to the Dinosaur park in Ogden!  My girls have looked forward to this day since we went last summer!!  This year my mom made t-shirts and hats for each of the kids!  I designed the shirts with a cute dino and stamped looking name.  My mom printed them and ironed them onto the shirts and hats.  The kids loved them!  Check out all the grandkids!  Crazy to think in not too long there will be 2 more to add to the group!

Looking at the picture, the kids did a pretty good job of lining themselves up by age, minus Molly, obviously.  This wasn't on purpose...just something I noticed, but I think the 2 little boys on the end need to switch places, they are both 3...I think Miller was born a week or so before Toby.  Other than that though...
Here are the kids outside with the giant t-rex!  And next is Papa with Kaitlyn and Molly.  I think I have figured out why she loves Molly so much!  She's the first younger girl cousin she has had on either side of the family!

I have a million other pictures from the park, but I didn't feel like posting a lot right now!!  The park was a lot of fun, but it was really hot!  We walked around for a bit, let the kids dig for bones in the sand, had a big picnic lunch, and then the kids played in the sand on the playground for awhile before we headed back to my parents.  

Josh and my brother Willy love airplanes, and really wanted to stop at the Hill Aero Space Museum on the way home.  So they took our van with the girls, Willy's 2 older boys, and my nephew Parker and stopped on the way home.  The girls ended up loving it!  I'm glad I sent the camera with him!!

There weren't a lot of pictures of the kids,  more of "cool" airplanes, but I thought these were cute!  Josh told me that the girls were really excited to find a chair to sit in from an airplane.  Then he said Kaitlyn hopped up and showed him where your arms go to buckle up!  Jeni doesn't look to comfy!

I took a nap when we got back to my parents, the kids swam in her little pool, and then my dad went and got a bunch of papa murphys pizza and we ate!  It was a great day!  

I didn't mean for this to be a novel...sorry...I needed to get this all posted because hopefully tomorrow I will have some new ultrasound pictures I can post!  I think I'm more nervous for this ultrasound than the first one (maybe because now I have 2 babies to worry about).  My appt is at 10:30, so maybe I should get to bed!!  I'll be back tomorrow, and I will make sure to have a new belly shot! 

Blessing

Well, I figured since we are headed to Kangaroo Zoo today, and hopefully I will have bunches of pictures, that I should hurry and post the pictures from my niece Molly's blessing before I space it and it never gets done!  No explanation needed, so I will leave you with her cuteness!  :)

Happy 4th!

I know, it's a couple days late, but it's still the holiday weekend!  I hope you all had a good one!  Things have been busy busy around here, or at least it seems to feel like it!!  Time sure flies by when I am slacking (from the blogging business, I mean)!  Sorry to leave you all hanging with my boring post about the loads of clothes I am still in the process of trying to figure out.  For all those that left me a comment, I will let you know as soon as I have completely figured out what I am going to do!  So now, on to the festivities!!

We spent the afternoon/evening on the 4th at my parents, with my WHOLE family!  This hasn't happened for quite some time because my older brother and fam have lived in California!  Now they are in town for the next 2+ weeks and then they are off to Hawaii...to live!  :)  Lucky bums!  Anyways, my mom told me about a pull-apart cupcake cake in the Target ad last week.  I looked at it...it was alright, I knew I could do better, you know, considering cupcakes are my thing!  I wish I had a pic from the ad to compare it to, but here is what I came up with!  I'm pretty proud of it!!  :)  It's 24 cupcakes all together frosted as one cake!  Only thing was...it took twice as much frosting as just frosting 24 normal cupcakes!

We decided to do some family pictures while we were all together.  This here is probably the best shot of the whole gang!  It's pretty cute...we're getting to be a big group, and man, look at all those kids!  Just think, in a few more months there will be 2 more in there!!  

I'm not quite sure how this all happened, but we were doing a shot of just me and my brothers and parents, and then it turned into me and my dad, bellies together, and then Willy hopped in and stuck his belly out and Josh started clicking some pictures!  I decided to be a dork and show off the real thing, sorry it's so pasty white...that's why it gets kept covered!  

So I had my fun and then Willy decided to lift his shirt also...but his belly is very hairy...so it was gross...can you tell by the look on my face??  I'll miss ya Willy!!Here we all are, being silly...as usual!  I think it's a cute picture, the lighting is a bit off, maybe we can fix it!  
And here is a cute of Josh and the girls!!
Kaitlyn was soooo excited to meet her new lil' cousin Molly!!  While we were getting the kids ready for pictures (they had been swimming), she came and whispered to me if she could touch the baby!  Even better...she got to hold her!  She was tickled!  And Molly...she is adorable!!
We ended up hanging out and doing fireworks with my brothers!  Here are the girls having some sparkler fun!

And here are all the kids (a couple chairs got cut out of the picture).  They were all lined up on the sidewalk to walk the fireworks!!  It was pretty cute!Saturday evening we had a big family party with Josh's extended family!  A big BBQ and Dance, it was called the family hoe down!  After a delicious dinner and much visiting with wonderful family we headed into the decked out garage complete with our own DJ, to dance.  I was so worn out and too chubby to really do much dancing...luckily Josh was wonderful and showed the girls a good time!  They had a blast!!

Cowgirl Jenica!!

And here is Josh's mom with all the grandkids in his grandpa's sweet 1923 Model T!  Pretty sweet, huh?

And lastly, I made more cupcakes!  Surprised?  Didn't think so!  I had to make them for little Molly's blessing today!  
I have some more pictures from the blessing today, but...the camera is in the car and I am too lazy to go out and get it...besides I have already posted 15 pictures, enough to have you all sleeping!  ;)  So I will save those for tomorrow...or the sometime in the next couple days!  I will have loads of pictures to post with Willy and Angie being in town!  This week includes Kangaroo Zoo, the Dinosaur Park in Ogden, swimming at the pirate pool...you get the picture!!  Hope you all had a great holiday weekend!!  Ciao!