A day on the horse

Ali LOVES horses. :) I went to her horseback lesson and took some fun pictures! It had rained the day before, so I didn't get any of her jumping the big nice jumps, but she did jump a small one. Maybe sometime soon I will get some of her jumping the other ones. She is an amazing horse back rider, and even jumped one of the jumps without hands!! Needless to say, she absolutely LOVES horseback riding, and even enjoyes cleaning stalls twice a week to help pay for the lessons!

Little Clover :) Due in 4 weeks

Yesterday, mom went in for another ultrasound, to see how big the baby was, and how he was doing. :) He is 4.8 pounds, and it a perfect little guy. Mom was originally going be induced in a week, but baby is smaller than average, so she is going to wait until full term. Marh 19 is the due date. We have been really worried about her, and are so grateful for all the prayers of friends and family. 2 weeks ago, she weighed 93 pounds, at 34 weeks! Yikes! Her mid-wife told her that if she couldn't immediately start gaining weight, then she was endanger of having a heart attack, and would have to have a C-section. This scared mom pretty bad, and so she forced herself to start eating more. She was ALWAYS gasping for breath, but she was able to gain 5 pounds in 2 weeks! Wahoo! Go mom!! We are SO excited for this little guy. She has almost literally been on bed rest for the last few months, because she didn't have enough energy, because of lack of food. She had to choose between eating and breathing, and naturally, she chose breathing. The baby pushs against her lungs, and if she eats, it fills her stomach up even more, and makes the pressure on her lungs, extreme. But, since she started eating more, she had been able to get some more energy, even though she still struggles. It is amazing to me, watching her go through this, and the sacrifice she is making to bring a little person into the world. She has been pregnant, for almost 12 months straight, counting the pregnancy that she mis-carried. But, it's all worth it in the end, right?

*This picture was taken at 35 weeks, but she is at 36 weeks now. :)

Lauren's Wedding

After Christmas, we went up to Salt Lake for a family reunion and Laurens wedding. :) She is gorgeous, and it was great to see all of the cousins again! I took a ton of pictures, so enjoy!

Trying to get warm!

Cousins!

Cute little Lucy...

Ali and Caroline :)

Look at her shoes!! Urgh! That's what happens, when I'm not there to monitor her clothing.. ;)

Daddy!

Scary, snowy ride home!

Weird...

I'm not sure why a link to a website was posted earlier, but all well. Here's a fun picture, of our family, at a reunion last month. More pictures will come soon! :)

Christmas Morning! :D

Christmas was amazing this year. :) As Brett puts it; "This is the best Christmas I have EVER had!"

Our loaded christmas tree on christmas eve


Ali made sure we were all up at exactly 7 a.m., (parents informed us that that was the earliest we were allowed to get up) to open our stockings.


Woot! We scored big!


Who needs breakfast when we have our stockings?


I am SO not a morning person...


We have a tradition to put up a wall between the family room and our bedrooms, so we have to wait until parents are ready, before we can go see all of our presents. It was a looong wait.


Brett got a flying bird\man!


Ali opening her big present... A wiggle cart!


Brett opening his wiggle cart


Dad opening one of his presents


I got a panda! (I also got clothes, $money$, jewelry, gift cards, nail polish... etc.)


Brett opening his transformers, and flying man\bird


Ali got a horse book full of gorgeous horse paintings.


Sisters on X-mas morning

Brett opening some books.

Brett and Ali's wiggle carts. I had to try them out too, and they are tons of fun!

There was one last little present under the tree that we got to open, and guess what is was... A TRAMPOLINE!! We used to have one, but about a year\year and a half ago it ripped. Our new one, is bigger and much bouncier! :) Best present.. Ever!