So Much to Say...

So I really do have a lot to tell everyone, but honestly, I don't have the time!! So I'm going to make a To Blog About List...in hopes that some day soon I will blog about these things...(thanks Mar for doing one and giving me the idea!):

Amy's To Blog About List:
1. Drew's Cuteness
2. Reagan's soon to be Cuteness
3. Drew turning 2 in 1 day and 14 minutes
4. My many Dr. visits and how that's all going
5. Reagan's nursery
6. Drew's cuteness
7. Thoughts on having another baby
8. A friend's loss
9. Conference Weekend
10. My awesome, amazing husband!!
11. My awesome, amazing Mother!!
12. My baby shower
I know there is more but my brain is telling me to go to bed! So Goodnight!

5 Weeks and Counting...

As the restless night has already gotten the best of me, I've decided to blog. I not only have pregnancy (self diagnosed, mind you) induced insomnia, I have this nagging cough and slightly stuffy nose that I can't seem to kick!! So not only am I not sleeping but I'm sure I'm giving my unborn child 'shakin' baby syndrome'!!!! Seriously, I'm worried about it and a billion other things!!! Other than that....I don't really know that I have much to say, my lack of sleep and the lack of brain power pregnancy alone gives me, I'm at a loss for words. (wah, wah...poor me!!)

I could write about Drew and how stinkin' cute and fun he is...
I could write about .... that's just it....I can't think of a darn thing to write about! I know I have so much to do to be ready for this new little addition to our family and my mind seems to be racing these days with all the preparations that I still need to make. So, maybe, that's what I will write about this time. (I will write about Drew--I've got at least 3 stories to blog about but will do those later, promise! This will not be my only sleepless night, I assure you!)

Here is my list of BABY GIRL To Do's: (mind you some are done and some are not)
1. Order baby bedding- check
2. Pick paint colors- check
3. Buy paint colors
4. Paint room: baseboards, ceiling, doors, and walls
5. Find mini-chandelier and order (no luck so far on this endeavor...help??)
6. Set up crib
7. Rocker-clean and move
8. Side table with lamp
9. Shelf around room
10. Find "bring home" outfit- check (with a question mark)
11. Pick up carseat from Jill
12. Make cover for carseat
13. Make carseat canopy
14. Make nursing cover
15. IKEA closet shelf-check
16. IKEA baskets for shelf (4)
17. Get baby items loaned to Jenn
18.Find just the right "pink" sheets (2)-check
19. Find double stroller to fit carseat and Drew
20. Pink or white baby hangers
21. Garbage can for room
22. Start buying diapers (no NB size)
23. Make burp cloths
24. Have Sigh put together closet shelf
25. Have Sigh put together Drew's new dresser
26. New bottles-Check
27. Paint/decorate Name letters
28. Possibly return baby bedding and reorder another style!! :(
29. Pink binkies-check

So....that's it for now! Ha! Could my list be any longer?? I guess with all the time when I should be sleeping I could be checking more off my list...but I'm so tired!!!!

Oh and yes...some of you may be wondering how I could possibly only have 5 weeks left. Well, the truth is I have 8 but with being diabetic full term is 37 weeks. Which puts me at delivery around April 15th!!!! I have my OB appointment today (Friday) and will be scheduling an Amniocentesis and my c-section with hopes that I will go into labor on my own!! Found out I cannot be induced with a previous c-section due to higher chance of my previous incision rupturing! ahhhh, scary!

Far TOO Long!!

So the time has FLOWN by since my last post! What have we been up to since....

1. Celebrated our 4th anniversary!
2. Bought new couches for our Living Room! Yeah!
3. Had our Annual Couple's Valentine's Party--SO FUN!!
4. Watched our twin nephews Daxton and Jacoby while Jamie and Kendall went to the Jazz game!
5. Took care of Julie and TJ's 4 kids while they were in HAWAII for 9 days....lucky dogs!
6. Survived being "mommy" of 5 children!! I could do it...but not going to happen!! But most important the KIDS SURVIVED!! hehe
7. Survived: 2 kids getting pink eye (joy) and Reece getting RSV and having to have breathing treatments every 4 hours Friday night!! So scary!! I'm so glad she's doing better!!
8. Watched the Olympics...totally addicted even if the sport I was watching was a complete bore!
9. Found out I will deliver at 37 weeks....APRIL 15th people!!!!
10. Decided to schedule a C-section (my 2nd) but hoping and hope you will pray too for a "go into labor on my own at 37 weeks" situation!! But if not...I'm OK with having another C-section! I think pushing a baby out is totally overrated anyway!
11. Decided to name our baby girl....( I better check with Sigh before I officially announce!)
12. FINALLY got the baby's room all cleared out so we (Silas) can start the paneling and painting project I have planned!!
13. Just super excited for the next 6 WEEKS to fly by just as quickly as the last, but I'm not getting my hopes up!!
14. And seriously having so much fun with Drew....he's so stinkin' cute and I just love being his mommy!!! ( I will post pictures soon!)

4 YEARS!!

I can't believe it's been 4 years...already...but then again I feel like (in a good way) it's been longer.

Today is our 4 Year Anniversary and I'm so grateful to be married to such a wonderful, caring, kind, hardworking, funny, interesting, hot man!! The past 4 years have been filled with fun, hardship, love, peace, joy, and lot's of HAPPINESS!! We have an extremely ADORABLE little boy that we both just can't seem to get enough of and a sweet, adorable (why wouldn't she be) baby girl on the way!! I seriously can't believe it's only been 4 years!!

Happy Anniversary, Silas!! I love you and thank Heavenly Father for you everyday!! Thank you for waiting for me and for taking me to the temple to be sealed for Time and All Eternity! I look forward to the next 4 years....and of course many, MANY more after that!
I LOVE YOU FOREVER!!!

Cuteness, Funnies, & More

We are HUGE....BIG....HUGE ....San Diego Charger fans in this house (I can hear the boos now) and Drew is the cutest of them all. The lucky kid has been extremely spoiled by his Great-Auntie Kathi with several Charger outfits this past year and a half!! I thought I'd get a few shots of him in one of his warm-ups!!!

Heading downstairs to watch the game!

Drew loves to help around the house...especially with Daddy who folds almost all of our laundry....what a good sport! Thanks Sweetie!! Anyway... Silas and Drew started this tradition...that after the folded laundry makes it back into drawers and closets, etc. Drew gets a "Basket Ride"!! He loves it. If I happen to be putting the clothes away and he wants his ride....he gets very upset since I don't do "Basket Rides"!!!

Like I said...Drew likes to "help" around the house with "weekly" (that's my reminder that these should be weekly chores) chores!! Whenever I dust he has to have a duster as well...following right behind me! It's quite cute and sweet if you ask me! On this occasion Drew decided the lamp and table needed dusting...all on his own....so he grabbed a wash cloth from his room and started cleaning!!! Cracks me up!! He's so smart and observant that it's scary sometimes!! He once came out with a wash cloth and started to clean up a wet spot on the floor because I had dripped something!!! Such a sweetie!! I better enjoy it because I know that when I'm really going to want and need his help...he'll be running the other way!!

Helping Dad with dishes. This was the first time he's done this little maneuver! He pushed the chair all the way around the counter to the sink to get in there and get the work done! He also likes to help unload the dishwasher. He'll hand us the dish and say "cank ooo" because that's what we say when he gives us a dish (thank you)!!

All during the holidays everyday I'd find my shadow boxes in new stacks. Drew LOVED moving and stacking these boxes...over and over and over and over...again and again!! This next picture is of him actually moving the boxes. He had moved them from under the tree to the middle of the room (nice laundry in the background), then moved them to the corner by the front door, then again to the middle of the room!! It's amazing he weighs nearly 30 pounds!! This kid is always moving!!! We just sat and watched, laughed, and tried to video what we could!! He's such a crack up!!

Drew loves to eat most anything...most of the time...but this night we were having tacos with black beans!! Yummmm! One of his favorites!! I love that he's really not too picky of an eater because guess who was??? ME!!! (but not as bad as my sister McKenna!!) Anyway, I looked up from my plate to see Drew with a little black mustache!! It was funny to me since we were eating Mexican food...I thought he looked like a little Jose!!

I know this is a random picture to have in. My camera was being weird so I had Evan look at it and of course he snapped a picture! Later when I was importing all my pics and was looking through them I noticed that Drew and I have the same expression on our faces/mouths!! Maybe I'm the only one who can see it but I thought it was funny!!

Funny kids....they love climbing into the bouncers and swings at my parent's house!! This is Drew with Brighton! Hallie had been there, too!!

This picture is of Drew's first undressing himself event! I knew the moment was close since he had started unzipping his jammies some of the mornings...but this was great to walk into and see...especially since he was holding his pj's and wanting to hand them to me!!

I know it would appear that my child is dead in the picture....but he's not!! During one of my 'check-ins' on Drew this is what I found!! Poor kid...looks so uncomfortable but is 'deader than a doornail'!! His feet sticking out, arms spread and neck resting on the tail of Louis the Lizard is just hilarious to me!! I did move him...after the pictures, of course! (or obviously!)

As you can tell I like taking sleeping pictures of Drew! We find him the strangest positions....so some become permanent memories!! This was a nap time!! Drew went through this phase of 2-3 days in row of not taking naps but I insisted he lie/play/yell at me...whatever... in his bed for at least an hour. I needed a rest, too!! So this time I had given him a book to look at. Remind me not to give him one of the cheap $1 store pop-up books next time!!! I COULD NOT believe my eyes!!! He had literally SHREDDED the book in to hundreds, maybe THOUSANDS of little pieces!! ha! (ok not thousands!!) The little stinker winker!! Oh well!!
So this story has a moral to it: You can NOT buy books (Usborne Books & More) from me and save several $$$ and not feel bad when your child does this to a book OR you CAN buy books (Usborne Books & More) from me that might cost a little more than $1 and not have them be SHREDDED like this!!

This was the day that Mommy, yes, Mommy left something out that shouldn't have been left out! No, I'm not saying I don't leave stuff out ever but this day Curious Drew turned a little more mischievous on me! It was much too quiet for anything good to be going on...so off I went to find my Drewbly!! He was sitting on my bed (thank goodness I hadn't made my bed that day) drawing on his legs, hands and MY SHEETS with black permanent marker!!! I felt so blessed that I had been lazy enough not to make the bed or my comforter would have been the victim!!!

Okay, this last picture is from Thanksgiving Day....I know long time ago. Kendall and Jamie had finally come to my house...hehe and brought the boys, Jacoby and Daxton with them!! So, of course, I had to get my baby fix. Drew wasn't too sure about that. He never got really close to me and Daxton but he made sure that I knew he was near!! He kept climbing up on the back of the couch (first time for everything and not the last I assure you). He moved from side to side and from being directly behind me! A little jealous, you might say, or he was just trying to get a better look at the sweet baby Daxton!!

Baby Girl Names!

As most of you know or can tell by my blog...we are having a GIRL arrive sometime between April 15th-May 6th! We are so excited...but I want some help, or input, or suggestions, or ideas...whatever you want to call it!

We have a name picked out...some of you know this name...it's not a secret but I don't want to list it and persuade you in anyway, shape or form!! But the other night on our way home from my parent's house Silas was talking to Drew about his baby sister, ______, and it just struck me weird!! So then I started to question the first name we had chosen.

So anywho, I would love some fresh ideas.... I personally (I think Sigh is mostly on board, too) want to use my middle name which is Michelle as her middle name as well but are open to anything...so just keep that in mind.

IF I don't like your suggestions...don't worry, you'll never know it :) I just want some, like I said, FRESH ideas other than what we've come up with, what I've found in name books and online, or on the SSN website! If that leaves anything cute, fun, girly, traditional, modern, made-up, foreign...I don't know...but give it a whirl and at least humor me, right??

More Traditions of Christmas 2009

This year because of having 3 newborns (Dylann, Daxton, & Jacoby) we decided to go to Thanksgiving Point and rent a trolley and see the Christmas lights there! It was fun and definitely the warmest way to go!! We had fun singing carols and being silly! Afterwards Grandma and Papa treated us all to ice cream, hot chocolate and french fries over at JCW's! It was the perfect way to end a fun night!!

Grandma with Rylie and Saige!

Kendall with Daxton!!
(You ask how do I know it's Daxton...? I'm not telling my trick!)
Natalie in the background. :)

Taylor with Hallie and Jill with Brighton!!
(Papa and someone in the background!)

Mom and her Little Buddy!!
(I know...lovely!)

Daddy sitting all the way in the back!!
(I know...handsome!!)

Another tradition that my family has, is to make candy bar trains! It was fun but we were super late due to a church cleaning assignment earlier that morning. Luckily Silas and Drew were still in the mood to make our family train! It was fun! Everyone was pretty creative especially Rylie and Saige who made their own this year!!

Silas was very patient with Drew's help! He said for every one piece of candy Drew added to the design he'd eat about 20!! A sweet tooth in the making! Oh, NO!!!

Look close and you can see the white Royal icing on his face!! Now that's a happy kid with a belly full of treats!!

Evan and Val with their creations!!

Saige with her 2nd train...with a little bit of Grandma's help!!

Kendall and Jamie's creation(s) haha! They have a little Gingerbread family...too cute!

Jill with her creation and CUTE, ADORABLE Brighton!! Look at that grin!!

Rylie and her very own creative Christmas Train!!

Drew and Silas' creation!! Yes, I stood there, belly and all, for the family picture!! I take no credit in creating our family train this year...thanks and great job boys!!

It was a fun day....and to top it off we celebrated and went out to eat!! For the first time in our history, living in Utah.....

A New Christmas Train Day tradition!!