Baby Baby Why don't you want to come...

So McKinley is not wanting to come despite my best efforts. How many countless stores I have gone to just to "walk around" so that we can speed up the labor process. Sometimes I wonder if this is just punishment for expecting a baby to come early or for complaining about having another December baby or being so scared to deliver a baby on Christmas. I think it might be. I did get my wishes granted at least with no Christmas baby and no December baby. Now I am just ready...I am sad because the earliest date I could get an induction is January 6th! A whole week away and it is even sadder because all of the family we had come up to await her arrival has to leave before then-my sister came all the way from Mississippi and has to leave the 5th!!!! We've decided she is shy. She just wants to make her presence into this world without everyone around just mom and dad and Brax I guess. Well wish us luck! If you haven't heard anything about a baby before the 6th then you know to check on the 6th because we WILL have a baby by then!!!

Christmas Morning

Up here in Rexburg we have been getting sooo much snow it is unbelievable! It reminds me of when we were kids! Brandon has had to borrow his dad's skidloader just to clear our driveway! Braxton got to ride in the "tracker" he calls it for a while and he loved it! He didn't want to come in!

He loves playing in the snow! Especially eating it!

Here is Braxton enjoying his toys from his stocking. He got some books and he was "reading" them!

Braxton and mom sitting down by the tree getting ready to let Braxton dive into what Santa brought him! Notice I am still prego! I'm thinking we might get the New Year's baby after all!

Braxton got a pop gun from Santa and he just loves it! What a little boy! Like father like son I guess!

Later that day we went to Brandon's parents to open presents and here is Braxton tearing into a present! We then went over to my house where I got to be with all of my family! It was so great to have everyone home and I am sad that I left my camera and did not get any pictures! We've had so much fun watching movies, making jewelery, playing with the kiddos in the snow, etc... It has been a wonderful Christmas! We are truly blessed! Hopefully our next post is about a baby....

On Monday this past week we celebrated Braxton's 2nd birthday. This is how his day went...


He woke up to balloons and loved to throw them up in the air and hit them again.

Then we went to McDonald's and he loved going down the slide and running around with the other kids there.

We later opened up presents. He got all the cars characters and a cars raceway from us. He got a stackable train from Gma and Gpa horsey and a remote control The King race car and a soccer goal post from gma and gpa Muscle Car.

Here is his cars raceway. He calls it his "fast cars!"

Opening presents with daddy!

This was Braxton eating his really good lightning McQueen cake. It was yummy and he loved it!

Here is the whole crew. Both grandparents and mom and dad! What a lucky boy!

Thanks everyone for making his birthday so special!

Also we took Brax in for his 2 year check-up turns out he is average in weight and like the 26th % for height. So short and average. Ha wonder where he gets the shortness from?! JK ;)

Also I am still prego! Geez I was hoping for a three week early baby! Looks like she will be hanging on for a while. Only 18 days left though. Seems like a long time but I'm sure it will fly by!

One Crazy, Fun Weekend!

This past weekend Brandon went to St. George to do some work and since I am so far along I couldn't go with him. Me and Brax decided to go have some fun so on Saturday we went with some friends to the Santa Clause at the Carousel. Brax was scared of Santa, but kinda warmed up after he got a candy cane-talk about teaching your kids not to take candy from strangers ha ha jk. Then we rode the carousel a few times. It was fun!

Here is Brax playing with play-doh! Love the cheeser!

The other night I decided I was bored so I went and bought all the letters in my kids names to paint and I got Brax this race car bank that you could paint. So I painted my letters while he painted his bank! It was so fun!

Here is a finished picture of his bank-pretty cool huh!

Tomorrow is Braxton's 2nd birthday! I cannot believe that he is 2 already, seems like I was just pregnant with him! We made his cake today and Braxton loves to help cook-especially when he gets to lick the beaters!

We made these cupcakes to eat!

This is his Lightning McQueen birthday cake! It was fun to decorate! I hope he likes it!!!

Some fun things about Braxton are:

1. He is a huge chatterbox. He loves to talk and he is so polite. He will play tackle football with you and then ask if you are ok. If you cough he will ask if you are ok. I just love it and he is always pointing everything out and saying it's name! It is so fun to here him talk and get a glimpes of his personality! He also says hi to everyone we see and I can tell it makes other people happy! I just love my little social butterfly!

2. He likes to kill you with kindness. He always says "please treat" or something to that effect and he just gives you that look that you cannot say no to. He doesn't throw too many fits he learned to just ask nicely and he gets his way. I love it also when you come home from going somewhere and he is sooo excited to see you! It just makes your day!

We love you Braxton! Happy Birthday tomorrow

P.S. Happy Birthday tomorrow to Stacy my wonderful sister-in-law also who was so nice to share her birthday!

Thanksgiving

This year we went to Brandon's house for Thanksgiving. We had so much fun and it was sooooo good to see everyone! All of his brothers and sisters (except for Dantz and Adam-we missed you! and yes Brax still says your name the same way!) came up and then both sets of grandparents came up and his uncle Dee and Aunt Barb and kids. We had a blast and there was so much yummy food! I had gained three pounds and my doctor's appointment that was the Saturday after!

Here are the boys eating outside! They got kicked out! Jk

Here are all the yummy pies! They are all homemade might I add!

Here are my cute boys! Brax sticks his tongue out when he says "cheese" now-????

I was in charge of the fruit plate so I decided to get creative and made this cute little turkey!

I love Thanksgiving and would like to write a few things I am thankful for.

1. I am thankful to have such a wonderful husband and son. I don't know what I would do without either of them in my life.

2. I am thankful for my wonderful family. We love living in Rexburg because everyone comes home to parents houses eventually so we always get to see you and we love it! Now we just need Cara and Kash and Brandon and Steph to move closer, so we can see you all the time!

3. I am thankful that I have had such an easy pregnancy. I know that is uncommon for some women but I am thankful for it. I am also thankful that I only have 31 days left!!!!

4. I am thankful for my husband for working so hard to provide for us! We have truly been blessed because of the Lord and Brandon's hard work so I am very grateful!

5. I am thankful for the gospel. I love the way I feel when I am doing what is right, and I love everything it teaches-especially knowing my family can be together forever!

Well it is a little late to write Happy Thanksgiving so I will write Happy Holidays!!! I have already put up our Christmas decorations and have already been listening to Christmas music and I love it! So HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

I started reading this book about a month ago and just barely finished, but wanted to blog how I felt about it. It is about a family where their 2 year old daughter was diagnosed with AML which is Lukemia. They realize that their daughter will need lots of blood transplants, bone marrow transplants, etc... so they go to a genetics doctor and create a baby that is the exact match for their 2 year old daughter. At first all they needed was the cord blood for a transplant that was supposed to work and then it turned into her sister always needing something else from this girl. The genetically matched girl decides to hire a lawyer to get medical emancipation from her parents after they decide that she will donate a kidney to her sister without asking what she thought. The whole book I thought one way until the end and it completely changes your whole perspective. It was a really interesting read, but be warned it is a complete tear jerker!!! And the author does use the F word in it sometimes. It is coming to video in 2009 so I am way excited to go see it. It will have Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin and a bunch of other great actors. Just thought I'd share!

Basement part 2 and Finger Painting

This was the first stage of the process of clearing out the rocks for our cold storage. A few guys would fill up buckets of rocks to hand off to a guy at the door. This picture does not even show how many rocks there were. This was taken when they were almost finished. Just imagine that whole room they are in filled to the top with top soil and big rocks!

This was the second stage. A person would take the bucket of rocks and hand it to a guy in the window well.

This is the third stage where the guy in the window well would hand it up to someone waiting up top.

That person would then dump it in the trailer. Once that was full they would go and dump the trailer and be back.

This was the cold storage after it was all cleaned out. We had so many great guys come and help us for a service project and we are forever indebted! It only took them a day and half to clear it all out, which is totally amazing!

Here are some of the guys that came to help us clear out the rocks. It doesn's show everyone that helped, but a lot of them. Thank you so much for all of your help!!!! We could not have done it without you!!!

Here is Braxton's first experience with fingerpaints! He loved it! We made homemade fingerpaints and we bought some and they both were great!

Just finger paintin!

This will be fun to clean up! Brax showing his dirty hands!

8 Things About me

I was tagged by Jen so here it goes-

8 things I am passionate about:

1. Family

2. The Gospel

3. Motherhood

4. Food ( I love to eat-chocolate especially!!!)

5. Getting an Education

6. Service

7. Love

8. Organization and planning (I have to plan everything!!!)

8 Things I Want or Need:

1. To be done with this pregnancy! I need my little girl!

2. Piano-I'm with Jen on that one

3. Sewing Machine and to learn how to sew

4. Photoshop

5. To learn how to digital scrapbook

6. Our basement finished so I can get the baby room ready!

7. A Vacation to somewhere tropical

8. My family to all move closer!

8 words or phrases I use a lot:

1. Hey what's up?

2. Crash, Oh Man!

3. Ashes, Ashes, we all fall down!

4. No Brax

5. What are your plans for the day?

6. What do you want to eat?

7. I love you

8. Hey babe

8 Things I want to do before I Die:

1. Go to Europe

2. Go on a mission

3. Teach Kindergarten

4. Go to Hawaii

5. Write and Illustrate a children's book

6. Learn how to paint

7. See all my children married in the Temple

8. Live on a ranch with lots of animals (that my children can take care of ha ha)

8 Things I have learned from the past:

1. Family is all you have!

2. Love with all of you heart

3. The only thing you have to fear is fear itself

4. To not hold grudges, life's too short

5. You just gotta be happy with what you got-you can't see all the beautiful things in your life with tears in your eyes.

6. You get out of life what you put into it

7. To not be afraid to reach out to people, sometimes you need it more than they do

8. Heavenly Father will always be there for you, sometimes you just need to have faith that everything will be alright.


4 shows I love to watch, 4 books I love to read:

1. One Tree Hill

2. Gilmore Girls

3. Desperate Housewives

4. Pride and Prejudice (movie)


1. Twilight Series

2. Harry Potter Series

3. Tending Roses by Lisa Wingate

4. Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast

8 restaurants I love:

1. Olive Garden

2. Chiz's

3. Macaroni Grill

4. Texas Roadhouse

5. Wasabi

6. Sakura

7. Claim Jumper

8. Hard Hat

Demolition Derby and Playing in the Snow!

This week we started construction on our basement. We figured we need to get our basement finished before baby #2 comes so she has somewhere to sleep!!! We decided before we started framing that we wanted to cut into the cement under our front porch and create a cold storage/safe. So we have had endless days of rattling with jackhammers and saws to cut through this huge slab of concrete only to find it is filled with dirt!!!! So now we get to haul all the dirt out! What a fun project!!! (j/k) Then Brandon's dad found us a vault door that we are going to put on it! We are way excited because we always wanted a room to keep our important documents safe, be a gun safe, and a place to put food storage and cold storage! It should be neat when it is all finished!




This was one of Braxton's first experiences with snow (last year he was too litte to even remember) We got some snow and by the time we went out to play in it it was almost all gone!!! So we had to go in the shade in the backyard to play. We got Brax all bundled up and sent him out! He loved to eat the snow! He also was cleaning off his trike so he could ride it! It reminded me of having to scrape off windows just to go anywhere! So we are creating a future Idahoan snow driver already! He had a blast!

Jewelry Making

I had some friends this summer introduce me to jewelry making. They didn't teach me, but I did buy some of their jewelry and it was so beautiful that I decided I wanted to learn, so I took a non-credit jewelry class up on campus and it was so much fun! I liked learning about it and making it so tonight I decided I wanted to make my own jewelry. I made this necklace, bracelet, and earrings. I wanted some jewelry to go with gray, white, and turqoise so this is what I came up with. What do you think? I want to have all the girls get together over thanksgiving (hanna's) and christmas (hart's) and learn how to make jewelry. Do you think that would be fun? Let me know!!!

Why Motherhood is Like a Fairy Tale

I got this in my parenting magazine and thought it was hilarious.

1. Your kids insist that their expensive new beds are too soft or too hard. However, your overcrowded bed is just right.

2. Though they eat neon fruit leather by the yard, your children act like you want to poison them if you offer a real apple.

3. Each night when you return home, several waist-high people greet you. One is sleepy and one is grumpy.

Just thought I'd add a little humor in everyone's day! Don't forget to vote tomorrow!!!!!!

Halloween Fun

On Tuesday Brax and I went to my mom and dad's ward Halloween Carnival. It was cute and amazingly done! Brax was a cute little puppy!

I decided to go as a cat. I knew I really looked like one when a little girl told her mom I was a kitty!

Here is me and Brax before the carnival!

These are the cute spider cupcakes Brax won at the cake walk!

These were so cute! I had to post a pic! They are hot dogs cut in half and rolled in dough then baked! They stuck chinese noodles for legs and used ketchup and mustard for the web! They were yummy too!

Then on Wednesday Jess, Mike and Me carved pumpkins! Jess's is on the left (her's is a cat), Mine is in the middle (the dancing ghosts), and Mike's is on the right (coyotes howling)! It was way fun!

Just a close up picture of my pumpkin!

I am excited for Halloween this year! We will have to see how Brax does since he seems to be scared of people dressed up in costumes! I love having a child because it is like you get to be one yourself-I get to dress up and take him trick-or-treating! I love it!